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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] LeAdReW:
russian language does not appear correctly(absolutely incorectly) fnd moscow appeares in the medditerenian sea,otherwise its great
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] the_fish:
hi,

really love the new version of pointui! i won't say "OMG ITS BUGGY", of course it is... i mean, its BETA... seems like some ppl won't understand that. havent found too many bugs so far, i really like it!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] barbapappa_86:
Installed the VGA/WVGA version first but i only got this message "could not install on youre device"

QVGA works but it looks funny.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] robotphood:
Initial impressions:

-Snappy animations and responsive throughout the program on my Touch Diamond

-Scrolling a list is quite smooth, I seem to have more control than in TF3D

-Battery/Signal meter is very small (why take out the WM battery meter?)

-My Applications should have more than 9 spaces

-Hope for a SMS preview applet and possibly an extra homescreen icon for it (replace call history?)

-What happened to the HTC Task manager? Wish I could access the Home Task manager from the homescreen at the very least (faster app switching)

-Opera does not crash for me
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Maxwell Lost:
Yeah

Its work fine on Treo 750/HTC Cheetah, but soft keys (left and right) doesnt work, any fix or patch for this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] J0nas:
How can I find the X/Y values for my city (Leiria, Portugal)?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] liamhere:
looks good on my diamond

shame the home button don't send it home.....

but hey.....its still a beta......you must live with the bugs....for now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] barbapappa_86:
Any 1 got this working on the HD?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] artesea:
Pick somewhere already in Portugal and amend slightly.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jinvox:
Both my colleague and I have been testing this out. I have a QVGA version and he's got the WVGA version... both work just fine... though with his Touch HD, it looks fantastic.

The major thing is that on my 2.6" screen qvga, everything is a bit more scrunched up but works just fine...

With the WVGA, you can see the GOOGLE news on the home screen fade in and out (my QVGA can't)

Otherwise for a first beta, this is pretty damn sweet.

And yes we all have to remember that unlike the very first PointUI... this is a today plugin not a program. So if you want to turn it off, just go to your settings, then today screen and uncheck POINTUI 2
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] us1111:
QWGA version on omnia doesn't fill the screen.. Also hangs when I try to access contacts list. Even for a beta that's pretty ugly.. I'm customed to beta software under linux this looks and feels more like an alpha..

Not quite convinced yet.. However.. If you regard this as an early version of a framework for writing plugins, it could be pretty nice.. I'm curious about the speed of the scripts..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ericino:
I must say I'm pleasantly surprised!

Just installed it on my TP.

Small download, smooth scrolling and great looks.

I do miss some things though:

- When clicking on a contact, it just shows the 'standard' contact viewer, which is ugly compared to Home2

- Same thing with SMS/Email

- When clicking on a photo.... nothing happens?

- Only 9 favorite apps.... I like the 18 apps in TF3D

- I would love a tool like TF3DConfig or Manila Editor for Home2!

- There is no music player?

It does run without ANY types of delay, haven't found any bugs so far :D

For now, I am sticking to TF3D because of its costumizability, but I might change my mind if some small changes are made
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] barbapappa_86:
"- When clicking on a contact, it just shows the 'standard' contact viewer, which is ugly compared to Home2"

I think that the pro version change this..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xvx45:
Why not to develop customs widjets or a new theme ? ;)

Simply amazing capabilities...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] imfloflo:
i developpe my applets just to try it, its very easy
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cal-El:
imfloflo, I altered the cities.xml and it still will not update the weather for my city! Any suggestions! I do have unlimited date with my provider! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] starchildx:
i love it. it is unbelieveble fast........nice work....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mrshark:
samsung i780 (display 320x320): it freezes loading contacts, the flower of the logo stop rotating on first screen, it's not possible scrolling, no button react, and i've to softreset... :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] unga89:
indeed i agree! :D:D:D

well worth the wait !!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rmagyar:
Nice work. However it's beta, works fine on my Charmer.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alh84001:
I had the same problem until I tried turning pointui off (Settings->Today) and then turning it back on. Also, I think the coordinates in the xml work correctly only on VGA devices. I had to change mine on my QVGA device, but can't confirm it, just a hunch.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cal-El:
I cant seem to find coordinates for my city anywhere! Its kind of anoying! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bradecrain:
PointUI 2 enough to use

