[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] puremind:
Regorganized Tips and Hints (continued)

KEYBOARD & TYPING

12. Reduce Errors in Typing

In Input options, disable the number of words to show in T9 for less mistakes when typing and thus faster entry.

19. Improve Suggested T9 Dictionary With Custom Words

The Leo has a very useful hidden application in the Windows directory. You need to unhide hidden system and Rom files in order to find it. Find the file "eT9MyWords.exe" in the Windows directory and add a shortcut to this file in your Windows/Start Menu folder.

When in the application, add the most common words you use when using the keypad such as names, locations, user names, email addresses and other words not common in the standard T9 dictionary. For example if you are based in London, UK you could add the following locations:

Leicester, Piccadilly, Tottenham, Soho, Charring, Euston, Trafalgar, Clapham,

and words such as BRB, DVD, coz, lol, xoxo, username@hotmail.com, ciao, etc.

20. Which Gloves Work With Capacitive Screen

Now winter is approaching it may be a hassel to constantly remove your gloves to touch the screen and USE your phone. Buy yourself a pair of thin leather gloves - unlined or silk lined. The thinner the better. You will find that the screen can still register your fingertips even through the thin leather. If you are male and cannot find thin enough men's gloves, try a larger size in women's gloves. Google "Dent's Extra Soft 3000 gloves" for a pair that definately works with Leo screen. I own them and tested them.

29. Tips to Improve Typing Accuracy on Keyboard

Tap each key very lightly and watch the keyboard as you type each letter. Don't watch the suggested words that pop up. Type at a moderate pace. Don't rush. Try the Align Screen option in the Settings/System/Screen menu. Don't press hard. Press as light as physically possible - barely touching the screen and wait at each crosshair until it moves. If you are right handed, for the middle and two right most crosshairs use your right thumb and for the left two most crosshairs use your left thumb. If you were holding the phone with both hands and wanted to touch something on the extreme left of screen you would use your left thumb would you? Also, turn on Spell Correction in Touch Input options and turn off vibration for keys too!

Finally the following cab decreases the sensitivity on the keyboard allowing for less mistakes. Really works. A life saver.

http://rapidshare.com/files/30889673...hScreen_v2.cab (Cab to decrease sensitivity) or go here for cab http://xdaforums.com/show...&postcount=430

http://rapidshare.com/files/30827317...n_original.cab (Cab to restore default settings of keyboard)

50. Enable All Currency Symbols from Main Keyboard

If you want to input the Euro, Yen or Pound symbol, you have to tap on the '12#' key and then go to page 2. A bit cumbersome. Now you can have access to all of the currency symbols just by pressing and holding the 'f' key and then drag to choose the symbol you want. Install cab below.

CAMERA

14. Activate Hidden Photo Modes

You can activate two hidden photo modes by using the following registry tweaks and then reset:

To enable Video Share mode:

Go to HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\P9

set "Enable" to "1"

To enable GPS Photo mode:

Go to HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\P10

set "Enable" to "1"

16. Get True 5 Mega pixel Resolution When Using Camera

To get 5MP instead of 4MP resolution when using your camera, you must switch off Widescreen mode in the 'Advanced' Menu.

* Normal screen = 2592 x 1944 pixels = 5,038,848 pixels = 5MP

* Widescreen = 2592 x 1552 pixels = 4,022,784 pixels = 4MP

17. Increase Resolution of Panoramic Photos - NON WORKING

By default, panoramic photos are less than 1 mp. This registry tweak increases resolution to about 7 mp.

Go to: HKLM/Software/HTC/Camera/P3

Adjust MainCamCaptSize to 1024 and MainCamSupportCaptSize to 1744. Soft reset.

Default 1mp is: MainCamCaptSize 64 and MainCamSupportCaptSize 80. Soft reset.

18. Get Better Video Quality When Using Camera

Use MPEG format instead of H.263 for better quality video output. This option can be found by going to the Advanced Setting from the Video Settings menu. Once there, go to Capture Format and change format if necessary.

56. Incease Picture Quality of Camera Photos

The following tweak will allow the camera to save images at a less compressed jpeg rate, meaning that the image will be sharper and more detailed.

HKLM\software\htc\camera\image\jpegquaity\superfin e

Replace the 5Msize = 643628 value with 746028

62. Improve Camera Recording Quality of MPEG4-VGA Videos

The following tweak will increase the video quality from 2100avg bit-rate to 4500avg bit-rate.

Go to [HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\recparam\MP4VGA and replace the BitRate value with 4194304 (default value = 2097152)

63. Unlock Additional Video Recording Formats

Go to [HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\P2 and replace the EncodeFormat value with 2147483647

This will unlock all modes/resolutions listed below:

H263(3gp): CIF 352x288 \ M 176x144

MPEG4: L 320x240 \ CIF 352x288 \ VGA 640x480

3GPP2: S 128x96 \ M 176x144 \ L 320x240 \ CIF 352x288 \ VGA 640x480

MOTION JPEG: S 128x96 \ M 176x144 \ L 320x240 \ CIF 352x288 \ VGA 640x480

H264: L 320x240 \ CIF 352x288

64. Disable Unwanted Folders From Showing in HTC Album

Don't you find it annoying that HTC Album Shows lots of images you don't need to see when you select Albums like GPS poi icons? Now you can tell HTC Album to ignore certain folders.

