yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] willpower102:
Is my ramdisk supposed to be using more than .24mb?

The only things listed in the ramdisk folder are:

WMDRM

Temporary Internet files

History

Cookies

These are the programs i have open:

Activesync

tasks

text messages

contacts

calendar

album

excel mobile

gsplayer

phm registry editor

wr-tools resinfo

file explorer

calculator

comm manager

clearvue pdf

notes

pictures & videos

pocket msn

word mobile

resco explorer 2005

Is this standard to be using so little with all this open?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] xdaradar:
:oops: Helmi_c thanks: So all I needed to do is wait for some time, the touchscreen was supposed to not work

:oops: splonker thanks: this is now a normal menu setting, no registry tweaking anymore

I don't have that entry, but i did set system>clock>more>"display the clock on the title bar in all programs".

It shows the time when i'm in a program, it will show the batteryindicator when goining to the today screen.

:?: so this issue still stands.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Midget_1990:
no, you just need to create that entry.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] gtp:
Bug with dialer skinning?

Hi, I've just desided to switch to wm2005 so now I'm trying to choose which ROM to install.

I've tried almost every ROM and now I'm totally stucked what to choose. It is always hard to decide when you have choise, yeh? :D

Well, after all I've tried to decide what exactly I'm looking for. And the answer was - system speed and Phone application. So TuMa is not for me, not too fast because of tonns of preloaded apps. I've tried also Ivan's, logout's and yours, helmi. And found out that helmi is the best choise for me: fast enough and have some nice features and fixes.

Then I decided to install my favorite phone addon - EzDial2 and was very upset when saw that there is a bug with a skin in it. First I didn't thought that the problem is in the ROM, but after trying everything I've switched to the TuMa 1.3 and eveything was fine there.

When EzDial2 is active and have language pack installed - it shows the little country flag. This is the best function for me cause I have contacts in English and in Russian.

So the bug is that the country flag is shown as a white square sometimes with some crap and the buttons looks agly (flat and grey) but not 3D and colored.

I've made a screenshot to show what I mean but now I'm using TuMa so I can just show where the bug is. If it could help, I can install helmi's ROM once again and make a screenshot with a bug.

I have this bug on

Helmi_BA_WM2k5_AKU_2.3_32mb

WM5_IVAN_V4_R3_Ramdisk32_1.11

Logout_WM2K5_5.4.03_HN

but not on TuMa 1.3 or 1.4!

Any thought's? Is there any difference with phone skinning on that ROM's?

I would very very appreciate any help with this, I want to use helmi's ROM! :roll:

Thanks in advance!
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] borjok536:
Nice!!!

Its nice to hear all of these with regard to this new BA ROM. Sad to say i dont have my BA right now. Im looking forward to this new ROM. Hope there will be more BA users out there who will going to try this and have their feedbacks posted here so that fixes will be done..Great!!! Good Luck..
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Jlm6:
Please Help Me

Hello guys first thank you for this great site and for this great releases for the BA.

I made yesterday a rom Upgrade with Helmis new rom and now i have a problem.

it freezes in the 4 colour stripes boot image , soft and Hardreset or reflash dosent help.

The only thing i can do is to flash in Wm2003 and it works.

I tried to flash 3 different versions of wm5 and it freezes at the bootscreen or it gives me while flashing 112 errors

i want the wm5 back. i had the ivan version and i whas happy :(

Thank you for the help :wink:
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] gtp:
OK, I've installed helmi's ROM again to make a good screenshot, you can see how it looks like in the attachment.

Strange, but only the active contact button affected, other buttons looks OK (they are 3D).

Also, I've found that flag field is not always white - it shows the piece of last window opened. E.g. if I launch Phone from the Today - it shows a little icon of Tasks today plugin or whatever is in that place.

On my post above you can see the difference from the normal view.

In both cases it is a clean install of EzDial2 after ROM installing and HardReset. No backup software used.

Any ideas please?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] spkr4thdd:
helmi, I can't access hotmail or pocketmsn, hotmail gives the error on capture1.bmp, pocketmsn gives capture2.bmp... I also still have the GPS bug... I'm off to test GMail now...

