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Not a valid win32 application

Can anyone help!..Iam trying to load up TomTom navigator 5 into my XDA from my pc but all iam getting is "Not a valid win32 application", is there a workaround for the problem.
Iam running XP Home on my pc and have a XDA1 running pocket pc 2002 version 3.17.03

maybe it's a pocketpc exe file ?

Yep- agreed with Rudegar...
Copy the file on PPC/SD Card and execute it from there.

No tried that not working

Download the file from another mirror/link. This exe might not have been completely downloded or could be corrupt.

hi there you have to copy the files out of the TomTom folder onto your MMc and then go into file browser and run it.
i made same mistake i put the tomtom folder on the mmc and went in to it and tried to installl but no look,u need to put the CONTENTS of that folder on the MMC then select the start(two tomtom hands) it will install then

Thanks mate, you done the trick....took it out of the original file and copied individually to the SD Card - took ages but cracked it, works a treat.
Again thanks

CAB files

i know this is probably a stupid question, but i cannot get cab files onto my pocket pc. i have read and it says that all i should have to do is copy it from my comp. and paste it in a folder in my phone. do i have to have a sd card to do this, becuase while using active sync it will not let me do it at all. i am very very new to this stuff so please no bashing and any help would be great.

in activesync click "explore" and find where you want to drop the files then drag it over or copy and paste it.

thanks joel i have tried that and when i drag it over it shows as an circle with an line through and it will not let me put it in there maybe i am not extracting it properly or something i dont know.

there is nothing to extract, its drag and drop. Try copy and pasting. (also, make sure the device is still connected)

first of all, tell us which device do you have and which windows are you runnig on it?
second of all, tell us the enviroment of your computer, that is the Operating system (vista, xp or linux?)
the overall process should really be easy, copy the cab, click explore and click the "my documents" folder, right click and selct Paste, thats it...browse the location you pasted the CAB File from your pocket Pc and install it

Here is a more detailed instruction on how to install a CAB :
http://www.pocketpccentral.net/help/tutorials/install_cab_file.htm

i have a xv6600 running wm2003, and my computer is running windows xp

Cab via ActiveSync Software
Hi
You could try this:
http://www.modaco.com/content/windo.../cabviaactivesync-free-edition-now-available/
Cheers
andrew-in-woking

i got it thanks for all of your help guys

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CORRECT instructions for making a gold card and some tips. :D

