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There is no need to do anything like that on the Shift. The guide includes all the information you need to get Metro apps working (including running the Shift at 1152*864 to use Metro apps). Hi, your going to have to give a little more information than that before anyone can really help you...

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...

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

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.

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...

Linked all the major ones to mirrors on my site, links on my Windows 8 install guide (the other thread you posted in).

Hi, All the needed drivers are linked off the guide but as the HTC site seems to be up and down today :o 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...

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.

Thanks :), That is the same driver I used. The driver is also good if want to run Metro or the desktop at 1152*864 (so all the Metro apps that need a minimum of 1024*768 will run).

I posted a guide I wrote up in the Shift Development forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17602535 The guide includes links to all the drivers I have used and the process I followed to get Windows 8 running on the Shift from a totally clean install. As with camargomaia's...

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...

Hiya, Thanks for that, I am not worried if it is a monster patch/hack set, I am pretty fluent building up and hacking about Linux kernels (I do a lot of ARM embedded Linux work). It's just that I hate reinventing the wheel so if someone has done all the hard work it seems wrong to just leave it...

Hi, I realise this is rather a dead thread but does anyone have a link to the patch set of GIT tree that the 2.6.29 kernel mentioned in the quoted post was built from? Very interested in taking a look to see if I can get an OpenEmbedded/Angstrom setup going on the device. Obviously a working...

In simple terms you can't. One of the reasons most WinPhone 7 manufactures hid there SD cards deep inside the units was because MS have some very specific requirements for the performance and specification of SD(HC) cards that the OS will use to combine with the on device NAND storage. This...

The PIN requirements are set on the server side (i.e. Exchange) so you need to have your IT guys look there. It's easy enough to setup. Your 'blow away' device settings are also defined there. We run about 600 WinMo devices with Direct Push on our private APN and have the password timeout set...

Hey cmonex and Olipro, I have some Raphael's now (finally). I can afford to use one for the odd bit of testing ;). If you need some testing done just catch me on IRC in the usual haunts. Cheers, John

Olipro, Cmonex, I 'should' have 3 Raphael's (Voda) for testing around the 27th. If you have not had anyone help test with pre-release units by then count me in. I am pushing for them a little earlier but we shall see. John

Hi, If you have an 8125 it will be locked to Cingular. You have an HTC Wizard and as such your question would be best asked in the appropriate forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=248 You can find plenty of information there on how to remove the SIM lock (it's not hard)...

What sort of price do they charge?

It sounds like there may be some physical corruption to the NAND. DOCInfoTableinitHW+ Binary0 Size: 0x100000 FAT0 Size: 0x4000000 FAT1 Size: 0xA00000 FAT2 Size: 0x2C70000 All Size: 0x7770000 FAT0_ADDR=0x100000,FAT1_ADDR=0x4100000,FAT2_ADDR=0x4B00000 That's a log from a Universal with nothing...

Assuming I read that correctly ;). I am messing about with the 3 or so G3's I have at home. So far, I have bodged up an installer that wraps up the SoftSPL (launched using the same HaRET/Linux methods as the other SoftSPL installers use) and a standard RUU. I have a few things I need to...

To be honest, very little. Both leave you free to flash a ROM of your choice :). This just uses the same 'methods' as used with newer HTC devices and the G4 Wizards. It will also be easy enough to wrap with ROM's to create 'G3' SoftSPL upgrades that flash to any G3 device without messing...

Ok, Just an update to my last post, I found an old G3 with a broken keyboard under my desk. IPL/SPL 2.17, ancient radio and AKU2. SoftSPL via JumpSPL from Pof/Prislav seems to work fine :D. Converted the Hard-SPL.nb to an nk.nbf (with just the SPL in it). Flashed the resulting nk.nbf. Device...

Well this thread seems nice and hostile ;). Unless I am missing something all Prislav has done is to use JumpSPL by Pof (Nice WinCE Tramp by the way :D) to fire off a patched G3 SoftSPL and from there let you launch into the ROM update routine. Prislav’s post may have been a little short on...

One of my Universals has just started doing this. Working on a way to fix (that does not involve jTAG if I can help it). There is a fair bit of info in the forum on the subject.

Back on topic ;). Just gone through the 10 Wizards on my desk but they are all key 44 :(. I have a few more about here and there so I will keep looking to see if I can find more keys.

If you want a custom ROM for your TyTN1 device look in the Hermes Mobile 6 section. Some settings, applications, libraries and the like for the Kaiser can run on a Hermes if integrated with a Hermes base ROM. In fact a lot of the functionality from the Kaiser ROM's has already been merged into...

All of the Windows Mobile 6 ROM's I have used fully support the security policy stuff that is enforced by Exchange when using the device for "Direct Push" email (for what its worth). I have also found that if you add Blackberry software it works well enough with there policy software if that is...

