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[Touch HD General] fadimck:
Enable GPS on HTC Touch HD

Yesterday I purchased the HTC HD, what a lovely elegant device to deal with, now – for the 3rd. time – I'm facing the ever lasted GPS problem in Egypt as the authorities forbid the use of mobiles with GPS enabled, so companies like Nokia and HTC introduces their GPS mobiles with the GPS Comm. Port disabled.

Any ways, with the help of the Internet and good fellows I was able to solve this problem twice before, the first time was HTC Tytn II one year ago before I sold it and the second time was my beloved N96 two months ago and also the GPS was activated using a different methodology other than the Tytn II.

Is there any way to enable this Comm. Port and start using the GPS?

N.B.

QuickGPS software is not installed, I tried to update the device ROM through HTC site but when I entered my device serial No. I got a message telling me that this software is not downloadable for this device. I faced this situation once before with the N96 and I solve it through a pleasant process, when Nokia locks the mobile for a specific carrier or disable a specific feature, it does so through the firmware. And to prevent people from just updating their phone's firmware and bypass the lock, Nokia assigns "Product Codes" to each "version" of the phone. So in our case, the N96 phone that's sold in Egypt is the same as the N96 that's sold in let's say UAE except for the product code. This way, Nokia PC suite and firmware updater knows which flavor of the phone it's handling and can apply the appropriate firmware update.

The method I followed tricks the phone into thinking that it's from another region, thus enabling the firmware updater to apply a firmware with unlocked GPS.

My phone data are as follows:

ROM version: 1.14.485.1 (24011)WWE

ROM date: 17/11/2008

Radio version: 1.09.25.14

Protocol version: 52.49a.25.26U
[Touch HD General] NotATreoFan:
Flash HardSPL to your Touch HD. <- Mandatory, must be done

Download and flash a stock WWE ROM from any region other then Egypt. (Blackstone Wiki)
[Touch HD General] fadimck:
Thank you

Thank you NotATreofan, I know this way, but i need the serial of the Gulf area which will provide me with the Official Arabic ROM from the below site

http://www.htc.com/mea-en/SupportViewNews.aspx?dl_id=471&news_id=33
[Touch HD General] NotATreoFan:
Check the Wiki link I provided. Under "WWE + ARA - WWE + Arabic" you will find an Arabic ROM.
[Touch HD General] littlerocker33:
Does the arabic rom work for HTC fuze? If not, Do you have any arabic Rom for the HTC fuze? The one from offcial website does not accept my SN.
[Touch HD General] NotATreoFan:
As long as you flash HardSPL first, you can flash any Raphael ROM to the Fuze.
[Touch HD General] HDuser:
fadimck

It looks like you are in Egypt and HTC has released a rom that we don't heve in our collection:

HTC Touch HD ROM Upgrade (MEA-Egypt)

Release Date: 2009-04-17 Category: ROM Upgrade

http://www.htc.com/mea-en/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=179&cat=2&dl_id=543

Do you have a vaild Seriral for this rom and if so can you PM Me with it.

I will adapt it (as in change it and then post the rom)

Thanks
[Touch HD General] Philip:
Egypt Removes the Ban on Consumer GPS

Looks like things have changed very recently, and Egypt is now allowing consumer grade GPS.

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/Egypt-Removes-the-Ban-on-Consumer-GPS-25.php

http://www.gpsbusinessnews.com/Egypt-lifts-ban-on-GPS_a1463.html
[Touch HD General] HDuser:
Well on the quest to work out what S/N would work to download

HTC Touch HD ROM Upgrade (MEA-Egypt) Release Date: 2009-04-17

the new rom of the following site

http://www.htc.com/mea-en/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=179&cat=2&dl_id=543

I tried

HT841KD01000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000. 7000, 8000, 9000

HT842KD01000

HT843KD01000

HT844KD01000

HT845KD01000

HT846KD01000

HT847KD01000

HT848KD01000

HT849KD01000

HT840KD01000

It would help if somebody with an MEA-Egypt device would help the comunity out by giving us a hint about what the S/N looks like.
[Touch HD General] HDuser:
Somebody was nice enough to post a S/N of Hong Kong Rom

I tried a few combinations and they to don't work

HT850KD11000 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000. 7000, 8000, 9000

HT850KD21000 ......

HT850KD31000 ...

