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[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Mister B:
Q: How do you activate HTC enlarged taskbar

How do you activate HTC enlarged taskbar ? (popup with large actively linked icons for clock, volume. battery, connection,radio ect ect)

Registry entries ? I know it is in the ROM as some how it displayed once !

Have this on NRG TouchPro ROM & would like it on HD2 if can figure out how to enable it !

image below (just for reference to what I am on about)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
I'm not sure how to activate using that menu, but it isn't HTC's interface. That is how stock WM is set to work. Normally, when you tap on the top bar, instead of getting Arkswitch or the HTC notification panel, you would get that bar. Perhaps you could narrow down Arkswitch's activation area and try tapping on the open space that is left. That's my best guess at how to get it back.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] stevedebi:
I think he would have to get rid of the HTC Notifications for that to work.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
Does HTC notifications cover the entire top bar if Arkswitch isn't there?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Mister B:
You do not need to get rid of HTC Notifications, HTC Notifications activates from the right of top bar & HTC Enlarged task bar works to the left if arkswitch is disabled/not installed.

Works fine on NRG touchpro ROM, I know it is in my HD2 ROM as seen it come up once in a odd scenario when testing some software but I do not know the registry to activate this (assume it is just registry!)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] stevedebi:
OK, I just got rid of Arkswitch, and touching the bar anywhere brings up HTC Notifications with my Leo.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
That's what I figured. It should already be cooked in. There's just other stuff blocking it is all. Glad that worked. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Mister B:
No not resolved yet, Notifications windows is not in question it is the enlarged task bar icons that I need to figure out how to activate via taskbar tap (left side)

Enlarged task bar is in the ROm (well in my older version sure) but I believe a registry key is needed to activate it.

NRG will know how to activate this for sure as on my touchpro & diamond2 (both NRG ROMs) the enlarged taskbar is on by default.

Also to note, I do not use Arkswitch & have it cancalled out fully ....
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Mister B:
Correct but that is the point.

With Arkswitch off & if Enlarged task bar menu is activated a click any anywhere centre to full right opens Notifications & a click anywhere centre to full left would open the enlarged taskbar icons.

The point is registry or something needs to be set to make enlarged taskbar active & the question I am searching an answer for is what registry or program needs setting to get this functioning ?

I looked through registry on my other NRG ROM devices with enlarged taskbar functioning & could not find anything but without a name of an exe/dll linked to this it is like looking for a needle in a hay stack ...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Z80-Man:
Well, it's entirely my fault if my old versions didn't activate them correctly.

I'm really sorry about that : the files were present from the beginning, but I forgot to include the DLL in the CAB to register the replacement EXE. :o

Now it's done.

I may soon offer another more complete one, made out of from my french CAB : I spent a lot of time on it, and now all the bugs I found were fixed by NRGZ28, only the tweaks are worth keeping.

The problem is I'm testing and adding daily so much things on the fly that now I'll have a hard work recording and sorting all of them... :p

My current french full CAB now contains half a dozen hundreds of registry keys, and I'd like to split them between battery and performance tweaks, cosmetic tweaks, and utilities and folder system tweaks. The bugs fixes part should be history, now. ;)

I'm intensely using Excel, Word, Acrobat, Opera, registry editors and file managers, and I continuously need to rotate to landscape, in order to access long registry keys or long file names, and often have to switch back to portrait to find my way inside long lists.

Rotation is really vital for me, and I really prefer it to be automatic.

I know there are problems with automatic rotation, and here are the ones I encountered in the past :

- Very slow rotation, so not worth it with productivity in mind ;

- Unwanted rotation, then slow rotation back will be felt even more painful ;

- Random rotation while reading laying in your bed holding your phone upside down ;)

- Unwanted rotation in some apps if rotation is active for all by default ;

- Adding apps to white or black list is painful.

For a long time, I used Changescreen on the HD because it was the only way to do it. I used to rotate all + a blacklist, then rotated none + a white list.

