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[Touch HD General] eaglesteve:
Dialing a different number on Phone application

In many winmo device, touching the contact while in phone application opens up the contact details, allowing us to choose which telephone number to dial, to text, or sms. In HD however, touching the contact records dial the default telephone number. This number may not be the one that you wish to use.

In order to use a different number, slide the "m", "t" (etc) letter on the right hand side of the contact line. The top of the screen will show you the number.

In this way, you're able to choose the desired telephone number.
[Touch HD General] eaglesteve:
Skipping and repeating songs in TF3D music (using wired headset)

Do you know that after starting the TF3D music, you could power off to blank the screen while keeping the music going? Also, as long as the music tab is in foreground task, the up and down volume button will no longer work as volume control but as Next Song and Previous Song button?

I don't alter the volume that much after setting it, so it's really handly to be able to control which song to play without powering on the device. I simply reach into my pocket and feel where the volume rocker button is and am able to skip and repeat songs without ever having to take it out of my pocket.:D

This is while using wired headset.

(edit: to have the above effect, I had to install S2U2, and make sure the setting for volume button is ON and it does not lock when the screen is blanked)
[Touch HD General] Chris Cross:
I updated the Wiki list of tips (Nr. 42 + 43)

42. Enable Reflow in AdobeReader

43. Double-tap to exit fullscreen mode in AdobeReader
[Touch HD General] custardo01:
Are you using opera in landscape mode?

Tip: for faster browsing use opera in portrait mode - it makes the HD a completely different phone.
[Touch HD General] dhatw:
I don't know if this has been mentioned or not but I discovered that while in contacts if you slide your finger from the bottom of the screen up (on the alphabet list on the right of the screen) the first contact for the letter that you stopped on appears at the top of the screen. But if you scroll from the top down the contact letter you stoped on starts at the bottom of the screen. This is in refference to #8 on the list.
[Touch HD General] Chris Cross:
Cool! I hadn't realized that. Thanks for the tip. :) I think a lot people will be glad to read that.

EDIT: I added it to the Wiki list. (Tip Nr. 44)
[Touch HD General] tnyynt:
Sticked this one!
[Touch HD General] AllTheWay:
When I received my HD it clearly stated on the screen that when you are sitting down to not have the phone in your front pocket to avoid constant pressure against the screen.

I guess it depends how tight you wear your pants.
[Touch HD General] Chris Cross:
LOL :D

When people come up to me and say, "How you doin'? Please, have a seat" - I always answer, "Oh no..... thank you..... but... uh.... I have an HD in my pocket"
[Touch HD General] AllTheWay:
Or...is that an HD in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? ;)
[Touch HD General] HDuser:
They are happy to see me (or I need to take the Blackberry out of the same pocket)
[Touch HD General] tboy2000:
I should clarify myself and mean inside jacket pocket or jacket pocket - not pants pocket. Will alter the entry soon :) However having said that I do sometime put my HD in my back trouser pocket and sit down. Guess I am lucky :)
[Touch HD General] HDuser:
here are to on changing the splash screen

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=452551

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=3038384
[Touch HD General] Cheeze[iT]:
I don't know if this has been asked/discussed but when in a call and you get another, is there a way to drop active call and answer incoming call?
[Touch HD General] HDuser:
THE SDHC EncFiltLog file CORRUPTION SOLVED

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=466797
[Touch HD General] ez2remember:
Not sure if this has been mentioned in this thread but to get 5MP instead of 4MP you must switch off Widescreen in Advanced Menu. :)
[Touch HD General] xiuhan83:
does anyone know how to display album art on the tf3d..i tried putting a picture and rename it to folder.jpg just like the one of the default songs that came with the phone. but it does not work. many thanks in advance
[Touch HD General] Chris Cross:
I assume there are other ways of doing it, but I always make sure that cover art is embedded into every single mp3 file I have. That way, no matter where that file goes, every media player will recognize the cover art automatically (not just for your Touch HD).

I use the free AudioShell right-menu extension. There are lots of other programs to do this. Just google "embed cover art in mp3". But make sure that it actually embeds the picture into each file. Some programs simply associate the picture to a file, but if you use the file somewhere else, you don't have the picture any more.

