yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] S.V.I:
It may be that the original file was compressed. it also might be that you have dithering enabled.. it ccould be a very complicated image. I have only seen a photo become that large when saving it or the web and devices (I assume that you are using "save for...")

Most likely the image was compressed or you used "save as..." instead of "Save for the web and devices" also, check your dpi 72dpi is best even i you use 96 or 192... when changing the dpi, make sure that you take note of the dimentions of the image. change dpi, then change image size.

let me know. good luck. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Nixeus:
Hello, S.V.I,

Thanks a lot for yor fast answer!

Not, i have using "Save for web and device" ! ( Photoshop CS4 @ 64bits )

Here is the attached file !

http://dl.free.fr/tyPjIDkyb

Have you an idea ?

Thanks a lot my friend . :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orb3000:
Thanks for this!

I´ll try it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deddy777:
Thanks!!

Thank you so much for sharing. I really appreciate it.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] S.V.I:
could not get the image.

can you upload it elsewhere. i dont speak french.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nosedive:
hey S.V.I,

i read posts every day and spend couple of hours on xda .. but this is the most informative i read for a long time..

you're talking about serious topic which every cook of a low mem device is facing or at least has noticed (except probably some noobs...) images fill up the ram+rom like nothing!

cu,

nosedive
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] S.V.I:
Glad you found it usefull.

I think that at this point rom cooking for low end devices is going to require 2 cooks. one to fix registries and the other to fix GFX.

I cant tell you how many times I have spent two days straight just doing the gfx or my roms. everything from dlls to actual files to exes.

I dont know what I am going to do once I upgrade to a vga device. everthing from scratch.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] whitealien:
Thanks S.V.I for this nice guide. It is really helpful. Before I never paid too much attention to big image size used in UI design, but with arriving of latest Manila you really have to as having only 30% free RAM on my Polaris is not acceptable. But what anyones me the most is slow interface response, that really makes me mad. Especially ezInput v2.x and phone canvas 3.x.

I started to use your moded files for Manila and it is really good improvement. Currently I'm working on my own moded Manila theme using your GFX files. Generally I just did little changes, mostly changing brown colors to black or grey. My next move will be optimizing Phone canvas, ezInput, Netframework and Comm Manager.

Btw I don't have Adobe so I use Gimp. I'm not sure if with Gimp I can covert graphics to 8 bits, but I know that already changing from RGB to indexed colors I gain over 50% of size.

P.S. I tried to compile your moded exe files into cab, but it gives unsuccessful result and fails to install complaining something about trusted certificates.

cheers, whitealien

EDIT: I think I found how to convert to PNG8 with Gimp. Also I did some test and results are hilarious:

from bmp -> png8 converting RGB to indexed = reduces size by 85%!!!

from bmp -> bmp8 converting RGB to indexed = reduces size by 73%

from bmp -> png converting RGB to indexed = reduces size by 60%

from bmp -> to bmp converting RGB to indexed = reduces size by 37%

I think only converting from RGB to indexed colors can be sufficient in most cases. Like this you can conserve quality and still have small size.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] S.V.I:
@White Alien:

Check if the files need to be signed with SDK certificates. You can also try to get the reg settings from the certificates and add them to the cab. I may have forgotten to sign them.

Have you tried to edit the Photos tab in manila? (check post 2 of this thread) It may not work because Album can not parse files that have the wrong extension, but the rest of the OS has been able to.

