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Opera Mini 4

Hi Team,
Opera mini 4 has made my mobile surfing heaven. Good bye PIE! Thank god.
However. I have two queries.
1. Anyone know how to get shot of the annoying "Allo Net Access" Prompt every time i run the midlet? In my Java prog under security I only get "Ask" and "Never Allow". Need an "Always Allow" option, but it's just not there.
2. How the hell do i directly link to a java program, without having to first boot up java, then choose the app? I know this will be possible, but haven't fathomed it yet. I'm wanting to stuff the link under the internet button so I can be rid of PIE for ever.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Matt

OM4 is a java midlet - you must access it through Java. You can make shortcut on Today screen.
As to the "allowing network access", after you have opened program, go to Bookmarks and then Opera Mini - you will find options there. But basically, you will always have to check allow access to network.

Both can be done.
http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/ppc-...ed-includes-info-new-java-midlet-manager.html
EDIT: I attached the files discussed in case you don't want to register.

Yes, both can be done. Here are the simplest instructions I put together a while back.
http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1270419
And yes, grab the fix.zip in the last post above and you can skip step 1 in my instructions in the linked thread...

The issue with the direct link works fine. But I have already tried to modifiy the selector.utf in both ways, by the fix and by using an hex editor.
But I still get this damn access questions.
I use a TyTNII with shipped HTC Rom with Opera Mini 4 final installed.
The description in your posted link is for OM beta2. May it be that modifications
are not suitable anymore for version 4 final?
A solution would be great.
Hans Olo
Edit: Ok, seen in the link of the last post from jomo25 that the version of jbed is the cause. Thanx for the info.

Icon
This is all perrrrfect. Is there a way to change the Icon?

if you want to make a shortcut to launch Opera Mini directly:
Use a Notepad on your PC to create simple text file. And it should only contain the following text:
28#"\windows\jbed.exe" -run s1_
BUT you may need to edit it and replace the S1_ with something else. if this is the only Java app you have installed and used, then most likely you want to use S0_ in place of S1_.
Name it Opera.lnk (or whatever you want it to say).
And then copy it to your "\Windows\Start Menu\Programs" folder.
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I can launch Opera Mini in Esmertec Jbed with no problem.
I can see the Opera Mini with the same logo as Esmertec Jbed in Programs (I change the name to Opera Mini.lnk),
but I just can't launch Opera Mini by tapping it.
I tried both s0_ and s1_ but get the same result, it says:
Could not find suite s1_
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or
Could not find suite s0_
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It might be s2, s3 or more - the s# changes based on how many other java apps you previously installed. Even if you had one and deleted it, it still counts as one. So try some more numbers.
Also Hans- make sure you are using JBED and it should work.

xTyTN said:
I can launch Opera Mini in Esmertec Jbed with no problem.
I can see the Opera Mini with the same logo as Esmertec Jbed in Programs (I change the name to Opera Mini.lnk),
but I just can't launch Opera Mini by tapping it.
I tried both s0_ and s1_ but get the same result, it says:
or
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I had that same problem yesterday. I tried putting the s1_ in double quotes.
28#"\windows\jbed.exe" -run "s1_"
Once I did that it finally worked for me.

enigmaneo said:
I had that same problem yesterday. I tried putting the s1_ in double quotes.
28#"\windows\jbed.exe" -run "s1_"
Once I did that it finally worked for me.
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Thanks enigmaneo, it works for me, too

Also make sure you ALWAYS check out the Wiki - I've explained all these questions in my Opera Mini- and MIDlet-related tutorials & articles (see for example http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=The (Java) MIDlet Bible and http://wiki.xda-developers.com/inde...n use Opera Mini as the system-level browser! - make sure you follow the links from the latter)

Thanks for this info... took me to "s7" until it worked. Thought I was doing something wrong...

UPDATE (11/30/2007): The link association problem has been fixed for WM6 in the meantime (see my last article on the association). This means you can already have the system invoke Opera Mini when you click a link in an e-mail / in any document.
Note that there are still newer and newer versions and optimizations (even faster and faster versions of the invoker script to minimize waiting for Opera Mini to be invoked) published in the Comments section of my related blog post; that is, make sure you also follow it.
And, again, now that you can easily invoke it from any other application (including the most important Messaging) by just clicking any link, Opera Mini HAS become a REAL alternative to all the other, mostly commercial alternatives on Windows Mobile. Make sure you give Opera Mini a try: you may fall in love with it. It’s really powerful. It’s plain great –(most of the times) much faster and cleaner than anything else.

