Guest xnathanx Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Just wondering if anybody has tried to work around TomTom compaitibility issues with C550 by altering screen res settings in registry. Obviously you need to unlock the phone first and get a registry editor. The Reg keys are: HKLM\Drivers\Display\GPE\LogicalPixelsX and HKLM\Drivers\Display\GPE\LogicalPixelsY I was wondering whether setting the pixels X to 176, and pixels Y to 220 would make the screen work (in a small part of the screen :-) like a C500, and let TomTom mobile run?? Any Guinea Pigs willing to give it a first try?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Confucious Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Why don't you try xnathanx? Personally I use CoPilot so don't have a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xnathanx Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Why don't you try xnathanx? Personally I use CoPilot so don't have a problem. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Is copilot working with the C550?? I might try that then. The only issue with trying it myself first is that my handset is owned by my employer and they take a dim view of me destroying handsets... got through quite a few in the last year! Doh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hotphil Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 If you "destroy" it you can always just hard reset it and your boss need never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xnathanx Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 If you "destroy" it you can always just hard reset it and your boss need never know. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How would you hard reset it?? Sorry, a bit new to the Windows Mobile smartphone stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hotphil Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Ah, you've caught me there, I'm not sure on the C550 yet - I've had no need to read up/investigate how to hard reset it. On previous Smartphones I've had it's been a combination of powering it up whilst holding the Action or another button down. I do notice in the C550 there's a Clear Storage app in the Accessories folder that I've not had on previous phones. By the look of it, this does the same thing - sets the phone back to out-of-the-box settings. Quite useful if you arse up the phone I guess. Note that all settings are reverted to blank though, so if your company has set up any funky data connections, Exchange passwords etc then you'll need to know these/get friendly with your sys admin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest A.Hughes Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 you can reset the phone from the accessories menu using an option called clear storage, it resets the phone to factory default, in other words a hard reset, have tried it myself, it works!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest removed-2 Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 has anyone tried this yet? did it fix the problem with tomtom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 you can reset the phone from the accessories menu using an option called clear storage, it resets the phone to factory default, in other words a hard reset, have tried it myself, it works!!! This is one form os resetting but the hardware version power off, power on pressing buttons etc will do a slightly different form of reset so it's best to use both methods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ElGato65 Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 has anyone tried this yet? did it fix the problem with tomtom? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I tried, it wont let me change the values. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ElGato65 Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 has anyone tried this yet? did it fix the problem with tomtom? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I tried HKLM\Drivers\Display; CxScreen and CyScreen, as the ones you mentioned are both set to 131 on mine, and it wouldn;t let me change either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest removed-2 Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 I too cannot change these values. MY phone is app unlock but I get the message "Unable to perform this operation" Any ideas anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ElGato65 Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 FYI, mine is app + sim unlocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest removed-2 Posted August 2, 2005 Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 Can anyone offer any assistance on how to change these registry keys. It would be well worth the time if it fixes TomTom until an official patch has been released!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shakface Posted August 2, 2005 Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 (edited) I have tryed this on a friends phone and i can confirm that Tomtom 5 does work if you change the X and Y screen size. Well dont XnathanX Edited August 2, 2005 by Shakface Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest removed-2 Posted August 2, 2005 Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 I have tryed this on a friends phone and i can confirm that Tomtom 5 does work if you change the X and Y screen size. Well dont XnathanX <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yipee, that is very good news. Was it on a C550 you tried it? and how did you manage to change the registry settings, which regiistry editor did you use, Was the phone unlocked etc...? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest removed-2 Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 Has anyone else managed to change these registry keys and did it fix the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boden01 Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 Fantastic, works like a charm :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shakface Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 Yipee, that is very good news. Was it on a C550 you tried it? and how did you manage to change the registry settings, which regiistry editor did you use, Was the phone unlocked etc...? Thanks <{POST_SNAPBACK}> yes we tried it on a C550 and it works. We used MobileRegistryEditor if thats any good to anyone. But it does mess round with your other screen settings . I used Resco explorer to extract a .reg file and import/reboot when i do not want to use TT5 HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vimafeje Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 i had try it to and it's work fine for me!!!!! i chage the default values (184) for X and Y to 181!!!!! whith PHM registry! and tomtom 5 just work 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mooman Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 A free tool called TTqvga is now available that allows you to run TomTom Mobile 5 on a SP5, C550 and other QVGA smartphones. See => http://www.MobileNetSwitch.com/TTqvga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest removed-2 Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 A free tool called TTqvga is now available that allows you to run TomTom Mobile 5 on a SP5, C550 and other QVGA smartphones. See => http://www.MobileNetSwitch.com/TTqvga <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Does anyone know what exactly this changes and is it a better work around than the one already mentioned in this thread. I do like the idea that it puts your settings back when you exit tomtom, however the constant restarting of the phone is quite frustrating. Thanks Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mooman Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 (edited) Does anyone know what exactly this changes and is it a better work around than the one already mentioned in this thread. I do like the idea that it puts your settings back when you exit tomtom, however the constant restarting of the phone is quite frustrating. Thanks Mark <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I believe it's much better then using the phone on the modified and very ugly resolution all the time. Until TomTom comes out with a decent patch, this free tool is working excellent. The tool modifies the display registry settings to be compatible with TomTom (LogicalPixelsx and LogicalPixelsy keys). As the settings are only effective after a restart of the OS, the phone is restarted. Now TomTom works, but outside TomTom, the display is ugly. Therefore the tool detects when you quit TomTom and asks to restore the display settings. This works just fine for me, when I walk to my car, I start it up, when I exit my car, I exit TomTom. In both situations, the display is at it's best. Edited October 27, 2005 by mooman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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