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Hi all,..
Is there a way to change the Backlight button on the universal so it activates the Camera light on the back of the device instead of turing on the backlight?
When possible the Universal becomes a pocket flashlight. Now when I want to activate the universal camera light I need to start up the camera software, It would be much quicket to just press the Light button to enable and disable the bright camera light. The Light button is now unuseful to me because the backlight automatticly turns on when tapping the screen, so no button needed...
anyone got a idea?
Best regards,..
Arjan
Now thats a damned good idea!! The backlight button is useless anyway.
Anyone here got the skills, I am afraid that I am just a lowly win32/KM developer...
Whats the best way to get into WM2005 coding?? Does it still require you to install 10,000 toolkits, or does Visual Studio 2005.net have the nessesaries? (if work ever sorts out our MSDN sub that is!)
Nigel
Paging buzz_lightyear! Paging buzz_lightyear!
buzz_lightyear to the rescue!
..... please?
As an almost entirely unrelated aside, you guys know that my program VJLumos, for the superbright screen, works on the Universal?
Doesn't make that much difference because it already has a nice screen.
V
Hi Buzz,..
Seems you know all about this schit. Can you tell uss if this is possible?
Regards..
arjan
vijay555 said:
As an almost entirely unrelated aside, you guys know that my program VJLumos, for the superbright screen, works on the Universal?
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True, true... but the camera flash is trully bright!!! Even more than the screen!
I've checked the Win32 Mobile API and found nothing, so the solution must be in one of the HTC DLL's!
Disassembling Camera.exe in IDA didn't give big results neither... :?
I'll continue my reseach and post the results here!
Just wanted to keep this close to the top of the forum,
I would love this feature! Please please pretty please
Regards, Simon
Me To
would be great to have a portable flashlight with me all the time
Still triying, but until now, no success...
buzz_lightyear, can you give a hand here?
Realy hope anybody can find it out because this would be really great!!!
But can it be fixed?
Will this be possible?
not that I really know too much about all this kinda stuff, but MortPlayer refuses to recognise the button with a lightbulb on it even if you use the option that allows you to specify a hardware button by pressing it. Does this mean that this button is somehow hidded frm WM5 or am I being silly?
//Xi
MusicPlayer can recognize the button, I think it takes it as some kind of function button (F4 or F6 or something like that), so is definitely possible to use it.
I actually use it, after adding it to the registry. The button code is C8, so you just have to copy paste another button, and change any CX occurence to C8.
Key is HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Shell/key/40CX
OK, so that's taken care!! Now to find HOW the camera turns the flash light on... I'm sure it's some kind of API..... :? :?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e..._7effd1fa-1b3e-41ba-b176-42cb16dae7d4.xml.asp
i think this is done at driver level....
we might need to hook up with the camera driver dll, disassemble it and get the function names....
and then, need to write an app which will link up the dll at run time and call the fn....
apart from that, theres no simple way to do so using MS provided sdks for wm5....
S
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/still/hh/still/WIA_PropTable_7effd1fa-1b3e-41ba-b176-42cb16dae7d4.xml.asp
i think this is done at driver level....
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I agree!! But I don't think that WIA is something to go thrue, since that applies to Win32 only!
That link was from the Desktop Windows DDK. The windows mobile DDK is a different beast.
I suspect the API will be similar tho. I very much doubt whether the camera app is going to directly call an IOCTL down in kernel mode to control the camera light (that would be crude!) It will be doing so via a user mode API. The key is going to be to find which DLL handles this and what the function name and format is!
Unfortunately although I write Desktop Windows drivers, I have not got the first clue about windows mobile programming - dont even know what tools to install!
Nigel
Just noticed something very odd: WM2005 emulator does NOT have camera.exe!!!
Camera.exe is the picture taking app on the WM2005! Where the hell is it?? Only on real devices (my Exec has it)?
ei99070 said:
Just noticed something very odd: WM2005 emulator does NOT have camera.exe!!!
Camera.exe is the picture taking app on the WM2005! Where the hell is it?? Only on real devices (my Exec has it)?
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the wm5 sdk has the camera api exposed...however, no luck finding anything related to the flash light
i think its something htc has directly hooked up.
horrible MS they have to goof up somewhere ..... :evil:
i guess some disassembling is needed
buzz...where r u dude???
