Motorola Q Hacks

[n99hockey]

I downloaded the inbox extended, but can not get it to install on my Q. Have you got a cheat sheet of instructions for this hack? I download the file fine, but then my computer does not see the phone as a mobile device under windows. What should I do after I download?

i believe its a cab file...so you need to get that file on to your Q then run that file from your Q's file manager

[ungbug]

.. that so? Which ones? Let me know and I'll add them.

this one, which i found from another forum, has been useful for me. and i always have one hell of a time trying to find it on google and having to search through other forums.

Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject: You can assign speed dials to keys which can launch programs rather than just dialing numbers.

You can also change the function of the button below the scroll wheel, but be aware that it might cause your scroll-wheel to function improperly. I changed mine to map to the email/backlight key instead of the default backspace function so that I could easily turn the backlight off. It worked great except that my scroll-wheel started working only intermittently.

Here is what you need to change in the registry to change the function of that key (copied from the registry hack thread):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Motorola/Keypad

Keys of interest:
0x14 Default is SPKPHN (Speakerphone/Voicecommand)
0x15 Default is EMAIL (Messaging/Backlight)
0x24 Default is JOGSELECT (Trackwheel click ? Unconfirmed)
0x32 Default is CAMERA (Camera button)
0x34 Default is SIDEBACK (Back button below trackwheel)
0x36 Default is SOFT2 (Right soft key ? Unconfirmed)
0x44 Default is SOFT1 (Left soft key ? Unconfirmed)
0x65 Default is TALK (Green Talk key ? Unconfirmed)
0x67 Default is HOME (Home key)

You can interchange the values, although I would recomend against remapping some of them, such as softkeys. But you may want to make other keys (like the side button) perform the same function as another. I have my side key now set to do SPKPHN, which is pretty handy.

(the key below the scroll-wheel is 0x34)

[Pony99CA]

.. that so?

Wow, you're calling me out?

Which ones? Let me know and I'll add them.

Here are some of mine that I know of.

• My better camera shutter sound fix
• Changing the browser's User Agent
• Video quality hack (actually just a link to the hack as I haven't tried it)
• Remapping system folders (I'm not sure how useful this really is)
• Changing the fonts (again, I'm not sure how useful this really is; it works better on the Pocket PC, I think)

There may well be others. You should probably delete your claim that they're all there. As conscientious as you've been about updating things, you haven't been perfect (but who is?).

Steve

[Pony99CA]

I can't make my email and attachments go to the storage card.

I created the keys exactly as written:

"AttachPath" (Value)= \Storage Card\MAPI\Attachments
"PropertyPath" (Value)= \Storage Card\MAPI

But it didn't work. What should the individual value name and value data be? And what should the individual key names be?

I think you're confusing keys and values. The key is the path in the registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MAPI) where the values (AttachPath and PropertyPath) are created. Those values get data as you listed above.

Did you copy your existing files from \Windows\Messaging to \Storage Card\MAPI (and the attachments to \Storage Card\MAPI\Attachments)? If not, you won't see your old mail anymore, just any new mail.

Steve

[n99hockey]

Hopefully this isn't too stupid of a question, but what program do i need to hack the registry? Its not like regedit comes on the phone... or does it???

on the first page of this thread you will see some registry editing programs listed

[Pony99CA]

just download the MOTO-HACKS file from the free sof's

and i dont know where to install it to or how..

got 3 files :

_setup - xml document
00QHacks.001
MOTOQH~1.000

It looks like you unzipped a CAB file. Do not do that. Just put the CAB file anywhere on your Q and "run" it from there. That will install everything for you.

Steve

[Guerrilla]

hey all,

is there a hack available to change the colour of the LED lights surrounding the QWERTY keys? i know this is possible with some types of LED's, i'm not sure if the Q has them though...

That would be quite cool, but no one has found a way to alter the keyboard lights, as far as I know.

[rudeboy]

Does anyone know if it is possible to sync a folder (i.e. my documents ) using active sync?

Would this be done through a registry hack, or a setting in active sync that I could not find?

Forgive me in advance if this is the wrong forum to post this question.

Thanks,
daggett003

you can sync folders using a program called MobSync, hope this helps and is what you are looking for.

[rudeboy]

I could have missed it, because I can't believe no one else has asked yet, but is there a hack for making the stored contacts default to firstname lastname as opposed to lastname, firstname?

Thanks

or you can use Contact Changer, you have to run it manually every time you add contacts, the developer wrote me a while ago and said the next version will automatically after adding contacts.

[Pony99CA]

Also, can someone post the hack that supposedly saves you 6MBs of RAM?
Someone linked to it but it was a site that required a login.

That hack doesn't work. It basically involved "replacing" large files in the \Windows folder with zero-byte files.

However, that was actually just overlaying the ROM versions of the files, so not only were you not saving space, you were actually wasting it with all the zero-byte files!

I got the author to test that and he agreed that it didn't work and removed it from his site.

Steve