Hi,
is possible to make HOMEBREW app which can access destinatation \My Documents\Zune\Content\0300\00\ and see the pictures which are in Picture HUB ?
This app should have also possiblity:
1. Edit images through programs like Photo Enhancer
2. Deleting multiple images
3. Manual Album creation
4. Share to Facebook, Twitter, Skydrive, Hotmail, Dropbox
5. Take pictures
6. Copy and Paste to Skydrive folders
Thanks for info.
You should add [REQUEST] or [IDEA] to the thread title
And I would actually LOVE an app that makes it able to organize pictures on-device. It's such an annoyance to first sync them to Zune and organizing them and then sync them back.
EDIT: I might do one myself, but if anyone knows anything about how Zune and the phone organizes pictures and videos I'd appreciate to get that info. Will look into it myself later today thou, but any help would be awesome
Regards
Izaac
IzaacJ said:
You should add [REQUEST] or [IDEA] to the thread title
And I would actually LOVE an app that makes it able to organize pictures on-device. It's such an annoyance to first sync them to Zune and organizing them and then sync them back.
EDIT: I might do one myself, but if anyone knows anything about how Zune and the phone organizes pictures and videos I'd appreciate to get that info. Will look into it myself later today thou, but any help would be awesome
Regards
Izaac
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OK, I added [REQUEST] or [IDEA] to the title.
Well I don't know much about how Zune organizes the pictures but I know that Zune, Camera saves photo this destination
\My Documents\Zune\Content\0300\00\ and save it to some file for example 3d.jpg; 03.jpg; 39.jpg etc.
But Zune must store [ some dat file maybe in \My Documents\Zune\Content\0300\00\zunedb.dat] the real name of the picture that on computer looks like WP_000002.jpg.
It will be nice to have alternative to Picture Hub and if you will look on it it will be great.
I don't know if I help you a little bit ?
zunedb.dat work
I've been looking a bit on the zunedb.dat file in 101 Editor and the identifier or what ever it's called is ZMDB (Zune Media DataBase i think) and I could really use some help on this because this isn't really my area of expertise
Could attach a copy of the file I've been looking at if anyone is interested?
EDIT: Attached it in a zip anyway, and here is some of the information I've found so far.
The albums I've synced from my computer are these, with their respective start address in the file, or at least where the album name is in the file, and after each album name there are paths and such to the particular files, but also a lot of information that I don't know what it is.
Misc [47c00h]
tmp [47each]
Diablo 3 [48920h]
Regards
Izaac
Maybe it could help some Microsoft developer on Microsoft forum ?
But I think that nobody research it yet.
Posted a thread over at the development forum at Microsoft, like here:
http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/105185.aspx
I really hope I could get some information regarding this.
Well it's 100% that this app wil not autorization from MS but for the homebrew app its not needed.
I hope that someone share the info which you need.
Just a question:
is it possible to create an own homebrew app which will take and save photo in
folder \My Documents\Pictures + it will have features like as I wrote
1. Edit images through programs like Photo Enhancer, 2. Deleting multiple images, 3. Manual Album creation,
4. Share to Facebook, Twitter, Skydrive, Hotmail, Dropbox, 5. Take pictures, 6. Copy and Paste to Skydrive folders ?
then we dont realy need any info from MS because you can upload it to Skydrive + you cann access the phone file system via WPDM or WMDC/ActiveSync launcher if zou have phone unlock etc.
What do you think ?
Thanks for info.
R,
Marek
Well, it's possible. There are other apps doing everything of that, except the saving location, so I doubt there would be any problems.
The reason for my app and what it does is that it enables you to organize the photos, add/delete/rename albums shown in the Pictures Hub, and move photos between these albums.
AND if zunedb.dat is "worked out" it will also enable us to add music and videos to the Zune app, which means if you use any Music Downloader, you could add them to the regular player, instead of having to open that particular music app to play them.
I hope you see why I think this really is something worth investigating.
Regards
Izaac
Yes, you are right, it's worth for investigating.
So lets hope that we will have good luck.
Do you know which apps can do the things like iwrote in previous comment?
Thanks.
I think there's an application called Private Hub that does most of it, not sure thou.
It will also enable you to password protect certain images/albums (in app ONLY)
Regards
Izaac
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Hello!
I've created this application allows you to upload a picture, existing or taken with the camera from within the application, to imgur.com and shows the link for the original picture, small thumbnail and large thumbnail. The links can be shared with your twitter friends or copied to clipboard in order to use them later (email, sms).
Known issue: the thumbnail displayed in the application aspect ratio isn't always the same as the original picture aspect ratio. I will try to fix that in future releases.
Hope you'll find it useful. Thank you!