EDIT:

Also, keep in mind that when you embed the cover art into an mp3 file, you will increase the size of that file by the amount of the picture. I usually have pictures no larger than 100 KB or so. Some people don't want anything bigger than about 20 KB. Also a pixel size of 500x500 is a good all-around size and often descent enough to view on your PC too. Of course for a mobile device a much smaller picture would suffice.
[Touch HD General] Mark One:
Pls clarify for my stupidity - if I go to people in tf3d and click All People I get taken to "Contacts". But I do not have a vertical alphabetical list at the side - I have a horizontal "#bc | cde | fgh" etc list at the top. Same if I go >Programs > Contacts.

I do recall seeing the contacts list you describe at some point (though can't recall if on this device) can you help me get back to it? Tnx.
[Touch HD General] Chris Cross:
I posted some pictures of what it should look like. You can also see that when I slide in an upward direction on that bar and stop on "M" then the "M" appears in the middle (until I let go) and the first contact starting with "M" is at the top of the list. If I slide downward and stop at "M", then the first contact starting with "M" will be at the bottom of the list.

If you don't have that bar, I don't know how you can get it back (other than the obvious hard reset). Maybe someone else here knows how or what might have caused it. Or if not, then start a new thread in the Blackstone section and call it something like "I lost the alphabet bar in my contacts list".
[Touch HD General] Mark One:
Mine seems to be "old style" :)

Any idea how this has happened?

Soz for crappy ss btw.
[Touch HD General] ^Rook:
Hi,

In your contacts-list click on <Menu> then <Options>. The first option there is called "Show alphabetical index". When this option is DISabled you get the bar on the right side of the screen, when it is ENabled you get an index at the top of the screen ("old style").

Hope this helps :cool:

Regards,

Rolf
[Touch HD General] Mark One:
Genius - that's got it.

Jeeze, thought I knew WM inside out from iPaq to Trinity (from user perspective) till I started tuning up my HD - a new option buried in a third party app round every corner.

Thanks a lot Rook.
[Touch HD General] Chris Cross:
Ah - good to know. :)
[Touch HD General] eaglesteve:
How to prevent accidental dialing out?

In the standard HD phone, pressing the HD phone ON button calls up the phone application, and another press dials the first entry in the call history. This often results in many unintended calls being made out, and it means higher cost as well as annoyance to the other party.

How do you deal with this problem?

Well, one way is the do a long press of the Phone OFF button to lock it so as to prevent the phone ON button from being pressed as all. However this protective mechanism does not work while you're working with the device where the phone has to be unlocked first.

I therefore come up with another way of dealing with this problem, by using AEBPlus. This is how I do it:

I simply reassign the single press of the Phone ON button to my AGE VOIP Phone application rather than the Phone application, and double press of the Phone ON button to the normal Phone application. That's it.

With this setting, if I accidentally press the Phone ON button, it merely brings up my VOIP phone, and repeated single press does not do anything more.

To use the phone, I simple double press the Phone ON button.
[Touch HD General] eaglesteve:
How to control radio and music without switching on the device?

Further to the tip above, I use AEBplus and use single press of the volume up/down button to Arrow UP/DOWN respectively. With this set up, single press of the volume rocker will change channel while using the radio application, or skip/repeat songs while using the TF3D music player, even without switching on the device.

Assign long press to retain the usual volume up/down function.

I have tried using S2U2 but found the result unsatisfactory, and have since abandoned the use of S2U2.
[Touch HD General] 2unique:
pressing a photo or video in albums view will select the item w/out opening or playing...

anyone know if there's any way of displaying a movie name apart from going to properties?
[Touch HD General] Chris Cross:
Good to know. Thanks for pointing it out. I never thought about that.

With camera settings at 5MP:

Normal screen = 2592 x 1944 pixels = 5,038,848 pixels = 5MP

Widescreen = 2592 x 1552 pixels = 4,022,784 pixels = 4MP

Ultimately the difference won't be that big, and it is nice to be able to take pictures already in widescreen mode.
[Touch HD General] dreamer_mu22:
noob here do anyone know how to assign a softkey to 'Contacts' ?:confused:
[Touch HD General] tboy2000:
Added 4 new entries to end of post 2.
[Touch HD General] K_Hismoom:
Added entry 49-52 to wiki.
[Touch HD General] daniel145:
maybe you know, but i show somebody who don't know :D
[Touch HD General] LordDeath:
This is the greatest tip here. X-D
[Touch HD General] tboy2000:
mine keeps falling when i try to stick it up there :)
[Touch HD General] K_Hismoom:
It only works in the way posted on the picture, not if you try to stick the stylus in the other direction.