It's a great app, but has some problems :

- Slow to rotate, even slower to rotate back. A registry tweak could make it rotate faster, but it would reset to slow each time you used ChangeScreen Conf.

- Drains some battery (apparently still rotating in your pocket while in sleep mode) ;

- Rotation could bring the taskbar on top full screen apps ;

- Totally random rotation when faced upside down

Etc.

I then decided to go only for G-Sensor.

- It rotates fast as lightning (with the relevant registry tweaks, included in my CAB)

- It doesn't use any additional resources as it's already running and ready to use ;

- It rotates very accurately and predictively ;

- It can rotate only in 2 directions (remember it was made for hardware side drawer keyboard models), but this helps controlling when rotating or not ;

- White list management is still a bit painful, but adding a line in a .REG file takes a few seconds, so I'm keeping and growing it along with my needs, and my CAb now contains thousands of entries ready to use.

All I have to do is installing my CAB right after flashing, and - presto ! - I have all as I want. ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Z80-Man:
While I'm there, I wanted to have your opinion about the visual tweaks I made.

There are only a few of them in the WWE CAB, but I'm using a lot more of them. I'd like to discuss about these ones, to know if a majority of people would wish to have them in the CAB.

A few examples :

- Quicklinks titles are written over a background with rounded edges ; I consider they're really inadequate compared to the rest of the Energy theme.

> So I just set them off.

- The red and green background tiles on the Stocks tab are replaced with rounded egdes, Dinik-style glossy, red and blue background tiles.

While I understand NRGZ28 likes to turn all the HTC green into Energy blue, I may here disagree with the choice :

The Blue color doesn't culturally evoke a "positive" tendency... I think it's inappropriate there. :p

The round edged Dinik glossy style icons may suit the Dinik theme, but really not the other ones, and - IMHO - definitely not the Energy theme.

> So I reverted back to classical HTC icons and am very happy with them. ;)

Of couse, the classic HTC ones may not suit the GTX theme. BTW, how does the GTX Stocks tab look ? :p

- NRGZ28 unfortunately choosed a rather dull dark blue. While it does add a classy and immediately recognizable touch, too much dark blue looks sometimes... A bit too much dull. I really love HTC green on a dark background, really. If it was just me, I'd keep HTC green instead of dark blue.

But it's still OK. Maybe some specific icons could be kept green, just to add a bit of color out of an all dark blue world... ;) For instance, I like the "Settings" icon to be green instead of blue, so it's faster to locate visually, as I'm using it a lot. :D

- This one I don't have a solution for now, but I hope there will be people among you able to handle sounds.

As you all know, volume setting comes with rather aggressive piano-like sounds. NRGZ28 preferred to cut them off, and that's not a bad idea.

Recently, he added organ-like (or trumpet, or accordion-like, not easy to be sure as they're obviously synthetic) sounds, but they're not really less aggressive (I even think they're worse :p), and each sound lasts way too long...

I'm dreaming of something really cooler, smoother, more discreet and classy.

Maybe some of you have a home or car stereo making a sound when you turn the volume control knob ?

They're generally sort of short "bumps", but not white noise, as they generally have a small musical coloration. The ideal sounds for HTC volume control would be that sort of bumps, with five different colorations, ranging from bass to trebble, as they are now, but of course, short bumps (did I specified they should be short ?) ;)

Does anybody have samples like that handy, or is able to make them, please ? :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] :
I had to do screen align on every reset and made a shortcut as directed in this post

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=645916&page=9

I used an icon for the shortcut. The shortcut lives in the 'tools' folder, on my desktop, and is the left, 'phone' hard key.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Z80-Man:
My current french CAB contains a shortcut to screen align setup backup already. I have to make a WWE CAB out of it, as I said. ;)

There's been a lot of stories about capacitive screens alignment...

