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Morning / Afternoon / Evening to All,
Not to be critical of this wonderful website which is full of great resources but, I have noticed that the useful info is hard to find.
So I thought it might be a good idea to post all of my items in the one place so here goes.
I will update these as i go.
TIP
If you want the CAB Files in remain in your PPC after install simply change the files preferences to "Read Only"
since i was just upgrade from wallaby to magician, i found all your posting, instructions and cab files very very helpful thanks a lot ampda, you rules :!:
Hello ampda , Great Work Friend . . . many thanx for these cabs and instruction files.
Cheers for taking the time to make them for the rest of us noobs
Glad to Help
verry nice indeed but there are simpler ways of doing the discribed below
(copied this out of pdf file )
3. Copying your “Extended ROM” Files before Big Storage
You need to copy the files from your “Extended ROM” before you go the Big Storage as you will need to install some of them after you’re finished, i.e. MMS etc. They will be deleted after the upgrade (and that’s the whole point).
a. To copy them from your Magician do a hard reset (push the power button and reset button at the same time).
b. Go through the screen alignment, time zone etc and get ready…….. when you reach the “Completed” screen it will ask you to “Tap your screen…. As soon as you tap the screen you get 3 sec to soft reset (push the reset button). If you miss it as I did just do a hard reset and try again.
c. After you do b. above go to the built in file explorer and under “My Device” you will now see the treasured “Extended_ROM” with all its files. Copy the directory straight to your SD Card then to your PC, keep them safe.
its just a bit easyer when you just fill in
go to windows folder on PPC and search loadvdisk.exe
run it and you will see your ext_rom (until you reset )
not to sure the usual file explorer can do this but Resco file explorer will find it
another progie that can find it is total commander :
find it here
http://www.ghisler.com/pocketpc.htm
no offence ment by this
Logos for Qtec, i-mate...
http://www.npo-hors.ru/logoqtek/logoqteks100.rar
Hi!!
Thanks for all your help!
Does anyone konw, or is there a way to save to the pc the SMS messages both received and sent??
Cheers!
use jeyo mobile companion. u can backup all of your messages, contacts (phone and sim), etc.
Hi!
Thanks for the tip!
By the way, and i think these questions are more tricky, is there any way NOT to charge the battery while the phone is connected to the USB?
And while using the calling software, when inputing the nunbers, to make the sim card entries dissapear and only have the ones that are in the contacts? Because most of the times i have a double entry and it really makes me mad!
Thanks!
The way to NOT to charge the battarie is to make some changes to your cable - cut +5v from USB (or make a switch).
the tray launch only app.... theres now way to BROWSE for the program you want on the tray?
sucks that you have to type out the entire path just to get it
Any idea whether these (or more specifically the camera speckles change) will work on a Wizard?
Remove Camera
Noob question here.
Once i install the camera & album to Storage how do i delete it from the \windows . Maybe not possible due to it being in ROM. In this case I end up with 2 camera software? So i'm curious what is the idea of installing in storage.
Halo ampda, i tryin to follow your how_to_ppc_upgrade.pdf buat I stuck in the step 4 backing up your existing rom to PC, in romupdate.exe I still confuse about the PORT things. can you help me to, which one to use?
please help...
thanks
Thanks for nice posting AMPDA..
I have a question,
I installed ampda_CameraV2.7b21026_RAM.CAB
but my camera version was 2.70 (build 18727) and it is still the same. I reset the device but still didnt become build 2026.
Do you have an idea?
regards
Guys,
This sharing is really useful. I just bought mine few days ago from ebay. Mine doesn't come with ANY EXT ROM at all! No software such MMS, smart dial etc.
Can anyone provide a link to get back those basic EXT ROM software so that I can upload it back? ftp://ftp.xda-developers.com/ is not working for me. Any help pls?
Pillow...
Pillow write your email address. I'll send you them via email. (Those which are not device spesific).
What is the type of your device and rom versions?
smellypillow said:
Guys,
This sharing is really useful. I just bought mine few days ago from ebay. Mine doesn't come with ANY EXT ROM at all! No software such MMS, smart dial etc.
Can anyone provide a link to get back those basic EXT ROM software so that I can upload it back? ftp://ftp.xda-developers.com/ is not working for me. Any help pls?
Pillow...
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Hi Lupusic,
Thanks a lot for your kind offer. I manage to pull up the files from the FTP using cuteFTP software. Some how my company laptop doesn't allow default browser connection....
