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Please rea this, it won't take long, just a word of appreciation
Thank you to all the chefs who cook the most amazing WM6 ROMS!!
I have been a fan of Windows Mobile for a while, but while everyone seemed to move on in terms of usability and interface design Windows Mobile seemed to get left behind and the final straw cam with the Iphone interface and interaction, It saddened me and angered me! As individuals we pay ridiculous amounts of money for software from MS and on a corporate level....well the licensing is quite lucrative! And all they seem to do is throw us a clunky slow interface. I loved windows mobile but i was slowly losing my faith and considering other options!
But! i had a load of DVD's to trade in at CEX and a few old mobiles and there was a brand new V1605 (Hermes) staring right at me with his price tag of £120 begging me to grab him. So after playing around with it i did.
Took it home that evening quite excited and began playing with it. Still slow, tried to set up MMS, GPRS, WAP etc what a task that was!
I took to the net and i stumbled accross this "cooked ROMS" thingy curiously i began researching and i thought what the hell i'll see what they are like.
Well all i can say is i am absolutely astounded at the creativity and skill of the Devs out there, Schaps, Pays you have completely reignited the Windows flame in me! my phone is now set up running like a horse in the kentucky derby, i have some fantastic programmes and customisation tools to play with, MMS works Great GPRS brilliant, the customisation is amazing!
I even did this little reg edit that allowed the MMS messages recieved to be shown as they are meant to be in full glory instead of scaled & watered down
rubbish you usually get!
right now all i need to do is get rid of the annoying beeping whenever i send an SMS and i will have my dream phone!
So to all those developers out there who work so hard cooking these ROMS you all deserve Michelin Stars for your cooking abilities, Gordon Ramsey a chef?? yeah right! lets see him try cooking a WM6 ROM like Schaps or Pays!
Thank you developers your the best!....
IPhone my arse
chalsinho said:
I even did this little reg edit that allowed the MMS messages recieved to be shown as they are meant to be in full glory instead of scaled & watered down
rubbish you usually get!
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Care to share that setting?
Thanks to all
Just wanted to jump on the bandwagon and say they you to all the chefs who have given me so many different roms to expierence
Thank you to all your time and wonderfull work.
Danke Sehr für ihren arbeitszeit und woderbar werk.
Ahmedkom
chalsinho said:
right now all i need to do is get rid of the annoying beeping whenever i send an SMS and i will have my dream phone!
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If you are talking about sent SMS notification, Schap's advanced config has a setting to get rid of that beeping.
There is also a reg edit of course, but advanced config is the easy route.
The Reg Edit to enable MMS hwo they should be
This is the link to the thread,
i tried it and it works, just remember to back up the original text just incase but in works for mt V1605
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1833594
Larsuck...
As for the notification in schaps rom, i thought this only disables the actual notification message appearning and not the sound. I read somewhere you need to delete a notification.wav file and replace it with a blank wav file
Yeah your right...
Yeah i hardly get calls!! i am a sad loner! hee!
But seriously i love messing with my phone, brain training shmain training this is REAL brain training! gets your mind really working!
For those of you who are playing with WM6.1 have you been messing with the threaded txt? I have used the troe version for so long I admit I miss some stuff.
Mainly the new threaded app doesnt tell me how many characters I have typed so I don't know when I have went over the 160 limit.. I have also noticed that sms backup doesn't seem to work correctly it backs up my txt messages and when I restore them they r missing and not threaded.
Another thing I like about threo threaded is MMS/SMS are all together instead of seperate..
Last thing is the txt don't have dates next to them. They have time but no dates. I like to scroll back and know what day and time something was txt to me.
Anyone else got any complaints?
Maybe some of these things can be corrected with a addon or something.
you can see how many characters at the upper corner.
I two think PALM did a better job.
I agree
Me myself being a Treo 650 owner and a hacked threaded sms user on my 8525 would have to agree the WinMo 6.1 threaded sms falls short.
No smilies
There is a short delay when sending msgs
No timestamp(with dates)
When restoring from PIM backup msgs are missing/ out of order....I can only see the msgs I've sent not the msgs I've received.
This may sound like a little nit-pickery going on but hell M$ has had a lot of time to get this minor detail right....
elivne said:
you can see how many characters at the upper corner.
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Where?? I can't find it.. When I compose new sms - yes, I can see this. But when You replay , there is no such information.
elivne said:
you can see how many characters at the upper corner.
I two think PALM did a better job.
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Where?? I am typing a txt msg right now and I don't see a character counter anywhere at all...I'm not that blind its not there..
Vision77 said:
Me myself being a Treo 650 owner and a hacked threaded sms user on my 8525 would have to agree the WinMo 6.1 threaded sms falls short.