HT850KD41000

HT850KD51000

HT850KD61000

HT850KD71000

HT850KD81000

HT850KD91000
[Touch HD General] fadimck:
Thank you guys, I already sold the phone now in order to be able to buy Pro 2 and I was lucky as I bought it for 5,600EGP last December, and I sold it since 3 weeks for 5,000EGP. today it worth 5,000EGP brand new with GPS enabled.....
[Touch HD General] fadimck:
really I was lucky....
[Touch HD General] fadimck:
Thank you my friend
[Touch HD General] fadimck:
Find below my serial number HT849KD25081

Location is Egypt

GPS enabled
[Touch HD General] jackx:
thanks a lot
[Touch HD General] sedde:
Every now and then, i see my HD to either getting on automatically adjust brightness, or getting in the default setting (which is low but not on auto ), without doing nothing, and it pisses me off.

Is there a way to make this work 100% ? I mean not even the adjust automatically works correctly.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] twisted-pixel:
Hi,

this is a WAD2 related queston but the forum over there is currently down. I've switched from MS to WAD and am playing around to get things exactly the way I want them (what a steep learning curve it is!!)

however, the thing that I'm missing most about MS is some of the simpler functions that used to be easily available, one of which is the soft reset. There is a ay of adding a button in WAD that can perform a soft-reset, but is there a command that can do this from the command line?

The reason I ask is that I haven't created my own WAD theme, I'm modifying an existing one (the steep learning curve isn't getting any shallower), and I don't have a position for the button, but I do have the ability to run an application. The application can be an exe file though. So I was hoping that there might be an exe file that I can run to soft reset the device (and yes I know you can turn it off and back on again but I don't want to).

thanks

(oh, and if there are any other resources for learning how to build WAD themes, please point them out)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] !SINGH!:
If you had done a search or looked in the WIKI you would have found my Soft Reset.

Singh's Tings thread

Blackstone Wiki

Search Blackstone

Search Soft Reset
[Sable] paulj1969:
Hi guys, i'm new to the forum, i've been following a few threads for months now just to try and keep up to date with the on-goings of my 6915 but now i have a problem.

using the phone on it's own no one can hear me and i can't hear them, also no sounds can be heard from the phone other than when it rings even with media player or wav files.

when using the hands-free wired headset or my in car bluetooth parrot it works fine.

i did read about another PDA that had got a faulty socket where the hands free headset wire plugs in the bottom of his PDA, could it be this socket? i've poked a cotten bud inside and tried again but still no luck.

i've reflashed the ROM (G4) to make sure it isn't that (thanks to those who wrote those threads and the yahoo email account, the roms is still there)

i've also checked all the settings are correct and all volumes are turned up but nothing, no sounds what so ever other than when it rings.

any ideas guys? :confused:

thanks in advance

Paul
[Sable] paulj1969:
found the cause of this even though i've still to fix the problem (replace the headset socket), i searched the net for this problem and it turns out several people have had problems with the socket for the wired headset, theres a small switch in the headset socket that stays on and the PDA thinks the headset is still plugged in vus disabling the onboard speaker and microphone, i wonder if theres a hack to disable this feature.

anyone interested in reading what others have done checkout this thread at HP

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1064848
[Sable] EREZYAD:
go to start/settings/sys/ipaq audio
if you get a note that ask for connecting the headset then your audio plug is ok and iI think it is the speker that gone bad, else it is your plug ,you can try to use conntact renew spry with battery out of the unit ,insurt battery 10min afrer you used the spry during that time try to play with the plug ,insurt/pull out good luck ,btw- if you have redioshake (i think that is the name of the elct store) near by try to ask them for halp
[Sable] paulj1969:
Thanks Erez, yes i tried that and it didn't ask for the headphones so it definatly is the headphone socket that's gone faulty.

i'm a pc and printer engineer by trade and have already had the ipaq to bits to see if it's anything else and all looks ok, i might de-solder the socket and have a play with it and see if i can disengage the switch.

thanks for the help, it's confirmed the fault and i can do something about it.

not sure how i'll de-solder the socket but it's the only thing to do other than try your switch cleaner, infact i've got some isopropel alcohol in a can, i'll give it a spray with that now

Paul
[Sable] paulj1969:
i fixed the fault...but it mean't removing the socket for the wired headset.

i de-solderded the socket and took it off then bridged two of the contacts for the socket.

there are 6 contacts that look like this

. .

. .