I added another tip in post 2;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] titan427m:
will these techniques for for the Rhodium?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] S.V.I:
working on it

Yes. I am working on optimising all of the stock rom. Including the manila sense 2.1

deffinately better performance (response time) although, the OEM for RHODIUM is about twice the size of the SYS folder. Even if you reduce the oem by 10-15mb, the result is apparent. it just takes a whole lot more work.

the only issue that I am running in to is that the colors on the screen are not actual. some of the grays are warmer while others are cooler. again, the best thing that I can do is eliminate the unnessesary colors in patterned images, by making it (the pattern) uniform. this simplifies the compression algorythm; making decompression time faster.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] + Que PPC:
The legendary S.V.I!!!!! :eek:

How are you man!? great times there on wizard forums huh? nice to see you again with new things on mind i know this is a known trick but i will read carefully your PDF and lets play a lil with the PSD ;)

Thanks a lot man!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mccune:
Nice thread. Tried saving the background files of QuickGPS (8bit/PNG) and renamed it to .BMP afterwards. Background did not show after a soft reset. So it does not seem to apply to all images\programs.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sheennick123456:
you cannot replace png by bmp

ie you cannot change the file format
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mccune:
I disagree! I've changed PNG to BMP on a lot of files.

For example. I saved over 5MB on my FM Radio CAB just by changing BMP's to PNG and renaming them back to BMP.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] phr33ksho:
\/\/ww.smu****.com/ysmush.it/

this may be relevant to your internets - I'm a web developer and I've seen savings upwards of 90% with png crush and it's completely lossless. Average is more like 15-20% but its nothing to scoff at and it works by removing needless metadata and optimizing pallettes etc. without losing any quality. There are a few other tools like this out there but most of them perform more or less the same this is just the one I use.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fastmikey1969:
Any updates on this? either for Manila 2.1 or 2.5?

Has anyone created a full set of graphic files yet so I don't have to? :)

I've been running the keyboard seems pretty snappy.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] seb3773:
very interesting, thank you very much :)

Can you explain what you mean ? For example, is using a tool like optipng after optimizing the images to obtain smaller files, will reduce performances ?

Thank you by advance for the response (i'm actually using optipng on a lot of ressources but i don't want to reduce performance)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] frmariam:
I have a somewhat strict free software policy (the only non free soft I use was either bundled by my OEM or was a giveaway) so no Photoshop for me. This makes me search for free alternatives (and most times I find awesome free apps).

For this sort of task I steer away from fully fledged image editors. I always use optimized pngs for my HS++ themes from PngOptimizer which is an easy to use (just drag-n-drop) tiny standalone free (GPL) tool that does the job very well and quickly (batch image processing).

For easy batch file type conversion I use ImageConversor (another free standalone app).

PS: If anyone uses jpegs they can try RIOT which is also a free (GPL) and easy to use image optimizer (supports more image formats).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pupakota:
that indeed works sometimes(i.e. tsks).
[General Questions and Answers] jimk16:
Just wondering what phones people are MOST looking forward to seeing soon and if could have now what they would want. My top choices are....

The New Xperia X2 with its 512 Ram (supposed) and 8.1 MP Camera and custom WM 6.5 with upgrade to 7 rumors

http://gizmodo.com/5282146/sony-ericsson-xperia-x2-specs-leaked-and-laid-bare

Or

The New tablet/Smartphone Nokia N900 with its maemo interface including custom mozilla web browser possibly fennec? And The built-in 32 GB storage with Expandable upto 48GB card and only 256 mb ram to power it all. Along with the 5 megapixel camera and TV out

http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/

Or

The Flashy FLuid and Fast tegra powered Tegra APX with probably the nicest ui possible and whats said to put the 1ghz snapdragon processor to shame with Up to 720p video

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_tegra_apx_us.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/mobile_games_demos.html

Or Last but not least

The rumored HTC Leo with the new snapdragon processor and 1ghz mobile processor and its Hero-ish TF3D 2.6 Rumored 5 MP camera (possibly 8mp??) and 320mb ram

http://www.slashgear.com/htc-leo-specs-leak-4-3-inch-capacitive-wm6-5-snapdragon-smartphone-2149867/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igRA...ovingly-demonstrated/&feature=player_embedded (video of a diamond 2 but it is running the tf3d 2.6 leo is rumored to come with)

My choices lean towards Either the APX or the n900 love the nokia internet tablet series have for years and with mozilla combining with them to take over the internet experiance (although they are workign with windows mobile too) Or the APX just looks so smooth and that eye candy can't be denied only concern is call quality and battery life anything running a processor that powerfull can't last long although rumored for 10 hours.

