Hi, I have a VGA phone ... which is very nice for web browsing indeed
Yet for some apps like GPS navigation software it is very unpleasant
-> The icons are really small
-> the app is slower as it has to display 4 times more data.
So is there a way to force a "VGA aware" app to "think" that my phone is QVGA ?
Thanks !
i'll give you the short version.
no
Thank you nir36 ... but I'd rather prefer the long version
I can't believe that ! I don't want to believe it
Some solution/hack must exist to do it !
I haven't found anything functional yet, but I really hope that some of the following parameters / tools should allow to do it ?
- HI_RES_AWARE resource : It seems that developers must add this resource in their app to make it VGA aware ... maybe there is a way to remove it from the program with a resource hacker ?
- .mui files : I don't have further details, but it seems that .mui files also allow to modify the vga awareness of the programs ?
- TrueVGA / ozVGA / WVGAFix3 : there are some programs that seems to fool WM or the installed apps and allow to use different resolutions ... so if it is possible to fool WM / apps about the real resolution, it should be possible to do what I am asking for ?
Please correct me if I'm wrong
The thing is, that you can't just throw in a magical script that would resize all images to QVGA.. your app reads the images and presents them on the screen. if they're VGA.. there's really nothing you can do about it.
There are many many projects in XDA-devs which are based around resizing interfaces of applications from QVGA to VGA and vice versa.. I trust that if it was possible to just write a script to do that automatically.. someone would've already done that.
But some programs already have both image pack VGA and QVGA. Because there is no different version of iGo for QVGA and VGA devices. It uses VGA images it device support it. So there must be a way to make iGo render in QVGA mode.
And, as you may know, Asus P750 has a VGA screen but it works like QVGA.
I confirm what Klael said... the GPS app is the same executable in VGA or QVGA ! So the only issue is to force it to believe that the app is running on a QVGA screen instead of VGA
Unfortunately, I tried to delete the HI_RES_AWARE resource with ResourceHacker but the app refuses to start after that
I also tried to change the value "HI_RES_AWARE CEUX {1}" to "HI_RES_AWARE CEUX {0}" but it doesn't work neither.
Can someone with programming/hacking experience answer to this topic please ?
I'm convinced that there is a way to do it !
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I'm pretty sure there is a way to do it ! I just hope that someone with some experience in developing/hacking could read the post
Witch version of IGO are you using? Because in mine all the images for the themes are located in archives and all the values etc can be edited via notepad so you just need to do all the stuff yourself . unfortunately i have QVGA device so I can't help you
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Hi,
I just tried the free GNU Emu48CE for Windows mobile 2002/2003.
It comes along with all you need (ROM image, Skin bitmap file, *.kml file) for emulate a HP38G, HP39G, HP40G, HP48G and HP49G.
But I used a HP48SX for a very long time and that's a bit different to HP48G. So if there are any Skins and *.kml files fitting on a 320*240 PDA it would help me a lot, because I wrote many small apps for it and these will not all run on a HP48G.
JH
the kml is just the gui layout
of device
the difference between 48S and 48G is purely a rom thing
here you can find kml and prob roms too for the emulators
http://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/pc/emulators/
if you dont like to do the messing on the pda you can do all the work on the pc version and then just change the rom on the pda when you are ready
odd that they would not work on 48G
that never been an issue for me
Hmmm...
I don't know much about the emu and his configurations. Maybe the klm works as it is also with an SX GUI as long as the keyboard layout is equal. But even if it is only the matter of the ROM and not of the klm to interpret a keypress right, the lettering of the keys (bitmap) does not fit to a HP48. Same keys have not the same function on both calculators. It's a little bit like trying to type english on a keybord with greek letters on it...
OK, I can change the gui on my own, but I'm quite sure that someone else already has done this before and I try to avoid spending time on doing things other have already done and perhaps much better than I can do...
I will see what I can find at http://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/pc/emulators/ ...
it's quite much to read...
I think the most apps from my 48SX will work on an 48G but some of them uses direct system calls (SysRPL) and some entry point may have changed...
JH
Hi, please tell me if there is a way to make the message boxes and windows (of course some of them are outside the screen area) to force to display in screen area, not to have a part of window outside screen.
The display driver is ddi.dll.
Thanks for your help.
Unless its your windows (from your own app) no.
ddi.dll is the generic name for WM / CE display driver so it tells us nothing of the device.
If you describe your problem in more details, like the exact device, the apps that do not display properly etc. perhaps someone will be able to help.
Ok, the device is a pna running win core 5.0. Apps. that are outside are using gdi (apps which use gx are displayed normally thanks to gapi 4.0), but the others designed for 230x320 are outside (the device has display 320x240).
Ok, I think I understand what you are trying to do - you "opened" a PND and are trying to run PPC apps on it right?
Unfortunately, currently there is no way to help apps that can not adjust to screen resolution by themselves.
PNDs are intentionally limited in features and screen rotation option was removed from the driver.
Unless a program was written to take in to account the screen size (many PPC programs were not) there is no way to force it to the right resolution.
And even if it could be done (there is a theoretical way) it will always be buggy and unstable.
I'm using an Orbit2(Touch Cruise), but my question relates to any pocketPC powered device.
Does anyone know of some pocketPC software that allows precise control over photo resizing ? Preferably free (failing that nag-ware). Ideally it would also allowing cropping, control over compression settings, contrast, and USM (but I know that I'm dreaming on this last point!)
