Like a lot of you I've spent so many hours over the years combing XDA and google for cabs and how-tos to maximize the nerd factor of my HTC phones and wish I had a single website back then to simplify, enhance and expedite the experience. So I made one, bought a domain and dumped it on my server. I invite you all to use it:
http://blownfuze.org/ (login/pass xda/xda)
It's single, simple phone-browser-friendly page, a mixture of instructions, plenty of cabs and descriptions, with the following sections:
1) Flash a new ROM.
2) Misc should and must-have apps and tweaks.
3) Web browsers, RSS readers.
4) Today screen/TouchFlo3D.
5) Config tools/egistry editors.
6) Email.
7) GPS.
8) Multimedia.
9) Notifcations.
10) Chat, fun and games.
11) Impressive XDA developed applications.
12) Flashing back to AT&T for warranty compliance.
13) Radios!
14) Alphabetical list of files.
Hand-picked primo choice software, baby. I did my best to make sure nothing's on the site whose author asked that it not be redistributed and I linked to the threads so that the site helps you people without hurting the developers. If I screwed up anywhere, just let me know, I'd appreciate the help. And if you have any suggestions like of things to add I'd love to hear it.
Enjoy everybody. And drop me a line on the site or the thread, I'd like that. C'mon.
http://blownfuze.org/ user xda pass xda
Doug
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[reserved] I'll use this for a changelog when I add new stuff.
EDIT:
it works, check it out!!!
It did for me, not five minutes before your post.
Very nice... I like...
Thank you!
This is my very first post as I have been lurking around for the last couple of days and finally decided to register.
I started with a Motorola Timeport way back when, and then went through a long line up of Sony Ericsson's. I recently jumped on the iPhone bandwagon and fell of a few weeks ago. I went back to my P1i at that point, and have been on the prowl for a new phone ever since.
Now all that brings me to today, when I ordered my new HTC Fuze. I'm looking forward to modding it to my liking and just wanted to thank you for making my soon to be journey a rather reassuring one. I went through your site and it seems very promising. Can't wait to dive right in once the new toy arrives.
Thanks again!
is the site down rite now?
Nevermind.........
It's not working for me either, after I put in the id and password I get a page with this-
The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
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Only one top level element is allowed in an XML document. Error processing resource 'http://blownfuze.org/'. Line 56, Posi...
</style><title>Your AT&T Fuze BLOWS! So change the fuze here.</title>
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XML error fixed I think
Woops, sorry about that, found a little XML bug that prevented you badass IE users from loading the page. It should be okay now.
Hmm, now it works fine, weird.
I want to add more cities to the HTC weather in Touch viva. Therefore i edited the files HH_0409_WeatherCities.xml with the city info. When i replace this file in the \Windows\ , the city names show up, but the info is not getting updated?
Please help me. what could be wrong?
same problem with Fuze
I did the same thing using the recommended Weather Database Editor, but new weather info wouldn't post.
Please advise.
Drjim : are you getting the new cities in your list first? I simply edited the HH_0409_WeatherCities.xml and put it back into the \Windows directory.
Is there anything extra to be done??
follow-up on weather
Yes, I get the new cities in my list. I didn't know there was a "first" and second step. I just changed the city code using this template: NAM|US\CA\GREENBRAE (where I live) in Weather Editor.
I don't know anything about editing as you indicate. Can you clarify? Where do I do this edit and how?
Maybe we can figure this out together.
weather probems
I have the same issue with my city. The weather app sends a requests to an international version of the accuweather.com website. If that site supports your city you can get weather info for your city. I have not yet been able to get the weather app working. Hope some of the senior members on this site are able to help you.
Regards.
Take a look at my thread on the elf forum. There's a detailed break down of steps involved. It should lead you in the right direction. The instructions are for adding a city in Kazakhstan.....make sure you get the corresponding code for your city from the accu weather website. And you should be good to go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=451001
good info, but more questions
I will try your method for changing and see how it works.
What if I want to add several new cities. Please explain.
Thanks.
