We misplaced the CD that came with the AT&T Tilt Cellphone so we had to get everything we needed from the internet.
When we first hooked the AT&T Tilt cell phone to the computer, it automatically came up with Windows “Found New Hardware” wizard. That’s the good news. We let Windows search for the driver automatically. Here is a screenshot of it searching.
After about 30 seconds, it said it did not find any results. That’s the bad news.
We scoured the Internet for drivers for the AT&T cell phone and for software for the at&t tile cell phone, and the only thing that came up was our website. So we decided that we would thoroughly investigate this for you and have come up with a few links and lots of information that should help save you time.
We searched the AT&T site and their support forums and were not able to find a link to the software we needed. We had several highly intelligent people search Yahoo, Google and MSN for the drivers.
We then went back to the AT&T site, and clicked phone/device support, instead of trying to search for it in the answer center, then we choose the network AT&T and then picked the manufacturer “AT&T”. We then selected the Tilt (Model Number 8925). Then it brought up the phone device support page for the tilt cell phone (which you would think would be a link on the main page, instead of being so buried in the AT&T website).
On this page we saw the most unobvious selection of all – a link to HTC’s Site. We clicked this, and it opened up the HTC Smart Mobility web page. It seems that these are the people who actually make this phone - it is a little unclear. Next we went to select a specific product (please see screenshot this selection was confusing). We selected AT&T as the carrier and then chose the phone (8525/8500). 
After making this selection, you are taken to a new page. On this page you need to click “Software Downloads” from the left hand side of the page. A new page will load and then you must scroll down to the very bottom of the page and you will see a link for “download”.
Before we clicked the download link we read that upon installing this all the data (music, pictures, files) on the phone would be deleted. That’s bad news. More bad news is that the site says the installation can take up to 30 minutes and you shouldn’t use your computer of the phone during that time.
We clicked this download link and after the file saved, we went to install it. Here is the screenshot before you start the installation process. 
You can see that it say that it says it is going to delete all the data from your phone. We noticed on the website that it said before you begin this process you needed to have an Active Synch connection from your computer to the AT&T tilt cell phone.
We searched for Active Synch and came to this page on Microsoft’s website. We downloaded the Active Synch Software. See the screenshots of the very easy installation process below.
After completing the installation, we see that it says that we are now ready to begin installing programs – which was the overall goal we had. It seems that we do not even need to continue with the installation of the software from HTC that was going to delete all my data.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Software Needed To Connect The AT&T Tilt Cell Phone To My Computer
Connecting My Tilt Cellphone To The Computer
It is very easy to connect the AT&T Tilt cell phone to the computer. Basically, you attach the cable from the phone and plug the USB end into the computer. Here is a screenshot of the connection:
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Using the Burst Setting for the Camera on the AT&T Tilt Cellphone
When you start the camera on the AT&T Tilt Cellphone, there are a lot of different options to choose from, like video, picture, motion, burst etc. Today we are going to talk about the “burst” setting.
In order to change the current picture setting, first notice the top left of the screen, which shows the current setting. This area is highlighted in the image below. To change settings, click the arrows on the right or left and you will be switched to each of the different picture setting options.
When you have the setting on burst, the camera will take 3 pictures in 3 seconds when you click the camera button. You only click the camera button once, and the AT&T Tilt Cellphone takes a “burst” of pictures – 3 to be exact.
It is easy to accidentally change the picture setting when you go to take a picture, and not know that you’ve changed it. I went to view a picture in my photo library, and each picture had 3 copies. I then went to the camera and noticed that I had accidentally changed the picture setting to burst. I hope this is helpful in case anyone is wondering why their AT&T Tilt Cellphone is taking 3 pictures instead of 1.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Viewing Web Pages On The Tilt Cell Phone - Opera Web Browser - Part 2
We are now revisiting the topic of installing the opera Mobile browser on the At&T Tilt cellphone. We had an unsuccessful first attempt.
After trying the same steps on my phone, I see on the opera.com website (please note that I'm using a desktop computer becuase the Opear site does not appear as intended on the AT&T cellphone) that in order to download the browser, I am supposed to download the file from Opera.com onto my desktop computer first, then connect the phone to the computer, and then double click the file on my computer's desktop.
I do not have the cord to hook my phone to the computer with me, nor the CD with me now so it looks like I can't install the browser at this time.
Stay tuned for another blog called Installing Opera Part 3, where hopefully we can finally get this will finally work!
