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how to run the shift's camera?

Here's one stupid question.
Altrough the camera seems to be ok in terms of hardware drivers i can't seem to find any utility to start it neither in control pannel or anywhere else. I cannot use it in yahoo messenger or similar services. Can someone enlight me about that camera?

camera does work , but only in MSN messenger
I played with the camera too...
The only program that recognizes the camera, and uses it OK , is MSN (live) messenger.
X-Lite (Voip Software with camera option) usually detects any camera I got.
However, on the Shift, no joy !
Also, another program called WinTLV (Superb windows time lapse recording software)
does not see the camera.
Drivers...drivers...drivers.... c'mon HTC .. supply us with new ones

Py Software Active Webcam

killer_t, what are you trying to tell us?

Camera Works
The camera i test it with many programs and is working in skype msn and other programs automatically but i dont know how to start it alone i mean not through other programs

mw65719 said:
killer_t, what are you trying to tell us?
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With the program Active Webcam from Py Software can use the build-in Shift camera.. You can do video and photo

yep the Active Web Cam program works. I've tested it yesterday without any problems. However the program can't facilitate the usage of the camera with other programs.

I want to run the camera alone to take photo, do you guys know any good software out there with good and clean interface which does this job?

I use Dorgem v2.1.0 it's a small and freeware software.
http://dorgem.souceforge.net

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I use Dorgem v2.1.0 it's a small and freeware software.
http://dorgem.souceforge.net
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it doesn't seems to have a preview windows, does anyone else know anything better then this?

It has. Click on the preview button

Nice little camera app. Thanks.

Yu can use this one too
http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html

I had the same problem of the camera showing as installed but not recognised by MSN, Skype, etc. So I just deleted the driver (from Device manager). Windows then rediscovered it and then it worked fine!

I have been using "cheese" on ubuntu. it has preview and can be used to capture video or still pictures.

thaihugo said:
Yu can use this one too
http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html
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This one is more than capable. The one posted earlier on page 1 (can't remember what it's called) has been discontinued.
But the one quoted above is perfect just for using the camera for point and shoot, video or stills.
Thanks.
Edit>>Struggles a bit with video (low frame rate, a bit like video calling quality, or like video phone you see on the news!) but I haven't really had a good luck around the settings yet too see if it can be manually improved.

I have installed the Debut Video Capture Software on my Shift, but when I run it it defaults to 'screen' which replicates my screen image but when I click 'Device' the selection remains at screen. I can't see any options to enable my camera device.
Anyone know what to do next?
(The dorgem one worked fine so my Shift hardware is not in question.)

Camera software
I tried a program called "AMCap" that I had. (You will have to Google for it, I can't remember where I got my).
It seems to catch the video & audio and lets me take stills and such.

[APP] New Windows Mobile Youtube CAB included

Just saw on the WMPoweruser.com.
Youtube has created a native Windows Mobile application for displaying their videos on your phone, and its pretty good.
The user interface is attractive and uses fluid animations, and video quality is also very good, and apparently adaptive to the speed of your own connection
To download the app, visit http://m.youtube.com from your device. More cool features and app improvements are on the way, and the app will alert you as updates become available and allow you to upgrade with a single click.
Read more at Youtube here.
edit cab

where is download link? it looks great.

You have to use IE from your device. Then you see the link.
The Problem is that the pages tells me my device is not supported or brings an Not Found Error 404. No Diamond supported???

lordcoffee said:
No Diamond supported???
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Maybe because we already have a much better youtube app pre-installed.

owziee said:
Maybe because we already have a better youtube app pre-installed.
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I can't say wich is better as long as I couldnt test it thought
The "standard" youtube app on Diamond is good I know but there are some things I don't like. For example I would love to see the german videos on start not the english ones. Any clues?
Greetings, lordcoffee

Well all I can say this new official youtube app is ugly and slow compared to the default htc youtube app.

So thanks for saving my time!

I actually quite like the app. The app searches and loads video much faster than the standard HTC youtube app.
Edit: Second thought, some videos are jerky on the youtube app but not on the HTC one. It still needs some improvements.
Btw..you need to go to the International page using IE to get the download link

is it somehow possible to provide a cab here?

lordcoffee said:
You have to use IE from your device. Then you see the link.
The Problem is that the pages tells me my device is not supported or brings an Not Found Error 404. No Diamond supported???
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I found a way around this.
If you are using a ROM with PIE 6 on it, you will need to use Opera to download the app, as YouTube Mobile doesn't recognize PIE 6.
Pop open Opera, and go to opera:config, scroll down to User Prefs and click on it, scroll down to Custom User-Agent and change it to "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11)", scroll down to save and have it.
After that close out of Opera completely and open it back up. Browse to m.youtube.com and you should see the download link right below the search bar.
The default Raphael Opera User Agent should be "HTC-P4600/1.2 Opera/9.50 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)"

Hah! Extreme Sheep LED Art is one of the best things on youtube!

