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Greets,
I am running a tilt with stock AT&T roms, but with the bloatware avoided through the timely soft reset.
I am wondering ... can I replace the home screen if I don't flash to a cooked ROM? If so, how?
Thanks!
if by "home" you mean "today" screen, then yes. simply by adding any today screen plugin.
a few things for you to search for:
start|settings|personal|today|items
HTC Home
SPB plus
HTC Homeplug
there's a good start for you
Tried ... Failed ... Help?
Greets,
I attempted to install HTC Home on my stock AT&T Tilt. It did install (confirmed by the fact that when I saw no evidence of it running, I tried to reinstall, and it told me it was already installed).
This still leaves me with my same old screen (except now, the orientation icon changed to a battery with a question mark on it).
Once installed on a stock AT&T Tilt, how do I run HTC Home to replace my main screen?
Thanks!
Changing the Today Screen options is explained in the book that came with your phone called a manual.
jgermuga - Interesting (not to be confused with helpful) response.
Had the presence of mind to check to see if your prior posts were also obnoxious ... not surprisingly, many are. Needless to say, I will not be responding further to anything you might care to characteristically come back with.
Great having you here - you clearly bring a lot to the table.
Start -> Settings -> Today Screen
I guess it may be possible that jgermuga was a bit snide but I can't really blame him/her.
Check your manual, do a search, or try to make your question more understandable.
If you want to change your Today screen, try this link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/articles/softwaretips/personalize.mspx
It may be one of the most basic things to do on the PDA. How did you find us anyway?????
No good ...
I respectfully disagree! I do my fair share of answering questions on forums and the usenet, as well as those that come to me via email. I have NEVER been insulting or snide with people who ask questions. If they ask, they are hoping to get an answer, and very little is as disheartenening as learning that someone has posted a reply, only to see that it wasn't a (useful) reply at all.
One can spend their brain cycles coming back with a clever snide statement which does not help at all (and feel morally superior for the wit) or one can be helpful and answer the question. Since this is a forum, and people search for responses, the snide answer only provides a dead end for everyone who may seek help in the future.
So to those who actually answered the question, thank you VERY much.
In my case here, the provided answers did not work, but perhaps I asked the wrong question. I will need to look into this further.
As much time as you have wasted writing long and pointless replies, you could've read your manual and had your question answered already. Trust me - sit down with your phone and your manual and a beer or two and go through every page. I have done that with every phone I have owned and I learned a LOT of interesting little details that I wouldn't have known otherwise.
Lidberg said:
Trust me - sit down with your phone and your manual and a beer or two and go through every page. I have done that with every phone I have owned and I learned a LOT of interesting little details that I wouldn't have known otherwise.
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I agree. I've been using a PocketPC for over 5 years, and I still take the time to read over every manual. I always find a cool function for a button that I didn't know about, or something new about the OS that was changed, etc.
Ive Noticed Ever Since Purchasing My Tilt (about 3 Weeks Now) I Have Had To More And More, Have To Sleep On The Couch (my Wifes Doing). Is There A Rom Or Hack For This Problem.
......sorry I Could Not Resist.......
Maybe you should see if there's a CAB available that will remove her. I know there's a Yellow cab ready at all times
Also, see if you can find a registry hack that will disable the annoying capitalizing of every word in your posts. We Don'T Have To Capitalize Every Word Cause It's Annoying, and it wont qualify you for better parking if your CAPS lock is only partially disabled.
KD8DNS said:
Ive Noticed Ever Since Purchasing My Tilt (about 3 Weeks Now) I Have Had To More And More, Have To Sleep On The Couch (my Wifes Doing). Is There A Rom Or Hack For This Problem.
......sorry I Could Not Resist.......
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I have had the same problem! And it got pretty bad for a few days, until I figured out a solution.
This is a bit complicated so pay very close attention (or you may want to jot these instructions down to refer to later):
1. turn the phone to look at the right side of the unit
2. locate a tiny button with a little red symbol on it. (You may have used this jewel of a button to awake your awesome Kaiser (a.k.a. at&t Tilt) phone when it has fallen asleep (while you got distracted for a few moments).
