Hi all, i wanna ask if i should install mobile shell onto my kaiser? really luv the page of mobile shell but heard it drain out the battery and slow down the ram...is that true?
i want something to display my battery % without clicking in as well a clena calender on interface...pls let me know which software provide it.
thks alot!
p.s. the Kaiser really smooth runnign so far + the radio rom really much improved comapre to my previous Trinty.
Yes it's true!
From my experiences, everything you've heard about the SPB shell and other apps (Diary, Weather, etc.) do in fact drain the battery! There is also a noticeable slowdown in performance with these running.
With these installed and enabled on my Task Window, I go from 100% charge down to 60% in about 3 hours. I was obviously tethered to a power plug or car adapter.
I've opted to go with the native HTC Home plugin and will work this weekend to customize the weather, the CUBE, icons, and all the other goodies.
TEC
chocodip said:
Hi all, i wanna ask if i should install mobile shell onto my kaiser? really luv the page of mobile shell but heard it drain out the battery and slow down the ram...is that true?
i want something to display my battery % without clicking in as well a clena calender on interface...pls let me know which software provide it.
thks alot!
p.s. the Kaiser really smooth runnign so far + the radio rom really much improved comapre to my previous Trinty.
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I am in the same boat as you and I was just debating myself on the same thing.......
I had used many SPB software and had SPB MS/Backup/PhoneSuite on my P3600i prior to the Kaiser. But HTC Home gave me substantially similar functionality (except for SBP Backup which I installed on my Kaiser), I am very hesitant in installing SPB software if they are not needed, especially when the Kaiser is so stable without MS/PhoneSuite.......
I use HTC home plugin and the battery life is good.
For battery indicator, I suggest "batti"
http://pda.jasnapaka.com/batti/
It is very light, very small, works well, customizeable
For calendar, you may look Calendar+ or TodayAgenda.
Btw, do you use SPB GPRS Monitor as well?
I am considering of using it, but thinking of memory drain.
hey all,
thks for all da infos~~~i think i will keep my HTC instead. Since it's really smooth runnin dun wanna slow down by any softwares.
Kaiser is soooo much improved on speed .......previous i hv problem with mapking R12 (the speed , the reaction.....just so dead slow) now really kickin off!
i m luvin it!~~
ps. For the Batti software....seems it's similar to the preinstall one...anyone?
No, it is not the same
Batti gives you "line" indicator at the very top of your sceen.
chocodip said:
hey all,
thks for all da infos~~~i think i will keep my HTC instead. Since it's really smooth runnin dun wanna slow down by any softwares.
Kaiser is soooo much improved on speed .......previous i hv problem with mapking R12 (the speed , the reaction.....just so dead slow) now really kickin off!
i m luvin it!~~
ps. For the Batti software....seems it's similar to the preinstall one...anyone?
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but i got the line indicator now as well.....hmm.......
I immediately switched back to Mobile Shell. Don't get me wrong; the default design of WM6 is fine but the clock is way to large and some tabs really bug me (like quick-choice for the sound profiles).
My phones need to have a clean interface so now I'm only running the default install of Mobile Shell, Owner and Calendar. Loads of room on screen to spare for new/cool apps.
SPB Shell is the way for me.
My experience is that with HTC Home plug-in battery drained faster than with SBP Shell. I also find Shell easier to use with fingers. An more configurable.
I have cLaunch with large iPhone icones attached to one of the Shell's tabs - works very nice.
Quick question for you Mobile Shell user
I like the PHOTO tab in the HTC Home where you can put 9 pictures for speed dial.
And I saw SpB shell can have that too.
But from the screenshot in the website, it displays about 5 pictures ...
Actually, how much can you have with Mobile Shell?
Thanks
gogol said:
Quick question for you Mobile Shell user
I like the PHOTO tab in the HTC Home where you can put 9 pictures for speed dial.
And I saw SpB shell can have that too.
But from the screenshot in the website, it displays about 5 pictures ...
Actually, how much can you have with Mobile Shell?
Thanks
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Mobile Shell can have 3-4 contact tabs with 5 contacts each.......
oh....HTC plugin drain faster the mobile shell? u serious? oh man....wut should i do now....
Hmmm, too little
mlai said:
Mobile Shell can have 3-4 contact tabs with 5 contacts each.......
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That is interesting...
chocodip said:
oh....HTC plugin drain faster the mobile shell? u serious? oh man....wut should i do now....
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Yea...I didn't find this to be true at all in my case. The native HTC plugins don't drain my battery at all.
I've now removed all SPB apps and am running just the HTC Home plugin. I now got the CUBE to animate so I'm really excited! I'll work on more CUBE and Home plugin customizations.
TEC
where u gt the cube? can u post the link?
thks
Go here...
chocodip said:
where u gt the cube? can u post the link?
thks
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=326523&page=2&highlight=touch.dll+cube
Check out Post #11...
TEC
I love SPB Mobile Shell, I was using it with my original TyTN. However, for some reason, it kept freezing my TyTN II device whenever I key locked it. I also noticed my device was sluggish with it. I am NOT a fan of the HTC Shell one bit. It takes up the whole screen. So, now I use iLauncher for my shortcuts to programs or as my shortcut phone calls to contacts.
I hope SPB Mobile Shell comes out with a new release which corrects many of these issues.
technillion said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=326523&page=2&highlight=touch.dll+cube
Check out Post #11...
TEC
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I cant seem to get it to install. Are you using HTC Home - stock, out of the box? I have Home Customizer on mine and keep getting the black screen.
