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Great tips and tricks specifically for HTC Touch Screen devices all without installing any new applications or doing any reg edits.

Contents

Attachments

  • HTC Fuze Tip: To store attachments on the storage card rather than on the device **Start > Programs > Messaging > Messaging, select Menu > Options > Storage tab.
    • Select "When available, use this storage card to store attachments"
    • Original Thread

Battery

  • Easily take the battery cover off by placing a rolled piece of electrical tape on the inside of the battery cover or on top of the battery before attaching.
  • Original Thread

Calendar

  • Setting Agenda Fusion as default calendar program for HTC Tilt
    • Open Agenda Fusion (AF)
    • Tap the AF icon at the bottom of the screen (next to New)
    • Select Options.
    • Make sure Global is selected in the dropdown list.
    • Click the check box for "Use Outlook Mobile Links".
    • You will be prompted to restart your device.
    • This is it. Now AF is your default, Calendar, Contacts and Tasks PIM Manager.
    • Original Thread

Calls

  • Turn on Speaker Phone Easy
    • Long-pressing the 'CALL' hardware key turns on the speakerphone without having to touch the screen at all.
    • For example, during a call, you can long-press the call key to turn on the speakerphone. This will save you time from turning on your screen (if you have it auto turned off) and then find the speakerphone menu button.
    • Original Thread
  • No More Missed Calls
    • go to the phone application-- Settings>>Services>>call forwarding and set the time to what you want!
    • this way the calls are going to "wait"/delayed longer before being forwarded to the voice mail giving us more time to answer.
    • a more drastic solution is renouncing at the phone pad skin and reverting it to the original (hideous) WM skin.
    • Original Thread
  • Shorten time/ number of rings to answer on HTC Touch
    • You may have noticed that when someone calls you it may take several rings on their end before the Touch begins to ring. The reason for this delay is the “slot cycle index,” or how often your Touch polls the towers for an incoming call. Default appears to be about 5 seconds—way to long. Of course, s always, there is a compromise to be made—the more often it polls the tower, the more power it uses. ***Anyway here is the hack. To do this, you will need your MSL number, which only Sprint (or your provider) can provide you.
  1. Open up the phone app and dial ##778# (PST).
  2. You will be asked to enter your MSL. Enter it, and you will be brought into the provisioning of your phone.
  3. From the top left, select Modem Settings. On this page, your Slot Cycle Index (SCI) is how often your phone polls the tower for incoming calls, etc. This value is 1.28 seconds multiplied by 2 (i.e 0=1.28 secs, 1=2.56secs) with 0 fastest, 7 slowest. The default is 2, but lowering it to 1 hasn't noticeably affected my battery life, and roughly 2.5 second (SCI 1) response time is far more reasonable than roughly 5 seconds (SCI 2).
  • For Touch Diamond and Touch Pro users,
  1. Type ##3282# (##DATA#)
  2. Select Edit
  3. Enter MSL code
  4. At bottom left, select View Info > Advanced
  5. Locate and Select Slot Cycle Index
  6. At bottom right, select Menu > Edit
  7. Change Slot Cycle Index as mentioned above
  8. Select Menu > Ok to save
  • Mute Ringtone (call) on HTC Touch Diamond
    • Mute the ring tone by simply turning the phone upside down without pressing the mute button in the phone window. You can still continue to answer the call.
    • Original Thread
  • How To Record Phone Calls on Touch Pro/Diamond
    • A lot of HTC users have been missing the ability to record phone calls while in a call (without having to use speakerphone). The ability to do this can be a time saver, especially when your significant other sends you on a grocery run with a list of items--you can quickly record that part of the conversation.
    • The great folks at XDA-Developers are at it again, porting the in-call recording functions from the Touch HD to the HTC Fuze and Touch Pro. The installer also works with the Touch Diamond.
    • Click here to read the full news bit and get the links that matter.

Changing the Buttons

  • If you are not using your Camera or Voice dial very often you can make a better use of these or the other buttons on your phone when you go to Settings-Buttons and assign a different program to them.
  • Original Thread

Ending Programs

  • By default, when you hit the X button in the top right of your screen, you close the program window but the process still remains running in the background. This takes up valuable resources. Here are three ways to close applications without using the task manager on your TouchFlo and TouchFlo 3D phones.
  1. Tap "X" while in the app to hide the process window. Tap on the icon in the top right of the screen of your home screen to open the task manager. Then hit the X of the process you want to kill.
  2. Go to the task manager like in (1)>click the little wrench icon>click 'Button' at the bottom of the screen>select the "End Programs By Tapping 'X'" radio button. Choosing this allows you to actually kill an app by hitting it's X button in the program window. With this setting on, if you don't want to kill the app but want to hide it instead, hit the 'Home' hardware button to minimize the app and go to your home screen. Only when you want to kill the app should you now hit the "X"
  3. If you don't want to mess with settings and want to do things the way HTC intended you to do it, you'll be happy to know that by default, although you can't close apps by tapping the "X" key, you CAN close apps by tapping AND holding down the "X" key of the program window. This is the way you were meant to close apps in your WinMo 6.1 device.

