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[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] jngtt:
The 5v regulator just sets the voltage to be 5 volts as with all usb ports and usb chargers, the HTC charger that comes with the phones pushes 2A, the usb ports on our PCs pushes 0.5A. Ampere is just current, if u think that is too much amps u can put a fuse. This is the first time someone told me constant is bad :D

btw do u know how cells and battery work?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] Pete_S:
Going back to the original post, Overloaded just wanted a way to recharge his proposed battery pack from the mains, if I read it correctly.

I don't see where a 7805 5V regulator fits into this, either for charging the phone (the battery pack is 5-6V and the 7805 needs at least 7V to function) or for charging the battery pack (for reasons I've already outlined).
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] jngtt:
u are right, he does not need the 5v reg, infact all he needs to do is put the battery in serise with a diode to prevent feedback and he should be fine
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] pa49:
Slightly off topic,

I recently got hold of two 11v LiPo packs, a regulator, a fast charger and all the cable and connectors to buils a 4400 mAh power souce. At 5v this gives circa. 8800 mAh. I bought it in a model shop sale and I've wanted to play around with the setup for some time.

The two packs are to big, but one on it's own is not too bad. And they were cheap!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Grumps:
I use Sashimi alot and the only gribe I have with it is that I cannot Automatically Setup My Applications within Sashimi. I know it will run all exe files that is placed within the \Sashimi\Auto\EXE folder but it cant execute .lnk files. So this little app has three files which you simply dump in \Sashime\Auto\EXE folder.

There will be a file called Executefiles.txt

Any apps in there will be executed automatically after Sashimi is done with its installation

I use 1. Pimbackup.exe

2. Galarm

3. Audio notes

4. Magicall

Theres a config file where you can specify whether it should auto close or wait for a keypress to exit

O yes Source Code is in vs2008 used C#. Graphics aint good. But it doesnt need to be. I only spent about an hour and half on the app
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ramdroid77:
aren't executable (AND lnk files) automatically executed when placing them in \Windows\Startup directory? or is this some Sashimi related thing. Whatever Sashimi is!?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Grumps:
When you flash a new rom Sashimi is used to install al your cabs automatically and do reg imports and copy files etc. So now when you are done installing everything you obviously need to run certain apps to chage settings and this app will help you execute these apps once sashime is done installing

Have a look at sashimi here : http://www.winmo-experts.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Grumps:
Forgot

Forgot to add you can even install cab files with it
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ramdroid77:
ok I see. Thanks for explanation.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ajhvdb:
Thx you. Will look into it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vua777:
Thanks for the source code, now i can excute a .lnk without error.

last try fail with process.start, shellexcuteex and mortscript
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Grumps:
No problem i battleded my backside of as well to get it to work. It would only execute .exe files initially but now it will do .cab .lnk and properly .html as well cause it passes it to the shell instead off trying to execute it itself. What app are you trying to write? You will see there a waitcomplete or something. if you remove that line it will start the process and still continue to run the app in the foreground. that command makes it execute the app and wait for it to finish before carying on with code. The only problem with that is if you would execute an app and minimize it then your code will wait indefinately for the app to exit before it will continue
[HD2 General] PhoTonic:
Hi

Im still having the sms stuck in outbox problems some times, even if I have applied the sms patch from HTC. But it only happens some times and when it does I have to reset and send a new sms in order to kick the sendtask back into motion.

Anyone else still having this problem?
[HD2 General] Stephen Selby:
Seems to come up again and again. Delete all the SMSs in your inbox and then clear the 'deleted' items from memory. That should sort it. (Of course, you can retain a small number that you need to keep.)
[Hero, G2 Touch Accessories] badpop:
Well not really a review but I've been using this on my hero for a few months and thought I'd share some thoughts about it.

What is a Zagg Invisible shield?

The invisible shield is a screen or full body transparent plastic film that you apply on your phone to keep it safe from scratches.

