Top T- Mobile HD2 Tweaks and Hacks. Seems like fresh bread doesn’t sell as well as the HD2 since shops went out of stock on T- Mobile’s HD2 just a few hours after its release, being a real challenge of finding a store that has one at the end of the day, proving once again the popularity of the device and the expectations built upon its release. That being said, we will show you below our top picks on how to tweak and hack your newly acquired device and get the most out of it, structured by the following categories: aspect, performance and usability.
Some of the tweaks presented below will need you to edit the Registry. For information about what Registry is and how to edit it, please read our Tutorial on How to Edit Your Registry in Windows Mobile. Personal note: I use Ce.
Reg. Editor). Important notice: As always before applying mods and tweaks, make sure you have a full device backup handy just in case anything goes wrong and you need a Hard Reset to recover. This will protect your data from being lost. Aspect: 1. One of Touch. FLO 3. D’s main flaw, which is present on the HTC Sense too, was the lack of ability to apply a custom wallpaper to all of the tabs, not just the Home tab. Another one was downscaling of the custom wallpaper so it appeared somewhat blurry. On your T- Mobile HD2, you can use the High Resolution Wallpaper & Slider Editor which allows you to create high quality custom wallpapers to either all of your tabs or just the Home tab. A nice addition to this is High Quality Wallpaper for Home Tab & Manila Start Menu which enables the top taskbar and bottom soft button bar to be part of the wallpaper, by having a background that blends in with your current background.
- Download Free Windows Mobile Registry Editor. The search for better free registry editor does not end here for me. PHM Registry Editor is on my HTC HD2.
- HTC Announced Devices to Receive Android N. OnePlus giving out Free “Loop VR” Headset. WinTT Registry Editor for WP7.
- . but can someone please post a link on what Registry and File Editor to use on the HTC. HD2 HD2 General What Registry and File Editor. Registry editor.
- . Mobile Registry Editor is an application that can be used to edit the. Free Mobile Registry Editor v1.11 apps for. htc hd2 registry editor for.
You can use this program to apply custom slider icons too. Co. 0kie’s Home Tab – Extended Quick. Links, Appointments and More is a Sense Home Tab modification which features Home Tab with 4 views and lots of options, extended Quick Links (quick Links layouts include 3×3, 4×4, 4×5 and 5×5 with up to 3 pages for up to 2. Appointments (up to 5 appointments on the home tab for more than two upcoming days), optional Call History button and much more.
You can read more about it by checking out our post. As an addition to the previous point, Co. Home Tab Editor can be used to edit the settings of the modified Home tab above. You can change the settings without a registry editor, export and import settings and quicklinks, remove dead quicklinks and restarts Sense for immediate changes.
Point your registry editor to HKEY_LOCAL. (Sources combined from XDA Developers and pocketnow. This post has been tagged with: HD2 HTC T-Mobile.
To see how it’s done, read our post and look for the embedded video. Performance: 1. Increase the File System cache size in order to improve file operations.
PHM RegEdit, free download. PHM RegEdit 0.70: Modify the registry on your Pocket PC. Free Download. PHM Registry Editor is very straightforward and easy to use.
Raise the value to a safe level without braking the functionality of HTC Album’s Facebook picture viewer which has been reported of malfunctioning in case of extreme cache levels. Using you registry editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystem. Storage. Manager.
FATFS and change the value of Cache. Size to 4. 09. 6. Do write down the initial values in case you want to revert!)2. Font rendering is crucial with regards to your devices’s performance so in order to achieve better overall performance, you need to raise the cache related to this; it will have as result a smoother font rendering.
Point your registry editor to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystem. GDIGLYPHCACHE and change the value of both strings to 5. Do write down the initial values in case you want to revert!)3. HTC Sense is a nice User Interface but it is also hungry for resources. Allocating more memory to this nice interface will make it more fluid, natural.
You can do that by editing your registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftware. HTCMemory. Required_By. AP and change the value to 5. Do write down the initial values in case you want to revert!)Usability: 1. You’ll find that some of the programs you want to install will not work because they need and updated version of .
NET Compact Framework, usually version 3. Read out Tutorial on How to Upgrade to Microsoft . NET Compact Framework 3.
Opera Mobile is a very nice and fast Internet Browser you’ll quickly get to love. By default, your Opera tabs are limited to three, which means that three is the maximum number of pages you can have open at the same time. What a shame! You can increase that number and unleash the browser by editing the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftware. Opera. Prefs. User Prefs and change the value of Maximum Allowed Tabs from 3 to 6 for instance (or any number of your liking, representing the number of available tabs). One of the greatest annoyances of Opera was the need to zoom out before actually being allowed to tap a link on an Internet page.
There’s a fix for this behavior and to apply it, point your registry editor to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftware. Opera. Info and change the value of az_overview_threshold to 3. Bonus: Should you ever run out of RAM, which I highly doubt given the huge amount of memory this device has, you can use a free memory cleaning application called clean. RAM to free up some of the memory without the need of a Soft Reset (not that it takes a long time for it to boot). On the same note, you can install a modified HTC Task Manager that has been tampered with to work with the HD2. You can really close apps by the X button by using it and thus freeing up the memory it used.
For the connaisseurs, it’s Dutty’s Task Manager for Leo. You can use the 1.
