Database Info

list of SOFTWARE added to FTP site

It's been kind of hard for me to find really good software for my PPC. So here I give you a list of what I currently think you should have. Look for them on the e-mule.
UTILS
pTravelAlarm 2.05
-Its much better than the original windows alarm and it allows you to set up even the days of the week that each alarm should sound.
Pocket Controller-Professional 5.02
-Just for fun. With this prog installed into the PC and the PPC you can run use your device throw the computer.
Resco Audio Recorder 3
-The name says it all. I use it to record personalized ringtones for my friends, now my mobile speaks and tell me who is calling.
Resco Keyboard PRO 4.33
-I speak spanish and its kind of obseting not to have the ñ character to send SMS.
SPB PocketPlus 3.0
-The funtion I like the most is that now I can swich throw programs without closing them.
WinamPAQ 0.93
-Its really usefull if you want to use your PPC as a media device.
WorldMate Pro 3.0
-I like to know how is the weather before stepping out the door.

hi
although most of us still use some pirated softwares on our ppc but this forum is not for that.. there are plenty of other forums where this stuff goes on and lets not bring that over here
im sure the MODS would agree with me on this
thanks

I agree - I have edited his post, as you can see.
Please don't use this forum as a platform for cracked software. This is a great danger to a forum that is bringing so much joy and help to us. Let us alltogether try to keep it safe and clean...
Thank you

Where should I send it?
I didn´t find a cracked PPC software site, I downloaded it all from the e-mule

I don't think anyone can separate files from E-mule...you can get only download pathes...99% of the network is pirated stuff i suppose...

You dont get anything free on emule, its all warez stuff

My OEM Packages to Share

I know you can get them from other places either in CAB or in OEM Packages. However, it's just too difficult to get them all together.
So I present you some of the OEM packages which I collected, extracted or created for use in my ROM.
1. The first one is taken from Schaps' ROM. It's a 3G-Battery with Indicator. I didn't ask Schaps' permission for this. I hope he's cool with it.
2. O2 Backup is taken from O2 Life and has been fixed to work on all devices. It allows you to backup PIM & My Documents data
3. O2 SMS Plus v1.6 is also taken from O2 Life. It's sorta like SMS Threaded applications. It also allows you to send/receive vCard from other dumb phones. It also support group SMS & Scheduled SMS
4. HTC Album v1.1030.720. Taken from a CAB file with fixed English Interface (Originally Chinese). You can choose which Folder to browse.

Here are another 4 Packages:
1. Newer version of HTC Home v2.1.105.722
2. Adobe Flash Lite v2.1 with the Cool HTC Animation from Schaps
3. Schaps' Advance Configuration v1.1
4. Palm Threaded SMS with fixed database folder. Instead of in Windows Directory, I patched the database to be stored on 'My Documents' folder for easy backup. You need to rename your backup SMS data from 'PalmMsgv001' to 'Palm01' and copy it to 'My Documents' folder.

Another 4 Packages
1. KeepAlive is a very old freeware from WinCE days. It prevents your PPC from turning Off. It's very usefull when you need to let you device on all the time.
2. PowerOff is another old freeware from Scott Seligman. It just shows a tiny PowerOff buttons at the Today Screen.
3. O2 Smart Text is also taken from O2 Life. It's just another thumb inputs with T9 capability. Good for One-Handed Operation
4. Picsel PDF Viewer. Taken from PPCGeeks. A superb PDF viewer compared to Adobe offering.

I downloaded all but I couldn't install even a single one.
These are not cab files nor installation .exe files nor a folder placed in the machine to run off with.
What are they? If these are for ROM cooking only then they are outside what most of us want to deal with.

These are OEM packages for ROM cooking and since this is the upgrading forum its the right place for things like this to be posted (IMO).

I personally wouldn't mind a separate forum for cooking, as some of the questions here are rather 'off topic' from ROM upgrading (flashing) or cooking, since installing an application is not an UPGRADE in any sense of the word...
Until then, it seems like this is the right place for this...
Thanks for your contributions [email protected]...

wow...a package for palmsms...hopefully it works.

