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What can a newbie do?

Hi all, another noob!
I've done a few searches to no avail so a simple question with lots of possible answers I'm sure:
As I have just received my O2 XDA Orbit, what, if anything, would the Moderators/Admin guys recommend I do to improve the performance of my Orbit (not that I am aware of any limits so far) or what essential bits of software should I have? Please be aware that my knowledge of computers, PDA's and all this other techno-wizardry could be written on the back of a nano-bot in large font, so please, it will have to be kept to a very very simple level.
If I am too dumb to be able to do anything other than enjoy what I have, please feel free to say so!

Garneth said:
Hi all, another noob!
I've done a few searches to no avail so a simple question with lots of possible answers I'm sure:
As I have just received my O2 XDA Orbit, what, if anything, would the Moderators/Admin guys recommend I do to improve the performance of my Orbit (not that I am aware of any limits so far) or what essential bits of software should I have? Please be aware that my knowledge of computers, PDA's and all this other techno-wizardry could be written on the back of a nano-bot in large font, so please, it will have to be kept to a very very simple level.
If I am too dumb to be able to do anything other than enjoy what I have, please feel free to say so!
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You could try reading the wiki - or using the search button for a start.....
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Artemis
But U guess that being a noob you have the honour of asking 1 silly question!!!
Enjoy the forums.

chandlercjh said:
You could try reading the wiki - or using the search button for a start.....
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Artemis
But U guess that being a noob you have the honour of asking 1 silly question!!!
Enjoy the forums.
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You see, one stupid question and I get access to something I wouldn't have known to look for. Now all I have to do is understand wtf it's all about. Never heard of a wiki before so I'm not sure what to do about that. That link looks great, but again I have no idea how to utilise it.
Sometimes, some of you guys forget just how difficult it is for noobs to this game!
Thanks though.

Since you are not looking for anything particular, using the search would be useless - the wiki is good but has many information for advanced noobies so why don't you start with reading all the threads that you find to be interesting.
I'd recommend you to go to pocketpcmag.com and check out the "best sites" section and start reading about pdas in general, download some apps and get to know Windows Mobile. Try your first registry hack or simply take a look inside to find out how it funtions.
When you have managed this (could take a month or more) then pick a ROM and flash it to your device. Before you do this be sure to do use the USPL patch and make sure you are doing everthing right BEFORE you do it! When your device is "bricked" you probably need help from somebody in the forum. It's better to have a working backup plan before you try that.
I think Meschle's ROM is a good start if you ever wanna try because he included the USPL patch to be sure that uploading his ROM doesn't mess with your pda.
Have fun using this great pda!

Registerme said:
Since you are not looking for anything particular, using the search would be useless - the wiki is good but has many information for advanced noobies so why don't you start with reading all the threads that you find to be interesting.
I'd recommend you to go to pocketpcmag.com and check out the "best sites" section and start reading about pdas in general, download some apps and get to know Windows Mobile. Try your first registry hack or simply take a look inside to find out how it funtions.
When you have managed this (could take a month or more) then pick a ROM and flash it to your device. Before you do this be sure to do use the USPL patch and make sure you are doing everthing right BEFORE you do it! When your device is "bricked" you probably need help from somebody in the forum. It's better to have a working backup plan before you try that.
I think Meschle's ROM is a good start if you ever wanna try because he included the USPL patch to be sure that uploading his ROM doesn't mess with your pda.
Have fun using this great pda!
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Thanks for that...things do start to become clearer. I will check out that web site and I think I now realise that this site is more for advanced users than complete newbies like me...sorry!
I will try a registy hack (once I find out how to do it... )
Thanks for your reply! <beer>

Registry Tweeks....

Excuse me if this has already done the rounds or there is already a resource which accomplishes the same...
It would be great if we had a resource that included all the common registry tweeks in one place so that a quick scan through could find solutions to common problems that can be resolved with a simple registry tweek.
I invite you to add tweeks that you have found useful & would like to share....

