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[Vibrant General] 12paq:
As a photographer I put several of my Hi Res works on my Phone. I did not even downsize them and just moved them to the phone so they would not be downsized automatically. I found the Gallery displays them perfectly, all be it with a slight over saturation. But the depth is great, really really good. I have used it as a mini portfolio, its that good.

However if I make any of them a wallpaper the phone dummies the shot way down and I loose sharpness, pixel depth, contrast, even that over saturation I spoke of. Its seems to me the shots are forced down to a "good" wallpaper size to not drain resources maybe? If a large hi res photo is not down sampled in small increments a little at a time it looses a ton of quality. But should not shots made for wallpaper from the market work well too? Maybe the Vibrant dummies all shots down for the wallpaper since all screen sizes are different?

Now if I could only get the Gallery to stop hanging on start up after the Ji6 update...ugh
[Vibrant General] SeanFloyd:
It could be the stock gallery app that is ****ing up the wallpapers. I recommend using an app called "Wallpaper Set & Save" which allows you to set any size wallpaper without ****ing up the quality. Zedge is another great app with tons of dope wallpapers and doesn't destroy the resolutions of your wallpapers.
[Vibrant General] 12paq:
Cool! apps like that I was not even aware of. thanks.

I just tried Photoshop Express app for Android to set a Hi Res pic to wallpaper. Fail. It down graded it substantially, It must use the crappy internal phone method also. Gonna check out the recommended apps thanks.
[HD2 General] RippSpeed:
anyone has been able to connect to the HSDPA network ??? And which rom are you using... My wifey's G2 connects to the HSDPA and I ran it aganst my HD2 and the best my HD2 can muster is 768kbps while my wifey's G2 did 11080kbps...

I'm using Josh's Rom and on a 2.50.14 radio
[HD2 General] Ryan79:
somebody correct me if I'm wrong... but I'm pretty sure the HD2 isn't a true HSPA+ phone. It will certainly get a benefit from connecting to an HSPA+ network... but it will not get a full benefit.
[HD2 General] tantrum829:
G2 is HSDPA+

HD2 is HSDPA

Your not going to get the same speeds especially if your in a T-Mobile 4G area. Your wife will get 4G speeds but you wont.
[HD2 General] bradecrain:
When using Opera Mini I get speeds ranging from 2000 to 8000+ but when using opera 9.5 or 9.7 or even Pocket IE I get 200 to 300+. Not sure why this would be, perhaps someone can shed some light on this or test to verify
[HD2 General] RippSpeed:
I run my test @ mobilespeedtest.com
[HD2 General] Blairware:
Could be this

While you can turn server based "compress & send" browsing on in 9.x and 10.x, by default it does "full rendering on device" So instead of the pages being rendered on Opera's servers, compressed and sent to your phone for decompression and display, you are hetting raw HTML, scripting, graphics & soound files, etc which all get put together right there on the phone. You need a fast connection, and a decent processor for this way to work well.

Opera Mini does not fully render the pages, but rather just delivers them, so the speeds you are reporting are fudged possibly (not sure what you are using for measurement.) It could be that that much data is what you have after decompression at the phone, but not that much data is coming over the connection, I would imagine.

The main difference is what goes on behind the user interface.

Opera Mini always uses Opera’s advanced server compression technology to compress web content before it gets to a device. The rendering engine is on Opera’s server.

Opera Mobile 9.x or 10.x

is a full Internet browser for mobile devices. The full web-rendering engine – Opera Presto – is run on the phone using the phones’ hardware to download and display webpages.
[HD2 General] letrain02:
I get hspda with kumars..also when I use hyperdroid on my hd2
[HD2 General] white6speedz28:
I am running the OZDROID ROM and running Android 2.2 with the iphone skin and am consistently pulling down 2MB/s (2048 KB/s) and up 1 MB/s (1024 KB/s) here in Salt Lake City. Tmobile just launched HSPA+ here about 2 weeks ago... on top of all of this.. I am still using my Tzones - MobileWeb $5.99 plan.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
Special thanks to:

Co0kieMonster - for his amazing CHT 2.0.0 with awesome possibilities of customization!

