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[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jearl75:
You can get a new lock screen in the market, I have lock 2.0. It's a iPhone style lock, slides from left to right, and you can customize the font and color of the text on it as well. I flashed 2.1 leak too, I can't wait for root either but I'm having fun with 2.1 in the mean time. Check out helixlauncher in the market too, if you want more customization.

Sent from my Eris using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] shimmer401:
whats a good program for win 6.5 to make ringtons?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] greg1fraser:
as in make your on sounds or edit crop etc if editing crop then mp3 trimmer if not making your own i do not no
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] shimmer401:
well do you at lease know where to go for the rington fileing in the phone?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] teshiburu2010:
Any music track can be used as a ringtone,

just hold the screen on the item in file explorer, and select set as ringtone...

voila

or if you want it to appear in the ringtone menu paste it into device-> my documents -> ringtones

any more help ask
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] shimmer401:
thx...........
[HD2 General] Reignzone:
After speaking with a friend about a biweekly hard reset "schedule," I've decided to research the eversopopular application from SPB Software, which is their backup application, SPB Backup.

I've heard many good things about it, in terms of reliability, consistency, and the easy to use interface.

Now, having said all of that... are there programs that allow for a COMPLETE SYSTEM BACKUP & RESTORE? As in... all of the modifications, applications, registry, etc. I have now are SAVED, BACKED UP, and capable of being restored onto my device without consequence.

Is SPB Backup the ideal program for this? Please, feel free to offer your suggestions below... thank you in advance. :)
[HD2 General] pilgrim011:
And you had to open 3 threads with same question:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=668919

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=668921

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=668922

:rolleyes:
[HD2 General] Reignzone:
And you had to track each one of them down like a creepy troll coming out from under his bridge.

Did you notice each post was in the GENERAL SECTION of said forums?

Thanks for being unproductive by pointing out the obvious.

Smart ass.
[HD2 General] KamikazePR:
lol Trolling

Don't know about SPB but Sprite back up has saved me a couple of times, only downside i can say is that if you have a moved start menu items around once you restore you'll get the custom links you've made plus the once that came stock with the rom.
[HD2 General] Reignzone:
Thank you for the feedback. At this point... anything is helpful.

I'm just trying to do a little research in the meantime.

I'm probably going to buy SKTools, alongside SPB Backup... then again, Sprite does have a more "up-to-date" software... more likely to be updated.
[HD2 General] MadLinx:
SPB Backup is the best one available
[HD2 General] Reignzone:
Yeah, I figured that out last night...

After much discussion and consideration, I finally caved and purchased SPB Backup.

It works really, really well. Quite simple too.

Sprite maybe good, but I certainly can't complain about the user-friendly interface that SPB Backup has... even a complete moron could perform a backup.
[HD2 General] boogieTilt:
Sprite BackUp

It's Sprite BackUp for me, backs up phone & SD card it has saved me many times over the years & I'm a computer dummy:D
[HD2 General] BIOYAM:
I have used SPB Backup on my HTC Kaiser and it did a complete phone backup minus the stuff in Rom. In other words, if I did a complete backup & did a hard reset, it would restore the phone back exactly to the state it was(MINUS what was on the SD card). So if you installed anything on the SD card, you would want to do a separate manual backup of your card. I restored numerous backups onto the Kaiser & it ALWAYS restored accurately and completely.

I have been using SPB Backup to backup my HD2, but have yet to do a complete restore from a hard reset (haven't had to). Maybe someone else can verify that it is 100% restoring fine....... Hope this info helps.

By the way, on Twitter, you stated that you found a "handy" application that allows you to automatically switch between interfaces such as: SPBMS, Titanium, and HTC Sense...... what's the name of it?.... TIA.
[HD2 General] Reignzone:
Thank you for the reply.

I'll look a little further into this.

As for that application for switching between interfaces... I came across that on PPCGeeks from a guy named, "Darkness" who also created most of the disabling .CAB files for Titanium and Sense.

His interface switcher works really well. I downloaded the one specifically designed for Titanium and Sense. NOT THE SPB MOBILE SHELL VERSION!

