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Change HTC Album default directory

How can I either set HTC Album to "\Storage Card\Pictures" or have Windows Medial Player 11 Sync to "\Storage Card\DCIM\100MEDIA"?
I've read the posts and the supposed fixes to changing HTC Album's default directory on the storage card. We have two registry changes thus far.
1. "EnableDCIM" set to 0
2. "SaveFolder_0409" changed to "SaveFolder_0405"
None of this is really working for me. The first option changes the folder to "Storage Card\My Documents" and the second one...well I don't know what it does besides make my previous pictures invisible to HTC Album. I sync my all the photo albums on my computer using Windows Media Player 11, but it syncs the pictures to "\Storage Card\Pictures" which HTC Album doesn't recognize. I really don't want to resort to manually copying files as WMP11 syncs the pictures really quickly and compresses my 2.6GB of pictures on my computer to ~80MB of pictures on my SD card and it automatically puts new pictures I've taken on the SD card whenever I sync my device.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2018342&postcount=461

surgex0 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2018342&postcount=461
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Thanks! Altho, after making the registry changes, its apparent that its not as simple as that.
I think that this may actually be pretty complicated. That registry entry and "SaveFolder_0409" all point simply to "My Pictures" not "My Documents\My Pictures" furthermore the EnableDCIM tweak makes the pictures save to My Documents. It seems as if these entries are predicated on another "My Documents" registry entry elsewhere that tells the OS the folder is within My Documents. So in short, you can change the HTC Album folder to anything you want in My Documents, but to get it see anything outside of My Documents is more complicated.
I think I may try to approach this from the opposite end and see if I can hack Windows Media Player to sync pictures to either the "Storage Card\DCIM\Media100" folder or to the "Storage Card\My Documents\My Pictures folder"

Possible Solutions!
Apparently, there are a couple of versions of HTC Album with a folder selection option!
I haven't tested these yet, as I don't currently have the time to do a hard reset and tweak my TC back to its current settings if these don't work. To those with more time than I, please try one or all of these versions and report back!
Version1
View attachment htcalbum.cab
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1739080&mode=threaded#post1739080
Version2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=346872
Version3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1704152&postcount=189
Note: Version 3 (and maybe Version 2) may require this fix if the menus show up with garbled text as I believe that the original source was from an asian forum with menu text.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=60318&d=1196675678
Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=348421&page=2
Version1 seems to be a pre-fixed edition of version2. Here are some screenshots of the Asian version.
Source: http://www.studiokuma.com/wm/?section=htcalbum

when i dl'd that advance settings program and i followed the steps, i did get it to make the pics / video / download get saved to my storage card
when i take pics or videos with the cam it now puts them in \storage card\my documents\my pictures | my videos, etc.
however, HTC album searches the ENTIRE storage card for picture files and places them in the album, not just the my pictures folder!
..so it shows skins for pcm keyboard, and other useless .jpg's from other programs and such that have no business being in a photo album..
This new version looks good!
there is no way to replace it with the other version except to reflash the rom?
that really sucks...
oh well, maybe sometime in the future there will be a nice rom kitchen released...just tell me where to donate and who to give money to so they can make it happen

surgex01, I did not mean to imply that these versions of HTC Album needed to be cooked into av ROM for install. They may work fine just being installed on our oem ROM. I can't say as I haven't tried installing them yet.

sonus said:
I haven't tested these yet, as I don't currently have the time to do a hard reset and tweak my TC back to its current settings if these don't work.
To those with more time than I, please try one or all of these versions and report back!
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Why would you have to hard reset?
I'm sorry i'm kind of a newb when it comes to how these devices work...
is there any way to replace the current version of HTC Album without flashing a new rom?
I thought that's what you meant by having to hard reset..
I'm gonna try one of em, I'll let you know if they work or not...and hopefully i wont need to hard reset if they dont..??
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update: The first one works great, thanks. Problem = SOLVED!

That's great surgex0! It looks like I'll be installing it too. Do all the gestures work also?
(The reason I hadmentioned hard reset before was in case it did't work and overwrote some of the original HTC Album's files. If that had happened, we would have to hard reset to get it back to normal.)

AH I understand now!
The gestures work and everything is great.
The only thing is it makes you select a dir every time you open it, which is kind of annoying...how hard is it to have a "settings" form with a dir. text box! Jeeze HTC what gives!?
lol..</rant>
Another annoyance is it installs itself to \HTCAlbum instead of in the Program Files directory, and it doesn't give you a choice to install it on your device or storage card either...
It can be uninstalled and I'm almost positive it will put the original one back in place, but don't quote me on that cause I haven't tried it yet =p
Either way, if it doesn't you can always download the separate .cab from the forum somewhere for the stock version.

