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Is there any desktop WM5 emulator??

There are certain good programs that I would like to use, but I have a Treo 750 and they need 320x240 resolution in order to work. I was wondering if someone knows of a WM5 emulator that I could run on desktop and install those programs on that and run them right on my PC screen....
Any body???

prabhg said:
There are certain good programs that I would like to use, but I have a Treo 750 and they need 320x240 resolution in order to work. I was wondering if someone knows of a WM5 emulator that I could run on desktop and install those programs on that and run them right on my PC screen....
Any body???
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Hi,
So, you want a WM5/6 emulator on Windows XP/Vista, right?
If so, Microsoft has a free one
Google for "microsoft device emulator". Download the 2.0 final version not the 1.0 or the 2.0 beta.
You will need to download the WM5 image as well from them.
Thanks.

wywywywy said:
Hi,
You will need to download the WM5 image as well from them.
Thanks.
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Thanks buddy for guiding... I downloaded the emulator from Microsoft... I searched for Emulator images and I got result for WM5.0 also,,, but on the given list of possible download files, there is no English version. Could you please tell which one should I download...
Thanks for directing me....

Microsoft... I downloaded all through Microsoft....
There are many guides available teaching how to setup and use the Device Emulator.
As far as I can remember, the name of the image is efp.msi or similar.

yeah this is good, and if you want to see your connected device as it looks on your device and use it on your pc as if you were doing so on your pocket pc, use 'my mobiler' its freeware and easily available

Thanks for leading me this far. I got emulator to load up and all is going fine except I cant figure out how to transfer cab files to the emulator to install and how to make internet to work on the emulator. I want to test my website how it loads on the PDA's and use some softwares......

I hope you managed to transfer cab (& other) files to the emulator.
If you have not succeeded do the following:
1. Install Activesync (4.x) on PC where Emulator is running.
2. Configure ActiveSync on PC to use DMA for syncing.
3. Configure ActiveSync on Emulator to use DMA (it should be DMA anyways).
4. Open Device Emulator Manager.
5. Start the Image.
6. In the device manager click refresh if you don't see the emulated device.
7. Right click on the emulated device Emulator Device Manager and click cradle.
8. This will simulate cradling the device.
9. Now ActiveSync on both sides should be connected and then you could explore the emulated directories from activesync.
~Cheers

Exploring device memory with a PC (no ActiveSync)

I was wondering if there was a way to do exploring of the internal memory via regular means (windows explorer).
Reason for this Q being that i use FAR Manager to do file chores and it hacks me off to no end that exploring can only be done via ActiveSync... I love my Far, being an old coot with old Norton Commander habit

Yes, bluetooth.
http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=1028
Surur

sliex said:
I was wondering if there was a way to do exploring of the internal memory via regular means (windows explorer).
Reason for this Q being that i use FAR Manager to do file chores and it hacks me off to no end that exploring can only be done via ActiveSync... I love my Far, being an old coot with old Norton Commander habit
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Sorry this post isn't going to help you but how in the heck can you use FAR in today's world of technology?
Are you still using a 286 processor?

Whats wrong with FAR ? It's a win32 app, works well, has loads of plugins, loads of uses AND a beautifully readable console graphics (NC weeeee ). I hate windows explorer with a passion and windows graphics based file managers look butt ugly... there
I'm thinking of looking for something similar for my new Touch Pro

Total Commander has a plugin to explore the filesystem of a WM PDA/smarthphone.
Check it out here. The name of the plugin is "WinCE". I use only Total Commander for working with files and dirs and it's great to explore my Touch Pro with it too.

Am I misstaken if I belive you just want to browse the files on your phone as it was a memorystick you inserted into your computer?
If that is the case you just have to select to use your device as a disc station when you insert the usb cable. I belive it uses activesync as the default, the question only shows up for like 10 seconds so you might have missed it if you didn't watch your phone.

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If that is the case you just have to select to use your device as a disc station when you insert the usb cable.
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With this, the "disc mode", you can only see the content of the extension microSD card, not the content of the internal storage memory, where Windows and the programs are installed.

You can try Pocket Controller. It's expensive, but there's a demo that works well.

some questions about windows mobile os

1.what are the file systems supported by win mob os 5,6??
2.how can we change file types of storage card or phone memory??
3.does a 16 gb certified hard ware mSD slot support 32,i ask this because many says 32 gets supported in many mSD slots,what is storage limitation of windows ce os??
4.any tweaks available to close the application when tapping cross in top right,normally the prog gets pause or halted freeing processor but memeory gets occupied this is not good,one way i found is to insatll spb shell plus??,but am using this one only for that service,any othet way possible??
5.is there anything like device manager on windows mobile,so that we can see the hole hardware tree com ports ,lan cards,gps etc,so that some devices can be halted
6.what is software com port and hard ware com port used by gps module,how can we get the gps module device id,manufacturer,lan card manufacturer,memorky card manufacturer properties,since there is no device manager,bluetooth module,radio rom info is shown in about???
7.does the mini usb in my device can be used to connect flash drives usb drives,other components,like video out audio out,any softwares doing these thing,any utility doing this??
8.i think there is a windows ce set up disk available ,if then how can i install windows ce on to my device
9.other than active sync (xp),mobile device center(vista ,7),microsoft produces other utility for configuring windows mobile devices,the soft is called as microsoft system manager's MOBILE DEVICE MANAGER & other soft called CONFIGURATION MANAGER,how can these softwares act on my windows phone what it can do,any info relating it????
10.why is spb on top,while there are better shells than spb???

[Q] GBA Emulator Bios

I downloaded a few .GBA files and transferred them into the /gba/roms folder on my SD card, and I try to play them in the app called "GBA Emulator". They show up, but when I get an error saying:
"No bios file found".
Does anyone know where I can find these bios? I've done a lot of googling, and yes, I searched the forums.
Also, first thread.

