when I download the files, I don't have cab files. For instance, I downloaded the CHTEditor. It downloaded as a zip file w/ the .cab extension. when I click it to unzip, there are no cab files. Just some kind of file w/ the little windows icon next to it. Is there some way to download the .cab file for editor (and all the other files that do this to me) ota?
I think you are in the wrong forum. It's not a HD2 problem but a windows problem. Maybe a Mod will move your thread to the right forum.
if you "run" a cab on your pc it opens like a zip. instead copy the whole cab to your phone and run it.the phone sees it as an installer.
samsamuel said:
if you "run" a cab on your pc it opens like a zip. instead copy the whole cab to your phone and run it.the phone sees it as an installer.
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you ROCK! I have been trying to figure that out for the past 2.5 weeks. THANK YOU!!!
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Hi i must be doing something incredibley stupid but i can't work out what! I click to download a cab file it downloads it as zip file onto my laptop I open this file which then opens about six other files I transfer them to my Wizard and double click on them and the wizard asks me what program to open the file with ?
Please help what idiot thing am i doing wrong?
Transfer the CAB file to your device as one file, do not unpack it.
Then run the CAB file on your device.
How do you install programs on the HD.
Eg. i was trying to install HD Tweak. I downloaded the files from here. But when I open the setup file in the HD, it tried to open the file in Opera, and then stays blank!!!
What am I doing wrong?
mas6004mi said:
How do you install programs on the HD.
Eg. i was trying to install HD Tweak. I downloaded the files from here. But when I open the setup file in the HD, it tried to open the file in Opera, and then stays blank!!!
What am I doing wrong?
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I usually sync to my laptop and D/L from there to my documents or another appropriate file on the phone. Click and drag, easy.
I need more info. You downloaded the cab file to your PC and then copied the cab to your device via activesync? Where did you copy the file to in your HD? Generally what I do is copy the cab file from my PC to my SD card via activesync. Go to my storage card via file explorer in programs. Touch the cab file, and it installs.
I downloaded HD-Tweak from here http://montecristoff.webs.com/hdtweak.htm, but the zip file does not show a .cab file? it only shows a .xml setup file, which, when I try to open, opens in an Opera browser?
you downloaded a cab file, not a zip file, which it looks like you extracted mistakenly as a zip file which is why you're dealing w/ the xml. Copy the cab file that you downloaded from your pc to your phone and then run it on the phone.
Alternatively if you have Cabviaactivesync installed you can just right click on the cab from your pc w/ the phone attached and select CabviaActivesync and it will start the installation on your phone.
I see what's happening. The cab file is what you downloaded. Inside the cab file is a bunch of things, one of which is an xml setup file, which I think you're copying and trying to install on your device. For whatever reason, after you unzip, your taken inside the guts of the cab file. You don't copy any of that. Close out of that. You don't open a cab file. On your PC, the cab file should be an icon that looks like a blue and white file cabinet. If you see that, don't open it. Instead, either drag the icon into your device via activesync or copy it into your device via activesync. Once in the device, go to folder in which you copied it and tap on it. It should then install properly.
Wow! thanks, it worked.
hello guys, i dont own an hd2 yet but ill buy one this month but i have a question i want to add some cabs file on my device when i get. My question is i have download some cabs BUT when i open the winrar i dont get any cab file, all i get is some files that has bunch of numbers and one of them says "_setup.xml" so what should i do? should i directly put the winrar file on my hd2? since i dont get any cab file inside the winrar?? and if there's a cab file inside the winrar and i press the button "extract here" should i just upload the cab file only to my hd2 right??
Hope you guys can help me.
Thank you.
Hi.
A CAB file is a compressed installer file for mobile phones.
If you open it with winrar, you will see all the files it contains.
Just copy the original .cab file to your phone.
Click on the .cab file, and it will run the installer, and install the program on your phone.
You can choose to install to the main memory or the sd card.
Yeah - as above. What you're calling a "winrar" file is the cab file.
Extract a cab
Ok, I know this isn't the original question but...
is it possible to extract a .cab file - i mean to extract all the different files that make up the program , all the .exe .dll .ico etc etc. Wanting to do this to help me reverse-engineer a couple of omnia 2 cabs that don't work.
kinsago said:
Ok, I know this isn't the original question but...
is it possible to extract a .cab file - i mean to extract all the different files that make up the program , all the .exe .dll .ico etc etc. Wanting to do this to help me reverse-engineer a couple of omnia 2 cabs that don't work.