3. PRESS this button for only 1-second and release. I have learned - through trial and error - that this button also turns OFF the phone. BUT DONT WORRY! It's not really off, its just sleeping and you will still receive calls, text messages and even calendar event reminders (whew I worried about receiving these!).
I know these instructions can be very stressful, but they may have saved my marriage. I would highly consider you trying this procedure at least once an evening (like during meals, when your spouse is trying to communicate with you, and especially (grin) at 1am while your laying in bed browsing the xda-developers forums for all the cool tools, cabs and Roms out there and your wife rolls over and says, "don't you ever put that thing down??!!"
;-)
Sorry about the caps i wa not paying attention.
KD8DNS said:
Sorry about the caps i wa not paying attention.
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I thought your post was funny. This place can use more light-hearted comedy.
ronfin44 said:
Maybe you should see if there's a CAB available that will remove her. I know there's a Yellow cab ready at all times
Also, see if you can find a registry hack that will disable the annoying capitalizing of every word in your posts. We Don'T Have To Capitalize Every Word Cause It's Annoying, and it wont qualify you for better parking if your CAPS lock is only partially disabled.
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You have to make sure you get the right kind of cab though... It can be confusing because here in the DC area yellow cabs aren't yellow, they are bright orange??? You must be very careful because you must be sure you really want to do that before you run the cab. It is usually very painful, difficult, and expensive to uninstall the wife update. Even then if you manage to partially uninstall the wife, if you have added new devices to your PAN while the wife update was installed then it may take up to 18 years to fully uninstall the wife. It wrecks havoc with your network settings, and often once uninstalled the wife update will often take half of your network resources and permissions with it (sometimes all of them!). Also be very careful of MIL.dll. It often installs itself in the background when the wife update is being installed. MIL.dll is often considered spyware, nagware, and often it falls within both categories, but there is often nothing much that can be done about MIL.dll without uninstalling the wife update. Some feel it is worth starting all over again with just a bare-bones system, but most feel that the benefits of the wife update outweigh the negatives. It is better to live with the occasional problems that the wife update may cause, than to try and remove it.
Try hard reseting her. Hold down both of her soft nipples and stick your stylus in her butt. That should get quick results. haha
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Try hard reseting her. Hold down both of her soft nipples and stick your stylus in her butt. That should get quick results. haha
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I knew I was doing something wrong, I kept putting her in bootloader mode but she said she'd never done that before!
Mike
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That should get quick results.
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I thought sticking your stylus in the wrong hole caused permanent damage to your pins?!
Steve-C said:
I thought sticking your stylus in the wrong hole caused permanent damage to your pins?!
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I'm using Dutty's special Bottylicious ROM. Works great with softcore resets like that! haha
LMAO! Maybe you could just install another cab Iv seen around, It's called abitontheside.cab, it can be simply installed without going through all the bother of unstalling the wife update. Just make sure you dont run both at the same time as Iv heard they can conflict with each other.
I bought my wife an iPhone, now she can't say anything because she spends just as much time surfing the web and playing with the other 4 things you can do with an iPhone
This phone is making me like...crazy!
and this is why:
I synct some playlists to the phone with windows media player 10, suddenly all playlists on my diamond are empty.
When i removed all the playlists on windows media player 10 to sync them again, it deleted all my songs!
now i got all my songs onto the device again, and wanted to alter 1 playlist, it took windows media player 6 minutes, to just alter, replace, 1 pooping playlist!\
Its not possible to remove a playlist created in the touchflo music player itself.
Not able to select it and then delete it.
Half of the icons in the games folder are ****ed up, we already have a thread with solutions(i tried all of them), but none of them worked.
And the performance, even with the tlr rom or whatever the name was, the diamond still goes slow!
And the battery depletes quickly, with auto attach off, and incoming beam off.
Cant receive a file with bluetooth, with incoming beam on or off, it keeps saying my pc is a new device and asks if i want to set a password, no matter if i set a password or not, it goes back to the menu, and still says my pc is a new device
And i used a mod of the diamond tweaks thread, to auto lock my diamond when the screen goed off.
Well, 1/5 times, it autounlocks itself when i turn the screen back on. not good...
