yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brummiesteven:
I've had my G1 over 8 months and always had root. I had CM 4.3.2.1 but it was really slow and I wasn't getting any notifications, other people were so I thought I might be getting the problem because I upgraded from 4.3.2 and 4.3 etc etc instead of wipe and reflash.

So I decided to reformat wipe and reflash.

I flashed the devphone first. Rebooted and when I tried to get into recovery again all I see is a ! in a triangle with a phone next to it. I can boot into my phone fine without root.

I can't access the recovery mode at all.

Any suggestions?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tazz9690:
fastboot flash your recovery image again. tada. problem solved. Same thing happened to me. I freaked out until I figured that I didn't lose the ability to flash my recovery back.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brummiesteven:
Is there a complete clone of the stock 1.6 with just root and Apps2SD added?

After using it for a day this is MUCH MORE faster than Cyan and has better battery life but I need to be able to use some sort of tethering and the app space isn't enough for my liking.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackslim:
This thread has a rooted version of the stock donut build, grab that and the expansion set to have Apps2SD & tethering

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=538456
[About XDA developers] 123456789keks:
Hello,

I´ve got an I900 Omnia.

Is there a prog which closes applications like a GPS navi for instance automatically at a certain percentage before the battery is completly empty, so that it won´t even turn on again.

The notification that comes up by wm6 appears to late and doesn´t close all apps.

I haven´t found anything but battery monitors although in my opinion an app like this is essentially, because it is extremly frustrating when your on the way and the phone simply turns off because you had forgotten to close a prog that drains the battery.

greetings
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] brent372:
My employer mandates that my device locks after "x" minutes and I have to enter a 4-digit "PIN" to unlock it.

When it locks, the screen is all white with 10 white buttons on it.

Is there a way to make either just the background transparent or both the background AND the buttons transparent?

EDIT: Screen shot attached if you are not sure what screen I am talking about.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] irus:
the lock screen should be just a bunch of jpg,png or bmps not sure which but just make new files that are transparent.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJ AMIR:
I tried installing a theme on my rooted G1

After the theme installed i rebooted my phone

After it got past the G1 logo

its stuck on a black screen

i need this fix this..
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tazz9690:
just flash back the original rom you had. problem solved
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] killua0220:
the rom of HikaRi v2.90 CE 23081!!

i can't flash!! is there anyone can give me the nbh file of this rom?

just a link to download will be fine!!! the nbh file!!!:confused::(
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] bevoc:
dude...

search. if its not here, then its not here.

http://rapidshare.com/files/299307869/HikaRi.7z

there's the download link. decompress the goddamn zip file. search before posting in rom development.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] killua0220:
can't you understand?in that kicthen,there's no nbh file.that's why i start this thread.i want the nbh file,ok!?!?!

i just wish anyone bulid thd nbh file can sent me that or make a link to download it,thanks!!!!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Dom1n8tr1x:
Its a kitchen, you will not find a nbh file. You are supposed to use the kitchen to make your own nbh file.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] killua0220:
you konw,i can't build the nbh file,that's why i ask for it here.if you made it,sent me that,ok?my e-mail::)killua0220@tom.com
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Dom1n8tr1x:
Sorry but I dont use that kitchen, maybe someone in the Hikari thread will be able to help you.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] killua0220:
does anyone use this kitchen can help me?thanks a lots!!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
[UPDATE: See http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7141176 in this thread for an updated version of the program, with links to new screen shots and documentation]

[UPDATE: See http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=795753 for the Windows Phone 7 version of this program.]

I've written a program for reading eBooks on Windows Mobile devices. It can read txt, html and (DRM-free) ePub files.

For other formats you can use Calibre to convert them epub.

The program is called 'Freda' - short for 'free reader', since it is free software (both in the sense of 'free beer', as I am not charging for it, and in the sense of 'free speech', as I am licensing my code under the GPL).

It's released now, so please download it and let me have any feeback. (BTW that link points to the WinMo version of Freda; for the Windows Phone 7 version, please go here)

The program uses three third-party libraries, DotNetZipLib, OpenNetCF and the Majestic-12 HTMLParser library; all are licensed on terms permitting their redistribution for commercial and non-commercial purposes. More information is here

Happy reading!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Hi Folks,

It's here: version 1.1 of Freda is now released.

Main new features:

CSS Style sheets are recognised

Controls/gestures can be customised

Line spacing, indent and justification can be customised

Bookmarks and annotations are provided

Dictionary look-up is implemented (using SlovoEd)

See the freda home page for more details, and for download locations.

Any problems or questions, please let me know.

Discussion for this release can be followed from this post on.

Thanks,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bk227865:
Briljant,

Its the first epub reader that i found on my diamond that is able to render my epub newspaper correctly. Including links and images.

