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[General Topics] NoobStick:
Hi guys

I am currently staying in Taiwan and I am considering to buy my very first windows mobile phone.

Right now in Taiwan, a HTC Touch costs around $444USD and a HTC Diamond2 around $648USD (Similar cost to a HTC Touch HD).

Because I am a student, I have very limited budget. Both TP and D2 have very similar hardware spec (in terms of processor, memory and ram). And looking at the xds-forum, the TP can easily match D2's software features through a cooked rom.

So here is my question. Is it worth to spend an extra $200USD to buy a D2, instead of a TP?

Thank you~~
[General Topics] cel15:
Hi, that depends a lot on how you will use the device. The Diamond 2 sure is a lot better for pictures (5mp) and has a better looking and bigger screen to watch videos and use the web for example. And that's all, i don't think there's any real improvements.

The TP has good camera too, (3,2) and the hardware keyboard. I had a Kaiser, and now a diamond 1, and one thing i really miss is playing games with a real keyboard, not only touchscreen and D-pad.

As for the software, i wouldn't mind very much as almost everything in this forum is ported between TP, Diamond 2 and Diamond.

So i would go with the Touch Pro. But that's only my opnion, from someone who never actually had a diamond 2, just reads a lot of posts here.

If i were you i would go to the store, would "play" with both for about 2 hours, than i'd choose.

Good luck with your choice!
[Touch HD General] t3rm3y:
Hi, i have searched the forums and the web for thius "app"

i have it in a rom, it is a little app in the start menu which allows you to rotate the screen from portrait to landscape and back.

(i have seen a programme which rotates 90 degrees each time, which is rubbish)

I hate auto rotate as rotates in things i dont want it to.

i love this app, i can use the phone like anormal phone and when i want to rotate screen - tomtom, video, pictures etc i just open start and tap the button.

(Its in the energy ROM) - what is this lovely little app please? or is it something the ROM chef created? i pm`ed him but no response, understandably as prob gets lots of messages and wants to work on new roms etc.

Cheers
[Touch HD General] gbjack:
Use AE Button Plus or All at Hand Rotate to manually rotate the screen

http://www.all-at-hand.com/software.php
[Touch HD General] ozmoran:
You can also change the Button (1) in your settings to rotate I think you may have to have HD Tweak installed but thats a good app as well try without first
[Touch HD General] t3rm3y:
cheers ,i ll have a look at All at Hand Rotate and see how that feels
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Synned:
Sup guys

Second day with the new touch pro, lovin it. Theres a few things that are bugging me, though. When I send a text, it places a copy in my Inbox like: Me: Message

It clutters up my inbox a ton, but is it necessary for threaded messaging to work?

Also, if I go to hit the compose button on TF3D, and rotate the screen before the actual text box comes up (5 seconds later) then the ****ty 8 button landscape view will come up and screw up my message. Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks guys

Joe
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Synned:
Just wanna know if everyone deals with this.

Everyone have their sent SMS's in their inbox?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] polystirenman:
you can change threaded mode to normal.then you have recieved messages in your inbox and sent in sent items.but i think you know this already.if you want to use threaded mode this is something you heve to live with :)

or check out this software http://iwindowsmobile.com/threaded-sms-messaging.html .it is not free but could help you keep threaded mode.try trial first and see if you like it.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] guiltlyzebra:
I have just flashed from Duttys 2.7 to 3.0 using the process where you switch on the phone holding down VolDwn key and flashing with the nbh file on the storage card. All went ok but once I hard reset it loads with what looks like a broken 16bit colour scheme.

I am a lil bit worried now... what have I done? Have I done something wrong? It was working before the flash.... not sure if any further info required so please let me know if you need more details from me. Will be sat watching thread to respond asap.

Thanks

Jody
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] DRTigerlilly:
run uspl 2.5 & flash spl 1.54 again
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Fallen Spartan:
USPL isn't permanent like HSPL so to flash any rom or radio you will always need to run USPL first. Thats your problem!!

