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[HTC Typhoon] geminix2:
Thanks for the reply

Yes, I thought about doing a test restore, but, considering the problems I'd already had, wasn't sure if it might do something like not mention there being a 'problem' till it was half way through, leaving me with a scrambled ROM.

I take it you're saying it'll checksum first and no even start if things don't look good?

Hmm. I saw the confusion about SMT5600 image size but I'm not sure what you're saying here about the bootsector and "different to null."

Speaking of which, what would be wrong with just making a 64M save and, ok, you've save a pile of extraneous 0's along with it but, so what? Might be irritating if I were putting it on rapidshare but for a personal backup is there any down side to it?

Thanks. Good to know.

Something apparently went wrong somewhere because I didn't get that report but I'll try again.
[HTC Typhoon] tobbbie:
The r2sd is a command that HTC has implemented in the SPL (Secondary Program Loader). I am not aware of checksums or other safety measures - it will as I noticed following the procedure detect if there is an image on the card, which type of image and if you want to restore.

The difference in size is that r2sd reports one size "x" after the image was taken, but if you count the bytes until when the card shows the zeros you will notice that this offset on card is 512 bytes larger than the r2sd reported size. So when using psdread you have to take the larger size. Indeed it is no problem to write more to the file and restore more as well with psdwrite. The restore procedure in the SPL will anyway know how much to restore - it just needs to find ALL bytes, including the last 512 :-)

I think there is no risk attached to the procedure, go ahead!

The only danger is if something goes wrong with the IPL (Initial Program Loader) or SPL because they open the door to the device handling.

Sadly you MUST deal with SPL to upgrade to WM5+ afaik, so be very sure to select the right IPL and SPL that matches your device HW (OMAP 730, 750 or 850) and intended OS Version. Also take care not to enter any command in the SPL except the ones you are supposed to enter - it may kill your device as well. Do never use "format all" or "doctest" - you have a brick then.
[HTC Typhoon] geminix2:
Well, I am certainly no expert on this thing but r2sd spits out a wealth of information, including checksums, and I was sort of guessing based on what I'd do if I'd made it. Just that, if you're going to calculate them, it seems a shame to not use them. But, hey, I've seen stranger things done.

Oh, OK. I wasn't going by r2sd. I opened it up in WinHex, found the end of data, and compared that to the size mentioned on "Backup your Typhoon ROM - WinMo @ MoDaCo." The 'corrected' number there matched well enough.

But now that I think of it, I did that because I *did* look at r2sd and it seemed too small. So you've explained it. Good.

How can there be no risk if it doesn't check anything?

Oh, I think I see what you mean. You're suggesting that if I've cut the ROM image short then only that part will fail but the loader should still be good so I could recover by burning another (good) ROM image.

Well, perhaps, but that would mean I don't have a valid backup and couldn't make one since it would be trashed in the bad flash. Or so it seems to me.

I was thinking of going straight to WM6.x per

karhoe.net/guide-upgrading-htc-feelertyphoonamadeus-to-windows-mobile-6-update-september-06-2008.html

which involves changing the loader first via Patched_RUU

Do you think going to WM5 first is a safer procedure?
[HTC Typhoon] tobbbie:
I said I was not aware of any checking - but as I have not written the SPL, I simply do not know it. You are right that reporting stuff like this makes it highly probable that upon restore a check on the image should be done before restoring. Try it out, if you like :-)

WM5 or WM6 does not make a difference what the SPL is concerned. Afaik you have to use the same anyway. The device is tight in memory anyway, so don't expect miracles.

Go ahead, either dare it or leave it...
[HTC Typhoon] geminix2:
Hehe. Yeah.

I was sort of hoping someone else had already stepped off that cliff and could tell me what the ground was like before I dove in ;)

The primary aim was to get bluetooth a2dp but the incentive may have diminshed, depending on how another project works out.

Thanks again for the help.
[HTC Typhoon] tobbbie:
I would not bet on A2DP - I have it in the Tornado and the CPU use is much higher due to additional compression on the BT interface. Player + BT overhead is getting to average above 80% CPU (depending no the settings, but for good quality is like this) - it will also drain your battery much faster.

The Typhoon, Hurricane and Tornado have identical good analog Audio capabilities (I measured them with RMAA - see www.rightmark.org) and make a perfect music player as they are.

