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[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] jbreyes:
Theme / Taskbar color like Transparency

Hello and Congratulation.

its my first time to use a custom ROM in my HTC Touch Pro using your 21889 and it did look great on my unit.,

Is it possible for the taskbar (lower part of the screen where the start menu is) to be semi transparent so it will kinda blends within the whole screen. just like with the screen lock everything blends together with the background., because the color of the taskbar sometimes kinda distract with the overall display.

:)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Captain_Throwback:
I think the taskbar only shows up as transparent in the Start Menu (and Home, if you use Titanium/CHome). I think that's by design. There may be a theme or something that makes it transparent (and if someone knows of one, please, post it here), but as far as I know, there isn't any way to change that. Sorry :rolleyes:.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] jbreyes:
Sorry for disturbing just my first time to install custom ROM 21889 using your ROM. right now i did update to 23518 Touch Pro.

Whats Titanium/CHome is it a theme or different kind of ROM. because its much better to have every screen blends with the background just like in Lock Screen. i was not refering to the slider. its the taskbar where the start menu located i'd like to customize it so it also blends in the background for perfect look.

About battery issue i've read in your thread someting like rphon where can i find the link to consume the battery life. but not to suffer if im gonna use WLAN sometimes or 3G for internet use. but still manage to conserve energy.

Thanks your ROM looks nice in my Touch Pro. hope you can suggest Videorecording tweak for greater quality playback. :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] hlm818:
I'm not sure why you would need a cab to use wifi. I use wifi only everywhere it is available and I have never installed a cab to be able to use wifi. You just need to turn it on in the comm manager. Some networks require a password, but the usually the open ones in places like starbucks, borders, barnes and noble, etc. do not. What exactly is this cab supposed to do?

Sorry if I'm not understanding what this is for.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] nkrick:
Supposedly when you pay for unlimited data for an AT&T cell phone, it also gives you free access to the AT&T wifi hotspots. These are not open hotspots that just anyone can use for free, rather they are hotspots that you need to pay for unless you have an AT&T data plan on your cell phone that you are connecting from. I am not even 100% certain that they are free with AT&T data plan, that is just my impression from what I have read.

I have never tried to use an AT&T wifi hotspot. I am curious if anyone else has and what experience they have had, especially with a cooked ROM.

Edit: Here is the link on AT&T's site with information about using the wifi hotspots for free if you have an iPhone or Smartphone: http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/internet/wifi.jsp
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] hlm818:
It's funny because all of the places they have listed for their hotspots usually already have their own wifi. I haven't been in one starbucks (or other coffee shop), university, bookstore, airport or hotel that doesn't have wifi. Most restaurants and bars in my area have wifi as well. I'm not sure why you would need at&t wifi. Seems like a gimmick to me to get people to get a data plan if they aren't already forced to.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] nkrick:
There are no Starbucks where I live, but plenty of McDonald's. Out here, McDonald's makes you pay to use the wifi. So, if you can use the AT&T wifi at McDonald's for free, it is a lot better than paying for it...
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] yozart:
first, thank you very much for your answer Captain Throwback.

And, I'm sorry but i have an other problem. Maybe one due to an app i have install???

I'm loosing my battery faster than I can say it.... I fully charged it 10 minutes ago and it is now charge at 92%.....

I experienced the same thing during all the day. This morning 8AM, my battery was fully charged, this afternoon 6PM, my battery was fully... discharged...

How can i find the cause of the loss?

(It's not a gprs connection and the quality signal is full. No program in the task manager, mem. usage: 52%)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Captain_Throwback:
As promised, I have attached a CAB file to this post that will remove the background on all tabs. This has also been added to the "Tweaks" section on the first page of the thread.

I was able to install Skyfire on my 23518 Sense 2.5 Fuze ROM, and it works fine. I can't imagine it would be any different on the TP ROM, especially since you say that all of the other Data-using applications are working.

