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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dare2know:
hey nice theme u have made for 6.5 but it is nt a complete package ..add some wallpaper and also check the tsk so it will be a complete package ..i tested it on my ELFIN and it is good except it replaces original files and which cant be uninstall ed..anyways see this wall paper ..for ur future Themes..
[Touch HD General] markgencorelli:
Ok guys,

As I've already posted in a previous thread (the huge "Telstra 850 version working in USA on 3G" thread), I recently bought this Aussie T8285 HD because it had U.S. 3G capabilities.

As a result, I've been wanting to HSPL and flash my new HD because:

1.) though the phone works fine in making calls with my AT&T service/sim card and updating my google e-mails, the 3G internet is not working right now (internet only works when I use wifi). **special thanks to felixjai and bill48105 in the previous thread for nicely helping me troubleshoot my problem, suggesting that I need to HSPL and flash it for the 3G to start working**

but more importantly...

2.) I want to get rid of the Telstra crap in the phone and be able to install Dutty's and other cool stuff on this site

So I wanted to make sure before doing any major tweaking to fully understand and comprehend the whole process (as you can obviously tell, I am a newb). But to be completely honest, all the jargon is quite over my head and I realize that it'll simply take actual experience to fully comprehend all of this.

So I guess my question is, from what I was able to glean from the wiki-pages (and I've read it several times over), is that all I need to do is, with what I want to do in the above two points:

FIRSTLY, Hard_SPL (not SSPL or USPL, but HSPL) my HD by following exactly step-by-step this page:

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Blackstone_Flash3

and THEN SECONDLY, DL and install Dutty ROM from this page?

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Blackstone_cookedroms

- Do I need to have the Dutty .cab ready and downloaded already on my PC and ready to install (and where do I drop this ROM into? into a folder?) to my HD or can I DL and install it at a later time?

- Does this whole process have nothing to do with the radio? I can leave the radio alone?

- How do I know if my version of the HD is ok to HSPL? On the wiki page, it says that it needs to be BLAC100 but I have BLAC250...is this still ok to HSPL? Do I need to update/download/change anything on my HD before starting this process?

I apologize for the long-winded email and for what probably is totally childs-play for you pros out there, but please bear with me...it is all a bit overwhelming and I just want to make sure as I don't want to permanently screw up my $1000 device. THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH FOR THE HELP!
[Touch HD General] Fallen Spartan:
Here's a quick guide for you

A warning before you flash any rom!

You must flash HardSPL first to be able to flash any rom!

.... * More info and instruction about HardSPL!

An alternative is USPL, it doesn't change your original SPL!

.... * More info and instruction about USPL!

Tips about flashing a rom

.... * Use fully charged device

.... * Switch off your device by holding the Power button untill a menu pops up

.... * Go to bootloader by holding Volume down + Power button at the same time

.... * Connect your device to your PC

.... * Start BlackStoneCustomRUU.exe and follow the onscreen instruction's

An alternative is to flash your device from storage card

.... * Rename RUU_Signed.nbh to BLACIMG.NBH and copy it to your Storage Card

.... * Follow the above steps to go in bootloader

.... * A messages will popup, push power button to start flashing or Volume down to cancel

.... * After it's done a new message popsup, softreset your device

I took this from Laurentius, so I hope he doesn't mind. L26 ultimate series for Touch HD
[Touch HD General] markgencorelli:
THANKS for the info !

So how do I know if my HD is OK to HSPL?

My HD is not BLAC100 and the wiki page states that if "ModelID is different, contact us for testing"...

Do I need to tweak any of my settings on my phone before starting the HSPL process or is it just good to go as is?
[Touch HD General] skribzy:
Something that I have been wondering about... is one method of flashing 'safer' than another? i.e. is it just a user preference or is there a reason one should attempt one method before the other?
[Touch HD General] markgencorelli:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong (and I could be since I'm a newb), but I believe HSPL is better because then it makes it more difficult in bricking your phone.
[Touch HD General] skribzy:
I wasnt thinking so much about HSPL vs USPL but rather flashing from SD card vs PC!
[Touch HD General] Fallen Spartan:
Only difference is that you don't need to be connected to your pc to flash the ROM. Both are just as safe. Its a users preference.
[Touch HD General] skribzy:
thanks! that clears that one up! :)
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] intrancer:
hello people,

ive searching for a answer to how to automatically download images in pocket outlook.

does anyone know how too

thanks
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michael95GT:
I'd really love to know this too. Whats the point of HTML email, if you have to do extra steps to see it. My Bold just does it on its own, why can't WM?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] intrancer:
the other annoying factor i have to press a link to enable scrolling
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FalkR1979:
Thats a problem for me too. Someone knows a workaround?? Some registry- changes? Anybody?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hasangetinya:
Imagine you are standing in a store looking at DVDs. You photograph a barcode with your phone and press a couple of buttons. By the time you make it home, the movie is waiting for you in your torrent client.

