OK I lied.
Hi, if you want a gushy intro you can pretend I made one but I'll get straight to the question (YES I USED SEARCH!) after this aside: I've hooked up my Dash thanks to this site and appreciate all you lovely developer people there @ the big coding room in the sky.
I'm on WM6 and all that good stuff thanks to you guys and it's pretty amazing. My question concerns the SMS restore/backup etc system. Now I backed up a few old texts for personal reasons as the conversation was gettin a bit large.
Is there any program I can use either for the computer or the phone itself to read these backed up messages without restoring? I'd like to sorta archive them for later use in an email account but been having a hard time.
Thanks, any help appreciated.
(Oh and Don't ask about the username)
dashwire.com
as far as the ones you saved already...what file format are they in?
They're in .sms format and thanks for the speedy reply I'll check out that website right now.
i can open sms files in notepad on my pc. tried that?
i tried opening it in notepad and it wouldnt come out right..the messages were spread everywhere and not in order
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Hey,
When I got my new Hermes I had to go through every single one of my contacts and change them from something like "P;John /M" to their regular names..I don't want to do this again, and would like to know how to save these when switching from WM5 to WM6..I tried searching and they were saying you can't just save the database etc etc because of changing formats so I need some help..
I don't have the data package, don't have anything on outlook set-up, but have a computer with activesync working, and also a 2gb card.
What would be the easiest way to save these while upgrading? Is there anywhere to look for step-by-step instructions so I can't screw anything up?
Thanks everyone!
You do use ActiveSync right ?
Also PIM Backup should work.
Yea, am I missing something? What is the best way to back these up so I can make sure everything is alright? Is there a really easy way to back up and restore my photos etc as well? I am just trying to drag them to another folder, and I think this is what I did on my original upgrade, but when I did it then I hadn't changed my contacts or anything else yet so I really am clueless.
I feel like a complete idiot..I have programmed in php/mysql and been on computers my whole life, and now I am asking people for help with the simplest of things.
You might want to take a look at this:
http://www.mrvanx.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=26
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299705
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=b...rum.xda-developers.com&as_rights=&safe=images
By - the - way,
I found both of these using this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=298893
Sorry,
I actually already looked at that and was just stuck on this point..I still don't know how to save my contacts? The contacts at first came from my SIM with the formatting I talked about. I changed that, and don't know if I upgrade will they default back to the old things? Also how about the ones I saved to the phone and then put a default picture with them?
The thing I was doing was simply clicking the explore icon in activesync and then trying to drag the files in that folder into a new folder(which wasn't actually working at all)..I know I must be missing something simple, and I am sorry for bringing such a newbie question into a experienced users forum.
Thank you, I didn't ever see the google thing. I had searched the forums to no avail though. Thank you for the help and I will do the rest on my own
Oh Yea, Welcome to xda-developers.
When I first joined I also had the most difficult time finding what I was looking for using xda-developers forum search.
I really like that Google Search.
Thanks to Mike the Mod.
Hi Guys,
I tried doing a search but i cant find any threads on this.
Does anyone know how to save all your settings before u do a flash? settings like the emails settings are pretty time consuming as i put in nearly 4 email accounts. It would fantastic is i could just copy a single setting file each time i flash the rom .. that way there will be less inertia to reflash again
You need to do a more thorough search next time
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=308100
thanks man.. but actually was just looking if there is a single setting file for the email accts .. i dun really need all the other settings to be saved as i run my phone pretty bare..
i dun suppose there is a single file that you could just copy and paste over is there?
Nope sorry. The settings are all contained in different areas of the registry.
That program is about as elegant as you can get.
There is a way of making your own .cab file for these settings so that you only have to make that once, then re-run it when you flash your phone to get all your settings and stuff back. There is a thread somewhere about how to do it.
I've had a brief look myself but not yet got around to doing it - i'll have another look this afternoon and see if I can work out how to do it easily and post a guide for everyone else.
Cheers,
Smiffy.
Woohoo!
Just noticed that that was my 100th post and I'm now a senior member - about bloody time ;-)
Does this mean I have to do my own ROM now? ;-)
Smiffy...
knownuts said:
Hi Guys,
I tried doing a search but i cant find any threads on this.
Does anyone know how to save all your settings before u do a flash? settings like the emails settings are pretty time consuming as i put in nearly 4 email accounts. It would fantastic is i could just copy a single setting file each time i flash the rom .. that way there will be less inertia to reflash again
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There are several threads on this forum abous this. Just search more.
For now try to use my example here that sets my POP3 and Exchange accounts. Just put your own data in and load it in a XML loader or make it a .cab file.
cheers,
dan
Lordsmiff said:
There is a way of making your own .cab file for these settings so that you only have to make that once, then re-run it when you flash your phone to get all your settings and stuff back. There is a thread somewhere about how to do it.
