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Just a short intermezzo in this blog …

Just to reserve this acronim, TEAM which means “Talk Enough Action More”. Just a seconds before I wrote this, I try to search that word “Talk Enough Action More” (with the double-quotes) using Google, and found NO result …

Just to make a test, if the searching after this for that sequence is linking to this blog :) In my opinion, that acronim and wording are much better than “Talk Less Do More” ones which is currently used to fight with “No Action Talk Only / NATO” ones … Why? Because the meaning of “Talk Enough Action More” is highly related to the word TEAM.

So … enjoy this new “TEAM” - Talk Enough Action More …

This week is my 3rd weeks of playing Nintendo WII console. Hehehe … I bought this console after discussing with a friend about providing a game devices for our children. He said that, better for me to buy the WII, because playing WII means doing a moving activities, not just pushing the button like all other game devices, and that is good for our children.

And now, I totally agree with that. WII is different. WII means “body activity”, not just moving our finger.

But wait … this blog is not about talking what WII is. I like to share about hacking the WII console. I’m purely newbie in this area, that’s why I googling intensively about WII, and after 3 weeks, I found some interesting stuff about WII hacking.

1. Bannerbomb is a tools (or exploit?) to run an external application (ELF/DOL file) stored in the WII SD Card. This exploit need a specific binary file stored in the SD Card, and WII Channel menu to active it.

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Opera Mini is probably the best mobile browser in the world. You can download the latest version of this java midlet from this site. The difference between normal browser and Mini Opera is the way the web data is transferred. Using normal browser, we connect directly to the destination web, but not in the Mini Opera. Using Mini Opera, we connect to the destination web through the Opera Proxy Server. Yes, sure … there is a minus thing (because we surf through the proxy), but in most cases, there are many good thing doing this way.

The most important thing is : the total data transferred to the user is smaller compared to the original ones. Sometimes, it is very small, so it become more more faster to open the web. And for some reason, it can bypass an internal rules because the firewall (or proxy) think that the user connect to the Opera sites (unless they really block Opera Proxy Server off course).

Usually, Mini Opera is running from the mobile phone which has Java capabilities. But, sure … it also possible to run in from the PC. Using the help of microemulator software, a Java ME (Java for Mobile - J2ME) Emulator for PC, it is possible to get Mini Opera running in the PC. There are some J2ME Emulator which is probably better than MicroEmulator, such as SJBoy, but the problem is : SJBoy is not supporting yet a proxy configuration. If you are not behind the proxy, SJBoy is better, because it is a stand-alone application which is not need a Java Runtime installed in the PC (MicroEmulator need it).

Both SJBoy and MicroEmulator has a capability to resize their display just like a normal/PC screen sizes (just to remember that the original purposes of J2ME Emulator is to emulate the Java which is running in the mobile phone with their screen size).

Good Luck.

Usually, we (a Windows Mobile users) use RapiConfig.exe to execute an XML script (for WAP Provisioning) to modify some values in the phone. For some reasons, we probably need to execute it directly from the phone. To do that, we can use AEConfig.exe and modify some extension mapping in the registry, so we can just click the selected XML file to execute it.

I, personally, use xmlc extension to accomodate that.
So, I use these setting in the registry :

HKCR\.xmlc
Default = xmlcfile

HKCR\xmlcfile\Shell\Open\Command
Default = "\Program Files\AEConfig.exe" -ui -input="%1"

and of course, I copy the AEConfig.exe file in the \program files\ phone directory.

Afther that, we can create a WAP Provisioning file, for example, test.xmlc … and execute it directly (by clicking it) from the phone itself (no PC connection needed).

I have a keypad problem with my old XPhoneII. So, I decide to change it with another smartphone device, Dopod c720w. A GSM smartphone with 320x240 landscape screen, running on Windows Mobile 5 operating system. For us, who familiar with phone flashing, of course, there is a forum to discuss about upgrading its OS to the new WM6. I, personally, don’t want to migrate to WM6 for the time being. Usually, higher WM version, faster CPU speed is needed. If not, we will get a slower OS running in our phone.

Buy from the largets Indonesian community, kaskus with a good price (at least in my opinion, because I did search in the mall, and found no shop is selling this device, and there are some online adv with higher price). My first impression when the real device is coming into my hand is : slim and elegant, which is very different from the feeling that I got when I see it in the web.

And of course, just like my previous mobile phone, what I want to do in the first time is hacking (or tweaking) it. To make it possible, we must : ‘unlock’ the device, so we can modify (or create) registry values with no restriction using this Smartphone Registry Unlock software. If we want to modify the registry throught a script (very useful for mass modification), we can use this RAPIConfig software.

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