. .

the top left and middle left need to be bridged with a piece of wire for it to return to normal, you could do this without removing the socket.

i now have another fault though and thats the keyboard doesn't work very well as i think i got some iso clean in there so i've got to strip the keyboard next! oh what fun
[Touch HD General] mooro1973:
I'm pretty sure the following tip is accurate. I received yesterday a new HD, my first having broken just by pressing the screen! I was very relieved that just by reinstalling from memory card all my apps, that the apps settings were still valid - I didn't fancy having to go all through setting up tomtom again with pocketgps camera database and warning tones.

However I did notice that after switching Tomtom on, it was hit and miss whether my unit found any satellites. By going into the satellite status screen, I could see that the software would access the satellites for a few seconds then lose them again. I also noticed that a fix for this was to run google maps first and turn on gps from there.

This was strange, since my previous HD, locked on within seconds every time. Hardware issue? Maybe, but thought I'd try to remember anything I hadn't done on my new HD that I had on my old.

"Ha-Ha" I thought, I haven't run the connection wizard, and this is sort of a connection issue.

Start --> Settings ---> Connection ----> Connection Set Up-----> Tap O.K. ----> restart

Now TomTom works perfectly and picks up connections immediately without google map initiation.

Try it if you having similar troubles!

cheers,

mooro
[Touch HD General] johnpatcher:
For me this must be a placebo, neither do I understand why the connection setup has anything to do with the gps chipset, nor does it work me. I have configured my connection using the connection setup and nevertheless I have some gps drops with iGO.

I think this gps drops have some other background, I will try a new radio version. Some people also said that it might help to change the polling interval, but for me neither an increase nor a decrease of the interval has changed anything about it.
[Touch HD General] mooro1973:
Not a placebo for me, is working perfectly now.
[Touch HD General] johnpatcher:
Nobody has said that placebos don't work, but the reason why they work is controversial. Maybe you have done something else, because I really can't imagine how the connection setup could fix a problem with the gps.

However, its good to know that it runs for you, maybe it will work for me with the new radio also.
[Touch HD General] cybermaus:
How about this theory:

Because you did not do the connection setup yet, the GPS Quickstart had not run yet. So no almanac of GPS satelite data existed yet, meaning it was an icecold start?

And Google Maps worked faster because it is using the 'about' position of the GPS towers to bootstrap the location?
[Touch HD General] spasovxda:
Placebo works only for those that believe in it! :cool:

This device is A-GPS capable.

Don't know whether e-plus supports A-GPS services but in theory this might be a clue ;)
[Touch HD General] Fallen Spartan:
I have tried all of the above and still I cannot get GPS to work

If I open google maps it just keeps searching with indicayor showing no satellites.

When using TomTom it displays a number of satellites but all appear grey and none become active

Advice welcome:mad:
[Touch HD General] cybermaus:
It may be too obvious to mention, but: Did you try this outside with a good sky view? Cold start is always a bit more tricky.
[Touch HD General] mooro1973:
have you tried start ---> settings ----> external gps --->access---> check manage gps automatically?

and in google maps, options-->gps settings---> toggle auto/windows?
[Touch HD General] michael_r:
I am fairly sure intermittent gps is a memory problem of some sort. I used to get that a lot running IGO. Now I kill TouchFlo every time before running IGO, and even thought the problems still happens sometimes, it is clearly much less often. You can find the description of how to kill TouchFlo using Mort script in IGO thread. This makes the whole thing clearly better (not perfect).
[Touch HD General] Fallen Spartan:
Tried both of these.

Yes I can see that satellites are being picked up but both google maps and tomtom don't fix onto any of them. They all just appear grey
[Touch HD General] kospan:
Maybe you should try a tool by htc to try and wakeup your gps. Run the file on your HD and from function menu select chip and then q7200. Choose port 4 and baud rate 4800. Then open the port and wait for a gps fix. After that close the port and exit the gps tool. Then run your gps navigator and see if it works!
[Touch HD General] rushmpeg:
Hi,

I had issues with GPS and tomtom 7.

I discovered that it was caused by a modification I did to the registry with HD Tweak.

Here is what I did:

going thru the settings with HD Tweak I seen that default value for AGPS was Disabled so I decided to set it to enabled it as I now the phone is capable of it.

After that The GPS would only work once with tomtom, if I closed tomtom and re open it again it GPS would not be found, I had to reboot the phone for it to work again (for an other single use).

I restored the AGPS value to Disable with HD Tweak and everything worked perfectly after.