+1 for adding the cab here

I installed this cab and I didn't like it any better than the original youtube client, when I went to uninstall it, it uninstalled the youtube client. Now I can't watch youtube videos anymore unless I do it through the "streaming media". Does anybody have the cab for the stock youtube client app for the diamond. Thanks.

carlosruizano said:
I installed this cab and I didn't like it any better than the original youtube client, when I went to uninstall it, it uninstalled the youtube client. Now I can't watch youtube videos anymore unless I do it through the "streaming media". Does anybody have the cab for the stock youtube client app for the diamond. Thanks.
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just un-install it, the old one automatically comes back, the interface on youtube app is cool but its mainly for lower resolution devices like qvga not for us High resolution HTC Users

Good workin facebook app

Hi Guys
A couple of months ago, I saw microsofts new facebook app and downloaded it to my touch diamond. Very soon, however, I realized that it kinda sucks, because everything is so slow and ugly. And u cant click on several pictures and it partly just doesnt work. So I searched for another facebook app, but I just didn´t find anything better.
If I could write programs on my own, then I would really make a new facebook app, but since I can´t, I´m just asking u guys if there isn´t a way to make a really cool facebook app, I mean like better than the one from microsoft. Maybe you can use the microsoft one as a base/ start and just make it better or something, but it would be really cool to have a good working facebook app on windows mobile.

you can use your browser and to to iphone.facebook.com its better and easier to use than the mobile facebook, other than that i think currently the microsoft one is the best (which personally i havent really found any issues with it, you may just need a faster connection eg. WiFi)

thanks man....iphone.facebook.com is awesome.

i use this program.. no need to open internet browser.. no need to install cab.. very small app but useful and powerful.. much better than microsoft's official fb app.. the only disadvantage, it doesnt support touch flo.. need to use D-pad
file attached

well....i think every facebook app for wm has some special features...but none is including all these cool things...like the chat or notifications and the possbility to look at pictures...etc. at the same time..it would be cool to kinda add them together...
btw..i realized an issue on iphone.facebook.com.: i wasn´t able to look at pictures with my diamond

8/Aug porting OmniaII/pro applications and skin(rom dump and some apps now available)

Not extracted or ported yet:
-The cube
-The video and audio editer
-Touch player (not working properly yet). Video player
-The opera build with zoom slider
-The rest of the main menu with links to the task swither
-Camera appliation
-Full windows mobile reskin with its finger friendly components like contats , menus, dialogs...etc
-the OCR for creating the contact from the picture of the buisness card
-the podcast & RSS readers
-The file browser
-other apps that i missed
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edit1: i found this cool modaco rom extracting thread by KSAN. the omnia II ROM dump is uploaded in mediafire here some apps (Stefano92_100) are here
edit2: a story in pocketnow about all this was posted http://pocketnow.com/news-archive/samsung-omnia-ii-apps-being-extracted-for-other-devices
edit3:main menu ported thanks darkchmatak
edit4: the photo album (darkchmatak)
edit5: Share Pix and Smart Converter(darkchmatak)
Omnia 2 registry dump (kstan from modaco)
Samsung PowerCalc(kstan from modaco)
edit6: kstan app thread from modaco Midomi, Smart Memo, touch player , Mobile Tracker, Task Manager, Photo Album
edit7 touch playernot working(kstan) and sharpix cabbed(emalote)
edit8: medomi WQVGA by sector. to enable 3g connection change registry from 3 to 1 of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Melodis\Midomi\midomiGU IDType (thanks ikkari)
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the omnia 2 is out and there seems to be so many applications and skins worth porting. some of what cought my attention is
1-totally skinned and finger friendly to replace all aspects of widows mobile interface. the basically did what MS should have done ages ago
2-the amazing video and sound editer
3-video player with support for mpeg4 and xvid
4-the fingerfriendly image viewer
5-the task switcher
6-the cube interface, L&W modes and the touchwhiz2
7-other apps like podcast&RSS , OCR for recording contacts information, new music id medomi application,new file explorer and calander
video and more info http://pocketnow.com/review/samsung-omnia-ii-i8000-1?p=2
so, where can we download the omniaPro/ii ROMs so we can start extracting the cabs and packages to port them to our devices

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the omnia 2 is out and there seems to be so many applications and skins worth porting. some of what cought my attention is
1-totally skinned and finger friendly to replace all aspects of widows mobile interface. the basically did what MS should have done ages ago
2-the amazing video and sound editer
3-video player with support for mpeg4 and xvid
4-the fingerfriendly image viewer
5-the task switcher
6-the cube interface, L&W modes and the touchwhiz2
7-other apps like podcast&RSS , OCR for recording contacts information, new music id application,new file explorer and calander
video and more info http://pocketnow.com/review/samsung-omnia-ii-i8000-1?p=2
so, where can we download the omniaPro/ii ROMs so we can start extracting the cabs and packages to port them to our devices
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very true matey ... it would be awesome if someone can port the apps to htc touch hd ....

How about the skinned file manager, and midomi?

im having an issue finding the ROM bbut there are people over here who already have the omnia 2 would someone post instructions on how to dump the installed rom so they upload it for us.
there is a lot of thing to like about their customized software

I would love to see some of these application on my Touch Diamond. The skinned file manager, and Touch player especially!

