Hi everybody!
I'm french, so sorry for my bad english... I'll try to write as well as possible!
I bought HTC Diamond yesterday and I'm very satisfy by it! But i would change something in "SMS reply" screen.
We can reduce font size of the old conversation but can we also reduce the "box" where this conversation is writing in in order to enlarge The "box" where we have to write to reply?
Is someone has an idea?
Still sorry for my english....
Caradhras said:
Hi everybody!
I'm french, so sorry for my bad english... I'll try to write as well as possible!
I bought HTC Diamond yesterday and I'm very satisfy by it! But i would change something in "SMS reply" screen.
We can reduce font size of the old conversation but can we also reduce the "box" where this conversation is writing in in order to enlarge The "box" where we have to write to reply?
Is someone has an idea?
Still sorry for my english....
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If you use the zoomwheel around the dpad (like you would for zooming in opera or camera album), you can increase/decrease the font size of the conversation.
Not sure how to enlarge the reply box tho.
swampy said:
If you use the zoomwheel around the dpad (like you would for zooming in opera or camera album), you can increase/decrease the font size of the conversation.
Not sure how to enlarge the reply box tho.
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I succeed to reduce font size of the conversation. I would just enlarge the reply box. I think it's too small and not "easyly" readable...
Caradhras said:
I succeed to reduce font size of the conversation. I would just enlarge the reply box. I think it's too small and not "easyly" readable...
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go to
setting/system/screen/text size
Aqrab said:
go to
setting/system/screen/text size
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i think he means that he would like to see more text lines.
now you only have two (with keyboard open)
is it possible to get more?
(i am right)
sandervanzijl said:
i think he means that he would like to see more text lines.
now you only have two (with keyboard open)
is it possible to get more?
(i am right)
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Exactly !!! I was afraid that my English is bad to the point that nobody understands!
go to windows directory with total commander and look for thread_sms.htm edit this string:<inbox:content id="COMPOSESUBJECT" width="98%" height=XX(whatever height you like)
kidnamedAlbert said:
go to windows directory with total commander and look for thread_sms.htm edit this string:<inbox:content id="COMPOSESUBJECT" width="98%" height=XX(whatever height you like)
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Hey that is great to know, thanks very much for sharing this.
kidnamedAlbert said:
go to windows directory with total commander and look for thread_sms.htm edit this string:<inbox:content id="COMPOSESUBJECT" width="98%" height=XX(whatever height you like)
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Excellent!!! That's exactly what I want !!!
Thanks !!!
I try with Resco Explorer but it always tells me "File Rom". How do you edit this file ?
Thanks a lot
Excellent suggestion. Got it solved and it works like a breeze now.
thanks for the help
sounds great but..
This is also something that I have wanted to change. However, I can't get it to work. What values are people using for XX?
wow, thanks for this solution! Just two lines were really annoying before.. ;-)
I tried height=70 and it works! You can read the 4 last lines you wrote! That's better!
I edited this file by copy thread_sms.htm on my computer. I removed "read only" option and modify height=35 to height=70. Next I upload this file on "my document" folder. With Resco File explorer, I removed "read only" option in the original file then I copy the modified file from "My Document" to "Windows". The original files has been overwriting. Finally, I checked "read only" on the new file property.
embarrasing
I realise this seems crazy, but I can't get it to work and have no managed to corrupt the file. Could someone post their copy of thread_sms or pm me so I can have it emailed
the problem for me seems to be that thread_sms is a ROM file.. Even if I delete it with total commander it reappears after a soft reset
axlback said:
the problem for me seems to be that thread_sms is a ROM file.. Even if I delete it with total commander it reappears after a soft reset
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I just gave it a try with total commander. works like a charm ... i only hat to do a soft reset until the new settings were applied.
Brilliant!
I've been wandering how to do this since I got the thing cause the reply box was tiny!