I am going to most likely stick to using PointUI now. Touchflo3D is still superior when hacked and customized but it draws so much power to use it. I noticed when Tocuhflo3D was not enabled my Fuze would last 3 days general use without dieing. Touchflo3D 2 Days tops if it idled most of time.

I am not sure what kinda battery drain PointUI will have and if its bad I will report. I had to edit the xml file to actually get my city... kinda sucks it only has the general world cities.

Do not like the google news crap.... everything we use now has some sort of damn advertising... but I guess some people actually like it.

The Sideshow thing I actually do like because in my opinion its like TF3D picture tab without the lagging animations which I agree with. We do not need all those power hungry animations for a cell phone.

The locking mechanism will be nice to have that way we can 86 the power hungry S2U2 and the contacts cards will be nice. The pro version will complete PointUI IMHO except for a couple of necessary things like Comm Manager and Sound Profiles. Its nice to turn off the radio/WiFi easily and also turn the sound off when in the theater.

Can anyone tell me how to get the detail code for custom cities like the coordinates etc? I put my zip code in and got my weather and everything but I am technical and want to complete the weather XML line with my cities complete information.... especially on the World Map
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] obrienmd:
Sorting tasks

Interface is incredibly snappy! Some thought, though...

On the tasks applet, it seems that it just shows random tasks. I'd like it to sort active tasks by due date, with the earliest due date on top (like the winmo task list can be setup to do). Any ideas on this?

Also, a gesture to switch e-mail/txt accounts on the messaging applet would be nice.

Not to ask too much (too late), but I'd also really like more of the messaging (actually reading messages) to cover up winmo's ugly face. If this is built into the pro version, I'll buy it in a second!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Tillertow:
Anyone figured out how to show a notification icon for the alarm(s), if it's even possible?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alh84001:
For my city (Zagreb) coordinates are roughly:

<x>180</x>

<y>37</y>

I think the lattitude of our cities is rather close so I would put something arounf:

<x>15</x>

<y>40</y>
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] chalid:
VERY NICE WORK :-)

Can't wait to learn what features the Pro Version brings and of course which new applets will come ... :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Trekvogel:
Very responsive on my HTC Touch. Impressive! I have to test some more before I can make a real judgement but it looks very promising.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] murrun:
lightning speed even with my poor 200 mhz elfin. i didn't find any bugs. thanks for development.

only two problems for me:

it's turkey's most famous city(istanbul) but i can't find my city in the list.

it doesn't show special turkish characters.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jazzrich9:
Murrun -

It's very easy to add whatever city you want to the list...

Just go to the \Program Files\Home2\AppletRibbon\World\ folder and pull out that cities.xml

You can add entries, just follow the format of the rest of them using an accuweather.com RSS feed.

I did have to close pointui and open it again for the changes to work.

The same cities file is in the "Today" applet for your local weather, but you'll have to change both copies.

Can't help with the special characters.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Leonick:
It actually runs as smooth as it possibly could on the KS20 and thats quite an achievement, now i hope it wont drain to much battery :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derekwilkinson:
It looks very nice. It does, however, need the city management from the old version...

I might need to purchase the Pro version to make it completely useable. Also, a music tab would have been nice.

Is there a way to customize the Quick Launch?

And the world tab shows that Chicago is in Africa... which is definitely not the case... :P
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] caballero600:
i can't get this working....

someone can help me?

