yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] player911:
I'm sure it would be the touch screen, since you tap on the screen twice.

The only bad thing is that you'd have to have the screen continue polling even in standby. So while your display might be off, the touchscreen would not.

You also run the risk of having the phone being turned on while in your pocket.

While I think it would be a neat "trick", unless you can set the pressure threshold on the "knocks" high... so mild screen touching/tapping while in your pocket cannot activate it.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] VerusAmos:
I think it is possible using the g-sensor though... It would have to register 2 minor down-up movements. (When you tap the screen your phone moves down and your hand holding the phone would move the phone up again to "normal held position")
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] player911:
Well true, it could be done that way... but imagine the phone in your pocket doing the same thing every day.
[P3400 General] ani@p3400i:
My first post.

First of all to all the seniors, gr8 forum u guys got here.

Second, it's got so much information I cant make head or tail of anything :p

I am going to be purchasing a HTC P3400i WM 6.0 version soon, most probably in the next week or so.

This is the first time am going to be using a WM device so I was trying to get a feel of things by reading through the posts here.

I have few questions,

1. What exactly is a ROM, why is it called so and will it void my warranty?

2. I understand it is possible to give the p3400i a "touchflow" look can i do it w/o using a "ROM".

3. When using a WM device what are the basic things that one should learn/understand/take care of??

4. Which posts should I go through and what order to understand the whole concept of WM devices, without actually experimenting with my own device. :p

5 Finally thanks in advance looking forward to your replies and guidance.

P.S: I sincerely hope my post is in the correct section, coz a lot of my questions are of the "General" category.
[P3400 General] go4thomman:
1. ROM is actually "Read Only files in your pda" ... Its actually the OS and its files running on your gadget........The default OS in p3400i or gene100 comes with lot of junk files and drivers and the RAM will not be sufficient to run all the new Programs....SO dvlpers are cooking faster ROMS than the default one by modifying these files and drivers..... also they make use of files from other faster devices.....YEs it will void your warranty:D:D:D... But normally all the software issues can be rectified.......:)

2.YEs u can give ur pda touch flo without using by softwares like.......M2D , SPB Mobile shell, Pointui......etc...etc.... But it will faster it will be better if its in a ROM....:rolleyes::rolleyes:

3. There are many things.....one advice.....do a research before doing anything stupid on your device,...... Ask lot of questions and doubts.:confused::confused:..... dont get ur device bricked......:mad::mad:

4.Read the Sticky Thread by Sumit before flashing........:):)
[P3400 General] krazy_about_technology:
One more thing, rename this thread to "Useful Information for people new to XDA and Windows Mobiles". That way, i guess i wont have to type it all again. You can rename you threads by double cliking besides the title of the thread in the list of threads.
[P3400 General] ani@p3400i:
Thanks a lot guys.
[Touch HD General] jonceblemba:
I've been having some serious problems with browsing the net as while opening some websites that used to be ok in the past, now the Opera explorer closes. If I try to do it again same thing happens and after that the phone seems to be unable to open Opera all together. Also before closing, it keeps bringing up the virtual keyboard again and again even tho I keep pressing "minimize"... is there a way to reinstall opera or sort this out in an easier way?

Thanks for any help.
[Touch HD General] gregupton:
same here

I have the same trouble, gets very annoying, especially when it wont load at all and you have to soft reset to get opera to load again. How can a company like HTC release a product with so many faults and problems, i think my htc days are coming to an end, no support from them, what a bunch of idiots. very disapionted. what could have been a great product has turned out to be quite crap.
[Touch HD General] jonceblemba:
come on guys somebody must know how to sort this out?!
[Touch HD General] samir_d:
Having the same problem but i reckon its a result of an app i may have installed...dont have a clue which one could be the culprit!!