That is the most common cause I think, our units at work do that. A lot (all?) of the Vodafone towers seem to set GMT+1 if you have tower sync turned on but keep the right actual time. This is a 'feature' on most Windows Mobile devices not just the Kaiser (my TyTN, 200+ Wizards and a dozen or...

SDHC Cards (SD V2) start at 4GB, use a FAT32 default file system and require block mode addressing (512 byte blocks). Rather then the byte addressing used by classic SD/MMC cards. In essence that means you CAN'T get a 1GB SDHC card within the specification and there would be no point making...

I know Vodafone UK plan to carry it (I have had a chance to play with a beta device some months ago). Not sure on the brand other then V'something' but we are hoping to get QA devices in early July so I guess that is as good a time frame as any. That said it would not surprise me if it gets...

You could go for a THBBury (UNI System 8) kit with the TyTN cradle for it. I am just about to install this setup in my car over the next week so I will let you know how I get on. http://www.bury.com/ and http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=141685 show you what is involved. John

Got 10 V1605's here that have come in over the last month from different batches. None have been networked locked as yet.

My guess is just like the Wizards the 100 and 200 will dictate the base form factor before operator customisations go on (silk screen, plastics etc.). For example the Vodafone branded Hermes is an HERM200 and I would suspect the Dopad 838 for example would be a HERM100 as it uses the other main...

It's worth noting that this is an English speaking forum but if I read your request correctly you’re asking will TomTom 5 work on a Wizard? (Or are you asking if you can link the Wizard and a TomTom Go, it’s not clear to my very rusty language skills ;)) If it is about running TT5 the answer is...

There are posts with links and info about the CAB all over the forum (a little searching maybe ;)) but anyway here you go... http://www.distant-earth.com/wmobile/cabs/Signed_Disable_Cert_HTC.cab

No, The "Direct Push" email stuff that comes with AKU2 ROM's is designed to work with Microsoft Exchange server. To push gMail to a phone you could setup gMail to forward your mails to a service that uses Microsoft Exchange server like Mail2Web.com and use that push them onto your Wizard. I...

Without wanting to sounds facetious you sign them ;-) You would use a private key to generate an Authenticode signature for the CAB (and maybe the apps inside if you need to) however you would still need to install the ROOT certificate into the code stores on your device. Or get your app signed...

Good point, I won't upload the files seperatly as it's just asking for trouble down the line ;).

Can't argue with that :D. Let me log onto my work laptop and I will upload the known good IPL's and SPL's for 2.24 I use.

Then why the hell are you stressing about flashing the IPL and SPL then? :lol: There is no good reason to upgrade the bootloader if you already have a working 2.* bootloader IMHO. You may as well leave them out and just flash what you need be it OS, Radio, Ext. etc. :D. Less risk that way...

This does not happen with all V2.* ROM's (it seems to happen with some specific V2 IPL's and SPL's (2.16 I think)g). Not bothered to look into much as I just use the 2.24 IPL's and SPL's on devices. You could leave them out of your ROM or grab a recent ROM (MrClean's latest is fine) and extract...

Cool, so the iMate ARU2 ROM. Let me see if I can't cook up a ROM with no bootloader (so we don't make things worse) and give that a try. Just to confirm is it the ROM info splash it locks on or the Windows Mobile splash (i.e. does it really boot the OS then bale or just freeze init'ing the OS.

Ok, Care to post up ALL versions of the ROM parts currently on your system to this thread? IPL, SPL, Radio, OS etc. I assume you have no problems flashing from the boot loader then just geting the flash to work?

Hmmm, without wanting to state the obvious why don't you just flash the latest T-Mobile ROM onto your device? There are several options from T-Mobile linked in recent threads. All you really need to do is get the device into the bootloader (the bootloader can be entered by holding the "Camera"...

Great little how to, I'll give this a try as the other hardware mods looked a little bit to 'permanent' for my liking. Have you got an idea of how much it improved things in %'age terms? I know going from a 2.00.07 (I think) to 2.25.11 radio ROM seems to have given between 5-10% improvement on...

I was after CraF's screenshot to try and help him spot any errors he may have causing the flash failure ;). Well aware of the correct ROM layout.

Not 100% sure on this as I have not tested it but could you not unlock the LCD while running the EXE then lock it afterwards if needed? Something like. LOCK:Enabled CAB: \Extended_ROM\1.cab CAB: \Extended_ROM\2.cab LOCK:Disabled EXEC:\Extended_ROM\backup.exe RST: Reset or may be copying it...

lewcamino, great post. Saved me a job from my TODO list and very well layed out :D. There are other ways to do the same trick using BMP2BIN but the results are the same so it's a non issue. Can you post a screenshot (or mail me) of your ROM screen layout just before you click 'Translate'...

Edit: Thinking more about this (and realising that the 1st thing you do is disable signing in your ROM's ;)) can you provide a little more info about the CAB's (maybe an offending CAB if the content is not private?). I managed to replicate this issue with a CAB that had a warm reset as part of...