People pretended it wasn't necessary, but it is ! If don't do that, strokes are detected almost 5 to 6 mm too low on my HD2 ! :p

The whole thing became public after HTC released a mysterious "update" that was installed on phones coming back from service, because of what appeared like completely misaligned screens, though it was never officially named as such... :p
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] :
More surprises. The align screen has options to align in portrait and landscape mode. Mine is so far off that I need to touch where the keypad is for to get to the 'align right" tap and the keypad pops up and gets in the way. I never use it that way anyhow.

Isn't there a way to save a configuration file or registry entry to align the screen? Android from the SD card has that file and, in my searching, I guess some of the HD2 were configured to have you align on the first boot... or maybe it was every boot.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] NRGZ28:
Fortunately I tend to agree with everything you said. I realize now, after all these years, I might not have made the best decisions when it came to styling, but I worked with what was available at the time and didn't really bother to change it much... But hey, if you put together a .zip of all the changes you propose I'll gladly put them in the ROM.

As far as the sounds.... my original intention was the get rid of the harsh default HTC sounds. The best I could come up was me recoding the synth "chords" using a software synth on my computer. I'd LOVE to find something more subtle along the same lines and shorter in lenght... but I don't have the software/equipment for that. A guy "dedblank" offered and even made some for me a while ago, but we could never agree on something we both liked.. heh
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Z80-Man:
Hey, you know what ?

After having had a lot of trouble trying to explain people how I'd like them to sound like, I had a flash... Then searched through my archives and found the WM adaptation from StarCraft...

Remember the button sound ? Well, it's a two-tone sound, so not exactly what I'd want (its duration is still too long, BTW), but I think someone at ease with synths could easily use the base sound (or just understand what I mean a create something similar) and make 5 different frequencies tones out of it. ;)

I made a CAB if you want to try how it sounds on your phone (all tones are the same, this is just a quick test) :
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
For someone to modify it here it is in mp3 format. This is a really good idea. For anyone who isn't quite sure what Z80-Man means, we're talking about having only the first low tone as the volume sound. It needs to be modified into higher volumes and frequencies for the volume20, 40, 60, 80, and 100 files.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Bence:
I just bought powermat and it doesnt work...when I put phone on it the screen lights up...but doesnt charge...

Is this because energyrom or something else?

Does anyone use powermat with energyrom and it works?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Sugocy:
Metal back side on HD2 perhaps? And I guess the power mat is device specific;)

Gl.

Sugocy
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Sugocy:
I'll look into this tomorrow:) Shouldn't be to hard.

Sugocy.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Bence:
Well, I have powermat for HD2.

Powermat is from USA, HD2 is from EU.

I have the mat and the battery door...

When I put the device on it I hear the sound and the screen turns on...but it doesnt charge...I was waiting until the battery dropped for 1%...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
The Powermat has absolutely nothing to do with the ROM you are using. Software will not impede hardware functions. From all the reviews I've read on Powermats for the HD2, it seems to have a very high failure rate. You would be wise to return it for a refund, in my opinion. Either way, if you feel you want to test further, you could flash the stock ROM and see if it works or not. I still recommend just getting rid of the darn thing, though.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] gadgetuk437:
Had a go, is this any good?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
Yes, you're on the right track. I believe the tone that we're trying to use is only the very first low tone in the sample track, not the full two tone scale. It's only the low pitched "bomp" sound.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Z80-Man:
Hey, it sounds really interesting ! :)

What tools are you using, please ?

Exactly. A single "bump" would be great. :)

Now it may even sound a bit too much colored, but this specific sounds will still remind us great playtime, so it should be worth a try just as you made them. ;)

Can't see the HD2 in the list. The only HTC device is the Evo 4G... They're fairly identical, actually, but is it guaranteed to work ?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Bence:
I have seen on the forum that people are using powermat with hd2 sucessfully...

I have posted new thread about my problem but I did not get any answers...

