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I have performed BigStorage and would like to know the reg hack to change the location for ringtones from \windows\rings to \Storage\Rings. I have tried but failed and searching this site has proved fruitless. I sure it can be done and have seen one forum which mentioned doing but not how!!!
here you are DMan
Hkey_current_user\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Ring
change the Directory from \windows\Rings to \Storage\Rings
Thanks Shams99 but that is the one I thought it was when looking so have changed that but when I then try to add a music file by "right click" and select "set as ring tone" it copies this file to the default \windows\rings. Am I being stupid? please tell me I am so there is a simple answer :lol: but include instructions :wink:
I also set this and soft reset just incase!
Can't move rings to storage
I'm having trouble pointing to \Storage Card\Rings as well. I have windows mobile 5.0 k-jam. I modified the registry setting for
HKCU\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Ring and changed the directory from \Windows to \Storage Card. I've confirmed that a Rings folder exists in \Storage Card. When I go in to phone options and try to change the ring tone, it's still looking in to \Windows\Rings for ring tones and not \Storage Card\Rings.
Does anyone know what could be the problem here?
Thanks!
It works for me, did you soft-reset after the registry change?
oltp,
Yes i did a soft reset. I've also verified after the reset the settings in the registry. The changes indeed are there. However, the phone application doesn't show the contents of \Storage Card\Rings\. Instead it still shows the contents of \Windows\Rings\.
Very strange, what's your rom version?
no problem on mine.
dude,u can never set the ring path to your sd card 'cause when you turn off your phone,the electricity supply of SD card will be cut off.So every time it rings,windows is unable to read the ringtone file.
so just copy the ringtone to your storage,never be on sd.
cheers
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T.Kuang
Well, after trying this tweak for almost a week now....I have discovered something VERY interesting....I have a Dopod 818Pro (HTC Prophet) running WM5. I tried like hell to get this tweak to work for almost a straight week now and it just WOULD NOT work. Well, quite by accident I realized that I had copies of my ringtones on the SD card to begin with and lo' and behold, it works on it's own!!!! I'm not sure if this is something to do with WM5 or the way Dopod conditioned the OS for their use, but it does work all on its own WITHOUT doing a reg tweak. I now have all my ringtones stored on the SD Card (not in a folder) and several contacts have their own ringtone assigned and each and every time I get a call from one of those contacts (whether the phone is on or not), the phone rings with that contacts ringtone!!!! VERY Cool!!!
BTW my registry string looks like this:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound Categories\Ring\Directory\Windows\
Just thought I would share!!
voyager
shams99 said:
here you are DMan
Hkey_current_user\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Ring
change the Directory from \windows\Rings to \Storage\Rings
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It is said to be very important to add the trailing "\" to the registry value. So change the value to "\Storage Card\Rings\" or whatever it is you want. But just as said before, it is a bad idea to store Ringtones on Storage Card. Just donate a few kbytes of your BigStorage and you will be fine. You can also convert your mp3 to wma which takes even less space and the audio quality is almost the same (at least on the small speaker we are talking about). If you need Hi-Fidelity ringing from your phone, pay the London Symphonic orchestra to follow oyu arond
how you change the registri?
Hi how you change the reg. i didnt test it on wm5 thanks a lot guys
1.Hkey_current_user\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Ring
change the Directory from \windows\Rings to \Storage\Rings
2.Hkey_current_user\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\InCall
change the Directory from \windows\ to \Storage\
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After doing the reg tweak, when u ppl do the "set as ringtone" thing, it displays something like: copied ringtone to \windows\rings. Right....
Well its a bug in the program....the program actually copies it to the location specified in the registry, but displays a default msg which must have been preset by the programmer...must say bad programming...
but anyway useful program....
try it out....apply the reg tweak....the set a file as ringtone...and go to the directory u entered in the registry...and presto...
faysalshoaib you indeed are right, as you say dont worry about the message, this is red herring. I was doing the classic mistake of believing the message, doh.... it work as you say. Thanks for replies and effort.
ualvoyager said:
Well, after trying this tweak for almost a week now....I have discovered something VERY interesting....I have a Dopod 818Pro (HTC Prophet) running WM5. I tried like hell to get this tweak to work for almost a straight week now and it just WOULD NOT work. Well, quite by accident I realized that I had copies of my ringtones on the SD card to begin with and lo' and behold, it works on it's own!!!! I'm not sure if this is something to do with WM5 or the way Dopod conditioned the OS for their use, but it does work all on its own WITHOUT doing a reg tweak. I now have all my ringtones stored on the SD Card (not in a folder) and several contacts have their own ringtone assigned and each and every time I get a call from one of those contacts (whether the phone is on or not), the phone rings with that contacts ringtone!!!! VERY Cool!!!