And one more thing... all of the .CAB files I have installed, I installed them to my device, not my storage card. So, if those files are on my device... would those be backed up within the files that SPB Backup compresses?
[HD2 General] BIOYAM:
Thanks for this info .... I'll check it out.

Those .cab files would definitely be captured in the backup.
[HD2 General] DrATty:
It hasn't had a completely good press but I use Sprite Backup on my HD2. I suppose it's habit after I first used it on my hx4700.

It will restore my HD2 to its backed up state, settings, programs, registry and tweaks. It will back up storage cards if you want it too. It has a mode that allows restoration of suitable data to another device too. It can back up to a network.

I schedule it to run daily and use it at other times as needed. When I restore, I usually hard reset first. Setting Sprite to 'delete all files' during a restoration does much the same. I set it to replace settings. The registry can be replaced or merged; it seems that this makes no difference.

The program has yet to let me down do I haven't felt the need to try SPB Backup.

You might also try the backup feature in SKTools. I find it works well and the software has additional uses.
[HD2 General] Reignzone:
Thank you again for your feedback.

I'm definitely feeling a little bit better about entrusting this software with my precious files. :rolleyes:

And thank you kind sir for your reply as well.

All the opinions and facts here certainly make me feel more comfortable with this process, as I am YET to actually perform a backup... not once. So, I figure it's better late than never, right?

I'll look into SKTools and certainly do some research about the Sprite software for Windows Mobile, because I'm familiar with their work for Android. On the Android platform, it did the job quite well.

Thanks again. All of this was reassuring.
[HD2 General] low-dogg:
I use SPB backup all the time on my HD2.. i have it scheduled to make a complete backup + SD card every second night..

It works very well and have tried to restore several times (just to test) without any problems!

However if you flash a new rom i would not advice you to do a complete backup, but instead make a partially backup of documents, contacts, email and so on..

It even keeps your email signature and settings when doing the parcial backup, so i also use it everytime i flash a new rom, together with either xda UC or auto install from sd card..

Hope it helps, and i can say for sure that this software works perfect with both EU and US roms..

Happy backup:)
[HD2 General] maverick_endit81:
never put your money in one place..means never trust 1 app for your backup specially you got a rahter-die-than-lose-your-files files

not so often i meet my bad luck to restore my files from such spb restore app but lucky me i had 2 similar backup from 3 backup apps ;) maybe u will make it 2 apps thinking about space left

and always save at least 2 backup files with the same app but different time, kind'a storage eater right??but this useful when u got error from another file

hope this useful for u
[HD2 General] DrATty:
...And check the restoration process before you need to use it in anger. Finding that there is something wrong with your backup files when you need to use them in anger is... frustrating.

I mentioned Sprite's ability to restore data to a new device. This includes devices where the ROM has been replaced. I haven't tried it and obviously, not everything can be transferred. The migration features might be useful in your situation though.

Microsoft's myPhone is worth a mention. It can be used to backup your PIM data and documents, photographs and music. I haven't tried using it to restore anything yet though. My PIM data is saved in Outlook and that is backed up to hard disks and in the Cloud via iDrive, DropBox, Humyo and Live MESH. It's probably the one thing I can least afford to lose.
[HD2 General] anrabi4:
I would appreciate if anyone told me if the SPB Backup utility backs up the SPB Mobile Shell layout as well (the way the icons are arranged and other stuff like that). That would REALLY help me save some precious time ...
[HD2 General] dgreening:
SPB Backup - Great App

I bought this application a couple of days ago and I do a backup before I install some questionable apps or just in case I don't like the way it changed other things on my HD2. But I decided to go with the ROM from Sergio and everything seemed fine until I missed some calls and I just didn't like the changes on IE so this morning I decided to try my backup restore. I flashed back to the stock ROM and then ran my backup EXE file. It asked if I wanted to change the time to the current time (Sprite Backup doesn't have this option and restores to the backup time so you have to manually change it) so I moved forward. The backup was just the way I left it. I am glad I purchased this software. Just my 2 cents.
[HD2 General] DrATty:
Sprite Backup can; it depends on the settings used. I think I'm right in saying that both Sprite and SPB Backup will restore a device to exactly the same state it was at when the backup was made. The only exceptions are where files on a storage card that were used by an application in internal memory have been changed or deleted since the backup was made. Files on removable storage can be added to backups in Sprite to avoid this happening.
[HD2 General] DrATty:
Sprite Backup leaves the time alone. I used to hard reset (or delete all files and replace settings) and restore the backup. My HD2 sets the time itself either just after the reset or just after the restoration is complete so I find I don't need to do anything. It hasn't caused any problems that I am aware of so far.
[HD2 General] Reignzone:
Agreed.