No smilies
There is a short delay when sending msgs
No timestamp(with dates)
When restoring from PIM backup msgs are missing/ out of order....I can only see the msgs I've sent not the msgs I've received.
This may sound like a little nit-pickery going on but hell M$ has had a lot of time to get this minor detail right....
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You can't be too surprised that MS half-assed this as they have half-assed every other Windows Mobile product for the last 5 years. MS doesn't care about Windows Mobile. Sad, but true.
I'm already messin with the ripped treo app again since it combines MMS/SMS together but the HTC Home Plugin shortcuts don't work after I install it..
Something simple so I'm gonna try another version of the htc today plugin and hope that it works..
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I'm already messin with the ripped treo app again since it combines MMS/SMS together but the HTC Home Plugin shortcuts don't work after I install it..
Something simple so I'm gonna try another version of the htc today plugin and hope that it works..
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I have a Wizard, but I think this will help you anyway.. You have to create a shortcut to \Windows\messagingapp.exe. I think currently, the HTC shortcuts (and even the button for me) was set to messaging.exe. After you create the shortcut for it and add it to your start menu, you should be able to map it to the button.
I all !
today i just have played with a blackbarry, in deep with email, and i was impressive with the visualization form and first of all the unnumerable charatters
Because in this forum we have a very very engeneering coockers, i ask : it's possible to take this charatters ?? it's possible to take the same visualization of the email ? (clean, big, without row..numers..ecc ecc...)
tnx to all!!!
Can you post some images for cookers to see what you are saying!!! I think it's challenging
i would like to do it..but it's imposible.. my friend goes away yerstrday night....
the caracters are the same of word...bold, italic, underscored, scritp...and the email it's look like a withe dashboard where someone write an email witha a pencil.. fanstastic....
so as a chef, we would need to know what font is run on crackberry's.
I dont think its that simple. Its like trying to have linux run inside windows! You might be able to find the fonts, but you wont get the same look as BB. I used to have a BB, but I liked the MS Office package which is free in WM phone, so I switched to WM from BB.
I suppose you could.. make a blackberry theme for throttle launcher or one of the other full screen today plug ins..
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I suppose you could.. make a blackberry theme for throttle launcher or one of the other full screen today plug ins..
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We probably can make a theme, but i dont think we will be able to change email display!
Besides TL takes too much of my precious RAM anyways LOL
ai6908 said:
We probably can make a theme, but i dont think we will be able to change email display!
Besides TL takes too much of my precious RAM anyways LOL
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Yup, tis why I just stick to the normal stuff!
if you're talking about this, it is quite nice, but ... I still prefer the fonts and style coming from a winmo anyday, used to have a 7105T, and no where near these chef's designs. The 9000 is quite nice, but still .. no longer a crackberry, i'm a crackwinmo instead
ijust have tow screenshoot for the caracter and mail....
Hey there
Could someone give a really good advice with link to themes for it so I can see...
I have tried so many plugins that my eyes are bloody already...
Maybe I just didn't find good combination of plugin/theme...please someone..
thank you.
Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502056&highlight=theme+concept
if you know how to use WAD2. I think it's very nice.
Kick-ass Today Screen!!!!!
Yes there is.....Try the SPB 3.0....it out shines HTC home page!!!!!
Try the 30 day trial and if your lucky, you may find a serial for it too!!!!!
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/pocketpc-software/mobileshell/
Sopis said:
Hey there
Could someone give a really good advice with link to themes for it so I can see...
I have tried so many plugins that my eyes are bloody already...
Maybe I just didn't find good combination of plugin/theme...please someone..
thank you.
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You may want post what you've tried already so the suggestions that come through won't be plugins that you've already written off.
I'm currently in the process of testing SPB 3.0.1. Still not sure if I like it enough to replace TF3D as it doesn't allow total integration with my other apps...Resco contacts, sms chat.
I guess you are right.
For starters, I have installed SPB 3 and WM7 black skin..it is very good..not the best but good, I like it
So far I have tried:
×Throttle launch (not good, graphics were blurry, guess it is more for VGA , but could be OK for VGA device)
×PocketPlus (too much stuff, didnt like it)
×HTC Home (I dunno why, but I guess this plugin did something bad to my phone, it acted weirdly, although it provided informaton I wanted, I did a painful Hard Reset and after that everything was OK)
×SPB 2 (I used this for very long time, but I got bored from the graphics and I liked and hated Now screen at the same time )
×PointUI2 (this was freaking awesome, very smooth graphics, but I lack WVGA skins and applets, good skins were VGA only and I couldnt switch to my today screen, which I do sometimes to check how much have I called already)
×rlToday (this one could be great, but It was very small on my screen, I could hardly see the clock )
×this is all I remember what I have tried
Now I am using:
SPB 3
HomeScreen++ (I use this only as a Call Timer, but would like to use it wider, but dunno how , does someone have an advice how to get a MAX out of this prog?)
