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Review X1 Christian’s ROM 5.000

Since a while I use a Sony Ericsson X1 Xperia smartphone. This mobile runs Windows Mobile. There are custommade ROMs available and one of the best, made by a Dutchman, is the Christian Rom.

What can you do with a phone with this ROM? I want to summarize what I use, it’s a long list but not everything what is possible.

Above you see the list of programs. From left to right:

  • Adobe Reader LE - Windows Mobile version to be able to view PDF
  • Afbeeldingen en video’s – dutch for Pictures and videos
  • Audio-booster – this program will give a deeper sound if a headphone is connected
  • FBTV – I don’t use it, it’s a TV guide
  • Midomi – a program you can sing a song which the program tries to recognize and if so it will give you the name of the song and singer/group (internet necessary)
  • NOS Mobiel – mobile app for dutch NOS (internet necessary)
  • Nos Teletekst – mobile app so you can see the dutch teletext services of NOS (internet necessary)
  • SPB Screenshot – can be used to make screenshots, I made all these you see with this program
  • Streaming Media -for Windows Media streaming
  • Uitzending gemist – mobile app to see missed programs from public broadcasting (internet necessary)
  • Windows Media - mediaplayer ofMicrosoft
  • Youtube – nice Youtube application
  • You see the folders Internet, Multimedia, Office Mobile 2010, spelletjes, tools en utilities which contain a lot of programs and some games
  • ActiveSync is used for synchronize your data with an Exchange server or computer
  • Alarmen is Dutch for Alarms
  • Bing makes it possible you can search via the Bing searchengine
  • Comm manager you can enable or disable connections
  • Contacten, dutch for Contacts
  • E-mail
  • Extern bureaublad is the Remote Desktop client for Windows Mobile, dutch version
  • Facebook is, you’ll never guess it, to see and change facebook activities (extra installed)
  • Google maps, now included Street view!

  • Hyves, Dutch social network (extra installed)

  • Internet explorer
  • Marathon (extra installed)
  • Marketplace
  • Messenger
  • Microsoft MyPhone – synchronize all your data with je gegevens with Microsoft server, very usefull when upgrading a lot :)

  • Microsoft Tag reader
  • MSN geldzaken, dutch for MSN Money
  • MSN Weer, MSN Weather in Dutch
  • MusicID, like Midomi but you can’t sing yourself, detection of songs works really good (from radio, TV, etc…)

  • Opera Mobile 10 – nice browser for Windows Mobile
  • Panels - Xperia panels, I don’t use it
  • PockeTwit – Twitter client for Windows Mobile. Really good Twitter application

  • PockeTwit QuickPost – You can post quickly a tweet on Twitter
  • QuickGPS, data download for calibratie GPS
  • Rekenmachine, calc in Dutch
  • Skype
  • SMS bericht, Text messagging
  • SPB Home, shell I often use, extra installed the newest version

  • SPB TV, program which you can use for looking TV streams(internet necessary)
  • SPB Weather, weather program, extra installed

  • Telefoon, Dutch for phone
  • Total Commander
  • Verkenner, Dutch for Explorer
  • Vodafone
  • Windows Live

And last but not least : TomTom Navigator with Complete Western European Map

You can find Christian’s ROM here : http://www.christian-web.nl/index.php

(UPDATE: I see now a version is availabe : 5.120)

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Windows Mobile 6.5 Media Player playlist error ‘The system cannot find the path specified’

Sometimes there are days that we neglect an errormessage everyday because you don’t want to find out the cause.

I have an Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 mobile phone with Windows Mobile 6.5. I like it a lot.

But since a while I got the errormessage ’The system cannot find the path specified.’ when I tried to play a playlist in Windows Media player. I have a lot of special playlists created for different styles of music, what is my mood and  for playing Audiobook CD’s of  Jim Rohn or Tony Robbins…

I was annoyed with the errormessage and wanted to find quickly a solution via Google. I was puzzeld I found only 1 relevant link (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=362841) but it wasn’t the solution for my problem.

What was the case?

First I had an English firmware ROM on my phone but since a while I have used a Dutch ROM. I discovered that playlists have a logical referrer of the location which is not translated bu the OS. I saw that all files on the external memorycard in the .asx file were stored in their path as \Storage card\. I saw when I created a new playlist that the system didn’t use \Storage card\ in the path but it used \Opslagkaart\ (note, this is dutch for storage card). Little odd as you ask for my opinion, but ok, it’s like that. I changed the path in my ASX files from \Storage card\ to  \Opslagkaart\ and… it WORKS! It’s that easy… I expect this solution is for all foreign languages of Windows Mobile and not only affects the Dutch ROM.

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