GPS

  • If GPS is acting up, follow these steps to triage the problem:
  1. Go to "ExternalGPS" then "Access" tab. Untick the checkbox then "ok"
  2. Switch off the device
  3. Then switch it on again, tick the checkbox then "ok"
  4. Original Thread
  • Fast GPS sync for HTC Kaiser: stand the phone totally verticall respect the floor, (perpendicular), or the earth. It's because the antenna position inside Kaiser.

Hard Reset

  • If your device is running slowly, sometimes the only option left is to restore everything to factory defaults. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to do this:
  1. Back up all of your data: Everything on the phone will be lost during the reset process.
  2. Hold both soft-keys on the front of the device, then use the stylus to press the reset switch (as if you were doing a soft reset).
  3. Keeping holding the soft-keys, and the screen will show a message reading "Press Send to restore manufacturer default, or press other keys to cancel."
  4. Press send to reset your device.
  5. Original Thread
  • Hard Resetting the Diamond
  1. Power down your device.
  2. With the power off, press and hold the round "Select" button and the volume down button. Then press the power button.
  3. Your screen should come on with instructions. Press volume up to confirm that you want to reset your device, then volume up again to restart.
  4. Original Thread

G1 Tips

  • Thanks to pockethacks
  • To activate the magnify glass on the browser, click the trackball twice!
  • Few faster scrolling tips in the browser:
  1. In landscape mode, hold down ALT key and roll trackball for fast scrolling
  2. Press space bar to scroll down faster
  3. You can go up by pressing Shift+Space keys
  1. Holding down the home key will bring up your programs running in the background.
  2. Adjusting the volume will adjust volume all the way to muting sound.
  3. Clicking down the End key will place your phone in sleep mode.
  4. Holding down the End key while bring up the “reset” feature.
  5. Turning off the GPS saves battery life to do so go to Menu, Settings, Security and Location.
  6. To rename a folder on the homescreen click and hold the dock at the top of the folders name. *AnyCut is needed*
  7. Long press the phone key for voice dial.
  8. To make ringtones, alerts, and notifications make a folder inside your memory card each one containing there own name such as “ringtones” “alarms” “notifications”
  9. To Cut, press Menu and X.
  10. To Copy, press Menu and C.
  11. To Paste, press Menu and V.
  12. To forward picture and text messages: Press and hold the message.
  13. When Typing, If you want to delete a word at the time press menu and delete and will erase a word at the time instead of one character at the time…Edit/Delete Message
  • How to get Android to Show Album Art
    • Since the T-Mobile G1 does not come with any type of media player syncing software that you install on your desktop, you're kind of on your own for figuring that out. It turns out the G1 is recognized in Windows Media Player as a USB mass storage device and you can set up automatic syncing of playlists just like you would on Windows Mobile.
    • Unfortunately, album art is not synced, unless it has already been embedded in the MP3 ID meta tags. The solution is very similar to what we had to do to get HTC's TouchFLO 3D to display album art. A better way, which maintains syncing capabilities, is found here:
  1. Use WMP to update album info. This would eventually add album art.
  2. Download Mp3tag at http://www.mp3tag.de/en
  3. Install and start Mp3tag
  4. Press CTRL+D (Change Directory) and browse to your music folder
  5. Press CTRL+A to select all files
  6. Click the "Actions (Quick)" icon on the toolbar
  7. Select "Import cover from file"
  8. Type "Folder.jpg" and click OK
  9. Wait until complete and sync to your device
  10. If you have previously synced, then the album art would stay as delete the HTC folder in Application Data folder on your device and restart your device