...and for anyone wanting to add Comm Manager to the tray I've found an excellent little app on this forum - PHM Tray Launcher - it's from the PHM Power Toys bundle and allows the addition of any shortcut to the try...
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Chrischi:
Re: ActiveSync using SSL

I could not connect with msn. The same problem as you have. I think, it could be also a certificate-problem (MSN uses a secure connection).
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Brazilian Joe:
I have not tried any WM5 rom on my BA so far, but they are looking increasingly promising...

There is one nitpicky, god-is-in-the-details, minor cosmetic thing, which bothers me on the 2003SE version, and I'd like ask the devs, pretty pretty please, if you folks can take a look into it and see if it is solvable:

On BA 2003SE, the SYSTEM Cleartype setting works only in portrait mode, but not in landscape mode. SOME apps have their own option to enable/disable cleartype inside the specific app, and some become cleartyped also in landscape mode, but others don't.

I don't know how feasible it is, as the change in screen orientation requires also a change in the way the Antialias is calculated. If the rgb cleartype values are swapped, the fonts look fuzzy and crappier than if they had no AA. so, it should be calculated taking into account the screen orientation, and I don't know if the WM5 cleartype engine is more advanced than 2003SE in this regard.

Anyway, in terms of priorities, I think this comes after A2DP. Nevertheless, having complete cleartype, and not the half-baked one of 2003SE, would be nice. Does WM5 already have it, or at least selectable in the registry? Or it would need to be 'hacked' to work in landscape?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Midget_1990:
portrait only, sorry.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Black6spdZ:
so the wifi still doesn't work correctly in this release? cannot search for APs
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] spkr4thdd:
@Brazilian Joe

actually, there is a tweak that enables clreartype in landscape mode included in tweaks2K2.net... the app does warn that this may cause unstability in certain apps etc, but the tweak is there, not sure what it is, but you could download a demo of tweaks2k2 and try the hack, if it works then even if you don't buy the app, the tweaks stay active!
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] MicMeo:
This following Registry Tweak can help you to enable ClearType in landscape mode:

Enable ClearType in Landscape mode

To enable ClearType in Landscape mode:

HKLM\System\GDI\ClearTypeSettings\OffOnRotation = 0 (DWORD decimal)

To disable:

HKLM\System\GDI\ClearTypeSettings\OffOnRotation = 1 (DWORD decimal)

Note that your PocketPC screen's LCD red/green/blue ordering required for proper ClearType display is only correct for Portrait display. You may or may not prefer to leave ClearType in Landscape mode disabled

It works good after a SoftReset. Below screenshots show that....
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] odie3:
Yes, this is the same extact error(s) I get with PockeMSN.

Also, thanks for that power toy!
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Brazilian Joe:
Many thanks to all info... and I haven't seen this on the 2003SE regtweaks wiki page... I have added it, together with the other cleartype tweaks.

BTW, let me request to leave this setting at 0 by default. to my understanding, this setting only affects the device to disable cleartype only in landscape even though the cleartype actiovation is on, so it's harmless if you don't use cleartype at all.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] spkr4thdd:
Glad to share :) I was desperate to find it after Midget stated there was an exe that would let us add tray icons... I've only had it installed today and it's been a godsend already !
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] notebook:
helmi_c, thank u for this bright rom it is the best one in W5 but onething needs attention POWERPOINT not working at all.......
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] odie3:
Wow, your right - it will not even come up at all!

On a good note: IR file sharing is working - just tested my BA with my bosses Wizard. We could send files both ways. However, his IR screen [the screen pops up after selecting Send To | Infrared Recipient] is much nicer. :(

Edit:

Figured out the IR/BT connection screen - it was part of Resco Explorer. Found an option to revert back. That must be the only thing of Resco I dislike!

Oh, sending/recieveing files via BT from my bosses Wizard works too!
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] gtp:
Here I have posted the solution with EzDial 2 skinning bug that I've described before. I don't know the reason but now I got it working and I'm happy.