Re: Titanium/CHome: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=5363677#post5363677

The Touch Pro ROM uses the rilphone.dll file from the 5.12 ROM (1.14.25.05 Radio), so in order to optimize battery life, it's usually suggested that you either flash that radio to your device, or install the appropriate rilphone.dll CAB file from the rilphone CABs thread that matches your radio.

One other notable way to conserve battery is mentioned below.

I'm not sure what you mean about video playback. Do you mean in browser? That's only going to be so good. The YouTube playback is fine for me, as is streaming video playback.

Well, it doesn't sound like you have any applications running that are consuming a lot of RAM. Which Sense version are you using? If Sense 2.5, do you have a lot of things set to update automatically (i.e. weather, mail, activesync, twitter, facebook, etc)? Having those things set to automatically update will drain the life out of your battery quickly. Also, check your backlight/power settings. Checking the boxes to turn off the display/device after a certain amount of time in the Advanced tab of Power should help, and choosing a shorter timeout will also conserve energy. Unchecking "Auto adjust backlight" and manually choosing a lower light level will also help.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] yozart:
I'have nothing set to auto-update and my backlight is auto-adjust. It seems as if the screen was On everytime. I'm using sense 2.5.

In fact, I don't think it comes form the rom because I would have noticed this problem since I'm using this rom (3 days ago). It's really a new problem I'm facing.

I will try to flash the official rom, then reflash your rom and we will see... (Maybe my Skyfire will work again :D)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] rmanaka:
Well, installed the cab referenced in my message and took a trip to my local Barnes and Noble as well as Starbucks. So long as I had the WiFi radio turned on (I usually don't) the phone automatically connected to the AT&T WiFi network without any intervention on my part...first clue was not finding "device.home" when opening Opera as there was no AT&T wireless proxy.

That's true. Above is not a definitive test (and I do have an unlimited data plan on AT&T) but I didn't have to ask for any access codes (though most B&N's and Starbucks have opened their wifi I think). WiFi usually faster than 3G and definitely faster than EDGE connections. The true test will be when I am in a location that does NOT have free WiFi (and I usually don't like connecting to a "free" site) and has an encrypted connection...someplace like the airport.

I think the cab just performs the AT&T network account authentication, especially in places where the connection is not free. Yes, I know how to "connect" with the comm manager (though you might try WiFiMonster if that's the way you normally connect to hotspots).

I have a Boingo account for my notebook that accesses AT&T (again I usually will "bluetooth tether" to my phone if possible to use HSPDA and I am not in a club or other private network area), but I haven't activated a Boingo for mobile account as I am trying to eliminate even the notebook Boingo account as it is an addition $10/month (used to be $25). I used to have an unlimited Verizon 3G cardbus account for my notebook but I got really tired of the $70/month cost when my Raphael/Fuze will do the same thing (tethered or wifi router) for free (or at least for my $30 unlimited data account).

The only issue I've seen so far is that when I load the AT&T WiFi client it opens to a blank page after connecting.

Here's a third-party article on AT&T WiFi for WM6.5...http://www.intomobile.com/2009/09/0...pot-access-to-windows-mobile-smartphones.html

Anybody else have experience with the WiFi cab?
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] trzzh:
Thank you for your reply, I'll try.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] trzzh:
OK，thank you very much. :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] yozart:
Is anybody can tell me the duration of its battery ? 1day? 2 ? more?

Thank you
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] jbreyes:
i was refering to Video Recording on how to make it like 60fps recording quality.

and also how do i edit the registry to minimize the time to capture images. because takes too long to take a shot.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Dalek_Caan:
Battery life is very subjective to each persons usage, and even location plays a part.Personally I have been getting great battery duration on these ROMS only on very heavy usage days am I near needing a charge before the end of my day, and typical days i plug it in at night with between 20 and 30 percent left.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Dalek_Caan:
I am not sure you can boost the camera to record at that FPS, correct me if i am wrong but i think it defaults around 20 or 30 FPS but you can get a bit better quality recording in good lighting.

