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Is diamond's VGA screen big enough?

I wonder if anyone of you have tried installed realVGA, run the device in 96dpi, and try to use SoftMaker Planmaker or TextMaker on Diamond. If so, do you find the screen too small or rather the fonts turn out to be too tiny? Would you prefer it to be bigger, like say 4 inches diagonal?
Edit: Does this screen size makes it a good e-book reader/pdf file reader?

no, too small. In RealVGA mode, you will have hard time.

tomtom poi's to small

With the tomtom 7 on the diamond the poi's are to small.
How can i make the poi's bigger...

J.P. said:
With the tomtom 7 on the diamond the poi's are to small.
How can i make the poi's bigger...
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Look in the map folder. There are .bmp files for each custom POI. Just replace them with bigger ones.
I am not sure if this can be done with the build in POIs.

I have the same problem with the pocketgps.com speed camera icons, have changed then to 44x44 icons from 24x24 and hasn't seem to change the size at all, they are still way to small. You need a magnifying glass to see them when they flash on the map

got the same problem really is small considering its a point of interest not a bloody tree! Only way i see the Speed camera poi is having the sound warning on which usually pops up the top left corner what is coming up.

MarcLandis said:
Look in the map folder. There are .bmp files for each custom POI. Just replace them with bigger ones.
I am not sure if this can be done with the build in POIs.
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I think your correct about the size of the images in the map folder and that you can change the size but its a lot of effort?? If anyone gives it the time maybe they could post the lager bmp images in a zip file??
I have the same problem - especially with speed cameras I think that its mainly because the maps were not designed originally for use on our new VGA screens - the maps are scaled automatically but the bmp images are not - maybe when we see dedicated ver 7 maps for VGA PDA's we'll see an improvement?

I have also button menu and font too small on diamond (vga screen)...

Tomtom icons
I have tried to reduce the size to 20X20, 40X40 and 44X44 but the BMP. are far to small.
(with the wrong size the pictures are red in TT)
Is there anybody who have ONE icon in TT with the right size?

Did you try 48*48?

Blob8me said:
I think your correct about the size of the images in the map folder and that you can change the size but its a lot of effort?? If anyone gives it the time maybe they could post the lager bmp images in a zip file??
I have the same problem - especially with speed cameras I think that its mainly because the maps were not designed originally for use on our new VGA screens - the maps are scaled automatically but the bmp images are not - maybe when we see dedicated ver 7 maps for VGA PDA's we'll see an improvement?
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Same here.
i don't thing we can do anything for this:
1) maps are not scaled in VGA screen. Infact, a greater area of the map is shown, compared to a QVGA screen (tried on both with two different phones). That is why, the POI icons are small, cos they follow always the 32x32 size. In fact, you will see an area 4 times greater than QVGA screens. Therefore, POI icons look 4 times smaller.
2) If you resize the icons to 48x48 or whatever, TomTom will scale them down to 22x22 automatically (auto-fit) if intelligent enough, becasue that is the size TomTom was designed to display. But it will probably simply not understand the bigger size and just display some rubbish with default resolution of 22x22, i.e., all red square.
Sorry. I see no solution. Maybe by using some overlay third party programs to show POIs and disabling TomTom internal ones. What was it called, "POI warner" I think?

Sorry, but also with 48x48 the icon is to small and only red.
What is de original size?

I must say when I first got my Diamond it was TomTom that I was looking forward to putting on there for the real VGA 'experience' and at first glance I was very impressed... but then I started using it for navigation and, not least given I use it in 2D mode, soon found that everything was a tad too small! I wasn't so fussed about the POIs but it was the map scale overall - at arms length I could hardly see the map detail and really didn't need to see for 10 miles around - it wouldn't be so bad if it didn't zoom out so much.
So, here's how I sort of fixed it.... a kind of workaround which disables TomTom's awareness of it being VGA. The upshot of this is that everything becomes a reasonable scale however the drawback is that it's a waste of VGA and at first glance you might think 'oh my God that's awful - so blocky!' but I soon found that when actually using it in my car I really don't now notice. The blockiness is down to running at a non-native resolution - like all fixed-pixel screens you end up with unclean lines.
Grab yourself a copy of the freeware resource PC tool Resource Hacker, make a copy of the TomTom Navigator.exe file on the PPC, and open it up with the tool.
Now find the resource CEUX\HI_RES_AWARE\2057, right-click it and delete it. It will likely take the whole branch with it if it is the only entry in there. Now save the resulting file (I got an error at this point - dunno if it's Vista or what but it still seemed to work) and copy the file back to the PPC (note it makes a backup so make sure you get the right one!) - you might want to call it something different so you can then have a choice of VGA or non-VGA TomTom's to run.
And that's it... I'm sure when you first see it in action you'll think it's horrible... but in use I think it is fine and indeed for me makes it at least usable once more.
Mathew

