Hey everyone... Just bought a HTC Desire.. rather like the phone. Used to have a HTC Raplael which has Sense 2.5 on it (i think, Energy Rom). Anyhow I found a hack on there which would allow me to use my own PWS (Personal Weather Station) in the home screen view. You could edit the registry to point it to another URL which was an XML served by my server.
Does anyone know how to make any modifications on the Android which would achieve the same result?
Essentially I tricked the phone into thinking that there were many cities avaliable, but it was all just one XML file which my server served out.
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I am sorry if this is out of place but I am interested in freeing up my phone to do what it was designed for. I am reading about people being able to fully customize there T-Mobile MDA phones and mine will not take any of the changes i apply such as smartkeys. I was thinking of reflashing my phone with a diffrent ROM and have done some research to find a way to "cook" a rom that will work on my CID-Locked G4 I am wondering recomendations for what ROM to use. I realize that it is alot of personal prefrance so i will list some of the things I would like to be able to use.
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- Pocket Excel (I know i can already use thins)
- Pocket Word (Same)
- pocket outlook (I believe this is essential because of the activesync with my computer to outlook)
- SoftKeys
- I would really like to be able to customize my today screen currently there is only 9 or so options I can show on the screen with no way to add new shortcuts
- some type of bluetooth stack for my motorola earpiece that i can direct my music to
- a better internet browser (i think i heard oprah was good)
- threaded sms messaging with a delete all command (why it's not built in i don't know)
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those are some of the things i can think of off the top of my head. I also have one other question... What is scyth? i see everyone talking about it so it would seem like it is a good program
any help would be appriciated
Mallek
Hi i was hoping that somebody could make a weather app that could use the weather from this site http://www.yr.no. Its a norwegian site but the weather data can be translated to english.
Alternatly is there a way to get this data into HTC Home?
btw here is a link to a page that gives the links to use for the xml file. http://www.yr.no/verdata/1.3316805
I would try SPB Traveler
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/traveler/?en
It has the option to insert different weather sources. I haven't used the feature so I'm not sure if that site you want to use will work. Have a read in the Traveler forums though, maybe they can help:
http://www.spbclub.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=60
The app is great, very customisable and can have lots of cities on the Today screen at once, I have 8 All with the local times and weather at the same time!
Thanx will give it a go
WeatherPanel
I personally found that weather is the most configurable tool, but you can't map to a specific site, the only draw back. I've used it all through Sweden and there wasn't a city that did not work. This program is free and you can configure it to look and fit any size screen. Works great with spb mobile shell, to help save valuable screen space. You can also add different radars of your local area if you have a local website that updates them. You can even put web cams of traffic in your set up. The other draw back is you need to do some manual set up with the program, skins and Icons but is well worth it. I like it so much that I've disabled HTC Home weather. With this Skin I'm able to do all the functions without using a stylus and only a thumb....
Yeah, seconding WeatherPanel with PhatPhinger. It's absolutely incredible, I use it inside of Spb Pocket Plus (Mobile Shell is a real resource hog with a lot of borderline-worthless features) on my Titan/Mogul and I have been met with great success.
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kalibar
I found the same thing with memory hogging with spb mobile shell, however: once I took the spb mobile file out of startup (no more memory hogging) I just use the shell. I've also us cLaunch to launch all applications, settings and tools.
Well i could not figure out how to include a xml file i spb traveler. So my inityial question still remains. Is there anyone that could make or know of a prog that will fufill my needs?
Hey there
I just installed Spb Finance on my blackstone with duttys R14 and when I open the spb finance entry app (already modified for my resolution with the dskin file) it shows error: Can not initialize main dialog!
Does anyone else encounter this?
Is there a way to fix that?
Thanks
same problem here.. any solutions?
I also have the problem...
... my machine is a HTC Diamond 2 with a newly loaded Win 6.5 ROM. Before SPB Finance was running without problems. Has somebody any idea? Thanks!
So it seems to be a problem with all WM6.5
Known problem in WVGA devices, not just 6.5! You need to search the SPB main site and download a new skin for this finance entry sub-program. This may be in the "Sticky" section of the Pocket Finance forum. Hope this helps.
Alan
Folks, I have been using SPB Finance v2.8.0 fine up to Dutty's Leo R4, which runs on wm6.5. It also ran fine with 6.1 stock and various cooked roms. Never had the problem you've mentioned.
Found this
Alan
I've already tried everything, but without any success - same error msg. I use XTROM GridLeo 1.8.1. Before that, I've had the original WM6.1 rom and after fixing d_skin file it did work. But now, it doesn't.
thanks Alanjp3. it is vga skin, but works.
While the skin worked with my Sprint HTC Touch Pro2 on the WM6.1 Rom, it does NOT work on the WM6.5 ROM.
SPB does not support this product any more.
Has anyone here got a solution on how to run this on a 6.5 ROM?
Thanks folks!!
try winmoFinance....very simple app, gives you what you need...
I changed to that and am OK for the basic money in my pocket tracking
same problem for me too so i changed for Inesoft Cash Organizer.
chiekh said:
same problem for me too so i changed for Inesoft Cash Organizer.
