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after searching and searching for possible resource files for an ozVGA hack... i accidentally stumbled upon a VGA hack from somewhere in the forums... didnt know it will work but just tested it anyhow...and wow! first time i was able to appreciate real VGA in all its glory... no more missing icons or displays...
important!!! i am not the author of this software... i just found it and would like to share it to my current family (UNiversal).... hehe!
all credits go to the author, tobias.waldvogel in the athena forums! cheers! you made a working REAL VGA program! finally!!!!
what is good about the program:
1) you can choose 96, 128 or 192 dpi settings
2) all icons/notifications/etc can can be seen
3) texts in the today bar are all present! (signal, battery, clock, volume, etc)
4) now you can use the htc home plugin with no problem! (in REAL vga)
5) very very minor font issues
***I am not liable for hard resets! i just want to share! if you're not sure what you're doing, maybe you should wait for other people to try it first and wait for their opinion on this software
sorry for 1 link only... i cannot upload it here... tried about 4 times already..
real VGA by tobias.waldvogel
http://rapidshare.com/files/54949528/RealVGA.ARM.CAB.html
rnzk8 said:
after searching and searching for possible resource files for an ozVGA hack... i accidentally stumbled upon a VGA hack from somewhere in the forums... didnt know it will work but just tested it anyhow...and wow! first time i was able to appreciate real VGA in all its glory... no more missing icons or displays...
important!!! i am not the author of this software... i just found it and would like to share it to my current family (UNiversal).... hehe!
all credits go to the author! cheers! you made a working REAL VGA program! finally!!!!
what is good about the program:
1) you can choose 96, 128 or 192 dpi settings
2) all icons/notifications/etc can can be seen
3) texts in the today bar are all present! (signal, battery, clock, volume, etc)
4) now you can use the htc home plugin with no problem! (in REAL vga)
5) very very minor font issues
***I am not liable for hard resets! i just want to share! if you're not sure what you're doing, maybe you should wait for other people to try it first and wait for their opinion on this software
sorry for 1 link only... i cannot upload it here... tried about 4 times already..
http://rapidshare.com/files/54949528/RealVGA.ARM.CAB.html
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Excellent find ! Works with my old trusted Darkforce rom. These threads are indeed a treasure trove. Keep finding excellent software.
Great software, thanks mate! Works with Midget_1990 v1.0!
Joc
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=327830
Yup, confirmed working & stable in Uni after 3 days of use. HTC Home now displays better although notification counts still cut-off/partially hidden at 128 dpi. Most progs are compatible except in my case 1-calc.
Credit should be given to: tobias.waldvogel of Athena forum here at XDA-Dev on the thread pointed out above by fallenczar!
I'm interested to learn about the application of real-VGA.
Why we will be needing real-VGA where we have high resolution in PIE...?
been following the development of this app from the athena forum and this latest release is really impressive.
the original thread is vga 144. thanks to tobias.
My GOD!!!!It becomes qtek 9000 screen beautiful!!!!
Incredible work!!
ranju said:
I'm interested to learn about the application of real-VGA.
Why we will be needing real-VGA where we have high resolution in PIE...?
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First of all congratulations ranju for the nice ROM (judging from the posts in your thread)!
With RealVGA we get to use HTC Home Today plugin which doesn't display well in QVGA. A lot of today screen space is also realized as well as getting to see a lot more on the screen on other VGA-aware progs. The drawback is when non VGA-aware programs are run, the fonts (& icons) are veeery small to be read/seen.
Can't comment on games as I don't use mine for that kind of stuff, but some say that VGA games are cool in Real VGA!
can someone post the cab file here? it keeps bumming me saying the rapidshare download limit has reached
thanks in advance!
dreamtheater39 said:
can someone post the cab file here? it keeps bumming me saying the rapidshare download limit has reached
thanks in advance!
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fallenczar had pointed to the link of the thread above!
Anyway, Real VGA by tobias.waldvogel, rather than uploading the cabs again here the thread is also worth reading.
Cheers!
rhmartin said:
fallenczar had pointed to the link of the thread above!
Anyway, Real VGA by tobias.waldvogel, rather than uploading the cabs again here the thread is also worth reading.
Cheers!
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thanks a lot rhm!
also, big thanks to rnz for pointing this out! i was always wanting this, but was too lazy to find it or try things myself! if we do meet ever, beer on me!