You'll need to use USPL and flash SPL 1.54 again then reuse USPL again before flashing Duttys
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] guiltlyzebra:
Thanks for the super quick response :) am getting everything downloaded as we speak and will give it a go.

Cheers, hopefully my panic will be shortlived :)
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Fallen Spartan:
Good luck mate, keep us informed on your progress so we can guide you should you get stuck, which hopefully you won't!! :D
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] guiltlyzebra:
Will do, will be a bit later though as phone keeps restarting so dont have long enough to drag files to storage card. Will await getting home where i have card reader
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] twisted-pixel:
I suffered something similar...make sure you read the post about flashing to anything based on 1.56roms (it's a sticky at the top I think)....it helped me hugely, and the steps are crystal clear.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] guiltlyzebra:
I have said it before and I'll say it again.... this site is a life saver. Followed step by steps from the guide to 1.56 installs (what I should have done in the first place) and all is working.... thank god.

Only problem I hit was for love nor money could I get uspl to see device on Vista 64bit, had to wait until I got back into work to run in it on an XP machine and all went through first time as it should

Jody
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Fallen Spartan:
You probably needed to update drivers on vista for USPL to work
[G1 Android Development] Jason Syn:
I have searched and read through quite a few posts about porting the contacts.apk from the H builds and installing it on G with no luck...

Has anyone had any luck doing this and can point me in the right direction to get it ported over?

Thanks in advance!
[G1 Android Development] byransays:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=503630

try that. report back if it works.

if it breaks your phone dont complain to me
[G1 Android Development] perdid0:
this doesn't work! i have tried it on The DUDE's v08. It made my dialer crash. i wish we could find a way to make this work.
[G1 Android Development] Jason Syn:
Thanks for being the guinea pig!
[G1 Android Development] Jrbourque:
has anyone tried to put the g dialer on the h build?
[G1 Android Development] Jason Syn:
If you want that just download StarContact, you can get the same dialer as G as the search feature that's similar to H as well.
[Touch GSM General] ddannelley:
Sorry if this post is a question that has been answered, but I searched the forum and could not find.

I am new to the HTC/Windows Mobile world so I am still getting my sea legs. From this forum I found how to setup my gprs connection and got it to work.

But what I want to do is make my phone use wifi when available and then go to gprs when no wifi is available. Is there a way to prioritize my connections like this.

Thanx for any help u can give.

:(
[Touch GSM General] DaBountyHunter:
I'd like to know this as well as I haven't found an answer either.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shariain:
hi is there any way to get an xbox 360 friends list on this phone so it will operate like the weather tab. so all you have to do is log in your xbox account and it gives you your friiends list of who is online and doing what also the ability to send and recieve messages would also be good. then all you have to do is goto the tab and press update to get it refreshed.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shariain:
is there any app that can do this
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] smegified:
Hello,

Not sure if this is something at all possible BUT I have a mount in my car for my HD and connect my phone to the stereo. Now, if I am driving and the screen goes to 'Sleep' mode, it can be kind of cumbersome to turn the screen back on just to change a track.

I was wondering if it was at all possible to put a code in place for the buttons that WHEN the screen goes to sleep and IF Windows Media Player is playing for example, that the volume keys can change tracks up or down instead of the volume?

I know someone will say 'well just turn sleep mode off' but this is not something I want to do.

Thanks in advance.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] gbjack:
Hi, you could use AE Button Plus to map the Volume Rocker to up/down arrows, then slide to the music tab in TF3D, play the muisc and set screen display off.

To play next/prev song, just press the rocker key once.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] farhan727:
Hi,

I have a problem. I'm currently using a HTC Touch Pro and installed recentle the Mobile Shell V3.0. But I can't get back to my original (tf3d) today screen. When i try to get back, the only thing i see is the HTC Wallpaper and a shortcut to get back to spb home. How can i get to my original today screen without uninstalling the mobile shell??
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ovidio:
SPB Mobile Schell 3

Me too!

I have installed SPB MS and when i have unistalled it the TF3D wasnt work anymore.

Someone have a solution please?

