Hi All,
Does anyone have MS Reader installed in their devices? My Mini didn't come with a Reader, so went and installed the latest version of Reader from the Microsoft site. But doesn't work properly. It doesn't appear properly in the Programs folder and when I click on it all I get is an error message.
Please help! Need to carry e-Books in my Mini.
Thanks,
Bree
Hi bree. I installed ms reader on my mini and it's working fine. I also downloaded it from msn. Maybe you should uninstall it, re-download the installer and try installing it again. HTH.
Thanks Rocket will try to do that
By any chance did you install it in the Card rather than main memory??
if so browse to the Reader folder in the Sd card and create a new shortcut. Then move this shortcut to the windows\start menu folder.
after this remember to move all the font files from the reader folder into the windows\fonts folder (or redirect the folder to another folder in sd card)
it should work... mine is!
I too had the same problem as Bree coz i had installed Reader to the Storage Card. But did the same things as said by ill-tempered and it worked fine from then on
Illtempered were you able to activate your MSReader after redoing the shortcut and moving the fonts. I redid the shortcut but did not move the fonts so i was wondering if i need to maybe move the fonts to activate. Thanks.
elcaro said:
I too had the same problem as Bree coz i had installed Reader to the Storage Card. But did the same things as said by ill-tempered and it worked fine from then on
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Glad to hear it worked
jeeb75 said:
Illtempered were you able to activate your MSReader after redoing the shortcut and moving the fonts. I redid the shortcut but did not move the fonts so i was wondering if i need to maybe move the fonts to activate. Thanks.
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no I haven't managed...
I had activated my old 2002 device and lost the activation file too... but anway
Same here. I too cannot activate MS Reader.
I tried to , from my PC after connecting my mini to it. But is said, device not found .
What if you place the Dll files in the reader directory back into windows??
sorry but I wont be doing this as I don't really need to activate it...
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Hi
I have an MDA compact bought Germany but now WWE.
I have installed MS reader (version 2.3) and at the end of the installation, on the PDA screen, it sais that some new characters have been installed and to view them correctly I have to activate them using instruction provided together with the device (?????)
In fact MS reader (in menus, settings...) uses strange characters, for instance I don't have ">" and "<" to scroll pages, but "4" and "3"....how is it possible??
Any help will be VERY appreciated!
Thanks a lot
I had that experience before. But when I reset the machine (soft reset) and then launched MS Reader again, the funny characters went away. No idea why.
You can also try MemMaid to clear any unwanted registry entries / files / folders etc that might have been created during installation of MS Reader. Not sure if it would help but hey, cleaning your memory is anyway a Good Thing!
8)
Hope it helps!
Ian
ianlo said:
I had that experience before. But when I reset the machine (soft reset) and then launched MS Reader again, the funny characters went away. No idea why.
You can also try MemMaid to clear any unwanted registry entries / files / folders etc that might have been created during installation of MS Reader. Not sure if it would help but hey, cleaning your memory is anyway a Good Thing!
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I have the same problem - have an MDA Compact upgraded to 1.12 and the big storage hack. Have installed, uninstalled, re-installed, soft and hard reset and MemMaid'ed and everything and nothing I can do gets rid of the "3" and "4" in place of "<" and ">".
I even did a clean hard reset, installed only MS Reader, soft reset and they were still there. Any other suggestions?
Did you install the MS Reader on the storage card? in that case use the computer to browse to your Microsoft Reader directory on the pocket pc and copy the font files (TTF) to your windows\fonts directory on ppc. soft reset and re-load the program.
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Did you install the MS Reader on the storage card? in that case use the computer to browse to your Microsoft Reader directory on the pocket pc and copy the font files (TTF) to your windows\fonts directory on ppc. soft reset and re-load the program.
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That did it! Thank you so much....these little things get really annoying sometimes
brykins said:
ill-tempered said:
Did you install the MS Reader on the storage card? in that case use the computer to browse to your Microsoft Reader directory on the pocket pc and copy the font files (TTF) to your windows\fonts directory on ppc. soft reset and re-load the program.