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Yes, that's what I'm using now as well. Works great, though I have one little gripe: In order to see my balances through the today plugin: does anyone know what the shortcut / command parameter to that is? It's so much faster than to have to open the whole program to see the balance.
Another thing: With Cash Organizer I seem to have to buy the program each time I change devices. Is that normal, or am I doing something wrong?
Tried other options too, like WinMoFinance - but it doesn't do what I need it to do. I need to sync 2 PPCs with MSMoney, and the Quick Entry screen is a must by now.
Thanks to all who keep looking!
spbFinance seems to work, sort of
Facing similar problems in upgrading to HD2, I enquired of spb and got this helpful answer that might be of use to others:
"Unfortunately SPB Finance has not been updated for several years, and currently I am not able to promise that it will be updated soon.
SPB Finance does not fully support recent Windows Phones, like HTC HD2. The main application will basically work, but the additional one SPB Finance Entry will not."
I haven't ever used the SPB Finance Entry route, so I stand a chance of getting the main program to work, especially if using a DAgi stylus.
The Cash Organiser program generates a Product ID number that is keyed to the PDA, probably not the Owner Name as lot of product ids do (in which case it would be portable if you use the same owner name) ore likely the PDA UUID in which case it is a new Reg Key for each PDA. That makes it pretty difficult when it comes to upgrading machines so I give software with that kind of protection a miss.
Yup, Inesoft's Cash Organizer is out for us too.
- I change devices often (also have my weekend diamond), and I would have to write in and have them send me a new key each time I change my device. A no go for me.
-the program has at times trouble syncing and when it sees conflicts, just creates a fictitious account on the pda. And even when I erase the account, is keeps it in it's guts and recreates it each time I try to sync again.
Thank you much for posting your correspondence with spb.
Hi all, its been a while since I posted but I am the former user of the 8125,8525, and 8925 (tilt) and haven't used a pocket pc phone since then. I had my stints with the Fuze & Touch HD but thats another story. Anyways Ive been using the iPhone 3g/3gs for the last year and I recently sold it to purchase the AT&T Tilt 2. I must say although the phone is very good looking and this is the best qwerty I have ever used, the phone lags and it is kinda slow especially comparing phones like the iPhone or BBerry Bold 2. What are my options in terms of Navigating the GUI without TF3D? I remember when I used to own my pocketpc's I used a program called "HTC Home" which was simple,fast, and efficient. Does that program still work on the Rhodium? Do I have any options of using something similar to the TF3d but faster? Or will changing my ROM make the difference up in speed? Let me know what you all think and thanks in advance. Also What does "Manilla" mean?
Dude there are so many ways to have a decent UI without manila go through a lot of the rom threads and read about each one, Most have light versions and a titanium version that eliminate tf3d completely. MANILA= TF3D they are one and the same as I see it, some people might get more technical with you but its like a tilt 2 and a touch pro 2 different names for basically the same thing, minus a few hardware differences when talking devices. Also Give SPB Mobile Shell a try, you can download a trial and if yuo like it can either purchase it or do one of those promotions and get it cheap o pm me and I'll let you know where to find it I myself love tf3d and cant wait till it becomes fully modifyable with the ability to make my own tabs for whatever we see fit, It will happen just gonna take a while and have some genius' coding things so quick links can be installed in the script with copy and paste so its easy for everyone to do. I think there may be a few other 3rd party UIs out there too, so just play around and see what fits you. And if you cant fully uninstall something its not like a hard reset cant be done! Always backup what you dont want to lose.
See here for HTC Home for WVGA/VGA devices.
Buy an HD2
Windows default "titanium" is also very customizable and much less RAM eating than TF3D.
I´ll stay with Manila 2.1 working very smooth for me
I really lost interest in this phone the more I used it - I found tf3d to be too slow... Rather than flash ROMS, I gave SPB Mobile Shell a try. It's awesome! I removed all items from the today screen and just run the shell.
Memory usage is different as well. Before I had to keep it under 50% to get the phone to run. With Mobile Shell I just keep opening programs up to 80% and the interface doesn't lag.
Give it a try...
Want a familiar and friendly (as well as FAAST) interface?
Google iPhoneToday. It's mimics the iPhone interface and is very easy to setup shortcuts and icons.
Simply go t your SETTINGS>TODAY button and disable TF3D and ENABLE iPhoneToday.
I love this interface much better as it's quick and to the point. Also less memory uses than TF3D
While looking in the /windows directory of my phone i noticed a file for user profiles. This got me thinking that it may be possible to create users on a winmo device and switch them on the fly. This could prove useful for use with something like the redfly system to set a ui up for that and a ui for normal phone use so the phone becomes not only a phone but your netbook as well - with ui's tailored to the different uses. Could this be done?
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Was thinking this might be possible with second today and a few mortscripts but st is showing its age and more and more phones are not compatible. any ideas?
Windows Mobile does not support users. There is only one user, which represents current environment, we can not change this.
Thank you for your reply.
Guess im stuck using second today.