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Hello,
Sorry if this is basic stuff, but I can't figure out how to use a user-made wav file as a notification, for example for sms or new email. I can only use my wavs for incoming calls...
Regards,
FAS
Drop the wav file into the windows folder of the xda. Then go to 'sounds & notifications' and choose your wav for incoming sms etc.
DT
yes, that's what I also expected it to be like, but no, it does not work for me.. have you tried it??
Fred
Just to confirm - I also don't get any wav file options other than the ones in ROM (on 3.14.13ENG, radio 4.08 ).
Is this another Misrosoft "Our regression testers were unable to spot this because they tripped over their big shoes and their car fell apart again" or has it always been so in other ROM versions?
My ROM is 3.14.13 ENG and all I did was copy my wav file into the \Windows folder using the Cut & Paste facilities in File Explorer.
Once the file was there I went to
Start > Settings > Sounds & Notifications > Notifications
The drop-down selector shows all files in the \Windows folder that have a .wav extension, so I can use my wav for any event in the list, including "Inbox: New SMS message"
That's bizarre. I really don't get any additional wave files. I thought it might be a particular file stopping the rest from loading, but I removed all other wave files except the default ones in ROM and added the 'old phone' from the ringtone pack: it still failed to show any except the defaults.
'Scuse me already if this is insulting, but you're not relying on the 'Add ring tone' feature are you?
The system can search all memory and find any wavs and then use them as ring tones where ever they are in the file system, but Sounds&Notifications can only see the wavs that are physically stored in the \Windows folder in the filesystem.
Don't worry, no offence taken. Yep they're in the \windows folder.
OK, now we're moving away from XDA specifics, but what about the file format?
You said you'd made them yourself. I'm wondering if the XDA does anything to check for valid content rather than just listing all files with a .wav extension. I'm thinking if yours are not plain vanilla .wav format the XDA might be rejecting them and not adding them to the drop-down list.
Can you tap on the file in File Explorer and hear it play OK?
AHA! Got it!
It's an O2/MS 'Lets give the task of creating the new PPC ROM to the cleaning staff' problem.
Basically, the wave files contained in the PPC Ringtones pack from Microsoft have been incorporated into this ROM release.
Unfortunately (for reasons only known to the developers and their keepers) they were copied with a space after the filename, before the extension, e.g. "OldPhone .wav"
Some lame code in the list populate must trim the filename, then look for it again, and skip the file.
So the - assumedly perfectly formatted - Ringtone pack wave files I was looking for just don't show up.
Simply create a copy of them without the space, and they show up fine.
P.S. Everything you read in Dilbert cartoons is 100% true.
Ahaa.... Funny thing... it's the easiest things that become the most difficult problems...
THANKS!!
don't quite understand
HI
Read with interests all the postings on this thread.
Could someone tell me how the ringtones work? I believe the wav files are in the windows directory and when you "add ringtones", where do the files go to? I can see a Rings folder inside the windows directory; is it where the added ringtone wav files go to?
I couldn't quite understand the previous thread on leaving a space before the extension. Is it necessary to have wav files like this before the xda recognises as a proper wav file?
Thanks
Vic
I think the .wav files found and selected get added to some registry setting maybe (guessing) as I didn't find any copies made when I did it.
It's decidedly not necessary to have spaces in the file name - that's what trips it up! the space effectively ends one file name, so with "foo .wav" the file system would be looking for a file called foo (no extension) and another file called (empty) with an extension of .wav :?
As a thanks for all who replied:
Here is a great wav for incoming sms:
grab the second to last one, stworf.wav
http://68.8.131.184:6000/WAV's/files/StarTrek/StarTrek.htm
(not my page, seems a bit unstable tonight)
Fred
3 Players now that work with the external screen:
WMP, Pocket Player, and HTC Audio Manager!
For HTC Audio Manager, go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=313550
Take the contents of the "AudioManager" Folder and extract them all to your /windows/ directory (NOT just the folder, the files inside the folder need to be take out and put in the windows directory).
Using a registry explorer, go to HKLM\SOFTWARE\HTC\SecondaryDsp
There should already be a registry entry there called "AudioManager", if it's there, set it to "1".
If it's not there, create it and set it to one (I can't say for sure if it'll work or not though).
Restart your phone, and voila! A new, working MediaPlayer!
In the original topic, rickwyatt says "put in on your storage card".