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That did it! Thank you so much....these little things get really annoying sometimes
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Yeah! I know.. thats what made me look into it in the first place. It used to happen the same way on my Pocket PC 2000 device.. guess not much has changed for reader in 5 years!
hey you all geniuses out there a few questions :
how to store incoming(bluetooth/ir) files on storage card directly ?
anybody tried a different /better bluetooth stack on universal and know where i can download one ? something with which i can browse using a pc without activesync ?
anymore wirelss(bluetooth/ir/wifi) hacks ?
thanx
I would also like to know how you can set your universal to save all incoming bluetooth/IR files directly to your storage card?????
The reason is because when my freind wants to bluetooth an album of MP3's to me in the pub i have to stop him after each song has downloaded so i can cut and paste them to my storage card otherwise they just dissappear if i run out of room on the phone.
Im sure Alot of people are finding this a problem and im supriase no one has raised this issue before.
Thank you for your help in advance
It seems that this little apps should solve your problem. But I haven't tried it yet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=46443
virtualdj said:
It seems that this little apps should solve your problem. But I haven't tried it yet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=46443
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Great find. It would be nice to know if it does work for the Universal.
hey thanx ! i tried it, it does work on the universal and stores files on the storage card even. I have tried with smaller files but will try with bigger files and check whether it is actually downloading files to storage card or just moving them there once the download is complete.
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hey thanx ! i tried it, it does work on the universal and stores files on the storage card even. I have tried with smaller files but will try with bigger files and check whether it is actually downloading files to storage card or just moving them there once the download is complete.
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Are you using Version 1.4 without the log notes that he posted last? Would this also create an icon on the bottom bar?
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Are you using Version 1.4 without the log notes that he posted last? Would this also create an icon on the bottom bar?
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yes i am using 1.4 i dont remember if i downloaded the last one or not but yes there is an icon on the bottom bar which u double tab and a menu opens and there is no LOG NOTES option there.
Hi Guys. I would really like this programme but none of the installs will work for me The only one I can install was v 1.0 but when I try open the programme I get the message bind error the parameter is incorrect
Any ideas?
Randomely, my TyTN will no longer add mp3s on my microSD card to the library. it will search for files, find them, and then freeze while adding to library. also i can no longer sync mp3s to the microSD using WMP on my PC. any solutions?
Hi There,
I have the same problem. The only solution seems to be to delete the MSMETADATA folder from the storage card and add the tracks again. I can't find any other way of fixing it.
Hope this helps
that worked, thanks for the quick response! so this may happen again? odd glitch if you ask me...
pointything said:
Hi There,
I have the same problem. The only solution seems to be to delete the MSMETADATA folder from the storage card and add the tracks again. I can't find any other way of fixing it.
Hope this helps
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Yip, This seems to be the standard way of dealing with this at present. For those that need a little more info:
Use native file explorer set it to show all files (hidden files) or use other file explorer to view hidden files,
Browse storage, delete hidden folder MSMETADATA,.
Update Library in WMP
Mike
mikechannon said:
Yip, This seems to be the standard way of dealing with this at present. For those that need a little more info:
Use native file explorer set it to show all files (hidden files) or use other file explorer to view hidden files,
Browse storage, delete hidden folder MSMETADATA,.
Update Library in WMP
Mike
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I've used that fix a number of times but now it doesn't work...
I've now flashed a new Rom Schaps 4.3 and formatted my SD Card. Still no luck!!!! Argggghhhh....
The card shows up in the camera app as well as file explorer, however both media players don't recognise it.....
Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.....
Thanks
Sammy
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samlives said:
I've used that fix a number of times but now it doesn't work...
I've now flashed a new Rom Schaps 4.3 and formatted my SD Card. Still no luck!!!! Argggghhhh....
The card shows up in the camera app as well as file explorer, however both media players don't recognise it.....
Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.....
Thanks
Sammy
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Did the problem occur immediately after flashing the Schaps Rom?
If it did then you may get more help asking in the Schaps 4.3 thread as it may be a Schaps registry setting or a change being loaded by a program in that ROM.
