How to secure my xda II mini - JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General

Just wondering if there are other ways you guys are using to protect your pda besides the default password (which is kinda useless i reckon). My friend just got her pda stolen and didn't have any security/locks on it. Just wondering what else I can do to protect the information in there before it is misused in any way.
Thanks.
Kind regards,
jules

you could use Ultimate Theft Alert v3 for Pocket PCs

Thank you Websinister
I just made a special Hard-reset survival method yesterday by utilizing 2577(Autorun function) specially for Magician users as there's no Ext.ROM Unlocker.

Hmmmm will have to look into that software. I've just found Omega's 1-Pass and its okay for starters i suppose. :/

Carty said:
Thank you Websinister
I just made a special Hard-reset survival method yesterday by utilizing 2577(Autorun function) specially for Magician users as there's no Ext.ROM Unlocker.
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no problem...
and btw thanks for the good app...i have to try thing out...

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IIWPO theft protection on your XDA II mini (In an hour!)

Having trouble integrating IIWPO theft protection in your XDA II mini's extended rom?
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PS: Please reply with your feedback as well.
Why do you remove autoexec in step 66? can you explain?
apparently it is a total commander's restriction. (i suppose?)
you see, you have to add "CAB: \Extended_ROM\IIWPO.CAB" before the first line.
but to keep the file at the same size, deletion of the last 2 lines (which isn't really important) is necessary.
yup. i hope that answers your question.
Errr ... What does it do ?
Will the phone scream ? Detect unauthorized hand ?
I went to the website and found nothing about how does it protect from theft.
err i suppose you do not know wad is iiwpo.
you can go to http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=IIWPO to find out more.
newzl said:
apparently it is a total commander's restriction. (i suppose?)
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I you get the VirtualDisk plugin for total commander, you can mount it to a driveletter (instead of treating it like an archive), and edit / add as many files as you want...
yup.
bud for the sake of only adding in iiwpo, downloading the extra plugin and configuration is quite unnecessary.
i will still put the virtual disk plugin method into my guide soon.

fit4cat Hermes Tweaker v1.1 released

Hi all,
i have released v1.1 of my Hermes Tweaker.
News here:
http://www.fit4cat.de/thread.php?threadid=91
English Peoples can register here:
http://www.fit4cat.de/register.php?styleid=6
Have fun.
thanks again! it's working perfect here
pof said:
thanks again! it's working perfect here
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thanks goes to Arne Hess from http://www.theunwired.net again
he has test a lot a found a lot of errors before release
Also Thanks to Alex Januschewsky => http://www.mobilitynews.net
to Thomas Möller => http://www.sotmysoft.de
They all have test for me
THANKS TO XDA-DEVELOPERS FOR ALL TWEAKS
Great job, some very useful tweaks added.
excellent - just what i was looking for..
keep the good work up!
thanks
its got the bypass certification built in when you select unlock extended_ROM.
Can now edit config.txt to add a cab that auto-install protection software (eye on thief, with my config.ini) to send me wife the thief's phone no.
Hey BongoUser,
Great tool - many thanks.
One suggestion regarding Wifi:
I understand that the TyTN uses WiFi only at a rate of 11Mbit. A modification of the registry entry dot11DesiredTxRate from 0 to 13 will increase the speed to 54MBit/s.
Have not tested yet if this change will then allow operation in 54Mbit range only but I presume that also the slower networks are ok.
Maybe worth adding to the tool.
All the best,
StonyA
Hi BongoUser,
really great job !
Here a suggestion for a future update of your software, which should be fairly easy to implement:
An option to swap the HTTP User Agent in the Registry and afterwards have swap it back again to the TyTN default value.
The HTTP User Agent can be found as a Registry key (don't know it by heart at the moment; can drop you a line if you'd need that information) and allows you mimic your device for webservers checking this value as an other device, e.g. a Nokia phone
Apart from just making fun of this function there is also a practical use in some cases, in fact where a webserver checks the value for either oresenting a different screen resolution or switching to WAP mode (note: some Nokia phones just have a very poor screen resolution or even cannot present real http pages).
In some cases WAP pages are of advantage versus real http webpages because their size is smaller, e.g. when just retrieving pure information.
While there are surely more "sophisticated" (and probably also complex !) ways for upgrading the Hermes Tweaker I think this one would be swiftly implemented.
Regards
ghl10000
BongoUser said:
Hi all,
i have released v1.1 of my Hermes Tweaker.
News here:
http://www.fit4cat.de/thread.php?threadid=91
English Peoples can register here:
http://www.fit4cat.de/register.php?styleid=6
Have fun.
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@BongoUser,
Thank you very much for this nifty tool.
However I have found something strange with it.
I disabled the CommManager from the taskbar and suddenly the battery icon is disabled as well.
Cheers,
Drifter
Very sorry to be so stupid !!! But I confess that I don't really understand what mean "Extended Rom" ?
Does it mean that I can use a part of this "extended rom" as a space ram to softs ?
What does it mean if I select "Mount Ext Rom" and "Unlock Ext Rom" ?
Thanks to be indulgent.
H2zO said:
Very sorry to be so stupid !!! But I confess that I don't really understand what mean "Extended Rom" ?
Does it mean that I can use a part of this "extended rom" as a space ram to softs ?
What does it mean if I select "Mount Ext Rom" and "Unlock Ext Rom" ?
Thanks to be indulgent.
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It means the space where you can find the CAB Files from Orange or O2.
It will be installed after every hardreset.
If you don't know what Ext Rom is, don't unlock it and don't mount it !
Is there anywhere else this can be obtained ?
Registered about lunchtime - and still no confirmation yet so can't download it
It's not that I expect them to jump at my command - I'm just keen thats all
zoidster said:
Is there anywhere else this can be obtained ?
Registered about lunchtime - and still no confirmation yet so can't download it
It's not that I expect them to jump at my command - I'm just keen thats all
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Hi, i have activate your account.
BongoUser said:
zoidster said:
Is there anywhere else this can be obtained ?
Registered about lunchtime - and still no confirmation yet so can't download it
It's not that I expect them to jump at my command - I'm just keen thats all
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Hi, i have activate your account.
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Excellent service !! Cheers mate
H2zO said:
I don't really understand what mean "Extended Rom" ?
What does it mean if I select "Mount Ext Rom" and "Unlock Ext Rom" ?
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Read the Hermes for Beginners page on the wiki:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_For_Beginners
Thank You
BongoUser said:
pof said:
thanks again! it's working perfect here
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thanks goes to Arne Hess from http://www.theunwired.net again
he has test a lot a found a lot of errors before release
Also Thanks to Alex Januschewsky => http://www.mobilitynews.net
to Thomas Möller => http://www.sotmysoft.de
They all have test for me
THANKS TO XDA-DEVELOPERS FOR ALL TWEAKS
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Thank you all for this useful and very functional bit of free software.
Thank You
BongoUser said:
pof said:
thanks again! it's working perfect here
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thanks goes to Arne Hess from http://www.theunwired.net again
he has test a lot a found a lot of errors before release
Also Thanks to Alex Januschewsky => http://www.mobilitynews.net
to Thomas Möller => http://www.sotmysoft.de
They all have test for me
THANKS TO XDA-DEVELOPERS FOR ALL TWEAKS
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Thank you all for this useful and very functional bit of free software.
Registration on www.fit4cat.de
I registered on page http://www.fit4cat.de/register.php?styleid=6 two days ago (to get fit4cat 1.1) but I didn receive any confirmation E-mail on my address up to now . My username and pasword is not funkction. Where I made mistake? Thanks...
Re: Registration on www.fit4cat.de
Jetra said:
I registered on page http://www.fit4cat.de/register.php?styleid=6 two days ago (to get fit4cat 1.1) but I didn receive any confirmation E-mail on my address up to now . My username and pasword is not funkction. Where I made mistake? Thanks...
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Hi,
i don't know where is the problem.
I had deletet 15 Accounts yesterday with no activision.
Please register again and send me your Username via PM.
I activate your account.
Re: Registration on www.fit4cat.de
Check your spam folder, my antispam filter detected the registration email as spam.

cannot find profile in 6828

hi all
i am very new to PDA but i have ipaq 6828. i cannot find profile manager to change profiles in phone.
can someone help me please
saneem said:
hi all
i am very new to PDA but i have ipaq 6828. i cannot find profile manager to change profiles in phone.
can someone help me please
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sadly this is the part PDA lacking in terms of basic phone function. Do take a look at "spb phone suite". Its my fav profiler for wm5
well i found O2 thingi and now its working well.
people here at this place are doing one heck of a good job.
clap
Do take note of the performance and batt life. Heard lots of issue with it. personally i prefer spb phone suite. Try it, u will prefer it to the o2 plus
saneem said:
well i found O2 thingi and now its working well.
people here at this place are doing one heck of a good job.
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Did you install O2 Plus? if so do you have a link you could link me up with. I've tried a .cab file i found but didnt work on my HP RW6828.
Thanks,

