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Im Getting My Magician Tomorrow!

Hi Guys,
Been using this great site for a while now but im not a great poster! lol Ive bought a Magician and it will be arriving tomorrow and just wondered if there is anything that i should be looking out for?
For example, what mods do you recommend? I.E Bluetooth Fix (may not exsist but just gave example) I cant wait to get it as ive used a few before and been very impressed!
Also does anyone have a link for TomTom 5 Cracked? would be much appriciated! :lol:

Hi, welcome to XDA DEV and congratulations with your purchase! If you search this forum, you will find many fixes and mods that have been applied to speed up the magician (through registry edits), gain extra memory (BigStorage is a good one!), improve the BT stack, remove the Simlock etc etc. Just look in the Magician forums and you will find many tweaking hapiness there. Be sure to back-up first before applying any mod, since they might cause a hard reset and data loss. Please DON'T ask for illegal software here, there is enough of that to be found on the internet, but not in this community. We like to tweak and mod things, but intend to do nothing illegal here. If any software or hack here is illegal in your country, don't use it.
Have fun with your new Magician!

Thanks for the welcome Koksie! Ive been having a browse though and thought that maybe it would be good to get a Top 10 things to do to your magician?
Just thought it would be handy for people like me that are new to the magician.
Can someone explain what bigstore is please? Sounds great.
BTW it hasnt arrived yet its scheduled before 1pm though!

Do a search for BigStorage, it involves flashing your Rom with a custom made one you made yourself. You can use the ROM that came with it ( if it is a new one, you will get the latest ROM I presume) or with a newer one ( if yours is a second hand device and has an older version. 1.13 is the newest one at the moment. Check in your start-settings-device information) Since a flash removes all your data, the best thing is to do it before you put any programs and information on it. basically it deletes the Extended ROM ( where your provider puts all its settings) and merges it with the internal storage, adding 20 MB extra of ROm storage, in other words, another 20 MB extra of memory that will not be deleted in case of empty battery. Another advantage of 20 MB of extra ROM is that you save another 20 MB of RAM (by ebanling you installing aps to ROm instead of RAM), so your Magician will be much faster and less battery consuming. Search for BigStorage and the method (including backing -up the Extended ROM for later use) will be explained in detail in several threads.
Same goes for removing the Simlock or extending the BT profiles. Just search for the right terms and the methods will pop-up.
Other worthwile apps are DKToday, BT SwitchIt, tel-on-off, AEBPlus and MortButtons. Check these out, they are very usefull apps. Many registry tweaks are also posted, they help to speed up your magician, change behaviour of applications and settings etc. You are right that a top 10 would be helpful, but just searching the forum will help a lot. for regedits serach for "registry edit magiacian"and I am sure helpful threads will appear.

sorry for the idiot question but how do you install skins?

jaso2005 said:
sorry for the idiot question but how do you install skins?
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Search for Wisbar Advance. It's the app that applies the skins. :wink:

You can find many skins on www.yorch.net, including instructions on how to install them. There are many other skin sources and progs on the market, some for free. Search and the shall find my man, google is thy friend!

This page is a useful read on hints and tips.
http://www.ppcsg.com/lofiversion/index.php/f20.html
And especially:
http://www.ppcsg.com/lofiversion/index.php/t50029.html
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PS something you're bound to ask at some point, because everyone does, is how do you sort your contacts First Name, Last name?
Search against my userid. I've answered it a million times!

