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Is it possible to increase the screen resolution? I came across dotPocket but am afraid this will damage my screen as it will be running higher than it is supposed to.
Also, is there a freeware software with similar features? It'd be cool if this could be bundled into a custom ROM! Thanks.
No, it is not. Screen resolution is physically determinded like the number of keys on your phone. No software is able to change the number of hardware-keys on your phone and no software is able to change the number of pixels either.
The Software you mentioned will just increase the resolution virtually, that means, either the content will be resized to the pda's screen size or you'll have to scroll:
You can either fit the whole virtual screen to the Pocket PC screen or use dotPocket browsing capabilities to view different parts of the virtual screen by "scrolling" it inside the real screen.
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dartrax
hmm..i guess the only way would be thru a software
and the only way a software can do that is if it has access to the drivers
and kaiser doesnt have any video drivers...yet...
my 2 cents
twistkill said:
hmm..i guess the only way would be thru a software
and the only way a software can do that is if it has access to the drivers
and kaiser doesnt have any video drivers...yet...
my 2 cents
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A driver is also just a piece of software and so it is also not able to change the screen resolution. Look at your laptop and try to change your resolution, you'll see, either the driver interpolates or cuts the image but it does not change the resolution physically. It's a TFT, not a television-tube!
dartrax
dartrax said:
A driver is also just a piece of software and so it is also not able to change the screen resolution. Look at your laptop and try to change your resolution, you'll see, either the driver interpolates or cuts the image but it does not change the resolution physically. It's a TFT, not a television-tube!
dartrax
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Technically, you CAN change the resolution on a laptop, but only if its less than 1024x720...BUT that doesnt change the pixel size it just makes 4 pixels ( a block) = 1 pixel so...
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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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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.
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.
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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?
I am currently using the uBook reader (have been for 3-4 years now), but woul love to try something newer and maybe better.
I usually convert any book I want to read to TXT format, as uBook does a great job at rendering TXT.
Most of the readers I've encountered in a Google search (such as MobiReader) require you to download books from their store, but seeing as I'm getting all my books in free form (Guttenberg, Google, other ways ) these type of readers don't really fit me.
So, in your opinion which is the best eBook reader for the Windows Mobile platform?
I once used the Microsoft Reader. There are lots of books in that format also. However I stopped reading due to my small screen estate on the touch pro and my somehow failing eyes.
i use ereader
i use Ereader found here http://www.ereader.com/ereader/software/browse.htm. i like it a lot, it categorizes your books with a nice little interface. has options for font size and background, supports auto scroll. it looks very nice on the raphs beautiful screen. must convert the books to a format compatible for it, wasn't too hard to find a program by googling. check it out
I've used ereader a lot, but now use mobipocket-you can download almost all the books on gutenberg (or manybooks.net, which I use once in a while) in mobi format. You can also open up books in a few other formats with mobi (as long as there's no drm, I think). So I would recommend checking it out. I have never used ubook before, so I can't compare.
What's good about mobipocket? Well, it has a full-screen mode, that is really nice, especially on the fuze's small screen. More words per page = less page scrolling. That's the primary difference between it and ereader. With ereader, you can't get rid of the two menu bars, and they suck up space and also make the screen look kind of crappy. Let me tell you, set the background to black, with a light green or blue font, and mobi looks spectacular on the fuze. The screen totally blends in with the black borders of the device.
OTOH, ereader has the flash reading mode (can't remember the name) which is pretty cool from time to time. It will flash one, two or three words at a time at the top of the screen at an adjustable rate. So then the screen size doesn't matter at all. You just sit there and zone out and stare at one spot on the screen. It's a great option if, say, you are re-reading a chapter that you forgot a lot of stuff in, or if the book you're reading is boring, and you just want to blast through it. Ereader does a good job of pagination. Because of the ability to flip between a regular screen and the full screen mode with mobi, it doesn't paginate well at all (doesn't really even try). There's a progress bar that gives you an idea of how far along you are in the book, but the pages don't help. Mobi also has an annoying bug: when you first turn it on, if you scroll back beyond the page showing first, it hops back 10-20 pages. It's always a good idea to bookmark the first page read when you turn it on.
One other cool thing about mobi is that it allows you to add drawings and modify the text. I don't remember being able to do that with ereader. Sometimes you're bored, and adding an illustration is a nice diversion, or if the book sucks, you can change the text to liven things up. Hey, it's fun.
You can buy mobi books from booksonboard.com and fictionwise.com, too. They tend to have a better selection and prices than mobipocket.com. (You can get ereader books from those sites, too.)
Oh, yeah, I totally recommend getting GScroll if you're going to use mobipocket (not sure about the other ebook apps). It makes scrolling through pages much easier. You just scratch you finger lightly down the capacitative pad to move forward a page (or up to move back). It's much easier than pressing buttons. I tested out diamondscroll and dredscroll (think that's the name), and neither worked in this application for me.
I used a combination of Microsoft Reader and MobiReader.
I thought Microsoft reader wasn't supported by smartphones? although I haven't gotten around to testing it.
I use both ereader and mobipocket. In fact I have close to 2000 ebooks. If you KNOW where to look you can find tons of good books in mobi format.
+ 1 for microsoft reader for pocket pc. it works PERFECTLY with all my windows mobile devices, and there are huge libraries of .lit books. I've never bothered with mobi reader, mostly becuase ms reader does what i want it to. if the words are too small, it does give you the option to make em bigger or smaller.
mobirreader is what i have used in the past and was able to find and read full novels with it. seemed to work great on my Kaiser, have yet to try on my TP but i bet it would be fine.
Currently I use Microsoft Reader, Mobireader, Isilo, MicroOLAP CHM Reader and Repligo.
