yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile] Noonski:
Wow good idea, that's taking it into a whole new level, automating it.

It's about time this method creeped it's way from the method of a few to something that everyone can take advantage of.

It's one of the most underused methods for a bit more speed, instead of improving filesystem cache settings, reducing the stress on the file system.

(totally made the above up, I just threw a few interesting words i have been reading here and there, before people start thinking I actually understand the file system at a low level) I just know from experience and just doing it that there's advantages.

It's batching beyond my expertise (low level but creative ;)).

But i'm pretty sure there's a few good men for the job.

HowdyKeith and RoryB come to mind when it comes to Mort Syntax and reading values from files.

Their Batching knowledge should also be good.

But if this is do-able, then why not also not try to get rid of .provxml files to, and speed up the first boot time. Provxml is the second killer of speedy first boots.
[Windows Mobile] twopumpchump:
it would be awesome to have a tool that reads initflashfiles.dat from dump, puts all the files that go in other folders besides windows in a zip file :D also would be nice to be able to select a list of files to go into extendir\windir as well.
[Windows Mobile] bobsbbq:
Hi Noonski, I think these are really great ideas. One question about your comment on iniflashfiles slowing down the system, are you referring to the startup time on first boot? Because I fail to see where the speed would be effected in general terms as the only function of the iniflashfiles is to specify where files get placed other than windows. Once they are moved in to the correct places the files is useless. So I don't see how the speed could be any different than with a zip other than the customization time being reduced. Of course I could be wrong. lol
[Windows Mobile] Noonski:
Meant it more in the way that you then do not actually need that file to be in Rom, and therefore in the Windows folder. That's where i meant the most gain was.

Not sure if there's any other extra difference between a file that has been copied from Windows to a sub-folder or an extracted one, other then that it won't be read only and not present in Windows.
[Windows Mobile] Laurentius26:
Well if you have a zip file with folders and files inside that folders

and you make a script that copies these folders to the corresponding dirs on the device you accomplish what you are asking here isn't? :)
[Windows Mobile] aruppenthal:
Hmmm if every file in a rom was moved without leaving a copy on the windows root I wonder how many files would be eliminated. Im guessing quite a few. Im thinking the only way this would work would be for a mod to be made for EVK allowing all the initflashfiles.dat info and app.dat info to be compiled and a zip created from them.( Not sure a simple zip could properly place that many files?) Then the files placed inside the zip would need to be deleted before the rom is compiled. Theoretically I think its possible.

@L26

Yeah your right. However I think the biggest thing to look at is there a easier way than doing it all by hand ;) It would take forever to take every file moved by the .dat files and make a zip. Not to mention updating the files for new versions would be a PITA
[Windows Mobile] cruiserrr:
amazing, check my post and scripts in this same forum ... I was trying to do the same (only with shortcuts for now): cook shortcuts without leaving double files in windows folder, so I remove all shortcuts from the kitchen and once cooked I create the provxml with mortscript reading an ini file and inject the provxml files to the kitchen and the cook again. Of course I only include files present in the ROM. How can I avoid cooking twice?. the script also zips and copies all the files that will be needed for the scripts that run at first boot, including the files only if the modules are in the kitchen.

May be a mod in EVK to runwait scripts before creating the nbh could open a lot of new ways of cooking without using windows directory.

@noonski, do you care taking a look at my script building the provxml file? I am pretty sure you will have lots of suggestions on how to progress further.
[Windows Mobile] twopumpchump:
isnt the simplest way just to go to your windows folder on your phone and copy Start Menu folder to your pc, create a list of the files that are in that folder and use .bat to delete them while cooking, zip that folder up and put it in kitchen or sdcard and use .mscr to unzip to windows directory at first boot? you only have to cook once this way :)
[Windows Mobile] cruiserrr:
well, do not want to go offtopic of this post. The idea is to cook automatically with no errors. My method cooks only what is needed without putting files to windows folder. Basically I only have to run twice when changing modules included. If it is only about changing icons, order, etc I simply run the script and cook. If it is about customization I would certainly do like you say (I have done it many times in the past). If it is about cooking should be more automated. Is complex to build but now I only define the INI files parameters: icon, parameter, folder, order... (I have not touched the mortscript since I completed it). Anyway, my building method as its own post. I just found similar ideas behind in this thread and tought they could converge.
[Windows Mobile] kokotas:
Hi guys!