Installed some more apps 2day and now my Opera wount even load :(

Any got ay ideas??
[Touch HD General] montag09:
Hey guys, any of you has intalled a replacement for the top bar? There are some UI improvements that are designed for the Diamond and not for the blackstone. As a result, you can't rotate the screen, and Opera gets minimized when you try to do that. I have this issue with a 'Vista-like' top bar.
[Touch HD General] jonceblemba:
I think that might have been it. I also had a vista like top bar which looked good and at first sight didnt seem to cause any problems but i guess there were some complications when it came to opera.
[MDA Compact II ROM Development] saayinla:
Hi All,

Quick recap, I tried to install WM6 on a lower than 2.1 IPL/SPl so phone got stuck in boot screen, then i went to download an official WM5 rom from Tmobile, then I went into bootloader and successfully flash the official ROm. After flashing the official rom and multiple hard reset, phone is stuck on the bootscreen with the following info:

IPL 3.08

SPL 3.08.0000

GSM 02.69.21

OS 3.8.2.21

Am confused by the OS version isnt it meant to be 5.XXX because its a WM6.

Please.
[MDA Compact II ROM Development] saayinla:
Please anyone, I am pulling my hair out on this one...
[MDA Compact II ROM Development] rmagyar:
Hello!

Try to use the following recovery method.
[MDA Compact II ROM Development] saayinla:
Thanks for the reply I have downloaded the rescue kit and i have read the instruction, but the phone is not been connected in the bootloader mode even though i have the Xp usb driver connection. When I connect the usb cable after going into bootloader mode, the pc makes the usb connection sound but when when i run the Romupdate utility i get this error 260 connection error. What can I try again.

Thanks in advance.
[MDA Compact II ROM Development] JaBa22:
I got this problem too.

I dont khnow wat to do, please help as.
[MDA Compact II ROM Development] saayinla:
I have been able to successfully flash the phone again using the recovery kit but after flashing i took out the battery and powered up the phone, its still stuck at the boot screen with the same message.

IPL 3.08

SPL 3.08.0000

GSM 02.69.21

OS 3.8.2.21.

has it gone beyond the point of no return.?
[MDA Compact II ROM Development] saayinla:
Okay, am helpless here, Is anyone on here willing to fix this phone for me if I can post to them, and pay postage both ways?
[MDA Compact II ROM Development] adrianoND:
did you find any solution?
[MDA Compact II ROM Development] mironio:
Hallo!

I have exactly the same problem and I don't know what to do?

Do you guys have any news??

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=406486&page=23
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] 0random0:
I recently had a P3470 and loved the interface but had to return it for the Touch diamond due to some issues from the supplier. I love the touch diamond but am woundering if it is possible to get a GUI like the one on the P3470 for the touch diamond?

thanks in advance

matt
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] fhsieh:
That's just the HTC Home plugin. You can get the VGA version (taken from the Athena) here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=406418

It's working on my Raphael and should also work on the Diamond, but of course always back up just to be safe. You should also disable TF3D before installing.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] 0random0:
Thanks fhsieh

Thanks fhsieh! Will try it today!
[General Topics] mike_dangerous:
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/02/19/stantums-mind-blowing-multitouch-interface-on-video/

That sounds like it could be really good. Anyone know anything more or if it could be used on current phones?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bbk:
Hi,

I've got 2 Hermes (HERM100 from Orange):

The first, HERM100 (alias HERMA) all is ok

The second, HERM100 (alias HERMB), i make some action on this phone :

-CID Unlock

-Hard-SPL (i try with 2.10, 2.30 and 2.60)

-Change ROM : the same as HERMA or the other WM6.1 WWE (i've already test on HERMA)

But sometimes HERMB freeze when :

-it's booting : SubSplash

-After a long call (15minutes)

-Try to install some apps

This HERMB, make ALONE a hard-reset after :

-DeviceUpdate (apps)

-Try to launch somes apps (freeze first and HR after)

Someone knows this problem and can solve it?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] ultramag69:
Install stock rom 1st then re-install the rom you are using.

If you are trying to use a BS rom then installing the stock rom should stabilize the BS install.

Cheers...:D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bbk:
What is BS?