UPDATE:
If you are still using this method for the LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD USE THE NEW ONE CLICK ROOT METHOD. It will save you a very...very large amount of time compared to this process. More information can be found here:
http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/2009/08/16/android-rooting-in-1-click-in-progress/
Read the whole page please it has very important information on it.
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ORIGINAL POST:
"I've noticed that the tutorial for making a gold card is not as intuitive as it should be. A lot of people are having issues making a gold card for a few simple reasons:
1. You need to have the SD card that you want to make in to a gold card in your phone when you get your CID. You need the serial number off of the SD card you're making in to the gold card, and not the ID of your phone it self.
2. Make sure you are following the hexED modification directions correctly. If you run Windows 7 or Windows Vista, be sure to Right click on the program before opening it and select "Run as administrator..."
3. You can use this site to replace steps 6 through 9 of this process thanks to mr_black03:
mr_black03 said:
Ok well here is my site --> http://www.andyappz.com/cid.html
It replaces Steps 6-9 in Gold Card Instuctions Hope this helps some ppl...enjoy!
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4. When using the hexED program make sure you are copying ALL the gold card data, then placing your cursor at the front of the first line(0000000) and click on Edit > Paste Write. Then save. This should replace lines 00000 to 00170 with the data from the gold card.
Here are the directions again for everyone(ease and comfort):
1. Download QMAT http://revskills.de/pages/download.html
It’s a demo version so will only can open for 10 minutes.
2. Format your memory card to fat32. Please keep in mind some card does not work.
3. Search in your android market for ‘Terminal Emulator’
4. type ‘ cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid ‘ without the quote sign.
5. Note that code down on a notepad or something. Make sure everything is noted correctly.
6) Go to QMAT site http://revskills.de/pages/download.html, download QMAT 4.36
7) Extract the file, double click on qmat.exe
8 ) Click on Cyptoanalysis Tools > Crypto Toolbox
9) Look way below, there is a text box (beside “Reverse String” button. Key in the cid number you’ve got earlier
Click on the “Reverse String” button, the result is reversed…
Example: 532600bd227d9c0347329407514d5402
10) Copy the reversed cid
11) Go to QMAT again http://revskills.de/pages/goldcard.html to generate your goldcard (this is free for G1 phone, Thanks to Viper!)
12) Enter your email. For the CID, enter the reversed cid you’ve got earlier. However you need to replace the first 2 characters to 00.
Example: From “532600bd227d9c0347329407514d5402” to “002600bd227d9c0347329407514d5402”
13) click Continue and you will receive the goldcard.img via your email.
14) Go to your email, download the goldcard.img and save it to a directory first.
15) Now, download HxD Hex Editor for this site
http://download.cnet.com/HxD-Hex-Edi...=uo&tag=button
16) Install and launch HxD Hex Editor program
17) Go to Extra tab > Open Disk. Under Physical disk, select Removable Disk (Must be your SD card), uncheck “Open as Readonly), click OK.
18) Go to Extra again, Open Disk Image, open up goldcard.img which you’ve saved to a directory earlier.
Now, you should have two tabs, one is your removable disk, the other is goldcard.img. Press OK when prompted for “Sector Size” 512 (Hard disks/Floppy disks), click OK.
19) Click on goldcard.img tab. Go to Edit tab > Select All, edit tab again > copy.
20) Click on the “removable disk” tab. Select offset 00000000 till offset 00000170, click on Edit tab and then Paste Write.
21) Click on File > Save. You may exit this program
Now, do a test to see if your SD card is “compatible”
Disconnect the USB cable connected to your SD card, then plug it back again. Go to My Computer, you will see your SD card (E.g. “Removable Disk ( F” ), double click and see if you can access it. If it prompted you to format, then forget about this SD card, don’t think it will work. After trying for days, I ended up buying a Kingston 2GB card.
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I have a MyTouch 3g rooted, running Cyanogens 4.1.11.1 rom. Any questions let me know as I know the process practically by heart now.
gtalk: [email protected]"

Big thanks to Geahboi for fixing my hours of frustration making the damn gold card. KUDOS!

Can I suggest that this be added to the wiki - then it will last longer than this post will. Ideally you would create a new wiki page with all the instructions, then anyone else can update them and improve them if they see corrections or simplifications.
See: XDADeveloperWiki - HTC_Sapphire_Hacking
Please help me keep our wiki up to date - I can't do it alone (and I know nothing about any of this as I did not need to create a gold card to root my phone)

Also add how to do the gold card with Linux?
I followed these basic instructions that I found on this originally here to make this work with ubuntu jaunty 9.04 linux:
download QMAT from the site above and either install wine packages or get the codeweaver wine package or use the website above to get the correct reversed numbers after adding zeros up front as it instructs.
visit the website to get the goldcard.img sent to you and save the goldcard.img file on your system
after getting the CID from the same card, I use a cheap USB card reader and not the phone to do the creation.
insert the card reader and create a fat file system. if your system auto mounts the disk, you need to unmount it but leave it plugged in and accessible. Now make a file system by doing sudo fstab /dev/sd? where the question mark is the disk drive that linux gave it. You can easily find it by doing a dmesg in the same terminal and look for the card information at the very bottom. Now create a file system using all the disk space on the card and change its type to vfat. Make sure you do this part!
Now format the card you just created by using the command "sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1" as an example. This creates the vfat file system you need.
DD the goldcard.img to the card by doing "dd if=goldcard.img of=/dev/sd? where the ? is the drive designation linux gives it.
copy the sappimg.zip to the drive after formatting and dd'ing the image. very important and forgot this one when initially compiling this. sorry.
now remove it and test to see if linux will mount it as a vfat disk. If not, the card is most likely not suitable and you need another one or you did a step wrong. You can either mount it manually or let linux attempt to automount it. I don't like automounting so I turn it off.
place the card in the phone and go on with the steps.
I followed these steps twice and the only place that got me was with the actual card itself making a stupid mistake of using a different card for the CID and to make the goldcard.
If you see an error its operator derived and all mine. Just important I think to have a variety of the howto for folks on Linux only.

