Motorola Q Hacks

[Pony99CA]

I have one Q phone that I share with another person. Each time we swap the phone, we have to do a hard reset to change the email information. But this also forces us to change ALL of our personal settings back again after we setup the email each time.

Does anyone know what the registry setting is that allows the user name field to be edited without accessing a registry editor? If I can change that one entry, then we can swap the phone and sign in as ourself without all the extra work.

The user name value is stored in
\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ActiveSync\ Partners\<ID>\User

The registry key is HKLM\Ident and the value is Name.

However, I don't think it will do what you want for a few reasons.

First, I just synchronized an older Pocket PC. I had changed the name to SHM_WayPoint_100 but didn't do a soft reset. When I synced, I got the default WM_Steve user name, but doing a soft reset and syncing again worked and didn't ask to create a new partnership.

Now that was a WM 2003 device, not WM 5, but I think ActiveSync really pays attention to the <ID> value you listed above, not the user name.

Second, even if changing the name worked, that would only affect the ActiveSync partnership; it wouldn't affect any other user settings and preferences. That may be just what you want, but you talked about losing ALL of the personal settings, not just the ActiveSync partnership.

What I'd do is buy Sprite backup, back the device up before the Master Reset, then restore the user data you wanted after the Master Reset. That should restore all of the settings correctly and should also preserve the E-mail.

In fact, you might not even need to do the Master Reset at all if you're not worried about the other users seeing each others' data. Just have each user restore their own backup.

Steve

[rudeboy]

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thanks.

[rudeboy]

if you want to get rid of the "Charge Complete" notification read these 2 posts/threads:

• thread #1
• thread #2

as always: make sure you have backups and make sure you know what you are doing.

[rudeboy]

see this post from Lucky13MN.