(the standaard is doing a test this week only with an epub version of its newspaper)

A few remarks to help you with the beta version (witch already is a keeper for me)

I had to install freda into main memory for it to start up.

The splash screen seems to to big, the text on it is cut off left and right, i have a vga screen.

The liberary display setting (icons or details) are not saved.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Thanks for the feedback - I'm working on those items now. [fixed in release 1.0]

Thanks,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] McAndrew73:
Thanks for this program.

I'm a long time reader on PDAs and there was the need for something new.

I've just installed it now and I'll come back with some comments asap. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Looking forward to your feedback. Over at mobileread, I've been getting some feedback that CSS formatting is an important feature, so I'm particularly keen to hear the forum's view on that (because the beta 0.9 version of the program doesn't handle CSS formatting at all).

Cheers,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fards:
this is a really nice app!

I'd like to see an autoscroll in full screen mode if possible, this makes late night reading sessions a bit easier (less chance of being moaned at because of tapping buttons) :p

I'm not certain how easy it would be to control speed of scrolling on something like my touch HD with virtually no buttons though..

it's replaced mobipocket for me.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Autoscroll speed

Yes I had wondered about implementing autoscroll, but wasn't sure what would be a good mechanism for controlling the speed. I was thinking it would be kind of cool to control it using the acceleromter (gravity sensor) - something like 'tilt more to scoll faster' ... but I've not really throught it through. Ideas welcome.

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fards:
one option would be to use the volume buttons to speed up and down, but it may not work in the 6.5.x builds as the MS volume control seems to takeover.

accelerometer is an option, but it could be frustrating when you move the device accidentally, unless you set up a control key such as long press talk/send, to enable the gsensor speed control only when the control key is called.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] the0ne:
love Free apps :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
free apps

Yep. And also it means that it's less of an issue when the customers complain and ask for their money back ;).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TheRem:
error on my Opal (QVGA). :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] McAndrew73:
my 2 cents after one day. :)

Reader is good, fast and has a good pagination system.

It's really confortable to swipe up the thumb to change page, nice idea. Sometimes i was mad using mobipoket because when you tap, it may happen that you highlight the text instead of changing page. (i don't use hardware buttons expecially during night)

I'm gonna use this reader from now on I think.:):):)

Possible improvements from my point of view:

1) i'd like to have an option that allows auto opening of the last read ebook when opening Freda. Why opening the library every time?

2) It would be good to have a couple of presets regarding the color scheme. Usually I use white backgroung and black text during day and black background and grey/red text during night readings. :)

3) add the possibility to change page by tapping the screen. So, hardware button, or swipe thumb or tap.

Other less important improvements:

4) i usually read in portrait....but maybe add the possibility to read in landscape would be appreciated.

5) it would be nice to add the possibility to change also backlight power in the point 2) presets. IE: during night time low backlight, black background and gray text.

Finally let me add that the improvements I pointed out should help to make the program better (from my point of view) but Freda is really good already as it is, so don't consider them as a critic. :)

And congrats for the nice work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MrAce:
Same error on Touch HD [Energy ROM Leo Build 23081]
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
TypeLoad Exception error

Did you get this error after installing the application onto the Storage Card? Because right now (Beta 0.9 version) that doesn't work. The application has to be in main memory. For version 1.0 I will fix that. [fixed in release 1.0]

If you got the error even though the app was installed in main memory, then it's a problem that I haven't seen before. Normally that error message means that one of the program's DLLs or resource files is missing - and I thought that they were all present and correct in the install package. If you could PM me (or email on jim(at)turnip.demon.co.uk) with a listing/screenshot of all the contents of the \Program Files\Freda folder, I will take a look and see if I can spot the problem.

Thanks for the feedback.

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Good idea. I will do that for version 1.0

makes sense. I don't want to add too many presets as it could get confusing ... but I guess I can come up with something for v1.0

Right now, I need to reserve the 'tap screen' gesture for bringing up the main menu. I guess I could have a mode whereby it's tap-and-hold to bring up the menu, and quick-tap to page forward. I'm a little concerned though that if I have too many different 'command modes' I will end up with something like uBookReader which (though otherwise a fine piece of software) drives me crazy with trying to figure out which mode it is in. Another option would be to reserve tap-near-bottom-of-screen to mean 'page down' and tap-near-top-of-screen to mean scroll up. What do you think?

