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[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] gargon01:
Hi Matt,

Just to let you know that I learned Resource Tuner and solved the pink square problem myself. I took bmp_103 from the default dialer and replaced it in your dialers .dll. All is working great! I also added the glossy buttons posted earlier in this thread by WilliamNoel and did a bit of photshopping for the euro dialer... I'm really happy to have this working on my rom! However I haven't managed to remove the black bar underneath the battery icon. I haven't looked into it with much detail but if you have any idea which bmp image you think it might be, let me know and I'll do it.

So, any guys having the pink square problem with the

EURO DIALER

, make sure that Matt's Devotion Dialer is installed and you are seeing the pink square, then unzip this file and put it in your Windows folder (try Resco or Total Commander) and let it overwrite the file in there then soft-reset. **Please Note: This is the pink box fix for Euro dialers (not US). There is still a black bar near the top of the screen like in .hide's picture.** Also, the buttons are glossy rather than the stock devotion dialers buttons. If anyone wants the original style buttons, let me know.

PS Please follow instructions carefully, I won't be held responsible for anyone buggering up their device. If I can find the file to correct the black bar problem, I'll post the updated dll file.

Let me know how it works.

Thanks
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] matt_jackson:
Hey m8, I´m happy 2 hear u found the prob ;)

Congratuliation! .....but

have u unsigned and signed before and after u edit the *.dll?

If u not follow this u cant use ur *.dll in an *.cab - u must move it with explorer ;)

I´m very busy with all my packing case....
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] gargon01:
Hi,

I'm happy to help! No that's all too confusing for me. I just edited the dll and dropped it into my Windows folder. I don't make cabs and all that, I just wanted to fix my problem. As I said, the black bar error is still showing so I wouldn't think we should make a cab until that has been fixed. Once we've worked out what bmp file it is then maybe we can sort out a cab then. Do you have any idea which bmp it might be for that part of the screen?

If people put my edited dll file in their Windows folder will it cause them problems if it's not signed, or is signing just for making a cab?

Thanks
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] follettoverde:
Any chance to have only manila slider and tab icons (cab or manila files)? I love your slider!

my manila version is 2.5.20121412.1
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] matt_jackson:
Huh?!? I don´t understand ur question. @ #1 the cab inclusive only slider & Tabicons.... but I dont test it @ ver 2012!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] follettoverde:
ok, it was my fault, i didn't read first post enough.

i'll test your cab on my manila version and report.

edit: it works with my ROM (manila 2.5.20121412.1), now i'm looking for an iconset that matches with your slider.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] matt_jackson:
Thx 4 report ! I hope u have long time fun with ur new Tabiconset ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ArtieQ:
So do this work on Topaz ROM? I have the latest official ROM with Sense 2.5 and all that.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] davidoffoktay:
i tryed that fantastic contraAST HAVE A NİCE JOBB:p
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] GNOve:
How can i just get the softkeybar at the bottom?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] winsy:
Hi i install the theme but doesnt change the wallpaper like urs.

Can i have ur wallpaper? tks!

edit: nvm i found it. Tks
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] matt_jackson:
I think no but I cant test it...

look @ this thread #2

Yes ;) I do it in the Documents/Wallpaper folder ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] rakeshtiw:
Hi,

Really great work... I have two queries:

1. Any plans of releasing your mod for Manila 2012 as well?

2. Could you release Dialer for Rhodium/Topaz as well (the one with both video call and conferencing)?

I understand you have put this in the HD2 forum... but your work is really great and i was wanting to find out if you could make the other dialer as well.

Thanks... cheers...

[Edit] Oh and could you release a seperate cab for your slider as well... including the new eReader and Document tab icons??? :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] matt_jackson:
Prob is I dont have no files from this device

Same prob, no rom with this manilas :(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ProjektFuze:
alright.. so i'm trying to install the soft bar onto my phone...

i believe i got it figured out.. but theres one thing... i can't delete or replace the original png file.. so basically there is the original soft key bar and now the new soft key bar...

so my soft key bar isn't even the one i picked... it looks grey now.. and i'm just getting confused...

i have no idea how to do screen shots either.. can someone help me out?
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
Is it my imagination, or does the default Opera installation compress pictures even when turbo mode is switched off in the opera:config settings? If so, is there any way to stop it doing it?
[HD2 General] Archer:
It's not your imagination mate. This has bugged me for a long time. I can open a fullscreen image on my PC and it looks great, but on my device (whatever it is - not just HD2), a fullscreen image in Opera looks blocky and low res (well, not low - just too low for my liking).

