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Custom Splash image

Hello,
I would like to use a picture i took (its in jpg format) and make it my custom splash image for when i reboot my phone. I have searched and searched and come up with using imagemagick and the rgb2565 compiling. However, i do not understand how to compile the rgb 2565. I simply cannot find the utility i need to download. If someone could right down step by step (with links to things i need to download) on how to make a jpg format into the rgb565 format i would greatly appreciate it. I using a macbook. So telling me to do it with a convertor that runs on windows will not work. Thank you,

RTFM #1
RTFM #2

Thanks for the reply. However, link one shows how to change the boot animation screen. Not what i'm looking for. Link two does show how to change the splash screen but one of the tools you need is a .exe program which doesn't work on mac. It says he is looking to add mac support via mono in the next release but seeing as how the post is almost a year old i'm not holding my breath. Again i need a tool or directions that will work with a MAC computer. A .exe file anywhere in the process will not work. thank in advance

Why don't using a virtual machine? There certainly are emulators for MAC like Wine for Linux...

Not exactly sure what your referring to but after some research it sounds like you are talking about vmfusion or parallels. these both cost money around 50 apeice. And after paying for that i would have to buy a windows cd. I'm not planning on spending 50+ dollars to change my splash screen. If you don't have a solution (step by step) i'd rather you just not post here. i realize there are alternatives like virtual machines or using a friends windows computer but i obviously don't have the means to make that work if i'm asking for a way to do it on a mac computer. If there is no way to do on a mac say that instead of asking why i'm not using a VM or some other solution. Thank you.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=543095
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That thread is the easiest way to change your boot splash screen.

PC Suite For Android V1.3.1.70 Released

New Functions:
1．Added the network backup/restoration function, allowing you to back up or restore your contacts, SMS, call history and calendar to or from network.
2．Added “Installation Queue” function in Apps, allowing you to check each app’s installation process or delete apps pending for installation when you are installing multiple apps.
3．Added support for “resume interrupted downloads” feature, allowing you to pause downloading tasks and resume downloads at any time.
4．Added “Rotate Left” and “Rotate Right” function in “ScreenSnap”, which is accessible on the pop-up menu when you right-click on a screenshot.
Function Improvements:
1.Start: optimized the connection with the phone and resolved the problem that the program may get stuck in the “Initializing connection…” process.
2.Contacts: improved the processing logic of contact’s avatars.
3.SMS: resolved the problem that SMS may be unable to load. If your SMS management interface can not show normally, please check if your browser has disabled scripts.
4.SMS Chat: improved the user experience of SMS chat. Now the SMS of sender and receiver will be differentiated with different background colors. If your chat log can not show normally, please check if your browser has disabled scripts.
5.Notes: now new notes will be titled with the first 25 characters of the note contents instead of the original “new notes”.
6.Wallpapers: now wallpapers on the internet will be automatically filtered according to your phone’s resolution, allowing you to easily find wallpapers fitting your phone screen better.
7.One-key Transfer: now the One-key Transfer also supports unsupported fields in contact info to free you from the worry of incomplete data.
8.Docs: now the directory of My Documents has been moved to “/sdcard/My Documents”.
9.Other function improvements.
Bug Fixes:
1.Call History: fixed the incorrect row location of call logs when they are imported from or exported to Excel file.
2.Resolved the problem that the contact name in call history may fail to refresh instantly.
3.Fixed the contact name error in SMS and SMS chat.
4.In Bookmarks, resolved the problem that there may be no correct prompts when the bookmarks are being exported to Favorites.
5.Other bug fixes.
link:download.pandaapp.com

Are you the developer of this app? is it working for the slide? Im going to try it out but dont really like installing exe's from company's I dont know of.

no im not the developer but i used and this is pretty cool and yes it works with the slide!!!!!

Well i don't know if i want to download it. I will wait for review from other people here before i download and install the file

it seems good and has the whole sms chat thing which I started liking because of pdanet .. you have any links to other forums with reviews or anything?

no but give it a try it doesnt hurt to try this is for your comp and is like itunes but for androids phones you can install apps from your comp,you can put music in your phone you can download apps and put them in the phone automatically you can sms chat while your phone is connected your comp you can put pictures,videos,edit them,you can see your phone files have control of your phone in your pc you dont need anything else try it your are not going to regret it trustme!!!!!!!!!!!!!

flexxoo said:
no im not the developer but i used and this is pretty cool and yes it works with the slide!!!!!
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Hi Flexxoo,
i donwload and installed to my XP, but it cannot connect to my Smasung galaxy S (I9000)?
Does it work on Samsung Galaxy S? If yes, can you show me how to connect?
Cheers,
Danny

Doesn't install on windows 7 x64 the install doesn't even open up.