Tanks

PS: i have a HTC Touch HD with original rom ITA.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] callmemoe:
The only way I found to get both to work concurrently was to disable Mobile Shell from loading on startup. Let TF3D load, then manually start Mobile Shell after a soft reset.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] l3it3r:
Verified here too.. Then again, I don't think I'll be using TF3D anymore.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] farhan727:
how can u change the programs at startup?

Thnx people, fixed it, now i can use them both!!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ovidio:
How disable Mobile Shell from loading on startup?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] pdafuzzi:
Delete the file SpbMobileShell.lnk in \Windows\Startup
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ovidio:
Already done! .. but SPB MS continue to start!

Any suggestion?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ERWIN CENIZA:
Hit Launcher on main menu. Find the SPB Mobile shell icon and click on it. It will direct you to a new page. Now click on the right lower aspect of the screen (right soft key). Click on "exit shell". Your touch flo should load up and there you can select touch flo or spb with ease. You do have to redo the whole procedure everytime you soft reset
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ovidio:
All is done but TF3D dont start.

I have the left soft key "Message" and the right soft key "Spb Home" on bottom of the screen.

On top of the screen i have "Touch to start TouchFLO 3d" and if i touch the screen it say: "TouchFlo starting" but not start!

if i push the left soft key "Message" it seems "impossible open the file: MSPOUTLOOK calendar ... etc.."

I think a must do a soft reset also if i dont wont.

thanks in advance
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] supersobbie:
In my opinion I would say just remove MS3... To be honest I was not impressed. at first I was like WoW how flashy..... It even built in a way to Design your own page.... but after playing with it for a few hours I took it off. :( It was good enough for what it was but just not there yet for me. I LOVED MS2. As long as it had Greatbal's TF2D Theme on it. The best part about it was how snappy it was. it has a great response time... But I didnt like the integration or customization of it. It does not allow to you change the items in the carousel (AKA Remove). I didnt like how you only had the "Personal" home screen that you could slide left and right... I think they should have made it like MS2 more where you could just slide left and right to get anywhere. The bottom bar is a waste of space... and the top bar should not ev en bee there. MS2 if I remember correctly covered the start menu and this one should as well... I dont like that it doesn't integrate with PI8 (but then again TF3D does not either) But my biggest concern is that it does not even allow you to put other SPB products into the carousel.

For me I think I will wait a while and let some of the GREAT designers in here fix MS3 and make it better. I think that SPB did a pretty good job of giving users what the want... but they are not quite there yet. I am going to stick with just TF3D until I see some more improvements on this product.

Have a Great day,

SoBBie
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ribcage:
Screen Rotation Delay

MS 3 is a nice interface & I do like the carousels. The deal-breaker for me is the 5 second delay when I slide out/in my keyboard. WAY TOO LONG.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] dcelluser:
SPB Mobile Shell 3 is great but yes the delay when switching from portrait to landscape is horible! Even worse, if you are in landscape in Opera then hit the home button, SPB 3 gets stuck in landscape till you either reset or launch Opera again then switch to portrait :confused:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] dpetro:
Hello from Greece

I won a pna [NAV-CAM] EVESHAM {O.S :1042_3.0.13_3.078/ ROM VERSION 1.02.04/BOOTLOADER VERSION 2.5 .

Looking inside it I see a inner disc with ( I think so) partition in two “discs”

A . used 11.5mb and the program MobileNavigator and free space 7.16mb

B. “My storage”: used 179 mb [ envelop : CITIES] AND 19.6MB FREE

It have UK maps and support 3 languages ( EN, FR, GERMAN)

I want to delete program and maps AND INSTALL ANOTHER PROGRAM ( EXAMPLE: DESTINATOR 7) AND GREEK SOUND LANGUAGE AND MAPS OF GREECE .

Yes . It have a SD slot !

MODEL NAV-CAM 6200 ,WINDOWS CE CORE 5.0

Please help me

Many thanks

dpetro
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Carty:
Can someone make a ROM from Topaz please.. The HTC customized WM6.1 ROM is faar better than WM6.5. Touch HD, Diamond and many other devices have got it ported but not on Athena yet.

