Anyone been able to work a fix for this? WM 6 would underline numbers in received e-mail, calendar etc etc one could dial the numbers directly from within the mail?
The paste function has also been removed from the dialpad
ROM 1.37.421.3
This thread has an interesting solution.
http://forum.smartphoneexperts.com/showthread.php?t=165787&highlight=dial
Surur
this is bugging me bigtime!
im going try change the phone skin to the old wm6 version with advanced config, seeing as the function was there before on older phones then it should work here too.
can someone provide a solution??
The same problem for me.
I realized that when you have the status opened (it opens while you are talking) in the menu you have the paste option... but it is useless.
I also want to paste some numbers in the phone to call them... it is very annoying not to have this option (sometimes I need to copy also some numbers from internet pages... but now it is impossible!!!).
Can someone help?!?
Thnx.
Urosh
Hi Surur,
Good one thx for the link, i think this was a serious oversight from MS, this is the one reason i would chuck the phone.
So far i have enjoyed the phone, i think it works well, but as i said its virtually useless if you cant paste numbers on the dialpad.
This limitation is really annoying me now; and still, a month down the line it's the only unforgivable problem I have with this otherwise fantastic little phone.
I was hoping it was a simple oversight, and would have been fixed by now. Has any of the later ROMs addressed the issue? If not, has anyone came up with a solution, or at least a realistic work around that doesn't involve pen and paper?
for over 3 years i am using a dialer "contact breeze".
the dialer himself is also of value but i am reinstalling it each time only for this tweak. long press anywhere in a meeting or task and it will offer any of the telephone numbers in it. no need of any other spaces, tlf:, etc. just type the number and it will be offered for dialing after a long press. the prog cost a few $. it worth it!
Thanks, sounds like a usable work around, I'll check it out.
Still hoping for a real solution though... Anyone?
studz said:
Thanks, sounds like a usable work around, I'll check it out.
Still hoping for a real solution though... Anyone?
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Yes. Anyone?
(ATT FUZE) I've tried googling and browsing through the preferences in opera:config, but is there a way to change the default web search from the landscape menu from Yahoo? I absolutely hate yahoo.
Anyone ?
i would love to know this as well?
Curious myself as well. I have looked all over the net with no luck so far.
I'm using the Sprint Touch Pro using Juggalo rom and when I click on web search in landscape it brings up Google. Might want to ask him on ppcgeeks.com I don't know if he post here or not.
Mine changed to google when I changed to the tf3d landscape theme..
I was unable to find any other way of doing this, but it has to be possible since its something within manila I expect.
I currently use the ROMeOS2 Confuzed ROM and when I use the landscape search it uses google so there is definitely a way to get that setup just wit around for someone to point it out for you.
Found it
In windows directory there is a file called
ActionMenuItems.xml
Change from read only
Change the http ://us.m2. yahoo blah blah to whatever you want.
change back to read only
reboot phone.
I tried this, and now all my buttons show email and are not clickable. Could someone post thier working or unedited xml file so I can see if i accidentally changed something?
can someone upload a copy of the ActionMenuItems.xml file? my rom is missing this file. Thank you.
Edit: Winmo 6.5 doesn't come with ActionMenuItems.xml or InternetPortal.xml. I found them in a kitchen file. They worked.
Hey fellow forum users,
I recently (read: last tuesday afternoon) got my Diamond. And I am kind of lost.
First of all, my internet doesn't work. Tuesday begin of the evening it did work. But at the end of the evening and today it hasn't worked at all. @ the dutch vodafone site there are specific things you need to fill in which I did. However it still doesn't work. So I will be giving them a call first thing tomorow.
Second of all, my music. When I plug in my Touch Diamond on the computer, I see this map "content" I click on it and I see "music" so I put an album in there, but there is no music on the phone. Does it have to be converted? because I didnt find a converter on any of the cd's I was given. The same thing with my video. I put a movie on it for testing, but can't find that anywhere on my phone either.
Further I have some requests,
- I am looking for a transparant clock (the white part transparant) so you'll see the wallpaper better.
- I am looking for a way to change the bottom bar.
- I am looking for the best way to use my gps receiver (like a program or something).
- A way to simplify my contacts, I find it very annoying to have all this info. I just want to keep their names with e-mail, mobile phone numer and home number.
- A thing like that weather tab, only then with the time. Don't know if it's out but I find that a really funny feature on the iPods. Perhaps with those huge analog clocks showing the time of 6 countries in the world
Thanks in advance,
Dennis
p.s. I'll be using this topic if allowed for some further questions and am looking forward to any advice given.
p.p.s general advice on what to do with it for easier and better use of the device is very very much welcome.
p.p.p.s I have these programs on my phone aswell, as a .rar file still though if that matters (he said not), someone adviced me to put them on:
- Mortonscript
- Diamond TF3D Config Setup
- Automatic Wallpaper changer (no use for this yet but I really liked the background he was talking about that changed to the time it was, so like a sun during the day and a moon during the night).
