Date and Time and MP3

[rmg]

Hi,

Can someone please confirm the regedits that I need to make on a wizard to enable date and time at the top of the today screen and also point the mp3 ringtones to a storage card. Are they the same as for 2003SE?

[rmg]

anyone ? can it be done?

[ZeBoxx]

They should be the same...

quick how-to :
1. Download PHM Regedit
2. Install to your device
3. Run PHM Regedit
4. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MAHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell

5a1. You see the TBOpt value
5a2. Select the TBOpt value - this will open the editing screen
5b1. You do NOT see the TBOpt value
5b2. Click Edit
5b3. Choose "New DWORD Value"

6. Switch to Hexadecimal mode in the editing screen that now appears
7. Set the value to :
10 = Neither time nor Date
11 = Time only
12 = Date only
13 = Date & Time
8. Click OK
9. Click tools
10. Choose Exit

Play some game here or something, as the device needs to actually write the registry out. 1 minute should be plenty of time.

11. Soft-reset your device

Done. You should now see the date/time setting you wanted.

However, you may now notice something else. E.g. the date today is 06/01/13 - but all you can see is "06/01/1". This is because the date string is getting cut off by the program OK/Close button. You can fix this by padding the Short Date Format.

1. Run PHM Regedit
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\nls\overrides
3. Select the value "SSDte"
4a. Add a bunch of spaces to the end (depending on your date format, 1 to 3 may be needed) - this shifts the date/time display to the left.
4b. You can also change the format of the date presentation itself. I use "ddd d " which today results in "Fri 13 " (eek!)

For an overview of the date strings you can use, see :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcustomdatetimeformatstrings.asp
( note that you can't use the time strings, as it's a date field )

5. Click OK
6. Click tools
7. Choose Exit

Play some other game, watch a commercial on TV, blabla

8. Soft-reset your device

Done. Do note, however, that this affects -all- programs that make use of the short date formatting calls. So if some application looks all quirky due to the use of extra spaces and/or different format; well, tough. Can't have both :)


With thanks to:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Universal_Registry