Wow nice trick man
POI's are now bigger but OMG this is very ugly lol !
Need anti-aliasing
Its nice but there are some bug for the text display

I actually find it okay when at arms length!
What were the text bugs you mentioned? (I must confess I've only used it a few times since doing this so could well have missed some major showstopper!)
Mathew

MJNewton said:
I must say when I first got my Diamond it was TomTom that I was looking forward to putting on there for the real VGA 'experience' and at first glance I was very impressed... but then I started using it for navigation and, not least given I use it in 2D mode, soon found that everything was a tad too small! I wasn't so fussed about the POIs but it was the map scale overall - at arms length I could hardly see the map detail and really didn't need to see for 10 miles around - it wouldn't be so bad if it didn't zoom out so much.
So, here's how I sort of fixed it.... a kind of workaround which disables TomTom's awareness of it being VGA. The upshot of this is that everything becomes a reasonable scale however the drawback is that it's a waste of VGA and at first glance you might think 'oh my God that's awful - so blocky!' but I soon found that when actually using it in my car I really don't now notice. The blockiness is down to running at a non-native resolution - like all fixed-pixel screens you end up with unclean lines.
Grab yourself a copy of the freeware resource PC tool Resource Hacker, make a copy of the TomTom Navigator.exe file on the PPC, and open it up with the tool.
Now find the resource CEUX\HI_RES_AWARE\2057, right-click it and delete it. It will likely take the whole branch with it if it is the only entry in there. Now save the resulting file (I got an error at this point - dunno if it's Vista or what but it still seemed to work) and copy the file back to the PPC (note it makes a backup so make sure you get the right one!) - you might want to call it something different so you can then have a choice of VGA or non-VGA TomTom's to run.
And that's it... I'm sure when you first see it in action you'll think it's horrible... but in use I think it is fine and indeed for me makes it at least usable once more.
Mathew
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Anything similar for iGO 8?

I didn't think iGO8 had any issues re size/legibility on the VGA screens?

It works fine, the black popup right above in the screen with the text (for example "no GPS") is to large. But thats not a big problem because it's not mention when you navigate.

MJNewton said:
I actually find it okay when at arms length!
What were the text bugs you mentioned? (I must confess I've only used it a few times since doing this so could well have missed some major showstopper!)
Mathew
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Well, when you check how much satellites your GPS found, the numbers are displayed bigger.
And on the main screen, the speed indicator number is smaller than "km/h" .
But still nice

Great solution! Thanks.

It seems that TomTom 7 isn't really VGA-ready. Any news on an update?
Think it's very bad for business to offer such a bad solution for VGA screens, which are coming more and more.

Call of Duty 2 PPC Working

Just downloaded Call of Duty 2 PPC, installed it to the memory card and can confirm it runs close to perfect.
You will need to start the game with the keyboard open and once started enter into the configuration and flip the screen so you play with keyboard.
You need to remap the keyboard direction key and I found increasing the screen sensitivity a little helps too.
There are a few minor issues though:
1. Sound is a touch wavy
2. Now and again you get the picture taking a 1 second pause in but not that annoying.
I should think disabling TouchFLO would stop these happening.
3. Some of the other keys don't map correctly, but I think this can be corrected if we play around with the config files
You can get Call of Duty 2 PPC from here.
Enjoy

Does it run in hardware accelerated mode with the Diamond hack?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=428703

