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How to use a PPC like a mirror !! by just pressing a button

Hello !
Like many of you, I have a PocketPC with 2 cameras, one on the front and one in the back. My PocketPC is a HTC Kaiser, by the way.
So what about using your Pocket PC as a mirror ?!
it can be use useful, just to check that your tie is well done before going to a job interview
Is it possible to start HTC Camera application with an argument so that instead of the back camera, the front camera is used ?
If yes, how ? If no, how can I achieve the same result ?
Chris
ps: I have already tried the mirror effect platisc that you can but on the PPC display. But I do not like it because then it is almost impossible to see the display when you are outside, because of amount of light reflexion.

take a picture of yourself then view it
sounds like a good idea though.. i wish my touch had a front camera.

Taking a picture is not what I want.
I want my PocketPC to act exactly like a mirror, that means, I want to see myself in live.
Do you know how to open the HTC camera using the front camera instead of the back one ?

The camera app on the Athena/Ameo lets you choose which camera to use...

I assume if you set the right registry settings before you start the app the camera app will start with the right camera.
It should be easy, some-one more motivated than I should be able to do it.
Surur

Pantaloonie said:
The camera app on the Athena/Ameo lets you choose which camera to use...
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Same with the Polaris

For Kaiser (looking at your sig) open camera tap anywhere on screen the press the 'camera' button from the munu that pops up (lower bar center box on my kaiser) and it switches to the front camera. do that again to switch image and again to go back to normal camera.

nahguam said:
Same with the Polaris
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same with touch dual

I think you are missing his point? He wants the front camera selected by default

Yes, exactly, I want the front camera to be used by just pressing a button.
So that I can really use my pocket pc as a mirror.
A mirror is an easy tool, you just have to look at it.
I want the same with my pocket pc: pressing one button and just looking at the pocket pc, to see myself
I will investigate about a registry hack. If there are no way to give arguments to the HTC Camera application, it is the only way I can see.

are you really that handsome ?

Maybe to find a real mirror is easier than to find the solution with the camera
I turned my prophet's screen off, now i can see myself and even my tie easily.. my prophet turns into a mirror by one button press althouhg it has only one camera

I investigated about the registry changes to switch between the front and back camera, here is the registry controlling the settings:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\Camera\5.04\Preferences\Values
This is the content of Values when using the back camera:
0f,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,90,01,00,00,40,1f,00,00,01,10,00,55,01,02,01,01,40,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,04,00,04,09,11,20,00,45,46,00,00,28,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,c0,27,09,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
and this is the content of Values, when using the front camera:
0f,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,90,01,00,00,40,1f,00,00,01,10,00,55,01,02,01,01,40,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,40,00,40,00,09,11,20,00,45,46,00,00,28,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,c0,27,09,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
The changes are displayed in bold. I know that you can change a "normal" registry, but how to change such a large number list in the registry automatically ?

I'm interested in this too... I would be great if you press for long time the camera button to activate the front camera!

Mortscript could do it.
Surur

I have tried with SKshema (which is a bit like mortscript), but the problem is that instead of using several registry values, HTC Camera is using only 1 registry value and but lots of data into it. So I do not see how to change it with these script tools.
Can someone provide us with a script example to change this registry value to use the front camera ?

Anyone can tell me how to change the registry so that the HTC Camera is starting with the front camera instead of the back camera ?

Camera in Mirror with SKtools
Hello !
So no reply about an argument to camera.exe to launch it using the front camera instead of the back camera.
So I have found alternative way by using the tap feature of SKTools, here is my solution:
#r(\Windows\Camera.exe)
#r(#tap) #p(120;160) #sleep(1000)
#r(#tap) #p(5;160)
#r(#tap) #p(120;160)
It works well, I would just wish to get the camera immediately in fullscreen, because it needs 30 second to have the various camera logos the screen to disappear. Do you have any suggestions ?

au courant ideas for upcomming builds

post em'. new ideas guys, let me hear it..
I've been rather inactive on the forums lately (life is catching up with me ), and reading through a hundred extra pages doesn't seem logically fathomable for me to do.

A contacts app that matches the dialer app on the H build would be nice. But as far as usefull i cant think of anything right now.

