You have to "application unlock" your old device otherwise it will not allow you to copy from the windows folder. You must also take care that the Album program is not active when you copy (best is to reboot before copy).
Start the album.exe directly from filemanager - it should work. You may have created the .lnk file incorrectly.

For those interested: I have downloaded the Album from an SDA2 which works better on QVGA for some items that the original (qqvga) Album does not handle well: File selection lists are chopped at the end and replace the homescreen background puts a tiny qqvga picture there.
I will attach it here - remove it again if not allowed.
Mind that the package contains only the bare essential files - some dependent dlls have to be there as well. This one works for me on WM5.

Hi all,

...by chance I came across this one - and I think it deserves an own thread here (despite already mentioned in another for Samsung): http://w5.nuinternet.com/s660100031/SirfTech.htm

With this program you can adjust nearly all parameters of the Sirf III chipset residing in many Bluetooth GPS devices - including the often asked-for "Static Navigation" feature. Additionally you can play with: setting rates for various message types, the power control or the filtering for data that is considered valid for navigation.

To undertand the meaning of what you do, you should download and read the available documentation from Sirf directly - don't bother the author of the program with that.

It was around for touchscreen devices a little longer - but there the choice was bigger anyway.

Have fun - and don't forget to donate.

bye
tobbbie
:-)

There are a few options for you:
1.) Try to remove the "Read only" attribute of the file(s). If these are files in RAM - you may succees deleting them afterwards.
2.) If the files are in ROM you will never be able to delete them - but you could "overwrite" them with copy of any other file you like (located in RAM then). In your case just copy a file of the same name (but with your content) there - and it will be used.

good luck,

tobbbie
:-)

Hi folks,

...finally solved - and it was not so hard to get it after all. Nobody having the same problem - was it just me?

The PIMAddIn.dll file is normally not registered for TomTom Mobile, especially if the distribution is done via the SD Card. There the 2577 (autoexec) directory only executes the Autorun.exe file which will copy a few links to the startmenu and possibly cares about other items - not however to register the PIMAddIn.dll file.
So you are stuck with the application PIMAddInApp.exe - which is not very convenient to use, especially if you have many contacts in your database.

So what does PIMAddIn.dll do for you?
It does what I had expected right from the start when using TTMobile:
Adding two Context-Menu items from the main list of your normal contacts list ("Navigate to" and "Show on map").

To get the menuitems you have to
- Unzip the content to the folder where your PIMAddIn.dll resides
- run the pimaddin-register.lnk file
-> you get a "Warning": DLLregister... succeeded
- check in your contacts if you see the new menuitems at the bottom
To remove them, just run the pimaddin-unregister.lnk

You have to close the contacts application completely before changes apply - restart may be necessary.

Result of the register action are the entries below:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{3DBF43DF-A3B4-4418-ACEE-9558745FA2DE}
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Extensions\ContextMenus\AppView\MSContacts\{3DBF43DF-A3B4-4418-ACEE-9558745FA2DE}

If you like to have the contextmenu also in the menu for the Card itself, just copy the key content of {3DBF43DF-A3B4-4418-ACEE-9558745FA2DE} also below HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Extensions\ContextMenus\Contacts\Card_Menu

enjoy
tobbbie
:-)


P.S.: Who installed TTMobile via .cab may have these menus already.
P.P.S.: Users of the PPC version should have it already.
P.P.P.S.: Ref. XDA Developers you can use these TT 5.x PMADDINxx.dlls (if they are registered) also to steer TT6. Look for pmaddin.cab at xda-developers.

For a scheduler with many options, just try "Autoflight" from http://inputshow.googlepages.com/index.htm
Its not free (has free trial period though), but very powerfull - can switch on/off the radio-part including SIM-PIN entry, reset, start apps etc.pp - you could use it as a wake-up call as well, even time-scheduled change of profiles is possible.

bye
tobbbie
:-)

Possibly try to check out a player that creates (and updates) a library of the tracks. You can then use the library to access your music or you may create your own playlists from the different library filters. I know the Coreplayer in recent releases has started with a library option, another candidate is Pocket Player form conduits (which I use).
http://www.coreplayer.com/
http://www.conduits.com/products/player/

bye
tobbbie
:-)

