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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] szandokan:
I've worked out a way to reduce the size of the background images to just 72k combined (35k and 37k)! :)

I basically converted the two original BMP files posted earlier to PNG, and I renamed the extension back to .bmp to keep the original file names. I then replaced the original Bkgnd_Land.bmp and Bkgnd_Port.bmp in the Windows folder on the device with the new "fake" .bmp files. (I had to clear the System attribute on the original files before I could delete/replace them.) I then reset the device, checked that everything still worked as well as before, and checked that the two new files were still the small size ones (in case they were replaced by the OS automatically, but they weren't replaced).

I have attached the new files for your convenience. Just extract and place in the Windows folder on the device, replacing the files with the same name.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azhad:
Very clever :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
[Apologies for no posts: xda devs seems to have been very buggy since Friday, not letting me post]

szandokan: great! That means we should be up around 400k right? We should apply this technique to all the large bmps in the \windows\ dir I guess.

Guys, I've looked through the wireless manager code and it seems fine. One oddity is that the window is actually called "Wireless Manager " with a space on the end. Perhaps this is causing the problem. Can someone a copy of Remote Spy for who it doesn't work check the caption for the window? Copy and paste the caption from the properties dialog and send me the exact name, with spaces etc.

That'd be really useful. Curiously it works all the time on mine.

I've done the code for the tray icon. Will be released shortly, although I'd like to get the WM fixed if poss, so please provide feedback as requested above.

On the back of the tray icon code I did quickly yesterday, I've got a new app (not VJBigPhone) coming out, hopefully this weekend. Might be useful to some :wink:

rb32: http://www.louterrailloune.com/index_old.php?page=magicss can be used to take screenshots.

The wireless manager hack is to correct the buttons. What you describe means the hack is doing nothing :( Is the wireless manager called "wireless manager" in your language version? Please send a screenshot of the WM please.

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

I dont quite understand your question...

Although I still try.

The exe file for the wireless manager is WirelessMgr.exe

The short cut in the start menu/program/ is Wireless Manager.lnk that its location is "Windows\WirelessMgr.exe" with 2 little squares at the end....

Strange and see the pic...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
[apologies for not posting. Bugs with the forum have prevented me for posting for a day or two]

chris_khho: many thanks for your help. Don't worry, the shortcut is normal. What I actually need is someone with remote spy to check the caption of the wireless manager. Ideally, if you can send me your WirelessMgr.exe program I can check it myself. You might not be able to copy it off the rom, I'm not sure, in which case can someone for who Wireless Manager hack doesn't work, with a ROM rip (Azhad?) send me your copy of WirelessMgr.exe.

I'm working on the next update.

I'm proposing to:

- move over to Tray Icon instead of Notification icon

- remove Wireless manager code.

- remove 45 second background timer

I may try to implement a standalone version as I originally wrote, for chris_khho's benefit. Here, you launch the standalone and it will launch

the phone and fix it at the same time. That can be assigned to the green hardware key to ensure your phone always looks fixed. This may not be in

v0.8 though, I've got some work to do on fullscreen TSC as well.

I'm also hoping to release something new and non VJBigPhone related, hopefully this weekend :wink:

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azhad:
When the icon flicker, the application is using 100% of the cpu.

Look how the cpu usage dropped after I closed the application:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Guys, I'm having major difficulties posting from work these days, so less posts for a while.

I strongly recommend not to use 0.7 for a while. I WILL get 0.8 out tonight.

It's basically finished, i've removed WM stuff entirely (I'll make this standalone for those who need it).

I've removed all background timers, and have moved to the tray icon. It should now use the minimum resources possible.

However, can anyone tell me why GetCursorPos would return a very odd reading (like (525872834,0)?) when returning clicks from the system tray?

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Guys,

v0.8 using a today tray icon.

All it does is fix in the background.

Wireless Manager code will be moved to a seperate app.

I will make a standalone version at some point.

If you don't close the phone after launching VJBigPhoneRes, it should always be fixed.

If you do close the phone (using a task manager), use the Load and Fix option from the tray icon.

Please give feedback.

http://www.vijay555.com/vj/releases/vjbigphone/VJBigPhonev0.8.cab

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SiliconS:
Nice one, vijay. It appears to work for me, although I'm not sure what I'm looking for! (It appears in the tray and I can click on it to fix the phone, so I guess this is good.)

It captures screen rotations OK too.

So... nice one. :) Thanks again.

The only thing it didn't seem to do was place a shortcut in the Programs folder so I could reach it through the Start Menu. Is that likely to be the case, or is my machine just being a spaz?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Poo, my bad. Will be fixed in interim build.

Launch from \Program Files\vijay555\VJBigPhone\VJBigPhoneRes.exe

Place a shortcut in your startup folder.

