Database Develop

HTC home or SPB mobile shell?

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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.......
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

That is interesting...
chocodip said:
oh....HTC plugin drain faster the mobile shell? u serious? oh man....wut should i do now....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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

spb mobile shell 2.0 vs Dutty...

anyone care to chime in on this??? Is it worth going to the spb? Can you install over top of latest Dutty? Looks pretty cool!

Dutty is a rom..... SPB MS 2.0 is a program. It'll run on any rom.

Yeah I know that it is... I guess I was meaning how does it compare to just running HTC home? Worth the buy?

airric00 said:
Yeah I know that it is... I guess I was meaning how does it compare to just running HTC home? Worth the buy?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can download a trial for it. Mods please move this thread the Kaiser Software forum.

but this has nothing to do with dutty's rom..
for me its worth the buy...read more on the spb website

sorry..
Guess I should have posted over there sorry..

SBP products run great and are essential for any phone but I only use SBPdiary w/HTCH on my Today screen. Most of their products run great in the background, SBPTime for powerful alarm clock, stop watch, and world timer. SPB Phone Suite excellent calling features that can run in the background as well.
I typically enjoy HTCHC but from time to time I wish I had the artistic and technological skills to create something different

I have a Tilt, and I tried installing both SPB Shell 2.0 and SPB Pocket Plus 4 on Dutty's April 1st rom, and they worked but did one weird thing, when the phone would boot up the signal would go in and out, flashing there, then not there, then there etc., it would do this for almost a minute before finally locking on a signal.

airric00 said:
Yeah I know that it is... I guess I was meaning how does it compare to just running HTC home? Worth the buy?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I would say that the SPB Mobile Screen 2 program is awesome! I have been using it on top of Dutty's Light rom and it works great. Real smooth and responsive, lots of customization options as well as nice fit and finish which is hard to find on a WM6 product.
If you want a free version you can always check out .... to find all the crack codes for almost any software package out there.
As far as the downsides go, it eats battery faster than normal, it does not run on your today screen which bothers me and you can OK through it and go back to your today screen. That problem is slightly solved by SPB making it your default app when you start up the phone and bring it back from sleep which elevates most of the issues.
I just flashed my phone and am going to try giving HTC Home Live a chance, but if I do not think it is customizable enough I am going straight back to SPB... Before I forget to mention, SPB has one of the best opening screens I have seen so far, it has a email, missed calls and text messages right on the front, as well as weather, call options, clock, and the best part a calendar with dates and your schedule all in an easy to read form.
I hope this clears up something for you. Hopefully you wont have to pay for it, but if you do, I would actually say it is worth the 30 bucks.

brianlau said:
If you want a free version you can always check out removed by me to find all the crack codes for almost any software package out there.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have you lost your mind man? Warez is strictly prohibited here. I suggest you edit it out. Please no warez, cracks, serials, keygens or anything of the sort.

P1Tater said:
Have you lost your mind man? Warez is strictly prohibited here. I suggest you edit it out. Please no warez, cracks, serials, keygens or anything of the sort.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry my bad. Just trying to help people out. Will know now for next time.

I use spb mobile shell and love it. its very finger freindly and extremely useful.

californiarailroader said:
I have a Tilt, and I tried installing both SPB Shell 2.0 and SPB Pocket Plus 4 on Dutty's April 1st rom, and they worked but did one weird thing, when the phone would boot up the signal would go in and out, flashing there, then not there, then there etc., it would do this for almost a minute before finally locking on a signal.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's because weather updates on bootup.
It sucks but does level off & then everything works.
Besides that, they both work excellent for me together

airric00 said:
Guess I should have posted over there sorry..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I tried the spb mobile shell trial and it's also nice.
Try Pointui as well, you might like it and not buy spb mobile shell at all. The last time I tried this was when it just came out in Alpha stage and it did quite well and was fast with the original, slow wm6 OS that came with my Tilt

dwny said:
That's because weather updates on bootup.
It sucks but does level off & then everything works.
Besides that, they both work excellent for me together
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ahh, so that's what's causing it, I was going nuts trying to figure out why that was happening with them, thanks dwny! It does level off after a minute or so like you said and then it's fine, I was thinking it was screwing with my signal or phone, but if it's normal and not a problem, I am putting them back on. I am so glad you posted this, I was missing my SPB stuff, HTC Home just isn't cutting it for me. I had hard reset the Tilt and reloaded Dutty's Rom, and left off those programs because, like I said, I thought it was an error.
Edit-If I shut off the weather, will it stop that behavior? I don't use the weather on SPB MS, It doesn't have the weather for my town of Redwood Valley, I use Weather Bug and Weather Watcher for that. It's weird, I didn't have this issue when running MS or PP on Laurentius's ROM's. I take it that the signal thing is only visual, ie.the signal is actually okay, but while it's updating at boot up it "shows" it as going in and out, no?

