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I just turned a voda branded k750 "Vodafone Live" key back into the Activity Menu!!!

SO, hopefully this will also work on a w800, to enable proper activity button function.

Here's what you do -

1. Learn how to use far manager and darkmen's brilliant plugin to access the files on the k750 internal file system here

2. Use the far manager to find and edit the customize.xml file in this folder: \tpa\preset\custom.

Here is the section you have to edit:

Code:
<activity-menu>
<activity-menu-neweventstyle>false</activity-menu-neweventstyle>
<action-button-activates>true</action-button-activates>
</activity-menu>


The "action-button-activates" was originally "false". When set to "true" the middle button takes on activity menu status.

Once you have edited the file, you must copy it back to the phone, then turn the phone on and do a master reset (settings only is enough).



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Posted: 2006-06-16 19:47:23
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Oops....guess this works for branded K750s only.
I checked the customize.xml for both unbranded K750 as well as unbranded W800, none of them seem to possess that bit of xml code.
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Posted: 2006-06-16 20:31:10
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If the W800 doesn't have that in its code, I wonder what would happen if you added it.

Would that make the music button call the activity menu you think?
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Posted: 2006-06-16 21:04:40
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Where exactly is the Code:<activity-menu> tag nested?

Is it a direct child within Code:<customization> or is it nested further under Code:<mmi> ?



[ This Message was edited by: b1naryb0y on 2006-06-16 23:11 ]
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Posted: 2006-06-17 00:07:17
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It's directly after the profiles section. Note also the shortcuts section - use to customise shortcuts in Activity Menu and Joystick

Code:
- <mmi>
- <profile id="0">
<ring-volume>5</ring-volume>
<key-sound>silent</key-sound>
<vibrator>on-if-silent</vibrator>
</profile>
<profile id="1" />
<profile id="2" />
<profile id="3" />
<profile id="4" />
<profile id="5" />
<profile id="6" />
- <activity-menu>
<activity-menu-neweventstyle>false</activity-menu-neweventstyle>
<action-button-activates>true</action-button-activates>
</activity-menu>
- <shortcuts>
- <rocker-key>
<down>Phonebook</down>
<left>Msg_WriteNew</left>
<right>Menu_CalendarMain</right>
</rocker-key>
<shortcut>MainMenu</shortcut>
<shortcut>Sound_SetSilentMode_Id</shortcut>
<shortcut>SelectProfile_Id</shortcut>
<shortcut>BlueTooth_Settings</shortcut>
<shortcut>Settings_IR_Id</shortcut>
<shortcut>FileManager</shortcut>
<shortcut>Alarm_Id</shortcut>
</shortcuts>
- <settings>
<default-theme>Vodafone live!.thm</default-theme>
<default-screen-saver>Screensaver.gif</default-screen-saver>
<start-up-image>Startup.gif</start-up-image>
<shut-down-image>Shutdown.gif</shut-down-image>
</settings>
</mmi>

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[ This Message was edited by: max_wedge on 2006-06-17 01:31 ]

[ This Message was edited by: max_wedge on 2006-06-17 01:32 ]
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Posted: 2006-06-17 02:28:41
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This is getting crazy.....where is the profiles part in customize.xml?
Are you sure it's the customize.xml found in FS:TPA\\Preset\\Custom ?
Here's the customize.xml of my fone, all i can see is the certificates and wap profiles. where did i miss something?
http://www.savefile.com/files/3979272
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Posted: 2006-06-17 06:46:35
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just put it in the -mmi section (after -mmi, but before settings). My optus branded cell has the profiles section but not the activity menu section.

Good luck! If you can get it to work I'll know it's worth converting from K750 to W800. Thanks for trying

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Posted: 2006-06-17 15:04:30
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Naah, didn't work. And pretty logical too - where will the activity menu come from if it isn't embedded in the firmware at all?

The reason why it worked with Voda K750 is that the Activity menu itself is embedded in the firmware, but disabled by the operators, which's not the case with W800.

Can someone fwd me the original(unedited) copy of [b]customize.xml[/] from any unbranded W800's?
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Posted: 2006-06-17 15:20:16
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Okay makes sense. Mind you , vodafone have a habbit of embedding their stuff in the main flash itself - so I was hopeful that if vodafone hadn't hard coded their vodafone live into the activity button, that there may be a chance that SE hadn't either. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

Thanks for giving it a go.


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Posted: 2006-06-17 15:31:51
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I'm still waiting for some genius to hack into the firmware and extract the Walkman (and flightmode for K750 users), and the activity menu (for W800 users).....


[ This Message was edited by: IRFCA_WDG-3A on 2006-06-17 16:52 ]
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Posted: 2006-06-17 17:51:46
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