I am completly lost at the moment. Gonna study the books that were packed with it I guess. Any help is appreciated.
1000 times thanks for anyone who can help.
(and hope this is allowed)
anyone that can help?
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anyone that can help?
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Hi Dennis,
I'll try to help where I can. The internet issue you will probably have to sort out with your provider. If it was working and now it isn't it the only thing I can think of is you made some change to the network config. They should be able to get it working again.
As for Music I found the best way to transfer music to the Diamond is through active sync. Plug your phone in to your PC, when prompted on the phone select active sync, then on the PC open up Windows Media player and select sync. Then just drag and drop the music you want on your phone to the sync panel and then click sync. All the music you selected will be transferred to your phone and the album art and everything if it is available will be displayed on the phone.
For the transaprent flip clock and lots more tf3d mods, look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=436867
For the bottom bar you have to be more specific, do you want to change the softkeys??
I find the best GPS software is either google maps or microsoft live search, both are free, google them!
For contacts there are many solutions out there, you will have to look on your own, sorry!
I've seen world clock application but most of them are home plugins, again you will have to look around on your own..
As for the rest, you will have to spend some time reading and searching. I don't advise reading the book that came with it as it contains very little useful info.
hit me back if you have anymore questions!!! oh and welcome to the community!!!
With changing the bottombar I mean putting like perhaps the gps on the spot of the photo / video etc.
Thanks btw
Sorry Dennis, as far as i know there is currently no method for changing the tf3d tabs. You can add some but really they already exist just not displayed. You can try SSmapa to replace some of the default functions.
I wasn't sure where a good place to post this would be and haven't found a thread in the Raphael or Diamond forum on this topic so hopefully I don't get flamed for starting a new thread. I asked 4 days ago in "Let's see your ATT Fuze Screens" thread on how to edit my dialer skin to make the number keys transparent so I can view my wallpaper behind it so it flows with my theme (this was after a screenshot from someone with a dialer I want and have not been able to find). I did not get back a response. Maybe I posted in the wrong thread. I am a noob, but I am trying to learn how to do things for myself. I have read the wiki and countless threads (yes sometimes the entire 200 pages), used search function within threads, within the specific forums and within the entire xda site. Alot of results come up and none are helpful. Maybe I am not using the right search terms. In any case, I've tried to find a dialer I like, but to no avail, so I would like to try and create my own. Yes, I would like to just be able to install a cab and be done, but I am willing to try and figure it out on my own with some guidance. If someone could please point me in the right direction to do this (maybe the files I have to edit and I can try and figure out how to do that myself from other threads) I would be very greatful. I would like to have a transparent key pad on the phone screen and the screen when receiving a call and be able to place my own wallpaper behind it (Need landscape as well since I have the Fuze). I think this is something others would want as well to keep there personalized themes consistent. If this thread is redundent, please point me to the existing thread.
Thank you.
Since nobody else is replying, I will at leas share what I know. Using your phone's file explorer, navigate to the device's "windows" folder and look for the two dialer .bmp files named "Assets_dialer_Normal.bmp" and "Assets_Dialer_Pressed.bmp". Those are the two files that you need to edit or replace to get the dialer to your liking. Note: there are also other files named similarly "_Assets_dialer_Normal.bmp" etc. so don' mistake the files with the underscore at the beginning of the file name. I hope this points you in the right direction. Be advised that the biggest obstacle will be finding a way to overwrite those protected files. Good luck
IM ACTUALY IN THE PROCESS OF CUSTOMIZING MY DIALER..
IM SKINNING 'UGGALO_x WHITE S2A CDMA'
customizing the dialer is no problem. the same as skinning any of the rest of the display, to get around permissions issues just use Total Commander CE to overwrite the existing file.
transparency is a problem as the dialer pad is comprised of bmp files and as such there is no transparency like you would find with gif or png (unless someone has found a transparency color and i've just missed it).
it may be possible to use your current background image as the background of the bitmap to overlay the buttons onto, thus giving the appearance of transparency. this of course comes with the downside that if you decide to change your background you would have to change your phone screen to one that matched. in addition it would not be just the files mentioned by tx_dbs_tx that you would need to modify in this scenario as the dialer only takes up the lower... oh, 3/5ths of the screen? you would also need to modify the "Calls and Contacts" / "All Calls" / "Speed Dial" fields and the field where the number you are dialing is displayed. i am not presently aware if this has even been attempted yet.
personally, i have only attempted a color change to the dialer to date, but have been successful with that. if somehow nobody else responds before i can check on the unknowns above, i will come back and let you know what i find.