My phone is O2 mini and has v.1.13 for both rom & radio. I think it's BigStorage (not sure though).
Any good advice for me? I mean anything at all....
Thx again
Pillow....
Guys, I'm not able to run Boot Image Tool. It gives me this error
Component 'mscomctl.ocx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid
Any idea?
Thx....
Hi AMPDA,
Thanks for all your postings on big storage which gives detailed instructions step-by-step. Very brief and consise. Also now I notice you have put everything into 1 place like a table for pick and choose. Can it get any better ? Can't ask for anything more. You have so many useful cabs and instructions. I have benefitte a great deal. ONCE AGAIN Thank You.
Hi guys,
I am currently using the orange spv m500, I upgraded radio rom to 1.13 and the last orange update for the 1.12 rom.
What will happen if I choose a rom from another operator (e.g. tmob)? How do I get the setttings from my current provider back (GPRS, MMS) ? (only settings! not interested in all the programs, I will reinstall all necessary software manually; it's still windows :? )
Will there be any software installed from the rom of another operator? if so, will this prevent to set my orange settings back?
Thanks!
By the way, why are there barely any custom orange roms?
No problem at all, just backup your current rom. Flash with the new rom, prevent ext-rom from starting or go directly for BIG Storage & apply the setting cabs for gprs etc.
Cheers, M
Ps. Dutch how to's are available.
which cabs from external storage
great, big storage it probably is! Hoping the new rom will also work with the extended bluetooth stack from this forum.
besides that, it gives me the opportunity to get rid of the horrible fonix voice dailing app.....completely useless with a long contact list....
fonix voice dail: "would you like to update your contacts?" NO! "please speak more clearly"...NOOOOOOO! (....people in the bus staring at you.... :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: )
anyway, does anyone know which cabs from the external storage are absolutely necessary for orange?
The one thing you really need is the Orange network settings. Get a copy of WinCE CabManager (>10 trial executions) to view what's inside your Orange cabfiles. Usually the name says it all. Then after an upgrade you can easily decide what to load & what not.
Besides on BIG Storage a hard-reset its all it takes to get rid of an unwanted Orange program. So make a list of things you wanna keep, execute the ext-rom cabs on look what it gives you. Gambled wrong? Hard-reset & start again, doesn't take so much time as long as you don't install other third-party apps during this process.
Cheers, M
The one thing you really need is the Orange network settings. Get a copy of WinCE CabManager (>10 trial executions) to view what's inside your Orange cabfiles. Usually the name says it all. Then after an upgrade you can easily decide what to load & what not.
Besides on BIG Storage a hard-reset its all it takes to get rid of an unwanted Orange program. So make a list of things you wanna keep, execute the ext-rom cabs on look what it gives you. Gambled wrong? Hard-reset & start again, doesn't take so much time as long as you don't install other third-party apps during this process.
Cheers, M
I want to organise my contacts so that the names come up based on alphabetical order of their first name, not their surname.
ie if I have a mate called Ben Smith, I want this to be shown under B for Ben and not S for Smith.
Is this possible? At the moment I am inputing contact names as Smith Ben and then it appears under the contacts as Ben, Smith . . . any ideas?
Thanks
Photo Contacts does provide this option. It lets your sort on different parameters.
http://www.pocketx.net/smartphone/photocontacts.html
You can change the way contacts are displayed in Outlook on your desktop and then sync then to your device. You can also install the attached cabs, they will give you an option in the pop-up menu when you tap and hold a contact on how to show the contacts.
OK, cool. Thanks for the help.
Anyone know how to make the Contacts remember my selected filter?
My old phone had 25 contacts that I actually call with any regularity. My Outlook contacts has a thousand or something. I don't want to scroll through all those so I created a "Phone" category hoping to have the big list filtered. But, Contacts won't remember the filter and I don't want to re-select it every time.
Any thoughts?
Raj Pillai solved the "First Name, Last Name" problem by writing a free Outlook plug-in. I've used it with no problems.
It's *very easy* and convenient.
Instructions:
http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/raj/FileAs.html
The App:
http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/raj/Download/FileAsSorter.zip
You double-click to install this plugin.
Then, you open your Outlook Contacts, click "File As Sorter" in the toolbar, and it will ask you how you want to sort your contacts. Click "First, Last" and voila! Now your contacts will appear the way you want on your phone.
