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Installing Apps on the SD card.

This is for all you guys/gals with experience in using storage cards.
I have bought a 1 gig SD card and am planning to do a hard reset and reinstall everything... and move all apps (that can go to SD) to SD. Based on discussions, I know not to put today plugins (Spb Plus, Pocket Breeze, Wisbar and Weather Panel) and PIM apps (pocket informant) in SD so they will remain in Main Memory.
Now I have some more questions. Please bear with me, I'mnot a new PPC user but I'm new at relying so heavily on the storage card.
- Are there any special strategies for deciding what goes where (what kind of programs not to put on the SD? PIM databases? ListPro, Flexwallet etc. Any best practises?
- Spb Pocket Plus will be in main memory but I am also using Spb GPRS Mnitor, Spb Finance and Spb Weather. If I plan to integrate these apps int the Spb Plus today plugin via the new tabs featuer. Do I have to install all these apps into Main Memory as well? Because I was planning to put these onto SD as well.
- I use a finance application (Spb Finance , MS Money or Pocket Quicken, havent decided which one) very ferquently on my PPC. Should I put this app in SD or main mem. Does it make a difference? It has its own DB with financial info and as I understand read/write speeds might be an issue in SD?
- How does synchronization work with most of the Apps and Data on the SD? say PIM information (notes, tasks etc.) or Flexwallet wallet or Listpro database or finanace application DB etc?
- How do I back up the SD card? Active Sync doesnt do it. I havent checked if Sprite back up does it. Is there a special category of apps that do this or will sprite or activesync do? Does a backup just consist of copying over the contents of the SD to a folder on the desktop or is there more to it? Any special strategies here?
- Since I have space now, i plan to put lots of music and some video clips on my SD card. I remember reading once that if you copy a file over a certain size via file explorer to the SD in the PPC, you can get errors and its better to get a card reader. What kind of file sizes are we talking about? is it only related to file sizes or the number of files transferred is also affected? How critical is it for me to buy a card reader?
Any helpful advice/experiences will be greatly appreciated.

How to use My Documents on the Storage Card

Hi
I am using WM6 on my XDA Orbit and would like all documents that I create saved to my SDHC card to save space on the phone memory.
I notice that it is possible to have a My Documents folder on the phone and the Storage card. Is it possible to make a registry change to just use the one on the Storage Card? Further - I would like to be "tidy" and store the various types of docs in Sub folders under My Documents on the Storage Card.
How do I go about achieving this?
Can someone please explain or point me in the direction of some documentation as to how the My Documents system is supposed to work on WM6 as I am a bit confused as to how to organise my user generated content.
Thanks in advance
Gary

Camera date and time prefix problem

Im having some trouble with the camera on this thing. On the diamond I could set the name of the videos and photos to be the date and time (prefix) even if they were saved to the 4GB internal storage. But on the Touch Pro it will only save with the date and time prefix if the photos and videos are saved to the internal ROM and not the memorycard. The option to change the prefix is dimmed if I have chosed to save photos and videos to the memorycar.
Does anyone have a solution ? Cause this is driving me nuts.

i have the same problem..
Anyone knows how i can fix this?

Anyone Ever find a fix for this? It is the same on the Fuze.

Found the Fix
While poking around after adding burst and sport modes for the camera I found a fix.
Change d-word from 1 to 0 for:
"HKLM\software\HTC\camera\general\EnableDCIM"
This does 2 things:
1. Creates folders "storage card\my documents\(my pictures) + (my videos)
2. Enables selection of Prefix type in camera settings when storage card is selected as storage type

The reason that photos on the storage card are treated differently is so that they will be stored in the same way a digital camera stores photos; that way you can plug the storage card into a printer that is able to print directly from a camera card and it will be able to print photos taken with the Touch Pro, as well. It can't do that with the "My Documents\My Pictures" layout.

wmm said:
The reason that photos on the storage card are treated differently is so that they will be stored in the same way a digital camera stores photos; that way you can plug the storage card into a printer that is able to print directly from a camera card and it will be able to print photos taken with the Touch Pro, as well. It can't do that with the "My Documents\My Pictures" layout.
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Thanks for the info. Since i don't use that method for printing my pictures I am going to keep DCIM disabled so i can name the files with the date. I hate just having em all named image#.

Thanks!
Now, I dont have all the images with IMG*...

TaurenSnake said:
While poking around after adding burst and sport modes for the camera I found a fix.
Change d-word from 1 to 0 for:
"HKLM\software\HTC\camera\general\EnableDCIM"
This does 2 things:
1. Creates folders "storage card\my documents\(my pictures) + (my videos)
2. Enables selection of Prefix type in camera settings when storage card is selected as storage type
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After reading， I fixed a problems that has troubled me for almost 2 years。。。。("▔□▔)/\("▔□▔)/\("▔□▔)/

Applicable to HD2
TaurenSnake said:
While poking around after adding burst and sport modes for the camera I found a fix.
Change d-word from 1 to 0 for:
"HKLM\software\HTC\camera\general\EnableDCIM"
This does 2 things:
1. Creates folders "storage card\my documents\(my pictures) + (my videos)
2. Enables selection of Prefix type in camera settings when storage card is selected as storage type
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Thank you very much. this is applicable to HTC HD2 Leo too. I'm going to suggest to be added to HD2 Tips.

