yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] michaelg:
Hi,

Could you elaborate and list all the steps, eg...

1. Install VJBigPhone

2. (which reg file download you used)

3. (which mode you are in QVGA/VGA)

4. (what you did to edit it)

a if possible a after screen shot?

Regards

Michael
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] garyhartaz:
I am having an issue in call history. It appears that the time/date are cut off when the First/Last (Company) name appear with the phone number underneath.

Anyone else see this issue?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
garyhartaz: can you post a screenshot please?

Have you installed the button registry settings/cabs, or are just using VJBigPhone.

VJBigPhone never touches the call history screen btw.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] garyhartaz:
How do I create a screen shot? Also I have installed the 3 CAB's as recommended on your download site.

Also, when I reboot the phone, VJBP does not auto run...should it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
garyhartaz: no I'm very non invasive. If you want it to autorun, copy the VJBigPhone shortcut in your start menu in to your \startup\ folder.

Screenshots. Google for a program called MagicSS.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
SiliconS: a thousand thanks for your alcohol free donation :)

When I finally get some time I'll re-address a few outstanding issues with VJBigPhone (wireless manager etc). I accidentally disabled VJBigPhone yesterday, and suddenly realised why I wrote the damn program!

Thanks again. If you're ever in the UK, drop by and I'll take you out for a Coke :wink: Hey, that goes for any of you other rabble too!

BTW: if anyone wants to join my Frappr group, please do. I'd love for us lot to get together some time. Those hairy Modaco guys get together a couple of times a year for pizza and sweatiness. Let's show them what real uber-geeks are like. (I love you really Paul!)

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] woschirmer:
vijay,

is it possible to start VJBigPhone with a commandline parameter, so that it enables the fiy at startup time.

I created a link to the program an d put it into the startup folder, but I have to call the program once from the today screen to activate the fix, so a chance to start the program with a parameter would be very helpful.

thanks

wolfgang
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
woschirmer: I've noticed this problem as well.

Yes, a command line option is a good idea. The problem is that the phone app is not launched until the first time you press the green button etc, but I could add an option to look for the phone for a few seconds on startup, and if not found, launch and fix it.

Sound ok?

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] woschirmer:
vijay,

>> Yes, a command line option is a good idea. The problem is that the phone app is not launched until the first time you press the green button etc, but I could add an option to look for the phone for a few seconds on startup, and if not found, launch and fix it.

that sounds really good

wolfgang
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zYxMa:
Thanks all for help, but I still have doggy buttons and wireless manager, see below :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
zYxMa: Wireless manager fix was taken out a while back, because although it worked on mine, it didn't work on others. I haven't had a change to look at it again since, but it should be fixable.

The pink buttons: VJBigPhone was never designed to fix that, and that problem must be something to do with your dialer skin, but I've never seen it before. I noticed it on your previous image as well. What kind of system do you have? Have you changed with any of the registry settings for the phone skin?

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zYxMa:
delete

V you're star :D

Problem solved but... I just tried to make a video call and I've noticed that "Phone" crashed and I had to run VJBigPhone & Phone and then I tried to make a video call again and after I push the video call button, buttons were very tiny. Problem solved by soft-reset.

P.S. I post to early, I should read all these threads forst and then ask :)

Anyway I still have a wirless manager problem :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
zYxMa: as I said, when I get some time soon I'll re-address the wireless manager, but frankly, I've written a new app that can replace it's functionality and more, so I'm inclined away from it, but it's still worth fixing.

Remember, put VJBigPhone in your startup folder, and after you've softreset, use the "load and fix" option to load the phone the first time. After that, it should fix itself in use.

I'll make this automatic in the next round of fixes. For now, just don't soft reset so often :wink:

v
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zYxMa:
Wireless manager is a not big deal, I just let know, i thought it is only me :P
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Nah, everyone AFAIK :shock:

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gibson042:
I just got a JASJAR and joined this forum, and let me say THANK YOU to vijay555 and Azhad; your combined hard work has made real VGA mode usable! And, it seems that I am not too late to the party to provide a little input.

Would it be possible to have a VJBigPhone revision/alternative that is only activated by the green call button? It would offload whatever action is supposed to take place (since that is context-sensitive) and just spin until it finds the phone window, at which point it would work its magic and then terminate. This way the app is not resident and only springs to life when (potentially) needed, plus the check for dpi==192 allows you to stay out of the way in SEvga mode. Tray icons and 45 second checks need not apply!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
gibson042: hi and thank you!

