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Need info on how to modify CommManager

Im looking for any information you can provide on how to modify the graphics for the CommManager. Anyone able to link would definately be my hero. LOL. Thanks in advance.

The way I did it was I copied all the image files from the windows folder on my phone over to my computer and then went through them and found the ones that belonged to the commanager and then modified them to the way I wanted them to look and then put them back to replace the old ones. Hopefully you're good at graphics because it took me a few days to redo mine since I kind of suck at it.

nottoosmart said:
Im looking for any information you can provide on how to modify the graphics for the CommManager. Anyone able to link would definately be my hero. LOL. Thanks in advance.
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Dude....LOL
I started a thread the other day trying to do the samething
If I find a solution....I'll pm you & please do the same
Mine had several 100 hits and xeno1 is the only one to respond
Thanks xeno1 but I couldn't find the background for the CommManager to modify....I found everything else tho
P.S.: I'm loving Jaguar 3.1. It got me using my MDA again

xeno1 said:
The way I did it was I copied all the image files from the windows folder on my phone over to my computer and then went through them and found the ones that belonged to the commanager and then modified them to the way I wanted them to look and then put them back to replace the old ones. Hopefully you're good at graphics because it took me a few days to redo mine since I kind of suck at it.
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Can you post a pic of yours for us
If possible, can you tell us the name of the file you modified....thanks

For the 8, 9, and 10 button touch style commManager from the Kaiser that I've been using, the Background is BG.png and L_BG.png .
Looking at packages for the standard Wizard commManager, it looks like the graphics are in the Res DLL file. You can use the ResHacker tool in the Core Kitchen to view and edit this (in theory).

When i go through the rom i find no images for the CommManager, when i open the CommManager dll There are resources in there, but When i try to replace those, I get an error about it not being signed.
So what do we do here, is there any registry key like with the phone dialer that can tell it where to get the graphics?

In the HyperCore Kitchen there is a signer program and some files for it. I haven't figured that part out myself yet, but maybe ask anichillus for the steps.

mfrazzz said:
In the HyperCore Kitchen there is a signer program and some files for it. I haven't figured that part out myself yet, but maybe ask anichillus for the steps.
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It's easy , just start the signer ...and it will guide you. I had a tutorial on my website...but....my favorite saying in English : "$#it happens"
For a good resource tool, i recommend Restorator 2007....but it's not free

dwny said:
Can you post a pic of yours for us
If possible, can you tell us the name of the file you modified....thanks
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The one I changed was the 8 button commanager that mfrazzz used in XM6 the first edition (the gray gradient touch looking one) and all of the images were in the in the windows folder. The names of them were 0_on, 1_on ..., 0_off, 1_off..., 0_dis, 1_dis ..., 0_dn, 1_dn..., L_8_dn, L_4_dn etc, etc. Unfortunately I haven't used that commanager since I had XM6 on my phone and I didn't get a screenshot of it, but here's a couple of buttons that I made for it (I made 2 different versions, one black and one with a green - black gradient).
I just checked and I installed the 10 button black commanager on my newest ROM and all of the image files for it are also in the windows folder. - nevermind, I forgot that when I cooked this ROM it actually had a 10 button version of the same commanger that I mentioned above and I installed the 10 button black one later. The images that I saw listed in the windows folder were the ones for the one that was on there first.
I guess if you want to edit a commanager that you don't have to edit a .dll file to change then use that one.

