yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Oliy:
Do they not show up in the list? Try a soft reset.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dannzz:
Make sure you update both xml files (one has a _ infront of the name) and make sure the _ file is read only after you save it, works for me
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Oliy:
I have managed to put photocontacts in the Applications tab, see first post for details. Not particularly elegant but it works!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ronfin44:
Question about icon(s): What are the dimensions? 32x32, or any size and it'll resize it automatically?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Oliy:
The original icon size in VJDialer.exe is 32x32 and 8 bit depth. I managed to replace it with 64x64 pixels and 24 bit colour depth with Resource Hacker so you can have good quality photos. They show up a fixed size on the app tab though.

I'm pretty sure you can use whatever size icon you want, but 64x64 was noticeably better quality than 32x32.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ronfin44:
1. Create icons (*.ico) for all the photo contacts you want using GConvert or similar icon creator.

2. Extract VJDialer.exe from VJPhonetools and open it with Resource Hacker.

3. Open the Icon > 1 folder and right click on 2057, which is the icon

4. Select "Replace resource" and replace it with one of the icons you made earlier

5. Save the .exe with a new filename, e.g. contactName.exe

6. Repeat steps 2-5 for each icon you have created.

7. You should now have a set of exes which each have your contacts' photo. Copy these to your phone, for example "\Program Files\Phonetools".

8. Create shortcuts to each of these exes and place them somewhere in \Windows\Start Menu. I use \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Speed dial".

9. Go to the HTC Homeplug and add new button. Select your photo contacts!

Can you simplify these? For some reason it didn't work. I was able to add the shortcut, but wasn't the same. Didn't show an icon I made and showed me an error
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ronfin44:
Sorry to be a pest. Just not grasping using the Resource Hacker. I followed the steps, but I'm missing something. Is there a laymans version or a cheat-cheat for dummies? lol
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Oliy:
I didn't explain it very well, here is an alternate explanation:

Create icons for all your contacts out of pictures

1. Use GConvert or similar to open an image file and save it as an icon eg contactName.ico.

2. Do this for each contact you want to display.

You now have an icon file displaying each of your photo contacts

Create a series of VJDialer.exe files each with an icon of your photo contact

1. Use Resource Hacker and open VJDialer.exe from VJ's cab

2. In the pane on the left, click on "Icon" to expand it

3. Click on "1" below "Icon" to expand that

4. The object below "1" is the icon, right click on it and select "Replace resource"

5. Select one of the icon files you created earlier

6. "Save as" a new name, for example contactName.exe

You now have an instance of VJDialer.exe with the photo for an icon for each of your photo contacts

Create links to the exes in the start menu

1. Bring up the context menu on one of the exes and "Create shortcut"

2. Edit the shortcut to include the phone number of that contact as documented on Vijay's website

3. Copy the shortcut to the \Windows\Start Menu directory.

4. Do this for each instance of exe

5. Add all your contacts to HTC Homeplug

ronfin44, just have a play around with it, one or two of my icons didn't work properly the first time I tried, if in doubt try another icon just in case.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ronfin44:
Thanks bo. I opened VJ's dialer shortcut in Notepad and did a quick edit of it so it would dial a specific number, but now I'm gonna try your instructions. :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rblover69:
my icons etc work fine. ...the only issue is when im recieving a sms through the plam threader the plugin cant reconize that i recieved a sms. Is it because its through the threader emails etc show up but my guess is because im using the plam threader.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ronfin44:
I'm stuck on how to edit the exe once I make it, like how do I add the number? Not too clear on VJ's website. It shows the example, but what do I use? When I tried it in Notepad it gives me an error when I try to Launch it:

No recipient found!

Format eg:

VJDialer123

Please Donate! etc etc:confused:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Regression:
Not sure if this is part of the new Touch stuff, but the new battery icon in the top bar (in line with the start button) blocks the time/date from showing where it normally would.

Is there a way to remove this icon so the time and/or date can be displayed there?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ronfin44:
hahaha I figured it out! I'm an ass! I kept selecting the wrong icon in the menu, and NOT selecting the shortcut! lol Thanks for all your help guys! -fin

Oh, I make awesome icons if anyone wants some! :p
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] reitjam:
even the new weather info wont help

i really need the weather to work, can any one prove to me that it works for CHAMPAIGN ILLINOIS UNITED STATES

http://www.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&locCode=NAM|US|IL|CHAMPAIGN&metric=0
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mikeo97:
Updating HTC Weather Plug-in with GPRS....

