yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] timomer:
Cant get it to work...

Hi,

I have a O2 Xda lls

ROM: 1.40.00 WWE

I have ran the cab file provided by Khashim, i have also installed the app manually and by the developers instructions. But when i tap the ozVGA button the phone reboots and there is no difference.

Am i doing something very stupid?

Thanks,

Tim
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] hdubli:
Icons

ANy one know how to increse the size of the icons and font in Real VGA Mode...I tried everything....Pls help...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Riceburner:
Ummm... I just attempted to install OzVGA onto my new M5000 (the version from the OzVGA website, is this the latest version? It's apparently ver 0.53?? ).

On reboot it's looking great..... apart from half the Start button being obscured and NOTHING working..... not even the keyboard. :( (numb nuts here can't even figure out how to do a hard reset. :roll: )

Any ideas?? Have I killed it??

The only other program I'm running on startup is SmallMenuPlus (registered, latest ver.)

Going to check the rest of the thread but thought I'd post this first in case it's something new.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
Riceburner: that sounds serious. Did you follow the instructions carefully?

Obviously try disabling SmallMenu before installing, but I use it in RealVGA and have no problems with it.

To hard reset, press the two soft key buttons on the keyboard (the two big - buttons) and at the same time, stick your stylus in the soft reset hole on the back. Alternatively use clear storage in your startmenu, or my VJEschaton.

hdubli: I think font size can be changed in the settings screen, with a registry hack, or personally I use CETuner. Not 100% compatible, but basically very good for modifying themes etc on your PDA.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Riceburner:
The one thing I forgot (reading the first 3 pages of this thread), was to run the SDK cab BEFORE initialising OzVGA. But I doubt that error woud have this repercussion, would it? Still reading the rest of the thread.

Have I got the latest version?? I assumed that the website would have the latest version.

Got it hard reset now, will see if doing OzVGA before anything else works any better!

BTW, thanks for replying so quickly Vijay!!!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
:) I think every step is important. I can't recall the procedure now, but there are certain security measures that have to be sidestepped before installing the new dlls (which are necessary to fix some graphic issues etc). So those cabs are likely to be important...

Don't forget, once you're in VGA, you might want to use VJBigPhone to use your phone app properly.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Riceburner:
yeah, already got your site bookmarked for some raiding... ;)

(mind you, with my Jabra BT800 and the standard Voice Dial system I don't even need to open the thing to make a call... ;) )
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
Riceburner: that's interesting. Can I ask if you could possibly export your registry and send me a copy? Discretion assured. But it might be useful to crack some other problems we're working on regarding Voice Command.

Thanks!

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Riceburner:
If I had any idea how to do that I would love to!!!

So far OzVga seems to be working, ith some odd effects. Found so far:

Text in the Power Settings screen is all cocked up and not legible at all.

In the Orange Phone skin, when you type numbers in using the keyboard a secondary number display pops up with a contacts list below: this gets stuck on the fisrt number., permanently until you soft reset.

Nothing comes up in Contacts>Details - seems odd.

Oh yeah, the zip file in this thread (page1) and the zipfile from the OzVGA website don't have the same.dlls in them:

VgaRes.zip (from the website) doesn't have:

instmsgrresources.96.dll

pmsnresources.96.dll

welcomehead.96.png

VGA 1824 071105.zip doesn't have:

miscres.96.dll

syncres.96.dll

Interesting......
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Carnivor:
Thats cos VGA 1824 071105.zip was made before those dlls were discovered.

