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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] leona:
I would like to add my 10p's worth to this debate, I got my Kaiser 2nd hand in 2008, I updated the ROM from O2 when it became available but after that there were no more updates, certainly O2 where not going to release a 6.5 Rom for it, I am not confident enough to put an Unofficial Rom on my device but I wanted to update it. I could not afford a new phone, yes sure I'd like one, but I'm not prepared to pay out £450+ for a phone, I just don't have that kind of money. Anyway I have been looking for ways to update my phone, a while back I found a program called Mobile Shell, by SBP, now this is pretty good, it gives you multiple desktops, cool widgets, but its really only a skin over WM6.1, it is cool though, but left me wanting more. I have friends with Android and WM6.5 devices which I've tried and this did make me want to do something about mine. Also last year, I suffered a detached retina, which left me blind in one eye, (very long story), I was already visually impaired, and now I have lost the sight in, what was, my best eye, which left me struggling to see my phone. Many of my friends, (who are blind) use Iphones, as they have speech output, but I didn't want an Iphone (I like my hardware keyboard, and I am not a 'Follower'). Windows left me lacking again, no speech output, text was tiny, even on largest settings, etc etc. When I was doing some research on accessibility on mobile, Iphone came top, but I noticed an article on Android, about it having accessibility features and speech, which led me (eventually), to ask if it was possible to run Android on my phone to try to get these features and allow me to use my mobile again.

With Zenity's kind guidance, I have Android running from my SD card while I test it out, sadly the Accessibility options will not enable for some reason, but I'm having a look at the market place to see what aps are available. I hear that 2.1 has better features, but as yet, that port isn't fully working on the Kaiser, so as soon as it is ready, I'd like to try it.

The end game is to replace WM with Android and have all the accessibility options in place so I can finally use my phone (normally) again. This must seem crazy to you guys, you are probably saying, "why don't you just get the Iphone and be done with it", well if you knew me, you'd know why, I don't like taking the easy road, if I can get this to work, I can say that I've done it (beaten my disability), just a sense of achievement, just the way I am :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] xPreSiDenT:
That is perfectly understandable, and iphones nowhere near android in terms of functionality and user control. Hope you get it done and find a config that works for you. I dont know if it would be possible to add accessibility into our roms due to our limited memory, but hopefully some devs can look into that. myns warm donut has speech synthesis built in. It is used in many accessibilty apps like these. dont know which of these work on Kaiser though...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
Actually I totally understand, my mother suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, and is probably the most stubbornly independent woman I have even known, at 70+ she's still more active than half a dozen 30 year olds put together, and when she decides how things will be, then that is how they will be.

I'm happy to have helped, and hope this inspires someone to take a look at the accessibility options :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] leona:
Thank you guys, yes we can be a suborn bunch :)

I am happy to run the OS off the SD card if memory is limited, from my use so far, it seems fast enough, so is it possible to create a fully operational version, even if its SD only?

I had not thought about how much space is needed for the roms, I just assumed that the kaisers had enough room as they have a 256Mb Flash.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] ajige:
This thread is really helpful to me. My T-Mobile Wing's screen just broke, and I'm now wondering what kind of phone to get.

I'm looking at used ones: I could get an old Wing (not great hardware wise), a Kaiser or an Android. I'm not sure if I'm ready to jump ship quite yet, so the possibility of running both Android and Winmo is quite appealing to me. Can you switch easily between the two? I understand certain things are not working in Android (mainly keyboard and camera), but it can be used on a daily basis as a phone? Also how's the battery life when running Winmo?

Having had a pocket pc running first mobile 2002, then 2003, and then 6.1 and 6.5 on my phone, I'm quite invested in the Windows mobile platform (however, Mobile 7 doesn't appeal to me from what I've seen).

Because I have several programs I've developed myself in use on a daily basis (some not published), I'm not sure about the Android platform. Any of you have experience developing for apps for Android?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
If you are running from SD, switching from winmo to Android is as simple as running haret.exe, from Android back to winmo requires a soft reboot however.

Keyboard works fine, no issues apart from having to be careful how you set up haret's default.txt file to avoid using the wrong keyboard type. Camera works if you use a Donut build, it's not working on Eclair builds yet.

I have used Android ( both donut and eclair, various builds), since early this year, and for the last 4 months it's been my only OS on my kaiser, it's completely useable as a phone, battery life in winmo is good, in android, not as good, however it will last through the day unless you use it for high power demand functions such as wifi or gps for extended periods, but the same can be said for winmo.

The main issues with running from SD are speed and stability, it is slower and less stable running from SD, installed to nand is better, but not as flexible if you need winmo functionality.

All in all, if it is your only phone, don't flash android, unless you are fully committed to it.