If your device is SuperCID you can take any other Typhoon ROM - you must just be sure that r2sd will save your bootloader + OS if you want to go back to WM2k3. I have done this already on my Amadeus (and went back to WM2k3) and this can still serve as a nice musicplayer.
[HTC Typhoon] geminix2:
I admire people who can make these flash things work because it never does for me. I've now got an SMT5600 that will do nothing but display a rainbow boot screen and error out regardless of what ROM I try.

That's why I didn't try this till I had a new phone.
[HTC Typhoon] tobbbie:
Hey that thread has a long history - what happened in the meantime?

3 colour screen does not mean the device is dead yet. You still have a bootloader that works and this is the thing to start from in any case.

What do the lines tell in the 3 color bars?

Did you already upload the changed SPL (I think it was 1.09) that allows to flash ROMs of WM5 or WM6 on that original WM2k3 device? If so, the you need to revert back to old SPL first before you can upload the original ROMs again.
[HTC Typhoon] geminix2:
I put it on hold pending a new phone and other things cropped up.

Frankly, I had 2003 pretty well tricked out with SmartToolkit and gStart.

I swear it wasn't a troll but no sooner than I posted it wouldn't flash I managed a flash and I'm not sure why this worked when the others failed.

I was trying to verify the hard spl, getting info, etc. To make that easier I turned 'ui' on during boot and, just for chuckles expecting nothing, I tried flash again. You know, the definition of 'insanity'. Low and hold the dern thing flew.

As far as I know nothing was different other than 'ui' on. Same tools, same wm6.5 bin file, etc.

You have no idea how helpful mentioning "1.09" is. The SPL flash program opines something like changing to v 5.000 but that number shows up no where and no where does it tell you to look for '1.09'. There are other confusions, like saying the existing device was 'Orlando' (I think it was), but I guess that's moot now.

Anyway, it's now running WM6.5 and I have a new toy to fiddle with inbetween playing with Android on my Tilt 2.

Thank you for the help.
[HTC Typhoon] tobbbie:
Glad it worked now :-)

The older (wm2k3) devices could only be updated with a binary transfer protocol (the .BIN file - which can be confused with other ".bin" in the scope of cooking in general). To enable the reception of the MTTY command "l" (for Load) and the execution of the related actions, the SPL must be in "UI" (User Interface) mode - this is the key for further flashing - and it must be mentioned in all such upgrade manuals. Also mind that other terminal programs (like TerraTerm) have not implemented that protocol. So only MTTY works for that purpose! As I am struggling currently with porting a Tornado ROM to the Hurricane I have come quite deep into that topic recently.

Are you having the WM65 from aleut now on the device? I think it is very tight on RAM now, so what are the memory key-data from settings->about after a reboot? You should repeat that with the standard home screen (Windows default) which is less memory greedy.

The way back to WM2k3 is not so easy as you must replace the SPL with the original one first before you can get back to the original OS. Whenever you mess with SPL it is a potentially dangerous action as failure doing that right will result in a bricked device.
[HTC Typhoon] geminix2:
So I discovered after missing the little '0' in the instructions.

Yes, I originally flashed Aleuts 6.5 but I've since reflashed with his 6.1.

Yep, flashing SPL is the most vulnerable but I don't think I'll be going back to 2003. Although, I might try WM5 if that has more free memory.

With most things I plan on using installed there's 8.5Meg free at boot and while that sounds laughable by today's standards there's only 22Meg total for a more impressive sounding '38% free' ;) Although, as soon as you touch the thing almost half of that is gone.
[Android Themes] phantomzer0:
There was a metamorph file posted in a separate thread, but the dev on that hasn't been around I suppose to update it.

It seems that CM uses a different browser apk than normal roms, so using a generic metamorph to skin the icons doesn't work. I know myself and several others are interested in a working icon pack, so if anyone can do it - either by flashing or metamorph, that would be appreciated.

The browser apk needs special attention to get skinned properly, that was the major issue in the other release.