Also, I'd like to mention that sometimes I had a problem starting the phone app and got the error message (see attachment). Soft-reset once or twice helped but I was uphappy with it. After plaing some time with it I've found that the root of a problem was Camera_Detect file in the startup folder. I removed it and the problem is gone now. Camera also works perfectly for me.

helmi, I think your ROM is excellent (I've tried almost every ROM that I found), just hope to get PowerPoint working and some other little things. Anyway, I'm staying with this ROM for now.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] sayadil:
HEY GUYS.

I CURRENTLY HAVE IVAN RAM W RAMDISK. I'M TRYING TO UPGRADE TO THE HELMIC ROM BUT WHEN I CLICK THE LINK TO HELMI C FTP DOWNLOAD SITE... I GET 3-4 FILES... I CLICKED ON THE FIRST ONE AND EXTRACTED TO A FOLDER ON MY COMPUTER... IN THE FOLDER I SAW LOT OF FOLDERS NAMED DOWNGRADE TO WM3 PH20B PH20B1 EXTENDED ROM PROCEDURES AND SO ON.

I'M REALLY CONFUSED AS IN WHAT TO DO... THERE'S NO WIKI THAT I COULD FIND RELATED TO DOWNLOADING HELMI ROM.

I DON'T KNOW WHETHER I HAVE TO DOWNGRADE TO WM3 TO MAKE IT WORK AND DO I NEED TO FOLLOW THE EXTENDED ROM PROCEDURE...

PLS HELP SINCE I WANNA TRY OUT THIS ROM...
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] spkr4thdd:
I take it you've downloaded the 32MB RAMDisk version...

1. Use setoperator.bat in the Helmi_AKU.2.3_v1 folder to set the ROM to your operator code...

2. Copy the nk.nbf file to the relevant folder for your device (PH20B for a BA, PH20B1 for an SX66 I believe)

3. Run the upgrade!!

Thes extended ROM is the 'old' style on your device rather than the SD card type...
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] odie3:
To add to this about the extended ROM.

If your WM5 ROM used the EXT_ROM in the Storage Card you will have to downgrade to WM2003 first to recreate your Extended_ROM in your device storage. As a matter of fact I need to do this but not until the next release... I am just to lazy ATM to re-do it. ;)
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] xdaradar:
Midget_1990: thanks, adding this key did the trick to keep time visible and so removing the battery indicator :D

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell]

"ShowTitleBarClock"=dword:1

it also made "magic button" to get icons properly on the top line
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] sayadil:
whats my operator code???? how do i know what my operator code is .. as of now i'm using IVan ROm... before that it was 2003 se which came with my O2 XDA IIS UK

i'm with rogers.... how do i know what my operator code is...

currently i don't have an extended rom... i think.. do i need to create it.. or its not that important... what does it do anyway?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Midget_1990:
@sayadil

Please for the love of god either find you caps lock button and press it, or unglue your finger from the shift key. you may think your getting peoples attention but i can garuntee you all your doing is pissing them (and me) off, i can garuntee you'll get better help if you justask normally!
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] spkr4thdd:
you need to open it in a dos window
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] sayadil:
hey

hey

Attaching my devicedate.txt

its very confusing as i cant see the operator code anywhere... as far as i read that o2 uk operator code is O2___001

can someone help
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] xykosomatik:
suspend problem??

hi, and i really must say, this is one rocking ROM! thanks to all the people who had made this possible :D

i encountered something strange... after around 12 hrs i noticed that when i pushed the power button, it powers off then after 1minute it powers back on but with the black light turned off... i tried using the shutdown button, happens again. after tried to see if it hangs but no... i press start and menu came up, same happens in softkeys and plugins...

before this all happend, i was having problems in which everytime i power off, it won't come back on unles i soft-reset. so i disabled my wisbar and that is when it happened... can't think of any more things, and yes i did all the tweaks i can think of which is related to power-wakeup-suspend etc :)

then i came up with a thread which shows that SPB pocket plus screwed up one of the earlier ROMS... basically what i'm doing now is i hard reset it and testing each and every program i install..

oh yeah, before i forget, this happened after i reflashed after fixing the ext-rom to 4000kb... but before when i had 128kb everything was ok...

