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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Joe Bleau:
Benchmark Suite & WinStart's Author's Permission

Does anybody has some suggestions for a benchmark suite to compare the performance including power consumption between a few of recent NRG's ROMs and some older reference ones? I'm willing to run it on my spare Tilt 2 w/ fresh stock installs & post some results here. Trying to get pass the "it seems" and "it feels... :p

Edit: Found these 2 free benchmarks tools: GLBenchmark_2.0.3_WinMo_Community.cab (from the OS drop-down menu) and SPB Benchmark v1.6. Stiil looking for suggestions about tools you find valid for testing ROMs on our Rhodium.

Edit 2: CFB has a bunch of benchmarks up to build 29013 currently in his thread: [PRJ] SYS Builds: What's the Difference?

WinStart's Author's Permission

Cooked or not does not prevent me from using WinStart, other apps & make some optimizing tweaks. It's just some suggestions for better ROMs out-of-the-box. Naturally everybody has a different opinions about what's "better". ;)

Custom SMS Bubbles?

You could try the general search box on the top right of this page ("Devices by OS or Manufacturer" runs a Google Search this Site) with keywords like: htc sms client bubble skin or some other keywords variations and report here if you do find a cab or tweak that does what you want.

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@ JVH3 - Good luck with fighting a possible flood. May the weather gods be with you.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Florestan:
Erasing start animation

A question: I would erase the start animation, between Splash screen and Welcomehead. So: erase the registry key

\HKLM\Software\HTC\HTC Animation ...

... is enough?

Thanks in advance.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Qmaster11:
Prepaid

At the first page stays this text:

I pre-configured a lot of things.

but I have prepaid!

I'm afraid he'se gonna use data connection.

What do I need to do?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
Removing the boot animation won't shorten your boot time. You'll just see a blank screen instead while the OS loads. There are several things running in the background under that animation. It is only there to keep you occupied while the system loads.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Joe Bleau:
Re: Disabling/Replacing Boot Splash Start Animation on NRG ROMs

You can disable the boot splash animation with Start > Tools > BsB Tweaks > Performance > Startup Animation > Switch to On to disable animation but I did not see any difference in boot time to the Home tab compared with enabled and could NOT enabled it back with BsB Tweaks on an older ROM so I don't use that anymore.

Edit:

Downloaded the free & clean looking XDA MyStopwatch app (multi language, screen captures below) & installed it on my main phone. It should be cooked in the ROM IMO. ;)

Hard resetted my spare Tilt 2 running NRG Reference.Mar.13 ROM w/o SIM.

Restarted it then turned it off.

Cold started the phone and started the stopwatch at the booting vibration and kept on tapping the Send hardware button to get passed the emergency call only dialer and got to the Home tab in 1:10 minute. Pretty fast IMO.

Used Start > Tools > BsB Tweaks > Performance > Startup Animation > Switch to On to disable animation.

Turned off the phone & did the same as above: the booting time is IDENTICAL w/o the animation. :eek:

As noted above, re-enabling the animation with with BsB Tweaks does not work and the animation is still replaced by a bland static gray screen. Yuck!

I guess the phone needs to do it's thing when booting and the animation is just there to make the wait less boring so that's why disabling it did not change the boot time for me.

You can also change which animation will be played with Start > Tools > Advanced Config > HTC Animation > Startup GIF file and point the path to any GIF graphic files you want.

The default file in NRG's ROMs is Windows/animated.gif. The HTC You based on an HTC ad was created by doug3673 & originally posted in this thread. I know that I have an HTC and that ad annoys me.

Since I reboot quite often these days with all the new builds craziness I got tired of that ad and I installed my cab that you can find in this post: Custom Boot Splash & Lock Screens as it works fine on the latest ROMs including 29017.

Copy the cab to memory card and run from there with Total Commander or File Explorer. To revert to Energy's splash screens, just uninstall the cab.

