First, you will need a font that supports Korean. You could get it from your Windows\Fonts directory. I'll be using malgun.ttf as example here.

Copy the font to your device's Windows folder.

Using Registry Editor, navigate to the following key, [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\FontLink\SystemLink]

Append "\windows\malgun.tff,Malgun Gothic" (without the quotes) to all the values listed here. Below is the snippet of the modified values on my Omnia. Mine came with Chinese support original, explaining the extra fonts.

Courier New = \windows\sunfon.ac3,SC_Song;\windows\malgun.ttf,Malgun Gothic
Tahoma = \windows\sunfon.ac3,SC_Song;\windows\malgun.ttf,Malgun Gothic

You should be able to see korean now :D

P.S. Additional language could be added in this way similarly..

Tested and works for Omnia II =D

Explanation:
FontLink keys essentially extend a Western/Roman font to include non-Roman fonts. By enabling Font Linking as documented above, you enable WM6 to search for Korean characters. Inevitably, the operating system will find the correct Korean characters in Malgun.ttf and render them on your screen.

References:
http://leeblood.com/2008/02/16/windows-mobile-6-changing-the-system-font-adding-korean-support/

Yea, the Omnia is capable of recording videos at widescreen format, 5:3 ratio. Although not standard ratio, this resoluation allows the recorded video to be played in full screen

1. Use a registry editor, go to HKCU/Software/Samsung/Camera
2. Change the value of VideoSize to 1653, and you can now record 400x240 videos :D

1652=640x480
1653=400x240
1654=320x240
1655=176x144

Note: you will need to go to video mode at least once before you could see the registry entries. Changing the setting in the camera will set it back to the original resolution. In addition, the camera setting does not reflect the new resolution.



Thanks andylyf for the tips :)
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showpost.php?p=36451466&postcount=6899

Using a registry editor, go to the following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\FontLink\SystemLink

Change the font under the [HelveticaNeue LT 55 Roman],[HelveticaNeue LT 35 Thin] two strings into the Chinese font you already used.

Make it simple, normally you should find a string named "Tahoma" in the same area, and the value inside is exactly the Chinese font that you use now.

Now save the changes, and soft reset the phone :)

To change initial ringtone to loud instead of soft, go to the following registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/CONTROLPANEL/SOUNDCATAGORIES/INCALL
Change INITVOL from 2 to 4 and soft reset the phone.

Alternative solution:

Go to HKCU\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Ring\AttenuationCategory and change the value to 1 and you are all fixed. No more annoying increasing ringtone. Set it loud and have it loud, set it low and keep it low 
There are 3 values that the AttenuationCategory can be set for. 

0 is no ringtone volume
1 is flat ringtone volume
2 is increasing ringtone volume

REMEMBER TO WAIT 30SECS THEN SOFT RESET.

Note that these 2 methods doesnt work for all handset... still trying to explore the reason behind it...

Here's a quick fix to the "Incorrect software version!".

One common issue is that you are trying to downgrade the firmware, check out my previous thread on how sammy derived their version number. The updater is very firm on only one way update, ie upgrading to newer version.

- Get your favourite registry edit
- change HKCU\Control Panel\Version\CustomVersion from DXHJ1 to any version number that is lower than the one you are trying to install

Voila! You should be able to install the new firmware, be it upgrade or downgrade.

Another common issue is that the phone region setting is different to that of the firmware that you are trying to install. You should always try the first method unless you are sure that the region code is affecting the updating

Press the 'dial' key to the left of the optical pad to bring up the dialer
With the onscreen keypad input *#1546792*#
Select 'Preconfiguration'
Enter code *#81230*# and select OK
Select 'Singapore', with the default Operator
Accept this, DEVICE WILL HARD RESET
Run update, and all should be well.

Dislike the Samsung dialer? Here's a way to restore the default Windows Mobile dialer,

1. Go to HKLM/Security/Phone/Skin using your favourite registry editor
2. Change the value of Enabled from 1 to 0
3. Soft reset and you get the default dialer :)

Changing to this default dialer reduces around 6mb of memory usage!

Finally managed to get the HTC Task Manager 2.1 to work on omnia :D
Previously was able to get version 1.5 working, but it is not as finger friendly as 2.1

Here's the link for the download, install the cab file first. After that, copy the files in 'into Windows' to your /Windows/ directory, overwrite all the files in ur omnia! Lastly, import both registry file and restart the phone :)




A video showing the task manager in action

You will need Total Commander for this tip to work.


1. Launch Total Commander

2. Browse to "Windows" folder

3. Find the file "thread_sms.htm"

4. Press the icon at the bottom row, next to the Show button.



You will see a whole chunk of code


<Inbox:content id="COMPOSESUBJECT" width="98%" height=35 spell ......

Locate the line shown above and modify the value of height to something you like.



I have change the default value of 35 to 65, this gives me a nice 3 line spacing for the input :)

Use your favourite registry editor, go to [HKLM/Hardware/Devicemap/Touch]

Modify the value for Calibration Data to 519,503 177,881 182,129 847,127 849,872
Modify Click from 1280 to 2000 (decimal)
Modify DownUp from 256 to 750 (decimal)

Save the changes and soft reset the phone for the new setting to take effect!

P.S. The original data are derived from screen calibration when you touch the 5 points. So basically you dun really need to backup the original data this time, as you could always recalibrate the screen if you dun like the new setting.

For those that do not use shozu, this application is always running in the background, consuming about 400kb of memory. To prevent it from auto starting, use a registry editor and go to the following value [HKLM\init\]

Look for Launcher140, which should have the string "\Windows\shozurcp.exe" as data. Delete the entire row for Launch140.