Impossible!!!!
harleym said:
Excuse me if this has already done the rounds or there is already a resource which accomplishes the same...
It would be great if we had a resource that included all the common registry tweeks in one place so that a quick scan through could find solutions to common problems that can be resolved with a simple registry tweek.
I invite you to add tweeks that you have found useful & would like to share....
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Let me be the first say this now before this thread (or you) get flamed hard. There are way too many communities/forums/devices out there, conisisting of way too many stock and cooked roms. When it comes to reg tweaking, it's best to use the search feature here, (which is strongly recommended and encouraged).

robosiris said:
Let me be the first say this now before this thread (or you) get flamed hard. There are way too many communities/forums/devices out there, conisisting of way too many stock and cooked roms. When it comes to reg tweaking, it's best to use the search feature here, (which is strongly recommended and encouraged).
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Ahhh, you beat me to it

egzthunder1 said:
Ahhh, you beat me to it
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Yes I did this time, but I have a sneaky suspicion it'll be the last time I'll beat you to the punch, lol. (jk)

There is the WiKi here, where I usually find and post registry tweaks.

Perfect just what I was after !!
There is the WiKi here, where I usually find and post registry tweaks.
Thanks for that.

How about tweaks to change how bluetooth is handled by different apps.
Appears that many of the available ROMs handle bluetooth differently & I'm assuming that this is largely due to registry settings. Does anyone have the low down on controlling the way the phone hands back control to audio manager after a call?

[Q] Everlasting Questions

As many of you will have seen I've been quite active on this forum from the moment I joined. I want to figure everything out for myself as much as possible, but it's just not possible to look up (and find!) everything. Thus, here are the questions that I can't find an answer for myself:
1) How do I change the standard SW keyboard, without it resetting after a soft reset? (E.g. to blackstone keyboard)
2) How do I change a registry value, without it resetting after a soft reset, when it normally does? (For instance the value whether your headset is plugged in, I want it to be default ON.)
3) How can I extract a cab file from a ROM? I would like to get WLive messenger from the stock ROM, but I just can't find a guide anywhere!
4) Is there a way to fix the problem that occurs with the HW keyboard when Blackstone SW keyboard is installed? The problem is the first keytap not being registered correctly, so the first letter ends up being the second or later. Call it input lag.
I intend to add the found answers to this post, as well as add other hard to answer questions others may have. That is, if an answer exists. Thanks in advance for those who try to help.

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Answers in bold.
Angelusz said:
As many of you will have seen I've been quite active on this forum from the moment I joined. I want to figure everything out for myself as much as possible, but it's just not possible to look up (and find!) everything. Thus, here are the questions that I can't find an answer for myself:
1) How do I change the standard SW keyboard, without it resetting after a soft reset? (E.g. to blackstone keyboard)
Use either Sktools to set it as default (it then uses a small program that starts up in startup folder) or Sipchange http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=271008 (not certain if this one works anymore)
2) How do I change a registry value, without it resetting after a soft reset, when it normally does? (For instance the value whether your headset is plugged in, I want it to be default ON.)
the headset is a tricky one, one way would be to run a script (mortscript maybe) to change the reg entry at startup, but I don't know how often the headset is polled (if at all) to check whether it's in or not).
3) How can I extract a cab file from a ROM? I would like to get WLive messenger from the stock ROM, but I just can't find a guide anywhere!
depends on whether it's a cab or not, unlikely. First you need to extract the rom, there are plenty of threads on this. but's it's obvious if you've tried a rom kitchen, you bung the ruu-signed.nbh in the baserom folder, start the kitchen.cmd and follow the instructions.
Then pour over all the folders and see if there's a cab. If there isn't you need to build one.
search for quickcab as a start (although that one doesn't allow you to import reg files (or *.rgu as they come out in the roms) so you have to do it manually.
4) Is there a way to fix the problem that occurs with the HW keyboard when Blackstone SW keyboard is installed? The problem is the first keytap not being registered correctly, so the first letter ends up being the second or later. Call it input lag.
use a different keyboard, I've not had this issue, but then I prefer the raphael one. There's plenty of other free keyboards about, lifes too short to work out why the software keyboard off one piece of hardware doesn't work with another.. ;P
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-tag-keyboard-1-date.html
I intend to add the found answers to this post, as well as add other hard to answer questions others may have. That is, if an answer exists. Thanks in advance for those who try to help.
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yellowjaap none of those are hard to find answers for questions,
just ones lazy people who can't be bothered to read ask.