Price: 25 usd for the full body

15 usd for just the screen coverage.

More info: zagg.com (new user so I can't post a link:()

Why did I buy this?

When I first got my Hero I wanted to keep it safe so I first bought a Golla universal pouch. When I got home and tried it out the hero was a few millimeters to big so I had to modify the pouch a bit (made a cut on the short side). Even then it was a big hassle to remove it from the pouch every time I needed the phone. Then I saw the invisible shield on a site and decided to try it out.

- Review -

Applying the shield

After watching the installation movies and reading the instructions I started applying it. You apply it by spraying a liquid they provided on the sticky part of the film and then sticking the film on the hero. After that you use the supplied squeegee to even it out.

The flat parts were easy to apply, like the screen and some pieces around it. The bottom part (around the buttons and trackball) were a bit harder since you have to bend it around the corners. However this was pretty easy compared to the backplate. It might just have been my rough handling but I got some creases around the curved parts and corner.

4/5 points

Look and feel

The shield makes the phone look almost gloss black (I have the urban brown version). First when the shield is applied you will probably have some air bubbles below the plastic film but they disappear after about a week.

The shield on the backside makes the phone very grip-able, however the Hero's original grip is fine as it is.

3,5/5 points

After a few months usage

I've been using it for about 5-6months now and I'm satisfied with the shield. It protects good, no scratches on the shield at least but I haven't looked under it for obvious reasons. The screen shield have a few more creases now that wont be smoothened out, basically the shield is durable against scratches but not pressure along the screen, then creases appear. However if I didn't have the shield those creases would probably by big nasty scars in the screen instead. The top part of the front of the phone (above the HTC logo) didn't stick as good as the other parts so it collected dust under it so I removed it. You might want to change the parts or the whole shield after 10-12months of usage.

4/5 points

Conclusion

If you want good protection without getting a bulky case for your phone, you should seriously consider this shield.

Total:

11,5/15 points
[Hero, G2 Touch Accessories] htc fan89:
is it hard to apply the shield on, and i always get air bubbles, will it leave a mark if you have to remove it?
[Hero, G2 Touch Accessories] badpop:
The application of the shield was pretty simple, spray on a special liquid (supplied) - apply - smooth things out with a squeegee (supplied). No air bubbles whatsoever, there was some at first but they disappeared after a week. There are no marks after it either, just some dust/glue that you can easily remove with a cloth.
[Hero, G2 Touch Accessories] shark0807:
The biggest problem I had with the invisible shield was on the chin. The part that covers the trackball, I understood where it needed to crease, but it would not stay put on the creased part. After I put the rest of the shield onto the phone I ended up taking a piece of tape and putting it on that part and leaving it overnight, this proved to work fine.

I'm not sure if I like the glossy black look myself, especially after having gotten used to the way the phone looked, having had it since August. The glaring problem is that it is obvious where, especially on the back, where the invisible shield ends and the rest of the phone begins, as there are a few parts that are not completely covered.

I do plan on using it for a few more weeks, although I think I may decide to try to remove the back invisible shield and just leave the front components (the part I'm really the most worried about anyways. Not too shabby with my 75% RadioShack employee discount.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] GuestD0276:
Hello all,

I am often in a hurry when I need to note a new appointment, and the default time picker on the HD2 is nice and flashy but you sometimes need to scroll the weel of the minutes quite a lot in order to pick the correct time.

My questions:

1) Does anyone know a solution in order to replace or disable this default time picker completely? To input the numbers with the virtual keyboard would be ok.

2) Is there a trick or a .cab that could at least show only every 5 minutes on the time picker wheel instead of every minutes? Showing 05, 10, 15, ... on the wheel of the minutes would be more than enough and would help to scroll much less (who needs to take an appointment at 10:02?).