The ability to shoot lasers.

well i upgraded myself from touchpro to g1 and one thing that i really miss is Flash player support and equalizers in music player.
guys pls do them. and i think that my voice will be echoed by many.
hoping that we will beat iphone iconic status one day as this plateform as enormous poential
thanks

I would really like widgets ...Weather Stocks...and such

any feature we want? how about if we tap the edge of the screen, a little virticle bar comes up on the side of the screen where we can control volume, and maybe on the other side of the screen, a bar to adjust the brightness. would be convenient, but there are volume buttons on the side of the phone lol, but still, some apps don't change the appropriate volume.
how about a seem edit to make the phone a little louder? i'm sure that it can get much louder. i dont know how throughly you can edit these builds.
will add stuff later.

Multitouch!

I second that.... multi-touch, at least in browser, hopefully in maps as well.

Umm H build is perfect lol, but umm adding the multitouch code to the browser wont hurt.

ankjain said:
well i upgraded myself from touchpro to g1 and one thing that i really miss is Flash player support and equalizers in music player.
guys pls do them. and i think that my voice will be echoed by many.
hoping that we will beat iphone iconic status one day as this plateform as enormous poential
thanks
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THIS IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN UNTIL ADOBE RELEASES SOMETHING. I don't think haykuro is offering to make new programs for you. Don't be stupid. He's asking you what he can do to the builds to make them better. For an example, like somebody mentioned a GOOD IDEA and SOMETHING HE CAN DO: MULTITOUCH. Because he can modify a few files and somebody has already done it in a previous build, thus he can do it in this build. Correct me if I'm wrong. My heck people, enough whining for things like Flash Players. Don't you think that if it was so easy to do, it would have been done before? Haven't you morons figured out that having a GOOGLE phone, you could simply use GOOGLE for searching? Wow, that's a crazy idea, right? Using Google? Half you numbskulls could find what you're actually complaining about if you used it.
If you loved your HTC Pro blah blah blah whatever the crap it was, use that phone and stop complaining and asking for things that aren't going to happen until Adobe comes out with it. Go bug Adobe for it. Or Google. No developer is going to do it for you.

use the HTC VK as the default
focus on fixing the background noise during calls
multitouch would be awesome
i will update with more later...

@ankjain
Boy... I would like Flash too... lets hope Adobe pulls through with it's promise
this is a for fix for an issue I have not found elsewhere.
I have noticed with Bluetooth enabled listening to my A2DP headset (Plantronics A590)although the buttons on the headset work, they automatically start up the default music app when pressed... even if I am using another app.... So currently I am forced to use either the default music app, or use the controls on the phone not the headset.
Some sort of built in setting (like in open home or DXtop) to be able to select from multiple themes and icon sets and the ability to hide them in the drawer like open home.
an app switcher that can be re-located to the bar like in the app bar-control or can be used with a button combo.
Thanks for all of your hard work, I am very satisfied being able to use build currently... fixes are always welcome and improvements are a bonus

Bring back some how the
"Myfavs"
Zoom on browser
More widgets.

try fixing the quality of the pictures displayed when receiving a call... they are very pixelated

App that makes white noise?

i'm just curious if someone has or could make an app that can make a phone like the htc pro act like a white noise machine. all it would have to do is loop some peaceful sounds like the ocean or whatever and have a button to toggle the screen off. this would be great for me, but i dont know the first thing about developing, so i'm looking for a little help, thanks

why not just get a sound sample you like and run it in the media player- the center of he dpad (go to setting to change it) in windows media player can toggle the screen on/off while continuing to play in the background.

thats a good idea, but i just found a program called pocket Oscillator that is supposed to create a kind of white noise so ill just try that. its an older program, but should still work to some degree.

I could try to find a sample of Ice, Ice Baby for you, would that help?

Head up Display Igo or any app

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqtHZE-8fCw&feature=related

Very nice... this is WMs Problem.
No one wants to develop cool apps like those.
Looked for a nice app to store my set up data of my race bike.
Nothing for WM.
But for iPhone.
Let's hope WM7 changes that.
Still love my HD2 but would like to have more choice

There are quite a few speedo's for winmo, it's just a case of someone mirroring the image and maybe using higher contrast. You could try speaking to the author of this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=431965, can't see it being too difficult to mod the current app, to perform as HUD.

Nice idea!
Point is all you need to do is mirror your device screen so it reflects in the windscreen the correct way round.
Can't be that hard to build. Even better if it was G-Sensor light/proximity sensor enabled so it could tell when to mirror the display based on orientation, proximity to windscreen and light conditions - cos it has to be night obviously! :-0

this is not HUD
I have done this before,
during night time, if you place the device on the dash it will reflect nicely on the windshield. used for navigation several times until my holder came in .

