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[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] Fresh Freddie:
There has been a lot of noise on the internet concerning HTC's roadmap for the near future, device-wise, but I don't think I've seen anything with a vertical phonepad slider like our beloved Niki.

Does anyone know if they have plans to release a successor in this form ?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] tyobi96:
New HTC Touch Dual II

spec

Network　　GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900　HSDPA 900 / 2100

CPU　　Qualcomm MSM7200A　528 MHz

Display　　480 x 640 pixels

Memory　　288 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM

Card slot　　microSD (TransFlash)

WLAN　　Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g

Bluetooth　　v2.0

Battery　　Standard battery, Li-Ion 1900 mAh

Stand-by　　Up to 900 h

Talk time　　Up to 10 h

http://otakumaniax.blog34.fc2.com/blog-entry-77.html

Japanese Language Blog

Happy April Fools' Day!
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] recko:
I dont belive it. It looks like modified Touch DIamond2 with added hardware keyboard just like in Niki.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] vince_b:
Looks awesome though! But yes I really wish HTC would come out with a successor for the Touch Dual. I'd buy it in an instant. Any one heard anything about this yet?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] spone1:
I think the phone that comes closest is the Touch Pro, albeit with a side-slider instead of a bottom-slider.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] vince_b:
That's the thing though -- the Touch Pro comes with a QWERTY keypad as opposed to the dual which has a numeric T9 keypad style which is what I'm more accustomed to.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] EDD!E:
It state very clear is "april fool jokes" ... :)

2009年エイプリルフール用のネタです、

Touch Dual2を発売して欲しいなー

って願いがつまった管理人のMousouです。

April Fool's Joke 2009!!
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] Franchise809:
I would love A HTC Dual II please HTC Get it done.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] animelover:
There's a similar device in the HTC pipeline! Check out the Roadmap 2009 and you will probably get the HTC internal name of it!
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] vince_b:
which one? i went thru the 2009 pipeline and didn't see anything with a slide out numeric keypad similar to the dual, quite disheartening
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] animelover:
Take a look here:

The Tachii or Victor_CT could be the Touch Dual II since they have a 2,8" Display!
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] vince_b:
certainly hoping!
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] Fresh Freddie:
I did email HTC but only got a 'no current information' auto-reply.

I could get an HD or 3G or Diamond even as an upgrade on my Orange UK account but I'm not sure I'd be really happy without the phonepad slider. I don't know how long I can last without a new toy to play with though !

Anyone having similar thoughts ?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] twolf:
I dont know about you, but for me it should more like IV...

I - Blue Angel:

II - Nike:

III - Juno:

There are others that slide sideways, but thats a different story.

;)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] animelover:
Erm twolf, the Juno is a real Smartphone! :rolleyes:
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] twolf:
:O what a waiste of a big screen...
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] squire23:
Man, a Touch Dual upgrade would be so sweet. Why are they stalling on it so much? I've no idea of figures but I assume that there is still a huge portion of sales based on the 16/20 key keyboard availability
[Touch HD General] t3rm3y:
I have a normal of audio files for work, and would like to have them avaialble on my phone for use, but they play in the wmp and coreplayer really high and garbled, is there a solution to be able to play these files at normal levels, ideally with the headphones if that helps?
[Touch HD General] Svegetto:
the HD should have no problem playing a 24kbps .mp3 file as most songs are atleast 128kbps and going up to 512kbps. Have you tried playing these files on a PC with good results? It might be that the files themselves are garbled since 24kbps is really low audio quality (especially in mp3 format).
[Touch HD General] Rudegar:
yeah even 64kbit/Sec mp3 is very bad
[Touch HD General] MrTMO:
I think he means mp3s with 24 bit audio stream (normal mp3s are 16bit), personally i dont have any to test do you have a sample you can provide us?
[Touch HD General] t3rm3y:
they play fine on the pc, but that i guess has much better audio capabilities?

i will get a sampe this evening when home from work.

i dont know if it would be a hard ware limitation, or a programme that is needed to "upscale" the quality?

