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Today a friend of mine wanted to install a .apk file on his Android phone and he did not have a clue on how to do this.
So.. After some hours PHP coding here I created an online tool for him (and other newbies).
Basically the users selects the .apk he wants to install, and points his Android camera to the given QR code.
Please have a look at http://bit.ly/e4mLXu , and let me know what you think.
Some things like About and FAQ are still missing, but will be added later this week.
Thank you.
It's a good concept but the site layout is so unnecessary, you don't need all those unneeded images and links in the website that has nothing to do with its function.
armoguy94 said:
It's a good concept but the site layout is so unnecessary, you don't need all those unneeded images and links in the website that has nothing to do with its function.
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Thank you for your input.. I guess that I did go over the top a bit on the design.... But I was really in my zone when doing the page layout
I'm re-doing it at the moment, and I will try to keep it as KISS as possible.
Once again thank you for your input.
Awesome idea. A friend of mine just got her first Android phone, and is pretty clueless about installing APKs, even though I rooted her phone and walked her through it with Root Explorer. This will make it much simpler for her.
Good idea! Can save some time. It`s already saved in my favorites!
file manager, astro..
this is for first class rookies
Sorry but have I missed something here??
Why on earth would ANYBODY really actually need to use this? (no offence) Has your friend lost the plot?
Why would you go through all this instead of simply installing a file manager liek ASTRO via the market?
a) Copy apk to sd card/phone
b) install ASTRO File Manager from market.
c) Install apk
How difficult is that?
If I have missed something here please explain because I cant think of any scenario where this would be an advantage.
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Sorry but have I missed something here??
Why on earth would ANYBODY really actually need to use this? (no offence) Has your friend lost the plot?
Why would you go through all this instead of simply installing a file manager liek ASTRO via the market?
a) Copy apk to sd card/phone
b) install ASTRO File Manager from market.
c) Install apk
How difficult is that?
If I have missed something here please explain because I cant think of any scenario where this would be an advantage.
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unless that not everyone knows those steps.
TheATHEiST said:
Sorry but have I missed something here??
Why on earth would ANYBODY really actually need to use this? (no offence) Has your friend lost the plot?
Why would you go through all this instead of simply installing a file manager liek ASTRO via the market?
a) Copy apk to sd card/phone
b) install ASTRO File Manager from market.
c) Install apk
How difficult is that?
If I have missed something here please explain because I cant think of any scenario where this would be an advantage.
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I have not looked at it yet, but this allows you to do it without connecting the phone to the pc right?
Logical order for your instructions
a) Install ASTRO File Manager from market.
b) Copy apk to sd card/phone
c) Install apk
repeat steps b and c for other .apks
It is a great idea,and nicely done. but i will stay with the other method.
i think its great especially when you forget your usb cable, i never leave home with out but i forgot it, surfing thru xda and didnt feel like opening xda app on phone just download upload install, also, when paw server is down i guess, nice work.
Oops... The site is getting a lot of attention at the moment as it made the XDA's frontpage!
I guess that it's time to start putting together a FAQ for the site.
Things like:
Q: Sorry but have I missed something here??
Why on earth would ANYBODY really actually need to use this? (no offence) Has your friend lost the plot?
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A: I have not looked at it yet, but this allows you to do it without connecting the phone to the pc
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its great especially when you forget your usb cable.
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will be in it
Thank you all for the input.
Dblfstr said:
I have not looked at it yet, but this allows you to do it without connecting the phone to the pc right?
Logical order for your instructions
a) Install ASTRO File Manager from market.
b) Copy apk to sd card/phone
c) Install apk
repeat steps b and c for other .apks
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Err how is that any more "logical" then what I said?
It doesn't make a difference which way around you do a&b so one order isnt any more or less logical then the other.
Your logic fails
deolarte said:
i think its great especially when you forget your usb cable, i never leave home with out but i forgot it, surfing thru xda and didnt feel like opening xda app on phone just download upload install, also, when paw server is down i guess, nice work.
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Ok so if you where not at home and didnt have a USB cable, you could simply email the apk to yourself or use your friends card reader/card slot/dongle etc. There are a million different ways that are much quicker then this. Not trying to dis OP/site etc just suprised that this has been made front page news?
I love how quickly people try to smash an idea just cause it's not their way...what if the user doesn't have a file manager installed? Left their USB cable? Doesn't want to login to a webmail account for security reasons? There are tons of reasons to use this...I say scale it up, and somehow work out longer time periods for the QR codes (Maybe only for registered users?)...besides, it's always nice to have some functional PHP code that could be used in other projects.
I just used this and it is awesome! thank you thank you thank you!
sorry, but its useless. also harder and takes longer time than just copying to sd.
not everybody gets the idea of Astro/File manager.
this is just another way to get to the goal.
sometimes, even if you try to show them a better way of doing things, they still prefer another way which may seem not logical/takes a longer time.
This is a neat idea. it might not appeal to everybody, but it may help somebody.
I don't get this either. I email the apk to my gmail and there's an option in Gmail on your phone for you to install the app.
Hey, i found great use for this. I downloaded a couple of APKs and needed to quickly dl them, and install them. Too lazy to connect to my computer or email it. So much faster.
One cosmetic issue: when I upload an apk the name changes to a crazy long string. Any way to shorten that? I realize you can't keep the original apk name but a simple numbering system (each new upload +1 id kind of a thing) or whatever else might work better. It's not required, but just my input love it!
niceeee!!! this is exactly what i wanted!
Hi there!
I'm a long-time Android user (since December 2009) and have watched some videos / read about Windows Phone 7 and found it pretty interesting at first glance. More than anything else, it's UI speed and smoothness right out of the box, it's minimalism and integration. The thing is, after I dug deeper, found some information in some sites/threads of XDA that kept me thinking if the OS is right for me.