Okay, so this may not be of any use, but here's my experience.
I wanted to view many of the pictures from my digital camera, AT&T 8525, or other sources on my HTC Touch Cruise. I had JUST got the phone yesterday, and saw that you had used WMP to move the photos from your PC to your Touch Cruise. So I did the same, only making sure to move the photos to my Storage Card.
However, obviously the pictures didn't show up in "Camera Album" while in that standard directory. HOWEVER, when I moved the pictures (in folders or not) to the "DCIM", then "100MEDIA" folder on my Storage Card... all the pictures were available! I can slide my finger slowly to scroll about 25 pictures at a time, or slide it faster to move maybe 50 pictures. If I'm going to fast, I can stop the scrolling by clicking anywhere on the screen and highlighting a photo... then pick the actual photo I want to start with, etc.
The only problem I've had at all, was when moving a LOT of photos at once in WMP (more than 400+) all at once... the sync didn't complete. I think I overwhelmed the program, because my "class 4" 8GB memory card probably couldn't keep up at some point. But I deleted the pictures that transferred over as 1kb or 0kb files, and could easily readd these photos later.
One mistake I made. I put ALL my photos in the SAME folder directly under 100MEDIA to start. But later realized I could keep the photos in subfolders and they still show up the same in Camera Album.
Probably too late, but I hope this can help someone.

Yea the picture viewer works well… it is annoying to have to deal with the dialog prompt every time, but I can live with that. Also sigh, unfortunately, the video preview program doesn't work with version 1 on my phone. it doesn't matter what folder I select. I don't use the video preview function, but I still would like everything to work.I may try the other versions to see if they fix this issue.

sonus said:
Thanks! Altho, after making the registry changes, its apparent that its not as simple as that.
I think that this may actually be pretty complicated. That registry entry and "SaveFolder_0409" all point simply to "My Pictures" not "My Documents\My Pictures" furthermore the EnableDCIM tweak makes the pictures save to My Documents. It seems as if these entries are predicated on another "My Documents" registry entry elsewhere that tells the OS the folder is within My Documents. So in short, you can change the HTC Album folder to anything you want in My Documents, but to get it see anything outside of My Documents is more complicated.
I think I may try to approach this from the opposite end and see if I can hack Windows Media Player to sync pictures to either the "Storage Card\DCIM\Media100" folder or to the "Storage Card\My Documents\My Pictures folder"
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To change folder to \Storage Card\Pictures
"EnableDCIM" set to 0
Do NOT change "SaveFolder_0409" to "SaveFolder_0405"
Change the value of SaveFolder_0409 from "My Pictures" to "..\Pictures"

directmail said:
To change folder to \Storage Card\Pictures
"EnableDCIM" set to 0
Do NOT change "SaveFolder_0409" to "SaveFolder_0405"
Change the value of SaveFolder_0409 from "My Pictures" to "..\Pictures"
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Hello,
I dont realy understand cause I have no "SaveFolder_0409" but I have "SaveFolder_040C" on mine.
So, I've tried to change "SAveFolder_040C" like you explained and changed "EnableDCIM" to 0, but no change, I can't see my photo on my Storage Card. I always see the picture in "My Images" on flash memory.
What's the mater ?
Thank's
Didier
I've Polaris (HTC Touch Cruise) - WM 6.1

im using Dutty's 6.1 with HTC Album 1_0_1030_720 , and i use AdvancedConfig to change the default path of the pic directory (to SD card dir) and HTC album still opens up showing the default (main memory) location pictures
anybody has any ideas?

@S3ntrax
Its always the same problem, I see, for anybody.
I've just found something :
If if you rename the directory in main memory, tha album search pictures in other directory. So rename \my documents\my pictures\ (or in french \my documents\mes images) in \mu documents\Pictures (for exemple), and the album search on other directory the pictures. But I don't know how to tell to album which directory...
Sorry for my pour english, i'l in france...
Best regards
Didier

somehow after me messing around with the settings now it saves to the correct directory on the SD card but now the videos i record go nowhere, can't find where it saves them, weird

on the topic of the HTC Album Viewer, have you noticed that when zoomed in, the panning is not as smooth as the panning in the default windows picture viewer? For example i notice that zooming in the default picture viewer takes a lot longer but then panning is quicker. while zooming is quick in HTC Album but panning is not as quick. can we have the best of both?
btw: in the HTC Album viewer I am able to see both pictures in my storage card DCIM folder and on the device my documents \ my pictures folder. when i take pictures they all go in the storage card DCIM folder.

Yup, I definitely have noticed that. Its becoming clear that while HTC have good intentions, they really didn't due the best job optimizing their programs for the device. This as well as the dialer are good examples. I hope that whenever they release the 6.1 ROM they fix all this stuff. I have read that they have Touch Flo (called Manilla or 2.0) updates in the works....and screenshots look to have added a folder/album view and hopefully they optimized the program to work better also.

wow, that looks awesome..!

how can i set the album to open "\Storage Card\DCIM\100MEDIA" instead of "\My Document\My Pictures". By the way i do not have the HTC Album thing under my root directory.

