A few small questions...

[Greeee]

Hey all,

So far, this place has been a fountain of knowledge, which I'm truly grateful for, which makes learning my Herme's fun and easy going.

Since joining here, I've managed to switch my Keyboard from German to English, with thanks for the Advanced Config Tool, get Xvid's working under TCMP something or other, get Pocket MSN running, and a few other things...

But here are a few things which have been grinding my gears (sorry, just watched Family Guy);

A.) How do I change the message received tone and the alarm tones?
B.) How can I switch off the auto suggestions for text messages etc, even though it seems to be off in tools
C.) Is Linux on the Hermes any good / Is it still being developed and supported / would it be worth it me switching to Linux?
D.) Where do you all get your spares from? Preferably excluding Ebay.
E.) If theres anyway to have WMP / the HTC Music player continue playback from last play / track / session? (I.e. If i get off a bus, and have to turn off a track, instead of having to reselect the album i was listening to, for it just to auto-recognise the track being "paused".)

The reasoning behind D, is because although my Hermes is secondhand, not to mention purchased from Ebay, the seller kindly sold me a headphone adaptor, the screen slightly marked, and the camera cover is scratched to hell, not to mention the keyboard seems to be slightly raised in the middle, meaning a segment of keys have been worn down, along with a scuff above the keyboard.
So since I want to try and get it looking fairly decent, I'd like to know where you get your stuff from, and if anyone can recommend me a decent adaptor for headphones when listening to music.

I'm sure I'll have more questions, but for now these will do.

Thanks in advance guys, and keep up the good work!

[MikeChannon]

Regarding question D - here are a few suggestions:
http://www.mikechannon.net/page4.html

Mike

[Greeee]

Thanks Mike!

Just a shame about my other questions. lol

Hopefully someone will suggest some stuff.

[MikeChannon]

Thanks Mike!

Just a shame about my other questions. lol

Hopefully someone will suggest some stuff.

Regarding A,B and C, I'm pretty sure there are existing threads on these. Don't worry overly if the threads are not Hermes specific. As for E I'm not sure that it's possible, but I could well be wrong, especially if you are using a proprietry player.

Mike

PS. Generally rolling up several questions in one post ends up not being very successful (even if at first it seems efficient and space saving. You may need to separate them out.)

Cheers

[Greeee]

lol, thanks for the help there Mike.

To be completely honest, i had been searching before doing this post. Most of my little queries had been resolved that way.

Ah well, i'm just going to continue looking.

Thanks once again Mike!

[Greeee]

Two more things...

How would I be able to re-install MS Office onto my hermes, since its not currently installed?

Also, are there any games available for it?

[Greeee]

Another one...

Hopefully for any music buffs, this will be easy enough.
I currently have a large amount of music in various bitrates, however my main collections are in 320kbps.
Obviously, transfering this data from PC to phone is ok, but takes up loads of unneccessary space.

Does anyone use anything to convert their tunes to a lower bitrate (128kbps approx) while keeping the music in MP3 format so it can be used with Audio Manager, keeping all the original mp3 info (Artist, Track Title, Album etc), or should I cut my losses and move back to crappy itunes using m4a within WMP?

[ultramag69]

Do a search for the ms office cab file. Just click on it and it will install or look for the single cabs for each thing, depending if you need all the components.

I use SUPER (freeware) to change my bitrate on my MP3's, I don't know if it will take away any of the info but its worth a try as the install file is about 32 Kbs. If it doesn't work then you've lost 10 mins.

Cheers...:D

[gypsygirl13]

I use dBpoweramp music converter, it's also free and easy to use.:)

[Greeee]

Cool, thanks for the advice guys! Just had loads of music as m4a, but then WMP doesn't recognise the names, and you have to constantly open the albums you want, rather than simply selecting the artist within album manager.

Will try those out tonight!

[Greeee]

Cool, thanks for the advice guys! Just had loads of music as m4a, but then WMP doesn't recognise the names, and you have to constantly open the albums you want, rather than simply selecting the artist within album manager.

Will try those out tonight!