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Hi Everyone,
I, like many of you, spend way to much time setting phones up over and over again. Since a big part of this is registry edits, I have built a web site that allows you to check off the registry options you want, which it then uses to create a downloadable CAB file to install that will contain all of those registry tweaks. This makes things completely reversible by uninstalling the CAB file.
Notes:
This is Beta. While I have used it, and it's a very basic process, it isn't commercial software by any means.
If you would like to add a new feature, post in this thread.
You may install more than one cab file created with this tool. Just use different names at the bottom of the form.
Without further delay, here's the site:
<edit> The tool has now moved to nowsci.com. If you have any issues, please let me know. </edit>
http://nowsci.com/registry-changer/
Thanks,
Ben
* hold for updates *
Update 1: HTML now renders mobile friendly, so you can use this straight from your device.
Update 2: Edit feature added.
Update 3: Can now manually specify string or integer.
Update 4 [11/17/2008]: Can now specify the app name for install, allowing the user to have more than one Registry Changer cab installed at any point in time.
Update 5 [03/27/2009]: Fixed some character flaws for input. Preparations for move to a new host.
Update 6 [04/22/2009]: Added a filter option.
The site now has the ability for the end user to add registry entries to the database.
Thank you very much. I believe the "Camera Enhancements" entry is mis-titled. Shouldn't it be Rotate Picture 90 degrees, not 180 degress?
Doh! I will fix that.
Also, just added all the registry entries from the Diamond Tweaks post.
What about the Bluetooth DUN profile adding to the list? - Mike
What's the registry entries for that? Happy to add them, or you can add them yourself now through the site.
What happens if you tweak a registry entry that does not exist on your specific device or rom?
Good question. For the most part, I would guess nothing. If there is nothing on your system looking for the registry entry, then it won't effect anything. That being said, that doesn't mean WM doesn't look for registry entries that aren't there. For instance, the following tweak:
Enable Vision Duration/Disconnect Popup
HKLM\ControlPanel\Phone\Flags2=16
Flags2 doesn't exist by default on most any WM6 phone. Adding it in, enables the disconnect.
Who added the "Mighty" tweaks? Is that a phone? Many of those seem like they should go in Misc. I might clean that up if those aren't specific to a phone.
Would it be possible to have a wiki of descriptions for each of these options? I know I could Google them one by one but I'm sure users would appreciate a single source.
Hmm, not a bad idea. I wonder if there was a spot on the xda wiki I could use for it since I don't have my own. I may end up integrating a detailed description field for each item with a question mark next to it. Unfortunatly I won't be able to define them all since people have added one's I've never used.
OK I have a request. I don't' so much mind tweaking the settings when I flash. However what does drive me nuts and keeps me from flashing is knowing I will have to reconfigure all my email accounts. I just use the default mail program, but what a pain going through and adding my 7 yes Seven email accounts every time I flash my phone. Is there a way to make a cab that would auto input all my account settings? The reason for so many accounts, is I have personal accounts, business accounts, email list accounts, car club accounts, and forum subscription accounts.
It would be awesome to be able to go to a site, or run an app where I could plunk in all my account settings, then create a cab store it to my SD card and whenever I flash, just run the cab and POOF all my accounts are setup.
Unfortunately, probably wouldn't be easy to make a cab. However, programs like Sprite Backup will do this for you. You can selectively restore your mail using SB, however I generally back up my phone once I get things the way I like it, then if anything goes sour, I hard reset, then restore.
any1 made an ultimate tweak.cab? maybe make your diamond seem as fast as a custom rom?????????????
then any hardreset.......
dewey1973 said:
Would it be possible to have a wiki of descriptions for each of these options? I know I could Google them one by one but I'm sure users would appreciate a single source.
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+1 on descriptions of each cab
Wow very nice! Thanks!
I suggest a field to make a *.cab regarding to any registry path/setting the user wishes (if the user is more technical).
without having to actually add to the public entry list.
This will allow the ability to:
1. not have to wait for the admin to add the specific entry
2. allows the author of the new *.cab to distribute their new edit on the fly.