Import Bookmarks from ΙΕ/Firefox into Opera Mobile 9.5

I've noticed many users asking how to sync their IE/Firefox bookmarks on their PC with the Opera Browser included in the latest devices. I decided to look into it a bit and see if I could find a quick and easy way of doing it. First of all there is no way to Sync with the device because ActiveSync/WMDC only supports IE Bookmarks and of course Microsoft will neve aknowledge the existence of any other browser.
OK, so the idea is pretty simple. We convert our bookmarks from whatever browser we use, into Opera browser format and then we move them to the device:
1. First step is to download this very nice, open source, and free programme called BookMarkBridge (http://bookmarkbridge.sourceforge.net/downloads.html) and install it on your PC.
2. Open up the application:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
You will notice it contains a source browser section and a destination browser section.
3. If the browser you wish to use is not on the list, simply click on Add in the corresponding section to add it. Needless to say that if you want to remove a browser from the list, you have to select it and click on delete:
In the exaple below I have selected Firefox as my source and Opera as my destination browser.
4. Click on the settings button on the program's main page to change the settings for each browser. There you will be able to modify the bookmark file paths.
You do not need to have Opera installed on your machine to make this work. Simply create a new text document in the folder of your choice and rename it to Opera6.adr. Then simply select this file as the Opera bookmark File.
You will also notice that right underneath the bookmark file path is an option that will prevent this file from being edited. What this program actually does is combine/merge the bookmark files. First it will read all bookmarks contained in the source browsers and then combine them in one list. It will then save that list in the correct format in the destination browser's bookmark file. For example, if the source browsers are IE and Firefox and Opera is the destination, it will create an Opera6.adr (in the select path) that will include the bookmarks from both browsers.
5. Clicking on the View button on the program's main page, you can see a list of the bookmarks contained in the source browsers and you can select to ignore the ones you don't want moved to the destination browser.
6. Last but not list, clicking on Merge will begin the process. Once completed, all you need to do it take the Opera6.adr from the folder you selected in the settings, and copy it to the \windows\Opera9 folder in your device.
An alternative application:
vbBKM (BookMark Manager) Not hard to use either, includes import and export features.

This is GREAT info, preparing to get my in-transit XPERIA X1 all synced up, and getting my Firefox bookmarks into Opera was one of my to-do's! Thank you!

You're welcome

Question: so I exported my bookmarks into the adr file, and I see the existing adr in the /Windows directory (there is no Opera folder...), but it doesn't let me delete it. How do I go about replacing the file itself?

IF this is the opera addressbook file, you could copy the one you created on your PC to the storage card and use either Resco Explorer or Total Commander to overwrite the file (in case it doesn't allow you to do so with the built in File Explorer).

Ah, I was copying to the wrong location.
There's an opera6.adr file in \\Application Data\Opera -- THAT's where it goes.
But now I'm seeing only the first three bookmark folders I had, and they are being duplicated twice. The rest of the folders are missing -- if I open the adr file on my PC using notepad I see all the bookmarks are there, but the device isn't showing them.
Does Opera have some kind of limitation as to how many directories can be displayed?

I honestly can't tell you. I noticed a problem like the one you're describing when I was trying out different converters. I've tested the ones above on my HTC Diamond. Which device are you using?

Xperia X1.
I opened up the opera6.adr that the browser was creating, not the one the converter was creating, and noticed it looked very different... I dont think these apps are exporting into a format Opera Mobile is looking for?

Well if they weren't would it be working on my Diamond? Can you tell me which version of Opera you are using? Which converter did you use? Is there any chance you could send me the adr file to check it on my HTC?

Opera 9.5, build 2141 - the built-in Xperia version
I tried this with both converters.

matthewf01 said:
Opera 9.5, build 2141 - the built-in Xperia version
I tried this with both converters.
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joannaex - thanks for posting this, I've been looking for a way of doing this too, but had similar trouble to matthewf01.
I had a look at the file the bookmark bridge generated and compared it to the original one from my Diamond and there is a difference in the file format. I got it working in the end my manually editing the file, from memory (at work now, was doing this at home) there were a couple of missing attributes ID and CREATED and rather than URL= it had URL== with a double equals sign, same was true of the other attributes.
I keen to have this automated, so I might crack open the Bookmark Bridge source (it's on Sourceforge) and add a new option for the Opera browser that's on the Diamond.
Joannaex - now idea how it works on yours? maybe you have a different ROM and hence a different version of Opera?