i havent tried using a .mp3 editor to save them as a higher quality, as they are large files (in length,) so the size needs to be kept down

will upload later,

Thanks
[Touch HD General] Svegetto:
I did not know it was possible to upscale a .mp3......to me that should produce the same quality but in a larger file...which is certainly not upscaling but wasting space (what I always thought that an mp3 did was cut off very high/low frequencies and then use a compression algorithm on what remains, hence why a 45mb .wav becomes a 4.5mb .mp3). The HD has more than enough umph to play the 24kbps .mp3 and so I'm very confused as to why you're getting such poor results. Hopefully once you paste a sample file, it will all get resolved.
[Touch HD General] antrak:
It isn't possible to upscale a mp3. You'd only be changing the bitrate, increasing the size and not adding to sound quality. Cause a mp3 is in some way a compressed (or ripped, however you want it) file, the lost data in compression cannot be retrieved. 24kbps is awfully low. :eek:
[Touch HD Accessories] cancar:
I am looking for a flip leather cover for my HD which has an expanded battery and a new back cover. Total Thickness is now 19mm.

Any suggestion?
[MDA Compact II General] Gorefield:
Hi there!

I just got a new 2400mAh battery for my charmer (PM16A; 3.7VDC) and turned the device off to completely charge the new batt. For 3h there was no light indicating a charging progress so I turned the charmer on (no LED signal at all) and the OS booted. The system runs extremely slow and the battery status is not being recognised.

Has anybody made some experience with the bigger batteries or any idea why the system runs but no charging is being done? The battery is explicitly displayed to be fully compatible with the MDA Compact II...

Thanks in advance,

Gore
[MDA Compact II General] Gorefield:
I called the dealer today and he told me that this battery is well known for causing troubles. I sent it back and told the dealer to keep me informed if any improvements are made by the manufacturer. He also told me that this (chinese) manufacturer seems to be the only one building those 2400mAh batteries, so if you're suggesting to buy one, think it over at the moment...

If I get any information about the issue I'll post it here.

So long,

Gore
[MDA Compact II General] ChrBeck:
What ROM is on your device? The batdriver.dll can cause such problems. What is shown? -1%? And what size is said? Does it say 0mA or 2400mA?

Give me infos I'll try to help you with my "how drivers are" skils. :)

Edit: Seen post now. Can you remember any answers on my questions. Cuase I think it would help others too.
[MDA Compact II General] Gorefield:
I have cYBERDEls WM6.1 Manila 2d German Ed. installed. It runs perfectly with my old battery, fast and stable, but the battery turns off at 60% (4 years old - no surprise I guess). With the new one it seems to charge, although no orange light present. When entering the battery status in the OS, it said something like status unavailable or battery unavailable. And it runs extremely slow which it does not with the old one.

I'm sorry I cannot say anything about the current size, as the battery status driver of that WM6.1 version is unable to display...

I tried the Battfix.cab as well just to make sure but no change.

Thanks for helping,

Gore
[MDA Compact II General] ChrBeck:
OK that is a batdriver.dll problem. I'll upload some versions later or tomorow. Just try them.

And if you installed batfix.cab it will charge without the light, But the power you're using can also be the power with witch it came. (They are charged to 50%-80% to live long without being used)
[MDA Compact II General] Gorefield:
-> "I'll upload some versions later or tomorrow"

That would be just great. Lucky me, I didn't actually send the package away yet, but will rip it open again :)

Which problem is solved by the batdriver.dll?

Btw, good luck with your 6.5 development, I'm really looking forward to it!
[MDA Compact II General] ChrBeck:
The batdriver will hopefully recognize the battery. (I'll give you Prophet and Wizard ones cause they suppoert only the big batteries I think). And WM6.5 will first just be English. Cause I have to translate everything manually to German.

Hope I can fix your problem.
[MDA Compact II General] Gorefield:
Hey anything new about the batdriver.dll? Did you upload it somewhere or could you post a link to a proper driver in the Prophet or Wizard section if there is one? Sorry for shoving you...:D

Gore
[MDA Compact II General] ChrBeck:
Soory now time till now. I'll try to get some today or tomorow and post them here.
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
This is my firs attemp to create a full skin.

Hope you like it!

I have to do the message preview grafics, meaby tomorrow! DONE!

