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Speeding up WM5

Apologies if this has been covered before, found these settings on another website (http://smartmobileassets.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=winmobile,m=1132411511)
Have they been tried and do they make any difference?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\CacheSize=0x1000(4096)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\EnableCache=0x1(1)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt\ReplStoreCacheSize=0x1000(4096)

Yes they work!
Yes they work beautiful on my Jasjar, the device is noticeable faster in all the applications.
Thank you!
Rodrigo Gonzalez

Cache settings, hum... how safe is this?? I take the chance and test them

Morituri said:
Apologies if this has been covered before, found these settings on another website (http://smartmobileassets.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=winmobile,m=1132411511)
Have they been tried and do they make any difference?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\CacheSize=0x1000(4096)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\EnableCache=0x1(1)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt\ReplStoreCacheSize=0x1000(4096)
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hi. please could you tell me is i need to insert the full value "0x1000(4096)" or only one of them? thank you,

Just one, one is the Hex Value the other is the decimal

Morituri said:
Just one, one is the Hex Value the other is the decimal
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so for ex in hex 0x1000
sorry but registry is like crystal...

Just one, one is the Hex Value the other is the decimal

Yes, "0x1000" in Hex is identical to "4096" in decimal. Put whichever one you want into the relevant registry entry.
I've messed about with these registry settings too, but in all honesty I haven't noticed any difference in performance....

sub69 said:
but in all honesty I haven't noticed any difference in performance....
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me too...

But as darkdestroyer says in the other sites forum...
Yes i've done this since it was first released on Aximsite by another member. At first I had 8 mb allocated, but i guess 4 is the best number. The PDA right after a soft reboot is still the same speed, but after you have all of the shortcut's/programs run once, they will be put into ram and the following run's of those same programs/shortcuts will be much much faster. This is indeed a great find and should be standard with WM5
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No changes in the performance of the device.
The only change is battery draining faster than the original settings.
I've done these changes before and had to reflash the ROM again to my device.
I don't see any need to make these changes, and I don't advise any one to do them.
Regards,

These registry settings have been reported to increase performance by many users on different forums, some using the Dell Axim x51v ,BA users and even some Universal users and are even incorporated into tweaks2k2. My advice is to try them for yourself and make sure the changes are actually being applied after a soft reset and then perform some tasks on your device (see the post by Carnivor) and then make your own judgement. No one so far has reported any negative impact apart from a small reduction in program memory. The changes can always be reversed if needed.

Carnivor said:
But as darkdestroyer says in the other sites forum...
Yes i've done this since it was first released on Aximsite by another member. At first I had 8 mb allocated, but i guess 4 is the best number. The PDA right after a soft reboot is still the same speed, but after you have all of the shortcut's/programs run once, they will be put into ram and the following run's of those same programs/shortcuts will be much much faster. This is indeed a great find and should be standard with WM5
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Erm... so is this registry tweak adding cache memory to the system for running applications then? So that .exes or .dlls that are loaded when a program is run are available more quickly to the system next time they're needed?
If so (and I can't quite believe that this could be the case ), are we now recommending that we allow programs to stay resident in memory to speed up the machine?
... much like the standard PocketPC "Minimise, not close" behaviour that people seem to hate so much?
LMFAO if so! (and please tell me I'm wrong if not! )

SiliconS,
You are absolutely wright.
The proof is that after making the registery editing the application when opened for the first time it does not open on a faster way than the original settings, but when you open it for the second time it opens faster that the first time.
The appications remain opened in the phone memory and reduces the devices memory and the battery life as well.

Microsoft's WM5 development team must be LTFAO when they read stuff like this. People spend hours complaining and looking for ways of forcing the system to properly close apps using MagicButton or PocketPlus, and complain when their WM5 machine runs slow.
Then someone comes along offering a way of speeding things up by caching programs and files in memory!!
Am I the only person who thinks this is utterly bizarre?
Oh, man. MS must be laughing at us. :shock:
(No offence intended to anybody - I'm just amused by this. )

So, if you are running something like GSPocketMagic, Magic Button, etc, which actually close applications properly, all you are doing is reducing the amount of memory available to run programs with no gain whatsoever?

Well I made the changes and found no improvement in speed, but it was worth a try. In the light of what has been said, I'd like to change back the settings, but can't remember what they were!!!!!
Can someone post up the original values please

Here they are:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\CacheSize=0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\EnableCache=1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt\ReplStoreCacheSize=0

Many thanks - all sorted

Guys, these registry hacks work! If you haven't been able to get them to work you may have missed a step or two.
First of all, Windows Mobile 5 already holds running information in the RAM, so these tweaks do not truly change that but they do enhance it to make the WM5 device runs MUCH better.
I've have had a TON of people comment and e-mail me about these changes both on my site and many others about how well these tweaks work. In fact, I don't think that the developer of Tweaks2k2 would include that in his latest version if it didn't work.
Couple things; you have to either cycle the power on your WM5 device or do a soft reset from a software app only! Cycling the power will write anything in RAM to ROM, in this case the registry settings you have just changed. If cycling does not work you should soft reset your device using a software app. I think there are a couple free apps to do that but you can also use SPB's Pocket Plus or others. If you just hit the reset button on the back after making the changes it soft resets right away without writing RAM content to ROM.
You can check this by looking at your registry settings after a soft reset to see if the changes took.
I have still noticed that sometime after a reset my device will still run slowly but it isn't because of these changes. In fact, most of the time it is perfectly fine and MUCH better than it was before the changes. MUCH!
Be sure to also turn off error reporting and do the activesync hack to keep those from draining battery and you should do well.
Again, many have made these changes and seen a very significant improvement in performance.