San
Is anybody here who can code a simple app that can activate the photo flash of the Wizard. I think assigning such an app to a hardbutton would be really great because it would make a perfect flashlight out of the wizard.
benenglish said:
Is anybody here who can code a simple app that can activate the photo flash of the Wizard. I think assigning such an app to a hardbutton would be really great because it would make a perfect flashlight out of the wizard.
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Sounds fun...
Terran
Is there still no application available?
Would be nice to have a simple one to turn on the LED on a high level an turn off the display at the same time and other way round.
Would prefer to link it to a hardwarebutton.
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Would be nice to have a simple one to turn on the LED
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I've been looking for this program for a while too... without finding it !
It's been dev for the jas-jar. :idea: Couldn't it be adapted for our Wizard ? ... Would be actually useful !
ziovass: are you sure this has been developed for the Universal? I haven't seen it.
V
I saw something similar here... Maybe I'm wrong ?
No, I think this is just for making use of the light button, not the light itself...
V
Is there no one who knows about how the LED is turned on and off?
Or is there a chance to spy out how the camera-application does this job?
Okay, since my first post was dissed and people told me to get out of here, I have adapted to situation where I don't have external keyboard (one that slides under screen) but now I have problem that almost all keys stopped working on front side.
Whenever I'm receiving call, my answer button does not work nor it opens Phone-application when I press it. Also those two keys at top of green answer button and red hangup button does not work. Can anyone help me?
Same here!
Here u can find my desperate try to resolve this issue...
Same thing here...
It seems to be totally "randomness"...
Which ROM did u install on your devices ?
Did u install third party softs ? (I especially think about SPB softs)
Actually I've Faria's rom.
But i tried to reflash many others roms & different versions... (black, lvsw...)
Also reflashed the IPL...
Also refreshed to olipro...
Also, also, also...
Yeah I also use same rom .. oh btw while there is some nice people here, mind to tell me how to enable my special keyboard? It's scandinavic
LVirus said:
Yeah I also use same rom .. oh btw while there is some nice people here, mind to tell me how to enable my special keyboard? It's scandinavic
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I dont know how to set your scandinavic keyboard but if u search in the forum, i'm shure that u will find it!
@yotraxx
I do not install any third part sw...
I'm shure that the problem is a SW problem and not HW!!!
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I dont know how to set your scandinavic keyboard but if u search in the forum, i'm shure that u will find it!
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Indeed, query for "enable scandic" results 0 answers.
LVirus said:
Whenever I'm receiving call, my answer button does not work nor it opens Phone-application when I press it. Also those two keys at top of green answer button and red hangup button does not work. Can anyone help me?
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Do you have SPB installed on the phone? I had that problem on two ROM's happened and even thou i love SPB Shell i had to uninstall it and i never had the phone freeze problem when ever i got a call.. You can try to deactivate SPB and see what happens as well..
Mind to tell me how to disable this software? Is it something called "softkeys" ?
LVirus said:
Mind to tell me how to disable this software? Is it something called "softkeys" ?
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Disabling SPB would be done through teh Remove Programs app under settings > system.
Or maybe through the Today Plugin screen - select it and see if there are options.
Moved to the main Hermes forum. Keep all non WM6 related threads there please. I'm not dissing you. Just keeping the forum clean.
One of the "accidental" features of our phone is that the camera "flash" can be used as a GREAT flashlight when you're out in the dark. I probably use it once or twice a week, and I am sure I am not the only one. I was wondering however, if it might be possible to enable the LED without opening up the camera program.
Since I have winmo 6.5 installed, I was thinking about maybe taking advantage of the Titanium plugins, or perhaps even a mortscript application to make the flashlight a homescreen option. I'm new to phone modding, but I have coding experience so it shouldn't be too hard for me to figure out.
If this seems possible, I am willing to put in the effort of making it, but I'd like to know if it seems doable before I start coding or anything.
Thanks in advance.
hi all,
i use the flash as light like you.
one year ago i tryed to find an API to write a little application to poweron/poweroff the camera flash led but without success.
can anyone share with us some experience about this?
in alternative you can use an application called plamp that use the screen like a camera flash led. it is not the same but it is useful, also configuring an hardware button.
regards, Soldato
i used to use a mortscript that would launch teh camera then turn on the flash after 10 seconds it will auto close the camera app.
only down side was that the camera app would take about 10 seconds to load anyway (for my phone) so it was not a instant flash light.
thebranded said:
i used to use a mortscript that would launch teh camera then turn on the flash after 10 seconds it will auto close the camera app.
only down side was that the camera app would take about 10 seconds to load anyway (for my phone) so it was not a instant flash light.