Thanks
Thanks to everyone who replied. I will try and see if I can mess around with these files. I found a dialer to use for now. See thread below. I need to figure out what files are for the slide to answer screen in portrait and landscape and the dialing screen (the screen when you make a phone call). I think that is all of the screens associated with the phone. Please correct me if I am wrong.
The Vista Abstract Dialer by [email protected] found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=463958
I can't upload the zip of the files. Just go to the thread above to download and break down CAB
Hello all,
i have searched quite a bit for an emulator which mimics the Blackstone on your PC.
I am new to Rom cooking (1 day to be precise) and dont want to risk bricking my own so i wondered if there was something of an emulator which i can use to test Roms.
thanks in advance,
- Mega
same is my case...
No idea if this will do what you want, I'm not entirely too sure how this works.
Windows CE 5.0 Device Emulator
http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/...12-ca31-4be9-a3bf-b9bf4f64ce72&displaylang=en
WM 6.5 Emulator is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...1d-97a8-4f80-bc6a-ae010e085a6e&displayLang=en
But I've no idea how to run a blackstone's ROM on MS's emulator.
I'm trying to do same thing that you want do.
Was checking about it a year ago.
Got no answers
Seems its not possible at the moment.
I created an emulator (at least in looks, I don't think you can do a hardware emulator) for my Touch Pro and used it in Visual Studio 2005 Pro when I played with development.
Basically you have three images:
1. A skin (the chasis of the phone, I found a high res image and sized it properly in Photoshop).
2. A layer of what the skin looks like with all buttons pressed (make the Talk button look like it lights up or something).
3. A mask layer with different colors identifying the buttons (Green = Talk, Red = End, etc.).
In an XML file, you'll define the hex codes for the colors and assign an action. For example, if you used green for the Talk button on the mask image, you would enter something like "00FF00 = Talk", so when the Talk button is pressed in the emulator, the "pressed button image" shows the Talk button being "pressed", and the mask image tells the emulator to bring up the dialer, since green (00FF00) = Talk in this case. I've got VS 2008 Pro now (I tinker, not really much of a developer), so I'm not sure how you do it in the standalone emulator. I'd imagine it's a similar process.
-EDIT- I just read your post again, and I'm not sure how you would change the ROM that the emulator reads, since it reads the MS issued ROM when it boots. Maybe have to compile it as a .BIN file, once again, not sure on that.
visual studio includes one (might be useful if you are considering some developing down the line)
Yea, sorry if I made that unclear to Meganut and the others who were asking, VS includes the emulator in the development environment, so all I had to do was make the Touch Pro skin. I'll work on a Blackstone skin and post the files so you guys can hopefully use it as well in the standalone emulator...I just ordered a T8285 today, so I may want to start playing again, so my gain is your gain. I'll try to get it done tomorrow at work.
WOO HOO...I'M GETTING A TOUCH HD!!
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Yea, sorry if I made that unclear to Meganut and the others who were asking, VS includes the emulator in the development environment, so all I had to do was make the Touch Pro skin. I'll work on a Blackstone skin and post the files so you guys can hopefully use it as well in the standalone emulator...I just ordered a T8285 today, so I may want to start playing again, so my gain is your gain. I'll try to get it done tomorrow at work.
WOO HOO...I'M GETTING A TOUCH HD!!
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An HD skin for my emulator would be awesome!
Sorry it took so long. Here is the emulator skin for the Touch HD. You can examine the XML file and PNG images to get a feel for what I was saying in my previous post. I've named the files so that you can drop them in and overwrite the default 800x480 emulator in the 6.1.4 SDK Refresh (the default looks pretty pathetic anyway). If you are insistent on keeping it, just rename the files. Reason for doing it this way is I hate screwing with making a new emulator, and if I want to change images (6, 6.1.4, 6.5), I can just move these four files around I have the same skin using a different ROM.
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I corrected the Home button and uploaded the changes below (I changed the mask file also to make it about four times smaller than it was), but for some reason the "Back" button will not respond, although I've tried multiple masks and hex codes to make at least do something. I'll continue to dig in to the Back button issue, I won't have much time this weekend though.
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Scratch what I said here if you already tried it. Like I said previously, I use VS2008 which comes ready to run, so I'm not sure what is needed to get this to work in the standalone emulator. Maybe some of the guys using the emulator can shed some light?
As some might have mentioned above, to make the MS emulator (or any for that matter) run a different ROM is impossible at the moment.
dwizzy130
dwizzy made a good point, the ROM images used in the Emulator and Visual Studio are as Microsoft created them before any vendor touches them. You can "install" things on the emulator and it will retain everything after soft-resetting, just as a physical device will, but chefs won't be able to create their ROMs in a file useable by the Device Emulator. Maybe some of the brilliant people on here can see if they can tear the BIN file apart...