Thanks!
[Hero CDMA General] dominion300:
I have been flashing and wiping various ROMs for the past couple days working around with a couple of the new 2.1 Sprint roms. In the course of this I would reboot to recovery, wipe normal, dalvik, and ext, flash new rom. I went to do this on the new damaged mod rom and now I am getting errors when flashing dalvik and ext. This just happened randomly during one of my reboot to recovery -> wipe -> reflash cycles.

This is what I'm getting from the console:

# wipe dalvik
unmounting /data

umount: can't umount /data: Device or resource busy

Unable to unmount /data !

Unable to unmount!

#
No ext partition found!

# wipe ext
unmounting /data

No ext partition found!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Senax:
Here's a head's up message. I did a search before posting, though found nothing mentioned on the forum, therefore I'm continuing..

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USB disks (including disk "keys"), Compact Flash Cards, and SD cards all work if your system bios can boot from that type of media.

FAT16, FAT32, and exFAT all supported.

DOS is not used - the program prepares the bios loader on the disk and only uses that.

If you use Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can use VHD files for VirtualPC. This allows for rapid prototyping of a self-booting system!

Windows Embedded Blog;

Long link;

http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2010/03/27/windows-ce-powertoy-diskprep.aspx

Short link;

http://xrl.in/4xtd

Within this above links the extention VHD is mentioned, which means Virtual Hard Disk;

Virtual PC (Virtual Hard Disk) by Microsoft Corporation

Virtual PC allows you to maintain the compatibility of legacy and custom applications during migration to new operating systems and increases the efficiency of support, development, and training staffs. Connectix Virtual PC was taken over by Microsoft and is the basis for the Microsoft product.

Inform yourself more about Virtual PC here;

Long link;

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Short link;

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Have a nice read,

Senax
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jamespoo:
thx you!!!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] riahc3:
Does anyone have a direct link to this tool?
[Desire General] PE4ce:
hi everyone

I saw today a video review for HTC Legend and there are many supported languages including arabic language.

does desire have it as well?

can you check your mobiles for me...plz
[Desire General] PE4ce:
thanks EroThraX for the fast response
[Desire General] gogol:
Hi,

Is this true that for Android device there is no separate ROM for each language?

I remember the WM day that there is "WWE" ROM for world wide ENGLISH and Swedish ROM, German ROM, Dutch ROM, etc ...
[Desire General] brummiesteven:
This is true, you just download language packs I believe
[Desire General] irkan:
I believe there are separate roms, and they depend on your localization, e.g. if you are in Europe you will get a European ROM with its languages supported, if you are in another place, you will get different rom and you wont get the European languages (probably just english along with your "local" languages).

I dont think that there are separate language packs that you can just install on any ROM (although i wish there are).

I remember I had this in my RAZR V8, could easily flash any ROM and then just install the language pack of my preference, the OS also was based on linux, like Android ..
[Desire General] gogol:
Oh well, still too much to do ... compared to those dumb nokia phone in the olden days we can just change language :D

That's why I ordered from UK, because I want an english one.
[Desire General] Barff1984:
Is it easy to load asian languages on? I need Japanese and Korean and found with WinMob it was a nightmare to add on and never really worked properly either :S
[Desire General] Bashar .:
as per what HTC told me, only Middle East version of the device (which was made for our region) will have Arabic.

because today i was at a store who bot the Legend here in Kuwait and it had only chinese and multiple english and when i asked them from where did you get it he said from taiwan, i believe it depends on from where you order it.

same goes for me asking people in ebay they all answered saying there is no Arabic in their listed languages

so we need to either get the one they have for our region or download the ROM for this region when they are out officially from HTC
[Desire General] Ghisy:
Just fyi, the Desire I bought in France only has English and French.
[Desire General] cagra:
The Nordic one have English, Norweigian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish.
[Desire General] maokun:
just go to android market and install Morelocale 2.

then you can select following languages

German

English

Japanese

Dutch

Spanish

Portuguese

Greek

Norway

French

Indonesia

Arabic

Hebrew

Italian

Ukrainian

Chinese

Hindi

Lithuanian

Latvia

Hungarian

Vietnamese

Romanian

Croatian

Russian

Polish

Czech

Korean

Serbian

Danish

Slovak

Slovenian

Bulgarian

Swedish

Finnish

Tahi

Turkish

catalan

Tagalog
[Desire General] irkan:
is it free?