To restore, you could always create a new value with Name "Launch140", value "\Windows\shozuRcp.exe" and type as REG_SZ



Caution! DO NOT delete the rest of the keys as this will cause the Omnia to freeze when start up!

To show the Time, Date, both or Battery on top bar at Today screen, you will need a registry editor and go to the following values, create the new keys if they does not exist.

[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\] 
Time: 
"ShowTitleBarClock"=1 / "TBOpt"=1 
Date: 
"ShowTitleBarClock"=1 / "TBOpt"=2 
Both date and time: 
"ShowTitleBarClock"=1 / "TBOpt"=3 
Nothing: 
"ShowTitleBarClock"=1 / "TBOpt"=0 
Battery: 
"ShowTitleBarClock"=0 / "TBOpt"=1

Note 1: If you are switching to the Analog clock display, the date will remain visible through the Analog clock.
Note 2: Setting the clock to invisible (show ‘nothing’) will not release the reserved space, so taskbar background is shown, and obscure any icons that will shift to the right.
Note 3: The date may get overlapped by the space reserved for the OK/Close button in the top-right corner. The fix is to add spaces at the end of your ‘Short Date Format’.

Beside, it’s also possible to display and attach AM or PM to the clock. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\nls\overrides to add a few new registry value:

1. Create a new String value with name = S1159 & data = Am
2. Create a new String value with name = S2359 & data = Pm
3. Create a new String value with name = STFmt & data = h:mm tM

Note: Please follow the capital letters and small letters used exactly or it may cause hard resets to your WM5 devices, and AM or PM (in capital letters) will be shown on the taskbar eventhough the registry data value was entered as Am and Pm.

Find that shutter jingle irritating? Here's how you can remove it,

Open the registry editor > navigate to the following key
HKCU\Software\Samsung\Camera
Modify the ShutterSound to a number greater than 2 shall do the work. However, if you modify the sound settings in the camera, you will have to modify the registry again.

Another persistant solution, you got to find a wave file that playback nothing! (There's a silence.wav located in the windows directory) Decide on which shutter jingle you are going to replace. Rename your silent wave file to Shutter0X.wav where X is the number corresponding to the shutter jingle in the camera settings.  Copy this file into the windows directory and voila! Your camera remains quiet when taking photos

This is one of the most mysterious task to be done on the phone. The manual does not document it, and only a handful of the users reported success.

After torturing my omnia, finally I can confirm the following is the valid methods to do a hard reset using the hardware keys.

When Omnia powered off,
hold onto the Call and Cancel buttons, press and hold the power button for a approximately 5 seconds until the reset screen shows up. If you do it wrongly, you will hear the samsung jingle and the startup animation.

When it is on,
hold onto the Call and Cancel buttons, poke the soft reset hole and the reset screen shall show up.

This is a snapshot of the reset screen.

By the way, this hard reset does not erase the 16GB memory. To reset everything, you could use the software hard reset by going to Settings > Hard Reset. There is also option to format the storage card.

One point to note though, if you decided not to format and press cancel, that will soft reset the phone.

P.S. Hard Reset means restoring it to the factory state, so all your files and programs will be removed! Backup your files before proceeding with the reset!

Customising the ringer for SMS seems to be quite a chore, following are a few methods that i have discovered for customising SMS and call ringtones.

method #1: Copy the mp3 or your choice of music file to My Device\My Documents. Any mp3 there could be set as ringtone for SMS, call, etc. Basically any event could be customised with the music file placed here.

method #2: Copy the file to My Storage. You will have to keep the file on the root folder of the16GB storage space. Similar to method 1, any files placed here could be set to any events.

method #3: Place the file in My Device\My Documents\My Ringtones. Files are can be set as caller ringtone only.

method #4: From any folder, just right click on the audio file (tap and hold), select Set As Ringtone. The system will copy the file to the folder mentioned in method 3 and set it as the caller ringtone.

Hack, why do I have to pay to watch video streaming when there is free WIFI around. Finally gotten my streaming player to work with WIFI, after some testing.

Now i could watch Youtube for free 

To configure the streaming player to make use of WIFI by default,
go to menu > options.

Choose 'The Internet' for the Connect via drop down list. 

Next, take note of the port range, and the transport protocol. The default values should be 6970 to 32000 and automatic transport. These are the port numbers and protocol you must enabled in your wireless router. Make sure the numbers match, otherwise the player will not be able to receive the video stream!

P.S. You do not need the whole range of ports for streaming, basically i have reduced it to 6970 - 6975. Have not experience any lag on the streaming so far.

There are 3 tabs on the home screen, namely home, phonebook and settings.
To switch around these tabs, just tab on the respective icon.

Below are more options that you could do at each tab;

Home
- Tap on the icon to bring up the main menu
- Tap and hold on the clock to show up the option menu. Inside the option menu, you have 2 different style of clock to choose from, and whether to display world time.
-Pressing the Cancel key will bring up the home tab also!

Phonebook
- Tap on the empty slot to add an entry.
- Tap on the phonebook icon, the negative icon will show up, and you could remove entries from the list.
- To replace an entry, you would hav to remove it before you could add.
- There are a total of 27 quickdial slots!

Setting
-Tap on the Setting icon to unlock the page.
-Tap on any of the 9 icons to toggle the setting after you have unlock.
-To lock the page, tap on any of the tabs.
-Flight mode turn off WIFI, Bluetooth, and Phone

To launch the task manager,
-press and hold the menu button (top right button)
-swip the finger from the samsung logo upwards.

One handy feature of the task manager is that, if the touch player is minised, the task manager will show the player controls when it is brought up. So you could control your playback without having to launch the player, neat!