Windows Mobile Problems and Solutions

Solutions to problems encountered by students will be posted here.

Problem: When deploying to the Windows Mobile 6 Professional Emulator, you encounter “The configuration data for this product is corrupt. Contact your support personnel.”

Solution: Close Visual Studio and delete the following folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CoreCon

Restart Visual Studio, and it will recreate the folder with uncorrupt settings for the device emulator.

 

Problem: When attempting to connect the Windows Mobile 6 Professional Emulator to the nework you may have encountered an excption:
"Unable to connect to network."

Solution: The solution has been posted online here.

 

Problem: The camera does not work on the HTC HERM200 SmartPhone. Error message: "A problem has occurred with pimg.exe".

Solution: This is an issue with the HTC HERM200 only. Microsoft has provided a workaround, which requires editing the registry on the device.

First, you will need to install a Registry Editor program, which you may download here.

  1. Connect your phone using ActiveSync.
  2. Hit the Explore button, and drag the downloaded cab file onto the device.
  3. On the device, open File Explorer. If you put the cab file into the root folder in ActiveSync, it should appear under My Documents on your device.
  4. Activate cab file and the software should install.
  5. Under Programs, look for PHM Registry Editor

Once you have installed the Registry Editor, you will need to make the following modifications to the registry in order to get the camera application to work:

  1. Swap the size setting for Width and Height in PictureResolution
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Pictures\Camera\OEM\PictureResolution\1]
    "Height"=dword:000000a0 (160)
    "Width"=dword:00000078 (120)


  2. Swap the size setting for Width and Height in VideoProfile
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Pictures\Camera\OEM\VideoProfile\1]
    "Height"=dword:000000a0 (160)
    "Width"=dword:00000078 (120)

  3. Set EnableBrightness and EnableZoom to 0
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Pictures\Camera\OEM]
    "EnableBrightness"=dword:00000000
    "EnableZoom"=dword:00000000

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