When i tried to install a ROM, my HERMB have a bug at 100% (don't restart alone) i must soft-reset it.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Leva:
It's Bull**** :) like crappy roms.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bbk:
I've test to upgrade the Original ROM (Orange) and after the newest Orange ROM = No problem

But after with a 6.5 ROM, the problem is not solved...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bbk:
I've downgrade SPL from 2.60.Olipro to 2.30.Olipro. It seems be better
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] djerrol:
wont boot

i got this problem after i installed a rom, my phone froze i remove the battery thingking it would solved the problem but now it wont BOOT !!!pls help
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] ultramag69:
Actually Leva, its "Big Storage"... The usual method of stopping this problem is to install the stock rom, minus the radio, let it go through a setup then install the BS rom.

If you think the ROM's are bull****, you don't need to use them...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] djerrol:
BS Roms, need to reset everytime
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bbk:
Hi,

My problem is solved with a downgrade of Hard-SPL to 2.30-Olipro... ;)
[G1 Android Development] joehufc:
Hi. As the title says. I have just bought my dad a g1 from ebay, he has a tmobile payg sim card with no data plan, I have a g1 with a g1 data plan, if he uses my sim card to activate it will he still get the ability to take and make calls?

Thanks joe
[G1 Android Development] xyrcncp:
As far as I know, he'll need to use data to activate it as he will need to sign on with his GMail account.
[G1 Android Development] joehufc:
g1 without data plan

What do you meen by data, he will use my sim to aactivate and his gmail to sync data, and after that he will swap to his payg tmob sim card, so will he get phone call ability,

Thanks joe
[G1 Android Development] TimSykes:
yeah he would be able to activate it with your sim card. But once he puts in his sim card, the data charges may start to come up. I would say before you put in his sim card, delete the apn settings. that should kill any data from working so it is then just a phone. But the wifi can still work. or have his plan upgraded to a flexpay with the g1 service. You dont need a contract with that..
[G1 Android Development] joehufc:
Yup that's gud, so deleat the apn's to stop tmob from charging and just use as normal g1 without 3g or grps or edge, ps how do I deleat apns
[G1 Android Development] TimSykes:
I am sure thats how it works. you can get "NetMeter" from the marketplace. that will tell you if there is anything accessing the data plan.

to remove apn go to

menu --> wireless controls --> Mobile Networks --> Access Point Names in there you will want to click on T-Mobile US - T-Mobile US 800 and remove the APN. Assuming you are in the US.
[G1 Android Development] joehufc:
Thanks for quick reply, I'm in uk but I'm sure that will be the same but for tmob uk. Thank allot
[G1 Android Development] TimSykes:
If I was you I would post to get some feedback, it is a big post all about the APN settings. they should know more then me about it all.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=475564
[General Questions and Answers] Leonick:
Hi!

I just recently noticed that there are two bigger yellow spots and a line on the screen of my KS20, I am pretty sure they weren't there a couple of days ago. Ok so well, I tried take a screen shot and they do not show up there so apparently it is hardware related, and they do not show up on white or light colors... any idéas?? besides service again... : /
[General Questions and Answers] nir36:
if the pixels are dead, you can't do anything other than use service.. or replace the screen yourself.. if you know how and can get a replacment one for your KS.

i assume you can find a guide to disassembling the KS20 on the net somewhere..
[General Questions and Answers] Leonick:
Yea, but i am not sure i would call them dead, yet :p as they yellow is only on dark colours (of course, where they are as visible as possible -_-)... Guess i have to send it in for service again, sigh...
[General Questions and Answers] nir36:
hehe. i sympathize. hate those services..
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] JFizzell:
Is it possible and where do I get Tom Tom Nav 7 maps for my HTC Touch Pro phone?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] NotATreoFan:
Buy them through TomTom Home from your PC.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] nick_todorov:
Hi guys,

I bought the extended 3rd party 1800mAh battery for Diamond and as discussed many times here in the forum, the GPS was unusable with it.

But after some research I found the solution to our problem:

http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=84581&st=740&p=2277790&#entry2277790

Its in russian, but you can see at least the pictures:

This is a piece of	cooking aluminum foil fixed with scotch tape right of the camera lenses.

