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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.
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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.,

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...

How to install Games / Softwares ?

Hey,
I got my phone yesterday, i love it - but as i suspected it.. it is a bit complicated.
I want to get some games and softwares for my TD2, i havent looked at any softwares yet, im stuck at the games
I downloaded a few games from here: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-xtrakt.html
It came in a rar, i extracted it on my computer and there were 6 different files in it, i dont know what to do with them.
I tried searching the forums, i found a few threads but everything is sead i dont understand. It feels like theres something everyone knows (a simple thing) and on top of that the conversation is going.
I dont understand anything.
If someone has a few minutes and could explain to me (from the beginning what to do) OR if anyone knows a guide, another post that explains from the start what to download where to find how to install, id be really greatfull.
Like how do i download these games ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=462217
Sorry if im being a pain, and sound too simple.
Thanks in advance

dexterbh said:
Hey,
I got my phone yesterday, i love it - but as i suspected it.. it is a bit complicated.
I want to get some games and softwares for my TD2, i havent looked at any softwares yet, im stuck at the games
I downloaded a few games from here: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-xtrakt.html
It came in a rar, i extracted it on my computer and there were 6 different files in it, i dont know what to do with them.
I tried searching the forums, i found a few threads but everything is sead i dont understand. It feels like theres something everyone knows (a simple thing) and on top of that the conversation is going.
I dont understand anything.
If someone has a few minutes and could explain to me (from the beginning what to do) OR if anyone knows a guide, another post that explains from the start what to download where to find how to install, id be really greatfull.
Like how do i download these games ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=462217
Sorry if im being a pain, and sound too simple.
Thanks in advance
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the file you download is probally a .cab, you need to put this file on your phone or sdcard and run it from there.
goodluck

[Q] Screen Orientation in Grooveshark 2.3.1 on Wildfire

Hi people,
i'm having a problem with the latest grooveshark app which seems to have a problem with the non-standard screen size of the wildfire. (jokerdroid 4.2, rooted).
it crashes whenever i change the orientation to portrait in the now playing view. on landscape it works. as i cant seem to find an older version to reinstall and want to use the newest features, i'm searching a way to fix the app's overall screen orientation to landscape.
My first guess was to modify the AndroidManifest.xml. But i cant seem to open it in windows and i dont really know how to edit it anyway. Maybe someone can have a look at the file and tell me where to add what?
Help is really much appreciated.
greetings,
mo

While I can't help you with any actual coding or editing, the best I can suggest is to send a screenshot (or take a picture of it crashing/crashed) and if you know how, send a logcat of it crashing as well, to the developer of the app.
You may also want to try running it on your stock ROM if you are able.
Good luck, and sorry I couldn't really be of more help.

sirmx said:
While I can't help you with any actual coding or editing, the best I can suggest is to send a screenshot (or take a picture of it crashing/crashed) and if you know how, send a logcat of it crashing as well, to the developer of the app.
You may also want to try running it on your stock ROM if you are able.
Good luck, and sorry I couldn't really be of more help.
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i tried it on the stock rom but still no luck. other users are having the same problem, see goo.gl/kd6bD .
i already sent that logfile to the devs. but it doesnt seem much like they would change something as i still dont have an answer after 1 week. Maybe they removed support for certain resolutions...?
i cant seem to find a way to manually locate the logfiles so i cant post them here...
thanx already for the tips.
mo

[Resolved] google play services has stopped

Ok. well, i´m posting this thread, and i don´t know if here is the right place to post it, but the the forum is so huge that i will give it a try.
i have this problem on my rockchip tablet android that a message is always poping up say, unfortunately, google play services has stopped. know, i may have cause this because i used an app called freedom, you might have heard of it, and what i did was, well i don´t quite remember this well, but i think it goes like this: i made a factory reset or i think i reboot my device with freedom started and then i think the message starting showed up. know, i saw in some places that this is an error and might cause the trouble.
well, i beg for help because this error is very, very annoying and tried everything i looked for, tutorials and stuff like that all across the net and nothing worked. i am know trying here in xda because xda are the best place to look for the solution of this problem because you guys are really great and know a lot about the issue. i don´t know if this is relevant but for example, with a version of play services lower that the actual it seem to work.
help.
thankx in advance. :good:
Note: this is not resolved like it says on the title. it was my mistake and i don´t know how to take it off.