Windows Mobile Emulator Help

10.02.08 - 11:26pm

I want to run a debug build of fennec on my windows mobile emulator.  I have been able to do this by “mounting” my object directory as a shared folder.  Unfortunitely I’m seeing IO errors which I’ve read could be due to the way the emulator maps in the “storage card.”

So now I’m trying to deploy fennec and xulrunner to the Program Files folder through visual studio. Unfortunitely the emulator images provided by microsoft only have 10-20mb (depending on how you launch them) of free storage space, so the deploy fails.

I’m hoping some one out there has a work around.  One option would be to edit the emulator configuration in some seemingly undocumented way.  Another could be to download different images. Most actual consumer devices have more than enough internal storage (the HTC Touch Pro has 512Mb), and I seem to remember seeing device specific images at some point. Any help would be apreciated though.

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  1. dexter {Friday October 3, 2008 @ 2:58 am}

    As far as I remember, you’re able to mount any folder as a Storage Card.

  2. Le Sage {Friday October 3, 2008 @ 4:04 am}

    So mounting a shared folder as a several GB storage card didn’t work ? Weird…
    Undocumented ? The configuration file is a XML file, like this :

    MemorySize
    Memory (MB)
    number

    48

    changing the value didn’t work ? O_O
    You can download localized emulator images, they come with several form factors & sample XML files which could inspire your tweaking : http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?familyid=38C46AA8-1DD7-426F-A913-4F370A65A582&displaylang=en

  3. jmdesp {Friday October 3, 2008 @ 5:19 am}

    @dexter: That’s just what he did first, getting the IO errors

  4. Mxx {Friday October 3, 2008 @ 9:59 pm}

    hmm
    Smartphone and PocketPC images that i downloaded from MS have 128MB memory…if i remember correctly, i downloaded them from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3D6F581E-C093-4B15-AB0C-A2CE5BFFDB47&displaylang=en

  5. Mxx {Friday October 3, 2008 @ 9:59 pm}

    btw, my link above is for WM6.1 images

  6. dexter {Monday October 6, 2008 @ 2:34 am}

    Oops, sorry. I’ve got learn to read more carefully :)

  7. tomas {Thursday October 9, 2008 @ 11:49 am}

    Hi guys,

    Is there a build or anything close to it that will work on ARM11 and WIN CE 6.0 Pro platform? We are finishing the development on a mobile pc device that is in dire need of a better browser than ie.

    Let me know please
    thanks

    tomas
    sales@clearviewtechnology.com

  8. Me {Friday October 10, 2008 @ 7:19 am}

    tomas: try Opera Mobile :)

  9. tomas {Monday October 13, 2008 @ 12:43 pm}

    already did and it is great
    the problem is that the licensing fees are high
    looking for the only and best alternative left that could work on our device; firefox
    can you send me an email so I can ask you a few specific question?

    thanks

    tomas

  10. Vini {Tuesday March 31, 2009 @ 1:41 am}

    Hope this would help you out
    http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandriva/2009.0/i586/media/debug_contrib/backports/fennec-debug-1.0-0.a1.2mdv2009.0.i586.html

  11. Term Paper {Wednesday May 13, 2009 @ 9:28 am}

    One option would be to edit the emulator configuration in some seemingly undocumented way

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