yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 General] vangrieg:
It doesn't. CorePlayer has a "Qtv" mode where they use their own "driver" - well, sort of. But there are also other ways to render video in CP - DirectX, GDI and RawFrameBuffer, if I remember correctly. If you use APIs like DirectX, you'll need a device driver for it to work. I don't know which mode they used in the benchmark.
[HD2 General] jj999c:
I love ACER F1
[HD2 General] THE GRIZZ:
!!! its almost %20 slower than the Acer which has less specs

HTC messed up something real bad
[HD2 General] THE GRIZZ:
at least its beating the toshiba tg01 here

http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/4wm-reviews-hardware/22380-o2-htc-hd2-review.html
[HD2 General] skr_xd:
Even my HD have 8 to 10% more benchmark when Touchflo3D is disabled.

Also, the Acer have lesser hardware comparing to HD.

(like lack of GPS, compass)

So, this is actually acceptable performance.
[HD2 General] sunhi3man:
Lack of gps?

What are you talking about? I have an Acer F1 and the gps works fine.
[HD2 General] NetDwarf:
QTv is not necessary/not implemented in Snapdragon cause this option doesnt exist for Coreplayer. Also the DirectDraw and GDI mode doesnt work for Qualcomm's former processors (like 72xx). Im very sure HTC messed up the drivers like they always do ^^.
[HD2 General] hidaho:
Acer may be faster, but you know it will broke after 12 months and 1 day :)
[HD2 General] willbread:
i did a benchmark of my HD2 and the result index is 2040, a better result than what is written in your comparison.

I think, these test was made with the first HD2 and not with those which are sold now...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] AndrewTheMan:
I like Opera 9.7 a little better than 9.5, but is there a way to change which program opens from the TP2's default Browser tab in TF3D? Couldn't find it in settings or registry.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] AndrewTheMan:
Nothing? No help? Just using a VZW TP2 straight from the box. Want the 'globe' icon on the Browser tab to open 9.7 instead of 9.5...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] -Jonny-:
Okay guys & gals,

Just thought I'd start a topic about our Today Screen.

I love a good launcher program (which I believe is simply what a today screen is). It took me a while to get to like WM6.5, but I do now. The disadvantage is that I still have to press my Start Menu for other apps... and for 64MB Uni's the disadvantage is only too obvious.

I hope you don't mind me quoting, but this is what started me thinking...

Yeah, oh for a simple Today Screen. I'm with you there.

Why do we have one method of accessing our apps on the Today screen, and yet another from the Start menu. (And for me a third when I want to choose a game to play).

I suppose nobody has come up with something that everyone agrees on!

Hence we have such platforms as Android, maybe.

As phezthie says, HomeScreen PlusPlus is a cool app. However, if you can't find a theme that someone has made that you like, you must be willing to write a script. Personally I love this app, but spend too much time tweaking my scripts! Ouch :p

Another one is ThrottleLauncher. A lovely graphic approach, but a bit heavy/slow and a few bugs. Very easy to set up, though... but perhaps more of an interest with 128MB devices and maybe a little restricted.

Anyone got a great Today Screen or Launcher they think others would like?

.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
Hi Jonny

Interesting thread indeed:)

I used for a long time HTC Home large VGA by pj07 and I was very satified as I had all I needed on that home screen.

Now I´m using titanium but I´m agree with your comments above.

(attached)

Cheers,
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] bardaldeia:
I use Titanium too and its going pretty well for my needs till now.This his a good idea.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] PalDragan:
Hello :) thank you for starting this thread,as i am obsessed lately with this subject. I tried EVERYTHING that i could find,and so far,on my 64 MB uni,i can say only that i managed to find NOTHING in my taste.