Only problem is, the stylus blocks the light sensor, so if you're running Lumos or G-Light, the sensor thinks it's dark and both tools dim the backlight.
[Touch HD General] KTMuser:
i added to wiki this:

53. Set MP3 as ringtone

In windows explorer you can right click the mp3 and choose set as ringtone.
[Touch HD General] clb92:
I have ROM version 1.14.403.0 and I have NEVER had that problem... :cool:
[Touch HD General] Pytagoras:
What is Beam, and exactly where is it in the settings?
[Touch HD General] dataSaMm:
I guess by beam they mean bluetooth, you can find it here: Start/Settings/Connections/Beam.
[Touch HD General] tboy2000:
3 more entries added.
[Touch HD General] Jasonong75:
how to set mp3 as sms tone??
[Touch HD General] arpitp:
Great list tboy!

I found this little nugget by luck (thank god for google translation!)

http://translate.google.com/transla...icks-tweaks.html&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&sl=auto&tl=en

A bunch of the stuff is apps and not really "Thing you may not have known", but there is some really good stuff there that might be applicable (like the 7mp panoramic pics and other things hidden in the registry).
[Touch HD General] ikkezelf1:
Mine too. Perhaps cause I have a screenprotector sticked to the screen.
[Touch HD General] ivogar:
Open the calendar in month view

You can use HD Tweaks to change one of the soft keys to view the calendar in month view.

Also, if you want a list of all your appointments you can search with the windows function: ex: search "birthday" in "calendar" will give you all birthdays.
[Touch HD General] Prof. Yaffle:
Just found this one by accident and can't see it listed. If you're in Opera and you have the keyboard open to type something (I found it by accident when in Google) press and hold either the left or right arrow key to zoom in to / out of the page.
[Touch HD General] dannyng:
Great idea, thanks
[Touch HD General] Moandal:
I don't think anyone has mentioned in this thread the fact that you can make the clock much smaller and therefore see more than 2 appointments on the home page just by swiping up.
[Touch HD General] Chris Cross:
That is interesting with the 7mp pics. I wonder why HTC did not set this like that to begin with. They could have used it to promote the phone even more. So it makes me wonder if it could in some way hurt the phone to change those settings? Or is the phone really capable of taking good pictures with those settings?

Anyone know or has anyone tried it?

The suggested registry tweak there is (see original post about that here):

HKLM/Software/HTC/Camera/P3

Change:

MainCamCaptSize to "1024" (mine came set at 64)

MainCamSupportCaptSize to "1744" (mine came set at 80)

EDIT:

Okay, never mind, the topic is discussed in the xda link that I posted. So any questions or comments are better posted there.
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[Touch HD General] danielng7:
light sensor

anyone know how this light sensor work??? how can we use it???
[Touch HD General] DLN:
Where to find the registry? I ve seached all the folders but couldnt find it.
[Touch HD General] jamesbaldesco:
haptic for hd

Guys,

Does anyone has a free downloadable software for the haptic function on HD.

PLEASE!?
[Touch HD General] tboy2000:
Yes go here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=450256

Works brilliantly.
[Touch HD General] shruff:
This is a great idea, would it be feasible to make the hole big enough for the stylus tip? Since I havent received my HD yet Im curious, thanks :)
[Touch HD General] Dodger:
Well, because the backcover is flexible,

you only have to use a drill of 1.5 milimeters.

This will be sufficient according to my experience.
[Touch HD General] fraizzo:
I try to do this, but when i open a sms from a contact with hi-res picture i see a GREAT photo and the sms was not good to read
[Touch HD General] Tyrion84:
Hello everybody :)

I don't know if it could help, but in order to lock the phone I press the power button (on top of the device) and it goes in stand-by right away. The same procedure could be inverted to wake it up.
[Touch HD General] Bart101:
I didn't see this one in the list...

If you get an incoming call, you can quickly mute the sound by turning the phone upside down. :cool:
[Touch HD General] tboy2000:
thanks. will update when I get a few more.
[Touch HD General] ez2remember:
The Touch HD comes pre-installed with .net framework 2.0.

Install .net framework 3.5 and set as default with net config tool. This improves performance by a significant margin.