Though I noticed that tomtom will still use AGPS when GPS sensor is down, but I can say if this is how it used to worked before the registery tweak because I did the tweak immediately after installing tomtom.
[Touch HD General] earazi:
I had a similar problem with Advanced Config after I turned on Quick GPS Fix, turning it off seemed to fix it.
[Touch HD General] Logan5:
I don't think so. My "fix" (as I reported in another thread) is to change baudrate in IGO GPS configuration. After one or few baudrate change, the connection is stable.

No one as reported this fix not working.

So it seem a virtual COM port issue..
[Touch HD General] epfyffer:
Yeah !!! Seems to work on my side !! I just spent minutes fighting with my HD this afternoon, still loosing the GPS device... I had to activate one other GPS app to make it work. Now I just changed this setting and it seems to work !!

Thanks for the info ! You're my king :-)
[Touch HD General] monzablue16v:
Worked for me by turning off a-gps in HD Tweak and enabling it through the gps app on the rom.
[Touch HD General] svteng:
after flashing the 1.10.25.25 radio on my HTC diamond, The GPS signal goes on and off, on and off....continuously on the TomTom GPS status. it was strange, I have to use QuickGPS to download the data again on open air to get the signal on continuously again. If I download the data inside my house, it just go on and off again when I use it on open air.
[XPERIA X1 General] smudge18:
Which is the best way to do this? I have tried by just using sim card but contacts are all over the place!

Please help
[XPERIA X1 General] scottca:
Hi,

The way I did it was to use the Sony Ericsson suite to sync your contacts with your mail application (outlook). Then setup active sync on that mail profile to sync them down to your X1 :)

Activesync will only ever look at your "contacts" folder whereas the SE Suite you could pick your contacts folder. so be sure you sync it to your default contacts folder.

If you already have contacts in their you dont want on your phone (like me!) - I created a new outlook profile and performed the sync from there.

Regards,

Craig
[XPERIA X1 General] smudge18:
Thanks Craig, so start by connecting W960 to PC then how do I save to Outlook?
[Touch HD General] lusat:
:)

hello and sorry for my english i have a probleme with my blackstone to connect with my wv passat with htc tynt II with sapsettings work but dont work in blackstone why ?

please someone help me
[Touch HD General] johnpatcher:
With the given information it is quite impossible to help you. Have you already tried the various bluetooth fixes. As far as I know there is also a fix for SAP.
[Touch HD General] lusat:
thanks but where is the fix for SAP
[Windows Mobile Themes] GODZSON:
Here is a my theme for S2A with curtain lock setup.. I truly hope you all enjoy.

God Bless

..

Portrait

Slide to Answer

During Call Screen

During Call Curtain Lock Active

Landscape

During Call

http://www.filesavr.com/godzson-s2alock
[Windows Mobile Themes] ca3sar:
what dialer is this and does redial work? Please assist me if possible
[Windows Mobile Themes] htctoucher:
how did you get a mute button on s2a??
[Windows Mobile Themes] Cal-El:
That is realy beautiful! Good work! God bless you!:)
[Windows Mobile Themes] jeant:
Sorry but I don't have a clue how this works???

Is this a skin for S2U2 ( using 1.40 never seen this beautiful S2A) or is this only for latest HTC (a built-in S2A skin)???

best regard and anyway look good (snifff)
[Windows Mobile Themes] johanromijn:
This is a skin for the HTC dialer with Slide / Ignore feature.

This is NOT a skin for S2U2.
[Windows Mobile Themes] joel2009:
What resolution was this made for, vga?

i grabbed the file names out of the xml in the cab so i think i'm going to work on skinning the opal dialer in qvga....

Thanks much Godzson!
[Windows Mobile Themes] GODZSON:
This is for VGA.. glad to share.. Have a blessed new year..
[Windows Mobile Themes] nhvoltagenh:
S2A is that not an AC feature.

so this throws me off. seems like its for it as refered to by an ac name. s2a
[Windows Mobile Themes] joel2009:
Thats like saying burger is registered trade mark of someone ;)

You can get burgers all over the place, its just a type of "sandwhich"

s2a is just a feature, not just a program by a great guy like ac
[Windows Mobile Themes] nhvoltagenh:
yes i follow..

but heres what im saying..

i have only seen s2a refered to by anything related to ac.

ive seen slide to answer

slide to unlock

but s2a.....

see what im saying.

so you think, hey another feature for s2a but its not a feature, its a solo program..

thats all i am saying.

and the topic title is very bland. S2A & CURTAIN LOCK

well whats s2a?

if someone where to post WM games

you would think oh its for windows mobile.

but you go in and its Wireless Media Games.

so to some it up, its just a bit weird to me.

in my opinion only, needs a small rename so that its not confused, or hinted to be related.

thats all.
[Windows Mobile Themes] atoz350:
But S2A is a feature in A_C's S2U2, not a separate program. I agree, however, that there needs to be some clarification. Maybe mentioning that it's for the HTC dialer would be enough?
[Windows Mobile Themes] smotrs:
Seemed pretty clear to me, specially if you've seen several of the other threads posted talking about the necessary files being yanked from the Touch HD.

