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ampda How To, CAB Files, Hacks all together in one place

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.

WM5 phone Profiles small & crisp

I have extracted this phone profiler from O2 plus 2.3. It is a very small signature (50kB) and very crisp program. I hope you shall find it useful....
It is a cab file. Just remove .zip and use it as cab file...
regard
c_shekhar

Just install, so what next for me to see or setting this profile. Sorry if my question look stupid. Thanks, i'm goi it after soft reset & actice the sound profile in today menu. Great job. This easier for me to switch to any profile when require. No need phonealarm at all. Again Well Done.

@zaidam
Have you used it with wisbar desktop? Is it working fine??

@c_shekhar,
Thanks for great job. It working prefectly.

not working on TREO 750 !
for some reason I cant see the plugin on the today screen
help anyone ?

peergil said:
for some reason I cant see the plugin on the today screen
help anyone ?
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Install it on main memory instead of storage card ot RAMDisk..

interesting problem on tilt?

hello everyone, long time member of howardforums and just joined xda and find some very usefull info, thank you all. i ran into a small problem last night. i have a tilt , not flashed but i have installed the htc home screen and everything worked great. last night i tryed to install the touchflo program found in a few places in this forum and it didn't work but thats when the interesting stuff happen....after deleting all touchflo cab files and restarting the tilt every time at startup it gives me a warning " FTouchFlo.exe cannot be open, its either not signed with a trusted certificate or one of its components can not be found. try reinstalling or restoring file." ????? and now the icon that used to be under the clock for favorite people that would send me their pics so i can just one touch dial is GONE? tryed installing the cab for the htc homescreen again but the same....there is a music short cut that lets me launch the music player that wasn't there before? i downloaded the htc home plugin customisor and even when i set for 6 icons on the bottom of the clock it still just gives me 5?
at the end of the day i would like to have the touchflo program but its not a big deal if i dont, i would however really like to have the pic dialer back on my screen as its really convinient to dial my fav people with it.thanks in advance

try this for the favorite people tab
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1614132&highlight=favorite+people#post1614132

To get the favorite people tab back, delete this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/OEM/MASD/QuickDial
i'm asuming this is what you meant? sorry but where do i find this key? thanks

bobcho10 said:
To get the favorite people tab back, delete this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/OEM/MASD/QuickDial
i'm asuming this is what you meant? sorry but where do i find this key? thanks
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Keys are in the registry. To access and change the registry you need a registry viewer/editor. There are many but for simple "everyday" use this is a good one:
http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/
Be careful though delete the wrong things and you'll end up needing a hard reset.
Mike

mikechannon said:
Keys are in the registry. To access and change the registry you need a registry viewer/editor. There are many but for simple "everyday" use this is a good one:
http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/
Be careful though delete the wrong things and you'll end up needing a hard reset.
Mike
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thanks mike, sorry for the noob question but what do i do once i install this on my comp ? do i install on the phone as well and run the program or ? .....

bobcho10 said:
thanks mike, sorry for the noob question but what do i do once i install this on my comp ? do i install on the phone as well and run the program or ? .....
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PHM downloads as a .MSI windows installer. So it will not install properly unless you have your device connected via active sync when you run the downloaded file. So connect your device via usb cable. Let active sync connect and update. Then while still connected run the installer download. During the process a message will pop up on your device. If a choice is offered it will be ok to install to storage card if you have one.
Cheers for now.
Mike

thanks guys , can anyone tell me how to delete .exe files? i still get warnings at start up that touchflo.exe and bio-something-.exe can not run because some files are missing.....thanks

How do you keep up with all the new roms??

Hey guys, finally got my tytn II in the mail today and gonna start flashing shortly. i've been reading this board for several weeks now and it seems that dutty comes out with a new rom every few weeks. how do you keep your programs/setting etc. intact? do u use backup software and then just reload it on the new rom? or do you have install each program one by one after flashing to a new rom?
just curious. thank you for the help, i appreciate it.
P

Bit of Both
I use PIM backup for Call logs, Speed Dials and Messages and Active Sync the Rest.
Im affraid you just have to re-install all you're apps, but it does not take two minutes, just keep a copy of the CABs on your storage card. The hard part is remebering all the tweaks you like. But you'll find a process.
I supose thats the price of Having a Kick Ass ROM like dutty's.
Well worth if you ask anyone here.

