Well folks, i am starting this thread, as the title says, to discuss about tweaks and trick, hacks and facts about the ways in which we can increase thespeed or performance of the storage cards.
You are very much welcome to share your views, infos, tried and trusted methods to increase speed of sd/sdhc/mmc cards.
Currently I am trying out an idea (it may have been implemented before by others) and if it is does really work, i will post it here.
Until then, share what you have learnt eventhough your idea may have been unsuccessful, we can discuss and work on it together.
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I've read, I think, everything in here about Extended ROM.
I know it is possible to unlock it, and I've done it.
I know it is possible to create a custom ROM.
What I wonder is, how useful and/or important is this?
Putting more items into Extended ROM does not increase the available RAM or storage ROM, does it? I thought at first that programs installed from there, stayed in that area, and didn't take up precious storage ROM, but that doesn't seem to be the case. (If it IS, then there really IS a huge value to it, so correct me if I am wrong)
Since the Extended ROM only has a little under 10 MB available, and I've got scads of room on my 2 GB SD card, of what value is it to put my loading programs onto Extended ROM? The only value I have been able to determine is that everything that is in the Extended ROM will automatically reload upon Hard Reset, where if I have it on my SD card I have to manually reinstall after each Hard Reset. Now, auto-loading programs, is in itself a NICE thing, but not a critical thing, yes/no?
Please enlighten me if there are more good things about tweaking the Extended ROM that I have missed.
I look forward to a lively discussion, or to be shot down in flames if I am looking at this with a blind eye.
IMHO you're right that putting CABs into Extended ROM is not that useful. For me, a recent backup is much more useful
But you can install apps into Extended ROM, saving internal storage space this way. Why not a storage card? There are apps that are better not to be installed on a storage cards, like Today plug-ins. Also, there are people who have more than one flash card, and they need software to access card's content installed somewhere off the cards (to play movies or to format cards)... Extended ROM is here.
You may find other reasons, but the key point is: the most useful feature of Extended ROM is to install apps on it.
I keep my ringtones there as well.
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Putting more items into Extended ROM does not increase the available RAM or storage ROM, does it? I thought at first that programs installed from there, stayed in that area, and didn't take up precious storage ROM, but that doesn't seem to be the case. (If it IS, then there really IS a huge value to it, so correct me if I am wrong)
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You're right. I believe it acts as a repository for applications or tweaks to be installed to 'personalise' a ROM after a hard reset. Good place for things like operator-specific settings...
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The only value I have been able to determine is that everything that is in the Extended ROM will automatically reload upon Hard Reset, where if I have it on my SD card I have to manually reinstall after each Hard Reset.
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Not everything present in the Extended ROM has to install following a hard reset... what is installed, and in what order, is controlled by the config.txt file. You could have other installation CABs in Extended ROM and just install them later, if you like (browse using Total Commander). Bear in mind also that not all applications can be installed automatically following a hard reset; if an installation requires user input, it can't be installed automatically, because I hear this will crash the installation. Also, I don't think you can choose where automatically-installed apps are put: I think they can go on the device only, not on the Storage Card. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong!!
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Now, auto-loading programs, is in itself a NICE thing, but not a critical thing, yes/no?
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Yep... I don't think any of it is critical, after all ROMs have been released on xda-developers that are totally clean (empty extended ROM, no customisations). But it is useful especially for tweaks and operator-specific settings, etc.
well i am building my own with just the T-mobile uk setting and 2 other cabs files that ring tones and tomtom (map on card). So these are installd when you do a hard reset, so i dont have to bother installing again! (still working on the reg to enter the strings for it to setup my gps pairing on its own)
But i have not do anything like this before, but sick of having to re do everything everytime i hard reset or do a new rom!
mmm... i believe i also read somewhere, that accessing the internal memory is less energy consuming than accessing external storage cards...
but i am really not sure about that...
I've been running the clean version of Crossbow for some time now. Other than a few minor hiccups (and I mean minor) it is as slick and good looking as hoped.
Now for the fun... I know that the extended ROM does NOT run on Crossbow, though I'm not sure why. I would like to know. The loving wife extended rom unlocker DOES work, but it also causes the creation of a second storage card folder when the TIF and inbox attachments are stored on the storage card, and it renames the actual storage card "storage card 2".
I'm not really sure of the behavior of the extended ROM because I've never paid much attention to it. The questions are as follows:
1) Does the extended ROM write to the OS side of the ROM without affecting the memory available for additional programs?
2) Are the programs able to be removed though the CP applet?
3) Is it possible to write my own extended ROM and flash it to my device without weird or disastrous consequences? (I can always make an ext. ROM with my favorite programs and not use a whole lot of room on my Mini SD card.) I would simply keep a copy of the unlocker on both MiniSD cards.
I know some of these questions may have been asked before, but some have not. I would really like to clean off my MiniSD's to carry a few more songs and tidy things up a bit. Help from the gurus or those already running WM6 is what I'm after. Thanks in advance.
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Hi Guys,
I am a bit of a newbie (just got the phone yesterday), so I have a few basic questions -- please bare with me.
1) Has anyone setup an SSH client on their HTC Kaiser/AT&T Tilt? If so what is a good client to get? Is PuTTYPocket good or one of the clients from the OpenSSH project? Is there a preferred one or one that's known to work better?