This is the link for the app which is available on Android. I wonder if anyone could come up with something like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h05KrEjHW6g
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] de Wolfe:
and VERY legal indeed... :mad:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iammorris:
While it is a clever idea, that kind of talk really isn't allowed here.. I think this thread will be closed!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] htctoucher:
thats amazing.. wonder how he is getting away with that!

not that i encourage illegal behavior or download anything illegaly, but i would love to see someone get something like that working for winmo too (not that i would use it)!

:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hasangetinya:
Illegal downloads

Its not like im encouraging illegal movie downloads. Just because a shop is providing bullets and guns doesnt mean that they are encouraging shooting and killing...

I think this would be a wonderful app and could have many uses other than illegal movie downloads so take a chill pill...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mcwtrekkie:
Yes, the implications are incredible. I'm sure there are *many* other uses other than illegal movie downloads, I just can't think of any right now.

..

Oh wait, got one! Music download?!

Hardly saying I'm against it, but do you really think this is the place for you to request an app which would make you a trigger-happy barcode reader?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dashraider:
other possible use

instead of having it take you to a torrent of the movie you can you use it log you dvds or cds to make a list of all your dvds or possibly use it with microsofts netflix app to add the scanned dvd to you rental list
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hasangetinya:
:)

Think outside the box lill fella there could be a lot more uses than just piracy... I saw the video on youtube and was very impressed so lighten up and go BUY a dvd or something if it makes u happy...

I already downloaded a torrent client on my mobile and am able to download content from many sites... Its called winmobile torrent if anyone is interested.

Please posts messages regarding development or alternatives to this rather that sarcy comments from now on.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hasangetinya:
p.s.

Dashraider that is an excellent idea...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mr_Gee:
Yeah, lets NOT discuss the legality of this application, in stead lets find out how to get this on our WM phones :-)

To get it to work we would at least need

1. A barcode reading Lib, open source/free

2. A way of searching barcode number -> title

Google-ing for both ...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mandragore:
Try Koushik Dutta's Windows Mobile Bar Code Manager and API.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jmckeejr:
Another possible use:

It scans the barcode, then identifies the product and checks online for different prices. So you can find the lowest price or whatever.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hasangetinya:
Thanks...

:pThanks for your help on this guys...:p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mr_Gee:
I could only find the barcod creation part..

But... we could already start with just typing in the number

the rest could/would be automatic
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Scorpion360:
Just an FYI there is already a WM program being developed that does this called Barcorama. It's a little crude in the fact that it doesn't actually "read" the barcode, it just searches a predefined string using the barcode numbers that you photograph, and opens a browser page with the prices.

You can edit the search string as well, I think it defaults to a Google Shop search, but you can make it search Amazon/Whatever fairly easily.

To take this a step further, basically what I imagine the general workings of this application would do would be something of the following.

Using pretty much the same foundation as barcorama you would take a pic of the barcode, but instead of displaying the pricing page it would instead parse the data for a title of a movie/artist/etc. This operation would likely be hidden to conserve resources. Beyond this you could take the data that you got from searching the UPC and then plug that into a torrent search site such as isohunt, and have it grab whichever torrent has the closest match or best seeds.

The problems would be that while you could do all the steps on the PPC, I'm not exactly sure how you would get the .torrent opened on your PC without some sort of remote feature/LogMeIn etc. which are probably difficult to integrate into the application.

An additional problem would be that the application would have to judge which torrent from the tracker is "best" to download which would probably have to be handled by some combo of which torrent has the most seeds and which most precisely matches the data it acquired from the barcode.

I'd imagine that this project can be done without too much trouble, but it will probably take awhile to work out the bugs/fine tune the search/etc.

-Edit: After rereading this I came up with an idea for a workaround to get the file to the PC. It's only an idea like I said and would require additional development, but I'm just planting the seed for the more creative minds to bloom.

Basically the steps would be the same as above, but when you reached the point where the .torrent has been found, have the program save the .torrent to a temporary directory, attach it to an email document, and email it to an address you would input. You would probably have to run an app always on the PC that would watch your email, and open any .torrents that came in, I'm not sure how difficult that would be.

I think something like this is the easiest way to do this, but anyone can feel free to chime in with tweaks/new ideas
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] algorhythm:
I'm actually writing an app to read UPCs and search Amazon prices...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mandragore:
Sorry, didn't check the API code for scanning barcodes.. :o
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mr_Gee:
Geen probleem ;-)

Ontoppic

This could be an option :http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=368798

I need to look into it, and see if I/we can use it,

I also think we can use amazone.com for the dvd info

I just need to look in to the placing of the nzb/torrent

but we're getting there
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] htctoucher:
winmobile torrent seems cool, but i dont really understand the point of downloading huge files over edge to your mobile, would make more sense if it synced with your computer like in the video so it would use a higher bandwith
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spook:
I've always been interested in creating a barcode reading program.