Although replacing the green key would be wise, for those who use VJOkButt (that replaces the function of the red key), you'll know that there's a hell of a lot of work involved in this: namely because the gree key doesn't merely bring up the phone app, but also answers calls, potentially enables handsfree mode and may have some other functionality I'm not aware of.

VJOkButt tries to emulate all of this for the red key, and more, but on the green key, I wouldn't know if I'm doing it in a "reliable" way. I may investigate though.

However, VJBigPhone doesn't use timers etc from memory. It now only "attacks" the phone, cprog.exe, once if it's already running, and subsequently on each rotation of the screen. So, hopefully it's generally doing nothing and is not causing a big strain. If replacing the green key is not/cannot be done accurately, I would say that the overhead of the resident app may have to be tolerated... but I will investigate.

I am writing a number of new apps, but I'm also trying to be disciplined and do updates to old apps as well, so hopefully I'll try to add command line fix on \windows\startup, this weekend??

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gibson042:
I didn't realize you had to replicate the functionality of the button. I thought you could either

a) call another program (possibly with arguments) to do the phone work for you; or

b) register a listener such that your app is called in addition to whatever is handling the phone work.

But if using the button means doing all that work yourself, then it does seem like too much. With VJBigPhone no longer relying on a timer, I'm more comfortable having it run all the time anyway.

P.S. There is a Windows Mobile Team Blog entry about this, and from looking at the referenced docs it seems possible to perform an additional action while still allowing the default. However, the blog entry suggests that it only works while your app is foreground. It may serve as a starting point, though.

P.P.S. What does VJBigPhone do if run in SEvga 192 dpi mode?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
gibson042: thansk for the post on the green button. I've seen the blog entry before. Although it would be possible to monitor the green button and interact accordingly, it would require more invasive monitoring then is currently used.

Right now, the fix is only done on startup, on choosing the tray menu option, or on a rotation. No other timers etc used. So I think a listener would consume more resources then required.

It may be possible to interact with the cprog.exe (the dialer) externally to answer calls, in fact VJPhoneShortcuts uses this idea, but as I said, the green button does more then just answer calls, and that's difficult to emulate, since it's context specific. eg right now, VJOKbutt doesn't hang up gprs when you press and hold, which the default red button does. (it does actually hangup gprs, but as a bug, not a feature!)

Not sure at other dpis! I don't think it does anything useful, but code is supposed to be in to scale according to dpi, but I've never tested it.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Whoo hoo. New release v0.92

Guys: I'm releasing a new test release - only about 4 months overdue.

This version tries to be more robust in finding the phone the first time the app is launched, so hopefully it will fix the phone from the first launch.

Wifi Manager fix is installed. However, it's late and there may be bugs. For some reason, we seem to have different sized Wifi Managers.

Hopefully if your wifiman looks like this, it should work:

Next I've installed a screen rotation facility. It will rotate once around each axis. When I get more time I might stick this onto a submenu, but it should be ok for now.

Test the .exe. Drop it into your original installation folder (after you exit the previous version).

If it works I'll cab it up later.

V

http://www.vijay555.com/vj/Releases/VJBigPhone/VJBigPhoneRes.exe
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netaxiz:
re new beta release

Hi V just some feedback,

I put the new .exe in the program and starrtup folder (replacing existing one) and then soft reset,

I get two error messages saying that the ...res.exe file isent accociated to any programs, but, after boot and ignorring the errors, the new menu option appear on the task bar, then when I click on fix wifi manager, it fixes it immidiately, and perfectly, but the fix isent permanent, when I open wi manager the traditional way, then it still looks like its I used to in your screen shot, )only opening it through your menu fixes it ) screen rotation works perfectly,

cheers

c
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netaxiz:
edit, oops error message my stupidity

hi V

ignore my mention of the error messages,

that was because I left the old (renamed) file .old in the start up,

cheers

c
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
netaxiz: this is not a permanent fix for the Wireless Manager. One might be possible, followign Azhad's examples much further above. I'm merely launching the WifiManager, finding it and fixing it in the same way that the phone fix is done. So if you minimise, rather than close the wifi manager, it will stay fixed in the background. However, if you want to launch a fixed WifiManager, you have to launch it from VJBigPhone's menu. I will add a command line so you can do this from an external shortcut, so that you can launch the fixed wifimanager directly from a normal hardware key etc.