It does work cause i have windows 7 and it works for me and yes it works for all the android phones connect the phone to the computer and in your phone go to settings then go to manage apps and turn on debugged so your pc suite can reconize it

Funny, I've downloaded the program 3 diff times on 3diff win7 x64 ultimate pc's and none of them run it.... I'm a computer tech and I'm pretty sure it doesn't work.

flexxoo said:
It does work cause i have windows 7 and it works for me and yes it works for all the android phones connect the phone to the computer and in your phone go to settings then go to manage apps and turn on debugged so your pc suite can reconize it
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Hi flexxoo,
Thanks a lot, now I'm able to connect to PC Suite.
Cheers,
Danny

fenixnr said:
Funny, I've downloaded the program 3 diff times on 3diff win7 x64 ultimate pc's and none of them run it.... I'm a computer tech and I'm pretty sure it doesn't work.
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Agreed. Won't install on 64-bit Windows 7.

Well i guess i have a special windows 7 64 bits because i have it in my comp did you try to install the app in administrator?

flexxoo said:
Well i guess i have a special windows 7 64 bits because i have it in my comp did you try to install the app in administrator?
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Yep many times, or you just don't have x64.

of course i have it oh well if it didnt work for you 2 bad!!!

It works with SGS GT-I9000 but you have to put the phone in usb debugging mode: Settings/Application/Development

fenixnr said:
Yep many times, or you just don't have x64.
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lmao. or your just not a good computer tech. as maybe not this installer file. but i have this program on my x64 machine and my x86 machine. the installer i used worked on both. this was awhile back when i found this program for the g1 and mytouch
since your a computer tech you know how to search ? find anouther fileversion and try... then say the app dont work on x64

shadowmike said:
lmao. or your just not a good computer tech. as maybe not this installer file. but i have this program on my x64 machine and my x86 machine. the installer i used worked on both. this was awhile back when i found this program for the g1 and mytouch
since your a computer tech you know how to search ? find anouther fileversion and try... then say the app dont work on x64
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Or I just won't use the program that is good for nothing. Why would I search for a file when he posted one that "works" Maybe because it doesn't "work" and has been proven by not just me. So take your ignorant remarks elsewhere.

why are you still complaining? if it doesnt work for you ok you dont have to keep saying the same thing we get it steve jobs!!!!!!!!!!!

Current version 1.76.208
I am running version 1.76.208 on Windows 7 64 bit, controlling an Atrix 4G
Download the program at http://91.pandaapp.com/pcsuite/
A fix for a bug that the developer keeps forgetting to repair (it always opens in Chinese!)
Close down the program and open the directory where the app is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\NetDragon\91 Mobile\Android on 64 bit machines
C:\Program Files\NetDragon\91 Mobile\Android on 32 bit machines
open the file named "91 PC Suite.xml" with notepad
change this line
<Language Current="zh-CN" Default="zh-CN" />
to
<Language Current="en-US" Default="en-US" />
Save the file.
Restart the program

Mac OS X v10.5.6 complete [Updated 19/01]

