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looking for a SMARTPHONE

Hi there,
I need to make an application for a smart device. This application should be able to access the GPS (the device must have GPS) on the COM ports and collect data so that I can calculate the distance when the device is moving. Other requests are that the device should run Windows Mobile and have UMTS capability. I will be using . NET platform for writing the application, so if someone has done this before or something similar and can help me with anything from advices to code snippets or even the application itself, I will be forever thankful .
The big question I have in the beginning is what device suits best this description. I want to use the classic ASUS 636n but it has no UMTS capability.
thanks to admins for this great forum , see ya

Check gsmarena.com. They have a good search utility.
Here are my results
I picked Windows Mobile Pro because you mentioned 636N and it's a touch device.
I also picked UMTS 2100 assuming you're not in the US since 636N was never sold in the US.

please do NOT provide answers in this section
refer to the Q&A section
thank you

[App] EpDetect (epileptic seizures detector)

EpDetect is an accelerometer based mobile phone application that uses advanced signal processing to detect epileptic seizures.
To get more informations and downloads go to official site http://www.epdetect.com
This is official development thread (see development page on http://mobile.dlugosz.net.pl/Products/EpDetect/tabid/60/Default.aspx)

wow!
this is really impressive. I had a friend who had seisures.
Nice work.

This is amazing... it was the time for this type of app.
Please go further with this type of stuff..

First tests with first aid personsal (friends) today
Hi dally,
after some tests with persons who now the moving part is on an epi moment we had have ony 3 alarms of 10. So i think is something with the advanced settings.
The next point is when we go the settings then bluetooth will be activated (see screenshot). But the phone has an internal gps receiver. Is this something what is missing in the moment? Or it is about the beta? The setting is com4 or com7. I am not shure what the internal port is on a TP2.
The desk is very clear and esay to use. What is with the worldwide logo in the main screen or something else, i think this will be good not only black in not activated status. Some public will be good for the app ;-).
You have created a very good program. I hope you can help me with the settings in advanced mode, because the acceleration settings (alarm = movement * threshold).

Hi dally,
no action since september last year. You are allways online and in development of this tool? I have asked more then once for support, also on the commercial main site. But no one gives me an answer....

This is (was?) an international project and UK side is silent since over year. I also don't know whats going on. But if you have problems with current version you can ask me, maybe i could help.

OK dally, i will do that. I have to re-install epdetect and ask my collegs that we do our tests again, so as written in one of my posts above.
I have asked because this app has so many possibillities to help people that i will push this app in my range...
In my free time i working for hospital and help needed persons security (cam's and other things). My day job i am writing software for the industrial automation control. Many, many work but it is worth. Because that i am very busy with rcolonel's webcam application. Some guys have seen this app on my phone while i was busy with my work there. And now everyone will have it. Small fast and it is working. The other tool webcamXP is to big and to slow for me. Your app.. i know so many people who need this..
Thank you for your response...

For those interested: Android version is available. See this post.

Windows Mobile 5 Replace one character in ROM? Reward $1000

Edited: Contact mod.

For $1k I'd buy JTAG and do it . And keep the rest (RIFF BOX is 119€ and a bit of soldering/getting board for another 10€ to avoid soldering).

Haha, this reward smells like scam

mysymbol said:
Hello
Can someone tell me if it posible to replace/change just one character in Rom in Windows Mobile 5 Device, knowing where it is (memory address)
Device is not listed anywhere on this forum, and really it does not matter, since it runs Windows Mobile 5 and I can connect to it with ActiveSync (USB or Serial)
Willing to pay $1000 for solution.
Honestly, will paypal the money to someone that can help
Thanks
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Why would you pay $1000 for a solution for a Windows Mobile 5 phone when you can get a Windows Mobile 6.1/6.5/WP7 phone for HALF the price.

Response to your concerns
This is not a Mobile Phone and I do not have one but several thousands of these in my posetion. Again this device is very rare and you will not find it anywhere. Solution to my problem can be used over and over again.
Simply its just like a phone running Windows Mobile 5 and I just need to change few lines of memory addresses in ROM. Please help.
For those that think its a scam, fine, I will offer $10 for solution, but for someone that can believe I will paypal $1000 instantly upon working solution.

I would agree with JTAG but I have several thousands of these in my hand and I need faster solution. Please help. I can run any files, commands for you on my device and provide results. Thanks again

You might want to try also itsutils's app "pdocwrite", that might do the job too. Or psetmem, if it is in RAM and not ROM.

wouldnt Jtag be just as quick as connecting a phone to a computer... booting into the rom, changing code etc etc etc? over and over and over again?
That said... Your best bet is to send one of these "devices" to a developer on here who can take the rom and make the changes that need to be done and make a custom rom for you.
Thats my two cents!

