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[Touch GSM General] carlosp_uk:
Another New Beta

Hello again

Right, here's a new beta [REMOVED - SEE POST 259 FOR NEWER VERSION] with a re-written engine based on all your great feedback and registry dumps from the last 24 hours.. ..we move closer, I hope, to getting support for all the different varients of the Touch out there.

As ever, please remember to backup your reg & animation files before installing, and it's not recommended for novice users.

This version WONT fix any existing problems that might have been caused by any bugs in previous ones, etc, it will be thrown by any odd registry settings, so please ensure you've restored your registry etc. before trying it out.

I really look forward to hearing whether it works on your devices, particularly on the Touch Dual, Vogue and OKTA.

best wishes

Carlos

PS: known issue: it will only generate animation files to the standard \Windows\{colorkey}A1.BRN...etc, not to any custom file locations you may have put into your registry.
[Touch GSM General] flyhighusa:
Experimental one works fine so far. Using the Sprint Vogue. I saw your reply linking to this thread. If you get a black icon, just make sure you use correct BRN files in the windows root structure and you'l be fine.

Still need to deactivate Mediahub.exe and then you are allowed to install the cab file. Great work man! Is there something for this to control the launcher application? I have seen some iphone themed cabs, but no settings program.
[Touch GSM General] cojones:
Brilliant!

Cheers Carlos...so far so good. Will continue to use and feed back.
[Touch GSM General] flyhighusa:
Ok I finally got the opera brn to work in the cube as mentoined before, however how do I change the "animation" part of the cube? It still shows IE

I understand I can select the transition brn files, but how do I create the custom one so it will show my opera brn. I have found a customizer tool online Custumizer

, but it doesn;t seem to work on the HTC Vogue by sprint.

Sorry if I missed a page in the thread. I've been reading for a while and it's 05:30 in the morning here.
[Touch GSM General] carlosp_uk:
Hi there, have you tried the newest beta of Touch Settings? (v2.12pre) - http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1731118&postcount=240 (Uninstall any existing versions first)

It has the ability to automatically generate the requried BRN files for your animations, without you needing to use the 'Customiser' tool you mention.

You should be able to go to the Animation tab of Touch Settings, click 'Preview' to check it looks ok, then click 'Activate' to update your animations.

Backup your reg & BRN files first please.

Let me know if it works.
[Touch GSM General] abeery:
Sorry for the late response to 2.12 Carlos... I posted a reply last night but I must have fumble-fingers something because the post is not here.

I'm using the Sprint Touch... I did a hard reset to return to factory registry settings and installed 2.12... still will not allow animations to activate... generates a file access error... Question are you attempting to overwrite existing bitmaps or are you creating new ones and changing regisrty to reflect new names... (I suspect the second approach may be the one that will work)

The only way I've been able to change media hub images has been to create files with new names and change reg to reflect... never been able to just replace like-named images because of permissions issues... even when stopping all related processes

Again thanks for all your hard work... I'll be buying you another beer this weekend -- count on it!
[Touch GSM General] carlosp_uk:
Good to have you back!

I'm assuming that everything else works ok, though, right? Can you now see the fully built QuickDial screen, and the test preview animation? This would be a great leap forward!

It's odd, because I am overwriting the existing bitmaps, yet on my device (original HTC Touch) this is no problem at all. It's not as though the files are locked by any particular process, they're only briefly read from disk when the cube is rotating.

Perhaps I'll try the second approach, but there's bit disk space issues here, as each BRN file is 150k, so we're talking around 3-5Mb of Storage space for the whole lot.

Could you check the file attributes of your \Windows\A0.BRN file for me? Is it: read only? System attribute? I could try removing these attributes from within Touch Settings before overwriting; this is what I had to do to get it to automatically patch mediahumini.exe on older devices.

Additionally, it's worth bearing in mind that, to my knowledge, nobody's found a way of shifting the files out of \Windows\ on a Touch Dual device. On a Dual, the reg keys contain only a file name (e.g. A2.BRN) - the Biotouch apps add the prefix \Windows\ and a ColorKey, e.g. Blue in front of the filename. If somebody could find where it gets the '\Windows\' path from that would be a big step forward, as we could move BRNs to other folders etc.

