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MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial

The first step in putting any list on a cell phone is to install the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial to ensure that other lists or books will work on your cell phone.  The steps involved are:
  1. Make sure your phone has Java support or the tutorial and other MediaWink products will not work.
  2. Install the Tutorial onto your phone either via Cable, or "Over the Air".  The Installation Guide page may help for cable installs.
  3. If your phone doesn't handle large products, try installing the "Small" MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial.  If that works, then you will need to install the "small" list or book, if there is one, or contact MediaWink customer service to see what other options are available.  The smaller lists and books are the same as the standard lists, except that they are broken into more smaller applications so they can work on phones that aren't able to handle the larger ones.

Check for Java Support

In order for any of the lists to work, your phone will need to support Java.  Specifically, J2ME (Java 2 Micro-Edition), version 1.1.  To find out if it is supported, you have two options:
  1. Contact the maker of your phone, by going to their home-page, or by giving them a call.  Alternatively, you can read the owners manual of your phone to find out.
  2. Try installing the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial, and if your phone doesn't support Java (J2ME 1.1), the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial won't work.  If the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial does work, then you know your phone supports Java.  If it does not work, then you know that the products available at MediaWink will not work on your phone, either because your phone does not support this version of Java, or for some other reason.
NOTE to Verizon customers:  Unfortunately, as of this writing, Verizon has chosen to remove Java support from all their cell phones.  Unless this changes, you will not be able to use any of these cell phone products if you have Verizon as your cell phone service provider.  If this is the case, please do the following:

1.       Please contact MediaWink so we know that there is interest.  You can send a message that simply says "Verizon User," or you can add additional information if you'd like.

2.       Please email Verizon Wireless support, so they know there is interest.  Hopefully with enough people emailing Verizon, they will start supporting Java on their cell phones.  On the Email Verizon web page, you will probably want to select "Feedback" as the topic, and "Product or Service Feedback" as the sub-topic.  Your comment to Verizon may look something like the following, though please use your own words to make it more personal.   You may want to add your name, how long you have been with Verizon, etc:

I am a Verizon customer, and was saddened to hear that Verizon disables Java support on their phones.  What can I do to run Java applications on my Verizon cell phone?  If Verizon is planning on not crippling their cell phones by removing Java support in the future, when can I expect to see this improvement?  Thank you for your help.

Installing the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial

The MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial has a few sections called Big, Big2, Big3, etc., which contain random words to see if your phone can handle big products.  If you find that your cell phone doesn't handle the size of the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial, try installing the "Small Tutorial."  If the Small Tutorial works, then you will need to purchase "smaller” lists and/or books.  Small lists are the same as the standard lists, but are divided into smaller Java applications, so you can open just part of the product at a time.  These smaller products are made for cell phones that are not able to open a large one.

There are two ways to install any product, including the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial:
  1. Via Cable [Requires cable]
  2. "Over the Air" (OTA) [Requires cell phone web access]

Installing via Cable

To install via cable, you will need to:
  1. Obtain the software needed to install the list onto the cell phone.  You will need to obtain this from the maker of the cell phone, or elsewhere on the web.
  2. After obtaining the software, purchase a cable that works with your cell phone, if you do not already have one.  Generally this will be a USB cable that connects to your computer, and the other end will connect to your cell phone.  This may be a mini-USB on the end that goes to your cell phone--it depends on your phone.
To obtain the software needed to install the list on the cell phone, you can either download the software from the maker of your cell phone, or possibly get the software from download.com.

After obtaining the software, you will need a cable to connect your phone to your PC.
  1. Find out what type of cable you need--either from the maker of your cell phone's web page, or from your owner's manual.
  2. Purchase the cable, either at a store, like Best Buy, Circuit City, or Radio Shack, or purchase it on-line
The Installation Guide shows how this is done on some phones.

When you have the installation software and the cable, go to the Cell Phone Applications, Lists and Books Page and download the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial to your PC.  Then follow the installation software's instructions for installing the JAR and JAD files to your cell phone.

When you have finished installing the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial, you can jump to the section entitled Using the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial.

Installing Over the Air

To install Over the Air, you do not need a cable, but you do need cell phone web access.  This is generally available only by subscription to wireless cell phone web access.

Using the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial

Note: The screen shots shown here are just samples of what the product may look like on one type of cell phone.  Due to the many different types of cell phones, what you see may vary some from what is displayed in the screen shots.

Starting the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial

After copying the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial or other product to your cell phone, you will need to go to the area where Java applications reside on your cell phone.  This varies from phone to phone, but is typically in a section called something like "Games and Applications."  From there, select "MediaWink Tutorial."

The Table of Contents

All cell phone lists/books start at the table of contents.  The table of contents, or index, lists all the sections, or chapters, contained in the list or book.  From the table of content, you can select which section you would like to view.  When you are done viewing a section, you can return to the table of content to view another section.

Depending on the type of phone you have, your display may look something like either of these two displays, with slight variations:

Nokia Table of Contents                Sun Table of Contents


Chapters/Sections

The chapters, or sections, contain the different sections of the lists or books.  In the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial, the sections are entitled:
  • INTRODUCTION
  • SEARCHING FOR TEXT
  • PRACTICE SEARCHING
  • PLACING CALLS AND VISITING WEBSITES
  • WHEN YOU ARE DONE
  • ABOUT BIG
  • BIG
  • BIG2 
  • ...
  • BIG6
The "BIG" sections are just sections containing a lot of random text to make sure your phone can handle these large sections.  If your phone does not, try "MediaWink Small Tutorial," which is identical except that it doesn't have the "BIG" sections.  If that works, but the normal (big) one doesn't, then you will need to download and purchase the smaller lists/books.

Introduction

Each list or book has an introduction.  The introduction may be blank for some products.

Searching for Text

The Searching for text section of the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial tells how to search for text within a section.

Practice Searching

The Practice searching section is a section where you can practice searching for text.

Placing Calls and Visiting Websites

The Placing Calls and Visiting Websites section shows how you can call phone numbers that are in a list or book, or visit  URL's of websites that are included in a product (provided you subscribe to wireless internet access, of course).

When you are done

When you are done with the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial, you can purchase and install an actual product that you want on your cell phone, through the same process as the MediaWink Cell Phone Tutorial.

About BIG

The About BIG section tells about the "BIG" sections--that they are large sections with random text, to make sure that your cell phone can handle large lists.

The "BIG" sections

The big sections themselves are just random pieces of text.  See About BIG for more information.