List of Android Applications installed on my HTC Dream January 2010

I’ll make a new post when I feel like it. Updated January 27, 2010. Rooted Rogers HTC Dream running Cyanogenmod 4.2.13. 60+ apps installed (over 100MB) thanks to App2SD. I don’t have a lot of games right now. I need my App2SD!

 

Exported from aTrackDoog

Abduction!,1.44
CacheMate,2.4
Documents To Go,2.003
ES File Explorer,1.3.0.0
Facebook,1.1.2
FxCamera,0.5.4
GPS Status,3.0.3
Maps,3.3.1
Moto English,1.1.16
Moto input method,1.3.00
Moto Smart Handwriting,1.8.6
Moto 拼音,1.1.13
MySettings,1.0.0
Root Explorer,2.5.1
SetCPU,1.4.3c
Simeji,3.C.4
Startup Auditor,1.1
Transdroid,0.13.5
Twidroid,3.0.9
Wireless Tether for Root Users,1.60
Accelogger,1.2.0
AdFree,0.3.2
AndChat,1.2.7
AndroZip,0.9.3
Ankidroid,0.3.1
aTrackDog,3.11
AudioHack v1.1,1.0
Barcode Scanner,3.1
Bonsai Blast,1.2
Bubble,1.8.2
Cestos,1.34
com.mathpad.mobile.android.wt.unit,1.3.3
Compass,1.0.22
CrossConnect ESV Bible,1.35
Digital Clock Widget,1.7.6
Droid Wall,1.3.6
Evernote,1.3
Free Dictionary Org,2.0
Google Sky Map,1.3
gStrings,0.9.9
Hi MSN,6.0.2
it.tautility,1.4
Kaomoji List,1.1.0
Kids Paint,2.0.1
Log Collector,1.1.0
Mobentoo Marketplace,3.3
mVideoPlayer,1.5.7
NewsRob,3.5.3
Places Directory,1.0.20
Robo Defense FREE,1.2.0
Shazam,1.2
ShootMe,0.7.3
SleepTimer,0.9.3
Soft EZ,1.0.0
Solitaire,1.12.1
Stopwatch,1.3
SwiFTP,1.23
The Weather Channel,2.1.9
Tip Calculator,1.2.2
Titanium Backup,2.4.2
Toodle Droid,1.0.3
Touch Recorder,1.0
TubeDroid,2.3.1
TuneWiki,1.7
Wapedia,1.6
Wifi Analyzer,2.2.8
WiFinder,1.5
WordPlayer v3,11.0.1

Nanami Themepack for Windows 7 (+ Corrected Version)

There has been a moe themepack for Windows 7 floating around featuring various Windows sound effects.

The theme originates from a limited edition of Windows 7 sold in Japan. This pack includes 3 wallpapers, and most of the sound effects as voiced by Mizuki Nana (水樹奈々). More information about the pack itself in Wikipedia, and on Akiba blog.

Here’s preview of all the sounds on Youtube. This was mirrored from NicoNico:

Well I tried it out for a while now, but then today realized that the one being distributed actually has a mistake in it. The person who packaged the themepack swapped the USB connect and disconnect sounds. To fix this, you can either modify your downloaded themepack.

Download a repackaged version here (expires 1 year from last download).

If you want a manual fix, you have to do is swap the filenames of ‘device disconnect.wav’ and ‘device connect.wav’ under the themepack’s folder under your local user folder.

After the fix:
Device (USB) Disconnnect is supposed to be:
ぁ、つながったよ (a, tsunagatta yo) -> a, it’s connected
Device (USB) Connnect is supposed to be:
ヌいても大丈夫だよ (nuite mo daijoubu da yo) -> it’s okay to disconnect

If this link does expire, you can most likely just download it from a Google search for "nanami themepack"

 

More resources:

http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/470/470187/

Fixing MP3 Metadata (id3 tags) on Windows

I have had a lot of issues with MP3 metadata (title, artist, album) not displaying properly in Foobar2000 and Windows XP. Either it would not read at all, or the tag would be unreadable characters (in the case of alternate language MP3 tags such as Japanese tags on my English Windows installation). For example, sometimes it turns weird like this (Foobar2000 screwed this up in my case):

 

This ‘metadata’ stored in id3 format. From Wikipedia:

ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself.