You can add as many cities as you want provided it shows up on the accuweather website. You need to code for every city which you will find from the website. You pick this up from the url once you have navigated to the page that shows the forceast for that city. Ex:
http://www.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&loccode=EUR|SE|SW015|STOCKHOLM
That's the code for Stockholm, Sweden. Likewise, pull up the code of the city you'd like to add and enter it into the HH_0409_Weathercities.xml file along with the other info. Make sue you leave all the other lines of code intact while doing so.
drjim : Is the problem solved now? I was able to finally get the additional cities working. Thanks to N2A' s post.
But the method i followed was somewhat different. I was not able to locate the "HTCHome.dll" file in \Windows in my HTC Touch Viva. Therefore as mentioned in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2780103, i had to edit
the Manila2D.exe file from the \Windows and along with the update of HH_0409_WeatherCities.xml i was finally
able to get weather updates for my city.
This forum is great!!
Sounds daft & I'm sure the infos here. I just want to change the theme on my GSM HTC Touch Pro. I know all the software & links are here on this site. It's just there's no 'this software is what you need & this is how you change your theme' info.
Thanks
LOL, ok, google free wm themes, download it and transfer the tsk file to your device. Then simply goto settings/today and select the theme you downloaded... no extra software needed.
try this site, it has THOUSANDS
http://www.portablethemes.com/
Just realised tho, you might be wanting to change you manila theme.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=470023 there are some themes on here
Thanks for the reply, what exactly in Manila & how do I use it. I've already seen lots of reference to it but don't actually know what it is.
I've uplodaed a few tsk & cab files & selected them in my today them menu but all I get are slight changes like different icon, I've manged to add a different wallpaper, but as soon as the touchflo starts, it's lost.
Getting there
Ta
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Sounds daft & I'm sure the infos here. I just want to change the theme on my GSM HTC Touch Pro. I know all the software & links are here on this site. It's just there's no 'this software is what you need & this is how you change your theme' info.
Thanks
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Oh my goodness guys, the test is coming up and I don't know any of the answers. I know all the information to pass the test is in the books. But that would require me to actually read and study.
You guys have already read the books and studied. Can you just give me all the answers to the test, I really can't be bothered to actually read and study myself.
I'm sure the infos here.
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You are right all the info is in the Touch Pro Forum.
I understand your point. However this is not an interest or hobby of mine. I'm just a guy who doesn't like how my screen phone looks. Once this is done I may never look at this again. In the 24 hours I have each day I have other things I have to do first & then all the hobbies & interests I have.
I had a look through the first 3-4 pages of this forum & then I tried a few searches. Found a few things, but not enough to fingure it all out.
I've ran out of time for this now really. I might try again when I get some spare time.
Thanks for your help.
search for Replacing/Changing TouchFLO3D skins/themes.
here's some basic help for you, halo (and some commentary)
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Oh my goodness guys, the test is coming up and I don't know any of the answers. I know all the information to pass the test is in the books. But that would require me to actually read and study.
You guys have already read the books and studied. Can you just give me all the answers to the test, I really can't be bothered to actually read and study myself.
You are right all the info is in the Touch Pro Forum.
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This is so right-on... and yet ... at the same time I respect the Original Poster's comment framing:
I understand your point. However this is not an interest or hobby of mine. I'm just a guy who doesn't like how my screen phone looks. Once this is done I may never look at this again. In the 24 hours I have each day I have other things I have to do first & then all the hobbies & interests I have.
I had a look through the first 3-4 pages of this forum & then I tried a few searches. Found a few things, but not enough to fingure it all out.
I've ran out of time for this now really. I might try again when I get some spare time.
Thanks for your help.
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And because i think it's valid to have people want to utilize great resources here at XDA, yet not have to immerse themselves totally into weeks of XDA Culture in order to do so, I hope this helps the Original Poster. (see Commentary further below my effort to help halo1234)
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halo1234: Some Overview Help. It may or may not help your specific request:
1. IF you are running a version of the "TouchFlo" interface as the primary finger-controllable navigation tool,
then here's what you need to know:
2. "Manila" is the name of the interface system that HTC (phone maker) introduced which allowed the bottom-of-the-screen left-to-right finger-slider navigation system. That term, Manila, is synonymous with "TouchFLO 2D" ... and it took days for me to finally "get" that linkage. Later, HTC introduced what they considered a "new & improved" navigation system called "TouchFLO 3D" ... but many people here at XDA consider that its added eye-candy and transition effects were no real added-value. Thus most people here prefer the "TouchFLO 2D" navigation theme.