I have the original Shipped 1.93 ROM. I will try and do some tests on the Touch 3G and HD and report back.

hello
i managed to put it on my x1
you need to install opera 9 on your pc
import bookmarks from in my case mozila to opera save it anywhere
copy/replace that file to app/opera on your mobile
that's it
job done
Good luck

matthewf01 said:
Ah, I was copying to the wrong location.
There's an opera6.adr file in \\Application Data\Opera -- THAT's where it goes.
But now I'm seeing only the first three bookmark folders I had, and they are being duplicated twice. The rest of the folders are missing -- if I open the adr file on my PC using notepad I see all the bookmarks are there, but the device isn't showing them.
Does Opera have some kind of limitation as to how many directories can be displayed?
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I have the EXACT problem too!! I can only see one folder and it's duplicated 4 times. I don't see my other bookmarks at all. When i go into the folder, i can only see "SOME" of the boomarks in it, e.g. if i have a list of 100 bookmarked links in it, i can only see about say 30 or 40.
I'm using HTC Touch Pro running Windows Mobile 6.1 and running Opera 9.5 build 15306.
I haven't done any modding or hacking to my phone at all, everything is running at stock or default.

ya i was looking for some info like this...
thanks for sharing this info with us....

Another way found in this page:
casouzaj said:
The desktop version of Opera is able to import its Bookmarks from IE's Favorites, which are stored in file 'Opera6.adr' at 'C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Applications Data\Opera\Opera\profile" on your PC. Just copy this file to the Opera directory in your PPC. You see, I don't have Opera Mini installed on my 9502, but I think it should work.
If you want PIE's Favorites instead, just sync them with your PC, prior to importing Opera's Bookmarks.
Just my 2 cents..Cheers!
Carlos
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In addition, if you are using the official non-branded version like Opera Mobile 9.51B2 or the latest 9.7B1, it has the buildin function to Import PIE Favorites on First Launch. In case you want to syncronize after first launch, in opera address bar, type: opera:config and hit enter, then in the config page tap Install, then in the extended list, check the box for 'Browser First Time Launch', then hit Save. After exit & relaunch Opera, the bookmarks from PIE will be syncronized.
Some other way is to use Opera Link.

awm said:
joannaex - thanks for posting this, I've been looking for a way of doing this too, but had similar trouble to matthewf01.
I had a look at the file the bookmark bridge generated and compared it to the original one from my Diamond and there is a difference in the file format. I got it working in the end my manually editing the file, from memory (at work now, was doing this at home) there were a couple of missing attributes ID and CREATED and rather than URL= it had URL== with a double equals sign, same was true of the other attributes.
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That's what I had to do to get it working after many trials with many bookmark syncing tools but nothing worked, in the end I opened up the 2 bookmark files (the one the tool generated and the one opera mobile was using initially) and compared format and did alot of find/replace, but it worked it end

I have a different problem.
I choose Firefox as source browser -> OK
than I click on "View bookmarks in source browsers" and I see non of my bookmarks but several default bookmarks from that browser?!?
Can anybody help?

Opera:config

While configuring my new TD2 I got really bored of having to point Opera to my preferred downloads folder on the storage card every time I wanted to download installers. The default settings didn't help, and after some searching I stumbled upon the extra Opera configuration options that can be reached by typing opera:config into the location bar.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Under 'User prefs' I'd like to change
- Cache Directory4
The default value on my TD2 is \Windows\Opera\cache but I think changing that to a cache directory on the storage card would improve my device's performance because of the extra memory available.
- Download Directory
For the same reason I'd like Opera to start any download dialog in the \Storage Card\Temp\ directory.
- Maximum Allowed Tabs
Opera on the TD2 only allows a maximum of two tabs. On my Diamond1 I hardly ever got the 'maximum tabs reached' message, on my TD2 it turns out to be a real hassle. 3 tabs please.
Here's my problem.
Clicking SAVE after changing the above values results in the message Settings Saved in a Javascript warning dialog. However, settings aren't changed. Not even after restarting Opera or even the whole device.
Could this have something to do with the fact that Opera resides in the Windows directory? If so, or if not, what's wrong and how should I go about to have these settings changed?

OK I've got one problem solved. Copying opera.ini from the \windows\opera9\ directory to my computer, editing it and copying it back to the device helped solve the maximum tabs problem. The other options I want to edit aren't available in the ini file though.

Try to find more ini's. They have to be there. Also thanks for telling this, I definetly will use it when I get my phone.

Didn't find more ini's, but... I found out why the settings wouldn't change after editing them in the opera:config page: the lack of an OK button on the TD2 is part of the problem.
The entries in the opera:config page need to be acknowledged by hitting the ENTER button on the soft keyboard. If you just edit them and click SAVE they won't be changed. For that you need to edit - (select all) ENTER - SAVE.
Now I have Opera's cache and downloads directory switched to the memory card. And I have one problem left. The downloads directory path turns out to be the path that Opera uses when you open (in stead of save) mpeg, wmv, pdf etc. files while surfing. You don't open them online, but the files are downloaded to the downloads directory.
So I'm still stuck with the initial problem of the 'Save file' dialog directory. Tips are welcome

To get more tabs type in 'Tabs" in the quick find bar and it will pop up. This is the first thing I did. On my elfin I had changed it to 6 tabs. I currently set the D2 to 9 tabs.
In order for the change to take pace you must exit Opera fromt the menu and not by hitting the X button. Eventhough it doesn't show up in the task manager Opera is just minimized if you hit the X or hold it down.