jaso2005 said:
Thanks for the welcome Koksie! Ive been having a browse though and thought that maybe it would be good to get a Top 10 things to do to your magician?
Just thought it would be handy for people like me that are new to the magician.
Can someone explain what bigstore is please? Sounds great.
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I was in the same position as you are, as I recently switched from an XDAI (Wallaby) to the Magician.
Here are some things to consider and do.
1. You will definately fall in love with the device if you are a bit like me or the rest of the people here. You will want to use a long time, so before you go and use the device regularly, GET A SCREEN PROTECTOR. Even if it is just a cheap one to start with, protect the screen.
2. The regular Bluetooth stack is pretty unimpressive. It works OK, but does not offer a lot of options. If you are going to use BT get the CAB install that has just recenty popped up and is currently being discussed here. You can download in that thread, then you have a ton more options regarding BT.
3. The camera on my O2 branded device is crap (blue speckles in low light conditions). There is a fix out there to solve the problem a little bit. The ultimate solution is to install a updated camera software from T-Mobile devices which is more recent. I am still looking for a way to do this, have not dived into the topic completely.
4. If you are using your PPC device a lot, especially if you are using a large SD-Card for file storage one day or the other you will face the need of hooking up yur device to some friends computer to exchange some files. This is not easily done unless the other computer has ActiveSync running. To do this easily you can use Softick Card Export, which is a little tool that enables the Magician to act as a Mass Storage Device. When the program is enabled you just use your friendly USB cable to hook up to the other computer and your Magician is instantly connected without drivers (if it is a W2K+ or XP machine or something like this - Win98 will not work instantly).
5. Always carry a small USB cable with you. I love the possibility of charging my device whereever I find a USB port.
6. Software I will not leave home without:
- Wisbar Advance2 / Wisbar Advance Desktop plugin
- Total Commander
- Registry Editor of choice
- Memmaid
- Pockettools
- Sprite Backup
- Destinator PN (if you are going to use it as a GPS)
- Pocketmusic for mp3 playback
- Phonealarm plugin
- Some calendar plugin giving a good oversight of tasks and appointments
- eWallet (for keeping confidential info such as PINs etc. encrypted)
- Mobipocket Reader with a recent offline version of Wikipedia
- Pocketmechanic
- phonExt (better Dialer)
- RESCO Audio Recorder (allows mp3 recording)
- PhonePad chooser (customize the PhonePad design)
That should get you kind of started. Oh, wait, after I did the BigStorage hack I also replaced that butt-ugly O2 splash screen (screen displayed when you power on the device or do a soft/hard reset) with a selfmade one saying "hacked" and displaying the 18c3logo.

7. Get Pocket Zen Phone - it only costs €5 and allows you to have multiple profiles, flight, office, car, etc for different situations - just click the icon on the Today screen. Get it here: http://zendrui.free.fr/

TheBrit said:
7. Get Pocket Zen Phone - it only costs €5 and allows you to have multiple profiles, flight, office, car, etc for different situations - just click the icon on the Today screen. Get it here: http://zendrui.free.fr/
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So does PhoneAlarm. I checked out PocketZenPhone, but decided I liked pA better. It's a matter of taste, I guess. Did you take a look at pA anyways?

This discussion is going on on another thread as well.
I use PA, it's got a lot of features that I like.
To be fair, I've not used PZP much because I didn't think that it did more then PA that was relevant to me.
I've set up PA with profiles on my Today screen, which seems to be what PZP is good for:
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With my skin and my ToggleToday PA is an unobtrusive but valuable OS modification (at the top of the screen):
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psych0t1c said:
TheBrit said:
7. Get Pocket Zen Phone - it only costs €5 and allows you to have multiple profiles, flight, office, car, etc for different situations - just click the icon on the Today screen. Get it here: http://zendrui.free.fr/
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So does PhoneAlarm. I checked out PocketZenPhone, but decided I liked pA better. It's a matter of taste, I guess. Did you take a look at pA anyways?
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No, but PZP does exactly what I want.

TCPMP Complete with AC3, AAC & H.264 codecs plus more..

Sorry about the long wait, but for those who still want it, happy viewing.
http://rapidshare.com/files/33511865/TCPMP_Complete.zip.html

Downloading now.
If this genuinely has all above options - this will be awesome!
What were those TCPMP settings (again) to get the best performance on the Athena?