This should work already - if you can get the device into landscape mode, Freda will work in landscape mode. Freda relies on the operating system to tell it whether to work in landscape or portrait. On my HTC Touch Pro 2 I can switch modes by flipping the keyboard. For devices without a keyboard, you should try the G-Config application - run G-Config and follow the instructions (i.e. switch to Freda and then insert the stylus, then soft reset). Now, when you hold the device in landscape orientation, Freda should switch to landscape mode. You can find G-Config at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=487991

Seems like a useful feature. I don't know how to program the backlight settings, but I guess this gives me the opportunity to learn :)

Thanks for using the app, and thankyou also for the feedback - I really appreciate it.

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] McAndrew73:
COOL!

Yes, I can understand. Reading a book should be sometihing really smooth and easy.

Well.....I think that both options are good.....so you should choose the easiest to implement.

I think I would slightly prefer the second one: tap the bottom for one page increase, tap the upper part for one page decrease.

:)

As I said, I read in potrait so no problem with that. I was just trying to brainstorm in order to get some possible enanchements to Freda. :)

Thank YOU for the program and listening to my comments. :) :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TheRem:
yes. it is installed in the Storage Card... i find a 6MB installer too large for the Main memory.

waiting for the fix. thanks Jim Chapman! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
In the meantime, if you have a Windows Mobile 6 device you could try the wm6 version. That's a much smaller install (about 1.3 MB). It's at http://www.turnip.demon.co.uk/jim/freda/installWM6/setup.msi

Cheers,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TheRem:
oh... oh... i've installed the wrong file. :D

ok i'll try that. thanks! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Sheesh! It certainly does! I wasn't aware it cost that much (it came already installed on my phone).

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stuntdouble:
Loads of good free ones on these sites:

http://www.urbanfonts.com/

http://www.1001freefonts.com/

"cipher" size 9 white text on black background isn't bad.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Shambolicuk:
I have a fair few books now stored on my desktop in the .mobi format. Does Freda support .mobi too or would i need to convert them? Really nice looking app Jim well done !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Spike™:
Jim, i's been a joy, Beta Testin the freda app,

Guy's 1.1 is Amazin,

this is Defo My FAVE App!!!!!

a donation is promised on payday,

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] filar:
Beta feedback

Hi Jim, thanks for the opportunity to test the beta version. Lots of improvements, this is great! :)

But as I was reading while listening to music, I discovered a small problem. I have 270deg rotation on while reading -- great feature, works perfectly -- but the volume adjustment screen that pops up on my HD2 when I press a volume button completely confuses Freda. I get an error dialog "Sorry, cannot switch to page", and Freda goes back to zero degree rotation. Is it possible to catch this error and set the rotation back to 270deg afterwards?

Pressing the Home button or the Windows button do not cause a similar problem.

Also, light permanently is good but feels a little dangerous to me as it is so easy to empty the battery. Is it possible to just increase the light/sleep time to 10min instead?

Regards,

Fred Larsen
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stuntdouble:
You can fix that yourself by going into the power options and setting the backlight time. That way the OS will switch it off or dim it for you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] filar:
Rather obvious

Thanks for the advice, but as you can imagine I would not like to have that kind of backlight timeout at all times as it would seriously drain the battery on normal phone usage during the day. The easily accessible menu choice that Jim added to version 1.1 beta allows the backlight to be kept permanently on while reading, and this is much snappier than going into the power options both before starting to read and after finished reading. So this is a great feature.

My suggestion was that perhaps it is possible to let that easily accessible menu choice in Freda increase the backlight timeout instead of keeping the light on permanently. If I put the device aside while reading, and forget it for some hours (or fall asleep), then the battery would not be empty when I come back.

Regards,

Fred Larsen
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stuntdouble:
Well yeah sure it was obvious, but still a way around it. And as my rom doesn't have an "always on" backlight option, it was me who requested the backlight always on feature.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
I've looked into it and found the problem. Surprising fiddly it was too - it's all because the HTC volume control doesn't play nice with the Windows framework (it just grabs the screen and draws on it; it doesn't go through the regular Windows mechanisms that would tell other applications that they aren't in control any more). I think I have a fix, but it is kinda convoluted ... I am still testing it.

It's not easy to do this in a way that is compatible with all the different versions of WinMo that are out there. The only API that WinMo (.NetCF) supplies as standard is one that lets you set the power mode to 'never switch yourself off', and that's the one I have used. Implementing finer-grained control over power state, across all WinMo versions and OEM builds, would be a significant project.

I agree the setting is dangerous, though.

AFAIR there are automation tools out there (for some phones at least) that you can use to set rules like "If XYZ is the foreground app, then change the phone settings to ... "; that might be a better answer. Particularly as I am just in the process of adding an option so that Freda's application name will always show up as "Freda" (rather than sometimes having the book title appended to it).

Regards,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raudi1:
I really like Freda and now I read nearly every day before I got to sleep.