Sounds good, but where exactly can I find this quick find bar? I tried to type "Tabs" in several places but it just gives me google results...

Smackhacker said:
Sounds good, but where exactly can I find this quick find bar? I tried to type "Tabs" in several places but it just gives me google results...
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In the Adress bar type 'Opera:Config' and you will get the page posed in the first post. After that type in 'tabs' where it says quick find. You will not find it maually searching the listed categories so you must search for it.
Enjoy your many added tabs.

Thanks...works.....have added this to my tweeks list

HTC Touch Freak said:
In the Adress bar type 'Opera:Config' and you will get the page posed in the first post. After that type in 'tabs' where it says quick find. You will not find it maually searching the listed categories so you must search for it.
Enjoy your many added tabs.
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That’s great, thanks!.
I would really like Opera to change "open in new tab" operation.
I want Opera to stay on the current tab and open the new tab in the background. I hate looking at the white empty loading page and then returning to the original page ....
K

I know its OT, but my Opera doesn't remember history, its really annoying entering every URL everytime, is there something that could be done, maybe through Opera.ini??
Thanks

robinVerdegaal said:
Didn't find more ini's, but... I found out why the settings wouldn't change after editing them in the opera:config page: the lack of an OK button on the TD2 is part of the problem.
The entries in the opera:config page need to be acknowledged by hitting the ENTER button on the soft keyboard. If you just edit them and click SAVE they won't be changed. For that you need to edit - (select all) ENTER - SAVE.
Now I have Opera's cache and downloads directory switched to the memory card. And I have one problem left. The downloads directory path turns out to be the path that Opera uses when you open (in stead of save) mpeg, wmv, pdf etc. files while surfing. You don't open them online, but the files are downloaded to the downloads directory.
So I'm still stuck with the initial problem of the 'Save file' dialog directory. Tips are welcome
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I'm trying this but no matter what I do it won't accept my change to the User-Agent any ideas??

To robinVerdegaal
This is a cool find (opera:config) robinVerdegaal, never saw this one around....thanks....
And you can save it to your Opera Favorites.
Opera's Settings File Explained
Opera settings explained.

I too have the problem of Opera not saving changes to the opera:config section no matter what I try.
My phone is the Touch Pro 2 on Vodafone.
Love the Opera experience as a whole but can't wait for flash support and I desperately need more than 2 tabs!!

Please note that you may require a reboot after you change some Opera settings. This seems to be because Opera is set to run as a background process on the D2 and so to make sure it restarts reboot (which is easily done by switching your phone off and then on again).
The number of TABs increasing for me did not work until I swapped SIM cards! I found this out by accident of course. Maybe try battery and/or SIM card removal but it does work.

If you tap in adress bar "opera:" only you will see more options also ":config" option.

I also have the "not saving" problem. I make changes, press save and it says I may need to restart but no matter what I try it doesnt save the settings.

HTC Touch Freak said:
In the Adress bar type 'Opera:Config' and you will get the page posed in the first post. After that type in 'tabs' where it says quick find. You will not find it maually searching the listed categories so you must search for it.
Enjoy your many added tabs.
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It doesn't works on my TD2 I,ve changed the settings, than ok and restart Opera (not with the X button), but next time I become only 2 Tabs again

No changes worked on mine using that config editor but when I changed the settings by copying the config.ini off my phone, making the changes and copying it back they work fine, including changing from 2 tabs to six.
Just remember to soft reset after uploading the file to your phone otherwise the changes dont happen!

KraFT_mk said:
That’s great, thanks!.
I would really like Opera to change "open in new tab" operation.
I want Opera to stay on the current tab and open the new tab in the background. I hate looking at the white empty loading page and then returning to the original page ....
K
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I was trying to achieve this on my original diamond, but i think this is behaviour that can only be fixed by opera and not .ini or reg tweaks

elmalote said:
I know its OT, but my Opera doesn't remember history, its really annoying entering every URL everytime, is there something that could be done, maybe through Opera.ini??
Thanks
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me too, tried to find it anywhere, but no success

HD2 US - Facebook icon overlay on contact picture.

When I sync a contact with my facebook account, it downloads a picture from facebook (if i choose that). This is a great functionality, however, it overlays a facebook icon in the bottom left of the contact picture. Is there any way to remove the facebook icon?
Since Windows\FBContacts has the picture without the icon, it must be sense that adds them. Also, SPB Mobile Shell doesn't have the icon.
I scoured the registry and found basically nothing:
HKLM\Software\HTC\HTCMsgEnhance\SupportFacebookIcon
and
HKLM\Software\HTC\HTCMsgEnhance\UseContactAgent
I thought disabling this would help, but it doesn't.
Also, sorry if this has been posted somewhere, i searched but hits for facebook were too many.
Thanks in advance.