Settings for Best Visuals & Performance...
aphid said:
Downloading now.
If this genuinely has all above options - this will be awesome!
What were those TCPMP settings (again) to get the best performance on the Athena?
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Here you go:
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I had done this at first initially too, but simdeo (fellow member) suggested Imageon setting, but NOT Imageon Hardware decoder. This has massively improved speed and visual quality, but you will get intermittent lines across the interface, but not in full screen mode. Settings should be:
TCPMP:
Video Driver = ATI IMAGEON
Buffering = Microdrive (ticked)
Advanced = Tick only: D-Pad, Use System Vol, Benchmark (none od these settings affect performance, just my preference - but selecting other options may adversly affect performance)
Direct Draw = YV12 and tick 'Overlay with colorkey' only.
That's it. Best performance to date and can play torrent or own DVD rips perfectly, providing they were not encoded as high as 640x480.
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** Please bear in mind for slower performance and a quality hit, set 'Video' driver to Rawframe buffer as the GUI will display no 'garbling'......
But apply first settings in post and you will definately see a vast improvement visually and in performance! Downside is the GUI is always slightly fuzzy but also very readable and useable.
Can Dopod and HTC users give any feedback if they have the same experience or wether this might be an Ameo ROM issue? Thanks.

mackaby007 said:
Sorry about the long wait, but for those who still want it, happy viewing.
http://rapidshare.com/files/33511865/TCPMP_Complete.zip.html
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Hey Mackaby007:
Cool New Avatar
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mackaby007 said:
Sorry about the long wait, but for those who still want it, happy viewing.
http://rapidshare.com/files/33511865/TCPMP_Complete.zip.html
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Mackaby, cheers for that - works much better with the same settings than Coreplayer Retail. How or why that should be, who knows...

Thisis probably one of theese silly newbie questions:
Which cabs are to be used on Ameo ?
- arm
- arm sp
- arm 720
- sh3
- mips
dieter

dieterpapa said:
Thisis probably one of theese silly newbie questions:
Which cabs are to be used on Ameo ?
- arm
- arm sp
- arm 720
- sh3
- mips
dieter
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'arm' dieterpapa.

thanks so far,
it's running now. But no chance with "ATI Imageon" mode - I only get something like a green-magenta curtain when watching .mpg files. I've to choose "GDI", "raw frame buffer" or "direct draw" to get a picture.
dieter

dieterpapa said:
thanks so far,
it's running now. But no chance with "ATI Imageon" mode - I only get something like a green-magenta curtain when watching .mpg files. I've to choose "GDI", "raw frame buffer" or "direct draw" to get a picture.
dieter
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Strange I don't get that on my Ameo. Either you have selected the Imageon decoder instead of the Imageon, just below it, not configured the rest of the app or have something installed on your Ameo that may be causing the conflict.

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Either you have selected the Imageon decoder instead of the Imageon,
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can't select any of them - only get a "no"-picture
mackaby007 said:
not configured the rest of the app
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I used for configuration:
mackaby007 said:
I had done this at first initially too, but simdeo (fellow member) suggested Imageon setting, but NOT Imageon Hardware decoder. This has massively improved speed and visual quality, but you will get intermittent lines across the interface, but not in full screen mode. Settings should be:
TCPMP:
Video Driver = ATI IMAGEON
Buffering = Microdrive (ticked)
Advanced = Tick only: D-Pad, Use System Vol, Benchmark (none od these settings affect performance, just my preference - but selecting other options may adversly affect performance)
Direct Draw = YV12 and tick 'Overlay with colorkey' only.
That's it. Best performance to date and can play torrent or own DVD rips perfectly, providing they were not encoded as high as 640x480.
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I tried to find this under "options/settings" ...not alway 100% as you explained
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or have something installed on your Ameo that may be causing the conflict.
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TrueVGA
Tray Display
Free Cell
WM5torage
iAnywhere Pylon Pro
Adobe Reader 2.0
That's all....
Dieter

What are you using.. a U1000 / Advantage / Ameo?

