Hi guys,
I have recently purchased an xda2i PDA and I was wondering what is the best way or if there is a solution to convert the PPC in to a mobile mp3 HDD player; I 've been reading about the backpack and I am a bit confused, ideally it would be nice if an external portable HDD could be added to the PPC via the SD slot. The PDA can only read a maximum of 1GB storage area via the SD memory card making the storage size very limited, hence increasing the storage size from 1 GB to 20 GB or more would be great!
Look forward to read your comments
EMG
EMG said:
Hi guys,
I have recently purchased an xda2i PDA and I was wondering what is the best way or if there is a solution to convert the PPC in to a mobile mp3 HDD player; I 've been reading about the backpack and I am a bit confused, ideally it would be nice if an external portable HDD could be added to the PPC via the SD slot. The PDA can only read a maximum of 1GB storage area via the SD memory card making the storage size very limited, hence increasing the storage size from 1 GB to 20 GB or more would be great!
Look forward to read your comments
EMG
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Impossible via SD. Please read my explanation at http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/in...a_s_without_a_cf_card_slot_and_usb_hos&more=1
Hello everyone,
This is my first thread and I need some advice as I'm shi**ing it about updating my PDA2K WM03SE Model: PH20B to WM6.
I want to try this upgrade as I spent £600 plus on this thing & I've had to soft reset some 400 times over the past 4 years. I've now stripped everything out, hard reset & installed about 4 programmes & now find my new SD 4 gig card can't be recognised, time to do something before I throw this thing at the wall.
My questions are:
1. Will the unit be more stable
2. Will my programmes Pocket Player & TomTom Navigator still register & work
3. Will the PPC recognise 4Gig cards
4. Is the upgrade as easy as it looks
5. Is WM6 far superior to WM03SE
Thanks & I look forward to replies, I hope.
tjpearson said:
1. Will the unit be more stable
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Should be. Just keep in mind that 2003 was designed to run on the phone, WM6 wasn't. WM6 on the angel is a collection of patches and files from other phones.
tjpearson said:
2. Will my programmes Pocket Player & TomTom Navigator still register & work
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These particular apps, I don't know.
tjpearson said:
3. Will the PPC recognise 4Gig cards
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Only if the card is not an SDHC card. I have a 4 gig topram SD card that worked fine in my old angel. The only catch was that accessing data on the card was slower than a smaller card due to the larger amount of memory and CPU needed to deal with the larger space addressing.
tjpearson said:
4. Is the upgrade as easy as it looks
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I found it to be very easy, just make sure you follow every step in the wiki exactly.
tjpearson said:
5. Is WM6 far superior to WM03SE
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I think so. It feels much faster than WM5. I can't compare to 2003 as I upgraded mine to WM5 as soon as I received my angel and never tried 2003.
Thanks, what a reply.
Thanks for that, what a great reply.
Just what I needed & I thought ubuntu forum was the only helpful one out there.
Thanks a lot !!!!!
Using a HTC s620 with Ricky's ROM, is it humanly possible to use the memory card 8GB SDHC as the default storage when i open file explorer and default locations when i hit save?
Shadow152 said:
Using a HTC s620 with Ricky's ROM, is it humanly possible to use the memory card 8GB SDHC as the default storage when i open file explorer and default locations when i hit save?
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don't quote me for this but i think he expanded the sd memory capabilities from the 2gb default to 16gb. so i'd say yes?
pretty bad explanation. However, if u mean u can use your memory, the answer is no. you can put music on pictures and such but the /windows folder etc. has to to stay within the device
Better explained, hopefully...
ok lemme try again, what i'm looking for is something most phones have had for a while, on my sony ericsson W580i for an example, not the newest of phones but not quite ancient, when you go into file viewer you can select whether or not you want to view the phone memory or the memory card, when you exit the file manager it remembers the setting and automatically saves everything to the memory card and opens the memory card by default.
Just wondering if this is a possibility with the s620 by either a 3rd party application or maybe a registry edit? hopefully someone out there knows how to do this as goin into the memory stick, into the appropriate folder and then find my files seems like a lot of hassle that need not exist :-/
hope this is better explained than my first post and hope someone can give an answer
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ok lemme try again, what i'm looking for is something most phones have had for a while, on my sony ericsson W580i for an example, not the newest of phones but not quite ancient, when you go into file viewer you can select whether or not you want to view the phone memory or the memory card, when you exit the file manager it remembers the setting and automatically saves everything to the memory card and opens the memory card by default.
