yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[P3600 ROM Development] zimone:
wifi work? video call? bluetooth?
[P3600 ROM Development] nunuxx:
yeah it's a shame right? 3 years ago this phone was at the pinnacle of mobile communications, and today omg there's so many other things out there

however trinity and windows mobile is not dead! i've retired to a blackberry for my telephone call needs, but the trinity is now a dedicated GPS/dictionary. anyone else using it purely as a non-phone pda now?? and which rom??
[HD2 General] sunking101:
I can't select say the 'S' surnames in my contacts list, or go instantly to the names beginning with 'L' (for example). This feature looks to be there as the alphabet is listed down the side....so why doesn't it work? I have to either start typing the contact's name or scroll through my entire list. Is anybody else experiencing this problem? :confused:
[HD2 General] Isadora:
Works ok on mine, I just tap whatever letter on the alphabet list and the names starting with that letter come up. Don't know if it's somehow linked with the name sorting used? I use Company/Surname/First name as my "save as" option for my contacts
[HD2 General] jrrigney:
It works for fine me , strange problem though.

Possibly calibration issue or not touching the screen correctly (i.e. with fingernail instead of fingertip)?

To be honest I'm quite suprised how accuate it is for me, considering how close the letters are :D
[HD2 General] sunking101:
Doesn't work at all for me and it hasn't on my previous two HD2s, so I don't think it's a screen (or finger) problem. It must be something to do with the way the contacts are stored or the way they have been saved? They are on my SIM and pretty standard, they've remained like that for several years and worked perfectly on many different handsets. I did think that it was maybe because I had not transferred the contacts to the phone memory - they are still just on my SIM - but when I copied over to the phone memory the problem still remained and this time I had two of every contact listed! I had to filter the SIM contacts. So, still in this strange situation, can anyone lend a hand?
[HD2 General] Isadora:
Same here, right letter every single time

Could well have something to do with that, no idea how or why though! So can't really help you I'm afraid but I hope someone's got the answer :) Might be worth you getting in touch with HTC support and see if they have a solution?
[HD2 General] jrrigney:
My contacts are save on the Phone, this is good for me as for backups I use activesync and MS MyPhone, it also means I can get more contact information. It could possibly be this as it may limit the indexing capabilities of the phone - this is only a hypothesis though.

Edit

Just re-read your post and noticed that you have tried saving to phone. I would still say something is making not able to index, what this is though is another question :confused:
[HD2 General] sunking101:
Since I copied the SIM contacts over to my phone, I now have two of everything! I tried filtering out the SIM contacts but they were there again when I went back into my contacts list. How can I get rid of the duplicates, as this is more annoying than not being able to scroll through my contacts!

*I've sorted the duplicates, I filtered to device contacts, select all and then delete. I now have them just on my SIM. I still cannot use the quick scroll letters though!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mithrandir007:
After finding out my internal storage available space was getting low much faster than it should, I deleted the cache from google maps, opera (and moved its location to the storage card), but I can't find a way to move the cache from the HTC Album.

It takes around 30Mb on my device, and if I delete it, it'll just get back to that size in a few days.

I know I can just delete it every time it's too big, but I'm guessing it makes the albums loading faster, so if it's possible, I'd prefer not to delete it, but to move it to the storage card instead.

Is it possible to change the default location of the cache?

Thanks :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DMAND:
This would be good, I too ended up wondering where all my space had gone only to find the HTC ALBUM cache folder taking up 20MB
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DenOdin:
Ditto^^

I find it strange because this would ultimately lead to a completely occupied memory over time (given you take enough pictures). You'd think they thought about that...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mithrandir007:
I can't seem to find anything about this, and after looking at the registry, I didn't find any key that seems to control this either.

Is there so few people bothered by this? :confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rschubert:
i am as bothered as you (and running with very few storage left), and wait for a solution. Putting the cache not on the storage card was quite dumb from HTC given the very limited storage. Unfortunately, I am a solution leecher, not a seeder.

:)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexd83:
Sorry, probably a noob question but how did you do it for Opera ?

Thanks in advance
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheesy Dave:
It's in the camera settings. Start the camera; select the strange box on the bottom left with an arrow on the side; hit the "settings" wheel - looks like a cart wheel; then you should have a big box in the middle of the screen with settings options; now select the lower left hand box labelled "storage". When you have the "storage" option with the picture of a SD card then that's where the photos will go.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Archer:
That's not the album cache - that's the camera storage location :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mithrandir007:
For Opera, it's not too hard.

