I just flashed my fone with various 6.5 ROMS, and ive settled with 5.08.502.1 WWE, but i dont think its the final 6.5 version.
it doesnt have the finger tab swipe thingie at the top of the screen, this one actually has tabs and the contact program in it is basically from 6.1.
i was wondering since i i been lookin for a "close to official" ROM as possible, does the official release on 6.5 have the start menu on the botton or top?
does anyone know of a build that is as close to the original M$ release, either without the TF3D or able to turn it off and use the large windows home screen, cos all the roms i have had when u turn TF3D off it goes into 6.1 style home screen and there isnt the "Windows Default" item in the Today settings.
or is there a way to take the bits i want from multiple ROMs and stick them in my own?
any help would be amazin
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Hi,
I have just the otherday managed to upgrade my HTC Touch to an actual official WM6.1 OS supplied by HTC (belive it or not!). Since I bought the phone in Bangkok I have had to wait for the relese of the HTC Thailand upgrade.
It included the ThouchFLO 2d (which I recon sux....can't change a thing about it), but I really liked the big clock in wm6.0. Is there a way to download a file somewhere to get the clock (a clock) to show up at the "settings/today/items"?
I have had a look at the Throttle launcher, M2D but can't really get any of them to work properly....anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
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my device:
HTC Touch P3452 ELF0100, WM6.1 CE OS 5.2.19972 (build 19972.1.2.7)
ROM 3.07.707.02 WWE, 10/25/08
Radio 03.34.90
Not sure what you mean about big clock but do a search for HTC Home plug-in (I think the latest cab is version 2.1) and see if that is what you are after. Otherwise, have you tried the Manila 2D customizer tool (M2DC)? I don't know if it works on shipped roms TF2D but it might let you change certain aspects of TF2D.
Good luck
Hi,
Yes sorry for being a bit unclear....what I ment was ofcourse the digital clock display at the HTC Default Home screen. I have tried the HTC Home plug-in but it, as for so many others (feedback) freezes and forces me to hard reset.
The problem occurs when I turn off the Touchflo 2D in favour of other themes, I get no option to display a clock on the today screen (under items to display). Hence downloaded themes comes out as plain as can be without anything but a background, start and bottom bar.
I would like to have a digital clock display as for the previous HTC Default Home screen....or similar clock at least.
I read somewhere that you could display/hide the clock by changing registry values under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\CHome\CClock, Disabled to 0, as per this website. I have chacked in that location but found no such registry value named cclock.
Staring to think I might be actually a bit stupid for missing something very simple.....you never know until someone tells you!
I hope I made myself a bit more clear...
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Well it sounds like you know what you are doing so I don't want to sound too "teachy". But what you are doing in the Item screen is turning off a Today plug-in (TF2D). AFAIK, everything that would appear on the Today screen is displayed as a plug-in. Your rom opted to show the TF2D plug-in. This plug-in overrides all others in the item screen so in order to use another plug-in, you must uncheck the TF2D plug-in. So with no plug-ins selected, you will have a blank Today screen.
There are several plug-ins you can install as alternatives to TF2D such as HTC Home, RLToday, etc. Just query Today plug-ins. Once installed you can initialise them from the Items screen. It is a little worrying that HTC Home crashes on your device. You might try a soft reset (small hole, poke with stylus) or uninstall it and reinstall it. It might be that you've run out of Program memory (Settings-->System--Memory). A soft reset will free it up again. I hope some of this is helpful.
is there/can someone create a 6.5 rom without the touchflo included?
is this possible? (if its been created, please point me in the right direction. thanks)
railslave said:
is there/can someone create a 6.5 rom without the touchflo included?
is this possible? (if its been created, please point me in the right direction. thanks)
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Check out NRGZ's "Titanium" only includes the Titanium today plugin, which is the default Windows Mobile 6.5 homescreen interface. No Manila (TF3D) in this version.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=86491
actually i was looking for no interface at all in a rom. not just disable it, just the screen like the mogul, but 6.5 so i can have the start menue that 6.5 offers.
edit: Well, I'll have to put a raincheck on that till I have some more time.
why not just disable the respective today screens?
Yea in all the 6.5 roms you can revert back to that blank home screen.
Just go to start -> settings -> today and look for the "items" tab and just uncheck everything hit ok and when you got back to the home screen it should be just like the old school 6.1 home screen.
Hi, on Wm6.5 roms for the touch HD you can press and hold on the start menu items an move them arround but in the HD2 you can only send them to top. Thats is a really ugly to reorder lots of icons.
I think there must be a key in the registry to set this behaviour but cant find it.
Someone knows it?
