Long story, but I’ve ended up once again on Verizon instead of AT&T (coverage/service problems led to the change as the phones–the Motorola Q9h beats the Q9m easily–change has been a step back). I’m much happier now that the phone works once again at home and at the office but I wish I could still have the Q9h instead. It didn’t take long to find a couple of things that annoyed me about the Q9m:

  1. The dreaded “Charge Complete” screen is back!!! Grr.
  2. Hotmail (Windows Live Mail) seems to be locked out of the auto-setup feature for some odd reason.

Since the fact that #1 wasn’t actually present on the Q9h version of the Q, I figured it wasn’t a core OS “feature.” After searching for more data, I haven’t fully determined if I’m right or not but I ended up inspired (i.e., frustrated) enough to set out to write some code to make it go away. I found some solutions which seem to work but required at least two other applications running in the background: one is a task scheduler of sorts and the other is a script interpreter. That felt like a bit too heavy to just to get rid of an annoying dialog so I started to look into whether I can write some lightweight Win32 C++ to do a similar thing.

Instead of having it scheduled to run once in the morning (the approach the solution I linked to above took), I wanted to solve the problem for all cases when the dialog appeared. I also didn’t want it polling constantly if at all possible. I found there’s a System Notification Service I can subscribe to that will call me back whenever there’s a change in “battery state.” That turned out to do the trick.

Anyway, if you’ve got a phone that has the “Charge Complete” feature (see here for more info on why it’s annoying) then you might want to give this little application a try. You can find more details, install instructions, and a download link from my ccDismiss page.

Once I’ve confirmed it’s working for me for a few days and no bugs have cropped up, I’ll move on to problem #2 above though that one might be a bit trickier.