Guest frijj2k Posted January 15, 2003 Report Posted January 15, 2003 Hi, Just thought I would let everyone else in on this nice trick I did now that we can run un-certified apps on our SPV's. Everyone has probably seen the extended Media Player skin available that gives you a larger video playback area. The only problem is that the skin is no longer there after you have turned your phone off and back on again because the files have to reside in "Windows". How annoying! Fortunately this can be worked around now. This is how to do it... 1.) Unlock your phone so that you can run un-certified applications. (The method where you edit the XML files DOES WORK! [uK phones too] ) 2.) Copy the Media Player skin (See other post in this forum) to a directory either under "IPSM" or on your SD card. (For this example we will use "Storage CardMy DocumentsmediaSkin") 3.) Install "PHM Registry Editor". (This can be found at "http://www.phm.lu/Products/Smartphone/RegEdit/") 4.) Run PHM Registry Editor and goto " HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Software / Microsoft / Windows Media Player 8 / Parameters " and change the "SkinDir" value so that it reflects where you placed the skin files. ("Storage CardMy DocumentsmediaSkin" in our case) That's it!!! The Media Player will always have the new skin now (Even after a power down). Only a hard reset will remove the settings. Hope that helps some people! Thanks to all the people who worked on removing certification requirement. Now the fun can really start! ;-) Cheers -=[Frijj2k]=-
Guest spacemonkey Posted January 15, 2003 Report Posted January 15, 2003 Good work on this solution... top notch. I was thinking some dodgy app that would copy the files in each time on startup but this is NICE
Guest frijj2k Posted January 15, 2003 Report Posted January 15, 2003 I like to do my bit! ;-) Im off to write some apps for the SPV now... (Freeware of course) Will post em when done. Dont ask me what yet coz I dunno... was thinking about a notepade clone, a task manager would be nice (MyTools doesnt seem to run correctly) and a FREE explorer like file manager... all things that should have been standard. Any ideas?!?!? -=[Frijj2k]=-
Guest youngerpants Posted January 15, 2003 Report Posted January 15, 2003 i've mentioned this one before... telnet. they had one on the original Nokia 9000, i think we deserve one
Guest casper508 Posted January 15, 2003 Report Posted January 15, 2003 I like to do my bit! ;-) was thinking about a notepade clone, a task manager would be nice (MyTools doesnt seem to run correctly) and a FREE explorer like file manager... all things that should have been standard. Any ideas?!?!? -=[Frijj2k]=- A free explorer would be really nice! ;)
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 DOH!!!! I keep on forgetting not to unzip these apps to get them to work I'll go off and kick myself now :oops:
Guest J1A1H Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 I am going to give this a go right now GD one i wouldn't mine a copy of winamp or something thanks
Guest frijj2k Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 One quick note.... you need a backslash at the end of the path that points to the enw skin file(s). Thanks -=[Frijjk2]=-
Guest neuronisis Posted January 17, 2003 Report Posted January 17, 2003 Hi all, did you notice in the reg that there were some keys for full screen,max width/height etc. Just wondered if anything could be done for them, any ideas guys? ;)
Guest frijj2k Posted January 18, 2003 Report Posted January 18, 2003 Had a quick look at them... I tried changing the colour depth for WMP8 and nothing happened. :-( Full screen seems to be enabled by default ('1') but changing it had no effect on my phone. Max Width = 240 Max Height = 180 Stange this........ shouldnt they be the other way around?!? or can WMP8 play video on its side? (I.e. trully fullscreen) Things like fit width are enabled by default. Changing these doesnt seem to have an effect either. I will look into this a bit more but i dont think it uses all the keys that are present in the registry. -=[Frijj2k]=-
Guest DJ WATTS Posted January 18, 2003 Report Posted January 18, 2003 Obviously in the future when there are updates or plug ins to add to media player or new video software you will be able to flip the mode to whichever way you want. Now that will be nice...
Guest chewie Posted January 18, 2003 Report Posted January 18, 2003 i've mentioned this one before... telnet. they had one on the original Nokia 9000, i think we deserve one Yes telnet, i NEED telnet! Oh and winamp would be way cool on the SPV. It would be nice to see some simple graphic equaliser plugins for WMP aswell. And whilst your at it. Can you sort out the codec so that the SPV can properly play .mid polyphonic ringtones? Thats my list ;)
Guest frijj2k Posted January 18, 2003 Report Posted January 18, 2003 One thing at a time! :-) I will do my best in what spare time I have... I think the idea of polyphonic midi would be nice! :-)
Guest mchristie2 Posted January 18, 2003 Report Posted January 18, 2003 Why stupid thing am i doing as i have installed the PHM Registry Editor to the SPV and i get the message "regedit is not a valid Windows CE application".... :oops: It wont run....please help me !!!
