How to change the Album shortcut in camera to alternate app

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I use Resco Explorer and Photo Manager as my default apps, I find them much better then the built in apps. The new photo manager also has some nice extra features including flikr upload ... anyhow ... I wanted to get Resco Photo Manager to open up when I click the photo album shortcut in the Camera app, since you can't do this with any registry hacks I could find heres how :


this is -not- a tutorial, just wanted to say how i did it in this very specifc situation. It may or may not easily apply to other applications. If you don't understand what I say below, don't try :0)

- Copy All Resco Photomanager files and folders from its install directory into the /Windows/ folder
- Copy camera.exe from /Windows/ Folder on phone to storage card
- Copy camera.exe from storage card to your computer
- Open the file in hex editor (i used XVI32)
- Goto line D5DD4
- Replace ONLY the letters H T C A l b u m with P h o t o M a n
* ONLY the letters, the spaces between are not spaces they are 00 which is not the same as a space.

- Save
- Copy camera.exe to storage card
- Copy camera.exe to /windows/ folder .. "Yes" to overwrite


There ya go.

* I can't speak for other apps but with Resco Explorer you are able to overwrite files in the /windows/ folder. It will give you an extra warning about overwriting ROM files, its OK ... well its OK if you know what your doing :-þ



-TSP