Menneisyys said:
And, again, now that you can easily invoke it from any other application (including the most important Messaging) by just clicking any link, Opera Mini HAS become a REAL alternative to all the other, mostly commercial alternatives on Windows Mobile. Make sure you give Opera Mini a try: you may fall in love with it. It’s really powerful. It’s plain great –(most of the times) much faster and cleaner than anything else.
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I couldn't agree more. This little fix with turning off the notification to accept the session has made it a lot more usable to me. The browser is awesome and while it can be slow sometimes due to formatting the page, etc., I wouldn't use anything else. PIE simply falls flat in comparison.
I just really dig the screen scrolling with my fingernail (screen protector on there of course).

I did managed to get the shortcut to work but for some reason i just can't get the notification removed. I've downloaded the fix, patched the "Selector" file, replaced it in the phone but it still won't work & yes i did download the JBED from the link given...still no luck. Anything i may have missed out?

Scann69 said:
I did managed to get the shortcut to work but for some reason i just can't get the notification removed. I've downloaded the fix, patched the "Selector" file, replaced it in the phone but it still won't work & yes i did download the JBED from the link given...still no luck. Anything i may have missed out?
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You, then, can just use the hack described at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1666254&postcount=6 - it'll work. Also make sure you read the entire thread.

I don't know what I am doing wrong. I even copied the text from the post and I have gone through 0-8. When I tap the opera icon it opens the text file. I have even tried it with and without the extra quotation marks.
What am I doing wrong?

drcompton said:
I don't know what I am doing wrong. I even copied the text from the post and I have gone through 0-8. When I tap the opera icon it opens the text file. I have even tried it with and without the extra quotation marks.
What am I doing wrong?
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Did you also try the hacked JAR file I linked to? It WILL work if you deploy it locally and manually set the Blanket model.

Jar file
Can you post the link? I can't seem to find it

drcompton said:
Can you post the link? I can't seem to find it
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http://www.winmobiletech.com/sekalaiset/opera-mini-4.0.9751-advanced-int-SIGNED.jar

How to make changes to HTC homescreen...

Hello!
I would like to make som changes to the preinnstalled homecreen on my HTC s730, but i don't know how. I like it as it is now, but the weather service and the top ten person i would like to cut away. Somebody who know how I can do that? Is it possible to do other changes on it too?

Yeah, theres an XML file in the windows dir I believe of the phone that you can edit and make changes too, I added the most used programs under my calander while I try to find something for that contacts bit I never use.
There was another thread where people were posting pics of what they had done and had more tips, but essentially you just edit that xml. I dont recall the name for sure but it was something like HTChome.xml or something like that, not at home ATM or I would be of more use lol...

the files have the suffix .home.xml
http://forums.sbsh.net/index.php?showtopic=5203

yep
i lost my htc home screem
can you help me and send me yours?
thanks

10332007 said:
Yeah, theres an XML file in the windows dir I believe of the phone that you can edit and make changes too, I added the most used programs under my calander while I try to find something for that contacts bit I never use.
There was another thread where people were posting pics of what they had done and had more tips, but essentially you just edit that xml. I dont recall the name for sure but it was something like HTChome.xml or something like that, not at home ATM or I would be of more use lol...
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How did you do that? When I try to find the windows folder (via active sync) It won't show up on my pc screen, but when i use the HTC i fid the folder. How come is that? I can find the folder Home, with the preinnstalled windows homescreen bur not the HTC homescreen. It seems like it's not visible(?).

kjeg1 said:
How did you do that? When I try to find the windows folder (via active sync) It won't show up on my pc screen, but when i use the HTC i fid the folder. How come is that? I can find the folder Home, with the preinnstalled windows homescreen bur not the HTC homescreen. It seems like it's not visible(?).
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Oh yea... they're hidden files... you have to enable viewing hidden files in windows explorer to see them.