Cheers,
San
I got an error: using higher resolutions, if I would like to set alarm, got error message: "No program memory available...".
Switch back to 192dpi everything is working normally.
Joc
joco1114 said:
I got an error: using higher resolutions, if I would like to set alarm, got error message: "No program memory available...".
Switch back to 192dpi everything is working normally.
Joc
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YES! I also got this error!
And I found some error about Windows Live, the icon of MSN Messeger are wrongly displayed.
offiline logo = online
DND logo = offline
I've just downloaded and installed this file, and let me thank you for this.
And... Here is my two cents, i just wanted to share my experiences on how programs behaved in this mode.
The icons at SPB Today plugin doesn't display.
The Task manager icon is corrupted and is hard to click on it.
I've resetted my PDA twice since i installed this and both resets required another reset since it stuck at windows logo.
When i opened VC Painter.. well, it kinda crashed and i had to reset.
I've opened Pocket Artist, it works well except the icons at the toolbar can not be seen unless you click and wait on over them.
Opera seems better this way, you really enjoy browsing in fullscreen. Well, at least whilst opera "can" open web sites as it's supposed to be. I still am struggling for using meebo.com.
Minimo, the browser that i could barely have had any surfing experiences since it drives me crazy, is worse than Opera at browsing but works at RealVGA mode, well... kinda! (It crashed again when i tried opening a website.
The dialer skin doesn't fit the screen good enough. It has a blank space at down as big as the "Hide Keypad - Menu" bar is.
In this mode, viewing photos is a feast since you can view them in their original resolutions.
Resco Audio Recorder application denies the screen res. and tries to open like it was in back. It feels like they've coded their program to fill the screen according to ratios. Looks bad.
Wohoo! Keepass looks fantastic!
Novii Remote doesn't run at this screen resolution... *sniff*
pTravelAlarm's skin looks like crap, pity...
psShutXP feels more like real,
Voice2Go behaves just like Vito Audio Notes,
There're some minor font issues when i was exploring settings...
Oh and, it drains memory!
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Other than these, it's ok
i cant seem to get htc homeplug to work on my device
can you give us a link which works? do i need to do something before i can get it to run?
thanks!
dreamtheater39 said:
i cant seem to get htc homeplug to work on my device
can you give us a link which works? do i need to do something before i can get it to run?
thanks!
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hi dreamtheater... i also had the same problem before...
i think these are the files i used for the htc home plugin....
htc home plugin: rt HTC home 2.0
htc home plugin customizer: HHCv08b.cab
this home plugin is the one with the 6 tabs... you can enable this using the customizer... you can also change the clock skins, icons, etc.
makes your home plugin look even better...
no other requirements except that you must be in wm6 for this particular plugin i posted (and in realVGA to get correct display).... i know i read somewhere that they were able to make a Cab to make the htc home plugin run on a wm5 device...
HTC HOME PLUGIN
http://rapidshare.com/files/55031161/rt_HTC_Home_2.00.cab.html
HTC CUSTOMIZER
http://rapidshare.com/files/55031799/HHCv08b.cab.html
fallenczar said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=327830
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thanks! i will update my post to give due credit to TOBIAS!
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i know i read somewhere that they were able to make a Cab to make the htc home plugin run on a wm5 device...
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I tried to search but seems like forever for me to find a WM5 compatible HTC home plugin. Anyone kind enough to point me some directions?
im not sure about this but it was tested on an apache running wm5...
maybe you can try it and confirm so that others can use it too
HTC home plugin for wm5 (with 6 tabs)
http://rapidshare.com/files/47418755/HTCHomeWM56Tab.zip.html
satanisme said:
I tried to search but seems like forever for me to find a WM5 compatible HTC home plugin. Anyone kind enough to point me some directions?
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Is the 'Touch Settings' program a posible alternative for changing which programs are called up by the Videos and the Music button within the cube or is it specific to the Elf?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=324556
I'd really like to use CorePlayer for Videos, etc.
Thanks in advance for the help.
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Is the 'Touch Settings' program a posible alternative for changing which programs are called up by the Videos and the Music button within the cube or is it specific to the Elf?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=324556
I'd really like to use CorePlayer for Videos, etc.
Thanks in advance for the help.
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yea im pretty sure it'll work. dont have a device though to make sure
Nope, I tried it (all versions) and it won't even install - I get the "the program doesn't have sufficient system permissions" error message. Maybe someone will modify this app for the polaris - it seems like it would be useful since HHC doesn't customize the cube and this does.
