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Menus' content turns white...

I installed PPC2003 yesterday and since, twice, the menus (start menu, new menu, edit menu) content turned white (font not visible) but still working (if I click on the edit, the text appears under the stylus) .
A soft reboot brings back everyting ok. :?
Any idea why ? :?:
I run PPC 2003 A.30.09 ENG
Radio A.33.02
on a PW10B1, with a 256 Kb SD card, and
Storage: 12 Mb free
Programs: 6 Mb free

Hmm, I had the menu turning white problem, and I eventually worked out that it was from too many menu items being on the start menu so that it had to scroll. Removing unnecessary items from the start menu brings the theme colours back to the start menu background. Maybe if you have a theme running that has a white font, the font is disappearing onto the white background?

ebswift said:
... Maybe if you have a theme running that has a white font, the font is disappearing onto the white background?
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Your comment made me realize one thing. The problem occured with the PPC 2003 Windows' default theme from the new installation just made available by ATT/Siemens (ie white font over a blue background) with the default Today's menu, and it's not the font that turned white, but the background (it was a white rectangle rather than the nice blue one I was expecting).
But once the problem came, it was also noticeable on the small Note or Contact edit menu (cut/paste...) where rather than having black or greyed font over a white background, everything was white.
As the upgrade was installed just 2 or 3 days ago (2004.02.01) and I was playing with it, reinstalling tools (and toys ), it's a bit hard to tell you the exact situation where it occurs.
Bernard

Hi guys!
It happened to me while updating and tweaking my XDAII ROM.
I've found that the problem arises when switching themes: looks like the system remains with the font colour changed, even after returning to the original theme, making everything unreadable (although still workable).
I think this is an issue related to PPC 2003, since this is both undocumented and there is no way to change the font colour either.

Today Colours - White Start Menu
This will change your Start Menu Font Colour to Black. WM2003 Inherits the font colour from the Today Scheme. Use a registry editor like PHM
Registry - Color Settings
Search exact match > Color
Value Name: SHColor
Value Data:
FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 DD DD DD 00 FF FF CC 00 00 3D 79 00 00 66 FF 00 30 80 CF 00 65 BB 26 00 00 33 99 00 FF FF FF 00 65 BB 26 00 65 BB 26 00 65 BB 26 00 05 24 99 00 4F 9A F6 00 FF FF FF 00 B4 CE F3 00 2A 2C C5 00 2A 2C C5 00 FF FF FF 00 00 33 99 00 00 66 FF 00 FF FF FF 00 C0 C0 C0 00 84 84 C3 00 FF 66 00 00 FF 66 00 00 FF FF FF 00 FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF FF 00 FF FF FF 00 FF FF FF 00 FF FF FF 00 FF FF FF 00 FF FF FF 00 FF FF FF 00 D1 E3 F7 00 FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00

This is easier http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=6782&highlight=

Today Colours - White Start Menu
Thanks - A much more elegant solution
Alex
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32mb pagepool ba wm6

Many Thanks to xda- developers esp helmi c xplod and mamaich for wm6.
We're luving it
Has anyone tried making a 32mb pagepool version of this yet ?

Actully，I make my BA‘s pagepool be 0M,Its speed is the same as that of 16M pagepool.If you like,you can change pagepool to any number as you wish.Following the list.
adrress:0x2565D3
00 00 00 00 =0M
00 00 80 00 =8M
00 00 C0 00 =12M
00 00 00 01 =16M
00 00 80 01 =24M
00 00 00 02 =32M
00 00 00 03 =48M

wongjam said:
Actully,I make my BA‘s pagepool be 0M,Its speed is the same as that of 16M pagepool.If you like,you can change pagepool to any number as you wish.Following the list.
adrress:0x2565D3
00 00 00 00 =0M
00 00 80 00 =8M
00 00 C0 00 =12M
00 00 00 01 =16M
00 00 80 01 =24M
00 00 00 02 =32M
00 00 00 03 =48M
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is this a hex edit? and if so, which file do we need to make it to? thx in advance.

hi, koi_desi_pagal
Have you tried to perform search and what results you get? Is there anything you dont understand or causing problems in tutorial you've found?