fards said:
yellowjaap none of those are hard to find answers for questions,
just ones lazy people who can't be bothered to read ask.
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Haha, I'm afraid you're right on that one fards.
Thanks for your replies, can you give me a link to the raphael keyboard? I'd like to check it out.
Also, I've got tools to create a cab, but extracting a ROM the way you proposed will probably prove difficult, I'll look into it.
The headset value is polled by for instance the FM radio and audiobooster from HTC.

fards said:
yellowjaap none of those are hard to find answers for questions, just ones lazy people who can't be bothered to read ask.
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Oh yeah You're soooo bl**dy right
I owe you another beer fards
A "please search and read!!" SUPER POP-UP would solve 99% of the ubiquitous questions posts

Angelusz said:
Haha, I'm afraid you're right on that one fards.
Thanks for your replies, can you give me a link to the raphael keyboard? I'd like to check it out.
Also, I've got tools to create a cab, but extracting a ROM the way you proposed will probably prove difficult, I'll look into it.
The headset value is polled by for instance the FM radio and audiobooster from HTC.
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I can't even remember where I got teh keyboard cab from, I'll post it when I get the phone working again!
extracting the rom really is easy, the kitchens make it simple..
that new rom kitchen I linked to makes it even easier, but I still prefer the out and out gui pleasantness that's Pofs Linux rom kitchen
I don't mind answering your's and gtrabs questions, they seem to be the right questions !
just noticed I'm rapidly approaching a kilo posts, must make sure it's not a grumpy post that one...
I managed to miss some text out, but basically when you find the folder containing your desired files take the files out of the folder you want, including the corresponding 409 (or whatever language) folder and stick 'em in the cab software pretty easy to do .
Sometimes it doesn't work so try changing something or try to see if there's a dependency that's missing.
it's really not as secret or hard to do as it's sometimes is made out to be. The hard work has been done by the genius who write the software to let us do this.

turns out it's Smabergs keyboard I use..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2966597

Ah, very nice. Thanks. I've tried smabergs, it has some bugs (landscape mode broken) and it doesn't seem to be supported anymore. Will tinker around with it a bit, as it's good for portrait mode. (Blackstone, but then without the bugs!)

Of course you can find the anwsers to the blackstone cabs, if you would search them all individuality.
I found numerous people asking this question. Call them lazy, but this forum does not make it easier to find information in a convenient way. All i want is to make a nice overview of what all the cabs do and what they look like.
Member Norti has done the same with all the programs/tweaks. If you continue your statement you might also think that topic is unnecessary. I think this forum is very unorganized. Do you think its strange that people keep asking the same questions? I think the problem here is not in the hands of the people asking, but in the forums way of storing data. The search function is not a great tool to search with. Does anyone have some input so we kan make it better?
Maybe this is the wrong topic to post this in, but i thought it was a question many would like to have answered...

yellowjaap said:
Of course you can find the anwsers to the blackstone cabs, if you would search them all individuality.
I found numerous people asking this question. Call them lazy, but this forum does not make it easier to find information in a convenient way. All i want is to make a nice overview of what all the cabs do and what they look like.
Member Norti has done the same with all the programs/tweaks. If you continue your statement you might also think that topic is unnecessary. I think this forum is very unorganized. Do you think its strange that people keep asking the same questions? I think the problem here is not in the hands of the people asking, but in the forums way of storing data. The search function is not a great tool to search with. Does anyone have some input so we kan make it better?
Maybe this is the wrong topic to post this in, but i thought it was a question many would like to have answered...
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Fair enough. Do me a favor and move that post to a seperate topic, it's quite long.

Disk/System cleaner for HD2(Leo)?

Hey All,
I really hope I'm not posting an old hat topic, I did have a quick scour through the Leo Wiki and the forums and couldn't really find much along this subject line specifically for the HD2...Could any of you fine people out there with a HD2 recommend a good System or Disk cleaner for this fine product? Something to clear the Program caches, error reporting files and .tmps...that sort of thing.
I used to have Wizcode's Pocket Mechanic Prof for my Touch and it worked very well but I'm not convince it has been adjusted to support WinMo 6.5 properly.
Any advice would be gratefully received.
Thanks in advance.

Memaid is good, does lots of other stuff to, just dont enable the registry stuff.

