Why can not find installed in memory card applications after restart the memory card

[^]BatmaN[^]

Hi guys,you seem quite experts of modding. Do you know how to install and change themes and skins on our phone?
Thanks

[spock]

Hi, this should certainy be possible:
1. it is already done on other linux based moto phones.
2. In the firmware there already is a menu item to select different themes, although ofcourse they currently do not exist.
I have been looking around the filesystem and i think i know where most of the theme instances are, and therefore by assocation where the 'new' ones would need to go.
However, I've encountered a few problem that because of my lack of linux knowledge stop me from progressing further:
a) I read that on other linux based phones the directory containing themes information is set at a certain size (using phone memory) and this has a limit to how 'big' it can be, therefore putting more themes in here may go beyond this limit.
b) anytime you write anything to the filesystem you come up against the permissions problem. This is understandable because if motorola had allowed access to this area then it would be very easy to brick the phone.
Therefore the way to do it is to decompile the firmware, find out which CG contains the themes, add the new themes, recompile and then load the new CG via RSDLite. Or better still to put the new thems on the SD card and then find some way to referencing those file via the firmware.
So what on other (P2K) motos is a fairly striaght forward easy problem it becomes a major headache with JUIX/Linux phones. Don't you just love linux!!!
Oh, and by the way, the neatest way (at the moment) to decompile/recompile is to do it on a linux system. There is something call Cywin which involves loading a virtual linux environment to a windows system but it is a long laborours process; like i said, don't you just love Linux !

[p3t3r]

I would really love to help you with that theme issue, but as I am not that interested in optical memory eating...

Try to follow that how to, I just searched for something like that and found it in minutes (sorry, that I didn´t do that earlier)..
It might work, I don´t know - please make sure to just try it using one theme (as the internal memory isn´t too big). Telnet is explained often enough, you have to get that to work yourself.

E2 themes/skins should work, those for MotoMAGX probably won´t.

And linux isn´t that bad. Don´t mess around with Cygwin, btw, use AndLinux or a real Linux distribution. Opensource software is good software, don´t believe the proprietary propaganda machines. Thanks!

@vkin: No, I don´t know how to change the loudness. I think that it should work the same way it does on ROKR E2 (I remember that I once saw something like that). I think there was some configuration file on CG43 (/usr/setup), but I am not sure atm and can´t check it.
I am not using ZMPlayer and rockbox (I once tried them on A910), as I use my E680i (4GB SD) for music

[spock]

HI, I tried two different E2 skins with following the procedure outlined in p3t3r link above. Once i rebooted the phone I did get an extra theme to choose from , but still only one skin (Alkali). So it seems that it only half works. It was nice to see that the font did also change when i chose a different theme, but the most noticeable thing that does NOT change was the menu icons. Those stayed always the same no matter what theme/skin i tried to load. It didn't even chose the correct wallpaper that came with the theme/skin. I know i can always change this manually but that's not how it should work.
EDIT: I found one skin (called NEWBIE2) from the M3 site that nearly worked all the way. It did change wallpaper, added a theme AND a skin to choose from but the menu icons remained the same except you go over them (mouse_over). When you made a selection through the main menu the animation of the icons (that is when they change) did show the NEWBIE2 icons.
Looks like some E2 skins/themes are more compatible than others, but i think the menu icons references is something else.
EDIT2: On rebooting it changed everything,even the power_down image. Great. Only one icons remained as was, this is the connection icon, so it does look like this procedure works as long as you:
(a) find an E2 skin/theme that is compatible with the A910
(b) Copy the files as described in the procedure linked above.
(c) Reboot phone
(d) Choose your new theme and check that you also have a new skin to choose from. This is a way to check that the E2 theme/skin you've chosen is going to work on your A910. If you only get a new theme and no new skin that it will not work.
(e) Once you apply your new theme/skin, reboot phone again.
Now all we have to do is figure out the setting in the ini files of the themes and then we can control font types/sizes, whether date is dispalyed or not etc...

[^]BatmaN[^]

How did you telnet the phone? My computer doesn't seem to see it... Did you mark it as "modem" or as "storage"?

[spock]

Hi ^]BatmaN[^, if you're running igeekmod firmware there is a small change you need to make before you can telnet in. It is looking for a telnet script that is in a different location at the moment. If you are running igeekmod, p.m and i will send you full instructions. You also need to add the samba script (which is completely missing off this firmware) to be able to use explorer to see your phone's files.

[p3t3r]

Hi spock, you´re right regarding igeekmod and telnet/samba. I am thinking of a very last R1 release to fix this..

[vkin]

Hi ^]BatmaN[^, if you're running igeekmod firmware there is a small change you need to make before you can telnet in. It is looking for a telnet script that is in a different location at the moment. If you are running igeekmod, p.m and i will send you full instructions. You also need to add the samba script (which is completely missing off this firmware) to be able to use explorer to see your phone's files.

Hi，spock

could also send me a copy? !
Thank you!

my E-mail :howard000@gmail.com

[vkin]

Hi spock, you´re right regarding igeekmod and telnet/samba. I am thinking of a very last R1 release to fix this..

hi,p3t3r

How can they have as much to handle task? E2
Whether there is a autorun igeekmod script??

How to use swaponoff reboot, whether to continue running!!!


There are many problems, Oh !!

[spock]

ok, pls find attached A910_tut.zip which will shows how to enable telnet/samba on the i-geekmod firmware.
Make sure you read telnet_samba_tut.pdf and TFstructure.pdf.
All the files required are also attached in the zip.
I have probably put the required files in more places than actually needed, but they are small and all go on the TF card, so it should not be a problem to anyone.
Hope it works for everyone.
Let me know if you encounter problems or do not understand anything i've written.