I've been searching for several days, but most of the links relate to desktop software which resize down to PDA dimensions. This is not what I want - I already have plenty of software for PC's which does this.
What I want to be able to do is take a photo on the phone (3.2 MP), and then resize by an arbitrary factor
I realise that the built in picture editor allows "resizing" down to 640 by 480, but this is too small, and only applies when you're emailing and does not affect the original. It also over compresses.
The reason for my question is that the orbit 2 camera is pretty noisy, but when scaled down to about 50% using Gimp or Photoshop on the PC actually gives quite a nice image suitable for beaming / emailing.
Thanks,
Roy.
Here are the ones I tried and rejected today:
photoresize (free)
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failed - converted 21 imgaes out of 31 then fell over with a memory error.
for those it did convert, all of the portrait ones were squished (lost the aspect ratio) irrespective of whether "keep aspect ratio" was checked or not.
promising (good selection of sizes, and selectable compression), but poor implementation
but could use in a pinch by creating a directory with just one or two images, and forcing their rotation to be "correct" prior to conversion
PocketPicture (free)
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seems to be a ms-paint clone.
fell over when I tried to open a large (3.1mp) image
SpbImageer ($15)
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I didn't like the install process -
it wanted to act as an activesync filter, so abandoned install.
Try XnView Pocket. Unlike the name would let you believe, it is more than a viewer; it edits and resizes pictures and is free. http://www.xnviewpocket.org/
Here are the ones I tried and rejected today:
photoresize (free)
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failed - converted 21 imgaes out of 31 then fell over with a memory error.
for those it did convert, all of the portrait ones were squished (lost the aspect ratio) irrespective of whether "keep aspect ratio" was checked or not.
promising (good selection of sizes, and selectable compression), but poor implementation
but could use in a pinch by creating a directory with just one or two images, and forcing their rotation to be "correct" prior to conversion
PocketPicture (free)
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seems to be a ms-paint clone.
fell over when I tried to open a large (3.1mp) image
SpbImageer ($15)
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I didn't like the install process -
it wanted to act as an activesync filter, so abandoned install.
Read my pic viewer / editor bible
wovens said:
Try XnView Pocket. Unlike the name would let you believe, it is more than a viewer; it edits and resizes pictures and is free. http://www.xnviewpocket.org/
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Thanks, tried this and it does most of what I want, and the interface was good too.
Menneisyys said:
Read my pic viewer / editor bible
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Thanks, took me a while to find it, but your review at
http://www.winmobiletech.com/PICVIEWERS/
was exactly the sort of thing I was looking for.
I note you rate xnview highly (version 1.3 in 2005)
it's now at version 1.4, and doesn't seem to have the 8MP image size restriction any more - not that I've tested that.
r_southampton said:
Thanks, took me a while to find it, but your review at
http://www.winmobiletech.com/PICVIEWERS/
was exactly the sort of thing I was looking for.
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Great you've found it - sorry for my not posting the URL last time, I've sposted my message from my BlackBerry; then, it's very hard to post URL's.
Hey all! I just want to let you know that skyfire supports VGA devices. I tested in my Sprint Tourch Pro and it works great!! It's pretty amazing how one can see flash videos from ANY website, I was even able to watch an online class that I am taking that even IE7 has problem to display it at times.
The browser is superfast, way faster than PIE and Opera, but the rendering of the fonts and pictures still needs some improvements. I tested in my Titan and it look better in a QVGA screen, but it's still readable anyways.
Thank people of skyfire!! You are creating a break through in the mobile world!!!
New Skyfire Out Today - Now Supports VGA! - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=448832
is there a way to get it in Italy?
Vga Underitilized
so I just downloaded the latest version off their site. Did not give me an option to choose VGA or not - just installed. Pages load in font that is totally underutilizeing the VGA screen. What gives? Any thoughts. I can't find a settin for display resolution.
mattyv said:
so I just downloaded the latest version off their site. Did not give me an option to choose VGA or not - just installed. Pages load in font that is totally underutilizeing the VGA screen. What gives? Any thoughts. I can't find a settin for display resolution.
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It supports VGA by pixel-doubling. That gives it the right layout, but it means that you'll only get effectively QVGA resolution.
I think part of the reason (other than the fact that it was easy to do, and the Skyfire developers have a lot of stuff to do yet -- it's only a beta, version 0.85) is that they are really focused on performance. The pages are rendered on their server and then a subset of the rendered page is sent as pixels (at the current zoom level) to the phone. Making those pixels VGA-sized instead of QVGA sized would mean shipping four times as many pixels over a potentially slow comm link, which is contrary to their goal of maximizing performance.
Again, that's just a guess; I haven't heard any confirmation of that from Skyfire itself. However, I'm hoping that this is just an intermediate stage on the way to full support for VGA devices.
I've got this problem ever since I switched to Windows Mobile 6.5 builds. Java applications executed by Jbed begin to resize themselves after some time. It's almost as WinMo is losing focus of this app - suddenly top and bottom bar of WinMo appears, screen is a little bit resized.
Anyone had an issue like this one?
Do u check all version from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=407667
??
Yes. I already tried them all.
Here is my thoughts.
You indicate that the size reduces over time. which implies its fine at first.
I suspect that your running a java app that is setting the java parameters and hence reducing them in the process.
Try 1 new java app at a time, then see which one could be causing that!
I know that some apps are made for QVGA screens or smaller (like for Nokia phones) and those will always display small if its built for one of those devices specifically.
Alternatively check this thread and see if it helps with the settings.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=439989