** Bump **
I'm another Polaris user (well, it's on pre-order at the moment). This 'Touch Settings' program sounds like exactly what I was hoping to be able to use.
Is there any chance the program can be adapted to work on the Polaris? Can anyone hazard a guess from psargent's "the program doesn't have sufficient system permissions" when installing error message as to what the problem might be since I realise that it isn't reasonable to expect people like the author of this program to have every device at their disposal but if possible fixes can be suggested then maybe it can be fixed "blind"? I for one would be more than happy to validate any possible fixed version on a real device.
- Julian
Mine is on pre-order as well, and I would love to see this....
PoorlyDuck has some inspiring skins, and then there is this post, on a different site, that changes the cube to six sided.
Here is Poorlyducks post,
page 23 has the skins....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1861287#post1861287
and here is the six sided cube, but only on a sprint touch i think.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=12798
just found both of those...still reading the vista cube post...
drools
psargent said:
Is the 'Touch Settings' program a posible alternative for changing which programs are called up by the Videos and the Music button within the cube or is it specific to the Elf?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=324556
I'd really like to use CorePlayer for Videos, etc.
Thanks in advance for the help.
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I have posted a few different times to Carlos in the "Elf" forum regarding this topic. Unfortunately he has not responded. It would be nice to use this program versus making the neccessary adjustments to the registry manually. Just a note that permissions error I also received when trying to load to my Touch.
*Bump*
This would be great on the TC. I have found a few registry settings that look easy to change (for the 6 icon side), but a complete program would be better. It would be nice to have the media hub customized as well.
butzchan said:
This would be great on the TC. I have found a few registry settings that look easy to change (for the 6 icon side), but a complete program would be better. It would be nice to have the media hub customized as well.
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Sorry to hijack the thread but can you point me to the registry change to get the 6 sided cube?
Nope
Hi all,
I´ve got a German Orbit 2 aka TC and as far as I can see it doesen´t work. After installing all necessary files manually (due to rights-limitations) I can start the programm, but it doesen´t recognize my MediaMinihub. I can change the Phoo/Video/Music cube-side, but that´s it.
Maybe its because I got a German ROM...?
sorry for that.
sl bb
mouseymousey said:
Sorry to hijack the thread but can you point me to the registry change to get the 6 sided cube?
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PM sent.
Does anyone know what/where the registry settings are to point the HTC album to the storage card?
butzchan said:
PM sent.
Does anyone know what/where the registry settings are to point the HTC album to the storage card?
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Click HTC album>click camera> click menu> click storage card and your done.
JulianL said:
This 'Touch Settings' program sounds like exactly what I was hoping to be able to use. Is there any chance the program can be adapted to work on the Polaris?
Can anyone hazard a guess from psargent's "the program doesn't have sufficient system permissions" when installing error message as to what the problem might be since I realise that it isn't reasonable to expect people like the author of this program to have every device at their disposal
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Hi, I'm the author of Touch Settings and I would be very happy to work with the community to get it working on the Polaris.
The CAB install error you're getting is v interesting. Steps to take to try and cure this problem are:
1. The device may be app locked, you need to download a program called Device Security Manager, then with your Polaris connected to Activesync, disable all the security:
Look at this web page for more info.
2. Also, try installing the sdcerts if possible (again, see above web page)
3. Check Free Storage memory; lack of this can cause the problem.
Please can somebody try all the above with the NEW VERSION 2.22 OF TOUCH SETTINGS (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=324556&goto=newpost)
If it doesn't work, I will upload a ZIP file of the individual files and we can try a manual installation.
Best
C
PS: I don't know an awful lot about security certs and device provisioning, so if any other developers can point me to a way of making the CAB install on the Polaris, please do.
carlosp_uk said:
Hi, I'm the author of Touch Settings and I would be very happy to work with the community to get it working on the Polaris.
The CAB install error you're getting is v interesting. Things to check first:
- Is the device app locked in some way: are the security certificates restrictive?
Look at THIS WEB PAGE: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2007/05/30/all-about-application-locked.aspx
...download the Device Security Manager, dock your Polaris and disable all the security.
- Install the sdcerts if possible (again, see above web page)
- Check Free Storage memory; lack of this can cause the problem.
