Official Q9M Hack Thread

[rainmakerrc]

Originally Posted by wittmer9m

okay i have the Q9m and i have registry editor and have disabled my security, when i get into registry editor it wont let me select the date column and edit and of the info??? any help?

Which registry editor are you using?

[wittmer9m]

oh its alright, i found a solution thank you for your help though!

[coop5571]

Originally Posted by gadget

I don't know if this has been answered yet but that's one of the first hacks I done on my Q9m, that media home screen is rediculous! I remapped mine to the missing camera key. Now pressing the home screen toggle button launches the Camera.

1. navigate to HKLM\\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Camera
2. Edit the String Value "Application"
- Change the Value Data to: \Windows\Camera.lnk
3. Edit the String Value "Class Name"
- Change the Value Data to: Camera
4. Back/save your way out of the Registry Editor software.
5. Press and hold the (until recently useless) Home Screen Toggle key (2 seconds) until the camera pops up.


This was found on qusers.com.

I agree the media home screen is totally useless. I remapped the "toggle home screen" button to just pull up windows media player. I used the reg edit above except you need to change the Application to WMPlayer.exe (if anyone is interested)

[dchain]

Originally Posted by ProtoZero

Hey folks,

I didn't see this one here, so I wanted to post it in case anyone wants to change their homepage from the default Verizon page.

You'll need a registry editor, - I use PHM Registry Editor which you can download here:

http://www.phm.lu/downloads/download.aspx?{940B734A-C437-41C7-ADED-2A4418802FD3}

Anyway, once you have it, you will need to navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/INTERNET_EXPLORER/ABOUTURLS

Modify the "home" key to include whatever landing page you want to use. Just make sure to keep the "http://" in front of the URL or it will not work.

Cheers

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!! BEST HACK EVER!!!

[RedMonkey]

Hi everyone... I am a new q9m owner, and needless to say, I am very happy to see these hacks made available so I can do some customizing on the phone.

Having never done any of these before, I am just wondering, does anyone know if any of the instructions from early in the history of this thread (since 9/07) are outdated, or are no longer applicable since applying any updates from Motorola or Microsoft?

Just want to make sure I don't brick my device... lol.

But, the IE homescreen, scroll bars, Verizon Media screen, and other stuff just gotta be changed!! :-)

Thanks in advance.

[n99hockey]

Originally Posted by RedMonkey

Hi everyone... I am a new q9m owner, and needless to say, I am very happy to see these hacks made available so I can do some customizing on the phone.

Having never done any of these before, I am just wondering, does anyone know if any of the instructions from early in the history of this thread (since 9/07) are outdated, or are no longer applicable since applying any updates from Motorola or Microsoft?

Just want to make sure I don't brick my device... lol.

But, the IE homescreen, scroll bars, Verizon Media screen, and other stuff just gotta be changed!! :-)

Thanks in advance.

they should still work

[RedMonkey]

Originally Posted by n99hockey

they should still work

Awesome... everything I wanted to do worked like a charm. Thank you to everyone for posting these here.

On a side note... does anyone know how to change the VZW Classic Layout on the Q9M to say anything BUT "Verizon Wireless" on the home screen?

[n99hockey]

Originally Posted by RedMonkey

Awesome... everything I wanted to do worked like a charm. Thank you to everyone for posting these here.

On a side note... does anyone know how to change the VZW Classic Layout on the Q9M to say anything BUT "Verizon Wireless" on the home screen?

edit the xml file
if its on the image you need to use a photo editor to get rid of it

or you could just head to the homescreen collection thread and download one from there

[RedMonkey]

Originally Posted by n99hockey

edit the xml file
if its on the image you need to use a photo editor to get rid of it

I can handle both of those.... any ideas on where the XML files are located? If you can point me in the right direction, I can probably take care of the rest.

Thanks again.

[n99hockey]

Originally Posted by RedMonkey

I can handle both of those.... any ideas on where the XML files are located? If you can point me in the right direction, I can probably take care of the rest.

Thanks again.

\application data\home

good luck!