I've had two windows mobile devices before this "X10". The first was the Cassiopea B300, it was a PDA that ran windows ce 3. It was a great little device. I had found a website that had some programmers that were fiddling with the OS and constantly upgrading the OS with new features and making it more speedy. The B300 was stolen from me several years ago, but later I got an HTC phone called the Touch Flo. It had windows mobile 6 pro as the base os. HTC had created teh Touch Flo app. These two devices had allowed me to become familiar with this os. Unfortunately, I am not a programmer. My abilities in reworking the registry are limited. With the B300, there was a forum that had some guys creating updates to the gui, creating new roms of the os and with the help of the software to update this os, it made things easier to upgrade than not having the sw to begin with. They were improving the device to where you could add icons and they were moveable on the home screen, The original GUI on the B300 was very simple, no really nice to view. I paid $100 for this device at the time. It was a steal! The rest of the country noticed this too and well, it was a tinkerer joy. Having these two devices, I have accumulated some software that I found useful on these devices, so now I am trying to find them again and see if i can implement them onto the os on the "X10".. So far, only one has worked, it is the app called Total Commander. It actually has the registry editor built in and it works great. I have found some information on the device that I would not be able to do without it. I will post some findings on the use of this software.
There was a post at the store that I bought this device at, someone was asking if it were possible to change the background image on the device from the static images that it comes with. It does not, however, give you the ability to change them out. You are stuck with using them. This did not go well for me. Since I am a photographer and I like to share and show my images, I figured I would snoop around the devices registry and see what I can find. Using the explorer app, you will find that there is a 'ResidentFlash2' that is on this device, (Warning: Tread Carefully in this folder!) If you do not know much about file systems, I suggest not even going into this flash drive. This flash drive, I believe, holds the systems graphical user interface, Silverlight configration files, etc. In this location, you will see a folder "FlashUI" and inside this folder there is another titled "img", if you go into this folder you will see the files b1.jpg, b2.jpg, etc till you get to b6.jpg. Inside this folder that is another titled "small", this is where you will find the Thumbnails of the dropdown on the main screen that you select the background you want to use. I have already changed mine. See...
I just did one. But before I did this, I backed up that folder. One thing I do need to mention is that when you do a reset it will reset the images to default. Also, that is a mini 5pin male usb to regular 5pin usb female, I had to try it, to see what else I could do with it. One thing I do want to do is open this sucker up and see if I can mod a blue tooth and larger drive than the 2 gig. If someone else does this, I would like to know what you did.
This is it for now. I hope some of you will find this informative. I have to live with this device and I figured I would start on something.
Later,
Carlos
-L-