What I'm using is something similar to the idea behind this thread.

But I don't alter the initflashfiles.dat. I have rewritten it once with my modifications and since then I just "play" with *.mscrs.

The zip file is not created during each runtime, but I convert the EXT package I want ONLY once and then cook it as many times I want. I thought that it wasn't necessary to repeat the compressing process every time I build my rom.

I just convert all the EXT Packages that I want (&that can be converted) to a type of Mscr Packages.

Well basically, I create an archive(*.xdaz) from the [files] folder, I keep the app.reg and convert app.dat to app.mscr(which extracts the zip to its destination during booting).

Then during cooking I have a little application run before prb in order to append all app.mscr into one, my aurorun.mscr, and the job is done - at least for my standards.

Best Regards!
[Windows Mobile] derliebewolf:
Has anyone successfully tried this? Including the Startmenu by using mortscript? It actaually sound pretty simple...
[Windows Mobile] Farmer Ted:
Yeah, I figured out what I was screwing up before-there were a few shortcuts that were created by sys-provxml's that were read-only/system, and the mortscipt would puke on them and not work. I actually just got a mortscript to work that creates the entire start menu, and the help and appbutton folders using 'createshortcut' and 'writefile' commands. I'll post it up in a bit.

Edit: It's posted. I run it during second boot, because it was easier to debug that way (it didn't totally farg up my customization routine that way when it failed). A morscript intalls a startup link to it; when it runs, it erases said link as well as the htcstartup and autoshortcut startup links.

The writefile command works well for aliases and shortcuts w/ parameters. You need two ""s to write one. I editted out all my provxml's so that there weren't any issues w/ overwriting system files anywhere. But you need to make sure that initflashfiles.dat copies in the necessary shortcuts in startup to initiate and run customization (don't remove welcome.lnk-been there, done that, lol). I probably removed 100 shortcuts from the rom doing all of this.
[Windows Mobile] derliebewolf:
Nice! I will have to look deeper into that this night. I tryied the first was you poetsed (post 10 or so of this thread) and to be honest: I was working! I just copied like hundreds of file (including startmenu) and it worked...somehow.

Everything apart the start menu is there. Even most parts of the start menu could be placed there. And from what you discribed above this seems to be thr problem as well. i am going to figure that out when I am at home this night.

And Using Mortscript (which i didn't us for custimisation before) is really fast! Thanks a lot for the hints guys!
[Windows Mobile] Farmer Ted:
Yeah, I'm ticked that I didn't figure out earlier what was going wrong. I did test the mortscript before cooking it in, but I guess I always deleted the entire start menu first, and didn't catch the fact that I was getting over-write errors for the shortcuts copied out of ROM by the provxml's.

Using zip files is a lot easier than doing what I did above with the scripts, but it's easier to do stuff like change the folder icons with the script. There's no messing around with opening up and editting shortcuts, which is a pain in the butt on a PC (for me, at least). Getting rid of 200 shortcuts saves a decent amount of memory, since each one takes up 2 KB of space in rom (the cluster size is 2 KB). So that's 400 KB; not a big deal, but it's better than nothing.
[Windows Mobile] Noonski:
Using a zip will make you bump into mort not being able to unzip a file to a place where the file already exists.

You could overcome this by extracting to temp folder then copy from temp to root, but that would in turn slow down the process.

And that doesn't bring actually cleaning out initflashfiles.dat and the related files from rom.
[Windows Mobile] deepankerjha:
Hi all

Since this is a chefs corner,i would like to know from the masters,how can I port manila 2.1 or 2.5 to QVGA device.there must be a way atleast to start with.who knows some guru can make it and create it for the least talked QVGA.

any help,link,guidence will be highly appreciated by all the chefs and user of QVGA devices.

regads
[Windows Mobile] ceesheim:
I don't think that will work it is simply to small .
[Windows Mobile] deepankerjha:
if a plain WM 6 can be restructured as WM 6.5 by developers,i am sure manila can also be ported to QVGA.all we need modifying the dll and the manila.but how?
[Windows Mobile] hilaireg:
All That Is Manila ...

