yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] quarintus:
TF3D has bad things an good things.

The biggest failure and that's why TF3D is just crap is because it's not intuitive and easy to use. Way to many steps to get things done, pretty useless taskbar (exepts for the killing programs part). You can do to much information on one screen at the same time and too little. It's nice that they include things like a calendar, but it's pretty useless and in many ways TF3D makes the use of third party software actually harder.

The very good things about touchflo 3d is the push pages, the scheduels, and the best thing is the fueture to see all of your conversation with one contact. I really love it. Next to that it's snappy and pretty.

Well I treid SPB mobile shell 3, but it just doesn't do it. Also many features, but the fact is: when I use my phone it's to get something done pretty quickly. I just want to be able that I have a good view of all the info I need (messages, appointments) in the least ammount of time and to be able to do something in little time. The regular wm is just very easy. Start - settings/programs - choose- done.

Seeing my messages when there is a new one I get a popup and pres view and I there. I do not have to click the task baar. Get a new screen there push on the button, then being transported to the touchflo tab and then have to choose the message.

THats 2 clicks vs 4/5 clicks.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Taigatrommel:
I kept the default TF3d for now, as soon as the official WM 6.5 ROM will be available, I'll switch to the Titanium UI.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] HeavyComponent:
I will give Wisbar Advance a try. Thanks!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] jchap2k:
I prefer Manilla2D over TF3D.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cavenger:
how

how do you disable tf3d??
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] henh:
go to Settings>Personal>Today>, Items Tab & untick the TF3D then click OK
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cavenger:
ty!! Need to find something to replace it now.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] poetryrocksalot:
I totally agree!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ITNV:
SPB Mobile Shell 3.0. I like having one-touch access to everything I need (email, sms, weather, contacts, favorites, apps, etc...) right on the front page.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] graphreak:
FEWidgets Ultimate 1.0b7

An interesting 'Widget' based replacement for TF3D I came on when I was looking around on XDA.

"FEWidgets Ultimate" by nicodega.

It replaces TF3D completely as a 'Today' plugin.

Basically one just has to install the CAB.

(Note: it will not show up under All Programs, but as a Today plugin only)

> Go into Settings> Today>

> Remove check next TF3D

> Enable Check next to FEWidgets Ultimate

Two versions- Large widgets and Small Widgets for anyone who needs a whole bunch of widgets.

I did try it out on my TMO TP2 and both versions basically work when I tested each separately.

Though I haven't tried fine-tuning each widget for my TP2 yet.

Enjoy.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] atlaswing:
i kept my TP1 and gave the TP2 to Dad whose TmoWing crapped out. Had to disable TF3D for him today. The last straw was contacts/call history will not allow you to dial out, it's link to the phone dialer was broken or something. I don't know if this is a result of a tweak I did or if the Tmo's TF3D version has a bug. After disabling TF3D, you can press the contacts again to call out. For future reference, anyone know the cause/solution?

Like above guy said, now I need a replacement for tf3d. The last version of BatteryStatus that I used was 1.04build266 from this time last year, which has since been replaced by HomeScreenPlusPlus or something like that. Anyone know of a stable version for the TP2? Stable enough for Dad?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Aquila-169:
Today Plugins

I kept the default TF3D, but with HDWall, because I love the eye-candy of the interface and I find it very intuitive to use. I have also tried other today plugins, such as PointUI Home 2, FEWidgetsUltimate and iPhonetoday, but none of them felt as smooth and easy to use as TF3D for me. Out of the other interfaces I tried I find FEWidgetsUltimate to be the best.