sorry but what's gold card ? ..

neymo said:
sorry but what's gold card ? ..
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not sure of the exact definition, but essentially its an sd card specifically set up to be used on a cell phone for rooting purposes. the SD cards serial ID as recognized by the phone gets bound to it manually(per the instructions above) and allows the user to get past certain security practices on the phone which would other wise restrict your access to flash image files which is what you need to do in order to root your phone.
any one with more knowledge than myself care to elaborate?
p.s. before mods say it, these types of questions should go in the general section.

i type in the line to get the cid, but i never get the code. what am I doing wrong?

tazz9690 said:
i type in the line to get the cid, but i never get the code. what am I doing wrong?
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try doing this from your computer using adb. (you might have to research a bit to get adb set up on your pc as i will not go over it here)
otherwise, if you're lazy and like me...
1. Download Astro File Manager from the Market.
2. Open up Astro, and browse to /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1
NOTE: Press the green UP arrow in Astro to get back to the main (/) directory.
3. There will be another mmc1 folder with a colin and about 4 numbers in the directory name. Mines like this:
"mmc1:b368"
Open that folder.
4. LONG press on the "cid" file in this directory and click on "Open As".
5. Select "Text" from the list that pops up.
6. If you get a pop up for what program you want to use to view the file you can either use a text editor you have already installed, or the HTML viewer works too.
7. Enjoy.
Let me know if you have questions.

One other HUGE thing that messed me up. You need the sim card in the phone to get the correct cid #. With one phone i had 3 different cid #'s and was like what the hell?! I have done this with the wing many times. But i for got that you need the sim card. So please please keep that bad boy in there. I usually have a back up phone and use that while rooting or anything. Also i believe ADB is so much more accurate and easier to copy the numbers to be sure. In terminal after you have the cid go to file(for windows xp) select all, then while all is selected put the cursor over the very last number of the cid and drag to the first, then go to file again and select copy. If you have vista or win7 instead of going to file just right click at the top bar on the window to get menu options. fosho. . . .

Thank you ^_^

I keep getting "Error – Wrong Model ID". I have tried recreating the goldcard several times. I have a kingston 2gb SD card. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
*nvm, I figured out the problem I think... after checking in the mmc1 folder for the cid instead of using the adb i found that i messed up on of the numbers in there so all is good i think

[Q] Noob help w/ bkondisk and other questions

Great forum, lots of great information. I want to flash a Spanish language ROM to an HTC Excalibur, I have read a lot of the threads related to doing this and I have downloaded most of the tools as well as the ROM.
I want to do a ROM dump of the OEM ROM just in case anything goes wrong.
1) Instructions for using bkondisk.exe says
prun bkondisk [targetdir]
I need more detailed instructions, if I run this from a command prompt in Win XP it just says prun is not a recognized as a command, program or batch file.
do I have to navigate to a directory on the phone? It just says 'mobile device' location is "my documents" which is weird because I don't see my documents anywhere.
I have copied bkondisk.exe and the tools from itsutils to the windows directory on the phone.
2) general question about all .exe files eg. typical instructions will say
Run the SDA Application Unlock.exe.
Right now the file SDA Application Unlock.exe is downloaded to my PC. Where do I copy it to on the phone before running it?
I cannot run any .exe files copied to the phone.
All files which I have copied to the phone it says "converting to mobile phone format" while copying.
Any .exe file copied thusly if I double click on it it will not execute, it just shows the file size and info.
I tried running the file SDA Application Unlock from the phone's file explorer, when I did it just said "SDA Application Unlock is not a valid Windows CE program"
Summary: basically two problems, where do I put these files to be able to run them, and why is it when I copy them to my phone I can't get them to execute?