Requirements:
Windows Mobile 5+
.NET Compact Framework 3.5
Tested on VGA and WVGA, but it should work on all resolutions
The app works quite well and you can even post the images to twitter !! but for some crazy reason 2 of the buttons ( Select Image and Upload ) shows up on all the screen . Hope the developer can put up a quick fix for that, other than that annoying little bug the app is great. Here is a quick video of the app in action ..
The twitter message posted by the app : http://twitter.com/1800PocketPC/status/12985959497
Video : http://www.viddler.com/explore/wmArcade/videos/2/
Tested on HTC Diamond ( wm6.5.3 )
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Hello!
I've created this application allows you to upload a picture, existing or taken with the camera from within the application, to imgur.com and shows the link for the original picture, small thumbnail and large thumbnail. The links can be shared with your twitter friends or copied to clipboard in order to use them later (email, sms).
Known issue: the thumbnail displayed in the application aspect ratio isn't always the same as the original picture aspect ratio. I will try to fix that in future releases.
Hope you'll find it useful. Thank you!
Requirements:
Windows Mobile 5+
.NET Compact Framework 3.5
Tested on VGA and WVGA, but it should work on all resolutions
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I have an acct with imgur, can't figure out how to upload to my acct. Works with twitter. This is what I've done; select image, upload (onto phone), now how do i upload to my account online? I have these options> Tweet, Copy,option-which wants twitter acct info.
I want to upload to Imgur.com not twitter.
Any feedback?
@montecristo1 From what I can tell it is not possible. The system uses the API, and at the moment the API does not support account login etc.
The API actually only has 5 functions, all of which can be found on the Imgur Wiki (can't post link, forum restriction).
That is one of the biggest let downs about this application and needs to be suggested on the Imgur forum in hope it can get some attention. This would then increase the possiblities with Imgur. It's a fantastic service already, and allowing more flexability in the API would make it even better.
I like the Windows application for Imgur. It's very quick and simple and does the job, with no funny business with loads of menus. You simply pick the image. Upload.
One thing I would suggest is having it so you can somehow connect the program with the camera? Other applications I have allow me to take an image within the program and then directly upload it straight away. This might be an interesting option that could be considered for the app.
Thaks.
@Jason0, thanks for the info. According to virgilp, creator, this app should be able to upload a picture to imgur.com...
Should note this app is for uploading imgur picts to tweeter...not to your imgur account.
thanks for sharing...
@the0ne: I can't reproduce this error on my phone (HTC Touch HD with WM 6.1). It may be a problem on WM 6.5 devices or it may be a problem with your ROM. Maybe somebody else here can tell us if the problem of overlaying buttons exists on other devices.
@montecristo1: I'm sorry if I was misleading in the description. The application simply uploads the image to imgur.com (not to a specific account as this is not possible through API) and allows you to share the link on Twitter.
Although you cannot upload to a specific account, the image is still uploaded to imgur.com.
@JasonO: You can access the camera from the My Pictures folder in the Select Image Dialog. See the attached screen-shot.
Hey guys,
I have been using Evernote for some time but find that the PC application is quite slow and cumbersome and the mobile implementation though good lacks on something that I can't put my finger down on.
I heard dropbox is very good but I was wondering what ideas people had for storing notes on it or what else I could use the functionality for besides storing some of my apks.
Dropbox is great. Official app just came out, testing it now. My problem with Evernote was the inability to have notes offline for storage on your phone.
Dropbox allows you to store things offline and upload when connected? Sounds interest, how about mirroring folders on your PC?
I don't know whether you can queue things up for Dropbox yet - haven't tested that. As for retrieving things, you'll definitely need to be connected. I found that incredibly silly for a notes application like Evernote, though. Seriously, Evernote? You need a network connection so I can write down that I need to buy milk?
As for mirroring folders, I doubt it. When you install Dropbox on a computer, it sets aside a specific Dropbox folder. Anything you put inside it is synced to the cloud, and automatically put on any other computers you have Dropbox on. You put a file in your laptop's dropbox and your desktop can get it. Your phone can go get it now as well, so it's a cheap wireless file transfer method, if nothing else. As I understand the Android Dropbox implementation, there won't be a folder with your entire Dropbox stored on it like there is for a PC, you'll just retrieve stuff from the cloud.
If I can't add files it just seems a bit pointless ...
Yeah having offline access is a bonus, not going to break much but I may want to make notes on the train, etc.
Thanks for the comprehensive post, looks like more research is needed .
Right now the ONLY files you can send from Dropbox for Android are media files, so only photos, videos and audio files. No text files or documents, so it's pretty useless in terms of notes.
I use Gdocs Notepad, freeware, that syncs with Google Documents.
I've solved in this way.
Sugar sync is pretty good - can sync any files, you get 2gb free, free android client.
Hi,
here in Germany there is no Marketplace for Podcasts and podcast streaming.