You are a little silent on the details of what you want to change in the device. There is hardly a universal solution for the task you have sketched. Let me outline the levels of security that have to be passed:
Running programs e.g. for manipulating memory (RAM or ROM) may in the first place be restricted by OS security (policy). This must be overcome and is also know as "Application Unlocking" of the device.
Some files on a device can simply be replaced by RAM copies and those will take the function of the ROM part after copied to the device and a subsequent reboot.
If really the ROM itself must be changed (as 2. does not work) then you have to be able to read out the ROM, dis- and re- assemble its parts (aka "cooking") and finally load back the results to the device. Several security mechanisms are in place for devices to ensure that only the legitimate authorities can do this.
Thanks to joint efforts et XDA-developers many popular devices could be hacked at that level to foster the popular cooking activities.
So if you give some more hints on what character you want to have changed and where you see it (but want to see a different one) then even other options may come up, e.g. changing data in the databases that are use for translating user interface parts (control panel), other data-driven options (e.g. registry) and so on.
So in the end there may be a much simpler solution to your problem that you thought about so far?

are these some chinese knockoff model and you need to change something to sell them on without non chinese people having problems? i would help but got rid of my chinese to english rom hardware last year

reward still availble
can someone help? I can read files from ROM, but how to write back? utility is there but its uncompiled.

I don't think you've made enough threads on this issue. I think you should post 5,6,7 maybe even 8 more and see if someone responds...

what device are u meaning to change?

Thread closed, contact me to talk about the thread.

[Q] Homebrew and the Dell Venue Pro

I searched and got nothing in the forum about homebrew, so i figured i'd ask about it. Is it possible for us with this phone to do any of the homebrew stuff out there? I have been without my laptop so cannot really try anything yet, but I see articles about little apps and aesthetic changes people are doing to their Samsung and HTC wp7 phones and i want in on it too.
I loved that homebrew community when i had my Palm Pre back in the day and had it hacked to my liking. I really hope we can do this with our phones too. I have looked into it a little but, but i don't think the guys who have done the unlocking and developing for wp7 have used, tried or have access to our phone. I really hope I'm wrong and just haven't had any luck searching for answers, but so far i haven't really found anything specifically stating whether anything works on the DVP yet.
If they have, could someone point me in the right direction and i'll continue learning on my own? If not, then i hope we can some day.
Thanks for any help y'all can provide.

I'm looking to attack this problem from the other end. I'm the developer of one of those "little apps" you mentioned; specifically the one that lets you change the Search function in IE (when you hit the Search button or mis-type a URL).
I'm working with a homebrew library that more-or-less handles HTC, Samsung, and LG, but completely doesn't support Dell. I'd like to get it working with Dell so that
A) You all can use my app
B) More homebrew apps can be written for the DVP
Some questions that I have (answers to any are appreciated):
How can I programmatically identify a Dell phone? (On an HTC, you can check for HKLM\Software\HTC in the registry.)
Does anybody have ProvisionXML working on the Venue Pro yet? (This is a really handy way to make changes to the OS.)
Does anybody have a way to get access to the file system, even read-only, on the Venue Pro?
Thanks a bunch. In the meantime (and possibly helpful to this cause) there's a homebrew project called "Functional Webserver" in the WP7 Hacking forum. It should work on Dell phones (I think) and means you should have at least Socket (networking) APIs. It also gives (read-only) access to the \Windows directory, which may be very useful for getting other stuff...

GoodDayToDie said:
I'm looking to attack this problem from the other end. I'm the developer of one of those "little apps" you mentioned; specifically the one that lets you change the Search function in IE (when you hit the Search button or mis-type a URL).
I'm working with a homebrew library that more-or-less handles HTC, Samsung, and LG, but completely doesn't support Dell. I'd like to get it working with Dell so that
A) You all can use my app
B) More homebrew apps can be written for the DVP
Some questions that I have (answers to any are appreciated):
How can I programmatically identify a Dell phone? (On an HTC, you can check for HKLM\Software\HTC in the registry.)
Does anybody have ProvisionXML working on the Venue Pro yet? (This is a really handy way to make changes to the OS.)
Does anybody have a way to get access to the file system, even read-only, on the Venue Pro?
Thanks a bunch. In the meantime (and possibly helpful to this cause) there's a homebrew project called "Functional Webserver" in the WP7 Hacking forum. It should work on Dell phones (I think) and means you should have at least Socket (networking) APIs. It also gives (read-only) access to the \Windows directory, which may be very useful for getting other stuff...
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I would like to submit my services to help you get that information... However, I'm not really sure how to get that to you. If you'd be happy to lay out directions so I can get you that information, I'll happily do it on my Dell Venue Pro.
Thanks for the help!

@nabiscuit Thanks for the offer. The first step is making sure your phone is developer-unlocked, so you can side-load (install directly, not from Marketplace) XAP application packages. All homebrew apps are distributed in this way. The official way to do this is to have a Microsoft developer account (http://create.msdn.com/) although for the next few weeks ChevronWP7 should also work.
For the first question, try installing a Registry Viewer or Registry Editor app - there are a number of them available, both on this site and on TouchXperience (I like the TouchXperience one a lot). Go poke around for anything that looks like a distinctive registry key or value. The most likely place is under HKLM. You could also just do a registry search (the better apps have at least some capability for such searches) for "Dell" as *anything* with that string is probably distinctive.
For the second, it will take access to native code. Using the "Functional Webserver" app you can download some file from the phone's /Windows directory. Checking them for useful COM exports would be helpful, although I'm not the person to ask about doing that - I can do NT drivers and I can do managed code, but COM is not my thing. Try asking for help with this in the general Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking forum (http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=606).
For the third question, I could actually whip up a small app that *might* work already. You could also try Advanced Explorer (XDA) or TouchXplorer (TouchXperience) although I don't think either is guaranteed to work outside of HTC phones. If you're willing to try running an app that will check for read and write in a number of harmless parts of the file system, I can code one up for you to run and report results back.
Thanks again!