MichelDiamond - for his support

mike2nl - for his support

ric69 - for testing my first .cab, he was risking hard reset for me :) fortunately, everything went fine :)

Few other people who helped me, made alternative skins etc. (I can't remember everyone, I got over 60 private messages from many people after starting this project within few days)

Everyone who is supporting me
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alareth1976:
great m8!

I love CHT and i really want new widgets...

a couple of requests :

1- A text-field to update FB / Twitter status

2- Internet search (without switch to manila internet tab)

cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
I love CHT too and I want new widgets too, that's why I'm trying to develop some :)

Unfortunately, I'm afraid I can't fulfill any of your requests, because I don't have enough knowledge - I don't know how to create text input box. Maybe sometimes later when I become more experienced ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Symondo:
1 Widget i would love to have - the ability to quickly take notes - so an 'add note' free link and my notes displayed on the home screen like post it notes or even using a similr effort to that of the sms widget
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MrBeOTP2:
+1 Widgets : calendar ( day/month/year ) i wanna can resize it .. just like weather . bigger :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alareth1976:
+1 for bigger calendar :D

Widgets : Toggle switch between 3g/GSM

I will wait with confidence :P
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] J-r0en:
Id like a twitter update field :)

And an google search widget ^^

And a youtube search widget

Yeah those would be nice =D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Neo84:
A countdown timer and stopwatch widget would be nice.

Keep it up!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DieGemaskerdeRubberman:
Widgets

+1 For the twitter update field

+1 For calendar widget

+1 For the Google search widget

Thanks for developing some widgets for us!! Cannot wait for more!:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
I'm planning this widget as I want it too, however, I don't have enough knowledge right now to create it... I guess you'll have to wait few weeks/months.

Calendar: Should be possible and not too difficult, but I'll create only month view.

3g/gsm: I have no idea how to create it, so I have to say NO.

Twitter: I can't make a text input field, I don't have any experience with twitter API, unfortunately I say NO.

Google: Only as soon as I find out how to make a text input field, but I say YES as I want this widget too

Youtube: If I create a Google widget, than it will be easy to modify it to search Youtube

Should be no big deal, I'll try it ;)

As you can see in updated post #1, I have problems with creating CAB. As soon as I get it working, I'll release my first widget - Calculator :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ric69:
To make cabs, try >>>quickcab2.0<<< :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
I've already googled it, but there's one point in changelog which makes me feel very upset:

Removed support for Setup.dll (does anyone use this?)

I don't know if this mentioned Setup.dll is the same as Setup.dll required by CHT...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ric69:
I don't know about this setup.dll

All I can say is I already use it to change manila files (with CHT2.0) and some registry files ... it works fine :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
Yes, I'm sure it works fine with files and registry values, but the setup.dll is a bit mystery for me. According to widget guide, the setup.dll file is needed for proper installation - it searches for first free widget slot and puts the widget in there, but I don't know if I can use this setup.dll as normal file or it has to be put in the cab by some special way as the setup.dll must be run during installing. I'm a bit afraid of experimenting in this part, because I don't want to screw my HTC Sense and hard reset.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ric69:
Ok sorry I just opened CHTAddon_RSS.cab and you're right about "setup.dll" needed :o

I send u a pm :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
No need to apologize ;) I'll just wait for MichelDiamond's reply
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
UPDATED: Calculator widget is finally available for download at post #2!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ric69:
Thanks a lot ZaxXx :)

Works very well :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] conantroutman:
I can confirm you will need to use a setup.dll for the widgets.......

Now that your on the front page Im sure you'll be getting plenty of offers to make the cab for you.... (i dont have time right now im afraid or I would be offering :D)....

Might be worth looking into Wince cab manager if your going to making more of these......

