Hello,
As it has been posted before in another thread, I will forgo posting my Rogue's registry file, but I will mention what I have learned with some cautious experimentation. It should go without saying that
YOU SHOULD NOT REPEAT ANYTHING LISTED IN THIS POST UNLESS YOU HAVE THE UTMOST CERTAINTY IN YOUR ABILITIES, and I DO NOT warranty that what I have done will work exactly the same for every person and phone.
1. When reading the registry from the Rogue using EFS access, there may be some "trash" at the end of the registry file upon reading it after a reboot after writing. This data seems to be the data in the remainder of the phone's block size, even after the EOF. This trash data must be removed before rewriting the file to the Rogue.
2.
THIS MAY NOT BE TRUE, but I don't believe you can brick your phone with registry editing besides obviously causing malfunctions by changing parameters which will result in a loss of service or other odd effects. When writing a corrupted registry file to the phone (by not removing the trash data), the phone reset the registry to the first-usage state and had lost all customizations
which are stored in the registry. Widget placement was not affected, some widget settings were, favorites of course were intact along with all the data in other directories. I
HAVE NOT tried to remove the registry completely and reboot, but I think the firmware generates the registry on the first-boot.
3. Sometimes after rebooting the phone and re-reading the registry, the file will be in reverse order. This was the time that I overwrote the registry and it was rewritten from scratch. If this occurs, reboot and try to re-read the registry, it
should be back to normal from my testing. Do
NOT write a backwards registry to the phone, it can be quirky as I said before.
4. The registry references files which are not in the filesystem, such as the startup and shutdown videos. I believe the firmware has much more data which can be referenced through filesystem strings, but is hidden from us.
5. The proxy seemingly can be removed from usage, however you will
NOT be able to access internal Verizon sites. Data usage which I have monitored closely still appeared under standard domestic usage, and not under broadband access. HOWEVER, I do not see any benefit to operating the browser without the proxy configuration. Using a flash-lite compatible MP3 player which can stream MP3s on a computer will still not stream on the Rogue. The web page for this test was:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~nlpeaden/wcpe.html which can be accessed in your browser. The YouTube embedded video should work regardless of being on or off proxy. Crackle content on YouTube still does not work either, probably due to scripting complications. Hulu has never worked for me. Crackle.com has always caused my handset to crash.
6. I still haven't gotten VLC working to stream in a format that the phone can use with the RTSP media player. Using the video on demand part of VLC I was hoping I could relay FM radio to my phone across the network, but it's not looking hopeful. I know that Orb works fine for access, but doesn't have support to stream my line-in that I have seen. Any ideas on codecs? avr/h264 are seemingly broken in VLC 1.0.3
7. I played with the REGID_BROWSER_MEDIA_PLAYER=0 entry, but to no avail. After writing either 1 or 2 to the registry and confirming on re-reading the file, it was overwritten when the browser started. There was no effect in restarted prior to starting the browser. I tried using a filesystem path to the "mediaasf.mod", which I can only assume is an ASF capable player. There are two copies of this player, one was revised in April, and a larger one in May. No matter what value I tried in this registry entry, it was always reset.
8. I did change the value of REGID_HIDDEN_MENUS=0 to 1. It saved, wrote it, kept the value, but I don't know what this affords us if anything at all.
From here, I'll open it to comments and questions. I don't know much about these phones, but if there's any information out there about the bits and pieces, I'd be glad to know.