The prior "favorite naivgation scheme" was called "HTC Home" -- and one can debate their personal preference. I consider TouchFLO 2D to be miles beyond "HTC Home" in terms of a user-friendly navigation system and interface.
3. How to modify a "TouchFLO 2D" interface: M2DC utility
This has actually been made super easy thanks to the work of an XDA-developer who created a customization tool called "M2DC" -- which stands for Manilla TouchFLO 2D Customizer. It consolidates about 100 controllable factors for modifying themes:
Background images, tab systems and icon systems, font colors and sizes and faces, many other things.
SEARCH here for "M2DC" and you will quickly find it. DOwnload it and install it. Once you have M2DC installed (AND YOU SHOULD DONATE GENEROUSLY TO THE SOFTWARE AUTHOR OF THIS GREAT UTILITY!), then it creates a THEME folder. And various designers of themes here at XDA have used the author's file-format which packs all the elements for a particular theme change into an .m2dt file (m2d theme)
4. Find some themes you like, prefer:
XDA user KidnamedAlbert has a consolidated thread here at XDA which does nothing except show people's themes they have created and have made available to you to download for installation onot your phone, IF you are running one of the "TouchFLO 2D" Roms. Here. People who design themes package them in one of two ways: (a) as an .m2dt file which can be dropped into the M2D2 "Themes" folder on your device... or (b) as a .zip file which has all the graphic pieces for that theme, along with an .xml file which composes all these elements into a theme. I suggest you use (a).
5. Launch the M2DC utility; find the theme file you just inserted into its theme folder. Then follow the wizards "next steps" of the M2DC utility. NOTE: it is highly recommended that you find the bottom tab of that utlitity called "Backup" or "Restore" (i cant recall which). There you can Backup all the custom settings and files you have adjusted, and M2DC saves them for later restoration.
6. Top-bar and bottom-bar of the screen:
These are, generally, separate elements from the whole "TouchFLO" or Manila theme. You can search for these separately on this site. Search for .tsk files .These control the color scheme and gradient-quality of the top and bottom bars on the screen. After you find ones you want to try, then the way you implement these is:
(a) copy, or place, the .tsk file(s) you want to try into the \Windows folder of your device. Use "File Explorer" for this, to show the directory structure of the files on your phone.
(b) then, to access and switch between those .tsk themes, go to: Start > Settings > Personal > and find the "Today" icon. "Today" is the setting you will be changing. You'll now see in the left-hand box on that page the names of all the .tsk files you just loaded into the Windows directory of your phone. Now you select the one you want to try, click "OK" at the top-right of the screen, and in a second or two, the top-bar and bottom-bar will change. If you like, keep it. if not, try another.
7. Now, all I ask from you is this:
Tell me: Did these instructions help you. Or not. It's okay if the answer is "they did not". I just want to know, so please reply either way. Thanks and good luck.
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My Commentary re the Complexity of This Site's information design:
The truth is, XDA comprises an incredible, 2nd-to-none, knowledge base and dedicated developer community, and yet, because of those 2 things, the site is so sprawling and dense that even with using SEARCH and reading Sticky Threads and following links to HOW-TO's, and Newbie Guides, it takes weeks sometimes, just to assemble and/or decode some basic answers. That's a sign that even with the flexible & powerful hierarchical structure of prob the best forum software out there (vBulletin), nevertheless, there is a baseline INFORMATION DESIGN PROBLEM here.
It's not an easy solve by any means. But just for the record, I am taking on that task, since my area of professional specialty is Information Architectire and Customer Usability.
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he was talking about the Touch Pro.. that is not M2D.. but TF3D
for M2D i've written a guide in the guides thread in the Q&A section..
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he was talking about the Touch Pro.. that is not M2D.. but TF3D
for M2D i've written a guide in the guides thread in the Q&A section..
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Excellent stuff you've assembled & written. I really value those kinds of guides. Thanks. So i guess the answer to my #7 will be: nope, sorry, i am not using M2D... hah hah, well i had a good time wasting my time writing it up!
No not a waste of time. I read through your post & becasue you spent some time & effort on my post & decided to try again. So 2, 4 & 6 were useful, plus a few other links. Evetually I found some easy .cab files that worked without a problem from the Rapheal section & it's all working fine now.