However, launching the manager takes a few seconds, and my fix waits for it to load first, so you have to make the choice - leave it minimised in the background to have it always fixed, or wait a few seconds each time you launch it.

Can you guys please test rotate and phone fix - they were the major features added (with the wifi fix!)

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netaxiz:
re

Got it,

load and fix phone, does not bring up the dialer, although it does fix it. (is this by design; or should it open the phone?)

rotate works perfectly, have spun round 15 times...can I stop testing this feature, :)

for me I can actually live with the wifi manager not fixed, it isent too bad, the extra overhead of having it open in memory, may not be worth the fix.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netaxiz:
just noticed the following,

wi fi manager does not minimise when I press ok, or minimise it from the top right task bar,

it seems to be the only app that actually closes!

hence the only way I can fix it is to launch it through vjbigphone,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
netaxiz: I noticed that as well with the WifiManager :) Thought it was just me, you can imagine how non standard my system is! Notice it also has an exit softkey menu? That's against Windows Mobile UI design spec.

Thanks for testing rotate :) I should add rotate left/right, but at least it means you can lose the standard rotate icon already in your tray, unless you want it there!

Likewise with WifiManager - I don't use it really, but I'm trying to be good and bug fix a few old apps, hence stuck it in. Took quite a bit of coding though :(

Load and fix just loads and fixes, then reverts to the previously active window - it does this so as not to be obtrusive when put in your startup folder. Obviously press the green phone key to bring up the phone - fix phone should only be needed once per session really, and hopefully now, it shouldn't need to be done manually at all if the new fix I added fixes the phone automatically when run from \startup\

That makes no sense. I'm rambling :roll:

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netaxiz:
Great,

everthything seems oerfect, however

I will test the phone fix more vigourously tomorrow, (didn't use the phone to much today being sunday)

you can be sure it will get a good work out tommorrow, will post any abnormalities I fiind .

cheers

and thanks for the hard work and long hours you put into developing for this community
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] silverzz28:
stupid question but please answer.

when I save these file son my phone where should I save them? also where do I exract them after i save it?

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
silverzz28 - which files in particular?

Check out my website for some installation guidelines and links.

VJBigPhone can be installed at any time, ideally after the VGA hack.

Then, the other hacks are by choice (eg the background fix etc), after VJBigPhone.

Where to save them - anywhere you can install them from by double clicking!

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] foufou55:
please screenshots

it does'nt work on the first page

thank you for your soft
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
I fixed the screenshots now...

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] silverzz28:
I am trying to make this app work

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=48325&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Its installed on my 8125 and I can see the icons but its like the nothing applied?

I will browse your site. thanks for the help. I will check back
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] foufou55:
thanks but it doesn't work :-( on my qtesk s200 wm2005
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
silverzz28: are you trying to install the Eten skin? If so, why did you post about it here? Shouldn't your reply be in that thread?

foufou55 & silverzz28: with all due respect, do you know what this application is for? It's specifically a fix to make the phone app work properly-ish on a VGA device that has been hacked to run at full VGA resolution. Ie, a HTC Universal and related. I don't believe either of your devices are VGA capable. Hence no luck, as expected, using VJBigPhone.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] foufou55:
ok

thanks you

it's sad , i want appky for qvga :-(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tech.junkie:
hi vijay. is it possible 4 VJBigPhone 2 automatically "load & fix phone" after a soft-reset? i already put it on my startup but after every reset, i still have 2 click on d icon & press "load & fix phone" 2 fix my phone app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Guys, looking over the code, it's supposed to try to launch the phone and attempt to fix it on first load. Do you find that, or does it already need to "load and fixed"?

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tech.junkie:
hi V. what happens 2 my ozVGA-enabled HTC univ is that after every soft-reset, my phone app becomes QVGA again, meaning it displays on only 1/4 of d whole screen - upper left corner of d screen.

is there a way 4 VJBigPhone 2 automatically fix d phone app AFTER A SOFT-RESET w/o having 2 click on its icon & press "load & fix phone"? i already put VJBigPhone on my startup but still acts that way. :?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rookee:
I´m looking for a way to remove the "vjbigphone tray icon" next to the "rotate-screen" and "power" icon to get more todayscreen. Please help
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
It's on my to do list. I will do it... but if I do that, I have to build in command line controls for -quit -refresh etc, and I've just had no time recently. Hopefully after this weekend I'll be settled into my new home and finally start programming again.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rookee:
I don´t know exactly how i´ve solved the problem but the icon is gone.