unsuccessful
wongjam said:
Actully，I make my BA‘s pagepool be 0M,Its speed is the same as that of 16M pagepool.If you like,you can change pagepool to any number as you wish.Following the list.
addrress:0x2565D3
00 00 00 00 =0M
00 00 80 00 =8M
00 00 C0 00 =12M
00 00 00 01 =16M
00 00 80 01 =24M
00 00 00 02 =32M
00 00 00 03 =48M
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I am using winhex and realize that it doesn't use hexadecimal but decimal address, so I changed 0x2565D3 into 2450899 but it seemed unable to work although I tried 4 choice of searching (from begin, from back...). I also tried to find the value 00000001 but unsuccessful.
All works were done in nk.nbf
Any ideas?

oradoe said:
I am using winhex and realize that it doesn't use hexadecimal but decimal address, so I changed 0x2565D3 into 2450899 but it seemed unable to work although I tried 4 choice of searching (from begin, from back...). I also tried to find the value 00000001 but unsuccessful.
All works were done in nk.nbf
Any ideas?
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@oradoe
In order to successfully hex edit a rom, you first need to convert the nk.nbf into NK.nba. Then, you hex edit, and finally reconvert it to nk.nbf.
Since you might ask how to do that, you may want to go to the Blue Angel Upgrading forum and look for the thread called "the Reason for the BA slowdown". If I am not mistaken, you should look within the first 5 to 7 pages and you will see a post from Forza that explains how to do the whole thing. Just remember that the WM5 address for the page pool is different from that of WM6.
Happy Hexing

Did anybody test different pagepool?

i been searching for 8hrs at wiki n forum, downloading more than 50 files (typho5.exe, xda3nbftool.exe etc:..) but still nothing.
Still trying....

And the addresses for Wm6.1? Thanks.

Help me find page pool offset in Tosh g900 rom

Hi,
I'm trying to find the location in ROM where the page pool size is stored on my Toshiba g900. I dumped the file from ROM as described in "Paul's guide" on MoDaCo (http://www.modaco.com/Paul-s-guide-to-changi-t256280.html) but his method to find the offset doesn't work here.
Looking for the first string ('NKKD8') twice is not a problem, but the second (hex) string ('FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 9B 4F FF FF 64 B0 00 00') just doesn't exist in this file. I've tried a lot of possible variations.
Could someone please take a look for me? I'm going crazy here. This is my ROM dump: http://rapidshare.com/files/54236179/Part02.zip.html
Thanks in advance...

Add Cities to Weather-Tab?

Hi, Weather Database Editor doesnt work with my Girlfriends Touch 3G (german).
Is there any Solution to manually add Cities?
Thanks. =)

Same problem here

Try this one..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2488224&postcount=73

Thanks but it does no show any cities...

yepp, seems that the database has another filename...
i try investigating this...

Ok, found the Database. =)
Its HH_0407_WeatherCities.xml (for German Users i think).
Bad news:
Its hidden/system/in rom
Any ideas how to rename it?
I copied it to the PC and edited the Cities in but i cant copy it back to the phone...

You can easily overwrite the file with resco explorer after disabling touchflo from the today screen but I have yet to find a way to copy the file to the pc. Could you share your xml please?

Ok I am getting nearer.
Disable touchflo
Copy HH_0407_WeatherCities.xml from the /windows folder to your pc.
Edit the xml to include your new city.
Copy it back to the phone into somewhere like "My Documents" then use resco explorer to move it to /windows and overwrite the original file.
Copy manil2d.exe from windows to your pc,
download XVI32 from http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm
download sign code from N2A's site http://weather.not2advanced.com/files/SignCode.zip
Open manila2d.exe in XVI32 and do a search for "weather.manila1.htc.com" ( make sure Unicode check box is checked )
You will see the update URL in unicode , which means that if you want to replace it , there has to be a hex 00 between every letter !
It needs to be changed to something like weather.not2advanced.com/htcweather/forecastdata.php?locCode=%s%s%s
save manila2d.exe and sign it using N2A's batch file
Copy it back to the phone into somewhere like "My Documents" then use resco explorer to move it to /windows and overwrite the original file.
Now I have the new city listed but when I update, all the temperatures = 0
I'm not sure what I have done wrong but I think the URL is wrong.
Any ideas?

Ok, the URL was different for me.
Done that but without the %s%s%s.
Still not working.
I can select the cities but i cant see them in the tab.
Update says that it cannot get updates for the selected city.