I'm now on the 2nd smallest font, with the box set at 50 and I get 4 lines - which is perfect.
Can someone add this to the tweaks list?
p3eps said:
Brilliant!
I've been wandering how to do this since I got the thing cause the reply box was tiny!
I'm now on the 2nd smallest font, with the box set at 50 and I get 4 lines - which is perfect.
Can someone add this to the tweaks list?
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hi there... i am really new in this forum. do u think u can teach me how to reduce the height? i have no idea how its done from the description in the previous post. thanks for your help
i suppose this is only apply to ALL MESSAGES view screen
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Hi,
I have a Treo 750v (Vodafone version) which like what it's box said it is meant for email solution, that's why the left soft menu of the Today screen menu is set to Email.
Anyone know how to change this?
Thanks, appriciate your share of knowledge!
I forgot the details but this i know as much
You have to download the register editor program. Search around the registry is all the same when it comes to changing soft key for all WM phones.
The only problem with the Treo 750 is when you change the softkey from email to something else it ends up adding an extra short cut. So in essence you are not overwriting that key, all you are doing is adding an extra feature on top of the existing email button.
Maybe someone had better success than I did can chime in
Using a registry editor, navigate to Hkey_Current_User/Software/Microsoft/Today/Keys/112
Change all 3 values to reflect your new function
or:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Universal_Registry
awesome!
mtiberio said:
or:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Universal_Registry
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wow, thank you very much mtiberio!
your link really hit the spot!
Very odd - my Registry setting for 112 was already showing Calendar as the default value but on screen it shows email.
tinyflier said:
Very odd - my Registry setting for 112 was already showing Calendar as the default value but on screen it shows email.
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It's all because Palm plugins - they overlay it. If you disable Active Call (or Dial Lookup?) you can have native-windows softkeys. It was all described in instructions how to ged back default dialpad.
i just downloaded the soft key changer that i found on here i think it was in the hermes section and copied it to my windows folder... after i did that it shows up in my settings and i can change both soft keys to what i want
was it:
"FdcSoft SoftkeyAppletEx.cab"
Gyngabread Man said:
i just downloaded the soft key changer that i found on here i think it was in the hermes section and copied it to my windows folder... after i did that it shows up in my settings and i can change both soft keys to what i want
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it would be great if you share the file or where you get it, so we all can get it too...
mtiberio said:
was it:
"FdcSoft SoftkeyAppletEx.cab"
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it is caled softkeyapplet but its not a cab it was a zip i just unzipped and put in my windows folder i believe... i will look in my external driveand post it im not sure where it is but i'll try to find it
ok i found it on my drive but i did some searching on the forums and alot of ppl mention it but dont upload it and im guessing its for good reason... dont wanna piss ppl off by posting something i shouldent if its ok though then i'll do it but i think its the same one your talking about for me it worked like a charm no reg editing
Here it is:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=65261&d=1199898052
Found it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1802007&postcount=827
You will need to reset your device for it to show up in your programs list.
Chillin said:
Here it is:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=65261&d=1199898052
Found it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1802007&postcount=827
You will need to reset your device for it to show up in your programs list.
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Hi, thannks for the direct links. I'm going to try installing it. i hope it'll be fine.
seems it doesn't work with wm6. after installing it, the program isnt available in my program.
is there a way anyone can add more then the default 18 programs into the programs tab in tf3d
thanx guys
anyone????
Go to your registry: HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgrammLauncher\
There are entries from 0 to 17, you could add more but some ppl report problems with it!
k thank you
how do i add more entries???
What would be super-neat is if you could add a tab for each swipe, so a left swipe gave you another page, up swipe, down swipe and right swipe all gave their own page as well.
You could have office stuff-up, system stuff-down, fun stuff-right, media stuff-left or something. That'd rock.
No idea if thats possible though, I couldn't code my way out of a wet paper bag :>
Cheers for the tip, i'll try it.
riverer said:
What would be super-neat is if you could add a tab for each swipe, so a left swipe gave you another page, up swipe, down swipe and right swipe all gave their own page as well.