I have had a Motorola Milestone and after it, a Samsung Galaxy S which is the one that I'm using right now (with an Android 2.3.5 custom rom).
I was decided to sell my SGS and buy a Motorola Atrix, most of all because of it's dual-core processor (and apparent nice smoothness right out of the box), resolution and HDMI-out with the bundled cable. Now I wanted to try the Samsung Focus, which is almost the same as my SGS hardware wise, but the apparently more optimized OS would make it's use a nicer experience.
The thing is, I've read quite a lot and made a list of some things and doubts about WP7 and Mango, and would like to know if after getting some answers I could finally decide what to do with my money. The Atrix is almost 200usd over the Focus, at least from what I have seen (have to buy it unlocked to use it in Argentina).
That was a WAY TOO LONG introduction, so now, the questions:
1) Is it true that there's no mass-storage mode when you plug it into a PC? You depend exclusively on the Zune app?
2) And linked to the previous one: I use linux (more precisely Ubuntu) on my main computer. Is that going to be a problem with file transfer and other stuff? I am forced to use a Windows PC?
3) Is there a way to stop the data transfer from my carrier? I don't want it to connect to internet other than by Wi-Fi when I don't ask for it.
4) Can the OS be set in a language and the keyboard prediction in a different one? Does the keyboard vibrate on keypress?
5) Can the contacts be synchronized with the GMail contacts as you do it on Android?
6) Can you make visible in contacts only the ones with a phone number added?
7) Since there's no notification light and the screen is a Super Amoled as the one in the SGS, is there an application like NoLED in Android, which allows you to use the screen as notification light?
8) Is there a free GPS app that uses offline maps? (I would prefer the ones of Garmin or Tomtom, but I'm open to alternatives)
9) Is it true that when you change the SD Card you have to format everything/hard reset the phone? Or just the memory? And if you happen to know, why is that requiered?
10) Are you forced to reduce quality of the videos you transfer to the phone because it doesn't support many formats? It's because of the "tie-ness" to Zune/lack of mass storage? Is there something similar happening with music?
11) Vibrate and ring at the same time, is it possible? (Read somewhere it wasn't). And what about adding custom ringtones?
12) I come from Android and know how easy it is to root the phone and expand your possibilities. Is there something similar in WP7? Is it worth the effort or it's still not widely used? I read something about lock/relock, has it something to do with this matter? Or with the use of downloaded paid apps?
I guess that's it for now. The thing is, the first 3 or 4 questions are deal-breakers to me if the answer is negative. I have read some stuff but I got confused between the release info, the post-NoDo and the post-Mango info, so I really don't get where are things at the moment. I really appreciate the time you spent reading all this and thank you for just doing it (and I'm sorry if some things aren't clear enough since english is not my native language). If you can help me by answering at least one of the questions, I'm already grateful
Thanks in advance.
Cheers!
jmtast said:
1) Is it true that there's no mass-storage mode when you plug it into a PC? You depend exclusively on the Zune app?
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More or less: There are some tricks how you can use your phone as mass stroage but not offically. So Zune is nearly a must-have
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2) And linked to the previous one: I use linux (more precisely Ubuntu) on my main computer. Is that going to be a problem with file transfer and other stuff? I am forced to use a Windows PC?
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I guess so.
But you will maybe able to get a VM running that bridges the usb port...
jmtast said:
3) Is there a way to stop the data transfer from my carrier? I don't want it to connect to internet other than by Wi-Fi when I don't ask for it.
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Yeah, easy to stop it. It's a option in the settings.
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4) Can the OS be set in a language and the keyboard prediction in a different one? Does the keyboard vibrate on keypress?
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You can switch between selected languages every time! Without going to the settings... It doesn't vibrate on mine, Dunno if you can enable it...
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5) Can the contacts be synchronized with the GMail contacts as you do it on Android?
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I think it's possible cuz there's a special option for adding a gmail account (but don't be angry if it's not possible cuz I nver tried it)
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6) Can you make visible in contacts only the ones with a phone number added?
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You can filter them by account (so hide all facebook accounts would maybe do the trick or so) but I think it's not possible the other way round
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7) Since there's no notification light and the screen is a Super Amoled as the one in the SGS, is there an application like NoLED in Android, which allows you to use the screen as notification light?
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Never seen anything like that...
jmtast said:
8) Is there a free GPS app that uses offline maps? (I would prefer the ones of Garmin or Tomtom, but I'm open to alternatives)
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There are some... Most of them use OSM/Google/Bing...
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9) Is it true that when you change the SD Card you have to format everything/hard reset the phone? Or just the memory? And if you happen to know, why is that requiered?
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Yes, it's true cuz wp7 has a raid 0 with the internal memory and the sd...
jmtast said:
10) Are you forced to reduce quality of the videos you transfer to the phone because it doesn't support many formats? It's because of the "tie-ness" to Zune/lack of mass storage? Is there something similar happening with music?
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You can set the music quality (kbit/s). And I never noticed any loss when I transfer a video via zune...
jmtast said:
11) Vibrate and ring at the same time, is it possible? (Read somewhere it wasn't). And what about adding custom ringtones?
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Yes, that's all possible...
jmtast said:
12) I come from Android and know how easy it is to root the phone and expand your possibilities. Is there something similar in WP7? Is it worth the effort or it's still not widely used? I read something about lock/relock, has it something to do with this matter? Or with the use of downloaded paid apps?
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Yes, you need a dev unlock to send apps from your pc to your phone for example... And there various other possibilities like Registry Editor, Apps with Interop etc. So it's quite useful to "root" your device...