3. give the admin to log & analyze the entries in the custom field to and determine more of the common *custom* entries the ppl may want. Thus not having to depend on explicit user input and emails all the time.
First - thanks for putting this together!
Quick question - I had it "enable" GPS coded photos...but I don't think it did? Shouldn't I have an option somewhere in my camera menu to activate this once I've installed the .cab? Additionally, I don't believe "enable landscape pictures" and "sport mode" worked - how do I know?
Many thanks!
Oh, and I forgot to mention (not that it matters???) that I'm on an HTC Touch Pro with Sprint - stock ROM. I'm new to all this, so I apologize if this is basic stuff.
Hello,
Is there somebody here that could make a script or an app. to make the calendar-line of manila2d or even 3d showing cycling information about to calendar.
So, instead of showing a single today (all day event) item, cycling between all the events of that day.
That way we can see al the info about the whole day on the home screen.
Greetz
It is a very good idea !
Hello,
Manila specialists.
Is it possible?
It would make manilla much more useful for me.
Thanks.
Greetz
I don't think it's possible for 2d and I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned in the 2d thread. 3d may be a different story, in fact, I think that is one advantage of 3d is vertical scrolling on the main screen to view multiple appointment s and days . anyhow 3d is still early in development so give it some time.
Hello,
I think it must be possible to change the registrykey that manila reads and displays for the calendar line.
I am thinking about an app. or script that reads the info in the calenderapp and writes it item by item in that registrykey.
If possible it ignores past items. That way we see all the actual info of the day cycling on one single line
ive been wondering about this, i like the ability to scroll on opal.
Hello,
Manila2d displays the info in "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\State\Appointments\HomeScreen]"
When a edit the values in the keys manually, manila displays that immediatly.
So, when someone can get the info out of the calendarapp from WM we can display all the info we want (cycling).
Unfortunately i can't do the job because i don't know how to do it.
Greetz
Nice idea !
Do you know where data of calendar are stored ?
And what about the cycling ? On/OFF by launching an app, or automatic each x minutes ?
would someone please move this to Q&A?
toniolol said:
Nice idea !
Do you know where data of calendar are stored ?
And what about the cycling ? On/OFF by launching an app, or automatic each x minutes ?
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No, I dont know where data is stored.
I prefer a cycling time of a few seconds, maybe 10 or so.
Maybe the next upcoming event a little longer or next event and time - another event and time - next event and time - another event and time - ...
Even better with adaptable times and time peroid to show (even next days).
I think we can use the following registry :
HKCR\System\State\Appointments
In this we can find Event, HomeScreen, List & Next.
After it will be necessary to translate REG_BINARY times into real times !
YE
Keep Working:d
Ok 1st return :
the active key for the display is Event -> Subject
Don't know what is the key HomeScreen.
And the Next key is for the...next event !
But can't find all next events !
And not sure of the way to make this :
#1 Mortscript with automatic event all x seconds
#2 .Net 3.5 with GUI to program what you want but how to make it refresh, a Timer would be nice but it means the app must be in the background...=> memory.
My knowledge on .Net is very old (1.1) and I must be refreshed !
Edit : One good path to have what you want : http://www.developer.com/ws/pc/print.php/10947_3556186_1
Maybe there is something better on the 3.5, if you know it, please tell me
would be very interested in this also. keep looking please.
toniolol said:
Ok 1st return :
the active key for the display is Event -> Subject
Don't know what is the key HomeScreen.
And the Next key is for the...next event !
But can't find all next events !
And not sure of the way to make this :
#1 Mortscript with automatic event all x seconds
#2 .Net 3.5 with GUI to program what you want but how to make it refresh, a Timer would be nice but it means the app must be in the background...=> memory.
My knowledge on .Net is very old (1.1) and I must be refreshed !
Edit : One good path to have what you want : http://www.developer.com/ws/pc/print.php/10947_3556186_1
Maybe there is something better on the 3.5, if you know it, please tell me
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Mortscript should work. Something similar has been done for cycling weather data display in the network provider name on the home screen.
claus1953 said:
Mortscript should work. Something similar has been done for cycling weather data display in the network provider name on the home screen.
