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LUMOS – better back light management for the HTC Touch Pro/Diamond

March 5, 2009 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

The backlight manager on the Touch pro is not the best, so 1 member from xda-developers, nik3r made LUMOS, a complete HTC Auto-Backlight replacement. The 1st time you install it, will calibrate, just follow the onscreen instructions. That’s it. You can also put in exceptions for programs like GPS navigation etc, that you want the backlight to stay constant e.g. Tom Tom etc.

Check it out here at Xda-developers

LUMOS - better back light management for the HTC Touch Pro/Diamond

Filed Under: Gadgets, Tech, Windows Mobile Tagged With: HTC Touch, htc touch pro, xda developers

Change the HTC Touch Pro Operator Name

March 5, 2009 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

You can personalize your operator name on the HTC Touch Pro with a handy little program made by a craft fellow over at XDA. It’s been said to work on all Windows Mobile devices but definetely works on HTC. It was made by a developer at xda-developers called NP9660.

Download the cab file here. Install on on to your main memory, not the SD card. It will prompt you what text you want to have in place of your operator name. That’s it. If you want to change the text, just go to Start>Programs>Personalizer.
Personalizer 2.0 - Change your operator name

Look at the top right hand side!
Some people were having trouble with HTC Home being turned on after a soft reset. To work around it, open “Personalizer StartUp.mscr”. The last entry enabled HTC Home, changing the final value to “0” fixed the problem.

Filed Under: Gadgets, Tech, Windows Mobile Tagged With: change, HTC Touch, htc touch pro, Windows, xda developers

HTC Touch Diamond with TouchFlo 3D (videos)

May 7, 2008 by Paul Spoerry 1 Comment

Yesterday at a press event hosted in London, HTC unveiled its latest Windows Mobile device, the diamond.

The Diamond is equipped with a beefy 528 MHz processor, 4GB storage inbuilt, HSDPA, FM Radio, 3.2MP camera. Unlike the other “Touch” GPS built in and working out of the box. Check out the overview of the device:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5fetcaQIaA

The Diamond runs on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.1, Microsoft latest version of Windows Mobile. Unfortunately Microsoft hasn’t made many great improvements to the user interface of Windows Mobile, so what HTC has done is build in applications and customizations to work around the wonkiness of WM.These customizations are called TouchFlo 3D which adds the following sweetness to the device:

  • Rather than having to initiate it with a swipe, it replaces Windows Mobile’s standard Today screen
  • TouchFLO 3D also appears to be very well integrated in the OS. It’s less of an add-on and more of a new philosophy towards Windows Mobile. For example, the 5-way is also touch-sensitive so you can rotate your thumb around it to zoom in and out. It also demonstrates the power of Windows Mobile’s data structure — TouchFLO 3D has previews of emails, allows you to examine your pictures, and plays your music directly within the interface.
  • TouchFLO 3D tech is also built-into a custom build of Opera 9.5. But get this, no matter what your zoom level is, the text automatically wraps to the zoom. This is in contrast to the iPhone’s browser, which sometimes is unable to get the text to wrap properly.
  • TouchFLO 3D is, in fact, 3D in its animation effects. The Touch Diamond, unlike previous HTC devices, appears to be fully hardware accelerated and uses that power to full effect.

Weather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hJB3Iwr2iU

Photos and Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M4kcWu0Fzg

People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAtOO1s8tn4

Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-5BCSGQ38I

Filed Under: Windows Mobile Tagged With: HTC, HTC Touch, iphone, user interface, Windows Mobile, youtube

Lock your computer via Bluetooth when you walk away

March 13, 2008 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Open source application Blue Lock monitors the proximity of your Bluetooth phone or device and automatically locks your computer whenever it’s out of range (e.g., you’ve walked away from your computer). The usefulness will depend on the strength of your Bluetooth devices, since it’s not really going to do its job if you’ve got a strong signal and receiver that keeps a connection from across the office. But if it works well with your Bluetooth devices, Blue Lock provides a simple way to keep your computer secure when you step away for a few seconds but forget to hit Win-L to lock your workstation. Blue Lock is free, Windows only.

Unfortunately, despite the fact that my phone DOES pair with my laptop, I couldn’t get Bluelock to work. I currently have an HTC Touch (Sprint Touch aka HTC Vogue). Bluelock flat out won’t find my phone. Ce la vi… maybe it’ll work for you cuz it sounds like an awesome concept.

Blue Lock website

Filed Under: Gadgets, Privacy, Tech, Windows, Windows Mobile Tagged With: HTC Touch, laptop, lock, sprint, with

Disable HTC TouchFlo

March 12, 2008 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

If you don’t really use or care for the built in HTC TouchFlo you can disabled it… but it’s not as easy as hitting your settings menu. To do it you’ll need to modify your registry (check out Resco Registry editor) and modify the following key:

HKLM\Software\OEM\TFLOSettings:EnableScroll

Set the value for EnableScroll = 0

Filed Under: Windows Mobile Tagged With: HTC, HTC Touch

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