GPS

Homescreen

  • Disable Large startmenu
    • Go to "Start -> Settings -> Personal -> Large Start Menu"
    • Disable large startmenu by unchecking the box.
    • Original Thread
    • from here
  • End button on the HTC Touch Diamond
  • When contact details won't load after opening the "picture" in contacts tab
    • Go to setting and today, and unselect tf3d,
    • Let the default WM6.1 today screen load, before selecting Tf3d option again to reload TF3D.
    • Original Thread
  • Zoom in/out
    • HTC Touch Pro: Use the "navi-wheel (the "sensitive area" around the center button), clockwise to zoom in, counter-clockwise to zoom back.
    • Original Thread
  • Show clock on title bar in all programs
    • Before enabling this, I always had to go back to the home screen to see the time. This saves you some time especially when your phone is bogged down and takes forever to switch screens.
    • Go to Start > Settings > System > Clocks & Alarms.
    • Go to the More tab and tick "Display the clock on the title bar in all programs."
    • Original Thread
  • Adding Color to TouchFLO 3D
    • If you have an HTC-branded Touch Diamond and are on O2 or Vodafone and want the custom themes from your carriers, or conversely if you have a carrier theme and want the default HTC theme for TouchFLO 3D, then you can change it. XDA-Developers has created three theme packages for HTC, O2, and Vodafone. You can follow the instructions on the XDA-Developers thread and change your theme to either add color or change it back to basic black. In order to do this, you do need the Diamond Config utility we previously reported on.
    • Click here to get the full news article
  • Automatic Screen Rotation
    • Although the iPhone made automatic screen roation using its motion sensors popular, it had limitations on which apps had the rotation feature. This is an area where the Diamond shines. This hack does not work with the Touch Pro as the Touch Pro will base most of its screen rotation on the sliding keyboard instead. For the Diamond, you can use the screen rotation feature on most applications, if not all, which is initiated by turning your device and activating the motion sensors.
    • For video and download, visi the original news article
  • Easy TouchFlo 3D Modding
    • mun_rus and D-MAN from XDA Developers started tweaking HTC’s Manila, aka TouchFlo 3D, to suit people’s needs, so this one applies to Diamond and Touch Pro users only. One of the biggest annoyances of TF3D was its lack of handling custom wallpapers on all tabs, the default behavior only changes the home screen’s wallpaper. After installing the TF3D wallpaper utility, your custom wallpaper will be enabled for all Manila tabs (fig. 1), just make sure to disable TF3D as a today item in settings before you install it.
    • Click here to read more from the original news article
  • Communications Manager Tab for TF3
    • XDA Developers managed to push TouchFLO 3D customization once more, as we witness the answer to many of our wishes, with Comm Manager Tab.
    • Long story short, instead of launching Comm Manager separately, either through a shortcut or an assigned hardware key, now you can flick through Manila and have a separate tab for the classic Comm Manager built right into Tf3D.
    • Download Manila CommManager Tab, make sure you disable TouchFLO 3D from Settings, Today, install the add-on to DEVICE, soft reset and reenable Manila. You’re all set!
    • Original news article
  • Custom Background for all TouchFLO 3D Tabs of the HTC Touch HD
    • XDA Developers have finally managed to crack the custom background on all tabs of the TouchFLO 3D on HTC Touch HD.
    • Once you download and install the cab to Device, you will be prompted for a restart after which the custom wallpaper image you choose to set as background will be valid for all tabs of TouchFLO 3D.
    • In case you want to revert to the previous state, just uninstall the cab from Remove Programs inside Settings. For those of you who still want to see the default TouchFLO 3D wallpaper while having this tweak installed (installing will set a black wallpaper), you can grab it here.
    • Original News Article
  • TouchFLO 3D, Where's My Today Screen?
    • TouchFLO 3D provides some innovative features that lets you have quick access to your email, weather, contacts, SMS, and limited agenda viewing. This means that some classic Windows Mobile users will miss the Today screen, which allows you to view more upcoming appointments and the ease of customizing the Today screen with quick launch icons and a Live search bar. If you're in that category, WMPowerUser showed off a quick way to access the classic Today screen with a quick gesture swipe. The innovative hack is done via a file, which can be downloaded from XDA-Developers. If you love the animation of TouchFLO 3D but miss the classic utility of the Today screen, you should install the tweak from XDA-Developers.
    • Original news article
  • Bell UI for Touch Diamond and Touch Pro
    • Bell, a carrier from Cananda, has created an interface for the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro (see this flash demo) that has a similar concept to TouchFLO 3D, but is much better in my opinion. The idea behind these new breed of interface replacements for Windows Mobile is that the user should is able to get vital information and access important programs quickly (and in a visually pleasing way) from the Today screen, without dialing down into the Start menu, or running through the Programs list.
    • Original news article
  • Using D-Pad to Navigate TouchFLO 3D
    • In addition to finger/stylus flicking/scrolling through the tabs and items in the TouchFLO 3D interface of the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro, you can use the D-Pad to navigate through its contents.
    • Using the Left/Right arrows, you can switch from one tab to the other easily and by using the Up/Down arrows, you can enter navigation inside that certain TouchFLO 3D tab. For instance, pushing the Right button three times takes you to the Mail tab and once you’re there, you can push the Down button to browse through your e-mail messages. D-Pad center acts like the “Enter tap” key and it will open your current selected item for reviewing/editing.
    • Original news article
  • Manila 2D Customization
    • Here’s something hot for a hot subject: the new, “unofficial” TouchFlo 2D, aka Manila 2D, meets tons of customizations just a few days shy of its release.
    • XDA Developers’ user twolf has put together a great anthology consisting of skins for the new Today plugin called Manila 2D. These will allow users to customize their Windows Mobile Professional devices with TouchFlo 2D to their liking. Even users with high expectations will find something of their interest and liking here.
    • Navigate to this XDA Developers thread for a complete list of skins, modded clocks, wallpapers and icons that will suit all your customization needs.
  • Design Your Own TouchFLO 3D
    • So that new TouchFLO 3D home screen on the Touch Diamond looks really great. The graphics are so cool and there's nothing else like it around. But you know, after a while the black & white icons and some of the other graphics might get a little stale. Maybe it's time to make your own version of TouchFLO 3D!
    • Click here to get more instructions!!
  • Enabling the Call Tab on TouchFLO 3D for Sprint
    • Sprint modified their tabs on TouchFLO 3D to include customized Sprint applications. If you want to bring back the call tab to your Sprint Touch Diamond device, then you should follow these instructions from SprintUsers.com:
    • Disable TF3D plugin in your Today settings
    • Unzip the file in an empty directory in the internal Storage.
    • Backup \windows\26948339_manila
    • Use Total Commander (for example) and copy both files (attached) into \Windows
    • Activate TF3D
    • Enjoy
    • Continue reading the original news article
  • Design Your Own TouchFLO 3D
    • So that new TouchFLO 3D home screen on the Touch Diamond looks really great. The graphics are so cool and there's nothing else like it around. But you know, after a while the black & white icons and some of the other graphics might get a little stale. Maybe it's time to make your own version of TouchFLO 3D!
    • Click here to get more instructions!!