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yes extract the files with winrar
ohhh okok i get it now.. so i just donwload thw winrar which is the cab file and i copy it to my hd2. thanks guys
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yes extract the files with winrar
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Tried that, all I get are 10 files. One of them is _setup.xml, the others are numbered files.
I've attached a screen capture of the files so you can see what they are.
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Tried that, all I get are 10 files. One of them is _setup.xml, the others are numbered files.
I've attached a screen capture of the files so you can see what they are.
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Yes that's what you would expect as they are the cab install files.
If they don't mean anything are you sure you know what you're doing?
That's what I'm trying to find out. I assume that the WM program works in a similar way to windows program in that its a collection of files (exe, ico, dll, cfg so on so forth) that get installed in the appropriate places on the device. If so, how do you 'unpack' these files from the setup files
use a cab manager program. I don't so I can't recommend, but wincecab manager sound familiar. u can use them to create cabs of your tweaks, install files and such.
it seems that you have never used windows mobile (just copy the winrar file into the device and run it from the device)
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it seems that you have never used windows mobile (just copy the winrar file into the device and run it from the device)
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I'm not trying to install a cab file (which the first post was about) I'm trying to decompile the omnia 2 video editor to get it to run on the HD2 but instead of starting a new thread, I asked on this one because it seemed (partially) relevant.
BTW, I've got the cab 'extracted' so thanks - no for the difficult part...
Hello!
Im new one here !
Yesterday i bought HTC Touch2 T3333..
I transfer the file to my device.. it is in .rar format.
When I try to open it - nothing happens.
At the first everything was ok, but now it just doesn't open.
Try to unrar it on your PC and send to your phone only cab files.
But if I unrar it, there isnt any .cab file anymore.
Save on your PC as zip-file. Unzip and see if this works.....
Otherwise download from the source again.....
And one more thing, Winrar shows cabs also as archives (like zip and rar). So make sure that this IS a cab - by turning on display of file extensions fro Folder->Options in Explorer.
There is windows mobile zip in it. If it's a ZIP File, it should expands and you'll find the cab.
If you don't. The only possible solution is that the download must have corrupted along the way and you have to redownload it or the uploader did not put the cab in it ^^
Can somebody explane how i can install the software from this site on my phone.I download the zip files, extract and put thim on my memorycard , but can not install them, what do i wrong
Grtz
snipke said:
Can somebody explane how i can install the software from this site on my phone.I download the zip files, extract and put thim on my memorycard , but can not install them, what do i wrong
Grtz
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It depends what files you are unzipping. If they are cab files inside the zip file, then you put the cab file on your phone and then using file explorer, click on the cab file. If the files are .exe's then you put them on your phone and again, using file explorer, click on them. If they are manila files, you should disable touch flo in start/settings/today/items, use file explorer (or better still Total Commander), put the file in the Windows folder and then re-start touch flo....
it are cab files , i put them on my memorycard , with explorer search them but can not installed it
Grtz
Its possible that what you are doing is actually unzipping the cab files, even though they show up on your pc as zip archives, they are not meant to be unzipped, it would help if you gave us an example of what you are trying to install. but try just taking the whole file without unzipping and then clicking on it from file explorer
xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/advanced-home-tab-2-0/[/url] this i want to put on my phone, but i see there is no application by the file.
I unzip those file, extract it , put hit on my phone but can not installed it.
Grtz
snipke said:
xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/advanced-home-tab-2-0/[/url] this i want to put on my phone, but i see there is no application by the file.
I unzip those file, extract it , put hit on my phone but can not installed it.
Grtz
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That file is not a zip file but a cab file. You should not unzip it. Just copy it to your phone and click on it with file explorer.
Everytime i click on it winzip open the file
You have to see the tread about the link a paste, you will see its a zip file
Grtz
snipke said:
Everytime i click on it winzip open the file
You have to see the tread about the link a paste, you will see its a zip file
Grtz
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It's a CAB file!
you are not supposed to do anything to those files on your pc, just copy them to your phone, and open them in the file explorer on your phone. like I said before, your pc thinks they are zip files, so winzip will open them when you click on them on your pc, but your phone should know they are .cab files.
Oke , thnx , now i get it
Grtz