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MSN Pocket Messenger Emoticons found (almost, need help)

NOTE: only for wm2003 and wm2003se version
I am trying to solve the emoticons puzzle from MSN Messenger.
I got messenger from another rom. Perhaps I am missing a
resource dll.
First step is to enter in the registry:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\MessengerService
"ShowEmoticonsUI"=dword:00000001
Start Messenger and goto the menu Tools > Options...
You will find a new option checkbox "Emoticons"
This will create a new binary value ShowEmoticons 01 00 00 00
in the key mentioned above.
From instmsgr.exe you get the following text:
emasl.bmp
(?)
emhugrt.bmp
(})
emhuglt.bmp
({)
emcake.bmp
(^)
emcat.bmp
(@)
emmusic.bmp
(8)
emstar.bmp
(*)
emcuffs.bmp
(%)
(Z)
emmale.bmp
(z)
(Y)
emthup.bmp
(X)
emfemale.bmp
(x)
(W)
emwilted.bmp
(w)
(U)
emunlove.bmp
(u)
(T)
emphone.bmp
(t)
emsleep.bmp
(S)
(P)
emphoto.bmp
(p)
(N)
emthdown.bmp
(M)
emmessag.bmp
(m)
(L)
emlove.bmp
(l)
(K)
emlips.bmp
(k)
(I)
embulb.bmp
(i)
(H)
emhottie.bmp
(h)
(G)
emgift.bmp
(g)
(F)
emrose.bmp
(f)
(E)
ememail.bmp
(e)
(D)
emcocktl.bmp
(d)
(C)
emcup.bmp
(c)
(B)
embeer.bmp
(b)
;-)
emwink.bmp
emangry.bmp
:[email protected]
emcry.bmp
:'(
:-[
emvamp.bmp
emsmilep.bmp
:-O
emsmileo.bmp
:-o
:->
:-D
:-d
emsmiled.bmp
:-<
:-(
emsad.bmp
:-|
emdgust.bmp
:-s
emcrook.bmp
:-S
emsmile.bmp
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Click to collapse
(note: this forums engine draws some of the text above as emoticons)
So I thought creating some bitmaps in the windows folder and case closed.
But they don´t show in Messenger when typing the Emoticon codes, only white space and the text gets a little messed up.
Anybody that can help me out with these Bitmaps?
width/height, Bits per pixel, RLE?
I used the emoticons from Windows Live beta, but they are PNG 19x19 pixels. Converting them to BMP did not work.
Cheers.

Did you try creating just any BMP image with that size and putting it in the right folder? (since you're unable to convert from PNG to BMP)

Yes, tried everything: every size from 8x8 up to 19x19 pixels, from 8 bits per pixel to 256 to 16k and RLE. In the windows folder you name it. It is hard to determine (using IDA) with decompiling INSTMGR.EXE where they are loaded from. If only there was a tool like sysinternals FILEMON for WINCE.
Another possibility is that the BMP´s must be inserted into the INSTMGR.EXE in a BMP resource section, which is not the case now.
So this is going to be hard...

I don't think inserting BMPs into the executable is a nice idea to be done on a PPC software. You don't really want to load this much data.
I think it's just an unfinished feature and it won't work. However, try putting the files in \program files\msn messenger or \my documents\. If that doesn't work, I don't advise you to waste more time on it

Or you could give up, since the new Windows Live Messenger for Windows Mobile is out soon (currently in beta) and supports smileys.
As usual when they release an updated client, the old client will cease to function after a short while.
Also, nearly every other IM client that supports the messenger protocol supports smileys too.

I don't think Pocket MSN Messenger will be blocked from accessing the service, because WM2003 devices can't use Windows Live Mobile.
Anyway, yeah, time for upgrade I've been trying WLMM for hours and it refuses to connect