First you have to choose wich skin use, there 2 version of gray.bmp (you have to tray it to choose)

the spash.bmp is the same in the two zip file, peak one of them

in the HTC SKIN 2.zip theres the gray_alert.bmp, is the message preview

take this 3 .bmp files and put in ..\Program Files\VITO\SMS-Chat\Skins\Bin (overwrite the existing file, make a backup first) then restart sms-chat

HTC Skin.zip -------- First realise

HTC Skin 2.zip ------ some little change, and the message preview! (Thumbnails at the bottom, black top bar)

HTC Skin 3.zip ------ New Gray.bmp, with new button and top bar (gray top bar)

Thanks to oscarbum for his help!
[Windows Mobile Themes] zkush:
is it possible to make an iphone skin with the chat bubbles?
[Windows Mobile Themes] jwoolz48:
Looks great! Trying it now...

Thank you!
[Windows Mobile Themes] littlerain:
WOW! Look really cool ! how s about VGA version ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] oscarbum:
It is theoretically possible, but the bubbles would all be the same color, which kind of defeats the purpose. Plus, if the text is more than one line, it won't look very good.

Needless to say, I've already tried it.
[Windows Mobile Themes] thedaniel:
Finally a good look for this bad looking app. THNX! :-)
[Windows Mobile Themes] theelite:
this is great, thanks for this.
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
i dont now if it work on VGA... i dont have a VGA device...

can you try my skin, i dont find any other grafics, so i think it work.
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
someone now how to change the font color?
[Windows Mobile Themes] TheDude1120:
this is exactly what ive been lookin for, but do you plan on releasing a black version with white font? been lookin for that ever since i found out about sms chat
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rennat:
What I would love to go with this is a iphone like SMS popup (see picture). Or something similar but with a HTC style. One of the main puposes that I use this for is the notifications. I love this theme!!!!!!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Themes] humanjoy:
Thanks for the theme, i'm thinking to make my own theme, what graphic editor should i use ? i can't open your file with Paint.NET
[Windows Mobile Themes] Paul_Days:
FunContact

Great Skin, Love how it makes it more HTC original. Can you please make one for FunContact?

I LOVE the black theme, but i work a lot moving around and the black background makes reading the screen hard.

Cheers,

paul
[Windows Mobile Themes] FatBoyExtraordinaire:
Great skin here. Thanks for sharing.
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
I used Adobe Photoshop to modify the image, Adobe Fireworks to put all together, and photoshop again to create the bmp

(The bmp MUST be 16bit R5 G6 B5)
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
I dont have funcontact... but if you post the original image i can modify it!
[Windows Mobile Themes] TheDude1120:
????????????????????
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
I have do not have plan on the black version... meaby i will do in 2\3 days... :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] Thor84:
Great skin - thanks a lot for sharing!

is it possible to creat skin in MW 7 style?

Best,

- Konstantin
[Windows Mobile Themes] TheDude1120:
thats cool, i look 4ward to it lol
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
its possible... but i am not able to create a skin from nothing (i use all the graphics from HTC program to do this theme) so, if you have some original WM7 graphics i can try :D, but i think in XDA is full of people that can create a theme for you better tham me... hope they use SMS-chat
[Windows Mobile Themes] Thor84:
Perhaps i was not correct :-) I meant to create WM7 skin - means recolor you HTC skin in blue-white :-)

I think it's possible and it'll take approx 1 hour. Of course I can try to do it by myself, but i need you PSD source :-)

Best,

- Konstantin
[Windows Mobile Themes] thuhcooler1:
now i have 2 skins for my sms chat...there is also a blackberry skin for it in the blackberry redux skin...great job!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Themes] TheDude1120:
can you please post your blackberrry skin
[Windows Mobile Themes] Thor84:
Please try this... Thanks oscarbum for this theme!
[Windows Mobile Themes] addicus:
Great job. I'm not a big fan of Vito's chat. could you do a skin for Arcsoft MMS 5?
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
I try to modify the black skin and the funcontact light skin, but i have a problem... meaby someone can help me. there some sort of transparency...

I attach the test file of funcontact, i modify only the numpad
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
I dont now if i can do that... Arcsoft dont use the standard sms app? i dont now if i can skin the standard sms app... tell me if i am wrong
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
I dont have any PSD, sorry, i have a lot of png and a "Fireworks .png" that put all tougether!
[Windows Mobile Themes] omgwiiso:
where do u put the skin?

thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
read the first post
[Windows Mobile Themes] Thor84:
Thanks a lot! After I'll recolor theme - please help me to combine it together!