PD: Someone sugested a program called "JWMD Icon Changer V1.9 beta" to change the order of the start menu items, but i want the easy press and hold way
I will have both HD and HD2 for a few days only so I can compare registry values on both but dont know where exactly to look at.
It's not quite as simple as a single registry key. Whatever build you were running was either a 6.5.x build (start button on the bottom bar) or had some 6.5.x portions built in. That feature only started appearing in the 2303x builds, and is probably a pretty low level change. Meanwhile, the HD2 does not run one of those special builds of 6.5, so I'd say that until cooked ROMs come to the HD2, there's not much you can do besides use that program.
Damn! you're right. my HD got a 23xxx build from Dutty and the HD2 got an extremely old build
Well let's wait for cooked rom then
Thanks
Hey
Noticed around the forum people have got the start menu at the bottom of the screen where contacts and menu appear on the home tab
to be thats better and thats where the start menu is on a computer. . is there a cad or a way to move to start icon to the bottom?? im using a custom taskbar so i think maybe that might cause a problem with such process. . .
finally does anyone know of a collection of custom slider icons to use with HDwall??
thanking you!!!
How far i know.
Startbutton on top left its Windows mobile 6.5
Startbutton on bottom left is windows mobile 6.5.x
for changing from top to bottom you muster flash a new ROM at your device.
the start icon on the bottom is a rom thing. stock (wm6.5) is upper left. custom (wm6.5.x) is bottom left. don't know of a way to move it without changing your rom (to have it be functional at least.)
cheers.
To get the start menu at the bottom, you need to install a custom ROM which is based on Windows Mobile 6.5.x.
The stock ROMs are still using the "older" version.
You can differ them through the build number: 21xxx is "older", 23xxx/28xxx are the newer builds.
You can use any slider icons together with HDWall as they won´t be shown in a better resolution anyway.
Ok.......You are running the older 6.5 which has the icon at the top. You would need to load a custom ROM that is running 6.5.X ( x being either 3 or 5) which would be the newer Windows version. It is not as stable as the older version because it has been pieced together for the most part. But it being newer it has more functionality then the older version. NO you can not use a cab to load it.
As for you sliders HDWall is a program to make your own sliders and backgrounds. If you are looking for sliders that have already been made that can just be installed. Search there are plenty of ongoing threads.
I wonder, how many more people will be explaining the issue
Hello!
I'm a HD2 user (Manila 2.5.2018, ROM 3.14.412.2). I've tried some cooked roms and I didn't find one that feels the way I like, that is pretty close to stock roms. The other problem is that I've experienced a lot of problems with cooked roms. I don't know if is because of my carrier or what, but with any cooked rom I have to reboot at least 3 times a day. So finally I decided to upgrade my HTC to a stock rom.
But testing here and there, I've found something in cooked roms that is terrific!
Start menu is in the bottom and the two buttons (in my phone are "Phone" and "Menu") where buttons and not just text. I've attached two images: One of my homescreen as it is and the other with the wished structure.
Is there an application that does this?
Thanks in advance!
PS. Forgive my english, please!!
StartMenu in the bottom means your SYS is WM6.5.X. Top ones are just WM6.5.
Phone button is part of Sense. They can be changed by the following reg keys. Menu, you cant do anything with it. It is hard-coded in Sense.
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Manila]
"HomeLSKPath"="windows\\cprog.exe"
"HomeLSKText"="Phone"
if you enjoy the stock feel, you should try Dutty's ROM or Artemis. they come with the big buttons in the bottom
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StartMenu in the bottom means your SYS is WM6.5.X. Top ones are just WM6.5.
Phone button is part of Sense. They can be changed by the following reg keys. Menu, you cant do anything with it. It is hard-coded in Sense.
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Manila]
"HomeLSKPath"="windows\\cprog.exe"
"HomeLSKText"="Phone"
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I'll try this. Thanks a lot!!!
Your stock ROM is indeed Windows Mobile 6.5 with start menu at top left in taskbar. Cooked ROMs are mostly Windows Mobile 6.5.3 or 6.5.5 which now have the Start Menu button bottom left in the Softkey bar, so you can't achieve exactly what you are looking for just with registry edits (although you can reassign the two big softkeys to pretty much anything. If you want the Start Menu access in the middle of the bottom bar as you show then I'd recommend installing Cookies Home Tab 2.0 and enabling CHT Softkeys as this allows you to achieve exactly what you're after. You can have up to five custom softkeys doing pretty much anything you want, plus you can really easily skin them to get exactly the look you want. CHT 2.0 will install and work fine on a stock ROM, plus it gives you as much (or as little) customisation as you want in your home screen(s).