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What are you using.. a U1000 / Advantage / Ameo?
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As to be seen in my profile ;-)
T-Mobile Ameo
Dieter

Is there anywhere else I can download this from?
Could someone e-mail it to me?
Rapidshare doesn't want to play.

Slave1 said:
Is there anywhere else I can download this from?
Could someone e-mail it to me?
Rapidshare doesn't want to play.
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Sorry you can't get the download Slave1. I just tried that rapishare link and it works for me. Don't know where else to get the complete package from as I put that one together. PM me your e-mail and I'll send it you if you like.

Try This....
dieterpapa said:
can't select any of them - only get a "no"-picture
I used for configuration:
I tried to find this under "options/settings" ...not alway 100% as you explained
TrueVGA
Tray Display
Free Cell
WM5torage
iAnywhere Pylon Pro
Adobe Reader 2.0
That's all....
Dieter
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Hi dieterpapa. I re-checked the instuctions you say you followed and it is 100% as my current setup....with one exception...under options/settings chose;
ATI Imageon, then tick all boxes from top to bottom except 2nd and last box.
Even if your screen becomes scrambled, don't worry, it still happens to me from time to time....just soft-reset afterwards and hopefully all should be well. If not, the problem you have is beyond my understanding/knowledge.
Let us know how you got on.

I do not know if this is te 0.72 version or not. But I stumbled on a newer version the 0.81 version. You can find it here http://amd.co.at/anti/virus/TCPMP_0_0_81.rar
It is working great with the ATI driver!
QAN

TCPMP 0.81 Unofficial release
QAN said:
I do not know if this is te 0.72 version or not. But I stumbled on a newer version the 0.81 version. You can find it here http://amd.co.at/anti/virus/TCPMP_0_0_81.rar
It is working great with the ATI driver!
QAN
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Hi QAN. The 0.81 version is not an official release from the Corecodec team and as such they will not give any technical support on it, but I'm currently using that one as well and it works well, as you say.

Which begs the question:
Since we have a wonderful device with a 640 x 480 resolution, is there anything available that can play videos in this mode or do we have to live with QVGA because the ATI chipset just doesn't perform... this would be a real bummer as the CPU should be able to handle it, shouldn't it?

My words ! But apparently it's all ATI's fault ;-( What use is a large 5 inch screen if all you can do is display some fancy today plugins in QVGA ?

Note, however, that TV-out seems to be VGA, which suggests that the video card should be able to handle VGA. As far as I know, I have shown videos and PowerPoints at full VGA resolution using a projector.

A few quistions from a newbie.

i am from the netherlands (holland) europa so please don't start talkinghthat my english is rubbish. cause i now it is .
1. is a virus scanner needed ??..(on pda of course)
2. do you have tabpages (like I.E 7) or is this possible with another program ...
3. is gmail possible with i.e
4. does a sd-card with 150x a lot better than a normal one or is a normal 4gb sd enough.
5. does anytong got it to work to run cpu at 240 steady every you start your pda (automaticly )
so everytime you start your pda it runs on 240 mhz ..
6. does wisbar 3 runs on wm 5 so i can have a vista skin.
7. and did anyone try to download a program to download stuuf wit a torrent downloader on youre pda ..
( a torrent downloader on youre pda does it work ??)
thanks for your help so far you are great , keep up the great work ..