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The problem with MortSprit is to access the pim datas because the registry store only the next event and if you want to scroll for all day or 2,3 or week it's impossible....arf...maybe possible but I'm not strong enaught.
Maybe I can do it with .Net 3.5 but I may need some help with some tweaks.....and must format my PC because VS2008 doesn't like my old install/erases of 2005 and 2003.....
Im not an expert and may be im going a little to far but i have this idea:
It would be good to make one tab in manila to open something like "Second Today".
This way one tab may contain a smaller clock and calendar+ showing more apointments or anythig else. This would be nice!
a quick way:
Is it pasible to make one tab simply to lunch a program (second today)? This way we can simulate a tab containing any today plugin (calendar+). Ofcourse the bottom slider will disaper but we can put there one big button down there fot close seckond today or simply bind closin on one softkey.
What do you think about it? sorry for my english
PS: for me it would be best if sliding the keybord (in hermes) would run seckond today
But ofcourse it will be perfect if 3 or 4 events from the calendar would apear under the clock
Is someone could help me find the algo to convert this hexa in datetime please ?
Thanks in advance
Hex :
"Start Time"=hex:\
00,38,d8,92,17,4d,c9,01
"End Time"=hex:\
00,a0,9c,f4,1f,4d,c9,01
DateTime :
2008-11-22 07:00 PM
2008-11-22 08:00 PM
Anyone working on this ?
I still think it is usefull for many people.
Thanks
I'm sorry, I'm completely off this time, but hope to find couple hours to have a look on this and help people who wants to go on with this request.
For now I've started a VB.NET 2008 project and started function which could open PIM and take all events in it because there's not enough in registry.
Hello,
Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this problem. Searched but not able to find posts on it.
On my Hermes when typing a contact name in the To: field either in an email or SMS it would match up what you entered to the contacts in the address book. Great function.
On my Touch Pro it seems to work in a similar fashion until you type Space. When you type space it automatically fills the To: Field with what was showing up as the match at the time. e.g. When looking for "Jo Bloggs" - Typing in "Jo" would bring up Joe Smith and if I hit space it'll automatically fill in the field with Joe Smith's details.
I've switch off all of the autocompletion stuff in the options and taken of the T9 stuff.
Any help would be much appreciated.
W
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Edit - You can switch on the T9 in the recipient field independently to main body of SMS/Email. Solves the problem but doesn't quite work the same as how it did in WM6 Pro and WM5.
Anyway - this is a minor issue but would like to hear if anyone else has experienced this.
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Edit - erghhh... now the T9 is kicking and suggesting words instead of names, which is what it's supposed to do, but doesn't help with filling in the Recipient field. Will carry on fiddling.
Hey,
This is exactly the problem I've been having. I list my contacts in groups (for example, people from my uni have UU in front of their names so I have a quick clear overview of everyone) but now whenever I type "UU" followed by a space it autocompletes it to the first person. Ive tried turning off all the options but no luck. This worked so well when I had the Tytn (or Mda vario II). Help would sure be appreciated! Thanks!
Possible Help
Not sure if this is a huge help, but I've get a lot of Jeff's in my contacts for work. I just type in Jeff and 1 name is shown at the bottom, but if I stop and don't hit space (which is goofy in my opinion) I can press the left or right arrow and it toggles between the Jeff's that are in my list, then press the great space key option and that person is populated.
Not sure if that helps, especially if you are clicking through 50 in that manner, but it works for my smaller lists.
Can definately flick through the contacts as described but previously on my Hermes I was able to type in a First, Surname or full name and it would match exactly the contact that I wanted. Very nifty - so it's annoying that it doesn't work quite the same in WM6.1
Currently, I'm typing the name, then hitting delete allows me to continue when I hit space... not quite the same but is a compromise at the moment.
Good to know that it's not peculiar to my device.