LINK - iPhoneToday

LINK - FEWidgetsUltimate

LINK - HDWall

LINK - PointUI

EDIT: On my previous device I tried SPB Mobile Shell - LINK
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] farnold:
I also got rid of TF3D. IMHO that is eye candy for people who don't know how to use a computer - and that is still a large number of people out there using phones. W/o TF3D I get things quicker done and have more flexibility to set up the phone the way I use it best.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] HeavyComponent:
Thanks for the link! HDWall and Mobileshell looks nice.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] DJ Palmis:
It is VERY usefull for me! I can't use without! I'm bored by WinMo interface.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] pounderd:
I too found TF obtrusive and unintuitive so switched it off. I used to use SPB Mobile Shell on the Kaiser and liked it, but I'm a bit fed up of the way it doesn't integrate with Informant and Flexmail, so I'm back to the WM interface and don't miss all the bloat.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jayzilla:
Hello,

I have an (apparently) unlocked MDA Vario III. I originally tried with a virgin UK payg sim, and also a T-Mo UK sim, but no matter what settings I try, whether on standard Rom/Radio, or custom, I cannot make the data connection work.

I'm currently on the stock T-Mobile Rom and Radio, with factory T-Mobile data settings. Even that, with an activated T-Mobile sim gives me the "Cannot connect to the network for an unknown reason" error message.

What could be causing this? Have I scuppered the phone by trying to unlock it? Could it be the SPL? (That's the only non-stock thing currently on there). Is there a way to generate some kind of log to work out what's going on?

-- J.
[General Questions and Answers] cockpitinferno:
hi, I'm french so excuse my english.

I purchased an htc snap (in france with Bouygtelecom) this week and when i wanted to install somme little software like spoontools for example, I couldn't use it.

so i searched all day to find informations and now i know that:

1/ I have to flash the hard spl

2/ I have to dump my rom before flashinf it

3/ Then i have to flash the new rom

BUT my questions are:

1/how to dump the rom for this particular phone (i could find informations about touch etc... but not about the htc snap)

2/ Can I use any ROM on any phone or do i have to flash a particular kind of ROM specialy developped for the snap?

3/ If i can use ever rom wich one do i have to choose?

4/ How can i be sure i won't brick my phone (even if i'm used with PC and windows i'm not so good with informatic and it seems a bit frightenning ...)

sorry for all these questions but i'm quite lost
[General Questions and Answers] orb3000:
Welcome to forum

Have a look on this special section for your device:

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=499

Over there you can find ROM´s to upgrade, as long as you follow the instructions all should be ok.

Don´t try to use another devices ROM!!!

Good luck,
[General Questions and Answers] cockpitinferno:
thanks, i saw in this section that there is not much things about the snap.

meanwhile, do you know why i've got this message when i try to use g alarm (for example , it's the same with some other softwares):

Galarm.exe

NotSupportedException

à Microsoft.AGL.Common.MISC.HandleAr()

à System.Window.Forms.Control.InitInstance()

à System.Windows.Forms.Control..ctor()

à System.Windows.Forms.Button..ctor()

à Galarm.frminstall.InitializeComponent()

à Galarm.frminstall..ctor()

à Galarm.Program.main()

It did the same with spoondo, spoon alarm, pocket wake up...

What can i do?
[General Questions and Answers] cockpitinferno:
anyone can telle me?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] lux209:
I read somewhere that when a program/process is not used the memory is "unloaded" on the internal memory to free up some space, and reloaded when you use the program again.

But i can be wrong, I don't remember where I saw that.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] us1111:
Yeah... But top tells me otherwise.. I think the application stays resident (RSS) but CPU cycles are kept to a minimum. I think this is design when you leave an application with no service:

- Stop CPU cycles

- Leave memory footprint until needed otherwise
[Hero, G2 Touch General] lux209:
sorry my previous message was not clear (and my english is quite bad)

What I remember is that the process is still active (so you can see it with top) but the memory (RAM) is unloaded and saved on the internal storage. When you start the process again it just reload the data to the RAM
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kiz:
Why are you worried about memory usage? These days many operating systems pre-fetch apps so they load quicker. I imagine Android has just selected certain apps to pre-fetch. Remember, empty RAM is wasted RAM!

I would be more concerned with cpu cycles if I were you.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] us1111:
pre-fetching apps is somewhat different than keeping programs in RSS. What I see in top is that programs stay in resident memory, which is not easely reclaimable. It then will take (a lot) of CPU cycles to free up and re-fill this memory, so there is a relation...

