yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] S.V.I:
If I am correct, the image optimiszer just compresses the files making them take less space. this would work aweome for a website to help it load faster...

However, I do not think it will be helpfull to have that on a low end device. it would take time and ram to decompress the image.

The best thing I have found is to completely remove dithering from gradients. that does not mean selecting an area and blurring the crap out of it. thi means selecting an area 1pxl wide and repeating it through out the area you are trying to fill. this would remove the "flat" finish and end up making it look glossy.

basically, I performed the folowing experiment, and you can try this at home:

make an image with two colors Pinstripe.

@@@@@@@@@

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(etc)

fill a completely square area (doe not matter what size 240x240 works best. save it as an 8 bit png.

use windows preview on the desktop to duplicate and rotate the image.

You now have two files. one with pinstripes going horizontal and one vertical but same image. now look at the file size. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nixeus:
Thanks for your reply !! I will try to optimize my PNG/BMP/JPG files by Photoshop !!

A tuto will be good :D

Just an other question :

If i reversmod all my EXE and DLL in SYS and OEM.

It's good for optimize my rom ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] oldsap:
not all modules can be recmodded. i tried recmoding the files in the OS folder and my phone didnt boot up :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nixeus:
But if i reversmod all files as possible, it's better no ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] utak3r:
Yes, it's much better - but you should do it a package after package - SOME files won't run after modularization... Fortunately, it happens rarely.

The other problem is the limit of modules addressing space: it would be better if you would have wm6.5 nk.exe.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nixeus:
Yes i understand !

Unfortunately, there is no wm6.5 nk.exe for ELF/ELFIN :-(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wg5566:
Very good idea to collect this, bro!

Can you also WIKI it?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nixeus:
[ thread error ] sorry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nixeus:
OO Yes, this thread is a very good idea !

It will be good to having a little tutorial in order to do GFX optimizations ! :)

Thanks a lot :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] c0de_junkie:
one of the best ways that i have found to remove files that are in the rom and cant be deleted, i open notepad and make 0k dummy files of the file i wont gone and then overwrite it where ever it is and bam you gain that space back that was wasted on dumn stuff you dont need !!! just my 2 cents!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nixeus:
Will be it possible to have a little tutorial in order to optimize the gfx ?

Thanks a lot :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] S.V.I:
quick tutorial on optimizing gfx (sorry no time for a long one)

open the png in photoshop and save for web using 8 bit format. select as few colors as it pleases the eye. click save.

if you need alpha transparency (like glass) open the new 8bit png that you created and convert it back to RGB.

then duplicate the layer and hide the background layer. make the new layer as transparent a you want, then save the file as 24bit png (with the save for web) make sure the box for transparency is checked. click save.

you now have smaller files than before.

i you need to edit a gif file the same way, open it save for web a png then rename the extension back to gif.

the trick to optimizing gfx is making a low rez image from scratch and being creative enough to make it look good. or just using the old image as a template to build a new one.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nixeus:
Thanks for your fast answer !!!

I have seen the BMP inb the shell folder ( E, 3G...etc....) and it appear that these bMP are in 1bit, so i think that we cannot optimize these picture :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] farukb:
a quickie...what tool do you use to export those dlls...

and does anyone know why nothin got banned
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lycox:
For PNGs you can use PNGGountlet in addition. This tool makes the graphic files even smaller too.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] utak3r:
Why the sadness?? It's the most optimized image one can ever see... what would you want to optimize in it? :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nixeus:
because you have said this :

Originally Posted by utak3r

Reduce number of colors in palette, get rid of tonal gradients, which consume many colors.

Can you imagine, that in wm6.5 builds icons for G, E and so on on a taskbar are in 32bits? while they need.... 1 bit! only.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nixeus:
Thanks :) I will try this software !! Thanks !

The same tools for BMP ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] utak3r:
yeah, I said it... but YOU said those bitmaps are... of 1-bit color depth, so... they're already optimized :cool:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] S.V.I:
I dont think it will help me. I already build gfx from scratch. besides, I dont want to undo all o that work by wasting the cpu time to decompress the images. it really isnt the size that counts, but how predictable the pixel structure is.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] utak3r:
Exactly so.

I can see most of you still don't understand one thing: file size has nothing to do with the speed or RAM usage! I've said it once already, I'll repeat: every image, no matter how it was saved, when loaded into RAM for displaying on your screen, takes bits_per_pixel x width x height bytes! So for the RAM usage everything you can do is to reduce color pallete. And for the speed of the app you can make sure the image is decompressing fast - and that means no heavy compressed files!

All those tools mentioned here have completely different audience than we are here - they're for optimizing file size for putting into the website.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nixeus:
OK, thanks a lot for your informations !

