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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2009, 02:17:13 PM »

Quote from: jyg on July 10, 2009, 06:31:46 PM

I'm scouring everything I can find in TKFile. There is a bookmark.xml, but changing it seems to do nothing. I'm looking to see if I can find a definition's file (or something like that) for the widget buttons. Any ideas?

Sorry for digging up a thread from weeks ago, but I think you're on the right track here. The button doesn't default to the default profile because pressing home still goes to your home page, so the button itself is just a shortcut to 'http://device.home'

I'll look around in TK later as well. Unfortunately the widgets are probably buried within some larger OS-related files. Although there is the ability to turn them on and off, so their might be some module files somewhere.


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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #16 on: July 31, 2009, 02:05:37 AM »

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I prefer using the shortcuts widget. But I wish there was a way to get rid of the junk locked shortcuts at the top. I always have to scroll to get to mine.

Im thinking it can be done. There are a few bookmark.xml files on your phone. Its finding the right file that is currently being used. Some are used in setting your phone up from default. And thats not even saying that those are actually read from that bookmark and not in the widget programming itself.


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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #17 on: July 31, 2009, 01:35:23 PM »

So I pulled the entire phone filesystem down to my desktop drive and did some searching. These bookmarks are in the phone database Roll Eyes

What I guess is that NetFront is using a RecordStore (a J2ME database object) with preloaded bookmarks and then the bookmarks.xml for your personal ones. (I would think it'd just use the RecordStore for both... weird... takes way more to resources to deal with an external file than to create raw bytes from a RecordStore)

Anyhow, unless we can load the database into an editor (which I can do), and then put it back onto the phone (which I'm afriad would brick the phone) we're stuck...

Bantam, any thoughts?


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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #18 on: July 31, 2009, 02:26:55 PM »

I'll figure out which file it is and see if it can be written over. There are a few bookmark.xml files and other files with those bookmarks in also.


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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #19 on: July 31, 2009, 10:05:17 PM »

Quote from: Agoattamer on July 31, 2009, 02:26:55 PM

I'll figure out which file it is and see if it can be written over. There are a few bookmark.xml files and other files with those bookmarks in also.

er... well... as I said, looking at the filesystem itself... I search for two names of the non-deletable bookmarks. You can see the common denomator (among other clues there) shows that its kept in the db.

Code:

jyg@laptop:~/Samsung/Phone Filesystem$ find . -exec grep -H Weather \{\} \;

Binary file ./DB2/phonedb_data.00 matches
Binary file ./DB2/phonedb_logfile27 matches
./Brew/mod/1073741825/csch_genre.xml: 
./Brew/mod/1073741825/csch_genre.xml: <Name xml:lang="en-US">Weather</Name>
./Brew/mod/1073741825/csch_genre.xml: <Definition xml:lang="en-US">Weather Information</Definition>

jyg@laptop:~/Samsung/Phone Filesystem$ find . -exec grep -H 'Chat Group' \{\} \;
Binary file ./DB2/phonedb_data.00 matches
Binary file ./DB2/phonedb_logfile27 matches


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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #20 on: July 31, 2009, 11:27:27 PM »

OK, my bookmarks are gone in my medianet favorites widget.

I connected my phone to TKFE and went to the bookmarl.xml in the User\Br folder.

I uploaded it to my computer. I opened it with wordpad.

And for each bookmark you will see a '1' after lock. For example: lock="1">. I changed all the 1's to 0's. Saved the file and downloaded it back to my phone.

I rebooted my phone and opened up the widget for medianet favorites. I can now select delete and delete the favorites that were locked before.

Simple and all done.


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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #21 on: August 01, 2009, 04:26:04 PM »

Ugh... that's one of the first things I tried when I first got my phone. I didn't realize I'd need to reboot the phone and ended up putting the original file back, just to be safe. One little piece of missing info, and I turned it into an unecessarily difficult problem. Thanks for pointing that out. Roll Eyes

fwiw - this does, of course, also remove these bookmarks from within NetFront as well.


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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #22 on: August 01, 2009, 04:40:09 PM »

I didnt just delete the bookmarks because of them being in the database. Thought I might just be stuck with them then. So I figured if I just unlocked them I could delete them easily with my phone and not have to worry about stray links in the database.


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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #23 on: August 01, 2009, 04:43:33 PM »

Makes a lot of sense, good thinking.

I'll get the hang of phone platforms eventually...


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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #24 on: August 03, 2009, 05:43:43 AM »

So in lay man's terms.... we can delete the locked bookmarks now.

Would reordering the bookmarks carry over when sent back to the phone?

Think the trick will apply to apps and wall papers?

( I thought we had figured out the apps but I dont remember where I found it)


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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #25 on: August 03, 2009, 08:04:11 AM »

If you do this then you can go into your favorites and delete the bookmarks. There is no way to reorder them on the phone.

This trick does not apply to the wallpapers or apps.

To delete the apps you have to delete the folder with TKFE and then delete the phone database file (very dangerous method) or do a master reset and lose everything but at least those apps will be gone.

Wallpapers are yours for life still.


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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #26 on: August 14, 2009, 10:20:44 AM »

Awesome thanks... Really hated that generic page. I think I might build a page on my website for my phone and just point to it.


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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #27 on: September 20, 2009, 04:10:12 PM »

god i feel stupid for asking this but

when i create the new profile as described, the phone will not let me change to any other profile, not the one i just created, not the other two already existing ones

The phone gives the error message: "Unable to set while connected to network"

yeeeah...did i miss a step? Roll Eyes


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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #28 on: September 20, 2009, 04:17:55 PM »

Create the new network profile first. Then go menu/settings/application settings/browser/browser profiles and select the new profile and hit save. then go to medianet.


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Re: How do you change your Home Page?

« Reply #29 on: September 20, 2009, 04:29:29 PM »

aha, i cant have the browser open while changing profiles, ty


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