You'll need this, make sure to check Post 8 of the thread as well:

[KITCHEN][09.03.2010]Manila CMD Kitchen Environment

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=528548

Here is where the "k00l Manila kids" hang out:

TouchFLO/Manila/SenseUI

http://xdaforums.com/group.php?groupid=131
[Windows Mobile] deepankerjha:
thx for ur kind help.i am sure those link will help me and others towards the first step towards my motive of this thread

regards
[Windows Mobile] deepankerjha:
Manila development

here is another link for the development of manila for beginners. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=642890

hope it will help somebody who is new but talented to deal with the process of making manila

regards
[Windows Mobile] pcarvalho:
simple question...

1st off what device?

2nd how much ram/rom?

hardware specs must be met before any effort is made or its just wasted time...

and since my polaris doesn't have enough ram/rom to handle it i cant port it...

its built for powerful devices for a reason...

cheers
[Windows Mobile] egzthunder1:
Based on his signature, I'm gonna dare say he is aiming for the Nike, but he might have meant for all QVGA devices.
[Windows Mobile] deepankerjha:
exactly bro.i meant for all QVGA :)...I am already trying.i may fail in my mission...but y not give a try :D

regards
[Windows Mobile] Lewy1:
How about this one: [.netCF 3.5] Sense Interface SDK v1.1 [HTC's Sense UI Look 'n Feel] Look here.

Good luck!
[Windows Mobile] deepankerjha:
looks interesting mate,thx for the link
[Windows Mobile] twopumpchump:
if you do a search on m3d qvga, you will see that it was ported a long time ago ;) the problem is missing needed hardware/drivers...the phone wont go into sleep mode best i can remember. seems to me like you could test it on your device even without it ported just to see if it would run(dont think it will correctly)...try vga sense and see what happens.

that is manila SDK for writing applications in .net, not a build of manila.
[Windows Mobile] Lewy1:
Thanks. I was fully aware of that. My point is that using that one should be able to achieve more or less the same result that we would have by porting Manila 2.1 or 2.5.
[Windows Mobile] leemoss84:
the guys at lg-incite.com are porting it to wqvga if anyone is interested.
[Windows Mobile] deepankerjha:
is there any way to edit the same for a qvga version.i think no,but i hope yes :p .moreover is there any cab available for manila 2.1 or 2.5 for any version?

regards
[Windows Mobile] simzz:
If we can figure out how to port manila 3d 2.5 to QVGA, then we get this (when it's released). :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=625652
[Windows Mobile] deepankerjha:
for that nice and sweet dream only i started this thread mate...and working on it....:)

regards
[Windows Mobile] incription:
Any News on it so far !

What if all 3D capabilities are removed , We already know Sense needs 3D hardware but i am sure it can be ported without 3D acceleration with static images.

Looking forward to some magic !
[Windows Mobile] animelover:
LOL, I don't think that this would ever becoming true! Even with a successful ported Sense 2.1/2.5, our Nike will be at it's limit to handle Sense! :D

Only dreaming geniuses made huge inventions in history, don't they? ;)

But I think you won't be successful in porting it without proper 3D hardware drivers since Sense 2.1/2.5 refers to some OpenGL functions provided by the MSM72xx hardware! :(

But anyway, good luck! Would be really great if I could fail with my down-to-earth thoughts! :D
[Palm Treo Pro] buqki:
how can I change language from German to English on Palm Treo pro t850?

thanks in advanced
[Palm Treo Pro] guilledil:
You need to install one of the cooked ROMs in your device. Look for the appropiate one for your device.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jimsteach:
I have no Dev skills at all but wondered how hard it would be for someone to write a cab that would clear the tweet database of all tweets that are more than a day old.

Or if this is too hard just something that would delete the whole database file when you run the cab. its a bit of a pain having to turn off sense find the file to delete and then turn sense back on again, especially as it needs doing every few days.

also how hard would it be to remap the sense tab tom point to a totally different twitter app like motweet?

