Using UC to update manilla settings - weather or people tab

[mnassoiy]

I've tried to come up with a solution for this, but I cannot get it done. I am trying to have my people tab and weather tab auto-setup after a ROM flash.

I've found the registry items related to weather here (and have these placed in my provisioning xml):

<!-- MANILA setup -->
<characteristic type="HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila" translation="filesystem">
             <!-- Autolaunch TF3D-->
         <parm name="AutoLaunchToday" datatype="integer" value="1"/>
             <!-- Background-->
         <parm name="CachedBackgroundPath" datatype="string" value="\Internal Storage\My Documents\My Pictures\doc_turn.jpg"/>
         <parm name="HomeBackgroundPath" datatype="string" value="\Internal Storage\My Documents\My Pictures\doc_turn.jpg"/>
             <!-- Weather settings-->
         <parm name="Weather.Fahrenheit" datatype="integer" value="1"/>
         <parm name="Weather_Focus" datatype="string" value="United States"/>
         <parm name="Weather.CityList" datatype="string" value="nam|us|mi|milford,nam|us|mi|alpena,nam|us|ny|ransomville,nam|us|mi|brimley"/>
         <parm name="LastLaunch" datatype="binary" value="80,5B,6D,B4,55,46,C9,01"/>
         <parm name="Weather.CurrentCity" datatype="integer" value="1"/>

The weather focus and farenheit parameters work fine, but the city list does not. These are special added cities in which I have weather database editor and command line weather installer setting up automatically. After the hard-reset, the cities installed are Taipei, Barcelona, etc. I can't figure out what I am doing incorrectly unless there is a specific manilla file that I need to have copied previously and replace it in the windows folder. I can remove cities and add these cities I want in manually...But that's no fun.

I haven't even tried the people tab yet. Also if anyone knows how to get the background to autoset, please let me know. My revision above doesn't get it there.

Thanks in advance

[daryelv]

Originally Posted by mnassoiy

I've tried to come up with a solution for this, but I cannot get it done. I am trying to have my people tab and weather tab auto-setup after a ROM flash.

There are two parts in restoring your cities...

The custom cities are stored in two manila files... here's the section from my SDConfig.txt which copies my custom manila files from Internal Storage over to the /Windows directory...

CPY1:\Internal Storage\SD_Files\Windows\_2330fc3c_manila
CPY2:\Windows\_2330fc3c_manila
CPY1:\Internal Storage\SD_Files\Windows\2330fc3c_manila
CPY2:\Windows\2330fc3c_manila

The second part is the XML which you have above.

As far as restoring your Contacts... one way is to backup your pim.vol file from the root directory and then restore it after flashing. I have not found any other way of restoring the favorites on the People TF3D tab other than the pim.vol file.


Daryel

[vboyz103]

For me, I use RGU instead of provxml and it worked fine for me. Also, my city names are all in CAPS.

For the People tab, if you mean adding favorites, I found that it doesn't use registry to hold it because I did an export of the entire registry before adding favorites and export another one after adding favorites. Use Windiff afterward on PC to compare the differences but show nothing on that. So I'm leaning toward it's probably using filesystem somewhere?

Another note is that for manilla 2D version it used registry BUT the used contact ID and each time if u reflash and restore contacts, they seem to have different ID. So it probably won't work. But we could try.

[mnassoiy]

Originally Posted by daryelv

The custom cities are stored in two manila files...

Thanks!
I have those 2 backed up and I can copy them just like that. Question though, do you need the Weather Database Editor any longer if you don't want to add anymore cities? If I don't need to install it, there's no reason...

Now on to the people/favorites tab. I have tried to just restore the pim.vol file, but I did not see the favorites get populated. That method also did not jive well with Outlook. I got double contacts and calender entries doing it that way.

I would figure that the information on the people tab would be contained somehow in a manila file (much the same way that the weather is), so maybe that's the ticket. Where do we find which file does what?

Thanks all!

[vboyz103]

Please see my post at http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=45440 for details.