Yeah, although I suspect that's a bit different as the files *may* be locked by MediaHubMini.exe

And I, in turn, shall ensure you always have the latest version of the app!
[Touch GSM General] flyhighusa:
Pretty much got the same error during the activation of the cube. The preview works perfect!

Touch Settings

An Error Occured:

Animation Failed:

File Access Exception - UnauthorizedAccessException

Let me know how I can help or what else I can try.
[Touch GSM General] -LUCA-:
Hi i'm an Italian guy, i have installed the "touch setting" like in the guide...but now i have the page with music, photos, video (in the cube) "all black" and don't have the icons, but before was grey...

Please help me...
[Touch GSM General] sergio2007:
I just started getting this error today, which also coincided with the notice that the beta for v2.0pre had expired. They might be related.

I do notice that your beta expiration dates shows 12/13/07, so not sure why I got the expiration warning. It's still working though.

I'll install the v2.12pre, and I'll update my findings.
[Touch GSM General] abeery:
Carlos...

Interesting result today with 2.12... quickdial worked when I reset device but the minute I synced with my outlook contacts and added names into my dialer the Touch Setting App started throwing errors ... Null Reference Exception at TouchSettings.BmReader.AssembleQDialBitmap()... Top three images are now blank and switching to the animation page kills the app

I've include the log file for your viewing pleasure
[Touch GSM General] abeery:
A0.brn is set to READONLY, ROM, SYSTEM... The ROM setting is greyed
[Touch GSM General] sergio2007:
Wow! It works! (...not that I had any doubts :rolleyes: ) Your animation tab has solved everyone's problem about customizing brn's for animations.

So far no issues w/ v2.12pre. Cool!!!
[Touch GSM General] ambush276:
ok so let me get this straight.. and to help clear it up for some that are a little confused...

basically when we choose icons, a BRN icon, that we download or make we save them to phone..

when the icons are selected in the touch settings, they are automatically overwritten and created to be animations. So when we save it, the animations will automatically feature our icons?
[Touch GSM General] sergio2007:
Would a big, fat Yeah! convince you? :rolleyes: Go ahead, kick the tires, and take it for a spin (See some of my animation BRN's created by Carlos' "Touch Settings")

However (oh, here it comes :D ), Carlos, how about A01, A02, B01, B02, C01, C02 (these are the BRN's for the upwards and downwards animation)? I noticed that these do not get re-written. It's that in the works?
[Touch GSM General] sketchy9:
Carlos this is freakin' awesome!!!! How yo managed to pull this off is beyond me. It's working great on a Sprint Touch (Vogue). I too had the file exception error. What made it work was killing the Biotouch.exe and mediahubmini.exe processes via MemMaid, then it was smooth sailing. Quick question, are you planning to support animating the 4-sided cubes that are floating around out there? It doesn't matter if you're not, I'm already halfway there. Thanks!!!

-R
[Touch GSM General] purelithium:
Carlos:

Great app! thanks!

But what about editing the date and time format on the big clock? I want to use the 24 hour clock, and have a long-format date. Can you add a feature to change those things? or would that be too hard?
[Touch GSM General] primenall:
Sprint Touch..... I tried killing mediahubmini.exe and biotouch.exe and still get the ERROR, so are you saying you got the animation app to generate the files and place them in windows??

Carlos the touch .brn files are set to READ ONLY, When I added files I had to use Resco to overwrite the protected files, is it possible to implement that into the program or even have an option to output animation files elsewhere so they can be manually added to the windows directory?

Great program, I look forward to any testing you may want to try on our Sprint versions.
[Touch GSM General] temiatwork:
Hello Carlos,

I just received my Touch "enhanced" from expansys.uk.

I'm just confused now which touch setting cab should i use then? Touch Settings v2.12pre.CAB or touch settings v1.29e.cab?

ROM ver: 2.20.721.2B WWE

ROM date: 10/02/02

Radio ver: 03.07.90

Protocal ver: 4.1.13.51

ExtROM ver: 2.20.721.10

All the best,
[Touch GSM General] carlosp_uk:
Guys please find attached a new build [REMOVED - SEE POST #269 FOR NEWER VERSION] that kills the Biotouch processes and removes the Readonly/System flags before attempting to write the files.

Let me know if it works.

Um... ...yeah, sorry about that <blush> ran out of time, will be done over the next few days! As a workaround, generate the '2D slide' animation first and you'll get your correct up/down icons sliding in and out, albeit not in 3D.