I found a way to add Podcasts on your Device in non US Countries using WP7 Root Tools (So Samsung Only ATM)
Simply browse the registry under Local Machine/Software/Microsoft/Zune/Settings
There u find a String called XUID locale
change it to EN-US and exit Root Tools.
Open up Marketplace and go into Podcasts add the Podcasts u want to, configure them and leave Marketplace.
Change back the XUID via Root Tools and go into Music Hub.
Your added Podcasts are under Podcasts. U can still stream or download or change settings for them. To stream press the marketplace section and the the play button before the Episode.
For Custom Background images u have to work more and be patient
Open up Music & Video Hub
go into every artist an let the pic beeing downloaded.
In my case all those pic have been low low res
The Pics will get stored under My Documents/Zune/Content/0800
02/art is for collection
08/art is for the Artists under the new section
In these folders there are pics called
3a.jpg
3b.jpg
37.jpg
5a.jpg
and more
So u have to know wich pic belongs to wich artist.
Here is how.
Play a song from the Artist u want to change the picture
In root tools check the registry under
Current User/Software/Microsoft/Zune/MusicVideoHub
there is the path to the image from the Artist.
Lets say its 3a.jpg
Create an Artist Pic on your PC.
Resolution 960x800 looks best for me.
Use jpg Quality 9 in Photoshop to keep performance of the Zune Hub
Now download Filedeployer from Heathcliff and create the following folder on your PC
XX-XX-XX-XX-My Documents
in there create a few more folders
Zune/Content/0800/02/art
Follow the Tutorial in this Thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1271962
and deploy the xap.
You have to do this for every artist pic but you can deploy them all in one filedeployer.xap
U can even add Pics to artists that doesnt have one, u just have to find out wich id the artist has on your device.
To do this create a dummy picture calle 10.jpg and deploy it to the zune content 0800 folder
Zune sets ID in sync Order (always letters first like 3a-3f then Numbers from 30-39)
Example
If you sync like this
1.Alice in Chains
.
.
5.Danko Jones
.
7.Tricky Woo
then Zune will set
1 to 3a
5 to 3e
7 to 30
Lets say all Artist between 1 and 5 doesnt have an Artist pic and the folder only contains 3a.jpg, 3e.jpg and 30.jpg
Copy your dummy file to this folder and rename it to 3b.jpg
Then Check the Artists synced after Alice in Chains.
If you found it write down id and artist.
Then rename to 3c.jpg and again check all Artists synced
between 3b and 3e.
Its a lot of work but you will have high quality backgrounds even on your lockscreen
Sorry for my Bad english
This is awesome. Some of the backgrounds Zune has on file are horrible quality and it looks really bad. I'll have to try this. Thank you.
Update on artist background
Thanks for the tutorial. It's really helpful. I decided to try and fill in the gaps in my collection and update a couple. A word of warning - it's a really time consuming endeavour and you probably have many more artists than you think.
I found a couple of differences (and builds) on the original article.
1. My 800 folder (where the backgrounds live) had two subfolders (15 and 16 in my case), both of which contained background files.
2. Mine were all of the format xx_bg_art.jpg the first two 'x's can be anything 0-9 and a-f (hex)
3. Mine exhibited virtually no recognisable pattern to fill the gaps. However I did come up with a ruse to find them. Using a file renamer, take a blank image and make 100s of copies and rename them to cover all the options 00_bg_art.jpg through to ff_bg_art.jpg. Dump these all on the phone (using the technique described above which is easier than it sounds) in all the folders that you have - you can figure this out using explorer in root tools. You'll be able to then read off background name for all artists using root tools and looking at the current background - again as described above. You then remake your set and copy them across (they will overwrite the dummy files).
(NB, there's currently no easy way to delete them again so keep the blanks really small).
I didn't do this but an even easier way to do (3) would be to include the file name in the image (perhaps using scripting in photoshop). These could then be read directly off the screen.
Oh, and before you do upload your batch to your phone, take out any where there already is an image downloaded, which you want to keep.
HTH.
Tom
UPS you are right.
They are called xx_bg_art.
As I wrote, the pattern is the sync order not alphabetical.
So when U sync Led Zeppelin and then Bad Religion it will give led zeppelin the lower id.
Anyways I think its worth the time cause the Zune Mplace pics are so annoying low red.
FWIW, the registry change (changing the locale) is possible on HTC and LG phones as well as Samsung, no problem.
The filesystem access is also possible on HTC phones, if you don't have the latest HTC update (because that update blocks the HTC filesystem acces DLLs used by TouchXplorer and such).
The best way I found to do this was reset the phone (erasing content in Zune didn't work) and then to sync artists in order and record the results along the way. When you reach an artist that has no artwork, add some to it.
Extra Notes: The number appear to be in HEX
Hope this helps people like me.