I caved in last night and purchased the SPB Software program as well.

I backed up my system last night... surprisingly though, it was much "smaller" than I had originally expected it to be. Something around 80MB, at least that's what the application "calculated" it was going to be. I suppose that could be in compressed form though...

Anyway, it seems to have done the job well. And I certainly love that I was able to create a backup copy on my SD Card, along with my desktop PC.

I also have SK Tools... so I think having a couple if not MORE than a few system restore and backup utilities is a good thing.
[HD2 General] harrygol:
When I'm looking in the partial possibilities for restoring with the SPB, I can find in the "customize restore" those:

PIM DATA (CONTACTS, TASKS, APPOINTMENTS,...)

EMAILS

TEXT MESSAGES

MY DOCUMENTS

SYSTEM DATA (including: CUSTOMIZE... RESTORE FILES, RESTORE DATABASES and RESTORE REGISTRY)

If I flash a new rom, which exactly possibilities I have to choose?
[HD2 General] stratos:
SPB Backup works perfectly for me. Scheduled backup every night, restore complete system after hard reset, etc.

Don't forget the precious desktop companion SPBBackupUnpack: extract files, registry keys ... and more. :p
[HD2 General] DrATty:
I have restored PIM data, system databases, documents, mail and text messages between devices with Sprite Backup and it has worked perfectly. That includes the same device with different ROMs and even entirely different devices. Restoring the registry and software is sometimes problematic but SPB Backup has a ROM upgrade mode to help here.

I'd check out the support forum for your particular solution to see what works. Restoring the wrong items used to cause trouble and could create quite a mess. I haven't heard of anything in particular since the new restore modes were introduced.
[HD2 General] pa49:
Call me old fashioned, but, backup/restore tools always make me feel uneasy.

I know that there are many for whom they run "faultlessly" and for certain problems they really do offer solutions, however, the one situation that I have a concern about is the backup/restore across a ROM change, be it either a simple stock upgrade or a cooked ROM flash.

You would be throwing a set of data at a virgin phone that had been collected from a setup that had presumably either failed or been superceded!

In either event I would want to know that any potentially destabalising ellements had been eliminated and not "carried over" to, what should be, a fresh setup.

I can remember horrific problems caused by advice to use backup/restore on many other phones and they were all identified as having been situations in which the use was applied across a ROM change.

And lets be clear about this, we have enough trouble with badly coded software as it is. You only have to run down the new daily posts in these forums to see how difficult it is for many to achieve a stable/useable phone and that situation quite often occurs right out of the box!

For my part I must admit that I have become particularly fond of MyPhone.

It has always done the job for me, although I only use it for basic PIM restore after a new ROM flash, which I seem to be doing every couple of days at the moment. However, I do also allow it to retain a copy of my photos and music, but, I've never restored from it as the file sizes and subsequent time taken are too great.

I have identically synced (from within my laptop file manager, but, I have had need to do it directly phone to phone!) MSD cards of the same size in two seperate phones one being the HD2 and the other being a Nokia E71. These cards hold music, photos, documents, downloads, a section for reinstall apps and my current and previous ROM and radio images. This means that the cards are interchangeable and I keep an image of them on a USB stick. My apps are never installed to mem card.

My final piece of backup is by way of my trusty Ameo which holds one more complete data and app set.

So if any two pieces of equipment fail I can still recover the situation and notice that I give only passing mention to a PC or laptop.

I access MyPhone through my mobile broadband WiFi router which is constantly on and is powered through a UPS which gives about three days backup use.

With all this I have got a task 29, new ROM flash, reinstall of apps and settings down to about 35 mins.

It just came to me that we do lavish a lot of attention our our little pals!

Don't we?