I don't think an answer has been found for this yet. I'd love to know how to "fix" this.
[HD2 General] DMAND:
The O2 proxy compresses images to reduce bandwidth
[HD2 General] Archer:
They aren't compressed in IE - just Opera. Besides, it still does it when I use Wifi.
[HD2 General] jakem:
I'm not on O2 and this happens to me. It's not a problem if I access the internet on my laptop using my phone as a modem either.
[HD2 General] rovex:
Its not that because images look the same on all networks and even Wifi.
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
Looking at this thread in Opera 9.7, Opera 10 beta, and IE they actually all look the same! My Bagpuss avatar looks really blocky. Maybe that's something to do with my network settings? I have a t-mobile branded phone, stock ROM.

Next time I'm near a WiFi hotspot I'll see if it makes any difference.

I was wondering, could this be at least partly to do with the scaling algorithm used for zooming?
[HD2 General] Archer:
I could believe that scaling would make the image look a bit crappy (very technical term there ;)), but with Opera it does look exactly like an image that's been reduced in size and then had its size increased again. Even a bad shrink of an image would look better than Opera does at 1/2 the image's full size.

I do hope this thread comes to some conclusion about this, unlike previous threads that have just disappeared. Fingers crossed!
[HD2 General] DMAND:
Sorry I always thought it was just O2 alone :o

I agree that its to do with the crappy zooming in opera, as in IE zooming to 100% give a nice picture
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
In the interests of making sure we're all on the same wavelength, would someone like to post a link to an image which particularly exhibits the problem? If you are saying that (when browsing on an HD2) Pocket Internet Explorer makes the image look okay, but Opera 9.7 doesn't, then, again, could you link to an image which makes that difference especially clear?

For example, looking at this thread on my HD2, my avatar picture looks very blocky, but it looks equally blocky using PIE - it's only using a desktop PC browser that makes it look good. That could just be an oddity of this particular forum, I guess, or it could be that there's a problem with my network settings rather than with Opera.
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
Am I allowed to use links to images on photobucket.com? Given that the sole reason that site exists is to allow people to deep-link to it, hopefully that'll be okay.

My avatar as viewed in desktop Internet Explorer (on PC):

[IMG]http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/nicolasb/avatar_samples/desktop_IE.png

Desktop IE, 16-bit colour:

As viewed in desktop IE at 200% zoom:

Desktop IE, 16-bit colour, 200% zoom:

As viewed in Opera on my HD2:

As viewed in Internet Explorer on my HD2:

Direct links in case the deep-linking gets me into trouble....

Desktop IE: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/nicolasb/avatar_samples/desktop_IE.png

Desktop IE, 16-bit colour: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/nicolasb/avatar_samples/16-bit-desktop-ie.png

Desktop IE zoomed: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/nicolasb/avatar_samples/desktop_ie_200_percent_zoom.png

Desktop IE, 200% zoom, 16-bit colour: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/nicolasb/avatar_samples/desktop_ie_16_bit_zoom.png

Pocket IE: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/nicolasb/avatar_samples/Pocket_IE.png

Opera 9.7 Mobile: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/nicolasb/avatar_samples/Opera.png

This is actually slightly worse than it appears on screen as I've used BSBTweaks to do the screenshots, and it takes screenshots in JPEG format. If someone can tell me an easy way to take HD2 screenshots in .bmp or .png format, I can redo them.
[HD2 General] MasterTP:
HD2 is rendering in 16bit, your PC is rendering at 32bit. Simple as that. Open the same webpage on the iPhone and you'll see (it renders in 32bit..).
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
Definitely not "as simple as that". I've edited my post above to include images captured from desktop IE with my PC running in 16-bit colour. You can see they're almost indistinguishable from the 32-bit versions. Certainly no signs of macro-blocking.
[HD2 General] Syphon Filter:
I thought it was a long established fact that operators throttle JPEG images to help save bandwidth.

