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HTC Touch Pro SMS & EMail Font Size Issue - Help Required

Team,
I am looking for some real help here.
I have a (Vodafone) HTC Touch Pro and have been using this for the last 6 months. I have a condition where my sight is at a fixed focal length. Reading SMS and EMails on this phone is very difficult for me and, at times, impossible. I use glasses but do not carry them with me at all times.
Does anyone know of a way that I can increase the size of the text on SMSs, emails and other areas of the phone? Here is what I have done over the last few months with no luck:
System Text - Basic
I have set the system font size to the biggest available through:
Settings -> System -> Screen -> Text Size -> Largest
I have also ensured that the Sensor Wheel is working when viewing texts by moving this clockwise - the text is at its largest.
This is still too small for me. :-(
Software
I tried using the AdvancedConfigurationTool from http://www.touchxperience.com/
Still no luck there.
I also changed the theme in the hope that I would be able to increase or change the text size - nope.
Finally I used a bit of software that allows the system fonts to be changed, even adding new fonts to the interface (sorry, can't find link). While this updated all text sizes the SMS text remained the same size.
Does anyone think this is the Vodafone branding preventing me from changing the font size? I would not like to invalidate the warranty at this point.
I like the phone but I am really finding it difficult to use as normal. Does anyone have any ideas?
Cheers,
Ricemonk

Thought an upload of what the SMS text is like would help:
I know this may look perfectly normal to almost all users however when on the HTC Touch Pro screen this is much smaller and difficult for me to read.

Open up Messaging and select a Mail Account. Then click on an email to view. From there, go to Menu -> View -> Text Size and select whatever size you want.
This action also effects all other txt in Both Mails & SMS.

Thanks for your reply treo927 however this was already set to highest as I changed the system text to the maximum.
It looks like I am destined to move away from the Touch Pro after only 6 months and on to a Blackberry.

ricemonk,
I recently had the opposite problem to you ... the fonts were too large, they were massive in SMS and email. I tried everything to reduce them in the mail settings.
I recall that I managed to fix it with a font setting from IE ... weird I know, but they must be connected. I cant now find exactly what setting I altered, but it was something in internet explorer.
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adamcullen,
Thanks for your reply - I will take a look and fiddle with the settings and let you know how it goes.
Cheers,
Ricemonk

Ricemonk, try SMS Tweaker http://handheld.softpedia.com/progDownload/SMS-Tweaker-Download-62457.html
It's a free program that lets you set the text message font size in normal mode (not threaded mode) up to 16 points. It looks pretty big to me. I hope it works for you.

treo927 said:
Open up Messaging and select a Mail Account. Then click on an email to view. From there, go to Menu -> View -> Text Size and select whatever size you want.
This action also effects all other txt in Both Mails & SMS.
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Thank you. This has helped me increase my font size. I appreciate it a lot.

[APP] NubDial - Smart Dialer for Android

Hi all,
This project started out as my basic mod of SpellDial (by Lawrence Greenfield, thanks for making it open-source) initially, but I've since made quite a number of changes to it.
It is now able to search by both name and number, and you can always use the "#" key to denote a space. Most of the other changes I made are under the hood, but I've attached a few screenshots so you know what you're getting.
Lastly, there are a couple of bugs, among them I believe it only works properly with Nexus One. I've yet to finish up all the mdpi images, and I've also not updated the code for SDK3/4 and below (Cupcake, Donut).
Download: Search "NubDial" on the Android Market.
Source: http://code.google.com/p/nubdial/
Request/Help Needed:
I hope that this will become a community project (but I doubt I'll be able to do much since sch's getting really bz), and would appreciate if someone could come up with a nicer design that still fits the Android look . If you have, please post your mock-up or send them to me , actual 9-patch/images will be awesome.
Change Log:
1.82:
Added patch by seidler2547 to support accented characters.
Added patch by qingcai to speed up performance (I changed the delay slightly).
Should not show up on Donut/Cupcake Markets anymore.
1.81:
Fixed another FC bug. Thanks to xiutian for running the test version and providing me with logs !
1.8:
Fixed a FC bug when searching for some contacts.
1.7:
Added pref to auto-hide the dialpad on fling action .
Also, fling up/down on the dialpad to show/hide it.
1.6:
QuickContacts picture
1.51:
Fixed hyphen bug again.
1.5:
Added "Add to contacts" to Menu options
Highlighting now works across dashes (Please report)
Able to set as default Dial app now (Tested with SMS widget)
Enabled fast scroll for the contacts list (similar to default contacts, you've the fat tab to hold and drag down)
1.4:
Fixes a regression bug with name matching
*Should* fix hyphen bug
1.3:
Added preference to match any number sequence, not just from the start
1.2:
Bug fixes
1.1/1.0:
I forgot
To Do:
Add menus to go Contacts/Logs/Favourites
Add 2-sec pause/etc.
Implement features to Donut/Cupcake (Low-priority)
Known Bugs:
Long pressing on menu for the soft keyboard messes up the layout. Any ideas?

