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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mroek:
Ok, here's the deal:

I don't like installing software on my computer that I don't need, and as far as I can tell, HTC sync is primarily aimed at synchronizing contacts and calendar to your computer, none of which I want or need. It also offers installation of apps to the phone, but for that I would prefer using either the adb tool from the sdk or just putting the apk files on the memory card and installing via a file manager on the phone.

First question:

I realize that I need the adb driver for my phone, and this driver is installed alongside/by HTC sync, so it is clearly packaged inside the HTC sync setup file. Does anyone know if it is possible to extract just the driver from the setup file? I know there is a zip floating around with the adb driver (I've downloaded that), but if it can be extracted from the setup file that's even better, since it would be an easy way to obtain the latest version.

Second question:

At some point in the future I expect there will be ROM updates to the phone. These are self contained exe-files, but according to the HTC support pages you need to have HTC sync installed to install them. Is this really true, or is it sufficient to have the adb driver installed?

Third question:

If I want to use the phone for USB tethering to give the computer internet access, which driver is needed for that? The ADB driver? Or must I have the full HTC sync installed for that to work?

Any answers appreciated!

Best regards

-Øyvind
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rogem:
Here are my answers to the best of my knowledge:

#1 - I have not found the driver available on it's on yet. However, I'm sure Mircosoft is soon to be adding it to it's list of drivers.

#2 - Most updates to the phones are done OTA ( Over the air), so you need not worry about about the HTC sync doing updates.

#3 - You will need the driver to tether your phone, but not the HTC desktop app.

For my setup I ran the setup file than uninstalled the HTC Sync but left the driver and everything seems to be ok.

Hope this helps :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mroek:
Thanks. Regarding #1, as I mentioned in the OP, a reportedly working ADB driver can be found in this post, but if it can be extracted from the HTC sync setup that would be even better. I've looked at it, but none of the files inside the setup file looked very promising (no inf-file to be found).

I know about OTA updates, but for older HTC phones (the Hero, for instance) there are downloadable rom updates. Are the exact same updates usually also sent out as OTAs?

As for #3, I know a driver is required, I just wanted to know which driver it was, and if it can be found separately.

Your tip on installing HTC sync to get the driver and then unistalling has been noted. Thanks.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
+1 on installing and then uninstalling.

HTC sync installs two items, the second one, HTC Driver Installer, contains the ADB driver and the Tethering driver.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mroek:
This was really helpful!

I tried installing HTC sync in a virtual machine to avoid cluttering my real machine, and during the install I chose "Custom". There I deselected the option for "Sync Manager" and installed only the "Application Installer" item.

I also monitored the install with a utility uninstaller, and it turns out that there is actually a "HTC Driver Installer" lurking inside the setup file. This file is temporarily extracted during the install, and I was able to manually make a copy of it before it was removed. The file name is HTCDriver.msi, and it contains all the driver files (both 32 and 64 bit). It can be used for a standalone install of just the drivers.

Thanks again! I think I'm fully sorted now!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s4vva:
Hi any chance of uploading the msi?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mroek:
The file is ~14 MB, so it is too big to attach here. Any preferred site where I could upload it? The msi has been extracted from HTC sync version 2.0.33, btw.

Edit: I found out that 7zip actually could compress the file a lot more, so I have attached it. Please be aware that even though it has a .zip extension, it is really a 7z-file. Had to rename it to zip to get it to upload. The mods could perhaps allow 7z-files in addition to .zip?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
MegaUpload or SendSpace personally
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mroek:
I've edited my post. I found a way to attach it after my initial posting.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
The wonders of 7-Zip!!

Thanks a lot!! I use HTC Sync but this is handy
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s4vva:
Thanks, just what I needed.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vivek_V:
Hi,

Can you please share the HTCDriver.msi OR can the procedure or extracting the same from the setup exe?

Many thanks!

Vivek
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stanzzz23:
This file seems useless to my windows 10 laptop....
[Click Themes and Apps] JoOoSs:
Hi,

This is a tutorial to explain how to make a theme with some APKs modified.

Note : This HOWTO is for people who have a minimum knowledge in informatic, i will not answer to questions like "what's a CMD?" etc.

