Managing file types in SmartPhone

[Guest attakorn]

Hi there,

Ok first of all, managing file types is simply telling windows which program to use to open this file type... for example in PC, you can tell windows, when a .mp3 file is opened, use Windows Media Player to play the file...

If any of you guys use BetaPlayer to play AVI files or any unsupported file by WMP, you might’ve found out that you can not actually open the file through your explorer. I’ve a simple trick to do this. Just follow the steps (Smart Explorer):

1. File --> Open > --> Manage file types..

2. Menu --> Add file type..

3. In the Extension field. Type “.avi”

4. Menu --> Change application…

5. Find ya player exe file. If you’re using BetaPlayer installed on ya storage card it will be in Storage CardProgram FilesBetaPlayerplayer.exe. If its installed on da phone, change “Storage Card” to “IPSM”. Press Done, not the action button.

6. A BetaPlayer icon with 110 underneath it should be displayed automatically as well.

7. Done.

That’s it! Now, if you do not have an explorer that can do that you can also add this in ya registry. Just follow the steps:

1. Create 2 new keys in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. Name one “avifile” and the other “.avi”.

2. For “.avi” key, create a string value named “(Default)” with value “avifile”.

3. Find “asffile” key. Copy the entire “Shell” and “DefaultIcon” key incl. sub keys for “Shell”.

4. Paste the keys INSIDE the “avifile” key.

5. Find “avifile” key. Create a string value named “(Default)” with value “AVI File”.

6. Explore the key.

7. For the “DefaultIcon” key, create a string value named “(Default)” with value of your BetaPlayer player.exe file then add a comma and “-110” to the end. So if you BetaPlayer is installed on da Storage Card, da string’s value would be:

Storage CardProgram FilesBetaPlayerplayer.exe,-110

If it’s installed on the phone, change “Storage Card” to “IPSM”.

8. Explore the “Shell” and then “Open” key.

9. For the “Command” key, create a string value named “Default” with the value of your BetaPlayer player.exe file with speech marks and at the end (after speech mark) add a space and “%1”. So if the BetaPlayer is installed on da Storage Card, da string’s value should be:

“Storage CardProgram FilesBetaPlayerplayer.exe” %1

That’s it! Then you should be able to open the file through ya explorer!

If you wanna manage other file types through registry, for example for “.zzz” extention (made up :-p), just change the name of the 2 keys to “.zzz” and “zzzfile”. In the “.zzz” key, the string value’s value would be “zzzfile”. The “zzzfile” key would have the same 2 keys but change the “DefaultIcon” string value’s value to the path to your icon. Most people don’t know this since they need to add a number where the icon is located in the file. If you don’t know this just leave it blank. It would still work but the file wouldn’t have an icon that’s all :-p. Maybe someone who knows how to find this number out can tell us ;-). Then the command key inside open and shell, would have the string value’s value as your path to the exe file with speech marks then after the speech marks a space and “%1”.

Hope this is useful for someone.. ;-D