Thanks for the packages! Am sure some cookers will find these handy!

how to benefit from thsoe if you are not a cook?
Hello,
a lot of thsoe packages look really useful, but, noby uses them so far in the offical release ROMs.
Cooking your ownROM still sounds intimidaing to me (and mybe others), so is there an easy to get thsoe as cab files, or is it posible to cook a delta ROM just adding those pakcages to one of the release ROMS?
Thanks
Juju

As requested by you here or via PM. Here are the CAB files for the OEM packages.
The 3G Battery Level will replace a system file. So you need to install Certificate CAB to allow the installation.
For Keep Alive, PowerOff, Advance Configuration, just copy the execute file to your Kaiser. No installation is needed.
HTC Home & Album CABs are widely available so I won't post them again. To change the HTC Album to English menu (from Chinese) you need to copy the 'RFileShell.dll' from Resco Explorer english Version.
Enjoy!

There is another nice application called O2 Theme which works well with kaiser. This is the WM6 version of O2 Plus. To learn about this, you can go to this thread I posted in Athena board:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=328080
Cheers!

[email protected] said:
Another 4 Packages
3. O2 Smart Text is also taken from O2 Life. It's just another thumb inputs with T9 capability. Good for One-Handed Operation
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I have some updates about Smart Text, here is my conversation with company maker, it's inversed, but you'll understand:
subject RE: M8 help hint
Reply
Hi,
the M8 is standard Software input panel (hereinafter SIP) modules, that's means if applications that follow the windows mobile design guide, it will work properly with different sized SIP.
your idea will be take in to account and thanks for your supports.
Thanks and best regards,
Micro Cheng
J&M Soft
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: M8 help hint
hello developers
your product M8 is very good!
one more idea, to improve usability:
make an option to let keyboard appear from top of screen, till the middle.
the reason is: some applications have text input field at the bottom, but doesn't recognize keyboard allocated this place. and doesn't redraw it's input field higher (on the top of new appeared keyboard), so application text input field becoming invisible until the end of input.
another solution on same problem:
make your keyboard application it's own temporary input window on top of keyboard.
(it may optionally include increased font size for better visibility on street)
will be waiting for your reply, and a new version
thanks
now, let's wait for new release of it (under name of O2 or standalone M8)

Palm Threaded SMS changed database folder
[email protected] said:
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4. Palm Threaded SMS with fixed database folder. Instead of in Windows Directory, I patched the database to be stored on 'My Documents' folder for easy backup. You need to rename your backup SMS data from 'PalmMsgv001' to 'Palm01' and copy it to 'My Documents' folder.
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I guess this is somewhat helpful because it's easier to back up the My Documents folder than find PalmMsgv001 in \Windows and back that up.
However, I hardly ever put anything into \My Documents because of the chance of forgetting about backing it up before flashing a new ROM. Hopefully someday we'll see a Threaded Messaging app that has more options - like save folder, and font size (the font is so tiny!). That's why I liked TxtMan - but it crashes too often, and isn't completely integrated into the Windows messaging system.

if someone could fix palm to work on the kaiser thatd be fabalous.. i know im jumping off topic but im willing to offer up $25.00!

here is the O2plus 2.3 cab , working on touchpro

Contribution to developing software for vox

What I think should be in this thread:
ideas for already existing software to improve
ideas for completely new software
tutorials which are not in the wiki and are not general enough for the wiki
tutorials relating to software development in any form
tutorials helping newcomers to have a simpler entry to the vox
Presentation of own software
Thread links of threads which somehow already deal with one of the above points
Everything important i will add to the WiKi page. Please contribute there too.
=> Read the WiKi
Please no trash and similar posting. If you have problems with software or anything else, open a new thread. Help keeping this one clean so it is easier to get what it is thought for.

For all who wonder "what does he mean???" i will do the start:
PLUGIN-REQUEST:
Description:
I would like to have a plugin for the wm6.1 rom from dr. gonzo which adds a slide on the home screen with the tasks as there already is for the calendar.
::: unfocused slide :::
there should be a tiny icon (as it is for all slides) and the info how many tasks there are NOT completed
::: focused slide :::
On the first slide there would be the tasks icon and the info how many tasks are there (uncompleted) and how many tasks are somehow dated for today.
Every task with the priority "high" should have an own slide (viewable by clicking on to the right)
And the last slide should always have the ability to add a new task (as for the calendar)
Details:
for which rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=376564
If you miss some infos or want to help, develop, get informed or whatever just right me a PM. Also if you have any ideas how to make an own plugin.