Camera Version 5.04(Build 29195)

I came accross this cab file here. (http://www.cinetsystems.com/xda/Kaiser Cab Collections/Nadavi_HTC_Camera_5_0_4_2915_00.cab)
This upgrade seems to work great but I would like to know if this upgrade is correct in that it does not show any descriptions at the bottom of the screen, except a darkened area containing menu and photo album symbols.
Surely this is not displaying correctly.
Can someone please advise and provide a correct .cab if necessary.
This is for my HTC TyTN II only.

basilrsa said:
I came accross this cab file here. (http://www.cinetsystems.com/xda/Kaiser Cab Collections/Nadavi_HTC_Camera_5_0_4_2915_00.cab)
This upgrade seems to work great but I would like to know if this upgrade is correct in that it does not show any descriptions at the bottom of the screen, except a darkened area containing menu and photo album symbols.
Surely this is not displaying correctly.
Can someone please advise and provide a correct .cab if necessary.
This is for my HTC TyTN II only.
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ok i will be a magician now,
1. Your using a tilt
2. I dont know what rom ur using
3. You have to change ur radio for it to work
4. try radio depending on your rom 1.27.11.31 1.27.12.32 1.27.12.11

New Cab
I noticed that too. Try my cab. I found a few bmp's that were missing and made a new installer for myself.

akadonny said:
I noticed that too. Try my cab. I found a few bmp's that were missing and made a new installer for myself.
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have you got that cab so I can compare

duttythroy said:
have you got that cab so I can compare
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sorry about that, i hit submit before the upload finished. check post #3. I also pulled some files that weren't necessary for the new camera to work.
added:
I-8-burst-mode.bmp
I-8-autofocus.bmp
I-8-autofocus-set.bmp
I-8-album-button.bmp
I-8-video-mode.bmp
I-8-sports-mode.bmp
I-8-picture-theme-mode.bmp
I-8-photo-mode.bmp
I-8-panorama-mode.bmp
I-8-mms-mode.bmp
I-8-megaSIM.bmp
I-8-contacts-picture-mode.bmp
removed
ha_camera_sel_l.bmp
ha_camera_sel.bmp
camera.plg
gl_camera.bmp
ql_camera_mask.bmp
IntelliDialer.htm
HTCImgCodec.dll
ha_camera.bmp
ha_camera_l.bmp
VideoStub.exe

Is this the same version that is being used in Duttys recent ROMs?

jbmorales said:
Is this the same version that is being used in Duttys recent ROMs?
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yes. I got the og files from nadavi's cab and added got the missing files from dutty's dual touch v2.

actualy you need none of the images add this or if it already in the reg you don't need any images
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera\Common]
"RCDLL"="CameraRc_Grey.dll"
if you want orange images the add "RCDLL"="CameraRc_Orange.dll"
then the camera looks for the images inside the dll and no need for all those 50+ images

duttythroy said:
ok i will be a magician now,
1. Your using a tilt
2. I dont know what rom ur using
3. You have to change ur radio for it to work
4. try radio depending on your rom 1.27.11.31 1.27.12.32 1.27.12.11
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Hello Dutty,
I am using a HTC TyTN II
ROM version: 1.56.405.5
Radio version: 1.27.12.32
Thanks for the quick response
Akadonny/ will give your cab a spin. Thanks

gullum said:
actualy you need none of the images add this or if it already in the reg you don't need any images
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera\Common]
"RCDLL"="CameraRc_Grey.dll"
if you want orange images the add "RCDLL"="CameraRc_Orange.dll"
then the camera looks for the images inside the dll and no need for all those 50+ images
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My camera doesn't seem to work with CameraRc_Orange.dll. I did find the images in CameraRc_Grey.dll and that is the current setting in my registry, but you still need the bmp's for the help file. Not sure how important that is for anyone else, but I'm a little anal retentive. Plus all the images combined only comes out to about 100K. I cooked the camera into my rom so I can't test to see if it works without the images. Can anyone confirm?