I do not know of a regedit, but Advanced Config can remove the camera delays.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] weisborg:
Using the No Sense build I get at least 2 days.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Captain_Throwback:
In case anyone's interested, there are "prettier" versions of my Sense 2.5 TP ROMs over @ WMPoweruser.com. I'm sure there are some people who like the "pretty", which is the only reason I mention it here. That's really the only difference between those ROMs and the ones here (well, they're a little bit larger too, because of the enhanced graphics, but I don't think it should affect speed too much). I'm actually using a Fuze customized version of it on my device right now ;). I'll post some screenshots for you :). NOTE: The screenshots include all of the apps I install post-flash, which is why it doesn't look like any of my ROMs immediately after flashing (I install Titanium Weather w/Sleuth's myLocation service & GPS Weather Radar, along with AT Fave People, & showaco's Opera panel, TFDetacher, etc.)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] yozart:
ok, I noticed a very very very strange thing: When i use the shut down option of psShutXP (which is not a real shut down but just turn off the screen) my battery doesn't fall and only loss 1% in 2hour.

But when i used the "real" button, it use my battery very faster...

Is anybody has an answer?
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] p50kombi:
Ameba and power drain?

I have been battling with power drain issues for ages..

Now someone posted in the AMeBa thread that it used cpu..and indeed, after uninstalling AmEbA (or however you spell it) my touch pro is on 2% battery left for the last 4 hours..no drop..

I must admit, I am not using my device, it is just sitting there in sleep mode...but after the drain I experienced before this, this is absolutely amazing...

Is it just me or are more users experiencing battery drain..

I was using 0.7..

Cap..do you know if Ameba uses cpu and therefore power when the phone is in sleep mode?
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Captain_Throwback:
I don't know actually. I do see that question in xtep's thread, so perhaps we will get an answer soon. It does seem that the system idle process is very high even when nothing is running, so perhaps the AMeBa or another service is in fact the culprit.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] p50kombi:
Yeah, that's what I discovered as well with ms task mngr..

The services are very quiet now for me, almost no activity.....

Any idea then if there are other applications that make the x key actually close programs?

Shame there aren't any registry keys to influence the behaviour of the start menu button and the X button...
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Captain_Throwback:
The only one I know of is Showcase Suite, and that one causes freezes. I have an idea, though . . . the AMeBa issue may be because it has to position fix Manila at all times. If I use programatix's modded manila.exe with the position fix built in, it's possible that AMeBa will not be running all the time. Let me try it and see how my System Idle process/battery life is affected.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] babydown:
Does this ROm support video call ? (Sorry for my bad english)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Captain_Throwback:
Yes, it does.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] p50kombi:
Interesting theory..here's mine.. :D

Interesting to see what happends :)

But my theory is that it keeps looking for soft keypresses all the time...and therefore using cpu power..

I am not using the position fix, cause I am using latest MaxManila latest version fullscreen, which means I don't really use position fix...

I disabled it in the Ameba but my services are still up there using CPU..

After uninstall all is quiet :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] noellenchris:
i use xtask, it can also fix position, but the fixed manila.exe seems to work great. I havent switched to the fixed manila on your rom yet, I didnt want to break anything...lol.

so if it works for you, i'll switch too.

Try xTask....very nice
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Captain_Throwback:
Yeah, not using position fix doesn't seem to be making any difference (I forgot the Sense ROMs I posted here aren't using the version that includes it anyway :p). My battery is still draining like mad. Maybe I'll try uninstalling and see how much that helps. I guess I can just let WinMo do its job and close apps when Program Memory gets too low . . . :rolleyes:

Good to know :)

Speaking of which, I am using the fixed manila.exe for 2.5 now, and it does in fact appear to be working just fine. CAB attached here (Sense must be disabled to install, of course).

NOTE: If you install this CAB, you should uninstall Interceptor.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] finsmaniac02:
I personally use an older version of Showcase (ver. 1.0.1b, NOT "suite") that was made for wm 6.5 with the "x" on the top right. There are options with it that are "close button on right" and "hide homescreen icon". Doing this gives you a way to close a program as if you are pressing the upper-right x icon (that is no longer there). It feels very natural to us old school WM users (and even has a graphical "x" popup where you are clicking, WHEN you click it)... but eventually if a noob picks up winmo they will have never known the x to be in the top right lol, and there is no visual cue for it. Also with this is a task manager that opens when you hit the top right at Manila's home screen. The task manager doesnt always open and sometimes takes a long time to open so I don't use it for that (currently I am trying arkswitch, but even that is taking a while to open, might go back to just a long press on phone to open the WM task manager which isn't that bad).