What ^he said I always enable hidden file viewing every time I format so I didnt think to post it

bigflavor said:
Oh yea... they're hidden files... you have to enable viewing hidden files in windows explorer to see them.
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Thanx
Now I've got another problem. Because the weather service and the top ten person is defined in the following file in reg. {B0C8Ac4B-CddC-4010-AAEB-076A2A6EB171}, but this file is just a path to another file HTCHome.dll. My problem here is that I can't find the file HTCHome.dll. I just find a bunch of HTCHome.dll files. All of them has an ending of *.mui. Like HTCHome.dll.0809.mui. and I can't open them eather. Somebody knows what to do?
And thanx for the help from everybody so far

Anybody please? I'm pretty green in this

Where are you seeing those? Are you sure your in the right section of the phones file system for the home screens?
Connect through active sync, then open "My window's based device" then go into application data, then Home and mine are all in there as .xml

10332007 said:
Where are you seeing those? Are you sure your in the right section of the phones file system for the home screens?
Connect through active sync, then open "My window's based device" then go into application data, then Home and mine are all in there as .xml
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I have found the file HTC.home.xls and opend it, inside the xml document I find this line of code:
<plugin clsid="{B0C8AC4B-CDDC-4010-AAEB-076A2A6EB171}" name="HTCHome" height="100" />
I have managed to fint out (at least I think so) that it is this plugin who shows the clock, the weaterservice and the top ten persons. When I found the B0C8AC4B-CDDC-4010-AAEB-076A2A6EB171} in regedit the value of this key is HTCHome.dll. When i search the whole phone for this dll file i can't find the spesific file, just a bunch of "lookalikes" like HTCHome.dll.0809.mui. This file is located in the windows directory with 5 dll files like this one, but with different numbers at the end. (ex. *.dll.041D.mui and so on). Or am I totally wrong here? Maybe it's a easier way to do this? (Make the weater service and top ten in the homescreen disappear).

kjeg1 said:
I have found the file HTC.home.xls and opend it, inside the xml document I find this line of code:
<plugin clsid="{B0C8AC4B-CDDC-4010-AAEB-076A2A6EB171}" name="HTCHome" height="100" />
I have managed to fint out (at least I think so) that it is this plugin who shows the clock, the weaterservice and the top ten persons. When I found the B0C8AC4B-CDDC-4010-AAEB-076A2A6EB171} in regedit the value of this key is HTCHome.dll. When i search the whole phone for this dll file i can't find the spesific file, just a bunch of "lookalikes" like HTCHome.dll.0809.mui. This file is located in the windows directory with 5 dll files like this one, but with different numbers at the end. (ex. *.dll.041D.mui and so on). Or am I totally wrong here? Maybe it's a easier way to do this? (Make the weater service and top ten in the homescreen disappear).
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Good work. Each CLSID is a different plugin. Each value nested within the CLSID is a modifier. If you want, say... the Most Recently Used items on your HTC home screen... take a look at the contents of one of the .home.xml files that has the MRU listed... and copy out the whole portion of the file that contains the information. They're even indented.

bigflavor said:
Good work. Each CLSID is a different plugin. Each value nested within the CLSID is a modifier. If you want, say... the Most Recently Used items on your HTC home screen... take a look at the contents of one of the .home.xml files that has the MRU listed... and copy out the whole portion of the file that contains the information. They're even indented.
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Aha, this is really good to know =)
But what to do when I want to remove something in a plug in, is that possible at all? In the plug in i talked about in my last post, there is three functions.
Number one shows the clock and makes it easier to acsess the alarm setting directly (without have to do so via configuration -> clock and alarm),
number two is the HTC Home weather service
and number three is favourite persons.
I wan't to remove the two last functions in this plug in.

kjeg1 said:
Aha, this is really good to know =)
But what to do when I want to remove something in a plug in, is that possible at all? In the plug in i talked about in my last post, there is three functions.
Number one shows the clock and makes it easier to acsess the alarm setting directly (without have to do so via configuration -> clock and alarm),
number two is the HTC Home weather service
and number three is favourite persons.
I wan't to remove the two last functions in this plug in.
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It's quite possible that there is no way to only display parts of the plugin... as this function would have to be programmed into the plugin itself.
Take a look at the other plugins... like the one that shows appointments... you will see that there are portions labeled "text" which is the place where the text would be... you could... in essence... remove this part and have it not display text, but the plugin would still be present.
I hate to say it... but without HTC having programmed a solution to handle your request... you're better off using Facade.