UPDATE:

Net_CF_Config.cab http://rapidshare.com/files/123694043/NET_CF_Config.cab

.NET 3.5 in a CAB http://www.4shared.com/account/file/56638215/447219a9/NETCFv35wmarmv4i.html
[Touch HD General] thangbom:
how to set this feature then? Thanks
[Touch HD General] ez2remember:
Now updated with DL link. :)
[Touch HD General] Nightstalker79:
I think this is very usefull and should be incorporated in the tips list. Before I always thought I had to go to the top bar to see the alarm and then press the notifications icon and then I can actually turn off my alarm, when you could skip step 1, 2 and just get the notification to show immediately, makes me wonder why notifications wasn't turned on by default.
[Touch HD General] tboy2000:
Oh my god! Wow! Definately going into the list. I always hated tapping the top bar, then the alarm icon and then the bottom area to disable my alarm ringing. Thanks!
[Touch HD General] goldsfool:
Sadly, this tread seems to have wringed all of the tips out of the HD :( Hopefully people will discover more and post them.

All of the ones I found on my own are listed so I can't really contribute as of now, but this might be helpful:

To be able to click on a link on opera without zooming in first, you don't have to change the minimum overview zoom to 70 or 80 like I've read, you only have to change it 61 (default is 60). Doing it this way, you can see the same amount of internet page AND be able to directly click on a link. Setting it at 70 or above caused the page to be significantly zoomed in leaving most of the page out of view.
[Touch HD General] vulcano:
How to increase the Call Log for the HTC Touch HD ?

Thank God I found this forum.

I already spent hours in order to find a solution and even contacted HTC's support, they replied >Thank you for contacting HTC Corporation Middle East Support In regards to your inquiry, actually there is no option to increase the Call History on HTC device and maximum time for 2 weeks. Please note that you could also contact us by phone; for more information on that service please go to http://www.htc.com/mea-en/CA_Hotline.aspx?region=MEA Thank you for choosing HTC the PDA maker to the world HTC Corporation Middle East Support Team Sincerely<

Any idea? :confused:
[Touch HD General] Nightstalker79:
While displeased by the sound quality of my THD on my car audio, I went and search the forum for similar complaints, cause well I was blaming the audio processor on the THD. What I found was that there is a program pre-installed on the THD that is called audio booster and its standard set to enabled, so to get better sound quality disable it, I'd rather have my car audio handle how I like my sound than audio booster.
[Touch HD General] bonesy:
Anyone know how to change the Touchflo 3d internet shortcut to launch Iexplorer instead of opera? I hate opera it never works for me and want to change the internet tab
[Touch HD General] Elodie:
You can change internet shortcut with SSmapa.

Search just a little bit on Xda : there's many topics on this question and many other on SSmapa.:rolleyes:
[Touch HD General] lervag:
Didn't find this tip anywhere:

If you press and hold the hang up button (the rightmost button of the four bottom touch buttons), the phone enters a locked mode. To unlock, you need to press the unlock button that appears on the lower left part of the screen, then again on the middle of the screen.
[Touch HD General] tuηay:
Usefull guide thanks :)
[Touch HD General] Nightstalker79:
This won't work when you have set a password on startup, which most people do, so its kinda moot.
[Touch HD General] diizii:
Sorry, I don't know if this has been asked/discussed, but is it possible when I press the hang up button, when want to hang up the call, to not show again the Phone(dialer). I want to show Home screen.
[Touch HD General] xenocide976:
any idea how to set this???

found it on Laurentius ROM

7 megapixel panorama tweak added
[Touch HD General] xenocide976:
sorry double post
[Touch HD General] Prof. Yaffle:
It's a registry tweak that's knocking about in the Blackstone forum somewhere because I've done it. Can't remember where I saw it though.
[Touch HD General] danprocter:
Can I ask a question about themes?

I have a few cab files saved on my sd card... and have kavios theme installed currently. If I want to change a theme do I need to uninstall the old theme 1st? And if I don't uninstall the old one, and I install the new one, does it overwite the files and/or take up more room?

Thanks
[Touch HD General] skulk3r:
"Multi-touch" zoom

I don't know if anyone has posted this or done this before, my quick search didn't bring up anything, but my apologies if it's already been posted!