Throttle launcher is awesome but no way it can work on my device,buggy and extremely slow,same as Pointui Home 2, with the POINTSENSE suite 2.0.0.6 looks awesome but useless on my device. For everyone with a 128 MB device i would recommend it,there are many many interesting skins/themes and applets on the Pointui website http://www.pointui.com/

Also,i am waiting for a new or fixed version of Touch Shell Pro ,which looks promising also,has some nice skins too, version now is 1.1.0.17,but has too many issues still,on my UNI at least.

http://www.touch-shell.com/

Also i tried FEWidgets Ultimate,again nice idea but too slow on my UNI.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=544874

There is now also this Sense UI Theme for FEWidgets Ultimate.

http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-sense-ui-theme-for-fewidgets-ultimate.html

As for launchers,i tried plenty,most of them too slow ofc,the nicer ones :)

Easy Today Launcher is a nice today plugin,you can combine it with some others to make a nice today screen also :

http://www.loffactory.webs.com/

MyAction is a nice launcher you can pick up here versions 1.1 and new 2.0 :

http://www.8080.pl/

This one looks real nice but was way too slow on my 64 mb - Touchlaunch :

http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-touchlaunch.html

And for last,the best thing i found to be part of my today screen,is a skin for marsware weather panel 2009 - here is the whole thing :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=401781

When i get time i will put some more up,when i remember them,i really tried a lot of things out. And i really really wish that my UNI has 128 MB :D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] enigma1nz:
I never looked back since getting SPB Mobile Shell 3.5, I think it's the best. In fact, once I got it, the ROM UI became irrelevant, I even have WM5 on one of my Unis in order to have the VC and not suffer much.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] gewin:
Complexity

Jonny

Thanks for starting this thread. I have also played with a number of the Today screen graphical setup programs, some are quite good. However, since upgrading to 6.5 I quite like the standard program screen that comes up when you select start.

My question is why do we need any of these today screen programs, when the icons and screen are already there. We really don't want to add any more complexity to the setup or anything else to use up precious memory.

I originally asked the question to see if there was just a way of bypassing the today screen altogether, so that the standard program screen came up by default.

Now thanks to you we have the collective minds thinking about it.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] tomal:
@gewin:

I actually got your idea. But couldn't find the function OS calls (@shell32.exe) when you hit on start menu.

Once we get then it is just the easy part....
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] pappt:
I use SPB Pocket Plus, because it can handle other today plugins in different tabs. And it runs quickly on UNI64...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] -Jonny-:
Thanks guys, this has been very informative. Especially to PalDragon for all the review... I'm going to give some of those a try. Cheers. What do others think?

MyAction - I found I didn't like. It looks ok if you use all the icons, otherwise you have half a screen full of blue +'s. I would prefer slide to screen, rather than use of a Prev/Next button. You also need to add all the apps yourself, it wasn't self-populating.

TouchLaunch - like. However only 1 item per line means a lot of scrolling, and the scrolling can be quite slow. Nice that you can make categories. Latest version here. Smooth (on my 128MB Uni)

EasyToday Launcher - @gewin, this is what you want! It's not self-populating, but I do like it. And as PalDragon pointed out, you can add other Today items with it, if you wish.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] phezthie:
i completely agree, its not free though but worth it... :D:D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] arampatla:
Hi Jonny.. can you please attache some pics of your today screen if you haven't yet, I use HTC Home its got all i need even wheather, Messaging etc... But i wonder if its possible to add some applications to the wm6.5 on that cool up down slide. This made me stop using HTC Home but now i have some app's missing on my today.:)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] -Jonny-:
my today screen is unintersting. I use WM6.5 'Ron Arad Orange' with CHome editor* for my apps (piccy1). I used to have weather plugin* but this seemed to make my GPS navigation freeze intermittently. I use QuickMenu* for my task switcher (piccy2) and iReflect icons* in my start menu (piccy3) with honeycomb start menu*. (Also, once used ATContacts widget*).

However I am still looking for a good 'app launcher' for games. I use fexploreext* set to 'Icon View' (see piccy4&5). Sadly fexploreext doesn't seem to work in WM6.5.1

I did once create a HomeScreen++ theme* for back when it was BatteryStatus, but haven't kept it up to date. It also had weather. The funny thing about weather widgets is that whenever I want to look at the forecast, I always want to update it :D... so it seemed reasonable to stick with weather from an internet page! :eek: (perhaps because in UK weather is so changeable, I don't know!;))

:) however, I am beginning to like SPB Mobile Shell (unsure how long the trial is for). What themes are people using? enigma1nz? phezthie?