Do what I did. I highlighted my most frequently called contacts as such:
John Smith -> [John] Smith
The [ symbol comes before A, thus the [-ized names are always listed first.
Just don't use: "John" Smith, or your pda will go crazy whenever you try to Sms/Mms him - as I discovered the very hard way.
A little off topic but there's a great bit of software for the Treo that does this called Initiate;
http://www.hobbyistsoftware.com/
I've pinged them about developing something for Win5 platform but so far no luck, maybe if more would join the chorus.
With this program you simply could input letters and it would bring up anything that matched the order. So for Bob Smith you could imput bsh or oth, you get the idea, very cool, worked great, we need it for windows.
What I did was I removed all the first names. Then under the "Last name" field, I put in the full name. That works well
Maybe I wasn't clear - the Outlook plugin I mentioned will automatically re-sort all your contacts as First, Last, so as soon as you sync, all your contacts will show up in the right order.
I wrote a small little .NET CF 2.0 app that handles this pretty well. Very lightweight and definitely gets the job done. And its free (of course, you can donate, though! ).
See my post over here at MoDaCo about it.
Thanks!
Although I normally use a little plug-in that saves as First, Last....this is quite a cool app!!
Although it required the (BIG) 5 MB .Net on my Main Memory (that is the only thing that sucks, but hey....I was sure that one time, I had to install .Net, so I just gotta live with that, but 30MB free Main Memory is still okay ), it's good enough to have it staying installed on my Wizard.
Thanks bro!
Molski
molski said:
Although I normally use a little plug-in that saves as First, Last....this is quite a cool app!!
Although it required the (BIG) 5 MB .Net on my Main Memory (that is the only thing that sucks, but hey....I was sure that one time, I had to install .Net, so I just gotta live with that, but 30MB free Main Memory is still okay ), it's good enough to have it staying installed on my Wizard.
Thanks bro!
Molski
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Hopefully in the next few weeks I will develop integration into the contacts list as well as a smaller footprint file (I know C++ extremely well, but I didn't want to have to deal with all the code and I just started learning a bit with C#) so it loads quicker and requires less memory. I'll keep you posted on its progress. Thanks for the props though![/i]
!Sounds real good zero_devide_1!
I'll be lookin' around for you and your updated program
HI ,u can use this cab file to change the way contacts look also u can add conpany name ...its preety cool bein usin it from quite some time .
here is a simple reg tweak that changes the contacts to go by first name then last.....
Life is much easier since I found this little tweak....
wheres the tweak??
Does anyone know how to add search for contacts from the today screen? Thanks!
crazyazn23 said:
Does anyone know how to add search for contacts from the today screen? Thanks!
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yup
http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~jmisurda/ppc/SearchToday.ARM.CAB
enjoy...
McHale said:
yup
http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~jmisurda/ppc/SearchToday.ARM.CAB
enjoy...
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thanx but that's not it..... that's the web search, i need the contact search.
i dont know what is WM5 storage for??..i see it in every Rom that I ever tried..and i dont know function of this program still..thx for reply
kubicek123 said:
i dont know what is WM5 storage for??..i see it in every Rom that I ever tried..and i dont know function of this program still..thx for reply
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Do you have a Memory card?
If so, this might be usefull... You can use your Phone as memory stick.
So, you just launch it and activate it and connect to your PC using USB.
Then ActiveSync won't launch..but, you'll have a drive mapped to your Memory Card.
This is also usefull if you want to transfer data to a PC that doesn't have active sync.. or just don't want to sync.
Just try it..
Note: I noticed that it doesn't work all the time.. so, if your the cook made it work then it works but if it doesn't it doesn't.. I guess
yeaah it really works..so I can sell my cardreader?..is that so fast as cardreader or works that slowly??..and some other questions...
1) i have NBD v8.0 and on my left softkey i have activesync instead Touchflo..how i can get back touchlfo?? in softkey in setting touchlfo is missing
2)how i can use bluetooth remote sim acces to acces to sim of other mobile phone??
3)how can i hide sim contacts?
Let me try to answer your questions:
1) You can either do reg edit or so this... this is what I did.. create a shortcut of the ApLauncher from /Windows/ directory and save it to /Windows/Start Menu/Programs/ or some where there... then now go back into the softkey setting and it'll be there... oh, if you might want to just rename that short cut to TouchFlo to display 'TouchFlow' on your left softkey... BTW, I used TotalCommander to do this.
