Was searching the internet to find a new method of logging on to my home computer. Came across a face recognition login for Windows ONLY called FaceCode. The product it self works fine on my XP OS, wanted to know if the same product could be made for Windows Mobile based PDA's. I'm not much of a computer wiz myself and just thought i would ask the xda development community of what they thought and if it was possible?
FACECODE IS NOT A FREEWARE APP, SO PLEASE DONT ASK HOW TO GET IF FOR FREE. THIS THREAD IS PRIMARILY FOR INFORMATION ON FUTURE BUILDS
Link to FaceCode
http://rbytes.net/software/facecode-review/
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Good morning!
I was curious if anyone is aware of any remote administration software that I could use to admin my Windows Vista Home Premium machine FROM my mobile phone?
Apparently in all of MS's wisdom they have felt the need to strip the remote control software from all versions of Vista excluding Business, and Ultimate. There is afew hacks floating around to enable the remote access services but since the SP1 release this has further disabled the functionality and have not found much information as to restoring it.
Basically I am curious is anyone is aware of any thirdparty software that I could purchase that is A) WIndows Vista compatible. B) Has a Windows Mobile Client
Or if anyone is aware of a new method to activate the remote admin service on Windows Vista Home Premium WITH Service Pack 1 then I would also be interested in this as well. As it would save some money hehe and of course allow me to utilize the RDC application already loaded on my HTC.
PS. I love you whoever recommended me to use ORB on a previous post. Now all I need is for my bloody Canadian carrier to get the Dam HTC Diamond pro!!!!!!
P.S.S. Thank you is in order for everyone here, You have all been so very helpful with any questions I have had and appreciate all the hard work and efforts you all put forth. You have definitely improved my own personal experience with my phone.
I have tried few remote control programs but ended up getting this one. Its the best. Really fast, easy to use and many features. Its kinda expencieve. They do let you try it. You can try free VNC route too but its no where as good as Z2.
http://www.z2software.com/Remote2PC.htm
I like logmein.com it's free and pretty reliable you have to install a client on the pc and then you are able to login from ppc or pc
https://secure.logmein.com/home.asp?lang=en
I use this -- works well...
christak said:
https://secure.logmein.com/home.asp?lang=en
I use this -- works well...
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This site kicks butt i use it to work on computers at 8 soon to be 9 different locations
Update: After some deeper digging I did manager to find a working patch that has a bat file that fixes the services for ANY version of windows Vista to activate the Remote desktop service WITH Service Pack 1 installed.
http://www.unet.fi/fransblog/2007/08/30/enable-remote-desktop-connection-on-vista-home-premium/
I ran the bat file for my version which is home premium it took 30 seconds then added the port to my firewall as listed and poof able to use RDC for my mobile to do things on my home pc!
Thank you for the other solutions as well. Logmein is pretty snazzy i must say!
Someone has a working cab of Windows Mobile Marketplace ?
thanks
Do you not see everywhere that Windows Mobile Marketplace is not RELEASED YET. You can't get it or use it, only Microsoft and Partners have it now. Wait till Windows Mobile 6.5 FINAL gets released and then download it and it will probably come with the Marketplace. And you can't get it on Windows Mobile 6.0 or 6.1
READ FIRST
It is not a standalone application that you install on your device, it is a website that you can access through your browser and then use to download applications, programs and games etc. It's just not up and running yet.
You can access it at the moment but like I said, it's not active, try it - http://client.marketplace.windowsmobile.com/
It will still be possible to access it on past Windows Mobile operating systems too with it being a website but I think they are planning on having apps mainly for WM 6.5.
Hope this helps.
I believe a user by the name of MrHawaii actually was able to connect to the Marketplace for a brief amount of time, in which he was prompted to download a CAB file that I'm assuming works something like a downloader or a small program used in conjunction with the web service. Regardless of whether or not the CAB is out in the wild or not, you still do need to be able to access the website, and the only people that have access to that at the moment is developers.
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Do you not see everywhere that Windows Mobile Marketplace is not RELEASED YET.
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Wrong.
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I believe a user by the name of MrHawaii actually was able to connect to the Marketplace for a brief amount of time, in which he was prompted to download a CAB file that I'm assuming works something like a downloader or a small program used in conjunction with the web service. Regardless of whether or not the CAB is out in the wild or not, you still do need to be able to access the website, and the only people that have access to that at the moment is developers.
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Correct!
djcaston said:
I believe a user by the name of MrHawaii actually was able to connect to the Marketplace for a brief amount of time, in which he was prompted to download a CAB file that I'm assuming works something like a downloader or a small program used in conjunction with the web service. Regardless of whether or not the CAB is out in the wild or not, you still do need to be able to access the website, and the only people that have access to that at the moment is developers.
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Ah, so there is a CAB file involved, I stand corrected!
This belongs in the Q&A section.
Hello all,
WeeWheel 1.16 is an application that uses the Acceleration Sensor (Accerlerometer) of your phone to simulate a joystick, keyboard and/or mouse on your PC!
Info: http://www.weewheel.com
Comments are greatly welcome.