As far as i know all these phones are rumored to hopefully be release late this year if all goes right is there any updates on release dates i know preorder is out for n900 preorder price of $649 in the us

Anyone have any info on the xperia x3 android phone heard a few things but no info and i don't understand the release of the x3 when x2 isn't out till supposedly early oct this year.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009...achael-to-launch-as-xperia-x3-specs-revealed/
[General Questions and Answers] pablo34:
These all seem nice but I'm definitely going to try the n900 looks very fast and has a very nice looking U.I and I'm waiting impatiently for a tegra based phone
[General Questions and Answers] galaxys:
All very impressive...

I'll be getting the HTC Leo due out in a few weeks, and hanging out on XDA for cool mods, roms, etc. :cool:
[General Questions and Answers] cenwesi:
lol..no brainer here. I am getting the N900. No more sony x1 crap and any sony phone for that matter. BAD Customer support...
[General Questions and Answers] fusi:
yep n900 for me too - need a break from winmo, it feels tired now
[General Questions and Answers] orb3000:
I´ll choose Leo

As will have the support form this great site:)
[General Questions and Answers] rajivshahi:
for sure HTC LEO or TEGRA as it is also rumered that HTC will use tegra based chips for later phones... both are great...
[General Questions and Answers] jimk16:
im with you im thinking tegra that chip is way beyond ANYTHING else out. Have any of you played with the zune hd? add tons more sensors a keyboard possibly and 3g connection... i can't see anything better personally
[General Questions and Answers] JLowe:
anyone news about the Tegra-chipset & HTC?
[General Questions and Answers] galaxys:
Zune HD is impressive! But, I have not heard any more rumors on a htc tegra ppc...
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] basbroens:
Hi All,

I was searching for an app that will show the GPS position of my phone realtime in Google earth. I found Ipoki (www.ipoki.com). It's a great app for tracking phones in google earth and google maps in realtime.

However.. The app keeps crashing on my phone on random intervalls. Anyone of you using this app and do you experience the same problems?

Does anyone know a replacement for this app (just in case i can't solve the crashes). It is important that the location can me viewed in Google Earth. I tried latitude, but the update frequency isn't very reliable.

Thanks in advance.
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] commodoor:
Isn't this the same as Latitude from google maps??

---EDIT---

sorry didn't read good.
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] Switchbitch:
Currently there doesn't seem to be any easy reliable way to track an Android device via Google Earth (apart from Ipoki which seems to have trouble on the Hero). Presumably you mean using Google Earth on a PC and creating a network link to a kml file?

The only apps that come close are Instamapper and Glympse, which offer live tracking via a map on a webpage.

I used to use http://www.mgmaps.com/ on Symbian devices; you can configure a auto-updated kml file which sits on a server and you can point to from GE for live tracking. This works really well, but the app doesn't work on Android yet (though apparently it DOES work with the custom ROMs since they support Java). Keep an eye on this as I think it will work well with the new ROM, and I believe the developer is working on porting it to Android.
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] basbroens:
It looks promising and i am running the customrom from modaco. However can you point me in the right direction? I downloaden the generic app from the site and put it on my sd card. However, the javabox doesn't show the file, so i can't open it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] Switchbitch:
Check the forums on mgpaps.com, there are users there successfully running it on the Hero.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimb0le:
Just wondering if anyone had and remembers the n95's feature of video playback through the audio jack i still got my n95 cables and just wonder if theres a way for xperia to do the same thing? audio is fine of course :)

cheers
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orelsi:
TV-out? X1 can't do it.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sfkn2:
This has been discussed before mainly because the HTC TP has tv-out. Unfortunately, the X1 does not have the same tv-out feature as the TP.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronniecross:
Though wouldn't the more feasible thing be, if you have the cables handy, to try it? :)
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dashauns:
Im pretty sure the xperia x1 lacks the hardware for tv out.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] invincible00:
It doesn't, you can (if that's possible) connect to you TV or anything else via USB if you place it in storage mode.

