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T-Mobile MDA compact with PocketPC platform can't run .exe

This is my first post and I have looked around but it seems no one has the same problem with me or I could miss something.
I just got a MDA compact from T-Mobile UK. I wanted to install some applications but I can only use .CAB files. When I tried to execute a .exe file it says "'file_name' is not a valid Pocket PC application". After that I found out my MDA using Pocket PC platform.
Question is how I can use those .exe files. Would upgrading ROM help?

If they are the correct .exe programs for Pocket PC 2003 SE then I believe they can be installed via ActiveSync.
Someone correct me if i'm wrong.

Re: T-Mobile MDA compact with PocketPC platform can't run .e
syhung said:
Question is how I can use those .exe files. Would upgrading ROM help?
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By far the most .exe files you can download from the Internet for a PocketPC are actually installers that need to be run on your desktop PC, not on the PocketPC itself. Make sure your PocketPC is connected to your PC and ActiveSync is running, then try starting these .exe on your PC.
If your desktop machine is a Mac or any other non-Windows PC, you are out of luck basically - then you need to ask someone with a Windows PC to run these .exe for you, grab the extracted .cab from some temporary directory, and give those to you.
Cheers
Daniel

Just for the sake of completeness, you cannot install Smartphone software on a Pocket PC, despite the similarly-named OS :wink:

misunderstanding
so far that I know, exe can only be executed on the desktop pc. while cab files u can executed it in ur pocket pc.

Omg...I'm so dumb...
Thanks a bunch guys

Need help for PDF Software

Dear Reader,
I have downloaded a PDF software from the followin site for my XDA IIi,
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerforppc.html
but it says 'AdbeRdr20_ppc_enu' is not a valid Pocket PC application. Kindly help me out. I need this software in my PC.
Thanks & Regards,

That's the installer .exe - you have to ActiveSync your PPC and run the .exe on your desktop PC.

Need your help
Now let me know what do i have to do if I need PDF software in Mobile?
Thanks & Regards,

Well, maybe I was too short in my first answer (or am _I_ getting *you* wrong?) ... anyway:
the thing that you downloaded from Adobe in fact _is_ the reader software for PocetPCs - _but_ it's not an exe, you simply copy onto your device (or maybe you downloaded it directly onto the PPC?), and it would run there.
Shure, it's an .exe file - but not for PPC. It's one for Windows, to be run on your desktop computer - as an installer for the PPC.
So, if you don't have it already on your workstation, move it there;
connect your XDA with ActiveSync to your desktop machine;
start the downloaded .exe on your desktop;
let the upcoming install shield lead you through some dialogs;
then that program will do the installation of Acrobat Reader 2.0 for PPC onto your XDA;
if the XDA asks you something, answer accordingly;
done.
It also installs some converter into ActiveSync, that tries to optimize transferred .pdf files for display on mobile devices (well, I switched it off ...).
But beware: as good as the Reader for PPC is (at least imho), it needs a lot of space (some 8MB).
Let me know, if I understood you completely wrong.
Greetings.

Thank You it's working now
Hi Dear,
Thank you very much it's working now in my mobile.
Thanks & Regards,

New MDA, installing.... noob quesitons.

Hi, I just bought my MDA, and i been searching n i found registry wizard, how do i install that its cab file? in my MDA? what kinds software i need on my pc, to transfer stuff? and how do i back up my whole phone or something so if something goes wrong i could always restore? can someone ask my few quesiton. thank you soo much in advance.

http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=248516
^^^ just right click on the cab file. and select cabviaacticesync. then when you sync your mda it will install. you can delete any programs off your phone in the settings.
try that. that helps for people that cant figure it out. but all you would normaly do is move the cab file to you mda.

are you using windows vista or xp? if xp, download the latest version of active sync from Microsoft.com. If using vista get the windows mobile device center from the same place. Connect by following instructions, then explore the advice and drop the .cab file somewhere on it. Pick up your phone; open file explorer; and click on the file you put there. .cab files do everything themselves.
As far as backing everything up, i dont know the best way to do it. Just put stuff on your comp, thats what i do.
oh and next time, please try and search. Other people are going to yell at you

Help Please!!!

Hey, I have the XDA Trion (UK)
and im having real trouble installing new programs to it. Ive tried loads of them and when i put them onto my phone via ActiveSync then click on them on my phone it says "this file is not a valid PocketPC program" or something along those lines. Please help me out Thanks.
Also is there a free program for the XDA Trion that is like MS Paint?
Thanks again

clayton7 said:
Hey, I have the XDA Trion (UK)
and im having real trouble installing new programs to it. Ive tried loads of them and when i put them onto my phone via ActiveSync then click on them on my phone it says "this file is not a valid PocketPC program" or something along those lines. Please help me out Thanks.
Also is there a free program for the XDA Trion that is like MS Paint?
Thanks again
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As an example, what programs are you trying to install on your phone? You can't install .exe files, just .cab files. Can you please clarify?

ahhh.. .cab files ok.. well i had a different Version of the MidletManager which had like 6 005 files or somert like that and an setup.xml file, but that didnt work. also tried goodle maps which had the same sort of files called 005 file or somert lol
please post back!

ok so ive got it work now.
just need a paint program thats free and in a cab file please?

Tom Tom navigator 6 assistance

Firstly hello i,m new here and have just purchased a, htc tytn and i love it but i,m sort of new to ppc .
Anyway i,ve just got this , v6 plus Maps - 108.92M & Maps v6.6 - 182.29M basically its TTN V6 GB Install will this work on the tytn ?.
Now i have searched the forum for a while for installation guides for putting this onto my ppc but all i have come up with is mostly gps reciever stuff .
I,m not quite sure about this but i have a 2gb card do i put this in my storage card and just set it up from there ,and what would i do with the maps folder i have or should i ask were it all goes ?.
Appreciate any help and thanks in advance mik.

Do you have all that on CD or have you downloaded files?
Mike

Thanks for the reply mike ,they were on a disk my brother gave them to me and i,ve tranfered them to my pc .
And as i,ve stated i was going to use them on my hermes phone but unsure of the installation ?.

mufc said:
Thanks for the reply mike ,they were on a disk my brother gave them to me and i,ve tranfered them to my pc .
And as i,ve stated i was going to use them on my hermes phone but unsure of the installation ?.
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Mmmmm. We could end up in some bother if we guide you through setting up copied versions of commercial software!
So just in general terms CDs normally have a file called "setup" or "install" (or other similar .EXE file) that you run on the PC. If the application is one that will end up on a PPC device then you would have that connected via usb to your computer. Typically running the install file will then open options to setup the program on your device.
In some cases on the CD you might find a .CAB file. This you would use Active Syncs "Explorer" button to navigate to your PPCs storage card and move the CAB file across. Then on your PPC you would navigate to the CAB file and tap on it to install.
Regarding where to put Map files. My tomtom folder is on my storage card root directory. That is therefore where I put the map file. (NOT in the tomtom folder but on the root directory of the storage card. Map files for tomtom typically have names like GB_Plus_major_Roads_...... Do not rename it or else tomtom won't find it.
Mike

Hiya mike i gave it up as i thought the files could be corrupt or maybe dwnloaded from somewhere and did,nt want to ruin my phone with corrupt files .
I,m sure i,ll be seeking your or other members help in the future as i,m kinda new to ppc file transfers and what you can do with this grt phone .
Once again thanx for your input