I´ve "load and fixed" the vjBigPhone and killed the application. after that i shortcuted bigPhone to "Autostart" and softreset the device

Now the application is running in background :P (no icon in tray but funktion ok)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Sounds interesting. VJBigPhone only needs to be running all the time if you change screen orientation I think. If you don't do that often, you can just fix once and kill it.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] silverzz28:
sorry about that.

what I am looking for is a skin for the phone Dial pad. SOMETHING bigger.

Can you direct me for a 8125?

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
silverzz28: have a look on Buzz's site, and then back to this site. I've not tried replacing the phone dialler skin with custom diallers, since I find they slwo the Universal down quite a lot. But hopefully it won't be a big problem on the 8125.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Deiota:
cab button and backdrop problem download

hello!

i'm trying to download the cabs above but the link is down. can someone give me a hand, please?

thanks

Deiota
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Try downloading from my webpage. Let me know if those links don't work.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Deiota:
Download

I've already tried downloading from your page and it says the same always "the page cannot be found".

Please help!

Thanks

Deiota

If you dont mind, email those 2 items to andrea.oliv at gmail.com
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
http://www.vijay555.com/vj/releases/vjbigphone/vjbigphonev0.91.cab

The other two cabs I can't help you with, they were posted in the forum some time back, by other members (ie the background fix and big key text fix). Read through the thread looking for attachments and see if those links work... if not, get in touch again.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Deiota:
Download problem

Hello!

I simply cant download and I cant find any other place to do it!

Is just me that has this problem? Can you download them?

Can someone that has those two files send them by email?

thanks

Deiota
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
The downloads seem ok for me.

This should be the white background fix:

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=25344&d=1133511484

This was attained just by opening up the background bitmaps, resizing, resaving. They were saved as pngs (I think) to save space, but with the wrong extension. Still worked!

This is Azhad's explanation and manual guide to fix the font buttons. The cabs should be lower in the thread, I just got bored looking for them.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=844841&postcount=48

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Deiota:
Can someone send it to me by email????? Please?

andrea_oliv@hotmail.com

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Will do; does anyone have a screenshot of the qvga dialler so I know how it's supposed to look?

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] szandokan:
Video Call button is different

(reposted to more appropriate thread)

Fantastic work V!

Just an observation that may help improve this further...

I noticed that the Video Call button, both before and after the resize fix, renders differently to all the other buttons. It scales well to VGA. That is, the corners are not cut off, before the resize, and after the resize, the text gets resized perfectly as well as positioned well. What is different about this button? Can this be used as a clue to resize the other buttons the same way too?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
szandokan: thanks for your comments.

The video call button is (as I unforunately realised after getting told off, see above!) is a third party button implemented by one of the files installed in the extended ROM. I frankly recommend not installing that file, and the bells and whistles dialler with the bubbly buttons, because it slows the dialler down quite a lot. I had never installed the extended rom files and it makes a noticable difference.

So, the video call button looks correct because it's implemented I think as a graphic button, not as a text overlay on a button image, which is the problem with the others. I've updated all the screenshots to the bubbly buttons now, but yesterday before the ext ROM I was showing the original MS dialler, and curiously that has exactly the same text alignment. So I guess it's a question of playing with the phone dialler skins.

There might be a way to realign the text, and possibly even change the font, but it would require some delicate hacking I'm not prepared to get into right now. Frankly, after developing VJBigPhone, I've realised that reimplementing the dialler to be entirely freeform skinnable would be relatively doable. I've also considered making a dialler from ground up with nothing to do with the MS dialler, but that's some way off for now. But a new front end to the MS Phone Dialler would be feasible.

That'd look cool... proper placement of big buttons in any form and look you want and so on.

This fake could be possible:

And the concept would theoretically be WM2003 compatible as well.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chris_khho:
Hi V,

Thanks a lot for this.

I have the following observation, I hope that's not too much for you to fix...

1. The picture of contact is disappear after phone call....(not too important but would be nice to see the faces...)

2. Why the bottom part of the screen can't be covered? I know its the same as the original VGA screen....

3. Is it possible to change the font size???

See the attached screen shot...

Thanks a lot.

Cheers,