Sorry...just seen this thread, but not much came out of it...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591305&highlight=cleaner
Certainly points to not using my beloved Pocket Mechanic!

jrvenge said:
Memaid is good, does lots of other stuff to, just dont enable the registry stuff.
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Thanks jrvenge...installing now.

[QUESTION] Dependencies for Phone Canvas?

I want to cook a ROM without Manila, but with Huashan Phone Canvas.
I know that is possible to cook a ROM with EzInput but without Manila, if you also cook in the dependency packages for EzInput.
So, my question is - which packages are dependencies for Huashan Phone Canvas?

Start reading from this thread it's "Resource (.DLL, .EXE, etc.)", especially
Dependency Walker
PEinfo
Have fun,

Thank you for your answer. I knew about that, i thought that I could save some time if someone already knows which packages I need for working Phone Canvas.
It doesn't matter if Huashan or oder Phone Canvas.

Try looking for the dependencies in the .dsm. And don't expect others to figure everything out for you, lol.

Farmer Ted said:
Try looking for the dependencies in the .dsm. And don't expect others to figure everything out for you, lol.
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Be careful with your words - I am looking and searching myself. But why should I look if someone already knows it? That is why we have the XDA Community - to share the knowledge.
You can "lol" on yourself.

Check here dude http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=49043742 these are all FarmerTed posts and ,as you can see, he does help a lot of people here.......i really dont think he needs to be careful by anything.......Now..this is only a laziness busisness, XDA community is great but it is not here for make the work for you......FarmerTed was kind to help you in the best way , for the rest take your precious 5 minutse of time to open a little file dsm ......this is only learning and it is far better then having the soup ready.
brainmaster said:
Be careful with your words - I am looking and searching myself. But why should I look if someone already knows it? That is why we have the XDA Community - to share the knowledge.
You can "lol" on yourself.
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af974 said:
Check here dude http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=49043742 these are all FarmerTed posts and ,as you can see, he does help a lot of people here.......i really dont think he needs to be careful by anything.......Now..this is only a laziness busisness, XDA community is great but it is not here for make the work for you......FarmerTed was kind to help you in the best way , for the rest take your precious 5 minutse of time to open a little file dsm ......this is only learning and it is far better then having the soup ready.
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Hey "dude", no one is making work for me. And you should also be careful what you are saying. You are MOD but id doesn't give you right or freedom to tell what you want and how you want. You don't know me - so you shouldn't judge me.
This is Chef Central, and its meant to ask questions and give answers.
If you can help - nice, I am grateful for your help. If you can't, don't call it "laziness business" or tell me that I am "expecting others to figure everything out for me".
I am seeing how much FarmerTed is helping the Community. I also appreciate his help on my issue. What I don't like is when someone try to make himself important upon the others with their "lol" comments.

brainmaster said:
Hey "dude", no one is making work for me. And you should also be careful what you are saying. You are MOD but id doesn't give you right or freedom to tell what you want and how you want. You don't know me - so you shouldn't judge me.
This is Chef Central, and its meant to ask questions and give answers.
If you can help - nice, I am grateful for your help. If you can't, don't call it "laziness business" or tell me that I am "expecting others to figure everything out for me".
I am seeing how much FarmerTed is helping the Community. I also appreciate his help on my issue. What I don't like is when someone try to make himself important upon the others with their "lol" comments.
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Look, sorry for the 'lol' comment. Lol. Anyway, I don't know what the mission statement is for this place (or anywhere else), but my feeling is that it's a good place to ask for help and get help-but 'help' doesn't strictly mean getting the answers to your questions. The first poster gave you help; I gave you a little help (suggesting that you look in the dsm for dependencies-that's what dsm's are for, but it may not answer your question). Anyway, you're much better off in the end learning how to answer your own questions then just having someone come along and answer them directly for you. Sharing techniques is more important than just sharing answers, imo.
Anyway, I suspect that there are threads out there that list the necessary dependencies for new HTC builds. Have you looked for any of them? That would be another approach. I honestly don't know the answer, as I use the stock MS phone canvas.