I'm sad to say that this little icon is hidden somewhere within the Sense Code, not in the registry.
It may be possible to remove it, but I am no HTC Sense Developer, though there are plenty of them here.
I'd suggest PM'ing meltwater, in my personal opinion, and be sure to tell him that I directed you to him.

that's uncool. But thanks for the info.
I'll just pm him with a link too this thread.

Agent Zach said:
I'm sad to say that this little icon is hidden somewhere within the Sense Code, not in the registry.
It may be possible to remove it, but I am no HTC Sense Developer, though there are plenty of them here.
I'd suggest PM'ing meltwater, in my personal opinion, and be sure to tell him that I directed you to him.
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Zach is right, it is the sense code which overlays the icon, you can see it happening quite often on the facebook tab.
By the way, the pictures are stored \windows\FBContacts, as it happens working with them at the moment. There's two keys which refer to this location, but interested if they would move the location for fb, not had chance to test.
Back to topic, the overlay will occur in many many places in the sense code, and no reg key is checked in the code (at least not in the sections I've seen) so removing would be a pain. HOWEVER...if you find the icon file used, you can replace it with a totally transparent one and that should do it.
Using the manila kitchen and the m9editor you can browse all the xxxxxxxx_manila files and see all the image files (QTC).
3c71439c_manila icon_facebook_indicator.qtc <-my best guess
66c2d17a_manila icon_facebook_indicator.qtc <-my best guess
5cdf5850_manila facebook_icon_small.qtc <-maybe
0c6d0e94_manila icon_holder.qtc appears to be transparent, might work if you replace the fb icon with that (just copy and rename).
It should work in theory. Have fun!

So, here's a simple solution:
1.) Start Menu
2.) File Explorer
3.) Windows
4.) FBContacts
5.) Copy ALL of the pictures
6.) Paste pictures in another location
7.) Manually set the Contact Pics with the recently moved images
The icon will no longer be visible.
[Yes this is a tedious method, and may take some time to set all of the Contact Pics manually, but hey, the Facebook Icon is gone! ]

Thanks to both of you.
However im not going to use method 2, as it takes way too long.
I'm also new to Cooking, since i got my hd2 a few weeks ago.
Is there a FAQ/Newbies thread i could refer to? Or if not do you think you could post up a 5 minute summary of how to do stuff? i can figure things out pretty quickly but i need some guidelines (is the kitchen a PC app? If so , and i export my ROM, i have to flash it, loosing all my contacts etc?)

surgency said:
Thanks to both of you.
However im not going to use method 2, as it takes way too long.
I'm also new to Cooking, since i got my hd2 a few weeks ago.
Is there a FAQ/Newbies thread i could refer to? Or if not do you think you could post up a 5 minute summary of how to do stuff? i can figure things out pretty quickly but i need some guidelines (is the kitchen a PC app? If so , and i export my ROM, i have to flash it, loosing all my contacts etc?)
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Have a look through my tutorials may give you a clue.
But you should just be able to replace the files in your windows dir as mentioned (enable your file manager to see system/hidden files). The manila kitchen and the m9editor are the tools I use to look at the files and to find the icons you needed, so hopefully you won't need to do that now.
EDIT: I'm guessing that worked...

Another facebook icon files
I've found another png files in windows directory, which include facebook icons:
FB_Icon_Ph_L.png
FB_Icon_S.png
These files are marked as Read Only and ROM so I can't change or remove them... Using HD2, ROM Elegancia v9.0 WWE

Montsko said:
I've found another png files in windows directory, which include facebook icons:
FB_Icon_Ph_L.png
FB_Icon_S.png
These files are marked as Read Only and ROM so I can't change or remove them... Using HD2, ROM Elegancia v9.0 WWE
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I'm guessing those files are used by the Microsoft facebook application, sense doesn't often refer to png files directly.
The above files are the most likely ones, since surgency didn't ask for more help, I'm guessing they were the files required.

