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EMS Pictures

5 replies · 3,080 views · Started 02 December 2003

Hi everyone,
I'm new here, and I don't have any programing skills, that's why I ask. I'm from Switzerland, so my English isn't that good ether. But I still got a question.
First of all, I've searched for the animated EMS Pictures, that you can insert in SMS. I found them on the Z:\ drive. So I was so excited, that now I could make my own. I created a *.mbm file and was very proud of myself. But when I wanted to copy it into the same drive as the other EMS animations were (EMSAnimations.mbm), it didn't work, cause the drive was writeprotected. How can I unprotect that drive or how can i use my own *.mbm files in SMS? Is it possible?
I hope anyone can help me.
thanx

You cannot write to the Z: drive. This is Read Only Memory and contains your P900's system files. Files should be copied to either the phone's internal memory (C: Drive) or to the Memory Stick Duo (D: Drive).

Thanx alot.
But now I'm still stuck on my problem. Is there any possibility to get new EMS Pictures to use for SMS? If I want to write a new SMS and tap the EMS picture tap, I only got 3 Folders to look for any EMS Picture. I can't get my own pictures into an SMS. Into an MMS it would work, I guess, but thats not what I want. Well I guess I have to forget that. Thanx anyway.

"Schwiizer Ch��s isch guete Ch��s!!!"

with EMS, when you send a smiley inside a text message, it doesn't actually send the smiley that you see, it just sends the code for it..like " :-P ", the recieving phone simply reads the code and displays the smiley from the phone instead of it, so if you changed the ems smiley, only you would be able to see it

Well, ether I am on a steamboat heading for Rhode Island or noone understands what I'm talkin about. Sorry, I really appreciate that you wanna help me, but maybe I don't express myself exact.
I know that you can insert smileys into an SMS, but that's not EMS, that's just text, that the recieving mobile may translate into a smiley or not. But, EMS (Enhanced Message Service) is more, EMS is inserting real pictures, animations and sounds into an SMS. The picture format for animations are *.mbm files (Multi-Bitmap) - a format just like *.gif, a sequence of small pictures. There are also black and white pictures to insert as EMS picture but in the new P900 there are colored ones. I know that the Samsung mobile also accepts EMS color pictures. Well, maybe now it's a bit more detailed.
And now the questin again: Try to create a new SMS. After you've entered the phone# you enter the text. Underneath the text field, there are inserting options, first a smiley for the smileys, then a picture to insert EMS pictures then a music note for sounds, then the bold/not bold writing method and at last the size for the text mode (big, med, small). By pressing the EMS picture symbol, there apear the alst used pictures (i guess). There are also 2 option buttons, one for new pictures (black and white) and one for more pictures. By pressing the "more" button, you get into a window to select the folder to select where you want to get the picture from (I translate the folder names from german, so they may differ from the english names: messagepictures, predefined animations, predefined). Underneath that folderselection you can select the picture to insert. he colored pictures can just be inserted, while the black and whit ones can be edited by using the button "edit". If editing, the mobile opens the pictureeditor. I've searched for these animated pictures all around in the diffrent files and folders and found the file "EMSAnimations.mbm" somewhere in the Z:\ drive. Thats why I want to put my own created *.mbm files also into that folder. But the Z:\ drive is writeprotected, unfortnately. But I was wonderin if i can define where to look for EMS pictures maybe by searching the folders: messagepictures, predefined animations, predefined, but I couldn't find them). Well, I hope someone can help me now. I hope now I have described my problem good enough. Can anybody help me now, please, please, please...

And remember: "Schwiizer Ch��s isch guete Ch��s!" 😊

as the Z drive is a Read Only Memory Drive, I guess that it reads from the C drive, and copy all the system files from C to Z, to be available when needed (somthing like caching) so my wild guess is that u'll have to search the C drive for these files (and they might in a diffetnt names or even extentions), then u can transfer your image to the same place!🙄