PLEASE READ POST #2 FOR UPDATES. POST #1 IS STRICTLY INSTRUCTIONS ONLY. UPDATES ARE IN POST 2. THANKS!
Okay! Time to breathe some new life into the Shift. That's right folks. OS X now runs flawlessly on the HTC Shift and graphics are running without a hitch thanks to modified GMA 950 kexts. It's nice to play around with other devices. TBH the HD2 is too plain for me atm and I'm waiting for a Desire HD build of Android for it. In the mean time, here is some darwin goodness for the worlds favourite UMPC. First of all, to answer a few questions I encountered in the other threads, OS X will run perfectly fine on the Shift. Some people are blindly saying that the 950 has issues with OS X. Guys please do some research before posting misleading information. The 950's were the original on-boards for the MacBooks. It's impossible for it not to be supported. Better, with HW Acceleration! Okay so what works and what doesn't?
Working
- GMA 950 w HW Acc.
- Camera
-Trackpad
- Keyboard
- Speakers
- 3.5mm
- Internal drive
- Ethernet/USB Expansion Hub
- Battery/Charging recognition
- Display (although I tried forcing 1024x600 it will only create a scaled view and it's not useable)
- SD Card slot
Not Working
- WiFi
- Bluetooth
- Fingerprint Scanner (I'm not surprise, OS X doesn't have support for it anyway)
So almost everything works! Which is good news. I'm not sure if WiFi and bluetooth will work. Theoretically WiFi should work because the iPhone 2G and 3G use the exact same card that the Shift uses. However I need to find a way to extract the kexts from a firmware file which is proving to be difficult as Apple is now ridiculously locking down access to the images. Once I find this kext, WiFi should be a go. Bluetooth, I'm not sure about. I don't even know what stack it is so I can't look for a driver. Fingerprint scanner I'm not worried about as it proves useless most of the time anyway.
Okay so how do you get this working. Well I went through the trouble (and a majority of my download quota) to find which builds work best so you don't have to. Now don't come asking me for download links to these builds because I will NOT give them to you. Try google. Below is a rundown of the tested builds.
iAtkos 5i - Boots into verbose mode and kernel panics.
iPC - Does not boot at all. Installed netkas PCEFI - no change
XXX_10.5.6 - Boots into installer, won't run after installation
Leo4Allv3 - Boots into verbose mode and kernel panics.
Leopard 10.5.6 Pendrive - Boots perfectly to blue screen, loginwindows.app hangs
So the above builds were pretty helpless. The only ones that worked to some degree were iAtkos, XXX, and Pendrive, pendrive having the most success. Loginwindow.app was the only thing stopping boot. So I tried a number of things. First thing that comes to mind is replacing the app file. This didn't work and continued to crash. Then something else got my attention. the blue screen after the Apple logo turns black and then back to blue again. The only explanation to this would do this is that the graphics drivers were trying to load but failing. So this was a problem with the 950 kexts. The iAtkos disk came with excellent modified 950 drivers. Installing these onto the pendrive bulid solved this and it booted to the desktop. Below is the complete set of instructions to getting everything working including dual boot.
If you want dual boot working properly, I strongly recommend installing Windows first. That is, if you want to avoid a lot of hassle. Now as you may know, OS X is an HFS OS and Windows is an MBR. If you go about installing Windows on a drive with no other system on it, it is going to convert the entire partition table. This can be solved by creating two partitions under GPT. If OS X is on one partition, Windows will create a hybrid partition table. (MBR/GPT)
1) First you are going to need to find a copy of the leopard pendrive build and restore it to an external drive or usb. You are going to need access to a working hackintosh or Mac to be able to do this.
2) Once the restore is complete you need to go ahead and install the GMA950a.pkg and the GMA950b.pkg from inside the iAtkos disk. If you aren't able to find these I will attach these below.
3) Once these are installed, we are going to need a bootloader for the machine to see the drives. There is a great bootloader credits to netkas here.
http://www.mediafire.com/?zybzmmm5uyz
4) Plug in the external drive that you restored and installed these to and fire up your shift. Boot into the external drive bask in the glory of OS X. But we're not done yet.
5) Go and download IOATAFamily_ICH10 that's attached below and install it onto the boot drive. Reboot.
6) You need to head over to /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app. Now we are going to partition the internal drive and it WILL ERASE THE WINDOWS INSTALLATION. It should come up on the top left as a grey hard disk. Now you need to select the one at the very top. i.e. the parent directory. You should now have a tab labeled "Partition." Click on that an you will get a box that has your hard drive name in it. Select "Volume Scheme" -> 2 Partitions and click on the first box. On the right, name this to whatever you like. I had Macintosh HD and select the size. Make sure the Format is set to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
7) Now select the second partition and name it to something. I had Windows. Adjust the size and set it to MS-DOS (FAT). Now click options. and there will be three partition tables to choose from. Select GUID Partition Table (GPT). Click apply and this will erase the internal disk and replace it with two partitions.
8) Close disk utility and boot into your Windows disk. Install Windows onto THE WINDOWS PARTITION YOU CREATED. Not the Mac one.
9) After the install is complete, reboot into the external drive that you originally booted OS X off and open Disk Utility.
10) Now click on the Mac partition that you created in step 6 and click the restore tab. There will be two entry fields here, one called source, the other destination. Now depending on what the external drive is, it will either be an orange disk or a white disk. What you are going to do is drag the orange/white disk that you booted off into the source, and the Mac partition you created into destination. Tick the erase destination box and click restore. This will take roughly about 20 minutes.
11) When restore is complete, we have two more things left to do. We need to install the bootloader and set the partition as active. Now remember the bootloader we installed onto the external drive? All you need to do is install the same thing, but to the internal this time.
12) Almost there! Just need to mark the partition as active. I will post a screenshot incase this step is confusing. You need to go to /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app. If you are familiar with Linux, this is a piece of cake. Just type the commands below.
diskutil list
Now there should be all the attached drives listed. Take not of your internal drives now. You should see on the left, /dev/diskX (where X is a positive integer) and under that will be a hash followed by a series of sequential numbers. select the appropriate number for your internal Mac partition. Mine was disk0s2. In most circumstances, it should be disk0 that you are after as it is the main drive. Next type the command below.
sudo frisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (or whatever the 0 is meant to be in your circumstance)
Ignore the error "fdisk: could not open MBR file ..."
next type:
f X (where X is the number that was next to the partition. In my case 2, in disk0s'2'. "
then:
write (hit enter key)
y (hit enter)
exit (to quit)
I FORGOT TO ADD THIS STEP! Before rebooting, run the bootloader from http://www.mediafire.com/?zybzmmm5uyz on the newly imaged internal drive. If you do not do this, the machine will boot up to a flashing underscore. You need to do this as the boot files are not copied from the first time you do it.
Now restart the machine, pull out the external drive and boot into the internal drive. There should now be a countdown timer. Press any key to interrupt this and you will get a list of your partitions. Mac OS X and Windows. if you want to go into Windows, just select it and hit enter. Similarly for Mac.
Hope this wasn't too confusing. Running OS X on alien hardware is not an easy task and if you succeeded, consider it a great accomplishment! Any questions, just ask below. I am on school holiday at the moment so I'll have a lot more time to answer! I will post up developments on WiFi so stay tuned!

