Database Info

n00b question

hey before anyone starts flaming me for no search i wanted to apologise beforehand. I did search, this is all foreign to me. I have an mda, interested in the windows mobile 6 platform but theres a few questions i had.
1 being is the processor fast enough to handle the os or is it gonna be even laggier than it is now?
and 2 is there any step by step how to guide from begining to end (with photos preferably), just taking your plain ole out of the box mda and putting windows mobile 6 on it. all this kitchen and cooking and frying, tornados and crossbow code talk doesnt make sense to me. thanks so much for reading, I dont mean to be a newbie about all this stuff, I just want someone who knows what theyre doing to tell me what its all about.

Welcome to the wonderful world of MDA flashing! Ok so you want to take your MDA and load WM6 on it. That is what we reffer to as "flashing, " so anytime you hear someone talk about flashing their device to "Core," "Pandora" or "Crossbow" they mean they are changing the operating system to that paticular "version" of WM6. They are all based off (more or less) the same WM6 ROM but just tweaked with some useful apps, and registry changes. Read about them in the XDA-Wiki page. As far as learning how to flash, there's a "sticky" (a post that remains on the first page) entitled "Howto flash a Wizard... a little tutorial!" Just follow that word for word and you should be fine. It's easy if you just follow the instructions and don't try to jump ahead. Good luck!

follow these directions.. and you should have no problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=298613. WM6 seems to be a big upgrade.. so i suggest it.. then take a look and see which new ROM you want.. there are many.. if you want just basics you want a Vanilla ROM, i reccomend ANTC's WM6 Professional 3.0.. or if you want fully loaded try Pandora (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=310530) or Faria (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=297762). give it a whirl.. and if you need help, don't hesitate to IM or PM me.
-Nstefanelli-

awesome thanks so much for your help guys. I have a g4 mda, and from what I know i dont have to CID unlock it. im just trying to figure all this out. I dont think its as easy as downloading the rom utility update and downloading the rom... theres a million different tutorials and I dont know which one is the most current or the best. keep the replys coming though i appreciate it.

xvemokidvx said:
awesome thanks so much for your help guys. I have a g4 mda, and from what I know i dont have to CID unlock it. im just trying to figure all this out. I dont think its as easy as downloading the rom utility update and downloading the rom... theres a million different tutorials and I dont know which one is the most current or the best. keep the replys coming though i appreciate it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The group does a pretty good job of updating the info as new stuff gets released. Like I said earlier, most of your basic questions will be answered in the XDA-WIKI

see my signature, that's how it should work, no need for CID unlocking
the only "issue" with an G4 is that you only can flash the OS itself.
regards
IRM

cooool, so i got it flashed after trying a million times, but i finally found a version that works, I keep getting errors here and there. last time i flashed it was giving me a checkautorun.exe error. I just flashed farias rom, and when I was doing it with shelltool my mda displayed a few errors which i just pushed ok. also after flashing, i get a dos app thats cmd.exe that i just close and right after i close that, shelltool says its done. it wont say its done UNLESS i close cmd.exe. also having big problems with the contacts. every time i push the contacts button, it never opens. any suggestions?

just got an error that said unexpected error occured in shell attempting to restart.

Are you unlocking your phone first? It might be easier for you to do if you find an unlocking utility for a g4.. or pay the 40 bucks to IMEI-check.com

nope no unlocking. no more silly errors, the only thing i cant do is open my contacts, (or sync them) it just says a device by that name already exists on this maching and i have to rename or be guest. im gonna reflash and see if it helps any. now does anyone know if when using shelltool i need to go back to the original tmo rom and do all that hooplah or can i just flash it like it is now?

I dont understand why you can't open your contacts... do this.. check 'settings' in start menu under 'system' and see if there is a application called 'softkeys' if there is then click on it and see if there is a \contacts.lnk path under the 'Contact'

i dont see contact.

nope, looked in windows folder where all the other .ink files are, and contacts.ink is not there.

it's actually not directly in the windows folder it's in 'windows\appbuttons'
Sorry, I was assuming you looked directly in the 'windows' folder..

ok found it. doing a soft reset now to see if it works...

keep me posted.

well its still doing the same thing... i push the contacts, the start button displays contacts for a second, theres an x in the corner then it just goes back to the normal screen.

hmn.. thats weird.. what happens when you go to 'contacts' from your start menu?

same. well see. I really like the wm6 os. Ive never flashed anything or messed with any phone, so this is all very new to me. I wish there was someone else that flashed a g4 without unlocking it first... grrr. heres something funny, sometimes when I restart it shows the GSM version other times its blank... I dont really care if I brick this phone, last week it was acting up and tmo is sending me a replacement. this was back before i was starting to mess with it, so i got a replacement on the way. lets hope its a g3

Mine does the same thing, sometimes it shows GSM sometimes it doesnt.. Thats pretty common. Yeah I paid to unlock mine, so I have no idea when it comes to a locked device.,

Skype Mobile

Hey guys,
Can someone tell me how to get this program on my Wizard??? I've read up on the site and I still don't understand how to use it.
It's funny how some complex things I can understand easily while easy things like this I can't!
Anyways, let me know.
Phil

Cphil1 said:
Hey guys,
Can someone tell me how to get this program on my Wizard??? I've read up on the site and I still don't understand how to use it.
It's funny how some complex things I can understand easily while easy things like this I can't!
Anyways, let me know.
Phil
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Download the cab version and place it onto your wizard using the Activesync, then once on your wizard, start the cab file, this will then install it.

