Motorola Q Hacks

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by jhalsey205

I think this hack has been found to not work so the creator took it off his sight.

Yes, that's correct. I tried to demonstrate that the hack didn't work. The author was skeptical, so he ran a better test than the one I did and confirmed my findings that original files were still in ROM (but hidden by the zero-byte files). He said he was going to remove it from his site, and apparently he did.

Steve

[lido]

I got this from the pocketpctweaks site, but it doesn't seem to work on the q:
he Pocket PC display the time in the title bar, the user can select Analog or Digital using tap&hold on the time. But some people also want the date to be easily available, this was actually available on Palm-size PC devices. Fortunately there is a tweak to display both the date and time instead of time only in the Pocket PC title bar :


Browse to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\
Create a binary value named "TBOpt" and set its value to "13 00 00 00".
Save any unsaved document and reset your Pocket PC.

Does anyone know how to make this work on the q?

tia!

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by lido

I got this from the pocketpctweaks site, but it doesn't seem to work on the q:
he Pocket PC display the time in the title bar, the user can select Analog or Digital using tap&hold on the time. But some people also want the date to be easily available, this was actually available on Palm-size PC devices. Fortunately there is a tweak to display both the date and time instead of time only in the Pocket PC title bar :

Browse to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\
Create a binary value named "TBOpt" and set its value to "13 00 00 00".
Save any unsaved document and reset your Pocket PC.

Does anyone know how to make this work on the q?

I wish. That's always one of the first hacks I make on a Pocket PC.

By the way, I believe that hack is a bit over-complicated -- as I discovered in 2001 or so. The value is just a set of bit flags, so a DWord of 3 should be sufficient.

• 0 = no display
• 1 = time
• 2 = date
• 3 = date & time

Steve

[evil247]

Didn't see these anywhere. was looking through the registry tonight and found
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\DaysToKeep
This is your internet history(default is 30)

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\HistoryBackListLen
This is the list it populates from all the websites you have been to when you type in the address bar(default is 100) set to 0 to not have it keep anything

[magetz]

Originally Posted by mad3963

Actually, what you did should have worked. If you have the latest version of the program, when you execute the .exe there should be a brief message display in the middle of the screen telling you the program is running or not running.

yea it actually did work. i got pocketnesterplus to work but I havent downloaded any .bin ROMS yet. i got some .NES one and it didn't work. I was in a rush though when i was fiddling with it. i'm sure i'll be able to figure it out.

[Marvelous Merv]

Originally Posted by brentw83

Does anyone know how to change the email to check every 5 minutes or so, instead of the default 15?

Checking email every 5 minutes would kill your battery in just a couple of hours - frankly, checking email every 15 minutes wipes out an unattended battery in an unacceptably short amount of time. I think that most people find the best equillibrium of battery life/convenience to be setting it at one hour.

It sounds like what you are looking for is a "push" email solution - one where your email server (needs to be IMAP) notifies your phone as email is received, "Blackberry style". There are a few third party apps that will allow you to accomplish this - here is one:

http://www.gadgetell.com/2006/05/moto-qs-push-email/

Perhaps someone else can direct you to the registry hack to add/switch server polling from 15 down to 5 minutes - I am quite sure that it wouldn't be satisfactory battery-wise, regardless of whether you use an extended life battery.

[Pony99CA]

If a Web site won't let you in because it says your browser version isn't modern enough, or you want the non-mobile version of a site that displays the mobile version on your Q, you can sometimes fake the site out.

Go to the following registry key:

\HKLM\Sofware\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent

and change the values there.

Specifically, try changing the following:

• Version -- Change "4.01" to "5.0", "6.0" or later.
• Platform -- Change "Windows CE" to "Windows NT 5.1".

Those values should work. You'll have to reset the Q after making the changes to get them to take effect.

UPDATE: Some sites (like EverythingQ) seem to check another value, so you may still get the mobile site even after the hack. To fix that, go to the following registry key:

\HKLM\Sofware\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform

and rename the Smartphone; 176x220 value to something like SmartpXhone; 176x220 (breaking up the "phone" string with an "X").


Steve

[inf3st]

Originally Posted by Plaid Gopher

I'm confused on how to get the file into the ActiveSync? I can find the .zip file with the explore, but then what? How does it get to the Q?

You don't put the file into activesync. You use activesync to browse your phone and put the file on your phone via activesync. Right click on activesync ,while your phone is connect, then hit explore. Then just move the file over.

[theseraphimblaze]

so I just tried it. A site that wouldn't work last night ( www.ign.com) just loaded up perfectly (well as perfect as the Q can do a webpage). so that fix works great.

also, on my Q it was listed as:
Default
Mozilla/4.01 Sprint:MotoQ

Platform
Windows CE

Version
MSIE 4.0

just a little different but ether way your edits worked great.

[tj!2k6]

Originally Posted by prtheman

[...] setting somewhere else that I can change to associate all .wav files with Pocket Player?[...]

Yes, among the many many options in TCPMP, there is one for file associations.