Open Opera, and type "opera:config" in the address bar.

You'll then be in the config page, find the section "User Prefs".

In there, you should find something called "Cache Directory4". Just change that path to any directory in your storage card (for example : "\Storage Card\OperaCache").

Cheesy Dave : Thanks for the answer, but as johncmolyneux said, it's the cache I'd like to move to the storage card (which contains the thumbnails of your images along with other information).

The pictures are already going to the storage card. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexd83:
Thanks for the reply !
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheesy Dave:
Hi, whoops - sorry I misunderstood the question. Now where is the cache kept ?

I did think the question was simple; but, I thought it might help to explain the settings in the camera.

Confession: I've no idea where the cache is kept. Must explore ...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mithrandir007:
It's kept in \Application Data\HTC\HTC Album\Cache\ in the internal storage.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Filipek88:
And how to change it so it goes to another direction? :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mouki_9:
OMG.................................... wasn't that the question of this thread???
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DenOdin:
LoL:D

A bit off topic; but the same cache problem applies to the google maps and youtube applications. Offcourse we could always empty the cachefolders manually now and then, but I would still like some kind of tweak to solve this problem.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mithrandir007:
I wish I knew :p

Concerning Youtube I don't know how to do it, but for Google Maps, if you get a new version of Google Maps and chose to install it on the storage card, it will put the cache on the storage card as well.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimsteach:
this came to my attention last night when my phone totally ran out of storage when i wasn't actually storing anything on it. i had about 50 mp3's and 10 pictures but all on the storage card. as i didn't know what to do i reverted to clearing the storage which essentially reset it.

i cant believe this problem isn't topping the forum its a massive issue for me. i monitored the storage during a web browsing session this morning. i lost about 10meg of storage in 20 mins and this wasn't cleared when i ended the session. what i dont understand is opera is set to have a 4 meg cache limit. even if someone works out how to transfer all the cache files to the sd card it wont really help as it will eventually fill that up. is i did very little with my phone in the 1st week of owning it other than surf im fairly sure it must have nearly all been browser cache. 130mb of it1! so in fairly sure it will just keep munching and munching storage.

i now have a very tough decision to make i love this phone but i have 24 hours to send it back to o2 and swap it for something else. whats everyones opinions is this likely to get fixed and how long will it take? or should i give up and get an isheep?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DMAND:
Surely htc could just add an option in settings to empty all cache, or auto empty
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gustopher:
@jimsteach

A few posts back up this thread there are instructions for moving the Opera cache to the SD Card - it's pretty much an essential in my book given the storage situation on the device.

I too have trawled the registry trying to find where the Album cache is set, but it looks like HTC have modified the architecture and/or use of the registry in building Sense. I'd also love to be able to move mail to the SD Card, but the normal tweak doesn't work for that either.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4tune:
The location of album cache seems to be hardcoded in HTCAlbum.exe. The Unicode string "\Application Data\HTC\HTC ALBUM\Cache" occurs 7 times when searching in the file with a hex editor. This weekend I will try to modify HTCAlbum.exe and insert a location to storage card.

What puzzles me most is the size album cache can grow to, it seems almost unlimited. I mean, I have never seen any complaints with other devices. The only reg key I found is "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\HTCAlbum:cache_serial". Does anyone know what this does?

And another key: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Profiles\SDMemory\FATFS:EnableCache"

Anyone?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GeeTheKing:
Hi Everybody!

I have explored this thread, 'cose i think too that is a great problem (low space in internal storage). I didnt read ALL of replies and sorry if i repeat any idea, but i find a string in the registry:

\HKLM\System\Explorer\Shell Folders: "Application Data"="\Application Data"

it is impossible that we simple update it to "Storage Card\Application Data" resolve all of our problems? I was coward to try it, 'cause im novice in the tuning of mobile systems and afraid the whole crash.