FEWidgets and throttlelauncher seem similar, but a poor mans copy? :confused:

*if you want any of these files, just PM me.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] phezthie:
spb mobile shell is really impressive and powerful (the latest is v3.5), ive been using ms v2 since tomal's 8.5. however, based from my experience, v3.5 is not advisable using tomal's wm6.5 roms (v9 & 10) due to slow response and occasional freeze. same with other wm6.5 cooked roms i tried, the reason why ram upgrade is imperative, at least for me, to enjoy the latest rom with latest spb. :D

off course, another solution i think is if our great uni rom chefs will always consider releasing vanilla of their great work... :):)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] Janis:
UltimateLaunch

http://www.ultimatelaunch.de/index_en.html

Setup is a bit of a hassle (I've been messing around in Android, so a lot of Windows Mobile/Phone stuff seems more complex to customize), but if you're willing to put in the time, it's a rock solid-app and can customize to a T. It's also the least memory-hungry of what I've tried.

The only thing I don't like is that it doesn't accommodate rotation very well unless you count out pixels and just set it up so that in landscape it looks good even though the bottom of your screen is cut off.

I've tried Lakeridge (think Titanic, flashy, but *will* crash), ThrottleLauncher, Win6.5, SPB, SBSH. I keep coming back to this.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rajivshahi:
I used most of the GI app there and i liked WAD2. and i used with my custom theme when i was in wm 6.1, now with 6.5 due to memory issue i can not run it. so i'm using titanium with some customization.... see pic's below...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
Hey Rajiv

Jane is so beautiful!!:o:D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] enigma1nz:
Yes, very nice Jane, mate :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rajivshahi:
Thanx a lot Guyz:p:p:p:p...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] phezthie:
i envy you mate :D:D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rajivshahi:
He he :p:p:p:p

common guys no comment on titanium ....
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rajivshahi:
Ok here is the hosescreen++ for light weight users.... post here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=491920
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rsawoseyin:
Wish I could say the same. I have installed and uninstalled SPB Mobile Shell 3.x three times. I find it really clumsy to use and I could not find what I need as easily as I can with 2.x. Way too many taps for simple tasks! But as they say, it is "horses for courses".

At present I use SPB Mobile Shell 2.1 with Inesoft PhoneEx.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] Insert Coin:
I would like to add another suggestion to this thread. OK, it's not a home screen as you all have described it, but I am using Elecont Launcher. It adds bunch of icons on the today screen for your programs and comes with info of memory usage. Also you can add functions like reboot, on/off etcetera. The reason I like it so much is because it hardly uses memory at all! :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] enigma1nz:
Not sure what the problem is, but I have it running just fine with Tomal 8.2 on 128Mb, it's fully customisable, I got beautiful backgrounds downloaded with the feature provided and got it set up beautifully, so no complaints from me. It's smooth, fast and I can't even imagine not having it.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] arampatla:
Very nice rajivshahi, i will have to follow this way, love your themes man!!!:p

But this might choke my 64mb device Ram...:) Does your titaniun have weather?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rajivshahi:
Sorry i haven't installed the weather panel.... well it's just some modification in Titanium CPR file and some custmization in Bronzeres.dll... i haven't packaged it into cab .. as i made it according to my needs but if you want i can send the files to you... Titanium weather in to do list.:D:D:D, any other plug-in ???