Hope that helps you....
Just for info: I'm using an HD2 with Mango... So all the info is for mango only
based on your first 2 questions, I really suggest you stick with android.
WP7 is relying on the Zune Software and there's no Linux sollution. There's a mac sollution by MS, but not sure if it'll work in linux.
If your main PC is running Linux, you'd either have to always reboot into windows or try finding a VM sollution, which could easily introduce new problems.
Localhorst86 said:
based on your first 2 questions, I really suggest you stick with android.
WP7 is relying on the Zune Software and there's no Linux sollution. There's a mac sollution by MS, but not sure if it'll work in linux.
If your main PC is running Linux, you'd either have to always reboot into windows or try finding a VM sollution, which could easily introduce new problems.
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Agree with this. Windows Phone is great but not for a linux guy like you and the extent of customization available on Android is NOT available on wp7.
chabun said:
Yes, it's true cuz wp7 has a raid 0 with the internal memory and the sd...
99% sure this is incorrect? Yes you cant just hot-swap cards like you can in Andriod, but this being due to WP7 doing RAID 0 (or any RAID for that matter) must be incorrect???....
I use RAID 0, 1 and 5 on various computers but I cant see ANY phone having RAID capabilities?...Someone correct me if I am wrong as this would be big news to me. Not that I can see it being usefull on any mobile device.
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Thanks a lot for the fast, kind and useful answers guys.
I guess that, as Localhorst86 said, the OS has some limitations that I simply cannot avoid. It's a pity because I was really interested in trying this UI's approach, but gonna have to wait a bit more to see if they support Linux and evolve in some other areas.
Will start looking for the Atrix as I originally planned then.
Best regards.
Jdixon85 said:
I use RAID 0, 1 and 5 on various computers but I cant see ANY phone having RAID capabilities?...Someone correct me if I am wrong as this would be big news to me. Not that I can see it being usefull on any mobile device.
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I think it's actually more akin to an NTFS spanned volume than a hardware-based RAID 0, but practically speaking, yes, it does create a single logical volume that spans the internal + SD card memory, which is why it needs to be reformatted if you swap a card in/out.
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I think it's actually more akin to an NTFS spanned volume than a hardware-based RAID 0, but practically speaking, yes, it does create a single logical volume that spans the internal + SD card memory, which is why it needs to be reformatted if you swap a card in/out.
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more of a JBOD than a RAID, then.
Anway, I don't know how ms achieved the link between the sd card and the nand memory. And I do know that's not hardware raid 'cause the hd2 has no such controller on board
And yes it's JBOD but I can't tell you how the software layer controls them....
My /Removable/MicroSD is starting to corrupt. I've been editing scripts on my MicroSD with ES note editor. It started today with files not overwriting other files with the same name, then progressed into edited files saved with corrupt or no data at all, then a few files disappeared, then a directory became corrupt and I could not see a file that ES told me I was overwriting with another file with the same name, and now I am loosing full directories. Is this a partition issue or is the whole card going/gone bad? The card is as factory shipped. I have never formatted or partitioned it.
I have unmounted and remounted the card. That allowed me to edit and save for a few hours. Then another corrupted file happened. I just took the card out and reinserted it as this fixed a similar problem I had a while ago but it only happened once and went away until now, so we'll see if it just wasn't seated properly. One of the 2 directories that disappeared came back after reinserting the card but the second is still missing. I had already backed up my scripts, and now I will back up the entire card to disk.
Does this sound like its going or gone South, or will pulling all the data off, formatting the card, and putting it all back on work to fix it? Is it safe to trust this card anymore or should I RMA it as it should still be under warranty? Its a Sandisk 64 SDXC and not "officially" compatible and was wondering about that as well. I've had it for about 6 mos. I had hoped by spending the little extra $ and picking a name brand it would be more reliable but I guess I got a bad one despite the on-average Sandisk quality. Any advice would be appreciated.
So far, I've only once suspected my microSD (as in yoru case a 64 GB Sandisk UHS-1 Class card) to have gone bad. (Re)formatted it with Gparted (was running data2sd at the time, kicked that out, too) and it has been going strong since without a single hitch.
I'd try and format it, doesn't hurt, only takes time, and it satisfies your tinkering needs at the same time.
MartyHulskemper said:
So far, I've only once suspected my microSD (as in yoru case a 64 GB Sandisk UHS-1 Class card) to have gone bad. (Re)formatted it with Gparted (was running data2sd at the time, kicked that out, too) and it has been going strong since without a single hitch.
I'd try and format it, doesn't hurt, only takes time, and it satisfies your tinkering needs at the same time.
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Thanks for the reply. What is interesting and seems far-fetched to be coincidental is the corrupted directories are the directories that I am constantly editing and saving files to - My scripts dir and its sub-directories. Guess they mean it when they say flash was not designed to be constantly written to. I can't *believe* I have cycled it to its limit just editing scripts over a 6 mos span. I couldn't have saved files more than a couple thousand times if that.
Waterproof**, x-ray proof**, temperature proof**, shockproof**, but NOT write-proof**
Double directories? This is getting out of hand!
Well I am backing up my MicroSD now, and I just ran across two directories with the same name in the same folder? Two "Scripts". How is this possible? One had files, the other was blank? How can the OS allow this to happen? When it copied to Windows, a (1) was appended to the directory name of the second duplicate.
Just for S&G, I tried to copy a file from one into the other and Windows errored saying something like "device is busy or has been disconnected."
If I had files in both directories and I cd to that directory, which one would I get (trick question)? I believe the dups are only on Windows. I don't think the device actually sees both directories. At least it doesn't show them to me in ES. Bizarre corruption. That surely might explain why files in this directory were getting corrupted. Or maybe the corruption of the files was responsible for the double directories. Time for a format (and a beer) for sure.