It doesn't always work first time in the startup folder, depending on how long your boot takes...if so, click load and fix.

Next version will have some other useful stuff. I will try to do a universal wireless manager fix and reincorporate it if possible, as well. Thanks to Azhad for the .exe.

Did you try my traylauncher? With vjphonetools you can place a call from the tray. why you would, I don't know!

night night.

v
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] seal:
Thanks again vijay, nice work with the tray icon.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Guys, I've updated the cab to v0.81 to include the missing start menu shortcut. On my website.

I'm unable to post from work now, just home: looks like The Matrix noticed :shock: and cut me off, so apologies for fewer updates...

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fcaeiro:
help !!!

i there...

VJ thanks a million....

yesterday i installed that 0.6 version and the cab to fix the text size...

I now have a huge text size on qvga....

How do i solve this ??

I added the reg key to the ozvga as posted here ...

vj: can you clarify what should be installed and in wich order....

thanks

PS:for me now the vga as only a problem the small "ok button"
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rb32:
Azhad, what do I wrong. I can't copy your files to the \windows directory.

I tried also to rename the existing ones. This didn't work either.

PLEASE HELP!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azhad:
Re: help !!!

In VGA mode:

you have to manualy add in the ozvga settings under registry " HKLM\Security\Phone\Skin "

then open the registry and delete the key " HKLM\SOFTWARE\Oz\VGA\Registry\SEvga\Security "

then add the reg key attached
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azhad:
You can't copy the files from the pc directly in the windows folder, copy them in the storage card, and after in the windows folder using resco explorer.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fcaeiro:
improvement sugestion

HI VJ

its possible to increase the size of contact picture when doing voice cals ?

its too smal (too smal even in qvga for me)

thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Guys,

I've updated to v0.85.

This version fixes a minor memory leak, and also adds a function whereby if you try to load VJBigPhoneRes a second time, it will load, fix and focus on the phone.

So if you want to, for instance, assign it to a hardware key, you can use this to always bring up a nice and fixed phone...

v0.85: http://www.vijay555.com/index.php?Releases:VJBigPhone

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
fcaeiro: thanks for your thanks!

I can certainly look into enlarging the caller pic. However, I don't use my WM5 device as a phone, so can you send me a screenshot of how the phone looks with a caller pic on the screen?

Then I can visualise if we have room and the possibility to enlarge it!

Thanks!

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rb32:
Thank you Azhad. It worked well. May I ask you, wether you can help me to fix the other buttons as well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
if someone tells me which cab contains the phone skin i'll host it for rb32. if no one is sure i'll just host the whole extended rom. tomorrow now though.

rb32, to go from basic phone to fully skinned dialler, check the xda ftp for the o2 extended rom. the cab is in there somewhere!

apply that and you should have it like the screenshot.

regarding the order of installation, apply the o2 dialler skin cab first, then the background fix, azhad's text fix and finally install and run vjbigphone.

fcaeiro: it might be possible for me to get th screenshots from the emulator, but if you can get shots i'll check them out.

v
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] @ngel:
Hi vijay555,

first of all a big THANKS for your nice work. As you can see in the attached picture, the called ID picture is a 39x39 pixels small icon located at x=555 y=87 (in landscape mode), or x=395 y=84 (in portrait mode) - all misurations are relative to the top/left corner of the cprog client area.

I hope this will help you.

Cheers!

***EDIT***

Sorry, I've posted the wrong pictures (without the fix applied): I've updated them.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Guys, SiliconS asked when I'm moving to v1.0.

These are my thoughts:

SiliconS: VJBigPhone. I'm quite prepared to step to v1.0 if I can, if there are no issues. No one's mentioned anything bad I think, so I think the core code is safe to stick with. I'm intending to add a phone close option on the tray icon (just in case anyone wants it!) and hopefully one other minor but useful function. Beyond there, hopefully that's v1.0. If I can, I will try to enlarge the caller's photo as requested, and if so I will incorporate it as a menu option. (that might be >v1.0)

Finally, I intend to re-address the wireless manager fix, and if it works, I'll reincorporate it as an option on the menu, and also perhaps as a standalone for those who don't need VJBigPhone! Sound ok? Any other ideas for incorporating in?

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fcaeiro:
V1

HI VJ hi think that V1 should fix the text size without manually changing the registry.....

I still didn’t solve the issue of having huge icons on qvga....

The only way i can get the right size on qvga is uninstalling your "cab" "VJBigPhoneButtons.cab"
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
fcaeiro: I'm afriad I've never used my universal in QVGA, so i've never looked at reversing the registry for bigbuttons. The registry settings are all as conjured by Azhad, and he's explained how to set up the registry in OzVGA (I think) so it will switch the button sizes when switching QVGA<>VGA. I'm afraid I have no experience of configuring the app, so I'm not really sure how to do it, but I think it's straight forward; try reading through his posts on the matter. If you get it set up correctly, send me a reg or configuration file and I'll cab it up if you want.

