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March 5th, 2007

11:35 pm

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I'm still geekin' out about it!
A very tiny fraction of you out there will be extremely excited about this. A few of you may find it mildly interesting as an example of Pete's geekiness. I got my Verizon XV-6700 to support the A2DP Bluetooth Profile via a handy-dandy li'l ole hack on th web.

To mke a long story short:

Copy three DLL's
Run the stub installer
Import the Bluetooth-enabling registry entries
Reset
Enable the profile entries in the pairing
Hit the right hand earpiece button
Listen to Four Bitchin' Babes

Findings:

The unsupported AKUv3.3 release cannot be installed on a "stock" VZW XV-6700 with the 2.07.20 update, despite what the forums tell you. Probably needs to be unlocked in some way that I wasn't willing to risk.
The unsupported A2DP fix does work.
In fact, IMHO, it works flawlessly with a Motorola HT-820 handset. The only skip I've noticed so far was a little "blip" when I dropped the device in the cable...understandable. Docking with the mothership is traumatic and invasive.
That's a couple hours of my life I won't get back, but the music, she is worth it.
Oh, TascalRegistryEditor Rules, MobileRegistryEditor drools...not really, but TRE got right past those pesky "permissions" on the WMP registry key, and imported the reg file right off. Handy, that.
The registry entries and xml file in the cab were clearly harmless...the .DLL's? Well, hopefully I haven't just installed a "phone" [pardon the pun, folks] home keylogger...but if I have, at least I'll be enjoying the tunes in the meanwhile.

Links:

http://www2r.biglobe.ne.jp/~tascal/download/pocketpc/tre_e.htm
http://www.phonenews.com/phones/index.php/UTStarcom_%28Verizon%29#HTC_XV6700_Apache

Enjoy

p.s. My data is 98% restored [I lost one PGP Disk that I will miss, but can live without...I suspect that the header with the volums session key was corrupted either by the event itself or a chkdsk during my own recovery attempts.] The long drought is over.

Current Mood: pleased pleased

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From:	ckd
Date:	March 6th, 2007 04:58 am (UTC)

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That's pretty geeky. I got my Sony Ericsson W710i to support A2DP by, er, turning it on. (The joys of an unlocked quad-band GSM phone that replaced a Verizon locked-down CDMA unit....)

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From:	ianrandalstrock
Date:	March 6th, 2007 04:33 pm (UTC)

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Tell me again: what langauge is this?

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