I can update weather via wifi and active sync but i cannot connect and update via gprs. I can surf the web just fine, Windows live mail works fine, just cant update HTC weather plug-in. Used Weatherpanel with Dymond with same gprs setting and it worked as well. Anyone else having these issues.

using Tmobile USA Blackberry Connect plan

Thanks
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] yozh:
OMG I just spent 30 minutes trying to setup weather to work right and I cant get it, its a city in US the code is NAM|US|NY|VALLEY STREAM

and the link which works is this

http://www.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&myadc=0&zipcode=NAM|US|NY|VALLEY%20STREAM|

and it cant get the weather its driving me nuts grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

also any one know a good way to put a battery and memory metter with this new plugin I used to use eather BS or PocketPlus but they dont fit now :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] reitjam:
dude i have spent hours, i think that is because its a UK rom so they dont allow US string except for large cities.

i use lvsw_WM6_0519_3.30.2.1_vp3G_v1.0 with

tonaya weather to go http://tonaya.com/products/wtg/index.php

and i like it, i am going back to it and going to stick with that till cingular oops AT&T gets mobile 6 out the door
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] yozh:
Thanks. I dont know if I like this whole HTC plug in thing anyway :( ROM seems stable maybe I`ll just go back to my own screen. Hell I`ll give it a day or 2, but being with out the battery metter and memory metter really sucks.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] ChaoticDruid:
Over in the Wizard thread where the htc home was released, there are others who are having the gprs weather issue also, youre not the only one, sorry I cant be of help though..I just remember seeing people talking about it.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] donsaxena:
The wifi issue is interesting i am going to play around with that
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mikeo97:
No weather update via tmbile gprs

Yea I've been reading there. Hopefully someone will find a fix.

Thanks anyway,ChaoticDruid
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] reitjam:
Tonaya weather to go has Valley Stream New York
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] cyberenz:
Getting Weather to Work

Since this weather thing is probably made to work in the UK and not the US, I just set my city to Miami, where I am, then went to the menu area under weather options to the Automatic Download area then checked off both the Download weather data automatically and Download when roaming. Downloading new weather information in the US did not work until I had checked off the Download when roaming. After I did this, the unit said, attempting to download weather information and it did, very well.

I hope this works for you guys having problems with this plugin. That's my 2 cents.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] festermania:
I have try all solution but weather dont works ;)

Somebody know if is possible find the cab file of the new HTC plugin???

Thx
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Severok:
hi,

can someone say me how i make the weather to celsius instead of fahrenheit?

thanks
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] festermania:
go where you must select the city tap menu and here select celsius
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] bobbyelliott:
Thanks for this advice.

But I don't know how to edit these files since I don't have an XML editor on my phone and the Windows directory is hidden when I browse it on my PC (using SyncCenter on Vista).

So can anyone tell me how to edit these files?

Cheers.

Bobby
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] next2002:
tools>folder options> view> tick the show hidden files

i have added some new weather sources, it works
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mablan:
About the weather...

I managed to include my city (in Mexico) and the panel is working...

But I can tell you it is not acurated...:(

It says 25 celsius and cloudy ... and right now its very suny and very very hot; more than 30 C...!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] festermania:
It was great if like spb we can do atemplate with our site of meteo
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Sleuth255:
The weather panel is actually an adaptation of the Vista XML weather gadget.

Here's a bit from the code project explaining this (note the eerie similarities for the Current Conditions icons).

http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/vistaweatherwidget.asp?print=true

I haven't looked at it enough to adapt it to display XML location codes, but I suspect that doing this will resolve the issues some are having with the OP technique for finding these...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] festermania:
Great but to difficult for my english :D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] kastro:
Ok it downloads a 5day forecast but after an hour in reconnects to 3G,GPRS to download new forecast.

Why?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mrvanx:
So the information is up to date
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] yozh:
Its strange I dont understand how come NEW YORK works and VALLEY STREAM doesnt. if its pulling from the same source
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Despiadado1:
Weather limited to major cities

I can confirm that this certainly seems to be an issue with a limitation to VERY large cities. For instance, I can only get Detroit MI and Flint MI to work but not other relatively big cities like Saginaw and / or Midland. /shrug

The same thing happens in spb weather as well. No luck with cities smaller than FLINT which is very large. The Tonaya programs works nicely but I must say... i really like this htc plugin.... if only the weather would work :D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mikeo97:
TMobile GPRS weather update?

Anyone else have Tmobile USA with Blackberry or total internet plan, using the HTC Homeplugin?

Been reading the Wizard forums as well with no luck.

I am able to update weather with Active Sync and Wifi and I can surf the web just fine, but I cannot figure out why I cannot update the weather using Gprs? It doesnt matter which city I choose.

