Hello Folks !
I know that the issue of "vanishing" SD memory cards has been discussed in the XDA Forum before, and from those threads I also figured that there is a Hotfix patch available for this problem from Microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948278/
But Microsoft does not offer a download link for that fix
Instead they direct you to their "beg me for it" support site, where they state that owners of pre-installed Vista systems are only offered support on a "pay per support request" basis at the tune of >$60 per ticket :-(
All others are directed to go the website of their device's manufacturer.
But HTC doesn't offer any patches or fixes for the Shift, heck they don't even have an "updated driverrs" section there
But things have gotten that bad on my Shift by now that every time I switch SD cards (even w/o hibernation), I get the exact error the MS note describes and have to reboot Vista to get my SD card back
Can anyone here please(!!) send me that MS Hotfix.
Why do I have to pay to get a buggy SW fixed, simply because I am the legit owner of a Window's Vista version?
Whoever was so screwed up in the head to put Vista on that box in the first place?
If not for the missing drivers for XP (resolution changer and the like), I would have already kicked Vista of that darn thing myself.
Best would of course have been Linux, but the driver sittuation there is even worse (no touchpad, no SNAPVuE, ...)
Please, somebody help me here.
The HTC Shift, such a powerfull device, and such a lousy implementation
Hi,
I clicked your link and then clicked on this link at the top of the page.
Hotfix Download Available
View and request hotfix down.
They detected my Location - Australia.
I filled in my email address and was sent a time & password protected download link to the Hotfix.
They warn that this Hotfix is not fully tested.
I will wait for the official one.
Regards,
Steve
I have the same problem too!
I am using a 16G SD card from A data. In order to use it, I have to reboot the shift. Now I have purchased an external SD card reader, it then works better!
you said you have read all the thread concerning that fix. In one of them, you can download it.
BTW, the fix actually doesn't fix much, but you can still hope.
pharao said:
Best would of course have been Linux, but the driver sittuation there is even worse (no touchpad, no SNAPVuE, ...)
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What are you talking about? We have 100% hardware support for the shift in Linux, everything is working, check my blog.
thaihugo said:
you said you have read all the thread concerning that fix. In one of them, you can download it.
BTW, the fix actually doesn't fix much, but you can still hope.
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I've tried to install this hotfix and it prompts "This hotfix is not meant for your system". I have Vista Bussiness SP1.
pof said:
What are you talking about? We have 100% hardware support for the shift in Linux, everything is working, check my blog.
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Pleeeeaaase, I'm not a fool.
I've read through the posts of the guy who wrote most of the drivers for Linux and by his own admission things like touchscreen only work under Linux if Windoze initialized the device first (dual boot option).
Such clumsy work arounds might be fine for you, but I need this box for WORK, not play.
So I can't afford to have to mess around first to get certain functions running, and I need every single item on that box - be it touchpad, phone or screen rez change...
And anything that requires Dual Boot is unacceptable for work from the get go.
Imagine my project leaders wants me to perform a certain task on the fly and my reply is "OK Boss, just give me 5-10 minutes, I'll have for boot into Windoze for that first" :-(
Either it *all* works under Linux or otherwise I wasted a lot of money on an oversized paper weight.
outparda said:
Hi,
I clicked your link and then clicked on this link at the top of the page.
Hotfix Download Available
View and request hotfix down.
They detected my Location - Australia.
I filled in my email address and was sent a time & password protected download link to the Hotfix.
They warn that this Hotfix is not fully tested.
I will wait for the official one.
Regards,
Steve
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Maybe they build that page for each location differently, but for my current locale (German province), I was exactly looking for that link (even using the "search" function), but could not find it.
If you could post that URL I would appreciate it.
Or maybe that page only works correctly if used with IE ???
pharao said:
Pleeeeaaase, I'm not a fool.
I've read through the posts of the guy who wrote most of the drivers for Linux and by his own admission things like touchscreen only work under Linux if Windoze initialized the device first (dual boot option).