bigflavor said:
It's quite possible that there is no way to only display parts of the plugin... as this function would have to be programmed into the plugin itself.
Take a look at the other plugins... like the one that shows appointments... you will see that there are portions labeled "text" which is the place where the text would be... you could... in essence... remove this part and have it not display text, but the plugin would still be present.
I hate to say it... but without HTC having programmed a solution to handle your request... you're better off using Facade.
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Okai, I just have to live with it the hehe.
I have finally found out how to use fascade in i properly way. I actually don't need to use the default fascade homescreen (who by the way is quite terrible), but I can just use the plug ins. Is there by the way any clock plug in (maybe in fascade?) who makes it possible to set the alarm easy without going thru configuration? If there is, I can just remove the whole plug in in HTCHome and replace it with this.

Hi..nice to see some Homescreen-Interested guys here.
First;
The HTC-Live Homescreen-Plugin is limited to his Functions (Time,Weather,Favs) and not customizeable, there maybe a solution to edit some images like Weather-Icons or the Time-Font,thats all...not like his big Brother on HTC Touch(better to configure,two more Functions, MRU and MusicPlugin).
Sorry.
You can add and move any plugin on your Phone by editing the XML, but dont ask me for an HowTo,please...look into the other xxx.home.xml, it is really easy to customize the HomeScreen.
Some Infos:
The Plugin itself is in /Windows/HTCHome.dll, the .mui Files are LanguageFiles, you can modify and rename them to translate the plugin into your own Language, the HH_WEATHER_01-44.png and all the other HH_blabla...png files are the Images for the Clock,WeatherIcons...,
Happy editing...

kjeg1 said:
Aha, this is really good to know =)
But what to do when I want to remove something in a plug in, is that possible at all? In the plug in i talked about in my last post, there is three functions.
Number one shows the clock and makes it easier to acsess the alarm setting directly (without have to do so via configuration -> clock and alarm),
number two is the HTC Home weather service
and number three is favourite persons.
I wan't to remove the two last functions in this plug in.
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Me too, I wanted to remove those two services. I took some fiddling with the xml-file and several plugins, but I managed to make something that looks quite like the Htc Home screen but has just the functionality I want.
Big other advantage is that I now suffer a lot less of the famous memory leaks.
See the result below.

jvlerick said:
Me too, I wanted to remove those two services. I took some fiddling with the xml-file and several plugins, but I managed to make something that looks quite like the Htc Home screen but has just the functionality I want.
Big other advantage is that I now suffer a lot less of the famous memory leaks.
See the result below.
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Please post your .home.xml file!

yeah - can you post the .home.xml for your fake HTC theme? it looks real nice!
thanks

How to display Java Games in Full Screen ?

Hi,
I tried a few java games today from gameloft, and they eventually showed up 320x240 (which is very small) on my diamond.
Anyone knows a way to make the game to show full screen ?
Any help would be appreciated.. thanks
(I've tried the 'search' button)

denis_sianto said:
Hi,
I tried a few java games today from gameloft, and they eventually showed up 320x240 (which is very small) on my diamond.
Anyone knows a way to make the game to show full screen ?
Any help would be appreciated.. thanks
(I've tried the 'search' button)
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AFAIK there is no way of scaling up games. you need to install 640x480 games to get full screen (as that is the screen res).

Any links ?

of course not, we don't condone warez

to be honest, i havent found any worth playing!

Addicteddddd said:
of course not, we don't condone warez
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Links to online shops?

Mr.Sir said:
Links to online shops?
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Google?

Many games are "clever" to detect the screen resolution, not because the VGA as we have in diamond , because of
many kinds of mobiles with many resolutions, i have some java games working fine with the vga resolution (beside the
fonts are too small)

java
there is a small app to change resolution, You have to open *.jar file and edit something, google it cause i do not remember all

If you are going to buy a game, bejeweled 2 is great!

mugglesquop said:
Google?
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I don´t want that, I just wanted to point that links to shop is not warez, or is it? What is warez? I thought it was pirated stuff.

mugglesquop said:
to be honest, i havent found any worth playing!
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I had Puzzle Quest Warlords on my Instinct. I would like to be able to play that one on my Diamond.
It's basically Bejeweled with kind of an rpg storyline twist. Fun and addictive.
Can't seem to get it to run with Esmertec tho.

