If you don't find the help you need here, see the help documentation in the Omega One product you've installed (see the right hand bar for links to these sections). If all else fails, please contact us here.

General
Where are the extra Battery Pack features?
Why has Journal Bar, 1-Calc or 1-Pass stopped working?

Installation
Battery Pack Lite won't install (installing from a PC)

Uninstallation
How do I uninstall?
Battery Pack Lite won't uninstall

Battery Bar
Starting the Battery Bar
Understanding the Battery Bar display
How do I get memory and storage to scroll automatically on Battery Bar?

Program Bar
How do I use the Program Bar?
Can't add icons to the Program Bar
When I soft reset, Program Bar disappears
Why is the date in standard US format on Program Bar?

General
Where are the extra Battery Pack features?
Battery Pack Lite is a subset of Battery Pack features. This is a paid upgrade. For the full version of Battery Pack Pro, click here.

Why has Journal Bar, 1-Calc or 1-Pass stopped working?
Journal Bar, 1-Calc and 1-Pass are trial versions which expire after 14 days. To purchase these products, click below:
Journal Bar
1-Calc
1-Pass

Installation
Battery Pack Lite won't install
If you are having trouble with the standard method of installation you can use this alternative method instead. This specifically involves locating the .cab file in the c:\Program Files\Omega One\BPP directory:

• Dock the Pocket PC.
• Right click on the ActiveSync icon on the system tray and select "Explore".
• Open an explorer window where the batt.arm.cab file is on your desktop PC (usually c:\Program Files\Omega One\BPP).
• On the desktop pc drag the .cab file from the Explorer window and drop it into the ActiveSync Explore window (this copies the file to the Pocket PC).
• Undock the Pocket PC and select Start | Programs | File Explorer.
• Find the .cab file and tap on it. Installation will begin.

When installing onto your Pocket PC, always install to the default directory. Do not install to any other directory (such as on a storage card). Battery Pack Lite uses very little of your Program Memory.

Uninstallation
How do I uninstall?
You need to go to Start | Settings | System | Remove Programs. Then highlight Battery Pack Lite and tap Remove. Follow the instructions on the screen (soft reset the device and repeat the ?remove programs? procedure).

Battery Pack Lite won't uninstall (.dll file still in use)
You need to first do a soft reset, then install Battery Pack Lite again. When it says programs are running (Battbar.dll most likely), continue with the installation and just don't copy over this file. It's very important installation completes, although copying over the files running doesn't matter.

You should then be able to uninstall. See the Help file for information on how uninstallation should occur. Note, you will need to perform a soft reset before uninstallation will be successful.

Then please install Battery Pack Lite once more if required. It should install without any warnings of files in use and all should work. You should install to main memory (if you have a storage card it will ask you).

Battery Bar
Starting the Battery Bar
When you install Battery Pack Lite, the Battery Bar should show up automatically. If it doesn't:

• Select Start, Settings, Today, Items tab.
• In the list on the left find Battery Bar and check it. Note you can move the Battery Bar up and down your Today items by highlighting it and using the Move Up and Move Down buttons.
• Tap OK, then Start, Today.

You should now see the Battery Bar on your today screen. The same applies to the Program Bar.

Understanding the Battery Bar display
The Battery Bar is split up into 6 separate areas:

Folder / Battery icon
Tapping this gives information on Battery Pack Pro which contains many more features than Battery Pack Lite.

Battery information
The battery slider shows how much battery life is left on your Pocket PC.

Storage / Program memory
The Storage / Program Memory area shows the Storage Memory and Program Memory available on your Pocket PC. Storage Memory is represented by a hard disk icon, Program Memory by a chip icon.

Tapping the memory icon (or left hand side of the memory icon on the large Battery Bar view) will change whether Storage Memory or Program Memory is displayed. By default Battery Bar will cycle automatically between Program Memory and Storage Memory. Tapping the icon will stop this cycling and will permanently display Storage Memory. Tapping again will permanently display Program Memory. Tapping once more will switch back to cycling through Program Memory and Storage Memory.

Displaying Storage Memory can be useful in showing how much memory you have available to install new programs to your Pocket PC.

The slider shows how much memory is available. The text below shows either:

Memory used in terms of megabytes (MB)
Memory used as a percentage
To switch between these two types of information tap the text.

Tapping on the slider (or on the right hand side of the memory icon on the large Battery Bar view) will display more detailed memory settings for your device (also allowing you to adjust your Pocket PC to give you more storage memory or program memory).

Storage card(s)
The storage card area displays information about all the storage cards you have plugged into your Pocket PC at any time. Note - on some Pocket PCs it also shows information about the internal RAM disk (like an internal storage card). For more information on this type of storage memory, see your Pocket PC manual.

Below the storage icon is displayed the amount of space available on this storage card. Tapping this text switches between showing the amount of memory free as a percentage or in megabytes (MB).

Tapping the slider (or the right side of the storage icon in the large Battery Bar view) will start the File Explorer to allow you to explore data on your storage card(s).

Tapping the storage card icon (or the left side of the storage card icon in the large Battery Bar view) will change what information is displayed. By default the display will cycle through all storage cards currently inserted in the Pocket PC. Tapping the icon will stop this cycling and will allow you to permanently display one storage card. Tapping again will permanently display another storage card. Once all cards have been exhausted, tapping again will switch back to cycling through all storage cards.

Backlight
When tapped, the backlight icon displays the backlight settings.
The slider below the backlight icon adjusts the backlight brightness.

How do I get memory and storage to scroll automatically on Battery Bar?
If you tap the "storage icon" (actually the memory icon) it will switch to the other. Tap the slider next to it and it will launch the memory applet. Same for the storage card icon - it should load the File Explorer, so you can see what's on your storage card.

Program Bar
How can I use the Program Bar?
The Program Bar lists commonly used applications on the Pocket PC, as well as showing the current date. Tap the date to change the time & date. Tap an icon to launch that program.

Tapping and holding an icon will display more information about that icon; the program name and the path and filename to run this program.

If you wish to edit the icons on the Program Bar, please purchase Battery Pack Pro. This gives many more features than Battery Pack Lite.

Can't add icons to the Program Bar
This feature is available in the full version of Battery Pack Pro. See www.omegaone.com for upgrade information.

When I soft reset, Program Bar disappears
This is probably due to installing Battery Pack Lite onto a storage card. When the Pocket PC restarts it initializes the today plug-ins before it's mounted all the storage card volumes (so they can be used), hence it thinks the today plug-ins are not present. If you install to main memory the program should work without any problems.

If Battery Pack Lite is installed to the main memory then it may be a problem with the Today plug-in ordering. Please try uninstalling and reinstalling - if you have other Today plug-ins installed it may help to uninstall them and reinstall Battery Pack Lite first.

Alternatively you may need use a registry editor program (Kilmist's Registry Editor is a good product) to go into the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Today key and alter the "Order" setting for Program Bar to another value.

Why is the date in standard US format on Program Bar?
The format is currently fixed to: ddd, MMM d

ddd - The day of the week as a 3 letter concatenation
MMM - The month as a 3 letter concatenation
d - The day of the month (1-31).

However, for non-English Pocket PCs this will localize to the 3 day letter concatenations for this language.