You can sort of get "multi-touch" zoom with the default HTC Album, here's how:

1) View a picture with HTC Album (duh =P)

2) Put your left finger where you want to zoom into

3) Quickly (before the white-panning-box comes up) use your right finger to drag /down/. This must be done to the right of your left finger

4) For a big zoom, drag down a lot; for a little zoom, drag down a little

The device thinks that you're doing the actual zooming-in action (ie: the swirl) but you're actually not. It's not a whole lot useful, as it requires 2 hands , but it's different!
[Touch HD General] rizwanmuaz:
Contacts > Menu > Option >Uncheck(Show alphabetical index) you will find vertical alphebeticle list
[Touch HD General] rizwanmuaz:
Can anyone help me in removing the 4 line contact list with top one highlighted when we press left soft button.If accidentally pressed twice it connect to the top hihglited contact,thanks
[Touch HD General] Demon:
Can anyone help on this? When writing a new text message, I would like to get the dropdown menu with the matching names when you enter the first letters in "To:" field.

This is something I was used to with my previous devices but unfortunately my original rom of HD does not support it.
[Touch HD General] crashDebug:
Demon, I fear it does not exist
[Touch HD General] ajs007:
HERE

:)
[Touch HD General] jolas:
How to change weather update intervals?

Does anyone knows how can we change update intervals when we have selected 'Download weather automatically' (e.g. make it update every 4 hours)?
[Touch HD General] mike.waters:
I would like to know how to do this as well. Particularly I would like to auto update when connected to the PC, and then not update further for x hours. It's really frustrating trying to access weather, because it always starts by updating itself, which takes up to 2 minutes (and sometimes costs money) over the 'phone connection. Especially when it's already been connected to the PC for some time on the same day.
[Touch HD General] Pscarb:
this seems like a stupid question, i have downloaded music files onto my storage card but when i go to the music player it does not see them how can i get the phone to see them....the files are MP3
[Touch HD General] jaypeev_9:
Thanks for the tips tboy2000!
[Touch HD General] tboy2000:
Your welcome. Hope to update it again some day.
[Touch HD General] Georgeous2008:
Here is another very useful tip:

When installing a colored icons topbar, people often report Opera Mobile minimizing in landscape mode. In the following Diamond thread you will find a very easy working solution for the Blackstone, which does not involve uninstalling the colored icons :

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3096009&postcount=1

My experience with this hint is that it works all the time. It's just great, finally we have the best of both worlds, i.e. nice colored icons top bar and Opera Mobile landscape experience.
[Touch HD General] tboy2000:
Added 2 more entries...
[Touch HD General] HelderJr:
tboy, thank you! Very nice tips!
[Touch HD General] boudade:
very nice tips... thanks for sharing all that.
[Touch HD General] t3rm3y:
exellent, well done,

With regards to number 58 - will this change help with when im typing and sometimes the spacebar isnt picked up, or a letter, so a word is all garbled? (just cos im sooo fast at typing) :)
[Touch HD General] Kristaps-K9-Lv:
a tip:

to align screen if not usable-- Hold Volup and Voldown together and tap screen-- should go in align screen!!! try it :D

Great tips btw!!!
[Touch HD General] tboy2000:
wow great tip kristaps. will add on next update. thanks!
[Touch HD General] Kristaps-K9-Lv:
your welcome!!! :)
[Touch HD General] doublecheese:
Hi guys

I'm going to buy a new Touch HD , the seller claims it's only been used for 2 days, but it feels like it's been used much longer, how can I test if it has been used ?

Do any of you know how to find how many hours and minutes a HTC phone has been used ? If there is such a hour counter , Does this counter reset itself after a hard reset ?

Secondly; is there a Secret Menu or a Service Menu on HTC devices like on the symbian devices ?
[Touch HD General] nvhquan:
For your first question, pls go to START/SETTING/SYSTEM/DEVICE INFO/CALL DURATION.

You will find how many hours and minutes for outgoing and incoming phone.
[Touch HD General] doublecheese:
Hi, but this is only CALL DURATION and this resets itself after every hard reset. However I need to know how many hours this phone has been turned ON or used.

What I'm trying to say that the total call duration may be 2 minutes but the phone maybe be used for a month.

Do you get what I mean ?
[Touch HD General] NorthernProject:
Any tips on how to transfere birthdays from contacts into the calendar?
[Touch HD General] nvhquan:
this is the total call duration, you can't change it after any hard reset
[Touch HD General] 4agze:
Wrong post, sorry guys