Hi Vibez
I reply here instead of the PM , so the others can read it aswell
I don't have a touch 3G so I cannot experiment for you , but 1 thing is sure ,
people had the same issue on the Diamond ( cities not updating after hex-edit ) when the hex-edit was not done 100% correctly ...
So 2 questions :
1) Did any of you try the reigistry hack from the diamond ?
In stock ROM, the URL used to update the weather is a specific Accuweather URL. WDE change it to point to N2A'website ( http://weather.not2advanced.com/ ).
Registry key=HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\Manila
String value Name=Weather.ServerURLOverride
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2) when u tried patching , did the replacement weather string have EXACTLY the same length as the original ? On the diamond , it was an absolute no-go when the length was different
Open manila exe in XVI32 and do a search for "weather.manila1.htc.com" ( make sure Unicode check box is checked )
You will see the update URL in unicode , which means that if you want to replace it , there has to be a hex 00 between every letter !
I then replaced : http://weather.manila1.htc.com/widget/htc/forecast-data_v3.asp?locCode=%1s&?ac=TR2cra9U
with : http://weather.not2advanced.com/htcweather/forecastdata.php?locCode=%1s&ac=XDADevs1234
Those two lines have exactely the same length upto there ( That's why i added 1234 to the XDAdevs , thankfully that's ok with N2A's site ) so the rest of the URL ( &device=innovation etc.. ) can remain unchanged !
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If that fails to work , send me a copy of the manila app ( modded and original maybe so I can see what u did ) , I'll look at it , patch it & send it back for you to try ...
I can't promise anything of course , but I'm on holidays this week , so I've got a little time to spare ;-)
cheers,
Claude

Thanks for the info!
Unicode-Strings should be NULL-terminated to, so all i've done was to zero out the remaining chars.
I give it a try and answer here asap.
//edit:
Ok, works but Temps are at 0°C.
Seems that the XML-Format has been changed.
BTW: String used for Patching Mainila2D.exe was:
000D8858 68 00 74 00 74 00 70 00 3A 00 2F 00 2F 00 77 00 65 00 61 00 74 00 68 00 h.t.t.p.:././.w.e.a.t.h.
000D8870 65 00 72 00 2E 00 6E 00 6F 00 74 00 32 00 61 00 64 00 76 00 61 00 6E 00 e.r...n.o.t.2.a.d.v.a.n.
000D8888 63 00 65 00 64 00 2E 00 63 00 6F 00 6D 00 2F 00 68 00 74 00 63 00 77 00 c.e.d...c.o.m./.h.t.c.w.
000D88A0 65 00 61 00 74 00 68 00 65 00 72 00 2F 00 66 00 6F 00 72 00 65 00 63 00 e.a.t.h.e.r./.f.o.r.e.c.
000D88B8 61 00 73 00 74 00 64 00 61 00 74 00 61 00 2E 00 70 00 68 00 70 00 3F 00 a.s.t.d.a.t.a...p.h.p.?.
000D88D0 6C 00 6F 00 63 00 43 00 6F 00 64 00 65 00 3D 00 25 00 31 00 73 00 00 00 l.o.c.C.o.d.e.=.%.1.s...

Ahw F...!
Tested the original URL:
first, city in original database:
http://htc.accuweather.com/widget/htc/forecast-data.asp?ac=TR2cra9U&locCode=EUR|DE|GM011|AACHEN
second, city manually added:
http://htc.accuweather.com/widget/h...ac=TR2cra9U&locCode=EUR|DE|GM017|SCHMALKALDEN
second URL does NOT give any information back in the XML...
Seems that the database is also online and it trys to find the city there...
OK, tried the not2advanced URL, XML Format has changed heavily...
*sniff*

Garfield1970,
Thanks for helping out.
The registry trick did not work.
I did find a patched version of manila2d.exe from another rom that works perfect on our phone, but ideally I would like to see how to patch the original version that our phone ships with. The hex surrounding the URL string in our manilla2d.exe looks a little different. I'm not 100% there is enough room to fit the full N2A url in!
I will post all 3 versions later for you to play with.