As I have just 4MB storage left, I want to put it on my storage card. Is it possible?
Also, what advantage over WMP does HTC AM have?
yes it is possible to install on storage/storage card, cab-installer made by me is available here:
http://ren.redsys.ru/_private/HTC.Audio.Manager.WCE.BY.cab
But you need to copy all these files to \Windows\ directory to make it on external screen
It seems Audio Manager files should be extracted to \windows, if the external music keys need to work with it. Also the 'AudioManager' registry value is not found by default, so create it as a new DWORD value and assign it with '1'.
Yet I don't see any value this Audio Manager brings over on top of WMP, though it has a nice ipod like interface and supports playlists. Anyone found anything interesting about this new AM?
oh hell no dont intall this program, its not worth it.
Very diffcult to add playlist you have to add files one at a time
I was hoping an equalizer but does not have one
Im struggling to remove and set the buttons back to for WM player.
Damn stupid fucl<ing program
paypalbid said:
oh hell no dont intall this program, its not worth it.
Very diffcult to add playlist you have to add files one at a time
I was hoping an equalizer but does not have one
Im struggling to remove and set the buttons back to for WM player.
Damn stupid fucl<ing program
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Nothing from AudioManager should have overwritten anything else.
Therefore, go to your \windows\ directory and look at the files in the zip archive. There you can see exactly which files to delete. To get the buttons back, go back to the HKLM\Software\HTC\SecondaryDsp\AudioManager and set the value to '0' instead of '1'.
As for advantages, just looks nice imho. I didn't really play with it yet.
Thanks ladies.
I installed and it worked. However I do NOT se any advantage over the WMP. This only looks cool because "dude, it's a HTC soft, dude". I'll stick with my WMP and occasionaly Pocket Player. No need for this
nevermind said:
Thanks ladies.
I installed and it worked. However I do NOT se any advantage over the WMP. This only looks cool because "dude, it's a HTC soft, dude". I'll stick with my WMP and occasionaly Pocket Player. No need for this
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'tis true.
I'm going to play around with it more and if it seems faster or more stable than WMP I'll use it. Otherwise, I'll probably ditch it too.
I love PocketPlayer, but the external display plugin is so slow and just seems terribly unstable.
thelostsoul said:
'tis true.
I'm going to play around with it more and if it seems faster or more stable than WMP I'll use it. Otherwise, I'll probably ditch it too.
I love PocketPlayer, but the external display plugin is so slow and just seems terribly unstable.
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Yup, PP is very unstable and the plugin makes the whole phone really damn slow.
In the other hand, WMP is quite fast for me. ANd I never experienced even one single crash with it (except using Oxios memory tools before). Only the way of opening files in WMP pis*es me off.
After a day of playing around, I've decided I don't like either WMP or AudioManager...lol
Not sure which I'll be sticking with yet....
thelostsoul said:
After a day of playing around, I've decided I don't like either WMP or AudioManager...lol
Not sure which I'll be sticking with yet....
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LOL
well WM6 does support external screen already. So lets hope for it, coz then we can use any player we want and with small update it should display also informations on the external screen. But guess it's still a looong way
thelostsoul said:
Nothing from AudioManager should have overwritten anything else.
Therefore, go to your \windows\ directory and look at the files in the zip archive. There you can see exactly which files to delete. To get the buttons back, go back to the HKLM\Software\HTC\SecondaryDsp\AudioManager and set the value to '0' instead of '1'.
As for advantages, just looks nice imho. I didn't really play with it yet.
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I‘ve already put these files in \Windows and created a DWORD named AudioManager in HKLM\SOFTWARE\HTC\SecondaryDsp and set it to 1, but nothing happened. The external music keys still assign to WMP. Somebody knows why?
You might need the more recent ROM update. The 4.x ones...What version do you have?
thelostsoul said:
You might need the more recent ROM update. The 4.x ones...What version do you have?
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I have a singapore rom 1.32.707.0 in my phone. Where to download a 4.x rom?
Oh. Check with the HTC website for your region or whatever branding is on your phone, their site.
The 4.x ROMs are for USA (not sure if EUR has them yet), but can be downloaded from here:
http://www.america.htc.com/support/3125/software-downloads.html
Note, however, that you may need to unlock your device completely (including CID) before installing a ROM from a different region. Instructions are on this forum.
thelostsoul said:
Oh. Check with the HTC website for your region or whatever branding is on your phone, their site.