<item>

<id>EUR|ES|SP017|SAN SEBASTIAN</id>

<text>Donostia</text>

<x>212</x>

<y>246</y>

<url>http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=EUR|ES|SP017|SAN SEBASTIAN</url>

<newsurl>http://news.google.es/?output=rss</newsurl>

<gmtOffsetMinutes>-120</gmtOffsetMinutes>

</item>

maybe is the blank Space between SAN and SEBASTIAN... can't get weather, only the google feeds.

solved with: <url>http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=EUR|ES|SP017|SAN%20SEBASTIAN</url>

maybe this solves others problems, put a lot of attention in "metric=1&" part of the url, this must be like this!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] RaptorRVL:
Hmm, I noticed you have to disable PointUI and enable it again to test the xml. Otherwise it would not select the correct city.

This:

<url>http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=EUR|ES|SP017|SAN%20SEBASTIAN</url>

should do the trick I think. Not 100% sure if you have to put

<id>SAN%20SEBASTIAN</id>

like that. But I think it has to be like that.

Give it a try, but dont forget to disable and then enable pointui to test the settings.

So far this app is running very well on my Diamond! Kinda miss a battery indicator at the home screen, but on the other hand I have S2U2 running, so can always see the battery there (the big one! :D ).

Talking about the battery, let's see how the battery holds up with this as home screen. And let's see how the memory holds up!

In the end those are the two things that will make me decide if I keep the app and perhaps buy the pro version.

I like the features, speed is awesome. So battery life and memory leaks could be the biggest issue here. (and stability ofcourse, but so far all is allright)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derekwilkinson:
I can't get my weather city to work :rolleyes:

It's really annoying.

And one thing I miss about the old version... the fact that PointUI kind of "took over" Windows Mobile. It replaced the top menu, and made everything a little more finger friendly.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mssmison:
Runs great on my vogue, battery indicator is down on the right side of the pointui button.

I tried to bring some of the 'bubbles' over from the bellui but they seem to work differently.

Once there's some nice skins and more applets I think it will be fantastic. I do agree though that better contact management would be nice, so I'll wait to see the pro version for that.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] smanzor88:
one question, im using it on the tmobile wing, and it works great.. but one thing is how can i make the two options on the bottom correspond to the buttons on the wing??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] smo1a:
default browser

is it possible to have opera as the default browser when clicking on the news feed of the home page?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] said_lou:
Hum i'm gona test this log, looks great

I want to add Brussel .. How can i Do it ? I didn't unterstand previous post talking about this ... (i'm bad in english)

So if somebody could tell me exactly what i have to do it will be great :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jadephyre:
cool stuff :D

so far I like it, gotta test now how much it drains the Battery on my BlueAngel.

Otherwise I would have to go back to Manila 2D :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] KAF-KEF:
kanka çözüm bulursan, banada pm den bildirirsen sevinirim, Ankara için..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] husker91:
Hey, how come i cant view my pictures with the slideshow? i made it point to my picture folder... what viewer am i supposed to use?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] keithdupont:
Not that impressed

Considering how long the wait was, it is very fast just not as nice as the old version to me.

I'm holding out for spb mobile shell 3
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mssmison:
I just spent some time customizing the xml's for control panel and quick launch. Control panel is sorted a little more like windows mobile is by default.

Overall I'm really liking it alot. Someone give me a facebook applet and I'm set. lol considering we can't get a facebook app running 100% I'm not holding my breath though. lol
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] emiliano84:
very nice but i can't find:

-volume/vibration/silence shortcut

-commmanger shortcut

as in 1.5 version...the rest is everything very much better

can someone help me???

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] said_lou:
look greats but it will be nice to add :

- Phone Profil (ring/vibration/silence)

- Bigger status bar (for the batterie and the "reseau" sorry don't know how to tell it in english :s )

- And i think it would be better in full screen (like SPB mobil shell .. we don't need the start button anymore i think ... )
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZED_pt:
Another "cute" today plugin without functionality,i would never trade tf2d or mobile shell for this...more apps,customization and more eye candy too.

