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Assign WIFI to button?

I tried asking this on another forum with no results, hopefully someone here (where I should have asked first) will know.
On my Dell X50v there is a side button dedicated to enable wireless or disable it which is really handy.
I've been trying to assign a key to do this on the PDA2K, but can't find a specific program that does this.
However, I looked in the Dell and the button is assigned to a program, in Windows folder, called 'wirelessonoff.exe'. It's in ROM and it's properties show that is an HTC program (same manufacturer as PDA2K). I copied the ROM program into 'My Documents' then changed the properties of the copy to allow copies and copied it to the PDA2K.
I tried to copy the program over, and when it runs on the PDA2K, the 'Enable' & 'Disable' show on the screen and look as if it's working, but it doesn't.
Can one of you program gurus figure out how to make this work on the PDA2K? I can upload or email any programs from the Dell X50v that you need.
Thanks,

lbhi said:
I tried asking this on another forum with no results, hopefully someone here (where I should have asked first) will know.
On my Dell X50v there is a side button dedicated to enable wireless or disable it which is really handy.
I've been trying to assign a key to do this on the PDA2K, but can't find a specific program that does this.
However, I looked in the Dell and the button is assigned to a program, in Windows folder, called 'wirelessonoff.exe'. It's in ROM and it's properties show that is an HTC program (same manufacturer as PDA2K). I copied the ROM program into 'My Documents' then changed the properties of the copy to allow copies and copied it to the PDA2K.
I tried to copy the program over, and when it runs on the PDA2K, the 'Enable' & 'Disable' show on the screen and look as if it's working, but it doesn't.
Can one of you program gurus figure out how to make this work on the PDA2K? I can upload or email any programs from the Dell X50v that you need.
Thanks,
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I'd love to find a program like that too! help?! anyone!

Co pilot Voices

As the voices are quite boring on the Co pilot software I was wondering if any one knew whether it's possible to get any different voices?
If so where from?

you shopuld in theaory be able to use ogg voice files for cp6

Cool! I'm going to have to try that!

I'm well to wet bwhind the ears to be able to do anythig complicated at the mo, still learning.
Anywhere I can download or buy a set of voices that install themselves so i can just chose a new voice?

try looking on ebay.. i got loads of voices and maps from there and it all works.. like Naughty Natalie alot? Your find out why..

what about installing tomtom instead of the copilot on the artemis?

xda_guy said:
what about installing tomtom instead of the copilot on the artemis?
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Means I gotta buy it
Got the copilot as part of my upgrade deal......
Can't find anything on the net about where to get different voices for Copilot, just references to the fact it can be done
All help appreciated

I have TomTom and CoPilot and much prefer CoPilot but would be cool to get other voices.

Still hoping for an easy option.................................

If you explore the files on your storage card, you'll find the voices under:
\Storage Card\COPILOT\SPEECH\<Language>\<VoiceName>
The default UK voice is under:
\Storage Card\COPILOT\SPEECH\UK English\Jane
If you copied the 'Jane' directory, you could create a new voice set by copying over the .ogg files within it with your own samples, saved in .ogg format at 22.05 Khz. There's a free program called 'Audacity' that you can do that kind of thing with...

Firstly, I wouldnt copy files over Janes files, create a new directory at the same level and call it say JohnCleese. Copy the new ogg files in there and use settings to set that as your language settings.
There are various voices that can be downloaded from the internet for TomTom.
See the posting below for details of how to extract the individual files from the TomTom formatted file.
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=33804&highlight=tomtom+voice
Once you have the individual files you need to use something like Wavepad to combine the TomTom files to create the same file for copilot. (Copy the files from your SD card onto your PC to see what files you need)
In some cases copilot has 1 file where tomtom uses two files. Roundabouts are the prime example. Copilot has one for "1st exit at roundabout". Tom Tom has 2 "At the roundabout take the " and another for the "first exit". You can use Wavepad to combine files so that is relatively easy.
The 1 mile and 2 mile warnings are the worst as I couldnt find John Cleese saying mile so I put in "800 yards and 800 yards".
Anyway....
I have added to zip files which contains the original extracted John Clees Files. Another contains some combined ones, in come cases I just included the Jane voice. If someone does a better job, let me know and I will add the updated direction to my orbit.