I now only support Nokia 3rd and 5th edition devices with Python. I would like to ask the Windows Mobile Guru here to if you want to write a simple programm for Windows Mobile (in python or not) so WeeWheel can also support Windows Mobile devices.
If you have any knowledge of programming for (Windows) mobile devices i would appreciate if you write a small programm for any device you know to program of. You can post it here: http://www.weewheel.com/forum/index.php/board,16.0.html
Guidlines can be found here http://www.weewheel.com/forum/index.php/topic,41.0.html
Thanks!
Thank you for your contribution. However, XDA-Developers is a Windows Mobile site, and does not deal with the Symbian OS.
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After a discussion with the OP, I am reopening the thread since he is looking for interested parties to assist with posting this app to Windows Mobile.
bump & start post updated
hope you find some takers for this.. It looks likea great idea...
there's an open SDK for those kinds..
you can use any object as your wheel and gear
yes i know but i have no windows mobile device
Ok, i know this one has probably been done to death, and yes i have searched the internet and this board for an answer and i couldn't find it. So what is my question you may ask?
My question is this. Where do i find a working remote desktop application for windows mobile 6.5 (OS version 5.2.21869) rom version 1.66.405.2 (FYI my provider is O2-UK, the device is fresh out of the factory and not O2 branded). I have an app installed at the monent that is supposed to work but all i get is a "connecting" message and nothing more and that's using wifi to a windows 2003 SBS server or my windows 7 pro desktop. I have tried IP address's and hostnames and still nothing. I did notice that if i connected to the server from my desktop while my phone was trying to do the same i did get a "connection failed" message on the phone. I'm also having issues getting vnc to work (it's acutally pretty much the same problem as i get with RDP).
I do know my wifi works becuase i use it all the time in the house and the GSM radio is definitely able to talk to my home network on the external side because exchange direct push is working perfectly in secure mode.
So ideas or links will be welcome.
Thanks guys and it's good to be back.
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I just had a thought. Would the activex control for IE that RWWP work?
The problem is your setup on your PC. Remote desktop on the phone works out of the box (as long as it can connect then it will.)
There have been discussions on this forum about Windows 7 and remote desktop, so it's there to find (I know you said you searched, but it is there!)
I use Windows XP and had my home PC setup for RDP connections already as I connect from other PCs, so when I got my HD2 it worked straight away.
I should say at this point i am an IT Engineer. I have tested this to death. I have tried it with firewalls on and firewalls off. Exceptions allowed and not.
Please also note i was trying to connect to my windows 2003 SBS server which does work from my desktop (and if i really wanted to i can connect from the server to the desktop using RDP or VNC) and my preivous HTC touch diamond and the HTC artemis i had before that. Although since my last RDP install on a phone (and considering my last phone ran WM6.1) i've lost the cab file i had.
John, thanks for the fast response. I really do appreciated it but i think you missed the mark a little. If you wanna have another stab feel free.
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I should say at this point i am an IT Engineer. I have tested this to death. I have tried it with firewalls on and firewalls off. Exceptions allowed and not.
Please also note i was trying to connect to my windows 2003 SBS server which does work from my desktop (and if i really wanted to i can connect from the server to the desktop using RDP or VNC) and my preivous HTC touch diamond and the HTC artemis i had before that. Although since my last RDP install on a phone (and considering my last phone ran WM6.1) i've lost the cab file i had.
John, thanks for the fast response. I really do appreciated it but i think you missed the mark a little. If you wanna have another stab feel free.
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I'm not a Windows 7 user, so I can't vouch for any of the conversations that I've seen on here, but there have been many regarding this exact issue. It usually turns out that they don't have a version of Windows 7 that will allow them to host RDP sessions, or that there was a setup issue that could be resolved.
Have a look at this thread and see if anything there helps...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=533664
I got this from searching and was a little confused as to why, until I got past the first 2 posts
Hope you find something useful mate.
Nope that's of no use. It's only discussing very basic and standard things i have already done but i must emphasize that i am not really that concerned with connecting to my desktop from the phone (i'm just using it in my testing to prove that RDP is actually open and working on both computers). The server is the most important thing right now and as i have said it has worked in the past. I have not changed any settings on either of my machines and i can not get it to function with this new phone.
I'm pretty sure it's something wrong with the rdp client i had to install on the phone because it didn't come with one. I have read that there is one that works and one that doesn't but there was no further clarification of which was which. Right now i would settle for a verified known working client for the phone but i just can't seem to find a link. Hell if someone out there knows of a VNC client that works i'd settle for that.
Just to show how dedicated and willing i am to get this sorted i did follow the instructions for creating a vpn (well tbh i had already created one ) that connected no worries. Then I fired up the rdp client and tapped in the internal ip address for the server, username, password and local domain. It's come back and said it's "connecting..." but i can see no activity on my internet connection coming to or from my phone. Yet if click the shortcut on my Desktop that has the same details it connects faster than i can blink.