Going back to SPB Pocket plus G.A.N.T. style.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mssmison:
comm manager is in menu-- settings--personal.. If you edit the xml you can move it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] joel2009:
its neat.... but to be good defenetly needs more customization to be successful.

Right now its "cool" but just not exactly every day functional.... maybe it will just take some time to get used to :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derekwilkinson:
They said they are adding it soon.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mike21pr:
i like it a lot, not sure if i can trade touchflo3d full time for this but i would consider it. a little limited on applets as being a beta but adding more applets would be great. if the applets are so easy to make then i hope that the developers here can make some cool add ons for this app, music applet perhaps? comm manager? profile? who knows?

is there a way to get a jump on that and port the Bell UI applets to this shell? since its based on point ui and very similar it could happen imo
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derekwilkinson:
I think it also needs a comm manager applet. Anyone mind creating one?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] scotchua:
I deleted pretty much every post from before the beta was released since the majority of the posts were discussing when the software would be released. If you had a post you REALLY want added back, PM me about it and i'll hunt it down.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thekiller99:
how to install it?

does it work on Lg k20?

can someone tell me how to install it plz
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TVDinner:
I use Mobile Shell and love it. literally love it. but I do wonder if there will ever be another program out there to compete with it for a busy power user. Is this the program??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jubeichanxoxo:
it's ok like bell better

I like it. works very well on my touch pro. it's the same concept of the bell ui just a weaker version of it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kancrutt:
finally i got it works on my iPAQ 612c :D but i got a question i use wkTask, even i set PointUI "hide always" my battery icon is dissapear :confused: anyone?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] oldsap:
i wish the unified messaging would be included in the free version
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TVDinner:
well I installed this and tried it. I have been looking for ANYTHING to potentially compete and compare to spb mobile shell.

I find this program slick and with A LOT of potential, but it is not there yet. Maybe the pro version will have a lot more features (and all the cities for the weather feature).

I do like the direction in general this program is going, but I just don’t think it compares with mobile shell yet.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] robotphood:
I don't think it even compares to TF3D just yet. But I also like the way it's going, especially with how maxed out TF3D is. Some good tidbits here: http://community.pointui.com/topic/applets-ideas
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jaskiratsingh:
The download link on developers site is not working. Can someone provide an alternalte link or upload the file?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ROCOAFZ:
Can't get my city to work either.

I live in Montoursville PA Zip is 17754

When i do the RSS feed it shows my zip code as the location code. This will not work.

Also note that the address bar shows the same and US cities don't showup under the international site. Can someone test this also and see what i mean?

Love the rest of the interface so far... will report more after a full day using it @ work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JokeZony0u:
anyone know how to change the celsius to fahrenheit?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] the_fish:
you have to change the metric=1 in the link to accuweather to metric=0

EDIT: in the \Program Files\Home2\AppletRibbon\Today\Cities.xml

and for the world plugin: \Program Files\Home2\AppletRibbon\World\Cities.xml

@ericizzy1:

IT'S A BETA, it WILL fit SOON and it will be FASTER SOON
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ericizzy1:
POOR POOR POOR... does not fit my treo 800 320x320 screen, and VERY slow
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tbaker077:
I can't get my softkey buttons to work with home other than that, this new version is faster and much nicer to use compared to the old version.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ancola66:
Take too much ram compared to M2d :(

*M2D : 2,9M

*Pointui 2 (Home) : 7,9M
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Star-Lite:
it looks sweet, runs quite ok on my Hermes (albeit a little sluggish sometimes).

but 8,5 MB memory usage?!?!?!

I need every kb on my hermes so for me 8,5MB is totally unacceptable. WM keeps shutting down home2 constantly when browsing, reading rss feeds or listening to music..