Great job man :D

Keep up the good work......
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
I've already managed to create a cab with setup.dll inside using Visual Studio 2008 and it seems to work fine ;) look at post #2, there's already my first widget available for download :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] conantroutman:
Oops, missed that lol......

Thanks again man........:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] poyensa:
hi zax, the widget is working fine

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10718996/2010-10-15_08-14-40-.jpeg

if you need any help i have small xperience witb CHT widgets, pleasure to help like tester

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=8640564#post8640564
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
One more widget today for you guys :) See post #2

Thanks, but I don't need testers :) Of course you can test the released widgets and post feedback here if you want ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] greenskeeper805:
These 2 requests are exactly what I think is missing from CHT! Great job on the Calc and Stopwatch!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
Yeah, I'm missing that too, but unfortunatelly I'm pretty new to Lua and I have no list of built-in functions/classes/methods and I don't know what to do to make text input field.

I've just got an idea - maybe I should decompile internet tab scripts to see how it's done in there... If I succeed, then Google search will be my next widget ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ivwonka:
fabulous work. all great ideas. thank you.

more widget ideas (though i understand the limitations): another music widget that streamed music like pandora, last.fm, slacker, etc. And a widget that helped maneuver between cht home screens. This could be done a lot of ways, but somehow have a picture, number, color to press and direct navigation strait to a specific home page.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
Streaming: not impossible, at least for me, sorry.

Navigating between CHT home screens: I don't know how to do it, but I'm pretty sure it is possible. It's only matter of time Co0kiemonster gets online here, gives me invitation to CHT dev group and then I can ask there how to do it. I'm sure Co0kiemonster knows how to do it :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mike2nl:
Hi ZaxXx,

i have you added here... in the CHT Artwork thread.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mike2nl:
Hi ZaxXx,

i played a little bit with the calculator files because the middle point of the numbers and the +, -, x, / and = was not 100% of my view. So i have done it. If someone wish to have the same, please ask.

But one more thing:

you see the both red squares in the screenshot. This is what i will change (smaller). But when i change all the size values in the mode9 file to the wished size, nothing happens. Can you give me a hint, to have what i wish to have?

Info:

changed manila file to center the button values = 3BFF55AC_manila

background size test (red squares) = CHTmode9_manila
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
Cool, thanks :)

I think editing the mode9 file should do the job, but if it's not working, then I'm sorry, I have no idea.

But don't worry, I'm going to release a new version with more functions and more effectively used space soon.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PocketPC-User:
CHT Widgets - QOTD ;-)

Hello ZaxXx:

Thanks for developing the calculator and stop watch widgets for CHT. I am following up with my previous request about a quote of the day widget, it would really be great if you get a chance to work on that. Thanks.

PocketPC-User
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
I'll do it as soon as I find out how to read from a file ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PocketPC-User:
QOTD Widget

Thank you very much. Looking forward to!

PocketPC-User
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mike2nl:
Hi ZaxXx,

the mode9 file is changed and i have done this on many other mode9 stuff. But yours likes frozen ;). I will do another test, but i think it is not possible in that way. Strange behavior, possible co0kie knows what he have done :D with the layers.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] evolutionqy7:
good job man keep up the good work
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MrBeOTP2:
WAiting 4 calendar :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
I'm working on it right now ;) but it'll take more time, because I want to at least try to make more views instead of only month. I'm sure month+year should be easy, but I don't know how to load appointments, so tapping a day will open default WM calendar application. I can't do it better with my poor Lua knowledge.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CyberClaw:
Why not a phone input field? Basically, the screen you get in the phone when you press the phone key. Numbers 0 to 9, each number with curresponding letters, that enables a quick contact search. Scalable, and have a result box that shows up over other widgets (like the callendar and tasks when you stretch the list).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
New version of calculator widget is available for download :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mike2nl:
Hi ZaxXx,

i will change the position of the numbers and calculator functions again to the middle point of the buttons, in the next days ;):D.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
Lol I should have done it already :D the fact is that I'm very lazy person and I hate editing coordinates, because I have to restart Sense after every change to see if it's OK.

