yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[P3400 ROM Development] dggopal:
weather tab

First off... I would like to thank Krazy for this insanely good rom... your dedication is inspiring... and all the members who help people day to day on this forum...

Now coming to my question... I was previously using spb weather on my old wm 5 setup before upgrading to your rom... And i have grown attached to that program as it tells you the weather forcast for night day and evening of each day... so its pretty precise cuz if im looking at it in the morning i kinda get a "guess" about whats gonna be the weather at night... ya know...

Now maybe im not doing something right or I am just new but I dont think the weather prog that is in this rom has that function... is there any way i can switch out the weather program used in this rom for spb weather and still keep the weather tab where it is on the carousell ( ie: i dont want to put spb weather in the launcher and then go from there i want it to be exactly how the weather tab is in this rom but just instead of accuweather or whatever its using it should be spb weather) is it possible to do that and how?
[P3400 ROM Development] Addicted2xda:
Tutorial for Kitechen

@Sumit:

Hey buddy, what happened to your tutorial on kitchen :D.

Just stripped down your MVUltimate (I just love its speed) - removed Windows Live (never used it anyway), Manilla2D, Transcriber and now its really fast. Thanks buddy,

BTW do you have your WM 6.5 ROM still 'uploaded', if yes can you please pm me the link? Never had the chance to get my hands on it, since I was travelling a lot at that time :(.

Waiting for your Tutorial :D
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
@dggopal: Sorry bro, but the weather used in HTC TouchFLO 2D or Manila 2D is not separable, its part of the package. So i dont think you would be able to run any other weather program with it, specially if they are in form of a today screen plugin as Manila doesnt allows any other plugins to run with it. If you want spb weather, disable manilla and then use it, but you wont have all the other tabs also. It will be plain old WM 5 like home screen for you to customize.

@Addicted: Not getting time man, and anyways, Ramerson has posted the next part of his tut so i guess people would be more interested in that. I am preparing my own tutorial offline but i think i will post it on my blog as i need to work on it too. Will share link on forum though, when i am done. :)

About the Wm 6.5 ROM, ya its online, i just removed it from thread to avoid confusion. For new gene, get it from : http://www.mediafire.com/file/znrytf1chhh/SumitsWWM6.5VanillManillaExtreme_NewGene.exe
[P3400 ROM Development] dggopal:
aw shucks...

hey thanks for the quick reply... i was reading ur posts today so I could get the rom working and was hoping u would come on at the end of the day... oh well i guess i can deal with the weather tab the way it is... the rest of this rom totally makes up for that... haha...

on another note... is there a way to put the "lock phone" or lock screen... dont remember exactly what its called on the home tab or is there some other slide to lock and slide to unlock sort of prog i can use with this rom instead of using the launcher to lock the phone?

again thanx for all the help man... you have made it sooo easy to upgrade... was sitting on the fence for a while before upgrading cuz I was scared as **ck to brick my phone... but ur guide went glitch free!! :D

on that note too... I have a suggestion for the tutorial at the beginning of the thread... at step number 6 you have said to put the phone in bootloader mode and then proceed with the rom update... but when i was upgrading i was unsure because when it was in bootloader it would not sync with active sync... so i left the phone on and then the rom update itself switched the phone to bootloader when it was ready... just thought maybe you should take that line out of that step cuz i got a bit confused... Got it in the end and im sure its no biggie... but its up to you...
[P3400 ROM Development] Addicted2xda:
Search for S2U2 in the forum (S2U2 for Slide To Unlock - don't know what the second 2 means :D)
[P3400 ROM Development] Addicted2xda:
Excellent so we have another great cooker coming up! LOL
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
@dggopal: Well thats good. Yes there is a facility to lock phone in the rom itself, its called device lock and its shortcut is in the programs menu. You can assign it to any hardware button or place it in the programs menu of Manila. And of course you can use S2U2 also if you like.