I would love to see tutorials on how to program for the Vox
Roland

Rolandh said:
I would love to see tutorials on how to program for the Vox
Roland
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####### An Introduction to Microsoft SmartPhone, and Programming SmartPhone using C#
-> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/SmartphoneIntroCSharp.aspx
####### Link-Archive for Microsoft smartphone programming
http://weblogs.asp.net/nleghari/articles/smartphone.aspx
####### Link to the msdn, opened chapter -> windows mobile
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb847935.aspx
####### MSDN Forums: Developing Smart Devices
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=11&SiteID=1
####### PocketPC Developer Network
http://www.pocketpcdn.com/
####### threads from other xda-developers.com forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2058473
####### Microsofts windows mobile developing site (everything you need to start)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/developers/default.mspx
I think this is enough for the moment. If someone of the developers have some tutorials on their own or know another site wich does not contain similar content, be free to post, or to send me a PM so I can edit this post.

@kimamil
why dont you create a page in wiki about this.
that way it will be easily accessible & no thread hunting.

prajith said:
@kimamil
why dont you create a page in wiki about this.
that way it will be easily accessible & no thread hunting.
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Use thread tools to subscribe to the thread then you don't have to hunt it down.
Roland

kimamil said:
####### An Introduction to Microsoft SmartPhone, and Programming SmartPhone using C#
-> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/SmartphoneIntroCSharp.aspx
####### Link-Archive for Microsoft smartphone programming
http://weblogs.asp.net/nleghari/articles/smartphone.aspx
####### Link to the msdn, opened chapter -> windows mobile
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb847935.aspx
####### MSDN Forums: Developing Smart Devices
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=11&SiteID=1
####### PocketPC Developer Network
http://www.pocketpcdn.com/
####### threads from other xda-developers.com forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2058473
####### Microsofts windows mobile developing site (everything you need to start)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/developers/default.mspx
I think this is enough for the moment. If someone of the developers have some tutorials on their own or know another site wich does not contain similar content, be free to post, or to send me a PM so I can edit this post.
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Thanks that will keep me happy over the weekend as I'm not seeing my Fiancee until 3pm on Sunday I've got plenty of time on my hands to learn a bit of Mobile coding.
Roland

own software:
AC Flashlight 1.00
http://cichy3000.blogspot.com/2008/03/ac-flashlight-100.html
AC Unslide 1.02
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=374542
AC Alarm 1.02
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=379737
all written in basic c#

cichy3000
what software do you use to develop for WM devices?, and where did you learn C# ?

kimamil said:
Hi there, I would like to start a new thread.
[*]ideas for completely new software
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We need smiles in SMS, there is no such program for smartphone like this one that is for PPC:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=328363

I will create a wiki-site the next days for all i have found about developing software for vox. programs to use, links and so on. pls be patient and if you do not find an answer on these pages feel free to ask me about.

Hey guys, the site is on !!
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=VoxSoftwareDeveloping
If you see good threads, tutorials or articles or similar, feel free to post them on the site.

i would like to have a program that has a dedicated delivery report folder. ive tried xtreme text and flexmail but they dont do whati need. just tired of recieving delivery reports in my inbox. wat a folder that i can go to and see if last sms is still pending or delivered

that is not possible.
the delivery report will always go to the inbox.
If you want otherwise you will have to write a program to intercept all incoming msg's and then redirect if they are delivery reports.
But isn't tht too much of a overhead.
I always keep the delivery report switched off. To see if a msg has been delivered, just go to the sent items folder. If its not there then its not delivered.

or you can use SMSBubbles to delete them rigt on your homescreen

Anybody can write a program like teamstat of PPC?It update football result all the world.
http://mbovin.com/
Thanks!