Welcome to the forum!
Don't worry about your English level, many of us here including my self are not native English speakers. (I owe a lot to the spell checker!)
Please make sure you read the WiKi and search the forums before asking. The answers are likely to be there already waiting for you.
Now to your questions:
1) No, currently there are no real viruses for Windows Mobile and though scanners exist they are way to heavy for a device with 200MHz processor.
2) Minimo (mozilla) has tabs but it is a very slow browser. You should check out NetFront and PIE Plus. Opera is good but their free Java version sends all your browsing information and your phone number back to the company so its kind of like spyware.
3) Not sure about IE but it should work with the built in outlook using POP3. There are some threads here about it.
4) The SD speed makes no difference in the phone because of the OS and the slow BUS.
5) There is a free program called OMAPCLOCK which can overclock the Prophet, but when you go to standby the CPU resets it self. There is another freeware (sorry don't remember the name) that can restart OMAPCLOCK when you turn on the device.
Note that the speed and stability with which you can run varies from device to device.
Unfortunately, I don't have answers for 6 and 7.

tanks that help a lot ,
my main qustions are now helped

6. Yes, there is a version for WM5
7. Yes. WinMobile Torrent

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5) There is a free program called OMAPCLOCK which can overclock the Prophet, but when you go to standby the CPU resets it self. There is another freeware (sorry don't remember the name) that can restart OMAPCLOCK when you turn on the device.
Note that the speed and stability with which you can run varies from device to device.
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now we just have one qustion left!
[EDIT=] i just found it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=270751 [/EDIT]

Hi, I noticed u posted a question in the batterystatus thread
In case you don't get an answer there (no offence, but it's a bit of a noob question) I will answer here, because that thread is long enough already
yes, you can overclock after reboot
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thanks super , iam sorrt for all my stupid quistions ,

i just got another one (qustion)
i want to buy a new 4gb sd (or 4 gb mmc) card but would ui need to do , do i stuuf it into my otek immditley or do i stuuf it into my pc and put music ont it , do do i need to format it fist ???
i dont want to screw up my sd card or my prophet
does this sd kaart works with the prophet (page is in dutch.SD tranced 4gb
or this one SD tranced 4 gb 150 X or this mmc card
a 4GB tranced MMC PLUS card .
my prefer is the trancend normal 4 gb SD card
or do the all work ..

There is no need to format SD cards before use, though if you want to do so its ok too.
You can use it in your phone right away, but copying files through ActiveSync is slow so if you have a card reader I recommend you use that to copy your music and any other files bigger than 10MB simply because it will save you a lot of time.
I couldn't quite read the language on the sites you provided, but as long as the card is not SDHC (High Capacity - new format) it will work with your Prophet. Some 4GB cards are SDHC and some are regular SD (all cards larger than 4GB are SDHC).
You should check with the sit to make sure it is regular SD.

oke thanks , the pages were in dutch .

HDD comparison

Dear shift users,
As we are always talking about installing other OSes or drives, I think that it worths to compare different solutions.
I have decided to begin with the HD Tach software in version 3.0.4.0 with 2 drives.. the shift 40GB and a IDE 120GB 7200rpm over USB.
Here are the results :
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and usb from the shift
and 6GB SD Card from USB .. I have tested with USB keys.. but 1 and 2GB is not good and 4GB is almost the same than this result
With the result, it does'nt seem that bad to install an OS on a USB drive. Someone has told me that it was possible... I will try to find how and to post it.
Regards
The koala.

OMG, is our disk speeds really that bad..........

bosjo said:
OMG, is our disk speeds really that bad..........
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yeah... really... I would like to get the HD Tach of people who have changed their drive.... is it possible? And it would be fine to precise if it is a 5mm or 8mm .. I will upload the post with news.. and try to make some graphics with comparison !

From memory, it's a 5mm but people have build 8mm in to it.
There is a thread about some where.
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wonder what speeds the controller can handle...