What I do see in practice is that android is sometimes slow and sometimes quite fast, without changing anything obvious. I was/am looking for a reason for this symptom.

That is why I rooted the thing to be able to see some low level system stat's. In top I see that a lot of programs stay in resident memory which is normaly not good in linux/unix land..

If there is an detail design of how Android does this, I would really like to see it (and hope that i'll understand it). By the way, I have seen the presentation of process lifecycle management, but this describes inactive applications as "saved" which i presume is not keeping it in memory.

And indeed emtpty ram will probably never happen with a linux kernel because of caching an buffering...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] darkpython666:
just use taskiller app all the time
[Hero, G2 Touch General] us1111:
Hmm.. i would like to approach it a more scientific way.. A good OS should not need you to do that..

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2009-01/msg05142.html

As I can see it, tuning could be done in the init.rc scripts and in particular this section which adresses the out of memory (oom) killer:

# Define the oom_adj values for the classes of processes that can be
# killed by the kernel. These are used in ActivityManagerService.
setprop ro.FOREGROUND_APP_ADJ 0
setprop ro.VISIBLE_APP_ADJ 1
setprop ro.SECONDARY_SERVER_ADJ 2
setprop ro.HOME_APP_ADJ 4
setprop ro.HIDDEN_APP_MIN_ADJ 7
setprop ro.CONTENT_PROVIDER_ADJ 14
setprop ro.EMPTY_APP_ADJ 15

# Define the memory thresholds at which the above process classes will
# be killed. These numbers are in pages (4k).
setprop ro.FOREGROUND_APP_MEM 1536
setprop ro.VISIBLE_APP_MEM 2048
setprop ro.SECONDARY_SERVER_MEM 4096
setprop ro.HOME_APP_MEM 4096
setprop ro.HIDDEN_APP_MEM 5120
setprop ro.CONTENT_PROVIDER_MEM 5632
setprop ro.EMPTY_APP_MEM 6144

# Write value must be consistent with the above properties.
# Note that the driver only supports 6 slots, so we have HOME_APP at the
# same memory level as services.
write /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj 0,1,2,7,14,15

write /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory 1
write /proc/sys/vm/min_free_order_shift 4
write /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree 1536,2048,4096,5120,563
2,6144

# Set init its forked children's oom_adj.
write /proc/1/oom_adj -16
[Hero, G2 Touch General] jhietter:
I'm wondering the same thing lately as I try to speed up my Droid. With OSMonitor's new cpu graph in the notification area, I noticed my cpu usage was very high a good deal of the time. So I rebooted and watched it stay at 99% for a while. I went to watch the processes and it was tunewiki, mixzing and camera (android.media) taking up all the cpu. I hadn't started any of them. Tunewiki was over 90% for several minutes. I would understand an initial scan, but it's been installed for over 24 hours so I don't know what the hell it could still be doing. I have about 14GB of music on the SD right now, so I'm wondering if it has to scan through that on every reboot.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] BlueHawk:
I wouldn't get too hung up about memory usage. The most important thing that will chew battery and slow down your device is CPU. And that is going to be up to the app developer and how they design things. Ideally, you want to write your program so that it doesn't run all the time - that is, it has a sleep state. If all your apps play nice and sleep when they are put in the background, your OS can then go into a hibernate mode when not being used by you (not tapping on the keyboard or doing other things interactively with it). This saves battery because hibernate allows halting the CPU cycles (when the CPU is awake, when it is not doing anything related to any app, it will be executing the equivalent of a NOP, which still chews battery). Also, if you have programs that don't allow a sleep (or rarely) , other apps get starved of cycles, hence you see a slow down.

As for your question as to why you have other processes at boot, some apps are written to start at boot. That was how the developer intended it to work. And some of these things, you don't want to kill. Some of these are even part of the core Android or HTC Sense, and if you kill it, Android will die an ugly death - try killing HTC Checkin and see how your Hero takes that!