Micky and other great cookers, can you still show some love on Athena please..

Regards,

Carty..
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] wsayed:
Yes very true, I am eager as well to try the flavor of the new topaz rom. When AP team posted that they are planning to release a new rom; I was expecting to have it but it seems that their project is postponed for a reason or another!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=442179
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] michyprima:
touch hd, diamond, raphael etc has 3d hardware accelerator compatible with manila3d etc, athena hasn't. because our device need a specific driver. But i don't think that someone will make it ever.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Carty:
I thought Athena has one too. But you know what, I compared video playback on Touch HD and Athena side-by-side, was better in Athena!

I used TCPMP and a .avi music video encoded at standard rates. Same file played side by side on both devices. Touch HD had a very little hic-up while playing.

Anyway, I can find Qtv display setting in Coreplayer and it plays well only after enabling it. Im talking about the Athena here. So you sure there is no ATI chipset in?

Regards,

Carty..
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] michyprima:
i'm not saying that athena hasn't one. i'm saying that athena HASN'T ONE COMPATBLE WITH THE TOPAZ ONE, so incompatible to manila 3d etc.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wipal001:
Hi!

I wonder if the Xperia has something like a glass or a protection layer on its screen so i don't have to buy a whole new display? And if so, do anyone know where i could find these?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tehnoobzorz:
It comes with that really cheap factory plastic when you first get the phone

finding actual screen protectors arent really that hard you could find one on ebay
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wipal001:
I think i was a bit unclear, i scratched my screen after i removed the plastic protection that comes with the device. And now i wonder if the screen has another layer over the touchscreen that protect it(like the plastic piece over the actual screen that works as the touch on the diamond for example)?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tehnoobzorz:
I think so but its either theres the plastic layer or its the digitizer (that makes the touch-screen possible)
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wipal001:
Okay, do you know if it's possible to replace it? instead of buying a new screen?
[General Questions and Answers] casklaverstijn:
Hi,

I found folderview.exe in my /windows folder and found out it shows my program folder. But it is not the same as the program folder from my startmenu. I noticed that folderview.exe is smoother than my normal programs folder.

I wan't to launch folderview.exe when pressing the programs button in my start menu. Is this possible?

Greets,

Cas.
[General Questions and Answers] ingerasu:
yes, it is possible, make a shortcut for it and paste in Start Menu folder
[General Questions and Answers] casklaverstijn:
folderview

Thanks for the reply, but I want it to replace my programs folder shortcut in my start menu. I dont think your solution wil do the trick.
[General Questions and Answers] nir36:
if we're already discussing folderview.exe, does anyone have any idea what runs the programs folder if you DONT have folderview.exe?
[General Questions and Answers] Tim4:
Touch Dual's enlarge menu (Original touch dual's version) work by same method.

It replaces original files by new one, that works in ram (not xip), so it's more smoother and faster.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] btstarcher:
I'm extremely happy with my Fuze; so much so that I just bought another one. I didn't keep the stock ROM for more than an hour though, so I don't know what it's like out of the box.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] User X:
Glad to hear that. Although not sure if I can afford two of them - will be happy with just one. They're quite expencive here in the UK...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] mindfrost82:
I have a Tilt that I just keep as a backup phone (or if I'm going fishing or something and don't want to risk damaging my Fuze).

With a custom ROM and radio the Fuze is great for me. The stock radio sucks (atleast for me), and the stock ROM sucked. If you don't want to flash different custom ROMs, atleast flash the leaked AT&T ROM Update. Even with the bloat, that ROM is great. It has one of the best radios out there, it fixes aGPS, it is really fast compared to the stock ROM.

The main complaints I see are GPS lag (which I have, but its not unusable), the lack of hardware keys (which I can live with), and no tilt (which is a hardware limitation).

The fixed aGPS makes getting a fix extremely fast. I've used the GPS on multiple 5 hour + trips and its worked just fine.

