Motorola Q Hacks

[BigOrange]

Originally Posted by Landon

this is a really dumb qestion, but how do i locate the HKEY, i cant figure out how to do this.

Be warned, editing the registry can mess up windows. You need a registry editor. There is a link to one here http://www.motoq411.com

[tj!2k6]

Originally Posted by packpackard11

Link for aeconfig is down...anyone have it somewhere else....RS? mirrors?

Thanks

Here it is!

[n99hockey]

Originally Posted by laurendeleon

is there any way i can change the duration of the vibration when i get a text message?

try this...
http://www.everythingq.com/forum/mot...html#post16018

[Pony99CA]

I haven't tried this much myself (the one time I did, it didn't seem to make a difference), but you can experiment with boosting the audio gains. Go to HKLM\Software\Motorola\BPCTRLR\WaveDev\BaseGains and try increasing some of the values there.

A larger number specifies a higher gain. Increase the values in single steps above the default to avoid overloading the audio device (or your ears). Reboot the Q for changes to take effect.

Credit: dootsmasta

Steve

[n99hockey]

Originally Posted by Metalman223344

Is there a way to Flash the screen or flash the camera led

read here
http://www.everythingq.com/forum/sof...miss-8215.html

[tj!2k6]

Originally Posted by kellybrf

anyone have/know someone with some programming skills to do this?

There is an app called "RightMenu" which changes the functionality of "Contacts" softkey on the homescreen from a single function to a menu-driven list of shortcuts.

For example, my right softkey now offers...

- Contacts
- New SMS
- New Appointment
- New Task
- New Note
- New Voice Memo

... all directly from the homescreen.

AND, you can also create scripts in order to make your own custom shortcuts.

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by Metalman223344

Speed Hack______________________________________________ _
1) Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE
-> change limit from 16384 to 32768

2) Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\STORAGEMANAGER\FATFS
-> change cachesize to 4096

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Can that hurt the phone or should it be fine

It's increasing a cache size, so I suspect the worst that can happen is that you'll run out of memory a bit sooner.

These hacks have been known about for almost a year (or maybe longer on other devices), so I suspect if they caused problems, there'd be plenty of warnings against doing them.

Steve

[tj!2k6]

Originally Posted by Amy

I have about 10 cab files. When I try to install them, it tells me "the file is not intended for this device." I must have an old version or something. I'll have to search for something else.

Why do you have 10 .cab files? You only need one, the correct one.

The one that was downloaded when you selected "Smartphone 2002,2003 (ARM/PXA)".

The one called "regedit.Stngr_ARM.CAB"

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by Amy

Is there a way to DELETE the built-in programs that I don't want, to free up some memory?

You can delete the shortcut icons in the Start menu, but you can't delete the programs themselves. They're in ROM, so they aren't using user-available memory anyway.

Originally Posted by Amy

Also, not everything on my start menu shows up in the file menu under windows/start menu... what's up with that?

Did you set File Manager (or whatever file browser you're using) to display hidden and system files?

Steve

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by nancychiri

I have searched everywhere...any way I can change the font size on incoming calls so I can see who is calling me? Where in the registry is the font size located?

There are several things to try.

First, if you want to make the system font larger (but not necessarily in every application), you can try the Accessibility settings applet and change the System font size to Large.

That didn't work on the call status screens, though.

If you don't like that, you can edit the registry, but there are a lot of places to check.

The first is HKLM\System\GDI\SYSFNT where you can change several values, like:

• Ht -- The font height (or size). The current value here looks big, but it's actually a negative number (ones- or twos-complement signed binary, so FFFFFFFF is -1, I think). Making the number smaller should make the font bigger. You can also try positive numbers (like some of the fonts mentioned below use), but there's some difference between using positive and negative sizes that I never remember.
• It -- Turns Italics off (0) or on (1).
• Nm -- The font name. If you have other fonts, you can use them.
• Wt -- The font weight (or boldness). The default (400) is normal; 700 is usually used for bold.

I don't know what CS or Qt do.

However, that may not hit every possible control. To change the fonts on various dialog controls, you need to check HKLM\System\GWE and the following keys (which have similar values as SYSFNT):

• Button -- Changes the font on dialog buttons.
• Menu\BarFnt -- Possibly changes the font on menu bars (maybe the softkeys on the Q).
• Menu\PopFnt -- Changes the font on pop-up menus.
• OOMFnt -- Changes the OOM font (maybe the PIM applications, which used the POOM databases).

Make sure you reboot after these changes.

So what does it all mean? Well, I changed the SYSFNT Ht to FFFFFFCD (so the font should be like 32 sizes bigger), It to 1 and Wt to 700. Some things got really big fonts (like options dialogs, IE Favorites and warning messages), but most applications that I tried didn't (Web pages, E-mail, the call status screens, etc.). The title bar was in Italic and maybe bold, too.

I also tried changing the OOMFnt size and adding font information for the MsgBox GWE item, but neither of those worked.

I figured I had spent more than enough time on this, so I'm not sure what (if anything) will do what you want on the Smartphone OS, but give those a try. However, it's possible that the call status screens have hard-coded font sizes and can't be changed.

Steve