LCMinutes v1.11
Description:
LCMinutes keeps track of phone calls and text messages (SMS), calculates their charge based on user defined rate plan, and thus keep user informed of the up-to-date balance information: like current charges, used free minutes, used free messages, expire date for prepaid plans, etc.
Main features:
Monitoring all phone call and text messages: all incoming and outgoing calls and messages are traced;
Calculating every phone call or text message charge: depend on rate plan, this could mean real charge, reduction of free minutes or free messages, or nothing;
Support time based monthly charge and daily surcharge, and reset of counter for free minutes and free messages;
Support user manually adjusting of balance, expire date;
Provide today plugin for easy checking of balance;
Support very flexible rate plan: prepaid or not, different rates for weekday, weekend, evening, different rate for starting minutes every day, different rates for incoming and outgoing messages, etc;
Support importing existing phone call logs and text messages;
Support deleting single call/message/balance record and deleting all the records.
For Canadian Rogers prepaid plan user, it can monitor service message from Rogers too get the exact balance information.
System requirement:
Windows Mobile 5 or 6 Professional Edition Pocket PC Phone. WM5/WM6 Smartphone is not supported.
Requirements:
• Windows Mobile 5.0 / WM6 Pro (preferrably htc phone)
How to install it?
- Download the latest version.
- Copy the CAB file into the target phone.
- Click the CAB file to install it.
- Reboot the phone.
- Start LCMinutes application to setup a rate plan and initial balance.
- Reboot the phone.
- Done.
How to upgrade it?
- Uninstall existing LCMinutes.
- Reboot the phone.
- Remove folder \Application Data\LCMinutes.
- Follow the install guide to install the new LCMinutes.
How to setup a rate plan?
- Start LCMinutes.
- Choose Menu -> Settings to enter setting dialog.
- Click Edit button at the top-right corner to enter editing state.
- Change the desired rate plan settings.
- Click Save button at the top-right corner to save the settings.
How to setup a balance?
- Start LCMinutes.
- Choose Menu -> Settings to enter setting dialog.
- Click Balance tab at the bottom to open balance setting page.
- Click Edit button at the top-right corner to enter editing state.
- Change the desired balance.
- Click Save button at the top-right corner to save the settings.
Update Description:
v1.11 (04-01-2008)
- Support free numbers: user can now input their free numbers into the rate plan to get them excluded from charge calculation. This should help the users with features like myFaves, My Five, free in network calls, etc.
v1.10 (03-01-2008):
- Support user defined charge interval, from per second to many minutes.
- Support different charging interval & rates for starting minutes (user defined) for every phone call, or every day.
- Support per call connection fee, can be both way or outgoing call only.
- Support using only starting rates: which means a phone call started in daytime is charged as daytime minutes entirely, and vice versa.
- Support tax calculation.
- Support weekday definition: e.g., define weekday from Sunday (0) - Saturday (6) means there's no weekend.
- Support unused minutes, SMS rollover.
- Better support for postpaid monthly plans.
- Some codes and UI optimization.
v1.05 (30-12-2007):
- Recompiled for Windows Mobile 5 Professional: it still works fine on Windows Mobile 6, and it should work on Windows Mobile 5 now (only verified on emulator).
- Changed the Today Plugin initial position to the last.
v1.04 (30-12-2007):
- Fix a bug that rates in rate plan setting is not correctly saved: now the biggest number can be saved is 429496.00.
- Fix a bug that sometimes a call is not charged.
v1.03 (29-12-2007):
- Support 4 digit precision for rates & balance: this means rates like $0.1225 per minute can be input.
- Support different currency format based on Regional Settings: so user can choose different currency symbol (instead of just $), and different precision.
- Default name for the generated rate plan changed: active operator name and owner name are used.
- Fixed the today plugin bug: now the today item can be moved to any position.
- Some minor code optimizations.
v1.02 (27-12-2007):
- Change the format of minutes & SMS usage information display in Today Plugin and the balance bar in main window.
v1.01 (26-12-2007):
- Support of VGA screen.
- Support displaying of minutes & SMS usage information on Today plugin and the balance bar in main window for postpaid plan.
- Fix a bug that when updating rate plan, the balance is not updated accordingly.
v1.0 (26-12-2007):
- The initial version.
