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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Hi all,

Device Update is an 'appstore' type application to automatically download and install from a list of selected applications.

Improvements so far over v1 include:

* Complete backend rewrite.

* Developer level access to update applications.

* Complete application rating system.

* Compressed software catalog means the application loads 450% faster!

* Compressed CAB files mean less time waiting and less data transfer to pay for.

* Integrated application information

* More error trapping than ever before

* Complete integrated web site for ease of use and for developers

* Live updates of download stats on the web site.

* Application reviews on the web site.

* Auto-install applications after hard reset or new ROM install (Requires Premium Membership).

* Install applications to SD Card

* EVEN MORE!

Sign up for a User account

http://www.crc.id.au/deviceupdate/users

What is a Standard Account vs a Premium Account?

http://www.crc.id.au/deviceupdate/user-premium.pl

Read the list of commonly asked questions (The FAQ):

http://www.crc.id.au/deviceupdate/user-faq.pl

A list of supported devices can be found at:

http://www.crc.id.au/deviceupdate/user-devices.pl

You can track statistics on the Device Update web site:

http://www.crc.id.au/deviceupdate

Are you a developer and want your applications listed? Check out:

http://www.crc.id.au/deviceupdate/dev-account.pl

ROM Cooks, please read this before including DeviceUpdate in your ROM:

http://www.crc.id.au/deviceupdate/cook-howto.pl

Downloads

Download v2.1.1.1
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Installing via SDAutorun

Copy the CAB file to \Storage Card\ on your device.

Add the following to \Storage Card\SDConfig.txt:

CAB: \Storage Card\DeviceUpdate-v2.1.x.x.cab

If you don't already have a file \Storage Card\SDConfig.txt, create it and use the following:

LOCK:Enabled
CAB: \Storage Card\DeviceUpdate_v2.1.0.15.cab
LOCK:Disabled
RST: Reset

This will allow you to automatically upgrade to whatever version of DeviceUpdate is the latest and auto-install your applications

Milestones reached

07-May-2009 - Over 375,000 applications served to over 170,000 people!

23-Apr-2009 - Over 320,000 applications served!

07-Apr-2009 - Over 250,000 applications served!

22-Mar-2009 - Over 180,000 applications served to over 68,000 people!

13-Mar-2009 - Served over 50,000 users worldwide.

02-Mar-2009 - Over 100,000 applications served to over 33,000 people!

28-Feb-2009 - Over 90,000 applications served.

24-Feb-2009 - Over 70,000 applications served.

23-Feb-2009 - Served over 20,000 users worldwide.

18-Feb-2009 - Over 40,000 applications served.

18-Feb-2009 - Served over 12,000 users worldwide.

16-Feb-2009 - Over 30,000 applications served.

14-Feb-2009 - Reached 100 applications in the DeviceUpdate database.

14-Feb-2009 - Served over 5,000 users worldwide.

14-Feb-2009 - Over 20,000 applications served.

13-Feb-2009 - Over 1,000 unique downloads of the DeviceUpdate application from this thread.

13-Feb-2009 - Served over 3,000 users worldwide.

12-Feb-2009 - Over 15,000 applications served.

10-Feb-2009 - Over 10,000 applications served to users of v2.x of Device Update.

07-Feb-2009 - Device Update v2 released to the public.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Rimmy66:
The reference for downloading does not work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Whoops. I forgot to sync the mirrors after adding the download.

It should be good now...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jimmur:
CRC I am running a Titan with WM6.5 and yesterday I used your program with no problems, today it loaded a new version and said "unsupported device". Any way to get back to old version?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Hi mate,

Part of what the last upgrade was is to get things ready for full multi-device support. Sadly, part of that is to disable devices that are not proven to be 100% compatible.

I'm slowly going through and adding extra devices such as the Titan, Opel etc... At the moment, I just ask you to be patient until I can complete this task.

The current supported devices include Hermes & Kaiser with more coming soon.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sinoo:
Looks great. Will give it a try and feedback!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mthomas:
great tool. It should ask where to install, disk or device. Other than that issue it is great.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hussein_erol:
Very Usefull utility. Thanks.

in my opinion this app name 'CRC AppStore' :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dody:
This is great !!

thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] garsim:
i'm waiting for i780 support :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] skippyd:
device update is looking good on my hermes but I lost support for the titan :-(.... any chance of adding titan back to supported devices...

list of stuff that doesn't work with titan

button 5 fix

camera support

comm vibe

flashlight

htc connection wizard

htc Home - works but setup for keyboard on hermes so the screen is upside down when you open the keyboard.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wallabyman:
In reply to http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3291339&postcount=88

I guess it is not related to just one program. It happend, after chosing Shap's Advanced Config.

My bug report just related to the fact, that the error was not brought up by the program itself. Turning Wifi off and on made everything work again and the app installed on second try.