I just tried it and the result is amazing - GPS works as with the original slim battery. I think the foil works as a shield of the battery and helps receiving GPS signal.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] dsixda:
Very cool.. anyone else tried this various branded batteries?

I have the official HTC 1340mAh battery and GPS works fine without anything... but would be interested in a longer battery if this actually works for others.

Thanks!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] bowkatz@gmail.com:
low budget fix is pretty awesome

I've got a Cameron Sino branded battery , and this fix works smooth ! Thx for sharing the info !!!

mfg bowkatz
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] gozzy:
Got the official 1340 battery and GPS was intermitant for me, tried this and works a treat

Cheers
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] D8LOM:
This is so cool!:cool: Works very well!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] zoltar99:
Mine works fine with this battery and without the aluminium foil :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] tino1984:
I can confirm this, I recently got my new battery BP E270.

GPS works
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] defiantbeast:
Well that because the BPE270 is an official htc battery the gps would work fine. This fix is for people who have opted to use non htc extended batteries like the mugen batteries which have had confirmed problems with gps. My BP E270 works great without the foil, but my 1000mah mugen battery requires the foil. I have noted that the foil gets me a quicker gps lock with my other batteries as well.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] aleunge:
GENIUS!

Thank you lots. You guys rock!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] toyota_gr:
I did it but i still have the same problem. I've got a Cameron Sino branded battery. What else can i do?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] olskar:
Is the piece of foil stuck down between the battery and phone or is it just a piece of foil on top of the area above the battery?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] richardsoffice:
Wow that great :eek:

I just put in the massive Cameron Sino (RoHS) 2400ma battery, and as expected without the foil couldn't get any Sat’s but after putting this postage stamp size piece of foil on it can get them ok.

I’m now wondering if I could improve reception even further if I put even more foil in perhaps either side of the cameras iris, or all around the battery except near the contacts ?:confused:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Answer to my own question :- I removed the previously suggested postage stamp sized foil and just put foil around the battery allowing it to come into contact with the metal plate that is beneath the battery compartment. Doing this it did not find any Satellites, so no improvement is likely, I will revert to just putting foil in as suggested on the 1st message i cant beat it.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] benny0060:
i use 1850MHZ replacement battery. The manufacturer has already consider this. looks the same as this solution. GPS works fine and the phone looks like a touch pro :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] Lee75:
Think I'm gonna try this out :)

Great mod.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] olskar:
Where do you people put it? :( I can't get it to work
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] okloeyna:
It also work well with cigarettes foil.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] del4y:
Thx!!!

It's amasing!!!

I use X04HT Softbank in Japan.

tested MUGEN Power Battery 2000Mah and GPS works fine!!

Thanks for very useful Post and Sorry for my cheap English.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] D8LOM:
I can't get it to work anymore!:mad::confused:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] Sting71:
it's amazing!

with cigarettes foil works!!!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Accessories] Scooter67:
Anyone got the pictures - coz I can't get them from the link.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6ITdtvFQqY:
Here is a free, open source, wallpaper changer. The screenshots explain what the program can do.

Note: If a phone call is in progress, the wallpaper is not changed (because it takes a number of seconds to change it).

Download. Simply copy it on your Windows Mobile 6 device and run it. (Works on my Polaris.)

Details

Source code
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] twolf:
Works great, thank you very much. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] GreenOmnia:
I'll try it on my Samsung Omnia :) If I get it right, this app will finally let me set pictures that are smaller/bigger than my sreen with resizing them to the screen size? :cool:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] abumhmmd1:
THANKs

.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dody:
Awesome!! does it work for wm5? .. dont say 6 only
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6ITdtvFQqY:
It should work on Windows Mobile 5 (I haven't tried the latest version), but you first have to install .Net Compact Framework 2 from Microsoft: here.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bingo1010:
Windows 6.5 Wallpaper
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gsand:
A good place to get wallpapers is FFFFound.com

Here is the wallpaper that I'm using

http://ffffound.com/image/1833eeacd07acf07502260ed70c5be62af6f9185
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] galaxys:
Cool...good job!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moesfeld:
Cool works great.