Before my two kids came along and took away all our free time, my wife used to collect coupons. She would put them all in a index card holder and reference them whenever she was buying something. The most time consuming part was keeping up with the expiration dates and what each coupon was for, then compare them to fliers from the supermarkets.

My idea was to barcode scan each coupon and have an online database of what the coupons were for, how much off, expiration date, and barcodes of products the coupon was valid for. I know that supermarkets have such a database but it would be great if it was available online somewhere.

Even as a community effort (users scan a coupon and type in the applicable info then upload and share with everyone else), this would be a useful little program.

In this economy, we can all use an app like this, can't we? My Wife and I used to leave the supermarket with a shopping cart full of food and personal hygiene products having only paid $3 - $10 bucks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Scorpion360:
You guys are doing way more thinking than you need to, reread my post.

A barcode reading software ALREADY exists for Windows Mobile, here is a link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=368798

This software ALREADY WORKS to read barcodes and show you the price on a website you choose (Google Shopping, Amazon, Etc.)

Don't waste time trying to reinvent this, instead why don't we build functionality onto this software?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itsme_4ucz:
Hi All,

New video conversion tool with great features. Encoding is really fast takes advantage of multi-core systems.

Version 4.1

- Minor mp4 fix

Version 4.0 Out!!!

- Visual cropping tool - you think u're the master? then this tool is for you..

- Create new profiles

- Group/individual movie configurations supported

- Lot of tweaking parameters to ffmpeg - better performance

- Bug fixes & enhancements - of course..

- Small changes to the UI

- New Optimal profiles added, If you have a Touch-HD you must try HTC-HD-Optimal.

- Few Tips added in the 2nd post....

Hope you guys like this!!!

New build v2.0 - Better, Faster, more intuitive!!!

This is a major upgrade, lot of enhancements!!!

1) Added volume boost option as %

2) Conversion Progress in built

3) Latest FFMPEG Build (SVN-r19958 22/09/09)

v1.1

1) Volume Boost option (256 = 100% , 512 = 200%)

2) Few Bug Fixes and Gui changes

v.1 features:

1) Does auto cropping/padding

2) Drag and Drop files to be converted

3) Support for 2-pass conversion

4) Converts all video formats supported by FFMPEG, that's about everything :)

5) Target path is the same as source. Converted file will have _Resized.ext (avi,mp4...) added to original filename.

6) New profiles can be added manually editing the profiles.xml files in the installation directory.

7) For debugging, a batch file is created in the installation directory which has the command line for ffmpeg.

8) Sample your Video: You can use the StartTime and Duration of the clip to be converted relative to StartTime..

9) Supports an ideal configuration for PSP videos

Video_Converter_v4.1.zip

Mirror - mediafire

Video_Converter_v4.1.zip

Video_Convertor_2.0.zip

VideoConvertor_v1.1.zip
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itsme_4ucz:
Getting to optimal target resolution, can be done step by step, that's how I arrived at optimal resolution for Touch-HD.

1) Target resolution = 800*480

2) Aspect Ratio = 800/480 = 1.666666666666667

3) Now start tweaking one of the parameters, lets reduce the height to 348,

in order to maintain aspect ratio we have to multiply (1.666666666666667 * 348) = 580.000000000000116 ~ 580

4) Thats it !! now set your target resolution in the converter to 580*348 and see how it performs

Make sure you increase your bitrate to get sharper and better quality.

For Touch-HD, I use the following configuration:

Target Resolution = 540x384

Bitrate = 1500
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Abednego:
Since I'm using Linux on all my systems but am also a little too lazy to try and find out the optimal ffmpeg-parameters for my Blackstone - would it be possible to get a non-compiled version of VideoConvertor? If it's java, it should probably be fixable for Linux too...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jambaj0e:
I'm having problems in converting a 720p mkv file to a WVGA (800x480) format. For some reason, the screen keeps getting stretched vertically. How can I make this program automatically fit a WVGA format in the settings?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itsme_4ucz:
Try the following configuration

What is your configuration? (Screenshot or generated .bat file will help).

Tried encoding a sample video, take a look at the configuration used...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nitrx:
Great App!! very fast!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] skyler17:
The Touch Pro 2 fails at playing HTC-HD Profiled videos.

To play smooth videos on the Rhodium, change the resolution what I've found to be the optimal resolution: 640 x 384

I don't know why 800 x 480 doesn't work well...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itsme_4ucz:
Yes thats true, rendering video of that size requires better processor, even Touch-HD fails to perform well at that resolution. Thanks for sharing optimal resolution: 640 x 384 for touch-pro, will include that to profiles.xml.