And finally, the opera browser is sometimes not doing what i want. sometimes goes to a random place on the page, if i move and let the stylus go, it moves back to that random page, to fix this i need to quit, then restart opera.
This happens about 1/5 times i use opera.
Is this where i payed 481 euro's for...?
Any ideas how to fix this sh!t is welcome, i already did a hard reset to try getting rid of some problems.
borgqueenx said:
This phone is making me like...crazy!
and this is why:
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Nothing to complain about the phone?
marco899 said:
Nothing to complain about the phone?
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what do you mean?
theres a whole list of bad things there.
btw: forgot to mention that the diamond stylus made some nasty scratches on the screen when wiping over the screen in opera to scroll page, or goto next photo in touchflo, ect.
Got a protector included for that.
Install a fresh rom, I don't have any of your problems.
I use bluetooth a lot:
Sending files (goes hell fast), don't want to use cable when using .cab files here
For my parrot
For use as a modem (have reached 120kbyte/second) when online with phone!
All flawless.
I have very very good results with HTC's own new rom update via e-club.
TLR nr. 2 was quite buggy at my phone.
GOod luck!
borgqueenx said:
This phone is making me like...crazy!
and this is why:
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Any ideas how to fix this sh!t is welcome, i already did a hard reset to try getting rid of some problems.
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Spare yourself next trouble to come and sell it, as I did with mine
czbird said:
Spare yourself next trouble to come and sell it, as I did with mine
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what have you got now may i ask?
Humbly returned to my previous P535.
I must admit that apart from Diamond, there is currently not many devices to choose from on the market... Was thinking about getting P750, but still unsure...
Xperia scares me, mainly because of the unusual screen resolution (dunno how all the apps will handle it) and that also is supposed to be made by HTC...
Maybe Diamond Pro will not suffer from these newborn diseases that my Diamond had - will see...
i think im going for the iphone 3g. will be expensive though...
the touch diamond really disappoints me...
borgqueenx said:
Its not possible to remove a playlist created in the touchflo music player itself.
Not able to select it and then delete it.
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Use the hardware buttons beneath the screen. You can navigate to the playlist you want to delete, and hold the 'enter' button to get the menu to get the 'right mouse button menu'.
Using your fingers it is impossible as it automatically selects the playlist if you press it. No menu will pop up.
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i think im going for the iphone 3g. will be expensive though...
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What do you mean? It will be much cheaper than the Diamond.
I wonder if you're expecting to install applications on that phone, or do any customization...
Mwahahahahahha!!!!
Another Winer! XD
I'd give this post 5/5 for creativity, 6/5 for whining and -1 for usefullness ^^
you can almost FEEEL that you joined only after buying the phone, and I'd guess that it's your first WM one..
Anyway, regarding your problems..
If your phone really is that bad, it's probably broken (pre-production, grey, some dimwit dropped it in the shop or any other reason). In any case, return it by warranty, and get a new one..
Having so many people love this phone, and being able to fix the issues.. and only you and a handful of others run around whining.. Surely it's obvious that it's either a lack of hands.dll or a simple hardware failure..
I mean you should be smart enough to grasp it.... ermm.. right?
Cheers
P.S. Oh, and please don't be offended by this post.. It was mainly inspired by your post anyway, but it was written half-jokingly as I couldn't really answer seriously to that amount of QQ
@ 205_laCoste...
You're my hero.
Had a lot of trouble removing two playlists, but using the hardware buttons solved it right away....
Thank You!
I'm ready to throw my diamond out the window, for pretty much the same reasons. I paid way too much money to have so many problems. And I shouldn't have to flash a new rom. It should be good to go out of the box.
Before I'm also accused of being a whiner, there is a plethora of posts of people having the same problems....with no solutions. The bluetooth issue is a biggie. I tweak my phone to enhance it, but I shouldn't have to be a programmer to simply make it function properly. To suggest that is just arrogant.
There are things that I absolutely love about this phone, but simply as a phone it sucks.
most of the time it is not the fault of the phone but the person
using it.
a lot of people have come here after having a normal phone and
dont understand how to use this one.
treat it more like a computer than a phone.you dont have to be
a programer you just have to know how to read a thread and
follow the directions.
if you have a 1.37 rom you need to upgrade it to a 1.93.