:)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] BA_Flash_GOD:
You really are missing a lot if you think windows mobile 6.5 is anything close to Android.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] thebulletfromhell:
This is offtopic but can someone give me the link for polymod 2.1d. The thread only have G.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
It's buried in the thread now, but I dug it out : http://ponack.net/poly/2.1d/polymod_2.1d-systemonly.zip

Remember that's just the install tar, but if you are experienced in installing you'll know what to do with it ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] thebulletfromhell:
Thanks. I've been wondering where everybody is getting delta.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] obaz:
it can be used whith haret.exe ? thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
Yes, just remember you'll have to do a fresh install, including wiping data, simply copy the androidinstall.tgz file to the andboot folder of the SD card, and run haret.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Ensane:
The last week there seems to be a huge influx of quality games some made for android some ported from the Iphone... Wich is awesome but unfortunently not so much for the nexus one.. Why is that?

Primarily the ones from gameloft...

Some titles such as Gangstar: west coast hustle and modern combat: sandstorm will install but wont finnish downloading data to sd card... then the one game I would buy a I phone to play Dungeon Hunter finally ported over and it force closes after install..

Im not even going into asphault 5 on the nexus..

Anyone have better luck then me? Do they work fine on the droid? If so Why does nexus get the crap end?

New Titles that work great for me:

Backbreaker and hockey nations

Im using apps2sd and jit could this be effecting dungeon hunter? I just want to know if anyone else is having this experience? Sorry for typos I typed this up with swype
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dictionary:
JIT has always had a negative impact for my gaming, due to it's instability. I'm sure some of your problems are based on the combination of apps2sd and JIT.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pikasso1:
I'm running stock 2.1 and the only gameloft 3d game that works for me is Let's Golf. I'm hoping things get straightened out soon because I really want dungeon hunter. There isn't a direct link to their android site from the main page though so maybe things just aren't ready for primetime yet.

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[Nexus One Themes and Apps] 3Shirts:
I have a few 3D games like Raging Thunder on my SD card through apps2sd on cyan 5.0.6 and it's perfect. I previously had it internal (before deploying apps2sd) and there is no difference in performance that I've noticed. It may be down to poor optimisation of the game (common with iPhone ports) or the instability of JIT
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Ensane:
I read the reason why gameloft games don't work well is because there direct ports from iphone using powerVR optimization making the droid a better option... Altho gameloft customer service I hear is also piss poor and it took some people awhile to get a working copy of asphault 5 when it was released...

So far the same situation has occured u can buy these games only off there site for android but they dont seem to be working fort anyone
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] arinpsycho:
Thats weird. I've been playing all the time without any issues. Im using cyan 506 and app2sd. Never encountered fc or whatsoever.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] illithid:
With all of these influx, what's left is to let Android officialy install apps on sdcard. Hope that Froyo will definitely bring this to the surface.

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[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Ensane:
yea I have high hopes for froyo hopefully its released tomorrow.. So is anyone playing dungeon hunter on there nexus?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdmba:
I have had my incredible since release and a few items are still baffling me ... any answers to any of the below are greatly appreciated:

1) I noticed that for contacts which are also linked to Facebook, a LOT more information shows up on my Incredible under the people page; but that this additional information does not sync back to my Outlook. Is there a setting to "capture" this additional information as part of a sync?

2) Is there a way to update the bookmarks on the Incredible from a PC? I do NOT store bookmarks in any given browser (although I use Firefox), preferring to use Roboform (which attaches to ALL browsers). With this, I am not looking for a sync; but would love to NOT try to retype tons of addresses on that on-screen keyboard.

Thanks!!
[XPERIA X2 General] rsx19:
i want to do a clean install with none of that bloated junk, which cabs are ESSENTIAL.

i dont want themes/panels/youtube/google maps/etc..

would i just need to install everything else? or what else can i exclude from the install
[XPERIA X2 General] laurence0609:
If you have already installed MR2 then I guess you just have to remove the programs that you do not want and maybe this thread can be able to guide you http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=680194 (although this one is for MR1 but I think the idea is the same). But if you mean you would want to do a clean install of MR2 through SEUS, then i doubt if that is possible at the moment.
[XPERIA X2 General] rsx19:
that thread only installs the BARE minimum, i just dont want panels etc. posted above.

i mean like, not let the customization take place at the first start up so it doesnt install panels etc. im trying to install the necessary cabs
[XPERIA X2 General] laurence0609:
Am not so sure if that is possible unless we have Hardspl. Why not just uninstall or delete the programs that you do not want?
[XPERIA X2 General] rsx19:
folders are still left and i delete it, registry files, it doesnt fully uninstall, and if you press reset before it starts to do the customization then it wont install anything so you will have a clean 6.5.3 install. now im just trying to figure out which cabs i DONT need
[XPERIA X2 General] gbajzelj:
i installed all the cabs exept slidewiew, panel manager, panels, themes, tghe phone has around 170 MB of free space nad it runs fine, even the video recording is better (my opinion). but it still habgs sometime. when using camera or taskmanager. I think it also hanged once while a vas looking at the photos taken with the phone at full zoom in default windows mobile picture gallery.
[XPERIA X2 General] Draken Korin:
Mod. edit: not dev related, moved to general
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
hey guys,

i just saw this tutorial: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=551711

and i'm going to try to port a X10 standard rom to my HTC Hero.

