Guide to Modding your A1200
motomaniacs:
K. HOW TO CHANGE AN APP'S ICON AND NAME
As you install various java apps, you will notice that many of them have lousy icons or the name of the application on the Menu page may be in a foreign language. Here is what you can do to fix this:
How to Change an Application's Name
To do this will need to download and install the free utility 7-zip which permits you to open up the jar archive
Once you have 7-zip installed on your PC, locate the jar file you want to rename and right mouse-click on it and select “Open Archive”
This will show you the list of files inside the archive.
Click on the META-INF folder and then select the single file in that folder, MANIFEST.MF, and copy it to your desktop.
Right mouse click on the copied file and select “Open With” and select “Wordpad” (Important – do NOT use Notepad or MS Word).
Edit the file. Look for the line "Midlet-Name" and type in the name that you want the app to be called.
Save the file and then copy it back into the Archive.
Close the Archive and respond “Yes” if 7-zip asks if you want to save your changes.
Now install the *.jar file like you normally do and the name will be in English.
Note – if you already installed the app, then this will create a new icon with the new name. You will have to delete the old app.
You can also do the same thing with a PKG archive. It also can be opened with 7-zip. In this case you are looking for the file mpkgapp.desktop and edit the line “Name=”. Copy updated pkg file to phone and reinstall.
How To Change an Application's Icon.
To do this will need to download and install an icon editor. PhotoFilter is an excellent free one (download at www.photofiltre.free.fr)
The simplest way is to change the icon is to do it once the app is installed on your phone.
Plug the phone into your PC in USB Mode so that the phone’s SD card is shown as a folder in Windows Explorer.
Use Windows Explorer to navigate to .system --> java --> DownloadApps
You will see a set of folders called \MIDletxxx where xxx is a set of numbers.( eg MIDlet2014). Each one of these folders is one of your installed java apps. The higher the number the more recent that app was installed.
Do a Search on the application’s name to find the correct \MIDLETxxxx folder for that app.
Navigate to that folder and open the folder \Files. You will see all the files that that applet uses.
Locate the file suiteicon.png
Copy this to your desktop
If it does not exist then look for the file MIDlet-1.png and work with that instead. If neither exists then that app does not have an icon – it probably is displayed with a generic icon.
Open Photofiltre and open that file.
Resize the image to 48 x 48**
Resize the canvas (the space the image sits on) to 64 wide x 48 high (this keeps the icon from being stretched and gives some blank space next to it.).
Make this extra bit of space on either side of the icon transparent (All of the buttons to do the last 3 commands are on the Photfiltre’s task bar).
Save
Copy back into folder on SD drive (Ensure it is the same CASE as before – Linux is case dependent. MIDlet-1.PNG is not the same as MIDlet-1.png)
Unplug the phone and turn it off and on. The icon should look great.
You can of course completely change the icon for anything of your choice (or create a brand new one if the applet is missing an icon)
** You may want to play around with the size. If the icon started very large, you may lose some detail if you shrink it too much – but if it is too big then it appears huge in the “Open with” menu. Another size you may want to play with is 32 x 32 (Canvas 42 x 32)
motomaniacs:
L. HOW TO TELNET TO YOUR PC
Telnetting allows you to send files directly to your phone (as opposed to just the SD card).
The SSHD method works as described by Bragon on this thread.
Just a few tips:
• Bragon´s instructions supposed that you already had a Telnet or some console but in A1200i none of the approaches works (except using MKEZX). So you will need to make scripts to run the commands.
• Make a script to copy/merge the keys
There is more information on how to do that on this thread.
Note: the method described on this thread does NOT work on the A1200.
M. HOW TO "SEEM EDIT"
Seem editing permits you to change configuration settings directly on your phone. To learn how to "seem edit" - see the thread.
June 2007: Alpha43 has written a script that will automatically make the Voicemail and Network time seem edits. Running this script is a lot easier and faster than making the seem edits yourself. See this thread for the script plus instructions on how to use it.
List of Seem Edits
Some "Seem edits" that work on the A1200 (see FAQ sticky for a full description of the bugs fixed by these seem edits):
Launch Radiocomm and click on the GSM2 tab and insert the following Values Accordingly.
• Voice mail bug fix
Element ID:0032
record #:0001
offset: 0002
length:0001
Click on RDELEM
Change DATA to :8B or 8b ( Test which one works for you)
Click on STELEM
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• Time Auto upate
Element ID:0032
record #:0001
offset: 0000
length:0001
Click on RDELEM
Change DATA read from $D6 to $D7
Click on STELEM
Element ID:0032
record #:0001
offset: 0055
length:0001
Click on RDELEM
Change DATA read from $68 to $6C
Click on STELEM
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
• Flip close seem edit works
Element ID:0032
record #:0001
offset: 008A
length:0001
Click on RDELEM
Change DATA read from $40 to $44
Click on STELEM
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
• Cingular ENS
Element ID:0032
record #:0001
offset: 008B
length:0001
Click on RDELEM
Change DATA read from $00 to $10
Click on STELEM
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
• Roam triangle remove
Element ID:0032
record #:0001
offset: 0034
length:0001
Click on RDELEM
Change DATA to: $20
Click on STELEM
*** Remember to Restart your phone after every seem edit so it can go into effect. ***
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All of the information presented in this writeup was obtained from user's postings from the various threads on this forum. A best effort was made to ensure it is complete and accurate including performing all of the steps presented on my own phone - but there are no guarantees there are not errors!!
This Guide took many hours to research and put together. If you found the information useful, perhaps you would consider donating a few dollars to keep the Motorolafans site funded as it costs $60 each month in hosting fees. See the announcement at the top of the A1200 forum for details on how to do this or contact me (Alpha43 or Admin) for details on how to do so.
Thanks and Good Luck!
~Alpha~
Special Thanks to Kiwiguy for the help with the write up.
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-Alpha The Legend-
mekodamier:
Nice Thread, Good Work!!! ;) ;D ;D
pizzadox619:
Nice post
11 posts :D
error398:
Can i know.. what's the maximum size of this phone support Micro SD?
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