Best,

-Konstantin
[Windows Mobile Themes] j006:
Can someone please tell me how to save these images after editing them so that they don't show up scrambled? I'm making my own theme.

I have photoshop C3 which I know my way around well. I've tried converting the image mode to index 8-bit, RGB 8-bit, RGB 16-bit, RGB 32-bit and every other combination. I even tried opening up the original in paint and it didn't work. Is there a trick that I'm missing? I've never worked with 8-bit images before so the primitive nature of them is stumping me :D

Cheers!
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
some post before....

When you save the image, in the advanced option
[Windows Mobile Themes] GadgetFreak:
How hard would it be for you to convert the Diamond geen colors to the colors matching HTCToucher's Gloss theme. I tried tonight but made a hash of it. Probably since I use GIMP, not PS CS.
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
I am not wery good with photoshop... but you want all the green part, blue?

the section of the messages must be flat coulor, so i cant do it like gloss theme.
[Windows Mobile Themes] GadgetFreak:
That's fine. The flat blue-grey color will be perfect! Thank you very much!
[Windows Mobile Themes] j006:
I'm an idiot. :( :D

Perfect! Thanks for this!
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
Please post your skin soon! :D we allwais wait for new skin! :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
New version added! :D

For the black version... i have some problem that i cant solve... you have to wait...
[Windows Mobile Themes] windowv:
cool!!!!! Many thanks!
[Windows Mobile Themes] rexboy:
Hey nice work, using your green one now. 2 make backgrounds using Gimp is easy so gave it a go and it was avg, very fidley work. just changed the green send key to a key with "SEND" written on it etc. like i said not as good as yours so deleted it so need more practice lol.

***here are some screenshots if anyone wants it. just the one file to drag over. Thnks to gfandrea, i liked ur green theme idea so just added few littel things, hope you dont mind. made menu green, added HTC logo for menu button, added green person symbol for contacts, darkened the red when deleting chats, made the read envelopes green rather than dk grey to see, made the sent key an arrow rather than normal rectangle and added the reverse green arrow
[Windows Mobile Themes] Paul_Days:
update?

Any news on the Funcontact theme?
[Windows Mobile Themes] xda2_haseeb:
Nice skin, but i dont like these kind of Apps :( actually i like them but they take too much RAM and time to start so it makes me hate them :( Still a gr8 skin. THNX
[Windows Mobile Themes] rulkpda:
thank's.., waiting for the black version... :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] cAnArdtichAud:
hey gfandrea, nice work, i was long waiting for those skins.

But i have a problem, i chose you zip number 3, and when i replace the original skin files (splash, grey and grey alert) by your skin's, i have something strange which looks like you skin but not exactly... what is the exact procedure...i i know theres first post but can you precise the way ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
Can you post a screenshoot?

there's no particular ways to do, just replace the file...
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
I dont like this app to... :) but is the only one that can handle my 3000+ sms without freez mi ppc... if you now other app, better than this, please tell me...

(sms Chat is the sms program that take me less ram until now... the original wm sms app is really slow!!! :mad:)
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
i still have the problem some post above... i dont have much time to dedicate to skinning.. sorry, so if someone can help me, please! :confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] rexboy:
Agreed, SMS vito chat takes bugger all memory for me, its quick as i keep it running, sorts the sms's well only downfall for me is it cant support MMS so you need to use the default view for this otherwise i think its great.

On many forums even those with the standard 6.1 threaded prefer this, i havent heard of a better one to date. Resco contact manager supports threaded and its quick and has good stats but its not a dedicated threaded app, just a dress up and then reverts to the standard messaging features. its more like an overall skin
[Windows Mobile Themes] shumilica:
Great skin. I put it on even before starting for the first time sms-chat (i had it installed some months ago but didn't like the default skins).

Now, I have an issue: It doesn't show the splash screen correctly (I see a little black square in the middle and a white "liquid" that fills it 1/3)

Here is in an image:

My version of sms-chat is 1.2 (last, i think). Can anybody confirm that they have the splash screen correctly rendered with this version?