I'm lucky to go through 2 weeks without flashing, of course, with my cooked rom. PIM backup is indeed the best solution from transferring backup data from rom to rom. Having all your favorite cabs on your SD works well for me, too. Changing everything to what you want and tweaking is a pain, but its the things that we deal with here.

First time I flashed, after installing all the programs again I promised myself I wouldn't flash ever again...
Took me two days for a new ROM an since then I've tried almost all of them, and this time I have one for the longest, I think 4 days
Just keep your favorite Cabs on your SD like already mentioned and take some dead time to install them.
Cool thing flash does for you, is that you eventually get to know the phone settings and tweaks inside out.
Happy flashing!

eskostar said:
Cool thing flash does for you, is that you eventually get to know the phone settings and tweaks inside out.
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Very True! and u learn it quick!
I keep all of the cabs that I always use on my SD card and I use PIMbackup for my contact, msg and appointment info.

Yep, same strategy here. All my cabs are on SD card and I use OTA sync with my exchange server for my PIM data...only problem is that I have 150+ cab files (at the last count) and it gets a bit much installing each one, by one...
What I need is an auto script that does a batch install!

Moe5508 said:
What I need is an auto script that does a batch install!
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SKTools will help you with this.
I do the same as mentioned above. I use PIMBackup for contacts, messages, etc. Sync my calendar to Google. Install all apps from CAB's on my SD card via SKTools, and fortunately most of my apps that I tend to tweak the most (PocketBreeze, PocketWeather, etc.) have import and export of settings, so that takes care of that.
I can now flash a new ROM and be up and running with all my software in about 20 minutes, give or take.

SacTilt said:
SKTools will help you with this.
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Cool, will check out SKTools. I usually install it as a nice to have but end up defaulting to using Pocket Mechanic and Memaid a lot more than SKTools. Thanks dude.

Moe5508 said:
Cool, will check out SKTools. I usually install it as a nice to have but end up defaulting to using Pocket Mechanic and Memaid a lot more than SKTools. Thanks dude.
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No problem.
It's nice cause it will find all CAB's on your device and SD card, and then you just check the ones that you want, and tell it to install. Personally I check all the apps that I want installed to the device and select to install silently and wait a few moments and it's complete. Then I go back and check all my games and then have it install those normally so that I can tell it to install them to the SD card.

I have settled down with Dutty's No.7b for now. Not going to upgrade again anytime soon.

How do you sync against google?
SacTilt said:
SKTools will help you with this.
I do the same as mentioned above. I use PIMBackup for contacts, messages, etc. Sync my calendar to Google. Install all apps from CAB's on my SD card via SKTools, and fortunately most of my apps that I tend to tweak the most (PocketBreeze, PocketWeather, etc.) have import and export of settings, so that takes care of that.
I can now flash a new ROM and be up and running with all my software in about 20 minutes, give or take.
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I am using pimbackup to save my txt messages, all other data will be synchronized again with Activesync and my My Documents-Folder is on my StorageCard.
To install all apps and settings, i use Mortscripts for unattended installation. cabs and scripts are on the storagecard. Just start and let it go ^^.
Ok, takes a while to make the scripts once but when you flash that often like me, it's worth.

marahn said:
How do you sync against google?
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I have been using OggSync with great success. There are other tools out there as well.

Great. Thanks
I will try it out straight away
SacTilt said:
I have been using OggSync with great success. There are other tools out there as well.
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Help with recently installed Kavana

So today before work I installed the Kavana 6.1 rom onto my Dash. Awesome with the exception of the keypad not being mapped the way i was used to. So I read forums about this and decided to download the t9 mapping. I unzipped the files on my computer and transfered them into a newly created folder inside of the windows folder....thats where things went bad. Now when I hit the start menu no icons load up, only the name of the program or application, and when i attempt to select it, i am prompted "error opening the shortcut or locating the filename. In essence the only thing I can do on my phone is text, call, or utilize any feature which is on the home screen. The worst part is I cannot syn to my computer as the usbstorage.ink is under the start program I screwed up royally, and I could use some insight from anyone who might be able to help me. Thank you in advance.