I would probably kill for the task manager...thats what I've been craving for months now. Also the SMS and Email app is a must have. Don't want the phone..just the software

The resolution is different, so it's very hard to port these apps to Omnia I

I've watched PocketNow's Youtube i8000 software tour and it is simply incredible. I've heard quite a bit of negative things about the Omnia II i8000, but the software tour provided by PocketNow really made it shine.
The interface was very fast (in some cases, as fast as the custom ROMs available on XDA) and the available software was simply unreal. The video editor and cube were particularly nice, but I believe Samsung also got the first Windows Mobile version of Midomi ever making it that much better.
I can't wait for the QWERTY Samsung B7610 to finally come out.

i found this thread. the omnia II rom dump is uploaded in mediafire here
hope this is enough for people over here to start

some apps are already extracted here http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=7f364dce2089ae8a4c17ca8801618ef78fe1cb5b49933873b8eada0a1ae8665a
Phonebook.rar
Powercalc.rar
Sfondi Omnia II - WQVGA.rar
Smartmemo.rar
TCalendar.rar
Tclock.rar
some other cool ones are not extracted yet

on my xperia win 6.5
Phonebook.rar --didnt really work
Powercalc.rar -- worked fine
Smartmemo.rar --didnt work
TCalendar.rar -- worked
Tclock.rar -- didnt work
will test again later when i flash to a 6.1 rom

Omnia 1900 test results:
Phonebook.rar -- Loads but app is in VGA.
Powercalc.rar -- Loads but app is in VGA.
Smartmemo.rar --Didnt Not Load, No errors message, just a [Ping] sound.
TCalendar.rar -- Loads but app is in VGA.
Tclock.rar -- Loads but app is in VGA.
Looks real nice though, if only they worked in wqvga.

i added a picture of my xperia in the first post
also a cool guy posted a nice story about all this in pocketnow. i hope now we get enough attention from the devs here to port the rest
http://pocketnow.com/news-archive/samsung-omnia-ii-apps-being-extracted-for-other-devices below is part of the story
Samsung Omnia II Apps Being Extracted for Other Devices
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There should be more developments once they dump the ROM and more people get involved, which is the main focus of the thread. Visit the MoDaCo thread and keep an eye on the dedicated Omnia II extraction thread at XDA for any progress and to test the apps.
How many of you are waiting for a functioning Midomi app to be ported? I know I am. Hopefully patience pays off.
In case you missed it, check out our full Samsung Omnia II review.

vishalm said:
Omnia 1900 test results:
Phonebook.rar -- Loads but app is in VGA.
Powercalc.rar -- Loads but app is in VGA.
Smartmemo.rar --Didnt Not Load, No errors message, just a [Ping] sound.
TCalendar.rar -- Loads but app is in VGA.
Tclock.rar -- Loads but app is in VGA.
Looks real nice though, if only they worked in wqvga.
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Has anyone tried these on the Diamond?
Update: Tried TCalendar and Phonebook. TCalendar seems to work at first glance looks really nice, however, I cannot add any appointments or anything and the menu softkey makes the screen go crazy. Phonebook just gives me a a black screen with only the keyboard button in the down right corner.

Need Midomi..

Downloaded and tried Tcalender. ..
It worked as u can see in the pic, but it fails to creat new appointment or to access the menu soft key ??? apart from the first home screen nothing else is working.
Edit: I have Xperia X1i, Official R3AA UK ROM

Tested the TCalendar on the HTC Touch Diamond 2 (Topaz) with the Custom ROM Topaz Essentials
Viewing of the Calendar works fine (although quite slow) - but opening the menu or adding a new entry does not work

Oh.Can't dl from mediafire
who can upload to rapidshare for a mirror?
Only need the Part02 Disk1 dump files(part1.rar part2.rar part3.rar)
thanks very much!!!
I just want to search into the dump folder for any other files needed to load the apps!

Just a quick update from a Touch HD running pkoper's EPS HDX WM6.1 ROM:
- TCalendar: starts, shows appointments (in all views), looking good. Navigating to dates works. Menus, however, don't work properly. And it's all in Hungarian.
- TClock: doesn't start ("components not found").
N.

i think these compressed executables are missing other supporting files thats why they are refusing to run. a proper cab of each of the omnia application need to be created. lets keep an eye on the modaco thread for now
http://www.modaco.com/content-page/290653/pagination/page/0/

Tasks on HTC Leo

"Tasks" has never been available in different Manila versions. Is there anything there for HTC Leo and its TouchSense that allows to view / add / mark complete tasks?
Is noone using them? I can't see a reason why HTC puts in all the funcionalities you can think of (facebook, geotagging photos, music player, stock prices) to its Manila interface, but not tasks.

kocureq said:
"Tasks" has never been available in different Manila versions. Is there anything there for HTC Leo and its TouchSense that allows to view / add / mark complete tasks?
Is noone using them? I can't see a reason why HTC puts in all the funcionalities you can think of (facebook, geotagging photos, music player, stock prices) to its Manila interface, but not tasks.
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Can't find anything within Sense on mine, but the Tasks program is still in the Start Menu.