About the tut, actually dear, it happens differently with different people. I know device can go into bootloader itself but more people have problem going into bootloader when phone is fully on as compared to manually going to bootloader. In my case it works both way. So i think its not completly accurate to say one thing or the other. Anyways, i will try to refine the step. Thanks for the comment :)

@Addicted: LOL! Cooker! :D You will never learn dear, isn't it :D Chef man Chef, anyways, no offence, i was just kidding :)
[P3400 ROM Development] dggopal:
hah.. thanx man

hey thanx for the program reccomendation...

dunno bout the cooker statement though... i meant inspiring in the sense that i should be that dedicated in my endeavours....I was a comp sci freak in high school... haha... got trained in C++, Integrated circuit tech, vb, robotics, but yeah its been ages since i even looked at that stuff... haha went in a totally different direction after hs... Came to India to do MBBS... go figure... thanx again though...
[P3400 ROM Development] dggopal:
k so im not sure if this is the same topic as the directshow topic that has already been discussed... but i loaded this rom and during the first initial uses I used the photos and videos tab to play a video clip that I had previously recorded using the phone camera itself... It played fine with sound and vid both. But now after restarting the device a couple of times and using it further i am unable to play that video file and when i click it the screen goes completely black and stays that way until i press the end call button... if its the same thing sorry for bringing it up again... if not then any solutions to said issue?
[P3400 ROM Development] dggopal:
k... so i looked up and down this thread cuz i thought it was mentioned earlier but i guess not... I changed my background image for the home tab and im wondering where the original picture for the home tab background is located so I can set it back to that image if ever i want to... also is there a way that the image i changed the home tab background to can be displayed on every tab instead of just the home tab? dunno if my questions made sense here.... hope they did... sorry if my questions seem a bit basic... im new at this rom changing stuff... thanx for the help in advance though...
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
@dggopal: You might be mistakingly into thinking that it worked for the first time, actually, the videos work in Windows Media Player and everywhere else, just not in HTC Album and because of that not in the Pictures and Videos tab also. This is the same DirectShow related issue i talked about. I am trying a new version of DirectShow from Touch Viva (Opal), i have been successfull in getting it to work in windows media player, but album is still givin problem. Will upload a new version of VanillaManila Ultimate when i get it solved with new versions of Google Maps and Audio Manager 2.2 also. :)

The default background image can be reverted to by going to Settings > Today and unchecking the checbox that says "Use this picture as the background", as simple as that :) And make sure you have the opal theme selected coz if some other theme has a custom background, it will replace the default.
[P3400 ROM Development] dggopal:
yeah maybe

another thing i noticed today... sorry to keep bugging you... but i replaced the audio manager in the rom with audio manager 2.2 as instructed in post number 3. But after that i noticed... maybe it was like this all the time and i just noticed it now... but it seems that after installing the new audio manager the finger scrolling doesnt work when in the library... is it always like this or it just happens when replacing the rom version with the new audio manager 2.2?
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
No, Sadly, finger scrolling is not enabled in any version of Audio Manager :o
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
Hey Guys,

Did you noticed? Some WM 6.5 ROMs were taken down from XDA on request from Microsoft. I think the idea is somewhat like this : WM 6.1 ROMs were allowed as the upgrade from WM 6 to 6.1 is free, its only the operator's/Manufacturer's lazyness to not provide an update. But 6.5 wont be free upgrade, it is being considered a major release. If that is true, as it is being shown by recent takedowns, i think its no use to put time and efforts on WM 6.1 before there are devices out with it atleast, or maybe even not after that also.

What do you guys think?
[P3400 ROM Development] haree:
to Krazy

hi

i say a lot of themes for M2D in the forum by tuwolf can i use the same on the vanila ultimate i mean is it ok to use it

thanks

using : sumits vanilamanila 6.1 ultimate for old gene & loving it
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
Yes, definately you can use all those themes, almost all of them will work fine. Thats the beauty of this ROM, even if you use manilla 2D themes with it, it wont slow down. BTW, Manilla2D themes are of 2 types, one that come as cab, and others that come as m2dc files. for M2DC Files, you will need Manilla 2D Customizer available from our forum. :)
[P3400 ROM Development] Addicted2xda:
I guess you meant WM 6.5 ? :D. Yeah, if you have to ultimately remove them, whats the point in putting the effort. Long live Microsoft :D
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
LOL! :D actually i made this topic a thread that is going on in the General Discussion forum. So head over to that if you are intrested in more on this.
[P3400 ROM Development] haree:
thanks