The 4.x ROMs are for USA (not sure if EUR has them yet), but can be downloaded from here:
http://www.america.htc.com/support/3125/software-downloads.html
Note, however, that you may need to unlock your device completely (including CID) before installing a ROM from a different region. Instructions are on this forum.
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Thx a lot, I'll try it.
Hi,
Just a couple of questions to ask.
Fist of all I did install HTC`s audio manager and its no different from the wmplayer. Only better at fast forwarding . Since the external display shows exactly the same things with both the players, I assume it is some kind of seperate driver, that "interconnects" with other software. Who ever wrote that piece of code that controlls the play/prev/next buttons , should be executed for stupidity... Was it SO difficult to add a fast forward ability omg. Does anyone know how to add such a function?
Also, one more thing I have installed PocketPlayer, but I cannot find anything concerning the external display thing... I cannot find any plugins, or options. Can someone please enlighten me?
I absolutely love this phone, (and since it cost me 170 euros...) but I wish I fast forward the player with out having to open the phone...
Thanks
For PocketPlayer you want the WM_Host plugin version 2.0. Once you copy the DLLs to the PP directory, you need to open PP and the Plugin controls panel then configure the plugin. FastForward should be supported in PP.
Thanks so much... I did what you said, I enabled the plugin, but still, no fast forward. Dunno maybe its just a crappy wmp plugin in the first place...
Hmm, you're right. I never really needed it though so I guess that's why I never noticed...
Post what you want on the Conduits forums. They're usually pretty good with filling feature requests. I bugged them about getting support for the External Screen on the StrTrk for a couple months and even though they said it seemed impossible, they finally got it
I need some help in using my NaviPanel...
Using NRG's 23xxx CHT Dinik glass theme and want to use my NaviPanel with my Copilot but it doesn't work. The only thing that works 'Make a Call'.
'Footprints' 'Go Home' 'Address' 'Recent' & 'Navigation' are all dull and connot be used.
I use a CoPilot .cab (Dutty GPS_Copilot_1_0_0_457) with a paid subscription for the year.
Does anyone know of a wayto make the NaviPanel recognise them???
I have the same problem and have had it with the last two versions of copilot with a wide range of Dutty's holy grail roms. Tried a htc hotfix at one point with no success
Can you list the names of all the files in your \Program Files\CoPilot folder?
This post shows how to use iGo with NaviPanel instead of CoPilot. You can see that the NaviPanel is looking for exe's with a certain name in order to launch. Can you confirm that you have those files in the correct location?
I cannot find the thread , but someone else had this problem, and it was because they installed Copilot to the SD card and not to device memory, that may help may not ...
Just a thought ...
I now navipanel looks in device memory ...
amrbekhit said:
Can you list the names of all the files in your \Program Files\CoPilot folder?
This post shows how to use iGo with NaviPanel instead of CoPilot. You can see that the NaviPanel is looking for exe's with a certain name in order to launch. Can you confirm that you have those files in the correct location?
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In the following order:
Audio (Folder)
Maps (Folder
Skin (Folder)
uiconfig (Folder)
album.cache
alksdk.dll
all.log
copilot.exe
copilot.png
copilot.qtc
copilottoday.dll
getrealdpi.exe
gpstmc.dll
language_short.dat
languagelist.xml
otadata.log
setup.dll
splash.png
splash_xt_vga.png
splash_xw_vga.png
splashscreen.exe
user.cfg
versionno.h
Any ideas???
Tried installing on device rather than SD with no difference...
Hi targett,
Your list of files is slightly different than mine, but at least we have the same exe files.
I've been looking through my storage and have noticed that my \Windows folder also contains the same files as my \Program Files\CoPilot folder. Can you try copying the contents of your \Program Files\CoPilot folder (excluding the subfolders) to \Windows?
Don't want to teach you to suck eggs, but just backup your settings in case you overwrite something in \Windows which screws up the phone.
amrbekhit said:
Hi targett,
Your list of files is slightly different than mine, but at least we have the same exe files.
I've been looking through my storage and have noticed that my \Windows folder also contains the same files as my \Program Files\CoPilot folder. Can you try copying the contents of your \Program Files\CoPilot folder (excluding the subfolders) to \Windows?
Don't want to teach you to suck eggs, but just backup your settings in case you overwrite something in \Windows which screws up the phone.