Default Energy ROM boot splash screens vs. customized:

Edit: I edited the cab found in the linked post above to replace ONLY animated.gif instead of all splash screens #2, 3 & 4 and attached it to this post. To revert to Energy's default doug3673's animated HTC YOU ad, just uninstall the cab. That Circuits animation I modified graphically and tweaked to fit the Rhodium size & running time from an unattributed animation found on the web illustrates well the booting process IMO. Here is a preview:

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:cool: Don't upload this cab elsewhere please. Link to this post instead has you should do with everybody else's cabs by courtesy so the author can track downloads, get Thanks & tips & replace it with updates if necessary for the users benefit. :cool:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Qmaster11:
Download

I have a Touch pro 2 (Dutch) but I don't now which download I need to select by hostfile.com

I want the energy style but that one is there not!

and from everything are two builds. Which one do I need to select?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Rosered:
QMASTER11 you need this 1

Energy.RHODIUM.29013.Sense2.5.NLD.Cookie.2.0.Mar.14.7z | 164.1 MB

all the rom's are standing there the rebuild stockrom and energy ,glass enz enz

graag gedaan

your welcome
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] josemald:
Some suggestions:

- Take out the sim card before flashing.

- Right after flashing (or hard resetting, if you do that), go to weather tab and deactivate the automatic update (Menu, Settings, uncheck the Download data automatically box).

- Check the Facebook tab for automatic update as well (Menu, Settings, Data Connections), however, I think it's been deactivated by default in the last roms. But do it just to be sure.

After doing this, turn off the phone and insert the sim card. Right after configuring the phone for your carrier, go to Data Controller (Start, Internet) and turn off any data connection that shows up.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] wmg316:
You need CFC_gui (search) to extract manila files and adjust and convert back to manila files.

The text bubbles in the ROM are:

0a84b016_manila

0a181d10_manila

changes to .png's with CFC_gui...make your changes...convert back to manila files...put back in ROM.

That's the easy explanation...you need to read a lot on how to use CFC_gui though!! ;)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
If you mean the Windows Messaging client skins, there is a thread for that.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=622520

If you mean the Sense messaging client, then wmg316's suggestion above mine is the way to go.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] asisislam:
SnittyKitty

Thanks for the info but that really sucks! do you or anyone out there have any advise/recommendation so that we can get back to the game again?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] g0ldb3rg:
One more thing.

Don't know if anybody of you already noticed this, but sometimes sense is acting crazy

if i receive a message, it vibrates and anything, but when i turn the screen on it shows no message. If i access the message tab, though, there really is a new message.

Clock doesn't update automatically aswell, but the clock on the top-right side updates normally.

BTW, i'm using 29017 cookie 2.0 with sencity
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Monfro:
Sense sometimes freezes with CHT2.0.

Windows itself is working, but Sense is freezed in that moment.

For this the message IS really received (but Sense is not updating) and the clock IS working well on WM taskbar (but Sense is not updating).

CHT2.0 is projected to work on Leo, which has double processor speed and double ram than Rhodium...

Solution:

When Sense freezes turn off the screen, and then turn on again: now it should work as usually.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] g0ldb3rg:
Yeah did that already, but it worked just once. I guess, when it freezes, i should just restart sense instead of soft-resetting
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] awalt:
I have had this happen to me too I think. I just soft-reset. How do you restart Sense if the phone appears frozen?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Monfro:
For me it is enough to turn off and then on the screen (phones goes to sleep and then wakes up again), without the need of a soft reset or a sense restart.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Qmaster11:
Hello, is bij deze de start knop links onderin?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Florestan:
At first, thanks thousends for the abitual kindness, celerity and preciseness of Your replies. I abitually use to disable the start animation with BsB Tweaks, because I don't like it at all. I only want to exclude the "blank screen" (as cajunflavoredbob, opportunely, has noticed): that's all. But it's not important. If to obtain this result is complex, no problem: I live well too. ;) The "problem" of re-enabling the start-animation with BsB Tweaks is notorious too. Perhaps it'd be better go to:

HKLM\Software\HTC\HTC Animation\StartupGif ...