hi

thanks for the info i did try them and yes they worked great
[P3400 ROM Development] haree:
to Krazy I luv it but cant use it

hi

well as much as i luv ur vanilamanila ultimate i dont think i can use it i used it for around 3 weeks now and im sure its killing my battery and me being a sales guy my phone battery going dead by the afternoon is too difficult for me so im forced to move bak to ur pro users man

but this vm ultimate is great man i realy realy like it just my bad luck cant use it

this is just a feedback i thought would be usefull to u that all

thanks

hari

using : sumits prousers 6.1 for old gene & loving it
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
If you feel so, then its ok to switch to any ROM you please :) As far as battery is concerned, i used this ROM for about 25 days, and i didnt had any problem. I was getting 2.5 days of backup even with a weak battery.
[P3400 ROM Development] haree:
u got me wrong

hi Krazy

dont get me wrong that was just a feedback as u said if u use the touch flow it will drain batt so i need to use the touch flow a lot ie i make a lot of cals was using ur old pro users rite now using ur V2 now problem with batter

That was just a feed back for ur thats all buddy no hard feeling ok ur my guru man if not for all the help u did for me i would not be able to flash all the roms im flashing now :)

and i never forget people who help me never :D
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
I am not offended in any way buddy, i was just sharing my experience. :)
[P3400 ROM Development] rakesh_4utoo:
No problems with the battery backup

Using VM 2.0 :)
[P3400 ROM Development] Addicted2xda:
As of Now I have not felt any battery drainage issues with any of your ROM, But I like Pro ROM more :). Touch screen phones use more battery than non touch screen phones, thats it. Manilla2D or not, if I am not wrong, if you use the touch screen heavily - your battery will drain faster :D. I am using CPU scalar still my battery lasts for 24 Hours easily.
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
^Hmm actually the 1% battery meter also gives this false feeling of battery drainage since the numbers update so fast :) But i want to confirm it 100%, so one more question: I have seen that mostly old gene users have reported it, so can someone with old gene can confirm this? Actually i didn't had the original XIP of old gene and i have used ramerson's kitchen's default XIP for old gene as base. It has some files missing, but i am absolutely sure that that would have not been source of any battery related issues as the files missing are mostly debugger files. But cacheflt.dll is also absent, and that can be a bit responsible for this as in absense of caching more read writes operations are needed on the phone mem, which takes battery power. But it must not be that much significant. Thats the only theory i can work out for it as of now. otherwise there are no unnecessary things running in my ROMs.

Touch screens drain battery a lot, that is a very known fact as all of you have stated.

@shaunak: Even i like the pro users rom more now. It gives me more options for doing customizations when i get bored with a particular look of the phone. Manilla is somewhat restrictive in this regard. Thats why i thought its a good time to make use of my emotional inclination towards pro users rom and bring out a better version :D I am too currently and for some time will use this rom and try to make it better in the process, with the help of you people's feedback of course.
[P3400 ROM Development] haree:
to Krazy my view on battery drain

hi

i realy loved vanilamanila Ultimate and have used it quite extensively now u say using touch screen will deplete battery ok but then if i need to make a call or do any operation i need to use the touch screen rite i mean why have a TF2d if u cant use it so i feel for heavy phone users like me(im into sales)

this might be a problem u see i kinda use this phone for making and taking calls i get like 20-30cals and make around the same number so this could be the reason my usage of the phone

so my conclusion for heavy users like me Prousers should be ok it is ok for me im using ur new V2prousers no problem with the battery im getting around a full days battery but with the vanilamanila i need to charge around the afternoon

