Guest kevlar Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 OK, I haven't unlocked mine yet, I'll see how everyone else's spv peforms for a few days, but I thought it would be a good idea for those who have done it, to list the apps they have managed to run, and how successfully they run on the SPV. Maybe even post download links for the apps/games concerned. Kevlar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest davidhorn Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 Now that games can be easily adapted, I'll be posting daily updates on my site at http://www.smartgamer.org Nothing there yet, but it should pick up soon as developers port their games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest emsoftsys Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 Just a thought, with this highly publicised breach of the security of the phone surely Orange will be channeling all there efforts into 'plugging the hole'. The effect being the holdup of the much anticipated update. I would sooner have a phone that works as it should rather than one that will run the odd 'hacked' game............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Emad Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 Developers won't be releasing hacked games. What this does is make it easier for small/medium developers to test to see if their software works without having to pay exorbitant fees for certification/applying to get a developer phone (no idea how that works). That means they can port it, test it, then submit it for certification for all phones. Mmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest emsoftsys Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 This will only be short be term until the hole is patched up me thinks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DJHope Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 Talk of this hole, however surely their are legitimate spvs with these different registry values, i mean some developers have uncrippled SPVs, i rekon this is gonna be a hard one to fix! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 If it is just down to registry values, it can't be that hard for O/MS to come up with a patch that changes them back to kick you out of manager mode...I guess we'll see though ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DJHope Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 yeh but theired have todo it to the right phones or all hell would break! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 Shouldnt matter if you havent "unlocked" ur phone, cos the reg updates would "reset" the values back to the default ones, which is what they would be anyway. Not sure if that makes sense but hopefully you get the gyst... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chris b.a.r.f. Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 Shouldnt matter if you havent "unlocked" ur phone, cos the reg updates would "reset" the values back to the default ones, which is what they would be anyway. What if they apply the "patch" to developers' phones that aren't locked? They'll have to sort them away from common-or-garden users like me or ther'll be some mighty pissed-off developers out there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rpenhale Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 Couldn't Orange use this as an opportunity in order to plug the hole. They could provide a useful piece of camera software for free or something else as part of the update which would encourage many people to give up their unlocked phones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spacemonkey Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 If it's some files that you need in the update but the update closes the hole you can bet that the files in question will start circulating seperately from the update in no time. I'm not condoning that sort of thing, just saying what I'd predict. Besides I wouldn't be so sure they'll close the hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 I doubt it would encourage that many people to give up on certificate-unlocaked phones, many people are wanting to develop their own software, and ifnally the "10,000+ applications" [for wince] are finaly available to us. I have also been thinking about the arguement over the camera software. Microsoft (who i assume created this part of Smartphone 2002) have been in all sorts of trouble over the past year or two over anti-cometition laws. They provided basic, usable software that is fine for the job it needs to do. For the same reasons they dont develop Wordpad into a Word-like application, even for a slight increase in cost, they havent made the carmera software anything special. How do you think the people over at IA-Style would feel if software, equal or better in quality to their own, was provided free with the phone? I think Orange and Microsoft are justified in doing this, unfortunately it can't be had both ways. Another Microsoft "we're complying with the lawsuit" excuse it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chris b.a.r.f. Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 ....may as well face it - whatever Orange do to "lock" the phone someone's going to find/develop a hack to circumvent it. It's only ever going to be a matter of time. I wonder if Orange even considered that by releasing a "computer" phone they'd attract computer-people with their associated craving to mess about with/hack/crack/corrupt/break stuff? Doesn't seem that way : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cbcox Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 can someone see if Pocket Streets works, if so, I'll patch mine. Want to be able to have street maps on my phone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kevlar Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 14 posts, and no-one has actually answered the thread topic, must be a record! ;) Kevlar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DJHope Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 PHM Registry editor - works Monopoly - No Luck GNUBoy (gameboy emulator) - Black screen then crash Motor Cross Demo - Loading...... Then bomb out Allegidly: Doom works but it dosnt render correctly on a small screen + no controls Pacman works perfectly but again no way to control Havnt tried eathier of the above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alexkass Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 How can u play doom??? or even ph regedit tha it is not certified???? i have a locked phone can i do the same???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 Alexkass: pay attention Pocket streets does not owrk ;). And i'm still trying to find a .doc/.xls viewer. Having difficulty finding one that runs alright though :/, found a notepad-tpye app, needs a stylus though as you can _only_ input text, nothing else heheh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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