does anyone know, if i could brick my device? or fk it up so badly i'm stuck at a X10 rom without root anymore??

someone please tell me..
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] henky92:
I doubt if you follow this tutorial you'll brick yur phone wouldn't recommend though
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
oh... okay then i'll won't do it..

anyone else got suggestions/tips?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avindal:
since the X10 has quite different hardware from the Hero, it will undoubtedly be a *lot* of work, hardly worth it..
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mojtaba.alhoseine:
pleeeaseee do it, ive been waiting for someone to tryy...

it wont hurt, as he said, it shouldnt brick it.

(:
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
of course i want todo it, but i don't want to brick my device ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricostuart:
it wont brick the device as its only firmware not bootloader that gets affected. It most likely will hang and not boot and will requrie a wipe/install afterwards tho. Would love to try the x10 firmware! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
ok, well i'll make a port, just simple as explained in the tutorial, and then i ask a romcooker to look at if it's safe, ok?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
rightnow i'm dlling the decrypted version of the rom, and i will try to edit it, with some hero stuff, and send it to a romcooker before i will flash it..

first i downloaded the decrypted rom :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kendong2:
not trying to be rude here, but if you need to ask these questions you'll probably fail at porting the rom... no offense intended. you cannot brick your device by just flashing the rom, for bricking you need to f* up the radio or the spl.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
Sorry but im just a beginner and i wanted to try something, and i wanted to be sure i wouldn't brick my phone or unroot it..

When im home ill try to port it.

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[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kendong2:
no need to apologize...

good luck with that, just be warned that the guide you linked is in now way a guide for porting. what it says about porting is the part everyone could have come up with. it totally skips modules, drivers and libraries. i wouldn't really know where to start either, and i have quite some knowledge about android by now.

don't let this stop you from experimenting! just be prepared to fail a few (or a lot of) times before you succeed.

btw, i'd love to see the x10 rom on the hero :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benlc:
Hello.

Even if you can port it, I doubt it'll run smooth on Hero, the hardware must be pretty gay for that rom.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oc2:
Why u try to flash a complete ROM?

Only Mediascape and Timescape App is needed !

hf
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
because the whole rom of the X10 is just great!

when i'm home im starting the port, and i will upload the rom, when it's just booting on my hero..

and ye, i'm not really good at driver-coding and stuff.. so i think i need some pretty damn much good help from some proandroid-developers :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
we already can overclock the hero to 710 MHz. ;)

I think that will make a pretty performance improvement :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
well thx :D

i'm going to do my best :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benlc:
It's depending on your CPU, for exemple on mine I have to set it to 650Mhz for it to be stable, and over 670 it's crashing :(

And I guess overclock + X10 rom would mean a HUGE battery drain.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
hmm.... yea you got a point..

well if i succeed we will see ;D
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
hmm i unpacked everything, but i can't seem to unpack the .sin files :S

i already tryed to change the extension to .zip/.rar and tryed to open it with notepad, but it doesn't seem to work :S

and i need to get in these files, to make it so i can try to flash it to my hero..
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kendong2:
care to share the link you used? ubuntu is somewhat better at identifying files than windows, it looks at the actual file, not the (interchangeable) extension...

edit: found the on in the x10 threads on this board, downloading now. boy, hotfile sucks ass...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
i know it does :S

you got the decrypted version right?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kendong2:
hm not sure. it contains these strange .sin files...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ddotpatel:
Guys, does this help at all?

Sony Ericsson X10 system files
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robocik:
here is how you extract system.img and ramdisk from .sin files ;)

EDIT: links are changed now :( gonna find new links and post them again.

EDIT2:

this is copied from jerpeleas post, cant find it now :/ anyway

you can try this:

to make system.img of system.sin

dd if=system.sin bs=1 skip=45937>system.img

and this to extract ramdisk of boot.sin

dd if=boot.sin bs=1 skip=4916769>ramdisk.gz

mkdir boot.sin-ramdisk

cd boot.sin-ramdisk/

gzip -d -c ../ramdisk.gz | cpio -i

I use ubuntu and this works...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
When im home im going to try it!

When we have acces to the system.img we can copy our hero kernel, rebuild and make a try to flash..

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[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kendong2:
found this as well, but was too lazy to download every single file ;)

gonna try what robocik said, maybe...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ddotpatel:
Yeah, how bloody long would that take.

But good luck guys.