... and erase the content (in EnergyROM: \Windows\Leo_animated.gif). For re-activate animation, rewrite the erased content, or the favourite .gif.

Again thanks a lot. My best regards.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
Start Menu > Settings > Home > Items Tab > Uncheck HTC Sense > Tap OK. After this, hit the end key to go to the home screen and verify that Sense is turned off. Once you've done this, do the same thing to turn it back on. There is a widget in CHT2.0 that will do this for you as well.

In English, please.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Joe Bleau:
Re: Energy ROM Boot Spalsh Animation

That's not correct. In the current Energy ROMs the YOU HTC ad file and default boot splash animation is \Windows\animated.gif w/o the Leo_.

You can see by yourself with Start > Tools > Advanced Config > HTC Animation > Startup GIF file.

You could replace animated.gif with a static gif image of your choice called animated.gif if you don't want any animation.

Thanks for the feedback BTW. :cool:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Markstar:
Hi,

I have two embarrassing questions: :o

1) How do I add folders to the HTC music player? I have several folders on my microSD card, but it only plays one at a time. I can go to "Albums" and select another folder/album, but I would like to have the option to play all songs at once. Do I really have to copy all files into one folder?

2) Where do I change the screen timeout? Right now it's 30secs until it dimms and 1min until the screen goes black. I would like to change the latter to 2 or 3min, if possible.

Thanks in advance!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Florestan:
Again welcome,

Very, very interesting. Naturally, like said in my previous post, I don't use the start animation, deactivating it with BsB Tweaks, but after I've read Your last post, I've told to me: "how is it possible? Advanced Config tells LEO_animated.gif; registry says LEO_animated.gif ... but on device not exists any file LEO_animated.gif ... Mystery!!!".

And so, only for curiosity, I've tried to modify, in Advanced Config, the name of file in

animated.gif

; after soft-reset, the start animation was restored!

It would be clear: BsB Tweaks modifies animated.gif in a false-name-file for erase the animation.

If You could try it on Your spare Tilt 2, after deactivating boot-animation with BsB Tweaks ... this will be the method for reactivate animation too.

Again thanks thousends for all. Best regards.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Quincux:
Sense restart if i upload a photo in Sense Twitter Tab. ROM: Energy Cookie 2.0 29017 Mar 15
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Joe Bleau:
ROM Energy 29017.Titanium.Mar.16

Available for download on Energy's Titanium ROMs page > HTC Touch Pro 2 > Energy.RHODIUM.29017.Titanium.Mar.16.

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Thanks Florestan for spotting BsB Tweaks' trick with redirecting to the non-existing LEO_animated.gif file. :cool:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
I have all of my music in a single folder with sub folders sorted by artist, then album. The music player doesn't seem to have any trouble recognizing all of my tracks.

Either of the following will work:

Start Menu > Settings > System > Power > Backlight

Settings Tab > Sound & Display > Backlight

Set the timeouts how you wish.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] zeoran:
What Happened To Recording Option???

I just put in the latest build of the NRG Rom onto my Tilt 2. I would swear that in every other version, in the Tools-BSB Tweaks program, there was an option to turn ON the ability to RECORD your phone calls while they were in use. After turning it on, there would be a "Record" menu item while you were talking. But for some reason, this option isn't in the BSB Tweaks program in the latest version. Is there a reason for this? Am I wrong about where it was that you enabled this feature? Is there another way to enable it?

~Z
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] zeoran:
SMS Capitilization

I know this is probably going to seem very petty for most people, but for us who do a TON of texting and are also very particular about using proper punctuation, etc, I've noticed something with the NRG Rom's. When i first start using them, and I'm texting someone, every time I put in a period, the OS automatically capitalizes the first letter of the next word. Simple. And proper. Thing is, for some reason, after a while of use...sometimes weeks, sometimes only hours, and sometimes only for certain contacts, it will stop doing this. Now, I've scourered everywhere looking for an answer to this, or an option that turns on/off, but I've found nothing and I don't know how else to ask about it...it's a hard enough problem to describe and most people don't give a damn about it. But I do. If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate it. Also, my HTC Tilt2 with the NRG ROM runs great and I love the bubbles with SMS too, but that as well, doesn't work consistently. Now I KNOW that the bubbles in SMS IS an option in the menu section when you get into Messages. But for some reason, ever since I put in the latest ROM version, that menu item "options" has been greyed out. Is there any way to un-grey that option???