wow
oh wow... this camera package is at least 2x faster than the one that ships on the Kaiser. It still uses auto-focus, too. It's still not nearly as fast as the TyTN was, but it's a definite improvement.
i can only imagine how much faster it would be if the video drivers actually worked right. ;-)

akadonny said:
My camera doesn't seem to work with CameraRc_Orange.dll. I did find the images in CameraRc_Grey.dll and that is the current setting in my registry, but you still need the bmp's for the help file. Not sure how important that is for anyone else, but I'm a little anal retentive. Plus all the images combined only comes out to about 100K. I cooked the camera into my rom so I can't test to see if it works without the images. Can anyone confirm?
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it's working in my rom but ok not the help part no but every part of the menu works

gullum said:
it's working in my rom but ok not the help part no but every part of the menu works
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hEY MATE IHAVENT SEEN YOU FOR AWHILE HOWS THINGS

duttythroy said:
hEY MATE IHAVENT SEEN YOU FOR AWHILE HOWS THINGS
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I've been around but you'r makeing so many roms and good once too that I just been cooking roms for prophet last is a multi rom in 13 languages

akadonny said:
I noticed that too. Try my cab. I found a few bmp's that were missing and made a new installer for myself.
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I tried your .cab but the result was the same. Still no descriptions on the bottom menu's and photo album.
Maybe Dutty can come up with the answer.
Thanks anyway.

basilrsa said:
I tried your .cab but the result was the same. Still no descriptions on the bottom menu's and photo album.
Maybe Dutty can come up with the answer.
Thanks anyway.
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I think he already has the answer. He stated in the second post to try a different radio. Rignt now my camera is working with 1.27.14.09. And like gullum said, all the images are in that dll file.
Good Luck!

much faster
improved video playback? taking a photo or a short movie works much better.
only some things come in english in the options screen on my dutch tytn 2
can you work on this?
Nadavi_HTC_Camera_5_0_4_2915_00.cab and i found this but i dont no if i should use it or not any advice please?

Picture & Video app not working?
Hi all, this is my first post, I would really like to say this is a great place to be... there is a solution for almost everything
anyway... I tried the camera cab and it works fine (Nadavi_HTC_Camera_5_0_4_2915_00.cab) and its really MUCH faster than the original camera app, but when I click on the small arrow icon on the bottom left, i get an error stating that the pictures and video app is not installed... any ideas?

HTC Album
ahussam said:
but when I click on the small arrow icon on the bottom left, i get an error stating that the pictures and video app is not installed... any ideas?
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Afaik you have to install HTC Album - see Nadavi's Thread here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355587
Nadavi said:
Requirements for this CAMERA application to work:
1. Can be installed on any rom so far....AFAIK...
2. Must Install HTC ALUBM. http://rapidshare.com/files/74055736/HTC.Album.1.0.1030.720.cab
3. Install the HTC CAMERA Cab file.
Soft Reset.
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is this new or already in duttys v3 final rom?

rinku iconbar

Is there any posibility to make rinko iconbar work for wm6 standard?

how is it look? any screenshot??

it looks like this...

looks nice..Wisbar Advance Desktop may be able to do that I believe

i need it for my spv c600 i think that doesn`t work on my device

I have seen almost similar look of this..I'll post the link..its for rltoday screen
Here it is http://rotlaus-software.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1369

where would i be able to get it for 2m6 professional? that looks pretty cool.

molesaied88 said:
where would i be able to get it for 2m6 professional? that looks pretty cool.
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is this mean the one that I give the link or not? if it is you have to install rltoday software first and download the theme from the above reference after that you can load it from the option in your today screen

i need somethig for wm6 standard thas the rinku iconbar can be modified to work on wm6 standard instead of wm6.1?

It works perfectly fine on WM6.0 - I was using it without any problems before upgrading to 6.1

rinku works with wm6 standard? can you send me a printscreen?

no one knows any soft ???

h4waii can you send me a link or something so i can get the chome panel if thats what's it's called. i been looking everywere trying to find it im using windows mobile 6 but i have no idea on how to get it on my phone.

Profy_X said:
no one knows any soft ???
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There is a rinku iconbar cab that will change your iconbar without needing sliding panels. I'm fairly certain that the rinku iconbar existed before 6.1. But for wm standard home screens, you have to edit your xml file to add it to the homescreen you want to use it on. Most cabs you find are going to add it the 6.1 sliding panels homescreen. You could install one of these, then look at there xml file to get the info to replace the current iconbar in the homescreen xml your using. All the xml files are installed to/located in the
\application data folder on your phone. Search for rinku and for tutorial on editing the home.xml file for wm standard.