All I've done is download the COD2Setup.exe installed to the memory card and ran it.
Just uploading a video to youtube now
Not sure how to confirm if its running from the hardware drivers.
The next thing I was going to do was load GLBenchmark, but again never used it before.
Once the video is uploaded play it and you'll see a reddish header above the "Mission 1" description just after the screen where I select the game level "Easy"
Now looking at the quality of it and comparing it with Duke Nukem and Quake 2 on my old Kaiser I would be sure it is using the hardware drivers.
If you've got any tips on how I can check let me know

mike freegan said:
Does it run in hardware accelerated mode with the Diamond hack?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=428703
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it has to run.. i posted the quake 3 accelerated version for the diamond also in this forum to see if you guys can get it to run on the raphael, most probably yes, it will work much the same as the diamond.
so you just have to follow the original cod2 thread in the diamond forums to get cod2 fully accelerated on the raphael hehe

Video uploaded
Call of Duty 2 PPC on HTC Touch Pro ( Raphael )
GLBenchmark to follow

The games should run smoother on the Raphael because it has about 100 extras megabytes of ram Btw, I´m a happy owner of the Raphael.
OP-> Did you just install it and then it worked? No tweaking with deleting dll files and so on like the diamond users?

Mr.Sir said:
The games should run smoother on the Raphael because it has about 100 extras megabytes of ram Btw, I´m a happy owner of the Raphael.
OP-> Did you just install it and then it worked? No tweaking with deleting dll files and so on like the diamond users?
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Yes - Bought - Downloaded COD2Setup.exe - Installed the COD2Setup.exe via WM Device Centre to my memory card - ran the program - changed the configs per post#1
No changes - No deleting - No additional files
I do need to confirm 100% that its using the hardware drivers though.
I ran GLBenchmark but it just ran the test program but not with COD2 running I'm not sure how to get a reading of the COD2 performace/FPS

yeah, it runs. mine still looks as dodgy as on my atom exec. doesnt seem to be any visual improvements :s

HArdware accelerated runs pretty well

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=428703

I think it uses software acceleration in the video because it is really laggy compared to the video of the diamond from the original thread...

I am having trouble correctly remapping the keys, can someone help.
I want to use the W S A D keys instead of the arrows. btw I have AEB plus installed

Brendo said:
yeah, it runs. mine still looks as dodgy as on my atom exec. doesnt seem to be any visual improvements :s
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maybe you need glasses.
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seriously, most probably you're running the software version. it's pretty much noticeable, even by a total n00b

Brendo said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=428703
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Had a snoop around
cod2_goforce.exe - is present in the COD2 game directory
libGLES_CM.dll - is present in the Windows directory
cod2_gles - not present
lebgles_cm.dll - not present
Found this on another site trying to install COD2 to a Diamond
For Hardware 3D render:
For Intel rename COD2_G~1.001 to cod2_gles.exe
For Geforce rename COD2_G~1.003 cod2_goforce.exe
rename LIBGLE~1.004 libGLES_CM.dll
I'm sure lebgles_cm.dll was present before, as I looked for it when I was reading hamdir Diamond thread.
1. Does anyone else still have lebgles_cm.dll after installing COD2 but not applying the Diamond hack?
2. Does anyone know how to confirm 100% it is running in hardware mode?
3. Any programs out there that show the FPS COD2 is running at?

iRiKi said:
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maybe you need glasses.
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seriously, most probably you're running the software version. it's pretty much noticeable, even by a total n00b
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hehe, yeah. i had the software version, but once updating to hardware version, i see massive improvement
and all i had to do was copy the cod2_goforce.exe file over

jasthom69 said:
Yes - Bought - Downloaded COD2Setup.exe - Installed the COD2Setup.exe via WM Device Centre to my memory card - ran the program - changed the configs per post#1
No changes - No deleting - No additional files
I do need to confirm 100% that its using the hardware drivers though.
I ran GLBenchmark but it just ran the test program but not with COD2 running I'm not sure how to get a reading of the COD2 performace/FPS
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I think yours is running software mode because it laggs really much compared to the official diamond cod 2 thread.

Mr.Sir said:
I think yours is running software mode because it laggs really much compared to the official diamond cod 2 thread.
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Yeah your all right the first post/video was using software rendering.
cod2_goforce.exe was present on the TP internal memory:- root/Program Files/COD2
Because I had installed the COD2 to my storage card the cod2_goforce.exe needed to be copied over to:- Storage Card/Program Files/COD2
Watch both in high quality on you tube and compare Call of Duty 2 PPC on HTC Touch Pro ( Raphael ) using hardware drivers with Call of Duty 2 PPC on HTC Touch Pro ( Raphael ) using software drivers
Although the new video doesn't really do it justice as it looks a bit grainy you can see the differance clearest on his arm and gun. It looks great on the TP though.
Since the video I have also pointed the COD2.Ink shortcut to cod2_goforce.exe.
Thanks everyone for the tips

buttons
I'm having trouble mapping buttons, I can only map the directional buttons on the keyboard and the back h/w button, nothing else.