I am looking at optimizing the perfomance at 800x480, its closely related to the codec used for conversion, will include this fix in the next release.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lord Dagoth:
Thaks !!!

Great App:):):)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j_svas:
Really liked to use your VC v1.1, trying your V2 now, many thanks for sharing
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] trance2002:
Very nice app and thanks also to skyler for the TP2 resolution tip.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nitrx:
Nice!! Looking forward for the new version :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Darnell_Chat_TN:
This is an awesome video converter.

But I'm having the same problem with 720p MKV files (1280 x 720). I'm trying to get them down to VGA size for the Touch Pro (640 x 480). (I'm using the Touch Diamond settings.) The files output are stretched vertically so far, that they're not usable. All other file types and sizes I've tried to convert have worked wonderfully.

So this seems to be an issue with any desired output size when using 720p MKV files.

If anyone has a way to get 720p MKVs to work successfully with this converter, please share how you did it. I hope that perhaps this can be improved upon in a future release.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Darnell_Chat_TN:
I'm using a Herman (CDMA Touch Pro) with NRGZ28's 9/20 build of EnergyROM for that device. I have not had any problems viewing videos converted using the Touch Diamond 640 X 480 @ 512kbps settings. (With the exception of trying to convert 720p MKVs as I mentioned in my earlier comment, but that's a different issue.)

Have you who had problems with the Touch Pro 2 (Rhodium) tried using a better set of video drviers on your device?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itsme_4ucz:
Fixed!!!

Its a bug, fixed it in the next release...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itsme_4ucz:
Hi Darnell,

I haven't tested this on Touch Pro 2, but have played around with some drivers designed for HTC-HD Blackstone without any significant boost in video playback...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Darnell_Chat_TN:
That's great news. If there's a better converter for HTC touch style devices than this one, I don't know what it is :D .

Very interesting that the Touch Pro does not seem to have any problems with output at 640 x 480, but the Touch Pro 2 and Blackstone need to have things at 640 x 384.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itsme_4ucz:
Ok guys, the new version is out, lot of enhancements hope you all like it :)

And thanks for appreciating my work, this keeps me going!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j_svas:
Thanks once again for this faster version, but I think mp4 conversion is not working at all!

Is there something missed in this version please?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itsme_4ucz:
Fixed in 4.1 !!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nitrx:
Thanks a lot for fixing the audio sync issue :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itsme_4ucz:
Updated the PSP fix too in this release....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] saumaun:
Great app! Thanks for your work :)

What I really want to know is...

How can we play videos at 480x800 (or something close) on our WVGA devices? I have tried using every tool and it is always choppy. What settings can we use to achieve this? I know the bitrate can be lowered, but I want to know EXACTLY what I need to do (app, settings, etc) to get high-resolution playback.

Anyone know?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bennyj71:
I would like to apologize for thread jacking. I have been subscribed to this thread and a couple others dealing with video converters. Since this question keeps getting asked, I'd figure I'd chime in. I found this thread with this converter. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=467112. I have converter about 10 movies at WVGA resolution. All play with Coreplayer with no problems. They play with more sharpness in the HTC video player. Give it a try to compare and contrast.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itsme_4ucz:
bennyj71, thanks for pitching in and providing help.

saumaun, smoothness of video is also dependent on the device you use, I have a HTC-HD (Blackstone) WVGA and I have tried several players/converters none can me it happen, 480x800 is just too big a resolution for mobile processors(or at-least the one present in Touch-HD, 528 MHz).

I have realized that you can get a sharp, clear & smooth video with lower resolution and higher bitrate, please refer to post2 on deriving to an optimal configuration.

You can try the sampling option in my converter, by specifying the startTime and Duration...

Thanks...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rk73:
cant download wothout being a premium menmber in rapidshare :-(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itsme_4ucz:
Are you sure?

For testing purpose, I tried downloading the file and it worked without a premium account...

Let me know if there's a need to create a mirror...

p.s: I have experienced this in past, It happens if there is high traffic on rapidshare, just try and download after sometime, it will work...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rk73:
Cant download right now, but I will keep trying, maybe your software is popular, I can download other files from rapidshare right now(tried) but not yours...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itsme_4ucz:
Added a mirror on mediafire, hope this helps, Cheers!!

http://www.mediafire.com/?h51mnjmnaw0
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rk73:
Thanks!!!

Software seems to be very good, encoding right now.

Edit:

After trying some settings encoding for my touch pro 2, I am very happy with the results, this software seems faster and at least as good as several paid applications i have tried.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itsme_4ucz:
Thank you !!

I really started this project with a small requirement of mine, batch converting movies for my PSP with autoCrop for full screen. I am glad its grown into more generic video conversion tool. Look out for more updates, and do post in your feedback, thats what makes a software really good.