What abot this method any good
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475900

wapvirus said:
What abot this method any good
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475900
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Not bad wapvirus, I have been looking for this for a while. I installed this in my BA with WM6.5 Beta and it works just fine. Thanks for that!

moved to Q&A

Location of [3G] icon in WM 6.1 ROMs [UNSOLVED]

Hi all,
I've been searching for a way to change the ugly [3G] icon that's displayed on the title bar in WM 6.1 on my Kaiser. The current official icon looks distorted as if it has been stretched and is really ugly! I'm talking about the large plain 3G icon, not the one with the antenna next to it.
So far I've come across this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=351770
This thread refers to shellres.96.dll and also to a .CAB which contains a modified version of phcanOverbmp.dll. I extracted these two DLLs from my device and checked them with several resource editors, but could not locate the dreaded [3G] icon... I could find the battery, phone, wi-fi, and many other icons in there, but not the [3G] one. So it must be stored in a different DLL... Note that I'm using WM 6.1 (not 6.0). Could it be that these icons are located in a different DLL in WM 6.1?
Does anyone know the location of the [3G] icon in WM 6.1 ROMs? I want to do the modification myself (I'm a programmer and know how to do it). I just can't find the file it is stored in.
Any info/help is greatly appreciated.
Many thanks to all!
DrXDA

DrXDA said:
Hi all,
I've been searching for a way to change the ugly [3G] icon that's displayed on the title bar in WM 6.1 on my Kaiser. The current official icon looks distorted as if it has been stretched and is really ugly! I'm taking about the large plain 3G icon, not the one with the antenna next to it.
So far I've come across this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=351770
This thread refers to shellres.96.dll and also to a .CAB which contains a modified version of phcanOverbmp.dll. I extracted these two DLLs from my device and checked them with several resource editors, but could not locate the dreaded [3G] icon... I could find the battery, phone, wi-fi, and many other icons in there, but not the [3G] one. So it must be stored in a different DLL... Note that I'm using WM 6.1 (not 6.0). Could it be that these icons are located in a different DLL in WM 6.1?
Does anyone know the location of the [3G] icon in WM 6.1 ROMs? I want to do the modification myself (I'm a programmer and know how to do it). I just can't find the file it is stored in.
Any info/help is greatly appreciated.
Many thanks to all!
DrXDA
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Is this the one you are reffering to?

the icon is in phcanOverbmp.dll

Use resh to strip it

aruppenthal said:
Is this the one you are reffering to?
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Wow, your version looks better! The one I'm referring to is the one I'm attaching to this post. This is the icon that comes with the official 6.0/6.1 Kaiser ROMs.
This has got to be the ugliest, most distorted icon I've even seen in a WM device! It may sound like a minor detail to a lot of people, but it just spoils the otherwise beautiful Today screen of my Kaiser, that's why I want to change it if possible.

shogunmark said:
the icon is in phcanOverbmp.dll
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Thanks to everyone for the quick replies!
Are you sure it's in there? I tried checking phcanOverbmp.dll again using both PE Explorer and Resource Hacker, but it's not there, or I'm doing something wrong. I'm attaching the DLL to this post, if someone wants to check it out. This is the file that came straight out of my device, which is exactly the same as the file I extracted from the official ROM files (HTC WM 6.1 WWE). I just can't find the [3G] icon in there...

raiisak said:
Use resh to strip it
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've just tried resh on the DLL suggested above, but can't find the dreaded [3G] icon!!! See my previous post.