It would be awesome if it had a "silent" mode without gui and the wallpaper given by parameters for scripting use.

i.e.

wallperizermob.exe -silent -changeto "/Wallpapers/mywalpaper.jpg"

I know it´s open source but I´m not able to code/compile this feature
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6ITdtvFQqY:
Version 1.4.4 works on Windows Mobile 6.5. (Or any other OS where the system's wallpaper files were marked as read-only.)

See the first post.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] teorouge:
That is nice, and I'm loving your app! It was quite slow at changing wallpaper at first, but I unchecked all fades/normalizes/sosoes and now it does change pretty fast. Any chance you could add:

a "random picture" setting (not to have it change in alphatbetical order, that is);

shorter change intervals (like 15 mins and 5 mins);

"Load at phone startup" option (I know I can place a shortcut in the windows/startup folder, but I think this is way cooler and can easily be undone!);

And maybe even cab the exe up and get a custom icon? :D

So far it's the best automatic wallpaper changer for 6.5 Titanium interface!

EDIT: as you can see from my screenshots, looks like we have a couple of glitches... in today screen, bottombar gets funky (looks like it replicates upper taskbar, don't think it should...) and in start menu background remains the one it was there at boot (it changes only after a soft-reset). Think you can sort that out?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6ITdtvFQqY:
I'll implement that.

I didn't add those settings because the user would have to start the phone too often to see the wallpaper changing. I guess some people might do that just to see a new picture. Also note that this would consume more battery. I'll add these too.

The programming framework doesn't have a way to do that. It could be done but I don't know how much work that would involve... and the development of the program is frozen.

I didn't make a cab because I like my programs on the SD card, being able to run without being installed, so that no matter how many times I hard-reset the device, I will still have the programs ready to run (I don't have to install any program ever again).

I'll add one.

The wallpaper pictures are shorter on purpose (and so the OS tiles them vertically). Normally, the today bars are opaque and stretching pictures on the entire screen area would cover a significant part of the pictures; this doesn't matter on a desktop computer, but a PDA's screen is too small (relative to the bars). For now this will remain unchanged.

I did that on purpose (but it should not display any kind of picture, or the skin's default picture, as it happens in WM 6.1). On WM 6.1, the today menu doesn't cover the entire screen and when it's opened, if it were to display the same picture as the screen, it would look as if the menu doesn't end anywhere. That's a weird feeling. We'll see how WM 7 will display it's today menu.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6ITdtvFQqY:
Version 1.4.5 is up.

In the "Various" tab there is a check-box to use a random picture.

The background picture of the start menu is changed on my WM 6.1, but only if TouchFlo is not running (I don't know why TouchFlo is not using it).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] S.V.I:
I have a problem.. not with our program, but with one that we e been trying to fix with roryB on a different thread:

the idea is that the wallpaper would change baed onthe regitry of htc home or manila weather panel and use e riginal weather graphics. there are 40 files in all and they are png's located in windows. we have been able to get mortscrip to change the reg but not the wallpaper.

It has do do the folowing:

1. watch the regitry for changes to the weather update

(the registry updates when you go to the weather panel and it auto updates)

2. based on the updated registry change the wallpaper to HH_WEATHER_##.png

3. refresh the wallpaper on the today screen.

it would be fine if the program copied the image and saved it n a different format such as jpg or gif; howver due to the large filecount t can not have the all 40 weather graphics in a separate folder or have duplicates. that would cost too much space.

RoryB is uing manila 1.5 (update 23) I am uing the mega manila which requres the media package to be able to set the today walpaper... however can be set via the file explorer or any other program for that matter. it does not allow to use the walpaper from the tsk.

my question is: what exactly does your program do tochange the wallpaper?

does it copy the file and rename it?

what actually sets the walpaper and refreshes it?

how can we replicate thi process and make it work?

If you could please let me know via pm or email? please. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] teorouge:
Thank you so much, very appreciated! :D