You could have office stuff-up, system stuff-down, fun stuff-right, media stuff-left or something. That'd rock.
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That would be really great! Maybe someone can do this. I'm not familiar with programming for win mobile.
i would love for someone to answer my question!
I didn't figure out how to add them either, looked a bit complicated to me. If you could copy-paste-rename the entries already there it'd be easy but me reg-editer didn't allow me to do that.
same with mine :-( please someone help!!! with a link to a better reg editor
Not as easy though
htcfanboi said:
same with mine :-( please someone help!!! with a link to a better reg editor
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Hi guys,
I just tested this , if you add new Keys (18/19 etc ) to the registry , tf3d will
display the additional empty slots , will allow you to select a program for them , but will not
save your changes ... i.e. these will always remain empty .....
Even if you change it from the registry and add a program in a new slot manually .... tf3d will ignore that
So there must be a different place ( or hardcoded in manila.exe ) which needs changing too
i dont understand what you are saying???
htcfanboi said:
i dont understand what you are saying???
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Huh , I didn't think my english was that bad
If you edit the registry and add Keys for additional buttons , TF3D will show them ( as empty ) but they will not work ... I.E. you can't assign any program to the buttons you added
So the registry hack alone is not enuff
Garfield1970 said:
Huh , I didn't think my english was that bad
If you edit the registry and add Keys for additional buttons , TF3D will show them ( as empty ) but they will not work ... I.E. you can't assign any program to the buttons you added
So the registry hack alone is not enuff
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Your english was perfectly fine
ok but may i ask what registry edit you used
I would like to know how can I change the font size in messages? The size changed, but I do not know because of what. I put a 75% interest in the options but this does not change. Help me please!
Touch the white-illuminated middle wheel and gently make circles like you'd do to your girlfriend
(or .... RTFM )
Riel said:
Touch the white-illuminated middle wheel and gently make circles like you'd do to your girlfriend
(or .... RTFM )
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Wish I'd known this yesterday. I spent ages figuring this out. Ended up changing it via Settings>System>Screen, but that also changes the size of your inbox.
Good tip. Thanks!
I saw wired side effect, but I m using it, first open one of your emails from inbox, after that open sms from Text inbox, you will see fonts become bigger...
Riel said:
Touch the white-illuminated middle wheel and gently make circles like you'd do to your girlfriend
(or .... RTFM )
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Nice tip this one.......wil try on the girlfriend too
Thanks !
lol ok ... I'm stupid. Thanks
Hey all,
Got my new diamond. Love it to bits. Only one bit that's started to drive me round the bend. There must be a solution somewhere.....
I was quite pleased to see the text message conversation feature - you know the one where you can type beneath a text you've recieved to reply and reffer to the previous text as you're doing so, also if you scroll up you'll see your whole convo with that contact. Nice feature....
However:
The window for replying in is SO SMALL that I can't actually read what I'm typing. I get almost the lenght of a whole letter in it so i can kind of read a few words but scrolling is impossible.
The scroll up and down arrows are right next to each other.
It's highly impractical and almost impossible to use. Worst when keyboard and T9 are activated.
Anyone know how to fix this?
I tried clicking on the black divider line between the original message and the reply you're typing and dragging it up.
No luck....
All help greatfully recieved (doubtless I'm missing something?)
There is a solution (have you searched?)
You need to edit thread_sms.htm in the windows folder. You'll need to use Total Commander to edit the file because it's a protected ROM file.
Or just use the newer, smaller keyboards that are just as practical and take less of the screen.
nuke1 said:
Or just use the newer, smaller keyboards that are just as practical and take less of the screen.
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Not sure which keyboards you mean but it won't help since the reply section of the page is a fixed height. Altering it so that you can see more than one line of the reply can be very useful.