Could you attach here your mode9 file after you finish the changes, please? :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] poyensa:
hi zaxXx, i am skinning your calculator, and have modified a bit the mode9 file to refeer to the quicklink background instead the quicklink frame. By other hand i tried to rename the calculator BG with manilaHash, but i loose the background instead, i hope to get it back soon. Also change the color of the text to white.

By this way i can use many quicklinks background i have made here. Just download the zip (download link) for the quicklinkBG and copy & paste the manila files for the color you like. Is many more inside the zip.

If you agree i will upload here the cab with the changes :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
Very nice, thanks :) of course you can upload the cab, my widgets are open for everyone to edit/customize them in any way ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] poyensa:
OK here the link for download. The zip includes the manila files and the cab with zaxcalculator -poyensa's revision, with the following changes:

1) added manila file 5311D108_manila for the calculator background, so may be would be easier just to skin this file :rolleyes:

2) changed text to white

3) install the cab and softresset. You will get zaxcalculator 50% transparent by default

4) if you wish to change graphics for the buttons, now it refers to the quicklink background (55b3bed2_manila) So it can be easily changed accordingly to this post. Download this zip and copy & paste to windows folder the file 55b3bed2_manila of your favourite buttons*. Then restart Sense and enjoy!

All credits for ZaxXx

PS- (*) this will also change the background frame for the quicklinks & freelinks, so if you do not wish to have it there just hide icon frames in CHTEditor>quicklinks>extraquicklink options
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mike2nl:
This one please :D...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
Added link to your post in post #2 ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] poyensa:
Hi Mike, you have it all. First install the cab included here in this zip; second download this zip with all the buttons and choose your favorite by copy & paste in windows folder the file 55b3bed2_manila. No need to reinstall the cab everytime. Restart Sense and enjoy!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mike2nl:
@poyensa:

Thanks for the info. I will test it right now to see what you have changed in the source about the background. I was stucked at this issue.

Do you have the manila hash string for the 5311D108_manila file?

UPDATE:

after i have installed the 1st file i have seen that the calculator is transparent. That's perfect and i don't need any other file. Perfect job.....

@ZaxXx:

when i am finished with the part from poyensa i will upload the manila file the entered chararcters for the calculator. For me it is easy. I work in that case with paint.NET with an special psoition calculation filter and then i can re-calculate it easy.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] poyensa:
hi mike, thanks for the feedback. The string for manilaHash.exe to get the 5311D108_manila is \windows\HTC\Email\Assets\Images\Email\zaxcalculatorBG.qtc

I am thinking now to add another manila file for the calculator buttons to avoid any interference with the qicklinks and the freelinks icon background
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dagosjt:
Hello,

could you make something a little simpler for Twitter/Facebook? I mean something very similar to RSS Widget, a read only one reading last twitter/facebook messages.

Another interesting widget could be a GPS/Location one.

Finally, a FM Radio one.

I wrote all here because I didn't see other threads dedicated to CHT widgets, I don't mean you have to do everything :)

Meanwhile I've downloaded the kitchen, let's see what I can do...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dunc001:
Here's my take on the calculator - thanks to Zak and Poyensa! Once you've installed Poyensa's cab for Zaks calculator widget, soft reset then install this cab to get this look :cool:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
I'm very sorry, guys, but my work is suspended for some time. I've got two reasons: 1. I don't have much free time lately, 2. HTC Sense is slow on my device and seems to get slower and slower by time - I'm just pissed off, because I have to wait few seconds after every tap. But don't worry - there is no good customizable alternative to CHT so I'm sure I'll return to it sooner or later, at least for some time. I want to have fast device at least for some time... or maybe someone could donate me HD2 :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mike2nl:
Hi ZaxXx,