I think it's in the shellres.96.dll file. Check in there. I just checked mine and it's under Icon->44->0.

ecltech said:
I think it's in the shellres.96.dll file. Check in there. I just checked mine and it's under Icon->44->0.
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Many thanks for posting. Unfortunately this is not the same icon! I found this earlier on while I was searching the shellres.96.dll DLL. See attached image. This is the small version (3G logo on top-left), which is part of the animation it shows while connecting. This icon looks OK. The one I'm referring to is the large plain 3G icon with large distorted fonts, as shown in my post #5 above.
Thanks again for trying. I can't believe it's so difficult to find this little icon!

Still can't find it! Aaarghhh!
Hi again, sorry for bumping this, if any of the cooks out there reads this thread and has successfully modified the [3G] icon on a WM 6.1 ROM, I'd be really grateful if they could let me know how they did it. As said above, I was expecting to find it as an icon resource in a DLL, but checking both shellres.96.dll and phcanOverbmp.dll it's just not there... There are 500+ DLL files in the thing, so it's near-impossible to check them all manually...
If anyone knows anything about the whereabouts of this mystery icon, please let me know.
Many thanks in advance to everyone in the forum, your help is greatly appreciated.
DrXDA

Try IconsExtract from www.nirsoft.net. You can point IconsExtract at a folder and tell it to scan sub-folders too; just give it the root folder of your dumped ROM and let it go.....
As several people have already said, the icon is almost certainly in the pcCanOverBMP.dll file; there are about ten "3G" icons in my (WM6.0) version, most of which are the small versions that get displayed when a 3G data transfer is taking place......BUT, there is (at least) one icon that could be the main icon.
When you look at the output from IconsExtract, the 3G icons don't actually show until you click on them to highlight them, which makes me think they may be kinda transparent icons?
Have a go....see what you think
Mark.

phcanOverbmp.dll is where the 3G icon is located. I have a nice looking 3G icon from back in the Hermes days that works on the kaiser I will upload later if you still need it.

@Mark Crouch: Many thanks for the suggestions. I've never used IconsExtract, it sounds like the ideal solution for batch-extracting the icons in the 100s of DLLs in the ROM. I will give it a try and post my findings here.
About phcanOverbmp.dll, if you guys are absolutely certain that it's in there, then I must be doing something wrong. I tried at least 3 different resource editors and could not find it. But I did notice that different editors showed slightly different data (for e.g., Visual Studio's resource editor wasn't able to display all data for some reason). I hope IconsExtract will manage to show the dreaded icon.
@austinsnyc: Another vote for phcanOverbmp.dll, many thanks for this. Let me do some tests and if I still can't find it I'll ask you for the file.
Thx guys, will post here when I do the tests.
DrXDA

I am 100% sure that the 3G is in phcanOverbmp.dll.... Again you can also find the cab I am talking about by searching Xda for "clean 3G icon" you might find it in the hermes section but it works fine for Kaisers as well Now a CUSTOM 3G would be totally awesome and something I have not seen before except by using WiseBar Advanced which I don't like to use.

Still can't find it!
Hi again, I've just tried IconsExtract to extract all icons in phcanOverbmp.dll. Guess what? The damn [3G] icon still doesn't show up! There's only one icon in there (not related to 3G) and also some bitmaps (again unrelated to 3G).
Can someone please download the version of phcanOverbmp.dll that's in my Kaiser (it can be found here), and check it out to see if you can find the icon? I'm really looking forward to your results. Note that this DLL is the original file that is contained in the official HTC ROM, I've double checked this by extracting the same file from the official ROM image and comparing the two. It's definitely official and untouched.
Please note that I'm using the official HTC WM 6.1 WWE ROM (not the old WM 6.0 ROM). My guesses are that either the WM 6.1 ROMs don't have the icon in there, or maybe the icon is stored in a non-standard way, so the normal resource editors can't extract/show it.
Any ideas are welcome.
I think I'm beginning to give up on this...
DrXDA

The attached file is the one I have been using on Kaiser and previously used on the Hermes I had - no problems on either devices. I like it and am still using it today on WM6.1 PDAviet v7
I Believe that it was inside an add-on package from one of Schap's earlier WM6 roms (mid-2007).
search xda for "clean 3g icon" if you care to know it's history.

