This bug has been reported on the Treo 500v (identified by the OEM string Treo 500v-1.02).

The spurious message received is msg 0x00008017, wParam 0 (0x00000000), IParam 0 (0x00000000)

This spurious message is received by applications after a phonecall is performed on this mobile.

You cannot fix it.

Each application or game that uses the GETRAWFRAMEBUFFER API must be modified by their developers to take this bug into account and work around it. The problems that you observe are probably with applications or games that have not been addapted to work with the i760, or with older versions of those applications or games.

Apparently there is a display driver bug on the Verizon Samsung i760 that causes some games and video applications to misbehave or display video incorrectly.

We traced the issue to GETRAWFRAMEBUFFER: On the Samsung i760, rfbi.cxPixels and rfbi.cyPixels are permuted when GETRAWFRAMEBUFFER is called while the display is in Landscape orientation.

what is the error code?

it could be a permission / privilege issue.

this is unrelated. Cingular changed its name to AT&T, and now all the phones on the Cingular network now display AT&T.

apparently some Motorola Q devices with WM5 broadcast also the following spurious message to applications:

msg = 0x00008064, wParam = 48 (0x00000030) , lParam = 0 (0x0000000)

this information is based on an un-confirmed user report.

you might have a bug on your side concerning colors. we never had any color-related problem with the Q.

yep. it's supposed to be different for every model. althought not always the case, but for the Q it works.

SPI_GETOEMINFO

you have to detect the Q and handle it with a special case, i'm affraid.

it is possible, but it could be also a completely un-related reason that causes your problem.

We have just been notified that the HTC Hermes Pocket PC (Windows Mobile 5) has this bug, too.

On the HTC Hermes , applications receive the spurious message 0x00008101.

We have just been notified that the Asus P535 (Windows Mobile 5) has this bug, too.

On the Asus P535, applications receive the spurious messages 0x00008015 and 0x00008017.

see here:

http://www.pocketmatrix.com/forums/viewtop...p=280442#280442

thanks.

i didn't know about EnumDisplaySettings(NULL, ENUM_CURRENT_SETTINGS, &devMode);

we just received information that the O2 Xda Zinc (designed by Asus) has a "spurious private messages" firmware bug similar to the one affecting the Motorola Q:

http://www.modaco.com/Motorola-Q-Spurious-...la-t242539.html

once again it shows that MSFT does not have anything to test this issue in their platform test suite, and that major Windows Mobile device manufacturers are still un-aware of this issue.

this firmware bug may affect applications that use private messages (in the range [0x8000 to 0xBFFF]) for inter-thread communications.

other Windows Mobile devices that are known to have this firmware bug include:

- Motorola Q
- Samsung i-600
- Asus P525
- E-Ten M500
- E-Ten E700

We have been notified that the O2 Xda Zinc (designed by Asus) has this bug, too.

On the O2 Xda Zinc , applications receive the spurious message 0x00008017.

this display issue can cause applications to simply not run, so it might be related.

We have been notified that the Eten M700 (Windows Mobile 5) has this bug, too.

we have released version 1.3.10 of PocketTV Classic (freeware) and PocketTV Enterprise Edition, and we think that it resolves the issues on the Rx5900 series.

you can download it from www.pockettv.com .

please let us know if you still have see problems.

double post, please disregard.

> I am experiencing similar problems on my HP rx5935 with other applications also (particularly games, for exemple the Nine Hole Golf provided for free on Microsoft WM website).

thanks for reporting this. i'm not really surprized to hear that, but it's funny that a Microsoft game is among the applications with problems on the HP rx5900 series.

> Do you think this is a firmware problem which can be corrected by HP in a next release ?

from our past experience with device manufacturers, it is VERY UNLIKELY that HP will do anything about the firmware issues, even in their next release (if there is one).

the best that can happen is that some software developers will adapt their applications to work around the firmware issues on this device. that's what we have done.

it would be nice if device manufacturers (and MSFT) would learn of their past mistakes, but they rarely do, as you can see here (similar issues have happened in the past, and if they had learned, this one would have been caught).

it would certainely be helpful if you could post here (in this thread) the name of all games and applications that have problems on the HP rx5900 series, and that you try to contact the developers of the software and point them to this thread.

no problem.

actually we found that the current CAB above will not work well when the display orientation is changed to other settings than the defaul landscape orientation. we are working on resolving those issues.

the CAB file above was only meant to be tested on the HP iPaq rx5900 series (a Pocket PC with GPS).

it was not meant for Smartphones like the Q.

PocketTV is looking for beta-testers to help ensure that PocketTV MPEG Movie Player will work well on the rx5900 series.

Because the rx5900 series is the first Pocket PC natively oriented in "Portrait" orientation, some video and games applications may have display problems on this device (technical details here).

We have adapted PocketTV to better support the rx5900 series, as previous version were reported to display the video with an incorrect orientation.

To help us, please install the latest version of PocketTV Classic using the CAB file located here:

http://www.pockettv.com/cab/PocketTV.POCKE..._COMPRESSED.CAB

- to install the CAB file, click on the link above to download it to your PC, then just copy it to your device and open it from the device.

- to copy the CAB file from the PC to the device, connect and sync your device to your PC, then click on the "Explore" tab in ActiveSync (on the PC) to open the window showing the content of your device. then drag the CAB file to this window (on your PC).

- to open the CAB file from your device, start the File Explorer and locate the CAB file in "My Document". tap on the CAB file to open it. it will automatically install PocketTV.

then start PocketTV and check the the video is now displayed correctly (i.e. that it is not rotated sideways). you can find some test MPEG files at http://pockettv.com/mpg/

please report your observation (positive or negative) in this thread. make sure to indicate the PocketTV version (from Menu > About) and the device screen orientation that is causing problems. thanks!