However, I know for now that the energyrom is not the problem, it can be only something with hardware or the powermat...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Sugocy:
Maybe its a frequency thing! ;) 230V in Europe at 50Hz against 60Hz in USA. Dunno the specifics but this may be a problem as well.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Sugocy:
Its awesome, but the pitch at 80 and 100 is to high which will be ruining the sound quality on our HD2. I analysed the Starcraft file and it can be used as the 50% sound file meaning a maximum of 3 db gain to not get sound distortion (Threshold line), thus doubling sound volume.-->100%. from here you can make 20/40/60/80 pitches :) Will do this when I got the time today!

BTW the starcraft file is in bad quality (I know this is the same as the in game wav) . This means wathever you do, you'll hear some noise crackling on the side. The mic-filter isnt turned on. :)

Cheers,

Sugocy.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Bence:
Good point...

But I bought UK-AU-USA-EU power adapter, I guess that thing should somehow fix that...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Z80-Man:
I guess it's induction charging or something like that, but anyway, it's probably continuous current, not alternative ? Or they would have added the circuit in the cover ?

No adapter of this kind will change the frequency. They just work normally as long as the voltage and frequencies values are close enough (generally just two calibers : 100 to 120 V and 200 to 240 V), 50 or 60 Hz isn't important... As long long as your adapter produces continuous current.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Z80-Man:
I agree. It was just a test, and I wanted to give an example.

The result is still interesting. It could be damped, and maybe filtered too, to get rid of the noise and simplify the signal.

Or just created from scratch, now everybody has understood what I meant ! ;)

Another thing I agree with Sugocy : the frequencies are too high. The 5 tones could be much closer one to another, you don't have to reproduce exactly the original HTC ones. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] christty31:
energy roms site is not available no more? :(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] dyval:
what do you mean my friend? that's impossible..:confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Elmstreet:
Hello. Can someone tell me which radio version with RSAP works best? I have a Volkswagen with a RCD510 and would like to connect via Bluetooth rSAP profile. Currently I have installed the 2.15.50.14 radio.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] dyval:
I can say that you can stick with that radio. It is the best for me.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Z80-Man:
The 2.12.50.02_2 proved to be the best of all for a lot of people, but of course, you have to test and compare them.

It's not like it would be difficult to do, after all... ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] :
How can I slow down the rotation of the home screen. Before, the recent .cab that had the wonderful mods, the home screen went from almost never rotating to rotating too quickly.

I keep the phone face down because I like to hear the speaker. When I turn it face forward, the screen is usually in landscape.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] gadgetuk437:
It's not actually a two tone sound, its just one tone with a sh*tload of reverb!

The original sound was 750msec long, so I cut that down to 400msec and faded it out from 200msec. You say that is still too long, so I will chop it down to 250msec and fade from 100msec to dampen off that reverb.

Just Audacity (freeware)

Pitch shift, fade out, amplify, cut n paste.

I don't know what the HTC ones sound like, I haven't used tones on volume change for years!

The last five tone combo I generated were each 4 semitones apart. The long sample I made with 30 or so tones in it they were each 1 semitone apart.

Try these two five tone scales, one is with 1 semitone spacing the other with 2 semitone spacing. They are all chopped to 250msec now.

Am I heading in the right direction?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Z80-Man:
LMAO ! :D

Sorry, I like it to rotate at once... :p

OK, then here is the registry key to change :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\GSensor]

"PollingInterval"=dword:000000c8 -> replace with what you want

Have fun testing ! ;)

The original (slow) value is 3E8 (1000 in decimal) ;

The new value (C8) is 200 in decimal.

You should be happy with something in the middle... ;)

Warning :

Too small values for "PollingInterval" may drain the battery faster.

The G-Sensor one is the only one I set so low, to get maximum responsiveness. All the other ones are modified to high, and some of them even to very high values in my CAB : it dramatically enhences battery life. ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Z80-Man:
Absolutely !

