Moving JBlend to My Storage from Storage Folder
I read on several forums that users had issues with JBlend failing to installing on the storage card. Here’s a guide on how to move JBlend to storage.
This should take you between five to ten minutes and is almost risk free if you know how to copy and paste and know your way around the registry. To make things even faster, use My Mobiler.
I recommend using the same CABs as I did. The links are located at the bottom of this post.
Note: Editing the registry can be a breeze if you know what you’re doing. I recommend using FDCSoft Task Manager 3.1. The attached file is the cab for WM5&6. It’s a very powerful utility with a very awesome regedit feature with an excellent search and a favorites features. If you’re uncomfortable doing this, please ask around before making any changes. I do not and no one here will be held liable for damages to the system.
First, when we install Jblend, it will create a folder called Storage Card in the root of our system memory. This is really annoying, because JBlend is over 4MB. Not only that, but all Midlets will be installed in /Storage Card/Program Files/JBlend/InstalledMidlets. This can easily hurt your internal storage space very quickly. I’m sure everyone is like me and wants to save as much as space as possible.
Now we navigate to the directory of /Storage Card/Program Files with File Explorer, Total Commander or any other explorer program. You only need to see the JBlend folder, you do not need to be in the JBlend directory. If you installed it successfully, everything should be in order. Simply highlight the JBlend directory, find the Cut or Move option. Step one is done.
Next, we navigate to /My Storage/Program Files and Paste it or Move it there. I recommend dumping this program directory in your /My Storage/Program Files so we have to edit as little as possible when it comes to registry. Next step we’ll go and edit the proper registry values.
Note: Do not try to run JBlend yet. It should not run.
Where you should be now: HKCU\Software\JBlend. All you have to do is find the values that show “\Storage Card\Program Files\Jblend” and change Storage Card to My Storage. This is going to be the most time consuming, but with MyMobiler, you can simply copy and paste it over and over. Do not forget the “\” before My Storage in the value. I mistyped and spelled My Storage wrong on purpose and the worst thing that happened was JBlend did not start when opened.
There should be 10 values to edit. I highlighted them in the attached pictures with the \My Storage changes.
The final step is probably the easiest. We will navigate to the root of \HKCR and will create a new KEY named “.jar”. Exactly that. There might be a REG_NONE type value in the key of .jar, so we will double click that and select REG_SZ. If there is not a REG_NONE blank value, just create a new value in the .jar key. We will give it the Value Data of “jblendfile”.
You’re done. Navigate to your JBlend folder or shortcut (you will have to create new ones), and fire up JBlend. This is not necessary to install the midlets, but we want to know it’s working. It should open right up. Second, use your explorer window to find a jar file to test the changes. If you downloaded the Zombie Infection game, you should see the file with a JBlend icon now. Open it up and JBlend will take care of the rest.
That’s it. We successfully moved JBlend to My Storage. All installed Midlets will be installed to /My Storage/Program Files/JBlend/InstalledMidlets as well. This saved me at least 9MB immediately, which then allowed me to go nuts with more JAR files
Stroking the Samsung Omnia i910
Wow. Really. Wow. This is truly my first smart phone, but I know this isn’t because of that little detail. This phone has blown me away. This is running Windows Mobile 6.1. Look at these incredible features.
The phone comes with 8GB internal storage. This can be further increased by microSD cards. I will snatch a 8GB card soon for 16GB total soon. Wi-Fi ready. Oh, and a removable battery! No sending this little guy into the shop.
A 5 MP camera with face detection, 15 different shooting modes, image stabilization, smile detection, image resolutions up to 2560×1920, 4x digital zoom, panoramic photography up to 8 frames, flash, video resolutions up to 640×480, and a lot of other little options.
The phone is DivX certified. As for video, there is a Video Editor. This allows for trimming video, audio dubbing, and subtitles. With multi-codec support, it can also play just about any format available with a slew of media players including FM radio, multiple media programs such as Windows Media Player, Touch Player, MPlayer, Real Player, etc. It also has a TV-Out option to play videos and images recorded on an LCD television set and can double as a digital frame.
The Omnia also sports an integrated optical mouse that is really handy while browsing non-mobile websites. There are multiple options for on-screen QWERTY keyboards and awesome hand writing recognition software to be used with any application. Voice commands, with password protection, are also pretty well done.
The phone has a flash light, full PDF support, Office Mobile with Word and Excel, Skype, Opera Browser Mobile with tabbed browsing and directory favorites, chat program for almost all protocols (AIM, Gtalk, MSN, Yahoo, etc) all in one program/buddy list. You can also password protect this phone; one would need to type it in after the phone goes idle or turns on from a cold/warm boot.
Other browsers include Iris, SkyFire, Internet Explorer (ugh), Bolt, and soon to be Firefox Mobile and Google Chrome. I say Chrome because just about every Google service has a mobile side to it, why not their new browser in due time?
The phone has software for Podcasts, RSS feeds, and tons of games. Soon to be more, lots more.
It has a motion sensor that automatically rotates the screen in several different ways either to landscape or portrait, depending on how you’re holding it. Also, there is an optional feature that allows all sounds to mute when place screen face down.
The Youtube Player freeware (not from YouTube themselves) allows you to search YouTube for videos, save the video on your phone, and will also extract the audio stream from the video into MP3 to save on your phone as well.
Did I mention the native encryption for storage cards and built-in GPS receiver? It also has features to do factory restoration on the phone and to format external flash cards from the phone itself.
I also forgot to mention that you can throw your own ringers on here. Just fire up your favorite program, either MP3myMP3 or Audacity, record or cut a little bit of a song, upload it to your phone with the very easy USB connection into the Ringers folder. That’s it. No further input is necessary, until you want to assign those ringers as your default or to any of your contacts.
Samsung TouchWiz is also rather pretty to look at while adding or removing widgets from the desktop area. Nothing incredibly unique or special, but everything can be replaced with another like SPB Mobile Shell.
Oh, drat. I almost forgot to mention the Remote Desktop support for Windows based computers. It does a wonderful job remoting into the chosen desktop on the network and shows a full screen (on the phone) version of the Windows desktop PC. This feature really impressed me.
If a program is hanging, that’s no problem. We are all familiar with the Windows Task Manager. If you’re not, you probably just pull the plug on the computer when Microsoft Word freezes for more than two minutes. If you don’t use Windows, but are familiar with the Task Manager, it’s probably why you’re off using OS X or any of the hundreds of Linux distros.
I don’t know what else to add. It’s a very solid phone. I can’t imagine what I’m missing, but I’m sure there is plenty. Well, there is the bit about the stylus not actually having an embedded place to call home in the phone, but with a responsive touch screen and optical mouse, the stylus isn’t that necessary. Undoubtedly a last minute after thought.
If you have Verizon, give it a try while you wait for your name to be called. And then while you wait for someone to help you. And then while you wait for the associate to figure out what’s going on with your account. Then while you wait for the associate to fix his mistake that you told him would happen before he went and made the changes to the account.
To the Verizon guy Chuck: I told you that would happen. You should have listened. You made me angry, told me my phone’s promo ended a week ago when another associate told me the promo would last well into April, and then did nothing to try to calm me down besides act like a huge d-bag. I was an inch away from canceling my out of contract subscription. How would that have looked on your commission and to the manager hovering over your shoulder?
It’s a great phone, though. Aside from this phone, the Pre is the only other one I think I would get this year… so far. While I was stroking my Omnia earlier, Talal had to go and mention the Palm Pre. Oh, what a sexy beast that will be if it ever hits retail…
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