Let this be a word to the wise:
So yes I am going to format this, but I wanted to play with this problem a bit and see what I could figure out. As I predicted, and made about my 5th backup just in case, here's what just happened.
1. When there were Script dir duplicates, I could copy from the one with files.
2. I deleted the one without files (predicting it may delete both, but it only deleted the blank one as intended but...)
3. The remaining Script dir could not be copied from, nor a new sub-directory created inside. File names could not be changed. Actually it did allow me to make a copy, but the target directory was blank.
4. Deleted the second Script directory. Now the B2R script is lost forever (no just kidding, I have 5 backups at least)
5. Copied one of my backup copies of Scripts back to the card
6. Now its fine (until I can format it), I can copy from it and create sub-dirs inside it, etc. But I will be working off another copy in Internal storage until I format this card.
7. So the lesson here is ALWAYS make a backup before something glitches out on you because it eventually will and you will need it, or choose to be SOL; life is full of choices. And if it has already glitched out on you, make a second backup of your critical files just in case something like this happens to you and you've made incremental changes. Without my backups I would be loosing about 3 months work in just this one folder alone. It contains every script I have ever written and a bunch of example scripts to learn from.
@_that to comment, but this is what I think happened: This must be some kind of corrupt FAT problem. Very similar to the recovery blob not being found by the bootloader issue from a recent post, but instead of a partition problem its a file allocation table problem, as they reside on the same partition in my case, quote _that below:
"I have a new theory about why this happens: partition tables mismatch. In other words: The location where the recovery writes the blob is not the same as where the bootloader expects it. Thus the bootloader ignores your blob."
It seems the empty directory was the directory the system thought the files were in. Once that directory was removed, the actual one (as the human perceives; as seen in ES) containing files no longer contained them, as far as the OS was concerned. So by deleting the one you effectively deleted the other because its impossible that can can coexist and both be functional. I thought something like this would happen and it did. Like I said earlier, its Miller time.
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7. So the lesson here is ALWAYS make a backup before something glitches out on you because it eventually will and you will need it, or choose to be SOL; life is full of choices. And if it has already glitched out on you, make a second backup of your critical files just in case something like this happens to you and you've made incremental changes.
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Good advice. Always make one backup more than you think you need.
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This must be some kind of corrupt FAT problem.
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Probably. ExFAT is a proprietary and patented Microsoft filesystem, and support for it in our TF700 is through a proprietary closed-source third-party kernel module that contains this licensed "technology".
You could try running chkdsk in Windows on the card to detect and fix filesystem errors.
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Good advice. Always make one backup more than you think you need.
Probably. ExFAT is a proprietary and patented Microsoft filesystem, and support for it in our TF700 is through a proprietary closed-source third-party kernel module that contains this licensed "technology".
You could try running chkdsk in Windows on the card to detect and fix filesystem errors.
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Funny how they don't even support exFAT in XP without an extension. Maybe it was developed after XP was released. I would assume it is supported by default in W7 and above?
Question: Do you know what is the su password for the terminal app in GParted Live? Or is this limited to GNU staff use??
Do I "sudo gparted" or "sudo passwd root" and set a new password??
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Funny how they don't even support exFAT in XP without an extension. Maybe it was developed after XP was released. I would assume it is supported by default in W7 and above?
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Good guess. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
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Question: Do you know what is the su password for the terminal app in GParted Live? Or is this limited to GNU staff use??
Do I "sudo gparted" or "sudo passwd root" and set a new password??
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gparted+live+root+password
GParted live is based on Debian live, and the default account is "user", with password "live". There is no root password, so if you need root privileges, login as "user", then run "sudo" to get root privileges.
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You can run "sudo -i" to just get a root shell if you want.
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Good guess. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gparted+live+root+password
You can run "sudo -i" to just get a root shell if you want.
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Looks like my windows\system32 dir has a 2004 date on it. So just before it came out. Nice they have a patch now.
lmgtfy.com is very cool! I've never seen _that before. Really a good way to say "why can't YOU just Google it YOURSELF". Yes, I already followed the same link to get the commands I asked about.
I couldn't figure out a way to get a Logitech bluetooth mouse working in Gparted Live. Probably need linux drivers?
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I couldn't figure out a way to get a Logitech bluetooth mouse working in Gparted Live. Probably need linux drivers?
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That's a live distro for partitioning stuff, not for supporting all kinds of exotic hardware. Most likely it doesn't even have any bluetooth stack. Use a full desktop distribution like Mint if you want support for bluetooth input devices.
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That's a live distro for partitioning stuff, not for supporting all kinds of exotic hardware. Most likely it doesn't even have any bluetooth stack. Use a full desktop distribution like Mint if you want support for bluetooth input devices.
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Yeah, I figured as much but I thought you possibly have a trick.
Cinnamon or Mate desktop? Live iso version available somewhere (couldn't find one)? Never mind, I think I got it. I don't need you to send me another lmgtfy link. But still, Cinnamon or Mate desktop?
Ok, here's my problem. I need to make a bootable CD (not DVD). The iso for Mint 15 Cinnamon is 923MB. It won't fit on a 700MB CD, and my PC can't boot off DVD or USB. Any suggestions besides having to partition a HDD to install a dual-boot configuration which I don't want to have to do just to run Linux once in a while. I would like a Live CD instead. Reduced size minimal distro somewhere to be found?
Ok, found one here for Linux Mint 13 Maya. Hope its not someone's hack. But I think its a better option than Plop. I don't want to start hacking my Windows PC all up just to get Linux. If its any more hassle than burning a CD I'll just use GParted with a corded mouse.