if it is can anyone extract the APK file of MoreLocale 2? i want to try it out using the SDK

EDIT: i just did a search and found out that MoreLocale 2 doesnt have Arabic, anyone can confirm otherwise?
[Desire General] lambrospower:
it has arabic(egypt) on myine. i use more locale 2 too
[Desire General] Bashar .:
selected arabic egypt, everything shows as squares

need to root and install fonts to work properly seems to be

HTC Hero
[Desire General] alegator23:
Morelocale2 will not configure the fonts. So still you will see the squares.
[Desire General] entropy:
Thai font

Is there a way to install Thai font to be able to read Thai websites? Neither stock, Opera nor Dolphin browser show anything but squares...
[Desire General] schalmers:
Hi, Where did you buy the Desire in France? I have been looking online and see it available at RueDuCommerce and Pixmania as well as PhoneAndPhone. I think it is also available directly from Orange but I am most likely going to get it with a Bouygues contract.

Is it easy to switch from French to English? Because I would actually prefer to use it in English then French.

Merci :-)
[Desire General] Mokurex:
check pm :)
[Desire General] much116:
Hi K.Mokurex

Could you please tell me how to do so? Do I need to customise root or something or it is a simple application from the market?

I hv to make my friend's Desire to be Thai user friendly (readable and type-able).

Cheers + Kob-khun-krub :D
[Desire General] terquila:
Firstly, You need rooted Desire. then go to recovery mode and redo step 2 to access green text screen.

Finally, push Thai fonts to system\fonts then reboot.
[Desire General] much116:
thanx dude,

it look complicated and this is not my device T_T.

I only familiar with WM so Im a bit scare to modify it - -!!

why google do not make it more friendly :o

cheers :D
[Desire General] flatnote31:
I'm still on 2.1 and morelocale2 doesn't show Arabic...

wish I could get the EGY :(
[Desire General] McIce:
If your locale doesn't appear...

"You can select more locales via this app.

If your locale doesn't appear, please use custom locale function in menu.

*New feature*

Save locale function is available."
[Desire General] antoniolcrd:
portuguese??

hello guys,

would u someone tell me wich portuese version morelocales supports? If brazilian or portugal one?

Rgds,

:rolleyes:
[Desire General] AzimBahar:
i need htc desire arabic language

i need htc desire arabic language. need help . . .
[Desire General] diddub:
hi,

I leave in Quebec (Canada) and i bought my Desire C in an other Canada province.

Problem is that i just have different english language. And I'm french !

So, is there any some that know if an kind of language package (including french) can be installed on the Desire C ?

Thanks
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Baldrick1:
Hi there

Have been searching for Settings & Comms Manager Colour Icons compatible with Sense 2.5 (as I previously used Brent G's SettingsIcons.cab & CommsIcons.cab when running Sense 2.1).

Does anyone know if these will work with the later version of Manila and if not where I can find some good alternatives?

Thanks in advance

Balders
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] izalcoman:
Hello . in the diamond 2 is a cab , work fine

my english is very bad
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] izalcoman:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=625292 , look here
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Baldrick1:
Hi izalcoman

Many thanks for that. I am running 2.5.20113030.0 and from what I read in the thread you have provided the .CAB should do the trick. I will give it a try. :D

Do you happen to have, by any chance, something up your sleeve re. the Comm Manager icons? ;)

Regards

Balders
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Danny04:
Colored HTC Comm Manager + 11 Buttons

This one works great on mine.

Thanks to bnm7bnm!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=536466
[HD2 General] bored2nite:
Okay,

so i posted on here about barnes and noble app.... and then it got into a discussion about freda as a ebook reader.

so i download it, install... convert my dan brown books to .epub files... and then i load them on my device.. click on the new epub file.. and all of a sudden a HTC Sense like reader opens my book... and it has MULTITOUCH .... pinch 2 zoom so there is no confusion.

so i had no idea what it was.. it wasn't the B&N app, and it wasn"t Freda... so i finally get to a settings page on the thing. go to about.. and there it was.. HTC reader. I can not for the life of me find the app by itself as a link (icon, shortcut whatever). When i go to program files > HTC READER > it leads me eventually to nothing.