Just released: my utility for people reading 4pda.ru via Babelfish

4pda.ru, in addition to XDA-Developers, is one of the best sources of Windows Mobile-related hacking information. It was in there that, for example, I’ve found the hacked, 1023 TAO Midlet Managers, on which, then, Risidoro has built on his latest (1036) TAO releases at XDA-Dev, along with a lot of other info never published in English. Myself not being a businessman traveling in Russia all around or watching / reading / listening to Russian-language literature / music / movies, I would never have thought I would find my knowledge of Russian useful in my professional life – now I have
Should you not know Russian, I’ve created a tool that greatly helps in reading 4pda forums. For this, you will, of course, want to use Babelfish to translate these pages. Just enter the URL (in the case of the MIDlet thread, http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=1333 ) in the Translate a Web page text field, select “Russian to English” in the lower “Select from and to languages” drop-down list and click the bottom Translate button.
After a while, you’ll notice that not everything is displayed – after about 100 kbytes of source HTML, posts are cut and you can’t make the final part displayed in any way, as can also be seen in THIS screenshot (see the “<<<<<<<< snip >>>>>>>>” at the bottom – it shows Babelfish won’t translate more).
The wrong approach you can take in these cases are as follows:
you cut and paste the text in Babelfish in the upper, direct text input field. It’s a very awkward and slow solution because you can only have some 2-3 kbytes of text translated at one time
save the original Web page to your local PC, edit its HTML source (cut out the first, say, half of the original page) and upload the edited version to any Web server so that it becomes visible to Babelfish. This also involves a lot of additional work.
Unfortunately, the print mode (clicking the “Версия для печати” link, which takes you HERE – HUGE page!) doesn’t help much. Much as it (to some degree) cleans up the code and removes the, for most quick translations, unnecessary stuff (avatars, number of posts, links to other pages, ads), it returns the article as one big file, which is, with longer threads, well above 100 kbytes. This means you won’t see most of the newer posts translated either.
The right approach, of course, is using my tools ;-). I’ve created a program that automatically downloads the contents of an entire thread, sliced to small HTML pages named following an easy-to-autogenerate-links-to naming convention. What is more, I also release the source (available HERE) for it so that you can see how it works. You’re also free to modify it to download other forum content in a much more Bablefish (and, for that matter, also PDA/ mobile) -friendly format.
Usage
if you haven’t already done so, install a Java environment on your desktop PC (free JDK download HERE)
download the above-mentioned source file
enter the “javac ForPDAruSimplifier.java” command in the same directory (from inside, say, Total Commander) so that the source is compiled
enter the following command:
java ForPDAruSimplifier 30 1050 1333 "4pda-"
where the parameters are as follows:
30 is pretty much fixed for 4pda.ru (but different with other sites; this is why I’ve made it an easily modifiable parameter) – the number of posts displayed on a forum page
1050 is a product of 30 and 35. 30 is the above-introduced posts-on-a-page parameter; 35 is the number of thread pages. (Now, the MIDlet thread has 35 pages.)
1333 is the number of the thread itself; it can be very easily found. For example, the 1333 for the MIDlet thread can be very easily spotted if you take a look at the URL of the thread: http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=1333. Yes, it’s the number after “showtopic=”.
Finally, "4pda-" instructs the tool to save the target files with the “4pda-“ filename prefix. You can use any other prefix.

After running the tool, upload the resulting files (in this case, 4pda-01.html … 4pda-35.html) to the Web so that Babelfish can access it. You can start entering the new addresses into Babelfish. An even better an easier approach is creating a link file, where all you need to do is clicking all the link files in order, with Ctrl (IE) or Ctrl-Shift (Opera) hold down. The latter makes sure the links are opened in a background tab. Just give a try to the following links to see this for yourself: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. (Downloadable, original source of the above HTML links HERE)
See the difference? None of the original pages were cut in half and all posts are perfectly readable.
Note that I’ve modified the code so that it doesn’t include local file attachments (my code removes the links). If you know 4pda.ru (or, most Russian PDA sites and their views about international Copyright issues), you know why I’ve chosen to do so.

In the meantime, I've been pointed to Google Translate. See my related remarks in the comments section of http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=2229&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 - I've made quite extensive comparison between the results Google Translate and Babelfish produces when it comes to translating Russian text.

PagePool change procedure
Menneissys ... this topic pops up in cryptic bits and pieces on the Kozhura ROM thread for the hx4705, and elsewhere.
My unit has been upgraded (128MB memory) so that I have the capacity for a larger PagePool .. and perhaps cache (and/or RAM disk). Vivi's updated Kitchen has just been posted for Kohzura's new WM6-ver-4. All these are great presents under the Xmas tree as we have now seriously rejuvenated PPCs with great VGA-16bit screens.
We sure would benefit from a discussion and comprehensible procedure for addressing these customizations. Mind you, of the some 350,000 followers of these threads .. only a small percent are hackers .. most like I are users with capabilities across the spectrum, but intensly interested in tweaking our PPCs to suit our unique usage; and 'bricking' our units no longer seems to be the threat it was just a few weeks ago, thanks to ChrisMRulz's great BootLoader.
Any help from your direction would be greatly appreciated.
Frank KF

FrankKF said:
Menneissys ... this topic pops up in cryptic bits and pieces on the Kozhura ROM thread for the hx4705, and elsewhere.
My unit has been upgraded (128MB memory) so that I have the capacity for a larger PagePool .. and perhaps cache (and/or RAM disk). Vivi's updated Kitchen has just been posted for Kohzura's new WM6-ver-4. All these are great presents under the Xmas tree as we have now seriously rejuvenated PPCs with great VGA-16bit screens.
We sure would benefit from a discussion and comprehensible procedure for addressing these customizations. Mind you, of the some 350,000 followers of these threads .. only a small percent are hackers .. most like I are users with capabilities across the spectrum, but intensly interested in tweaking our PPCs to suit our unique usage; and 'bricking' our units no longer seems to be the threat it was just a few weeks ago, thanks to ChrisMRulz's great BootLoader.
Any help from your direction would be greatly appreciated.
Frank KF
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Sorry, I am not allowed to help with cooked, unlicensed ROM's (I don't want to lose my MVP status).