I am pretty sure T-Mobile do. Try saving an image from either IE or Opera on your mobile device and then view it on your PC.

Now visit the same page (with the same pic) and save it directly from your PC and compare the two.

The one off your mobile device will look gash in comparison to the one form your PC as the Bagpuss pics have already shown.

EDIT:

Those who say they are having the same issue over WiFi, are you sure the images are not just cached?
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
Here's a test image which I made. To make this, I opened up the PNG version of my avatar picture (as captured from IE) then saved it as a JPEG file using a quality factor of 20%, then zoomed it 200% using the crudest form of scaling available (i.e. scaling without filtering). This looks not unlike what I'm seeing in Opera and PIE; the question is whether it's the browser that's doing it by itself, or the website.

The block-effect is caused by resampling as a JPEG with very low quality factor. You can see this isn't at all the same kind of artefact as you get simply by reducing the colour depth. It looks to me as though something is resampling the JPEG images when viewed on the HD2. This is what Opera Mobile is supposed to do in Turbo mode, but not when turbo is switched off.

Direct link: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/nicolasb/avatar_samples/desktop_IE_compressed_and_zoomed.jpg

EDIT: And yes, as Syphon Filter says, it could be T-Mobile doing this in my case. I don't have access to wifi at the moment so I can't see if that makes any difference.

Could we get some feedback from people using different carriers as to whether you're seeing the same thing?
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
Oh, that's interesting: browsing this thread on my HD2 again, and the re-sampling only happens on JPEG images, not PNG's.

EDIT: after clearing out my Opera cache and then connecting via ActiveSync rather than the phone's data connection, I'm now not seeing any compression artefacts on my avatar picture. So this is starting to look like it is T-mobile's fault (although I suppose it could still be Opera sensing whether it is downloading data over 3G or over ActiveSync and changing its behaviour accordingly - it's odd that it seems to make no difference whether I have turbo mode switched on or off in the preferences; but then again, as far as I know there isn't any turbo mode in IE, and I see compression there too).
[HD2 General] Archer:
Yes mate - I've had this same issue with 3 winmo devices now (Touch Diamond, Touch HD & now the HD2).
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
Should have tried this before: directly saving the JPEG image from Opera rather than trying to use screenshots.

Here's the version that's displayed when browsing over ActiveSync:

And here's the one fetched over the data connection:

Direct links....

ActiveSync: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/nicolasb/bagpuss80.jpg

Data connection: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/nicolasb/bagpuss80_2.jpg

No question that there's some JPEG resampling going on.

Opera's risibly poor upscaling algorithm is making things even worse, though!
[HD2 General] Syphon Filter:
I am convinced this is an operator data connection issue, it may or may not be being compouned by the poor JPEG rendering/scalings issue of Opera.
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
I suspect you're right - the fact that the same thing happens in Opera and in IE is suggestive. I can't think how to test for this, though. The images don't get resampled in Skyfire, but that could easily be because T-Mobile doesn't recognise the traffic between Skyfire and the Skyfire server as a JPEG image.

If it is the carrier's fault, is there any way one could conceal from the carrier that one is fetching a JPEG? :)
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
Doing some quick testing using wifi now, and the results are the same as with ActiveSync: when I first went into this thread I was seeing compressed images, but after exiting Opera, relaunching, clearing out the cache, and returning to this thread, I am now seeing the uncompressed versions.
[HD2 General] xda9467:
did anyone find a solution to this on o2?

i too have found this only an opera problem. ie and skyfire are fine.

strange thing is this only started after updating to a non official rom.

i guess there are some settings in opera to configure but where?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] jaybirdy2k:
I am trying to uninstall programs that TMobile added to there new update. I tried TMS Uninstaller but it only recognized the cabs i loaded just like my remove programs.