1.37 is crap.okay it shouldnt have been but it was that why
it was upgraded to 1.93.
if you still dont get it then sell the phone.go buy a fruit
phone and get ripped off just like all the other sheep out there.
I have to stand up for nursie here. I've returned my diamond several months ago (yeah, it was driving me nuts) and am happily living with my P750... these offenses are absolutely not necessary and untrue as well as uncritically extolling the device - gee, it's just another PDA
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I have to stand up for nursie here. I've returned my diamond several months ago (yeah, it was driving me nuts) and am happily living with my P750... these offenses are absolutely not necessary and untrue as well as uncritically extolling the device - gee, it's just another PDA
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I have to agree, to an extent.
It's generally accepted on here that the Diamond is badly configured out of the box, which is why new users are recommended to flash a new ROM. This is not a good thing, although it's great we have such a good community of chefs to help solve the problem.
What's less well accepted is that much of the HTC software on the Diamond is slow and awkward. I'm talking about TF3D and the HTC dialer in particular, get rid of them and you can make the Diamond a great little phone just like your P750.
964rs777 said:
most of the time it is not the fault of the phone but the person
using it.
a lot of people have come here after having a normal phone and
dont understand how to use this one.
treat it more like a computer than a phone.you dont have to be
a programer you just have to know how to read a thread and
follow the directions.
if you have a 1.37 rom you need to upgrade it to a 1.93.
1.37 is crap.okay it shouldnt have been but it was that why
it was upgraded to 1.93.
if you still dont get it then sell the phone.go buy a fruit
phone and get ripped off just like all the other sheep out there.
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I upgraded to 1.93. And I'm quite proficient at reading and researching. I'm also very proficient with current technology. I get it. What you don't get is that a consumer spending big bucks on this phone shouldn't have to resort to advanced tweaks (which I understand, BTW...you won't find me here asking newbie questions) in order to bring the phone up to basic performing standards.
Again.....yours is a fine example of ignorance masking itself as arrogance.
I just did a hard reset of my Orange TyTN ii, and had heard that if you soft reset before the 3 second countdown for customisation then you don't get all the Orange guff installed. (The people who developed the Orange dialler should be banned from developing for life!)
Trouble is, when I hit the soft reset, it's performing a hard reset every time. Am I doing something wrong? Or will this trick not work on the new ROM and 6.1?
Any advice would be very gratefully accepted because I just could not bear to be stuck with that awful Orange dialler. I don't want to flash the ROM on this brand new device, if I can help it either in case I **** things up!
riffian said:
I just did a hard reset of my Orange TyTN ii, and had heard that if you soft reset before the 3 second countdown for customisation then you don't get all the Orange guff installed. (The people who developed the Orange dialler should be banned from developing for life!)
Trouble is, when I hit the soft reset, it's performing a hard reset every time. Am I doing something wrong? Or will this trick not work on the new ROM and 6.1?
Any advice would be very gratefully accepted because I just could not bear to be stuck with that awful Orange dialler. I don't want to flash the ROM on this brand new device, if I can help it either in case I **** things up!
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Maybe you can do a hard-reset with the battery-cover already removed, boot up, go through the initial setup and when the countdown starts, remove the battery.
That trick only worked in WM6... WM6.1 doesn't work!
Thanks for the replies.
Typical! Microsoft continues to annoy and alienate its customers by further restricting their freedoms. It's almost as if they want to drive people to open source software. If only there was a Linux alternative to Windows Mobile. Sigh.
As for Orange, I've sent in a complaint to them about their incompetent developers - not that I expect them to take a blind bit of notice.
Is there a registry hack to banish Orange's crappy dialler and restore the much better HTC version?
riffian said:
Thanks for the replies.
Typical! Microsoft continues to annoy and alienate its customers by further restricting their freedoms. It's almost as if they want to drive people to open source software. If only there was a Linux alternative to Windows Mobile. Sigh.
As for Orange, I've sent in a complaint to them about their incompetent developers - not that I expect them to take a blind bit of notice.