Looks awesome!! Where's the download link? Thanks for your work

You're fast. I normally post once when there's a lot of stuff already before I edit it to add more . Link's up .

Wysie said:
You're fast. I normally post once when there's a lot of stuff already before I edit it to add more . Link's up .
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Haha I actually JUST happened to be checking the forums (which I don't check so often). Looking good and I just tested it out on the Market. Smooth so far, but after a call ends it unfortunately does not go back to the app, but instead it goes to the stock Dialer. I know that's probably difficult to intertwine and you're aware, but just thought I'd post about it!

a good start
Wysie,
I've been following your development of the contacts apk and now this t9 dialer is adds function not currently available on stock dialer. A good start.
Is there any way to merge this dialer into the stock nexus one phone app?
Jonathan

^^ yes this would be cool

Nice idea. I would like to see this tool rolled into your Wycontacts Eclair apk.
Some quick feedback - I am getting FC when searching for a number/contact that either begins with 2 (ABC) or 6 (MNO). This is repeatable and happens every time. I have rebooted and still get FC whenever the 2 or 6 are entered first. Searching with the other keys works as expected. Can I send you any log files that might help in remedying this? My sig has the ROM and kernel details for reference.

Thank-you
works just fine. It wod be cool the app open by dobbel tap on tracbal

Great work .... but can you do the following?
1) Change the icon to represent the standard Dialler Icon?
2) Have the option within the dialler to goto the other tabs, or better still implement this into the standard dialler?
Thanks for your work !

Hi guys, thanks for the support and comments.
Integrating into the system Contacts app is definitely possible, but I'm afraid I lack the time to do that. Moreover it's not high on my priority list.
I made the icon, so nope, not gonna change it . Sorry.
Check out my to do for what's coming next, as well as currently known bugs (would be good if someone can propose a fix).
That's all. Updated a new version to Market which fixes some minor bugs.

A new icon would be nice. Don't get me wrong, but the current one looks strange. You've made a great app, why spoil it with a fugly icon?
Anyway, it would be great if the app searched contact numbers with wildcards, i.e. if I have a number with an international code (+44xxxxxxxxx), I could search it without having to enter +44.

bro wonderful stuff!
feels good using sg products..
May I add in some suggestions to make it even better...
- Add Speeddial (long press a number to dial a assigned contact?)
- Give options to show default number only and hide the rest
- integrate with call log
if all these is made possible, I will uninstall acontacts and use yrs =)

request
Wysie. awesome work but i have one request. it seems it does not find any sequence of digits, it has to search from the begining of each number. when i remeber numbers i dont start with the area code first (as i assume many people dont) so this app would be perfect if it searched for the sequence in any part of the numbers. once again, beautiful app i would pay for it if it had this feature. (and maybe a nicer icon that matched the 2.1 stock ui a little better)
1951 360-5555
insead of
1951 360-5555
i feel like i made zero sense here i hope i got through. lol

To filter out country code at the start is something I want to do but have yet to think of...

