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Windows (Embedded) CE PowerToy: DiskPrep

Here's a head's up message. I did a search before posting, though found nothing mentioned on the forum, therefore I'm continuing..
Resource Page Description
DiskPrep can prepare any hard disk that can be attached to your development PC so that it can boot your X86-based (Embedded) Windows CE OS Design.
USB disks (including disk "keys"), Compact Flash Cards, and SD cards all work if your system bios can boot from that type of media.
FAT16, FAT32, and exFAT all supported.
DOS is not used - the program prepares the bios loader on the disk and only uses that.
If you use Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can use VHD files for VirtualPC. This allows for rapid prototyping of a self-booting system!
Windows Embedded Blog;
Long link;
http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2010/03/27/windows-ce-powertoy-diskprep.aspx
Short link;
http://xrl.in/4xtd
Within this above links the extention VHD is mentioned, which means Virtual Hard Disk;
Virtual PC (Virtual Hard Disk) by Microsoft Corporation
Virtual PC allows you to maintain the compatibility of legacy and custom applications during migration to new operating systems and increases the efficiency of support, development, and training staffs. Connectix Virtual PC was taken over by Microsoft and is the basis for the Microsoft product.
Inform yourself more about Virtual PC here;
Long link;
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/default.aspx
Short link;
http://xrl.in/4xte
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Have a nice read,
Senax

thx you!!!!!!!!

Does anyone have a direct link to this tool?

[GUIDE] Getting drivers to work on W7 x64

There has been a few times I've ran into issues with drivers not being compatible with Windows 7 x64 so I am going to show you a way to get them working by running a virtual machine with windows xp x32 installed.
#1. Here you can download a free Virtual machine.
http://hotfile.com/dl/45019228/154c711/VMware-player-3.1.0-261024.exe.html
here is the same download link from their website, which will require registration and verification.
https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=player&cmp=EMC-PlayerEvalActivation&li=license
#2. You will need to either have an ISO of Windows XP or an installation disk for this to work.
#3. Install VMWare Player and follow the instructions, it is very simple.
#4. Once your virtual machine is open, it should install VMWare tools. This will give you access to dragging and dropping, copying and pasting, and various other functions from your host computer to the virtual. You now should copy all necessary files and apllications you will need to complete whatever modification it is you are going to do.
#5. Install HTC Sync on the virtual machine. Link: http://member.america.htc.com/download/Driver/HTC EVO (Sprint)/HTC_Sync_2.0.40.exe
#6. You can easily switch your device from syncing to your host computer to your virtual by right clicking the icon that shows your phone. These icons are located on the bottom right corner of the virtual machine. Picture below.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
One of the issues I have encountered so far is when trying to run CDMA Workshop on the virtual machine it will not open. It will give you the error "Sorry, this application cannot run under a virtual machine".
I have found a workaround for this.
Go to the folder on your host computer:
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\Virtual Machines\Windows XP Professional
Open your Windows XP Professional.vmx in notepad. This is the VMware virtual machine configuration file. Go to the bottom of the file on a new line each add these lines of code
Code:
monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "TRUE"
disable_acceleration = "TRUE"
This will stop CDMA Workshop from thinking it's being run on a virtual machine and should work for other programs as well.

May I ask you what exactly you are having trouble with with W7x64? I was able to get ADB up and running, root my phone, and check my MSL with CDMA workshop within W7x64. Just had to find the right drivers online, but it didn't take too long.

Same here, Win7x64, no problems

DSwarP said:
May I ask you what exactly you are having trouble with with W7x64? I was able to get ADB up and running, root my phone, and check my MSL with CDMA workshop within W7x64. Just had to find the right drivers online, but it didn't take too long.
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Albaholic said:
Same here, Win7x64, no problems
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=708419&page=6
it's a response from this thread. i, along with several other 64b win7 users cannot get it to work. go to the device mgr and click on the suspect, update driver and point to where the dl'ed drivers are and it does not recognize the drivers.
it seems to work fine on my the xp here at work. which drivers are you both using? i know it's not that technical. i can't develop for hack it any electronics but i can follow instructions and have hacked the psp, unlocked the tp2 and this phone among many, but i cannot understand how some were saying they've been successful and i'm in the same boat with many others who can't seem to get it to work on a 64b win7.

skoobz said:
it's a response from this thread. i, along with several other 64b win7 users cannot get it to work. go to the device mgr and click on the suspect, update driver and point to where the dl'ed drivers are and it does not recognize the drivers.
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I'll pull my own quote from that thread:
"The 64 bit drivers will not be recognized or installed by the Windows 7 automatically. You must force the installation of the drivers by choosing the "Browse" option then "Let Me Pick" option then the "Have Disk" option."

skoobz said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=708419&page=6
it's a response from this thread. i, along with several other 64b win7 users cannot get it to work. go to the device mgr and click on the suspect, update driver and point to where the dl'ed drivers are and it does not recognize the drivers.
it seems to work fine on my the xp here at work. which drivers are you both using? i know it's not that technical. i can't develop for hack it any electronics but i can follow instructions and have hacked the psp, unlocked the tp2 and this phone among many, but i cannot understand how some were saying they've been successful and i'm in the same boat with many others who can't seem to get it to work on a 64b win7.
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Weird. I run Win 7 Pro x64 at home, and got the copy of HTC Sync that was on my Evo's SD card to install on it with no issues. Run the version of adb-windows from toast's evo recovery zip file from it too.

crackerstyle said:
Weird. I run Win 7 Pro x64 at home, and got the copy of HTC Sync that was on my Evo's SD card to install on it with no issues. Run the version of adb-windows from toast's evo recovery zip file from it too.
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Its not the adb drivers that are a problem. Its the diag drivers that won't install automatically.