BTW my registry string looks like this:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound Categories\Ring\Directory\Windows\
Just thought I would share!!
voyager
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Yup this works for me too. Simply put the ringtone into the directory \Storage\ and viola, you can select the ringtone from the pulldown menu of ringtones within the "Sounds and Notifications" application.
No need to perform any registry hack. This is on a JAMin.
Ringtones on the Storage Card without any tweaks
in WM5, if you put your MID or MP3 files on the root of the storage card or in if you create a folder on your storage card called My Documents and put the MID and MP3 files there, then they will automatically be found by the OS as available ringtones. This worked in pre 2.x and post 2.x builds.
No Reg Tweaking necessary.
There is a simple solution
1) One can use Photo Contacts so that one can store Rings on one's SD card any folder.
2) One can keep the mp3 and mid files open on SD card(Not in any folder) these are well recognised in the Ringtone selection box of the phone settings.
Change ringtones to Storage?
There is simple way!! Down RESCO FILE EXPLORER to your Magician. WM2003 is not registtry available. You can do it so easy!!
its "Storage Card" and not "\Storage Card\" on my device.
its "Storage Card" and not "\Storage Card\" on my device.
anyone know a good resource for ppc/pda fonts please.pref graffitti style
thanks
PPC uses exactly the same font format as desktop windows, so you can copy any font in your c:\windows\fonts folder to \windows (on the PPC) and it will work (after soft reset).
Also any sites with fonts for windows will do. (Sorry, don't know any myself)
cheers mate,i hadnt realised they were the same
thanks
some intresting fonts here if it helps anyone else cheers
http://www.graffitifonts.com/fonts.shtml
jaceuk said:
some intresting fonts here if it helps anyone else cheers
http://www.graffitifonts.com/fonts.shtml
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Thanks for that link - I use the Tempus Sans itc font myself on my device and it works well as a graffiti font.
Hitting error!
Happy new year everyone.
I just started to use Dopod 838 Pro about 3 weeks ago, and I have this problem :
1.) I like to use this font - Times New Roman, and when I tried to copy ALL the four TTF files (TIMES / TIMESI / TIMESBD / TIMESBI) from my notebook /Windows/Fonts folder to PDA's /Windows/Fonts, I hit error when come to Sync process :
Cannot copy 'TIMESI.TTF'. Make sure your mobile device has sufficient memory, that the file is not set as read-only, and that you have permission to copy this file type.
Why am I hitting this error (for ALL the four TTF files)? However, I'm still able to use the fonts (normal / italic / bold / bold+italic). Is there anyway to get rid of this error? Is there any step I have missed out for copying true type fonts from computer to PDA? Anyone out there care to help? Thank you very much in advance.
Stupid question but did you actually check the size?
On systems with many locales or Asian fonts one TTF file can reach 2MB.
It is possible that you are running out of storage memory.
Also, if the files already exist on your device you would not be able to copy over them.
I've already checked on the font size when the errors were prompted (as follow) :
TIMES - 399K
TIMESBD - 389K
TIMESBI - 234K
TIMESI - 242K
I've copied all those four files into \Windows\Fonts, and I'm able to use the fonts in the program, ie. to change it in Excel files. I have more than enough space in my device : Storage Free (25.05 MB) & Program Free (average 25MB most of the time). But I just don't understand this error was hit!?
Before I copied the TTF files into my device, I'm very sure there was no such fonts pre-loaded, so it couldn't be duplication issue.