And I have Spb Wireless monitor and Spb Backup on my todayscreen.
Thats it. So I guess I have tried a lot, but still am not absolutely satisfied.
What I really wish for is something like Omnia today screen..Ow how I would like to drag and drop widgets...I know FEWidgets can do this but I dont like how it looks...
And what I would like to have mostly is somekind of desktop with Icons and stuff...ust like a normal PC....
Thx for replies guys.
juice said:
Yes there is.....Try the SPB 3.0....it out shines HTC home page!!!!!
Try the 30 day trial and if your lucky, you may find a serial for it too!!!!!
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/pocketpc-software/mobileshell/
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how do you know which version is the right one?
are there any pics of the software in action somewhere?
Well it sounds like you've tried just about everything lol! You didn't mention Wisbar Advance Desktop I see. This is the closest thing I've found where you can have the look and feel of your desktop PC.
Check out Mallmans Vista Theme here > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=468153&highlight=Vista+Theme < Check out his site for more themes here > www.swampthing.net
Ow
You see, as I said I didn't remember
I tried WAD already, but again, some things are not to my liking.
I guess I am very demanding
thanks for your helps guys.
I guess I will stick with SPB 3 for some time.
Although Id like to make my own theme but dunno how.
I made a thread about this, hope someone will throw some letters in it
Thanks.
I haven't figured out how to do anything except insert the battery and sim but WOW .. My totally honest first impression is maybe I like it as well or better than my iphone .. That is saying A LOT !!!
If you like it already, just wait until you figure out how to turn it on!
And of course when you start flashing ROMS and so forth...
It is better than the iPhone yes, but it is an entirely different beast. Don't expect it to run perfectly stock. If you spend a little time hacking it you can get it to run almost exactly how you'd like it to.
And really, isn't hacking half the fun of owning a WinMo phone? I think so. Even after I have my phone set up perfectly on one ROM, the urge to reflash is so strong that I can only hold out for a month, maybe two at most, until I start all over again. Yay.
congrats! Once you start figuring your way around the phone be sure to visit this thread full of great apps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=550973
If you have any questions you know who to call ghostbusters!
enjoy your new phone
That thread that burton gave you is definitely the best place to start, to learn about all sorts of things you can do with and to your new fav gadget.
Installing apps and tweaks to your phone is usually a simple matter of obtaining a .cab file for whatever you want to install, copy the .cab to your phone (to a file on the SD card is best, so you can leave them there for future re-use), and clicking on the .cab to run it. Once you're comfortable doing that, I would highly recommend running the two cabs I've attached here, they're a good idea for any new TP2 owner; they improve the native memory management in the phone, and free up memory much better once apps are done using it, and they'll go a long way towards making your whole experience better (without them, your memory use will keep creeping up on you until you reset).
MooGoo said:
And really, isn't hacking half the fun of owning a WinMo phone?
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You are so right. I have the HTC Shift pretty much since it came to the USA .. I bought one - unleashed FULL WinMo .. sold it .. then missed it and bought another. I have Full WinMo and Phone on it .. I think all I need is blue-tooth on the WinMo side and for WinMo to recognize a memory card. Pretty sure neither of those hacks have been worked out. I can wait!!
PS .. thanks for the link and the files as well .. First thing I am going to do is sync my contacts .. then PLAY ..
Well the Shift is an even more different beast. That thing really is a mini-computer. Not sure how great of a phone it would make.
Anyone know if HTC is planning on coming out with a successor to the Shift?
The shift is for sure a computer. I have Win7 on it and WinMo 6 I think .. There is no bluetooth on the phone side so voice comes out of the speaker. If you held it up to your head it would look ridiculous.
Still ... it is nice to have a phone in it, only because you can
Miss my iphone desktop - Home Screen
I think I have been using my iphone too long because I am having a horrible time figuring out a design I like. I miss my iphone desktop.
If you haven't already, try out SPB mobile shell. It gives a very customizable interface w/ widgets.
I think I have that App .. I will first look on my computer for it . thanks. The thing that I find annoying that I haven't figured out is when I click on the phone to make a call. It opens half keypad half contacts. No "hard" buttons to scroll up and down through the contact list. .. correct ??
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I think I have that App .. I will first look on my computer for it . thanks. The thing that I find annoying that I haven't figured out is when I click on the phone to make a call. It opens half keypad half contacts. No "hard" buttons to scroll up and down through the contact list. .. correct ??
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That is partialy correct. It actually brings up your call log. To pull up a number from your contacts just start typing on the keypads (either the number i.e 818 555 1234 or the name ie. Dad = 323). You can also click the all contacts button and go to a pure list of contacts, which you can then scroll through with the touch screen.