(My Hermes does not stay reliably connected to the internet, this is not an "Device Update" issue. WiFi stys connected, but DNS or TCP packets will get lost. This instability of internet connectivity has lead to the error reported)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Titan support wasn't intentional before - now it will be :) It also means that when CABs are submitted, the developers can choose which devices to install on. This gives us the ability to have QVGA, VGA and other resolution apps - as well as app specific stuff.

While the narrowed device support seems like a step backwards at the moment, it is actually a huge step forwards - as the only actions now required is backend support for these devices.

And, seeing as you provided a lot of into that I needed, I'll add Titan support in the next hour or so.

Edit: Oh, and are there any other OEM codes for the Titan than TITA100?

Edit 2: And any reason why htc connection wizard doesn't work on the titans?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
I've added support for Titans & Polaris devices today.

If people with these devices could test it out and post any applications that don't work on your device, I'll go through and update things.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jim256:
thought of combining forces with gecko?

or maybe jak portal?

I am pretty sure there are even one or two more of these types of apps that have popped up recently, but can't remember the app or dev names just now.

If ALL of you guys could really combine forces I'm sure we would have an absolutely AMAZING app manager application!

...Looking good...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Yes and no. Device Update came along quite some time ago, but was only developed on the Hermes... v1 of Device Update came out around 5 months ago from memory - maybe longer.

While the apps above sound ok, I have serious concerns about the technical side of how they run things - which is why for the moment I have just improved Device Update. At the moment, the current v2 infrastructure serves up around 400 cabs per hour. Since the v2 release on the 7th of this month, I've already served up nearly 6,500 cabs! This load seems to be unsustainable with some other project similar to Device Update.

Yeah - there's been a few and I got more and more frustrated at some of the major shortcomings in the newer projects - hence why I sad down for about a month and re-wrote Device Update into what it is now. The good part is that it's a VERY stable and VERY scalable infrastructure now and will work with all Windows Mobile devices once I get around to working out compatibility issues with applications.

This will take a little while as I take the safer approach as to make sure an application won't kill a device. After this is done, I can look at the options for a better UI.

This being said, when re-writing Device Update, I went through over 30 different designs for the UI, and I couldn't find a way to present all the information required in a good way. After the backend settles down, I'll focus a bit more on making things user friendly.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jim256:
Ok, thanks for the response.

Very understandable, I figured something like that may be the issue.

I will be sure to give yours a try!

Thanks,

Jim.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZzFDKzZ:
Very cool.

Ah damn doesn't work for the Fuze.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wanwarlock:
hi, is it possible to register 2 devices for a username? i'm a basic member & tried to register my wife's eten x610 with my username & it says invalid parameters. the username & pw are correct.

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Yes. You should be able to register up to two devices per account. If you can get the IP address that your request comes from (public address, not phone address), then I can look up in the logs and see what has been happening.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Hi all, Due to scheduled maintenance, DeviceUpdate probably won't be available for the next 24 hours.

Hopefully, after this time, the system will be back up and running on some upgraded hardware, a more redundant disk array, and some extra RAM in the system.

Sadly, as the server is in a secure location, it has to be removed, upgraded, then returned!

I'll post again when things are back to 100% operational.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Hi all,

Things are back up and running and have seemed stable for the past few hours. Please feel free to let me know if anyone comes across any problems.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] markbnj:
Program missing? call calendar installer

I had lost EVERYTHING on my phone when I needed to do a hard reset (ugg- forgot to remove simm too!) and I lost the "call calendar installer"

it shows on the web site as being available under the applications menu, but i can't find it anymore (not in alpha order)

Did this app bite the dust?

was it an oversight?

Am I dreaming?

Thanks again in advance (and since it's broad daylight down in Aussieland, I am hopeful you'll have an answer for me shortly...

cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
It shows up for me. What device are you using? Can you PM me the IP address of your phone when you try using DeviceUpdate? That way I can get more details and see what's going on.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] elazullizard:
Can you include support for the Rhodium? I loved using your app when I had a Herald and was crestfallen when I kept on getting "device not recognized" errors. Thank you!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Have you downloaded the latest beta from:

http://www.crc.id.au/deviceupdate/

With v2.1.2.1 beta you shouldn't see any unsupported device errors. If you do, let me know!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xILukasIx:
I'd like to use this program on my Toshiba TG01, but everytime I start it, after the Warning "This application downloads..." I get an error and it crashes.

The error is german, sorry for that!

Unerwarteter Fehler in DeviceUpdate.exe.

Klicken Sie auf "Beenden", und starten Sie das Programm neu. Weitere Informationen zu diesem Fehler erhalten Sie, indem Sie auf "Details" klicken.