when we can help you to test things, ideas or what ever, please ask us via PM. You have so many good ideas and don't stop with your work...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
I'd like not to stop, the problem is that Sense is very slow for me, making my Blackstone almost unusable. I've been using CHT for pretty long time ignoring the slowness, but now I can't stand it any more. Yesterday I got an SMS. Of course I wanted to reply it. So I unlocked the device, but CHT Lockscreen didn't respond correctly, instead of unlocking, a camera free link was activated. So it took about 15 seconds before the camera app launched, next 10 seconds before the menu button in camera app appeared... so I closed camera app. Then I wanted to switch to next page in CHT where I have SMS widget. But Sense has crashed, so I had to wait more than minute before it fully loaded... I got to SMS widget and pressed reply - and again, I was waiting some time before SMS app appeared. I wrote my SMS and tried to send it - the send button was responding very slowly, I had to tap and hold it for few seconds until it got highlighted. It took me almost 5 minutes to respond to one stupid SMS, it was even more annoying, because I wasn't at home, I had to do all this stuff while walking on a street full of people. That's why I decided to leave HTC Sense. With "naked" WM, replying to SMS takes less than one minute.

I like CHT, I like all of it's features including the ability to create custom widgets, but it seems to be useless for me when it's much faster to launch calculator app in naked WM than switching to CHT page where is my calculator widget (even when I have it on lockscreen). I just have ****ty device designed for WM6.1 + TF3D 2.1 and everything newer is also much slower. It also seems that HTC has made Sense intentionally to be slow on older devices just to make people buy HD2...

I don't have money to buy HD2 and I also don't have any bank account which is needed for PayPal account, so I can't even get any donations which could eventually help me get HD2 and solve all of my problems described above.

Nasty situation for me.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
Good news!

I found new ROM which seems to be much faster than previous one. It's WM6.5.3 so it's a bit pain for me, because I like 6.1 much more, but I think it's a good compromise for me. I hate the ugly big UI controls, because I see less contacts or items in calendar etc. Even worse - SMS tab in contact card is verrrrry laggy, but at least the HTC messaging app works fine so it's not a big deal. I just have to get used to it.

I also didn't enable the CHT Lockscreen and E-mail widget and it seems to be fast enough for normal usage.

In the end it looks like I solved most of my problems with my Blackstone without switching to another UI like SPB Mobile Shell. I can finally continue with developing some more widgets.

I'm working on Calendar widget, the first release is going to have only actual month view, but it'll still take a lot of time as I must add every single vertical and horizontal line manually and position it well to look good. Later I'll add more features like switching between months, year view etc.

Keep your eyes open!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] poyensa:
very good news ..... for all of us!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] crypt0r:
hi nice work...

It would be great to have a widget that displays ur Internet Traffic that goes over 3G/GPRS/etc

for all no-flatrate internet users out here.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
I think this would be possible and very easy, but only with some external program like SPB Wireless Monitor, the program must write the values in registry where I can grab it with Lua and display it on the widget. Any idea about such soft?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] poyensa:
have a look to battclock
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mike2nl:
Hi ZaxXx,

good news from you. Good to hear that you are very busy. You know, if you need help...

BTW:

this is my calculator at the moment. The positions of the chars are not ready, but i am working on it..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] crypt0r:
Currently I'm using MifMon to monitor wireless activities (available in windows marketplace)

I don't know if it writes the results in registry but there is a chance that it does, becase the traffic can be resettet and saved so I bet this happens in the reg.

BTW do you know how to auto-start programs after boot? I copied the a shprtcut of the mifmon.exe in the /Windows/Startup directory but it doesn't start after boot.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZaxXx:
Another condition: the program should be freeware... I think there's no such program :(

Creating shortcut in startup folder should normally do the work...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cheapestpersonalive:
Hey, nice widget!!

For a future update, do you think you can put in an "adding machine" mode that emulates an adding machine?

It would be like press 5, + (shows 5), 6, - (shows -1), 3, + (shows 2), + (shows 5), 10, + (shows 15) and so on. That would be a nice function to have...

Thanks.