FACULTATIVE STEP

The first thing we have to do, it's set up a working folder, this will help you to make your theme easily ;)

Create a folder "Skin blabla", like you want.

After, create 3 folders like this screen :

We will make a backup of ALL APKs of your tattoo (if you do a wrong modification & you brick), make a copy of this backup into "Modded APKs" (there will be the modified APKs), and "Decompressed" will be the folder which has all PNGs.

SOME EXPLICATIONS

The only risk is Android, all APKs which are using on android have to be signed, if one of your APKs isn't signed, you will semi-brick your Tattoo and have to go on recovery and push the original APK.

Note : You have to have (woh) a custom recovery, if you don't and you semi-brick your tattoo, the only way to restart it is the GOLDCARD.

So, the only way to keep your APK signed is to use the drag&drop.

FIRST STEP : Backup

Connect your device. (with USB debug)

Open a CMD.

(We say your skin's folder is on c:\Skin to make it simple, if you choose an other destination, change what i have writed after)

adb shell pull /system/app/*.apk "c:\Skin\Original APK"

adb shell pull /system/framework/*.apk "c:\Skin\Original APK"

copy "c:\Skin\Original APK\*.apk" "c:\Skin\Modded APK"

You can delete the APKs you will never modify on Modded.

It's finished, we can start :D

SECOND STEP : Drag & Drop

I'm using WinRAR.

Like i said before, we have to keep our APKs signed.

Select which APKs you want to modify of "Modded" folder, right click, and select "extract...".

Select "Decompressed" folder, and extract all APKs.

You will have many folders with the name of which APK. (Rosie, framework-res, etc etc)

Modify all PNGs you want to modify on which folder. (Note : All images are on res/drawable*)

Then, return on modded folder, open which APKs you modified on the other folder, and open framework-res.apk for example, let the APK open with WinRAR. Open "Decompressed"s folder, select some folders/PNGs you have modified (we will select "drawable" for example), drag&drop it in WinRAR. (of course, you have to be on /res folder in winRAR, the folder have to match...)

Copy the modified APK with : adb push blabla.apk /system/originaldirectoryoftheapk

Some advices

- All notifications icons are on framework-res.apk & com.htc.resources.apk.

- The only APKs which are on /system/framework/ are the both APKs one line before. All others are on /system/app/.

- Rosie.apk is HTC Sense.

- Some notifications icons are on Calendar.apk (1), HtcContacts.apk (1), HtcLocationService.apk (1), HtcMusic.apk (2+), HtcTwitter.apk (1), Mail.apk (1), Mms.apk (1+), Talk.apk (1).

- If you modify Rosie.apk, or some others APKs, Sense will be strange, wait or reboot the device.

- ...
[Click Themes and Apps] arturocr:
Hi JoOoSs

I have modified Browser.apk, but when I try

adb push Browser.apk /system/app/Browser.apk

I receive the next message:

failed to copy 'Browser.apk' to '/system/app/Browser.apk': Out of memory

Also, before this I was receiving this message:

failed to copy 'Browser.apk' to '/system/app/Browser.apk': Directory not empty

Any ideas about what could be the problem?

Thanks!
[Click Themes and Apps] JoOoSs:
It's a problem with your ROM.

Modaco ? Fyodor ? Stock ?
[Click Themes and Apps] arturocr:
I have the MoDaCo ROM, the weird thing is that yesterday I installed your Black skin, and today I tried to do it again and have the above errors.
[Click Themes and Apps] JoOoSs:
At each reboot you have to do:

adb shell

insmod /system/lib/modules/tattoo-hack.ko

mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
[Click Themes and Apps] arturocr:
Actually, I did it.

I've noticed something really weird. I flashed a fresh ROM (MoDaCo), then I pushed your files (from Black Skin) and some mine, everything worked perfect. But, later, when I try to push another file (yours or mine), I get this error:

adb push WorldClock.apk /system/app/WorldClock.apk
failed to copy 'WorldClock.apk' to '/system/app/WorldClock.apk': Directory not empty

I don't know what is happening
[Click Themes and Apps] JoOoSs:
I think you lose the RW when you exit your CMD, did you retry to mount /system ?