Update 21/09/10
- Bluetooth operational with generic bluetooth kext
- 1024x600 mode. I've posted again after the server overload
- Ethernet works on the external hub. Only just tried it.
- For those who are experiencing problems with apps such as iTunes not syncing with iPhones or the store, there is a fix. Open the SystemVersion.plist in /System/Library/Core Services/ and change the system version 10.5.6 to 10.5.8. This will not update the system to 10.5.8 but it will trick software update into thinking you have it so you can update the software without dramas. There isn't much difference between the two except for a few bug fixes and core frameworks. Just remember not to do the security updates or the combo update.

Great work!

Seems like a great guide. I'll surely try this as soon as I get my hands on a crapple device.
Thanks

thaihugo said:
Seems like a great guide. I'll surely try this as soon as I get my hands on a crapple device.
Thanks
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Haha! yeah i got tired of waiting around for a os x tablet. the shift is a beast.

I'm curious, why didn't you try Snow Leopard? Also, with something as non-generic as the Shift, I would have used Chameleon and went with a vanilla install so I can load each individual kext

EGOvoruhk said:
I'm curious, why didn't you try Snow Leopard? Also, with something as non-generic as the Shift, I would have used Chameleon and went with a vanilla install so I can load each individual kext
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Good questions and thankfully I have answers for you. First of all note that 10.6 is a very lean version of 10.5. The install goes down from roughly 8GB to 5.5GB. How did they do this? They removed a truckload of obsolete drivers, most of which are needed to run the shift's older hardware. Snow Leopard also requires SSE3 to boot, which the A110 doesn't support. Also, the only practical and surefire way to patch 10.6 is using NBI (netbook installer). Don't get me wrong I did try but if NBI doesn't make SL bootable, nothing will. Anyway, Snow Leopard has a 1GHz cap which is quite hard to bypass without causing stability problems. Even running Leopard on my 667 Powerbook lagged like a b**ch (excuse the language). As for chameleon. The bootloader is a pcefi/chameleon hybrid. The reason for this is that GUI chameleon caused incredible graphics issues. The drive images on boot would be multi-colored and stretched. So GUI was a no go. Vanilla worked but it didn't WORK. The whole point of vanilla is for system updates and stability increases. Unmodified kexts did nothing of the sort for the shift. For example unmodified 950 drivers caused severe disproportionality and VGA out didn't work. In fact, the modified system kexts increased stability and boot time on an ssd is roughly 25 seconds to desktop.