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You are in front of that guy... and yes, that was one of the caveats from the first versions of the touchscreen driver (looks like you haven't been updated since a looong time), now the initialization works correctly and dualboot is not needed anymore.
pharao said:
Either it *all* works under Linux or otherwise I wasted a lot of money on an oversized paper weight.
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As I said before, it does *all* work.
outparda said:
Hi,
I clicked your link and then clicked on this link at the top of the page.
Hotfix Download Available
View and request hotfix down.
They detected my Location - Australia.
I filled in my email address and was sent a time & password protected download link to the Hotfix.
They warn that this Hotfix is not fully tested.
I will wait for the official one.
Regards,
Steve
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OK, I just tried again with another browser.
Now it seems to work OK and I'll wait for MS response.
The thing that worries me is that the web page said "for Vista Business SP2".
But I only got Service Pack 1 and I don't even think that there is an SP2 out yet for Vista.
I checked on the MS website just this weekend and they only listed SP1.
Am I wrong here about the MS Service Packs for Vista???
pof said:
You are in front of that guy... and yes, that was one of the caveats from the first versions of the touchscreen driver (looks like you haven't been updated since a looong time), now the initialization works correctly and dualboot is not needed anymore.
As I said before, it does *all* work.
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So you are telling me that SnapVuE, Touchscreen, Fingerprint Reader, Rez Change, Touchpad, Modem, WebCam, Audio and WM6 connectivity *all* work under Linux?
Be carefull what you claim here, because I am a Linux user & admin and have a "ready2install" SuSE 11.x distro right in front of me!
motowiz said:
I've tried to install this hotfix and it prompts "This hotfix is not meant for your system". I have Vista Bussiness SP1.
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Because it is already included in SP1
thaihugo said:
Because it is already included in SP1
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But if that is true then why do I stell get that error (as I am on SP1) and why does the MS website claim SP2 as a pre-requesite?
pharao said:
So you are telling me that SnapVuE, Touchscreen, Fingerprint Reader, Rez Change, Touchpad, Modem, WebCam, Audio and WM6 connectivity *all* work under Linux?
Be carefull what you claim here, because I am a Linux user & admin and have a "ready2install" SuSE 11.x distro right in front of me!
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I suggest you to tone down, because pof is actually the only guy I know working on linux drivers for the shift. Talking about clumsy workaround is not the best way to thank him. Maybe you can use some smiley here.
May I also remind you that there are some heavyweight professionals on this forum, so claiming your professional problems as a bragging right might be a bit moot for most of us.
pharao said:
But if that is true then why do I stell get that error (as I am on SP1) and why does the MS website claim SP2 as a pre-requesite?
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The fix is for pre-SP1. So it cannot install on SP1
ANd there is no SP2 for vista. You're reading probably something for XP
pof said:
As I said before, it does *all* work.
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Well, I haven't tried it myself, but there are some guys in the comments of your "linux on shift" blog, that claim that there are severe problems with WiFi.
They say it won't work with WEP enabled networks.
Can you confirm this or is there a fix available?
Guancho said:
They say it won't work with WEP enabled networks.
Can you confirm this or is there a fix available?
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It works for me, but i'll have a look at it when I have time.
pof said:
It works for me, but i'll have a look at it when I have time.
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Thanks, I really appreciate your work! It's great that someone works on fully enabling ubuntu on the shift.
And sorry for being off-topic
thaihugo said:
I suggest you to tone down, because pof is actually the only guy I know working on linux drivers for the shift. Talking about clumsy workaround is not the best way to thank him. Maybe you can use some smiley here.
May I also remind you that there are some heavyweight professionals on this forum, so claiming your professional problems as a bragging right might be a bit moot for most of us.
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May I suggest you tone it down yourself?
It was pof who jumped into this thread proclaiming very loudly that his drivers would make *all* under Linux work.
Emphasis on all on his own part.
So if he makes a claim which proofs to be false, then I would call that very unprofessional indeed (not that I allege such at this point, but that is why I listed all the [many] devices his claim would include).