Just wondering if this is a possibility with the s620 by either a 3rd party application or maybe a registry edit? hopefully someone out there knows how to do this as goin into the memory stick, into the appropriate folder and then find my files seems like a lot of hassle that need not exist :-/
hope this is better explained than my first post and hope someone can give an answer
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Resco Explorer can be told the default location to view
I want to have my storage card be the default storage location for my emails, email attachments, My Documents and media files.
For my Tilt, I had 3 or 4 cab files that I would install after a new flash that accomplished this. Are there any cab files for the Tilt 2 that would set the Storage Card as the default location?
Search for advanced configuraton 3.3.. it will do that and alot more..
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Search for advanced configuraton 3.3.. it will do that and alot more..
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Thanks for the suggestion. I see it has settings for most of these options, however, there is no setting (at least from what I see) to move my emails to the storage card. That is actually the most important one to me because I have 4 or 5 email accounts that I want to sync with the phone.
Can anyone at least post the registry changes to make this happen? A cab file would be ideal, but I would be willing to make changes to the registry as well.
Thanks in advance!
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Can anyone at least post the registry changes to make this happen? A cab file would be ideal, but I would be willing to make changes to the registry as well.
Thanks in advance!
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For email attachments there is an option called "Storage" on the messaging options page. I don't think you can put the emails on the card because I think they are maintained in the PIM database in main memory.
I'm using SPB Plus, which puts an option into the Internet Explorer download menus so that you can change the download location.
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For email attachments there is an option called "Storage" on the messaging options page. I don't think you can put the emails on the card because I think they are maintained in the PIM database in main memory.
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I know on my Tilt I was able to save the emails on my storage card (even the MS exchange ones). However, I had a cab file that was about 1kb large that made the proper changes. Since that cab was written for a 2 1/2 year old device running WM 6.1, I'm nervous about running it on my Tilt 2. That's why I was hoping there existed such a file for the Tilt 2, or at least some registry changes floating around.
I keep searching but so far I'm not coming up with anything.
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I know on my Tilt I was able to save the emails on my storage card (even the MS exchange ones). However, I had a cab file that was about 1kb large that made the proper changes. Since that cab was written for a 2 1/2 year old device running WM 6.1, I'm nervous about running it on my Tilt 2. That's why I was hoping there existed such a file for the Tilt 2, or at least some registry changes floating around.
I keep searching but so far I'm not coming up with anything.
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Do you still have that cab handy? Maybe if you post it here, one of the members can open it up and see exactly what changes it makes, so we can know what it does and if you can just run it, or make the changes manually.
(I'm almost to the point where I could do that for you, just not quite yet. It is possible though, for anybody who's used to assembling cabs)
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Do you still have that cab handy? Maybe if you post it here, one of the members can open it up and see exactly what changes it makes, so we can know what it does and if you can just run it, or make the changes manually.
(I'm almost to the point where I could do that for you, just not quite yet. It is possible though, for anybody who's used to assembling cabs)
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I didn't even think about doing that. Instead of trying to describe these files, I could have just uploaded them. Here they go! Thank you for suggesting that. I really hope someone can repackage it for the Tilt 2.
I also attached 3 other files that behave in the same way for other types of items (temporary internet files, my documents folder, etc).
Thanks again!
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I didn't even think about doing that. Instead of trying to describe these files, I could have just uploaded them. Here they go! Thank you for suggesting that. I really hope someone can repackage it for the Tilt 2.
I also attached 3 other files that behave in the same way for other types of items (temporary internet files, my documents folder, etc).
Thanks again!
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These should work with your TP2. I believe this is what they do:
Temmp_Internet_SD.cab sets up the IE cache on the SD card
Rt_sd.Cab sets the system to use ringtones from the SD card
emailatt_sd.cab sets the system to store emails and attachments to the SD card
mydocs_sdcard sets the system to use the SD card when synchronizing with the computer.