Did you get touch screen working ?
I have also installed 10.5.8 version I used version fromn ASUS eee 701
as you sad there is no bluetooth wifi touchscreen working...
About wifi 8686 iPhone use ARM version the driver must be rewriten to be used on our devices...

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Did you get touch screen working ?
I have also installed 10.5.8 version I used version fromn ASUS eee 701
as you sad there is no bluetooth wifi touchscreen working...
About wifi 8686 iPhone use ARM version the driver must be rewriten to be used on our devices...
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Bluetooth DOES work. Touchscreen as you said doesn't work. ARM/Intel won't matter as the kexts for peripherals are OS level not architecture level. Hence the reason a PPC kext will work on an Intel based Mac.

Do you know what kind of touch screen is used in shift ?
There are some drivers from usb touck screen maybe we can use them but I didn't find any information about shift touch screen need to see linux drivers...

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Do you know what kind of touch screen is used in shift ?
There are some drivers from usb touck screen maybe we can use them but I didn't find any information about shift touch screen need to see linux drivers...
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I'm begging to have the same question answered. I've exhausted all resistive touch drivers for OS X and none of them are working. I'm beginning to think its a prop. touch display instead. Anyway, Linux drivers wouldn't work. Darwin has almost nothing in common. The closest thing is bsd as far as OS X applications are concerned, but again, this is just a bsd flavouring and no drivers designed for bsd will work. Sure they can be ported, but it's a much quicker route if it was to be rewritten from scratch.

Do you know what interface is used for touck screen comunication ?
Maybe it can be used for tracing output data and accomodation existing driver to our needs...
And about wifi did you get any progress ?

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Do you know what interface is used for touck screen comunication ?
Maybe it can be used for tracing output data and accomodation existing driver to our needs...
And about wifi did you get any progress ?
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Touch is definitely USB based (device manager->usb hid device). WiFi is looking slim at the moment. I've gone through a few iPhone firmware files to find a suitable kext with no luck. So it is looking to be a complete rewrite of the driver which will be quite difficult as there is no support for Marvell as far as WiFi goes. Apple only ethernet by Marvell/Yukon, thus ruling out the possibility of common driver properties between other kexts.

Just in reply to a post before the server crashed. None of the touchscreen drivers worked and the panel didn't get recognised. Also the download for the resolution enabler is back up in post 2 again. And it looks like we made it on engadget. AGAIN.

Featured article on egadget congrats.
Sent from my htc hd2 using XDA App

roflcoptrbbq said:
Featured article on egadget congrats.
Sent from my htc hd2 using XDA App
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Hahaha thanks. Its actually on a lot more now. Its almost a virus! hahaha

could you get the drivers from 10.5 and shove them into 10.6, also see if you can use the axitotron modbook drivers
http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=home

i will try all of this next week, as i was about to sell my shift....
it's on marketplace here.
ayilm1 you are awesome.

shad0wfire said:
could you get the drivers from 10.5 and shove them into 10.6, also see if you can use the axitotron modbook drivers
http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=home
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Yeah mate. that did cross my mind until i realised axiotron hasn't done anything to do with Synergy touch yet, meaning no finger touch at all. It's all wacom based. Synergy will incorporate resistive with this, or maybe even capacitive, but no guarantees on it working with the shift. I have started to build a kext for it but it's really difficult when you don't even know the manufacturer of the panel you are writing the driver for! Thanks Seb, just trying to help out the xda community!

Wifi
If it uses the same wifi card as the iPhone 3G, the firmware is decryptable. Head onto the idroidproject.org forums. I spent time on there putting android onto my 3G and the wifi binary files were needed as they were copyrighted material.
If you like get back to me and I can get the binaries for you? If not it's pretty simple just requires some simple linux command line skills, which I'm
Sure you have since you undertook this project.
Anyway good luck, hope this helps with getting wifi to work!!