andrukit said:
I tried the spb mobile shell trial and it's also nice.
Try Pointui as well, you might like it and not buy spb mobile shell at all. The last time I tried this was when it just came out in Alpha stage and it did quite well and was fast with the original, slow wm6 OS that came with my Tilt
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Be careful with Point UI, it's tricky to uninstall (there is no uninstall for it in the "remove programs" page), and it leaves pieces of itself of it allover. I tried it too, and it has a ton of potential, but they really need a way to get it off the phone, right now it's an exercise in frustation.

californiarailroader said:
Be careful with Point UI, it's tricky to uninstall (there is no uninstall for it in the "remove programs" page), and it leaves pieces of itself of it allover. I tried it too, and it has a ton of potential, but they really need a way to get it off the phone, right now it's an exercise in frustation.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Quick question, what did you think of Point UI? worth installing and flashing again? I am fumbling around with a lot of different UIs? I have tried Ultimate Launch (bit too complicated for me to setup the way I want, SPB Mobile Shell, (but it drains too much batt), HTC home (not customizable enough.) If you could let me know a little more about the POINT UI that would be awesome before I put it on my phone. Thanks buddy.
Brian

brianlau said:
Quick question, what did you think of Point UI? worth installing and flashing again? I am fumbling around with a lot of different UIs? I have tried Ultimate Launch (bit too complicated for me to setup the way I want, SPB Mobile Shell, (but it drains too much batt), HTC home (not customizable enough.) If you could let me know a little more about the POINT UI that would be awesome before I put it on my phone. Thanks buddy.
Brian
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
you tried htc home customizer w/ quick launcher?
There are many customized icons, clocks, backgrounds, and weather views. In addition w/ quick launcher you have an extra row of tabs, which you can change to go to any program (and icons of course).

I stuck with HTC embedded inside Ultimate Launcher.
Ultimate Laucher is not that complicated if you look carefully a little bit of patience and you'll get the hang of it, moreover you could just copy your Ultimatelauncher.ini file as backup to have the same setup each time in case you like flashing roms a lot.
For HTC Home there's HTC Home Customizer, lots of icons to download.
I've tried most of them, but i always end up with the simplest setup I guess I got tired of fancy sliding and multiple clicks, the fewer clicks to find what I need does it for me.
Btw, there's another nice today app I'd like you to see it's rlToday Check it out
brianlau said:
Quick question, what did you think of Point UI? worth installing and flashing again? I am fumbling around with a lot of different UIs? I have tried Ultimate Launch (bit too complicated for me to setup the way I want, SPB Mobile Shell, (but it drains too much batt), HTC home (not customizable enough.) If you could let me know a little more about the POINT UI that would be awesome before I put it on my phone. Thanks buddy.
Brian
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

SPB Mobile Shell & Freezing Touchscreen

I installed SPB mobile shell 2 days ago and was delighted with its functionality but shortly afterwards my touchscreen stopped working completely. i had to hard reset my phone to get the touchscreen working again.
i installed nothing but spb mobile shell when i restored the settings and the same thing happened again (this was a test not just me being stupid)
anyone had this problem? if so any solutions?
is there any other shells out there with equally good functionality?
thanks in advance

lassykk said:
i installed nothing but spb mobile shell when i restored the settingsand the same thing happened again (this was a test not just me being stupid)
anyone had this problem? if so any solutions?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What do you mean when by restored the settings? Are you trying to restore from a backup program (Sprite backup, Spb backup etc etc)? Or do you just mean your going into the program and doing the settings from Mobile Shells interface?
I haven'e experienced the loss of touchscreen in my use.

sorry i meant i reinstalled the mobile shell after the hard reset... i worded it badly

lassykk said:
sorry i meant i reinstalled the mobile shell after the hard reset... i worded it badly
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have Mobile Shell 2.0 on my phone as well but do not have the same problems as you. Are you still running the stock ATT Rom? Thats probably the issue, I had Mobile Shell 2.0 on my cousins phone on a stock ATT Rom and it ran so slow it appeared as thought he touch screen wasnt working, but it just responded very slowly. I have installed MS 2.0 about 30 times on multiple different phones and have not had that issue.

I'm runnning the t-mobile rom that came with my english version of the phone. Its ok i've got SPB pocket plus running the way i want it so i'm happy with that... i'll live without the Mobile shell. Thanks though

lassykk said:
I'm runnning the t-mobile rom that came with my english version of the phone. Its ok i've got SPB pocket plus running the way i want it so i'm happy with that... i'll live without the Mobile shell. Thanks though
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I loved SPB Pocket Plus for a few months but once I started using mobile shell it was over for pocket plus. Much better integration and look and feel. I would def flash the rom as that is most likely the problem, MS is pretty processor intensive and will chew up your memory. May I ask what is your storage and program memory usage after you soft reset your phone?