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Sorry it took so long. Here is the emulator skin for the Touch HD. You can examine the XML file and PNG images to get a feel for what I was saying in my previous post. I've named the files so that you can drop them in and overwrite the default 800x480 emulator in the 6.1.4 SDK Refresh (the default looks pretty pathetic anyway). If you are insistent on keeping it, just rename the files. Reason for doing it this way is I hate screwing with making a new emulator, and if I want to change images (6, 6.1.4, 6.5), I can just move these four files around I have the same skin using a different ROM.
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Just found that the "Home" and "Back" buttons aren't working, I left them off of the XML definitions. I'll leave the "rough draft" version up here for now so you guys can get a feel for it. Depending on whether you've installed Visual Studio or the Standalone Emulator, you'll have different paths to put these files, so make a note of where you install it.
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Thanks for that. I created my own, but yours look far better
Just one thing: if one would like to revert to the original skin for whatever reason, it might be better to rename the files to e.g. Blackstone.xml etc.
Any chance to get the home and back buttons working? I'll check if i can find out on my own, but seems you're more experienced with that.
Thanks, glad you like it. I'll check on the Home and Back buttons today.
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Thanks, glad you like it. I'll check on the Home and Back buttons today.
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That would be great, thanks a lot.
Meanwhile, i found the buttons, but would be great if you could check/confirm. I did check the back button with AEbutton and it gave me the same code on both physical device and emulator. Not sure about the home though.
<button
toolTip="Home"
onClick="0x3B"
mappingColor="0xE6E6E6"
/>
<button
toolTip="Back"
onClick="0x5C"
mappingColor="0xFFFF4B"
/>
The updated skin has been uploaded (it is at the bottom of page 1).
6Fg8, I had to use 0x3E for the "Home" button (which is the same as End), the 0x3B works as the Left Soft Key. I've made several attempts to get the back button to do something...anything, no matter what mask I use or hex command I assign to it, it just sits there. Since you have some experience with the emulator files, feel free to go in and play with the XML/PNG files and see if you can get it to respond and if you figure out what is going on with it, let me know...my weekend is sort of tied up, so I may not have much time to dig into it over the next couple of days. -EDIT- Maybe you can give me some pointer in this aspect, I've found it doesn't seem to matter if I use "onClick" or "onPressAndHold" if I only assign one hex command to it, as no other advanced menu options are assigned. Have you found that it makes a difference?
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The updated skin has been uploaded (it is at the bottom of page 1).
6Fg8, I had to use 0x3E for the "Home" button (which is the same as End), the 0x3B works as the Left Soft Key. I've made several attempts to get the back button to do something...anything, no matter what mask I use or hex command I assign to it, it just sits there. Since you have some experience with the emulator files, feel free to go in and play with the XML/PNG files and see if you can get it to respond and if you figure out what is going on with it, let me know...my weekend is sort of tied up, so I may not have much time to dig into it over the next couple of days. -EDIT- Maybe you can give me some pointer in this aspect, I've found it doesn't seem to matter if I use "onClick" or "onPressAndHold" if I only assign one hex command to it, as no other advanced menu options are assigned. Have you found that it makes a difference?
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Thanks for the skin update.
I tested the back button with AEbutton, see here. This is a great piece of software and lets you redefine keys including custom keys, and you can see what code is sent (at least for the custom keys added). Just installed it on emulator, added a user defined key for the back button and an action ("show actions menu"), and presto - works. Compared with the real device the keycode is identical, so i assume the definition is fine. Unfortunately, the home button cant be captured on the PDA for comparison.
The difference between onClick and onPressAndHold is only when the event is fired. onClick fires on button release, onPressAndHold fires on button press and repeats sending codes. So if the software which receives the key doesnt care, there is no difference.
work great, thanks for this and the updated version!
GSXR750K2 said:
The updated skin has been uploaded (it is at the bottom of page 1).
6Fg8, I had to use 0x3E for the "Home" button (which is the same as End), the 0x3B works as the Left Soft Key. I've made several attempts to get the back button to do something...anything, no matter what mask I use or hex command I assign to it, it just sits there. Since you have some experience with the emulator files, feel free to go in and play with the XML/PNG files and see if you can get it to respond and if you figure out what is going on with it, let me know...my weekend is sort of tied up, so I may not have much time to dig into it over the next couple of days. -EDIT- Maybe you can give me some pointer in this aspect, I've found it doesn't seem to matter if I use "onClick" or "onPressAndHold" if I only assign one hex command to it, as no other advanced menu options are assigned. Have you found that it makes a difference?
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How to use skin in designer window?
thanks for the skin it looks great. I am new to Visual Studio and so wondered if you could help with two problems I have relating to using the HD skin.
firstly, I get to see it in the emulator but it is larger than my screen and it will not scroll up. can this be overcome?
Second, how do I get to use the skin in the Designer Window so I can see what the screen will be like when placing objects on it?
I've tried many ways but to no avail so hope you can help me.
Thanks
Gary