Just my 2cents :-)

edit: new version of arkswitch loads pretty quick :-)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] rmanaka:
I just revisited the Barnes & Noble hotspot, and it looks like they charge $3.99 per 2 hour session for AT&T WiFi! Looks like the cab did what it was supposed to do!!!

I'm currently running the stock AT&T Rom in preparation for flashing the "pretty" version of the Captain's ROM...when I load AT&T WiFi it connects to Internet Explorer and sometimes give a blank screen, sometimes gives a page cannot be loaded, but most times brings up a dialog to choose a venue (All Venues, Starbucks, Barnes & Noble, McDonald's, Airports, Hotels, Convention Centers), type of service hotspot (Basic, Premier) and a zipcode. It then will perform a search and return with the name and address of the selected hotspots.

Ending my input as this subject is a bit out of thread, but the app seems to work on the Captain's ROM!
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Captain_Throwback:
AMeBa :(

It seems that it is in fact AMeBa that is the culprit of the excessive battery drain. I uninstalled it, and now my battery isn't draining nearly as fast as it was before. So, for everyone having battery issues, you may want to try that. Be careful, though, because when you go to the tabs in Sense (or use the Comm Manager), the associated programs will stay open (i.e. AlbumSearcher, AudioManager) and will need to be closed manually to prevent them from draining the battery.

EDIT: Now it looks like it may just be Sense that's draining all my battery. I don't think AMeBa was helping though, that's for certain.

EDIT2: You know, it could also be Flip_IT causing the battery drain . . .
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] hlm818:
Battery

I notice several people posting battery issues now. If you look back a little bit, I posted major issues with battery drain and I was on 21889 NO manila or manila stuff. My battery drain was so bad I had to change ROMs, even though Captains was exactly what I wanted. I have been on NRGZ's latest 21889 titanium only energy rom since Jan 28 and have only plugged my phone in twice because it was below 50%. All the same usage as when on Captain's rom. When I was on Captains, my phone died 4 times in 5 days with me plugging it in EVERY night before bed. Just my 2 cents, but there is definitely something different about this rom that is causing major battery drain.

Please do not think I am complaining, I greatly appreciate everything Captain has done and how much he helps and responds to everyone's post. It is just my findings from my usage.

Captain just posted above me:

I had flipit uninstalled and had regular ms task manager you cooked in
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Captain_Throwback:
Did you try uninstalling Flip_IT?
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] hlm818:
I must have been editing my post when you wrote this. Yes flipit is the first thing I uninstall
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] finsmaniac02:
Although I am no longer on the capt's rom (havent changed sig yet) I can say that I do NOT think that sense2.5 is the culprit. I am using NRG's latest 23518 w/sense 2.5 and have GOOD battery life. I can go about 2 days of lightish-normal use on this. When I was using capt's I don't think I could get more than a day.

NRGs rom does not have flip_it or amaeba though.. so I cannot comment on those. He uses quickmenu, but I always uninstall that and am now doing the showcase 1.0.1b / arkswitch combo that I mentioned above.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Captain_Throwback:
Hmmmm . . . the 21889 ROM doesn't include AMeBa, so that couldn't be the reason for the battery drain there. It has to be a specific app causing the excessive drain. I just have to figure out what it is. I think I'm going to have to clean out my OEMDrivers and really re-package everything so that I can include/exclude apps better. I'm glad HTC has started packaging the ROMs better, but the Raphael drivers are a mess :eek:
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] superpc:
Disable Flip_IT for battery issue. My battery works normally without it. Went down in half day with Flip_It on.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] spideyngo:
To Drain or not to Drain...I say drain

My stock battery died in 4-5 hours in the 23518 Sense 2.5 or Sense 2.1 (Yes, I install the correct radio cab). I bought a Siedio extended life battery from Amazon. With the new battery drain at about 7-10% an hour now (23518 with Sense 2.5), so around 7-8 hours of life. I just have a charger upstairs, downstairs, in the car.