If it's yes, i don't know it works in my Modaco Oo
[Click Themes and Apps] arturocr:
Thanks JoOoSs

I don't know why this was happening, but I installed the stock ROM and everything works perfect know! Regards!
[Click Themes and Apps] HTCDevil:
It would be nice to have default android skin on our tattoo. Do you think is it possible?
[Click Themes and Apps] JoOoSs:
Yep, you have to flash 2.1 ROM which is on Dev forum, backup all PNG from his ROM & re-insert them on an other ROM.
[Click Themes and Apps] arturocr:
Actually, you don't need to flash the 2.1 rom, remember that is a .zip, so just extract the apps from /system/app directory and then extract the pngs...
[Click Themes and Apps] JoOoSs:
In the zip there are only the *.img ?

We have to uncompress boot.img etc it's more long!
[Click Themes and Apps] HTCDevil:
So...what we could do to have a default 2.1 lock screen and skin and nothing else?

Please help us poor noobs :D
[Click Themes and Apps] arturocr:
Not really, I downloaded the update.zip file from the 2.1, and it doesn't have .img files... I've changed all my apps icons using the 2.1 version.
[Click Themes and Apps] HTCDevil:
Is there anyone that can answer to my ask?
[Click Themes and Apps] arturocr:
Hi, actually, change all the skin and the lock screen is going to be almost impossible, I changed all the main apps icons, but the skin itself is more complex, we have to go through all system APKs and find the png files related with the skin, but even doing that the change is complex.

This is how my icons looks like:
[Click Themes and Apps] JoOoSs:
Can you upload icons & the wallpaper ? :o
[Click Themes and Apps] havok123:
yes, wallpaper please :p
[Click Themes and Apps] HTCDevil:
Thank you arturo ;)

I'd like also the only white bar rather than black ;)
[Click Themes and Apps] arturocr:
APKs with eclair icons and wallpaper

Hello all,

Here are the modified apk files with the eclair icons and also a nice wallpaper.

I highly recommend to do a nandroid backup before replace the apk files (we never know :p).

APKs: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GG7LPC9C

Enjoy it!
[Click Themes and Apps] HTCDevil:
and white bar?
[Click Themes and Apps] JoOoSs:
Thank's arturo, great work! Can i include them on my skin ?
[Click Themes and Apps] arturocr:
Absolutely! In fact, some of the APK files (like Rosie and framework) are based on your black skin, sorry, I forgot to mention that.

Regards!
[Click Themes and Apps] arturocr:
Hehehe, will work on that, when I get some free time...
[Click Themes and Apps] HTCDevil:
:D thank you bro :D

I'll wait for it ;)
[Click Themes and Apps] Spike™:
issue solved
[Click Themes and Apps] tbo-art:
How do you make a zip file that you can flash in recovery?

Tbo-art
[HD2 General] Alcatrazx:
Dear all,

I simple question to HTC, (1) if they could provide me with an unlock code and (2) if a ROM update with an unlocked phone would void the warranty.... Funnily enough I got this reply... out of point I know.... but it led me to realise something else....Read on ...

I looked up the internet and did not find sufficient proof that indicates if the above is correct or not.... I guess they are not saying the truth ... So question is this... If the phone requires a hard reset ... and it has HSPL/2 right now on it ... Would this mean that the Sim Lock will be back? And the unlock code which I put in will be no longer valid? Personally I find all this a big load of crap .... Because if the IMEI does not change ... and the code is created via the IMEI ... I don't think it makes sense to say that the "unlock code will not work again and the Phone will be locked". But before I jump to any conclusions, I would like to hear the opinion of the clever guys out there ...

This email was interesting .... I wonder what's up in HTC's customer supports' minds ...

Regards

Al
[HD2 General] D.O.C:
I guess HTC is only talking and can only talk about default ROMs, not custom roms, if you have hspl your device you will no longer get support from htc.... anyways, HSPL is not the same as sim unlocking your device, check the wiki pages.
[HD2 General] Alcatrazx:
I didn't make myself clear that must be it.....

I guess you didn't understand me .... I know that sim unlocking is not the same. The thing that bothered me was whether HTC is saying the truth aka

Many Thanks again for your answer
[HD2 General] wingtytn:
once u unlock ur device to be used on another network and u change the radio or rom the device will still continue to be unlocked... i hav 2 devices 1 is the hd the other is the hd2 and both are unlocked and hav different roms and radios
[HD2 General] br4nd0nh347:
I have a question regarding this too.