I'm really scratching my head these days to find out the solution!
eDee said:
I've already checked on the font size when the errors were prompted (as follow) :
TIMES - 399K
TIMESBD - 389K
TIMESBI - 234K
TIMESI - 242K
I've copied all those four files into \Windows\Fonts, and I'm able to use the fonts in the program, ie. to change it in Excel files. I have more than enough space in my device : Storage Free (25.05 MB) & Program Free (average 25MB most of the time). But I just don't understand this error was hit!?
Before I copied the TTF files into my device, I'm very sure there was no such fonts pre-loaded, so it couldn't be duplication issue.
I'm really scratching my head these days to find out the solution!
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It may be activesync thats kicking up the error - copy the fonts directly to storage card via a card reader or wm5torage and copy fonts to windows\fonts using total commander or gsfinder file explorers.
This is probabley another stupid question but once you've added new fonts into a ppc where do you change the default font??
I'm using a tytn and can't find anywhere other than a spb diary setting.
spikey0321 said:
This is probabley another stupid question but once you've added new fonts into a ppc where do you change the default font??
I'm using a tytn and can't find anywhere other than a spb diary setting.
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I didn't change the default font after I've copied to my device \Windows\fonts.
meschle said:
It may be activesync thats kicking up the error - copy the fonts directly to storage card via a card reader or wm5torage and copy fonts to windows\fonts using total commander or gsfinder file explorers.
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I have just tried your method (deleted the fonts before I re-copied directly without using sync options), but still hitting the stupid error!!
I gave up! I just leave the error there, it shown 4 Unresolved Items. But I still managed to use the fonts when editing my files in the device. And no problem also for me to continue sync the rest.
Just hope there's a solution one fine day!
spikey0321 said:
This is probabley another stupid question but once you've added new fonts into a ppc where do you change the default font??
I'm using a tytn and can't find anywhere other than a spb diary setting.
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There are numerous references to the tahoma font in the registry it would be a bit laborious to change all the references but possible using search in phm regedit look for tahoma. make sure you know what your doing and have a backup of your registry and device.
Or you could overwrite tahoma.ttf and the bold version with a font renamed to tahoma.ttf - i tried it in the past and it worked.
There is an app pocket tweak but it only changes some of the default fonts.
Thanks anyway, everyone!
Hope there is a solution one fine day, any other advice/guides would be very much appreciated.
eDee said:
I didn't change the default font after I've copied to my device \Windows\fonts.
I have just tried your method (deleted the fonts before I re-copied directly without using sync options), but still hitting the stupid error!!
I gave up! I just leave the error there, it shown 4 Unresolved Items. But I still managed to use the fonts when editing my files in the device. And no problem also for me to continue sync the rest.
Just hope there's a solution one fine day!
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Sorry where did you delete the fonts from and did you manage to get the fonts onto the storage card? You cant overwrite or delete the fonts in the windows\fonts directory on the device whithout renaming i.e font.tt instead of font.ttf and resetting and then delete or add the new font. Hope that helps
meschle said:
Sorry where did you delete the fonts from and did you manage to get the fonts onto the storage card? You cant overwrite or delete the fonts in the windows\fonts directory on the device whithout renaming i.e font.tt instead of font.ttf and resetting and then delete or add the new font. Hope that helps
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Well... I can't really remember how I deleted the fonts...
I did hit an error when trying to delete the fonts inside my PDA \Windows\Fonts, so what I did was CUT the four files from the \Windows\Fonts to \My Documents and deleted them from the \My Documents folder.
After removing the TTF files, I changed the Sync options to exclude FILES from being sync. Then I sent ALL the four files to my PDA directly via Bluebooth. At first I thought I could fool around with the ActiveSync, but after sending the files (via BT) which eventually stored into PDA's \My Documents folder as well, I CUT the files and pasted them into \Windows\Fonts. There wasn't any error before I resumed the FILES sync option, unfortunately... after I have revert the FILES sync option, the error re-occured again.
Nevertheless, as I've mentioned, I still able to use the TIMES fonts for my Excel files. I'm trying to browse through MSDN Library website ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/WinMobile_TechArticles.asp )to find out the solution.
Cheers.
Is there any way to fix copy/paste in xBar because it is not working with WM6?
I've tried VITO CopyPaste with VITO TaskSwitcher but it is not so functional and easy to use as xBar.