Windows (even Windows 7) and Window Media Player don’t handle id3v2.4 tags. If you have any MP3 that is written in 2.4, Windows has troubles reading it. More information on Wikipedia here. You also have different encodings you can save the tag in, which messes with tags saved in different languages.

 

To fix the problem of MP3 metadata not displaying properly, download MP3tag to rewrite the mp3 ID3 tags. MP3tag is a MP3 metadata editor that does this very well.

MP3Tag Usage and Settings

You have to make sure you have the following settings in MP3tag Options:

 

After applying these settings, navigate to the directory with the MP3s with the bad ID3 tags. You will then see something similar to the following screen:

Now you simply need to save over the tags for every file. You can either do it one by one, or just hit ‘Edit –> Select All’ (Ctrl-A)

Notice that the save icon on the left of the toolbar (just below the File menu) is now clickable. Click it (keyboard Ctrl-S) to save the tags. Now you can see the tags in Windows and most of your other applications. Here is everything working in Windows Explorer and Foobar2000:

 

(Demonstrated under Windows XP English with Foobar2000 v0.9.6.9 and MP3tag 2.4.4)

Enabling AHCI On Windows 7 Post Install

Enabling AHCI enables NCQ (Native command queuing) and faster multi-tasking response. See this article describing why you should use AHCI instead.

So when you do get a chance in do a fresh install of Windows 7, check your BIOS to make sure that AHCI is enabled to save yourself the headache of having to play around with it later.

Manually Enabling AHCI

This is for people who forget to enable AHCI on their Windows 7 install and want to enable it after to improve hard drive performance.

If you enable AHCI in bios after installing your Windows 7 in IDE mode, it wont boot. Since Windows 7 already has the drivers built in, you have tell it to enable the drivers since they will be off if you installed in IDE mode.

These are values exported from directly from my registry. Windows 7 RTM 64 bit only. Copy into text file and import, then restart computer and enable AHCI in BIOS before Windows boots. This is supposed to enable the built in Windows 7 AHCI driver.

To modify this for a 32 bit install, change the value of “DriverPackageID” to “mshdc.inf_x86_neutral_3f3676f4c0e7d884″

Source: Windows 7 Forums and my own Windows 7 install
Relevant Microsoft KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976

BELOW IS THE CONTENTS OF THE EXPORTED REG FILE:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci]
"Start"=dword:00000000
"Type"=dword:00000001
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000003
"ImagePath"=hex(2):73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,44,00,\
52,00,49,00,56,00,45,00,52,00,53,00,5c,00,6d,00,73,00,61,00,68,00,63,00,69,\
00,2e,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00
"Group"="SCSI Miniport"
"DriverPackageId"="mshdc.inf_amd64_neutral_a69a58a4286f0b22"
"Tag"=dword:00000040

Running Alternate Language Apps Using pAppLocale on Windows

Confirmed to work on Windows Seven 64-bit! Should work for WIndows Vista and XP too.

You’d figure that Microsoft would have ironed out these language issues by now. But the program is still in Windows Seven.

You can use a patched version of AppLocale located here:

piaip at ntu csie (In Chinese)

If you don’t know Chinese, the direct link to the modified AppLocale is located here:
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/%7Epiaip/papploc.msi
(I didn’t want to directly link to the file. Link works as of Oct 26, 2009)

Anyways just install it like you would any other MSI file, and use it exactly like the official AppLocale from your WIndows XP install.

Now you can launch AppLocale from your start menu and make a shortcut to run the application in your selected language. Sorry for the Chinese screens, but your screens will be identical anyways:

Manual Method

My original Japanese language program was located at:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\SmileDownloader\SmileDownloader.exe"
The modified shortcut link is now:
C:\Windows\AppPatch\AppLoc.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\SmileDownloader\SmileDownloader.exe" "/L0411"
You can replace the file path with your target file. The 4 digit number (0411) after the “/L” switch is the language key.
0411 – Japanese

0412 – Korean

0404 – Traditional Chinese

0804 – Simplified Chinese
Of course, the location of AppLoc.exe may differ if your Windows was not installed on C: drive.

Result

Before

After

Right Click Context Menus Addon

There are also guides to add this to your right-click context menu. Here are some guides for this (as well as additional information about this method):

http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1485430&postcount=1

http://alcahest.perso.sfr.fr/perso/apploc/applocale.html

Or just Google “Applocale right click context menus” for more help.

Cheers