The only problem I have, is that after a while holding the phone and pressing to get the next page becomes uncomfortable. It's much better to be able to change pages, without having to touch your phone. Auto scrolling isn't any good in my opinion, so I thought about other ways.

1. Using something as a remote control. Either over bluetooth, the wired headset, or over Wlan(I used My Mobiler over wlan and a wireless mouse in my hand and could change pages. And it was much more comfortable! But running a pc and having wlan on make this solution a bad one)

2. In my opinion the better solution, because it uses hardware that is present in every device:

Using the microphone! Saying a word, or making some kind of noise to change the page.

I know it could be difficult to recognize words or specific noises, but a general rise in the noise level shouldn't be too hard to recognize.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stuntdouble:
What happens if you coughed? You'd end up having to pick up the device anyway to go back a few pages. :p Adding a voice command ability would also increase the amount of memory needed and also the install size would be larger. Not to mention make it considerably harder for Jim to make. Have you tried Microsoft Voice command with it? Perhaps that would work if you configured it to your needs.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bluenote73:
avrcp with the generic avrcp app available on this forum would probably work quite well, and all jim would have to provide , i think , would be a send message number. course if one is tired of clicking... configurable autoscroll might be a better all around solution. or put the book down, heh.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stuntdouble:
Yeah but that would take us back to the original problem of battery life overall, as having bluetooth on 24/7 to run avrcp will do the same job.

I guess a lot of you fall asleep while reading your ebooks... sounds like you need to read more interesting stuff. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] abeeri:
Can not run Freda on my HD2

When trying to run the program after installing it on my HTC HD2, I'm getting the following error message:

An unexpected error has occurred in Freda.exe.

Select Quit and then restart this program, or select Details for more information.

This application requires a newer version of the Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework than the version installed on this device.

Any idea what I have to do?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
You have to update the version of '.Net Compact Framework' on your phone. The Freda manual (see http://www.jim-chapman.net/freda/) gives details, but the short answer is 'go to the microsoft website and download it'.

Thanks for using Freda,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] abeeri:
Thanks Jim, it works !!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
New version of Freda

Hi all,

Version 1.1 is now released, bringing various new features, including:

Dictionary lookup using SlovoEd

Bookmarks/Annotations

Better handling of stylesheets

A shortcuts screen

Please go to http://www.turnip.demon.co.uk/jim/freda to download the new version - and let me know of any problems.

Thanks,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stuntdouble:
Very nice job Jim. On first install and testing to see the new features i'm very impressed. Those shortcuts are very handy, backlight option is fantastic, and im loving the new preview pics for the book covers. And the blood red text for night mode is cool too. :)

I'll report back after a few days use.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fortunz:
I wish I'd had the sense to upgrade this weekend. I never make those kinds of changes during the week, just in case, but I'm eager to see the shortcuts.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pox67:
Hi Jim,

I just installed 1.1 but have and issue with all books I am reading. They are Calibre converted PDFs. The formatting was pretty messed up but readable on the older version of Freda but now there apprears to be a bunch of blank lines after each sentence.

I am using an HTC HD2.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Freda 1.1 renders vertical margins and paragraph spacing more accurately than the previous version, and that may be why you are now seeing these problems with your epubs.

You should be able to improve matters using the 'book properties' screen - the first thing you should try is to set the max margin size to zero. You might also want to tell it to ignore consecutive blank lines. And if all your books are displaying the same formatting fault, you'll also want to tick the option that tells Freda to use those new book properties as the default for every book you open in the future.

Hope this helps - do let me know if it doesn't.

Thanks for using Freda,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mariad:
Freda 1.1

Version 1.1 is great, all my books seem to render quickly and well; it's the best reader I've come across.

I'll report back if I spot any hemiptera.

Maria.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pox67:
Ah, much better!

Max margin = No Margin

Para Layout = Justify

Those 2 settings made a big difference. It seems when Calibre converts a PDF it puts a carriage return at the end of every line. I played around in Calibre a bit but couldn't find the setting that would change this. Thus my books don't have paragraphs and every line from the PDF ends up with a carriage return...messy.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] THUDUK:
Ver1.1 seems so much faster, still not as instant as Allreader and Mobireader, to initially load, but very smooth animation for page turns, even in Landscape now its smooth, this is still my first choice for reading ebooks on my Touch HD....thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xenept:
Cheers Jim, great piece of work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vodanhdaisu:
Hi Jim Chapman. I'm a Vietnamese. I don't know what kind of Vietnamese letters to be called. But can u help me to convert this prc file into an .epub book? I've used Calibre to convert it, but the font is damaged. I hope you can have an idea for this solution.

This is the link to download the original prc file: http://www.mediafire.com/?ktuldykjjww

And here the upub file i converted: http://www.mediafire.com/?yjozijymzmq