On the subject of keyboards, I want to recommend TouchPal (again) - not only is the keypad resizable (by dragging), it has better T9 input and the word candidates don't stick up above the top of the keyboard. This means the window resizing works properly and it doesn't have the bug on tapping the screen when selecting a candidate in Opera.
Davey101 said:
Not sure which keyboards you mean...
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I think he's referring to new the keyboard in the 2.00.421.1 Diamond ROM image. pistonripper has cooked a custom, lightweight version.
Davey101 said:
There is a solution (have you searched?)
You need to edit thread_sms.htm in the windows folder. You'll need to use Total Commander to edit the file because it's a protected ROM file.
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Yep searched google repeatedly before I came here. Figured google would turn results up from here but hey, could just be my dyslexia. Thanks for the help. I'll see what I can find on here about total commander and thread_sms.htm to figure it out.
Wish me luck
Thanks a lot guys! That solved it I REALLY appreciate the help.
If anyone else has the same problem it's as the guys said: google 'total commander pda' get the .cab file from their site (you want the Pocket PC one obviously).
Install it by popping it on your diamond and clicking it on file explorer.
Then use the file menu to search for 'thread_sms.htm'
When it shows up click the edit button (first icon, the one to the right of the word 'show' bit of paper with a pen next to it).
I changed the height on one of the lines contained 'composesubject' and width 98% from 35 up to 70. Saved and went back into sms.
Tada.
Beutiful three lines.
Thanks again to all who helped and search for thread_sms.htm on this site if you need more help as a lot of the guys have solved it.
Lastly for the google folks here are a few words that might help them find this:
diamond sms window screen too small one line tiny conversation text message reply can't read
Nice one
hi there. don't know if that's the best section where ask about my question.
i am using smaller htc and manila menus on my diamond.
the menu in album is a lot bigger (and still green,will change it to grey asap).
i'd like to resize it like the others but i don't have a clue of the values to use to do it.
can someone help me with that? here's some screenshots of my idea..
htc menu (all ext apps)
manila menu (sense UI related)
album menu (not resized yet)
i know that the files to edit the album menu size are those ones:
ha_skin_l.xml
ha_skin_p.xml
and resize all the
ha_menu_focus_*.bmp files,which are the "menu bars".
but i don't know nothing about xml. they look like:
Code:
<imgview x="0" y="0" w="480" h="640" bgclr="220,220,220" img_dv_drm="ha_dv_drm.bmp" img_dv_drm_mask="ha_dv_drm_mask.bmp"/>
<menubar x="0" y="588" w="480" h="52" clr="255,255,255" selclr="100,100,100" bgclr="50,50,50" maskclr="175,175,175" img="ha_menubar_p.bmp" img_mask="ha_menubar_p_mask.bmp"/>