I ve used a programme in symbian s60 os 9.2 phones called skyequikey (www.skyestream.com). It is an amazing piece of application which does the following.
1) Once it is run it stays in the background and consumes about 1mb of RAM.
2) On a keypress it becomes active and brings on the screen any contact, application, games, saved mail ids, saved bookmarks etc,, diretly on screen from where it can be opened easily without going deep into the menu.
3) And the most beautiful part of the application is that the search is based on T9 principal.
The windows mobile is supporting this for only contacts. I would like to request you all to please see if this kind of software can be developed.

I have not seen any application for windows mobile that does what you just described. Sounds nice though.

SmartToolkit has a option to search programs by name but it is not based on T9.

prajith & matrix77
Thanks for your response.
The programme is really intersting. In fact it makes all shortcuts on today screen unneccessary and helps to keepp the today screen clean.I expect somebody to think in this line for developing a similar software in windows.

SMS Vulnerability impacting WM devices?

I read from this article:http://www.macrumors.com/2009/07/31/apple-to-release-fix-for-iphone-sms-vulnerability-on-saturday/
It says the vulnerability impacts our WM phone as well. Anyone has checked that and if fix is available? Tried using Google to search our beloved forum but didn't pop up anything yet ..

I read about this too and if it can be patched that quickly on Android then I'd hope it should also be a quick patch on WinMo, especially as the SMS functionality is implemented in pretty much the same way apparently.
Plus XDA has people who are working with Android so maybe they can share what changes Google have made?

I am fairly surprised this hasn't been picked up by the technical bods here as it is quite a major vulnerability and Apple and Google have patched their OS's so WinMo is trailing behind... unless someone knows of a patch thats already been done?

I'm going to PM some mods I know ..

Any response from them yet?

Our good Dave is going to check with some resident expert.. and hopefully some lights to be shed.
From the info I gathered, it actually result in DOS for iPhone and Android, but no news/confirmation on WM yet. So we don't know. However, given the method explored by the author, it's likely at minimum resulting the same (DOS, phone hung, etc.). I think, for phone user, this is critical, as you can't spend your day checking the phone always just to make sure it's still connecting to network/operators.

From what I read the vulnerability could allow for remote code execution including reading your phone's storage and activating cameras and gps. So someone could write an app that send this information back via the data connection and that person could be watched and tracked without knowing that there were compromised.
This is obviously worst case scenario but I for one would sit on the paranoia side of the fence and get it plugged. If we can.

From what I got and discussion, it's mostly DOS.
However, IMO, it still scary. You can't be contacted nor SMS-ed without you realizing until you need to initiate call/ connection.
For someone most of the time on receiving side (doctors, etc) it's really a danger. I do hope our resident expert can find out something, as I don't think MS will be doing it.

You may want to read this article where they interview one of the guys that found the vuln...
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hacking-iphone-security,2384.html
(Linked from Slashdot -
Specifically this bit on page 4...
Charlie: Collin's framework also works on Android and WinMobile. We found some denial of service bugs in Android (which we reported and are fixed) and a pretty bad bug in the way HTC WinMobile phones handle SMS messages containing the format specifier %n. That's a fun one because you don't need any special tools to send the malicious message, just use your phone to text your buddy with %n and their TouchFlo (application manager) will crash and won't come back up.

Starfury said:
Specifically this bit on page 4...
Charlie: Collin's framework also works on Android and WinMobile. We found some denial of service bugs in Android (which we reported and are fixed) and a pretty bad bug in the way HTC WinMobile phones handle SMS messages containing the format specifier %n. That's a fun one because you don't need any special tools to send the malicious message, just use your phone to text your buddy with %n and their TouchFlo (application manager) will crash and won't come back up.
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Well, tested the %n story, didn't crash anything on my Topaz WM 6.5 manila 2.5
So regarding manila 2.5 it's: fud
EqX

the-equinoxe said:
Well, tested the %n story, didn't crash anything on my Topaz WM 6.5 manila 2.5
So regarding manila 2.5 it's: fud
EqX
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I believe the current HTC handsets come with WM6.1 now as standard, either HTC or Operator flavoured. As this is a forum for all HTC devices on WM5.0/6.0/6.1/6.5 can we have some testing done on stock ROM's on stock devices please?

I'm going to send a %n text to my buddy's phone and see.
At least now the thread is getting some attention. My concern is for people (like me) that rely more on receiving call/SMS than making call/sending SMS. A crashed network connection will result in no phone at all.

