Inside the windows directory are the usual menu noices, like one is called menupop.wav. These files are inside the ROM, but without flashing the entire ROM, is there a way i can edit the sound files, so that i don't hear the normal cilck that windows mobile gives you.
I want to replace them with some softer vista sound effects. Is this possible??
Thanks in advance.
right click on it remove the read only and try to copy a file with the same name over it, not sure if it will work but it should.
there are 3'rd party plugins that let you choose your own sounds for windows.
Can you please tell me what these plugins are called? I would also like to mess with the windows sounds...
I use a program called cool edit pro. Its not to expensive, but you can edit just about anything but AMR. But what I do for that is use nokia converter. You can convert wav to amr files. With those two peices you can edit any sound file on our beloved devices. One thing I can say, some of the are read/write protected, yes. But when you veiw the files on your computer via active sync, you can modify the permissions.. Hope that helps. Nokia converter is a free program, but Nokia discontinued it about 4 years ago. I can give a link to it and the key (the only reason I offer here is because it is free!!!)
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Now you can play the Polyphonic Ringtones on your XDA-I,Qtek1010,Siemens SX56,MDA-1 and T-Mobile with full instruments just by installing this file into your device :twisted: :
- MIDI56.sa.CAB
How to:
1- Copy the MIDI56.sa.CAB into your xda to any place you want then open the Explorer from your XDA,goto the folder you pasted the file in then click on the file after that get a *.mid file paste it into the \WINDOWS\RINGS,
Open the Phone from Settings and select the midi file you want it to be as your ringtone.
2- For whom the ringtone still doesn't work at all you just neet to extract the file >>CameraRC132_WWE_1.5.sa.zip<< and copy the cab file to your device and install it. Get the file from :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=6337&highlight=
Ps: My O/S is WM2003. I didn't test it on WM2002 if someone will just post here the result.
Enjoy my friends
We need to see the code can you pleas give use the code
Thanks
wwb95 said:
We need to see the code can you pleas give use the code
Thanks
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I don't have the code that you're asking about bcz I didn't write it! I took this cab file from the Newest Himalaya's Extended-Rom :wink:
Your MIDI56.sa.cab has problems
Not that it matters that much to some folks...but in case you have an XDA-1 /MDA/PPC Phone Edition....I can confirm the following:
1. With WM2003, you will definitely need the Camera------.cab file installed, plus the MIDI56.sa. Mind you, you will have to install the MIDI56.sa file first, and then install the Camera------.cab
2. It will use up about 600+ K of needless memory on your XDA-1 because obviously, we don't have camera's. So.....what're you to do ? Well, go to
\WINDOWS
and look for Camera.EXE ( approx 500+ K )
Then, what you can do is launch Album, and look again at the \WINDOWS directory...and you will see a bunch of bitmaps obviously ( among other things ). Now..what you're looking for is files dated from 8/20/2003 ( that's 20/8/2003, for you folks EAST of the Atlantic ). Primarily they're bitmaps that were used by the Camera application. They add up to about 50-60 K. There's probably more files associated with the Camera.exe application that you won't need, plus any references in the PPC's registry will probably need to be ferreted out.
But...once you've done that, you've actually reclaimed approximately 800 K in space. Which on a 32MB unit, is a fair bit of memory.
Enjoy !
Marcelo
Re: Your MIDI56.sa.cab has problems
marcelol said:
Not that it matters that much to some folks...but in case you have an XDA-1 /MDA/PPC Phone Edition....I can confirm the following:
1. With WM2003, you will definitely need the Camera------.cab file installed, plus the MIDI56.sa. Mind you, you will have to install the MIDI56.sa file first, and then install the Camera------.cab
2. It will use up about 600+ K of needless memory on your XDA-1 because obviously, we don't have camera's. So.....what're you to do ? Well, go to
\WINDOWS
and look for Camera.EXE ( approx 500+ K )
Then, what you can do is launch Album, and look again at the \WINDOWS directory...and you will see a bunch of bitmaps obviously ( among other things ). Now..what you're looking for is files dated from 8/20/2003 ( that's 20/8/2003, for you folks EAST of the Atlantic ). Primarily they're bitmaps that were used by the Camera application. They add up to about 50-60 K. There's probably more files associated with the Camera.exe application that you won't need, plus any references in the PPC's registry will probably need to be ferreted out.
