HoppeRx - the cure for your ailing device
A community site dedicated to the support of device problems found by Hopper
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Date: 04/29/2013
My apologies to the readers of this blog - the HoppeRx contributors have all be busy working on the...
Date: 01/29/2010
WM6.5 introduced some new layering/compositing technologies that have the potential to break some...
Date: 11/20/2009
Establishing the correct value for Hopper runtimes can sometimes be challenging due to the number of...
Date: 11/18/2009
Windows Mobile displays are get larger and UI assets become more robust which is putting additional...
Date: 10/07/2009
The ability to try out bug fixes is a valuable part of the Hopper process and re-building images...
Date: 04/24/2009
Below is the second half of a well executed document from guestRx: Bulent Elmaci. Bulent has worked...
Date: 04/21/2009
Below is a well executed document from guestRx: Bulent Elmaci. Bulent has worked with Windows Mobile...
Date: 03/05/2009
I am not much of a programming book person, I am much more likely to select code and press "F1"....
Date: 12/19/2008
Virtual Memory changes included in Windows Mobile 6.1 can relocate read-only code sections out of...
Date: 09/19/2008
Interesting post over at "Reed & Steve" regarding Hopper and full screen apps and the Start Menu...
Date: 03/07/2008
A recurring theme I see while debugging application compatibility issues has to do with the direct...
Date: 02/07/2008
Do you want to work on next generation Windows Mobile devices long before they become commercially...
Date: 01/18/2008
Many OEM’s have already noticed that Memory Doctor doesn’t correctly represent VM overlap in some...
Date: 01/10/2008
I'm sure many of you have been in a situation where your device hangs during field testing. Or...
Date: 11/02/2007
There are a lot of people that afraid to switch of Vista because they are afraid that their stuff...
Date: 10/25/2007
I was recently running hopper on a device that supported screen rotation and I realized that my test...
Date: 10/05/2007
If you upgraded from an older version of Hopper to a more recent one, you probably noticed that the...
Date: 10/04/2007
Why my private binaries do not show up in the image? I've been asked this question too many times by...
Date: 09/28/2007
There have been a few blogs that talk about the benefit of focusing hopper runs on individual...
Date: 09/27/2007
I don't know how many times I wished Platform Builder had an option to load PDB files with...
Date: 09/20/2007
I was recently talking with a colleague about the RIL Proxy and it occurred to me that this...
Date: 07/26/2007
The release of Windows Mobile 6 (WM6) gave us a few more tools for dealing with Virtual Memory (VM)...
Date: 07/02/2007
This FitNFinish document describes a number of best practices for creating Windows Mobile devices...
Date: 06/14/2007
The intent of this document is to introduce Hopper to the application developer who is targeting...
Date: 06/06/2007
This is the first of the FitNFinish articles that we’re planning to write. (If you’re wondering what...
Date: 05/30/2007
Hello everyone. My name is Mike Calligaro, and I’m a Development Lead in the JDP organization. We’re...
Date: 05/25/2007
Over past several months I've noticed that when our partners come here onsite. They like to build...
Date: 04/30/2007
Posted by Javier Flores Assad (aka "The MTTF Dude") A new and enhanced version of "exception...
Date: 04/25/2007
I tried the various instruction on MSDN and other locations for running Application Verifier on...
Date: 03/30/2007
There has been some confusion around the OS version supporting Windows Mobile 6. Sue Loh does an...
Date: 02/20/2007
While debugging, I am often faced with trying to set breakpoints in module code that I do not...
Date: 02/14/2007
I was recently challenged by trying to collect retail device data and needed a way to stop Hopper. I...
Date: 11/30/2006
The focusapp described in a previous blog entry The Cat Parade is a great way for ISVs to get...
Date: 11/21/2006
Do you think you've got what it takes to educate developers, device makers, business & marketing...
Date: 11/20/2006
AppVerifier is a very useful tool when it comes to finding memory leaks. It is relatively easy to...
Date: 09/25/2006
If you run DevHealth on your devices you probably saw dup(d) on the page summary for a process or a...
Date: 09/19/2006
jbroxson@microsoft.com Back in February, the Doctor talked about manually unwinding stacks. MAP...
Date: 09/14/2006
I have recently discovered that the CEPC platform is no longer shipped with Windows Mobile....
Date: 09/11/2006
A very popular Hopper question I get is “How can I calculate actual expected device life from the 25...
Date: 08/31/2006
Recently I was challenged with a flash corruption problem and was forced to figure out how to boot a...
Date: 08/15/2006
IntroductionDoing performance measurements on a regular basis is important while working on a...
Date: 07/03/2006
Hi, my name is Fernando Gonzalez. I have been working in the Windows CE team since January, 2002. I...
Date: 06/30/2006
For anyone who hasn’t seen this content, MSDN is now hosting “eHow-tos” which are “multimedia...
Date: 06/08/2006