Thursday, February 7, 2008
SDC/512 Kingston 512 MB MicroSD Memory Card
This little piece of hardware is a must have for any owner of the AT&T Tilt Cell Phone. You can own the Kingston 512 MB MicroSD Memory Card, Model Number SDC/512 from Amazon.com for under $10 bucks. This memory card and adaptor will allow you to store your beautiful pictures on it and get them printed out or transfered as easy as with a regular digital camera.
Remember this is a two piece device so when you get it don't be shocked at the size. You should be able to slide out the bottom piece (the one without the gold leads and pull out a smaller version of the SD card (thus the micro SD name). This smaller piece is what goes into the AT&T Tilt Cell phone.
There should be a little black pull tab called Micro SD under the silver buttons on the bottom of the closed AT&T Tilt Cellphone. Once you gently pull this away you will see you can click in the Kingston 512 MB microSD Memory Card ( SDC/512 ). Just make sure you insert it face up.
I will try and post about how to transfer files from your AT&T Tilt Cellphone to the Kingston 512 MB MicroSD Memory Card ( SDC/512 ) in another post.
The Quality Of Pictures From AT&T Tilt Cellphone
The quality of the pictures you can get from the AT&T cellphone is amazing, if you have the settings right. The optimal setting for the best quality pictures is the maximum that the cell phone can do, which is a 2048x1536 pixel image. The pictures linked in this blog we taken at an even lower setting tan this – they were taken at 1600x1200 pixels.
Here are samples of 2 pictures taken from my phone, one is of our new puppy, and one of what she did to the blinds. Don’t worry, I promise not to turn this into a photo blog; I’m just showing sample images from the phone!
The images that come off the phone are very large, please click the thumbnails I created below to open the full-size “from-the-phone” image in a new window.
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In the very-upcoming future I am going to have an Micro SD card on the phone, so I will be able to transfer the images in a different and more efficient way. Stay tuned for an entry on this at a later date!
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Viewing Web Pages On The Tilt Cell Phone - Opera Web Browser - Part 1
We tried to download the Opera browser for the AT&T tilt cell phone today. It was an undertaking that I was trying to put off but not being able to surf the web like a computer on such an advanced phone like the Tilt Cell phone was frustrating. We decided to go with the 30 day free trial to see how hard it was to install and because some of the questions we were unsure of the answers on. We found no relative results when searching for Installing Opera On AT&T Tilt Cell Phone.
The first step was to go get the browser (www.opera.com). I thought that I would just go to the website and download the browser on the phone. Makes sense right? Wrong.
The first thing I noticed was how user unfriendly the website was for mobile devices. For a company that offers such a sophisticated browser, their website should at least detect that I have a smart phone or mobile phone and send me to a different page. Oh well.
Once we got to the download page, we had to choose between two different versions of the mobile Opera Browser. I was confronted with a question about which version of Windows Mobile was running on the phone. This is not an obvious question for most newbies but most advanced users should not have a problem with this question. The AT&T Tilt Cell phone uses Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 (to find out on most windows mobile devices go to Start, Settings, About).
The next question that is asked is what type of phone do you have. The choices are for a Smart Phone and a Pocket PC. Most average consumers might not know which one to choose. If you have questions I suggest you Google your phones model number. They say that if your phone has a touch screen, you need the Pocket PC version. Since the AT&T Tilt cell phone has a touch screen my choice was easy.
The toughest question in the download process and most confusing was they wanted me to choose what type of device I have. The cryptic options that were presented where:
All Devices (CAB) or All Devices (MSI). This was a little confusing because both say “All devices”. I would suggest Opera put something online or in the download process that explains this choice a little better but we choose the default one, and clicked “download”. The page changed to a blank webpage and appeared to load a new page. I could see progress in the download bar of the browser, and all appeared to be well.
About 45 seconds passed while we waited for the download, I wondered if I should have done this on a desktop machine, and then synched the phone to the computer, and moved the file over this way… Again Opera should have detected my cellphone and sent me to an error page if this is the case. Anyways, I convinced myself to wait it out, sometimes pages do take a while to load on the phone.. The cell phones’ screen did its automatic “sleep” function; we made the display come back on by pressing the power button a couple of times.
A few moments later, the browser appeared to be done. I could see the “Back” and “Menu” buttons on the bottom, which usually means the page is done loading. We were a little confused since nothing ever asked me to install. We went to “Programs” and didn’t see the new browser listed.
We will return to this later, I have invested more than an hour in this install and documentation process so stay tuned