"1.0" ist ein unerwartetes Token. Das erwartete Token ist """ oder "'". Zeile 1, Position 15.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Hmmm - does the German Locale use the format x.xx for a decimal point? as in 1 tenth is written as 0.10 or something like 0,10?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xILukasIx:
We use a comma, so it'd be 0,10.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Joys. looks like localisation is sticking it's head in where it shouldn't yet again. If you can set your Locale to the English standard of using 0.00, then things will work ok until I can find a way around this for non-english locales.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xILukasIx:
I'll try it right now!

The time this works with german locale, I'll get a premium membership :-)

EDIT: Ok, I set it to English (USA) in Locale Settings, but it still gives me the same error.

It happens right when I'm on this screen:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
The bit you need to change is in:

Start -> Settings -> System -> Regional Settings -> Number

Then change Decimal symbol from , to .

That should work :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xILukasIx:
Yeh, I'll try that too.

BTW, after the last soft reset I got an error at the green windows screen, that DeviceUpdate.exe could not be opened because it's either not signed with a trusted certificate or one of its components is missing. (Translated :-P)

EDIT: It still gives me the same error after changing the decimal symbol to "." .
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Urgh. People still use signed exe restrictions? :P Searching these forums will show how to remove that.

Ok, looks like I'll have to look at the source and figure out what it's doing when I get a free moment. .Net is a bit annoying like that in it's localisation...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xILukasIx:
I've been searching for that for months, but I can't find it.

I guess I'm just too dumb for that...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] r8zer:
hi, its not working on my touch hd, hav tried version2.1.1.1 and version2.1.2.1, keep getting same error on downloading screen!

Error - Deviceupdate.exe

notsupportedException

can anyone help me out, as this is a strange one to me.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] elazullizard:
I got the same error that the guy with the TG01 got, but my ROM is WWE. Also, my model number is T-Mobile_Rhodium.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
If you can both install the .Net messages cab file in this thread, then PM me the crash messages you get I might be able to work something out.

Sadly I don't have enough details at the moment to start looking at what the cause is.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xILukasIx:
Which .NET messages cabs do you mean?

Nothing in this thread about that.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
This one :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xILukasIx:
Ok.

I'm using the latest open beta now, btw.

Now I get a different error!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xILukasIx:
Also, could you please point me to the thread showing you how to remove these "signed exe restrictions" you mentioned?

I REALLY can't find anything about that...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] elazullizard:
Install aserg's policies. That gets rid of the warning when installing cabs, and it also lets all applications run, regardless of whoever has signed them.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nickdiaz:
I am getting the same error as xILukasIx after a new installation of v2.1.2.1.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Am I correct in thinking that you both use none WWE ROMs?

What languages are you using in your ROMs?

EDIT: Disregard this. See the next post :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
I've looked into this a bit further and it seems like a new application that has been added was causing the issue.

I'm looking into exactly why this happened and will be putting in some safeguards to stop it happening again.

Sorry for this..

EDIT: Found the exact cause. It seems when I rewrote the data optimisation section of the index generating webapp, I over optimised things! It seems that under certain circumstances (which the new application triggered), the index data that was generated was missing key details. I've disabled this particular optimisation so the index download may be 0.5 to 1Kb larger - but there's no chance of triggering this bug again.

As it stands, the average index size is about a ~10Kb download depending on the device.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xILukasIx:
So, did you fix this now?

If yes, where can I get it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Version 2.1.2.1 and 2.1.1.1 should work correctly now. The issue was on my server - not with the client software.

EDIT: Unless of course you are still seeing an issue? :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xILukasIx:
You Sir, are my hero!

It works!

Getting a Premium Membership right now ;-)

Thank you for your VERY fast replies and your help!

Regards,

Lukas
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] timbritt:
I haven't used your software in a while but when I tried it this morning I got the same error xILukasIx was having. I have version 2.1.1.1 of Device Update and my phone is an AT&T Tilt (HTC Kaiser).

When I open the program I get the data usage/cost message then it starts to download then an Error message pops up.

When I click details I get
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
What language are you using for your ROM? Please check what the locale setting is for decimal numbers in Start -> Settings -> System -> Regional Settings -> Number is. If it is not a . then please try this again with a . in the Decimal Symbol field and see if this error continues to occur.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] timbritt:
The decimal is definitely set to ".". I'm using the English (United States) regional settings.

If it helps at all, my current ROM is 6.1 WWE ROM shifu V15, OS 5.2.21127 build 21127.1.6.0
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wapvirus:
Still no htc Prophet added to supported devices this is a very popular qvga device ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Hmmm ok - I'll look into this - there may be a change in newer ROMs that have caused this influx of issues - as they haven't seemed to surface before.

Have you tried version 2.1.2.1 from the web site?

http://www.crc.id.au/deviceupdate

You shouldn't get any unsupported device messages using this build. I haven't updated the main page with this version as it's still really a testing version.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Just a quick note to say that DeviceUpdate has passed the 720,000 applications served mark in 7 months!