Too bad, I guess users with low mem devices will have to wait till they upgrade with something with more RAM :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sudist:
For me the same -> I'll keep using PointUI 1.51 (3,5 M)

Bugs for me, parameters page keep pop-ing up, shortcuts dissapear....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ingerasu:
pretty fast but too much RAM stolen :(

- no pretty clock on today's applet

- is it only me or there is someone think that the weather icons are too small
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] spupuz:
arghhhh too much ram!! maybe hard resetting and installing alone but damn ... i have to change phone :/ my old good x500 now is crap! :(

also there is not a good lock mechanism
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] J0nas:
yes, I put de same as Lisbon and delete lisbon city from "cities.xml"... but don't work... :\

There is one bug at de top with weather icon. Check image...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derliebewolf:
I like it a Lot! Congrats!!

Especially the customisations that are possible by using the XML-Files!!

What I did until now: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3313481&postcount=40
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] J0nas:
another Possible bug, when softreset phone, if the phone don't active internet connection, I lose the weather and news infos...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ingerasu:
i have the same problem with location of my town

i found this from their community site
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FloatingFatMan:
It's using 15.7MB on my VGA device!!! Holy <bleep!>

Really nice app guys, but... That RAM usage is a bit... Ouch..

Also, it crashes when I tap the Contacts soft key...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Major A:
It works pretty well on my KS20, but it's really a memory waste. The ratio between fonctions and memory occupation is really not good, and impacts directly Opera.

The RSS fonction is not usefull (non expandable one line of news...come on!)

It lacks mainly the ability to customize default apps for agenda, internet browser, media player, comm manager, localisation, in fact, the least features available in M2D or some free UI with no restrictions like TL. No Home shortcut for Internet browsing is a massive lack, and does not give a real "Revolution" feeling, but more a fast rewind...

I know it's still beta, but, without a real optimisation, I don't see the interest to pay for unlocked "non-features" anytime soon. I hope they won't rely on good geeky contributors to improve what they didn't do (good today plugins, add features to the interface) and then make profit on what they shoud have done in the first place...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bfarkin:
I'm afraid I have to agree. I was expecting rather a lot from this, but in its current state I find it disappointing. My theme for HS++ basically does all Home2 does, and actually a lot more, in a fifth of the memory footprint. And it's a LOT more customisable and finger-friendly.

Home2 is definitely not suited for my Elf, I can hardly run a web browser on top of it and some indicators are far too small on the QVGA screen.

So if I get a VGA device with lots of RAM I may consider it as an alternative to TF3D, but definitely not now.

Bernard
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] encephalon9986:
on my titan yes i does use a good chunk of memory but i can still listen to music and stuff without any crashing and my phone still runs fast. I disagree with the people that have been putting this app down. They put a lot of work into this and did a hell of a good job. If you dont like it dont say its horrible, just say what you liked and didnt like and thank the developers for their work.

Fantastic job Pointui. I am looking forward to the paid version to be released.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] caballero600:
I agree!! this is really customizable with every xml file!! The best thing is changing the QuickLaunch screen buttons for your favourite apps!! not more "blog" "community" "gear" and all that...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ironman76:
I agree with you, i like it:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] spupuz:
i do like it very much but for now is not useful in my eten x500+ because the memory usage is huge and i can't event think to use it wihile i need also tom tom for example.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] GriFolle:
@encephalon:

No one's here said that pointui is horrible...

just that it eat A LOT (too much in my opionion) of ram.

I really like this UI (on my diamond it looks fabulous) but it's pretty unusable if it eat so much ram.

Moreover...not always but often, more ram used=more battery drained. Not a great news for me and for my very poor battery ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shane_pointui:
Scriptable applets, full theme replacement, user defined background with out hacky cabs and other rubbish. I completely agree.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] EnsconcE:
A whole lot of mb's are taken by this great app. Let's be honest, it is one of the most responsive fancy today plugins. It easily outruns Manilla 2D and 3D (at least at my kaiser). I think this is a keeper!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] anheuer:
Anyone figured out how to obtain the Y and X for the weather?

I need Amsterdam