Just uploaded 1.3 on the Market which has an option to allow searching from anywhere in the number . Does not filter by country code, it simply matches any subsequence of numbers.

Thanks for the updated version .... I'd love to see the contact photo built into the left of the name too .... just like it is all over the 2.1 phone app.

the prefix issue is how caller id matching works for incoming calls, only the last 6 or 7 digits of the number is searched for.
I am not sure you would want this on a dialer though? for example sometimes I cant remember a name but i can remember the town and therefore dialling code eg tradesmen in the town where my holiday home is so on my winmo phone i would type in just the dialing code to bring a list of contacts in that area.
Anyway I stopped putting in the international prefix on numbers now, the last few times i went abroad it seems that the networks are smart enough to know your roaming and where your have roamed from so no need of idd prefix when dialing back to your home country.

51b8f7d9f56e53 said:
A new icon would be nice. Don't get me wrong, but the current one looks strange. You've made a great app, why spoil it with a fugly icon?
Anyway, it would be great if the app searched contact numbers with wildcards, i.e. if I have a number with an international code (+44xxxxxxxxx), I could search it without having to enter +44.
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Sorry wysie but im with this guy, I would love to use this as my replacement default dialer but putting this on my homescreen makes it pretty ugly. Looks like a game of sudoku tbh lol trying atm to change the icon with bettercut but having problems.

very nice update, I just wanted to login here to the forum to suggest to you that it searches anywhere in the number
Thank you very much.
Another suggestion: Is it possible to integrate contact picture ? That would be superb
Thanks again for all your work.

Bug report x2:
My Nexus One uses US locale I think but all my numbers are saved as +4670155778 etc. So when the first hyphen appears it'll throw the search off as it appear to search with the added hyphen.
Also, when having language code in numbers (as all my numbers have) you remove the leading zero: +4670155778 is actually 070155778. Please have it match a search for 070155778 as 70155778 to fix this.

Multitouch Keyboard needed to be ported!

Can somebody port this Multitouch Keyboard?!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=779689

want. can you just install the apk? kind of scared to try it first myself.

Brutus2TheMax said:
Can somebody port this Multitouch Keyboard?!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=779689
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dunno if thats the color scheme you want but that keyboard has been themed and released here.
the op of that thread takes requests too.

dgaf98 said:
dunno if thats the color scheme you want but that keyboard has been themed and released here.
the op of that thread takes requests too.
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It is just a colored theme I guess. I know the themed Multitouch KB's are around here but this one is sick. I tried installing on CM6 and it's a nogo...

Asides from the color scheme this one is also transparent (or appears to be anyway). Normally when you go landscape it blocks out the existing page so, for example, if youre replying to an email in landscape you can't simultaneously see what you're typing and what you're responding to.

This MOD is the tits if we can get it

liamaa said:
Asides from the color scheme this one is also transparent (or appears to be anyway). Normally when you go landscape it blocks out the existing page so, for example, if youre replying to an email in landscape you can't simultaneously see what you're typing and what you're responding to.
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You know, that's what's always bothered me about typing in landscape, the text field and KB completely cover the screen.
I wonder if we could make the text input field transparent. Not completely but maybe like 50% so you can still see the page behind it. Although the text field will still take up the whole top half of the screen so it wouldn't change function at all, I just think it might look cool.

[Q] Notifications Text Size on Lock screen

In WP7 Mango, is it possible to change the text size and icon size of notifications on the lock screen? Email, voicemail, texts, etc. show up as very small icons and small numbers below the date and time, too small for an old man like me.
I have a LG Quantum but I have seen other WP7 phones with small notifications so I am asking in general if anyone knows how to change it.