Ultimate Theft Alert v35!: Free offer

Hello All,
This is NiCK Carty from www.PocketPC-Live.com and I was here in xda for a very long time at the Artemis and Kaiser sections serving the community, even released a couple of slim Roms for Artemis (HTC P3300). Now that I have got myself a new HTC Athena (dopod U1000) after being impressed by the processor 624 Mhz Intel, I will enter this section now.
My first impressions on the device, it's damn good, probably better option to those who look for a UMPC.
As a welcome note, I would like to give 7 copies of my software Ultimate Theft Alert v35! (recently optimized for Athena under real VGA 128 dpi). The next 7 replies to this post will be eligible for the free offer. Download the trial version from here and mail me for Product keys.
I would love to hear your suggestions for my software.
Regards,
Carty..
Carty said:
Hello All,
This is NiCK Carty from www.PocketPC-Live.com and I was here in xda for a very long time at the Artemis and Kaiser sections serving the community, even released a couple of slim Roms for Artemis (HTC P3300). Now that I have got myself a new HTC Athena (dopod U1000) after being impressed by the processor 624 Mhz Intel, I will enter this section now.
My first impressions on the device, it's damn good, probably better option to those who look for a UMPC.
As a welcome note, I would like to give 7 copies of my software Ultimate Theft Alert v35! (recently optimized for Athena under real VGA 128 dpi). The next 7 replies to this post will be eligible for the free offer. Download the trial version from here and mail me for Product keys.
I would love to hear your suggestions for my software.
Regards,
Carty..
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Hello again Nick. You may not remember me, but I emailed you maybe a month ago, concerning mobile browsing on your webpage. Anyway , welcome and i look forward to trying your software.
Sounds good
Sounds good hope i am one of the 7 to receive a copy, [email protected]
Thanks again
Andy
Your program sounds great, I would love to give it a try. [email protected]
i didn't want to post twice, but i think he wants you to email him for the registration key.
i am replying to this for free software
Hey, good to have you here. Would also like a key to your program.
thanks a lot
[email protected]
Hi:
Am I so lucky to get a free license too?
Thank you
Richard
Hi,
Hope I'm not too late for this. My email is [email protected]. Thanks! Welcome to the club.
damn , just missed out!
Anyway, welcome to the athena!
Bugger! I was just reading a review of this after someone mentioned it on MoDaCo
Sent the keys to all 7 replies...
Regards,
Carty..
lakeman said:
damn , just missed out!
Anyway, welcome to the athena!
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Thank you. I hope to serve the community with the little knowledge I have.
Regards,
Carty..
For some reason my download crashes whenever I try to install it. It doesn't even open. I unziped the file and it's not running.
Did you open the unzipped file on a desktop PC? It has to be copied to Pocket PC and executed there!
Regards,
Carty..
Carty said:
Did you open the unzipped file on a desktop PC? It has to be copied to Pocket PC and executed there!
Regards,
Carty..
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Stupid me, that's what the problem was.
Well I missed out but would like to Welcome you back here Nick. I use WIMP now but yours seems so much better. I will have to try it out...TJ
Carty said:
Sent the keys to all 7 replies...
Regards,
Carty..
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Thanks Carty for your free gift. Will try it out tonight when I get some free time.
Edit: okay, installed it. It looks really really good. I like it better than WIMP if the monitoring integration can be installed.
I have a few questions.
1) I entered +614XXXXXXXX as my number to call when the phone is stolen, but it does not accept it. Why is this so? What if a SIM card of another country is inserted when we travel?
2) Often the top taskbar disappear. Do you have this problem? I also find that I'm unable to minimise it or switch to other applications when used in conjunction with wktask.
3) How do we make it possible for the problem to survive a hard reset?
4) How about letting the seven of us have the GPS and monitoring integration also? Or at least the monitoring integration. I like your concept of monitoring very much. I have been using WIMP in the past with GPS, but I find the GPS location to be too rough to be useful. I think the monitoring concept gives us much better chance of recovering the phone than WIMP would allow.
Fantastic application! Thanks again.
TrekkerJmm said:
Well I missed out but would like to Welcome you back here Nick. I use WIMP now but yours seems so much better. I will have to try it out...TJ
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Thank you
eaglesteve said:
Thanks Carty for your free gift.
1) I entered +614XXXXXXXX as my number to call when the phone is stolen, but it does not accept it. Why is this so? What if a SIM card of another country is inserted when we travel?
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Replace + with 00. Eg: 00614XXX Try it and let me known. It is the issue with some service providers who dont accept the format of message sent with certain parameters.
eaglesteve said:
2) Often the top taskbar disappear. Do you have this problem? I also find that I'm unable to minimise it or switch to other applications when used in conjunction with wktask.
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The application is made to take the full screen hiding the Start bar. This is only when you're in the Admin panel making some configurations. So for a few minutes, you can sacrifice Start ar ?
Or do you think the application doesnt bring back Start bar even after closing?
eaglesteve said:
3) How do we make it possible for the problem to survive a hard reset?
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Details available here
eaglesteve said:
Fantastic application! Thanks again.
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Your most welcomed
Regards,
Carty..
Depending on in which country the phone is stolen, the international prefix is different. But + is the universally acceptable prefix to replace all these prefix. That's why I thought it would be the correct way to set up the number.
BTW, I tried testing it. Unfortunately it does not seem to be sending out any SMS alert to the listed mobile phone number when I put in a SIM card which has not been added to the database yet. Are any of the other six users having this problem?
Also, when I tried to set up the customized text, the software abended with an error message saying "An unexpected error has occured in UTAv35.exe. Select Quite and then restart this program, or select Details for more informaiton" . When I select Details, I see the following information:
UTAv35.exe
NullReferenceException
at UTAv35.Form1.Button19_Click()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick()
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick()
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBasel.WnProc()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control._InternalWnProc()
at Microsoft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterMainLoop()
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run()
at UTAv35.Form1.Main()
I wonder if this (the inability to set up customise text, hence it is blank) is the reason why no alert message was sent?