Please somebody try all the above with the NEW VERSION 2.22 OF TOUCH SETTINGS (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=324556&goto=newpost)
If it doesn't work, I will upload a ZIP file of the individual files and we can try a manual installation.
Best
C
PS: I don't know an awful lot about security certs and device provisioning, so if any other developers can point me to a way of making the CAB install on the Polaris, please do.
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Excellent Carlos....I was hoping you would take a look at this program for the Polaris!!
Thx
Hi carlos,
thx for your quick reply. It works like a charm now. I need now some "stylish" icons for my selected apps, but thats another problem.
Thx anyway for your great application.
well, on mine it really did not turn out that well....
The cube does not turn any more
all the icon show a black box
and I can't return to a functional version...
Please HELP!!!
tigerpower said:
The cube does not turn any more all the icon show a black box
and I can't return to a functional version...
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Tigerpower
Sorry to hear you've had problems. If you hard reset your device, your cube should revert to normal. If you are unwilling to hard reset your device, then if somebody could post a registry dump from a Polaris (clean, hard reset device) then I can post a fix CAB for you!
C
It works
Thanks Carlos, the 2.22pre version works very nice on my Couise.
I have only question:
If I try to change APLauncher layout I get a mesage "It seems that your HTC Touch Software is not recent....", but I can change the apps grid. What the message exactly means? There is any newer HTC Touch Cube version than what is on Cruise installed?
Tnx
vtesar said:
Thanks Carlos, the 2.22pre version works very nice on my Couise.
I have only question:
If I try to change APLauncher layout I get a mesage "It seems that your HTC Touch Software is not recent....", but I can change the apps grid. What the message exactly means? There is any newer HTC Touch Cube version than what is on Cruise installed?
Tnx[/QUOTE
What is the "pre-version" 2.22? Im out of town so I cannot try yet..Is that version still expired?
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vtesar said:
Thanks Carlos, the 2.22pre version works very nice on my Couise.
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GREAT to hear! Thank you.
vtesar said:
I have only question:
If I try to change APLauncher layout I get a mesage "It seems that your HTC Touch Software is not recent...."
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Hmm. ...very interesting. Well, I don't have a Cruise/Polaris, so I don't know!
Could somebody please please send me a registry dump? And, if possible, the files Biotouch.exe, Mediahubmini.exe, APLauncher.exe and QDialer.exe from \Windows\ on the device.
teride said:
What is the "pre-version" 2.22? Im out of town so I cannot try yet..Is that version still expired?
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Hi teride
No, there is a new build now that does not expire, we're up to v2.24. You can download from www.fatattitude.com/software. Let me know if it works for you!
[App][31-07-09] Small,fast,reliable Soft Reset/Suspend and Shutdown w & w/o TD2 icons
[Click here fo my all in one application SoftReset/Shutdown/Standby/Dim Light/Screen Off check]
TD2 SoftReset is a small (17 KB) program I wrote in native C++ to be able to soft reset the HTC Touch Diamond2 without having to fiddle with the backcover or wait ages for the device to turn off when using the power on/off button.
A soft reset is usually advised when the device starts to get slower or if significant changes were made like editing the registry, sometimes even after installing new software.
So this little tool comes in handy for that.
Of course there are already other "soft reset" tools out there, but I wasn't sure which method they use to accomplish the task (there are quite a few different ways). As some of them might even cause loss of data I wanted to be on the safe side and wrote my own. Plus it now has this nice little icon (hope you like it too) representing the TD2
HOWEVER: use at your own risk - I am putting it into public domain and thus will not take any responsibility.
TD2 SoftReset will work on all windows mobile devices starting from 2003SE.
To uninstall pick "HTC TD2 SoftReset" from the software removal. I've added 2 flavours of the program TD2SoftReset.CAB and TD2SoftReset_Suspend.CAB. Clicking "No" in the latter version will put the device to sleep aka standby mode. You don't need both CABs, just decide if you want the additional suspend function.
TD2 ShutDown
This program utilizes the HTC internal Shutdown method. It completely shuts down the device. Same way as if you'd hold the power on/off button for longer.
As there were more and more people (with other HTC devices) asking for versions with neutral icons, I have attached those too.
TD2SoftReset.CAB - Simple Soft Reset Program with TD2 icon (TD2 icon w 2 blue arrows)
SoftReset.CAB - Same as TD2SoftReset.CAB with neutral icon (2 blue arrows)
TD2SoftReset_Suspend.CAB - Same as TD2SoftReset.CAB, but clicking "No" will suspend device
SoftReset_Suspend.CAB - Same as TD2SoftReset_Suspend.CAB with neutral icon.