Even a response saying it can't be done [yet] would at least let me stop spending so much time searching for an answer for now...thx

Im pretty sure it cant be done

brokenman said:
In WP7 Mango, is it possible to change the text size and icon size of notifications on the lock screen? Email, voicemail, texts, etc. show up as very small icons and small numbers below the date and time, too small for an old man like me.
I have a LG Quantum but I have seen other WP7 phones with small notifications so I am asking in general if anyone knows how to change it.
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Hi old man,
I do not thonk it is impossible.
You need to search for "notification", "text" etc.. in the registry.

magdan83 said:
You need to search for "notification", "text" etc.. in the registry.
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That was also my first thought. I can't find anything in the registry related to the font or text for notifications. Lots of keys about notification sounds, but that's it. I will continue searching because surely someone has done it. I took a sideroad and checked google images for mango lockscreens and - sadly - they all looked the same. I had hoped that someone had posted how they had modified their lockscreen, but no.
It is weird to me how MS uses these huge fonts that roll across the screen (e.g. people) but then makes notification text and icons in like a 2 pt font.

Sneak Preview for you...

Just a little sneak preview I've been working on for the past couple minutes.
Theme taken from @thecoby on his thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942309 , I've sent thecoby a PM requesting official permission to alter his theme on the basis that credit will be given here in this post as well as coded into the theme.
Basically, all I'm doing is resizing the images used in his theme and redoing the X and Y axis values in the ui.xml. All image work and structure are credited to thecoby. He did all the hard stuff
This is just a port. Not a creation. Please, go thank him (especially if he approves me to use it! Because if not, I really will recreate everything from scratch, which will increase the time I take to get this up and going by a week or more).
Should be done tonight/tomorrow-ish, pending thecoby's approval. No promises.

Reserved for downloads/instructions
COMPLETED:
Button sizes resized
Basic layout resolution changed
90% of images are good to go now
TO DO:
Resize ALL the images!
Fix transparency that broke during some of my resizings.
Fix keyboard highlighting/layout (she way too big! She jus' canny handle 'er, Scotty!)
Modify layout on following pages:
Install (No buttons/source dir visible, the layout listing the folders is too big)
Backup (too much spacing when selecting the partitions to backup, reduce it to make room for buttons)
Set Backup Name (keyboard's too high, due to keyboard layout, only the "q" key is correct lol, cancel button overlapping text area, text area too low... no submit button????)
Restore (everything is in the header??? Dafuq happened here??)
Mount (selectors are all over the place! and the buttons way too high)
Mount USB Storage (USB icon not centered, Unmount button way too high)
Settings (Need less spacing between selections to allow for all buttons)
Screen Settings (Timeout slider too big, re-adjust)
About Theme (Things are way too large, going off the screen... need either line breaks or smaller font)
Advanced
Every sub-page in Advanced needs adjustment... things are just too big.)
Lockscreen still wonky and too big
Various other tweaks and UI issues

Found this theme too! Yet it wasn't fit for our device. Thanks for fixing it up to work with our Blaze!
Sent from my Carbonized Blaze

So, I've never messed with XML coding before today, really. It's in my self-teaching Web Programming course list, but I havent made it that far yet.
And I've decided, it's harder than it initially looked
cant get the Internal/external sd card selectors positioned the way I want it

thecoby said:
jparnell8839 said:
Hello thecoby!
I was wondering if I could use your theme and re-do it to fit our device in the Galaxy S Blaze 4G forums? Credit to you in the thread with a link to the original post as well as the theme's ui.xml file.
jparnell
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Of course you can!
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Just got approval it's on like Donkey Kong!

jparnell8839 said:
Just got approval it's on like Donkey Kong!
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What! Niceness! Looking forward to it...I'm not a dev, but I do like to tweak & test out, so thanks so much to you and all the others out there!

Just wondering if this has been finished.. Would really love this theme!
Sent from my Carbonized Blaze

xWolf13 said:
Just wondering if this has been finished.. Would really love this theme!
Sent from my Carbonized Blaze
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nope, not finished... taking a crash course on XML programming. it got a little out of my depth. will have soon though

Can't wait love twrp
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i hope this can be a one stop solution for flashing every ROM on the Blaze's forum... most of the links are dead and if this recovery can help flash from ICS to KK and back again.. it would be amazing :victory: