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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.
Does anyone know if there is an application (EXE file) within WM6 or WM5 that executes the "programs" and "settings" list, without tapping the Start button?
Also, on a soft reset, how can you make a single application load everytime?
Thanks...
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Does anyone know if there is an application (EXE file) within WM6 or WM5 that executes the "programs" and "settings" list, without tapping the Start button?
Also, on a soft reset, how can you make a single application load everytime?
Thanks...
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Anyone? I am sure there is a simple solution that I am overlooking. With a little help here I can fix a couple of problems with an iPhone emulator that can be incorporated into any WM6 Rom. I am currently running this now, but these fixes would make it perfect, and would almost do away with the Windows Mobile today screen. I am pretty amazed with this so far, The new iPhone today screen perfectly mathes what you would see on the apple website, and I am not noticing any signifigant lag time between apps that are loaded this way.
To make an application load on a soft reset, just place it in the windows/start up folder or place a link to it in that folder.
bradsnw said:
Does anyone know if there is an application (EXE file) within WM6 or WM5 that executes the "programs" and "settings" list, without tapping the Start button?
Also, on a soft reset, how can you make a single application load everytime?
Thanks...
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not directly.... they are linked to explorer.exe and the shell....and of course the registry.....if my memory serves me rigth.
faria said:
not directly.... they are linked to explorer.exe and the shell....and of course the registry.....if my memory serves me rigth.
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Faria, memory cannot serve you right. You are already at 97% capacity and the only way to get the information you require is to do a soft reset at which point you will get down to 75%. Or in the alternation upgrade.....
Is this the emulator you are talking about?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=301517
Did you find out how to start the functioning of program from icon.
I cannot find the explorer.exe in the rom
samy.3660 said:
Did you find out how to start the functioning of program from icon.
I cannot find the explorer.exe in the rom
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Nothing as of yet. Without recompiling the software, each button on the iPhone today screen requires an .exe file, executable, to launch that particular service or program. To make things easy, I wanted to know how to create an exectuable file that will launch contacts, programs folder, and settings folder, with these, the normal WM6 today screen would not be needed anymore.
So Far....
So far....
Wow, those screens look cool already
Any idea when a first beta will be ready (if you are gonna release it)?
matthijst said:
Wow, those screens look cool already
Any idea when a first beta will be ready (if you are gonna release it)?
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I have figured out how to link to Outlook Contacts, I am just having troubles getting settings and programs to pull up. Wven with creating shortcuts to them
well if you want settings like for example the task manager then a call to this would bring it up:
ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,4,2
Didn't want to leave you hanging so I ran a quick search here to see if it has a list and here's something that should steer you in a direction...that is if this is what you wanted:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=289005
that doesnt help, you know how to add a shortcut to start start menu
Here's a similar app:
http://rychlicki.net/en/2007/04/01/174/
http://rychlicki.net/inne/res_ppc-custom.icons.zip
Clock doesnt work there though
I have yet to see it posted so heres how to skip the MEGA BLOAT on the fuze.ATT tried VERY hard to prevent it this time around.
I have tried every screen from hard reset. From what Ive found this is the only way to do it.
1.Wait for the tap here to customize.
2.Go through the screen alignment
3 skip or set pass word.
4.When it says your done and tap the screen to start WM get ready to reset
5. The absolute second you touch the screen(use your finger and have your stylus ready by the reset hole) hit the stylus reset. (if you see customization start your too late and must start over)(hard reset by holding volumedown and the button in the center of the scroll wheel while pressing the stylus reset)
6. When your device starts TF3d will NOT be in your today Items
7.Go to today settins and disable everything
8.Use file explorer to go to windows and find PT_Manila_Reg .cab and run it
9.Run MSFT_Security.cab
10.run the Opera cab called WM6_PPC_HTC_Opera9_WWE.cab (only WM6_PPC_HT… shows up in File Explorer) or you won't have the Opera browser.