Weltherrscher said:
Ahw F...!
Tested the original URL:
first, city in original database:
http://htc.accuweather.com/widget/htc/forecast-data.asp?ac=TR2cra9U&locCode=EUR|DE|GM011|AACHEN
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Ok
second, city manually added:
http://htc.accuweather.com/widget/h...ac=TR2cra9U&locCode=EUR|DE|GM017|SCHMALKALDEN
second URL does NOT give any information back in the XML...
Seems that the database is also online and it trys to find the city there...
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That's normal as that city is unknown to the HTC Server
OK, tried the not2advanced URL, XML Format has changed heavily...
*sniff*
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Indeed , I just compared the XML Outputs for Aachen from HTC & N2A , they changed the format .... But if you ask N2A very very nicely and if he has some time to spare , he might eventually adapt a version of his script to reflect the other XML format
You can clearly see the differences between the following two outputs :
http://weather.not2advanced.com/htc...hp?locCode=EUR|DE|GM011|AACHEN&ac=XDADevs1234
is the Diamond compatible format
http://htc.accuweather.com/widget/htc/forecast-data.asp?ac=TR2cra9U&locCode=EUR|DE|GM011|AACHEN
is the format the touch 3g seems to need ....
I'll crosspost the URL's to N2A's main thread so he can maybe have a look
Claude

Just for info the XML format that ships with our ROM works fine with N2A.
To me it seems N2A provides extra elements which I assume is for compatibility with HTC home.
So no need as far as I can tell to ask him to change anything.
Unless i'm getting confused in what you are saying?

vibez said:
Just for info the XML format that ships with our ROM works fine with N2A.
To me it seems N2A provides extra elements which I assume is for compatibility with HTC home.
So no need as far as I can tell to ask him to change anything.
Unless i'm getting confused in what you are saying?
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Are you sure that the N2A output works for you ?
Because if you look at the XML's , what your device expects is to see includes blocks titled :
Today
Tonight
Tomorrow
and then the following weekdays
whereas on my Diamond it's just current and the different Weekdays being reported
Claude

I'm 100% sure it works with this version of manila2d.exe that i'm using. Now it may be that this version I have uses the old format.
We don't have
Today
Tonight
Tomorrow
we just have current temp, and hi, lo for each day

You mean using the patched manila from the other rom that you mentionned earlier ?
Might be that the format switch has happened between differen Rom versions ?
Claude

Garfield1970 said:
You mean using the patched manila from the other rom that you mentionned earlier ?
Might be that the format switch has happened between differen Rom versions ?
Claude
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Yes it could be that. Although the end result is the same. The original version only showed Current and hi/lo temps

Ok i've attached the files
Manila2D_original.exe
This is the original unpatched file
Manila2D_original_patched_not_working.exe
This the original file I tried to patch without success
Manila2D_patched_ok.exe
This is the patched file from another rom that works ok.