Only 7 available seeds for this torrent, and only 1 is up now. Popular item! (ha). Had it going with 4 but I was hogging too much bandwidth and had to pause fpr a bit then restart. When it restarted, looks like 3 of my seeds blew away in the wind. Looks like tomorrow then...I was hoping to burn the iso and play with it tonight. Oh wait, just got another 1 back. Now were up to 100kB/s. Whoopee
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http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=110933 (last link goes to next link)
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=103449&p=604069
elfaure said:
Ok, here's my problem. I need to make a bootable CD (not DVD). The iso for Mint 15 Cinnamon is 923MB. It won't fit on a 700MB CD, and my PC can't boot off DVD or USB.
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You have a strange PC. Or no DVD drive?
All PCs that I know (that have been produced in this millennium) can boot from DVD or USB with correct BIOS setting and a correctly formatted bootable medium.
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You have a strange PC. Or no DVD drive?
All PCs that I know (that have been produced in this millennium) can boot from DVD or USB with correct BIOS setting and a correctly formatted bootable medium.
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Yes I know. I'm cheap and old school with PCs, what can I say. The rest of my devices are current offering. I haven't bought a new PC for over 10 years. Its an older "failed" CAD station that was slated for the dumpster about 3 years ago, then being about 3-4 years old, because our admin was too lazy to test for a simple problem - a failed RAM SIMM. I resurrected it, replaced the failed 512 SIMM and added two more, added a scavenged drive (now 3), and now its my home $100 desktop (replacing the free Pentium I had but was too slow to use). It already had the Quadro FX 3800 video card with a dual core Xeon CPU @ 3.33 GHz. But no DVD drive, only CD drive. BIOS does not support boot from USB either.
Its faster than my old work Dell Precision 690 before I got my new 6-core Xeon T3500. So those were my limitations to work with. And I think I found the best possible solution with Mint 13 Maya iso CD. Looks like Mint 15 just was released. Beautiful OS by the way, I checked out some uTube on it last night. Can't wait to test drive it. Might even make an MS defector out of me. Linux seems to run well on older hardware with slower CPUs vs Windows on the same hardware, so I'm hoping it can breath new life into this semi-archaic box I call my desktop. Now you see why I'm on the tablet so much.
Hey @_that
You were right again. It is a DVD drive. In XP Pro SP2 it was just a CD but after installing SP3 it shows up now as a DVD/CD. Getting Mint 15 32 bit now instead. The DVD drive bay load door is scratched and faded, so I couldn't tell just by looking at it, and was going off what Windows device manager was showing in its tree. I did initially pop a DVD in and it couldn't read it which further substantiated that it was a CD and I never questioned it. Turns out the DVD I tested it with was a DL, and this is only a SL DVD drive. Now I have a 1.7GB limitation, not 700MB which opens up most iso options. But I still have no boot from USB option in my BIOS. I'll look to see if there's an updated BIOS available to open up that option. It would be very nice to have a few thumb drives with different Linux distros to test drive, and a puppy Linux on my key chain.
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Live Mint 15 Mate
Hey @_that-
Coming to you live from Linux Mint 15 Mate. I guess when running this off a live CD, there is no way to copy a file to /etc is there? I opened it as administrator, and it still wouldn't let me copy the file because this directory is on the CD, not the HDD, correct? I was trying to get my Synergy connected between my MS PC and my other PC running live Linux so I can share my mouse and keyboard seamlessly without my KVM switch. I'm impressed with how easy this is to setup. Also with your ability to see me as a Windows transitional user, and point me to Mint and not Ubuntu. I like it.
elfaure said:
Coming to you live from Linux Mint 15 Mate. I guess when running this off a live CD, there is no way to copy a file to /etc is there?
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I don't know about the live environment - it's normally only used to install the OS to a real hard drive. I find it still strange that your PC doesn't support booting from USB. Maybe that's a sign that you really should install Linux on a HDD.
elfaure said:
I was trying to get my Synergy connected between my MS PC and my other PC running live Linux so I can share my mouse and keyboard seamlessly without my KVM switch. I'm impressed with how easy this is to setup. Also with your ability to see me as a Windows transitional user, and point me to Mint and not Ubuntu. I like it.
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2 monitors, 1 keyboard, 1 mouse? Yes, Synergy is nice.
And why Mint: I simply don't agree with Mark Shuttleworth's direction where he is taking Ubuntu - fortunately there are alternatives in the OSS world. I consider Mint as the "sane", i.e. actually usable, version of Ubuntu.
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I don't know about the live environment - it's normally only used to install the OS to a real hard drive. I find it still strange that your PC doesn't support booting from USB. Maybe that's a sign that you really should install Linux on a HDD.
2 monitors, 1 keyboard, 1 mouse? Yes, Synergy is nice.
And why Mint: I simply don't agree with Mark Shuttleworth's direction where he is taking Ubuntu - fortunately there are alternatives in the OSS world. I consider Mint as the "sane", i.e. actually usable, version of Ubuntu.
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Yes, this is my work environment now. I have two Dell Precisions, one a 690 and the other a T3500. You got it, two monitors, 1 kb, 1 mouse. Downloading and installing Wine now. I am interested to see if I can run Solidworks on Linux thru Wine. Wow, Linux had come a long way. "sudo apt-get install synergy". All the terminal commands I learned for Android are very useful now, thanks!
ps-"sudo -i" works like a charm.
[Edit] Doesn't look like SW wants to run on Linux loaded thru Wine. I figured as much, but it was worth a try.