Its a shame HTC couldnt have managed to get this simple thing right.

Cheers

Jim
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jimsteach:
just to ad, the background to this request is here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=5958685&posted=1#post5958685
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] bombardierq400:
Hey!

I've managed to fill up all 30 of my application spaces on the program tab and I was wondering if it's possible to get more spaces. I've had a quick look on this site and found a way to edit it through the registry. I'm not sure how to do this, so I was wondering if there is a .cab available.

Thank you for your help!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] KalynSS999:
Might want to look into the Cookie home tab. It's a little graphics intensive (intended for HD2), but it gives you more space. a different feel. I'm running it on my TP2 with Energy ROM. It's pretty smooth.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Sverrs:
Hopefully this post clears things out for those still in grief.

I (like many others) missed the MS standard/official qwerty keyboard from my Diamond and HD WM6.1, which seems to have disappeared in WM6.5 (at least on my device and great number of other users, both TP2 and D2). I use it because it gives me access to all the special characters I need (for a nordic language) and has really handy gestures without having to install other software.

After reading through thread after thread with no solution other than 3rd party keyboard I found this:

Modify this registry:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{42429667-ae04-11d0-a4f8-00aa00a749b9}\IsSIPInputMethod]

"Default"="1" (by default it is "0")

After this tweak I can choose "Keyboard" from the drop down (or drop up :) ) menu and voila.

At lest this works for me, using stock ROM:

HTCTouchPro2_WM6.5_RUU_Rhodium_S_HTC_Europe_1.86.401.0_Radio_Rhodium_4.49.25.17_Signed_Ship

All thanks go to Omar302 (see post below, found in the Diamond2 section). He also has an interesting way for having MS keyboard on when stylus is out but otherwise using the HTC Touch Input.

Link: xdaforums.com [SLASH] showpost.php?p=4874303&postcount=9

Sorry for how the link is set up. As a new user I'm not allowed to post links (modificators may please remove this restriction).
[General Questions and Answers] cez10:
hi guys

I have always been wondering what to do with the battery after purchasing a phone. normally its about 50% charged and im not sure if i should let it drain normally or just charge it up straight after i get the phone out or something?

i know that with the old batteries u supposed to charge the 1st time about 12h but dont think its a way to go in the later batteries?
[General Questions and Answers] Fallen Spartan:
Same applies mate, its always best to charge battery fully before first use to get full potential of battery
[General Questions and Answers] cez10:
fair enough, thanks mate for a quick reply :)
[General Questions and Answers] saurabh88:
for lion battery u have to discharge fully for 2 to 3 times initially to get max.. performance:p
[Click General] Pottkopp:
Hey guys!

I wanna customize my rooted tattoo a bit and one part of the plan is to change that grey panel on top of the screen to a darker one ;) Any ideas where I can find the image file?

I'm looking forward for your answers

Pottkopp

(sorry for my bad english)

EDIT: Found it out: it's in framework_res.apk in /system/framework (a bit searching the forum helps..I'm dumb) If yout want to any mod can delete/close this thing here
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cobrax2:
Umm, i have a tiny problem :)

after flashing a rom (cyan 5.0.5.2), the nexus doesnt boot anymore

before this i had flashed the recovery 1.7.0.

adb devices does not see it, so i cannot reflash another recovery. fastboot sees it, but gives an error about multiple links, so it cannot flash

its stuck at the big 4-color X

i can enter the recovery, wipe/flash anything, but it still wont boot, no matter what rom i flash

pls help

thank you
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raven2000:
Wrong forum.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobdude5:
i have the same problem..it wont restore my back up either just stucked at the X screen with the lock
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mijou:
I had the same problem with C 5.0.5.1

I flash back C 5.0.5., (wipe everything before). then the phone boot OK.

Then I flash C 5.0.5.1 and is OK now.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobdude5:
omg thank you i was having a heart attack!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cobrax2:
indeed. me too!

thank you, it works!

cyan should put a notice somewhere for everybody to see that you cannot install directly 5.0.5.2
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanowns:
Are you guys even flashing Gapps?