VS995 - Error using Uppercut - Cannot decide device boot mode. set Unknown Mode

I recently acquired a Verizon-branded LG V20 (VS995) and I my eventual goal is to put TWRP and LineageOS on it like my last phone. The first step is to downgrade it to a vulnerable stock image using UPPERCUT. However, I'm finding that LGUP is unable to begin to perform the flash.
My setup/procedure is as such:
1. Fresh Windows 7 x64 installation in Virtualbox 5.2.16 on Arch Linux
1a. USB filter setup so that USB 1004:633a is always passed through to Windows 7
2. Installed drivers: LGMobileDriver_WHQL_Ver_4.2.0.exe
3. Installed LGUP 1.14: LGUP_Store_Frame_Ver_1_14_3.msi
4. Insert battery into LG V20 VS995
5. Insert USB into computer
6. Hold VOLUP while inserting USB-C into V20
7. Wait as "download mode" message appears and then changes to "Firmware Update" screen.
8. Wait for Windows to install all drivers, ensuring devmgmt.msc shows COM port
9. Launch UPPERCUT v1.0.0.0, granting admin permissions
10. Wait for LGUP to launch, initialize, and show a VS9951CA device
11. Select the December 2016 KDZ: VS99512A_06_1114_ARB00.kdz
12. Select UPGRADE and hit Start
After waiting for the 15 second initialization period, LGUP displays the error "Cannot decide device boot mode. set Unknown". If left in this state for several minutes, LGUP will eventually bring up a dialog saying "Error: 0x2000, Port open error (COMX)". LGUP sometimes says it is on a step which I have not transcribed correctly but resembles "_prepareAndDL" before showing the "Cannot decide device boot mode. set Unknown" error, but I've only seen this step once or twice.
SHA1 sums of the files I'm using:
eac54e3e0cfe6e8d7cd395e245170e13de4fcd67 lgmobiledriver_whql_ver_4.2.0.exe
f7b41f77047698bc8e030dddf4ef6fbdb5c3af41 lgup_store_frame_ver_1_14_3.msi
46c9a349d62287d81c94ce7148233c0922604273 uppercut_1.0.0.0.zip
3104b93b7243e3274932b2c56b8383cdecf7ede3 vs99512a_06_1114_arb00.kdz
Is UPPERCUT still the recommended tool to flash stock firmware for this model? Should I be installing it via fastboot instead (if so, is there a thread to follow)? Is the 1CA update no longer downgradable?
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I tried to use the patched LGUP tool instead of UPPERCUT to see if that helped at all. I did not try to flash the KDZ, but rather just tried to DUMP the existing partitions. I ran into the same error as the post title again.
Procedure:
0. In the LGUP program files directory:
1. Copy the original LGUP.exe to LGUP.original.exe
2. Copy the patched LGUP.exe into it's place
3. Copy in the 'model/common' directory from the patched LGUP zip
4. Steps 4->8 from above
9. Launch patched LGUP (no UPPERCUT)
10. Same as above
11. Select DUMP, hit start, select dump location
SHA1 sum of additional files:
242640ddb023308b9a103e0a767f27511c9a2db0 lgup_v20dll_patched.zip

I captured a trace of the USB communication with wireshark. I used the LG LAF protocol plugin (can't post links yet: github com/Lekensteyn/lglaf/blob/master/lglaf.lua) and it didn't find any USB frames that matched the protocol. I'm no USB wire protocol expert, but it looks like the phone is sending a response:
Code:
0000 1b 00 10 b0 62 03 80 fa ff ff 00 00 00 00 09 00 ...°b..úÿÿ......
0010 01 02 00 01 00 83 03 97 00 00 00 ef a0 00 00 00 ...........ï*...
0020 00 00 56 53 39 39 35 00 00 00 00 00 56 53 39 39 ..VS995.....VS99
0030 35 31 43 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 51CA............
0040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 33 35 39 39 36 ...........35996
0050 38 30 37 32 39 39 39 30 37 36 00 00 00 00 00 60 8072999076.....`
0060 1e 41 6e 64 72 6f 69 64 00 00 00 37 2e 30 00 00 .Android...7.0..
0070 00 00 00 00 00 3X 3X 3X 3X 3X 3X 3X 3X 3X X9 00 .....XXXXXXXXXX.
0080 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0090 00 00 00 00 00 00 31 63 6f 6d 6d 6f 6e 00 00 00 ......1common...
00a0 56 5a 57 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7d 5d VZW1..........}]
00b0 86 7e .~
There were five such frames, all essentially identical less a byte or two. I suspect if I had let the capture go they would have continued to arrive at an interval. So it's possible the LGUP tool just is not recognizing the ping that the phone is sending?

Install the VirtualBox extension pack and set your USB config for that VM to 2.0 or 3.1, and you should be good.
1CA is definitely downgradable. This is a USB communication problem.
-- Brian

I re-confirmed that I had the guest extensions installed (VM has no nic and all files were transferred in via shared folders, which requires guest extensions). But it turns out I did have the USB bus set to USB 2.0. After setting that to USB 3.0 and installing the Intel USB3 drivers for Windows, LGUP started the download without issue. This is still the patched LGUP (no UPPERCUT) and using the UPGRADE option with the KDZ mentioned in the OP. Oddly enough, it did not clear my data, as it asked for my encryption passphrase when it rebooted. It did successfully downgrade me, so I just did a factory reset to clear my old data and apps. As a reminder, the LG out-of-the-box experience starts checking for OTA updates as soon as the phone starts up, so remove your SIM before you start.
1. Remove SIM
2. Do one of the following:
CLI:
Code:
vboxmanage modifyvm $vmname --usbehci off && vboxmanage modifyvm $vmname --usbxhci on
UI: Right click VM > Settings > USB > USB 3.0 (XHCI) Controller