Too much? LOL.
[HD2 General] ruiz64:
SPB BACKUP FAILED FOR ME ON HTC Touch PRO 2

I was used to restore my Touch 3g and my Qtek S200 with SPB backup and at all times successfully. :rolleyes: So, I updated to last SPB backup software version (of course I bought that software). :cool: On Saturday I did something erroneous on my TP2 and needed to hard reset. :eek: After that, I tried to restore my full backups, one after other from newer to older and a total of 15. All of them restored apparently well, but HTC sense did not start-up any longer in any of the cases. :mad: I had to manually re-install all the stuff back and I just restore the emails and PIM from the backup. The PIM database did not longer sync with my Outlook. :mad: I had to recreate the partnership. :confused: After that, all my notifications were duplicated... a complete mess. :mad: I cannot understand what went wrong, because the backup and restore log files where always showing no error. :confused: I am using the stock ROM (WM6.5 + HTC sense 2.5) and all my software is either legal or GPL. :( Nothing special on my device apart of all my beloved data. :confused:

So that is my experience with SPB backup that was always good, has turned to be negative. :( Of course, now I am afraid to try again. :eek:

Anybody has experience the same?

Any idea?

Thanks folks. ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Reignzone:
After speaking with a friend about a biweekly hard reset "schedule," I've decided to research the eversopopular application from SPB Software, which is their backup application, SPB Backup.

I've heard many good things about it, in terms of reliability, consistency, and the easy to use interface.

Now, having said all of that... are there programs that allow for a COMPLETE SYSTEM BACKUP & RESTORE? As in... all of the modifications, applications, registry, etc. I have now are SAVED, BACKED UP, and capable of being restored onto my device without consequence.

Is SPB Backup the ideal program for this? Please, feel free to offer your suggestions below... thank you in advance. :)
[General Questions and Answers] KukurikU:
in one word:YES!

i am using it for a few years now and i can confirm that after a HD the SPB is capable of restoring my device COMPLETELY, 100% as it was as at the moment of the last back-up.

imho SPB is the best back-up utility. as a matter of fact is so good i bought it! :p
[General Questions and Answers] mikurej95:
Alright, so I have a GBA (PocketGBA) on my HTC Vogue and it works great, but the problem is, i can't play the old game boy color games! is there an emulator out there that supports the .gb/.gbc format? any help is appreciated ;)
[General Questions and Answers] SlyMaelstrom:
SmartGear

MorphGear
[Droid Eris General] WalkingTaco:
can we rename the eris the htc adequate :-D
[Droid Eris General] synaptyc:
rofl...... :D
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bananamandave:
I've been flipping through the threads to find out how I'm suppose to update the radio and still can't find anything.. Maybe it's because I'm an extreme noob when it comes to forums and software. Can anyone point me to the right direction?

P.S. What does updating the radio do? I've been curious about it since it seems like a plus to keep it up to date.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack Everyman:
I have been looking for a how to for updating the radio. My main concern is that since I got the official OTA update, then rooted with Superboot, then installed Modaco's Desire rom will updating the radio as is brick my phone?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liam.lah:
In one of these threads there will be a radio update.zip (check cyanogens thread, i think he hosts the latest radio on his forum)

before you put the radio on your phone, check the md5. If you are on linux, use furious ISO mount, if on windows, look it up on google how to.

Place the radio on your SD card ./ folder, then boot into recovery

Make sure you have plenty of battery, or are plugged in and charging.

Flash the radio from recovery and wait.

Alternatively you can place the radio.img (either downloaded by itself or take it out of the update.zip.) in your /sdk/tools folder and type "fastboot flash radio radio.img"
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] big_adventure:
The very first stickied thread in the Development forum is called "Roms - Kernels - Radios *Links*" and it has links to .zip files that install from a hacked recovery. The Radio links are in the third post. Just use one of those.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=654869

If your recovery isn't hacked, you could just unzip one of those files and pull out the radio.img file, which you can then flash with fastboot.
[Touch2 ROM Development] yellowfever:
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[Touch2 ROM Development] mirost1:
Good work buddy, this must be sticky.
[Touch2 ROM Development] czdjj:
Great overview, simply and all in one.