???????
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4tune:
Yeah, I also stopped relocating the cache. It's not worth the fuzz. Sorry to say I'm not spending any more time on this issue.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PerLeif:
Me too would be interested to know if this actually works. Any others tried this?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boogieTilt:
Their's a app for that

Their's a app I used on my Fuze called Pocket Mechanic Professional that relocate cache folders for you:cool:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aussiebum:
That won't work because the Storage Card mounts after the system starts; You'll just get an error and the folder will be re-created (if it was deleted) in Internal Storage.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
sorry wrong thread.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] damnshah:
thank you!!!!!

you just saved 30mb's of my device memory!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heestionxx:
i have install a cab. the cab will canching cache from hd2 to the sd card but when i have install the cab i cant show any pictures and my hd 2 freeze. has andybody a cab who works perfect?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GeSte:
Anyone tried just moving all their dated photos from the DCIM folder to another Folder in the storage card?

A refresh in HTC Album should clear that cache and reduce it.

Correct me if wrong...;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ennx:
I cant install htcalbumcache. it says I dont have permission.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ennx:
So just install these two cabs and it's done? Is any further action required, or does it just redirect to the SD card?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tidy01:
Thanks to Jjollyroger

Had problems with sense recently thought it might be after installing this cab. Removed it, saw your post on custom folders in Clear Temp and added Album cache and Google maps cache to my list and gained nearly 50 meg. Thanks very much for the info, I've used Clear Temp for a while but didn't realise that was an option.

Thanks again
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phantoms:
After making the changes you have to scroll a good way down to the bottom of the page and select save.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ennx:
Sorry. Scroll down to the bottom of what page? The cab file is installed and there's a restart. Then what? Sorry if the answer is obvious.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Athar Mansoor:
You need to save the changes to the settings you make to the opera config..

And the save button is way down.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndrewASB:
can't find path in .exe

I can't find HTC Album cache path in HTCAlbum.exe. How I can do it?

I find and replace all Storage card to Карта памяти (russian) only in CameraAlbumService.dll.

Also I need any software to create cab installation. Give me link, please!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigmistake:
It will be great! i will wait your results. i need a lot of this software! Please help to him somebody!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newhtchd2:
Is there a "Moving the HTC Album cache to storage card" .cab for T-Mob Rom 1.43 and Manila 2.5.19?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omnia1994:
same here, there's now cache directory after installation, n it tooks long time to load photo everytime. any solution?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djokus:
@ 4tune:

Damn You are gooooood! Respect!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omnia1994:
@djokus

how r urs after installation? u found the cache in the storage card? or just missing like mine?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newhtchd2:
any updates, solution, ideas for my issue?

btw. i installed the cab-file but the cache is still on the device - not on the storage card. no directory was created...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omnia1994:
pls if anyone could help =(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] russpattaya:
I just use a program called Memory Maid. Gets rid of all my cache and cleans up the ram also. Google it

Russ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sparky7T8:
Hi I know I'm a little slow at this but I've been looking into this problem and found this thread - it seemed like the perfect solution, unfortunately having installed this it seems to have made my phone dog slow, and it will no longer pick up a phone reception??? any ideas before I'm forced to do a factory reset?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thf82@live.de:
cache location speucherkarte\Application Data

i created a version of htcalbum.exe and cameraalbumservice.dll which stores cache data in speucherkarte\Application Data\album.

this matches to the Google maps temp dir which also could be found in app data on your speicherkarte. i dont want a separate folder on the storage card root only for the album cache.

the files are from official ROM version 2.53.407.6 ger
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akolexda:
When I type "opera:config" opera respond "open failed (0) :?"

Can't access this adress

Is some problem with opera?

Opera is v9.7 buld 35627

All other link "opera:", like cache, debug, history, ... work
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Niels-je:
Thank you very much! This works perfect on my HTC HD2 with stock rom 3.14 NLD.

I followed the steps above and now the HTC Album cache folder on my device stays empty and all cache files are stored on my storage card ("Opslagkaart"). Great!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pepitoalex:
For the French Version

I just want to delete my post --> is wrong
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidguate:
I never had this kind of problems on my HD.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4tune:
-=At page 6 there's a new version=-

OK, it wasn't that hard to modify HTCAlbum.exe. Here it is :)

It will change the directory of your album cache to: "\Storage Card\My Documents\HTCA\Cache"

Just install the attached cab. You will be prompted for a soft reset.

*Note1: For this to work, SdkCerts.cab must be installed first. Most of you will already have this on the device for other purposes.

*Note2: This modified HTCAlbum.exe is only suited for the current HTC Sense version on your HD2. Future (custom) roms will need a new patched version.