If your system needs RAM, it will start swapping inactive app data out of active memory onto the swap. Use "free" in busybox, to gauge if anything got moved out to swap.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] mjehan:
what is this "top" process ?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] erasmux:
This issue has been covered in great detail and length throughout this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=622666

I think most recent ROMs use higher values for the low memory killer. The trick is to find values that will on the one hand keep as much free memory for fast loading of new apps and disk caching. But on the other hand, you don't want apps too close to fast - i.e. switch from your browser to check an SMS and return to find it has been killed and needs to reload. Even worse, since the hero has a relatively low amount of physical memory, it is pretty easy to reach values which kill background services like your SMS program and then you start missing messages....

I will also say, that to the best of my knowledge, you are wrong that apps you never used open up. It might not kill apps which are not in use any more, but any app which see there was loaded for a reason. For example for the calender, I assume HTC's calender app still uses the stock calender under the hood - try to remove it and see what happens.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] stefpaul:
In my option, for the little hero to run Sense 2.1 you need a lite version (Salsa Lite), so you can use whatever you like... But it seems that from the lack of processor power, hero lags.

On the other hand, if you want a new version of android, a stock version is more of use, but if you miss Sense(like i do), you get bored of it.

@ erasmux => can you make a .zip file that removes recent applications in the Sense 2.1 status bar, i think it's one of the sources that make the rom laggy...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] erasmux:
I am not currently actively supporting any Android 2.3+ Sense ROMs. If and when I release future Sense ROMs, I will see if I find the time for this.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dauerbaustelle:
Hi guys,

I'm trying to install debian on my HTC Hero. For this I'd like to have ssh access to my phone. Debugging around I realised I cannot event ping the phone.

$ ping 192.168.XXX.23
PING 192.168.178.23 (192.168.XXX.23) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.178.50 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.178.50 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.178.50 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

The phone's connected via WLAN and browsing works. Both my router and the phone tell the IP address I used to ping is the right one.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

db
[Hero, G2 Touch General] stellarhopper:
Check this out

http :// forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/11046-cannot-ping-to-htc-aria-incoming-connection-blocked/

Sorry for fudging the URL, it wont allow me to post the link since I'm relatively new :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] hughesey:
my first post.

far too complicated for the likes of me.

can anyone point me in the direction of a .cab file to download and install on my touch diamond to make it appear like an ipod?

PS, is it easy to alter for different icons?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] BenF1:
Best suggestion would be BUY AN IPOD
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] bbonzz:
Very useful post, indeed.

hughesey, search for "iPhoneToday": there is everything you need
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] melvintwj:
try searching for idiamond in this forum.

ps : first post!
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] square2k4:
Is it possible to run TouchFlow 3D?

Is there a opportunity to get a M2D version of Manila 2.5?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] animelover:
Both answer should be "No"! There's a poject to port TouchFlo3D v2, but I think it's not really usable on a day-to-day use ...!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ischagoi2:
trying to figure out what causes the phone to get hot. it usually happens after i use my gps for a bit. only once has it got hot enough that i couldnt keep it near my face. could it be a setting change that i did?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Darnell_Chat_TN:
See this thread from the comment linked forward.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] romans90:
I have a question about iGO. I have version 8.3.2.64029 on my devayse (HTC HD) and everything is works fine. Is it possible to improve the movement of iGO? More precisely, I see the map moves by fits and starts, not smoothly.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] MrKaon:
you really dont need to open new thread for this have look here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=501910
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] animsuper8:
oi,

i didn t make a backup of my rom. I have the spanich vodafone rom ( 32B ), can sameone explain me how to get this rom ?

i saw this post

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=541294

i dont now how to install this files

http://www.dymsoft.com/rubenfreitas_Vodafone_UK_ORIGINAL.zip

this rom is for Vodafone UK, its the same for Spanich version ?

please help me

tanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] RolSMcS:
Hi!

I think I can help you. I did a backup of the original ROM (the Vodafone spanish one, yep), I just restored it, wiped it, backed it up again and uploaded it. It should work for you!