GB Storage Card included to store lots of multimedia files like Music. In this article we show you how to get proper Album Art displayed in Sense’s Music tab.
If your icons don’t look that good because Sense is using a rather large icon size compared to WM6. WM6. 1, here’s a post you can read and follow the instructions on Getting Nice and Sharp Icons on Sense Quick Links in WM6. Last but not least, your T- Mobile HD2’s Wi. Fi card supports Draft N. If you have a Wireless N Router and your HD2 can’t connect, it’s because the N mode is disabled by default.
You can enable it and benefit from N technology by editing the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEComm. BCMSDDHD1. Parms and change the value of 1.
Mode. Disable from 1 to 0.(Sources combined from XDA Developers and pocketnow. What tweaks and hacks would you recommend to new HD2 owners?
How to Edit Your Registry in Windows Mobile. First things first: What’s a “Registry”? Regardless if you’retalking about Desktop, Notebook or Pocket PCs running a certain version of. Microsoft Windows Operating System, they all have a registry, which basicallyis a database of settings and options. According to Wikipedia, “It contains information and settings forhardware, operating system software, most non- operating system software, andper- user settings. The registry also provides a window into the operation ofthe kernel, exposing runtime information such as performance counters andcurrently active hardware.”A deeper look: What’s a “Registry” made of? Registries are made of twocomponents: keys and values and are structured in logicalcomponents called hives.
Look atregistry keys like they were folders,each key having the ability of containing one or several other“subkeys” and so on. Values onthe other hand are name/data pairs which are stored inside keys. Listof WM Registry Value Types. REG_NONENo type. REG_SZA stringvalue. REG_BINARYBinary data(any arbitrary data)REG_DWORDA DWORDvalue, a 3. REG_MULTI_SZAmulti- string value, which is an array of unique strings.
Short examples might be consisting of the following: String values usually are paths to applications orexecutables. A String value example might be: “mp. Windowsmp. 3dec. dll”or. DWord values usually define the enabled/disabled,existing/inexistent, etc. A DWord example could be: "Enabled"=dword: 0. Hives arestructures of a Registry and, in a typical Windows Mobile environment; you willhave the following hives: Listof WM Registry Hives.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTstores information about registeredapplications, such as file associations and OLE Object Class IDs, tying themto the applications used to handle these items. HKEY_CURRENT_USERstores settings that are specific to thecurrently logged- in user. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEstores settings that are specific to thelocal computer/device. HKEY_USERScontains subkeys corresponding to the. HKEY_CURRENT_USER keys for each user profile actively loaded on the machine,though user hives are usually only loaded for currently logged- in users. Thisalso contains valuable keys related information about different users.
Registry editing: principles. Editing your registry basically comes down to a fewoperations you need to understand: adding, deleting and modifying plus registryimport and export. Most of the times, all editing is done on the values, asthey are the ones that have a finality but there are times though when you needto create keys Adding to the registry is done by creating either one ormore values and/or one or more keys. You need to create a value or a key whenthe specific value or key is not in your device’s registry. You createvalues and keys using the same method: tap and hold on an empty space, tap on“New” and select “Key” if you want to create a new Keyor select one of the “DWord”, “String”, “Multistring” or “Binary” in case you want to create a value,depending on the type of your value to be created. Example! Deleting from the registry means that you will physicallyremove something from the registry, so that the reference is no longer to befound.
You might be required to do so in cases you want to revert to defaultsor undo changes made. You modify the values of a Registry when you want toalter behavior related to that exact value. Typical scenarios are: enable/disable, path settings, and value settings. Example! Import and Export functionality is important in a. Registry Editor application as it allows you to import a registry patch (whichconsists of several registry keys and values) rather than doing some huge editsyourself, or to Export existing Registry keys and values for several reasons: backing up, moving to other device, etc. Registry editing: direct on- device registry editing.
The easiest way to edit your registry is to do itdirectly, on your device. The advantages are that you can do this any time, anyplace without the need of wires, connections or a PC. The applications used toedit the Registry this way access the Registry on the device directly and sothey save the changes too. These applications are Device applications whichinstall and run on your Device. Registry editing: remote registry editing.
Heavy Registry editing, in cases you need to undertakeseveral changes in the Registry, might require you to use, for ease of workreasons, applications that edit your registry remotely. What does this mean? Itmeans that you will have your device connected via a wire/Bluetooth to a PCthrough Active. Sync or Windows Mobile Device Center, and the application used toedit the registry will access the Registry from your PC on your device throughthe connection. These applications usually are PC applications which installand run on your PC. Ok – I understand – how can I find registry edits?
We have a whole section in our wiki devoted to Registry Edits. Check it out! Registry editingapplications (just some of them, really)Free: PHMRegistry Editor – Popular Stand- alone Windows Mobile Registry Editorfor Windows Mobile. Ce. Reg. Editor / Ce.
Reg. Editor – Popular Remote Windows Mobile Registry Editor for Desktop. Dotfred’s. Task. Manager – A Free Task Manager Containing a Registry Editor Total. Commander – The Popular File Explorer Alternative With a Registry. Editor Inside. Commercial: SKTools (pocketnow.
Mem. Maid (pocketnow. Resco. Explorer (pocketnow.
Word of Warning! Registry editing canbe harmful for your device! Be very careful when editing your registry andalways make sure you have a full backup handy just in case!