C

PS: Can somebody confirm that files A2.BRN, A4, B2, B4, etc (i.e. the ones you don't get on the old devices) are being generated correctly
[Touch GSM General] carlosp_uk:
How exciting! Could you possibly send me a registry dump, it would help me check compatibility. (PM me for an email address) In particular, I'd love to know the version numbers in:

\HKLM\Software\HTC\Biotouch\

I'd go with v1.29e if you want a stable tested version or 2.12pre if you want to test the pre-release that lets you generate your own animation files.

If you go for the pre-release you should generally you know what you're doing in terms of being able to edit your registry if necessary and back up your registry and BRN files first... ..although if it's brand new, you could always try the pre-release out and hard reset if any probs!

That all said, you should be ok, people seem to be having generally un-troubled results with the newest betas.

Any luck getting this to work abeery? I'll have a look soon I hope!.
[Touch GSM General] Aaron McCarthy:
Hey... will it be at all possible to have the cube work in landscape mode at all? Does anyone know if this is in the works. I actually had it set up on my phone that touch commander was installed as well and it worked in landscape mode. Meanwhile when I would slide my finger up on the screen in portrait the default cube would still come up. It was pretty neat but I never went ahead and purchased the ap after the as I figured maybe there was some modifications under way to get the default touchflo ap to work in portrait too.
[Touch GSM General] ambush276:
ok so if i get this straight..... With then new 2.2 version, if i have my custom BRN icons in my phone... and i set them to be used in the app launcher or Media hub w/e.... Then the animations will autmatically be generated...?
[Touch GSM General] carlosp_uk:
Ambush276

You have asked the same question now about five times, so I'm going to answer it as clearly as I possibly can, hopefully to make it obvious to you, and so that you stop asking!

Here is how it would work.

1. You copy the new icons over to your phone, into \Windows\ (BRN or PNG depending on your device)

2. In 'Touch Settings', you change the icons on your APLauncher to be your new icons, e.g. \Windows\AL_NewIcon.BRN

3. In 'Touch Settings', you go to the 'Animation' tab and click 'Activate'.

4. The program automatically updates your cube spinning animation so that it includes your new icons.

.....done! Finished! No more to say! Has this cleared it up for you?

Carlos
[Touch GSM General] sergio2007:
Thanks Carlos. So I run 2D, and then 3D animation, and now all animations are re-written. Thanks again.
[Touch GSM General] flyhighusa:
I tried 2.13 and I'm also still gettig the animation file writing problems. Medihub and biotouch are not active. (Sprint Vogue)
[Touch GSM General] rmoore3d:
Hi Carlos,

My Sprint Touch errors out on loading. Here is the log file.View attachment log.zip
[Touch GSM General] abeery:
Carlos... Sprint Vogue continued problems... I again did a hard reset to restore registry... installed 2.13... worked fine to change icon.... animation refused to work because of a file permissions error... I suspect you cannot change the ROM permissions and will need to create new bitmaps... perhaps allow us to specify a storage location so those of us with storage cards (Sprints phones come with 512MB MicroSDs) can locate images there.

Problem 2... as soon as I add a single contact to quickdialer the app breaks... see log I sent you earlier

My continued and heartfelt thanks
[Touch GSM General] carlosp_uk:
Hi folks

Here's a new build designed to fix the FileAccess issues, the QuickDial contacts issues and also with the missing animation frames in place. (this is a work in progress, the up/down frames aren't correct & i've run out of time today.)

As we've discussed, it now creates new animation files rather than attempting to overwrite the existing ones, so there is an additional disk space overhead, but hopefully less errors. Please ensure that you have enough Storage space free on the device!

I'd be interested to see what happens if Vogue owners try to create a custom animation twice in a row; do you get a FileAccess exception?

Please see if it works for you and feed back!

Carlos

PS: The custom animation files are called \Windows\A0_TS.BRN and so on. You'll need to delete them manually if you uninstall.
[Touch GSM General] purelithium:
Did you look at my previous post about the time and date format on the home screen? Is that something you could modify in your application?
[Touch GSM General] ambush276:
yes it has, and i do know to copy my original ROM's THanks lol , sorry i was just a tad bit confused, but its all clear thanks!
[Touch GSM General] abeery:
Carlos... 2.14 is a winner! works great on my Sprint... Animations work and Quickdial does not kill app any more... great work!!!