I've heard that TMobile US has a separate IMEI number than the one on the device on the back.

Is this true?

Now for unlocking it has been suggested that you get it from T-Mobile. If you don't, it will most likely fail to unlock.

Is that true?

And finally has anyone that unlocked their phone directly from T-Mobile hard- resetted their HD2?
[HD2 General] onebyside:
if you bought the hd2 from Tmob "outright"..they will provide the unlock code

I have the Tmob provide code for my hd2, yes it worked and still worked after a hard reset
[HD2 General] br4nd0nh347:
Thank you for your quick response!

I do have one final one. How long did it take for T-Mobile to get the code for you?
[HD2 General] Alcatrazx:
I DID not get my unlock code from T mobile directly. They said its a genuine unlock code ... but i did not attempt a hard reset yet. Is this hoax true????? That if you HARD RESET your phone your UNLOCK code is gone YES OR NO? I seem like i cannot get the message through .... Anyone HARD RESET his phone and got it sim locked again? And anyway it does not make sense to say that the unlock code wont work anymore because the IMEI remains the same ... so this is not really sounding like a true statement from htc .....but i want to hear of somebody who hard reset his phone and got his t mobile unlock code not through t mobile to make sure...... I will ask the people who helped me out with the unlock service and will get back to everyone with a confirmation ....

As for the other guy who said that T mobile have got a separate IMEI .... the answer is NO. They all have ONE IMEI.... the only thing I can confirm to you is that T mobile CHANGES the Unlock codes to a system of their own, hence a genuine htc unlock code WON't work on ANY T mobile flashed device...... and there is no need to get the unlock code from t mobile ... it would take you like 3 months if u ain't got a contract + they will force you to do a contract for a minimum period of 90 days.... a Huge f**k up considering that you might not even be on t mobile or worse still not even in the country . ....

There are good services out there ... mine took exactly 9 hours to get unlocked......from time of payment

Many Thanks
[HD2 General] bluetouch:
oops.. wrong forum
[HD2 General] ephestione:
Yeah, the reply you got made no sense... unlocking the phone out of a preset carrier is relative to the IMEI of that phone and not on the software status installed on there... as if a carrier was able to determine os/version of your phone upon connection and forbid access if they notice (?) you did a hard reset :D
[HD2 General] Smartphoner:
Please help

Does that mean after u did the hard reset; the phone was locked again and u had to re-enter the unlock code??

I'm asking about that coz i bought my TMOUS HD2 already unlocked but the seller did not provide me with the unlock code!!

Does that mean that i have to buy the code to use it if i hard reset the device???

Plz help!!
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
no, once unlocked it will stay unlocked.
[HD2 General] Smartphoner:
Glad

Glad to hear that!! No need to spend more money then!!

Thanx mate!!
[HD2 General] anencephal:
I've done a search in both the Leo forums as well as xda in general and can't see a solution for my problem:

I am unable to scroll within excel mobile. Whenever I drag my finger across the screen it selects cells rather than scrolling. This isn't a problem if I wish to move up and down as the vertical scroll bar is visible and can be used. However, the horizontal scroll bar doesn't display even though it is selected in the menu.

Can anyone suggest what I can do to fix this? Thanks in advance.
[HD2 General] anencephal:
bump

can anyone help?
[HD2 General] dio62000:
When you open Excel, click on the right side of the screen (= scroll bar) and the scroll-button will appear. Use that to scroll up and down. The same goes for the horizontal scroll bar (well, it's on the bottom of the Excel screen and you scroll from left to right ;-)). Should be there, otherwise I wouldn't know.
[HD2 General] anencephal:
Thanks for the reply but unfortunately the horizontal scroll bar isn't visible on the screen, even though when I go into view -> show the horizontal scroll bar checkbox is ticked.

The vertical scroll bar also works like a "normal" scroll bar in that the scrolling part is always the same size; it doesn't increase in size when the scroll bar is tapped on. However, I seem to remember that's how it used to work when I first got the phone, so perhaps in all the various tweaks and things I've done since I've unwittingly edited something that is affecting it?!