Storage Memory Free after soft reset 93.73MB
Program Memory Free after soft reset 69.47MB
Thinking of switching to ifonz to see what that is like for a while but I really like the way I have pocket plus set up and the integration of finger friendly contacts and palm threaded sms from the forum
i did like the integration of mobile shell but i'm delighted with the phone at the moment as i got tomtom set up yesterday

lassykk said:
Storage Memory Free after soft reset 93.73MB
Program Memory Free after soft reset 69.47MB
Thinking of switching to ifonz to see what that is like for a while but I really like the way I have pocket plus set up and the integration of finger friendly contacts and palm threaded sms from the forum
i did like the integration of mobile shell but i'm delighted with the phone at the moment as i got tomtom set up yesterday
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i've been having serious issues with spb shell with some of the newest builds. So i just deleted the program, too bad.

SPB Shell locking phone

Hi Guys
SPB Shell is locking my phone as soon as I try to click any of its options -which is a bit rubbish as you can imagine!
Basicaly, the problems started as soon as I installed the "Diamond Theme for SPB MS2.1" (see thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=402021&highlight=spb+shell+diamond+theme )
When I soft reset, the phone comes back up as the default SPB shell and does not show the new skin (should it?). Now I am new to SPB Shell so I guessed i needed to switch themes? I then click on any SPB menu/option and it freezes instantly, requiring a battery out reboot.
The skin instructions say to copy the skin details into the program files\spb shell directory and thats it, no other instructions.
Yes I have used search but, as that thread has over 1200 replies .... I get more hits than an Uzi at 2 feet. Besides which, is this not an SPB Shell issue rather than a theme? Of course, it could also be "pilot error" i.e. im being an idiot!
Im running standard, out of the box, Diamond with no cooked roms. I am also using the latest trial verion of SPB from the SPB website.
Any ideas? Am I being a muppet?

The problem is that the skins you have tried to put in SPB is in QVGA whereas the Diamond is VGA so it is uncompatible.
For the moment there are no many VGA skins but you can find some here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=405646

I downloaded some VGA specific skins..... unless they were labeled wrong?

Monty Burns said:
I downloaded some VGA specific skins..... unless they were labeled wrong?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I tried the VGA skins and also had problems. The skins did not look very appealing anyway. Ended up reinstalling SPB Mobile Shell which overwrote the new skin with the original and all is good again.
Extremely impressed with SBP Mobile Shell. The interface is as fast as the iPhone, is highly functional, and looks great also with its 3D effects. Have now given up on Touchflow 3D.
Strongly recommend all Diamond users at least try SPB Mobile Shell.

Riker88 said:
I tried the VGA skins and also had problems. The skins did not look very appealing anyway. Ended up reinstalling SPB Mobile Shell which overwrote the new skin with the original and all is good again.
Extremely impressed with SBP Mobile Shell. The interface is as fast as the iPhone, is highly functional, and looks great also with its 3D effects. Have now given up on Touchflow 3D.
Strongly recommend all Diamond users at least try SPB Mobile Shell.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's right. I try Mobile Shell and I am very impressive. This is much faster than TF3D and much more customizable .
Now I am just looking for an application that can replace the media player in the touch flow, instead of using Media player (not really easy to use with the fingers! )

[BUG] Spb Mobilshell 3 and S2P

Hi,
I installed Spb Mobile Shell 3 yesterday.
And damn, it looks really cool and everything is fine except one thing.
When I'm starting S2P the loading-circel rolls and nothing happens.
When I switch to the circle-menue of Spb Mobile Shell 3 (I don't know how wo call it, I hope you know what I mean ^^) My screen freezes and I have to do a soft reset.
It's the same with the new Opera mobile. It also wont start, but if I'm switching to the circle-menue Opera starts. It's also a bug but anyhow it starts.
I like S2P so pls help me if you know any solutions.
Yes I also made a reinstall

Same problem here with s2p.
S2p starts only if i have done a memory cleanup or close (exit) spb mobile shell.
Any help please...
_____________________________________
HTC Touch HD Official rom.

I don't know a solution but maybe it helps:
I use the german 6.5 Rom by bauner, the combination Mobile Shell 3 - S2U2 works great.
Miwu

i use spb ms 3 with energy rom 3 and s2u2 with s2p and it works pretty good, maybe u should change rom

the solution is disable 3D on spb mobile shell, only then start the S2P.
I try to find another solution, because I want to enable 3D. Something in the registry or other version of S2P....
Does anyone know anything?
Thanks for all, and sorry for my poor english.

yamagata9th said:
the solution is disable 3D on spb mobile shell, only then start the S2P.
I try to find another solution, because I want to enable 3D. Something in the registry or other version of S2P....
Does anyone know anything?
Thanks for all, and sorry for my poor english.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi,
I have the same problem, and I tried disabling 3D on SPB MS, but S2P still bugging.
Can anyone help me please?