I'd love to get some homebrew development going, is there anything I can do to help?

Try getting in touch with notebookgrail (http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=3174632) as he seems to be pulling apart the DVP native libraries and finding lots of cool stuff to do with their COM interfaces. I don't know if he has registry write yet - one of the core functions that a lot of homebrew apps want - but if so I can work on getting it integrated into a nice cross-device library for writing apps which (should... grrr Samsung) work on any phone.

GoodDayToDie said:
Try getting in touch with jessej (http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=3220709) as he seems to be pulling apart the DVP native libraries and finding lots of cool stuff to do with their COM interfaces. I don't know if he has registry write yet - one of the core functions that a lot of homebrew apps want - but if so I can work on getting it integrated into a nice cross-device library for writing apps which (should... grrr Samsung) work on any phone.
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Did u mean to point it to me as i was the one who did pull apart the native libs.?
If not, sorry for the intrusion.

Yes, send your request to notebookgrail. I am not on his level for development purposes. But I do appreciate the comment.

Whoops, sorry about that notebookgrail! I must have looked at a response instead of the OP by accident. I've fixed my post above. Thanks a bunch for the work you've done. Any word on registry writing?

any progress?

News from Seller Office

Hello i have searched for a similar topic and found nothing.
Here we could post always the newest informations about the Seller Office and important changes and so on. This e-mail arrived 2 days ego.
Code:
Complete application registration before May.30(GMT)
Dear Seller,
Thank you for being a part of Samsung Apps.
This email is to notify all sellers of the imminent renewal of our site and the changes in the application registration process. We ask that you read the following information so as to avoid any problems that you may encounter in the future.
For more details, please see below.
■ Changes after site renewal: application registration process simplified
(number of steps reduced from six to three)
■ Requests :
- Applications that are currently being registered cannot be modified and they
will be deleted at around opening of the renewed website. Sellers are
recommended to complete registration before May 30 23:59(GMT).
- Before June 1 (GMT), all applications temporarily saved may be deleted so
please do not proceed with registration during that time.
※ Those apps that are currently being reviewed for certification will not
be deleted.
The renewal and the changes are being implemented to better service our sellers so we would like to ask for your full cooperation.
Please direct any other inquiries to Seller Office > Support > My Q&A.
We look forward to serving you better in the future.
Thank you,
Samsung Apps Seller Office Team

nice idea. i have got this email today. lets keep this thread updated with seller office news.

Yes, ok.
The changes sounds good for developers, faster processes during certification is neccesary.

new news for developers of paid apps
Code:
You can change your application price in real-time!
Dear Seller,
Thank you for being a part of Samsung Apps.
Seller Office helps you change the price of your application in real-time without the separate certification procedure.
Please refer to the following procedure for the function.
■ How to use:
Step 1. Move to Applications > Sales Status.
Step 2. Click $ icon (or Move to the detail page of the application of which you
want to change price and click the Sales Information tab)
Step 3. Click ‘Price change’ next to the existing price and reset the price for
each applicable country.
* You cannot use this function to change a free app to paid one.
■ Application of price change: About 2 hours after the price change
■ Note: By passing the certification evaluation step, you can quickly change the
price of your application for sale.
[Added Notice : Complete application registration before May.30(GMT)]
We also notify all sellers of the imminent renewal of our site and the changes in the application registration process. We ask that you read the following information so as to avoid any problems that you may encounter in the future.
For more details, please see below.
■ Changes after site renewal: application registration process simplified
(number of steps reduced from six to three)
■ Requests :
- Applications that are currently being registered cannot be modified and they
will be deleted at around opening of the renewed website. Sellers are
recommended to complete registration before May 30 23:59(GMT).
- Before June 1 (GMT), all applications temporarily saved may be deleted so
please do not proceed with registration during that time.
Please direct any other inquiries to Seller Office > Support > My Q&A.
We will continue to work hard in order to provide you with the best possible service.
Thank you,
Samsung Apps Seller Office Team

Due to android fans in the other art of the forum i post it here:
New Firmware available through KIES, S8530XXKE1/S8530OXAKD7
Download Link (extracted Firmware):
http://uploaded.to/file/j0w2v6u7

Nothing to do with seller office but with the part before,
here you find many usefull examples how to make some things that arent currently stock supported by bada, or how to make such things easier
http://developer.bada.com/documenta...C01320100&pageCount=50&orderField=DISP_DD_TXT
i even havent tried it but it is a better collection then badadev.com

Thanks will have a look to see if I can understand lol

http://developer.bada.com/articles/privatenotes
some examples and tips for new sdk 2.0