My smartphone, my everything

http://karhoe.net/content/view/134/1/
Have a read guys

Man thats some sweet stuff in there.
It would be great to have some of those made as tutorials (as one you did to install new rom).
But, thanks to you many people enjoy theyre phones so thank you.

Hmm, I just want to share the softwares I install on my smartphone, how could that be a tutorial?

How do you play Scrabble on a Tornado? I have the Handmark Scrabble application, but it doesn't work well on my phone because it looks like the game was designed for a landscape phone, but the Tornado has a portrait screen.

It seems like it, I realized it after I posted the guide. I have all the while installed it, but never executed the program

Nice stuff!Thank you very much!

karhoe said:
Hmm, I just want to share the softwares I install on my smartphone, how could that be a tutorial?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry for my late reply on this topic,
I mean can you please tell us in few steps how to configure and use Web Camera Plus v2.0 as wireless and microphone.
And maybe any other program which you might think we newbies won't be able to figure easy ourselvs.
Thank you.

My bad,
I installed software in my workshop computer and tried to see picture in home computer without software on that pc.

fuze set up done right (please help)

ok, I've had my fuze since the day it came out and didn't do a thing right, I didn't even install a .cab until about a week ago because I didn't know how. I'm pretty much an idiot when it comes to this type of stuff, so I'm here now asking for help. I just did a hard reset so I was back to factory settings, logged into here and starting posting this, I came here because you all seem really kind and genuinely willing to help morons like me. So I'm here asking: what should I do? Would someone be willing to write a list of all the things I should install (preferable in order) and even give a link to the thread where it was made (so we can read about it and properly thank the creators) because no joke, I messed something up and I would get a message popping up every minute or so, I couldn't download anything or do much, so I figured I'd restart the thing have have some people who actually know what they're doing help me out and give me a list of things to do, I'm sure I'm not the only one this would help
special thanks to those that've helped:
none yet, be the first =]

honestly all i can say is, read this thread :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=410159
follow those links, which will help u out tremendously..and u should be good to go.
if theres anything else u cant seem to find in those links..use the search funtion it HELPS SO MUCH!
Late,
Jstar

thanks, also, I remember hearing that advanced configuration tool 3.3 is a great thing to download, however when I tried to find it I came up short, is this something I have to download via comp, then transfer? Or can I download it straight to the phone? because I'm on a road trip right now just sitting here trying to get my phone awesome

Advanced Config Link
I searched on "Advanced Config" and this link was the first hit:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=317070
You should be able to download the cab to your phone (or storage card) and just execute it.
Another good link for really getting your phone "right" is this one (which also has many of the CAB's you'll want/need): http://fuze.cassiebaby.com/
I'll note again, however, that you really need to spend some time familiarizing yourself with the search functions...most of the questions you'll have are answered (and you'll not draw ire of folks). And, per above post, spend some time reading the wiki's...

[SOLVED] Anybody knows this file Manila2D22AIO_beta2.cab?

I have a crazy question! I dont know anymore where I got my m2d file from (amnesia) and maybe someone recongnizes the file by its name? (Manila2D22AIO_beta2.cab) Does anybody know where this m2d.cab came from? I can't find anything on the net about it....?
Thanks for the help

Sorry, I just checked a few of the major PDA websites and came up with nothing! You may need to find a newer version or find a kitchen!

I download it yesterday so it isn't old....What I can remember this was a new beta file. Still thanks for the help

Hi!
It's my stuff. Get it from here: http://winmo.sztupy.hu/m2daio/Manila2D22AIO_beta2.cab
It can also be found on MoDaCo: http://www.modaco.com/content/i9x0-...l-in-one-manila-2d-update-22-beta2-available/

Haha the creator himself! Thats nice your here and immediately give me the answer! What I would like to say this is a nice version of m2d. I tweaked it a little with m2dc and discovered the colortabs and then went on tweaking. below is the result.
Almost everything functions ok except a few things
-settings and communications will not open (not that I care)
-graphical glitches in map search
( i should have said this on modaco btw!!!!!! ) But thanks again.
All credits go to sztupy and the m2dc files i used from twolf
btw hope you dont mind I tweaked it?

wim26 said:
Almost everything functions ok except a few things
-settings and communications will not open (not that I care)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The cab was made for the omnia. It will open Omnia's "commmanager".
Btw. I don't mind. Tweak as you wish

Would this cab work on an I-Mate 9502, I have been looking for this for some time.