TD2ShutDown.CAB - Adds a program to safely shut down your device with TD2 icon.
ShutDown.CAB - Same as TD2ShutDown.CAB with neutral icon
Enjoy and visit my Blog if you like http://mytd2.blogspot.com (it's in german however)
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Many thanks TinTin! Got it installed, and it works fine, and it's also nice to replace my programs shortcut from a 'HD Soft Reset' now to a 'TD2 SoftReset' icon. Thanks again.
Thank you! Glad you like it - at least 1 out of 100 *lol
Good work; appreciate you sharing this utility. Many thanks.
Good job, TinTin!!!
Is it possible to make another .cab without "Softreset?", that i don't need to confirm? I am testing a lot of things ant that would save me a lot of "Clicks"
I would appreciate it a lot. Danke im Voraus!
Hi TinTin, Thanks man! This, and your other great utility are now listed in the Rollup thread ;-) many thanks!
timsah1 said:
Good job, TinTin!!!
Is it possible to make another .cab without "Softreset?", that i don't need to confirm? I am testing a lot of things ant that would save me a lot of "Clicks"
I would appreciate it a lot. Danke im Voraus!
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Check TD2SoftReset_No_Warning.CAB which is attached - this version will not ask for confirmation before a softreset is executed, clicking the program icon will immediately soft reset your device I encourage everyone to rather download and install the version in the first posting in case of accidental misclicks.
hth,
Tin
jeutie said:
Hi TinTin, Thanks man! This, and your other great utility are now listed in the Rollup thread ;-) many thanks!
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Thanks jeutie
Rollup thread? Where is that?
TinTin, if you're not using KernelIO, what are you using?
Are you causing a purge of file buffers etc first?
There's also the Windows API method, or the HTC specific methods...
I can't remember what VJEschaton uses, but I specifically DON'T make special efforts to close file handles etc IIRC, as frankly, with a flash based filesystem, it shouldn't be able to cause a great deal of damage.
But either way, I'd be interested to know what technique you're using.
PM if that's better.
V
Hi vijay, ltnh
No secret - I'm using ExitWindowsEx , recommended as per msdn. It stops all running processes and flushes the buffers, which KernelIO doesn't. It's not a personal experience that there may occur data loss in using KernelIO, but I've read about it being a possible issue on several different sites.
Ah, that's the one. Yeah, I think I use that on some devices...
Wow, it's been a long time since I wrote that one, I feel my APIs slipping away Gotta start reading them again.
V
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Thanks jeutie
Rollup thread? Where is that?
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It's in the ROM development board,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530335
jeutie said:
It's in the ROM development board,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530335
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Thanks, I had been wondering why there were no sticky threads at all in the other 2 Topaz sections, I don't look too much in the ROM section.
What a great thread! Thanks for that and also thank you very much for finding my contribution worth mentioning.
Cheers,
Tin
Thanks for your work!
Thanks also : little and fast, does the job perfectly.
TinTin said:
Check TD2SoftReset_No_Warning.CAB which is attached - this version will not ask for confirmation before a softreset is executed, clicking the program icon will immediately soft reset your device
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You are da man
Thank you
For those of you that also installed my "NoPushInternet" Tweak, please note that there is an update: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532948
hth,
Tin
http://mytd2.blogspot.com
Cool. I`m use it now
TinTin said:
Check TD2SoftReset_No_Warning.CAB which is attached - this version will not ask for confirmation before a softreset is executed, clicking the program icon will immediately soft reset your device I encourage everyone to rather download and install the version in the first posting in case of accidental misclicks.
hth,
Tin
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Thanks for this softReset shortcut....
i prefer the version that ask for confirmation....
I fully agree - the other one is just useful for those that install a lot of things/play around a lot with stuff, then it gets annoying to have that extrac click
Hi,
I just purchased a new HTC Touch HD phone T8285.
I have realised that it has come pre-loaded with a lot of Telstra configuration. I am not a Telstra customer and I would like to start with a clean phone in the factory shipped state.
I am in Australia and currently have a contract through Virgin (Optus)
Can anyone advise how I can reset the phone configuration so that all reference to Telstra is removed and that the standard factory settings are in place for Australia.