Numquam ponenda est pluritas sine necessitate
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Riceburner:
Vijay, one more related question;

What happens if I have BigPhone running (and in my startmenu) and reset to 320x240 mode??
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] gibson042:
Hello all. I applied this hack through the combined CAB file, and my JASJAR is now working in real VGA mode, but the menu bar (program title/softkeys) and menu text are abnormally small (see attached screenshot). None of the pictures in this thread show the behavior, and changing settings in ozVGA has no effect. Can someone help me solve this?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] fippy:
I am pretty sure I have all the files needed for VGA mode installed and it looks great for most things. Would of course be better is the start menu and bars were bigger but its worth the sacrifice for more data on the screen. It makes reading books with Microsoft Reader much better as you can get more then a short paragraph on the screen at one. My only issue really is the keyboard when in portrait mode. Is there a way of making it bigger (I already have large keys set) or another app I can use instead ?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
Riceburner: ah, I figured out why you asked me about your ROM the other day :) How forgetful of me. Yes, a copy of your registry would still be useful if you know how... zip it up and email it over if you get a chance. But we're still fine to meet in Londinium.

I don't believe anything special should happen in 320x240 if you launch VJBigPhone. Worst case, your phone dialer will be too big. But it shouldn't be. No permanent harm.

gibson042: when you say the menu text is so small, which menu text? It all looks quite normal to me. I must say, I did OzVga from scratch the other day and noticed that the program title (the caption) is too high, like yours, and had never noticed it before. But then I realised that I had auto-manually changed my font previously. But I'd forgotten that I normally do that.

I use cetuner and keep a VGA theme for it. I (probably) use VJNina font as my system font, although maybe I'm wrong, it looks like Tahoma, and edit the scroll bar size etc with that app. Well recommended.

fippy: there are various. Go to Brighthand forums and search for vga keyboard. I understand that RIPBoard is free, VGA compatible and customisable (but a bit ugly). But there are others.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] hoanglong:
i have a little prob here been reading the whole thread and i didnt see it mentioned, anyway using ozVga i changed the settings in there but for some reason it wont save, tried save and reboot many times and its still the same?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] jamfitz86:
Hey guys, finally decided to give this a bash.

I recon i could live with it, but it makes the today screen look a little unimpressive.

Would be cool if the task bar at the top and bottom could be, maybe, doubled in size. Also could the icons for the items on the today screen could be made bigger, so they would look like they do on sevga.

Any of this possible? I wouldnt have a clue how to start going about it, hence i ask on here.

Well in though to all those who have put the work in.

JAmes
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] seal:
Nothing agianst what you said but I think the fact that the top and bottom bars are thin is why true VGA is so good, more usable screen room, I always have my phone in true VGA and love it.

I had to hard reset the phone the other day and when you haven't seen the original way for a while is like reading a children book with everything massive.

Just my opinion.

Thanks to all those that made VGA possible and so usable.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] jamfitz86:
I think that it does seem very useable, but the extra space is only needed in some applications, and i think, for me anyway, the today screen isnt one of them. Making the bars bigger would still give you all of the extra space in between. I dont mind things being small, i run 1680x1050 desktop resolution on my laptop and take flak for it being unreadable, but i like things to be pretty too :)

I mainly recon the VGA is gonna be useful for file browsing/editing and IE. It doesnt make the phone unuseable the way it is, it just looks a little wanky. I think.

I notice that the battery indicator (batteryNFO from the o2 rom) has kept a seVGA sized Icon. Any reason this cant be replicated in the other icons? Also in icons like the text messaging wee envelopes.

JAmes
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] apbristow:
Agenda Fusion Icons and menu items not visible

Have searched the thread and can't find anyone who has mentioned this - Anyone know how to get Agenda Fusion (7.80) menu tabs to display correctly when using this otherwise fantastic fix? In AF, the bottom menu and the tabs which change from Calendar to Tasks to Contacts etc fail to render correctly.

Andy
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] SiliconS:
Re: Agenda Fusion Icons and menu items not visible

You need to contact DeveloperOne directly. I tried the first version of AF that they claimed worked for WM5 and it was pants so I've had a long conversation with them about the latest version's weaknesses. They seemed genuinely interested in hearing my comments, but spectacularly failed to fix any of the problems I reported, despite several new versions being released. In the end the trial period expired so I couldn't install any new versions and I gave up testing.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] apbristow:
Agenda Fusion

Thanks SiliconS,

I've grown to like Agenda Fusion and it does what I need it to. I've been generally impressed with their preparedness to develop the app further - but I agree if the request is not something they see as mainstream utility, they're not overly focussed on it - that's why I thought I'd try here first. I'm now on AF 7.80 and it works well - but not with OzVGA! I think the problem is that all the menus are icons rather than text and these don't render properly for the new resolution. But I wouldn't know how to fix.