Internet

  • Phone as a modem for your laptop (for Sprint Mogul HTC 6800)
    • Go to Programs
      • Internet Sharing
      • Then press 'Connect'
      • Plug in your usb data cable.
    • And now you have internet for you laptop
    • Original Thread
  • Restore Opera Mobile as the default browser, there is an easy way to do this.
  1. Open Opera Mobile
  2. Type opera:config into the address, this gives you access to tons of preferences
  3. Expand the install bullet
  4. Check Browser First Time Launch and press Save
  5. Exit Opera
  6. Restart Opera
  7. The first time you restart it will take a while, and may even close without showing you the browser, but now open a link from e-mail or other source and it should use Opera to open.
  8. Original Thread and
  • Set IE as default browser
    • Install the Iris browser and make it the default browser, and then UN-check the "set as default web browser" button, it will make IE the default browser.
    • Original Thread
  • Size control
    • When looking at a threaded text message, scroll your finger around the wheel and the text font will increase and decrease. Same when your looking at a email in your inbox.
    • Original Thread
  • Blocking ads in Opera
    • The desktop version of Opera browser has a filter dedicated to block ads using a file called "urlfilter.ini" The mobile version works just the same way.
    • Just get a known working version of the file and copy it to "\windows\opera\" or "\Application data\opera\" (the path may vary dependng on the way Opera was installed or if it came already installed on your device)
    • Original Thread
  • Touch HD: click links without zooming
    • Most links are easy readable on the HD but it is not possible to click on a link without zooming in first.
    • To change this start Opera and type opera:config in the address, then under Adaptive Zoom change the entry Minimum Overview Zoom to 85 (standard is 30) and save the changes. Dont forget to restart the browser!
    • Original Thread
  • Better Zoom on the Fuze, Touch Pro and Diamond for Opera Mobile 9.5
    • Type opera:config into your URL bar.
    • Edit the config file on your device at \Windows\Opera9\opera.ini. You can edit the zoom settings there.
    • Look under the "[Adaptive Zoom]" heading for a setting called "Virtual Screen Width." It's set to 960 by default.
    • Change to 640 (or play around)
    • Original Thread
  • Stop data charges from happening on HTC advantage 7510 and Touch Pro
    • Tap on start.
    • Tap on settings.
    • Tap on connections tab.
    • Tap on connections.
    • Tap on advanced.
    • Tap on select networks.
    • Tap on new.
    • Name the connection Fake.
    • Tap on the ok button in the top right.
    • Select (Fake) for both selections on the network management screen.
    • Tap on ok.
    • Original Thread
  • An Easier Way to Go Back in Opera Mobile
    • This might not sound as news to some of you but I’ve just learnt recently, while playing with my Blackstone, that there is an even easier way of going Back (that is, navigating to the previous page) in Opera Mobile than the default “tap menu arrow – tap back arrow” procedure.
    • You can easily navigate back one page at a time by using the Back Hardware button on the Touch HD or even the Touch Diamond/Touch Pro. Each touch/press of the button will navigate you one page back, so you’d spare two taps.
    • Original news article
  • Setting up Opera Mobile to clear the cache each time you exit the browser:
    • Open Opera Mobile
    • Type "opera:config" into the address bar
    • Expand the "Disk Cache" option
    • Scroll down the list and look for "Empty On Exit"
    • Select the checkbox
    • Scroll further down the list and and press "Save"
    • Exit Opera