I like the DPad on the Tilt better. With this one the up/down works but the left/right sometimes doesn't. Like pressing left will take me home instead.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] User X:
You know what - I fully agree with you. I like Kaiser's D-pad better + more buttons. I just wish it had the VGA screen and TF3D - it would be perfect then...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] jdwrrzmm:
If you get this phone you have to flash a new ROM. In fact, 6.5 is working extremely well.

The GPS just sucks. I have not tried it recently with AGPS however.

The DPad might be one of the worst in existence. There are not many Dpads where you try to hit left and it does something else.

Other than that, I love this phone. It is leagues above my old Excalibur.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] nhshah7:
i'm very happy with my phone. girlfriend doesnt like it cuz im always on it :p. anyways, i have the leaked att roma nd radio and it's amazingly fast, so much fun to use and just works. gps is fixed, it's quick. i have spb mobile shell 3 trial on it right now. seeing how that works but the UI on it is amaizng minus a problem switching from portrait to landscape but thats not just on teh tp. i lvoe the phone though i'd definitely upgrade. screen is amazing, phone is sexy (go to zagg.com and buy an invisible shield if u do get it though) and it's just so much fun to use.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] maxh:
I recently had to revert back to my tilt from my fuze after breaking it (it's fixed now) and I have mixed feelings. They're both great phones in certain ways. The form factor of the tilt is the best ever for me. It is a pleasure to use for internet browsing with the keyboard slid out, screen tilted up, right fore finger on the scroll wheel and left thumb on the d-pad when needed. The fuze is more compact, faster/snappier, and the touchscreen is way better when dialing phone numbers (could be fixed with software...). I think the deciding factor for me is the vga screen. If the tilt had it, I'd prefer that phone, as I often view web pages zoomed out and just hold the phone closer to my face to read the small text. Not possible on the tilt's qvga screen. Really, I want to take them both apart and put together a phone with the best of both. I'm sad HTC seems to always dance around making the perfect phone.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Goanna:
Well, the touch pro 2 is pretty much combining them together, maybe with some iphoneish features thrown in as well.

My Kaiser is on it's way out, keys aren't working, I have to reset all the time, rom changes make no difference, so I don't have time to wait for the Touch Pro 2. I am going to upgrade to a Fuze and hope it will work well for me.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] nhshah7:
let's wait and see...you know they always say that no one will ever release the perfect phone because then there will be nothing to build off of...maybe i'm wrong.

hope i'm wrong.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] maxh:
The touch pro 2 with a trackball at the bottom like blackberries have would be close to the perfect phone. But only with a snappier OS, faster processor, GPS that works right, and better battery life. Not saying it won't have these things (except the trackball and faster processor which it won't) but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Reaper333:
Out of the box the fuze is pretty sluggish. The GPS did work but, took forever to get a lock. I used mine for a day on the stock rom and I couldnt take it anymore. So I switched to Natfs rom and it was like night and day. Its so much smoother and much faster. GPS works as it should. I believe that was due to the upgraded radio. Give it a try. Youll see. BTW this is my first post. Hi to everyone...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] wildcard26:
Used Stock ROM for like 6 hours just to see it and say that I ddi and was pissed by how sluggis it was. I got 3 error messages and report this that and the other to MS. I wint to RE WM 6.1 and Radio happened 2 days after; using 1.12.25.19. It lives up to all my expectations and more of being my dream phone.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] jing12:
even though touch pro always hang and got a bit lag but i still love it.

button less then kaiser but the touch sensor got a lot function can play with.

:)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] cubetto:
Hi, maybe this is a stupid question:

I have a diamond with dib 1.33 rom installed, it's normal that with no open application minimum usage of ram is 77%

thanks
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] clonednull:
thats a bit high memory usage i think,

mine is at 55% when i have no active applications runing

(rom ver 1.37.407.2 GER)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] benko286:
it is normal if you havent soft rested for few days otherwise change rom
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] nmoreman:
That is high, will make phone slow. Are you closing apps after use by tapping on Today screen Task Manager in upper right hand corner? You can go into tools and change settings that make them close automatically when you close them.

One of the features of WinMo is to have them running, so this might be where you are eating percent use.