2) I don't know.. haven't tried this before... I don't save anything on my sim...sorry.
3) Red edit: goto HKCU\ControlPanel\Phone
Key: ShowSim (dWord)
Value: 0 = hide & 1 = show
I hope that helps you enjoy NBD more.. this is the least I can do for Zoki for developing such a great ROM...and everyone else who contributes to this awesome forum!!
In my old PDA (Dell Axim) there was a possibillity that the owner of the device could type into a screen, called "My Info", his name, (e-mail)address, phone number and a personal message that said (i.e.): "If found, please return this device to owner (reward included) - Thank you!".
That screen would immediately pop up when anyone would start up the device but it was still locked by the user. So basicly, the finder could not do anything with the device, other than trying to format it completely if he would have kept it to use it himself.
Unfortunately, my HTC HD2 does not have the "my info'' possibility; at least, not that I know off. So, if I would lose my device, an honoust finder would not know who would be the rightfull owner to return it to.
Is any of you familliar with the possibility to make this possible on my device? Maybe by installing some extra software or so?
I hope I will hear from you shortly.
Thanking you in advance.
Best regards,
Robert,
Netherlands
am i mistaken or is there not a contact card in the contacts for "my info" including name, address and the like
Go to contacts tab, click more and there you'll see a contact card 'me' (Ik in dutch)
There you can put in this info
Ropie58 said:
In my old PDA (Dell Axim) there was a possibillity that the owner of the device could type into a screen, called "My Info", his name, (e-mail)address, phone number and a personal message that said (i.e.): "If found, please return this device to owner (reward included) - Thank you!".
That screen would immediately pop up when anyone would start up the device but it was still locked by the user. So basicly, the finder could not do anything with the device, other than trying to format it completely if he would have kept it to use it himself.
Unfortunately, my HTC HD2 does not have the "my info'' possibility; at least, not that I know off. So, if I would lose my device, an honoust finder would not know who would be the rightfull owner to return it to.
Is any of you familliar with the possibility to make this possible on my device? Maybe by installing some extra software or so?
I hope I will hear from you shortly.
Thanking you in advance.
Best regards,
Robert,
Netherlands
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638
5. Enable Hidden Owner Info in All Settings\Personal Folder
Go to HKLM\ControlPanel\Owner and change Hide from 1 to 0 and then reset. You can now enter your name you want to register old apps.
Karsten
Or use BsB Tweaks and turn on the option "Owner Info"
Well, there IS a "me"-card in contacts for my info, the only problem is that this info would never be seen by the person that would find the lost HD2 device when it is locked with its password...
Ropie58 said:
Well, there IS a "me"-card in contacts for my info, the only problem is that this info would never be seen by the person that would find the lost HD2 device when it is locked with its password...
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You could always make up a skin with your personal info on it. Make it 480 x 800 and .cab it, and make it your lock screen.
wolfee said:
You could always make up a skin with your personal info on it. Make it 480 x 800 and .cab it, and make it your lock screen.
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That suggestion I also had in mind, but I hoped there would be a much more easier solution...
Thanks for your reply!
Robert.
@Karsten
I really would like to try your suggestion, only I have trouble understanding your path... What is "HKML" and how do I get there? Is it correct from me to understand that I will find the "All Settings\Personal Folder" in "HKLM\ControlPanel\Owner"? And what do you mean by "you want to register your apps"?
Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks for your reply!
Robert
Ropie58 said:
@Karsten
I really would like to try your suggestion, only I have trouble understanding your path... What is "HKML" and how do I get there? Is it correct from me to understand that I will find the "All Settings\Personal Folder" in "HKLM\ControlPanel\Owner"? And what do you mean by "you want to register your apps"?
Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks for your reply!
Robert
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Ok what he means is to use a reg editor program like Total Commander or PHM reg Edit to change the reg key. Here is a cab that will change the reg for you. when it comes to reg some Paid programs it requires you to enter your name or email Addy in the owner info.
jbirdeagle
Here is an easy way to put your "My Info" on your HD2 in case it gets lost.
On a notepad or whatever, write your name and phone number, then take a picture of it and save it to "locked phone wallpaper". It can be nicely decorated or plain. I was really worried about not finding that option (old phone Wing had this) saw locked phone wall paper under settings, personalize.