this is my view i have used the VMultimate for a long time as much as im ok with the Prousrs i still love ur VMultimate my bad luck i cant use it
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
Well,Well, that sums it up. That was a good explaination, thanks Hari :) Actually these and many other are the reasons why i call the ROM, Pro User's ROM, because, it simply fits more for professional users of this phone. Different people have different requirements and with both VanillaManila and Pro Users in place, i think my work caters to everyone. For ppl, who dont have heavy usage of phone but like to have a shiny interface to showcase how cool they are :D VanillaManila fits better. It is feature heavy so it WILL take some more battery. And remember, our device is not even optimized to run Manilla 2D. The hardware is not tweaked and so are the drivers. Opal for example uses 4-6 more drivers than than GENE apart from the WiFi ones. I dont know what they are for, but one thing is sure that the hardware is not the same on both phones. So be ready to pay some price for the coolness factor :) Otherwise, use Pro User's ROM. And by the way, the pro user's rom has a much cooler dialer :D
[P3400 ROM Development] ankit360:
offtopic

ppl are talk about battery life so plz answer me

m2d impact on battery life ? ie if I have less free ram the battery life decrease ?
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
No not exactly, having less free ram is not connected with that. Actually, when you use m2d, the animations and the slider effect usese 70-80% processor time, checked that with Dotfred's task manager. so that causes a bit less battery life. And the 1% battery meter makes it more visible to the user. Thats why users complain. Ofcourse there's nothing much we can do about it. Gene is not designed to handle manila after all.

But one thing that i have seen and which concerns me most is that People with Old GENE have this problem more than people with new gene.

BTW Ankit, do you have the XIP of original WM 6 rom for old gene or a link to the ROM itself. if you have please give it to me, actually, the XIP i am currently using as base has a file cacheflt.dll missing which may or may not be the cause of this heavy battery drainage. Thats why i recommended you to not use XIPPorterEx coz it also deletes that file. This file manages the memory cache for filesystem so that contents can be read from the RAM if instead of phone memory or storage card, if they are frequently accessed which increases speed and can reduce battery usage. In absence of it, everything will be needed to be read from phone mem or storage card and that could be the reason of battery drainage, if there is any. What do you think buddy?
[P3400 ROM Development] ankit360:
hmm friend I can't help I as soon as possible bcoz I m going to sleep and I m writing from opera mini but I will explane and all how to port xip sys with xipporterex +how to port rom from other device rom
[P3400 ROM Development] ramersonw:
Hi Sumit

Try this package attached. It have the missing files from XIP. Put them in OEM folder and cook in yours ROMs. I hope they can improve the performance of the battery and memory. For old gene only.
[P3400 ROM Development] haree:
im still sad i cant use the VMU

well all said and done i still luv ur Vanilamanila Ulimate just sad i cant use it because of my phone usage what to do unlucky meee :(
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
Hi Ramerson,

Thanks a lot buddy :) that will surely help me in at least getting the doubt out of my mind. Anyways, aren't you missing mencfilt.dll, i think old gene uses that also, although its not necessary as mencfilt and encfilt are just used for storage card encryption mechanism which no body uses anyway :) Thanks again buddy, you are always there to save my back when i need it :D
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
Dont be sad hari, Ramerson has given me the files. I'll try uploading the new updated version of both ProUser's ROM and VanillaManila soon. If i am correct in my assumptions,this will solve the battery problem with old gene users.
[P3400 ROM Development] haree:
thats why i like u

hi

u see thats why i like u ur always a helpful guy thanks buddy will wait for ur new release
[P3400 ROM Development] ^^rac:
Awesome ROM

:D

Man this ROM is awesome!!!!

I flashed it on an old Gene, for someone else..........and i SOOO wish i had mine still!!

Keep it up!!

It Rocks man!
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
Thanks buddy! :) Its praises (and donations sometimes :) ) from people like you that keep me motivated. I love to be part of this community.
[P3400 ROM Development] s.majumder:
I have New Gene.

Thanks for the rom - its wonderfull.

After using for a while the free program memory goes lowere & lower.

If I have no extra program running - still its same.

I use 3 mail accounts - did this happened for this?

Please can you help me in this as after a while it shows MEMORY LOW...

weather their is a solution or not - the ROM is too good...