the link seems like a load og hard work just to put a voice on the copilot, why isnt it just as simple as adding one to the tomtom

CoPilot 7 voices
The blog on the CoPilot website explains how you can even record your own voice for the commands:-
http://blog.copilotlive.net/?p=286
Peter

Issues saving WM6 Excel files. Please help!

I know that this is arguably in the wrong forum, but I've been posting my issue in the "General" forum for weeks without one response. Trying to get some exposure.
I'm just wondering if this is just my issue or if it's a common issue with WM5/WM6 and or the latest ActiveSync, 4.5. I'm having issues with syncing Excel files that used to sync just fine on WM2003. I have large spreadsheets that are about 325kb in size on the desktop. When I sync the file, it's the same size until I open it and try to make changes and save it. Then I get the following error:
"Unsupported content and formatting may be lost if you save this workbook..."
The only way I can save the spreadsheet is to rename it and create a new one with the same name. It then writes over the original file, taking up to 30 seconds to save. The file is then 969kbs in size (almost triple!). And every time I edit on the PC it goes back to 325kbs. Then when I edit on the PPC, it goes through this again, making the file almost a Meg again.
Is there any way to just sync the file with just one format? WM2003 doesn't have this problem at all. It syncs the file and it's still the same size on both the desktop and the PC, 325kbs. But not for WM5 or WM6. This is really annoying. Also, sometimes my date formats are changed from month-day-year to day-year-month, or something retarded like that. Really freakin annoying to say the least. You buy MS products and they're not even compatible. I feel like I have a Palm trying to sync Apple documents or something. It's really ridiculous! I'm hoping that one of you genius' can point me to a setting that I've overlooked to fix this. Or some kind of cab or hack to make Excel save documents in the same format as WM2003. Please help!
PS, I've tried to change the conversion settings in Active sync as well with no apparant effects.

As cuurent ppc office uses same format as pc why not copy and paste documents rather than synching - its what i do with any documents i want to have on my ppc.

meschle said:
As cuurent ppc office uses same format as pc why not copy and paste documents rather than synching - its what i do with any documents i want to have on my ppc.
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I get the same error whether I use activesync or not. That's the problem - they're not the same format. When saving on the desktop it converts to XLS work book. When saving on the device it converts to a PXL file. Thery're different. As a matter of fact, I found out last night the WM2003 is converting the files the same way but it shows the storage size as if it were in the XLS form (says 352Kbs but desktop shows 950Kbs actual size until opened and saved on desktop) It's been doing this all along, so I guess the only difference is that now, I'm getting an warning before I save and rewrite the file and I have to rename it.
Strange thing is that no one seems to have this issue but me. I've only found like 2 or 3 posts on the internet with people having this issue with WM6. So, there's a way to bypass it - Just don't know how.
BTW, Thanx for replying to my post.

2003 saved as pxl - wm6 saves as xls or xlsx - what rom are you using?

meschle said:
2003 saved as pxl - wm6 saves as xls or xlsx - what rom are you using?
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Yours. O2 Premium (not Premium Plus)

Well it saves as xls\xlsx then - theres no need for conversion of the files.

meschle said:
Well it saves as xls\xlsx then - theres no need for conversion of the files.
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I tried to edit-save using WM5 storeage on the device and then edit-save on the desk top. Created the document on the device and it was saved as "Excel 2007 Workbook"(default). Save to storage card and then turned on WM5 storage and connected to the desktop. Went to the storage card, opened the same file and I got a brief message "file conversion in progress" before the file opened. I went to "save as" and the file type was the same "Excel 2007 Workbook". So, like you said, why is there a need for conversion if they're in the same format? Says there're the same but I don't think they really are. Desktop file size is always smaller than the device file size.
Appreciate your help, but I guess I'm just going to have to live with it.
PS and yes, it still asks me to rename the file if I try to edit it after coming from the desktop.

