How the hell do I De-cert my XDA2

[martweaver]

Sorry if this gets asked all the time guys, have scoured your excellent forum for info but to no avail. :oops:

My ignorance is due to being an ex smartphone owner, which i am sure you know are easy to de-cert.

I just want to chuck a load of games and non-approved utils onto my XDA, but DAMMIT, it won't fookin let me

Cracking forum by the way guys, has taken me ages to find you!
Mart

[Carlos]

Never touched a smart phone. I've never heard of "de-cert." What is it? Doesn't sound like something that needs to be done on the XDA, certainly I've never seen it said here, and I've been around since the dinosaur ages.

[martweaver]

It allows non valid windows CE applications to be installed - i.e. not officially approved software

[Carlos]

I've never heard of an officially-approved piece of software for a Pocket PC. I don't think there is a certification program for that. In any case, your PPC will let you install any PPC software, approved or not, whatever, it won't care.

[martweaver]

Excellent, however I keep getting

"filename" is not a valid windows CE setup file.

Am I being stupid here, installing in the wrong way?

[Nighthawk]

I have only seen that error when I tried running the wrong version (not for Pocket PC) on my unit.

Might want to make sure the app is for Pocket PC and that the cpu type is correct.

[martweaver]

Cheers - most of my smartphone software must be incompatible then, even though the spv uses a version of PPC.

Any site recommendations where I can get hold of PPC software for free? seems to be damn expensive in most places!

Thanks again

[wfberg]

Smartphone software IS certified... Basically, you pay Microsoft to be able to have your software run on smartphones.
Regular pocket PC or windows mobile on xda devices does NOT have this restriction (and those devices are what this forum is about..)

[Carlos]

Smartphone software is not PPC-compatible. Lots of titles have releases for both PPC and Smatphone, but I've never seen one that has both in the same release (though I suppose you could package multiple versions with one installer).

In any case, go to the developers' sites and see if they have PPC compatible versions.

[griffog]

Smartphone software IS certified... Basically, you pay Microsoft to be able to have your software run on smartphones.
Regular pocket PC or windows mobile on xda devices does NOT have this restriction (and those devices are what this forum is about..)

Not true, some Smartphone software is certified but not all. There are many applications available for MS Smartphone that can only run on application unlocked handsets. Not all authors can afford to apply for certification and for many utils it's hardly worth the bother. Thankfully for most of the existing handsets it is relatively easy to application unlock them so that uncertified apps can be installed.

And going back to the OP's question, Smartphone software is not the same as PocketPC software and whilst a few rare titles can be run on both, most cannot.

[Jayman]

www.freewareppc.com

has loads of goodies on there.

Smartphone software wise - I am not sure but I think I saw an emulator for PPC at one point - could not find it though - does anybody know if this exists as there is some good programs for smartphone that have no PPC equal???