Video is not bad at all, despite all I've read. They really must have clean it up for 15. Picture is good, sound is good, seeking is a bit slow, and my biggest complaint is there is no stretch or zoom to fill the entire screen. You have to select from predefined aspect ratios and get as close as you can. Android has better tools in this area than Mint, or maybe it more closely matches a standard aspect ratio like 16:9 for 1920 x 1200 is close (1.77 vs 1.6). Ok, _that's it for the day. Got to get some real work done here now.
Regarding the live environment, its used all the time to test drive different Linux distros before deciding which one to finally install. That's the beauty of a free open OS and a 50 cent DVD and its advantage over a flash card in this case, if you wanted to test 3-5 different ones (back and forth, not sequentially) before deciding on *the one* to finally install to HDD.
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Video is not bad at all, despite all I've read. They really must have clean it up for 15. Picture is good, sound is good, seeking is a bit slow, and my biggest complaint is there is no stretch or zoom to fill the entire screen. You have to select from predefined aspect ratios and get as close as you can. Android has better tools in this area than Mint, or maybe it more closely matches a standard aspect ratio like 16:9 for 1920 x 1200 is close (1.77 vs 1.6).
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I have no idea what you are talking about. There are lots of media players to choose from, and all that I know have a fullscreen mode.
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I have no idea what you are talking about. There are lots of media players to choose from, and all that I know have a fullscreen mode.
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What I mean is by toggling full screen in Mint, its less than full screen because the movie aspect ratio of its recorded resolution is preserved in the scaling function. So there are still black bands either high/low or left/right if you don't play with the player aspect ratio (4:3 vs 16:9) to best match that of your movie in the distros fullscreen mode with the stock player. Which ever limits to extents first in the scaling horiz or vertical DPI defines the "fullscreen" size you get which is less than a full screen. A zoom function does not but a stretch function does override the recorded aspect ratio to fill the full screen (I'm talking about TV's and Dice/BS/MX Player features now, not what's in the Linux default distro player) so with stretch you can get a distorted picture (disproportionate scaling) but not with zoom. These are not included in the stock distro player.
elfaure said:
What I mean is by toggling full screen in Mint...
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I am using mplayer for video playback - I don't know if that is still included in end-user-focused distros like Mint, but it's one of the most powerful video players that exist. Mplayer has no GUI at all (everything is controlled via the keyboard) - and the "f" key toggles between fullscreen and window.
Hi everyone,
I've done a quick "port" of Tiny8086+ emulator for Windows RT and it's now in Windows Store: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-GB/app/8086tinyrt/cf962b90-7c3a-448f-9932-a37432e9595b
To use the app, you'll need to have keyboard and mouse with your Windows 8 tablet. I didn't have time to optimize user interface for touch and I'm sure it has also a lot of missing bits and pieces I've also removed some of original 8086tiny+ advanced features (like debugger, tcp/ip serial).
Anyway, main purpose of app to provide entertainment of playing those old games on Windows ARM tablet. I've also put up some instruction in here, in case you ran with trouble with app.
Hi!
Nice! I have installed on my surface. I can move the mouse and navigate through menus, but I can not enter any input on the console. I can not see also any log on screen, is getting stuck or it takes long time to start?
I have the TypeCover and also a bluetooth trackpad/keyboard, but none of them works.
Thanks!
jesuslg123 said:
Hi!
Nice! I have installed on my surface. I can move the mouse and navigate through menus, but I can not enter any input on the console. I can not see also any log on screen, is getting stuck or it takes long time to start?
I have the TypeCover and also a bluetooth trackpad/keyboard, but none of them works.
Thanks!
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To me it sounds like emulation (of operating system e.g. FreeDOS) weren't started at all (emulation won't auto start when tiny86rt app is launched). And of course nothing will happen, if you type in keyboard, until emulated OS (e.g FreeDOS) is running.
Can you check the tutorial video and verify, that you have first selected correctly both bios and floppy image, and then started emulation by clicking Emulation -> Reset (boot FD). Are you using FreeDOS disk images or what? Anyone else having issues on Surface(RT) + touch/type cover combo?
noxo said:
To me it sounds like emulation (of operating system e.g. FreeDOS) weren't started at all (emulation won't auto start when tiny86rt app is launched). And of course nothing will happen, if you type in keyboard, until emulated OS (e.g FreeDOS) is running.
Can you check the tutorial video and verify, that you have first selected correctly both bios and floppy image, and then started emulation by clicking Emulation -> Reset (boot FD). Are you using FreeDOS disk images or what? Anyone else having issues on Surface(RT) + touch/type cover combo?
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Hi,
It's probably my fault, I thought it came with a pre-loaded OS, I will check the tutorial
Update:
I have tested with your tutorial, and when I tap boot from FD, the app is crashing.
Thanks!
jesuslg123 said:
Hi,
It's probably my fault, I thought it came with a pre-loaded OS, I will check the tutorial
Update:
I have tested with your tutorial, and when I tap boot from FD, the app is crashing.
Thanks!
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Interesting, I haven't managed to crash it yet with any image (even when mixing bios and fd image).. are you using bios_cga.img and fd.img from http://jaybertsoftware.weebly.com/uploads/3/0/2/1/30218655/8086tiny_plus_1_34_win32_sdl.zip?
I've tried app both with x86 (Macbook + Haswell i5) and ARM (Dell XPS 10 + Snapdragon S4) devices without any crashes What if you try to
reinstall the app, in case some invalid image data were copied to apps temporarly folder?
noxo said:
Interesting, I haven't managed to crash it yet with any image (even when mixing bios and fd image).. are you using bios_cga.img and fd.img from http://jaybertsoftware.weebly.com/uploads/3/0/2/1/30218655/8086tiny_plus_1_34_win32_sdl.zip?