Due to an apparent hard disk failure yesterday I tried to run a portable version of windows from a USB stick (actually a micro sd card reader with an 8GB card in it) to try and attempt some kind of recovery from within an OS but it didn't work so I'm guessing there's more to be done than just putting an OS on an external drive. I'll explore this more later and try to install Windows 7 onto an external drive, unless someone else beats me to it.
Luckily, my Hard Disk picked up again, but unfortunately had to go through system restore
Better that than having to buy a new drive though I suppose.

matmaneyre said:
Due to an apparent hard disk failure yesterday I tried to run a portable version of windows from a USB stick (actually a micro sd card reader with an 8GB card in it) to try and attempt some kind of recovery from within an OS but it didn't work so I'm guessing there's more to be done than just putting an OS on an external drive. I'll explore this more later and try to install Windows 7 onto an external drive, unless someone else beats me to it.
Luckily, my Hard Disk picked up again, but unfortunately had to go through system restore
Better that than having to buy a new drive though I suppose.
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if you want to restore some data... you can use GetDataBack for NTFS.. which is able to read data that have been erased and formatted.. it's a great tool (but you need to pay the tool) which works like a charm !

added : SD card from USB
testing with a 1GB USB stick.

koala996 said:
if you want to restore some data... you can use GetDataBack for NTFS.. which is able to read data that have been erased and formatted.. it's a great tool (but you need to pay the tool) which works like a charm !
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Thanks for that. There wasn't a lot on the drive anyway, apart from Windows updates. I really need to get round to slipstreaming my updates into the recovery partition (easier said than done I think ) and putting my recovery partition onto a bootable USB stick. Nearly lost it all yesterday.
A bit too close for comfort!

bosjo said:
From memory, it's a 5mm but people have build 8mm in to it.
There is a thread about some where.
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wonder what speeds the controller can handle...
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yeah I know this .. I say that people should say if the disk they test speed is a 5mm or 8mm ;-) .. but I know the default is a 5mm (GAL = low height = 5mm)

ahhh, misread the sentence.....

Will benchmark my new SSD
Just got my SSD so tonight I will benchmark it with the same utility and post the results.

King Reeky said:
Just got my SSD so tonight I will benchmark it with the same utility and post the results.
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great thank you !

MTRON SSD benchmark
If anyone could give me a tip for taking a screen cap on the Shift as it doesn't have a PrtSc button then I'll put up the screen dump.
Stats from the long test are:
Random Access: 0.1ms
CPU Utilization: 0%
Average Read: 86.1 MB/s (although on the bar chart is says 95.9 MB/s)
- so about 3 times as fast as the original, and fantastic seek times.

King Reeky said:
If anyone could give me a tip for taking a screen cap on the Shift as it doesn't have a PrtSc button then I'll put up the screen dump.
Stats from the long test are:
Random Access: 0.1ms
CPU Utilization: 0%
Average Read: 86.1 MB/s (although on the bar chart is says 95.9 MB/s)
- so about 3 times as fast as the original, and fantastic seek times.
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you can use the "snipping tool" that's the best way in vista or 7.
just do : "new -> windows snip" and you just need to choose the windows and here you are ^^ please choose not to display the red borders. thx
amazing perfs

Have attached the screen cap now, noticed that the CPU usuage was way up on previous reading.

King Reeky said:
Have attached the screen cap now, noticed that the CPU usuage was way up on previous reading.
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thank you .. waw really amazing !!
Can you tell if it is a 5mm or 8mm ? I guess it is a 5mm (seeing H5 at the end of the number of the SSD) and how much you have paid for it?
Cheers !

The SSD was 5mm - slotted directly into the rubber shroud as a direct replacement and I paid $410 AUD delivered.
It is a lot of money for a drive smaller than the Shift came with But it is quicker for sure. Boot times for Windows XP Fundamentals was clocked at 17.5 seconds and Bootvis showed that it was the CPU slowing it down rather than the drive.
Re-installing OSes and doing benchmarks the drive got quite hot, so I am not really expecting any benefits with extending battery life.

More Charts
Adding some more charts showing Read and Access times

..and Random Access
I like these ones the best - big performance improvement here with the SSD

Do you have some bigger images?

Lumia 620 with WP8.1 or GDR3 ?