Hey
I was trying to find a way to store some photos on skydrive that i didant want showing up on my phone (photos of my gf ) I could not seem to find an option within WP7 or on the skydrive site regarding permissions but i came up with a little trick. If you create a new folder on skydrive and place a picture in it, it automatically becomes a picture folder and is synced with WP7 with is rather annoying.
To get around this place the picture in the folder and then create a random word document in the same folder, click on the folder then click on information on the right hand drive of skydrive and change it to documents. Your folder will no longer appear in the pictures hub and you can still access from Office skydrive hub which will simply link you to the skydrive webpage. Hope some of you find this helpful.
Where is the link to the SkyDrive folder ?
Skydrive is not convenient at all.
When will there be a Skydrive app on WP7 ??? I wonder.
For the moment I'm staying with Dropbox + Kickbox
Anyway, thanks for this tip
SkyDrive is handled on WP7 via the Office Hub. Open that, and go to "Locations" and SkyDrive should be there (if you set up a Live account, of course). If not, you may need to add the URL to it. But it'll work. You can also pin it to your Start if you wish, for quicker access.
Brad.
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Hey
I was trying to find a way to store some photos on skydrive that i didant want showing up on my phone (photos of my gf ) I could not seem to find an option within WP7 or on the skydrive site regarding permissions but i came up with a little trick. If you create a new folder on skydrive and place a picture in it, it automatically becomes a picture folder and is synced with WP7 with is rather annoying.
To get around this place the picture in the folder and then create a random word document in the same folder, click on the folder then click on information on the right hand drive of skydrive and change it to documents. Your folder will no longer appear in the pictures hub and you can still access from Office skydrive hub which will simply link you to the skydrive webpage. Hope some of you find this helpful.
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Aren't all pictures and documents you upload from your phone publicly viewable by default? Or does adding a document somehow make it available to you only?
Seems there's no way to change permissions via the WP7 Office hub.
I think wp7 ask u about your privacy choice when uploading to skydrive, can choose between anyone and only you...can also give permission to one contact especially...that's realy confortable.
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I just spent 45 minutes on tech support trying to find out how to manage my photos on my new tablet. After allowing smart tutor control, I was told that the new Tab S won't allow me to use Kies to direct my photos into various folders, nor is there any way to move them once loaded. I am a photographer, and had expected to have over a thousand images for demos. I can't have them all in one huge folder.
Please save me from having to return this and get an Apple - I have to be able to organize my photos. How do I do it?
thanks in advance
Keivn
option 1: The tablet should have Google+ installed, if you set that up and open the photos app (which is separate from the gallery app) you should be able to upload photos to google plus automatically, allowing you to organize and share photos inside google's online photo manager
option 2: You could do basically the same thing with Dropbox, uploading photos you have to their servers and then organizing them on your computer either in the photo manager on dropbox.com, or manually with the file manager on your mac/pc
option 3: use a USB cable to plug the tablet into your PC and copy photos from it manually periodically. If you have windows this should be easy, if you have a mac, you'll need android file transfer which is a program that communicates with the MTP protocol modern android devices use.
thoughts/comments/concerns?
Thanks
I didn't want to use an online method, because I am often in places with poor or no signal, which is a non-starter. I had tried running through simple Windows file manager, and had not been able to see it as anything other than single folder, with no ability to see discrete folder structures in it. However, when I tried that this am, I could see the folders on the Galaxy, so transfer and file management is easy. I'm not sure whether the Samsung tech changed a setting or what else might have changed, but with visibility into the folders via File Manager, this is now straightforward.
Thanks for the help. It's sad that Samsung help couldn't give me this simple fix.
Kevin
There are a lot of simple ways to manage photos. The simplest (but not most efficient) approach is probably just to plug the tab into PC with a USB and use a file manager to manage. Alternatively, you can also use one of several online services like Picasa and a third party app. Many of of the third party apps like PicsPro for Picasa, for example, have an option to keep a local copy of photos on the tablet so you can still view photos without an internet connection.
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I just spent 45 minutes on tech support trying to find out how to manage my photos on my new tablet. After allowing smart tutor control, I was told that the new Tab S won't allow me to use Kies to direct my photos into various folders, nor is there any way to move them once loaded. I am a photographer, and had expected to have over a thousand images for demos. I can't have them all in one huge folder.
Please save me from having to return this and get an Apple - I have to be able to organize my photos. How do I do it?
thanks in advance
Keivn
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hi, I can easily do that within the default Gallery app.
I have the T705 version btw. But this shouldn't matter.
in the Gallery app I can simply create new folder(s) and move (or copy) selected photos form any folder to that new folder. I use this all the time. I'm not a professional photographer but I like to take loads of pictures. but I don't like them all together in the default "Camera" folder. I never organized my photos via PC (not on my phones, nor on my tabs).