denis_sianto said:
Hi,
I tried a few java games today from gameloft, and they eventually showed up 320x240 (which is very small) on my diamond.
Anyone knows a way to make the game to show full screen ?
Any help would be appreciated.. thanks
(I've tried the 'search' button)
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Some games can be changed by modifying the MANIFEST.MF file.
Here is an example (using the excellent 7Zip Program)...
Open 7Zip
Browse to your Java Game & open it
Open the folder "META-INF"
in the "META-INF" folder should be a file called "MANIFEST.MF" - right click it & choose Edit [F4] - the file should open in a text editor (i.e. Notepad).
Perform edits...
If the file contains the lines (or something similar)
Code:
Nokia-MIDlet-Original-Display-Size: 176,208
Nokia-MIDlet-Target-Display-Size: 240,320
change them to
Code:
Nokia-MIDlet-Original-Display-Size: 176,208
Nokia-MIDlet-Target-Display-Size: 480,640
Otherwise, just add them.
Mostly, you need to get the Original-Display-Size correct and even then, this doesnt work for all games.
If that doesnt work, then I have found some games contain the lines
Code:
LGE-MIDlet-TargetLCD-Width: 240
LGE-MIDlet-TargetLCD-Height: 320
Obviously these can be changed to
Code:
LGE-MIDlet-TargetLCD-Width: 480
LGE-MIDlet-TargetLCD-Height: 640
Close the text editor & save your edits
Click yes on the 7Zip message box to update the original archive
Transer the modified JAR to your device, install it & cross your fingers.
NOTE: I am by no means an expert in this arena - this info comes from searching the net, opening many JARs & trial and error (i.e. your questions will likely go unanswered).
Give it a shot - might work - I've had about 40% success.
Regards, Steve.

Android Screen Monitor v2.10

This is a really nice screen monitoring\screenshot program. Supports Android 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1
Android sdk and Jre(JDK) 5 or 6 must be installed
ASM is an Android Debug Bridge (adb) client, When it starts monitoring screen,
ASM connects to adb on port 5037 and receives frame buffer continuously on the device or emulator and transfer image to your desktop window.
You can rotate and scaling monitor window and export a image into PNG file as screen shot tool.
If you have sdk installed skip step 1.
If you have Java JRE(JDK) installed skip step 2
Make sure you have your phone plugged in usb.
1. Download Android SDK for Windows and place the android-sdk-windows folder on the root of your C:\ Drive.
2. Download(skip login) and install JRE(JDK) 6
3. Download the attached asm.zip and extract asm.jar out.
4. Place the asm.jar in \android-sdk-windows\tools folder.
5. Right click on asm.jar and place a shortcut on your desktop. Run the jar file or shortcut to bring up the monitor
right click on monitor screen to:
get screenshots
change to landscape\portrait
zoom in or out

incubus26jc said:
This is a really nice screen monitoring\screenshot program. . .
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Incubus26jc,
Great Find!
I like this alot better than PicMe.
Thanks...

JM-PDA said:
Incubus26jc,
Great Find!
I like this alot better than PicMe.
Thanks...
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I like it better too. Picme would always disconnect on me.

awesome find i only wish i could interface with the android phone using my pc
like open apps and type messages like the wm program "MyMobiler"

evilclosetmonkeynate said:
awesome find i only wish i could interface with the android phone using my pc
like open apps and type messages like the wm program "MyMobiler"
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Yes!
I miss running MyMobiler under WinMo.
Maybe one day we will have the same for Android.
Aside from the camera, I am LOVING Android on my Vogue!

JM-PDA said:
Yes!
I miss running MyMobiler under WinMo.
Maybe one day we will have the same for Android.
Aside from the camera, I am LOVING Android on my Vogue!
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the lack of a camera in 2.1 is the only reason i still have wm on my vogue and until its is fixed i will keep duel booting android. my phone is the only camera i own and i only boot into wm to use it and quietly go back to android as soon as im done

JM-PDA said:
Yes!
I miss running MyMobiler under WinMo.
Maybe one day we will have the same for Android.
Aside from the camera, I am LOVING Android on my Vogue!
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Yeah the camera blows, the quality just isn't there and I wish it was possible to fix it.