Installing to Storage Card, Device getting full!

I always install to my storage card but it seems that no matter what i do, my device memory keeps filling up! I ran critically low to 785 KB on a HTC Kaiser. i noticed that the programs put things in /Program Files on my device and on /Storage Card/Program Files
Questions!
In the memory app located in settings it says under the main tab that there is "Storage" and "Program". My "Storage" keeps getting full while my "program" has 39.31 MB free. What is the difference?
Can I simply place all the /program files folders over to my /storage card/program files folder and fix shortcuts or does the programs require to take space on my device itself?
I have NO pictures or videos saved on my device, only storage card, and save all attachments/etc to my storage card aswell. I have reflashed and ran memmaid and no use...

I have tried copying the program files folder over to my storage card. Have 40MB free now but all sorts of broken shortcuts. I have turned off "Shortcut To" in windows via a registry key but when I create shortcuts on the device the pesky "Shortcut to" is still showing. I have decided to flash to the lastest rom and let SAMACHI handle my cab installs...

Other Ideas:
Emails:
I sync my Hermes with a huge Outlook personal folder with lots of emails, tasks and notes. By default, email "bodies" are stored as binary files (*.mpb) in the \Windows\Messaging folder (may vary?). This folder can grow in size up to 10 - 15 MB depending on the number of emails. So in my case it wasn't enough to move the attachments to the Storage Card, I also had to move the emails "bodies" to the Storage Card. You can do this by moving the folder to the Storage Card AND changing the registry as explained in the WIKI (Change the location of email and attachments) to point the new folder location. BUT PLEASE MAKE A BACKUP OF EMAILS AND ATTACHMENTS IF YOU ATTEMPT THIS. Windows stores email headers separate from email "bodies" so if you move the "bodies" and the registry points to the wrong location, you might get empty emails and loose all data permanently if you sync. BE CAREFUL...​Opera 9.5:
If you use Opera 9.5, you will loose another 10 - 12 MB in the \Application Data\Opera9 folder (may vary depending on opera version). In that case is better to run Opera from the Storage Card and tweak it so that its cache is also in the card.​Themes:
Some custom made themes are in the 100 - 500 KB range and if you have many themes in the \Windows folder it can take a couple of megs of storage space. I moved all my themes to the card and keep only the one I use in the \Windows folder.​

You could add more system memory by using a rom that has Ramdisk in it. In case you are not familiar, Ramdisk is a feature that basically uses Program memory as storage memory. It is similar to wm2003 and earlier, with the difference that you cannot manually allocate it. It has to be a hex edit in the rom itself. Now, regarding your question... program memory refers to the ram that is allocated for program use (as its name specifies). Basically, the more programs you have running, the lower this number gets. This is the memory resource of your device. Storage memory acts as your "hard drive", where you will place all your stuff (installation programs, pics, etc) provided that you do not send it to your storage card.
A lot of programs will install to device memory whether you instruct them to go in memory or not. Now, it should be perfectly possible to put the programs in the card as long as you rework the shortcuts...
I don't know which GPS program you are using (if any). But if you are, make sure that it is not downloading data into your device directly (things like maps, POIs, etc).
Try the first part of my post though. That might help you some.
Good luck!

egzthunder1 said:
You could add more system memory by using a rom that has Ramdisk in it........
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I wouldn't recommend doing so though, you want all the ram you can get.... less ram equals less speed. If you have other space (such as your storage card) then use that.
I reccomend one of garmins rom, they usually come loaded with extra space (dk4 comes with like 110mb)
Certain programs have to be installed to the main memory, but if you install to the storage card.... you should only lose a couple kb to shortcuts and such...... something isn't adding up.
PS: The difference between storage and program:
Storage= Hard drive memory
Program= RAM memory
PSS: There is a program called clear temp you may want to try, it gets rid of alot of you temp files for you.

After flashing my device and reinstalling everything to the storage card, I have came to the conclusion that some programs install to the device anyway even if you select Install to Storage Card. I went from 110MB free down to 78mb, all in the program files folder! Time to be moving these and fixing shortcuts!

[Q] Save Footprints in Storage Card

Hello, someone have been able to save Footprints on the storage card rather than the internal memory (small and full)?
I've taken a look to the registry but couldn't find anything. The structure in my case is different from the one described in thread 731863
Why the hell did they disabled the option to save on the storage card?