Windows 7 Repair

Hey guys. I'm pretty good with computers, and I'm stumped, I was hoping some of you XDA geniuses could help me out.
I recently tried to download the Duke Nukem Forever demo, which turned out to be virus-ridden. I was so excited to play that I didn't run a virus scan on it (I know, noob mistake) before trying to install. Within 10 seconds, AVG was like "o****", and I was greeted with the splash screen of my motherboard.
Windows Startup Repair didn't help me (go figure), and I would be that guy that doesn't make recovery images for his PC.
My question to all of you is, is there a way to make an actual legit repair dvd for Windows? I'm not talking about Microsoft's Windows Repair disk (which just launches the same things that Windows does when **** hits the fan). I'm looking for a way to take my Windows installation disk, and overwrite Windows with a fresh install like one would if upgrading from Vista to 7 by using the DVD (except from the Windows boot menu/DVD, since I am unable to enter Windows at all.
I just want to be able to get into my drive and backup my bookmarks and save games (all my other stuff is on a separate partition).
My only other option is to hook up a spare HDD and use my drive as a slave, virus scan it, and move my files from there, but I'd like to avoid ripping my PC apart for the moment.
Please, no "you should have installed Mac/Linux/whatever comments". Thank you for your help.
Sent from my Synergized Evo.

If you have a CD that you use to install Windows 7 you can boot from CD using the boot menu and do a completely new installation from there. I may be reading what you are asking incorrectly but that's what I did when I accidently screwed up my computer and couldn't boot any OS.
-Remember, Android hell is a real place and you will be sent there at the first sign of defiance-

Yeah, that's not what I'm asking haha. I'm looking for a way to overwrite my current copy of Windows (to fix the corrupted files and save the files on my C: drive so I can extract my important files) without reformatting and installing a completely fresh copy of Windows. And I need to be able to do this without having to go into Windows (because I can't lol).
Sent from my Synergized Evo.

If you make a new installation there will be a folder called windows old, or something like that. All your files will be in there.
-Remember, Android hell is a real place and you will be sent there at the first sign of defiance-

Oh, really? Are you certain? And can anyone else verify this (Not saying you're unreliable man, just wanna be certain lol)?
Sent from my Synergized Evo.

You can do a 'Repair' install from the Recovery menu. Just boot from your Win 7 disk to select it. If you have System restore turned on you might want to try that first, from the same menu.

I don't see repair, only startup repair.
Sent from my Synergized Evo.

Sypris said:
I don't see repair, only startup repair.
Sent from my Synergized Evo.
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Repair may not be the best option anyway as it'll only fix system files, perhaps leaving the malware intact. System Restore is the better option. Failing that, grab yourself a copy of malwarebytes from another PC, put it on a memory stick and run it from safe mode on the infected PC.
Microsoft have also released a malware scanner that can be run off a memory stick. You'd need another PC and a spare memory stick to use it. It's basically a copy of security essentials but the process makes the memory stick bootable so it can be run on an infected machine outside of the Windows environment.
Hang on, i'll find a link...
https://connect.microsoft.com/systemsweeper
There you go.
For future reference you can create a repair disc for Win 7 by simply typing 'system repair disc' in the start menu.

Try Hirens boot CD. Live CD with mini XP and antivirus apps and many things more. Its really handy live CD for repair.
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You can nearly extract everything out of an old windows installation. Bookmarks are in json files if i remember correctly, and you can also open the old registry file (google a bit).
I think its not worth go through all the trouble to make your system start again, i would rather try to just install new and get everything i need from the old files.

So basically most of you agree I should install windows without reformatting do I can get my files from the C: drive lol
Sent from my Synergized Evo.

try using hirens boot disc
it has an live windows xp so you can check for viruses from there, also you can run several other tools.

Will do. Right now I'm trying the Microsoft System Sweeper.
Sent from my Synergized Evo.

Another one for Hiren's Boot CD. YOu get the Mini XP, which just boots up into a watered down version of XP, but when you go into My Computer, all your files will be there. Also I know it has some tools running from MiniXP, but you can a lot of stuff when booting into the liveCD.

Alright lol. Sounds good. Still running Microsoft System Sweeper, but when that's done I'll try it.
Sent from my Synergized Evo.