You now have no bloat and TF3D
You must also install the opera cab in windows for the internet tab to work.
but does everything work?
i found on my hermes that certain stuff didnt work properly if i went about it that way
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but does everything work?
i found on my hermes that certain stuff didnt work properly if i went about it that way
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So far yes
Ive been testing for an hour. All the cabs from customization are posted in the windows folder. T
he only thing you lose i see so far are the folders in programs. For all the bloat Ill gladly recreate some folders.
so this is supposed to get rid of the At&t tab in touchflo 3d??
because i did it an the tab is still there...or what exactly does it do?? 9IM A NOOB!!)
aruppenthal said:
I have yet to see it posted so heres how to skip the MEGA BLOAT on the fuze.ATT tried VERY hard to prevent it this time around.
I have tried every screen from hard reset. From what Ive found this is the only way to do it.
1.Wait for the tap here to customize.
2.Go through the screen alignment
3 skip or set pass word.
4.When it says your done and tap the screen to start WM get ready to reset
5. The absolute second you touch the screen hit the stylus reset.
6. When your device starts TF3d will NOT be in your today Items
7.Go to today settins and disable everything
8.Use file explorer to go to windows and find PT_Manila_Reg .cab and run it
9.Run MSFT_Security.cab
You now have no bloat and TF3D
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If you have yet to see it posted, then how did you copy and paste it word for word from the thread that it's already posted in? Cute...
but everything else is loaded like MS voice command, the quickgps,etc?
any idea where I can find the tools that was under programs with att configured?
need to use the proxy thing
Nevermind I found them there in the windows folder
what/where is the "stylus reset"?
KevinACrider said:
If you have yet to see it posted, then how did you copy and paste it word for word from the thread that it's already posted in? Cute...
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The thread with it in it word for word is a copy and paste from this thread.
In fact I am even quoted in it
Thanks though might wanna read before posting negative comments.
starstreak said:
but everything else is loaded like MS voice command, the quickgps,etc?
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As far as I can tell we are getting everything else except the stuff you dont want by skipping customization.
If you want stock and know how to flash NATF's rom is a good alternative. He has done a good job of removing the junk permanantly. From what I have read his rom is pretty solid.
I will probably continue my tilt line of ROMs on the fuze soon. I always base mine off of ATT's most current roms and leave all ATT settings intact.
Does anyone know the name of the CAB for Opera in the windows folder? It does not start off as Opera. Thanks...
UPDATE: Found it.
Raspster said:
Does anyone know the name of the CAB for Opera in the windows folder? It does not start off as Opera. Thanks...
UPDATE: Found it.
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Opera doesn't load if you skip the bloat. What is the cab called? I couldn't find it and ended up finding a newer version on this board and used that cab, but I would still like to know. It was driving me crazy.
jglev said:
Opera doesn't load if you skip the bloat. What is the cab called? I couldn't find it and ended up finding a newer version on this board and used that cab, but I would still like to know. It was driving me crazy.
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It is called WM6_PPC_HTC_Opera9_WWE.cab. All you see in file explorer is "WM6_PPC_HT..." so it's impossible to tell what it is without running it. I installed Total Commander to find it.
southG said:
what/where is the "stylus reset"?
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The reset is a small button on the bottom of the Fuze, to the right of the usb port underneath the headphones symbol.
Beat me to it... Yea, The title is too long and you don't see the opera part. WOW, what a difference when you follow theses steps. It even puts the YouTube app on the internet TAB. The fuze runs ALOT smoother and has WAY more RAM/ROM. Good find!
do I press reset when I touch the screen, or the moment I see something change on the screen from me touching it?
WHen it starts up, am I supposed to see a customization wizard? Or did I fail?
edit: failed.crap
starstreak said:
do I press reset when I touch the screen, or the moment I see something change on the screen from me touching it?
WHen it starts up, am I supposed to see a customization wizard? Or did I fail?
edit: failed.crap
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Yeah the second you see the screen change you have to reset. Once you see the wizard you went too far. If you see it hard reset and try again.