Usage Conditions: I run on Edge rather than 3G to save battery. "Push email" off. I set email Outlook exchange updates to every 4 hours. I set weather/stock to once a day (weather animation off). HTC Manila lock is off. I use the WM6.5 lock. Twitter & Facebook disabled. Bluetooth disabled except when power plugged in when in my car and driving.

I always load stock ROM before loading new ROM. All that to say, this ROM is a battery drainer but I don't care. I'm still using it because I love everything about (other than flip-it "on" by default).

I just tried uninstalling flip-it and Ameba and will report back any battery draining changes.

I'm betting it's a driver issue Capt. Have you dug through Arupenthal's RRE ROM OEM drivers? His ROM driver combo had great battery life and is quite similar to yours...although yours is better currently ;-)

Spidey
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] yozart:
is it possible to change the action of the shut down button? If yes, I want to launch psShutXP while pressing the button. Or better: do the same action as psShutDown -> Shut Down
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] weisborg:
Only time I have battery drain is poor service area where it keeps trying to connect, Google Maps and Latitude and telling it to update your POS on exit and it keeps opening Google Maps, and lots of video/animation...hence why I got the No Manilla (Watching You Tube Videos for 30min-1hr will also make your battery go from 100% to 17%...did that one yesterday when really bored)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] noellenchris:
For some reason my GSensor SDK4 isn't working anymore....I'm trying to reinstall the SDK4 dll files and trying again. Captain, does yours work after uninstalling flip-it and the newer manila.exe files? Maybe I turned something off that disables rotation for the GSensor?

EDIT: Reinstall didn't work...:(

Calibration works..

ahhh....now it works, but extremely slow...like almost a minute? Where is the registry settings? I'll search, but if anyone knows pls let me know...thanks in advance..
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] rmanaka:
I'm no help here, but just wanted to let you know I experienced the same behavior without uninstalling flip-it. All of a sudden, my rotation stopped working.

Presently running the stock ROM to establish a battery discharge baseline profile. Once my battery life stabilizes I plan to re-flash a Captain ROM variant and see how things change.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] noellenchris:
It rotates, but takes about 25seconds? I found the settings, but not sure what to change....:rolleyes: I will experiment in a bit.

The only other things I've changed was the progamatix manila.exe and removed the position fix. Weird... It takes 25seconds to rotate to landscape, but only 5-6 seconds to rotate back to portrait... any ideas?
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] jov11n:
Battery Drain

I was having the same issues when i flashed this.

I changed the radio version to AUS 1.08.25.20M1 (you can search for that on the Raphael Wiki) and now would last me up to 48hrs standby.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] sportfisio:
Hi Captain! I've been searching for a loooong time to get the Album with Footprint integration on my 2.5 sense ROM (NRG, more exactely). I've seen you had it on this great ROM! Before hard-reseting and reinstalling all over again, could anybody upload a cab only for the last Album app? I'm looking for making Footprints work...

Thankyou very much!

Quote:

Originally Posted by InvAzN

good for you! How did you manage to make it work? cause on a GPS Picture with HTC album you are supposed to get a 4th options that says sent to Footprint or something like that but on a VGA screen you only have 3 options (go back, sent by mail, publish on facebook). I saw 4 options on a Touch 2 WVGA screen.

That option exists in the Album included in the ROM. You have to press to the far bottom right of the screen to get the Menu that lists it (because it's hardcoded to WVGA, you can't see the button, but it's there). I'll try and take a screenshot of it, when I get a chance.

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[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] trzzh:
6 Quick links to be able to do more than add a few? thank you.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] stackover:
How can I disable 3G support in this ROM? Because when I go into Com Manager and click to turn off 3G nothing happens.

Thank you.