Can't select device
When I start asm I don't see any device to select.
In what mode should I start the device when connect into PC?
My HTC Desire gives 4 options:
- Only charging
- HTC Sync
- Diskdive
- Shared internet

spamblokkie said:
When I start asm I don't see any device to select.
In what mode should I start the device when connect into PC?
My HTC Desire gives 4 options:
- Only charging
- HTC Sync
- Diskdive
- Shared internet
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try HTC sync

It works now!
cp0020 said:
try HTC sync
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It is working now, just made my first screendump. Had to install, deinstall and install HTC sync again but now it is working.

evilclosetmonkeynate said:
awesome find i only wish i could interface with the android phone using my pc
like open apps and type messages like the wm program "MyMobiler"
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hmmm have you looked at this thread? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=663390

Wow. Another great PC tool that is not designed for a Mac too. I understood it with Windows Mobile, but dang…where is the love with Android.

j8971 said:
Wow. Another great PC tool that is not designed for a Mac too. I understood it with Windows Mobile, but dang…where is the love with Android.
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it should work for mac. Just download the jave for mac to go with it.

incubus26jc said:
it should work for mac. Just download the jave for mac to go with it.
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Java only has lunix which I tried to download but it would not open. I will try to find a way other than using Picme. Thanks.

Android Screen cast is around for some time now on Google Code.
http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/

Droid X here
new droid user, got software installed, but I also can do not see anything in "select device" window.... help would be greatly appreciated by this noob

Awesome dude.... You roks...

I used MyMobiler with WM and not wise this for Android; good work man and thank you very much for sharing your work.

ShootMe App is the best one, shoots without your Computer on Android phone videos with 10 Frames per second! Needs a rooted device and there you go!

I am using Nexus S. Its not able to identify my device. How do i resolve

Gemrb - BG / Planescape / Icewind dale on our Droid 3's. Install instructions!

Hello all! I wanted to share this because when I discovered it, I went nuts! Really? Some of the most amazing games of all time on our phones? (And my Transformer Tab).
One of the primary reasons I wanted to post this here is because with the fact that our Droids have a hardware keyboard, these games play exceptionally well compared to me playing them on my tablet, where the all touchscreen controls are a bit difficult to use.
So here's what you do:
1. Install gemRB from the android market. gemRB is an open source version of the infinity engine, the engine that baldurs gate \ planescape \ icewind dale uses.
2. Install one of the infinity engine games on your PC. For instance.. Baldurs gate 2 (which is the only game I have tried thus far).
3. Download the widescreen patch from http://www.gibberlings3.net/widescreen/ . Place the EXE in your Baldurs Gate 2 folder (or whatever infinity engine game), and run it. It now asks you if you want to patch for normal installation, or if you want to patch for a gemrb installation. Obviously we would choose gemrb.
4. Follow the screen prompts, and when it asks x resolution and y resolution, you have to make a decision. The phone's screen is 960x540... but if you compile the widescreen at this resolution, in my opinion, it makes things WAY too small to read. So I decided to use 800x480, which is also the same ratio as 960x540. This makes things a little bit bigger while still looking quite nice. (Note, if you are going to change resolution, you have to run the exe on your computer again, and recopy the ENTIRE BG2 directory onto your phone. So it's kind of a pain in the ass to change rez).
5. gemrb creates a folder /sdcard/app-data/net.sourceforge.gemrb/ . This is where you're going to copy and paste the innards of your BG2 directory folder. don't post just the folder, it has to be the files INSIDE the directory. So for instance, in my net.sourceforge.gemrb folder, I have a cache folder, cd2-5, characters data, etc. Not just a "BG2 - SOA" folder.
6. A file in the net.sourceforge.gemrb folder is called GemRB.cfg.sample. Open this up with a text editor and make sure everything looks good. Change the resolution in the text file to 800x480 or whatever you choose to run it at. afterwards, you MUST rename the file to just GemRB.cfg ... delete the "sample" part in the name.
7. Run that **** and configure! Mine worked perfectly. The best part about our droids is that we can map all buttons to our physical keyboard. So I really only use the touchscreen to move the cursor around... my left click is LALT, right click is the OK button, pause is spacebar, etc. This makes the game just a DELIGHT to play on our phones.
It really runs and works remarkably well. I highly suggest trying this out if you're a fan of these amazing games!

Nice post!! I have something similar to this for Warcraft II, and the addon, Tides of Darkness.