Hi Menneisyys,

...thought to keep this a little more off the big wall for a start :-)
Anyway - the bluetooth support is achieved by some additional dlls and what the rest is concerned, I really have no clue how powerfull this VM may be. It has sound as well for the vocal announcments (despite in low quality compared to TomTom), but I have no idea about midi - which the gamers may need. I thought that you with your expertise and reputation could contact nav4all for some more info - I tried but without success. Maybe its better to be polite in the first place before ripping apart their bundle.
Also notice that the midlet manager is NOT terminated when the application quits. You have to remove it (AIMSmidp.exe) manually with a suitable taskmanager (e.g. CeleTask).

bye
tobbbie
:-)

Well , what mysterious signal might that be? I know that USB only requires 4 pins (2xsignal, ground and +5V), but the plug offers 5 of them. As I do not believe that real USB logic will be implemented in the CarKits, it most probably is something simple, e.g. connect the extra pin to ground or +5V or any of the two USB signals. I have found someting for Motorola USB here: http://pinouts.ru/CellularPhones-A-N/razrv...er_pinout.shtml but for HTC I could not find anything similar.
An additional Problem seems to be finding a plug or cable that will offer you all the 5 Pins at your disposal.

bye
tobbbie
:-)

Hi,

...I am searching for clues how I can get my O2 XDA phone into the "Car" profile. Just using the headphone connector (with a 3pin headphone or a 4pin headset doesn't matter) will put the device in the headset mode. This is due to a dedicated switch inside the device. I suppose that as well a connected Carkit has to make use of this connector, but there must be some additional trigger to put in to "car" mode.

I have searched several forums and MSDN but I have not found a clue how this is achieved.

As well the obvious combination of headset connection and charging the device (via USB or AC Adapter) did not bring up the "car" profile. So somewhere there must be an additional trigger that puts the device in "car" mode.

Anyone to help me with a hint?

thanks + bye
tobbbie
:-)

I am not sure about this, since the device enters some sleep mode when the CPU has nothing to do. I did some measurements on my O2 XDA phone and the main power drains are (as expected), Lights on and CPU usage. Since accuracy of this measurement is not high and this especially in the range of low current drain I can't tell about the differences in idle mode, here my examples, using "Tornado Power Control":

MHz, idle(no light, no homescreen), low-light, high-light
116 2,5 41 56
180 2,5 51 68
228 2,5 68 80

I am not sure how much of the "lights-on" drain is due to the LED and how much due to the homescreen active (forcing CPU active). I measured on my device as well the drain in the status lights off + screen on which needs some specials trick to reach it (maniac autokeylock). This gave surprisingly 44mA. I did not track it further as my concern was to find if the OS reported values for power drain are real or not (-> they are NOT).

Playing Music, no lights (no matter what player, Pocketplayer, TCPMP, Coreplayer): ~60mA (CPU about 40%)

bye
tobbbie
:-)

Try out acbtaskman from http://www.acbpocketsoft.com
- It gives you the options to track CPU hogs individually
- and track the power drain the the OS reports
Mind that the latter is not the real power drain, at least for my O2 XDA phone (old ROM) which is comparable to the QTEK 8300. The charts were giving alarming reports of power drain, but the real device behaves as expected. After some experimentation I could get an amp-meter in the battery loop. What I noticed is that each (even very small) use of CPU immediatly drains the battery. So assuming that all other power drains are out of question (Bluetooth, WIFI), the CPU drain is what you can detect in detail.
Another draining issue could be the memory card. So for a try, you could see how long you survive if you have no memory card in your device. I remember reading something about this (not sure which device) somewhere.

good luck in testing,

bye
tobbbie
:-)

P.S.: Tools that switch off your blinking LED drain more power by their CPU use than saved by not blinking the LED!

I finally found a program that tracks the thing right (and a lot more) acbtaskman.
You find it at: http://www.acbpocketsoft.com/
bye
tobbbie
:-)

Be careful with 2.5 mm adapters, it seems there are 3 versions out there:
- (most) HTC: straight connected 2,5 <-> 3,5 each ring is connected to the same on the other end
- Motorola: shifted connected 2,5 first ring (tip of the male 2,5 connector) is microphone, L,R,G follow up
- Nokia Mono: cannot be used in any useful way
Not sure about the 3.rd, but Motorola is popular and will not work with most HTC devices.
If you have an OHM-Meter, plug in your headphones put them on your head (check the noise volume off-head before), connect the adaptor and measure the connection (Range 0-200 ohm) between the rings on the 2.5 jack. You should hear:
- Upper-Ring <-> Tip: left channel noise
- Upper-Ring <-> one-after-Tip: right channel noise

bye
tobbbie
:-)

try gcalc, this works fine: http://www.airfagev.com/downloads.asp?sfor...tions&NAV=2
bye
tobbbie