I'm keeping an eye on this, i want that Mediascape!!! ... and its not as simple as just installing the apk is it?! ... deodexing the apks with scripts using ubuntu and adding relevent libraries?.... Woah, my head hurts just thinking about it, I don't know squat about ubuntu.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
hmm i tryed this methode, but i just got a .img file of 28 MB while the .sin file is over 200 :S
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robocik:
you got to wait for a couple minutes... :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
hmm ok..

well then i make a new virtual machine with 15 GB of harddisk and then do it again ^^
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robocik:
i am gonna upload the system.img and the ramdisk then you can test...

EDIT:

Here it is...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
thx man!

my ubuntu virtual machine wouldn't use my keyboard :S

gotta fix that... lol
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
you can extract the system.img with unyaffs

unyaffs is attached.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1nny:
im uploading "system.img" and "boot.img" rightnow..

it's still uploading, when it's done it will appear here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=8652c0b083e3fb23ab1eab3e9fa335ca5b7160d3207c4e8d
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jusumgeezer:
The base rom is 1.6, I presume as mentioned above mediascape/timescape is just a UI over the top, like HTC sense. Otherwise it would be a step backwards if we are all aiming for 2.x roms?

BTW the x10 I've seen hands on, run like a bag of ****e, really slow, I presume the X10 has better hardware so maybe it would be terrible on the Hero?

either that or sony really ballsed up on this one?
[HD2 General] UberScooter:
I have an HD2 from Vodafone running os 5.2.2...

And ROM 1.66.405.2

I'm sure there is a later version of Windows Mobile, not 7, that will run on my HD2 - has any one heard if HTC will be releasing a later ROM with the later version of 6.5?

Just curious as to what might be coming.

Thanks

Scott
[HD2 General] tobiascrystal:
What is the newest OS Version?

What I have is...

Stock TMOUS (updated)

OS Version: 5.2.21892 (21892.5.0.89)

Manila Version: 2.5.20121412.2

ROM Version: 2.13.531.1 (90963)

Radio Version: 2.1050.26

Protocol Version: 15.39.50.07U
[HD2 General] lquigley:
Not sure!

That 5.2 is actually 6.5,,, thats just what I was told?
[HD2 General] paty:
How to check the version of 6.5.3 or 6.5.5 or 6.5.x?
[General Questions and Answers] cukkoo:
I am in trouble with my Xperia X1. I need ur help regarding installation of TouchFlo 2 3D panel on my Xperia X1.

I downloaded the TouchFlo panel on my laptop. It was a 'cab' file. Then I unzipped the package with winRAR, and put the files in a new folder. Now this folder does not contain an executable file or application file, named 'setup'. I cannot understand how can I transfer all these unzipped files, residing in my laptop, to my XPERIA X1 and get it running there. I have attached the phone with the laptop thru a data cable. But the trouble is that I cannot find any 'setup' file.

I hope u peole will guide me step by step, as I am a 'brand new NEWBIE' to these matters.

Thanks.

Faisal.
[General Questions and Answers] Rudegar:
cab files are not ment to be unpacked it's the wm native install packet format

copy the cab file to the device and run it from there
[General Questions and Answers] htc fan89:
did you try dragging the ziped folder directly to the sd card
[General Questions and Answers] topgunn:
As Rudegar stated you don't extract anything from a .cab file as that is a compressed installation archive. Just copy the .cab file to your device and execute the file on the device
[Android] .mak:
<set name="plenty">
[B] [U]<!--4b7f5274-5658-4f5a-bcba-10167ab5d89f-->[/U][/B]
<item name="package">com.htc.calendar</item>
<item name="class">com.htc.calendar.LaunchActivity</item>
<item name="screen">2</item>
<item name="x">3</item>
<item name="y">2</item>
<item name="itemtype">0</item>
</set>

At the risk of sounding like a complete noob, what is that bolded/underlined part in the snippet above?

I'm editing the default widgets/shortcuts for my latest release of ZenEXP - something I haven't done previously - and the ones I add do not work, probably because they don't include that snippet above.. so, on top of needing to know what that is, how do I find it or create it for widgets/shortcuts I want to add to the default.xml?

TIA! :D
[Android] zach.xtr:
Also looking to understand default "config" settings

I echo the same questions posted by .mak and have been trying to find wich of the default.xml files are used in the defaul screen layouts...

Basically I am looking to understand the file tree structure and WHERE each of the important "config" files are located, WHAT they control, and WHEN they are read by the applications... Dr. Google has not been able to provide me with much (e.g. I am searching on things like: "android /system/customize/default.xml file use"); so I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

I have found that the /system/customize/CID/default.xml has the settings for the setup wizard...

Thanks!
[Android] .mak:
I've, since posting this, found that default settings for homescreen layout, browser, mms and a few other things is in /system/customize/MNS/default.xml