Download here

Just unrar it and put it in your sdcard, on the nandroid/"your-device-id" folder. Restore and have fun :).

PD: Si necesitas instrucciones en castellano, mándame un privado ;).
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] animsuper8:
Gracias!!!!

I m portuguese, i bought this magic in ebay.

Can you help me how to install the rom?

gracias

ps: if you prefer reply in spanich for me is ok
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] RolSMcS:
Hi again!

Just to clarify, it's a nandroid backup, not a ROM. I'm only saying it to avoid confusions if you search around ;).

Right now I only have 5 minutes, sorry, later this night I can further try to help you. In the meanwhile, I'm sure you can find everything you need on the Q&A posts. To put it short, you need to: boot into recovery and restore a nandroid backup.

Sorry but I need to go now, good luck! :)

PS: Btw, why do you need the original ROM? I mean, you have a lot of MUCH BETTER ROMs here on xda :cool:.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] animsuper8:
hi,

many tanks for your answers.

I only need this rom to have a original backup.

I have cyanogen rom is good and fast. Do you have another rom in your magic? i try hero`s roms but they have a lot of problems.

ps: i have a problem with sms`s. all my long sms`s dont display correct caracters after the 142 caracter. do you now how to resolve this?

tanks again
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] highway:
reserved for future use (updates, etc.)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] D.O.C:
excellent man, thank you, i was waiting for an application like this for a long time....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JoOoSs:
Great App !

Now, if you do a better graphics, it will become a beautiful app :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xternal:
Awesome app! Cheers.

How about another option where it sends it as an MMS. You could make it open google maps on the phone, take a screen shot of the location then send the image via mms.

That would be sweeeet.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] delawaresace:
great app. +1 to the mms idea
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jimcompoli:
This sounds Great. Would it be possible to use this as a phone finding tool?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] NotLutzik:
Coool Application.Iphone like :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] azizx:
Good and Great

A great we have this in our mobile it very improtant --so it sound good application --thank you
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] daspost:
Can you make it send a .kml file as an email attachment? Then, as long as the recipient has google maps, opening the attachment will launch google maps with the location marked.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] skyler17:
This works great on my T-Mobile USA Touch Pro 2, stock ROM, a very useful application. Thank you highway!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] willcor:
does what you say..

Tested on my BLACKSTONE (hd ,stock rom ) ,working very smooth..yeah..

does what you say (sms, etc..)

Bit unsure ,when i clicked on "connect " (to gps ) if it was in fact trying to ( would it not be good to have some form of indicator ,that it is ? )..,but hey very impressed..

thank you
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] comeradealexi:
Nice app and feature at pocketnow.com! http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=549517
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] LiKBeAsT:
Very nice! Thank you!

Wraios file mou :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TheBigCheese:
Works OK on my Sprint Touch Pro but ...

When you send an email, it puts the completed email in the outbox where it is sent automatically giving you no chance to edit the email. Other apps that send email open the email program with the mail composed allowing you to edit the outgoing email. Apparently the author has his email configured to not send email automatically.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] starbase64:
Hi,

it is possible send position as Google Maps (PPC Version) favorite?

Open the coordinates without browser, but directly with Google Maps.

with friendly greet

starbase64
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] curney:
+1. I love this app when I am sending a sms link to my wife's iphone...it opens goog maps and 2 quick clicks and she on her way. would be great if it did the same thing when I clicked on the link. Still...works super easy. a must have app for me. bravo
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stylez:
Thankyou been wanting an app that just does it & this does :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] frav:
+1.

BTW, works great on my French Touch Pro 2, stock ROM.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] frav:
Highway - Good job ! it is a very useful application.

One small issue :

2nd settings page doesn't allow to choose Pocket Outlook main email account - the one sync'ed with ActiveSync / OTA.

It shows POP & IMAP email accounts but not the activesync one (I want to use to send the email with your app).

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] romantashev:
WVGA :(

SAME WITH MY HD2. Great application though.