[GUIDE] Installing Windows 8 Preview on the HTC Shift

This thread is to record comments/questions on a guide I have posted up on my site regarding the steps to get a fully working Windows 8 Developer Preview install onto the HTC Shift.
http://blogs.distant-earth.com/wp/?p=313
The process to get Windows 8 working (with graphics correctly setup etc.) is a little bit of a pain but nothing all that difficult. Especially if you follow the steps (usual rules, I made mistakes to save others the hassle )
The resulting install of Windows 8 running at 1024*600 is VERY usable , much to my surprise. Metro is actually quite nice on the tablet form factor.
The touchscreen is a little unresponsive round the edges but I suspect that is my device as it has never been very good.

good work man thanks so much i will try and post my trial

nooor7772000 said:
good work man thanks so much i will try and post my trial
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Thank you. I can't install any driver even with my ethernet connection :-(

bouaroudj said:
Thank you. I can't install any driver even with my ethernet connection :-(
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SmartScreen by any chance?
If your getting the green messages the chances are you Ethernet connection is not working (is it USB, does Windows 8 ship with the driver for whatever chip it uses?).
Below is a copy/paste from a comment I made on the guide concerning SmartScreen issues.
djwillis said:
Hi,
The reason you get the green SmartScreen error messages is the lack of an Internet connection. Windows 8 includes a feature that used to only be part of IE that calls off to an MS web service to verify digital signatures are valid on newer type signed executables.
As both the Intel graphics driver and Windows Mobile Device Center are signed you can’t install without an internet connection or crippling SmartScreen.
Have another read as the order in which I installed the drivers was very deliberate and also intentionally ordered the way it was to work around the SmartScreen issues.
The guide does not even try to install the signed executables until you have got the Wireless LAN up and running so the signatures can be verified, I even mention SmartScreen as one of the reasons for the order of drivers in the guide .
Regards,
John
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I don't suppose you have all the needed drivers and could share them somewhere? i cant get any of the links to work so cant get it ready for the upgrade
Also can the test version be installed fresh? i am trying to get windows 7 working for an upgrade but if it can be done fresh i will do that xD

Lord_alias said:
I don't suppose you have all the needed drivers and could share them somewhere? i cant get any of the links to work so cant get it ready for the upgrade
Also can the test version be installed fresh? i am trying to get windows 7 working for an upgrade but if it can be done fresh i will do that xD
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Hi,
All the needed drivers are linked off the guide but as the HTC site seems to be up and down today I have now added mirrors to all the files (uploaded them to my server).
Checked and all the mirror links seem to be working fine .
The best way to try Windows 8 on the Shift is actually a fresh install. I would not suggest an upgrade at all .

fantastic i will give it a shot now
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right i have another problem lol i have everything set up right with all the drivers standing by but when i choose to install i get an error about CD/DVD drives followed by a lack of HDD error any ideas?

Lord_alias said:
[/COLOR]right i have another problem lol i have everything set up right with all the drivers standing by but when i choose to install i get an error about CD/DVD drives followed by a lack of HDD error any ideas?
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Are you going for a totally clean install as per the guide?
Is your USB stick all setup and bootable?
Assuming you are getting into the Windows setup booting off of the USB stick is it the part where you select the install disk that seems to show no HDD? If it it what was installed on your Shift before?
This sounds like an issue I had when I have Meego running off the HDD before I installed Windows 8 (BtrFS and a different partition layout seem to cause it).

Need Help,
I used the MS software to create the USB boot disk for window 8. try to install on the Shift. got to the part where it said loading files...then it show some blue squares on the upper left screen...it goes for 1/3 of the way and hang up....I let it run for 2 hours and had to do pull the battery.
try to re-install again..same result...
Do I need to format and partition the disk?

thatboyp said:
Need Help,
I used the MS software to create the USB boot disk for window 8. try to install on the Shift. got to the part where it said loading files...then it show some blue squares on the upper left screen...it goes for 1/3 of the way and hang up....I let it run for 2 hours and had to do pull the battery.
try to re-install again..same result...
Do I need to format and partition the disk?
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That sounds like a bad stick to be honest . The blue squares are replaced with the install menu after just a few minutes. This is all well before anything is messing with the Shift's HDD or hardware .
Try reformatting it and having another go. It can't hurt.

