Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

i was hoping the cab was here but its not :( or the programs

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

This is a great app!

My main issue with doing rom upgrades and reinstalling apps, are the apps that I have keys for. This one is perfect for all of the others however.

I'm guessing there is a way to edit cabs to get your key in there, or something with sdconfig and all that. I just need to look :p

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Most apps store their reg keys in the registry. You can find them and then export them to a .reg file. Combine them all in a cab file and install after you do a new ROM install.

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

stroths,

I've never built a reg file before. Can you point me to where I can learn how?

thanks,

rw

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

I don't know of a place with a write-up, but here is a site where you can download registry editors that work PPCs.

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/men...tryEditors.asp

I use WinCE Cab Manager, but its about $100 to buy. You should be able to do it with a free tool called cabwiz, but its not as easy. Here are a couple of other useful links I found on google about it.

http://www.modaco.com/content/Smartp...ange-registry/

http://www.gpcarreon.com/?p=93

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Any response would be greatly appreciated.

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Great app! I was just wondering if this supports programs that run after the installation (Like WBA that configs the themes right after setup) Or will it halt the install procedure. Thanks!

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

i love this app cause u can use it anytime not only when u hardset keep up good work tytyt for great app

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Well, I kind of use this as an alternative to Config.txt, but I suppose you could either run AutoInstall with a line in Config.txt, and that'd do both things, or maybe you can write a script and put it in the /AutoInstall/Scripts/ folder to call the OEM installer. I'm not sure, but it'd probably look something like: RunWait("\Extended_ROM\AutoRun.exe"). I didn't check the path or anything though.

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Yes, it basically just runs everything in the directory, as if you went into the directory and clicked on it all yourself.

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I'm glad people are finding this useful. :D

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Yes, it basically just runs everything in the directory, as if you went into the directory and clicked on it all yourself.

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I'm glad people are finding this useful. :D[/quote]

this is very useful

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Thanks Stroths.

RW

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

I think you quoted the wrong person... That didn't refer to my question :lol:

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Stroths, are your links above smartphone specific? or will these instructions also work with wm6 & 6.1 devices to create cab files?

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Oh really? Didn't know that either. Thanks!

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Quite a N00b question, I'm sure......

I'm looking to implement this to ease the pain of ROM updates (as I'm sure most of us are). Have just started to explore the windoze registry...

To apply our own customizations, can we just export the applicable parts of the registry into a .reg file, then put these into autoinstall after the .cab install of the particular app??

For way of an example, let's take slingbox. The registry contains the 'finder' id of my slingbox, as well as passwords and things like that- pain in the butt to re-key it after upgrades. Could I export this segment from the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Sling Media\SlingPlayer]

and just use autoinstall on this .reg file to re-populate my settings?? Or is that just asking for trouble??

That's just one example....of course there's many many many others....

Thanks!

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

The cabwiz download comes with 2 files (1 for smartphone and 1 for ppc) I believe. The directions should be pretty similar, but they are the best I could find in my brief search.

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

great thanks, i'll continue to look into it... just making sure.

in any event i think i'll still download the wm6 SDK and look thru it as well just for curiosity sake...

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Updated with AutoInstall3: Fixed some .reg import issues: Escaped strings now import properly; semi-working workaround for binary values >1k.

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Hi, sorry, what I meant was that: just like when you manually click on a cab and can edit setup options afterwards, AutoInstall lets you do the same thing.

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I don't use SlingPlayer, so I can't say for sure, but the method you described works for many programs. You'd have to try it out and see if it works in your particular case, though.... or maybe find out from someone else who's tried it with SlingPlayer.

Edit: Make sure you use the new version of AutoInstall (3 or newer) too, because the older version had problems importing certain strings.

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Now I understand.

Thanks! I'm pretty pumped to try this out when I get home. Now I'll flash to the new version of no2chem every day!

Great work

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Sorry, they didn't install alphabetically before (not exactly anyway...) but they do now (as of version 4). You can run scripts from the "Installers" directory too now, in case you want to run a script in between install files. :D

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

do xml files work with this prog? i've always wondered....

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

I had the same today, until I found out that it works when i turn off the /silent option in the script. Apparently /silent works only for CAB's that are signed with a trusted certificate. When turning off, however, one must manually accept the certificates. Hope this helps

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

ah that makes sense i guess, thanks for letting us know. Welcome to the site btw!