Here's hoping

Andy
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] shoshone:
Hmmn....I was just as enamoured with ozVga as U still are, however after getting burnt big time by the fact that a DNS address I had entered only managed to take the first 2 chars of each entry in a dotted address causing me big probs, only seen in sevga I immediately unistalled ozVga.

However I am still trying to find someone who can tell me what SDKCerts.cab did to my O2 Exec and how to undo it..not knocking..just would like to get back to where I was without a hard reset and installing everything all over.

Happy to live with the 'childrens book'...call me a Philistine if u will....just wait 'til u get burnt :-(
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] KinkyGolab:
do eney bodey cnown it it exsit eney hack to the laitest version of skype so it works in true vga?.. if not can eney bodey hu cnowns how to fix it in hex explain to my step by step
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] igs:
just to confirm, this hack will work ok on orange m5000 with original rom? everyone seems to be using o2 exec rom here..
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] sandrobber:
Most apps are better

I noticed if you go into settings and change oz = vga from 1.5 to 1 all or most my apps seemed to display correctly such as gspocketmagic, I think some of the issues are that if you want the font to increase it increases it system wide and applications forms get messed up
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Riceburner:
Works fine here. :)

Takes a while to settle down (oddly) - but does work very well. :)

Oh yeah - I've not modded my ROM in anyway.

I recommend VJBigPhone, and I worked out how to alter the phone background image for one of my own because the oe image isn't large enough. (I think it's all in this thread somewhere, or it's in the Wiki pages).
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] emmerman:
Finally I tried this whole true VGA thing. First I tried ozVGA and after that I tested the registry hack Buzz pointed out. And I must say, I like the registry hack more than the ozVGA thing. First, you know what your doing: you change 2 registry keys. In contrast with ozVGA, which is an exe and nobody seems to know how it really works. And second, it seems to render true VGA better, for example the top title bar. In ozVGA the title would be shown just above the middle of the blue bar, perfectly readible, but not very esthetic. :) And some other minor inperfections like the adress field in PIE being shown in a slightly bigger font than the rest.

I used the dlls provided with ozVGA and I noticed while using the registry hack that the dropdown-list-icon on the right was wrong when you add a new contact. (wrong icon being shown) Could anybody with ozVGA check if it is wrong too?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] kasu:
ozVGA issues :(

Guys,

as you all noticed browsing is fantastic with this new VGA stuff but i'm having following new troubles

ActiveSync 4.1 --- Synchronisation Error (Greenball rotated for about 10 minutes literally before throwing synchronisation error !!!)

Fonts are too small... straining my eyes... have a feeling that i'll become myopic :wink:

Exec performance is deteriorated drastically....it's like 300Mhz speed!!! 'm resetting atleast once in 5 mins :(

Tried vjNina as suggested by Vijay (when i say 'tried' I copied vjNina fonts to windows/fonts directory -- Kindly correct me if i'm wrong ) but it doens't seem to be working

With these issues i have following queries :

First obvious question -- Any way to overcome above issues

Any ways of removing ozVGA other than hard-resetting

Thanks in advance

kasu
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] emmerman:
Using registry hack:

- performance hasn't deteriorated. (or not that I noticed)

- ActiveSynch still works. No problem at all.

- Fonts are small, but that's the whole point about real VGA. (for me it is, it's like using a laptop)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Riceburner:
Actually that's a point, how DO you remove OzVGA if necessary?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] rilot:
Click the button in OZVGA that says SE_VGA rather than OZ_VGA and it will unload itself.

The other way is to go in to your registry and edit the following keys:

[hkey_local_machine\Drivers\Display\GPE]LogicalPixelsX to 192 and LogicalPixelsY to 192

Soft reset and you will be back to normal.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Leigh:
O.K.