APK Edit v0.4, allows you to edit your apk file

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The download is based on old source code, I don't have that source anymore due to a hard-disk failure.
I'm rebuilding the application as a open source project.
Source code C# version (Windows)
Source code Java version (Windows / Mac OS / Linux)
With this little program you can simply change icons of your android application.
It even lets you change the applications name.
But wait mike..... there's more.....
It even lets you edit the text used in applications.
Sounds to good to be true...
Well... to be honest.... it is.
But I've come a long way from that initial question to the final answer.
My conclusion so far, it works for most of my applications.
It probably will work on most of yours as well.
(Caution: when overwriting an existing application you will loose your associated data!!!)
Special thanks goes out to:
Brut.all for creating Apktool, the backbone of this little project.
Requirements:
Java & .Net Framework 3.5 (Why build on one platform if you can build on two? I know, I know....)
For installing system apps - S-OFF
Nice to know:
Clicking on the [Icons:] tag in the General tab will open a browser window and search for icons in "Google images".
Donations will be "forwarded" to fellow developers like Brutt.all and others, reinforcing the greatness of today's world.
How the magic works:
When opening an APK file it first tries to decompile it using APK Tool (with the version selected in the settings tab)
If decompile failed, because of a missing framework file, it tries to find this file on your phone.
Most of the times it will find what its looking for, pull it off your phone and tries to recompile the whole thing again.
If somehow it cannot find the required framework file, it will provide you a list of possible files on your phone. You can then choose the correct file yourself.
Assuming this process finishes without any problem you now can edit the apk file.
When you press Apply it will recompile the apk and then sign the newly compiled file.
- System APK files (APK files that needed an additional framework file) will get a copy of the original signature.
- Other APK files will get a brand new signature.
When you Click the phone animation it will push the APK to your phone
- System APK files will be pushed to /system/app (ADB PUSH)
- Other APK files will be installed the normal way (ADB INSTALL)
If install failed due to some signature failure it will do some additional fancy tricks and try it again.
Upcoming features:
New option in settings tab -> Only allow one instance of APK Edit to open at once.
New option in settings tab -> Add/remove APK file association to registry.
New option on startup -> Option to open up a "Phone Explorer", lets you edit APK files directly from phone.
Known issues:
CarHomeGoogle.apk - Doesn't save changes
Quickoffice.apk - Doesn't show up after installing
Version history:
Code:
[I]0.4e - Minor update[/I]
Added: Some more debug logging on startup of the application.
Fixed: Version number in settings tab now shows correct version.
[I]0.4d - Minor update[/I]
Fixed: Fixed startup crash if some APK properties are empty (like screensize/densities/locales), like in Settings.apk.
Fixed: A little bug in the fancy install mechanism, mainly experienced when installing system apk's
[I]0.4c - Minor update[/I]
Fixed: Compatibility issue with Windows XP, causing program to crash on startup.
[I]0.4b - Minor update[/I]
Fixed: Error extracting signature.
Changed: Extended logging.
[I]0.4a - Minor update[/I]
Changed: Logging is enabled by default.
Added: Some debug messages for when opening of apk goes wrong.
[I]0.4 - Major rewrite[/I]
Did a major rewrite of the code.
Added: Option to choose APK tool version
Added: Logging feature
Added: Auto retrieve required dependency files from phone if needed (for editing system apps)
Added: Details panel, shows information about the package.
Added: Restore original file link, for when thing's get really messed up.
Added: Donate button, for those who wanna celebrate with me.
Fixed: Some annoying issues ([URL="http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/issues/detail?id=100"]APKtool Issue 100[/URL]) / ([URL="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4709291/android-no-resource-identifier-found-for-xlargescreens"]XLargeScreens bug[/URL])
Removed: QR Code installation support
Removed: AdbWireless installation support
[I]0.3 - Update[/I]
Added: Language support.
Added: Installation method (USB Cable).
[I]0.2 - Minor update[/I]
Added: Save confirmation dialog (as req by [URL="http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=2987317"]droidzone[/URL])
Changed: Recreated the loading animation so that it theme's better with the rest of the application.
[I]0.1 - Initial release[/I]
For the record... only use on you're own apk files, otherwise it's not that legal I think.

Looks nice..
I got an error on one apk though..There seems to be an unhandled exception when the filename contains special characters..
Other than that, the program looks and works awesome..Will comment in detail after I decompile something major..
Thanks//
One question:
The program shows smali files below the main prog, and on selecting the folder it opens in explorer. Would changing the smali be updated in the main prog on clicking Apply? Also a dialog to say that the file has been saved with changes, would be nice.

Tnx for the input, will look into the filename handling!
In the background it recompiles the whole thing, so changes to the smali code should be included in the application if you press apply.
About that dialog.... it's being grown in its incubator now..
Think it will hatch tomorrow

Anoniem100 said:
Tnx for the input, will look into the filename handling!
In the background it recompiles the whole thing, so changes to the smali code should be included in the application if you press apply.
About that dialog.... it's being grown in its incubator now..
Think it will hatch tomorrow
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Excellent! Thanks again, will pop in later to get the revisions

droidzone, tried out some weird combinations for the filenames but couldn't simulate your problem. Could you give an example?

When i try to open it, Windows 7 says it has stop working???