Security Issue with Microdrive and Athena

Just wondering, if you have tonnes of important data in your storage card, but You already apply a PIN on your athena. When your athena got stolen and people hard resetted your device. Apparently your microdrive data doesn't get wiped out as well. Any solution to this?
You can use my software Ultimate Theft Alert v35!
I'm planning on having a remote wipe feature for Micro-drive where you send an sms with secret code and the entire micro-drive gets erased!
Regards,
Carty..
jlingo said:
Just wondering, if you have tonnes of important data in your storage card, but You already apply a PIN on your athena. When your athena got stolen and people hard resetted your device. Apparently your microdrive data doesn't get wiped out as well. Any solution to this?
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I don't think this is correct.When I was bitten by the password bug, EVERYTHING was wiped from my system - microdrive and sd card included.
I was super-impressed by the security, less so that I had to completely restore my Athena
Carty said:
You can use my software Ultimate Theft Alert v35!
I'm planning on having a remote wipe feature for Micro-drive where you send an sms with secret code and the entire micro-drive gets erased!
Regards,
Carty..
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So you're saying if I hard reset or flash a new ROM on the device the program will still be on there?
tootallk2000 said:
So you're saying if I hard reset or flash a new ROM on the device the program will still be on there?
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Not right out of the box. But you can make it available that way if you could cook your own ROM with the Kitchen here..
Do you think the thief's are well educated on hard-reseting these devices? I bet you came across hard-reset function in this forum or you were unaware of it atleast for quite some time?
Regards,
Carty..
Carty said:
Not right out of the box. But you can make it available that way if you could cook your own ROM with the Kitchen here..
Do you think the thief's are well educated on hard-reseting these devices? I bet you came across hard-reset function in this forum or you were unaware of it atleast for quite some time?
Regards,
Carty..
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What about the "Clear Storage" option in settings?
Carty said:
Not right out of the box. But you can make it available that way if you could cook your own ROM with the Kitchen here..
Do you think the thief's are well educated on hard-reseting these devices? I bet you came across hard-reset function in this forum or you were unaware of it atleast for quite some time?
Regards,
Carty..
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since we are already a bit off topic, carty would u mind contacting me about maybe integrating the full version of ur app into the next athena project rom like we have done with teksoftco fingertouch. thanx.
Great would be good news I guess

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