In all the cases, the bmp in 24bits must be reducing in 16bits no ?

Because our screen are in 16bits ? true ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nixeus:
I have found this tool which can optimize bmp,png..etc

It can reduce color...etc......

http://www.4neurons.com/other/mbm/mbm.html
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] utak3r:
not the screens - but Windows Mobile itself doesn't support 24b depth of colors... which is pathetic.

The key is to operate on good image editor, which is able to present you the image while you're degrading its palette :) Some images look pretty much the same with only 8 bits per pixel :) and even less (all the icons and so on).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mrrouge:
Very good thread.

can you provide a cab for a optimized taskbar?

thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dertnberny:
Ok I am a Noob. How do you do this? Find it on your phone.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Farmer Ted:
Get total commander, click plugins-registry-hklm-...until you get to the value. Click it, change to 0, click ok and soft reset.

Do a backup beforehand, in case you pull a boneheaded move and delete half your registry. :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dertnberny:
Thanks. Im still lost tho. so much crap in registry/hklm

*edit* Nevermind, I got it. Thanks to everyone in this thread
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] benko286:
I love this myBitmap.exe..I reduced some pictures more than a half!!

But one thing I hate..optimizing is so slow!!

I need to open every image, reduce colors, reduce bits and than save it..

Can I somehow select 50pics set parameters to reduce colors to 128 colors and reduce color depht to 8bit..So that optimizing goes faster?

EDIT:fixed a problem
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Vapaus00:
Regain the 60MB used by opera.

Opera has reserved 60 MB of HTC Diamond's ram ( I don't know for others ) If we could remove that it would mean a huge plus.Anyone knows how?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Vapaus00:
Regain ram used by opera ( 60 MB )

Sorry for posting it again. My mistake.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ishan.arora:
help!!how to remove dial skin?

done..read the previous post..will check if the ram usage shoots up again...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pigreca:
great job!!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] aiaob:
Hi,

There are certain times when I don't need it to auto lock. How do I switch it off? I've looked through the options and can't find the button.

Thanks!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] skycamefalling:
Run iLock, that is closing S2U2. Then run it again to enable it again.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] aiaob:
ah i always wondered where ilock came from.

Thanks !
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ogwilson:
Hi all. I am wanting to get rid of a couple of apps I don't use (mainly Amazon MP3 and Work Mail). What I've tried is, while phone is in recovery mode, remount the /system

No Success:

$ adb remount
remount failed: Invalid argument

I've also tried this as suggested by some other members:

$ adb shell
mount -oremount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount: mounting /dev/block/mtdblock3 on /system failed: Invalid argument

Yet I'm still unable to see/use /system/app. Is there anyone that might know what's wrong here?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uansari1:
I could totally help you to uninstall these apps by spending a minute and typing up a few commands to allow you to do so.

But I won't, because you neglected to post this in the proper forum.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lakers3408:
You will need to know the EXACT name of the apps you want to remove.

Reboot in to recovery

Alt+x

<enter>

#mount -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system

That will put your system folders in ReadWrite

Pay attention to the space's between

mount and -o

-o and rw

rw and /dev

mmcblk0p2 and /system

You can also use Terminal app

$su

#mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

I personaly use Root Explorer, its easy.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ogwilson:
I'm sorry, I thought this was the correct forum. You don't have to be nasty about it, and you could at least point me in the right direction if you neglect to help otherwise.

Thanks for the help. I was able to successfully mount it using

#mount -o rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

however, when i then try adb uninstall /system/app/Mail.apk, i get this

quentyn@quentyn-desktop:~$ adb uninstall /system/app/Mail.apk
/sbin/sh: pm: not found

not sure what this means exactly though. Your help is greatly appreciated, despite what some sour posters may think otherwise.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uansari1:
No, I do have to be nasty about it... there have been way too many people like you around here lately, and it's irritating to say the least. Had you simply opened your eyes and read just the titles of the stickied threads in this very forum, you'd have seen this thread title!

"This is DEVELOPMENT section not General!!!!"

That means, go to General or Q&A to ask your question.

I'll tell you what though... go and start a new thread in the proper forum, and I'll explain step by step how to uninstall these apps.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lakers3408:
@uansari

Just answer the damn question and send him on his merry way. Instead of going back and forth arguing like 5 year olds! You took the time to reply twice, if you would of gave him the answer on the first reply it would end there.

Anyways

@ogwilson

Try this after mounted

# rm /system/sd/app/Mail.apk
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ogwilson:
Thank you, this worked wonderfully.