OK, so finally I dropped the plugin due to missing information on how the logic is working; however I derived the following:

1.) There is only one (1) value per hour calculated and stored
2.) The values from previous days are averaged with the current day, so the graph shows the average day consumption and NOT the last 24 hours

Its a pity, but well there is room for improvement...
bye
tobbbie
:-)

I wonder if the calulation is usefull if you derive it as well from the time that the device is connect AND charging.

As you account only the dis-charge rate for estimations, but the device is not loosing battery-power while beeing charged, the data may not be reflecting the truth, especially if you have the device connected to the PC via USB during the day.

This leads to two effects:

- the discharge is high as constant sync is happening. This alone will decrease the remaining time of availabilty dramatically
- the charge via USB is not accounted for in the graph

Consequently the graph is not giving a represenation what is going on with the battery in reality.
As well is the estimated time until battery-empty too short, as it is based on the current draw while connected.
So both "pages" of information deliver data of limited quality in my case.

Hm... I think I will observe a little more and then remove the plugin again as it does not cover my use-habits.

bye
tobbbie
:-)

I have deleted the history file and now I see that the graph is drawn left to right and the moving marker seems to indicate the current time on the 24h scale. Looking at the values drawn however, I cannot detect a correlation to the device activities, ecpecially not for interactive use of the device.

Can you tell please how you derive the average current draw from the battery?
- Is it an average (from how many samples?) of the "BatteryAverageCurrent" value?
- how many samples are you keeping where (in memory?) for the graph?
- can you detect values when the homescreen is not in foreground, i.e. other applications are?
- how long does it take until I can see a current draw from the battery on the graph (e.g. I start listening to music)?

bye
tobbbie
:-)

Just made 4 screenshots that show that the graph data are simply unchanged and the 0:00 marker moves right.



I noticed a slight change in the graph for the last picture, but there is no moving graph as I would expect.

My XML in the homescreen is:

<!-- Here is the BatteryLife plugin -->
StatFilename="\My Documents\BLifeHistory.dat"
HighCPULoadPercent="70"
RefreshTimeout="120000"
MaxHistoryDays="30"
FlushTimeoutHours="1000" >


I checked the datafolder which I have set to "My Documents" and it contains the file BLifeHistory.dat looking like:

[version 1]
2007.6.25.13:0
2007.6.25.23:3,1,1,0,1,2,0,3,1
2007.6.26.11:0,0
2007.6.26.20:2,2,0,1,0,1,2,0,1,1,2,0,1,1,1,0,1
2007.6.27.20:1,1,1,0
2007.6.28.2:3,1,1,0,3,0,2,1
2007.6.28.15:6,0
2007.6.28.22:4,1,2
2007.6.29.2:3,1,1,2,5
2007.6.29.9:5,3,4,4,4,4,3,1,3,1,1
2007.6.30.10:2,1,4,3,1,1,2,0,2
2007.6.30.20:2,5,5
2007.7.1.12:3,1,2,1,1,2,0,1,1
2007.7.2.0:4,0,1,1,1,2,1
2007.7.2.12:1
2007.7.2.15:5,1
2007.7.3.0:2,2,1,0,2,1
2007.7.3.7:3,4
2007.7.3.22:2,1,1,1,3,0,1,2,5,2,1
2007.7.4.14:4,0

Initially there was a huge block intermitted (between 2007.6.27 and 28) from the date 2005.10.4.... with a lot of 0 behind it. This was due to a battery-removal when I lost the current time/date. I have deleted these lines from the file, did a reboot, but nothing has changed since then.

Any hint what I can do?

bye
tobbbie
:-)

Hi Vitaly,

... I have the plugin running since a few days now and I just cant't figure out the logic for the graph shown.

You mention it is the average power consumption that is drawn. I wonder about several things:

1.) where are new data added?
- left side of the graph (shifting the old graph to the right)
- right side of the graph (shifting old graph to the left)
The CPU monitors that I know from the PC are adding data at the right end and are shifting old data left.