I think i noticed this coming from a wipe as well.

You must wipe, Flash CyanMod, Flash Gapps.

I originally forgot Gapps, and got stuck, and then upon flashing it booted up fine.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cobrax2:
why is it wrong forum?? its rom development related
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deprecate:
nah, this is more of a q/a topic :) Plus those who poke around in this forum are those willing to help. Always a good idea to post questions/problem threads in the q/a.
[Droid Eris Android Development] AnomynousPierson:
Since the 2.1 Leak thread is no longer sticky.....

Can we get a sticky 'status thread' for those of us stuck with the 2.1 leak so we know what is, if anything, going on or whether the devs have abandoned us?

I'd much prefer not to go haggle with the verizon wireless store, but I will if I have to. As it stands, the lack of information on this topic leaves me not sure what to do. A little input is all I ask. :P
[Droid Eris Android Development] piercedtiger:
I agree. Some sort of status would be nice.
[Droid Eris Android Development] ECLIPS3:
there wont be any updates on the status. it will be a new thread that will all of a sudden come out and say "we have root / downgrade / whatever for those on 2.1 leak" instead of a posting in an existing thread.

so let me repeat that THERE IS NO ROOT FOR 2.1 LEAK YET.

any updates will be posted in a new thread!
[Droid Eris Android Development] jamezelle:
you will find out when it has happened....it will be one the of the top threads.
[Droid Eris Android Development] AnomynousPierson:
I appreciate the response. :)

Can you at least tell me if someone is in fact working on it or is it just something that a dev 'may' stumble on at some point?
[Droid Eris Android Development] jballz0682:
2.1 leak

I was just on the IRC chat yesterday and they were working on this very thing. Finding a rooted ROM was a little serendipitous and that may leave some of the 2.1 leakers feeling a little left out. Though I do not speak for any of the devs I do know that they plan on addressing this issue espcially because 2.1 official update will be out...eventually.;) This means that their current method of obtaining root would be obsolete. If you have another method of downgrading your phone then I would suggest using it if you are impatient like me.:D
[Droid Eris Android Development] nindoja:
So you should learn to do this thing called search.... there was a post about this very subject a day or two ago.

We, the devs, are currently working on some methods for downgrading 2.1 leaked to either 1.5 or the rooted 2.1.

We don't want a new thread about it because we are at this point just poking and prodding around on the phones hoping to find something. Most ideas we have are tried within an hour and don't work, so no need to constantly post about them.

Just please rest assured that on the irc server we are working hard to get 2.1 leak rooted or downgraded. Right now there are still a couple of us devs with the 2.1 leak so it is in our interest to get this thing worked out.
[Droid Eris Android Development] piercedtiger:
I didn't particularly want a new thread about this to keep track of either. That's why a stickied thread, maybe even locked until someone has an update, was a good idea I thought. One place, top of the list, that all us 2.1 leak users can subscribe too and know when progress is made.

What was so wrong about wanting that instead of watching the board every day, waiting for news, skimming all the titles, or searching each week to see if anything has change? :confused:
[Droid Eris Android Development] stingbliss:
Gotta agree..

Even if it's just a place to vent, I think us early adopters of the leak deserve a place to huddle up and wonder out loud whether anyone is working on the issue or if we're just stuck..

Nobody has claimed yet to have been force at gunpoint to upgrade. We're here by our own volition..

I will agree with jcase from another thread that we can't whine much unless we're willing to help out, though.. irc.wastate.net was it?
[Droid Eris Android Development] scottdot2008:
Personally, I don't think its very beneficial for anyone to have a thread where its nothing but "ranting". There are better things to spend time looking at and/or talking about.

Rest assured that when/if a way to downgrade arises, you'll know within hours just like the root, just like the leak.
[Droid Eris Android Development] esmith972:
Not sure why this hasn't been done yet but I just politely explained to Verizon that my phone was pushed with the 2.1 update and that it breaks Facebook contact sync and kills the battery life and I'd to downgrade, wait for them to call HTC and say that's not possible and ask for an exchange. Done.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Jboxen:
That actually works?