Also, i tried to open the bmp pictures and it said it can't open the file.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Showtime7:
same problem here, graphics need to be updated because the splash screen changed in the latest version. it should probably just take some playing around in photoshop to get everything aligned but hopefully this skin get updated. going back to old version of sms chat until i get a fix. i'll post if i get it working myself. :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
i think that if you want to solve that problem, you have tu use the original splash.bmp, dont overwrite with mine...
[Windows Mobile Themes] magicalan:
could you post pictures of the new version :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] Showtime7:
when i applied your skin the black bar was missing as shown in your preview and instead it ended up as the splash screen. i could leave the splash.bmp as default but how then would i get the black bar to appear in sms chat?
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
what black bar do you write about? sorry i dont understand...

if you copy all the file unless the splash.bmp, the program shud look as in my preview.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Showtime7:
between the two buttons at the top of the screen. in your preview it's black, when i applied the skin it was white.
[Windows Mobile Themes] gfandrea:
you must use the "HTC skin 2" for the black top bar

in the "HTC skin 3" the top bar is gray

(meaby is better that i write that in the firs post! :D)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Showtime7:
Modified Version

Oooh ok. I edited it myself now, looks good. Here are my edits:
[Windows Mobile Themes] stopthebus:
make sms-chat the default sms

Hi,

Just try out the sms-chat and I have 1 question.

How do I make this the default sms program?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] Showtime7:
Supposedly you can edit the registry to do it. But I've tried and it only works in some cases. Maybe you could request a mortscript if that doesn't work, I saw one for changing default contacts app but that's a bit different.

Here's the link to the reg edit:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3518849&postcount=8
[Windows Mobile Themes] Dr.Mazika:
can u create a cab for this app
[Windows Mobile Themes] Showtime7:
The app or the skin? Search VITO Technologies on google for the app. The skin is simply putting images in a file folder, nothing too difficult there.
[Windows Mobile Themes] tcchuin:
does it support latest version of smschat?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Showtime7:
Unless they've released another in the past 3 weeks or so I'd say yes... It just replaces the white skin.
[Windows Mobile Themes] tcchuin:
this skin doesnt work perfectly in v1.23

http://img237.imageshack.us/i/screen001h.png/
[Windows Mobile Themes] tcchuin:
i noticed that you're still using an old version..if i post the gray.bmp of version 1.23..would you mind editing it for me?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Showtime7:
I actually stopped using for a while but I got it back and will work today on a new compatible version :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Showtime7:
Ok, I've finished the new one, completely redid the graphics. I'll make my own topic now, so look out for that in a few minutes. Just need to finish the notification box. ;)

EDIT: check here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=4164600
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] supermerkin:
I have a 3G ATT sim card just lying around, can I do anything with it?

Examples if any so I know where to look would be awesome.

Thanks!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Da_G:
I have a humungous pile of these.

You can call in to activate one on your account should you lose another one, it gets zapped by lightning, etc.

You can use em to store contacts and sms! :P
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] supermerkin:
Damn I hoped I could do somthing amazing with it like build a time machine or somthing... Oh well I guess itll just hold numbers.

Thanks G!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] X2D:
You'd still need a flux capacitor..
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] P1Tater:
Moving to General.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Farmer Ted:
Use it to scrape out toe cheese.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] h078:
with a little bit of creativity...

If you get another one of spare SIM cards you can easily make very nice earrings...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] HoorayBeer:
sim card playing xbox

sim having dinner

sim planning for world domination
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] tora201:
You are sick, man. But that did make my day!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] shlomki:
lol!

that was great!

you should make an animated series of 3g sims gathering together to conquer the world.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] jaszek:
do a Stop Action :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] X2D:
What a magical evening you must have had with your special Sim card. Who doesn't deserve a hot pocket and a cold beer at the end of a long day..?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] HoorayBeer:
i share a very special relationship with my sim. good thing hes easy to cook for.

and hes always talking about taking over the world
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Da_G:
wow. what more else can i say? lmao

a short clip of your photos would probably make a better at&t commercial than anything they could come up with! more bars this! :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] jaszek:
Byt than again the average person has no idea what a sim card is lol