MrHaddad said:
I downloaded a few .GBA files and transferred them into the /gba/roms folder on my SD card, and I try to play them in the app called "GBA Emulator". They show up, but when I get an error saying:
"No bios file found".
Does anyone know where I can find these bios? I've done a lot of googling, and yes, I searched the forums.
Also, first thread.
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You have to get the BIOS from a real GBA - any other method is piracy.
EDIT: You obviously didn't search very hard either.
"Method 1 - Xboo Package
The nocash xboo package (download here) includes ready-for-use software for downloading the BIOS from GBA to PC. It also includes instructions on how to built a cable connection between GBA link port and PC parallel port, the circuit is relative simple: You need only a handful of wires (plus plugs, unless you'd connect the cables directly to the mainboard). Anyways, that means soldering and dealing with hardware, and is probably not suitable for software guys. And, of course, it may take up 1-2 hours of your time, even if you have wires and soldering iron at hand.
Method 2 - Custom Solutions
If you do already have a working cable connection between PC and GBA then you could write a transmit procedure at the GBA side, and a receive procedure at the PC side - this could be implemented only by software experts - or by people whom already own software for that purpose (for example, some hardware debuggers may include a memory transfer function).
But not enough, the GBA includes a copy-protection, this can be bypassed by following pseudo code formula; used to read one byte (x) from address , the address range is 0..3FFFh (16KBytes); you could use it, for example, to write a program that copies all bytes into Work RAM, and then transfer that memory to PC:
x = (MidiKey2Freq(y-(((y AND 3)+1)OR 3), 168, 0) * 2) SHR 24
Explained: The read-protection does not allow the user program to read BIOS memory by LDR opcodes. The BIOS CpuSet and CpuFastSet memory copy functions could theoretically read from BIOS memory, however, these functions verify if the source address is in BIOS area and will silently reject the transfer. The MidiKey2Freq BIOS function (SWI 1FH, incoming parameters in r0,r1,r2, return value in r0) does not include such verification. It is normally intended to read a MidiKey value from memory, and to convert it into a frequence value. The above formula undoes this conversion and returns the original memory value. This mechanism was discoverd by DarkFader, which is cool, his description was kinda dull though, but anyways: thanks!"
http://nocash.emubase.de/gbabios.htm
(no, you won't find the BIOS there but you can get the tool to extract the BIOS from a real GBA if you feel like you want to go through all of that work)

I will close this thread since you already got your answer .
Thanks,

General Android -> Windows Backup strategy

Backing up camera photos, messenger pics, contacts, documents etc. to Windows in their original format.
Smartphone: unrooted Mate9 with Android 8
What I used to do:
Connect my previous phone (rooted Ascend Mate) to Windows via USB, it's SD card got connected as a real mass storage device. I then ran a custom robocopy batch routine that backed up/mirrored all the important things to my computer. I folder mounted everything interesting from the internal memory to the SD card, like messenger pics.
This worked really great.
Problem I have now:
My new Mate9 does not support true USB mass storage connection anymore. It only supports this awful pseudo MTP file transfer connection to Windows.
This makes robocopy unusable because it only works with real drives with an assigned letters of course.
I really don't know what to do now.
Any cloud backup solution is not an option for me, because of sensitive data and slow internet. Full phone backups feel like an overkill and I cannot access the files on the computer directly.
I know that some people run a samba server or something on their phones to turn the storage into NAS drives. (Robocopy supports NAS I think) This seems to be maximum overkill and difficult to setup and resource intense but I'm interested if its the only way.
Any tips? Thank you

Don't know much about Windows, or MPT for that matter, but perhaps you could map your device (folders you need) to a letter drive? If I recall correctly, that mapping will allow you to read the files located on the MPT drive.

This is acually possible. I found a commercial software that lets you map a driver letter to an MTP device but it's $40.
Did some more research and getting a drive letter for Android storage over WiFi is acually stupidly easy.
Just install WebDav Server on Android and click the button. Then on Windows Explorer -> Map Network Driver and enter the IP displayed on Android. Thats literally it.
I only hope that I can get two drive letters for internal and external storage. Need to try.

So I found a complete solution that I'm VERY happy with!
Its running two WebDAV servers on Androind, one for accessing the internal storage and one for the sd card. This allows me to map 2 network drives in Windows and that means robocopy magic!
Here is how I did it:
1. Install the free app WebDAV Server Ultimate. This app allows you to run multiple servers at once AND let you specify custom storage paths. Both things that the other popular app WebDAV Server can't do!
2. Create two new servers in the app with the plus button and specify the according storage paths. Also make sure these two servers use different ports. The name can be specified freely. Click on the play button to start the servers.
3. Open the Windows Explorer and click "Map network drive" in the top bar. A new window pops up: Pick a drive letter you want and enter the Network IP of your smartphone and the port under "Folder" like this example sceme: \\192.168.178.01:8080 Also check the box "Reconect at logon" if you want the drives to still be there after a restart. The your current phone IP can be viewed in the WebDAV app when you klick on the info icon.
Thats it basically. After that you have your internal storage and sd card mapped to driveletters in Windows over WiFi. Just write your robocopy routine and do one click backups You can check "Keep the device fully alive" in the WebDAV app settings which helped stability and might improve speed. I got about 4-5 MB/s which isn't fast but fast enough for me.
One more thing:
If you use Windows 7 and you want to transfer files bigger 50 MB you have to do this registry workaround by Microsoft. For security reasons, Windows 7 limits WebDAV filetransfers at 50 MB by default.

Doomkeks said:
So I found a complete solution that I'm VERY happy with!.
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Good stuff, I'd consider making a how-to thread in your devices forum for others!