I've also tried SmartToolKit but I don't find very useful that XP look-like interface.
I can't imagine using WM without xBar
some times ago, in WM2003 era i'm use Xbar on my Typhoon with speical programms for copy-cut-paste (it can copy not only text, but it can copy files too)
i'll try to search that on my harddisk and check its work on my vox
later i'll tell about experiment
That would be great!
good news - it works fine!
CopyPaste is a small utilty for XBar to use copy/paste in wm2003 / wm5 smartphones with Paragon russian T9 installed
and it works with out Vox too!
readme.txt in russian, so i translate it
you must copy files from archive to program files\xbar\start (or xbar3\start or something else)
CopyAll - copy all text from edit window to clipboard
CopyLine - copy only current line to clipboard
Paste - insert from clipboard
Shift - select your text (with left-right buttons) and copy (left softkey) or cut (right softkey) it in clipboard. This is doesnt work in ProfiMail
Shift1 - same as Shift, but you can only copy text (up button). This is work in ProfiMail
You can copy to your smart all of those applications or select only applications that your need
It is not working with my vox with ARA rom.
I've tried it to copy text form SMS messege.
hmm.... i have same problem in sms
but in other application it is work...
strange...
the message has to be editable to be able to be copied. Which is not the case when reading an incoming sms.
Here is a workaround, you can forward the msg and then copy its content while it is edited. Pretty dumb solution I know but I think it is a windows mobile limitation and these copy/paste programs can do nothing about it.
I'd personally like being able to copy/paste text while browsing the net on the phone.
Dr. Martin Gonzo
hmm
when i tell about i mean that i can't copy text in edit window. I can change it, even select it. But i can't paste it anywhere
evenb selecting the "cut" option doesn't do nothing ?
yes
text doesn't disappear
now this is strange. You don't have any other copy/paste program installed that could interfer ?
Maybe it has troubles with cyrillic alphabet ?
If we can't find the reason of your problem you should contact the program's author..
Dr. Martin Gonzo
What are you useing for task manager and copy/paste?
xBars "select" (shift) is working but copy paste it is not working, the author promise on their forum to make a new version of xBar in wich will be fixed copy/paste in wm6 but it seems that author it is not working any more.
VITO copy/paste is working in wm6 but the problem is that it is mapped on the same center button as xBar.
How to remap that button?
I don't really know I use neither.
I use smarttoolkit for both. I've assigned a key to its task function (center button too) and a key for its clipboard function. I love it. I've also disabled the animations on smarttoolkit menus. It's better when constantly switching app.
What version of smarttoolkit you are useing?
I've installed "RC09-CORE1 Released" but it is VERY buggy, very often got my phone stucked and the only solution is to get the baterry out.
The same, but I seem to be one of those lucky people that don't have so much bugs using smarttoolkit. Strangely it seems to be not even rom dependent because many user of my rom report the same problems whereas I only get a smarttoolkit lockup every two days or so. I can live with it.
Finally I've got the clue, just install the SmartToolkit 1.0.0.RC08 version (not the RC08D) and all the stability problems are gone, no more bugs like with the last RC09 version!
Could someone possibly strip the new PIE, threaded text messaging, new Homescreen and other new apps from the new WM 6.1 roms so they would work on WM 6.0?
K
I put together a cab file for the threaded text messaging but it can't be installed. It replaces the original tmail.exe file but it seems to be protected. I tried killing the processes but still don't work.
I know some people are been playing with PIE 6.1 and have issues.
What about installing the files elsewhere and trying to call them up from the new location?
K
I tried that and it doesn't work. When you try to run tmail.exe it says that it is not a valid Windows CE app
Attached is the cab that I created if you want to play with it (it installs under the \program files\wm61 directory)
freyes01 did you tried to modify ROM WM6 , simply to add those files ?
In that cab all files that need to work tmail.exe?
Yes but it doesn't work on WM6.0. It gives you an error related to tmail not been designed for that OS version.
Now I'm running WM6.1....
Hello dear HTC fanatics,
I am an happy owner of an HTC Touch Diamond since 4 months. I noticed that between the month of April and now a lot of files appeared into Windows folder which were not existing or not displayed before.