wonder if some of you encountered the same problem :)
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Midget_1990:
@sayadil: your operator code has been corrupted (same happened to me)

to upgrade paste the files in the same directory as the nk.nba you want to use and run the MaUpgradeUt_noID.exe
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Midget_1990:
I've been performing many tests on this rom recently and have a few suggestions and bugs:

BUG - MSN wont sign in (Fixed)

BUG - Wifi wont automatically connect (Fixed)

BUG - Powerpoint doesnt work (allready mentioned)

BUG - No A2DP support (allready mentioned)

BUG - misconfiguration of memory/ramdisk (32mb missing, unallocated) (allready mentioned)

BUG - Contents of RAMdisk is lost on SOFT reset (dont install software etc)

Suggestion - due to the above problem a 32mb RAMdisk is plenty as only temp files can be stored there, i suggest the other 32mb goes to the RAM (pm me if you dont know what hex values).

Suggestion - include XCPUScalar (i can send the files) as a scaling cpu speed makes the device perform better when used but use less power when idle.

Suggestion - include compaction and FATFS filesys tweaks (pm me if you want them)

Suggestion - SIM Manager and SIM Contacts are allmost identical in function, remove one?

Suggestion - the following line in initflashfiles.dat is not needed as teh STK application puts itself in \Windows\Start Menu\Programs under the name your operator gives it (mine is 'Orange Plus'):

Directory("\Windows\Start Menu\Programs"):-File("SIM Toolkit.lnk","\Windows\stk.lnk")

Apart from the above i think this is a top notch release, go helmi!
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] odie3:
Really have not noticed that at all!

Yes it is - a very nice ROM!

however, I just ran into this error on all installs [from Active Sync and cabs on storage] "bah bah was unsuccessful to install". So I thought to restore a SPB Backup, however after that restore the PDA would not go past the color bars!

I have no clue what started this unsuccessful to install crap but I hope I do not run into it again! Oh well, I needed to get my extended_rom back anyways. Needless to say the last 30 minutes has been fun [not!].
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] sayadil:
With the help of few people i have installed the latest Hemi C rom.

Just wanted to know how to remove camera detect file from windows.. when i try.. it says the file is read only but when i click properties.. file attributes are greyout preventing me from deleting that file... i read it somewhere... it makes the phone fast.... pls suggest something.

Also if someone could tell me about tweaks to make it faster... thanks.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] sayadil:
hi

MSN fix is not working... i mean i can't still log on with MSN on wifi connection.. i can connect to hotmail using IE though...

is the fix only good for GPRS.

Also.. my contacts come on twice on Contacts... first they come on top and then they appear again on the bottom with SIM sign next to them.. so i'm assuming the contact list shows u phone n sim contacts at the same time.. anyway to turn that off.. secondly when u click on a phone contact.. there's no option to save it to SIM....

anyway to get this problem sorted out...

thanks
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] helmi_c:
Its a beta rom midget, so i do alittle experiment with it, but it seems failed...:(

Here my answer for the lot of question I have...I've looked in Universal DOC layout, and found that some Mb of 128 Mb are just wasted (left unpartitioned). I think that this is done to speedup writes, so that driver can use this unused space immediately when needed, and format the old sectors in the background when device is idle. It would improve if my idea is correct. I got this idea from mamaich but it seems i do it wrong...cos i dont see that much speed improvement...or maybe can u tray change the size below? and compare the speed?

if u set ramdisk to:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\RAMDisk]

"Size"=dword:2000000

its suppose to be stable (data not lost when reset) but once again this is maybe my fault.. but this is beta isnt? so i cant test it right? should fix in the beta2...thanks for being my partner midget...

Its a pay app, I dont do pay app..at least for public...:)

Suggestion - include compaction and FATFS filesys tweaks (pm me if you want them)

[/quote]

something like this?

LazyWriterThreadPrio256, EnableFatCacheWarm, EnableDataCacheWarm, ActivityThreshold, FlushPeriod, FatCacheSize, BufferSize, etc ? or do you hv another speed hack please inform me, I whould love to hv it since I dont care about this (yet) on my first release.

oops... do you hv any suggestion which one to remove?

really? i believe I already put a ; (semicolon) in front of it...but again.. my fault.. love to hv u around midget... thanks..