Any help is appreciated
Scott
Hi, welcome to XDA! You would need to flash a chef's cooked rom (must have HardSpl 1st). Check out the Blackstone section of this forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=453
Also, read the Sticky's!
How do I determine which one of these posts is relevant to my HTC Touch HD...?
When I search for this there are a lot of listings.....can you point me to one that might be specific for my device and location
Apologies as I am new at this....
Thanks
Scott
Welcome to forums
here you´ll learn how to flash a new ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505377
Hope it helped,
scott56hannah said:
How do I determine which one of these posts is relevant to my HTC Touch HD...?
When I search for this there are a lot of listings.....can you point me to one that might be specific for my device and location
Scott
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Scott, just click the http link in my above post and then do your search
Thanks for that I can see those instructions and will attempt to follow them...
A further question should I attempt to first use the following ROM upgrade link from HTC to see if it resolves my problem. Rather then using the previous reset instructions...
http://www.htc.com/www/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=179&cat=2&dl_id=533
Or will this simple return me to the current state with the Telstra settings in place ?
Thanks
Scott
Hi,
Before I work use the post above to re-install the ROM on my HTC Touch HD....could I confirm the following...
- will the re-install of this mean that I will not be able to take updates to the ROM from HTC in the future
- will this process work for me as an Australia mobile phone user ?
- does the install include all the Windows Mobile operating system on the phone ready to use
Once again thanks for you help......I am new to this and want to make sure that I don't stuff the phone that have
Thanks
Scott
scott56hannah said:
Hi,
Before I work use the post above to re-install the ROM on my HTC Touch HD....could I confirm the following...
- will the re-install of this mean that I will not be able to take updates to the ROM from HTC in the future
- will this process work for me as an Australia mobile phone user ?
- does the install include all the Windows Mobile operating system on the phone ready to use
Once again thanks for you help......I am new to this and want to make sure that I don't stuff the phone that have
Thanks
Scott
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- You can make any update in the future, cooked ROM´s from XDA are much better than any "official" version
- It should work
- Yes
Social Web - Remove Telstra Wap Redirections ?
HI,
Dont know if anyone can help ... I have been searching the forums, but cant find this anywhere, so apologies if it is answered somewhere else.
I have a new HD2 with Telstra. I have managed to remove the locked quicklinks on the home page, and completed a few other incredible tweaks, but I just cannot seems to get the Social Web links to work when connected to WiFi - they will work when connected via Next G.
On WiFi, when I click on the Facebook icon for example, I get redirected to waprd.telstra.com/redirect?target=facebook-g ... and then nothing happens for about a minute. Just a white screen until I get a message saying "Could not connect to the remote server" . Yet, when I am connected via Next G I connect to Facebook immediately.
I have tried to find the xml code to change the URl, but I cannot find it anywhere.
Is anyone else having this problem, and if they did, was there a solution? Overall I am really happy with the phone (now that I seem to have spent about 3 days tweaking it!) and I would really like to get this fixed.
Thanks so much in advance.
Sarah
sarah72 said:
HI,
Dont know if anyone can help ... I have been searching the forums, but cant find this anywhere, so apologies if it is answered somewhere else.
I have a new HD2 with Telstra. I have managed to remove the locked quicklinks on the home page, and completed a few other incredible tweaks, but I just cannot seems to get the Social Web links to work when connected to WiFi - they will work when connected via Next G.
On WiFi, when I click on the Facebook icon for example, I get redirected to waprd.telstra.com/redirect?target=facebook-g ... and then nothing happens for about a minute. Just a white screen until I get a message saying "Could not connect to the remote server" . Yet, when I am connected via Next G I connect to Facebook immediately.
I have tried to find the xml code to change the URl, but I cannot find it anywhere.
Is anyone else having this problem, and if they did, was there a solution? Overall I am really happy with the phone (now that I seem to have spent about 3 days tweaking it!) and I would really like to get this fixed.
Thanks so much in advance.
Sarah
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hi sarah,
just wondering how did u get rid of the quicklinks off the the home screen, im not happy how they can not provide a phone in its original state!!any other important tweaks i should do when i purchase the phone??
waprd.telstra
I'm having the same issues any waprd.telstra sites will not work in a wifi enviroment. While I'm asking does anyone know hoe to changes the icons in the telstra "news and sport" or "social web" screens" ?