id242 said:
The attached file is the one I have been using on Kaiser and previously used on the Hermes I had - no problems on either devices. I like it and am still using it today on WM6.1 PDAviet v7
I Believe that it was inside an add-on package from one of Schap's earlier WM6 roms (mid-2007).
search xda for "clean 3g icon" if you care to know it's history.
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Many thanks, I will give it a try to see what happens. I quickly checked the phcanOverbmp.dll contained in your .CAB and voila! The 3G icon is in there (and looks nice too)! What I still don't understand is the fact that the 3G icon is NOT in my own phcanOverbmp.dll (original file from HTC). How come?
Anyway, I will try the .CAB to see what it does. But still, I was expecting to find the 3G icon in my Kaiser's original DLL too, so I can change it myself as needed. This is still a mystery to me...
Thanks again.
DrXDA

the reason i think HTC changes it from build to build and also something strange that might be cause of your problem inside the kaiser OS.nb there are to pecanoverlook.dll)) one is just like that one and the onther is _pecanoverlook.ddl which is swapped out for one another when Autro-run is run...
may not mean didle **** just a thought.

Anyone feel like thay want to cook newer Rom like 6.5.3 or someting ?

Anyone feel like thay want to cook newer Rom like 6.5.3 or someting ?
or 6.5.1 with working RealWGA would be nice
basicly r there any developers out there ?
i can test things for u if necessary

I've tried but it is not that easy at it seems on first look,
ended up in flashing phone like 30x in 3h ...

vladimir2989 said:
Anyone feel like thay want to cook newer Rom like 6.5.3 or someting ?
or 6.5.1 with working RealWGA would be nice
basicly r there any developers out there ?
i can test things for u if necessary
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Hey Vladimir.. I found out Ebag's realvga works fine with NightRavens 6.5 rom. check out the short discussion here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5037557&postcount=65

can you provide a link to realVGA that was made last for the TreoPro please (or the one you used)? I recall there were some special repacks and one-install file for the TP

found it: http://discussion.treocentral.com/t...alvga-will-work-treo-850-a-8.html#post1581979

jsp_m said:
can you provide a link to realVGA that was made last for the TreoPro please (or the one you used)? I recall there were some special repacks and one-install file for the TP
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i've tryed installing RealVGA with 96dpi on 6.5 but contacts wont open, so i had to do hard reset... did i miss someting ?

vladimir2989 said:
i've tryed installing RealVGA with 96dpi on 6.5 but contacts wont open, so i had to do hard reset... did i miss someting ?
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I installed the 6.5 rom then realvga right away and it worked like a charm! My contacts works fine.. Hmm.. dont know what the problem could be. Btw you are using ebag's realvga right?

DuneBug said:
I installed the 6.5 rom then realvga right away and it worked like a charm! My contacts works fine.. Hmm.. dont know what the problem could be. Btw you are using ebag's realvga right?
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i used Real VGA from post #5 http://discussion.treocentral.com/tr...ml#post1581979
i dont know if its a right one, but i want to try it on 6.5.1 or Later builds,
also is there to see more tabs in the carusel thing in the home screen insted if just having excessive spacing ?

see the tools from this post - you can edit caruosel, add items etc:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=481379

jsp_m said:
see the tools from this post - you can edit caruosel, add items etc:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=481379
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lol, i know that i have Titanizer, i dont mean adding 3rd party plugins to carousel i mean whan u have realVGA on it makes screen appear bigger but u still only see 5 things form carousel (even if u have more) its just its look have lots of empty space around it, like the Font of the carousel appears to be smaller as it meant to fit 240x240 but whan u get full vga of 320x320 font size dose not increase, so there should be a Registry value to change font size or Registry value to change size of that see-through frame around carousel tabs to allow more to b shown on screen at a time...
PS. would post screen shots of what i mean but i wll have to do hard reset, and atm i need my phone working so i might do it l8r..

Here is the new rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=594441
test it please and report