[GUIDE] Save apps to sdcard Surface RT 8.1

Assuming that you have:​
Not modified the registry.
Surface RT with Windows 8.1
Patience (Essential)
First: Taking ownership.​Use
Code:
takeown /F "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps" /A /R
Second​ Let's remove the C:\Program Files\WindowsApps folder (As we have already taken ownership we can do this) just use "SHIFT+SUPR".
There is also a way to preserve already installed apps, this shouldn't affect but in the proccess I just deleted everything, anyway, you decide...
Code:
robocopy "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps" "D:\WindowsApps" /E /COPYALL /DCOPY:DAT
and then just use "SHIFT+SPR" to delete the folder.
Assuming that your news apps folder is at "D:\WindowsApps" change it to the directory where you want to have the apps.
Third​Now let's create the symbolic link
Code:
mklink /D "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps" "D:\WindowsApps"
Restart
Try to install an app and... d*mn! Error 0xd00000bb
Don't worry just right click over the new app directory, in my case "D:\WindowsApps" and choose properties... then Security tab and then Advanced now we must be sure that there is the "ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES" with full control if it isn't then just add it. Enable inheritance and tick the option "Replace all child permi..." then ok and wait... when it's done go to the Windows Store and click "Retry" and.... voi lá app get installed.
Be hapy :good:

I'll try to do this later. But has anyone else tried this and confirmed it works. Also, I'm not a pro, so I don't understand what "use "SHIFT+SPR" to delete the folder." means. Can you elaborate?
I just bought one of these cheap 16gb Win tablets for my son and I'm SOOOOOOO mad that I can't install apps on the SD card. What a joke.

Ok. So I created the D:\WindowsApps and did the robocopy. That took about 30-45minutes.
I tried to create the link, but it said the link was already created. So I don't know about that. Does the robocopy create a symbolic link?
PS. I discovered with some Googling 'Shift+SPR' is 'Shift Delete in Spanish.

thehotrod11 said:
Ok. So I created the D:\WindowsApps and did the robocopy. That took about 30-45minutes.
I tried to create the link, but it said the link was already created. So I don't know about that. Does the robocopy create a symbolic link?
PS. I discovered with some Googling 'Shift+SPR' is 'Shift Delete in Spanish.
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Did you deleted original folder in C:\ yet?

I tried this procedure three times today. I was never able to delete the WindowsApps folder from my C drive. And it would continue to install my apps on the C drive. Moreover there were no security options on the WindowsApp folder on my SD card. Frustrated that I spent so much time on this and didn't get anywhere.

If there are no security options on the SD card, then the SD card isn't using NTFS. FAT obviously doesn't support ACLs, so it has no security settings.
If you can't rename or delete the original folder, then obviously you can't replace it with a symlink. You'd have two things with the same name! Robocopy doesn't move files and folders, it copies them (surprise...).

Thanks GDTD
GoodDayToDie said:
If there are no security options on the SD card, then the SD card isn't using NTFS. FAT obviously doesn't support ACLs, so it has no security settings.
If you can't rename or delete the original folder, then obviously you can't replace it with a symlink. You'd have two things with the same name! Robocopy doesn't move files and folders, it copies them (surprise...).
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HI again internet.
I tried this method with little success. Then again I had a bitlocker encrypted SD not sure if that makes a diff??
Have fun
Wcomhelp

Would this work on 8.1 with Bing? Could someone write a script, to automate the process?
Thanks!

"robocopy" Not Working?
First, i tried to post a comment but since my hotspot was a sprint isp, it denied me. Such a pain and waited a long time to finally register. I finally got around to accessing cable internet to register. But by now, I already found my answer. So here it is.
If you cannot successfully complete the robocopy (says access denied for certain files), you need to fix the permissions first.
1-Before starting these instructions; you must have "ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES" added in the permissions of D:\WindowsApps or wherever that folder is on D. But also be sure to hit the "Full Control" box before saving.
2- Start this tutorial and the robocopy should work.

Hi,
I cannot seem to get the permissions in the SD card folder to work permanently and folder permissions keep reverting to read-only. I have been able to install one app in the SD card folder but now I am continuing to get the error.
Any kind soul would like to explain how to permanently set the permissions to that will make sure that this works?
Thanks a lot.

You didn't mention that the SD Card must be formated as NTFS system in order to take into account correct NTFS Right access.

Does it valid only for Windows 8.1 RT version ??? I am trying on Windows X86 32Bits but doesn't works

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I'm also interested if it is possible to do this on other machines with Windows 8.1.
I followed the instructions above, but when I'm trying to install i.e. Adobe Touch app, I'v got an error: 0x80244022.

tried in windows 8.1 pro and it does not work. As soon as i open an installed app it opens for a few secconds and the exit imediately.
Please help.