How'd the testing go and any movement on patching?

Just sent myself a %n message but nothing happened. On TPC v10.9 on M2D (Mega's M2D)
My friend is now using custom ROM .. so no try there. I don't have OEM that has M2D ..

What about just trying it on a bog standard WM6.1 OEM ROM from an operator.

Can do .. later perhaps when I'm changing ROM again. I thought it only crashes M2D? No OEM for Kaiser has M2D ..

Reviving this thread because iPhone is vulnerable. Not sure if IE also on our Kaiser? Opera?
http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=14663

New to windows mobile Help please

I went from iphone to android to webos to comeback to android.
I use google voice. I use last.fm to scrobble. And pandora.
None of this are on windows mobile marketplace.
I just got the htc hd2 today while i love the hardware and everything. Comparing other mobile os's windows mobile sucks in terms of
app choices.
Can somebody please guide me in the right direction for replacements
or if the programs are available please tell me how to get them?
I also noticed my email inbox looks like it never left the 90's. Html emails are not being displayed and pictures are not loading automatically.
Trying to adapt need it for work so i must make the best out of it

GNOve said:
I went from iphone to android to webos to comeback to android.
I use google voice. I use last.fm to scrobble. And pandora.
None of this are on windows mobile marketplace.
I just got the htc hd2 today while i love the hardware and everything. Comparing other mobile os's windows mobile sucks in terms of
app choices.
Can somebody please guide me in the right direction for replacements
or if the programs are available please tell me how to get them?
I also noticed my email inbox looks like it never left the 90's. Html emails are not being displayed and pictures are not loading automatically.
Trying to adapt need it for work so i must make the best out of it
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Okay... look here for all the apps we use on our hd2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=603880
On Windows Mobile.. you can look for apps outside of the "marketplace".. you download them as a .cab file (on pc or phone) and place them on the sd card if you want... which out the box is unique to windows mobile (doesn't eat up phone memory (but not that we lack it on the new hd2 lol))
Once the .cab file is on your phone/sd card... in the phone you go to file explorer (in the start menu)... click on it and navigate to where you placed the .cab file and run it. You can save the installation to the "device" because there is plenty of memory and tends to run better.

To awnser your questions;
[1] Google voice idk, but im sure google will have a wm app out soon (if not already, im not 'in' google voice so dunno)
[2] Last.fm Googling around a bit i see they (or someone) released a windows mobile app in 2008, but all links to it trow a 404, so check out their mobile forums, specifically this sticky
[3] Pandora, just read this; http://www.pandora.com/on-windowsmobile (Point your mobile phone's browser to www.pandora.com)
[4] Incomplete emails Thats just a setting since most people use gprs/hsdpa, im sure you can change it, either somewhere in the settings or trough a registry edit
Though i just have to say/write this, DONT GET ME WRONG but honestly, you shouldn't try to make this like your iPhone, although Microsoft/HTC are clearly trying to 'collect' some iPhone users, overall the HD2 isn't user friendly enough to be a iPhone (yes i sayd it) That doesn't mean you shouldn't stick with the HD2 though, just forget the iPhone
To put some strength behind my 'user friendly' statement, if your ROM is from before 1.66, the HD2 will have quite some silly bugs, like SMS messages that get stuck in the outbox but only (if your lucky) send 3 weeks later, problems with the camera, not beeing able to read/write large miniSD cards & more.
On the other hand, if your in any way IT related or just in general good with computers, this is currently the best phone on the market (counting HD2 and HD2b as one) it does the latest wireless connection methods, has build-in gps, compass and g-sensor, a 1ghz gpu, a 'gpu' (kinda) and more geeky features, and hey, it can emulate most psx games at full speed (www.fpsece.net)
I'd just strongly suggest you to get a new ROM from the HTC site, assuming you have a device with pre 1.66
I hope the above helped a bit, not trying to make windows mobile even more confusing for you, just trying to tell you that it cant really be compared to iPhone/Android, it can be compared to windows, there are actually millions of apps, nobody ever felt the need for a windows marketplace until iPhone got one and Microsoft had to compete, at which they currently fail hard i agree, the windows marketplace thing is a joke, just use google.