MP3-Ringtones not selectable

Hi all !
Problem with my 6.1 Pro2:
My own Mp3-ringtones are no longer selectable neither with the "original" Windows-Dialogue nor with the 3d-config utility. I can only select the ringtones called "ring-(something)".
The MP3-ringtones themselves can be played using the Windows Media Player. An example of a ringtone that does not work on the Pro2 is attached.
Recently I deleted some progams from my SD-card manually, because they were never installed on this phone but on its predecessor, maybe this causes the trouble...
Please help, thanks in advance
Padertov

Place your custom ringtones into "\My Documents\My Ringtones" for them to be selectable.

Sorry, incomplete description, these MP3-files ARE in the relevant directory and are visible when selecting the ringtone in the drop-down-list.
But when I select the attached file I can only see the wait-signal (rotating colored circle) for a second and the dialogue pops back to the ringtone selected before..

this happened to me as well...

i have no idea how this happened im about to reset my phone

Update: still playing around a bit and the same ringtone, now saved as WMA in the same directory is accepted. The MP3 still is shown but cannot be permanently selected. Nevertheless this mp3 file can be played using standard media player.
I give up, still thinking that I destroyed a registry-entry or something similar...

I installed SPB MS 3.5, and then went to assign varies tones to contacts. When I did that, the only thing that played, even after the selection was entered, was the general ringtone I had earlier set. However, when I got a call from the ring-specific contact, the correct ringtone played. So, I thought I had this same problem but it seems to have corrected itself I guess.

Just for your information.... I've got many mp3 ringtones in the /My Documents/My Ringtones folder.. and they're all accessible to TF3D per-user ringtone selection..
don't have any real suggestions for you.. just informing that mine work fine..
VzW - TP2

I'm having a similar problem.
I upgraded the rom yesterday from 6.1 to 6.5 (HTC official) and restored two mp3 files I used in the earlier version.
Both files are in the right place, "\My Documents\My Ringtones", but I can only select them as ringtones.
One of the files I used as my email tone but it now doesn't appear in the drop-down list of tunes for "notifications" (only in the ringtone list) which it did in 6.1.
Any ideas?

Putting files in My Ringtones will not work for Notifications, even on older OS such as wm 6.1 and 6.0.
If you want to use the media for notifications, try putting them in the following exact locations:
My Device\Windows
My Device\My Documents
My Device\Application Data\Microsoft\Sounds
My Device\Storage Card
My Device\Storage Card\My Documents
The following locations are for wm 6.0 and 6.1; I haven't upgraded to wm 6.5 yet, so it may differ on the new OS.
UPDATE: just tested padertov's 24CTU file and it works as my SMS notification on my Pro2 by saving it as My Device\Storage Card\24 hours CTU.mp3

Thanks for that.

My solution
I was having the same problem. My mp3 ringtones were working but then stopped. I used total commander to delete the .mp3 file association. I then added it back. My mp3s are now assignable again. I put them under My documents\My ringtones folder.

Sorry not working
I've tried what you say,
deleting association with total commander, soft reset, but nothing to do, my HD2 does not want to assign an mp3 for ringtone.
I think it could be a conflict with a soft, but I can't see which one.
Hope someone will be able to find a solution
Franky

Did you add the file association? I set mine back to media player.

Working
Okay,
Now, that's working again.
I associated my mp3 with S2P and that's all !
I can't understand why this happen, but thanks for this !!!
See you,
Franky

Make Storage Card Default Storage Option

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!

kcrumbley said:
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.

stevedebi said:
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.

kcrumbley said:
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)

sirphunkee said:
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!

kcrumbley said:
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.

stevedebi said:
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.

kcrumbley said:
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!

kcrumbley said:
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.

kcrumbley said:
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