Hi Guys,
First thank you all for such a great community. XDA truly "sold" me the HTC fuze...as I was very excited about such an excellent user base. I lurked here for a few days before I bought, and have lurked a few more days while I have played with the phone, so far with very positive experiences...
So here is my question...
I am an ex blackberry user...4 years running. Had the 7290 and the more recent 8800. I liked the phones but were frequently frustrated by things such as lack of home-brew software (or at least lack of software easy to find and well supported), lack of a decent web browser, lack of an attractive UI (albeit theirs was very functional) and lack of 3G (on att at the moment). Now I know that the BB Bold fixed some of this, but to me its the same ole blackberry tricks (do email real well, slack off on the rest), and I was really ready for a highly extensible smart phone.
Enter the HTC fuze...
I love the apps, love the idea of custom ROMS, love that it runs a very common platform (windows mobile, important as some companies write apps that only run on windows mobile), and love the sheer power of the HTC fuze (can easily browse filesystem, look at memory usage...its essentially a very small laptop), but I have one primary complaint...it does all these cool things, but IMO it does NOT do email/messaging/contact management well...and worse, I have not been as impressed with the web browser as I thought I would be (using opera, have not tried IE...also some of this is my fault, I am trying to use fat-client web pages vs mobile web pages, which are faster and just perform better). Now before I get flamed, let me clarify that I am using the Energy Rom 3.0, so some of my griefing may be self inflicted. That being said, here are some specifics of what irritations Ive ran into with messaging/email/contact management...ill list them out categorized in order of importance (can you tell I am an engineer?)
Email
1. No heads up display of new messages on the home screen (have to poke around to the email area to see if you have new messages)
2. Does not enter an @ and . symbol when hitting spacebar key while typing email address in "To:" field (ex-blackberry users will sympathize)
3. I get too many emails for the graphical envelope to be useful...it looks cool, but when I am 30 emails deep i really don't want to have to click menu to get to all messages, just let the mail icon take me right to the goodies please...
4. read/unread/replied messages are not well represented (could be that it is just different that the blackberry feel, but a different color or something would be nice...the standard is bold/yellow/dark is unread and light/white/shadowy is read...and replied as some sort of representation as well
There are a few others but those are the main ones
Messaging
1. Clicking the message, and then immediately beginning to type (as in to reply) will take you to the address book!!, in order to start a new message! It is beyond me why it does not just start entering text as a reply for your current message you are viewing, and this is a huge annoyance!
2. Found this the other day...replying to an MMS message by clicking gives an error (wont deliver) but hitting menu and then reply will then prompt for "MMS or SMS reply?" and the message goes through fine...irritating!
3. Tapping spacebar twice does not place a period, although not capitalizing the first letter in a sentence auto-capitalizes - this is a blackberry feature that is not here and i miss it :'(
4. Once again lack of proper heads up in the home menu....why is the clock giant??? Looks cool but waste of space...I would rather have a breakdown of my messages/emails/missed calls with limited details so I can see whats going on, on my home screen.
5. General slowness when going from the message browsing with the envelopes to the reply, detailed view.
Contact Management
1. Adding a contact is no where near simple...and there are too many "mines" you can accidentally click in the process which will do odd things like add an address book entry with no name in it, or call someone!
2. The "people" tab is useless...i removed it (not really a complaint as I fixed it...but I just don't understand that concept of favorites....that being said my background is in database administration so all data is good data to me, the more the merrier...explains my 500+ contacts, half of which i prob dont need but keep around just in case)
3. Last name first???? Blackberry was always first name last...further more, I entered a business the other day in my contact list, and it put the second part of the business name as the last name, leading to a very odd address book entry...I did not like that bit of assumption on the phones part.
So I guess you could probably sum up all my complaints into 3 things:
1. I am way too used to blackberry shortcuts and having a hard time weening myself off
2. There are 10 ways to do the same things and get to the same places on the phone, and some times a few of those ways are less buggy/intuitive than others...why not just have the best methods enabled only?