I've tried app both with x86 (Macbook + Haswell i5) and ARM (Dell XPS 10 + Snapdragon S4) devices without any issues.
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Hi,
Yes, I have:
- downloaded that .zip file
- unzip it
- rename the bios to .img
- load both files on the app
- start with FD
But It is crashing always. Any idea?
Thanks,
Jesus.
jesuslg123 said:
Hi,
Yes, I have:
- downloaded that .zip file
- unzip it
- rename the bios to .img
- load both files on the app
- start with FD
But It is crashing always. Any idea?
Thanks,
Jesus.
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Can you try reinstalling app, and checking that you'll select bios_cga.img for BIOS image and fd.img for FD image? Is it Surface Pro, or Surface 1/2 RT?
noxo said:
Can you try reinstalling app, and checking that you'll select bios_cga.img for BIOS image and fd.img for FD image? Is it Surface Pro, or Surface 1/2 RT?
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I have already done that, I though maybe it was keeping on memory a wrong file or something, so I did it before. It is a Surface RT (1)
jesuslg123 said:
I have already done that, I though maybe it was keeping on memory a wrong file or something, so I did it before. It is a Surface RT (1)
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Hmm, that's weird. Maybe there are some Spanish characters in path or folder path is too long which will then fail loading of disk images.. or something with Surface RT 1, however hardware wise XPS 10
has even lower specs..
One more check I can suggest, is to check that if bios and disk images were correctly copied to C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Packages\xxxxx8086TinyRT_xxxxx\LocalState folder. You can also try manually copying them there, if those two files does not exist and see if it helps
Do you have Windows 8 desktop you could try the app?
noxo said:
Hmm, that's weird. Maybe there are some Spanish characters in path or folder path is too long which will then fail loading of disk images.. or something with Surface RT 1, however hardware wise XPS 10
has even lower specs..
One more check I can suggest, is to check that if bios and disk images were correctly copied to C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Packages\xxxxx8086TinyRT_xxxxx\LocalState folder. You can also try manually copying them there, if those two files does not exist and see if it helps
Do you have Windows 8 desktop you could try the app?
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The files are there. Please check the attached screen capture
Thanks,
Jesus.
jesuslg123 said:
The files are there. Please check the attached screen capture
Thanks,
Jesus.
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I managed to reproduce the crash. It's about the nonascii charaters (รบ) in your username, which will cause the crash. I'll try to fix that on weekend Thanks for testing.
App is now updated and available in Store. Verify that you're running version 1.1.92.5 (from Charms bar -> Permissions) after installation. Pls report, if it still crashes
noxo said:
App is now updated and available in Store. Verify that you're running version 1.1.92.5 (from Charms bar -> Permissions) after installation. Pls report, if it still crashes
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Working fine! Nice
One question, my attached keyboard is Spanish, by free dos seems to be running on english mode, is that due to free dos or emulator settings?
Thanks!
jesuslg123 said:
Working fine! Nice
One question, my attached keyboard is Spanish, by free dos seems to be running on english mode, is that due to free dos or emulator settings?
Thanks!
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You won't get Spanish keyboard fully working, reasons for that are long to cover fully here It's bit of a fault in everywhere, in modern keyboards vs old XT world, in freedos, bios image and emulator keyboard handling via SDL backend. Things might a bit better, if you boot in MSDOS and type in "keyb sp" command to load keyboard layout manager TSR, but I'm sure not all keycombos (like ALT+GR + key) works etc.
Anyway, Have fun!
good personal day, updated my lumia 1020 for 10.0.14393.105 version after upgrading , I not find more Extras option , Standby screen to be able to enable Glance Background. Anyone know how I enable this option ?
Thank you
phlopes14 said:
good personal day, updated my lumia 1020 for 10.0.14393.105 version after upgrading , I not find more Extras option , Standby screen to be able to enable Glance Background. Anyone know how I enable this option ?
Thank you
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Nope!, Glance dont working anymore in Redstone builds (14393 / 1495 / 14926) if you want glance, keep phone in TH2 (last 10586.545)
phlopes14 said:
good personal day, updated my lumia 1020 for 10.0.14393.105 version after upgrading , I not find more Extras option , Standby screen to be able to enable Glance Background. Anyone know how I enable this option ?
Thank you
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I recently updated to 10.0.14393.187 and got glance working by copying the older version of glance and tweaking/adding some registry settings. Might be worth trying yourself.
You need to be able to access the phone in mass storage mode. Unless you know how to put files on your phone another way. Then do that instead.
Followed these instructions here to update and how to edit the registry:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68222287&postcount=3
Glance file:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/win...-rs1-build-t3319375/post67795323#post67795323
(I followed the rest of the thread for more instructions. I also highly recommend reading through)
Used WPinternals to set 1020 to mass storage mode.
This says where to copy the extracted files. I had to run a file explorer program as administrator to copy the files. (I used explorer++).
dape16 said:
I connected my Lumia 1020 in Mass Storage mode and then transferred the missing files to "\Data\\SharedData\\OEM\\Public". Then I used regedit to add the missing keys. In the SOFTWARE hive all the keys were needed, in SYSTEM I just changed these two values: "ImagePath"="c:\\windows\\system32\\OEMServiceHost.exe -k NsgGlance" and "PreshutdownTimeout"=dword:00000032.
Good luck.
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If you do happen to have a backup from a working build. I believe you can import the registries you need. I don't know how to do that exactly though. Otherwise continue.
When doing the registry part use only one backslash (\) not two. That took me a while to figure out.
First registry set. Took a little bit to put these all in.
titi66200 said:
Glance working on lumia 1020 Win Redstone 10.0.14390.0.