Thanks Mate.
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
I have posted it many times, try to read before posting. The ROM has a new version of Windows Mobile which has a very good filesystem caching management. The RAM is used for file caching overtime so that you get better performance without draining battery. Its normal. The ram will be freed if the need arises for it. Dont be too much worried about RAM, its managed automatically by the system. :) For the sake of numbers, you have about 22 MB of ram free, so whether it gets displayed or not, you will always be able to load programs upto that much memory load. And thats very good for gene.
[P3400 ROM Development] moheb zaher:
Moheb zaher

Thanx very much for this great ROM ...

thanx Crazy about ... for your help..

my phone bacome great ...

but i have problem with arabic

any one can help???

please confirm
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
ya, arabic people are reporting problems in all of my roms, guess i messed up something :( What kind of problem are you having?
[P3400 ROM Development] moheb zaher:
i can`t read or write Arabic SMS or Mails

i usually use MOBiDIV.416 program for that

but this time it can`t be installed :rolleyes:
[P3400 ROM Development] acarbose:
Thank you for great ROM:)

i've some problem about "Setting+"

it say "TypeLoadException......."

i've try to reinstall but it doesn't work

and some error with "Advance Configuration Tool" too..

:o
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
What language of rom are you using? Actually these ROMs are WWE (English) so these dont work well with other languages.
[P3400 ROM Development] moheb zaher:
i`m useing the WWE now but i i`m in need of arabic in my pocket PC phone /so please help me if you can..:confused:
[P3400 ROM Development] haree:
@krazy 1 question

hi

as i said i realy luv ur VMU can i do this pls reply

if i don't use the touch flow ie deactivate it for regular daily use wil it save battery and is this possible ie i will use it just some times :D but for regular daily use keep touch flow deactivated is this possible
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
Yes it is indeed possible. See if it helps. If even that doesn't help, then post here. I'll try to do the same trick for vanilla manilla also that i did for pro users rom. But if the culprit is manilla, there is not much i can do.
[P3400 ROM Development] go4thomman:
I ws usin ur wm6.1 VMU v2.0 on my new gene with HT8xx.. for the last one month without no problems.....and it was workin great...:):):). i was recording many videos during these time.. i was checking it today for the first time... and i cant find it....:eek::eek:

I set the storage as memory card... but i ws unable to find it... where is it getting saved..?i checked in my docs , videos , my videos, evry where.. please help ......
[P3400 ROM Development] go4thomman:
cmon guys.... some one please help........................:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

did i ask somethin stupid..........?:rolleyes::rolleyes:
[P3400 ROM Development] Addicted2xda:
It gets stored in \Storage Card\My Documents\My Videos for me. Are you sure you started recording :D ?

Please try recording another video and see if its stored in the path or not.

Or may be, I don't know, create the folder and retry :confused:
[P3400 ROM Development] go4thomman:
Thanks 4 de help...:).

Actually there is a folder My videos in storage card\my doc... but i cant open it from my phone...

when i m connectin it 2 the pc... i can c that... but from resco explorer and file explorer i cant even c the folder named My videos.:eek::eek:.......

when i m usin total commander.. i cant even open my documents... its showing some error " Error 13 changing to dir!!".. i dont know what it means.:rolleyes::rolleyes:..

when i am opening the my documents in mass storage mode... there is one more file "t be run. in":confused: ... and i cant delete it....its a zero kb file....

Yeah.... the videos were recording all the time........ i tried recording many videos...... but no use... i think the my documents is not accessible...:(:(.

Please help...
[P3400 ROM Development] krazy_about_technology:
This is a directory entry corruption error. Try accessing the card using a card reader in Windows, backup as much data as you can and first try running chkdsk with /f and /r options on it. If that doesn't solves the problem, Format the card and restore your content.
[P3400 ROM Development] tendulkardr:
the rom is fantastic i want to use it but

sorry krazy

i am having a problem with the rom

active sync starts every now and then

audio manager starts when i just scroll over touchflow

while listening songs on headphone there is a discontinuation for a second

i am using your new version of this rom and my mobile is a new gene

plese help when u r free

thank you in advance