I've had a brief look myself but not yet got around to doing it - i'll have another look this afternoon and see if I can work out how to do it easily and post a guide for everyone else.
Cheers,
Smiffy.
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PM me and I will walk you through making your own cab for them. fairly easy.
Thanks
I'll have a look for myself first and do some reading - I always find that if I do that, I can do it easier next time round as I "know" how to do it and what's wrong when it doesn't work But I'll definitely take you up on your offer if I get stuck
Cheers
Smiffy.
Alright I have loaded ROM's onto my phone but I am still pretty new to this, I am wondering if anyone can take the time to walk me through of how to get Home Screen's like these (the first one and the red one on PG1)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=378000
Thank you very much for any help you are willing to give.
P.S. what ever help I get I will be more then happy to give to other begginner's.
The big clock is called HTC Home and that's fairly easy to find, just make a simple search for it. The tray on the bottom looks like PHM Trays which you can get from PHM Tools.
carltmac said:
Alright I have loaded ROM's onto my phone but I am still pretty new to this, I am wondering if anyone can take the time to walk me through of how to get Home Screen's like these (the first one and the red one on PG1)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=378000
Thank you very much for any help you are willing to give.
P.S. what ever help I get I will be more then happy to give to other begginner's.
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Did you bother reading the thread or are you the type to look at pics and ask for help, right off the bat?
Actually I did take the time to read a lot of the post's but as I said in my first post I am pretty new to this stuff and a lot of the talk was quite confusing to me because of the short form's and such so program's and stuff like that.
Like I said before, I am just looking to see if some one has the time to help me, not looking for people to chirp about how new I am and such. Thank you.
carltmac said:
Actually I did take the time to read a lot of the post's but as I said in my first post I am pretty new to this stuff and a lot of the talk was quite confusing to me because of the short form's and such so program's and stuff like that.
Like I said before, I am just looking to see if some one has the time to help me, not looking for people to chirp about how new I am and such. Thank you.
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Alright so I have read the first like 11 pages and no where in there have I found how to get those 2 Home Screen's running on my Dash?
Please help
As for the Red Carousel theme....go here.
Download the needed cabs in the bottom of his first post and read his install instructions.
As for the HTC home, if you READ where to get it from its in his first thread also...
- HTC Home
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/3306160
Download that cab.
Once you've downloaded the cabs...you transfer them to your phone using Active sync. Place them in your documents folder. Using your phone Resco Explorer program direct yourself to the My Documents folder and click on the cabs to install them.
If asked where to install them, pick Main memory (phone itself) not the memory card.
DO NOT UNZIP or UNRAR the CAB files.
After the cabs are installed. REBOOT.
Once rebooted, Click on start->settings->Home Screen->Home screen layout
Once there, choose which home screen...you'd like to have.
Done
Thank you for the help, I have one question though, I downloaded the courosel theme and unzipped it to a folder and then I copied to my from through My Computer (I'm not sure if that matter's?) but when I selected the Courosel theme in Home Screen, the text messages and voicemail stuff look's all messed up? Is that because I unzipped the file?
Another question came up....
I dled the LCD clock and unzipped it, copied the folder to my phone and then went to Resco Explorer and clicked the Setup.xml and it did a bunch of stuff, I thought it installed but then when I rebooted my phone nothing happened?
DO NOT UNZIP or UNRAR the CAB files.
Jesus man
the lcd plugin is a CAB
If you need help anymore this member (Gixxum) is the man to go to.
Alright thank you very much, I didn't realize that that was a cab file since I have never worked with a cab before.
I installed the cab. and got a message saying that I may need an older version of WM?
I then rebooted and the LCD clock was not there?
I couldnt edit again so I has to do another post, the problem I was having was just that I didn't go to the background image and change it to courosol.
thank you.
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DO NOT UNZIP or UNRAR the CAB files.
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No matter how big or what colors we use people seriously have selective reading. lol
actually I read that a few times but I was not sure what a cab file was.
Funny how much you care about the mistakes I made instead of helping haha.
Thanks everyone.
alright I have one more question and I thought I would post it here instead of opening another thread. When I am using txt messaging and I sent a txt (I will use this as an example) at 8:01 PM and some one sends me a txt back in the same minute it will say that they replyed at 7:01 PM. It always says one hour earlier for replys? I have searched through options but I cannot seem to find where to change it?
Thank you ahead of time.
Are you sure your time is right? Go to settings --clock & alarm-- and scroll to where on earth you are. Do a reset try that.
I checked the times man and NOTHING! this is kind of brutal, it's not like it's a huge problem but it's just ******* frustrating, any ideas guys?
Whats the time difference on the clock?
Hello all,
I'm a noob in winmo and smart phones. Didn't want a smart phone until the start of the year where my business started to get busy. I needed to respond to clients sooner even when I'm on the road. I did not want to get an iphone as I did not want to be just another guy who has it. lol.