Backlight / brightness app control

Hi guys,
Sense UI won't let me add a brightness control to the main screen. Can anyone suggest a decent and simple app to manually control screen brightness please?
I would have loved to have used the LUMOS auto back light app but that needs HTC drivers I believe :-( D'oh.

Try MVBklight 1.4.3
It's quite old but I've never found something better. I just use it also on my HD2 when I want to override the sensor. For the TG01 I think it's perfect.

I'll check it out. Thanks for that EDIT: Could only find 1.4.2 on XDA.. so googled it and got 1.4.3.
UPDATE: Can't get it to work. Maybe I need to edit the english config file to add in the TG01 or something?

ok, I'll give you all settings for TG01. But please hold on. I got to retrieve from my archive. My TG01 is under repair and I don't have settings close at hand. Please come back later.

Fab, really appreciate that

Here you are.
Attached you find screenshots of configuration for TG01.
As you can see minimum brightness value is 57, maximum is 255. You got to take it in account if you want also to use links to control brightness via command parameters.
I remember I had problem with links (I dont remember exactly what). So I also attached (syntactically) corrected links. But you have to localize the name of your program folder inside them.
MVBklight provides even a today plug-in. I am afraid it doesn't work. But I think it would not be so usefull, especially if you use Sense.
In the configuration you can see the use of a vga skin. Be sure to provide it (one is included in the package you downloaded). I tried to custominze the skin with other images but I didn't success, probably due to a wrong image format. I accualty spent few minutes on this, so if you get it right and achieve a nicer skin, let me know!
So, add a link to Popup.exe in your Sense UI and enjoy your brightness slider.
Please, ask if you need more.
P.S.
Ehi, remember that with MVBklight you get a torch too.

Thanks for that I'll download and try these tomorrow Odd that minimum is 57! (or is that the minimum YOU want it to ever be?)

It's not me.
On TG01 values below 57 have no effect. As for values over 255. It depends on device.
On HD2 minimum is 1 and maximum is 10. So on HD2 you can just change brightness by steps of 10% while on TG01 variation is much more smooth.
Again, it depends on hardware of device.

Fantastic. Finally got it working with those settings I will have a go at some other skins perhaps Now have brightness control on the screen.
The big mistake was me not swapping to 'manual', so it never saved my changes.
UPDATE: just playing around with the icon/images for better one's. Strangely, not every icon seems to work even if it's in the same size and format, it's really odd. Trying to change the bar's.. let's see what happens.
UPDATE2: Really struggling with these images. Even if I only edit them and save as the original type.. they won't show up. Bizarre. It's a little bit annoying actually. I'll have to keep trying as I want it to fit more into the them of black/white Sense UI.

I played right now with Resco Photo Manager.
Just doodled on left.bmp and saved.
It works.
Can't do more tests. I am at work...
Let's keep on trying. It's a long time I'd like to change the skin!

Lyrus said:
I played right now with Resco Photo Manager.
Just doodled on left.bmp and saved.
It works.
Can't do more tests. I am at work...
Let's keep on trying. It's a long time I'd like to change the skin!
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Could you share some pictures or a video? It sounds interesting! I'm using an free program called Metrix from http://www.apoxsoft.com/products/metrix/ and it works perfectly. But it's a Today plug-in, so it doesn't work on Sense.
Although it seems a little dated, it can be fully configurated. If any interested I can give you the TG01 parameters for brightness control
Best Regards

I am trying the following files. (THe 'RIGHTOLD.BMP' should be right.bmp btw) The only one that actually displays is the SLDR one :-( Annoying.
Trying to mess with them some more to see if I can make them work.

@Pere
Here you are a screenshot.
It's the easiest way to control brightness. I have the link in the bulb on the left of the screen but on TG01 also double tapping the zoom bar so the slider will pop up on whatever application is running in that moment.
Metrix is nice. But it's only a plugin for the today. I really need a popup instead.
@Scougar
Yes, your sldr.bmp works. Not the others. I tried to resave them from Resco Photo Manager but with no success.
The strange thing is that the left.bmp attached is the original with some doodling and saved from RPM. It works but the doodling results in a trasparency as you can see in attached screenshot where I changed the color of the background to make it clear.
I think that there is something to understand regarding how trasparency is handled. Could be that our images are treated for some reason as totally trasparent?