I don't know about the environment in which the "heavyweights" you mention in this forum work, but in my world making a claim like that would get me fired if it proofed to be untrue.
And I'm talking about the kind of projects here where such news travels very fast - and I did mention that I use my Shift for work.
Thus my livelyhood depends on my systems functioning 100% (not 95% or 99%).
And despite me being an avert Linux user myself, I'm not one of those folks who believe I have to get all my stuff for free, thus if I do not find that someone willing to write drivers for free obliges me to be gratefull beyond agony (should they still not work as advertised).
Quite the opposite. I'm among the first willing to pay for my SW as long as it works. I did not choose Linux (for my PC) because it is "free", as screwing up on the job because of a failing System would cost me a lot more than simply paying for a professional operating system.
So if something does not work right (like having to boot into Windows first before I can start working under Linux), I do call it "clumsy" - because that is what it is!
If pof wants to be paid for his drivers, he can PM me about that proposal.
But in any case I'll demand for that stuff to work 100% or else I call it what it is.
Because my boss would call me far worse if I'd screw up because I e.g. couldn't access my info because my HTC Shift went bye bye on the job.
(enough smileys?)
PS thaihugo, the tone of your reply already convinced me to stick with Windoze on the Shift.
Because as lousy as Vista works on the HTC, at least there I do have "bragging rights" (as you call it) to demand working SW - because I paid for it.
That's a lot better than trying to get some freebie working and if it ain't working to be told "hey, what do you want? You got it for free!"
Hi, I have a pentium 3 1ghz that not supporting NX and SSE2. I tried to install it in many ways but this is impossible. There is a change to be able to install windows 8 without this problem?
Sorry for my English. Greetings.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it seems very close to, if not completely, impossible to me, that you will be able to run Windows 8 in any version on that CPU.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh975398.aspx
Somehow we need to remove the UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR (0x0000005D) bugcheck from the kernel. The Consumer Preview worked fine.
you're right about that... well I wish you good look with it, but honestly - I don't believe you'll manage to do it but this is xda, so anything can happen xD
If it wasn't for Jessenic's comment, I'd say it's probably a lost cause; the P3 line is over a decade old by now and there have been many additions to the x86 instruction set since then. I believe Vista and Win7 were able to run on P3 but not on anything older, and given the changes and support for new hardware that Win8 brings, it wouldn't surprise me if they decided to drop that legacy support.
That said, if you want to try working around whatever test is bugchecking, set up a kernel debugger, generate the bugcheck, and then work backward from there to find the test. Spoof it, jump over it, or otherwise avoid taking the code path to BSOD-land, and you should be good to go.
There's actually usable documentations on what's checking when. Sadly it only scratches the surface (no pun intended). But it should give us a lead on, where to check if we can't disable the check in the kernel or spoof its result.
For the mentioned documentation see my first link in this thread.
I can upgrade to RTM from the preview to avoid this problem?
Kisler your pentium 3 is old already 10 years or more so it could be unseported that would be weard because Windows 7 you can install.
Sent from my LG-P970 using xda premium
I installed the consumer preview and it works really slow. In the virtual machine from another pc, I tried with 1ghz and 768 ram and worked well but maybe the ram (speed 133) is too slow compared with that of the virtual machine (1333) ... This is over.
Thanks!
Wait, and what about the Pentium 4? Those had SSE2... And about no nx support, well if it was just an option in xp, vista, 7 and dev preview 8 then I do not see why it really matters.
Hi I have the solution to install Windows 8 / 8.1 without NX
Write "without nx" on google and open the first link (it's a video tutorial).
following this tutorial you'll be able to install Windows 8/8.1 even on a pentium 3
Hi.
First, I am sorry if this question is not related to this subforum, but I can't find another place where I could ask this question.
Second, I have Mobii WinTab with Windows 8.1 with Bing, and I was wondering if I could manage something in the registry to make better touch on the screen so I could use a stylus that I can't use it right now, but I can use it on my Lumia 920. Is there anything I could do in registry for that?
