Small Caller ID picture

[Guest jakobdam]

EDIT => Go to the bottom of this topic for the exciting part!! ;)

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I've spent quite some time now trying to figure out a way to enlarge the small caller id pictures on the HTC Faraday & Tornado devices.

Apparently noone, not even here on Modaco, has the answer.

For the ones who doesn't understand quite what I mean - the case is this:

In the "good old days" with HTC Canary and up until Typhoon and sister variants with Windows Mobile 2003SE, there was a little 3rd party application - and with this, you could assign pictures to your contacts. These pictures would be shown whenever you called or was called by these contacts.

There were several ways of displaying these pictures - framed in horrific GIF frames and the like - but most importantly; you could make pictures fit full screen!

For newer devices with Windows Mobile 5.0, there's no way you change the caller id picture sizes - or so it appears.

The caller id pictures are assigned directly now, enabling perfect syncronizing with Outlook for your PC, as pictures are syncronized along with the contacts now.

The pictures are shown during a call session, and even when reading an SMS from the specific contact.

But here the fun stops - because as stated, there is no way of enlarging these small pictures.

What we know...

- The picture sizes and templates can no longer be customized with PIT-files as with Windows Mobile 2003SE and previous.

- The small pictures are displayed as 72x86 pixels caller id photos

- When displayed during a call session, the size goes down to 48 pixels in width instead of 72 pixels

- This caller ID system is made by Microsoft; not a 3rd party vendor

- The program "CallerID" (the old program we used with Windows Mobile 2003SE and previous) was made by HTC. Originally it was made by IA Software, but they were bought by HTC.

- It is not possible to change/override the picture size in Outlook for PC either.

Interesting links

Smartphone thoughts:

http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/articles...ion=expand,9849

Microsoft - about personalizing with caller IDs on Windows Mobile 5.0:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/mob...nalization.mspx

A member experiencing a very interesting error:

http://www.modaco.com/Incoming-Call-screen...39-t239226.html

- This is interesting because it suggests that a layer technique is used for displaying the different elements during a call. Maybe a registry tweak could override these settings, then?

Now, I'm not tuff one for registry tweaking. I've found out bits and pieces here and there, but not matter what I throw at the registry, it doesn't change anything in regards to the size of the caller id pictures.

I've also tried to find the place where the pictures are stored after they're assigned as a caller ID picture; they apparently become a part of the Outlook core files!!

The next few days, I will try one last thing - porting the callerID application that is built in with the Windows Mobile 2003SE, to my QTek 8310. I don't expect it to succeed - so please, if anyone has a workaround, trick or anything else that may help the problem with the small caller id pictures, please let us know! :P

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(this is the more exciting part...)

Update - porting CallerID from Windows Mobile 2003SE

I've ripped some files from my old SPV C500.

In the \Windows\ folder, I've copied all IA*.* files to a folder on my desktop on my PC.

These files could not be copied directly onto my QTek 8310, so I zipped them.

The shortcut that SPV C500 uses for accessing CallerID goes to the file "IA_Photo_Contacts.exe"

The files I've copied onto my QTek 8310 are:

callerid.cpl.xml

IA_Caller_ID.exe

IA_Photo_Contacts.exe

IA_Photo_Contacts.exe.0409.mui

They've been copied as a zip-file, then unzipped on my phone using the builtin file browser, then moved to the \Windows\ library where they're located on the SPV C500.

But - when I try to run the EXE-files, they fail to run - a component or something like that, is missing.

Update 2 => SUCCESS!!!!

I've now copied two more files to the \Windows\ folder:

IA_P_DspCID.dll

IA_P_Contacts.dll

AND IT WORKS!!!

I can now assign pictures in 176x200 pixels to my contacts!!

BUT - a problem remains.

They're shown in the call sessions, but not properly.

Apparently, they're displayed above the normal caller display - and ONLY on INCOMING calls, which means that you're still stuck with the ultra small caller ID picture when YOU make the call.

Update 3 - DAMN!

I've played around a bit, and there doesn't seem to be any way I can force the ordinay "call screen" to move down. I found of that choosing the vieweing type "Top center" would place my big caller picture where I wanted it, but a z-index layer problem occurs, as a white box is shown on top of my picture - which means I only get to see approximately the top 15 pixels of my big picture.

Edited April 16, 2006 by jakobdam

[Guest zecstone]

Photo Contacts 3.0 (Award Winner!), 3.0

by Pocketx Software Inc.

this works. go to pocketx.net. its truly awsome and what your looking for

[Guest kevinsephiroth]

Photo Contacts 3.0 (Award Winner!), 3.0

by Pocketx Software Inc.

this works. go to pocketx.net. its truly awsome and what your looking for

does the shareware version has full options? or do we have to buy it?

[Guest zecstone]

i think there is a trial. i paid for it and been using for 3 days now and works perfectly

[Guest swivel]

Interesting thread, but not helpful for most of us. I don't have a 2003 device from which to get the files. Thanks anyway.

[Guest rogueqd]

i think there is a trial. i paid for it and been using for 3 days now and works perfectly

That's great, but I have a problem paying for software to fix something that shouldn't be a problem in the first place. When I pay for software I want the phone to do something it didn't do out of the box, and I don't mean work properly. ;)

[Guest merwin]

That's great, but I have a problem paying for software to fix something that shouldn't be a problem in the first place. When I pay for software I want the phone to do something it didn't do out of the box, and I don't mean work properly. ;)

Actually, it's working 100% as designed. If you have your phone sync with Outlook 2003, you'll notice that there's an option for a Contact Picture in Outlook when you open a contact. It automatically resizes the picture to that size, even on a PC. And since the phone is integrated with Outlook (and not the other way around), it displays the picture that is stored in the Exchange DB (or in the local contacts file).

I'm not saying it was designed well, but it's working properly :P

[Guest hyedipin]

I also tried, does not work as good on WM5, we need QVGA Full Screen caller ID.