*Note3: The files PG_IC_C and PG_IC_R will remain on the device memory. No idea why... will look in to it.

It works for me, please feedback if everything is OK for you :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheesy Dave:
Hey thanks for the tip - 20 mbytes in my cache - now saved.

I wonder if SKtools fixes this ?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suicidal.banana:
I've just checked, tbh i maybe made 3 photos, Application Data/HTC Album is 180mb.... im tempted to trow off manila all toghether, sure its pretty, but its riddled with bugs and **** like this
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4tune:
Try the solution above
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Archer:
Thanks for that mate. I just wondered if you could explain how it works. I spent 1/2 the day disassembling dlls and exes and couldn't find the folder location!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4tune:
Nothing to difficult. Any hex editor could find the string. Did you check

or select the Unicode option? By default most editors will look for a plain text string. That won't work.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] degake:
SK-Tools

SKtools won't do it by default.

But you can add the HTC Album cache as a custom folder.

In SKTools, go to "temporary and cache folders". Select "tools", "settings".

Here you can add up to 3 custom folders. Select "yes" for e.g. cusom folder 1 and edit it to the path of album cache.

After this, click "action", "ok".

When you're back at the main menu, click&hold "temporary and cache folders" and select "shortcut (auto)".

Save this to your startmenu and.... with a simple press all cache will be deleted!!

grtz,

degake
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bungfritz:
Which rom is this intended for? I'm still running the original 1.43 rom and I can't get it to install. When I open the cab, it just says installation unsuccessful. Anyone got any suggestions? BTW I already have sdcerts cab installed as well, and I disabled sense before tryingto install the cab.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4tune:
It is based on rom version 1.48. It is probably possible to make a generic solution, but not on short notice. Sorry for that.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidguate:
Thanks man, its working great for me.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Filipek88:
Yeaah smartass, a lesson sarcasm would be good for you...

ontopic: Thanks for the solution! Maybe the start post could be updated to tell the solution can be find on page 3??
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimsteach:
I have installed it, seemed to install ok, but it doesn't seem to have made any difference. the cache is still going to the device storage. Im on an o2 1.43

Cheers

Jim
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bokechukwu1:
same here still going to device after cab installation on 1.48 as well
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidguate:
For me is working (1.43) some bytes still going to device but in storagecard already have 20mb cache.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimsteach:
Where on the card is being stored David?

Cheers

Jim
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimsteach:
Sorry I must have missed something, It is working. All now stored in Storage card/My Documents/HTCA/Cache.

Thanks Massively

With this sort of help, its convinced me to not send the phone back to 02. I am now an official windows mobile kinda guy. :-)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidguate:
Storage card/My

Documents/HTCA/Cache.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mouki_9:
can the old cache folder be deleted? The one in application data
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suicidal.banana:
tbh i deleted cache on mine (like from explorer) and it didnt break it,

THANKS for the updated version, much obliged
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Starfury:
Someone needs to write a mini-app that will redirect all these standard app's caches to another user-defined location...

Any takers?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suicidal.banana:
+1 we need a cachecontrol.cab
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mithrandir007:
Thanks a lot for the cab, that will help a lot to keep the internal storage available space :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nic85:
'ive donje this mod...the files are now in sd card but also in device memory....:confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morpheus1982:
At what point are cache files created because after deleting the cache under Application Data and taken more photos, I see no change, and nothing on my SD card....
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dmitry N:
Works fine but these two files of relatively small size keep resurrecting in internal storage:

PG_IC_C

and

PG_IC_R
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mouki_9:
the first one is almost 7mb and the second one is 101kb, so not the entire cache is moved... but still, every little bit helps ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lukasss:
This works for me as well (1.48) except for the PG_IC_C and PG_IC_R files. Thank you very much 4tune!

Lukas
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gargon01:
Excellent cab! Working on my original 1.43 rom. I've already moved my Opera cache to the memory card and now, with the Album cache on there too, what other caches are kept on the internal storage? PS I think maybe Youtube and Google Maps save to internal memory so, if a similar cab could be made for those if possible, that would solve everything!

Thanks
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nic85:
how to move opera cache in sd?

are you sure that now in cache album in device memory there aren't files? :confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4tune:
Yeah, I noticed. But I have no idea what else to change :confused:

Will look in to it.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DenOdin:
Dude, check page one in this thread for the opera cache^^