Best regards,

Krakken77
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] EinPaul:
+1

:)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] samwood09:
Translated from Polish Android Website - edit cleaned up

Just as the topic is clear, has always been neglected by the owners of Hero HTC finally get an update. Why so late? Because it will not be updated for the Android 2.0 but straight to 2.1. Between 15 and 17 February, the update will be available for HTC niebrandowanego Hero - this update will include all of Europe. The problem, however, users can have the Era G2, a Hero brandowanego by Era, is unknown because the last update for them. We only know that for sure be delayed.

Information is sourced directly from HTC Poland, and therefore should be checked. In addition, we learned again that the HTC Magic no longer receive updates - Orange and HTC have not come to an agreement in Poland, in this case. And it was from Orange Magic update depends on Polish territory.

Which will update to the Android 2.1? Quote from Android Forums:

"-Android 2.1 is much faster.

-One interesting option is a preview of desktops. I do not know how to describe. You have the main screen. It uses the 2 finger zoom out as pages in your browser. Effect. Mixing up rozjeżdżają and have a brilliant idea.

-Icons are transparent envelope.

-At the bottom of the menu we have: phone, menu, contacts

-They added a nice transition when you quit the application and move around the options.

-Lock screen is not rounded.

Faster-running HTC keyboard.

-Added new widgets are HTC.

-Improved flashplayer. Operates smoothly.

-The modified program was gallery and media player. (Cosmetic procedures)

-And the rest of the news, which introduces a new android. (Market etc.)

-It shall be more RAM. about 130-140mb after killing the process. "

In addition, the same user advises:

"I also have one warning. Those who have changed SPL Hero may have problems with updating. The best return for this, which you had in the standard."

In addition, we learn also that the HTC Tattoo no longer receive updates (due to the weak performance of the device). But it is interesting that the HTC G1 and Android Tattoo 2.1 works quite accurately. Also, let's keep our fingers crossed tightly for magicians from XDA forums and our Android forum who will conjure up for us a drive.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] barryallott:
This needs cleaning up NOW. I know you have stated that's its a translation but it just makes you dizzy with the repeated words.

Also without a link to the original article, a lot of people wont believe this.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] wrsg:
check the last pages of this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=608013
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ZED_pt:
now all we have to wonder is how reliable is this site...any polish feedback on this site?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] slovoflud:
I really wish those icons can be replaced...

semi transparent envelopes don't look nice at all..
[Hero, G2 Touch General] samwood09:
http://android.com.pl/news/platforma/491-aktualizacja-dla-htc-hero-15-17-lutego-inne.html
[Hero, G2 Touch General] htc fan89:
if this is true its going be so sweet now all we need is a document editor and its all good
[Hero, G2 Touch General] foxmeister:
There is one - it's called DocumentsToGo.

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch General] farukb:
yeah,they are ugly as all hell

but i believe they can be replaced

and even if not...it's a small toll afterall (check the rhyme:P) i mean we are getting 2.1 :D
[HD2 General] Starfury:
Just found this story on El Reg and thought I would share...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/13/trojan_dialer_comeback/

http://community.ca.com/blogs/secur...re-java-dialers-that-affect-mobile-bills.aspx
[HD2 General] Dr.Sid:
Java applications by default are not allowed to sent messages (or practically anything), you must allow it manually. I'd be surprised if this could be broken easily.

I guess this is for the people who confirms message boxes without understanding them.
[HD2 General] ftr2k8:
Indeed - but thanks for bringing this to our attention. The moral of the story is, I guess: Use some common sense and stay safe!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erasmogjr:
I usually make a custom wallpaper for my lockscreen or homescreen everytime I switch a rom but so far they are pretty elementary mostly because I have no idea what the hell I am doing lol. I am on a mac so I am working in GIMP but I have a few things I cant figure out. I am uploading a picture of what I have so far. I would like the black areas around the pictures to be semi-transparent and the edges of the pictures themselves to be rounded slightly to give it a smoother feel. I will upload the individual pictures also. I would much rather learn to do it myself but I understand if for whatever reason no one wants to show me. Believe me its not the end of the world. Just something I like to have so when I pull my phone out at work I can see my family. That is me, my wife, and daughter,by the way. :) ....oh I also wanted a small slightly-less transparent box around the time and smaller but proportional boxes around the sprint and date. I know its alot but I got this image in my head of the perfect lockscreen and not a clue on how to get it to the phone lol.