As for the other guy, I have read that thread over a few times when I first got my phone and I figured that the general questions thread was more for issues that didn't involve tinkering with the phone in these ways. Thats what I thought the development forum was for. And thats all you had to say. So I'm sorry if it wasn't exactly clear the first time, but people like you scare off people who simply are not clear on the exact rules, when the uses of each forum aren't extremely outlined and detailed.

Thanks again for the help Lakers. Is there a way for me to close this thread?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lakers3408:
Although he was jerk about it, he is right questions like your do belong in the Q&A. So in the future when in doubt please post in the Q&A.

As for YOU closing this tread, it can't be done. A Mod will move it or close it for you.

Also

You may want to copy and paste the commands on to your pc incase you forget them and you will.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ogwilson:
Yea I figured he was right or else he wouldn't have responded so strongly about it. I've acknowledged that and now know for the future that anything that I have a question about must go in Q&A.

And yea every time I get help on an obscure issue that requires obscure commands, I always paste them into a note document and save to my android folder. Now hopefully a mod can move this. Thanks again!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uansari1:
Yes, I am a jerk, but I offered to help... just not in the wrong forum. I see no benefit in encouraging others to continue posting questions in this forum.

Anyway, this thread will be locked soon.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pinesal:
This is why I try not to post anything is this forum, I'm afraid to get chewed out for it.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lakers3408:
Lmao!

Yeah some people got bullied in high school or are still being bullied and this is there way of bullying back!

To be safe just post your question in the Q&A and you should be safe. But I'm sure some jerk will tell you that it does not belong there and it belongs in Development or Themes or Apps
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uansari1:
No one will ever tell you that, lol... questions belong in the Q&A forum. It's not rocket science kids.
[Touch Cruise General] UKenGB:
After installing O2's WM6.1 ROM update on my Orbit II, I installed SPB Mobile Shell 3, but after removing this, there's a thick blank line under (and about the same height as) the top menubar, as if there's a blank today plug-in at the top. and any enabled plug-ins load under this blank area. I don't remember seeing this problem prior to installing SPB MS, but I could be wrong about that.

I have noticed an item in 'Programs' called Large Title Bar, but this seems to make no difference so I've no idea what it really is supposed to do, but it does sound relevant.

Anyone any ideas what can cause this blank space and how to get rid of it?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] davidliu21:
hello, I am using Att Incite, and use Tmobile as my carrier. but my agps doesn't work, is there anyway i can get it to work? change the agps server to tmobile??
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] xILukasIx:
You need a 3rd party program like this one to edit your registry:

http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DarkPower:
I made a cab here :

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4550094&postcount=31
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brummiesteven:
Hi everyone,

According to Locale, having Wifi on all the time drains very little battery unless you are actually connected to a wifi hotspot. After trying it out for a few days this is actually true.

Does anyone know weather this also applies to bluetooth? Can I leave bluetooth on 24/7 without it effecting my battery life too much? Would like to leave it on so it's there when I need it tbh.

Thanks,

Steve.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] random_username_:
with all of my phones (including the g1) bluetooth drains battery even when not in use. You could try the bluetooth widget, it gives easy acess and dosent take too long to turn on
[Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Other] Fandysilalahi:
Noob here,

Anyone here can help me get a nice and fresh lookin theme for my wm6 smartphone (Q8)? Its lookin old.

Been searching the interwebs, but so far, most of the nicer lookin themes (like the sense UI, android, replica themes) are for touchscreen winmos.

Tried to install mobile shell, but I keep gettin "installation unsuccessful" messange.
[Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Other] kingmabuto:
Q8 is quite old, google if u can find a newer 6.1/6.5 ROM for it, or get a new phone, the android stuff is for android, and touch/PPC UI stuff wont install on a smartphone. Now that is said, there is 3 things u can try.

1) the Samsung I600 Cardwheel from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=410370

2) SGregory HTC Home Plugin from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=351441 (simplest to install and works well).

3) Some1 managed to port the TouchFlo2D(Manila2D) from touch to smartphone, i installed this once on a Vox and it was ultra heavy so i removed it. It is a long install process and u have to follow it properly and its sligtly buggy, u can try it if u want. Everything u need is here http://allshadow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3581

btw, u dont need to put 2 threads with same topic.
[Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Other] Fandysilalahi:
Sorry, the double post was my mistake. Thought the first one didn't make it.

Thank you so much for your input, really appreciate it. Got the gregory one, buta haven't tried the others.

I found an android lookin theme on some non english website. Nice lookin. It only needs facade and smartmonitor I think.

I'll post the link as soon as I can find it again.

Guess I really need to go with the 6.1, eh?

