MobileSitter -- Create a MobileSitter Shortcut

Creation of a MobileSitter Shortcut and Running the MobileSitter from a Soft Key

This manual shows step-by-step how to create a MobileSitter shortcut in the application menu of your Windows Mobile device and how to assign the MobileSitter software to a soft key on your home screen.

Since the steps in this manual require some experience with your device and may need to be adapted to the particular settings of your mobile device, this manual is intended for experienced users only.

Background Information

On Windows Mobile devices a so called Midlet Manager is responsible for managing and running of software which has been provided as Java Midlet. There are various Midlet Manager from different companies in the market. In general, the Midlet Managers do not provide a shortcut for an installed midlet within the application menu of the mobile device. Instead, in order to run a Midlet, you have to start the Midlet Manager first, and run the Midlet with the Midlet Manager afterwards. However this is cumbersome, especially for Midlets that are often used as for the MobileSitter software to access your passwords. The following manual shows how to manually create the missing shortcut using a trick and how to assign the MobileSitter application to a soft key on the home screen.

Since existing Midlet Managers have different management approaches and support different command line parameters, we show the solution as an example with two wide spread Midlet Managers:

Tao Intent Midlet Manager
Esmertec JBED Midlet Manager
Aplix Corporation JBlend Midlet Manager

Depending on the provider and the manufacturer of your device, a different Midlet Manager may be installed on your device, which need a slightly different approach. Please use a search engine with the keywords "create midlet shortcut" to get some hints how to create a shortcut for your Midlet Manager. Normally, when using different Midlet Managers the approach may probably adapted by changing the commandline parameters of the shortcut file (see below), other steps may be applied without changes. The following description assumes that the MobileSitter software is already installed on your device.

Remark: According to our information, the current version of the Aplix JBlend Midlet Manager does neither support creating midlet shortcuts nor running midlets with a soft key.

Create a MobileSitter Shortcut with the Tao Intent Midlet Manager

Step 1: Create a Shortcut File

Create a text file "MobileSitter.txt" using the Windows Notepad text editor with the following content:

Remarks to step 1:

This manual assumes that the Tao Intent Midlet Manager is installed at "\Windows\jmm.exe" by default. If the Midlet Manager is installed at a different location on your device, please adapt the path accordingly.
Please pay attention to the white spaces (marked with red circles in the picture above).
If you may change some text in the file (e.g. because the Midlet Manager is installed at a different location) you have to adapt the number at the beginning of the line. This number holds the number of characters after the hash symbol including all white spaces.

Rename the file "MobileSitter.txt" to "MobileSitter.lnk" using your Windows Explorer.

Confirm the Windows warning.

Step 2: Copy the Shortcut File

Now, copy the file "MobileSitter.lnk" to your mobile devices into the programs folder "\Windows\Start Menu\Programs". By default, the file extension ".lnk" is not shown on your mobile device.

When you open your programs menu (by pressing the Windows button and selecting Programs) you can see the new MobileSitter shortcut. Currently it is not possible to adapt the MobileSitter icon when using the Tao Intent Midlet Manager. Instead, the icon of the Midlet Manager is shown.

Step 3 (optional): Assign the MobileSitter to a Soft Key

After creation of a MobileSitter shortcut you can additionally assign this shortcut to a soft key on your home screen. Please following the instructions below.

Navigate to the settings menu of your mobile device (by pressing the Windows symbol and selecting Settings).

Select "Softkey".

Choose the intended soft key (left or right) and select "MobileSitter" from the list.

On your home screen, the MobileSitter is now assigned to the soft key you have chosen.

Create a MobileSitter Shortcut with the Esmertec JBED Midlet Manager

Step 1: Create a Shortcut File

The Esmertec JBED Midlet Manager allows to specify an MobileSitter icon when creating the MobileSitter shortcut. This icon is shown with the MobileSitter shortcut in the programs menu.