sabiandrums3 said:
So today before work I installed the Kavana 6.1 rom onto my Dash. Awesome with the exception of the keypad not being mapped the way i was used to. So I read forums about this and decided to download the t9 mapping. I unzipped the files on my computer and transfered them into a newly created folder inside of the windows folder....thats where things went bad. Now when I hit the start menu no icons load up, only the name of the program or application, and when i attempt to select it, i am prompted "error opening the shortcut or locating the filename. In essence the only thing I can do on my phone is text, call, or utilize any feature which is on the home screen. The worst part is I cannot syn to my computer as the usbstorage.ink is under the start program I screwed up royally, and I could use some insight from anyone who might be able to help me. Thank you in advance.
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Was the file a zip or a cab?

On further inspection I found that you can sync the phone from the home screen, so I tried installing the Kavana rom again, but it keeps saying there is no device connected. It shows up on "my computer" as drive F. You can explore folders on it and such but I would ultimatly like to figure out how to redownload this OS, and not screw it up lol. Again any help is greatly appreciated

dashmaster1000 said:
Was the file a zip or a cab?
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It was a cab, but the unzip option was there so i did... is this my original error?

sabiandrums3 said:
It was a cab, but the unzip option was there so i did... is this my original error?
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Yea! Its cool though! You can go into settings and select clear storage instead of re-flashing and it will restore it to new ROM state and much safer then just copy paste the cab file into you device or storage card and click on the cab and it will install and do all the work for you! A cab is just a program that is sett up to install itself! Biggest thing to learn here is, dont be discouraged, read alot and learn as much as you can about your device! I started with a Dash and moved on to a Wing, now I have a Tilt running on T-Mobile! And i I remember correctly, I unzipped and installed a cab once too!
Now I am starting to cook my own ROMs and its only been a few months! Sorry. Ramling. Just wanted to encourage you! Hope I helped you out!

dashmaster1000 said:
Yea! Its cool though! You can go into settings and select clear storage instead of re-flashing and it will restore it to new ROM state and much safer then just copy paste the cab file into you device or storage card and click on the cab and it will install and do all the work for you! A cab is just a program that is sett up to install itself! Biggest thing to learn here is, dont be discouraged, read alot and learn as much as you can about your device! I started with a Dash and moved on to a Wing, now I have a Tilt running on T-Mobile! And i I remember correctly, I unzipped and installed a cab once too!
Now I am starting to cook my own ROMs and its only been a few months! Sorry. Ramling. Just wanted to encourage you! Hope I helped you out!
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Your post is definitely inspiring me, unfortunately I cannot access the clear storage feature from the home screen, its one of the things i need the start menu for. I know theres got to be a way around this... but at least i learned something new about cab files!

sabiandrums3 said:
Your post is definitely inspiring me, unfortunately I cannot access the clear storage feature from the home screen, its one of the things i need the start menu for. I know theres got to be a way around this... but at least i learned something new about cab files!
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No problem, just do a hard reset, same as clear storage! Click this link and follow intructions!
http://www.mobileviews.com/blog/2008/05/12/hard-reset-my-t-mobile-dash/comment-page-1/
Oh and dont worry! This guy makes it seem worse than it is, its perfectly safe!
Here is another link, more thorough!
http://www.good.com/faq/17957.html

dashmaster1000 said:
No problem, just do a hard reset, same as clear storage! Click this link and follow intructions!
http://www.mobileviews.com/blog/2008/05/12/hard-reset-my-t-mobile-dash/comment-page-1/
Oh and dont worry! This guy makes it seem worse than it is, its perfectly safe!
Here is another link, more thorough!
http://www.good.com/faq/17957.html
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Thank you Dashmaster! its getting late here on the East Cost so im going to try this tomorrow and ill post what happens...again thank you so much!

sabiandrums3 said:
Thank you Dashmaster! its getting late here on the East Cost so im going to try this tomorrow and ill post what happens...again thank you so much!
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You are very welcome! Glad I could help!

dashmaster1000 said:
You are very welcome! Glad I could help!
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so i got ansy and couldnt wait for the morning....I hard reset the device, and everything worked perfectly! Better still I installed the cab and now I have a sweet new OS which looks and functions amazing, and now has the full keyboard working! I can see why you have chosen the posting name that you did thanks a bunch and happy holidays!