Repligo is a very nice reader but only can read .rgo format which is its own format. Normally I convert PDF to RGO for readibility.
For free ebook I download them from memoware.com or through some google.
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Microsoft reader?
Tried it, and yeah, I can't seem to get microsoft reader to work on the raphael- If i run the instal from the device, it's not a valid application, If i run it on the pc it doesn't give an option to install to device.
i use this one http://haali.cs.msu.ru/pocketpc/
AlReader is the best
I'm using AlReader. I think it's the best ebook reader, here is a list of features:
AllReader+ supports TXT, HTML, RTF, FB2, PDB/PRC (PalmDOC, zTXT mode 1), DOC, DOCX, ODT, SXW, ABW, ZABW, CHM, and TCR formats.
The application allows you view the text in Regular or Full screen mode. You can also rotate the screen to 90, 180, 270 degrees.
With AllReader+ you can read books, make bookmarks, save quotes, configure profiles and settings and take advantage of many more options. You can even read your favorite books in the night by choosing Day&Night profile!
Features:
* Screen rotation to 90, 180, 270 degrees.
* Reading of text files with following formats: TXT, HTML, RTF, FB2, PDB/PRC (PalmDOC, zTXT mode 1), TCR.
* Profiles Day&Night. Each profile includes settings of text font, text and background color, settings of status line, etc.
* Work with hyperlinks.
* Regular and Full screen modes.
* Status line including time, battery, pages amount, percentage of read text.
* Support of original text styles and images.
* Feature-rich text optimization.
* Joystick buttons are reforming along with screen rotation.
* Regulation of interline interval and symbol spacing.
* Justification.
* Works with Dict, Lingvo and Slovoed dictionaries.
* 4 types of scrolling: Wave, Line, Smooth and Auto turn Pages;
* Background graphic support.
* Bookmarks with navigation along them.
* Search of any text line. Using in search line symbol “?” which is interpreted as any symbol.
* Proper English hyphenation.
* The search is case insensitive.
* Text crossing (by percentage and by pages).
* Quotations keeping.
* File saving as TXT or PDB in voluntary encoding.
* Permanent screen backlight is available.
7 days trial is available here: http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/W...t-Viewer/AllReader-plus-Pocket-PC-61803.shtml
it sounsa like you've installed the wrong version. make sure it's the one for PPC
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Tried it, and yeah, I can't seem to get microsoft reader to work on the raphael- If i run the instal from the device, it's not a valid application, If i run it on the pc it doesn't give an option to install to device.
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Mobipocket!!!
you don't have to buy them from their store you can get a word or pdf file and convert it to their format with their desktop manager.
Just tried Mobireader, and it's actually quite good.
I have just one problem with it. I usually turn pages by clicking on the screen, I hate using the hardware buttons for that. But if I accidentally click on the text (instead of the margins), it goes to the dictionary menu. Is there any way to disable this?
Thanks everyone for your replies!
alonroz said:
Just tried Mobireader, and it's actually quite good.
I have just one problem with it. I usually turn pages by clicking on the screen, I hate using the hardware buttons for that. But if I accidentally click on the text (instead of the margins), it goes to the dictionary menu. Is there any way to disable this?
Thanks everyone for your replies!
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Gscroll (mobilesrc.com) is totally the way to go; you just slide your finger down on the capacitative pad to move forward a page, and up to go back a page. It helps keep fingerprints off the screen, too.
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Gscroll (mobilesrc.com) is totally the way to go; you just slide your finger down on the capacitative pad to move forward a page, and up to go back a page. It helps keep fingerprints off the screen, too.
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Checked it out, works brilliantly! Thanks!
For two weeks now, I've been using my tab 8.9 at work for note taking. I've tried a bunch of apps and stylus and wanted to start a thread where we can share experiences.
I'm a lawyer and need to take a fair amount of notes and sometimes mark up documents. So far my favorite is Supernote 1.4 (the Asus app which I found online) for note taking. I generally like the app, but wish it could export notebooks in .doc format or rtf and wish it some greater formatting options. For now, I don't export notes very much and when I do, I combine notes into a single pdf using ConverttoPdF by tabletsoft (paid version). I really liked Evernote too because it has good formatting tools, but I don't want my notes automatically uploaded to the cloud. If Evernote added a feature to turn off automatic uploading, I would definitely try it again.
For writing, I use a Pogo sketch plus and the swype keyboard app. With a little practice, the keyboard is more pretty accurate and typed words are definitely easier to read than my handwriting. The pogo stylus is a little small, but the foam tip moves the smoother than the rubber tipped stylus I've tried. I only hand write when drawing a diagram or sometimes when providing comments to a pdf.
For pdfs, I use EZ pdf reader (from the market) and insert notes usually using a text box. Text box show up easily when I look through thumbnails of the document.
What apps/stylus have other people tried and liked?
I use Handrite free for writing notes unless I can find something better.
Its pretty decent at what it does though. You write however you like and it will shrink it down to a decent size, I do need to get a decent sketch app though.
Do you not find the tab 8.9 screen impossibly unresponsive? I've dabbled in using mine for notes but never got anything like an acceptable result - including that Asus app you mention.
The screen is unresponsive and I usually don't hand write or draw.
I find the screen plenty responsive to use the Swype keyboard. When hand writing or drawing I intentionally move slower than normal and use larger letters.
Jeremy
I can write text all day long about .5 to .75 inches high, printed, with no issues. I use the pogo sketch stylus and have used another cheap rubber tipped on with similar results. SuperNote makes it really easy to capture notes and I've found another called Quill that works pretty nice as well. Landscape gives you more room obviously. The 8.9 touch screen is just as responsive as the iPads (I've tested both) and so you get the same experience (with the same limitations eg. no palm rejection and you need to write kinda larger than you normally would on paper).