3. Too many buttons take you places you did not intend to be...its not one way in one way out of each module (mail, messaging, ect.)...its 5 ways in, 10 ways deeper, uh....im lost, how do I make a phone call? (I'm being facetious of course but you get my drift)
Anyways, I am not trying to slam the phone, it is slick, sexy, and free (refurb through an ATT deal), but I just need some ROM/tweak/psychological suggestions to make it "fit" me better.
Thank you all truly,
Crackberry addict in serious withdrawal
Ok, so piece by piece:
Email:
1. For a pop-up for new email messages, go to start>settings>sounds¬ifications>notifications. There you can choose messaging: new email message, and select display message on screen. This will give you a pop up at the bottom every time you get a new email. you can do this for all those other events that are in the drop down too.
2. Don't know of anything to do this
3. There should be a inbox button for your i think left soft-key. Two clicks isn't much more than 1
4. Don't know of anything
Messaging:
1. This happens jut because of lag in the system. You have to wait until everything loads up to start typing. Sounds like you need a cooked rom
2. Bug?
3. My phone does what you ask, although I am running 6.5. My settings in input have "enable auto correct" with a check mark next to them. Don't know if this solves the problem in 6.1
4. Regular Today screen. Try something like TouchFlo Detacher, which allows you with the soft key button to easily and quickly switch back and forth between the regular today screen, which would have all that info that you desire, and touchflo. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=480475
5. Cooked rom, bigger pagepool
Contact Management:
1. Sorry this is just winmo. Contact entry area is not exactly the most finger friendly menu. Try the stylus. I know what you mean, though.
2. Basically the people tab is just for people you call on a daily basis, and it looks cool lol
3. You can change that in the contact's settings where it says "file as"; I like first name first also, so I just changed it so that was the way it is displayed.
Overall Points:
1. It is difficult to go from blackberry to winmo, but everything does have a slight learning curve.
2. Most view this to be the beauty of winmo. You have infinite possibilities, since everyone likes to do things differently. If microsoft wanted to assume that everyone wanted to do everything the same way and that there was one, best, all-powerful way to do things, then they could just merge with apple
3. Lol don't understand this one
Any more questions, I'd be happy to help
thanks
hey,
thanks for the detailed reply. got most of the answers i needed...I am using a cooked rom (energy 3.0) which runs WM 6.5, but it comes with the Manila skin. After doing some research I think I need to ditch that and start from there...any other pointers?
You could try to use the default WM6.5 home plugin instead of TF3D, it may suit your needs better.
can someone if they feel inclined or bored produce a WM6 app for me? dont care how it runs if it uses java or whatever, but if you do java can you insure it runs in midlet well.
basically i want a simple register for my check book. used one once but does not run well on the midlet java has a glitch in it. anyways here is what id like it to do if your tempted to do it. if it works well id even pay a few dollars for it
balance shown at top with month
input + or - amounts
set catagories as well as add new ones
add notes if needed
show date
able to go back and forth each month to see payments
then if you want to add these functions in, maybe a way to look at a break down by catagories to see where most the money is going. and a way to MMS the results to a email account, maybe in a html or other format so i can see date, amount, catagory, notes (this last part is just bonus)
the one thing the last one had a issue with was it never carried the amount to the next month i had to add it in manually.
i hope someone is inclinded to write one i miss my old one so much....
various free finance apps on this site, eg
http://freewareppc.com/financial/shpfinance.shtml
Just a case of trying them all and seeing which works best for you
I doubt anyone will write one, as there are already pro apps that do most of what you want - ie export data etc
Enjoy
i have looked all over for them and most do not run properly on the Dash, and the pro ones have way to much bloat in them i want them simple the export function i use rarely so is not needed. so thought i would ask is all.
thanks for the link i tried all of them listed on the site, and 0 of them worked on my dash, my dash is running 6.1 with net 3.5 and every last one gave me a error when i tried to run the programs after instal..
i do thank you for the attempted assistance tho.
Have you tried an Excel Check Register? There are a lot of free Check Register Excel templates available.
not familiar with excel or spreedsheets can ya point me to a place that has them ? thanks for the help