I hope you all can help.

~Z
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] holmanm:
The record is already in the ROM. Once in the phone call, from the phone screen press Menu, Record. It will be saved as a wav file under \My Documents\notes.

Or press Menu, Create Note (or pull out stylus if option ticked under Start, Settings, Personal, Phone, Advanced) make sure the recording toolbar is on and press the red circle. This will put the sound in the note of that call in call history.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Qmaster11:
background

can the backgrounds on the whole sense be changed?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
Settings Tab > Personalize > Home Tab Wallpaper
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] jeanmichel6:
hey guys, i just want to report that the update album art, its not working, and since i have memory of my rhod210, it never worked, its there a fix for this? i think its the only thing missing with the nrg roms!

and i used that a lot on my last raphael usin tael roms with sense 2.5
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Joe Bleau:
Re: Background & User Manuals

A fish or learn how to fish? ;)

The EnergyROM's are based on Windows Mobile + HTC Sense + Co0kieMonster's Co0kie's Home Tab v1.8.5 or Co0kie's Home Tab v2.0.0, depending on your ROM version. Check the later for cool customizations, there is a downloadable manual on the first page and also CHTEditor v1.8.5.1 and CHTEditor v2.0.0.0 - Final Released.

HTC Tilt 2 user manual in English http://www.htc.com/us/support/tilt-2-att/downloads/

HTC Touch Pro2 multilanguage user manuals http://www.htc.com/www/userguide.aspx?p_id=250

Energy ROM FAQ http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4579513&postcount=6
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Markstar:
I already had all albums in in a subfolder called "MP3s", but due to your suggestion I created another subfolder to put them in. And voilá, it worked! :D

Ahh, alright, now I feel a little stupid for not finding it myself. :o

Thank you!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] jgb:
This latest Titanium ROM, 16 Mar 2011, cannot be opened; tried with 7zip & TugZip.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Joe Bleau:
Maybe it was corrupted during download. Did you try downloading it again? That file works fine w/ WinRAR on my PC, I don't use 7zip & TugZip.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Neuralgia:
Sorry to ask guys, but with so many pages, the SEARCH THREAD option didn't help too much.

How do you change your Action menu's NAVIGATION button to open another program (Garmin XT for example)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] jgb:
Unzips fine now; original DL must have been corrupt.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] blumsen:
You should really take a look at a tiny program called "Auto call record". Basically it auto records all your conversations and keeps them stored compressed to tiny files (but the quality is very understandable). At the END of every call you can chose wheter you want to keep it or not, which I appreciate a lot over having to press an extra icon at the start of a conversation or when you all of a sudden decide you need a record in the middle of a conversation.

ACR eats up about 3.2M of memory as a background process on my phone.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] osiedacz:
AT&T to buy T-Mobile

Did you guys see that T-Mobile is being sold to AT&T? I sure hope this means AT&T will start getting the T-Mobile phones, rather than visa versa. Here's to hoping.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
Yep. Looks like I'll be moving to CDMA then.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Lavell7298:
Yeah, I was hoping that this day would not come. I cannot stand AT&T after what they put me through when I was stationed in Jacksonville, FL. I vowed that AT&T would never get my business again! Now, I will have to eat those words.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] gregb882:
Oh, well... there goes good customer service, good quality and reasonable prices. :( I, too, left AT&T a long time ago becaue of their issues and have been very happy with T-Mobile. My problem is that no one in my office building who has Verizon can use their phones indoors which makes them nearly useless for business - not sure what I'll do. Good news is that we'll probably have some time to figure something out before we get assimilated - just call me 115,788,225 of 129,000,000!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] cokid:
I have had nothing but great service from AT&T. Don't know how long it has been since you used them. I hope it means they gain more towers!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] J-Hop2o6:
well.. actually LTE.. Verizon already launched it in 20+ Markets.. Sprint is gonna switch to LTE in the next couple of years.. AT&Tmo is going LTE.. but yea, AT&T is crap.. hopefully the Tmo portion wont get hit with problems.. wonder how all the towers/spectrum + phones are gonna look like after (if) this deal goes thru.. it looks like this right now:

Tmo: 1900 (2G/GPRS/EDGE); 1700/2100 (3G/WCDMA/HSPA/HSPA+)

AT&T: 1900 (2G - EDGE); 1900 & 850 (3G - HSPA)

So will Tmo keep their towers up? And now have 3G phones with both 3G frequencies? (Quad-band 3G= 850/1700/1900/2100[euro])
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Lavell7298:
Yes, AT&T will gain more towers. As a result, AT&T will now have more coverage area than Verizon.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] JVH3:
Off topic - AT&T purchase of T-Mobile.

What this really means is that there will be no GSM competition in the United States.

I've been with AT&T since 1995. Then they became Cingular and customer service was horrible. Only way to get what you wanted was to file a complaint with the BBB. Then they would contact you and give you the reasonable things that should have been available. Now they are AT&T again. Customer service has improved, but not prices. Prices are much higher than T-Mobile. Currently, or very recently with T-Mobile, $79 per month get 1500 minutes with unlimited text and data. AT&T doesn't even offer unlimitted data anymore. $25 for 2GB. $30 for unlimited text. And it's $60 just for 900 minutes. So, for $30 more, AT&T gives you 800 less minutes and only 2GB of data. I've never used more than 2GB, in a month, but I am still grandfathered in on the $30 per month unlimited data.

It will be a whole year before they will complete all the approvals.

Don't know if it is is still a problem with CDMA, but I like being able to look something up on the internet with my phone and talk at the same time.

If CDMA can do that, I will likely be switching once this deal is finalized and my contract is over. I suppose it depends on what plans are available at the time. Verizon will probably buy Sprint by that time.

Sadly, I am under contract with AT&T until August of 2012, or I must pay $350 minus $10 for each month since August of 2010.

The more limited your choices, the less competition. The less competition, the worse they can treat you. Next up 3 year contracts like Canada.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] J-Hop2o6:
^^ Verizon just updated their CDMA to be able to talk-n-surf simultaneously.. Sprint? no.. and I think u need a compatible phone for that updated CDMA tech.. not sure on that tho.. but yea, Tmo --> AT&T = more $$$ for less value = *RAGE*

So if this goes thru, and my service turns to crap.. then yea, i'll switch to Verizon & their 4G/LTE also.. even tho prices are high there also =( but they are better than Sprint (phone wise) & AT&T (service wise).

And God no with 3-year contracts!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] gmann1:
could somebody tell me how it's look like in latest ROM with memory usage and battery consumption after few days usage ?

Thx. :cool:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
Off-topic acquisition details

To avoid adding anything else to the thread that is off topic, I have created a rant about the AT&T/T-Mobile acquisition here. Feel free to weigh in on it however you feel about it. Otherwise, we all need to discontinue our discussion of it here, including me.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] gregb882:
That's good to hear! Someone must be happy with them otherwise all the ads in the world won't keep customers. But my youngest son had AT&T because of an iPhone purchase and he had an awful problem with dropped calls (he has since dropped AT&T and went to T-Mo with a WinMo7 phone - loves it!), and a couple of my co-workers have them now and experience significantly more trouble with phone/Internet than I do. Both my son and one of my co-workers said they got the run-around when they tried to get help from customer service. All they tried to do was up-sell them, not solve their problem.

I sincerely hope I'm wrong as Verizon is a good option for me.

Edit: Sorry, I didn't see CFB's post about the seperate thread until after I posted this one - he's right!