What's your tip for the best ROM to use?

thx
[Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Other] cingibi:
http://gazete.yerbilimleri.com/category/smartphone/
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] origins81:
I've been trying to access the paid apps via market enabler and haven't been able to do so...anyone else having the same issues?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] hernant:
Since yesterday when I try to use the Market app, I get this message:

"A server error has ocurred. Retry, or cancel and return to the previous screen."

I cannot see or search any application.

I have my phone rooted, and the Market was working well (free and paid apps) with Market Enabler.

Is that what occurred to you? The Market stop to work or this never was working?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] origins81:
It doesn't let me access paid apps even with market enabler having faked the values, it keeps displaying "no matching content"

it's still not working and i've changed roms since then:mad::mad::mad::mad:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] briggs81:
Quite a few people reporting issues int he past day or 2 also with market enabler on the google code site, myself included.

Beta version doesn't work either.

There is a temp fix up there or something, but I have no tried it yet.. something to do with clearing a cache on device.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] origins81:
Seems to be working again... 300 years to download an app though
[Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Other] Fandysilalahi:
Sorry if the question sounds so simple. Noob here.

I have a Motorola Q8 runnin winmo 6.

Anyone can help me find themes that mimics those nice interface on those latest sense ui and or android phones? They do look nice, and my phone does look old.

Thx a lot guys
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] i<3myphone:
I have used MP3 Trimmer for many of my ringtones. Problem is, the ringtone volume on each one have a varying volume. It will start out low, then go real loud, then low again, then loud. Is this normal? Is there a way to make it consistent? It is very annoying. It takes all the fun out of a good song for your ringtone b/c it sounds so jumpy-like.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] i<3myphone:
bump. anyone? can you help?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] xnifex:
what is MP3 Trimmer? does it come on the TP2? Its not on the Tmo TP2
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] i<3myphone:
MP3 trimmer lets you use your MP3's to trim songs and use them as ringtones.

Can anyone help me or do I just give up here?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] petegreenhorn:
Hi as from title i'm new to this but after reading of the new update thought it would be good to have . so is there a how to for someone who as never done this before . I can follow instructions . Grateful for any pointers tia
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Spiaatie:
It's easy - go to my thread LINK - read all first 3 posts carefully, download v4 and read readme txt file inside update folder.

Need something more? - just ask me :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] slimsuse:
KEEP THE GOOD IDEAS FLOWING!!!! Aug 23,2009

There are a lot of awesome Ideas in this thread.... We will try to apease everyone, I know we wont, but we will try!

We are going to build a ROM for the users. About the only thing that will be in this ROM that WE want, is maybe the loader... lol Maybe you like something I dont, I will still add it for you. If I like something you dont, I will make that uninstallable... or leave it out and I will install it after the fact...

Ok, so we have gotten a lot of requests for these ROMS,

just to let you know we are HARD at work on this and we will keep the thread updated of the progress.....

Keep the ideas coming, dont keep that million $ idea to yourself! post away!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] slimsuse:
cdguider and I would like to know:

what is your idea of a perfect ROM? ( so to speak)

What would you like in the ROM? stripped or packed?

What programs would you like to see?

What is most important to you?

let us know!

We are going to start working on a ROM straight from USER requests!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] wez89:
Rom base personally would be 6.1 but i dont mind 6.5

Manila 2.6

light tweaks to performance and personalization
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] cdguider:
Like SlimSuse Said

Reserved - Tell us what you want.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] slimsuse:
how about a version for both?

we can work on a mirrored version for both 6.5 and 6.1~
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] wez89:
Best of both worlds, this way people have a choice..yeah i like this idea
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] combat goofwing:
google maps and bing

auto rotate on home screen like calender and photos
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] slimsuse:
its always about choice!!

we are crackin away at it now!!

whew, i am starting to sweat now!! HAHAH
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] slimsuse:
I like that Idea... make it so it auto rotates without having to slide out the screen...

good idea!!

not to sure about bing tho.... we will see how many want it!

cdguider, start a poll in here see how many want what search engine and how many either want or dont want PIE at all ....
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] cdguider:
Bing is oright, I think we should include it

I like bing, Someone needs to get me Coffee, We are going to put our Blood and Sweat into these Roms, When it is done. You will have the best of both worlds.

"There are those who said this day will never come, what are they to say now"
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] slimsuse:
LOL major coffee, IV drip if possible!! HAH
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] combat goofwing:
the auto rate reg hack worked with the stock rom, but doesnt work with the energy rom
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] wez89:
Opera 9.7 beta?

WLM

WMP

Facebook app

Office

Advanced config

Audio booster

youtube app

total commander

FM radio
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] slimsuse:
yep.... those are a given... good suggestions!! keep em comin!!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] HeavyComponent:
I would want everything that is already posted and will be posted. BUT be able to just remove what I don't want. :D