Anoniem100 said:
droidzone, tried out some weird combinations for the filenames but couldn't simulate your problem. Could you give an example?
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I can do better.
My filename is Sample of Filename★(1.1).apk
Maybe the★ character is doing it
I've attached screenshots of the error.(Exception1.jpg)
Error Handle: The directory name C:\Users\Kpcc\AppData\Local\Temp\Sample of Filename?(1.1) is invalid.
I'm also attaching a text file with the actual error code given in the exception>Details. ( exception error text.txt)
The blanked out part is my actual username. Just an alphanumeric. Let it be Kpcc.
Edit: Got one more exception. This occured after inputting the ip of my phone in adb wireless and pressing enter. (Exception2.jpg, Exception2.txt)

max63094 said:
When i try to open it, Windows 7 says it has stop working???
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Maybe a missing .NET framework? The filename handle is the only error I'm getting in Win 7 Ultimate 64bit. And the filename I used is of course not "normal"..
By the way, a few more items on my wishlist:
1. Advanced Search (and replace?) for strings, with ability to use F3 for finding the next instance
2. Sorting the strings/variables in alphabetical and order of occurence, and another coloumn in the content tab with the name of the smali file in which the string appears.
3. Ability to Save As, without modding the source file.
4. Adb push via cable
5. Listing all the smalis in a tab, and ability to manual edit each one individually (Opening up Notepad would be fine. Maybe a Shell "Start file.txt"?)
Just a few wishes which would make it a powerful tool..

@max63094 Hmmm, what could go wrong... think droidzone is onto somthing with his comment about .net framework.
I used the .Net Framework 3.5 to create the whole thing.
You can download this for free at Microsoft
@droidzone, tnx again for the input and will work on the file issue, nice wishlist btw!!
Stuff I get exited about
I'm afraid I can't promise you all the requested features, have to check the required ammount of effort for some of them.
Have to balance my time, you know how it is whahaha
Sorting alphabetical shouldn't be that big a problem, as for the save as and adb push via cable.
Will work on those first!

Anoniem100 said:
@max63094 Hmmm, what could go wrong... think droidzone is onto somthing with his comment about .net framework.
I used the .Net Framework 3.5 to create the whole thing.
You can download this for free at Microsoft
@droidzone, tnx again for the input and will work on the file issue, nice wishlist btw!!
Stuff I get exited about
I'm afraid I can't promise you all the requested features, have to check the required ammount of effort for some of them.
Have to balance my time, you know how it is whahaha
Sorting alphabetical shouldn't be that big a problem, as for the save as and adb push via cable.
Will work on those first!
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Of course..I know how even the tiniest of things can go wrong in an effort which involves file i/o..I'm rather amazed that your Version 0.2 is so finished! A month ago, I was working on a Gui File Explorer for Android, with Adb and Fastboot commands..However time didnt allow me to complete it..
Have you used apk manager? That's what I use when it comes to decompiling apks. Of course once it decompiles, all the rest of functions has to be done by hand. If you havent, check it out. It's the only other program which comes close to a gui. That uses batch commands of course.

@droidzone, Yeah, time sucks! ever finished a beta?
Funny you mention apk manager.
I'm fairly new to the android scene, but i bumped into apk manager yesterday.
Looks very promising, thinking of replacing the backbone with the crazy work of our dear friend Daneshm90.
Read some interesting stuff about the compression size in correlation to compatibility it could provide.
Maybe a little slider in the settings tab, giving you a simple tweaking mechanism.
Something like:
Big size (compatible) -------------------- Small size (less compatible)
Anyhow.... my brain is making overtime here ;-)

hmm .. just took an app .. changed the icon and the title .. and uploaded it back to the phone.
App doesn't appear anymore.
What might have gone wrong?

Not even a beta. It exists as several separate modules, which have to be joined together. Work stopped when I had to give my phone for service.
Via T3 phone of the year 2010 - HTC Desire

daniello8 said:
hmm .. just took an app .. changed the icon and the title .. and uploaded it back to the phone.
App doesn't appear anymore.
What might have gone wrong?
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Euhm... I renamed the title once and couldn't find it in its original place.
The app drawer will place icons alphabetical.
But maybe that was just me being stupid (this really happened whaha) and your app really vanished....
Is it just one app that has this behaviour?

droidzone said:
Not even a beta. It exists as several separate modules, which have to be joined together. Work stopped when I had to give my phone for service.
Via T3 phone of the year 2010 - HTC Desire
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To be continued...

Anoniem100 said:
Euhm... I renamed the title once and couldn't find it in its original place.
The app drawer will place icons alphabetical.
But maybe that was just me being stupid (this really happened whaha) and your app really vanished....
Is it just one app that has this behaviour?
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I only need a new icon for this one app .. so I didn't try others. Sorting is not the problem. I was hoping that someone gets a deja vu.

@daniello8, what method did u use for installing?

Anoniem100 said:
@daniello8, what method did u use for installing?
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adb push <appname> /data/app
Edit: Just tried with astro .. but install fails :-(
Edit2: The app icon displays correctly though *fwiw*

daniello8 said:
adb push <appname> /data/app
Edit: Just tried with astro .. but install fails :-(
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O oh... anyone...

Hmm... probably has to do something with compression levels...