I believe a phone having TV out is extremely useless.

And btw, a 3,5" jack only sends audio through your cables which is quite obvious imo..
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Archange1:
3.5mm jacks can be modified to pass on more than just stereo audio (or receive); apart from optical digital audio I've had something that supported microphone in or something.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oTToToTenTanz:
Well, the 3.5 mm jack from Xperia supports microphone in as well, doesn't it?

We all have got the headsets that came with the Xperia...
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harveydent:
There's already a thread discussing this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=443271

Complete with pictures of the pins of the audio jack (:
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rudegar:
a 3.5 connector can be used to transfer many things

had an old asus tnt2 video card with 3d shutter glasses which used

a 3.5 which I kinda doubt would do much good connecting to my x1 ;)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oshizzle1991:
YOU NEED TO WIPE YOUR EXT2/3!

heres how to do this from console! i am kinda sick of people posting "help!!!! in bootloop after flashing this that and the other thing!"

ready to become un-noobified?

turn phone off (do i really need to tell you how?)

: Boot into recovery: home+power

: Go to console (ALT+X)

In Phone Console type this

(press enter)

# mount -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (space) /system/sd ((DONT TYPE SPACE it to show you that you hit the spacebar! also that is a ZERO not an uppercase "o")

# rm -rf /system/sd/* (yes you need that. idk why)

# reboot recovery

there you go! are your brains on the wall yet? cause i just blew mine out from being so awesome
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david1171:
i am still going to make a "i got booty loops from flashing a hero rom" thread.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prod1702:
I understand what you are saying but trust me when i say before i used JACs Hero 1.8 none of the Hero versions rom 1.6r2a worked. I would even to a full partition on the SD card and format the card then repartition it back to the 3 different partitions and still a no go. So i understand what you are saying about wiping your ext3 and that should work but it doesnt always work. Trust i know 1st hand.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oshizzle1991:
hahah i wont respond then haha. just bang my head against a wall.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oshizzle1991:
but seriously i see like 5 threads a day on this freaking subject and its like...freaking search man
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oshizzle1991:
if that doesnt work then you reformat your entire sd card and remake the partitions. it only takes like 13 minutes cause the reformatting part takes about 10
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prod1702:
Oh i would agree with you there are alot of dumbass questions out there and all you need to do is use the search. I rooted my G1 which doing nothing but using the search. I even did all my hero flashing up until the latest versions were out with not even one post in any thread because all i did was search. Sometimes there are other things in the works that can cause problems as well, but yes you should do a search 1st. Most likely the answer people are looking for has already been posted and there is no reason to make a thread on it again.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oshizzle1991:
yeah. and honestly the reformatting and recreating of the partitions is like you fallback. if that doesnt work then you should try another hero rom. there are like what...10 out there? OR install a cyanogen mod and get a hero theme.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prod1702:
Pretty much thats what i do is use cyanogen with a hero theme because you know that will always work. I am happy now with JACs 1.8 working like a cham no problems at all. I was kinda pissed to see Drizzy just put one out which was who i was waiting for one to get put out the whole time.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oshizzle1991:
yeah i just booted up using jacs newest one. i came off akirahs. so it should work but i swear to god if one more kid posts about this...lol.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prod1702:
I swear to god if i see one more post in a thread that says OMFG downloading now will report back later. i am going to blow one.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oshizzle1991:
hah. this threads getting off topic, we should stop before the mods...well get all moddy on our asses. well it was good to vent some steam lol.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PlatinumMOTO:
a friend wanted myfaves but I know there is any easier way than to type mount -o rw,remount and the rest I've tried rwsystem and rosystem what am I not doing?