2.) what is the scale of the x-axis? It seems like 24h with 1h ticks, 6h main + moving 0:00 marker.
- How does this scale shift (right or not at all?)
- does it shift synchronous with the data drawn (from my casual observation it does not)?
- why does the 0:00 marker not shift along with the other scale (the intersection shows the current time?)

3.) what is the scale of the y-axis (mA)?
- Is it depending on the maximum ever reached?
- can you indicate the absolute value (in mA)?
- I suppose high value means high discharge?
- what happens if charging is done in parallel, can I see this from the graph?

4.) Are you planning to add other graphs using the same timescale so you could browse through the graphs?
I could imagine the following:
- Battery % (weighted derived from Voltage I think?)
- Battery voltage (would reflect charge + discharge, bottom value should not be 0 but correlate to 0% capacity)
- Battery charge current draw (in the same graph as discharge but different scale?)
- CPU usage
-

thanks for the tool anyway :-)

bye
tobbbie
:-)

I had this already with my SDA-Music (QTEK8100) and now as well with my O2 XDA phone (QTEK8300 in the QTEK8200 housing). I think that the SDA-Music did a save/restore of the time when switched off properly, but lost time when locked up and I had to remove the battery for reset.
Are there no hooks in the shutdown-process that would allow to save the time and retrieve it from there upon startup? This would at least only loose a few seconds/minutes and not reset the time to the ROM-Date. This is especially annoying since several tools are flushing their data in such case (GPRS Monitor, Battery Plugin).

bye
tobbbie
:-)

Hi Paul + Co.,

...I am occasionally sneeking in and want to check what was up since my last logon. This has always worked when selecting a forum group (like Smartphone, which is my interest). Since a few weeks this does no more work for me. I had to select the overall group, but also this is no more working now. Is this done on purpose or is something gone weird with my account?


The error returned was:

You did not choose any forums to search in, or the forums you chose to search in are password protected. If this is the case, please make sure you are logged into the password protected forums before searching.

I just checked again and it worked for "all Forums" but obviously delivered a result from a timestamp just an hour ago.
Do you have a limit of how many days back the "View new Posts" will actually work?

bye
tobbbie
:-)

A reboot is not necessary, you can do that on the fly. I did the same and moved all apps-uninstall-info to the SD card.
If you are capable of reading some German, have a look at my post in this post:
http://www.mobilejoe.de/joeforums/showthread.php?t=16746
dealing with memory on a WM5 device.

bye
tobbbie

I use an extreMEmory 2 GB 133x mini SD in my SDA music (T-Mobile Germany) without any problems. The full capacity is available.
bye
tobbbie
:-)

Try to reset your profiles. You have to:
- get into the profile menu,
- select a profile
- choose menu and then
- "reset to standard" (or alike, I use the German Version).

This will reset the profiles behavior (sounds, volume, etc..)

If any other profile is not acting as expected (e.g. it does not switch to or from headphone)
just do the same. To be on the safe side, I have reset all profiles when I had this
headphone problem recently.

Good luck,

bye
tobbbie
:-)

Hi,

...I also have the SD card problem when wallpaper files are located on the SD card.
Then at startup the SD seems not accessible and the homescreen is not useable.

I checked the option "SD card fix", but when repeating the dialogue it seems not stored
(unchecked again). I noticed however that the registry key is set and that TC starts up
a dialogue after the machine reboots.

Unfortunately you have to
1.) change something (if you don't, it will not update the homescreen)
2.) manually confirm
before the homescreen is updated.

Why don't you do the same as if you were changing a wallpaper and send the trigger
to reload the homescreen after a configurable time interval?

Another idea:
While this is a valid approach to tackle the delayed availability of the SD card, I would suggest
an alternate solution that should work for sure. Instead of linking to the backgrounds on the SD Card,
you could copy the active background to the normal storage (also with a special name if you fear
to overwrite stuff there, e.g. name_tc.*) and create the home*.hif file then after.
This might get more complex when dealing with complete themes, but it should work for the
background image. I have to state however that the problem should be for the background image
only, since it is the only theme-item that is required so early (homescreen loads) and never refreshed
again later.

What do you think?

bye
tobbbie



P.S.: I don't deal much with changing themes or sounds, but I noticed that mp3 files cannot be selected
from your sound selections. They can be used (at least for ringtones) on the T-Mobile SDA music (Germany) aka QTEK 8100.