Thanks for any help.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] bobbyelliott:
Thanks. But in Vista you must also enable "Show hidden operating system files" as well as the switch you are referring to. I've got it now.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] yozh:
in SPB weather it works perfect for my little town :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] taguapire:
Hi,

Some one knows why my weather panel only was updated the first time, after that, it can´t be updated any more.

Regards,

Taguapire.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hamster0914:
Works fine for a lot of cities in Japan and also smaller ones in New Zealand without any problems.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] chg1282002:
where i can downlard HTC Homeplug CAB?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] chg1282002:
final fonnd the cab file,it is work ok..
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Oliy:
Anyone else notice that the weather does not change the day it displays until you update? For example, today is Wednesday but the weather plugin is still showing the weather for Tuesday and will do so until I update, even though it has the data for the next couple of days.

This and a few other problems are making me think of getting rid of this plugin, nice though it is.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DvTonder:
Interesting, I just noticed it myself once you pointed it out. Love the rest of the plugin though. Hopefully it is something that can be fixed.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] pkley:
My time is displaying in 24hr format. In the Start bar it displays correctly, but not HTC. Any ideas?

Also I can't get my city to download the weather information - Redding CA

I have the following line in both files as described above

<city name="Redding, CA"	locationcode="NAM|US|CA|REDDING"/>
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] BorisTheSpider:
The weather is working fine, I am able to update via 3G or GPRS. Disabled autoupdate. Would like to know if we can set it to update at a specified time (ie in the morning or something) - checking the registery there is only autoupdate and update while roaming. Would also be nice that once it has finished updating that it close the data connection.

Any ideas?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] vijay555:
Guys, I've been off planet for a little while, missed all this, although I think I've already been in email contact with some of you guys about this already.

Does the HomePlug thing only launch .exes, not .lnks? I presume that that's the difficult here. It's good that the current VJDialer hack works, but I may have to think about a more elegant solution for you.

V
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] harlenm:
Here is the issue I have, and I think it might be why some cities don't work.

The program is unable to update when there is an active GPRS connection. If the connection is active, it will give the message unable to download data.

I have to disconnect from GPRS, and then try to download the data, and that will works. Maybe one reason why people aren't able to see the cities they want is because there is a current data connection, and the program won't pull new data at all.

Anyone care to test this, I can't right now.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] MaciejN:
I too am seeing this. I think it has to do with the carrier. I have T-Mobile USA and I cannot update via GPRS.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] yozh:
The reason why cities dont work is due to this

the update is being taking from

http://htc.accuweather.com

so a typical city would look like this

"http://htc.accuweather.com/widget/htc/forecast-data_v3.asp?ac=TR2cra9U&locCode=NAM|US|NY|NEW YORK"

try it in your browser, now if only I can find the city that I need
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Oliy:
Hi Vijay,

The homeplug will launch .lnks, which is fine, but for photocontacts I needed to make the icon of the .lnk into a photo of my contact. This necessitated changing the icon of the .exe, and creating an .exe for each contact.

WM6 doesn't allow you to change the icon for a .lnk, it just takes the icon from the program it points to. I've been trying to think of a better solution but haven't managed anything practical so far!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] AximMarkSD:
i installed this yesterday nad for some reason it makes my phone not want to wake up. all's well, i walk away, come back to my usual dark screen, hit power to wake it and nothing happens. i had to soft reset. i just took it off.

actually, i've had that problem w/ several today plugins. i'm running things rather bare at the moment just to keep it running smoothly, though it's not as pretty.

anyone else have this problem?

thanks,

mark
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] vijay555:
Re Changing the icon pointed to:

D'oh.

I didn't realise this was the problem, that's easy then. I've written many times on the format of the .lnk file, but it IS possible to specify a tertiary icon for a .lnk file,

ie you can have a .lnk shortcut file point to VJDialer.exe. This will normally take on the icon from VJDialer.exe.

However, it is possible to specify for the .lnk to take an icon from ANOTHER .exe (or dll!) so you can make you .lnk use icons from any other file.

To do this, make a .lnk shortcut to VJDialer.exe, and then load this .lnk file into Pocketword or Notepad or copy onto your pc and edit on notepad there.

So edit the .lnk directly and paste this in:

What this says is, make a shortcut to

"\Program Files\vijay555\VJDialer.exe"

Dial the number

123

But then, the ? specifies another icon for the .lnk, ie:

?\Program Files\GreenSoftware\GSFinder.exe,0

means, use the first (0 = first) icon in GSfinder.exe as the icon for this .lnk.

You may need to restart your PPC to see the effect, but probably not.

The VJDialer.lnk will now have the icon for GSFinder!

Have a look here for more info, and also an icon viewer to find the icon offsets (they are not logical! They will not all be like 0,1,2, some will be -173 etc! Use the icon viewer to find out).