I'm not sure about including this reg fix for button size in v1. I need feedback on this; the configuration is "external" to VJBigPhone and could be changed by different skins (which I think Azhad is working on) etc, subject to taste. Eg, when Azhad was pumping out new configurations every 5 minutes, he changed text position, size, and so on. So I could force VJBigPhone to install one reg by default on installation, but I would rather keep this seperate and chosen by the user.

What say? Yay or nay?

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fcaeiro:
VJ:on my previous pda (Toshiba e800) i only used vga too...

i'm realy fan of vga, but the Toshiba had a 4' screen that will give you a "ok" button big enough to use your finger...

When I’m using my universal as phone is very hard to press the "ok" on the bar (too small)...

Do you think you can increase the size of the top bar ?

Do you think you can change your "callhistory app" so it can export the call list to some kind of text file ??

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
fcaeiro: VJCallHistory is just a simple prog to bring up the call history display.

However, theoretically it's very easy to output the callhistory to a text file.

But the program would have to be written from scratch. Someone asked me to write an app that would also sort it by caller etc. This stuff would require some investment of time I don't have right now, but if you're interested, I'll look into it at some point.

Re the OK buttons. The Tosh OK button was still normal size though, relative to the large screen?

The top bar can be enlarged, but it wouldn't achieve anything in terms of enlarging the ok button, who's size is determined by the OS. However, it's relatively easy to write an app that would just give a large OK button. But it would look a bit odd graphically. You could use WisBar etc to skin the start bar I guess.

Does wisbar support any size buttons (ie > 26 pixels)? I'm not sure that it does, but I suppose it would be easy to double the height of the start bar to 56 pixels, use a wisbar skin or my theoretical app to enlarge the ok button and start button, and then use normal registry settings to enlarge the start bar text. Then you would effectively have a pixel doubled Start Bar. Could be cute no?

I don't know if the soft buttons need enlarging: I'm working the other way, to remove them (actually minimise them to 2 pixels like VJToggleToday.) This is a work in progress for VJToggleTodayWM5

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rb32:
VIJAY55 may I ask you to make a file with all the *btn*.bmp files in your \windows directory. I played a little arround and I'm sure that can solve my problem. I don't really want to install the O2 dialer skin, because I would like to keep my german language buttons.

Still I love your application.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azhad:
Installing the o2 skin will not make you lose the german buttons.

P.S.

I'm redumping the \windows folder, as soon as it finish I'll send you the btn files.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rb32:
Azhad, can you tell me which is the right cab file for the O2 skin? But till I prefer to change the btn files. That I know will work. I tried this already with on file.

Thank you for your offer.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Guys,

Subject to copyright concerns by o2, I'm posting a full rip of the Extended ROM.

From what I can tell, it looks like file signed_UNI_o2AUI4_build76.CAB is the one containing the skin buttons. I can't confirm because I just randomly clicked them until I got the skin, but from inspecting it, it looks like it.

I haven't ripped the bmps from my windows\ folder because of possible edits etc I have made in the past, which might mean my images are not "virgin". However, hopefully the full Ext Rom will help!

Get it from here:

http://www.vijay555.com/vj/ExtCabs/WM5ExtendedRom.rar

All - Updates: An Italian site was posting about VJBigPhone recently and they mentioned that it doesn't fix the PIN entry page. I'd never thought about or addressed this, so I will investigate if this is possible.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azhad:
I'm fixing other apps for vga mode: http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=192458#192458

If someone have a request I can look into it
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Guys, I'm posting v0.9.

I think I'm going to have to do something about the version numbers, cus I'm going to have quite a bit more to add to feel it's finished.

Anyway v0.9:

- draw a black outline around the icon in case you have white background

- tried to deal with the PIN input screen.

There is a problem with the PIN screen. It's presented in a different way to the other dialler screens. I can fix it perfectly, but there's a blue square that overlaps the buttons.

Images in the windows folder, cmdpad_land.gif,cmdpad_port.gif and cmdpad_sqre.gif are backdrops for the pin buttons. But these are positioned incorrectly internally; I can move them but they overlap the buttons due to the way the dialler is coded internally, so basically they cause a screw up.

If someone can replace them in ROM with a 1x1 pixel file, I can fix it perfectly, otherwise for now I've offset the command buttons on the right of the dialler off the screen, so at least the dialler buttons are unobscured for now. They seem to be write protected in ROM and resist the usual techniques to replace.

Before:

After:

download the cab here
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fcaeiro:
the Start bar must be increseas ( i think)

HI VJ and others

your tool is in fact solving the main issue for me to change to VGA.