Does Anyone have a different uninstaller?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] sirphunkee:
Unfortunately, programs that are built into a stock rom like that have to be removed manually (without an uninstaller). There's two basic steps to this:

1) Delete all files related to the program from /program files, /application data, and /windows/start menu

2) Delete all keys (references) to the program from the registry, you'll need to search to be sure you find them all.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] rorytmeadows:
I'm not much help, but you may want to change the name of your thread to something like "Uninstall preloaded programs" or something like that to get more attention.
[G1 General] jubeh:
Look at this here, guys. It's a device by HTC called Elixir sporting what seems to be Android OS 3.0:

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Actually, if you know better, you know it's not true. All you need to do is edit the build.prop in /system and your phone name/version will show whatever you want.

This is just so you can be informed that version names/numbers/revisions, etc, can all be spoofed very easily.

Spread the word. Take anything related to "new android release" with a grain, a big grain, of salt.
[G1 General] JAguirre1231:
http://twitpic.com/zemrr

I've come back to the future to show you this
[G1 General] Ace42:
Why would 3.0 start with a E if eclair already has one.
[G1 General] jubeh:
Itches... must... explain.....

Although it's fake, you're looking for logic behind it. Anyway, let's pretend it were a real release, the version name is never shown (in stock builds anyway), instead, you see the version number (3.0 for froyo) and device model (Elixir). So Elixir would refer to the name of the fictional device (1.0 is to 3.0 as Dream is to Elixir?) by HTC.
[G1 General] JAguirre1231:
I see they are still using the 26I radio in .9 versions from now..... and in 14.96 versions from now. Hey, wait...
[G1 General] sitimber:
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/01/23/htc-supersonic-get-its-screen-shot/
[G1 General] jubeh:
that's why i posted this, I saw that and am simply appalled by what people will believe
[G1 General] OG:
What exactly do we edit because this is what I see;

# begin build properties
ro.build.version.sdk=7
ro.build.version.release=2.1
ro.build.version.codename=REL
ro.build.type=user
ro.build.user=shade
ro.build.host=toxygene
ro.build.tags=ota-rel-keys,test-keys

#
# ADDITIONAL_BUILD_PROPERTIES
#
ro.config.notification_sound=OnTheHunt.ogg
ro.config.alarm_alert=Alarm_Classic.ogg
keyguard.no_require_sim=true
ro.com.android.dateformat=MM-dd-yyyy
ro.com.android.dataroaming=true
ro.ril.hsxpa=1
ro.ril.gprsclass=10
ro.com.google.locationfeatures=1
ro.com.android.wifi-watchlist=GoogleGuest
ro.com.android.dataroaming=true
ro.com.google.clientidbase=android-tmobile
ro.url.legal=http://www.google.com/intl/%s/mobile/android/android-dev-phone-legal.html
ro.url.legal.android_privacy=http://www.google.com/intl/%s/mobile/android/android-dev-phone-privacy.html
ro.config.sync=yes
net.bt.name=Android
[G1 General] JAguirre1231:
Try looking in the build.trout.prop, change what it says next to ro.device.model (or something similar)
[G1 General] OG:
All you need is love!
[G1 General] JAguirre1231:
Unfortunately no, you also need air, food and water.
[G1 General] djluis48:
+1 to that :D
[G1 General] skarboy:
what a waste of space and time...

i think we all know the potential of photoshop which is way easier to fake things like this...

im just curious that a senior member started this senseless thread....
[G1 General] kusotare:
did you even read the thread? the purpose of creating the thread was to show people how easy it is to fake things and to illustrate the importance of doing some fact-checking before you post threads about new builds or rumors.

and actually, it takes longer in photoshop to edit these things than it does to edit the prop, flash and take a ddms screenshot. unless you dont mind the photoshop job looking like an obvious fake that was done by a rank amateur.
[G1 General] JAguirre1231:
No need to reflash. Much easier than that. Edit the build.prop, put it back, reboot, and ddms that sh*t
[G1 General] OG:
What a waste of space and time...