Farmer Ted said:
Look, sorry for the 'lol' comment. Lol. Anyway, I don't know what the mission statement is for this place (or anywhere else), but my feeling is that it's a good place to ask for help and get help-but 'help' doesn't strictly mean getting the answers to your questions. The first poster gave you help; I gave you a little help (suggesting that you look in the dsm for dependencies-that's what dsm's are for, but it may not answer your question). Anyway, you're much better off in the end learning how to answer your own questions then just having someone come along and answer them directly for you. Sharing techniques is more important than just sharing answers, imo.
Anyway, I suspect that there are threads out there that list the necessary dependencies for new HTC builds. Have you looked for any of them? That would be another approach. I honestly don't know the answer, as I use the stock MS phone canvas.
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Thank you, Farmer Ted. I have looked, but i didn't found any specific Threads about Phone Canvas dependencies. But i followed the suggestion to take a look into the DSM file. I hope that i will find the solution.
I know that you also use the OSBuilder for cooking, strange thing is when i look into the DSM file in OSBuilder for dependencies, it shows me only the files that are in the Phone Canvas package.
I also think that is much better to give the hint for the right direction how to get the answer or solution by yourself, and not answering directly the question.
From asking this question I've learned that you can find allot from DSM files.
Thank you all for your help.

@ brainmaster:
look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5960216&postcount=3 there are some tools that allow you to check the dependencies that you need.
I feel sorry for my previous post but as FT said ,is better to learn the practice instead to have the direct solution,maybe i didnt explain my self better and i didnt use good words for that.

af974 said:
@ brainmaster:
look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5960216&postcount=3 there are some tools that allow you to check the dependencies that you need.
I feel sorry for my previous post but as FT said ,is better to learn the practice instead to have the direct solution,maybe i didnt explain my self better and i didnt use good words for that.
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Thank you af974. I have no hard feelings. Still, it's nice of you to say that you are sorry.

af974 said:
@ brainmaster:
look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5960216&postcount=3 there are some tools that allow you to check the dependencies that you need.
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Alright, I used DSM Editor to find the dependencies of Phone Canvas Enhancement 2G v4.2.62520173131.0
But I could not find the given DSM file (the one specified as a dependency).
I've read through all the stickies about phone canvases, and searched to my wits end lol can't find a way to make any dialer work (not even the one from the ROM dump I used)!
Regards
Smith

Dependencies for the other files/modules, do not extend beyond the package.

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Dependencies for the other files/modules, do not extend beyond the package.
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Thank you Alexx~.
Can you please tell me what is that program that you are using to detect dependencies?

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Can you please tell me what is that program that you are using to detect dependencies?
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It will be available in the following (full, not LE) version OSBuilder

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It will be available in the following (full, not LE) version OSBuilder
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Do you know of any other way to detect dependencies?
So, what you said earlier, there aren't any dependencies for phone canvas enhancement?
Does anyone have a working WVGA phone canvas ext package they could share? I can't get one to work for the life of me :/
Update: so far, from scouring the forums, here is what I can find for phone canvas dependencies:
-Contact Utility Engine
-Message Enhancement, must match Phone Canvas Enhancement version
Update 2:
-Doesn't seem to work unless paired with it's same version HTC Scroll package

smithisize said:
Do you know of any other way to detect dependencies?
So, what you said earlier, there aren't any dependencies for phone canvas enhancement?
Does anyone have a working WVGA phone canvas ext package they could share? I can't get one to work for the life of me :/
Update: so far, from scouring the forums, here is what I can find for phone canvas dependencies:
-Contact Utility Engine
-Message Enhancement, must match Phone Canvas Enhancement version
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Also try to include:
- HTCScroll
- Facebook_Engine (for non huashan phone canvas)

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Also try to include:
- HTCScroll
- Facebook_Engine (for non huashan phone canvas)
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Ha I just edited my post then I read that you posted this too
HTC Scroll definitely had a piece in this ha. I have a feeling that, of course, Microphone (the corresponding version) and one other package (whose name escapes me) will also affect phone canvas. We'll find out!
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Ok, so here's an unofficial list of Phone Canvas Enhancement dependencies, for those of you who would like one:
-Contact Utility Engine
-Message Enhancement, must match Phone Canvas Enhancement version
-HTC Scroll
-PTT (Not always required, but it certainly was with the ATT dialer from the Rhodium 2.10 ship rom)
-Facebook Engine
-HTC Framework (thanks brainmaster)
Those are the packages which I've found it won't run without via process of elimination.
Regards
Smith

And don't forget the HTC Framework package.