In the wishlist column it would be nice if we could change the MediaHub (three large) bitmaps and it would be nice if we could tell the app where to store the animations rather than dropping in windows directory... I would like to be able to specify the Storage Card... again just a wishlist... thanks for all your great work!

I'll head out to www.fatattitude.com to donate towards your beer fund when I get home

BTW-Rewriting the animations a second time works just fine
[Touch GSM General] flyhighusa:
2.14 does work, but it seems to "alter" the cube a bit. The gridlines and quickdial pictures are slightly smaller DURING the animation and then it seems to settle on the correct size. A minor bug. If this is adjusted and the "up/down" then I think it is finished for the Sprint Version at least.

Like he said activating twise doesn't seem to bother it. Also switching between 2d and 3D. You are getting very very close. Enjoy the beer!
[Touch GSM General] carlosp_uk:
@purlithium

Thanks for your post, yes I have added it to the features suggestion list. At the moment though, my time is taken up getting the animations and icon bitmaps perfect. You may want to search the forums for a separate thread about changing the clock format, I seem to remember some discussion about it somewhere else.
[Touch GSM General] carlosp_uk:
abeery thanks for this, and your other feature suggestions which I'll add to the list. ACtually, you can change the media hub icons in the 'Advanced' tab, not ideal I know but should work for you anyway!

Thanks flyhighusa, yeah there is a little minor tweaking required to get the quickdial pictures to marry up.

I've released a newer build (2.14a pre) back in the post above, which should fix the up/down issue! (plus the quickdial screen buttons are now enabled, so you can clear your entire quickdial screen in 1 click. I like this because it's something you can't do with the HTC apps)
[Touch GSM General] Aaron McCarthy:
Just installed 2.14apre and it works great! Thanks. I'm working on making about 100 new icons for the cube since we can now modify it so easily. So far theres only 3 there (TOMTOM, Navigon and MSN Messenger) but in the next few days I'll be posting all my work. Great work Carlosp!!

You can find the new icons in the icon thread I made

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=351551

I'm going to keep an eye out and keep updating the program as this comes along!

One quick question... How can we load in new animations to this? I see that theres the 2d slide and 3d cube are there plans to add more, like that really cool barrel one I saw or anything like that? Is there a way we can add that in now somehow?

Thanks again!
[Touch GSM General] rmoore3d:
2.14 wooked for me too. Sprint Touch (Vogue). 2.13 cauused an error but this one workrd fine except I lost my quick dial entries but I just re-entered them. Thanks for all your great work.
[Touch GSM General] carlosp_uk:
Do you mean the previous version caused you to lose your QuickDial entries OR something you did wrong OR something in the new version? Let me know if something needs changing.

C
[Touch GSM General] temiatwork:
Carlos,

build 2.14a pre installs properly with my touch "enhanced" and i can play around with the settings though it runs in debug mode. attached is the log file.

I will play around more and will let you know.
[Touch GSM General] flyhighusa:
2.14a works with the up/down. Still all the gridlines on any side of the cube and the quickdial pictures are "off" , but only DURING the transition. It looks great though within about half a second after the animation.

Great job. Let me know if you need us to do anything else so far.
[Touch GSM General] Aaron McCarthy:
Hey Carlos,

I just got to making some mediahub icons earlier today and was able to change them with 2.14apre. Looks great. I now have Tomtom and Navigon on my media hub and put the video and picture icons over on the aplauncher. That said, I'm not sure if you are aware of this but you are missing 3 options for the media hub icons in the advanced tab.

When you play music and open the cube you have the ablility to change the music and see the status in the cube, thus the actual icons become smaller as you have a little media player that shows up in the top icon (given) I was able to make 3 smaller icons for the mediahub for this feature but no way to load them in with your program. Do you think this feature will be added on soon as well.. or at least put on your long list of stuff to include! :P

I dont usually use my cube that much while I am playing music nor would I need to open one of the GPS programs but it would still be nice to have the cube completly finished!

Also, I'm not sure if you had answered this already but is there anyway to load in different effects like that barrel transition made in the customization thread? Or is there a feature there I'm not able to figure out to load in the new transitions?

