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Hey guys...I’ve discovered a resource of Motorola Q mods and hacks…registry tweaks…what have you… that you may find valuable to your Q-using experience and wanted to pass it along. You will need a registry editor like Resco Registry Editor and Explorer: Resco Explorer 2005 for Smartphone
And as with most posts of this nature, tweak AT YOUR OWN RISK!
The following is a list of mods/hacks that you will find thereafter: 1. Making the scrollbars smaller (Vert. and Horz.) 2. Moto Q Speed Increases 3. Changing System Startup Sound 4. Turn off Shutter Sound for Camera 5. Change Start Menu into List Instead of Grid 6. Shut Off the Beep that Occurs When You Initiate a Call 7. Page Up and Page Down in IE 8. Change VZW Image that is Above the # Dial Window 9. Change Startup Microsoft Splash Screen 10. Remove Sent Message Popup With SMS. 11. Increasing Call History
1. Making the scrollbars smaller (Vert. and Horz.)
This hack allows 4 icons on a row in the start menu instead of 3 and allows more to be viewed on the screen in IE:
• Go to: HKey_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\
• Adjust the following values cyHScr : Horizontal Scrollbars
Height in pixels (default is 6, set it to 3) cxVScr : Vertical Scrollbars
Width in pixels (default is 6, set it to 3)
• Soft-reset
2. Moto Q Speed Increases
The following 2 hacks increase system performance and makes the Q more responsive:
• Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE\
Changed limit from 16384 to 32768
• Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS
Changed - CacheSize to 4096
3. Changing System Startup Sound
• Navigate to: \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Sounds
- At the very bottom of the list of entries, there an entry called AllSounds
- Open that up and you'll see a list of mp3 files.
- All you have to do is append your own audio files (mp3, wma, or wav) to the list. Then you have to make sure that you place your new audio clips in the \Windows folder so that they are accessible.
- The next time you go to the sounds events page, the drop down menu will contain the new clips you added.
• If you want to change the system startup sound, go to: \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Sounds\SystemStart \Sound
- Change the hidden wav file, \Windows\Piano.wav to \Windows\MY_WAV_GOES_HERE.wav
- I'd be really cautious about changing the startup wav. You don't want the phone to lock if the audio file doesn't load. I converted my wav to 16bit, stereo, 22khz WAV file. I didn't use mp3 or WMA. This seems to work fine.
4. Turn off Shutter Sound for Camera
• Navigate to: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Pictures\Camera\OEM\Sou ndFile
• In the SoundFile key:
Modify the string/value \windows\shuttersound_02_secs.wav to say \windows\*none*
- Yes it should have the ** around none
5. Change Start Menu into List Instead of Grid
• Navigate to: \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shell\StartM enu
• Change the GridView value to 0 if you want list view.
• Change it to 1 if you want grid view.
6. Shut Off the Beep that Occurs When You Initiate a Call
• Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\InC all2
• Change String/Value InitVol to 0
7. Page Up and Page Down in IE
Key mapping for "Page Up" and "Page Down" in Internet Explorer
• Open your favorite registry editor then navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
• Create a new key 'KeyMaps' (without the quotes)
• Under KeyMaps, create 2 new DWORD values:
50 with a value data 1 (this will make key "2" Page Up)
56 with a value data 2 (this will make key "8" Page Down)
- I created 2 more DWORD values:
52 with a value date 5 (this will make key "4" Page Left)
54 with a value date 6 (this will make key "6" Page Right)
The key name is the keycode you want. 50 = Key 2, 56 = Key 8, 52 = Key4, and 54 = Key
• Other DWORD values available are:
1 - Page Up
2 - Page Down
3 - Top
4 - Bottom
5 - Left
6 - Page Rignt
7 - Horizontal Top
8 - Horizontal Down
9 - Default Layout
10 - Desktop Layout
11 - One Column Layout
12 - Full Screen Toggle
13 - Show Pictures Toggle
Keycodes Values for 0-9: 48='0', 49='1', 50='2', 51='3', 52='4', 53='5', 54='6', 55='7', 56='8', 57='9'.
• Exit registry editor once you have mapped it to your favorite keys.
8. Change VZW Image that is Above the # Dial Window
When you go to dial a # you will see a Verizon Wireless Image above that #.
To get rid of this or to change it...
• Upload the desired image to /windows.
The default VZW image is 240x27. However the author, tonyxcom, says: "Oh, and you can pretty much make the image any size you want. I made mine 320. If you make it any less wide, it will get stretched."
• Navigate to: HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Shell/Rai/:MSCdial/
Click on the String/Value BannerImage
You will see in the String: /windows/16_brick_131.gif
Type in the string field: /windows/YourImagesName.jpg
YourImagesName.jpg being the name of the file you put in the /windows folder in Step 1.
The file that we are dealing with is "ms_screen.png". The system uses this file for both the startup and shutdown screens. There are 2 ways to do this mod. The first is to create another image file named ms_screen.png, and move it into your windows directory. Of course it will need to be 320x240, and I would save in PNG format just to be safe. Be sure to make a backup of the original just in case you happen to botch something.
The method that I chose was to create a PNG file, again 320x240, and save it under a different filename. Then, move this file into the Windows directory. Now it's time to edit the registry to point to this new file.
The registy keys are located at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Splash Screen
We are interested in the CarrierBitmap, MSBitmap, and MSShutdownBitmap keys. They point to the \Windows\ms_screen.png file by default. Change all 3 to the new filename, and restart the Q. You should see your new startup logo after the Verizon logo and animations, prior to your Home screen coming up.
10. Remove Sent Message Popup With SMS.
• Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Inbox
• Next, click on Inbox (make sure the Inbox is highlighted) and select Edit, New Key
• Name the New Key as "Settings"
• Click on "Settings" (make sure the Settings is highlighted) and select Edit, New String Value
• On "Value name:", key in SMSNoSentMsg and in "Value data", key in 1
• Soft reset your device and test it with one SMS, and you will notice that the SMS Sent bubble is being disabled
11. Increasing Call History
• Navigate to: \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Phone
"CallHistoryMax" contains the number of numbers that will be kept in history. [ie. change it to 100]
[Here is one that I didn’t venture to try:]
USB Native Tethering, Make DUN Settings Stick
• To make the DUN setting (##342587) stick, do the following delete the following string value: HKey_Local_Machine\init\"Launch99"
• Exit regedit, dial in ##342587. Select OK, then Exit.
• Reset your Q.
Upon restart, the Modem Link app will be there indefinitely, lest you do the ##342587 again and disable it. NOTE: Unless you take certain measures your phone can lock up 80% of the time.
Thanks for the hacks - looks like good stuff. Coul you please help a qnewbie out on how to soft reset the Q. (Apparently it is not supported out of the box but requires some 3rd pty software).
Welcome to HelloMotoQ Dennis! For the Q the only way to soft reset is just turning it off and turning it back on after a few seconds. I actually haven't heard of a third party software that would help with soft resets.
Does anyoen have any images that they have uploaded for custom banners? i.e. : VZW Image that is Above the # Dial Window ? or the splash screen? please share your ideas!
While messing around in the registry I found this "hack/mod". Dunno if anyone else is interested, but here it is.
Go to \HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Controls\StartMenu
Change hide_labels value from 0 to 1
The end result will be this:
No labels under the icons, but name of highlighted icon appears on Title Bar. Different, but I like it.
Word of warning, this will cause the Start Menu to appear in some Task Managers (QTask, CeleTask) as the highlighted icon label, so you may not want to try to kill it.
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