[email protected] said:
I'm having trouble mapping buttons, I can only map the directional buttons on the keyboard and the back h/w button, nothing else.
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What I did found is that you can only re-map the keys to certain combinations otherwise selecting 1 key changes all the others.
First ensure you start the game with the keyboard open
I have set them to the following on under "configuration":
Settings1
Look up: I
Look down: K
Turn right: J
Turn left: L
Low detail mode: not highlighted
Flip screen: click once to turn the page to match the keyboard direction
Blood: your own choice
Sensitivity: middle of the slider bar
Volume: own choice
Settings2
Forward: ^ up arrow on keyboard - shows as <-- arrow on the display
Back: v down arrow on keyboard - shows as --> arrow on the display
Left: < left arrow on keyboard - shows as down arrow on the display
Right: > right arrow on keyboard - shows as up arrow on the display
Aim sight: space
Grenade: no change
Swap weapon: shift
Reload: no change
Toggle pose: CTRL
Action: no change
Pause: no change
Fire: enter
Found this was about the best compromise

I've bought this game and everything for my compact iv, but i cant get the game working, the demo works and everything. When i try and run the game it says "Error: No Owner Information". How can i get into the settings to input my information ? If anyone knows...

Memory Map - file sizes

Hi all,
I have Memory Map with all the UK at a scale of 50k. Problem is that they're devided into 12 regions, each file being between 200-400MB. My Touch Pro won't open any of them, MM gives an error saying 'unable to load' type error. After some research it seems that the files are too big for it to open, even though MM say try to keep the file sizes below 400MB (which they are, give or take). I can send visible screen capture maps from my PC which do work kinda confirming that it is a size issue.
Does anybody have any suggestions in solving this. As I really want all regions on the phone as a resource without having to consider where i'm going before hand and uploading just that portion or route.
Thanks.

No solution I'm afraid, just confirming that it looke like a file size issue... I tried copying via both Activesync and direct to disk in case it was that. 120Mb seems to open OK, which covers all of north Wales... I used MM on my Wizard too but never tried copying a whole tile over due to lack of storage, so I don't know if it's a hardware limit or an application problem...

Ok. thanks for confirming that.
It's a shame MM dosn't allow you to zoom out further as it would be possible get extracts at the limit of the file size possible to load and then build your own tiles of the UK. As it is, this would be far too time consuming at the current zoom extent.

Organic99 said:
Ok. thanks for confirming that.
It's a shame MM dosn't allow you to zoom out further as it would be possible get extracts at the limit of the file size possible to load and then build your own tiles of the UK. As it is, this would be far too time consuming at the current zoom extent.
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If you can get hold of the 1:600000 road map you can use that to zoom out further. The higher resolution maps you have will appear as green outlines. You can then subdivide your 50k maps and save them as smaller, slightly overlapping sections by drawing a closed route on the low-res version of the map. Then increase the resolution, right-click on a line of the route, go Operations->send enclosed map to mobile device then choose a place to save the map (does not have to be on your PPC so you can transfer quickly later). Of course because of the overlap the total amount of storage for the whole of the UK is greater... it's a bodge but it's better than no maps at all
Cheers,
Tim

I can confirm that the Touch HD has the same problem, maps over about 120MB dont open. Maps 100-120MB sometimes work sometimes dont Interestingly The maps and sizes are exactly the same as I have previously used on both an original Touch and and MWG Atom Life without any problem. They didn't give a problem untill the file size got considerably bigger. Wonder whats different on these newer phones?