Have an idea of what sort of framerate your getting? Finally have some free time and I'll try it out. Thanks for the heads up

Game runs flawlessly on my d3. Zero frame issues, so probably 30fps

Baconstrip said:
Game runs flawlessly on my d3. Zero frame issues, so probably 30fps
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Just swapped the files over. looking forward too it. Good find.

Thanks for this. I played Baldurs Gate 2 on my Motorola Milestone 2. Does anyone know if Icewind Dale 2(!) works too?

Rotkaeqpchen said:
Thanks for this. I played Baldurs Gate 2 on my Motorola Milestone 2. Does anyone know if Icewind Dale 2(!) works too?
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I can't say for sure, but I'd imagine BG, BG2, Planescape Torment, IWD, IWD2 all work

Nice, Baldurs Gate is a little too hard for me. But Icewind Dale should be easier I hope.

I've tried planescape, i get a blue screen when i start a new game or from my old save, not a blue screen of death mind you, just blue.
The bottom bar appears ok once in and the main menu, but then get into the game and it's all blue.
-smc

somemadcaaant said:
I've tried planescape, i get a blue screen when i start a new game or from my old save, not a blue screen of death mind you, just blue.
The bottom bar appears ok once in and the main menu, but then get into the game and it's all blue.
-smc
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I'll have to check out planescape sometime soon and let you know if it works or not. Like I said, I've only done baldurs gate. I wonder if you're missing a setting somewhere..... did you try the widescreen patch?

Hey Mate yeah did the widescreen patch, fits screen nicely, does crash every now and again when loading the game up with gemrb but once in the menu works and the game looks fullscreen.
I only had one stab at it tho it's pretty easy to setup, i might have a corrupt file or something, the cd's are pretty old.
-smc
Edit:
looks like it's simply not too compatible yet with PST:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/planescape_torment/gemrb_and_planescape

Anyone else run this with games from GOG.com? I followed instructions multiple times, PST and BG2, it always showed me a blue screen then crahsed after the game started.
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Got it! For games from gog you have to point all cd's to ./data
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get maplestory to work
and i will pay u in money! XD

So I have an issue that I haven't seen covered yet. I am tring to play Throne of Bhaal. My game will start fine until I get past the intro videos. After that I just get my finger control and a black screen.
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Thanx Camspanners that worked for me also, i'm guessing every game will need the cd folders changed like this to work.
Not sure what resolution to play the game in yet, i think the original 640x480 would better suit.
-smc

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So I have an issue that I haven't seen covered yet. I am tring to play Throne of Bhaal. My game will start fine until I get past the intro videos. After that I just get my finger control and a black screen.
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I'm pretty sure if you look on their website, Throne of Bhaal uses a slightly different engine, so you need to use different files to replace the stock windows ones. I know they have them on the Gemrb site, but I don't think it's a finished product and there are still some bugs left in TOB.

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I'm pretty sure if you look on their website, Throne of Bhaal uses a slightly different engine, so you need to use different files to replace the stock windows ones. I know they have them on the Gemrb site, but I don't think it's a finished product and there are still some bugs left in TOB.
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Fixed the issue just deleted everything and reinstalled on computer and phone and it worked.
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Bumping because a friend is doing this again and it should be seen some more

Thank you for the good instructions but what does a "good" GemRB.cfg file look like?
I have some confusion at this point (not my gemrb.cfg file, but a sample taken from another website)
#####################################################
# Paths #
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# Game Paths [String] #
# #
# These are the paths where the Game you want to #
# play is installed. #
# Enter the full path to the directory. #
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GamePath=/media/mmc1/games/BGII - SoA/
CD1=/media/mmc1/games/BGII - SoA/
CD2=/media/mmc1/games/BGII - SoA/CD2/
CD3=/media/mmc1/games/BGII - SoA/CD3/
CD4=/media/mmc1/games/BGII - SoA/CD4/
CD5=/media/mmc1/games/BGII - SoA/CD5/
The default gemrb.cfg file seems to want you to include the CD information, so does this mean, as according to the instructions for the app you copy ALL the files in the BG install folder, and ALSO the contents of each CD into its own folder within the droid file system? Which is fine, but I'm unclear if that is the steps I need to take. Thanks!

I have Baldurs Gate 2 GOG version ( 1 install exe, 2 Bin file).
Installed to pc,followed install note but not workin on my phone.
Create character,start and i got blue scrren and crash....
Any solution?
BG1 works fine.....