Cheers

Rajiv
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
I installed titanium weather and worked fine (a bit slow of course)

But decided to remove to gain a few extra Mb´s on my 64Mb Uni
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rajivshahi:
Ya i tried last night applied the patch and played along with the CPR and some icons and the free memory was around 5~6 mb and it was so slow... so decided not to use it until i get upgrade to 128mb....lol.....:D:D:D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] arampatla:
I thought i will hang around with titanium wheather installed but the memory even gets so eaten up now its only 3mb left, I found some new jasjar boards on ebay and i will get one and have it send for 128mb, thats the best way. May be anyone with titanium on a 128mb device can tell us how much free memory after?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] -Jonny-:
Talking about titanium weather, I have found that my route navigation hangs every so often (thus also loosing contact with BT GPS). It becomes unbearable! So now I don't use it, because otherwise I keep losing my way!!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rajivshahi:
If you have 128 on board you don't need to worry about running out of memory.... and titanium should work like a charm and ass stated above by Jonny titanium weather messes up the gps, so nothing on the memory side.....:D:D:D:D:D coz with 64mb uni with titanium weather and other heaps apps installed i get around 5~6 mb running titanium... so extra 64 mb would solve every issue....and have heaps of memory to play with...:rolleyes::rolleyes:
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] arampatla:
In that case i can't wait to have my uni upgraded to 128mb. But for now i would like to check out SPB mobile Shell since everyone is talking about it, but its not for free, sometimes you buy some software and the next thing an upgrade comes out then your bought software becames some megabites in your computer with no use!:D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rajivshahi:
ok found the alternative to titanium weather... work fine in titanium but haven't tested personally..... more detail

http://www.elecont.com/weather-for-pocket-pc.aspx
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
Thanks for that rajiv

I´ll give it a shot

Cheers,
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rajivshahi:
well i used spb mobile shell 2 and 3 both but at that time i didn't knew much about customizing those stuff, then shifted to wad2 and made my windows 7 theme then i was just in love with wad2... and now with wm 6.5 i don't have much ram to play with spb mobile shell or wad or other stuff... so desperately need an upgrade... then i can play more with them.....after that i'll give another shot to SPB mobile shell and not as a noob this time....:D:D:D But i just love titanium so much i don't really want to go back to anything else...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] phezthie:
btw, if yu want to avail the full capabilities of spb ms 3.xx, try to use it with mo3ulla's wm6.1., a very responsive and superb light rom indeed. :):)

unfortunately, it was not included in the summary thread for uni... paging orb hehe :D:D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] arampatla:
Looks great, i'm downloading write now. will report soon. I will remove the SPB Mobile shell, i'm not that interested on it, its a bit too switchi, have to tap alot to get somewhere. titaniun cuts it for me as soon as i get my 128ram i will fully explore titaniun to its bit!

:D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] phezthie:
make sure to choose the right rom, spb ms in 64uni with wm 6.5, and other 6.1s, might not work effectively. try it first i suggest...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] arampatla:
Have you tried the Elecont Weather, after installing it on the sdhc then it worked and after reboot then my device keeps freezing just when loading the titaniun today, I had to install in on the sd because it needed over 7mb. I notice that its realy heavy on ram, but try and see if it works or its my device giving problems. But it has good details i wouldin't turn it down since we know about wm6.5 ram prob. Looks like most wheather themes including HTC Home needs enough ram.;)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rajivshahi:
well i'm currently busy dealing with my exams , so as soon as it finishes next week then full blast on these things... it did look good with barimeter and detailed weatherforcast for every hour.... still looking to find lightweight weather plugin... and yes wm 6.5 is ram hungry and customizing titanium will eat up more ram... i used Greatbal's Titanium Shadow Neo Skin theme and available rom was 1~3mb(without titanium weather) so nothing would work except reset LOL...and after using 6.5 i don't want to go back to 6.1...and if you need my current titanium customization let me know... more customizing after exam...:D:D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rajivshahi:
Tested Elecont Weather now...before enabling titanium free RAM was around 14~16 mb after installing Elecont Weather and enabling it in titanium.. and after running titanium free RAM is about 8~9mb...does look good though and would look even better after some customization as always...:D:D:D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] arampatla:
Okay great, please can i have some file from your customization, will really help for now, i won't go back to 6.1 i'm hooked on to titaniun so bad!:D:D:D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rajivshahi:
Here is the zip folder containing all the customized files.... first of all back up your original files in case if you want to go back... (which i think you won't do;)) So please use total commander and go to windows folder and copy "bronzeres.dll" and "Titanium_480x640.cpr" and save it some where else where you can find it later.... Then just follow the instruction inside zip folder to use the customized files...