But after a few days using my fears are becoming true....

The "ok" button on the star bar is too small and i can't use it with a finger....

How do you guys manage to click the small ok on top left in your car for instance ???

VJ, Azhad can you enlarge the top bar ???

thanks a lot
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azhad:
I think you can use one of Vj tools to use the ok with an hard button.

To enlarge the top bar the work is just to much....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rb32:
Help neede with the Video button. See Screenshots.

Guys I used the O2 cab file. It changed the most buttons except the Video button.

Does somebody has an idea, which file or which registry entry needs to be changed?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
rb32: looks like you've got the tmobile theme hanging on. Have you installed the o2 extended rom cabs I posted above?

I don't know if these are relevant, but I'm posting a rar of all my jpgs, gifs and bmps from my windows folder:

http://www.vijay555.com/vj/Releases/VJBigPhone/BMPs.rar

I think the ones you want are VbBtn* but that's just a guess!

Guys, I think a bigger ok button is possible to emulate, but enlarging the Start bar i've discussed above, to wit, use wisbar etc.

However, pressing the enter button on the dpad usually does the trick.

If not, I could knock up a pseudo ok button simulating the functions of the original, but bigger, but what would it look like graphically? A bit odd, no?

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BrettS:
Re: the Start bar must be increseas ( i think)

Maybe my finger is smaller than yours, but I've found that if I brace my finger on the upper right part of the frame around the screen, then roll my finger down onto the screen I can hit the OK button every time. It sounds kind of odd, but after you've done it a few times it's not difficult.

If you have the Universal in laptop mode there's an OK button right on the keyboard which is easy to hit, and if it's in tablet mode you can map the camera or voicedial button to be an OK button.

HTH.

Brett
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fcaeiro:
if i use the jasjar in landscape mode, i have no problems with the size of the buttons because i have hardware buttons.

But normaly i use the jajsar in portrait mode....

Another thing is on the bottom bar when you miss a call to press the notification button its a pain....

try it yourselfs.....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rb32:
vijay555: I checked all my VbBtn*, but they are looking like the other buttons and yes I installed the cab you mentioned. I checked also the registry, but I didn't find any key which is calling the VbBtn* files. Can you please check on your device?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azhad:
I can click everywhere on the screen, with no miss. Just bend the finger and use instead the nail.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
fcaeiro: You're in a bit of a bind. VGA screen means small icons.

I can fix some of the soft menu bars, but they're created by each app so it wouldn't be a neat solution.

The notification icons in the top bar are defined in the ROM. I think we'll have trouble making those bigger in a neat way. As I said, use WISBar.

VGA really means use of the stylus or nail, swings and roundabouts!

rb32: I'm afraid I've never used the video dialler to make a call so can't really talk with authority about how the buttons are set up. I know they're created by one of the (other) extended rom cabs that should be included in my rar above.

Why not copy all the jpgs/gifs/bmps etc out of your windows folder and check which one matches your t-mobile button?

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Guys:

I'm updating to v0.91

Basically, you are no longer required to specify an international parameter, eg Telefon, to support international versions. It should work internally, I hope!

Also, you can now unload the phone, should you feel the need to recover any memory it occupies.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] crino:
great ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Thanks for your help Crino. Worked very well!

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cshortt:
Sweeeet!. This finally worked for my Swiss french phone!

Woohoo. Thanks a plenty!

Chris
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rb32:
Vijay555: I still need to extend the Shortcut by "Telefon" otherwise it did not work. But this is not a big issue for me. This is only for your information. If you need a tester, I would do this.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
rb32: that's odd. i'll look into it when i get back from holiday next week. anyone else having success or problems with international support?

v
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rb32:
vijay555. don't hurry. I'm fine how it is.

I still have my small button problem. I'm currently looking for a way to extract Windows Mobile 5 cab files, in the moment not taht successfull.

Next week I'll be back in Germany and spend some time with my Device.

I plan to hardreset it, not to install al the brandiong stuff and only install some selected cab's.

I'll keep you informed.

Merry Christmas and a Happy new year to all.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] playamenace:
hello rb32,

i'm having the same problem with my video button and have tried evrerything i could think of but no success.

i even overwrote every button pic i found on my mda pro that looked like t-mobile with the original windows mobile ones.

so it seems that the video button is hardcoded in some dll...

i think azhad already mentioned something like this in this thread.

so if anyone can help in skinning that little ugly magenta t-mobile button i'd be a happy camper :-)

thanks to anyone in advance!

cheers,

playamenace
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
the video button is installed by one of the cabs in your extended rom during the customisation boot. you probably have to try re installing video button from my ext rom cabs above. worst case=hard reset, skip your ext rom customisation, use my o2 cabs for customistised video button, then your ext rom cabs...

v