Good work, thx :)
[Touch2 ROM Development] Nick Rabiosso:
Great work! thank's for the tutorial it answered me lots of questions I had!
[Touch2 ROM Development] raghul:
:D as always your the noobs best frnd :)
[Touch2 ROM Development] Gothik:
learned something new today. downloaded wwe Asia ship(2) 1.32.729.3(72483), one that the model number of your phone is known by the firmware. my t3333 changed into t3320 :/. for guys looking for stock English roms, this is no go.
[Touch2 ROM Development] yellowfever:
I am using this WWE asia ROM, and my system says T3333: http://rapidshare.com/files/3001039...Radio_Signed_61.41t.25.31_3.48.25.27_Ship.exe
[Touch2 ROM Development] Gothik:
read properly...
[Touch2 ROM Development] yellowfever:
I was just trying to suggest a different WWE ASIA rom for you, which does not have the issue you mentioned. Sorry if this answer did not meet your expectations.
[Touch2 ROM Development] Weatherlights:
Question

Hi!

Thank you for this thread.

I have a question. You wrote that you need the HSPL cause a branded Phone blocks custom roms. How about an unbranded phone?
[Touch2 ROM Development] fktsndr:
Not just branded phones, you can not install wwe rom to italian device,you can not install WWE rom to asian wwe device, etc.

If there is an error during flash (hard drive fail, blackout), your device wont be a brick, you can step to bootloader and flash again.

So the best way to install hard-spl, and you can do anything;)
[Touch2 ROM Development] gabrielmihai:
Upgrade or instal a new ROM

Hi yellowfeaver,

I find your review very good and clear.

But I have just one question:

Is there a possibilities to upgrade or install a new ROM in my Mega under the Windows 7 ultimate x 64?

Everything I'll try, evan the hard SPL, it give me an error.

Is an incompatibilities with this OS, is necessary to install a x86 version of Windows 7, or this kind of problem is for all x64 Windows OS?

Thanks in advance and for your advice,

Best regards,
[Touch2 ROM Development] Gothik:
ok guys any one answering it?

imo if active sync or w.e comes pre installed with win7 workd and detects your mega, then everything should go fine. but of course i don't even recommend win7 for his. goto someone with win xp and get it done.
[Touch2 ROM Development] gabrielmihai:
Win 7x64

Hi Gothic,

As I say the x64 of Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1( for Windows 7 x64) does not recognized my Mega for HSPL and ROM's. Is working well for files transfer, internet share etc

Before I've installed the x64 version on my PC, with HTC Artemis I was able to do everything - HSPL, the new ROM's, file transfer etc - but I never used for Mega because at that time it wasn't an HSPL for Mega. Meanwhile I installed the x64 Windows 7 OS and I couldn't use this OS for Artemis and I realized that for Mega also.

Because are two versions of Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 ( x86 and x64 ) and in Windows 7 x64 is already created the x86 directory for this kind of applications I will give a try to the version x86. Why not?

I'll be back with a result.

Thanks anyway for your answer,

Best regards
[Touch2 ROM Development] gabrielmihai:
Win7 x64

Definitively refuse to work.

Maybe a new HSPL for this OS will be solve this problem.
[Touch2 ROM Development] czdjj:
I flash every my rom on Win 7 x64, so it goes....
[Touch2 ROM Development] Gothik:
then why don't you solve his problem?
[Touch2 ROM Development] gabrielmihai:
HardSPL finally done

Hi,

Thanks for your help.

The solution it was to change one registry in to the WM. Thanks to jockyw2001 for his HSPL and all developers who search for the solutions.

"still doesn't work look up this registry key in the phone:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\EXT_FLASHDRV]

Change the value "Dll" from "OEM_FLASHDRV.dll" to "OEM_FLASHDRVXXX.dll" and reboot the device. After rebooting into WM and after activesync is ready run flash-hardspl.bat . Check in tricolour bootloader screen if it is installed and then boot again into WM and change the registry value back to its old value."

Best Regards,
[Touch2 ROM Development] yellowfever:
Sorry, still had no time to put this in the Wiki. By the way, do many new users even know that the Wiki is there for such Answers? It's not presented like "read here first!", so I assume only the long timers actually know and use it...