Can sumone please now upload all cab files and fixes and apps usefull for making the vga as usable and stable as possible. place them into the uploads/universal folder in a folder called vga

thank you
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] kasu:
Hi rilot

can u guide me infinding that OZVGA button pls ?

Cheers
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Leigh:
pocket msn icons on today screen

is ther registry settings for the today screen icons of pocket msn?

thanks
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Riceburner:
Open OzVGA (when it's running obviously) and the SE_VGA button is on the lower left.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] kasu:
Thanks

Thanks a million Rice..... you know what i just toggled to my normal vga settings and my active sync 4.1 is working like a charm....

'm suprised why it's happening to me alone :( ....anyways thanks once again..... i'll use vga whenever i want to browse :)

Cheers
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Leigh:
AM I JUSTT GETTING IGNORED, WAT I HAVE AsKEd for isn't that much! (forget about the msn icons)

thanks!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
Exec Man: I've running ozvga, and have been pretty much from the start of this thread, and it's stable - ie it never crashes my system. I don't use that many apps on my Universal, so can't comment on their existence/stability, but my base OS is stable.

I've posted a cab, I'm sure in this thread, with my ozvga setup. Some time back.

I don't know about uploading it all in one place etc since mine might not be the latest. It might be worth someone else downloading, verifying and posting it in a new thread, hopefully as a sticky etc.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Leigh:
sori if I sounded a bit ignorant, just been in a bit of a mood, I appriciate wat you guys are dooing for all us relative amatures,

thanks again,
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] apbristow:
Agnda Fusion

Sandrobber,

Thanks for the suggestion to change the 1.5 to a 1 but Agenda Fusion still fails to render properly after doing so. I've posted to the manufacturers support system but have not got anything other than an autoresponse yet.

Andy
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
apbristow: I can't remember if we spoke about this before. Someone sent me some apps for fixing a while back, but they fell off the edge of my brain, it's been a busy few weeks. My head hurts.

Consider trying to force it into non-pixel doubling mode using the hires CEUX resource hack on the app to see if it makes a difference.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] apbristow:
Agenda Fusion

Hi Vijay,

Yes it was me. Thanks for the advice about the Hi res resource hack but I suspect it may be beyond me. Is it suitable for a newbie? I have Total Commander, can edit Registry keys, unlock extended ROm and have installed OzVGA with some success - beyond that I'm afraid 'm on a steep learning curve.

Is there a step by step guide somewhere?

Andy
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
It's not really for the feint hearted, but not impossible, and only difficult in concept:

http://discussion.brighthand.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105601&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

Have a look at it, and if you get confunded, PM me again and I'll try it. The office has been horrible this week, my head is throbbing, but it'll be nice to do some coding/playing to relax. If you can, send me the files over again and I promise I'll look this time.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] ed.dark:
Can this be used to JUST resize the top and bottom bars but leave everything else alone?

I posted this Q elsewhere but everyone said no!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
No it can't.

I think there is a voodoo way to do it, it's very very hardcore and I'm not really prepared to look into it/program it for a while, but I believe it could be the ideal solution - running in QVGA but permitting any app to be used at VGA as desired.

But long term, not right now. For now unfortunately, you have to go all VGA, all QVGA, or QVGA + hires aware/ceux where possible.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] ed.dark:
pity that! its only the top and bottom abrs i find so annoyingly big - especially the bottom bar which show practically no useful info!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] itwasntme187:
questio for Vijay

Hi guys, i have just read all 13 pages of the thread so far so that i try not to ask the same question (if asked before). Now after all the research i am very tempted to go ahead and switch to VGA again (i had done it but ended up hard reseting due to the fact i could barly see anything).

Vijay i can see that you are an absoloute Genius here in the world of programming so massive credit to you! (Not forgetting you Buzz!)

Once switched to VGA and after installing VJBigPhoneBackDrop, VJBigPhoneButtons and VJBigPhonev0.91, if i was to switch back to QVGA would my Phone dialler look normal or would it look overly big?