Look here for screen shot... http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4894359&postcount=15

Cheers

Rajiv
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
Thanks a lot Rajiv!

I´ll give it a shot soon:)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rajivshahi:
Forgot one more thing it looks great with black background(wallpaper) ... try this one...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] arampatla:
Thanks so much rajiv, you are the man!:D And Good Luck on your exams:):)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rajivshahi:
Thanx and once i finish my exam i'll make a proper theme and make it into cab for easy installation but for now you have to do it the hard way...LOL :D:D:D more plugin support will be added... and more customization.... :eek::eek:And one thing i need to consider is low memory issue with Uni so the theme is going to be focused for uni:o:o ( low memory usage), and might follow:rolleyes::rolleyes: by heavy duty one for 128 mb users... :p:p

Cheers

Rajiv
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] bardaldeia:
Chome

Here is mine, with the help of many
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
It looks nice:)

Can you let us know how many RAM free you have?

And what ROM are you using

Thanks,
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] bardaldeia:
Hello,Orb

I´m using Tomal´s v12 wwe and I have about 11 12 of free RAM with normal use. For me it´s the best 6.5 rom for 64 mb Uni till now.I´m using 1.15 radio

because with 1.18 I had some connection problems.I have installed:

-Total Commander

-ATContacts

-Oxios Memory

-ole Androgyne System

-Chien Home Screen Customizer 1.4

-Resco Photo Manager

-Activekitten Chronos

-NDrive

Everything is working perfectly

Thank you very much Tomal, for this wonderfull ROM.

To make this aspect I only used CPR edition and another bronzeres.dll
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
Thanks for your info bardaldeia

:)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] arampatla:
Very nice, Looks so clasic:) would be nice if my device was upgraded to 128ram allready but soon than platinum would be my world at full!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] bardaldeia:
Mine is 64
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] arampatla:
Wow, how much free ram after reset...:)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] maxpawlowski:
Hi to All,

I have few questions to you regarding messaging – sending SMS and emails. I miss form my previous phones confirmation that SMS was delivered to the recipient. In Nokia it works like that the info is being displayed 5 seconds and then disappears. Quite similar it works in Sony Ericsson. In TP 2 I’ve manage to have so called report that the message was delivered which has form of SMS, which must be deleted like a regular SMS. Is there any other option to know that the message was successfully sent or was delivered?

Next issue I have encountered is lack of progress bar while I’m sending emails. If the email has attachment the sending process might take a while. In all phones I used to have there was some kind of progress bar while I can’t find anything like that in TP2 email application. This is annoying because I don’t know if there is progress of sending. Anyone has solved that problem?

And the last thing which I have noticed when using email application is attaching files. If the file is located in subfolder of the main folder it’s impossible to get access to it. Then it’s necessary to start operation with File Explorer (with which I have access to all folders) and use of Send as email function and then edit the email content. Not very logical.

All you thoughts and ideas are very welcome!

Have a nice day!

Max

PS. I’ve started to thinking about switching to Nokia N900 which seems to be more logical and intuitive in terms of software.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] AndrewTheMan:
I'm running stock ROM on VZW... Almost every call I get causes the phone to freeze, sending the call to voicemail. It is so frustrating that I can do everything with my phone, except receive calls! I have slide to unlock, and thought the slide to answer was causing the problem... so I disabled it. Still having problems. Any suggestions?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] khaytsus:
Back it up and hard reset, see if that fixes it.. If so, you have some bad software.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] bennyj71:
I had the same problem with my Tilt2. I have tried six different roms. The same problem. I download a program called Gaz TD2 Tools. I used that to disable the default dialer. Since then I don't have that problem. I have a ugly phone pad but I can answer a call. seventeen missed calls in one day was enough.