The next time you use Opera Mobile, it will clear the disk cache every time you exit the browser. This is a wonderful way to keep your phone lean.

Locking

  • HTC Touch Pro (or any SensorLock users) Lock/Unlock Tip!
    • For if you accidentally when receiving a call to physically spin to unlock the phone then answer it.
    • To fix it, go into the Start then Settings, you'll find a SensorLock settings button that gets installed with the application (you have to soft reset if you just installed the program). In there, you can actually have the program lock the screen but not the buttons when the phone is on.
    • Therefore, if you have an incoming call, you can't accidentally hit the screen to accept without spinning to unlock the phone. However, you can just hit the accept or reject hard buttons. So, to summarize, your phone's hard buttons will not do anything when the phone is off, but when the phone is on and locked, they will work.
    • Original Thread
  • Lock keypad/screen by just pressing and holding down the end button / red button

Music

  • How to get TouchFLO 3D to Show Your Album Art
    • Using Windows Media player to synchronize music to your device is probably the easiest way to manage music in playlists while also getting album art to display in the Windows Mobile Media Player. Not to mention, with the automatic WMA conversion features, you can get 8 Gigs worth of MP3s to fit on 4 Gigs of storage like that of the HTC Touch Diamond.
    • The Windows Media Player syncing method also happens to be recommended in the Touch Diamond’s Quick Start Guide and Windows Mobile’s Getting Started guide on the device itself. When Windows Media Player on the desktop converts and copies music to your device, it creates the proper folder structure and includes the album art as a JPG image file that’s stored in the same album folder as each track. This allows the media player software to re-use the same image for each track in that album.
    • The problem is that HTC’s Touch FLO 3D audio manager does not read those JPG files. So if you want to use the cool Today screen flippy 3D media player, you’re not going to see any album art. As it turns out, HTC’s audio manager reads the album art from each audio file’s embedded image metadata tags. Even if your MP3s on your desktop already include album art embedded into each file’s metadata, the artwork will not carry over after being converted by WMP’s syncing process. The artwork will instead be converted to the separate JPG format (so that WM Media Player can read them).
    • Click here for rest of the news article
    • Click here for a pocketnow.com tutorial of the above.
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  • Get Album Art (easy way):
  1. Make sure that your mp3 file has an artist album photos on your PC
  2. Transfer your mp3 songs by using "sync" function in your desktop Windows Media Player.
  3. Click and drop the mp3 songs that you want to transfer into the "sync list" in your windows media player
  4. Hit the "start sync" button
  • Of try adding album art to the TF3D music player by creating a jpg image of the album art and copy it to the folder with the music files, save it as folder.jpg and soft reset your phone. The album art should now be there!
  • Streaming Radio
    • In this part of the series, we'll show you how to add a free and simple program that will stream some basic channels of internet radio. The application is called Media Connect and is developed by a forum member of XDA-Developers. There are three versions of the radio--English, French, and Dutch. You can download the English radio by clicking on and the other versions through XDA-Developers.
    • Click here to get the full news article

Naming

  • Change device's Bluetooth name
    • Start -> Settings -> System -> About -> Device ID
    • There in Device Name set the name you want for your device to be shown when its looked up by others to connect via Bluetooth. Click the OK button on top to save & then soft-reset the phone by either software or by putting the stylus in the soft reset hole on the phone till you feel a click. After soft reset the device's name will appear as what you just saved.
    • Original Thread

New Users

  • 5 easy tips for the new user
    • XDA has put together a list of tricks for the Touch HD, many of which actually work on the Diamond and Pro as well. Here are the ones we found most useful that work on all three devices:
  1. When viewing a photo in the HTC photo viewer, once zoomed in, tap and hold the image to get a white selection box that shows you where you are on the image.
  2. Speaking of the HTC photo viewer, you make a circle with your finger to zoom in - but what you may not know is that small circles zoom in more, while a large circle zooms in just a little bit
  3. Get the hidden weather animations on TouchFLO 3D, and impress your friends
  4. To see more contacts in the Contacts app, go to Menu > Options > and check "Shown contact names only"
  5. For high resolution thumbnails of contacts in the People tab of TouchFLO 3D, assign the images from the gallery and not the actual tab

