All the registry mods that I know of for Q9h

[jasoninaz]

I've posted these on other boards but I decided to hunt around and spead the wealth of information.

Clear the data on the phone to factory defaults.
HOLD DOWN THE E and the Z key and turn the phone on.

Q9h Owner Information
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Owner

Faster SplashAnimation
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Motorola\SplashAnimati on from whatever value you have to 0

Enable 320x240 video recording on the Q9H.
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Pictures\Camera\OEM\VideoP rofile\OptionNum
change the following registry entry FROM 2 TO 3
Enable band selection:
By doing this you can pick automatic/North America 3G/GSM W850/W1900(3G) 850/1900(GSM) 900/1800 (GSM)
1. Go to Home Screen
2. Type *#1546792*# and then send
3. You will see new screen that indicates that Band
Selection was enabled
4. Now you can go to Settings/Phone/Network/Band
Selection

Increase Video Bitrate from 128 to 512
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Pictures/Camera/OEM
Now there are two applicable sections in here that I have worked with so far:
VideoEncoderProperty/1
This is the property for BITRATE
Edit the Key VidoepropertyValue (Yes, it is spelled Vidoe on the key)
Default is approx 128kbps, I have modified up to 512kbps (512000)
Works like a charm and video looks nice.

MMS Limits on Sending Video, small increase.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Motorola\MMS\SP\Limits] Change from 600 to 1024. I've experimented with larger sizes and this is the max. From 600k to 1 meg. Anything larger will not send over the wireless network. I've tried and this is the max.

My Device to Storage Card
KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Pr eferences\LastLibraryIndex
change the value from 0 to 1.

Remove Xpress Mail
Its listed at using notepad for this, personally I use programmers notepad which is freeware no spy or malware include.
This program will do everything you need it to do and more.
http://www.pnotepad.org/

You need to edit the code in the homescreen xml file. (Be sure to have your PC "show hidden/system files" and "show file extensions" - it
just makes it easier)

1) Using ActiveSync's Explore function on your PC with Q connected, Go to My mindows Mobile-Based Device\Application Data\Home
2) Copy the cingularsmart.home.xml file to your PC
3) Rename it to something else so you can recognize it later (I renamed mine as cingularsmartnoxm.home.xml)
4) Open the file with a text editor, such as Notepad

Now you're going to edit the xml file (be careful not to edit anything else
you're not familiar with)

5) First thing you should edit is the title of this new homescreen, this is so
that you will know which one it is when you go into the homescreen selections on the Q. Look for the code that indicates the "title".

It would look something like this:
<title lang="0x0409">Smartphone</title>

Now change it to something like this:
<title lang="0x0409">Smartphone without Xpress Mail</title>

6) Now you're going to remove the "Get Xpress Mail" line.

Delete the following line: <plugin clsid="{1237A231-5D10-4d97-8D59-6A9DCA0653A9}"
name="getmail" height="25"/>
7) After you're done with your edits make sure you save the file (remember to save it like I explained at the beginning). Now copy it back to the Application Data\Home folder on your Q.
This should be it. Go into Settings>Homescreen and you should see your new edited
Smartphone homescreen titled "Smartphone without Xpress Mail". Select
and load it and you're done!


Performace Tweaks

Disable window animations
To disable window animations (minimizing/maximizing) and speed up performance of the UI a bit:
HKLM\SYSTEM\GWE\Animate = 0 (DWORD decimal)
And to switch them back on:
HKLM\SYSTEM\GWE\Animate = 1 (DWORD decimal)

Increase font cache
To increase the font cache, speeding up font rendering at the cost of a bit of memory:
HKLM\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE\limit = 16384 (DWORD decimal)

To change it back to the default:
HKLM\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE\limit = 8192 (DWORD decimal)
You can set the value to pretty much anything you like, but suggested values are 4096, 8192, 16384 & 32768.

Enable FileSystem cache
To enable the FileSystem cache, speeding up overall performance at the risk of the cache not being written on a sudden reset:

HKLM\System\StorageManager\FATFS\EnableCache = 1 (DWORD decimal)
To disable again:
HKLM\System\StorageManager\FATFS\EnableCache = 0 (DWORD decimal)

Note that by default, the cache size is zero, and you will see no effect. See "Increase FileSystem cache" below to increase the cache size.

Increase FileSystem cache
To increase the file system cache:
HKLM\System\StorageManager\FATFS\CacheSize = 4096 (DWORD decimal)

To return the file system cache to zero:
HKLM\System\StorageManager\FATFS\CacheSize = 0 (DWORD decimal)
You can set the value to pretty much anything you like.

Increase FileSystem filter cache

To enable the file system filter cache, speeding up overall performance with file mangement:
HKLM\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt\Rep lStoreCacheSize = 4096 (DWORD decimal)

To return the file system filter cache to zero:
HKLM\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt\Rep lStoreCacheSize = 0 (DWORD decimal)

Change the web browser button on the top left of the phone to launch Internet Explorer instead of Opera.