Mike
mikechannon said:
Did the problem occur immediately after flashing the Schaps Rom?
If it did then you may get more help asking in the Schaps 4.3 thread as it may be a Schaps registry setting or a change being loaded by a program in that ROM.
Mike
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Ok....just sorted it out.....But to answer your question, it happened before I loaded Schap's 4.3, I was using TNT....Now...here's how it was sorted.
Normally I don't sync with Windows Media Player, I just copy the files over onto the SD card using a USB adapter (which incidentally sometimes screws up my media player and that's when I delete METADATA, but it's far quicker than copying through the phone)...The problem fixed itself when I ticked the button to sync media player...it rewrote another METADATA and I can now see the card once more......
Have a great day
Sammy
(in sunny Byron Bay )
Hi folks,
Just got my Ameo, and am thrilled with it, just getting mildly frustrated with TT6. I copied all the files over to the MicroDrive and ran the cabs, installed to Device (also tried Microdrive) and ran TT. However, although the program seems to be working great, it won't see any voices installed. Any ideas? The Voices directory is in the same place as all the other TomTom files i.e. the root directory of the Microdrive. Thanks!
Fin
I found this problem initially - I think I ended up having to reinstall the cab with the voices in to get it working. Mine are now in \MicroDrive2\Voices
Either that, or a complete uninstall/reinstall did the trick.
N.B, I don't have two microdrives, WM5 got a bit confused and I think WM5torage didn't unload itself properly or something like that, and renamed the drive as 2. I've seen it before with SD Cards.
Thanks - on your advice managed to dig out my old copy of TT 4.4 as I knew it had separate cab files for voices. Installed the right one and Jane was happily talking to me again Thanks for the input! Shame it won't pick up all my other voices tho - I don't have a voices cab for TT6.
Fin
Ahh, I use the Auzzie Guy, just wish he used 'Mate' and 'Golar' and 'Barbie' and the like. I think the first "build" I used wasn't complete , but a second "downloaded build" did . Its v6.010 that I'm currently running.
had the same problem...
i found i had the same problem, this is what i did;
1- there is a voices directory on your phones memory, program files, navigator, voices, try copyin them from your microdrive to your phone memory
or
2- when you go to the voices section in the tomtom application, when it asks to 'only show english voices' select no.
my john cleese and yoda voices now appear, hope this helps.
TT
There are two type of installations.
1. Tou have the SD card installation version and
2. You have the PC installation version.
From TT 6 and upwards the PC installation version is disapearing. This version needed to see the voice files properly installaed. It used the registry to find the files. For this version you need to install the voice cabs form the source disks.
The SD card version looks at your storage card and searches for the voices directory. When this directory is there and you cannot see te voice files, delete the collected.ini file. When you start up TT again it will search for voice files.
Still there is a possibility you cannot see them. I had this probem because I have an miniSD card in my devices. I noticed that TT had made several directories on the card including the voices directory with the file collected.ini. Throwing away the TT directories on my miniSD card solved my problem.
Digital.Diablo said:
Mine are now in \MicroDrive2\Voices
Either that, or a complete uninstall/reinstall did the trick.
N.B, I don't have two microdrives, WM5 got a bit confused and I think WM5torage didn't unload itself properly or something like that, and renamed the drive as 2. I've seen it before with SD Cards.
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My microdrive has also ended up as MicroDrive2, stopping all my programs I installed on the Microdrive working.
I have never used WM5Storage.
Its a tad annoying as I guess all I can do is reinstall all my programs again.
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My microdrive has also ended up as MicroDrive2, stopping all my programs I installed on the Microdrive working.
I have never used WM5Storage.
Its a tad annoying as I guess all I can do is reinstall all my programs again.
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please tell us what machine you are using, HTC advantage? T-mobile Ameo? or DOPOD U1000.
HTC advantage
mardibloke said:
My microdrive has also ended up as MicroDrive2, stopping all my programs I installed on the Microdrive working.
I have never used WM5Storage.
Its a tad annoying as I guess all I can do is reinstall all my programs again.