Berner said:
Its not the adb drivers that are a problem. Its the diag drivers that won't install automatically.
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My bad, I saw him talking about installing HTC Sync on the virtual XP.

For HTC Diag Drivers see my article in my sig. I have changed the Sprint banner with QPST with no problems using my diag drivers on Win7 x64. I also included 32 bit drivers.
I also outlined a guide on how to manually install them.

thanks for the guide!

Thanks, worked perfect. I was wondering why CDMA workshop wouldn't work right with VMware a few days ago.

Works fine for me on windows7 x64 as well... You just have to point windows to the exact .inf driver file and force it to install. No need to install an entire virtual machine..
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk

The evo always worked fine for me on win7 x64 but its terribly inconsistent with recognizing android phones and installing drivers (moment and vogue were a nightmare) even pointing to them directly. For whatever reason solutions for some definitely dont work for everyone

For some reason Win7 64 is picky about how the drivers get installed. When I followed this guide everything worked fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=697487

After following the instructions and running CDMA WS 3.6 in VMWare (WinXP Pro) I'm being told my current license key for CDMA WS is locked to a different machine or machine configuration, which I guess isn't terribly surprising.
I am not going to buy another license... so is there any way to set up the VMWare host machine to make CDMA WS think it's running on the same machine to which it's been locked (which is my host machine)?
The only other thing that would solve my problem would be 64-bit diag drivers for a Treo Pro and a Palm Centro.

KJThaDon said:
There has been a few times I've ran into issues with drivers not being compatible with Windows 7 x64 so I am going to show you a way to get them working by running a virtual machine with windows xp x32 installed.
#1. Here you can download a free Virtual machine.
http://hotfile.com/dl/45019228/154c711/VMware-player-3.1.0-261024.exe.html
here is the same download link from their website, which will require registration and verification.
https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=player&cmp=EMC-PlayerEvalActivation&li=license
#2. You will need to either have an ISO of Windows XP or an installation disk for this to work.
#3. Install VMWare Player and follow the instructions, it is very simple.
#4. Once your virtual machine is open, it should install VMWare tools. This will give you access to dragging and dropping, copying and pasting, and various other functions from your host computer to the virtual. You now should copy all necessary files and apllications you will need to complete whatever modification it is you are going to do.
#5. Install HTC Sync on the virtual machine. Link: http://member.america.htc.com/download/Driver/HTC EVO (Sprint)/HTC_Sync_2.0.40.exe
#6. You can easily switch your device from syncing to your host computer to your virtual by right clicking the icon that shows your phone. These icons are located on the bottom right corner of the virtual machine. Picture below.
One of the issues I have encountered so far is when trying to run CDMA Workshop on the virtual machine it will not open. It will give you the error "Sorry, this application cannot run under a virtual machine".
I have found a workaround for this.
Go to the folder on your host computer:
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\Virtual Machines\Windows XP Professional
Open your Windows XP Professional.vmx in notepad. This is the VMware virtual machine configuration file. Go to the bottom of the file on a new line each add these lines of code
Code:
monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "TRUE"
disable_acceleration = "TRUE"
This will stop CDMA Workshop from thinking it's being run on a virtual machine and should work for other programs as well.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did everything you mentioned and after i add those two lines and the end of the file and try to open CDMA Workshop in the Windows XP on the virtual machine it keeps closing out just like before. I been trying to get this to work for a couple days. Anyone who can point me in the right directions is appreciated.

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Thank you!
Thank you for the knowledge, may you have many happy blessings in your future! :good:

[Q] Installing Windows Phone SDK on Atom

I have Samsung Ativ Smart PC notebook (tablet transformer) based on Intel Atom Z2760 and Windows 8 x86 core.
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 required Windows 8 x64, Hyper-V and hardware virtualization. But if I don't need Windows Phone Emulator, I don't need Hyper-V and hardware virtualization.
Is there a way to install Windows Phone SDK without Emulator?
(Sorry, translated from Russian)

oh
The windows phone SDK comes with a complete set of tools, so while installing you can't CHOOSE what you want or not....
You have just 2 options-
1 : Install it with every thing which is present in the SDK.
2 : Maybe after installation TRY to delete/uninstall the phone emulator separately but at first you HAVE to let it install completely.
Hit thanks if you got me..!!

SUDALV said:
I have Samsung Ativ Smart PC notebook (tablet transformer) based on Intel Atom Z2760 and Windows 8 x86 core.
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 required Windows 8 x64, Hyper-V and hardware virtualization. But if I don't need Windows Phone Emulator, I don't need Hyper-V and hardware virtualization.
Is there a way to install Windows Phone SDK without Emulator?
(Sorry, translated from Russian)
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did you ever find a solution to this? I am having the same issue...

Indicator to manage ADB Wifi connections

I developed a little tool which can be used to connect and disconnect adb sessions to Android devices via wifi.
Maby some of you will find it handy
The tool is targeted at Ubuntu 12.04 or above but it should run on other distributions too.
The following libraries will be needed to run this program:
Code:
libgtkmm-3.0-dev
libglibmm-2.4-dev
libsigc++-2.0-dev
libappindicator3-dev
libsqlite3-dev
libnotify-dev
The code is available here
The License is GPL3.
32-Bit version and debian packages will follow soon.

Android studio gradle sync fail please help

Sir
My android studio software shows the below error please help to resolve the issue
Gradle sync failed: Could not run JVM from the selected JDK.
Please ensure JDK installation is valid and compatible with the current OS (Windows 7 6.1, x86).
If you are using embedded JDK, please make sure to download Android Studio bundle compatible
with the current OS. For example, for x86 systems please choose a 32 bits download option. (751 ms)
Please help