I will, if u involved and all of u guys... but I'm really sorry I cant answer some of questin right now... cos I've been busy at work...
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] helmi_c:
delete file \Windows\StartUp\Camera_detect.lnk not from the windows directory...

About the wifi problem, maybe cos its not fully integrated with CommManager. WIFI first or A2DP first? someone hv input about this bug?

save it to SIM is a extension app, and this rom is only a beta test (yet) something like that is for latter, or maybe as an addon...

about how to not loading from the SIM contact try this.:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Phone]
"ShowSIM'=dword:0

If i'am not mistaken... its an old trick..
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] odie3:
I do not even know what A2DP is - so I say WiFi! :)
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] helmi_c:
Its a BT profile that will allow u to listen to a stereo music on BT Headset, and on wmedia player...sounds cool right? :lol:
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] odie3:
Oh - wow yes that does sound cool!

But no Stereo Head set ATM - so I still vote for WiFi - I have WiFi ;)
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] sayadil:
Also if someone could tell me about tweaks to make it faster... thanks.[/quote]

delete file \Windows\StartUp\Camera_detect.lnk not from the windows directory...

Deleted the Camera_detect link and it does make the device fast for sure.... thanks

save it to SIM is a extension app, and this rom is only a beta test (yet) something like that is for latter, or maybe as an addon...

So what can i do for now.. is there any registry tweak or program i can download to make contacts save in SIM ... coz i add contacts on daily basis and with all the flashing i'm doing... would help alot to have the save to sim option...

about how to not loading from the SIM contact try this.:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Phone]
"ShowSIM'=dword:0

This worked... thanks alot...

Also anyway of taking off tray icons like rotate screen n shut off ??

Helmi... just to let you know its an amazing rom, the best so far... nice work...
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Midget_1990:
ill try that, but ive also tried makingit 96mb ram aswell and i see no speed difference. the 128mb that some is left unpartitioned on a UNI is the ROM not the ram, and with the BA being an older device (64mb ROM if remember right) we can hardly fit the WM5 os in ours, let alone have free space :D

really? i had no idea, i just found it in the uploaded OEM folders on the ftp a few days ago...

something like this?

LazyWriterThreadPrio256, EnableFatCacheWarm, EnableDataCacheWarm, ActivityThreshold, FlushPeriod, FatCacheSize, BufferSize, etc ? or do you hv another speed hack please inform me, I whould love to hv it since I dont care about this (yet) on my first release.

[/quote]

I do have a few more, ill send them asap, but its late now and for the next 6 weeks ill be working away from home, so only be able to do stuff at weekends :(

yes, SIM manager as SIM contacts seems to also be the sim reader that the OS uses (when i tried removing it the phone was allways in flight mode, couldnt come out of it :S)

anytime :D
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] SKassam:
Disconnect GPRS from Helmi_C

Helmi_C this ROM is excellent. I have a problem with GPRS not turning off when done with downloading e-mail or after updating weather. Please let me know how to fix it. Is it also possible to diable Smart Dialing though I know that most of this stuff is in extended ROM.

Thanks.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] xykosomatik:
Re: Disconnect GPRS from Helmi_C

what i did is to map right softkey to comm manager, then after using GPRS just pull up comm manager and disc GPRS connection, since it can't be disconnected by pressing the connection icon on startbar.

regarding my previous post, it seems that Wisbar Advance 2 is the one causing my BA to wake up halfway (screen is active but backlight remains off) 15-20 secs after powering off... if powered back on for longer than a minute it would light up but then it would freeze... no choice but to soft reset. to verify i disabled Wisbar, then powered off... it remained off then after around minutes pwered back on and it didn't freeze up this time. i also tried doing the trick on activesync so that it won't be looking for a connection every few minutes. still not resolved... any ideas?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] aleksukomeng:
Problem with active sync

Great ROM Helmi,

but there's one bug for me.

everytime i connect my BA trough USB cable to sync, i lost my wifi connection. i don't what causing this, but the problem exist on every wm05 ROM i've tried(Ivan + ivan with ramdisk).

but the strange thing is, it doesn't happen on my LAN cable connection.

both connections use DHCP.

for now, i use bluetooth connection for acticesync.

any idea????