By the way, good job Godzson.
[Windows Mobile Themes] rjmjr69:
Is this for MrHawiis slide to answer or for the leaked rom one?
[Windows Mobile Themes] joel2009:
i may be wrong, but i don't think ac's version has a curtain. s2a just intercepts the call, i doesn't act as a dialer
[Windows Mobile Themes] smotrs:
It's not the leaked ROM, it's a skinned version of the one from the Touch HD.

This is actually the HTC dialer functionality from the Touch HD. It's just been ripped and added to the Diamonds and Touch Pro's.
[Windows Mobile Themes] joel2009:
i know what this is for ;)

i was pointing out the obvious differences to everyone argueing the name change.
[Windows Mobile Themes] orlandojumpoff:
for those that don't know about the hd s2a feature and recent releases of it, i could see how they might think it's related to s2u2 (since it's been around forever). clarification may help unfamiliar users. couldn't hurt? perhaps godzson can put a link on the OP for s2a and curtain, so those people know what exactly the skin is for...
[Windows Mobile Themes] smotrs:
Ohh, sorry, my bad. ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] bast525:
I tried this on my touch pro and it did not work correctly. After it installs and reboots, I call up up the dialer and it brings up the stock WM dialer but with corrupt graphics.
[Windows Mobile Themes] joel2009:
I don't think the touch pro has the correct dialer for this (that comes stock) (i know the alltel version doesn't) You may have to install the dialer first.
[Windows Mobile Themes] rjmjr69:
The newest version minus the curtain is what you should be installing for CDMA
[Windows Mobile Themes] jmckeejr:
Dialer too?

Were you also able to skin the dialer part or just the progress and incall? I was wondering because I am trying to make a black one, but cant figure out how to change the white where it shows contacts names. Tried a few of the registry settings under HKLM\Software\HTC\PHONE and can change text colors and all, but no luck getting rid of the white background. Thanks for your reply.
[Windows Mobile Themes] slydog43:
s2a skin

I just modded

Assets_dialer_Normal.bmp,	Assets_dialer_Pressed.bmp, Dialer_Bkgnd_Port.png

this is mine

link I hope

http://www.nsolutions.com/sds/SDS-CDMA-Blue-S2A-1-2.cab
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kizaja:
helo , i have ppc yakumo delta x gps (cpu intel pxa270 ,board oscar 150b) and i thru change language but i write rom oscar250. my yakumo is dead.Any help pls,pls,pls!!!!!!!!!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kizaja:
eny idea????? please!!!!!
[Touch GSM General] sankas:
Hi every body, I searched but I do not succeed in finding how change the first screen (screen operator) as well as the second screen (animated gif) on my Htc Elfin.

Anybody could help me please?
[Touch GSM General] body85:
hi, any update??? I just wanna change the Splash (Smart mobility) or the Welcome (Windows Mobile) Screen. Please HELP!
[Touch GSM General] Cero92:
Use this program to create the .NB file, then with HTC Rom Tool you can create the .NBH file.
[Touch GSM General] Lokosis:
For people interested in modifying all 3 screens.

1st screen I always flash with RUU.

&

2nd screen is (just replace with another 240x320 image) -> WINDOWS\animated.gif

&

3rd screen is (just replace with another 240x320 image) -> WINDOWS\welcomehead.96.png
[Touch GSM General] pp07:
i want to change the welcomehead.96.png, but if i paste the new png file in the windows folder, there is an error, that the file is currently in use...

can u help me? which process must be killed?

thx
[Touch GSM General] Cero92:
Try using Total Commander
[Touch GSM General] body85:
OKKKKKK

I´ve found the Easysest Way to Flash the Splash Screen....

open programm, load bitmap... flash... :-)
[Touch GSM General] Lokosis:
I've actually tried the Artemis program a couple of times, but couple never get the 1st screen to work. Worked out for you?