I have restored this keys from my backup 10.0.10586.494.
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OEM\Nokia\lpm]
"AlwaysOnInCharger"=dword:00000000
"AppGraphicTimeout"=dword:00000000
"BSSwitchOffTimeout"=dword:0000001e
"ClockAndIndicatorsCustomColor"=dword:00000000
"DarkMode"=dword:00000000
"DarkModeElements"=dword:0000000f
"DarkModeEnd"=dword:000001a4
"DarkModeOverrideColor"=dword:00000000
"DarkModeStart"=dword:00000528
"DarkModeThreshold"=dword:00004e20
"DoubleTapEnabled"=dword:00000000
"Enabled"=dword:00000001
"MinimizeIcon"=dword:00000000
"Mode"=dword:00000000
"MoveClock"=dword:00000000
"NormalModeElements"=dword:0000001f
"SwipeEnabled"=dword:00000000
"SwitchOffTimeout"=dword:0000000f
"PanelType"=dword:00000001
"ShowDetailedAppStatus"=dword:00000000
"ShowSystemNotifications"=dword:00000000
"FontFile"="\\Data\\SharedData\\OEM\\Public\\lpmFonts_4.1.12.4\\lpmFont_wxga.bin"
"AppGraphicGestures"=dword:00000000
"SingleTapWakeup"=dword:00000000
"EnablePublicSDK"=dword:00000000
"SupportedTouchEvents"=dword:00000000
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Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OEM\Nokia\NokiaSvcHost\Plugins\NsgGlance\NlpmService]
"PluginPath"="\\Data\\SharedData\\OEM\\Public\\NsgGlance_NlpmServiceImpl_4.1.12.4.dll"
"Path"="C:\\Data\\SharedData\\OEM\\Public\\NsgGlance_NlpmService_4.1.11.3.dll"
"Version"="4.1.12.4"
"PluginVersion"="4.1.12.4"
"Enabled"=dword:00000001
"UsingBeta"=dword:00000000
"UseBeta"=dword:00000000
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And Second set. I think most of these were already there. Just a few things needed to be tweaked.
titi66200 said:
If not working check this
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\NlpmService]
"Description"="Standby screen service"
"DisplayName"="NlpmService"
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000000
"FailureActions"=hex:80,51,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,14,00,00,\
00,01,00,00,00,e8,03,00,00,01,00,00,00,e8,03,00,00,01,00,00,00,e8,03,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"ImagePath"="c:\\windows\\system32\\OEMServiceHost.exe -k NsgGlance"
"ObjectName"="LocalSystem"
"PreshutdownTimeout"=dword:00000032
"RequiredPrivileges"=hex(7):53,00,65,00,43,00,68,00,61,00,6e,00,67,00,65,00,4e,\
00,6f,00,74,00,69,00,66,00,79,00,50,00,72,00,69,00,76,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,\
67,00,65,00,00,00,53,00,65,00,49,00,6e,00,63,00,72,00,65,00,61,00,73,00,65,\
00,57,00,6f,00,72,00,6b,00,69,00,6e,00,67,00,53,00,65,00,74,00,50,00,72,00,\
69,00,76,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,67,00,65,00,00,00,53,00,65,00,43,00,72,00,65,\
00,61,00,74,00,65,00,47,00,6c,00,6f,00,62,00,61,00,6c,00,50,00,72,00,69,00,\
76,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,67,00,65,00,00,00,00,00
"ServiceSidType"=dword:00000001
"Start"=dword:00000003
"Type"=dword:00000020
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\NlpmService\Parameters]
"ServiceDll"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,\
00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,\
4e,00,6c,00,70,00,6d,00,53,00,65,00,72,00,76,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,2e,00,64,\
00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00
"ServiceDllUnloadOnStop"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\NlpmService\TriggerInfo]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\NlpmService\TriggerInfo\0]
"Action"=dword:00000001
"Data0"=hex:75,38,bc,a3,3e,06,8a,41
"Data1"=hex:00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00
"DataType0"=dword:00000001
"DataType1"=dword:00000001
"Guid"=hex:16,28,7a,2d,5e,0c,fc,45,9c,e7,57,0e,5e,cd,e9,c9
"Type"=dword:00000007
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Don't forget to unload the hive when you're all done. Unless you use a different registry editor. I'm sure you'll figure it out.
I also changed a couple of settings but people got it working without changing them.
Good luck.
thedayi said:
I recently updated to 10.0.14393.187 and got glance working by copying the older version of glance and tweaking/adding some registry settings. Might be worth trying yourself.
You need to be able to access the phone in mass storage mode. Unless you know how to put files on your phone another way. Then do that instead.
Followed these instructions here to update and how to edit the registry:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68222287&postcount=3
Glance file:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/win...-rs1-build-t3319375/post67795323#post67795323
(I followed the rest of the thread for more instructions. I also highly recommend reading through)
Used WPinternals to set 1020 to mass storage mode.
This says where to copy the extracted files. I had to run a file explorer program as administrator to copy the files. (I used explorer++).
If you do happen to have a backup from a working build. I believe you can import the registries you need. I don't know how to do that exactly though. Otherwise continue.
When doing the registry part use only one backslash (\) not two. That took me a while to figure out.
First registry set. Took a little bit to put these all in.
And Second set. I think most of these were already there. Just a few things needed to be tweaked.
Don't forget to unload the hive when you're all done. Unless you use a different registry editor. I'm sure you'll figure it out.
I also changed a couple of settings but people got it working without changing them.
Good luck.
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yesss!!!!! with this procedure it's working in 14393.189!!! ... and in 14393.189 onedrive sync is working too!! (off topic but important for me).