It says rwsystem is not found
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oshizzle1991:
you typing it into adb or the terminal?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jubeh:
RWSystem and ROSystem are custom scripts some devs are placing in their /system/bin. Find a build that has them (I think JAC's do) and then push them to the phone with

adb remount
adb push RWSystem /system/bin
adb push ROSystem /system/bin
adb shell
#cd system/bin
#chmod 0755 RWSystem
#chmod 0755 ROSystem
#exit
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PlatinumMOTO:
oh ok thanks for the help I appreciate it.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PlatinumMOTO:
when I type it in it says permission denied. I used both ADB and terminal.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdrianK:
you must type "su" first and choose always allow when promted to grant root access.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PlatinumMOTO:
I did. and I followed all the instructions here it still doesn't work.

do I need to reboot afterwards?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david1171:
you did make sure to chmod 755 them didnt' you
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PlatinumMOTO:
yep I used adb shell chmod 755.

and then used SU File Browser to chmod 755
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bubblesnout:
I run Cyanogens stable releases pretty much as soon as they come out. It seems as though they're always going to use 5 home screens, which is fine. I'd only ever use 3, but there's no harm in having more. my problem is, I like to try new themes out sometimes, but alot of them only have 3 screens built in. Because this cuts out the 2 rightmost ones, now the screen that was to the left of my main screen is recognised as my main screen, and the screen that was to the right is just gone! Is there a way to easily shift stuff from one home screen (including the one that's now inaccessible...) to another, so I can easily shift everything when I update with one of these themes? Or do I need to rely on the theme dev to include 5 home screens in their launcher.apk?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oshizzle1991:
it really depends on the theme. if 5 screens is a necisity then find out how many screens it supports. otherwise, theres nothing you can do really.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bubblesnout:
Ok, fair enough. Thanks for the simple reply. :)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oshizzle1991:
no problemo. lol. i know ALOT of hero themes have multiple home screens...remember to SEARCH before you post. otherwise, feel free to post :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] bigballa:
Hey,

I have always been using custom roms and wanted to know how it all was made and implemented.

Can anyone lead me to a tut or programs which help beginners in building roms?

I would really like to start building roms to gain knowledge of winmo.

thanks
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] orb3000:
Try some kitchen on ROM section
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] nordgixxer:
Hi Guys,

here are the raw files from a german t-mobile rhodium (called MDA Vario V). I am not able to build a nbh-file out of this. Can someone do this:confused:? Afterwards we could upload the nbh-file in the Rhodium section of the xda´s Wiki, so anyone could flash it who needs this for warranty reasons. :D

Downloadlink for the raw files: http://rapidshare.com/files/277838525/TM_Rhodium_GERDump.rar
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Illodin:
Finnish dump also available

Hi All

I have Finnish stock ROM (1.19.414.1) dump. There isn't Finnish stock ROM in XDA repository yet. It isn't available on HTC pages either.

I can send the dumped files if someone is kind enough to rebuild the ROM. I don't have knowledge to do it. :confused:

.Illodin
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] variosteph:
would be nice if we had it, but wasn´t able too:)

btw. the t-mobile rhodium is the mda vario V not IV

here is the tut for reconstructing a KAISER rom:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=337066

so let´s wait for the offical wm 6.5 update:(
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] huzefa_d:
I am in need of a english to english dictionary, with a large number of words. i tried looking over the internet and found some but they don't work..

like the Webster's_Third_New_International_Dictionary,_Unabridged.. it was a 30mb file. i tried the demo first and would buy it later but it didn't work.

i desperately need an English to English dictionary for school and work !!

thanks in advance !
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] kareeem:
Have you tried Lexisgoo?
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] chilon:
MDict

Try MDict:

http://www.octopus-studio.com/download.en.htm

You've got The Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary there and many more.
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] moukun:
i'm using lexisgoo on mines, pretty good for class whenever i don't understand something. i'm not sure about english to other language dictionaries though, i have yet to try those