Note - I wrote about this in the past to use VJPhoneTools with CLaunch (a great launcher). In this way, as you've done above, make an icon dll file, and put each of your photo contacts' icons into that dll (I recommend using Microangelo Librarian to do this).

Then, use the above technique to make your .lnk files point to those icons in that dll. Thus, only 1 copy of VJDialer, and only 1 dll that contains all your photos in.

V
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] andyjs:
Does anybody with T-Mobile in US can update the weather through Edge/Gprs?

I have checked the 4winmobile.com forum and it seems like people with tmo us is having issues with it. Any help appreciated.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] leoiden:
same problem here t-mobile user only way to update weahter is when connected to comp
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hiimcliff:
same here

weird
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] andyjs:
I think it might have to do with the ports. I'm going to install a firewall application and see the logs maybe i can find the problem.

I mean, for this weather feature to work it is obvious that we need to have at least the blackberry 19.99 plan on it. If you have the proxies with the tmobileweb then you know that is your problem.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hiimcliff:
im using tmobile total internet. doesnt update with gprs/edge. someone in the original thread said it and i believe its true that its not working because the connection is a proxy. wifi is direct, activesync is direct, gprs/edge is not.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dcoelho:
Have you access to the internet via activesync? I haven't. When I try to do that with ieexplorer I receive an error message. Can you explain your acivesync configuration?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] andyjs:
Yes you should be able to use full internet with activesync.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] andyjs:
even though gprs/edge is not direct it should be able to update. It's not really about being direct or not. its about the open ports.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hiimcliff:
that could be true too. is it possible to find out what port the home plug is trying to use?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] andyjs:
yes with the ports activity logs. I will post them right now. I helped the guys from agile messenger because there was a conflict with msn disconnecting constantly and I downloaded this tool to see the activity of ports. there is more than one program available to see ports activity, including firewalls.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] andyjs:
Ok, here is the result:

IP address: 207.242.93.89

Port: 80

The communication with the accuweather is reached and established based on the logs. This was using gprs/Edge. I will test with activesync and i will post back soon.

I also noticed that the ip address directs to the accuweather website. the htc.accuweather.com and accuweather.com are just domain names for the same ip address.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] MaciejN:
You don't think that this has anything to do with the fact that our PDAs think they are roaming constantly? I know the plugin has an option for this, but maybe it doesn't work quite right, especially if others can update via GPRS?

The plugin uses standard web services to get its data. You confirmed this with port 80. I don't think its a port issue.

Maciej
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] sub69:
Can I just wade into this weather thing too please?

Looks to me like some locations definitely aren't supported by the HTC domain on AccuWeather. My home (Greenwich, London, UK) for instance:

HTC Link: http://htc.accuweather.com/widget/h...sp?ac=TR2cra9U&locCode=EUR|UK|UK170|Greenwich

ForecastFox link: http://forecastfox.accuweather.com/....asp?metric=1&location=EUR|UK|UK170|Greenwich

Go to either of these on your browser, and you'll see that despite having the same location code, the HTC domain returns a blank result. Admittedly that doesn't help anyone who has successfully connected once or twice, but for those who have *never* successfully connected to their custom location using HTCHome, that nasty HTC domain may be where the problem lies.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mjhtech:
another one..

I to get this problem:

HTC Link: http://htc.accuweather.com/widget/ht...001|Truro (no joy)

ForecastFox link: http://forecastfox.accuweather.com/a...001|Truro (works ok)

The closest place I can get to work for me down in Cornwall is Plymouth!!

Not much use to me :(

Is there any way to recode the htc weather plugin to use the forecastfox link?

Anyone?

Mike.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] djstegges:
I have found that there is a power issue once the homeplugin is installed.

Anyone else got this?

D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] alfiekino:
can someone help me with the update issue?

i connect the computer with activesync but i can't update via a proxy setup in the connection settings, i can go on internet but not the weather update:confused:

thanks in advance
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] kenxu:
I'm in the same boat. Love it someone can help us.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] wnirenberg:
E/G Icon

Well my weather works fine since i'm in Atlanta, GA and updates fine over GPRS. My problem is that after installing home plugin my e/g icon is replaced with the wlan connected icon! When i'm in the 3G area I do get the 3G icon, but when I leave it goes back to the connected wlan icon, both with wlan turned off! I was running Faria's customized v.1, and this morning flashed to Lsvw's new .3, got the same exact results with both roms. Anyone have any suggestions?:confused:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] andyjs:
ok, please if you are not in tmobile us we know your weather works fine. We need to hear from someone from tmobile usa that a solution for it.