Thank you.
Tonchi91 said:
Hi.
First, I am sorry if this question is not related to this subforum, but I can't find another place where I could ask this question.
Second, I have Mobii WinTab with Windows 8.1 with Bing, and I was wondering if I could manage something in the registry to make better touch on the screen so I could use a stylus that I can't use it right now, but I can use it on my Lumia 920. Is there anything I could do in registry for that?
Thank you.
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This is the windows phone forum, not windows 8.
and (don't quote me on this) registry editing is only possible on normal versions of windows and not RT
I know this is Windows Phone forum, that's why I said I am sorry for this post if it is not related to the category.
I have 32bit version of Windows on my tablet.
"Hi, I know this is a motorcycle forum, but I'm having a lot of trouble with my Prius and I couldn't figure out where to ask..." <-- what you are doing. In the time it took you to type that apology you could have found several better places to post. XDA has a Win8 forum. So do something like two hundred other sites on the Internet. Microsoft runs several themselves.
Also, and I like how you couldn't even be bothered to use the Q&A subforum for your Q, no, you had to put it in dev&hacking. (Hint: not actually liking that part. This is basically spam. Congrats, you're a spammer.)
Oh, and for what it's worth @matgras, RT fully supports registry editing; you can use powershell, the command-line reg.exe tool, or the regedit.exe GUI.
@OP: Without more info about your problem, I couldn't help you even if you *were* asking in the right place. I have never seen, much less used, your brand of tablet. Nor do I know what stylus you use on the phone. No, posting that info here will not get you an answer; I'll just add you to my ignore list.
just found this app in the store... http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/phone-insider/ed2b1421-6414-4544-bd8d-06d58ee402a5 published on 12/11/14
Looks like we will be seeing things soon on the Windows Technical Preview front!
And before anyone asks the obvious questions:
1) Can we hack this to get us new pre-release software?
No. It's pointing at the an Azure AD server that only allows for internal Microsoft domain users to sign in to it. It's also determining whether that user is in the Insiders program. Also, the web requests that show the available software and data to the user are authenticated requests which means that unless we have a valid auth token with Microsoft's Azure server they are using for this, we aren't getting anything.
It's assumed that they will possibly update this app before/on/maybe a little after the 21st and point it to the same server that's used to verify that your Live account is in the Windows Insider program (again, don't even think about logging in with your live account to this program because IT WILL NOT WORK).
I will say that this IS INDEED the app that will allow us to update to the Windows 10 for Phone Preview when it appears.
Damn I need to turn my Windows phone and check out that app in the store.
Sent From Windows 7 On HTC Droid DNA
I hope the older Lumias like 520/620 will be upgraded to windows 10, so there won't be a situation like when they introduced Win Phone 8 which wasn't available to Win 7 owners.
It will be for all devices as mentioned earlier
seems like there is also an update:
http://wmpoweruser.com/phone-inside...ng-out/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
surya467 said:
It will be for all devices as mentioned earlier
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Thank you! I really like my Nokia Lumia 620, also my relatives have 2 WinPhones. Hope MS will continue to follow "client oriented approach", only this can help it increase its marketshare.
UPDATE
Hi, I recently bought a yogabook from ebay and I'm not happy with the performance/heat that windows 10 gives. I've tried chromeos which has better performance but more heat(probably due to incorrect drivers and the halo keyboard doesnt work). So my final option is android. Is it possible? If so could you point me to a link which says how to do it
If something hasn't changed since I became interested in the matter, it wasn't possible to install Windows on devices that were born with Android.
I'm talking about the other way around, installing Android on devices that were born with Windows
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I'm talking about the other way around, installing Android on devices that were born with Windows
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Yes you are right I didn't explain myself well. I meant that for what I understood at the time I was interested is that despite having similar hardware if not equal Lenovo has blocked the ability to switch between operating systems and that the hardware is a little too small to run well Windows.
has anyone tried downloading the source code off lenovos website and following the instructions in the readme files the come with it?