But...once you've done that, you've actually reclaimed approximately 800 K in space. Which on a 32MB unit, is a fair bit of memory.
Enjoy !
Marcelo
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Marcelo,
I updated the installation instructions,you needed more to read about it.
Mind you, it doesn't matter what you install first cos I had the camera and album files in ppc b4 the midi cab file so it's ok.
Actually it's taking more than you are claiming, since those files installed in the \WINDOWS you can move them to "\Storage card\Album\Album.exe" "\Storage card\Camera\Camera.exe" like I did and gain back the used space , there's also a help file related to the camera it's about 56 kb you could remove it from "\WINDOWS" plus the little bitmaps. Thus you can as well fix the path in the registry for the files associations + making new shortcuts for the Album.exe,Camera.exe and by replacing them on the old ones.
Excellent !!!
I have to remind people that you MUST be careful when deleting the little bitmaps...look at them inside of Album first before deleting anything.
I had to reinstall my GPRS Monitor application because I deleted one of it's bitmaps by mistake....word to the wise !!!
Also I found TONS for MIDI files ( amateur ones ) to use as ringtones....,now if there were a way to make the ringtone directory point to my storage card, that would be great !!
Here's the link
http://www.ifnimidi.com/
TIPS
marcelol said:
I have to remind people that you MUST be careful when deleting the little bitmaps...look at them inside of Album first before deleting anything.
I had to reinstall my GPRS Monitor application because I deleted one of it's bitmaps by mistake....word to the wise !!!
Also I found TONS for MIDI files ( amateur ones ) to use as ringtones....,now if there were a way to make the ringtone directory point to my storage card, that would be great !!
Here's the link
http://www.ifnimidi.com/
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Marcelo,
Moving the ringtones to the Storage card that was my other issue since a long time. I managed a way to do that it. Well for the first try it was successful but when the ppc turns it self off and some one calls you you’d hear the "windows default" ring and it remains whether you selects another ringtone. I kept a backup up on my registry to restore it back to the last status.
So if you like to share me your assistance I'd be grateful.
I'll give you tips of doing that and the project from here it starts…
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P.S: I recommend a backup on the registry b4 applying those tips
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1- (Looping Ringtones)
This tweak works perfectly you should apply it to your ppc's:
While playing a wav or midi or a wma as the ringtone the phone has a delay of 3 seconds before repeating, now this is really annoying if you've just created that great wav,wma ringtone, spent time making it loop properly in sound editor or whatever, and then the ppc does the silly delay, well, here’s the fix...
Open the registry editor:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Sounds\RingTone0
Select 'Values'
And modify 'Script' by removing the w3 (eg. change 'av0pw3r' to 'av0pr')
"w3" stands for "Wait 3 seconds" you can make it "w1" or "w4" or remove to make the ringtone loops
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This tweak works for the first time you do it but when the ppc turn it self off the ringtone you selected won't play again :S be noticed.
2-Ringtones on SD/MMC Card
Open the registry editor:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Sounds\RingTone0
Select 'Values'
Select 'Sound' and change the Value Data: \Storage Card\path to wav\wavname (eg. \Storage Card\Ringtones\mytone.wav)
We need here more try about this tweak and good ways to fix so ppl let’s do some tests
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This is the registry key where all ring tones s/w is playing whenever it comes to customizing a phone ring tone ... including PZP
and that's why all these s/w keeps a "live" component in the back ground to override what Windows is updating each time.
So, PZP was designed as today plugin, so Windows will force it to update the ring tones with each system referesh ... other s/w may keep a background process DLL running or to reconnect cprog.exe to their DLL ... or even to trap the system events to cprog.exe and redirect them to their handler.
So, I think (I might be wrong too ) the trick is to build a live demon to keep updating this registry key.
Necessary Files
I've been able to cut the necessary files for polyphonic ringtones down to ~570KB. Keep in mind I did this on a device with a ROM that was already cooked with supposed "support" for polyphonic ringtones, so there may be other files it is relying on. At any rate, the kitchens need to be updated with these files, because it doesn't work as-is.