Oh well.
[HD2 General] dio62000:
You're not in full screen mode are you? :p

And have you tried opening a new document?
[HD2 General] anencephal:
No not in full screen mode, and I have opened various different (existing) spreadsheets, and tried creating a new one and the same thing happens in all of them. :confused:
[HD2 General] anencephal:
I've solved the problem. A little look into HD2Tweak and I spotted an option for horizontal scroll bar which was set to none. I changed it to normal and a quick soft reset later and I was able to see the horizontal scroll bar again; not just in Excel but other apps too.

I don't remember switching it to none, but am just glad it's working again now!
[Desire General] Phil750123:
I just got a really good couple of packs of wallpapers i really like, all 480 x 800 (thinking that the screen resolution so that be fine)

I can display them on my phone perfect, but i cant set them nicely as a wallpaper !

always asks me to crop it when i dont want to!

anyone now a work around?
[Desire General] biemsy:
Scroll across different screens and you'll see it pans across the wallpaper, which means the wallpapers are wider than 480px. So if you give it a 480x800 image, it's going to have to crop it to get the aspect ratio right. I'm not sure what width it needs to be though.
[Desire General] Odin1979:
Desire's wallpaper resolution is 960x800, i've been making my own recently but this site has a good selection ...

http://nexusone960x800wallpaper.blogspot.com/

:)
[Desire General] poldie:
If i email myself a jpeg of that size will it let me set it as a wallpaper without having to crop it?
[Desire General] carrige:
that's quite a fantastic page there, thanks for sharing :-)

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Legend General] ibila:
hi,

i set my Phone to dutch language but Google maps still shows miles as distance measurement. I cant find a way to change it. anyone here know how to handle this?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] curtis8523:
i was wondering if there is anyone out there with experience in porting sence ui if they could help me do it. i am willing to pay money for a complete job. just let me know if you are intrested.
[Android Apps and Games] rowanparker:
Hello, I'm new here. I have tried to search for this and nothing recent came up but apologises if I missed something.

Google Maps never seems to close (restarts after killing). I don't know if this happened before the Maps update (couple of days ago). I have turned off buzz and latitude yet its used 11% of my battery (and I've not used it once). Is there anyway to stop this happening as my current battery life is awful?

I'm using a HTC Desire on Orange UK if anybody needs to know.

Thanks, Rowan.
[Android Apps and Games] mobzd:
Do you have Google Latitude enabled ? If so it's constantly reporting your location ...
[Android Apps and Games] rowanparker:
Ah turns out I did, I thought i'd disabled but I must not have.

It's now disabled but still alyways runs but no longer is in the battery usage page, is this a problem or should I jsut ignore it?

Thanks, Rowan.
[Android Apps and Games] CeeBee52:
Hi. This drove me crazy too. Try this.

1. Open browser normally

2. Visit any site other than your home page

3. Set this site as your Home Page

4. Revisit old Home Page

5. Reset this to Home Page

Voila!! Google Maps stops. I assume it will work for any app that keeps running.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charlie.M:
Hi All,

This may seem like an obvious question but how do I root my hero? I am using a generic HTC hero with the latest UK ROM(2.73.405.5).

I have tried:

* flashrec - No error messages but the Bootloader is unchanged on reboot.

* flashboot - FAILED (remote: not allow).

* Unable to downgrade via RRU installer.

How do I get root so I can install customer ROMS.

Thanks

Charlie
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MerXury13:
you need to downgrade via goldcard method to root your hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prodygee:
http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/18/how-to-downgrade-your-htc-hero-so-it-can-be-rooted/

Follow every step exactly like how its written on that website. And your phone will be rooted. This will work, I guarantee. Just follow it EXACTLY!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bonesy:
i could ONLY downgrade using this RUU

RUU_Hero_HTC_WWE_1.76.405.1_R3_WWE_release_signed_NoDriver

The one on unlockR and other walkthroughs didnt work
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charlie.M:
Thanks everyone for the advice.

Its can be quite confusing following all the rooting guides only to find it doesn't work because I have stupidly been to eager to install the latest stock ROMS. Dam my liking of shiny new official things :)

I shall give the Gold card a try.

Charlie M
[General Topics] valianci:
Hi guys,

For me it is indifferent to the platform, while performing well the call recording function. I need this feature for my work.

What phone/OS do you recommend?.

Thx