Guest frijj2k Posted January 18, 2003 Report Posted January 18, 2003 Try going through the unlocking process again. It sounds like it wasnt fully successful. Im not 100% sure about this but theres 2 files you edit. Prehaps only one file managed to get copied in time. Try it again. Hop that helps.
Guest Deathrow Posted January 19, 2003 Report Posted January 19, 2003 now that we can run un-certified apps on our SPV's. Where was it posted?? Cuz I can find out how to do it. Which file to edit, and what do I edit?? Feeling a little stupid asking, cuz everybody else could! :? Regards Silas D-P
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted January 19, 2003 Report Posted January 19, 2003 Go here about unlocking the certification It's on the main section try a search :wink: http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=1899 If you go to page 6 and the entry by Kallisti Thats the one I used and it worked fine except No 4) Copy out mxicold_oem10.provxml and mxi_oem10.provxml My files hed a P in them i.e mxipcold_oem_10.provxml and mxip_oem_10.provxml Hope this helps
Guest Deathrow Posted January 19, 2003 Report Posted January 19, 2003 Go here about unlocking the certification It's on the main section try a search :wink: http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=1899 If you go to page 6 and the entry by Kallisti Thats the one I used and it worked fine except No 4) Copy out mxicold_oem10.provxml and mxi_oem10.provxml My files hed a P in them i.e mxipcold_oem_10.provxml and mxip_oem_10.provxml Hope this helps THX! I did try a search, but obvious not a good one ;) Can't believe it was right there! I'll try it. Thx again. Regards Silas D-P
Guest Deathrow Posted January 19, 2003 Report Posted January 19, 2003 Why stupid thing am i doing as i have installed the PHM Registry Editor to the SPV and i get the message "regedit is not a valid Windows CE application".... :oops:Â It wont run....please help me !!! I got the same problem when i installed throw the installer program. But when I tried installing with the cab file, by putting it on my SD card, it worked fine. Try it. Could help. Regards Silas D-P
Guest badsight Posted January 19, 2003 Report Posted January 19, 2003 Hi this is my first posting in this forum so forgive the obvious. I have read and tried to adhere to the instructions of the site and search with no result. Everyone has probably seen the extended Media Player skin available that gives you a larger video playback area. (sorry I haven't i've read for 6 hours the messeges on the site in hope of finding out where you can get it) I've seen the links to new homepages and games but never this now i may have missed it but do i have to be one of the elite to get it? I want to jion in with you inteligent people, I have tried a lot of the stuff out you suggest and most of it works so I know you are good people. Help a newbie out here please then the process of unlocking of my phone will have its first result. Regards Paul ( badsight )
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted January 19, 2003 Report Posted January 19, 2003 here you go you were close it's the Advanced media skin http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic...=asc&highlight= Click on the image and you will download everthing you need
Guest mchristie2 Posted January 20, 2003 Report Posted January 20, 2003 I got the same problem when i installed throw the installer program. But when I tried installing with the cab file, by putting it on my SD card, it worked fine. Try it. Could help. Regards Silas D-P Deathrow, Superb advice ....that worked a treat !!!!!!!!!! ;) :lol: :lol: Many many thanks
Guest ant_thomas Posted January 25, 2003 Report Posted January 25, 2003 I have installed the Regeditor but when I try to run it it says Error "regedit" is not a valid Windows CE application Why is this?
Guest Bazz Posted January 26, 2003 Report Posted January 26, 2003 The installer's screwed it installs the wrong one. Install the cab directly on your phone and run it. There are some other threads talking about this, but I can't find them...
Guest scott2eyes Posted January 20, 2004 Report Posted January 20, 2004 Hi all, did you notice in the reg that there were some keys for full screen,max width/height etc. Just wondered if anything could be done for them, any ideas guys? :lol: These are a part of the MediaPlayer skin, rather than something that would be on the phone's registry. Full instructions on how to edit a skin can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....ml/wmpcesdk.asp (It can seem a bit complicated though, as it seems to be mainly aimed at Palm, pocket PC's etc.)
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