News

  • How to Add Currency Exchange Rates to TouchFLO3D of HTC Touch **TouchFLO3D on the HTC Touch HD sports a Stock tab, where you can easily track your favorite stock quotes.
    • You can also have your Stock tab display the most up to date currency exchange rates for several currencies. How? Navigate to Yahoo! Finance Currency Converter page, select the parity of your choice (for instance, we will use EURO to GBP) and click convert. Look for the string under “Symbol” (in our case GBPEUR=X). Go to your Stock tab in TouchFLO3D on your Touch HD, add a new Quote and in the search box, type in the string Yahoo! Finance displayed (it’s GBPEUR=X in our case). Tap for search and tap on the result. You now have an Exchange rate Quote on your Stock Tab.

Other

  • Free Handy Productivity Shortcuts
    • User Fabliv from XDA Developers tweaked the original QVGA version of the HTC Action Screen and managed to get it working on VGA devices, directing it towards Diamond and Raphael.
    • This free skinned application for Windows Mobile Professional users adds a soft button on the Today screen or on TF3D screen, with direct access to a list of very handy shortcuts, being a true time saver. Available shortcuts in this 9 button version are: E-mail, SMS, MMS, Appointment, Task, Note, Contact, WiFi and Bluetooth.
    • All you need to do is download from its XDA Developers thread, install to Device and after a soft reset, you home screen will show the new soft button, enabling you to do more in less time!
    • Original news article
  • Diamond Configuration
    • Many advanced users are familiar with the Advanced Configuration utility that aids in tweaking your device through a user-friendly graphical user interface. Well, there is something similar for the Touch Diamond, and should subsequently work for the Touch Pro as well, called the Diamond TF3D Config--we'll call it Diamond Config for short through the rest of this article and in future pieces. Unlike the Advanced Configuration tool--which helps to tweak system settings--the Diamond Config tool is mostly used to change TouchFLO 3D whereby users can rearrange the tabs in TouchFLO 3D, among other tweaks, according to XDA-Developers
    • Click here to get the full news article

Pictures

  • Better contact pictures
    • If your contact pic is blury (but from a high-res photo) add the picture to a contact by going into the album and doing it via the menu in there. This will bring your contacts photos to their original quality.
    • Original Thread
  • For better pics
    • In the Camera settings go into the advanced tab and look at the Quality setting. It is set to "Fine" as default. But you can set it to "SuperFine" to have better (less compression) JPEGs! and don't forget to wipe the lens clean before taking pictures!
    • Original Thread
    • The person is most of the time in the center of your picture, but the trick is to position them to the left or the right. This will make the picture look much more interesting.
    • Original Thread
    • For faster Focus on the HTC Touch Pro I have found turning off the Shutter Sound will speed it up.
  • Cropping Pics
    • Zoom in (clockwise on navi-wheel; counter-clockwise to zoom back) and use the directional zones (press the 4 directions around the center buttons, see the 4 small engraved arrows) to move the visible area of the picture when it's zoomed. When zoomed, press the center button to go back to full picture view.
    • And after zooming and panning the picture to your liking, you might want to crop the picture and save it so you don’t need to zoom and pan around every time you open that photo.
    • Just tap on the screen to show the on-screen menu. Hit the menu button (the icon on the lower right corner) then hit "Save Screen Image" . It will save the image under whatever name you type in.
    • Original Thread
  • Assigning the Best Quality Photos to Contacts in TouchFLO 3D
    • TouchFLO 3D has a really great way of displaying contacts so that you can easily flip through pictures of people you call often like a Rolodex. But, if you just press the "+" button on one of the blank contact slides and assign a contact that already has a picture associated with it, the picture comes out very blurry and pixelated.
    • How do you get a clearer picture? First, be sure you have the picture you want loaded on a storage card or on your device. Then, fire up Album from the Programs list. Select the photo you want, hit the right Menu button, and do Save to Contact (top screenshot). The resulting thumbnail will be much clearer.
    • Original news article
  • Zooming and Panning using Touch Screen
    • Zoom In/Out: Drawing a circle clockwise or counter clockwise on the screen will zoom in or out at that location.
    • Zoom to extents: Double tapping the screen from a zoomed in position will zoom out to full extents.
    • Panning: Press down on the keyboard using your finger or the stylus until the the pan box shows up in the upper left corner. Once visible, begin dragging the picture around to reposition it on the screen. Repeat as necessary. NOTE: only works when zoomed in on the picture.
    • Original Thread