If you hadnt bothered to respond I wouldn't of had another go, so it was worth it for me! Your right this forum is by far the largest I've useds & with so many variants of product & methods it's easy to get lost. My issue was that I new what I needed, but didn't know why or how.
Thanks
Peter
halo1234 said:
No not a waste of time. I read through your post & becasue you spent some time & effort on my post & decided to try again. So 2, 4 & 6 were useful, plus a few other links. Evetually I found some easy .cab files that worked without a problem from the Rapheal section & it's all working fine now.
If you hadnt bothered to respond I wouldn't of had another go, so it was worth it for me! Your right this forum is by far the largest I've useds & with so many variants of product & methods it's easy to get lost. My issue was that I new what I needed, but didn't know why or how.
Thanks
Peter
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Hey I am really glad you got some value from it. And that you found a solution overall for your Raphael. I'll tell you the OTHER value from it: I hadn't even known of nir36's outstanding GUIDES til he referenced them here. So there are multiple outcomes from asking questions. And I could spot that in your case you weren't the more typical "I need this now, i don't have time to look, so could someone just email me the answer?" user who parachutes into XDA-Developers forum land and expects to be handheld for their specific request.
There's a continuum here of what new users ask for -- and thus I think it would be way more realistic for some veteran members here to sometimes see new user questions from the ground level of someone coming into this land of knowledge and, as you sort of said, not even knowing how to frame the question, since the density of information is sometimes impenetrable, and just frame it out for a new user, vs just the standard reply to read read read read read.
As an information designer, I have never ever understood the impulse of some early-adopter people who have had to dig dig dig and read read read to finally pioneer the understandings and piece-together solutions to complex questions, to then want others who follow to work as hard at it as they did. My philosophy is build a better gateway to the knowledge storage, vs chastising people for using the wrong entrance.
For sure it's a 2-way street, and there are hundreds-a-day justifiable reasons for frustrations from knowledge-holders seeing the level of laziness and entitlement coming from the OTHER end of the new user spectrum. They give human beings a bad name
P.S. -- people hate my philosophy comments on a tech-board. I know. I don't try to be verbose, but I know it drives some people batty. In which case, sorry !
hah, i actually like these.
Hy smart guys and everybody else!
Please help me to achieve this:
I use to search UK addresses by postcodes. When I enter more postcodes for my route, in order to make a delivery route with many stops, I need to display the UK post codes in my way-points list like this in Primo 1.1
37 The Highlands, HA8 5HD
or better
HA8 5HD, 37 The Highlands
Right now, if I search a UK address using the post code, I get only the address in my way-point list and the post code is not displayed, so I can't track them as I wish.
I need to track the route by postcodes, not by addresses (see the picture attached), so I really need this feature, please help me with this.
I know there must be some *.ini file that must be modified, but I don't know which one to edit and what code to add.
Cheers mates! I'm looking forward for a quick answer from a very smart guy, I know you are some on this forum.
p.s. By the way, I have bought some "Penguins"
As a frequent Skype user on my phone, I want to know what my contacts are up to but it seems tha Microsoft has taken away our ability to see whether a contact's status is set to 'do not disturb' or 'away'. Instead of seeing the above mentioned statuses, we just see the contact as 'offline'.
I thought I would make this little petition and gather some signatures where we can then later on send it to the Skype development team and hopefully they will do the changes in their next version.
If you feel the same as I do, then you can sign the petition here:
https://www.change.org/p/skype-micr...isturb-and-away-statuses-in-skype-for-android
P.S. I was not sure where exactly to post this so the mods can move it to the appropriate board.
Mitko said:
As a frequent Skype user on my phone, I want to know what my contacts are up to but it seems tha Microsoft has taken away our ability to see whether a contact's status is set to 'do not disturb' or 'away'. Instead of seeing the above mentioned statuses, we just see the contact as 'offline'.
I thought I would make this little petition and gather some signatures where we can then later on send it to the Skype development team and hopefully they will do the changes in their next version.
P.S. I was not sure where exactly to post this so the mods can move it to the appropriate board.
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Interesting. I also use skype each day (not living with my family ATM, work obligations), but missed this statuses issue. Thx for highlighting this.