Thank you very much for your efforts ! :cool:

Which one is the best ? Well, I'm not sure, as they're both cool ! :D

Finally, the 2 semitones spacing sounds more familiar. I love it ! :cool:

Do you think you could produce a simpler sound ? Unless everybody find this one cools as it is, of course. ;)

Anyway, it should be worth keeping too as a specific volume tones set, for Blizzard fans and Starcraft (1) nostalgics ! :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] gadgetuk437:
I forgot the amplification here are the revised tones. I cut the lowest tone by 2db and boosted the highest pitch by 2db. Is that enough?

Not really my speciality, audacity can generate a few tones, but they are all pretty basic.

You might be better off searching for sound samples (TB303 Bass possibly).
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
I prefer the 1 semi-tone spacing. This is exactly what we were talking about. It would be nice if someone could produce a cleaner sound to use. These samples we had were low quality to start with. But now we have a sample that is exactly what we mean. Thanks for the work!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] stevedebi:
NRG went to a different hosting for the files. Go to the first page and click on the links. Then update your bookmarks.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Mister B:
Is he not referring to main site being unavailable!

http://www.energyroms.com/www/
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] stevedebi:
Don't know, the original post was ambiguous. I don't go to that site much...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Stevik:
Hi,

sorry for my English. I have a problem. When you turn off the Bluetooth hands-free audio. When I turn it again, the sound is turned on again.

On the attached video shows on the screen do not change anything, just turn on and off hands-free.

Can this be removed?

Thank Stevik.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Sugocy:
Well, my dvd player went ballistic in 60Hz areas ;) Much faster rpm i.e. laser could not read the disk :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] J.S:
Poor battery with Energy.Leo.21916.Sense2.5.Cookie.2.0.Jul.04 and Radio 2.07.50.27_2. Anyone with the same problem or I am the only one? Thanks in advance...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Z80-Man:
Really nice, thank you ! :cool:

Well, I think they'll worth trying like that... ;)

Could you please produce 5 separate WAV files, now ? And to please Cajunflavoredbob, maybe a 1 semitone spaced version, too... :D

I've been seaching for a long time... Plus I didn't find a simple way to change tones. I'll test yours. ;)

LMAO :D

It may come from quite a lot of reasons, the first of them is you always have to wait for a complete battery discharge / recharge cycle to allow the HD2 to calibrate the battery meter, or it will most probably display false information at first use after a flash, as the HD did.

Then you could try to install my CAB (the first link in the add-ons CABs line from my signature), as it lengthens all sensors polling intervals (among other similar tweaks) to save a lot of current.

Except the G-sensor, but it's on purpose, as I wanted it to react at the speed of light... :p But you may still change it according to what I explained on the previous page if you aren't satisfied with it. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] gadgetuk437:
You wish is my command!

I bunged them through a low pass filter to get some of that hiss out too.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] christty31:
it seems NRGZ8 changed the server for upload ROM's

http://nrgz28.sylvester20007.com/

but why Leo ROM's are in the Netherland (NLD) folder?

http://nrgz28.sylvester20007.com/Leo/Cookie/
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Z80-Man:
Very nice, thank you ! :cool:

Who wants to try ? :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] fabio.teles:
I simply love this ROM! Works great!

Just looking to make a change...can we add the e-book TAB to sense? I liked the TAB and the GTX version does not have it.

Thank you so much! :)

Fábio
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Eduardo Valero:
Can someone please explain how to use this? In the dialler menu Options/Network selection I now see a new tab "Internet", but this can only set "Never", "Whenever available" or "Only if cellular is not available". I don't see where I can enter SIP server, username, and so on...

Thanks!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] brown71576:
Alright I currently have an Android OS on my HD2 and I want to go back to the energy ROM. I cant get my phone connected to ActiveSync in order to install the energy ROM. Can anyone help me with this? ActiveSync never finds my phone.