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Power

  • ATT Tilt and HTC Kaiser: To turn on the device with the buttons and screen touch locked without having to find the "ON" button, just slide the top over the keyboard a little and let it pop back - the device is on!
  • HTC DIAMOND : quick recharge
    • When the phone is off it charges around twice as fast as having it on
    • Original Thread
  • Disable the HTC Taskmanager
    • Go to "Start -> Settings -> System -> Task Manager -> Button"
    • Disable "Enable the "X" button to end running programs" by unchecking the box.
    • Disable "Enable Quick Menu on Today screen" by unchecking the box.
    • Original Thread
    • from here

Roms

  • HTC Touch Pro2 and Diamond2 ROM Extracted for Touch HD
    • It didn't take the guys at XDA long, but they have extracted the ROMs from the upcoming Touch Pro2 and Diamond2 and are showing it running on an HTC Touch HD. Some screenshots are shown below, which give us a more detailed look at the new HTC software coming on the new devices. Though these aren't likely the final shipping ROMs, they look to be darn close.
    • The new ROM shows the conference call feature, the new internet tab, the updated program launcher, new soft key menus, and lots more. If you want an earlier preview of some of these in action, check out our Touch Pro2 and Diamond2 Software Preview (reposted below). We don't recommend that you try installing a modified ROM.

Scrolling

  • For best scrolling, use a wide portion of your finger or thumb to scroll instead of the tips of your fingers. The larger area you take up on the screen the easier it is to swipe up and down. if you use the tip or fingernail it thinks you are selecting the area where you tapped on the screen.

Speakerphone

  • Touch Pro2-like Face-down Speakerphone Behaviour for Accelerometer Devices
    • We've seen the videos of Touch Pro2 and it's speakerphone on face down. XDA Developers bring similar functionality to the Touch Diamond, Touch Pro or Touch HD.
  • You'll need Gyrator up and running to configure it as follows:
  • tap on the soft key that says "Menu" and select Events
  • a new window will pop up. Tap & Hold on the topmost item in the list, a menu will pop up
  • select "Add Event". A new entry -labled "New Rule"- will appear at the top of the list.
  • tap & Hold on the item labled "New Rule" until a menu pops up where you select "Orientation"
  • tap & Hold on the "New Rule" itemm, select "Edit Event"
  • a new window will pop up and will have a number of tabs at the bottom.
  • set application to Phone on the "Application" tab.
  • on the "Orientation" tab check on "Portrait", "Face-down", and "Face-up".
  • on the "Actions" tab check on "Simulate Keypress".
  • go to "Advanced" tab and select key "F16,127" which triggers the windows-native "Speakerphone Toggle event".

Synching

  • Sync only on command
  1. Start Active Sync on your Pocket PC.
  2. Tap "Menu", then "Add Server Source"
  3. Configure a server source with a fake IP address, id and password - you can enter anything you like, it doesn't matter
  4. After that you will notice that "Menu -> Schedule..." item is no longer grayed out.
  5. Change your schedule to manual under both fields.
  6. You can now delete your fake server - your changes to the schedule will remain in effect. Active Sync will no longer be able to drain your battery.
  7. Original Thread