So... any idea how to make this an actual program in our phone, cause its an AMAZING epub reader!! (specifically because of multitouch support)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Baldrick1:
Hi there

Am I getting confused or missing something? The Task Manager that I could access under Manila 2.1 via the 'X' or Down Arrow in the top right hand corner of the task bar when I was running multiple apps does not seem to be there under Manila 2.5...and I cannot understand why. I do occasionally get an 'X' or 'OK' but whereas as before I would be able to tap the 'X' and get the drop down this is not happening since upgrading to Manila 2.5

Am running WinMo 6.5.

Can someone advise as to what I am missing?

Regards

Balders :o
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] rouzb3h:
it has been removed from manila in v2.5. try installing the duttys task manager. it will add it. you will need a soft reset after installing
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Baldrick1:
Hi rouzb3h

Thanks for the reply. That is a same as I quite liked the one in Manila 2.5...still you can't have everything.

I will give this a try and see what I think of it. I presume that you use it? If so then did you compare with others? And if so which others might be of interest?

Now off to see if I can find some screenshots.

Many thanks once again.

Regards

Balders :D
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] rouzb3h:
yes Im using it now. the function is exactly the same as the task manager in previous manilas. it even has the same look. maybe it was extracted from previous builds? I dont know ... I didnt find any alternatives. but this one works very well :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] parnunu:
they have setting

try go to start>setting>system>task manager

it can set what "X" will do
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Baldrick1:
I am about to install and try it out (as it is now the Easter holidays...and I have the time). I much liked the Task Manager included with Sense 2.1 so what you have stated sounds promising.

Cheers

Balders :D
[Nexus One Android Development] Termana:
NEW:

Working .34-rc3 kernel available at http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6290443&postcount=45

OLD:

This is an experimental .34-rc2 kernel for the Nexus One.

Provided in the zip file is a folder (2.6.34-rc2-termana-nexusone) and the kernel (zImage).

It is extremely experimental, so only follow this if you [B][I][U]really[/U][/I][/B] know what your doing and know how to reflash another kernel back to make it boot again if it doesn't boot. I'm not responsible if your device curls over and dies.

Use adb to push the folder into /system/lib/modules/ and then use fastboot to flash the kernel.

The kernel is a rebase of cyanogen's .33.1 kernel to the latest .34-rc2 kernel. So nothing particularly new about it, besides the satisfaction that not many people would be running this kernel version on devices.

Zip file: bit.ly/94Oo6m (To download it click the link next to the text "Save file to your PC:")

Edit: Being a new member of xda-developers forum, it wouldn't let me post the link properly, but just copy and paste it and you'll be fine.
[Nexus One Android Development] jblazea50:
what folder are you talking about that needs to be pushed into /system/lib/modules/

there's only one folder in 2.6.34-rc2-termana-nexusone folder and that's kernel

also, is this kernel undervolted/overclocked/audio boost? can you give more info on the kernel itself?

thanks
[Nexus One Android Development] jlevy73:
Here is the changelog. Grab a cigarette and a cup of coffee it's damn long:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.34-rc2
[Nexus One Android Development] hotweiss:
I just flashed the zimage, and the phone went into a boot loop. Do I have to install anything else?
[Nexus One Android Development] Termana:
You have to push the 2.6.34-rc2-termana-nexusone folder, the whole thing, THAT folder, so that you end up with the a folder in /system/lib/modules called 2.6.34-rc2-termana-nexusone. There are no changes regarding undervolting, overclocking or audio boosting (unless cyanogen's kernel has included one of these) - but for general kernel changes jlevy73 provided a link to the mainline changelog.
[Nexus One Android Development] bobtentpeg:
Will give it a go nad logcat it
[Nexus One Android Development] jblazea50:
thanks, thought it was a mistake that you said push that folder, glad you clarified it for me

thanks again
[Nexus One Android Development] jblazea50:
damn:eek:, that is long; won't bother reading that thing
[Nexus One Android Development] hotweiss:
I used this:

...and it still went into a boot loop for me.
[Nexus One Android Development] seanowns:
You sure that wouldn't create a folder within a folder?

Not really sure just saying...
[Nexus One Android Development] hotweiss:
So is this working for you Termana?
[Nexus One Android Development] bobtentpeg:
I tried both have the subfolder and just pushing all the files to /modules and both produced a bootloop