Thanks for this info. I tried flashing some of the ROMs specifically the NATF ROM since I wanted to keep the AT&T theme but not some of the AT&T bloatware but one thing I noticed accross the board is that cellular video does not work. I have checked proxy and connection settings and managed to get MEdia Net to work but CV always fails. Opera states the fuze is not a 3G phone and PIE only shows XML codes. Alhtough I don't use CV much I still wouldn't want it broken. I suppose this is my alternative for now.
Ahhh, I love the internet and being able to find the answer to any question you might have haha. Thanks for the tip on Opera, I was definitely missing that.
About the only thing I can think of that was kinda cool from the AT&T pack was the Cellular Video. Can that be installed by itself?
Racenut said:
Ahhh, I love the internet and being able to find the answer to any question you might have haha. Thanks for the tip on Opera, I was definitely missing that.
About the only thing I can think of that was kinda cool from the AT&T pack was the Cellular Video. Can that be installed by itself?
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Cellular Video is only a website and can be access through cellularvideo.cingular.com
Theres something called PT_BlackSCR.cab
I installed that too. Err..what was it? I'm guessing it was the ATT_tabbed TODAY theme? I forgot to check if that was there before I installed it.
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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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
Hey, this question maybe was asked before, but couldn't find it any where. We can do a lot of tweeks with removing/ changing file in WM6.5 folder, but every time i try to do so it says "Acces denied". what i do wrong and what i need to do. your help and tips are welcome!
Blue skies...
Try Total Commander
For the language tweaks on this forum, and other stuff where you need to "overwrite" ROM files, use Total Commander.
It won't allow you hardcore stuff, but for many tricks advertised here it works.
Thinking of it, I wouldn't be able to come up with a good search term for this either. However, the threads with tricks do tell you to use TC.
thanks, but where do i use Total Comander? on PC or on HD2?? thanks again?
p.s. i wnated to change welcome screen to them nice girls on one of the theds and it didnt alow me!
parasexas said:
thanks, but where do i use Total Comander? on PC or on HD2?? thanks again?
p.s. i wnated to change welcome screen to them nice girls on one of the theds and it didnt alow me!
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Total Commander runs on the phone. It's basically a file explorer alternative that does a few other things, like registry editing, as well.
It allows you to overwrite read-only and system files that aren't in use.
You should have no problem replacing the startup images with it.
hey johncmolyneux, i see you are one of poor UK HD2 owners with skinned rom. i'll show up stupid again but where do i find TC on UK O2 rom. i had one on my touch pro but i just can't see one on HD2. maybe because O2 removed it? maybe you know link to download on for HD2? thanks in advance
don't worry, found it. anybody need it as weel it's freeware on
http://www.ghisler.com/smartphone.htm
Glad you sorted it. I just found it by googling.
Incidentally, I'm an O2 user, but my phone isn't an O2 one - I bought it SIM free. Also, Total Commander doesn't come on the standard ROM either, so you would have been looking for it regardless!
I didn't think O2 were doing anything to the phone. Have they skinned it then?
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don't worry, found it. anybody need it as weel it's freeware on
http://www.ghisler.com/smartphone.htm
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Hope you didn't try to install the smartphone version on HD2.
This is the correct version
http://www.ghisler.com/pocketpc.htm
yeap, first what i missed is wifi router! and believe some other small bits and bobs as i haven't seen hrc rom yet. another thing bastards locked damn phone and need sim free as i travel alot to europe and use foreign sims. by the way i rcopied files for lock screen and welcome screen to win dir, soft it but no changes happened. any ideas where did i go wrong?
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i rcopied files for lock screen and welcome screen to win dir, soft it but no changes happened. any ideas where did i go wrong?
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I've only played with the lockscreen myself, and I did that by copying the cpr file and the associated png files into the windows folder, and then just to be sure, I copied the cpr file into the \windows\lockscreen\ folder as well.
That worked for me.
As far as the start screen goes, I'd raise the problem in the thread that you got the screens from.
Good luck
hey, thanks, i just managed to do welcome screen, but still figthing with lock screen. could you please give link where i can find working lock screen files as ones i've got seems not working! thanks
how to view and get to windows folder located on my phone connected to my computer? (have option " view all files" enabled in my computer)