However, you have lots of storage space on your TP 2. Why do you want to use the SD card? It has slower access than the main memory on the TP2.
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These should work with your TP2. I believe this is what they do:
Temmp_Internet_SD.cab sets up the IE cache on the SD card
Rt_sd.Cab sets the system to use ringtones from the SD card
emailatt_sd.cab sets the system to store emails and attachments to the SD card
mydocs_sdcard sets the system to use the SD card when synchronizing with the computer.
However, you have lots of storage space on your TP 2. Why do you want to use the SD card? It has slower access than the main memory on the TP2.
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I guess I can back up the device and give it a try. Is there anything in these files that can't be reversed by a hard reset - in case it's not compatible?
As for the use of the storage card, I have at least 5 (there are actually about 7 that I monitor daily) email accounts that I would like to have on my phone. I also like to sync not only the inbox, but many of the sub folders as well. On my Tilt, I actually ran out of room just from emails alone (attachments were on the card) before finding these cab files.
Once I get home, I'll give these files a try and see if they work or fry the phone...lol.
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I guess I can back up the device and give it a try. Is there anything in these files that can't be reversed by a hard reset - in case it's not compatible?
As for the use of the storage card, I have at least 5 (there are actually about 7 that I monitor daily) email accounts that I would like to have on my phone. I also like to sync not only the inbox, but many of the sub folders as well. On my Tilt, I actually ran out of room just from emails alone (attachments were on the card) before finding these cab files.
Once I get home, I'll give these files a try and see if they work or fry the phone...lol.
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Yes, but the Tilt had a lot less memory, if I recall correctly. It is hard to believe you are low on storage on a Tilt 2 / TP 2! How much storage memory is left on your phone?
The changes are to the registry, actually all you need to do is backup the registry before running the .cab files. If it doesn't work, just restore the registry.
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Yes, but the Tilt had a lot less memory, if I recall correctly. It is hard to believe you are low on storage on a Tilt 2 / TP 2! How much storage memory is left on your phone?
The changes are to the registry, actually all you need to do is backup the registry before running the .cab files. If it doesn't work, just restore the registry.
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I ran the cab that I used on my first Tilt and it worked perfectly!
Thanks for the suggestion, I would have never had the nerve to use it!
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I ran the cab that I used on my first Tilt and it worked perfectly!
Thanks for the suggestion, I would have never had the nerve to use it!
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Usually, cabs are built such that when they uninstall, they change whatever registry settings they altered back to their original values. However, as long as you do what stevedebi suggested and backup your registry before installations like that, you'll never be farther away than a quick backup from correcting any issues some cab might have left behind.
Nope a hard reset is the be all and end all of starting over. You cant screw anything up by loading a cab, even a wrong one into windows. A hard reset just loads a brand spanking new install of the operating system as it was shipped.
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I didn't even think about doing that. Instead of trying to describe these files, I could have just uploaded them. Here they go! Thank you for suggesting that. I really hope someone can repackage it for the Tilt 2.
I also attached 3 other files that behave in the same way for other types of items (temporary internet files, my documents folder, etc).
Thanks again!
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Just what I needed. Thanks.
For WM6.5.5 Phones: [ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Inbox\Settings ]
Then create the following STRING VALUES.
Name: AttachPath
String: Storage Card\MAPI\Attachments
Name: PropertyPath
String: Storage Card\MAPI
Of course u can name the folder what ever u want, i have EMAIL/Attachments
Asking
Can those *.cab work well with WM 6.5? I'm using HTC Snap.
Thanks.
Working great on 6.5
njoto501 said:
Can those *.cab work well with WM 6.5? I'm using HTC Snap.
Thanks.
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They work fine with WM 6.5. I use them on my Touch Pro 2 with no problems at all!
Cabs Did Not Work For Me, Anyone Else Have Problems?
Just installed 2 cabs below:
emailatt_sd.cab sets the system to store emails and attachments to the SD card
mydocs_sdcard sets the system to use the SD card when synchronizing with the computer.
The first only moved my SMS to SD card which I had already done w/SK Tools, it did nothing with my emails. Created a folder just called Mail and stuck all my SMS messages in it.
The second cab did nothing.
Anyone else have problems w/these cabs?
Running WM 6.5 Pro on a Tilt 2