These files seems related with TouchFlo (manila). These files are not saved with a backup tool like Sprite Backup. These files seem to be Read only files and cannot be moved or deleted from the desktop XP. It sounds strange to me that they would be placed in Flash because they were not existing at the beginning... These are more than 1500 additional files displayed into Windows folder which were not at the begining! Now my Windows folder has more than 4000 files!
Here are some file names I found into Windows folder which are part of very big lists of files of the same kind:
0_0409.dat 00da6601-75e2-44b8-bd9d-54fa4fcbf331.dsm
01_480x640.gif
002726c9_manila
CallLogFrameInLUp_Port.png
ha_slideshow_play_dn.bmp
I-camera-resolution-1M.bmp
LQwerty0c0b.txt
MP3TrimmerProgressMarked_P.png
mxipupdate_office_100.provxml
mxipupdate_PACKAGE_Diamond_BTFtp_main.provxml
spd.5x4.English.kdb spd.5x4.German.kdb
YT_GuideBtnUp_mask.png YT_Home_Dn.png
Is this possible that there has been a system silent update during a connection on one of HTC server?
Did I tap on an EXE located into Windows folder that I shouldn't and which has uncompressed all this material by error?
Is this normal, does it harm Windows Mobile functionality as well as TouchFlo functionality (it seems it is still working fine)?
Can I live with that or should I hard reset my Diamond?
Could anyone please help me to determine if my device is working correctly or not?
Did anyone else ever noticed this?
I thank you very much in advance for your help.
Teknasia
More details:
I didn't install any system themes or other system customization else than GProfile and GScroll, GAlarm, Pocket Informant, PocketClock, Skype, Sprite Backup and a lots of games (EA, Gameloft, HeroCraft, Astraware etc.).
My ROM is the latest standard HTC one: 2.03.401.3 WWE (02/05/09)
I am wondering why my Windows folder now shows 4282 files where in the past month there wasn't all these files displayed. I just tried to move some of these from the PPC to the PC to see the result. There was no result at all as they are not able to be moved or removed. But anyway all these files where not visible in the past.
That is my question, what are they and do they limit the RAM memory that is available for me?
After a soft reset I have: 62 % free space indicated inthe top menu of the TouchFlo. And in Settings\System I have:
Storage
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Total: 82.56 MB
In use: 47.83 MB
Free: 34.73 MB
Program
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Total: 107.02 MB
In use: 70.36 MB
Free: 36.66 MB
So I don't know if these small free amounts have to do with all these additional files discovered into Windows or not?...
Strange... It seems that we have the best WM hackers around here but people are more chatty at PPCGeeks!
Code:
0_0409.dat 00da6601-75e2-44b8-bd9d-54fa4fcbf331.dsm
01_480x640.gif
002726c9_manila
CallLogFrameInLUp_Port.png
ha_slideshow_play_dn.bmp
I-camera-resolution-1M.bmp
LQwerty0c0b.txt
MP3TrimmerProgressMarked_P.png
mxipupdate_office_100.provxml
mxipupdate_PACKAGE_Diamond_BTFtp_main.provxml
spd.5x4.English.kdb spd.5x4.German.kdb
YT_GuideBtnUp_mask.png YT_Home_Dn.png
Seem all native files to me.
These should be present in the \\windows\ dir.
eg.:
*.dsm Digital Signature Manager file, always present in a "package", is present in all ROMs (there are a lot of them in most ROMs)
002726c9_manila , a manilla file, present in all ROMs containing Manilla (also loads of them)
CallLogFrameInLUp_Port.png, a part of the dialer (this is the "portret version, so also a landscape version is present, and so there are lots of those for lots of things in the dialer..)
spd.5x4.English.kdb keyboard file
spd.5x4.German.kdb dito (multiple languages, multiple files..)
*.provXML provisional XML file, they overide some reg settings, file placements etc..
etc etc
Nothing strange, just your basic WiMo ROM files
Regards,
EqX
Thanks for your reply the-equinoxe.
I received a confirmation from HTC that these are ROM files.
The strange fact is that they were not visible into Windows XP Explorer via ActiveSync in the past... I tried to hide and display protected system files but this didn't change the PPC Windows displayed content.