Hey Magic3091
Unfortunately most of those items are hard wired into the ROM. And the ROM is written to Telstra's specs. Hence the branding and all the BS
I suggest you try a new ROM to remove all of these. You'll have to do some reading to find out which is best for you.
I only just got my HD, and having seen how much Telstra stuff is there I WILL be ROMing it. I just need to figure out which one. If I rememder I will post which I choose.
Currently the MIRI rom looks like the best - new WinMob6.5 and Touch flo.
Cheers
Boxersox
Guys, there is one very good application released on PocketGear. I have it on my s740 and apart from being perfect new Start Menu with some very very useful features it can route audio to an earpiece when Skype is active. Also it has Task and Process Manager and it is fully animated. Just wanted to let you know.
Here are some screenshots and detail description.
Skype
by the way "it can route audio to an earpiece when Skype is active": long time ago I read a thread (I'm not sure if it was a Vox thread about skype problem. I think there was a way to find a solution without using ultimate start....
Unfortunately I can't find it again. Can anybody help how to use Skype without backside loudspeaker ? Or does anybody know in which tweak is the explanation to solve problem ?
Regards odiad
odiad said:
by the way "it can route audio to an earpiece when Skype is active": long time ago I read a thread (I'm not sure if it was a Vox thread about skype problem. I think there was a way to find a solution without using ultimate start....
Unfortunately I can't find it again. Can anybody help how to use Skype without backside loudspeaker ? Or does anybody know in which tweak is the explanation to solve problem ?
Regards odiad
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There is no tweak to do that. You need some application to do it for you. And there are not many applications that can do that. But that's just a bonus feature of Ultimate Start. Start Menu part of the application is really something.
hello Callah,
yes I saw that feature in Ultimate start. But I don't like the generell function - the modified start menu (I tried the demo version).
And so it don't make sense for me to buy this tool only to to fix Skype problem. Does anybody else a way or a tool to fix Skype earpiece bug? Would be nice if such a tool is freeware.
Regards Odiad
if you want skype and the earpiece:
Use Nimbuzz
Amazing multi messenger, supporting almost all im's AND skype AND SIP and uses the normal earpiece!!!
odiad said:
hello Callah,
yes I saw that feature in Ultimate start. But I don't like the generell function - the modified start menu (I tried the demo version).
And so it don't make sense for me to buy this tool only to to fix Skype problem. Does anybody else a way or a tool to fix Skype earpiece bug? Would be nice if such a tool is freeware.
Regards Odiad
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I would love to here what you don't like about the start menu. I find it very useful.
Thanks
Hi Callah,
my test of Ultimate Start was quite short because Demoversion of tool didn't allow so many process steps. But that was not so important.
One reason why I don't like the tool was that I prefer the start menu as a list, not grid view. But if Ultimate Start would be so excellent that I could say "wow thats it" - then I could also accept grid view.
And second reason was that in test, when I pressed start menu, I had to wait a little bit until start menu appears. And thats annoying for me. The S710 seems to be a little bit too slow to show good performance. I don't know if it is the same on all S710, but in case of my phone it was so (WM6.5.3 from fireburned).
So that are my reasons why I don't like it.
Regards Odiad
odiad said:
Hi Callah,
my test of Ultimate Start was quite short because Demoversion of tool didn't allow so many process steps. But that was not so important.
One reason why I don't like the tool was that I prefer the start menu as a list, not grid view. But if Ultimate Start would be so excellent that I could say "wow thats it" - then I could also accept grid view.
And second reason was that in test, when I pressed start menu, I had to wait a little bit until start menu appears. And thats annoying for me. The S710 seems to be a little bit too slow to show good performance. I don't know if it is the same on all S710, but in case of my phone it was so (WM6.5.3 from fireburned).
So that are my reasons why I don't like it.
Regards Odiad
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Thanks. What I like about it is T9 search of whole start menu. I don't know if you tried it. It is just like in Contacts. You can get to almost any application or bookmark in just 2-3 key presses.
That second reason you mentioned...I agree. Reason for slow start is probably because application is written in Compact Framework. But...good thing is that you need to wait that long only once when you turn on your phone (my phone is always on). After that application stays in memory just like default start menu and activates fast when you click Start again.
I have read some bad comments about UI on some forums, some people describing it as Windows 3.1 style. But I can't disagree more on that. I think it looks very good. But that maybe just a question of taste.
It looks like many developers are dropping prices (possibly because of WP7). This application is now only 1$, 80% off!