i think we all know that Junior Members do not compare to our infinite knowledge of the Android Operating System and we should not bother our selves to ponder about the posts of these foos! Word dog!
[G1 General] JAguirre1231:
Some do, one that pops in my head at the moment is N_commander, you know the one who got camera working in eclair
[G1 General] OG:
Shiz he's still a junior. That guys a mother loving genius!
[G1 General] JAguirre1231:
Well when he got the drivers he was, not sure about now
[G1 General] pjcforpres:
Wait?! 3.0! Where do I dl this at? Does it work on my Nexus One?
[G1 General] JAguirre1231:
it only works with the htc phone coming out soon, the HTC MegaSuperVaporwareFakePhone. Sorry
[G1 General] pjcforpres:
That sounds a little suspicious... No way a phone with "Mega" in it's codename is real. The rest sounds legit, though.
[G1 General] JAguirre1231:
Really? I find the phone part suspicious. Any phone that needs phone in it's name to reassure people it is a phone, probably isn't a very good phone, if you know what I'm saying ;)
[G1 General] Binary100100:
iPhone anybody?

:p
[G1 General] jubeh:
And for anybody sharp enough too have noticed, yeah, I still use android 1.0 from time to time. I've yet to see the big improvement (aside from asthetics) from 1.0 to 2.1 as far as the Dream is concerned.
[G1 General] :
It's an OTA, you should be getting it sometime 3 monthes ago. If you didn't then your phone is bricked, your house is big, and your SDCard will die in 7 days.
[G1 General] pjcforpres:
ROFL! That is hilarious! Why didn't I think of that?
[G1 General] JAguirre1231:
We can't all be as witty as me:rolleyes:
[G1 General] :
You're right. Some of us are too smart. Lol... jk... maybe!
[HD2 General] beyondthought:
For some reason my streaming media player wont start buffering video on iplayer, on Wifi network(working fine before and still works via data connection) it will buffer and play radio too. does any know why this might be?? i have recently added the BSBtweaks wifi n mode, but it worked a couple of times after that..

any help would be much appreciated :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] felikz:
i would be interested in changing the application which is startet when i long press on home (normally its the task changer of sense ui, but i want another program to be started)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] awsy44:
this is excellent!, I just updated the ramzswap.sh to your settings and I can tell you it does an excellent job so far of running for like 20minutes, my ram is around 76 MB with facebook with all the htc widgets running, it usually drops to around 50 MB, does compcache save alot of ram when you disable it?

Thanks so much for the amazing info!, its hard someone to explain everything for you like you did.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] inkredi:
woah!! i cannot stand my phone when RAM is less than 100mb

i keep it around 115~130

anyway whats new in ur method? why not use the Kill-All widgets after setting the ignore list ..or smth like "Automatic Task Killer" ??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Branwen:
Its more sensitive, and doesn't require any more input from the user, whilst having a constant effect
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] androcheck:
The difference of this method compared to task killers like "Automatic Task Killer" is that there is no separate application involved.

There is no widget or taskkiller process which needs to be run.

Instead you configure the Android kernel itself how to handle processes. While taskkillers need to be run regularly (automatically or by hand) to check memory and kill processes, the way I described this gets done complete automatically by the Android kernel, immediately when available memory goes under the configured limits.

There is also no need for ignore-lists or something like this, as the Android kernel knows which applications it can kill and which not. Furthermore you can configure much more fine-grained when to kill which processes and the kernel is using the internal "last recently used" list and kills the least needed processes first.

External task killer only can kill processes "blindly", they cannot see which processes are "empty" (not hosting an Activity) or which have been in the background for the longest time, and so on..

When people tell you that taskkillers are evil, they mean that taskkillers interfere with Androids process management in a way this was never intended. The way I described you still let Android handling processes itself, but you just tell it to be more restrictive. :)

So this is far less invasive into the Android system and (should :)) have less side-effects..

But I'm still learning. I am a programmer who wants to understand things. And fortunately here we have the source to do so.. :cool:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] adwinp:
These values can be directly edited in your initrc

*APP_ADJ, *APP_MIN_ADJ, *ADJ, *PROVIDER_MEM, *SERVER_MEM and *APP_MEM
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] androcheck:
Thanks for the info! :)

Hmm.. but how can I change the init.rc? As it is placed directly in the root directory remounting and changing the file seems not to work (like on the the /system partiton).

I can remount and change the file, but the changes are gone after a reboot. The root dir is mounted as "rootfs".. No idea how to change files in there (without building a new ROM).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] adwinp:
Well, you can extract the initrc from the boot.img (first you need to extract the ramdisk)

Edit, and repack.