oh and the reason I posted this in CDMA and not themes and applications was because I wasnt sure if to get the transparency it would have to be update.zip style and I wasnt sure if it made a difference if the phone it was being flashed on was CDMA or GSM. Oh and I am on modaco 2.0
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kcarpenter:
I've got the photo shop experience for this, but I can't seem to find the images in com.htc.resources.apk or lockscreen.apk that need to be edited. If you can point out which images control the lock screen, I will help you with this. :D

I'll write a quick how to later when I have a linux box/gimp at my hands. :cool:
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KBizzle:
I was just looking into this myself. I know that any overlays are a file known as lockscreen.topedge. I am not good with Photo shop so I havent tried but I downloaded a lockscreen and extracted the .apk and found that image to be the overlay. You could create a picture and use the wand function to single out the background, add transparency to it. I wish i had to the time to mess around with it but work isnt the place unfortunately.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kcarpenter:
I wish work wasn't the place for this kind of stuff :(
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KBizzle:
Well it would be if i owned a laptop. Lol Hopefully I can dig in tonight or tomorrow and see what I can do.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bronxknight28:
The 1st part of what u need I can probably help with, u want the black background semi transparent and the pictures of you and your family rounded a bit correct? That's what I understood from there. The second part I'm not so sure of still
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erasmogjr:
I see in gimp that there is a menu layer ->transparency but I cant see how to make certain regions transparent and if I try to make the whole image semi transparent I do not know how to preserve that transparency through saving, transferring and applying the image to the phone. I figured it would be better off as an overlay as NOJs lockscreens are but I am unexperienced in update.zip and how to sign and package them. I could push them via adb but I am not sure where to push overlay images to the lockscreen. Thanks for all of the help yall are giving me I really appreciate it. This stuff can get frustrating nice to have helpful people in the community.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rockcrawler:
I am not sure if you are willing to pay a few bucks for it, but i know that Noj is taking requests for custom locksreens for a small donation.

You can find Noj's custom lockscreen request @ Flipz's GeekFor.Me HERE

p.s. I would love to see someone write a quick tutorial on which files need to be edited to make our own lockscreens.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erasmogjr:
Im really hoping to learn how to do it myself I'll go broke as much as I change the pictures on my lockscreen(about twice a week) lol
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyleblakepeters:
The reason you are having issues is due to you probably not following a correct workpath in PShop/GIMP. Use layers/masks/etc.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bronxknight28:
really he would make u pay money for a little project -___-, well since i dont work today let me take a shot @ this, ill post up what i done later
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] he_stheone64:
I stumbled coincidentally in this thread. I wrote a tut for Desire HD recently, since this mod is one of the easiest around anyway. This should answer all your questions.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=907477
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] johseph:
Hey XDA world, a few years ago i got hooked up by a guy on here, we met up and he flashed my old Kaiser. I would normally do this myself but i now have a MAC computer and it does not recognize the files etc etc lame lame etc.

If there is anyone in the LA area that would like a nice warm pint of ale direct from England in exchange for a 6.5 ROM update I would be more than appreciative.

Thanks
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ohyeahar:
I'm assuming you're talking about flashing HSPL? Certainly, you know someone with a Windows PC that can help you out? Otherwise, you're out of luck unless someone here volunteers.

If you've already flashed HSPL, then you're in luck. You can flash ROMs via MicroSD. The following is from the ROM flashing guide.