Re: AutoInstall4 (auto cab install, copy files, import .reg, run scripts)
 

How about working with one or more compressed files, and then uncompressing the files to the device (instead of providing and copying the uncompressed files)?
I do not know if something similar would make sense for the other items (installers/registry/scripts/...) but it might save some space there as well.

Re: AutoInstall4 (auto cab install, copy files, import .reg, run scripts)
 

Already worked that out by myself =D> and will post later...

Re: AutoInstall4 (auto cab install, copy files, import .reg, run scripts)
 

nice, looking forward to this.

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

I am definitely looking forward to using this!

What is the easiest way to get settings and such back in after a flash? I'm talking about stuff like owner information and sounds/notification preferences? I think I would hard-reset every day if I could click a button and have all that come back! :)

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

bump....

yeah i have many prov-xml's that never seem to work for me even though i know i've got the correct syntax ect... i've gotten away from dealing with them because of this cause i'm not sure where i'm going wrong....

not exactly the place for this question... so back on topic....'

bump lol

mousio's AutoRun stuff
 

So finally here is my piece of code, inspired by AutoInstall...

For details and usage, look here.

Use all at your own risk! :angel4:

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

hmm ... i get an error at the mortsript line:

StatusInfo( ActiveProcess(), info )

???

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Which error do you get? Which version of MortScript do you have? Which device/ROM combination did you try it on?

Try replacing the first resp. the second argument by arbitrary strings and see if that helps you out; you could also try to comment the line out, as it does not interfere with the actual processing.

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Does this install the cab files first, so that files can be copied to their respective programs after?

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Use any regular text editor to review the scripts and you should know the aswer is yes (for both plenTpak's AutoInstall4 and mousio's AutoRun - you did not specify which); actually the order can be changed quite easily should you wish to do so...

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

SOLVED

Error-msg:
Unknown command 'statusinfo'

The reason was, that i first used Autoinstall4, who installed mortscript 4.1 (that doesnt have the status-window feature, that beta 4.11 has). I thoughed that i had removed 4.1 - however, it couldnt be uninstalled !!! - So your script couldnt install 4.11

Oh and: DONT put an mortscript.CAB in your AutoRun folder

By the way, i had a REG-files, that the script couldnt read. That means, that the script doesnt get to write the autorun.xml at all (for all the good reg-files). I solved by converting the REG to a XML-file.


(THANKS for a splendid script !!!!)

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Great, glad that you found and solved the problem. =D>

My main purpose is for this to be used in combination with UC: after a hard reset, let it automatically reconfigure your device to your needs.
So now, every couple of months I put the latest updates of ROM and cabs on my card, and then – thanks to UC and the script – the update process then takes less than 20 minutes and my device is totally reconfigured again, just the way I want it and no user input required (except hard reset between ROM flash and UC)...

The script does not check if it is run manually or automatically, nor does it check the mortscript version it runs with, nor does it actively try to avoid double installation of mortscript, but feel free to post your own code as these are indeed interesting features. Another feature could be to automatically detect the name of the storage card root folder in order to support different languages...
Perhaps it is an encoding issue?
I had briefly tested the registry import and now that you mention this, I believe the reg file should not be unicode for the script to be able to parse it correctly.
Could you please test again?

:mrgreen: (ps: there is a "thanks" button)

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Anyone ever find a way to do this? I tried that WinCE cab manager program (the 30 day trial version) and I have no idea what I need to do to change the install directory so that things will install to the storage card.

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Read the tutorial I made a while ago, you may be able to figure some things out about WinCE Cab Manager

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...rial+wince+cab

If you need more help, you can just post it on that thread

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Thats more to explain how to make a cab, no? All I'm wanting to do, is make it so certain cabs will install to the STORAGE card (preferably without prompting me as to where I want to install them).

I tried to edit the properties of one of the cabs I'm using, but I have no idea what I'm supposed to put as the install path. I tried Storage Card, and when I ran the cab on my touch it still asked me where I wanted to install it, on the device, or the card.

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

Oh now I understand what you're saying. I am actually wondering the same thing myself. Sorry I don't have an answer for you

Re: AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)
 

hi,
ive tried to run the autoinstaller4 but no chance for me...
i have an omnia... ive copied the autoinstaller on my storage card but it wont work... after that ive copied it on my storage but altho no chance... ive copied my own sip and tmcp inthere and want to install it after hardreset... but it wont work... after i start autorun it takes a while and than my phone needs to be restarted... after than nothing new is installed...