<popupmenu x="20" y="8" w="440" h="580" clr="0,0,0" fsize="28" fweight="550" bgclr="255,255,255" selbgclr="101,174,0" selfgclr="67,128,0" borderclr="100,100,100" disclr="116,116,116" itemshift1="23" itemshift2="40" itemheight="80" rows="7" navi_rows="6" img_arrow_up="ha_arrow_up.bmp" img_arrow_up_mask="ha_arrow_up_mask.bmp" img_arrow_up_dis="ha_arrow_up_dis.bmp" img_arrow_up_dis_mask="ha_arrow_up_dis_mask.bmp" img_arrow_dn="ha_arrow_dn.bmp" img_arrow_dn_mask="ha_arrow_dn_mask.bmp" img_arrow_dn_dis="ha_arrow_dn_dis.bmp" img_arrow_dn_dis_mask="ha_arrow_dn_dis_mask.bmp" img_arrow_rt="ha_arrow_rt.bmp" img_arrow_rt_mask="ha_arrow_rt_mask.bmp" img_arrow_rt_dis="ha_arrow_rt_dis.bmp" img_arrow_rt_dis_mask="ha_arrow_rt_dis_mask.bmp" img_nav_top="ha_menu_navi_none_t_p.bmp" img_nav_top_f="ha_menu_navi_none_t_f_p.bmp" img_nav_bottom="ha_menu_navi_none_b_p.bmp" img_nav_bottom_f="ha_menu_navi_none_b_f_p.bmp" img_focus_top="ha_menu_focus_t_p.bmp" img_focus_mid="ha_menu_focus_m_p.bmp" img_focus_bottom="ha_menu_focus_b_p.bmp" img_focus_top_hl="ha_menu_focus_t_h_p.bmp" img_focus_mid_hl="ha_menu_focus_m_h_p.bmp" img_focus_bottom_hl="ha_menu_focus_b_h_p.bmp"/>
<popupmenu_rotate x="30" y="8" w="580" h="420" clr="0,0,0" fsize="28" fweight="550" bgclr="255,255,255" selbgclr="200,200,200" selfgclr="171,171,171" borderclr="100,100,100" disclr="116,116,116" itemshift1="23" itemshift2="40" itemheight="80" rows="5" navi_rows="4" img_arrow_up="ha_arrow_up.bmp" img_arrow_up_mask="ha_arrow_up_mask.bmp" img_arrow_up_dis="ha_arrow_up_dis.bmp" img_arrow_up_dis_mask="ha_arrow_up_dis_mask.bmp" img_arrow_dn="ha_arrow_dn.bmp" img_arrow_dn_mask="ha_arrow_dn_mask.bmp" img_arrow_dn_dis="ha_arrow_dn_dis.bmp" img_arrow_dn_dis_mask="ha_arrow_dn_dis_mask.bmp" img_arrow_rt="ha_arrow_rt.bmp" img_arrow_rt_mask="ha_arrow_rt_mask.bmp" img_arrow_rt_dis="ha_arrow_rt_dis.bmp" img_arrow_rt_dis_mask="ha_arrow_rt_dis_mask.bmp" img_nav_top="ha_menu_navi_none_t_l.bmp" img_nav_top_f="ha_menu_navi_none_t_f_l.bmp" img_nav_bottom="ha_menu_navi_none_b_l.bmp" img_nav_bottom_f="ha_menu_navi_none_b_f_l.bmp" img_focus_top="ha_menu_focus_t_l.bmp" img_focus_mid="ha_menu_focus_m_l.bmp" img_focus_bottom="ha_menu_focus_b_l.bmp" img_focus_top_hl="ha_menu_focus_t_h_l.bmp" img_focus_mid_hl="ha_menu_focus_m_h_l.bmp" img_focus_bottom_hl="ha_menu_focus_b_h_l.bmp"/>
<prop_image>
i attached the full package for those who will try to help me (if any ) thank you
c'mon,nobody good at XML here?
etoy said:
but i don't know nothing about xml.
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Well, points for self-knowledge must be granted, you really aren't good at this.
Just play with the values man, just guess and try, starting with the "itemheight="80" rows="7" portion I would suggest.
cybermaus said:
Well, points for self-knowledge must be granted, you really aren't good at this.
Just play with the values man, just guess and try, starting with the "itemheight="80" rows="7" portion I would suggest.
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hi m8,i really don't want that someone else does the whole job for me. i always do my tests before begging for help,i already did some tests but without good results. i already tried both "itemheight" and "rows",as fsize (font size?) but i had no luck. i thought there's some other values that i ignored as less "visible" than those two that are the best candidates. that's why i said i don't know nothing about xml. btw thanks a lot for the reply,that's such an invitation to try again and again
etoy said:
btw thanks a lot for the reply,that's such an invitation to try again and again
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Thats OK, I can always blacklist you
Anyway, if you played with the values, and got no result, than I am afraid I am not going to be able to help. Other than maybe remarking: Did you restart the device after changing the values? It may need a restart to reread the file.