There also may be ways to trim even more down, but this is what I have after many hard resets and adding/deleting files one by one. Hope it helps.
Shawn
I remember on Windows Mobile 2003/SE you could dump wav files into the/Windows directory on your pda, and re-direct the registry entries to these sounds from the old ones. It was possible to change all of the start menu sounds, default sounds, volume changing sounds and error/question sounds. These changes are completely seperate form the ones found in the "Sounds and Notifications" control panel applet too. I have tried this in WM5 on my HTC Wizard, but it doesn't seem to work anymore (not that I expected it to in all ohnesty).
Basically, i'm looking for a way to change ALL of the system sounds WITHOUT having to install other programs, as it used to be. If this is not possible then i'll just have to live with it, but this is the only problem preventing my Wizard from being totally flawless in every way...
I have included the old package I made with the files, and the registry entry that's needed (although I can't remember where it goes anymore), in case anyone with an oder PDA wants it...
Thanks in advance for any help anyone may give
Someone must have some idea how to do this... If it's not possible, please at least say so
i just added and changed some sounds on my htc 8125 wiz.
dump wav files in windows folder .
-Brian
but does this allow you to change the start menu sounds... as it doesn't allow me to... The files seem to be ignored, and the ones in the rom are used instead. I name the files the same (obviously), and try not to make them too large. They are encoded in the same format as the other sounds on the device, at the same freq and resolution... Yet they don't show up, even after a reset...
what keys do you change?
Maybe we can try/find out what's cookin'
I took them out from a ROM dump and put them into my wizard. The cool Treo sounds are not playing either in my PC of on my phone. Does anyone know why?
whats their format ?
what pc program do you try to play them with?
The ringtones are in midi and waw formats. Please, see attached.
Well, I'm not much of a help here, but I confirmed that some (not all) of the files are reportedly 'corrupted'. E.g. the Ringer .wav file has the relative 19.4k file size, it played (but reported as corrupted) in WMPlayer (PC) and SoundRecorder refuse to open it. Same for some of the mid files.
You want to extract them again?
... if it is possible. I would love to have Treo ringtones. I've used the dump from 750 found here on ftp.
May be someone can redo the dump?
if this is a Treo with pocketpc software cant you just browse from activesync on the pc and copy the files out that way ?
I have a Wizard, not a Treo.
Heh. looks like the job of extracting usefull things from Treo ROM dump is too difficult for my skill level. The only feature I was able to extract is the Web search plugin. Is there any conventional methodology people use to extract appliaction from a dump?
There is the default one here. Probably you can ask for more?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=280562
I've made a new mp3 player with a useful feature... try it at
http://spyderblade.bravehost.com/index.html
Appreciate feedback!
-spy
v 0.2 is out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C5ct60LSWQ
Better interface, + night mode + bug fixes.
Great idea. Thank you.
I don't have many songs on PPC right now, but when I do I'm sure your jump feature will be very useful. I'll try it out and let you know how it performs on WM6 Wizard.
Thanks again.
Oh quick question, are you going to have the option to set the music folder instead of forcing to be "\Storage Card\Music". Since I don't have any songs I'm not sure whether the other players typically look for their songs.
folder customization
Yes, I actually was trying to get that in in this release... but you won't believe how difficult accessing the registry is is ppc vb.net programming. INI files are not supported either, I just need a simple config file! There are a few libraries out there and i'm still working on it.... till then, I'll just make it ask for a new folder if the default one is not found.
Give me a few hours...I'm not home atm.
-spy
I just copied over the files to my Storage Card and attempted to run it. It wouldn't and simply errored out saying "Unknown error has occurred". No detail was given. Have you tested this app using a WM6 emulator?
I suspect that is because the music folder does not exist. Either wait for me to make this user specified.. or do this:
Make a dir somewhere in your computer called 'sdroot'.
Make a sub directory called 'Music' (name here is important)
Put a few .mp3 files in here (... must be at least one...)
In the emulator settings, set the shared folder to 'path\To\sdroot'
Open the file explorer and test and see if 'storage card\music' exists from within the ppc enviornment.