Flashing Via MicroSD Card

1. Make sure your microSD is Formatted to fat32 (you dont have to delete all files but it is safer if you do)

2. Download your prefered Rom from the Rhodium Rom Develpoment Page and unzip/unrar it to your PC

3. Goto the Roms Folder and rename the .nbh file to RHODIMG.nbh

4. Copy the RHODIMG.nbh file to the root of your MicroSD Card

5. Plug the MicroSD Card into the phone

6. Enter the BootLoader screen, you will first see a tri-color screen with the phone and SPL Information at the top

7. Follow the On Screen instructions to start the update

8. After flash has completed, press the reset button with the stylus to reset the device.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cpimentel:
I'm using bootcamp

In order to flash my Rhodium, I'm using bootcamp with a Win XP installation and activesync method.

I tryied every possible virtualization available, none was able to flash my device.

PS: I used to use VMWare to flash my Omnia on Windows 7 64bits

[]'s
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] thedeadletters:
Same here. I'm using a Macbook Pro, Boot Camp w/XP, Activesync. Works fine!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] fone_fanatic:
I'm using VMWARE's Fusion with XP to flash my device, been using this set up for quite some time.

Only issue i face is sometime it takes too long for XP to recognize the device when the RUU puts it into bootloader mode causing the RUU installer to time out and tell me theres an error. I just re-run the updater/installer and it all works fine :D
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] johseph:
Apples

Where can I get the XP disks from and is bootcamp freeware on the Apple site?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] petard:
Windows is not free software, you can't get discs legally without a license.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] thedeadletters:
Hah, yeah. Windows XP is definitely not free. Bootcamp is no longer free; however, it comes installed on new Macs with Leopard or Snow Leopard.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] johseph:
When i bought my phone i was told that it was sent to them as a tester from HTC and that it had already been flashed HSPL, how do i go about checking this?
[HD2 General] ftr2k8:
Yes I know - midi playback? But it's old! I use Guitar Pro to come up with compositions and I find its wav export to be...well, crap. So I use midis. I was hoping to play them back on my phone to someone to get some feedback but windows media player only seems to play an acoustic guitar for the various parts - not the full range of instruments. I tried GSPlayer, which produced no sound, and karPocket, which, although it played the midi, kept crashing and the only way to stop it playing back was to kill it in task manager.

Does anyone know of a decent midi player for WinMo?

Edit: Also, does anyone know of a good portable media player, or if it's possible to load windows media player up with codecs? Wanted to watch some poker videos on the bus to work but WMP couldn't play them, and I've had hit-and-miss experiences with TCPMP before - for example, it just plain not working.
[HD2 General] snerkler:
I've just installed gyrator as I couldn't get the long_send.lnk function to work with rotation.cab.

I've noticed when I go into task manager and end all tasks it obviously ends gyrator, and then gyrator stops working, ie it no longer rotates the screen. IS there anyway I can start gyrator back up without having to install it again and resetting the phone?

Cheers
[HD2 General] Archer:
You can set gyrator to be "exclusive" (in the settings directly off the task manager), so that it doesn't show in the list.

Alternatively, have a look at PLToggle (in my signature). It may be what you're looking for. :)
[HD2 General] snerkler:
Nice one, cheers for that mate, your PLtoggle.cab works great, and a hell of a lot easier that trying to install the rotate.exe and copying shortcuts to windows etc. :D
[HD2 General] Archer:
Glad to hear it - thanks :)
[HD2 General] Audio Oblivion:
There should be an icon for gyrator placed into your start menu after install. You can simply click this to start gyrator again if you accidently close it.

Also... after install gyrator is placed into startup... this means that it will start automatically after resetting your device.

No need to re-install!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marxxHTC:
Is possible to install standard Android 2.1 into HTC Hero?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felikz:
of course, there are several roms here
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vuoshino:
he says android 2.1 based... the rom of google nexus one!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felikz:
in that case he just would have to look here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=617736