1. Launch the registry application on your mobile device
2. Go to HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Keybd
3. Find the value APP3_Path
4. Change the data from OperaLaunch.exe to iexplore.exe

Change the default homepage of Internet Explorer from AT&T's Mobile Net to Google.

1. Launch the registry application on your mobile device
2. Go to HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs\
3. Find the value home_0405
4. Change the data from http://device.home to http://www.google.com
5. Find the value home_0407
6. Change the data from http://device.home to http://www.google.com
7. Find the value home_0409
8. Change the data from http://device.home to http://www.google.com

Move "My Documents" to a SD Storage Card

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services]
Mofify\Create the following:
String Bane: FileSyncPath Value: \SD Card\My Documents
Simply create a root folder on your storage card named: My Documents.

Manually backup your PIM to your SD Card

1. Open up your FILE EXPLORER
2. Go to root directory of your device
3. Then copy PIM.VOL...if you can't see it, just tap Menu then Show All Files
4. Then paste the PIM.VOL to your SD card
5. this PIM.VOL will be your backup file in case anything happens ...

To manually restore your PIM

1. Open up your FILE EXPLORER
2. Go to root directory of your device
3. Rename current PIM.VOL to something else like pim1.vol, pimold.vol or anything else
4. Copy the backup PIM.VOL that you already have in from SD card to the root directory
5. Wait for 60 sec. and then perform a soft reset

you can then manually BACKUP and RESTORE your PIM

IE cache goes on your storage card

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\Shell Folders

And change the following keys to as shown:
\Storage Card\Pocket IE\Temporary Internet Files
\Storage Card\Pocket IE\Cookies
\Storage Card\Pocket IE\History

Stop Media net from function from going dormant
1 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\ConnMgr\Providers
2HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\ConnMgr\Providers\{7C4B7A 38-5FF7-4bc1-80F6-5DA7870BB1AA}
3 MEdia Net Set AlwaysOn to 1

Find the proxy that Cingular uses.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\ConnMgr\Providers\{EF097F4 C-DC4B-4c98-8FF6-AEF805DC0E8E}\Cingular WAP

Location for IP/Gateway/DNS/DHCP SERVER/
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\WWAN1-wap.cingular-1\Parms\TCPIP

Shoutout to MEXIKEN for this one:
Enabling Search Frequency
This hack will allow you to choose the speed at which your phone updates the signal strength icon. Please bear in mind that continuous will have a significant impact on your battery life. The default setting is Medium.
[HKLM\Software\Motorola\SearchFreq] Change the Enable DWord string to 1.
I did this hack personally, yeah its rocks, 5 bars all the time and no edge network crap. But, on 27 hours of battery time. Choose.

This is one of my fav's since I get my gmail on my phone and its imap. I had horrible freezing and attachment issues. Delete your setup email before you do this hack. After the hack set it up again.
All of your email to your storage card.

HKLM->system->Inbox->Settings
click values
menu->new value->string
you are going to create 2 new values here the first is
value name PropertyPath
value Data \Storage Card\Mail
the second will be
\value name AttachPath
value data \Storage Card\Mail\Attachments
reset you phone and you should only have the Mail folder along with the attachments folder in mail folder on your storage card

[bobby-n]

mos of these are already in the hack threads but nice thread

[jasoninaz]

Thats true but you have to hunt for them one by one. Its annoying.

Originally Posted by bobby-n

mos of these are already in the hack threads but nice thread

[mexiken]

Thank you for writing all these down. Its nice to see someone actually want to organize things into one, concise, post, for efficiency.

[jasoninaz]

No problem. Check out the list that I created on a different forum.
http://www.modaco.com/index.phpshowt...hreaded&start=

Thanks, Jason

[Guardian]

Originally Posted by bobby-n

mos of these are already in the hack threads but nice thread

I have yet to see anyone put it nicely in one place without having to do the annoying and hunting through everyone's stuff to find which one works and is good and what not. It's a valiant effort and worthy of its own thread.

[n99hockey]

--moved to Hacks Forum--
--renamed Q9h to title--

[Guardian]

Originally Posted by n99hockey

--moved to Hacks Forum--
--renamed Q9h to title--

Thank you for doing that, helpful information should be easy to find.

[n99hockey]

Originally Posted by Guardian

Thank you for doing that, helpful information should be easy to find.

surething!!

[kilcher]

Great writeup. I am having a slight trouble with this:

Increase Video Bitrate from 128 to 512
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Pictures/Camera/OEM
Now there are two applicable sections in here that I have worked with so far:
VideoEncoderProperty/1
This is the property for BITRATE
Edit the Key VidoepropertyValue (Yes, it is spelled Vidoe on the key)
Default is approx 128kbps, I have modified up to 512kbps (512000)
Works like a charm and video looks nice.

I changed mine to 512000, but now my camera app just exits to the homescreen whenever I choose video. For some background, I chose the 3rd Video (name is condensed, but it shows VideoPropertyValue if I choose Rename), but the default number wasn't close to 128000. It was a single digit number, which makes me think I chose the wrong one. Any suggestions.

Can someone tell me what the original value is?