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/HTC/HTCAlbum/Ignored and add a NEW STRING VALUE

Eg if there is iGO8 in the root of the Storage Card you would create a NEW STRING VALUE with Value name iGO8 and Value Data \Storage Card\iGO8

PHONE, EMAIL AND SMS

30. Activate Voicemail 30 Seconds After Call Rings

For those who find that an incoming call goes too quickly to voicemail and does not give you enough time to answer it you can increase the delay up to 30 seconds now. Go to Settings, Personal Tab, Phone, Services, Call Forwarding and Get Settings. You can change the delay from 5 to 30 seconds under the forwarding option. If that does not work based on your carrier, try this:

reg edit: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\PhoneCallFwd

change "DelaySeconds" value to 30 which should indicate 30 seconds.

33. Enable Auto Data Disconnect for Auto Email Downloads and Other Downloads with a Cab File

When you have auto email downloads enabled, data is not disoconnected after mail retrieval and thus your battery is drained much faster. Modify the following reg edit to have data disconnect after 60 seconds. You can test this by tapping on the notfification bar while downloading emails and watch the data connection close after idle for 60 seconds. Please note. Data connection will NOT auto disconnect if you have any HTC Sense auto download enabled such as Weather, Twitter, Stocks, Facebook or Time Sync. Please set these apps to manual download only. Please note that this setting has the possible effect of disabling simultaneous voice and data on some devices, even if you are on a capable network and signal. Finally the following app will truely disable ALL data connections AND change to GSM mode in standby to save even more battery power:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=478519

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\ConnMgr\Planner\Settings

CacheTime = 60

SuspendResume = should be blank. Delete "GPRS_bye_if_device_off" text.

VPNCacheTime = 60

41. Enable Graphical Send Icon Button in HTC Messaging

To send a text message you need to hit the left softkey button. The following registry tweak adds a graphic send button above the paperclip button. It also changes the 'send' left soft key to a 'back' soft key.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\Manila\LSK_Send_Msg

Change from 1 to 0.

43. How to Enable More Than 1 Hotmail Account in Email Tab

By default you can only check one hotmail account at a time. Here is how to enable more hotmail accounts.

1. Create a new email account.

2. In the email field write your email but replace the "@hotmail.com" with "@hotmail.con", this way the OS is not going to load Windows live messenger to sync your email.

3. Disable the option "Try to get e-mail settings..."

4. Select the email provider, in this case, Internet e-mail.

5. Complete the name and account display name

6. Incoming server: "pop3.live.com:995". Account type: POP3

7. Complete the form with your username and password. Note: the username is your full email address: "yourusername@hotmail.com" and not "yourusername".

8. Outgoing mail server: "smtp.live.com:25". Check the "outgoing server requires au...". Click on Advanced settings and check the "Require SSL..." for incoming and outgoing e-mail.

9. Complete the rest of the setup.

10. Now, go to your email account and go to Tools > Options, once there, click on the email account you just created and click on "Edit account setup." NOTE: It might make you wait until it syncs 1 time.

11. Replace the "@hotmail.con" with the right one "@hotmail.com" and hit next 'till the end of the setup, and done. [/B]

52. Enable SMS Delivery Reports on O2 Network

O2 sadly do not support sms delivery reports no matter even if you enable them in sms settings or the registry. An alternative way is to add *0# in the body of the message followed by a space and then begin your message. The recipient does not see the code but you will get a message back saying when it has been delivered.

53. Change 'Reply All' Softkey to 'Reply' in Emails

When you are viewing a single email, the lower left soft key says Reply All. It would be better if it just said Reply. Well now it can. Soft reset after change.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Inbox\Setting s\ShowReplyAllEmailSK change 1 to 0.

47. Add 'Mark All Read' to Email Inbox Menu

Install the "MarkAllReadInbox" cab below to add the feature to the menu of your email inbox. By default only Mark As Read is in the menu, not All read.

PERFORMANCE

37. Boost Performance:

Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS

Change - CacheSize to 4096

39. Speed Up Web Page Loading Considerably

The following registry tweak will enable almost instantaneous web page loading in the web browser. It apparently enables wireless N mode but seems to work with cellular data too. Go to:

HKLM/Comm/BCMSDDHD1/Parms

11nModeDisable = Change from 1 to 0

55. Speed Up Landscape Album Scrolling

Following reg tweak speeds up landscape Album viewing:

HKLM/SOFTWARE/HTC/HTCAlbum/rotate change 1 to 0.

51. Speed Up Scrolling of Internet and People Tab, Album Page and All People Page

You can speed up the speed of scrolling when you flick your finger by modifying the following registry tweak.

HKLM/SOFTWARE/HTC/HTCScroll/velocity_factor

Change to 20000 or higher. Experiment to what suits you.

54. Enable Reflow in Adobe Reader LE

Make the text flow even when zoomed in with the following reg tweak.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\AdobeReaderLE.25\ EnableReflow change 0 to 1.

57. SMS Messages Speed Loading

If you have a lot of messages in your inbox it takes forever to load, but if you tap one of the messages when they show up (so that a menu pops up) and then tap the close right soft key, all the messages are loaded. Also you can tap the Send icon button and then the No button to do the same thing.

58. Keep Audio Booster Running After Each Song

Another way to keep Audio Booster running while playing music is to use the following reg tweak:

HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Config\enter_su spend and change 1 to 0