Create a text file "MobileSitter.txt" using the Windows Notepad text editor with the following content:

Remarks to Step 1:

This manual assumes that the Tao Intent Midlet Manager is installed at "\Windows\jbed.exe" by default. If the Midlet Manager is installed at a different location on your device, please adapt the path accordingly.
Please pay attention to the white spaces (marked with red circles in the picture above).
The JBED Midlet Manager assigns an ID to all installed midlets. In our example, the MobileSitter was the first midlet installed within the Midlet Manager. Thus it has been assigned to ID "s0_". If you have already other midlets installed, you have to adapt the ID accordingly. You can derive the MobileSitter's ID by inspecting the file "\Windows\appdb\selector.utf" an reading the value of the attribute "root" (e.g. root=s3_).
This manual assumes that the MobileSitter icon file will be copied to "\My Documents\My Pictures\mobilesitter.dll" (see below).
If you may change some text in the file (e.g. because the Midlet Manager is installed at a different location) you have to adapt the number at the beginning of the line. This number holds the number of characters after the hash symbol including all white spaces.

Rename the file "MobileSitter.txt" to "MobileSitter.lnk" using your Windows Explorer.

Confirm the Windows warning.

Step 2: Copy the Shortcut File and the MobileSitter Icon to Your Device

Now, copy the file "MobileSitter.lnk" to your mobile devices into the programs folder "\Windows\Start Menu\Programs". By default, the file extension ".lnk" is not shown on your mobile device.

The MobileSitter icon is provided by means of a dll file. Please download the file by clicking with the right mouse key on the link below and select "Save link as". Select a temporary directory on your computer. From there the icon file is copied to the mobile device.

mobilesitter.dll (Download by clicking the right mouse button and selecting "Save link as")

Copy the file "mobilesitter.dll" from your computer to the directory "\My Documents\My Pictures" on your mobile device.

When you open your programs menu (by pressing the Windows button and selecting Programs) you can see the new MobileSitter shortcut.

Step 3 (optional): Assign the MobileSitter to a Soft Key

After creation of a MobileSitter shortcut you can additionally assign this shortcut to a soft key on your home screen. Please following the instructions below.

Navigate to the settings menu of your mobile device (by pressing the Windows symbol and selecting Settings).

Select "Softkey".

Choose the intended soft key (left or right) and select "MobileSitter" from the list.

On your home screen, the MobileSitter is now assigned to the soft key you have chosen.

MobileSitter-Verknüpfung beim Aplix Corporation JBlend Midlet Manager

The creation of a MobileSitter shortcut for the JBlend Midlet Manager uses the same approach as in the both examples above.

Step 1: Create a shortcut text file

On you PC create a text file "MobileSitter.txt" with the following content:

31#\Windows\JBlend_VM.exe -R 0.jar

Remarks to Step 1:

This manual assumes that the Tao Intent Midlet Manager is installed at "\Windows\JBlend_VM.exe" by default. If the Midlet Manager is installed at a different location on your device, please adapt the path accordingly.
Please pay attention to the white spaces.
The JBlend Midlet Manager assigns new file names to all installed midlets. In our example, the MobileSitter was the first midlet installed within the Midlet Manager. Thus it has been assigned to "0.jar". If you have already other midlets installed, you have to adapt the name of the jar file accordingly. The directors "\windows\java" contains all jar files.
If you may change some text in the file (e.g. because the Midlet Manager is installed at a different location) you have to adapt the number at the beginning of the line. This number holds the number of characters after the hash symbol including all white spaces.

Step 2: Rename the text file

Please rename your file from "MobileSitter.txt" to "MobileSitter.lnk".

Step 3: Copy the shortcut file

Now copy the renamed file "MobileSitter.lnk" to the program menu on your mobile device, "\Windows\Start Menu\Programs". By default, the file extension ".lnk" is not shown on your mobile device.

When you open your programs menu (by pressing the Windows button and selecting Programs) you can see the new MobileSitter shortcut.

Further Information on Windows Mobile

More information on Windows Mobile related issues can be found on the page "Note on Windows Mobile Devices".