djwillis said:
Are you going for a totally clean install as per the guide?
Is your USB stick all setup and bootable?
Assuming you are getting into the Windows setup booting off of the USB stick is it the part where you select the install disk that seems to show no HDD? If it it what was installed on your Shift before?
This sounds like an issue I had when I have Meego running off the HDD before I installed Windows 8 (BtrFS and a different partition layout seem to cause it).
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Right i managed to find the problem, only used your quide for the drivers as i installed windows 7 in a similar way, i used CMD and DISKPART to get a pen drive ready and then used XCOPY to move the installation media onto the drive but for some reason even though it said it was finished it was missing out a couple of files inside the sources folder, once i used XCOPY again over the existing media it managed to find the missing files and copy them. So you where right it was a problem with drivers missing from the install media and once they where found it was all clean sailing thanks to your fantastic guide
Thanks again xD

djwillis said:
SmartScreen by any chance?
If your getting the green messages the chances are you Ethernet connection is not working (is it USB, does Windows 8 ship with the driver for whatever chip it uses?).
Below is a copy/paste from a comment I made on the guide concerning SmartScreen issues.
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Ok thanks it worked.
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Lord_alias said:
I don't suppose you have all the needed drivers and could share them somewhere? i cant get any of the links to work so cant get it ready for the upgrade
Also can the test version be installed fresh? i am trying to get windows 7 working for an upgrade but if it can be done fresh i will do that xD
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here is a working link :
http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-shift/downloads/

bouaroudj said:
here is a working link :
http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-shift/downloads/
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Thanks, added that link to the guide, HTC's site seemed to be up and down all weekend but the link you posted seems to work now so lets go with it .
John

djwillis said:
Thanks, added that link to the guide, HTC's site seemed to be up and down all weekend but the link you posted seems to work now so lets go with it .
John
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I posted a small video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATsDKMQu9I4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Sorry it's in french

Has anyone tried this yet on a AT&T tilt? My old tilt is lonely!

mdz24cavalier said:
Has anyone tried this yet on a AT&T tilt? My old tilt is lonely!
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Hmmm, the Tilt is an ARM based HTC Kaiser, the Shift is a much bigger x86 based UMPC (with a cut down HTC Kaiser effectively shoved in to look after the ARM Windows Mobile side of the device ).
As this is running normal x86 Windows 8 I would not expect to see your old Tilt getting much love from the guide .

sir is it possible to install win(8) on HTC-HD2... r HD7.

If you want to force the 1024 x 768 resolution to launch Metro apps !
blog.daily-dev .com /?p=271&lang=en
The english is not perfect but you can remove the "&lang=en" to see it in french.
P.S : Sorry for the link format but i'm new on this forum so can't post URL

I cannot install Win 8 on my HTC Shift.
I follow the guide but using with 4GB Flash Drive.
any thing help or comments please!
thanks

Well... I have installed Win8 on the Shift without any trouble.
Overall I find it too slow for being usable. Neither Vista, 7 or 8 seem to be enough responsive.
I am very disappointed by the Metro UI, it is really slow and even in 1152*864 it does not work quite well.
What do you think about Metro UI responsiveness?
I have a lot of trouble getting accurate touch... it shows a circle but it seems that only a FEW (3-4 ?) pixels trigger... so you still have to find the precise point that will get the touch event.. OUCH !
It is especially painful to hit a corner (windows button, the task bar, and the application bar). I have to do almost everything with the mouse.... *SICK*
Intel driver supports several resolution... AMAZING ! but we need two things:
- change the resolution switch from 800*480 - 1024*600 to 800*480 - 1024*600 - 1024*768 - 1152*864 ... or at least get the ability to change the 1024*600.
- change the rotation : as a tablet... the screen rotation is kinda important...but well it is just a detail ;-)
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picheth said:
I cannot install Win 8 on my HTC Shift.
I follow the guide but using with 4GB Flash Drive.
any thing help or comments please!
thanks
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what is the problem?
4GB Flash Drive seem a little bit too small. I have used a HDD of 20GB with the whole partition set as active.
It is for me the fastest and easiest solution to install Windows on the shift.
Have you been able to go to start the installation of Windows 8 ?
You need to press F12 during the boot to choose which drive to boot on.