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This doesn't work either
I've searched my registry and I couldn't find any registry keys which can be used to configure NaviPanel. Does CoPilot work on its own? Can you confirm that it is installed to \Program Files\CoPilot (case sensitive)? I'm afraid other than that, I really don't know.
Same problem here.
In some topics there are mentioned interface to file NaviSWMiddle_CoPilot.dll on NW registry.
But I do not have that file on \Windows.
I have latest ROM with recently updated CarKit HotFix.
Any suggestion ?
Try this:
Activation of the navigation buttons in the Navi Panel without installing software Copilot - create a new registry key: HKLM\Software\HTC\NaviSW\SDKModule with value \windows\alksdk.dll.
Double post...
Sorry
jirkab said:
Try this:
Activation of the navigation buttons in the Navi Panel without installing software Copilot - create a new registry key: HKLM\Software\HTC\NaviSW\SDKModule with value \windows\alksdk.dll.
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This worked for me. I also copied both Google Maps and Bing (did these separately of course) folders to a folder called \Program Files\CoPilot and renamed the exe file to CoPilot and both programs launch successfully from the Navi Panel maps icon.
HELP!!!
jirkab: i try to use your method to create the registry, but it failed. I think i have used the wrong method on creating the \windows\alksdk.dll. or may be i m missing some files.
could u pls guide me through more details step, thks...
Try this simple .cab with only one registry change.
Solved
I spent lots of time on this. After a couple of pointless ROM updates, HTC sent me a Navipanel CAB for Copilot.
I then had to update Microsoft .NET Compact Framework
Works like a dream.
I bought my HTC in Hong Kong as I had been living there. HTC HK service was great, though it took a while to get it solved.
ALK (CoPilot) service is woeful. They couldn't care less.
In the end the HD2 and CoPilot are working like a dream.
jirkab said:
Try this simple .cab with only one registry change.
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I have the same problem. I tried your .cab, but it did not make any difference.
davidvk said:
I spent lots of time on this. After a couple of pointless ROM updates, HTC sent me a Navipanel CAB for Copilot.
I then had to update Microsoft .NET Compact Framework
Works like a dream.
I bought my HTC in Hong Kong as I had been living there. HTC HK service was great, though it took a while to get it solved.
ALK (CoPilot) service is woeful. They couldn't care less.
In the end the HD2 and CoPilot are working like a dream.
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Hi davidvk. I tried the cab that Jirkab posted but it did not solve my problem.
Do you have a copy of this cab that you got from HTC. Could you please post it so i can try it.
Regards
Bump, anyone with any ideas as to how to get navipanel to work.
davidvk said:
I spent lots of time on this. After a couple of pointless ROM updates, HTC sent me a Navipanel CAB for Copilot.
I then had to update Microsoft .NET Compact Framework
Works like a dream.
I bought my HTC in Hong Kong as I had been living there. HTC HK service was great, though it took a while to get it solved.
ALK (CoPilot) service is woeful. They couldn't care less.
In the end the HD2 and CoPilot are working like a dream.
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Could you share the Navipanel cab for us?
Yhanks
NaviPanel CAB
Working on the same problem . . .
Can anyone post the HTC NaviPanel CAB?
Many thanks!
Hi everybody
first of all i want to say TNX to all the wonderful people here, who make my HD2 experience so much better
i have a good question which i bet other HD2 owners are struggling with:
i keep my mp3 files stored on my SD card.
Q: i can't seem to find a way to set a certain picture to a certain song in the music player (instead of the default picture of the note icon).
what i'v tried up until now:
- i went to My Device\MUSIC and saw the way the original (crappy) song is set with its own picture, and tried to set my mp3 file the same way with it's own picture, but - no luck, still the annoying note icon..
so.. i give up for now, hopefully someone knows the answer to my question here
thanks allot guys
I think I've got the solution:
Settings -> Manage Applications -> Media Storage and choose clear data, this will wipe the media library database from the phone.
you then have to power down and reboot. Now when you open the music app it will rebuild its database.
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retrieved from this site
SORTED! tnx to Wilco!