I almost bought a palm pre but did not like the keyboard I looked at nokia smart phones but didn't like it either. I then saw the TP2's keyboard and fell inlove with it.
Not knowing what winmo is but I was set to get this phone. I am so glad I waited for this phone because it passed my expectations and the fact that I found this website (checking it everyday now), this phone will do what I need it to do and entertain me (tweaks) for quite some time.
Anyway, that is my intro. I have questions regarding email and flash using IE.
I have 2 email accounts setup on my phone. My first account (gmail) doesn't have an email at all. I received couple of emails 2 days ago and I'm surprised to see that its not there anymore. My wife's iphone can see all the messages in the gmail server even the sent mails. Is there a way to have that same setup on our phones?
And lastly, my understanding is that IE has flash support, however when I was looking at a website that has a flash video, all I see is the flash icon with "9". Can someone steer me to the right direction?
I know this is quite long but thank you very much for your time. I am really enjoying my first ever smart phone, winmo and this awesome website. I hope I can contribute to this site in the near future
.
niM
Go into the settings in Gmail>Settings>Forwarding and POP/IMAP>POP Download: and in 2. select;
When messages are accessed with POP: Keep Gmail's copy in Inbox.
As for your flash question, You need to spend make time reading the Wiki and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=550540
Good luck, hope that helps.
Thank you very much for the email settings and thank you for the link.. That's really what I wanted, something to read and understand it on my own.
Have a good one.
niM
WillardZ:
Thanks again for the link.. I realized that I've already read the page page that you linked, so did you mean that I need to flash my stock rom and use another install another rom to have the ability to view flash websites?
I am actually trying to wait for this guy to make a bloatware remover on Tilt2 before messing with other ROMs (as much as I want my phone to be very fast)
Thanks
niM
Have you tried using Opera Mobile instead of IE on the site? I find that that Opera usually plays flash videos better than IE, even though they use the same flash plugin. For example, YouTube plays fine on Opera, but shows the 9 in place of a video on IE.
As for the page previously linked to by WillardZ, I think he thought you were talking about flashing ROMs. There is no requirement I am aware of to flash a new ROM for browser flash support, unless there is no flash at all included in your ROM (not the case here), in which case you could flash to one that does. I hope that clarifies it for you.
DaveTheTytnIIGuy:
Thank you very much for clarifying that.. I tried using opera mobile on www.videosbyccp.com The main page has flash video and I can't even see the flash icon, its completely blank..
I'm going to try to download skyfire and I hope that works..
Thank you once again..
niM
Dave or anyone,
You said you can view youtube videos no problem using opera. However, mine says ..
"Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Download flash player"
I checked my opera setting and javascript is checked the whole time. So obviously some of my settings are different from yours and I hope you or anyone would like to help me.
I installed skyfire, although my wife can play farmville (very laggy), I'm hating the crappy display..
Thank you very much.
niM
Install Flash Lite 3.1 and it will work. Do a search for it.
lorin.bute said:
Install Flash Lite 3.1 and it will work. Do a search for it.
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hi , how you did it? I did it yesterday but I don't see any difference .
jsaid said:
hi , how you did it? I did it yesterday but I don't see any difference .
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Thread necromancy is a no-no. You can't view Youtube content from within Opera Mobile.
WillardZ said:
Go into the settings in Gmail>Settings>Forwarding and POP/IMAP>POP Download: and in 2. select;
When messages are accessed with POP: Keep Gmail's copy in Inbox.
As for your flash question, You need to spend make time reading the Wiki and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=550540
Good luck, hope that helps.
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also thanks you helped me
Ok am new to this tweaking thing and would like to mod my phone. Am not a computer geek so to speak so am not sure how to go about anything... are there simple things to start with that i could try to start figuring this out??? and is there any program that actually works for setting different ringers for sms to match your contacts ringer???
Thanks in advance for any help!!
Sorry i have htc touch pro 2 from us cellular
heidiandjeff said:
Ok am new to this tweaking thing and would like to mod my phone. Am not a computer geek so to speak so am not sure how to go about anything... are there simple things to start with that i could try to start figuring this out??? and is there any program that actually works for setting different ringers for sms to match your contacts ringer???
Thanks in advance for any help!!
Sorry i have htc touch pro 2 from us cellular
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Hi. Welcome to XDA When I first signed up to xda I had no idea what I was looking for or what I even wanted to do to my phone. Being familiar to the whole forum edict rather than asking questions that have already been answered a million times over I noticed the handy dandy search function.
An example: Regarding you above question I searched, "rhodium custom sms tones for contacts" and was quickly presented with:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=407933
I have no personal experience with this program but I imagine that you are not the first person to request such a thing so there are probably plenty of options out there Youtube is also a good reference source since you can search your phone and see custom things people have done to it. Check out the rom section for an all over makeover for you phone.
Xda's database is intimidating to say the least but sorting through what you need is pretty simplistic Good luck pimping you phone