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Yeah that's part of the reason I would like to just skip the camera app altogether. It would be nice to have the light on quickly and not have the camera on.
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Yeah that's part of the reason I would like to just skip the camera app altogether. It would be nice to have the light on quickly and not have the camera on.
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hi @ all!
I'm also very interested in an app like that.
Unfortunately I'm not experienced in coding for PPCs. So my question:
Was there any success or found a solution?
Thx a lot!
VirTuZ
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-nuelight3.html
^ this is one for htc touch pro but i just tried it and it didnt work on the 614c
also tried htorch and that didnt work either
bungle2k3 said:
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-nuelight3.html
^ this is one for htc touch pro but i just tried it and it didnt work on the 614c
also tried htorch and that didnt work either
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The method to control the camera flash is device specific. At this moment, no one know how to control the ipaq 612 flash light
ke_steve_le said:
The method to control the camera flash is device specific. At this moment, no one know how to control the ipaq 612 flash light
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Indeed. I'd love to know what sort of things I have to look at to get this started, but I really don't know where to start. Anyone who's made this for another phone: point me in the right direction?
DSwarP said:
Indeed. I'd love to know what sort of things I have to look at to get this started, but I really don't know where to start. Anyone who's made this for another phone: point me in the right direction?
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Basically, the camera flash can be controlled in this way:
Use CreateFile() to get the Camera handle :-
CreateFile( _T("CAM1:") ....... )
then, use DeviceIoControl() to send command, this is the most important step, I don't know how to fill the InBuffer in order to turn the flash on.
Have had no joy trying to find a solution to this...
I have disabled screen lock so currently all keys wake screen. I would like to change this so only the power button wakes the screen....help please.
Thanks
Do u thinking they are good in providing managed forex account
i'm looking for this solution too... wake up with any key is boring me a lot... I hate this!
sandy_woodward said:
Do u thinking they are good in providing managed forex account
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If you could tell me anything about their charges, then I could tell you....
was browsing their site and didn't find it.....
you can simply pm me about it
honestly no idea where that link came from, sorry
honestly someone must have a solution to this, it must be bugging people....
Bumping indeed, wanting this solution also
I'd like to know this as well... Also the answer button is a waste of space. Why would anyone need it if theoretically it shouldn't be possible to answer a call without finger slide. Sometimes I answer calls by mistake when removing the device from the pouch...
I think this is one of the reasons for my battery depletion. Every time I pull my HD2 out of my pocket, the screen is always on...
This really needs a solution
When taking the phone out of my pocket I have seen it in Opera, other apps and worst of all I heard my pocket talking to me on Monday - pulled my phone out and I had called someone who had been called by me listening to everything I was saying!
As I said this really needs a solution ASAP if anyone can help...
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When taking the phone out of my pocket I have seen it in Opera, other apps and worst of all I heard my pocket talking to me on Monday - pulled my phone out and I had called someone who had been called by me listening to everything I was saying!
As I said this really needs a solution ASAP if anyone can help...
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For now you might be better of by using Lock Screen, it can still turn on your phone with any hardkey. But atleast the screen itself is locked so you can't call someone, or start any programs.
I understand lock screen is an option but the simplicity of a one click lock/unlock makes the phone that much quicker to get into and better to use....
we just need a way to disable the other 4 buttons (expect power) from waking the device....
bump...anyone
I would like to know as well.
Also, I want the "answer" and "hang up" hard keys disabled when I receive a call. This made me pickup or ignore call which I did not want to pickup/ignore.
Only solution would be a custom rom with device lock/button lock coocked in it.
xmoo said:
Only solution would be a custom rom with device lock/button lock coocked in it.
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Well PocketShield is halfway there. it disables the hangup button nicely, but I can still push the hard pickup button.
depl0y said:
I would like to know as well.
Also, I want the "answer" and "hang up" hard keys disabled when I receive a call. This made me pickup or ignore call which I did not want to pickup/ignore.
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Try this solution
You need this cab for it
Lennart88 said:
Try this solution
You need this cab for it
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Superb! It works! Thanks so much!
Getting Closer
It seems like someone has at least managed to control the hard keys now... surely someone must be able to make this control the power button only for wake....
please....
Lennart88 said:
Try this solution
You need this cab for it
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It's not work for me with 1.61 Rom...
In Call Lock.exe produce "Unexpected error"
But, I really need this trick
Reason4444, do you have .Net 3.5 installed?