Also i had seen on page 11 that the files:

miscres.96.dll

syncres.96.dll

were missing from the VGA 1824 071105.zip. Are these files needed for a complete switch?

I just don't want to be Hard resetting again after taking ages to setup TomTom 5.21 again......

Ash
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
itwasntme187: VJBigPhone probably will try to make your buttons bigger, although it shouldn't since it measures scale by DPI. But it might, but it's easily disabled by not launching it/removing it from \startup (ie it doesn't change anything in registry etc).

The backdrops should be safe either way, they're just slightly larger.

However, the reg fix for the bigger phone text is semi-permanent. Not sure what it would look like in QVGA, probably not bad, but your best bet is to export that bit of the registry and re-import it when you switch back to QVGA.

Azhad has posted some info + files on the reg changes required to make the phone button text automatic when you use OZVga. I've not used it, I very rarely go back to QVGA, but have a read through. Either method (ie manual reg export) or OzVga will do it.

V

PS. I had very little to do with the VGA hack, all praise to the other boys. I just did some cosmetic stuff :wink:

PPS I think there's a VJBigPhone 0.92 on this board. Have a search through that thread.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] ed.dark:
works for me!!!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] iainparkes:
some ones nicked the universal uploads folder!!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] ed.dark:
try this link: - its on the first page!

ed

http://xdaforums.com/download.php?id=7513
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] scooter42:
VGA Today Screen & Themes ;-)

Hi, Thanks to EVERYONE for thier OUTSTANDING work !! Esp vijay555 with all his 'Tweaks' (I am SO looking forward to the NEW DESKTOP - I want to open MULTIPLE windows!!).

But....................

now I am running VGA all themes installed show as a postage stamp in the middle of the screen (even the ones marked as VGA!!!!), Also If I set my own pictures as 'Backdrop' they appear 'Ghosted' which is **REALLY** annoying as they show full size!! ;-)

-- CAN ANYONE HELP???? -- Its **SO** Frustrating :cry:

God Bless Everyone, Scooter42 <><
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] pwillis94:
true vga cab file available?

is there a ready to run cab file that will allou us to use true vga on our qtek9000? thanks in advance
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Bartjan:
contacts

the contacts screen wont start since i did the reg edit to make my screen 96dpi

vjbigphone fixes the keypad for calling (not the startup pin entry though, but thats okay) but i cant open my contacts anymore, there all still in there cos if i type an zero or a "+" i see all names that have phonenumbers thats start with that symbol

but when i try to open "contacts" in any way it seems to close theapplication within 0.2 second

anyone else have this problem? or a way to fix it?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] :
Where has the zip file gone?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Riceburner:
Re: VGA Today Screen & Themes ;-)

Got to your file explorer and open the pic you want as Today background, then hit Menu and (IIRC) Options- you should get an option for "Set as Today Background" - that wil either set the image as background with no transparency, or give you the option of how much transparency you want.

On a related note - does anyone know why you can't change the phone pad background image on the default skin?? I've tried editing the registry, and it just doesn't change. I get the feeling the default skin doesn't HAVE a background image!!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] bukwit:
Im currently using ozvga on the latest Qtek rom that now supports A2DP...got everything working fine now apart from a few txt/graphic issues..

size of text on the default calendar year view is squashed to the far top of the screen

backlight & power control applets both display huge size text

the wireless connection manager has the graphic of the bottom part of the screen not showing (this has been mentioned somewhere on this thread)...

..just wondering if any of these have been corrected as of yet?...I must say that I appreciate everyones help/feedback on here.

TIA
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Ammo:
I've just installed this on my T-mobile unisersal and it crashes on reboot. I get 2 options come up at the bottom of the screen but it doesn't go any further then that, the options are 'select' and 'exit'

Ot has this on the screen as well

R 1.06.00

G 42.40.P8

D 1.20.32 WWE

help
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] biliskner:
LMAO - now i can read all 575 SMSs at one GLANCE :shock:
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] AddeBC:
Am i Just stupid?

Cause i seriosuly cant find the files for this?

Please advise.