Hey ppl
i found a SD Card and this photo was in it
http://i.imgur.com/axUeIJd.jpg
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who can confirm if this is wp8.1 or GDR3 ??

Nice!

i dont think so its GDR3

I'd say it's a build from WP8.1 branch.

OMG!!!
PLEASE use SD card file recovery software, you might be able to get more out of it!!!!!
Post more deleted files please!!!

when im gone said:
Hey ppl
i found a SD Card and this photo was in it
http://i.imgur.com/axUeIJd.jpg
who can confirm if this is wp8.1 or GDR3 ??
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what the hell is that asterisk ???

dotcompt said:
what the hell is that asterisk ???
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i dont like that notifications square
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVC4BKWaP8
this on is better

NA

sorry i was busy at work last day
there is like a thousand of empty folders in the SD card and there is too many .tmp files
i tried to use SD card file recovery but the result was Zero
it's weird that the SD card is 8GB and there is just 5.6GB free space with empty folders and there is no hidden files
should i format the SD card ? :laugh:
***EDIT***
i found something interesting ( wp_ss_201307011_0001.tmp )
now how to change the extension to jpg
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what a shame

upload the files...

Check the partitions in disk managment, might have one hidden.

I have confermed real seen pictures of gdr3 and this is not gdr3 microsofts mobile os is amed at hardwhare spects and the gdr3 update is no different most wont beabele to take advantage of the gdr3 updates other then the notifications.
when it does hit there will be a new kid in town wp8.1 device in full hd 1920x1080 rez.
if that was gdr3 the tiles would not look like that.
WP8.1 branch. (Maybe!)

Has anyone noticed the background, something about Microsoft Confidential

funnypharmacist said:
Has anyone noticed the background, something about Microsoft Confidential
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Yea and nobody has a funny feeling about these things??????
Those things are always found by ones who are "Phone minded" and by "coincidence" members of a cociety.
Never by a child, or a housewife, or ................. Always found by a "geek".
Why on earth should someone put a picture on a sd card, specialy those guys who forces anyone else in the cloud.
And Always a picture, never ever some specific documents, no names or familypics just one single "mysterious" picture.
Lousy security or stupid people at work................yea sure
I belief its a sneaky act of commercial, just to make people curious and eager to buy

funnypharmacist said:
Has anyone noticed the background, something about Microsoft Confidential
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All non-public Windows pre-release builds have that watermark on desktop.

Amadeus01 said:
Yea and nobody has a funny feeling about these things??????
Those things are always found by ones who are "Phone minded" and by "coincidence" members of a cociety.
Never by a child, or a housewife, or ................. Always found by a "geek".
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maybe millions of housewives or children find thousands of these pictures everyday. But since they are not "geek" to them it's just a stupid photo of a phone. It requires a geek to see the details etc.

yeah, it happens a lot lately,
lost sd cards/usb sticks, hell even complete unlocked prototype cell phones.
And if i red of the sanctions, they are even bigger fools then they already wore.
Taking sneaky pictures.
Taking it outside
And for the final touch .....losing it.
Those offenders should not getting fired,
they should be getting shot at dawn.
just too many coincidences
But thats my opinion.

temporary_24 said:
upload the files...
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if you don't know how to change the extensions just please upload the files .. don't write anything on that SD card.

if the "memory" is really what most people believes to, then it might have a partition for WP 8.1
the new tiles layout matches vs GDR3 (notifications tile asterisk means a new message) and consolidated message center with Skype embedded
should be worth trying to recover the partition (some mfg use a microsd for internal storage) partition for system and rest for user available space (disregard having an additional slot)
P.S. is a MicroSD or just an SD?

WP8 devices are not using SD cards as internal storage. There were some WP7 devices that did but those activated the security features on the card so when it was removed from the device the only way to get the card usable again was formatting it (which deactivated the SD security feature). It's therefore highly unlikely that there is a system partition on a WP8 device's SD card.