Wilco you are the man
i didn't find a way to delete the media library database from the phone, the solution presented in the thread is meant to work with another HTC device which has different settings, BUT - the issue was the same -
in order to show a photo instead of the default note icon in the music player htc devices require an image called "folder.jpg" located in every folder which contains mp3's, this is the picture which will be shown as the album picture. so in order to show a different picture for every album the albums must be in different folders.
there is a certain BUG which occures when there is no folder.jpg file in the folder containing the mp3 file and you try to add it later, the device has a DB that records every folder you create and it doesn't remember a folder.jpg file in that particular folder so it will not show a picture even if you add one, i still havn't figured out way to clean that DB, anyway, by simply putting a folder.jpg with your choice of image and changing the folder's name to another one, the device will recognize this as a brand new folder and tada! album picture is presented
hope we helped you guys!
thanks!!
Hi all,
Newbie Archos 70 250Gb owner here - back with Archos after a long period in the iPod wilderness
I'm generally pleased with the A70 but there's one thing which is a bit of a showstopper for me at the moment. I specifically bought the A70 with the big disk because I'm a music junkie - I have 150Gb or so of mp3s, and I add 3-4 albums per month.
I've copied all my music to the A70's hard disk (something like 22,000 songs), but the media scanner has only found a small fraction of them. I can sit and watch it run, and it gets to about 3200 files before quitting. This is repeatable - if I rerun "update multimedia library" it never gets beyond this point.
Anyone got any clues as to how I can track down the problem? I'm wondering if I have one dodgy mp3 which is causing it to fail perhaps? Without knowing which one it is, it's going to be tough to fix this - I can't manually remove each one of 22,000 files and keep retrying! Are there some system logs somewhere I can check?
I beginning to wonder if I'm going to have to roll my own media scanner - I'm an experienced Java programmer but very light on Android skills so it might take me a while.. so I'd rather not if I don't have to - I'm not even sure if I get that level of access to the system.
Keith.
According to several folks over at the ArchosFans forums, the media scanner has a problem with tracks that have a "#" symbol in the name. Since I cannot post links yet, go to forum dot archosfans dot com, and search for "media scan hash pound #" and that should take you to the right thread.
That said, a custom media scanner might not be such a bad thing; it seems to be a source of unhappiness for a number of folks.
Hi,
Same problem here, i found that doing a 'rebuild media database from scratch' option in repair&fornatting menu did eventually (after about 1day of scanning) found all my files.
Be sure to keep your archos awake during the scan, use for example the pictureframe app so the device stays awake.
Hope this helps
Sent from my A70H using Tapatalk
Thanks guys - that's two things to try, I'll let you know how I get on.
Status update: clearing out the media library and re-running the scan didn't work - it still fails, and this time leaves me with an empty library.
So, i rolled a very simple scanning app, which I can point at a single directory (i.e. a single artist). It imports some things fine, but guess what - when importing files with a "#" in them the media scanner apparently falls over - silently, unfortunately, nothing gets reported to my little app when it happens. The thread referenced above also mentions issues where the "artist" tag doesn't match the "album artist" tag - I'll keep an eye open for those too.
This is the built-in Android media scanning service that is failing, as far as I can tell - it's not clear to me if Archos modified it or not, but it's pretty shoddy not being able to handle a valid filename.
So, I'm going to keep going with my little app (maybe this thread needs to move to the dev forum?) but right now the best I can make it do is to not scan files with a hash in them, or perhaps rename the files on disk (but that would really screw up my synch mechanism, as I don't want to have to rename a whole bunch of stuff in iTunes which I also use..)
This is all disappointing - I was an early adopter of Archos stuff with a JB6000 and JBR20 (still got it somewhere!) back in the day and they've always been pretty decent at the music side of things - this is not what I would expect from them and makes it difficult for me to know what to do next as this is my primary use of the device...
EDIT: for info: the # problem only occurs with the filename, not the tags - so renaming the file appears to solve the problem while leaving the tags intact - I'll go down that route for a bit, see if I can fix things that way.
Keith.
20,000 song limit(!)
So it turns out that the scanning problem is all about hash symbols in filenames - once I removed all the hash symbols from file names the scan got all the way to the end, but hung on "Finishing scan" indefinitely. I realised I still had playlist files referencing the original filenames with hashes. Once I got rid of those, the scan completed just fine, but presented me with this:
Maximum multimedia library size reached: Only the first 20000 audio files have been indexed
Well that's a bit of a showstopper isn't it. I'm struggling to understand why someone would ship what is basically an enhanced media player with 250Gb of space, and then restrict the media library so you can't make use of it all. Even my iPod Classic 160Gb can take more songs than that!
I'll take this over into the developers forum to see if there's any way around this limit - I'm assuming it won't be anything simple. Argh!
Keith.