Thanks.
-Jeff
Use Batti for Battery Display ALL THE WAY! (Since Blue Angel...)
I got my TyTN(Hell it is hard to type it right) yesterday and i find the HTC Home application very neat. Compared to SPB Shell, I think i will use the HTC Home and forget about installing the resource exhaustive SPB applications(not too bad but still)
SPB Shell needs some refining before i will consider it again.
I used Mobile shell on my 8125. Loved it. but i find that everything i used it for is now built in to my TyTN II. Weather, photo speed dial, program shortcuts, time, phone ringer settings switching.. There is no need for the now screen with the HTC home plugin.. I did use spb menu but now that my new device actually has a start menu button this really isn't needed any more either. So i saved myself a ton of ram and skipped on Mobile shell.
I did install diary though. It is still the best calendar today plugin for me. I disabled all the tabs except the calendar tab and have it setting just bellow HTC home.. works well. And you know what? it is actaully very fast and doesn't use very much ram if you disable all the tabs
Is anybody using a GPRS Monitor on this device?
I tried the special version of Efficasoft Smartphone GPRS Traffic Monitor (http://www.efficasoft.com/gprsmonitor_w.html) but i did not work. In the options menu, i ave only wwan1 and that one do not produce any traffic.
Some ideas or suggestions?
Try Spb GPRS Monitor. Work good for me.
Thx for your reply, but is no freeware for this simple task available?
Georgo10 said:
Try Spb GPRS Monitor. Work good for me.
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I am using Vox device where this soft is not working. As far as I know Wings and Vox have the same version of WM installed....
I have asked SPB for support and they told me that SPB GPRS Monitor does not support WM 6 at all!!!
Efficasoft gprs monitor V3.6 work for me on S730 ( don't use the special version 3.51W ). simple and low cost...
vdavide
vdavide said:
Efficasoft gprs monitor V3.6 work for me on S730 ( don't use the special version 3.51W ). simple and low cost...
vdavide
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Ok I never tried the normal version because on Vox only the special version works.
Thx for that tip.
Now the Monitor works with my Wings BUT after updating version the homescreen plugin is some kind of disabled.
Could somebody post his plugin entry out of his homescreen xml so that i could have look at clsid and so on.
just get facade and enable the plugin. i made it work with Efficasoft gprs monitor and its on my homescreen with current data consumption etc. it is PERFECT for me
Hi,
I am using SPB Softwarehouse GPRS Monitor on my S730. But I can not select a connection to be monitored. There is no finish Button for selection. Does anyone know how to active this in the registry?
A.Bagatov said:
just get facade and enable the plugin. i made it work with Efficasoft gprs monitor and its on my homescreen with current data consumption etc. it is PERFECT for me
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I've just reinstalled and now it works. Properly i had no clean uninstall of previous version.
hey all, does anyone know if there's software out there to track data usage?
searched around but haven't had much luck
thanks
batterystatus - http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_batterystatus_xda_neo_wm5_im_cs.htm
lcminutes - http://lctools.blogspot.com/
I personally prefer batterystatus though
I'm using SPB GPRS Monitor. Works great. Ofcourse works for 3G too.
StarMonkee said:
batterystatus - http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_batterystatus_xda_neo_wm5_im_cs.htm
lcminutes - http://lctools.blogspot.com/
I personally prefer batterystatus though
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thanks for the info guys. batterystatus doesn't seem to be working properly- doesn't update any data usage though sms is fine. anyone shed some light on that.
lcminutes isn't very user friendlyand spb isn't freeware. lol
is there anything else ?
batterystatus doesn't update data info anyone found that issue? sms is fine tho.
any other apps out there?
thanks guys
update: oops double post
I ve used this program to. Works ok and keeps diagrams of my GPRS data counter but sorry. It doesnt count any 3G data...
Running a custom setting
My retail Diamond came with the full version of spb gprs monitor on an official CD inside the box. It was originally a ME diamond (now flashed to a European ROM). Maybe certain regions don't include it. Its a good piece of software that I used on my last PDA aswell.
Batterystatus works fine for me. In the options, you need to enable the data counting and select which connections to monitor.
It also needs to be running at all times to monitor. As it's a today plugin, this is only possible if you've got secondtoday running.
I find the best thing to do is use secondtoday with batterystatus on the second home screen, and set secondtoday to auto start when the device does (this way it will always be running)
please anyone can tell me a good and simple gprs traffic monitor free, that works in wm6.1
rodolfogomes75 said:
please anyone can tell me a good and simple gprs traffic monitor free, that works in wm6.1
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Spb wireless monitor
ok, but for free?
spb gprs monitor
searched for SPB wireless monitor (for free) but all I could find is SPB GPRS monitor. Might this be the same thing? (yes, I know, GPRS!=WiFi)Will search further anyway.
cut that, found spb wireless monitor. Interested?
where?...please
Ive got some pretty unpleasant fees from my carrier if I go over my 50mb data limit and their site is really slow to update data usage.
does anyone know of a good ap that I can run to kee track of my in/outbound data usage?
Thanks,
Nic
I use SPB Wireless Monitor
I also use the spb monitor, but its not freeware..
so this could be a good alternative:
PPC Interface Monitor (cant post the link cause I have no permission for that xD) but you can find it on freewarepocketpc.net
haven´t tested it by now.. but the describtion seems pretty similar to your needs i think
greez
Spb GPRS monitor is a pretty reliable program i know your looking for freeware but its my opinion ya know