Monthly Archive for June, 2008

More menu icons h4xing

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fernando
on June 20, 2008
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The internets are buzzing with themes that use this new pack of icons made by Flahorn, ICEman made one, p@sco made one, Flahert himself made one, but they all require a certain appshelldata.xml (the file that saves your menu order) and menu.mif (the file with the icon graphics). I uploaded them here: http://www.fwrnando.com/files/menu.zip. Included in this file in is my personal xml, the one you see on the screenshot, because the included one does not change the folders name together with the phone language.

I was posting in mobile-review about my experiences, for now I’ll just copy the post, if I get something conclusive I’ll update it.

“I thought just using Menu Editor I could get them. But alright, I got the .mif and .xml and will try pronto!

edit: yup, I got it!

edit2: aha, it messes with the folders name (no more changing name according to language), I’ll have to edit the xml myself. Like the real name for the music folder isn’t music, it’s &qtn_apps_musicfolder;, and the OS replaces it with a name according to the language.

edit3: yep, I got a modded icon Games folder, that becomes Jeux if I change the phone to french, now I just need to find the real names of the GPS and etc folder

edit4: ok, better post my research/etc here:

Code:
<appshell:folder title_name="&qtn_apps_gamesfolder_title;"
long_name="&qtn_apps_gamesfolder_list;"
short_name="&qtn_apps_gamesfolder;"
applicationgroup_name="games"
icon_file="C:\resource\apps\Menu.mif"
icon_id="16388" mask_id="16389"
icon_skin_major_id="101F86E3"
icon_skin_minor_id="1977">

is the code for a well named, iconized game folder, not available on the N95.

And if someone who is reading this has a hacked E90, I’d LOVE to get a copy of your appshelldata.xml (found in C:\Private\101F4CD2\Content\) because it might have the real name for the help and GPS folders (the other two I’m searching).

edit5: woo stream of thought post
now my factory themes don’t show the GPS icons, while ICEman’s and P@sco’s do. Guess I’ll have to keep 2 xml files depending on the theme I’m using. Or maybe it’s just because standard themes weren’t expecting the GPS icon? Sometimes I just hope restarting will fix things :P”

edit6: I think the original themes tell the phone explicitly to use the Z:/resources/apps/menu.mif file, that’s why they aren’t showing. And if you remove the “icon_skin_major_id=”101F86E3″ icon_skin_minor_id=”1977″” from the xml, the icons will stop obeying to the theme, and use the C:/resources/apps/ mif. But as as they don’t listen to the theme anymore, they don’t change icons with the themes, leading to the screenshot a couple posts above.

Although I was experimenting with the xml I got together with the mif, sometimes the Games folder would keep it’s icon. Unfortunately I can’t reproduce the situation. Also, it seems that the N95 .mif has the Extras folder icon (the stars one) unused.”
So my solution for now it keep switching between XMLs, using the ones linked to the theme for Flahert icons, and the ones unlinked to the default themes. And of course, the final solution would be include the complete mif in drive Z, but that won’t happen.

zomg huge proto leak

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fernando
on June 9, 2008
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At my favorite forum ever, Mobile-Review, user Tissot posted a link with pictures of 3 leaked models, following the link and ending at this flickr, I found out there were LOADS of unrealeased models pics there.

  • 2680
  • 3610 Fold
  • 5800 XpressMedia (the tube!)
  • 6260
  • 7210 Supernova
  • 7510 Supernova
  • E66
  • N85 (marked as N00)
  • and N79

9 leaked models!

And just in case he deletes his flickr, I have mirrored high-res versions of all unreleased phones here: http://www.fwrnando.com/protoleak/

Use media keys for Picodrive!

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fernando
on June 8, 2008
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Finally, with the use of hacking though, I have my (almost) perfect set-up for playing Mega Drive on my N95, landscape mode and using the media keys as gaming buttons.

First, with the recently outed MagicKey (from the most excellent opda.com.cn forum) you can remap certain phone keys to other funcions. Example: You can make the 5 key print 4 on screen. But the real treat in this app is the possibility of remapping otherwise hardwired keys, like the media ones. So you can make the media keys look like normal keys to picodrive.

Once you got that app signed and installed, use it to create a new keymap, assign it to picodrive.

When creating new pairs, press the green send key to go into select mode. It’s pretty straight forward once you figure that out. =P In my case I use the 4, 5 and 6 keys to play in portrait mode, so I’ll map the media keys to those:

When you’re done with that, don’t forget to set the daemon to open at boot:

Restart the phone afterwards.

Now, with the media keys properly set, time to set Picodrive. Pico can’t show a reverse landscape image while the whole UI is rotated (ex. when you open the media slider). You need to force the phone to stay in portrait mode with RotateMe, and use pico settings like this:

Now that you got the media keys out still in portrait mode, you can finally enjoy the wonders of true landscape gaming.

Seems like quite a bit of work just for playing some games eh? But Mega Drive emulating is serious business =P

…now if only those media keys weren’t so flat, lol.

When the internet is down, N95 saves the day.

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fernando
on June 2, 2008
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modem

This saturday, my modem decided to die, just after business hours too, so I’d have to wait until monday to order a new one. So it was up to my phone to keep me connected meanwhile. And, surprisingly for anyone who tryed to tether an older phone (memories of my 6600 :p), it was incredibly straight forward!

I started connecting my phone to my mac in PC Suite mode, just to see what would happen, I figured I’d have to download thousands of drivers and whatnot, but that was not the case. As soon as I opened the Network prefpane, a new connection appeared on the sidebar:

A couple settings after, and I was connected! The only thing that slowed me down for a while was the modem type, but that was solved pretty quickly by clicking the Advanced… button and selecting the right “vendor” from the drop down menu:

So there, I was online again, kudos to whoever at Nokia or at Apple who made this so simple. The only downside to all of this really is the speed

I really wouldn’t mind having a N95-3 now. :P