Is there a registry hack to banish Orange's crappy dialler and restore the much better HTC version?
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I think it is time for you to venture into the Kaiser ROM forum like I did when I became sick of the Orange software
rfarnell said:
I think it is time for you to venture into the Kaiser ROM forum like I did when I became sick of the Orange software
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I'm too scared! ;-) If there's any chance of screwing it up, I'd rather not risk it until the Orange contract is over. But unless I can find a registry hack or some other way to replace the dialler, I might have to do it.
It's unbelievable that Orange has buried speed dial in a sub menu! What kind of moronic developer thinks that's a good idea? Have these idiots ever used a phone?
You can get rid of the Orange stuff easily enough without replacing the ROM! Just install whatever CAB files take your fancy. Start with HTC Home Plugin and use HTC Home Customiser to get it the way you like. Then choose from the dozens of nice diallers people on here have developed.
Hi, hi. I don't recall if this is my first post or not, but my original intent was to post on the developer's forum. I then found out I couldn't. So I'll post here and include a couple of questions/comments I have.
1. Have you noticed that XDA looks like a really happy dude puking the first letter of the alphabet? (That's totally an aside, just getting it out of the way.)
2. Due to some ridiculousness, I now have two Cricket Zios. One of them is working, the other one not. I've had the old one for a few months now and all this time I've been wondering what the heck to do with it. To specify: It went nuts when I tried the update on it (it originally had 1.6) and the corporate store flashed it when I brought it to them. Now when you turn it on, it shows the Android android and tells you to touch it (with the disembodied hand appearing, moving over it, then disappearing, as it's supposed to), but it ignores all input. Have to pull out the battery to shut it off, even. I can then turn it on (so at least I know the End Call button works and I *think* I've tried some combinations that work) and go through the process all over again. The good thing is that I now have a spare battery (go, me). In reading all the threads where developers are unsure of certain things, like whether or not the trackball can light up and whatnot, I'm wondering if it might be worth it for me to take the damn thing apart and take detailed pictures. At the very least, people would be able to see chipsets, individual chips, connections, lights, etc. Does anyone think this would be worth the effort? And, of course, complete loss of the device, though possibly I could use parts in other projects. (The screen, for instance, might be cheap, but it'd be REAL handy used as a miniature second/third monitor like those Liliput monitors.)
3. As a Linux user that doesn't give a damn whether a Windows OS can communicate with my microSD card, is there a reason I should not just format the entire card to something better than fat32?
4. As we all know, the trackball input on the Zio sucks like the Spaceball 1. Could this be improved by replacing the ball itself? It feels cheap anyway and I'm wondering if I could, for instance, take the ball out of a MyTouch 3G and put it in my Zio.
The FCC already has detailed pictures of the zio available, so that would be a waste of a phone.
If your 2nd phone doesnt work, you can always send it to me as a guinea pig phone -- it _really_ would be helpful to have an extra phone to develop with (provided I could get it working -- no guarantees but I'd be willing to try for the following reasons)-- being as any release, mod or anything for that matter I wish to test for you guys has to be done on my main phone, which Im sure any tester could tell you, is a major pain in the ass. lol. So if you really wanna help the cause, that would help me greatly
As for formatting the SDcard -- dont. Your phone saves all data to FAT. The only thing you _may_ wish to do is partition 512Mb off as an ext3 and use link2SD to symlink ur apps to the ext partition.
As for the trackball -- you can try taking it out (if you have the right screwdriver for it), cleaning the contact points, and putting it back together -- that might make it respond better (as I have no problems with my trackball.).
Hope that helps.
~Cheers!
Thank you very much! And I'll totally donate to you the phone (I appreciate a lot of what you've done anyway). Would you mind getting it without the battery?
Don't mind at all -- it'll be plugged in 100% of the time.
Not home atm, but Send me a pm m8.
Sent from my Zio using XDA App
Nice! as an openZio user I thank you
@ SilasMortimer :
Any updates m8? Havent heard from you in a while.
Cheers.
Heya. Sorry I disappeared. I kind of forgot to come back. I think I need to change my settings so I get email notifications.
It'll be sent soon.