PagePool change procedure
Understood, thank you.
Frank KF

Is it possible to have a tool to read in english 4pda.ru but on the ppc?

i have followed the above steps and the html files i produced is like the picture below ...
i've tried to change the encoding but i had no luck !!!
what i'm doing wrong ?

Orange Plugin - What goes where?

Just a clarification question...
I found the following files, packaged in a .cab, but don't think I need all of them and don't know where to put the files I do need.
Here's what I have:
4orangeh.dll
HomePage.xml
HomeScreen.dll
HomeScreen_menuF.bmh
HomeScreen_MenuS.bmh
orange.scheme.xml
OrangeHomescreen.home.xml
I'm thinking that the 4orangeh.dll is the only file I need and that it goes in the application data/home directory, and that the other files are associate with a homescreen this particular individual authored. Is that correct or no?
Thanks for the help!

ahhhh
NO.....nononono....thats wrong.
You got the units for ABAXIA (all the files above exept the 4Orangeh.dll)and 4OrangeH.
You may copy the files to /Application Data/Home and register the .dll manually with wm5regsvce.exe.
May not work stable, but you got this: (Link to another Thread by me about the 2 DIFFERENT OrangePlugins called Abaxia and 4OrangeH (4Orangeh includes 10 different Plugins)
ClickMeHard
The Top Image is Abaxia, the second Images are 4Orangeh.Abaxia is poooooor, 4OrangeH really Impressive

Nice arpy!
You wouldn't know where I can find some (English) documentation on how to use this plugin?

erm,no...sorry.Ive created a German Doc with all needed attributes for this Plugin, it was a hard trip and needs a lot of try-and-error-sessions to get nearly all informations about it.
Here is a Howto in German, it includes nearly all Attributes and Parameters needed for 4OrangeH.Not finished yet...there are some more undocumented Features, like FreeMemory,Messages,Ringtone...it is like an OWN HOMESCREEN-PROCESS, so it can Host more than one Plugin in one Line...an REALLY DAMN ****IN **** MISSING FEATURE in my lovely SmartPhone.
the file maybe helpful, if you always create Homescreens...

Thank you. I'll try and see how this comes through a translater.

How to decipher the "start time" information in the registry entry of appointments

How to decipher the "start time" information in the registry entry of appointments
I have a Kaiser. If the following is Kaiser specific or not I wouldn't know.
There is a registry entry \HKCU\System\State\Apppointments\Current\Start Time
Which contains information about the start time of the current appointment (and similarly End time). I am trying to write a program where I want to read the contents of this entry. However the data here seems encoded in some manner and is not directly available in ASCII or any printable form. For example for an appointment that I know starts at 7:30 PM on Jan 30th, 2009 the data here (in hex) is 00 30 3E 62 07 7B C9 01. Does anyone know how to decipher this? I tried looking at lot of such entries for lot of appointments and tried to discover the pattern to figure out how to interpret this. Does anyone know how to do that. Is there some Windows mobile internal documentation that can throw some light on how the date/time information is encoded? Would appreciate any help

Help with UC and xml.

Hello I'm trying to use xmlprovisioning to customize some features of S2U2.
An example of one key I'm having problem with is the following:
<parm name="ShowOwnerInfo" datatype="binary" value="01"/>
I just cannot get the value of 01 to stick. When I go back into S2U2 registry setting it is still showing as value not being set (according to CeRegistryEditor).
I don't have any problems changing other datatypes, such as: integer and string.
Am I don't something wrong?
Thank you in advance for all you guy's help.
Okay, I think I found out the reason:
"Binary values are a PITA since they're encoded Base 64 (see my entry for Owner Information above). If you want to set owner information as I did in the example, then you need to convert Unicode to Base64."
from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=366337&highlight=user+customization+binary
Can someone walk me through how to do this?

Is this any good?
Unicode to Base64 Convertor

Thank you for the suggestion.
I have already tried the tool, but what it gives me does not generate the effect that I'm looking for
Maybe I need to manipulate the value some how and then put it into the encoder??

Hi,
just an idea:
Binary data are hex ... so i attached a little txt ... just rename it and import to your registry.
It show how Binary-Values work (as far as i understood them )
In HKLM you'll find a Key (Folderlike) called "fwt"
Therein are three values
1. Capital
2. SmallLetter
3. Test
1. => FWT as binary data => 46,57,54
2. => fwt as binary data => 66,77,74
3. => all signs (letters, numbers, symbols) from 00 to FF
Space is 20
CapitalLetter start with 41
SmallLetters start with 61
Just use CeRegistryEditor and you can see them clearly .
I hope this helps!