Thanks and again.. Great work. Your program is literally helping thousands and thousands of people with the touch
[Touch GSM General] rmoore3d:
It happened after using 2.14. It built the 3D cube but after I closed the program all the quick dials where gone. They were easy to repoduce because the animation still showed how I had it set up. After entering the info again I redid the cube animation again and did not lose the quick dials the second time. Here is the log.
[Touch GSM General] pp18:
@carlos

pls see post #1 and 2 in this thread. i've tried to dump out my findings. if anything still missing to facilitate development of 3/4-side switching feature, pls feel free to let me know. well, in terms of 3/4-side switching, seems Vogue and Nike are using the same way, while Vogue doesn't have the troublesome {ColorSkin} and fixed .brn path issues.
[Touch GSM General] carlosp_uk:
Thanks, do let me know if it happens again, possibly an upgrade glitch.

To save any changes you've made to QuickDials from 2.14a pre onwards you always need to choose 'Save Settings' from the SoftMenu otherwise any changes (except animations) will be lost.
[Touch GSM General] carlosp_uk:
Hi folks!

Well that's it from me until the New Year now, got work all week and then a christmas break, so thanks for all your beta testing help.

Here's a new build to last you til 31/12 - it has the MediaHubMini Playing Icons (normal/pressed) in advanced settings, although in the next build I'll be making the MediaHub screen more like the App Launcher screen, i.e. you can tap the icons to change them, etc.

Features that may appear over the next few builds:

- Upgrade to the AP Launcher screen so that you can drag the icons around to change their positions. (snap to defaults)

- New MediaHubMini tab, with icons etc. (see above)

- Add more than 6 apps to the APLauncher (if supported)

- 4th side of cube supported. (Vogue/Nike only)

- Support for Nike Action Screen

- Support to change speed of cube (Vogue/Nike only)

- Integrated Icon Library / Skins - plus, choose icons and download from online library.

- Import BMP files

- More animations.

- Bug tweaks, e.g. fine tuning of placement of gridlines, QuickDial contacts etc.

See you in January 2008. Have a happy Christmas!

Carlos

PS

Hi Aaron thanks for the kind words. Yes, I was aware but hadn't got around to adding these icons as I'm planning to overhaul the MediaHubMini tab. Anyway, please find them added in Advanced Settings in the attached build - hope this will do for now! C
[Touch GSM General] Aaron McCarthy:
Hey Carlos,

Thanks again for all your hard work. I'm going to install the latest version right now and play around with it. Also, on the main mage of the icon thread I made if its alright I'm going to put a link to this thread so they can download your program. There's been a few people in there asking how exactly to customize their icons.

Happy holidays to everyone! Carlos thanks for ths early christmas present!
[Touch GSM General] sketchy9:
Carlos, have a good holiday break. This program is incredible, it's what SHOULD have been included with every Cube-using HTC device. Why it wasn't is beyond me, but thanks to you it doesn't matter! Small feature request: there is now a 6-sided cube for the CDMA Vogue, would it be possible to support that? (I know you mentioned support for a 4-sided cube in a future release, just wanted to ask for 6-sided support as well). Merry Christmas and don't drink too much beer!

-R
[Touch GSM General] Aaron McCarthy:
Where can you download the 4 and 6 sided cube from? I've only seen the 4 sided feature in the Icube
[Touch GSM General] sergio2007:
Read their warnings before installing. Supposedly, these versions only work in certain phones. However, once a tweaker...always a tweaker :D

6 sided: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=12798

4 sided: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=12791&highlight=cube
[Touch GSM General] Aaron McCarthy:
Wow.. looks pretty neat. I think I'll wait till Carlos' program can edit the other panels so I dont have to mess around with the registry stuff and all that. It would definatly be nice to have another page to load custom icons on to launch programs and what not. Looks really cool. Thanks for the links!
[Touch GSM General] O'Neil MItchell:
Touch Settings

I tried everything you said,1. DELETE the file MediaHubMini.lnk from your \Windows\Startup directory and reboot... OR just terminate the process MediaHubMini.exe using memmaid, SKTools or another program.

The only problem was that the file was not in the Windows\StartUp folder, it was just in the windows section a MediaHubMini.exe. I tried to terminate it using memmaid but i got an error stating could not delete. PLEASE HELP