[W7] resolution switcher: Safe switch with Aero

Hi,
A small prog for you. You know that under Windows 7, the 1024x600 resolution crash the OS with Aero.
Here is the solution to avoid the crash.
How to install:
Copy the exe to the c:\program files\htc folder
Run the reg file and RESTART the computer.
After that, you can use the resolution switch button to switch from 800x480 to 1024x600. You will have a prompt for UAC, just click yes.
What it does:
It set your aero service to manual (if you reset, you can go back to windows in non aero mode)
It set the run as administrator flag to the aero.exe program
It changes the button action to aero.exe
When running: if you are on 800x480 without aero, it runs aero (you should press it once after reboot)
If you are on 800x480 with aero, it stops aero and switch to 1024
If you are on 1024, it switch to 800 and starts aero.
Please report if it works for you

very unreliable (for me)
I understand that my system might have some errors that may prevent this from working properly on my computer, but this is how it works for me.
I start up in 800 without Aero.
on first push it gives me Aero in 800
2nd push 1024 with Aero off. So far so good.
3rd push 800 NO Aero
As mand times as I push it, it neve returns to Aero. When I triedto personalize none of the other themes would do Aero either and even with Aero themes I could only choose classic windows colors.
Somehow it doesn't turn windows Aero back on.

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I understand that my system might have some errors that may prevent this from working properly on my computer, but this is how it works for me.
I start up in 800 without Aero.
on first push it gives me Aero in 800
2nd push 1024 with Aero off. So far so good.
3rd push 800 NO Aero
As mand times as I push it, it neve returns to Aero. When I triedto personalize none of the other themes would do Aero either and even with Aero themes I could only choose classic windows colors.
Somehow it doesn't turn windows Aero back on.
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This is strange. What viedo drivers did you use?

I've got he same problem. I have the standard videodrivers from Windows 7.
But after switching back to 800 aero is off. after log off and log in I have aero on.
Restart the service won't work. Very strange...
I have videodriver version: 8.15.10.1662

hetallerbeste said:
I've got he same problem. I have the standard videodrivers from Windows 7.
But after switching back to 800 aero is off. after log off and log in I have aero on.
Restart the service won't work. Very strange...
I have videodriver version: 8.15.10.1662
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you should try this :
go to the settings and change to 16 bits instead of 32bits for 800x600 but cancel when you got the pop up windows with the 15 seconds ... like that, you should get aero back.
I don't really know why but in 800x600 aero doesn't show up automatically.

Mine is 8.15.10 .1730
You should update in windows update.

thaihugo said:
Mine is 8.15.10 .1730
You should update in windows update.
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I updated the video driver. But now I have a new problem.
when I start aero.exe noting is happening. Even resolution will not be changed after I started the program.
I don't know why. Is there a way to check for example a logfile?

restart the installation procedure from post 1, and reboot.

thaihugo said:
restart the installation procedure from post 1, and reboot.
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Reinstalled, no luck. Now I'm back with the standard change resolution.

Thaihugo, Is there anyway you can make additional resolution options?
For example, I like my W7 in 1152x864 by default, and will switch to 1024x600 if I cant see something.
So is it possible to cycle through 4 resolutions?
1152x864
1024x768
1024x600
800x600
(If the utility can only support 2 resolutions, can you make one for 2 specific resolutions?)
Currently I just use the resolution option under the right click menu, but your tool would be much more useful. And on that subject, couldn't the Resolution switcher button launch a program our batch routine or something?

The button can lauch whaever you want. I'm switching using standard htc tools, but it could be any other way. Except it needs to be programmed. And it needs time... and you seems to be alone in this case.
If you provide me with a program which switch resolution using a command line, I'll incorporate it in my routine. Just look for a freeware that can switch with a command like this:
reschange 800 480
for example. I'm sure there are some hanging around google.

thaihugo said:
The button can lauch whaever you want. I'm switching using standard htc tools, but it could be any other way. Except it needs to be programmed. And it needs time... and you seems to be alone in this case.
If you provide me with a program which switch resolution using a command line, I'll incorporate it in my routine. Just look for a freeware that can switch with a command like this:
reschange 800 480
for example. I'm sure there are some hanging around google.
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Thanks! ...Yes, I am probably the only one liking 1152 res, but i set my text and icons to be upsized so it actually looks pretty good 99% of the time (with some exceptions)
I'll look for those tools and post back anything I find useful.
I'm starting to look for more and more tweaks and hacks as I go

thaihugo said:
If you provide me with a program which switch resolution using a command line, I'll incorporate it in my routine. Just look for a freeware that can switch with a command like this:
reschange 800 480
for example.
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See http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html