Text/Texting/Typing

  • Names in SMS
    • If you receive new SMS messages, usually you only see the sender's number on the TouchFLO Messages tab, even if you've got his/her mobile number on the contacts list (All People).
    • To see the name of the contact in new message header, you have to add international prefix to the calling number, for example in my case if my number is 5X XX XXX, then add +372 5X XX XXX.
    • Original Thread
  • Disable ClearType of screen fonts
    • Go to "Start -> Settings -> Screen"
    • Select the "ClearType" tab
    • Disable "Enable ClearType" by unchecking the box.
    • Original Thread
    • from here
  1. Download the attached thread_sms.zip file for your device
  2. Extract it so you can see the thread_sms.htm file.
  3. Transfer the file to your /windows directory.
  4. Restart your phone.
  • Difficulty typing?
    • Try using your nail (as opposed to pressing with your finger) and press and HOLD DOWN anywhere on the keyboard and SLIDE your nail to the letter you want to select, then let go!
    • Original Thread
  • Switch email accounts and emails with one stroke
    • Swipe finger across Account View to change accounts
    • Swipe finger across the screen in Reading Email view, or pushing left or right on the D-pad will switch emails
    • Original Thread
  • Faster Typing (For HTC 6800 (and others))
    • When typing with the slide-out-keyboard you will see several words appear as you put in the first letter or two (depending on your settings). You can then use the arrow keys/d-pad/scroll wheel to select a word in the list. Here's the tip: Once you've highlighted the word you want don't click on it. Just continue typing. The selected word will be placed into the text and the next word or punctuation will follow.
    • Not actively clicking on the word saves a second each time and makes for much smoother typing.
    • Original Thread
  • Toggle accounts
    • On all Windows Mobile devices, you can quickly toggle between messaging accounts (MMS/SMS/Email/etc) by pressing the right or left D-Pad while in one of the accounts.
    • What some may not know is that on HTC devices with TouchFLO (like the original Touch, the Touch Diamond and Pro, etc), you can swipe your finger right or left to move between accounts, as shown in the image below. Also, if you're viewing a message in Outlook and swipe your finger in the same manner, the next message will come on the screen.
    • Original news artilce
  • How to Get Landscape Keyboard on the Touch HD
    • In addition to using applications which use the build-in accelerometer on the HTC Touch HD (like GSen, GNes, Flip-It, Gyrator and so on), there is another way to getting landscape keyboard on the Blackstone, which doesn’t involve any other application install.
    • First thing you need to do is find a way to control your screen orientation. Accelerometer enabled devices have the orientation tab hidden from the Screen settings, so if this is your case, you can unhide them with Advanced Configuration Tool or you can read Adam's take on re-enabling orientation settings.
    • Here’s a simple way to control orientation. You need to go to Start, Settings, Personal, Buttons and change the preconfigured action of the Answer Key to "Rotate Screen". This way your screen will rotate when you tap and hold the green button. From this point on, it’s very simple. Hold the button whenever you want to go landscape, let it be Excel, Word or any other app (except Opera, which will use auto orientation) and the keyboard will follow orientation.
    • Original news article
  • A Faster Way to Enter Numbers and Symbols
    • Although this may be obvious to many, I admittedly just learned about this feature a few weeks ago, so perhaps it'll be helpful to some.
    • On all HTC on screen keyboards, there are numbers and symbols that appear above the letters in gray. Instead of hitting the "123/Sym" button to call them up, you can just simply tap and hold on any letter to get the one in gray to show up.
    • Original news article

User Manuals

Video

  • Best way to watch videos: FLV in AVI @560x304 pix. @ 1200 kbps video & 128 kbps audio
  • Watching TV outside of the USA
    • Use Skyfire to watch Hulu (which only allows for US audiences; having skyfire bypasses this)
    • Original Thread
  • How to Switch Between Multiple Video Aspect Ratios in Album Player
    • On your HTC Touch Diamond, Touch Pro (or variants) and Touch HD, as well as on devices featuring HTC's Album Player, several supported videos (like 3GP, WMV, MP4) play back through this particular HTC Album Player. Playing back files this way, you’d notice that the video played back fills the screen, but is missing some parts of the movie.
    • Tap the video and the HTC Album Player controls pop up, with the time and progress display and various buttons: Previous, Play/Pause, Stop and the Aspect ratio button on the far right. Tapping on this particular button will cycle through three video playback modes: zoom to fill (default, which will zoom in to the video height and fill the entire screen), stretch to fit (which will stretch the entire video - distorting it - so it fills up the whole screen) and normal (which plays it back maintaining the aspect ratio, so you’ll probably notice the top and bottom black bars besides the full video). You might not see any changes though if your video’s aspect rate is the same as your device’s display (aka 1.33 or 4:3 for VGA and QVGA and 1.66 or 16:10 for WQVGA and WVGA).
    • Original news article'
  • Put YouTube Back On Your Fuze
    • My friend has the AT&T HTC Fuze, the variant of the Touch Pro that has been modified for AT&T. The main differences between the AT&T and the unbranded HTC version are AT&T's choice of software and keyboard layout, forgoing the dedicated number row (as traditional on most desktop keyboards) and opting to go with a number pad where you have to push a function button and the number. I noticed that the Fuze does not have YouTube Player on the application menu nor on the TouchFLO 3D menu interface like my Touch Pro does, but the good news is that the Player is there and all you need to do is enable it.
    • Click here to read more!

Volume

  • HTC Touch HD - Enable louder speaker/volume
  1. Download HD tweak at by MonteCristoffOn MonteCristo
  2. Install on HD
  3. Run HD tweak go to #3. Enable audio booster, disable 100 DB sound limitation. High for increase sound.Improve FM radio reception
  4. Original Thread

Widgets

  • Finally someone has figured out how to get the Samsung Omnia widget interface to work on the HTC TyTN II!

Word

  • Find your important .doc files to work with (instead of when you open Word Mobile and it lists all txt, rtf, etc by default)
    • Set it to only list .doc files, going into menu-options in Word Mobile and then in the "Display in list view" drop down menu, select word files, then ok.
    • This way you get to the files you have to edit regularly for work easily, while I access the rest of files through another program (ubook, an e-book reader) because it is more dedicated for reading-only purposes.
    • Original Thread

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