Rock on to the million app mark!

* Since 07-Feb-2009:

* Clients Served: 364,395

* Apps Served: 722,400

I'm still looking at the bugs previously reported and should hopefully have something soon to fix it... I'm also working hard on contact backup/restore - and auto-restoring contacts during the initial auto-install run for premium account holders. This should be great for those who hard-reset or swap ROMs frequently!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] timbritt:
I'm beginning to thing that the errors might be related to the ROM I'm using.

Device Update didn't work when I was using shifu's 6.1 v15 Rom. But when I switched to abusalza's Ultimate-X.v9 device update worked fine. A couple minutes ago I switched to shifu's 6.1 v16 Rom and now Device Update is giving me the same error.

I have no idea what the problem could be since I'm using the same regional settings.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
My gut feeling (that I haven't been able to prove yet) is that it exists in ROMs that have been created from non-WWE SYS folders by chefs wanting the latest and greatest. Since I still only own a Hermes (and don't have the funds for anything newer!) I can only theorise about this - as it seems the devices with issues are lots newer than what I can play with on my hardware.

I would LOVE to hear from anyone that can prove me wrong on this and had any crashing issues on carrier supplied ROMs or proper WWE ROMs...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] -DePe-:
can I download the cab files for listed software manually to my PC ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Sure - you can find the CABs manually if you wish... :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] -DePe-:
ups I forgot google :D thx for quick answer..

I've found it here for the list http://www.crc.id.au/deviceupdate/user-apps.pl :eek:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Changes:

* Updated Skyfire browser to v1.1.0.13052

* Updated Google Maps to v3.2.1

* Added official Facebook app
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] [deXter]:
Is the server down or something? Device Update isn't working for me since around ~12 hours. The Internet connection on my device works fine (both ActiveSync and WiFi), and I've also performed multiple hard resets + AT&T ROM flashes + reflashing different ROMs (right now I'm on CRC_r13.4-naked.bs).

The message I'm getting is:

I'm on a HERM100 btw.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ogrenator:
same error on my side...internet also working fine...any ideas?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Agent1:
Same problem here!

Man i was worried i have just been flashing roms and thought id damaged my Hermes (8525 here)

at least i am not the only one with the problem then
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
It seems like something has happened to the server that hosts the main DeviceUpdate database - Looking into it now...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mixxer250:
Connection doesen't work

Hi There !!! I ried to use this software but it seems not connecting to the database.

Any help?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] martinreay:
lol - same here... thought it was a bad flash
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
See the post directly above your question. There is a problem with the server and I've been having issues getting someone into the secure location to see what the problem is. I have managed to organise someone to look at this server at 9am (+10GMT) so I should hopefully have something running soon.

I've also organised a serial console to my server so that if for whatever reason the server fails to boot to a network connection I should be able to configure/administrate it from remote - as long as it boots past the BIOS.

So yes, in summary, it's been a big pain in the ass - and I apologise that it's taken so long to get things organised to get someone to look at it but sadly this one is out of my control. Hang in there, things should be back online within the next 12 hours.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] [deXter]:
Servers are online again, hurray!!

Thanks, CRC :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
Hi guys,

Yes, servers are back online again and well, that was fun.

A quick run down on what happened:

1) The system (for reasons yet unknown) decided to remount the /

partition as read only - and would not change to read-write. Problems

with this means that I couldn't restart services, or really do

anything. A standard reboot failed due to things not being able to be

written.

2) The system was power cycled from a remote power switch that is

onsite but never came back up.

Today (which should have been yesterday - but I had problems getting someone into the secure area!) I had someone look at the system to find it stuck at an fsck prompt noting that some problems had been found with the file system. The normal fsck was run and now the box is up and everything should start being happy again.

To help with this in the future, I have secured and configured a

serial console on the box that is active from the moment GRUB loads -

so I should be able to access the box even if it fails to boot via the

serial console - as long as it gets to the GRUB boot loader. I'm in

the middle of testing this at the moment, and all looks good.

I'm also going to check through the system to see if there is any

indication why / was rendered read-only with no apparent trigger.

The RAID arrays held together fine - so whatever happened seemed to be

on the filesystem level.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] [deXter]:
Interesting! Do have any links for this serial console device?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRCinAU:
http://www.lantronix.com/it-management/console-servers/scs100-scs200-scs400.html

I'm not sure if that's the exact model on site - but it seems to work well.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ogrenator:
CHEERS!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Fenopy:
I am having the same issue on my T-Mobile Touch Pro 2. Stock ROM still.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] benjat:
bro crc.. i've tried to use deviceupdate in my htc advantage.. i know not in compatible list.. and of coz got error.. is there anyway i can use it? im currently using it on my 830 pro.. and really want to use in my advantage.