Motorola Q Hacks

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by walkerbrandonj

Why is 'Import' always greyed out in PHM Registry Editor?

Probably because Philippe didn't implement the Import action. That's not flippant, just a fact. If you don't mind paying, Resco Explorer probably does allow importing.

But see the following....

Originally Posted by walkerbrandonj

How do you import .reg files you've exported from PHM?

In Windows, you just have to "execute" the .reg file, so Import is kind of redundant. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work with PHM. I tried all four export formats and executing them just opened the registry editor, but the changes weren't made.

Exporting is still useful, because it provides a record of what tweaks you made. You can look at the .reg files in a text editor and recreate your tweaks.

Steve

[ppcmd]

[/U] Save 6MB of Ram on Your Motorola Q

http://www.tleone.com/index.php?opti...d=65&Itemid=59)

Has anyone been able to reclaim the 6MB of RAM taken up by these files. I have copied the files into the windows folder from my storage card overwriting each one and I still cannot get the 6MB of RAM back. Any suggestions would be great.

thx

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by ppcmd

[/u] Save 6MB of Ram on Your Motorola Q

http://www.tleone.com/index.php?opti...d=65&Itemid=59)

Has anyone been able to reclaim the 6MB of RAM taken up by these files. I have copied the files into the windows folder from my storage card overwriting each one and I still cannot get the 6MB of RAM back. Any suggestions would be great.

I think that alleged "fix" is bogus. Those files in the \Windows folder are in ROM, I think, so copying 0-byte files with the same name will hide the ROM versions, not erase them.

If you erase the 0-byte files, I bet you'll see the original ones again, proving that the space was never recovered. Worse, as those 0-byte files take up space in the FAT, you'll actually be wasting a little space by doing this.

Steve

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by Jride

Have any of you folks come across a hack for the "low battery warning" message? I hate that thing and I'd love to disable it. Ideas anyone?

I don't know for sure, but you could try HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds\Lowbattery and change the key name to something else (like "LowbatteryX"). That may only get rid of the sound, of course, but maybe with no sound, there will be no message, either.

In the Pocket PC, I know how to turn Low Battery warnings off, I think, but the Smartphone is different.

If you play around with this, let us know what happens.

Steve

[Marvelous Merv]

Yes, you can add "Charging is Complete" to a growing list of useless WM5 system warnings and announcements. Until we find a way to turn it off, I suggest you take a contrarian view of this senseless announcement and pump your fist and yell "Yeah!" every time you achieve "full charge".

[Pony99CA]

I searched and didn't find this hack here, so I thought I'd post it. I didn't discover it, but it's a good one. If it was posted before, my apologies.

Adding Password Protection Before Using Data Connection

If you want to be prompted for a password when you access the Internet, do the following:

1. Navigate to:
   
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMM\ConnMgr\Providers(7C4B7A38-5FF7-4BC1-80F6-5DA7870BB1AA)Connections
2. Inside the broadband and express keys, change requirepw from 0 to 1.
3. Perform the same action in the following key:
   
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMM\ConnMgr\Providers(EF0974C-4C98FF6-AEF805DC0E8E)VZW BROWSER
4. Perform the same action in the following key:
   
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MOTOROLA\MMS\PROFILES\ VZW MMS

When you attempt to make a data connection, you should be prompted for a password.

NOTE: I haven't actually tried this, and it may only work on Verizon Wireless, but give it a try and let us know.

[jjroadwarrior]

Originally Posted by oopaloo

You people must have found out how to shorten the vibration duration by now! makes me feel like i'm having a seizure -
a thousand thanks will be paid for the solution

I found this after searching all of the forums. Many thanks to the provider. It works like a dream. I found the stock ringtones for my Verizon Razr and set the Alert.mid to pause 1 second and repeat. Here it is:

Change ringtone/vibrate/LED flash characteristics

If you would like more control over how your device rings/vibrates/flashes its LEDs on events, you can change the Script values of these events. For example, for an incoming call performing 'activate device, play ringtone, wait 3 seconds, repeat':

HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds\RingTone0\Script = "apw3r" (REG_SZ string, no quotes)

For performing 'active device, set volume to 33%, play ringtone, set volume to 67%, play ringtone, set volume to 100%, play ringtone (no repeat)':

HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds\RingTone0\Script = "ac33pc67pc100p" (REG_SZ string, no quotes)

The following are the full codes available to you. Please note that all the codes are executed simultaneously except after a ringtone play / wait code. E.g. 'v1p' will vibrate and play at the same time, while vibrating for 1 second. But 'pv1' will play the ringtone through all the way first, then start vibrating for 1 second.

a = activate device
cN = set volume to N in percentage max volume
fN = flash notification LED for N seconds
p = play ringtone. Note that this will play the ringtone all the way through before continuing with the next code.
r = repeat. Note that this should be the last code in your Script string, if used at all.
vN = vibrate for N seconds
wN = wait for N seconds. Note that the device will wait this long before continuing with the next code.

[bit_bucket]

By default the Widcomm BT stack puts you in \My Documents if you try and browse your device from your Mac. I found a way to change this to use \ or the root directory, allowing you to browse the entire contents of your Q.
Please note that this was only tested on the Sprint Q. Your mileage may vary with the VZW Q.

Please note that I take no responsibility if you mess up your device's registry. Registry editing is for the advanced users. Now that this is out of the way, here is what you do.

1) get a smartphone registry editor. I am using PHM which can be downloaded at http://www.phm.lu/Products/smartphone/RegEdit/

2) use the editor to navigate to /HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Widcomm/BtConfig/Services/003

3) You wont see anything. You want to click the Values smartkey and navigate down to Root and click on it.

4) Change the Value Data in root from \My Documents to \

5) Close program and restart the Q

* Next step assumes you have previously paired the Q with your mac, but this will work with a PC as well. Basically use the browse device function of the bluetooth pc software you have.

On the Mac
6) Click on the bluetooth icon on the top bar and select "Browse Device"

7) Select your device from the list and you will be shown a file browser in which you will be dropped into root on the Q.

[rdstoll]

I found this on another forum that appears to work.

This hack is for people who use GoodLink and have a device lock password forced upon you. I'm all for security and such, but it is such a pain in the a** to have to type in a password every time I want to use the phone even if I'm just making a simple call.

After playing around a bit in the registry the last week, I also found how to have a password that violates my organization's password policies. While I understand the reasoning behind having a password, the 30 minute timeout (which is the max my organization lets me set) is way too short. It looks like the goodlink password parameters work in the following way:

- Password policies are passed down through GoodLink and stored in the registry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\GoodLink\Password. There are a number of keys here, including ITLockedTime, ITLocked, ITPasswordMinLength, and a few others.
- When you go into the Lock/Password settings, the control panel settings dialog pulls from these registry keys to determine if your password meets policy.
- After a short period of time, any changes to these registry keys get overwritten back to corporate policy, however, nothing ever checks your password (as long as you don't go back into the Lock control panel extension) to make sure it complies with policy.

Basically, this means that you can change the key for minimum length or timeout and then go into the Lock control panel extension and change your password. I currently have a 1 character password set to timeout every 24 hours (instead of 6 characters that times out in 30 minutes). I've been running this way for about 4 days now, and even though the registry keys are back to policy, my reduced security password is still in force.

ITPasswordMinLength is self explanatory - change this to however many characters you want as your minimum.

ITLockedTime is a little more obscure. The decimal value here corresponds to the number of items in the list of timeout values in the timeout dropdown. 1 means only one item will show up (which is 0 minutes), I think 11 is 24 hours.

ITLocked - I'm guessing that if you set this to 0 it doesn't check these parameters at all, which means you might be able to disable the password. I haven't played with this one yet.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...=264020&page=2
After setting that value to zero you go into Start-->Settings-->Security--->Device Lock and uncheck the GoodLink Password box.

I have tried this and it appears to work. You might notice that if you re-check your registry after changing the ITLocked value to 0 that it goes back to 1 after you restart your phone and reconnect to the GoodLink server, which reapplies the original security settings, but I no longer am prompted for a password.

My big question is whether or not my IT Dept can see that I've done this or not. Luckily, I'm in a small organization so it's not a huge deal, but wouldn't want to be seen as circumventing our policies if I don't have to.

[jhalsey205]

Originally Posted by mrmailer

the save 6mb link does not work. it requires login but you can't.

I think this hack has been found to not work so the creator took it off his sight.

John