2) Second item is.. where do most people choose to install all of there files and applications? For example, right now I have a 1 GB MicroSD card in the phone. Are there certain things I should try and save/install directly to the phone and others that should go on the MicroSD card? Should everything go on the MicroSD card?
3) Is a 1GB MicroSD card enough? Obviously if I want lots of little movies or mp3 files I will run into a limit -- but that aside.. say if I choose to put on the SSH client, some other apps, TomTom 6.0 etc. Do I need more?
Thanks for any assistance.
-Steven
I'm interested in these questions as well. This is my first Windows Mobile device and it is unclear if some applications "need" to be on the device storage as it is on PalmOS. Are there pros/cons to device storage vs. memory card? Maybe there is an "idiot's guide to storage on WM" out there...
As for SSH, I've downloaded several and tested them a bit, but have not made a decision yet. Thus far, I've tried pocketputty, zaTelnet Pro, MobileVT, and mToken, with pocketputty being the worst, mToken the best, and the others about the same. I'm not as happy with any of them as the application pssh I was using on Palm, however.
usually programs that kind of directly deal with the phone and are accessed alot. go on the phone.
tomtom which has large files for maps stick on the memory card.
cant help you with the other ques.
I use and like PocketTTY, but there is also a java script that works nice. I'll attach and believe it's freeware, if not, a mod can delete.
As far as where to put programs, that is of course, subjective. For me it depends on how much memory the device has, how big a card you have and how much space is needed for the programs you wish. Also, what all do you wish to have with you? Music, video, games, etc....that has to be taken into consideration. Being this is the Kaiser/Tilt section, we have 128mb for storage with a little more than 100mb for personal programs, and capacity for up to 8gb on the card. On my 8525 I had everything on a 2gb card and left as much room on the PDA as I could. This time I think I'll put all the programs on the PDA and use the card for everything else. We'll see how it goes.
hey guys, i recently upgraded to tomtom7, however, i would like to also move all my favorites from tomtom6 without having to manually enter all of them. where would i find those on my memory card so i can transfer them? thanks
omar
Anyone?
This is something I've been trying to find how as its incredibly frustrating, I can't see anything in the original documentation or anything on how to do this.
Have you tried here, http://www.tomtom.com/support/support.php?ID=2&Language=4???????????????
This is XDA-Developers, not TomTom support. Geesh!
This is XDA-Developers, not TomTom support. Geesh!
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Correct, and unless I'm very mistaken many people discuss various 3rd party software applications, their merits and also tweaks/twiddles to make them work correctly on their Kaiser, etc.
Checking the software forum I see various other topics that you could apply the same logic to.
BTW; TomTom actually advise to manually re-enter the favourites between versions, which isn't a very good customer support reply in my opinion. I'm now following a path which shows the .cfg in the maps folder seems to be the key to migrating favourites over.
Always get the message "Storage memory is critically low." when starting my BA. In Settings storage is shown 1.41MB total, 1.41 used, 0.00MB free. Program 109,12 total, 16.86MB used and 92.26 free.
I have changed WM2003SE to WM6 professional making upgrade. The programs message, active Sync and sound & notification etc don't work
please don't double post, as this is against the forum rules, you posted the same question in several threads now, and whenever people answer, you don't react, like, whether it worked or at least you tried.
but since you asked me personally here, the only guess i have is, that you had a very bad flash before, and maybe some partitioning got wrong. i mean, where could the memory have gone? either the storage chip is really broken (bad for you, nothing you could do, but replace it) or you did something wrong.
let's hope for the 2nd option and try and determine, whether that fits.
so first go to -=xplode's shipped rom archive=- and download a nice wm2003 rom, i would advise a WWE rom, preferably in english, it'll save you some trouble later on (let's say, for example T-Mobile UK). then you flash that, following the -=wiki=- when it comes to downgrading.
make sure you use maupgradeut_noid and put the device into bootloader mode prior to the process. then, when you have wm2003, you download the tools, needed to repartion the extrom. i will attach them for you, put them on the device, install the cab (to main memory, not sd card) and run the normal extrom deleting process, to be seen in step 1 of the upgrade wizzard, -=here=-. after unhiding and unlocking your extroms and evetual soft resets in between, you have the option to access your extrom and delete all the stuff inside, or you make it easier on yourself and just start "repart_doc" (again, from the device, not sd card) and make the extrom partition become 128kb and say format now!
so, why are we doing this, you might ask.
i suppose, that you memory got relocated and is now a gigantic extrom, because the extrom and the storage space are partitions on the same chip, and if one is too small, the other one must be too big, so setting the unneeded one to its minimum size would make the actually needed storage partition normally 60.30mb in size.
you can simply have a look at start->settings->memory to see the different partitions' sizes then, and if the storage is up to 60mb, you can simply flash again the rom that you like best following the wizard, make a hard reset and continue to use your device.
that is about the only thing i can come up with. and please respect, that i sat here and thought about it and wrote a lot down, and made research you could have done on your own in the first place. so please stop opening new threads concerning one issue. opening new threads should be limited to contributions to the community. there is a Q&A section, and posting a question once is enough, because it will not stay unread and unanswered. please respect my work and the one done by other senior members, by trying out our suggestions and then post back (in the same thread!) whether it worked or not, and however you made progress on your own, so that these threads stay as reading material for other people with the same or similar problems. spamming is not a solution! no offense though, if i were really pissed off, i would surely not have answered in the first place.
thank U thank U........