Now run it. Should work.. I'm sorry all these things are not acceptable.. It's just that this started as a personal pet peeve that I just wanted to hack around. But yeah if it helps others I'm all for it! I defend my ms. thesis in 2 weeks... so i'm kind of busy. Sorry for the delay...
Ok here is the update.
Version 0.25
- Music directory is now customizable via config.txt in the same directory. First line of config.txt == music path.
- No more unexplained crashes. You'll get an error if some path or file is not found.
- Minimize is fixed and works now...
Give it a shot now..
http://spyderblade.bravehost.com/index.html
Also got a new video is GPS + audio running in my car. I'm loving it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NAaJ7HM0zw
And some pics of the same.
-let me know how it works out for you
I HAVE tested a nice tool . you can get in Windows store :
search for:
Pocket File Manager
it is a real file Manager.... some less fuctions are missing but it is very very nice.. and all they have told me it is impossible.... it is possible how you can see it
it works fine and great .... it can follow: send every file by Bluetooth... you can open every file it is legal docx, rar, zip txt . jpeg, mp3 , mp4 ... realy legal ... it opens what is on the device! !!! and you see a great file structure and you can use skydrive........ everyone who says it is impossible im think that they doesn't try whats possible ...
I have find somtehing interessting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290261
maybeee it should us help to get a Explorer to wp8
Have you looked at the description? It is limited in exactlly the same way as described around here all the time.
Limitation (Please read it!):
Windows phone has some limitations which prevent third party applications from accessing parts of files system. You cannot access video files, music files, Document folder. So, until Microsoft open it, please do not ask us to implement this feature. It is impossible right now.
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It can access SkyDrive, FTP servers and it's own private storage. You CAN NOT access the phones Documents Folder and other Folders. You can launch an Office Document and edit it but it will then be saved to the Office Hub and the Explorer Application will still retain the old version prior to editing.
So while this does look like it works around it a file explorer in the way that people are demanding is still not possible.
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Have you looked at the description? It is limited in exactlly the same way as described around here all the time.
It can access SkyDrive, FTP servers and it's own private storage. You CAN NOT access the phones Documents Folder and other Folders. You can launch an Office Document and edit it but it will then be saved to the Office Hub and the Explorer Application will still retain the old version prior to editing.
So while this does look like it works around it a file explorer in the way that people are demanding is still not possible.
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i have tested the tool ! and it works .... it reads out some lokal files and the complete Photo and Video library!! it is a tool for lokal the link in the link it is development of it that will be release in future
but that what im testing it works everything what im saying.. and it is a file Explorer for local and for skydrive!!!! as i tested some other tool too ... it is a pdf Reader... not the Microsoft one! another one ... it can be read out the pdf files of sdcard and on local phone ... .. so im think it is possible to do a great file Explorer but we have to try it..
http://www.1800pocketpc.com/file-explorer/
Oh boy
I wish it were trued, but it aint.
Second, what Stevie said.
presumption
im think we can use one trick ... srry im not a guy who can much develop
but the idea is maybee great?
if i can Open a file of the Folder of the pocket Explorer so maybee Folder Pocket Explorer\docs\Alice in wonderland.docx in word mobile 365 /15 opend it ... but the Office hub can't find the file if im opened...... but in the functionality it opend................ im think the "lock" isn't realy a lock....... im think it is something like a key in the Windows regestry of wp8 ...that disable the Show of other Folders... but every tool can be Access all the Folders that are on the phone...... if it was a real access lock it isn't be possible to open a docx file in word from a Folder outside it is registered in Office hub ... in the tool it is added the photo hub ...
im think a clever developer shouldbe can solve the Problem without to Bypass the "lock" of MS ... Note ... In Real Windows 8 it has security informations .... but if the locked for some users you can't see the files and you can't opend it.... but im think in wp 8 there isn't this the Problem ... the Problem is it disabled in the regestry to Show something that can be accsess all the Tools
No the developers can't bypass this, as far as I am aware. It isn't just the registry key (you may be right about that one), but the runtime itself does not allow these kind of things. I have been looking for way to break the file associations, and there seems to be none, other than jailbreaking and hacking into system settings.
Yep tested this one today on my new Lumia 520 and it even does not show the music folder -_- ... Stupid limitation from MS.