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I don't think you need to reinstall your programs. Try doing a soft reset. I have encountered the Microdrive2 thing before (but not because of WM5Storage), and a soft reset restored everything back to normal.
Looks like something created a folder called MicroDrive on my main storage (its got mail inbox folder in it), and hence the real MicroDrive got renamed to MicroDrive2.
I wonder if real MicroDrive stopped working for a little while and hence device automatically created a new MicroDrive folder on main storage.
Soft resets did not fix it, however renaming the MicroDrive folder to something else, on main storage, and then a soft reset, and real MicroDrive got renamed back to normal.
Will post if it happens again, but at least have found a simple way to fix it if it happens again.
I believe you have enabled the Messaging plugin in your Today screen? That is the most likely culprit, based on my past experiences.
That makes sense, I disabled message plugin to take some screen shots, and then re-enabled it.
Reading on TomTom I remember running across an article that recommended deleting some INI file for TomTom which would cause TomTom to rescan for voices. This was a common problem. I think it's on the TomTom support site. I can't really remember where I read it though.
I had this problem.
Ensure TT is closed
Move the VOICES folder and ZIP (if you have the 7 digit postal code) from the route of the SD card to \program files\navigator and restart.
Problem solved.
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If you want to keep the files on the SD card (which is slower) then delete the collected.ini file at \program files\navigator\voices , and also the voices folder from there, and it will re-search for them, hopefully finding them on the SD card
Is there a hawaii map for tomtom6???
I got one for 5, but can't get it to work on the 6...
also, there is no hawaii map for download off the site when you can download your first map.
Tomtom and voice
Hi
To solve this problem follow this steps
explore the device's staorage area where you copied the Tomtom (whether Microdrive or Mini Sdcard)
Inside there you will see the Tomtom folder and the map folders.
open the Tomtom folder and cut the Voice folder and Paste on to the same drive's Root.
Eg: Device/microdrive or Device/storagecard
Do the same for the Zip folder which is also inside the tomtom folder.
Basically Tomtom only looking for the voice and zip files from root of the Storage card, Microdrive and my documents folder of the Device.
You have to choose where to put it.
Good luck guys
Yesterday my phone locked me out, after charging it wouldn't accept my password & I had to do a hard reset.
Most of my utils/progs etc were installed to my memory card & I can use file manager to locate them & run them by running the exe file.
Is there any way of getting them onto the main screen without having to delete & then reinstall them - it looks like it's just the program shortcuts which haved been deleted.
Is it possibe to make new shortcuts & place them on the 'start' screen?
I read in a similar post that pocket mechanic might do something like this - would it, or is there another way?
Thanks.
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Yesterday my phone locked me out, after charging it wouldn't accept my password & I had to do a hard reset.
Most of my utils/progs etc were installed to my memory card & I can use file manager to locate them & run them by running the exe file.
Is there any way of getting them onto the main screen without having to delete & then reinstall them - it looks like it's just the program shortcuts which haved been deleted.
Is it possibe to make new shortcuts & place them on the 'start' screen?
I read in a similar post that pocket mechanic might do something like this - would it, or is there another way?
Thanks.
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just use resco file explorer...go into your memory card directory and copy the exe, then go to my device>windows>start menu>programs...then press right soft key menu>edit>paste shortcut
miffy93 said:
Yesterday my phone locked me out, after charging it wouldn't accept my password & I had to do a hard reset.
Most of my utils/progs etc were installed to my memory card & I can use file manager to locate them & run them by running the exe file.
Is there any way of getting them onto the main screen without having to delete & then reinstall them - it looks like it's just the program shortcuts which haved been deleted.
Is it possibe to make new shortcuts & place them on the 'start' screen?
I read in a similar post that pocket mechanic might do something like this - would it, or is there another way?
Thanks.
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future tip:
get spb backup application, and back everything up every week or so.
Nice one, thanks for the help both of you.
Search the net for a free program called shortcutcreator i think i got it from one of the pocket pc freeware sites. It does what your looking for scans your card for applications then creates shortcuts in your program folder.