Also please take into account that windows 2003 SBS only has a firewall on the external interface. So the internal network is unprotected. The VPN connection bypasses the firewall for authenticated external devices and users. That is why it was suggested in the link you posted because the same situation is created when you use it on windows Vista or Windows 7.
p.s while i was proof reading this i tested it on the wifi (so on the internal side of the network) and nothing. I'm pretty sure from monitoring the wifi link activity that the RDP client isn't sending out any data at all which sort of comfirms that there is a working and non working client. Seems i have the wrong one. Has anyone got any links to windows mobile 6.5 RDP or VNC clients that i can test?
Thank you everybody.
I didn't realise that there was a non-working version of remote desktop out there. That sort of explains it then doesn't it!
I know it's overkill, but if you can't find a working version of the app then you could always flash a ROM that has it, but like I said, the version that was on my phone when I got it (1.43 ROM WWE) worked from day 1.
You may not have an answer yet, but at least you've ruled a lot of stuff out.
Hope you get it sorted mate.
Now isn't a good time to reflash the rom because i'm a bit busy with other things but it is something i was considering solely because the HTC text messaging application is awful and i'm pretty sure it has a memory leak in it.
So what's the recommendations for roms taking into account that according to HTC i have the latest version for my provider.
Also i'm still open to suggestions on the VNC front?
RDP works flawlessly here too, but then again I had it in my ROM. You say you saw 2 versions of the RDP client, I'd recommend trying the other one, and if it still doesn't work... happy flashing The ROM in my signature works fine, but it's just one of many.
Well i read it in a post on another forum as a response to someone having a problem like mine BUT with windows 7 home prem which isn't ever going to work. Unfortunately there was no links provided.
I think i better go and get the kettle and move it into my office and start some hardcore searching. Man, I hate hardcore searching.
VNC Viewer
Attached is a FREEWARE VNC viewer I have been using on various HTC devices I have owned over the years, and it works perfectly well for me. I know you guys are discussing RD Protocols and Services, but if you have UltraVNC server available on your "host" PC, then this little beauty will work like a charm!
I use it all the time to dial into my home PCs and switch torrents on and off of downloading etc. and it is faultless. I also use it on my work phone to connect to our customers PCs in order to remote fault find / rectify etc..
N.B. This viewer IS NOT written by me, nor have I anything to do with it, all I know is that it is based on FREEWARE public domain code, and issued as freeware, and on an "as is" basis to the WM community.
interesting to see you have the exact same version of the phone as me. I have tried that VNC viewer already with no luck at all but i'll give it another go and see what happens.
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just tried it out and with good results. Hooked up to the server on the wifi just fine but i really wouldn't wanna have to click n drag something. so that will buy me sometime while i work on the RDP thing.
Thanks namwollem
Ok spent almost an hour search and got a couple of hits. Thanks to a thread on social.microsoft.com i found the cab file should be called wm6rdp.cab. Ran a search for it in google and found 2 different versions. One cooked by a guy called finster and another one (looks more offical) the finster version installed and seemed older than the version i had as it didn't support remote storage. That failed to do anything new. I next tried the more official looking cab and this removed the finster version, soft rebooted the phone and looked promising but alas it didn;t do anything different. Interestingly i now have 2 RDP icons on my start menu. both run the same app so i'm a bit confused as to how that happened.
I'm really quite stuck now and, as i mention before, i want to avoid flashing the phone for now so i'm still open to ideas.
I hate it when things get wierd. I removed all the rdp clients i had installed in an effort to tidy up a little bit. There was one that would not remove. It was marked "bengalih productions windows mobile..." so i figured i would give the phone a reboot and try see if it worked and hey presto it does. This is the original client that i installed and the first that didn't work and i haven;t changed the config at all so i'm completely baffled. I have noticed in further testing that if i select any options (like fit to screen, or colour depth) it will not connect but if you give it the user and machine details it seems to work. It also is not not RDP version 7 compatible (so you can't use it to connect to windows 7 pro or ultimate machines) but who cares when you have VNC and RDP working?
So i am happy. Thanks for all your help guys.
Hey guys,
for the last year or so ive been searching long and hard for a way to run blackberry messenger in some kind of way on my HTC touch/ELF, i hear of people receiving bbm,s on the touch pro using blackberry connect and people with the touch pro and HD running the entire blackberry os through some sort of virtualization, we would like to not only see bbm on touch pro and HD but general wm PPC devices. so if we have any developers out there up to the challenge to find a way to run bbm through a virtual environment like how lime wire runs on java etc this is he place to do it. and any one who finds some one else successfully running it some where else feel free to post a link or the download. an please no one posting that it cant be done, how you need a pin and that you cant visualize the pin. It can be done just not yet and thats what im starting this thread for.
Here is the link to download the blackberry application suit whish apparently works fine an touch pro.If we can eliminate most of it and just leave behind what is needed to use bbm that would be great, ibut but if we use the entire thing on the elf/touch we need to find a way to get a touch screen keyboard in there.
Here it is: megaupload.com/?d=ZP1A68MI
And link to other places where i have seen this
: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=629941
: boygeniusreport.com/2009/02/16/hands-on-with-rims-blackberry-application-suite-on-the-htc-fuze/