VGA Font Size

Is there a way to increase font size when in VGA mode via a registry hack?
Its too small for me at the moment.

Sorry not really...

Please DO read my native VGA-related articles (they have been made sticky in many Pocket PC fora because it does have every info you will need), I have explained all these questions in there.
See for example http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showthread.php?t=98163 and use Ctrl-F to search for "font"

Yeah Menneisyys, I have in fact read that article as well as others, but there is no way, at least to my knowledge to increase font size of the top and bottom bars (where "Start" and soft keys are).

joannaex said:
Yeah Menneisyys, I have in fact read that article as well as others, but there is no way, at least to my knowledge to increase font size of the top and bottom bars (where "Start" and soft keys are).
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Yup, they can't be enlarged; there're a lot of other font types, however, that can be.

What is the effect of Calibri font... try it

Menneisyys said:
Yup, they can't be enlarged; there're a lot of other font types, however, that can be.
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Well I've had Universal on 96dpi since April and gone through 4 official ROM upgrades. I have played around a lot and truth of the matter is, yeah you can change the font sizes but the actual benefit is marginal. The stuff that really needs to increase is hardcoded (thanx Bill!). Only thing that made a difference for me was increasing font size through the UI settings.
Most ppl who see my Universal squint so I'd say that despite guides and directions, TruVGA does require 20/20 eyesight.

joannaex said:
Well I've had Universal on 96dpi since April and gone through 4 official ROM upgrades. I have played around a lot and truth of the matter is, yeah you can change the font sizes but the actual benefit is marginal. The stuff that really needs to increase is hardcoded (thanx Bill!). Only thing that made a difference for me was increasing font size through the UI settings.
Most ppl who see my Universal squint so I'd say that despite guides and directions, TruVGA does require 20/20 eyesight.
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Agreed - there're a lot of individual apps where you can't increase the font size (for example, Messenger).
I'll bring up this question with the internal MS developers. Hope we/they'll be able to come up with something similar to, for example, the solution of the Sharp Zaurus, where zooming (font size changing) is hardware-based and has effect on all fonts.

Or you could explain to them Application Developement 101: How not to hardcode everything.
BTW, I've given up on PMSN. Switched to Live Beta which does allow SOME font resizing only still not large enough even at xtra large setting. Agile works fine. Anyway, point is WM still needs a lot of work, and I mean ALOT.

Change system font size - windows mobile 6

Hi, can't find it in search but is there any way to hack the font size in windows mobile 6? I use reading glasses and don't want to use them to use the phone! Or is there any application that would do that? Any help appreciated.

/menu start/settings/system/screen last tab? (and softreset).

Brommersr said:
Hi, can't find it in search but is there any way to hack the font size in windows mobile 6? I use reading glasses and don't want to use them to use the phone! Or is there any application that would do that? Any help appreciated.
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There are a few settings I have played with in the past for the same reasons.
HKLM\System\GWE\MENU
1) popfnt
2) barfnt
adjust the Ht value in decimals
But you will have to adjust them to your liking, try 950 to start.
I know that there are others I just can't think of them at this time.

Thanks for response, will try them out.

theloon said:
There are a few settings I have played with in the past for the same reasons.
HKLM\System\GWE\MENU
1) popfnt
2) barfnt
adjust the Ht value in decimals
But you will have to adjust them to your liking, try 950 to start.
I know that there are others I just can't think of them at this time.
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yeah, but in some cases it may destroy softwares GUI..
sktools have nice fontsize change options.

nothin said:
/menu start/settings/system/screen last tab? (and softreset).
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Thanks for that - I also only just noticed the Clear Type - much nicer.
While we're on the subject, any way of changing the font colour ??

nothin said:
yeah, but in some cases it may destroy softwares GUI..
sktools have nice fontsize change options.
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That's why I made the statment.
"But you will have to adjust them to your liking, try 950 to start"

Increasing amount of Launcher icons

Hi,
Searched through FAQ, however didn't find the exact match, so here it is:
Polaris, WM6.0 Professional, ROM v. 1.28.457.2 WWE .
Standard Launcher number of icons isn't enough, so am trying to increase. There's a suggestion in FAQ to increase amount of keys by duplicating exisiting ones in a registry somewhere under in HKLM\software\HTC\ , however this supposedly includes word "manila" and I don't have that.
What I do have is HKLM\Software\HTC\HTCHome\Launcher and keys from 0 to 8.
So I've created '9', '10', '11', and duplicated values from existing ones, with program links that I put inside, and no change happened - still only 8 usable slots + 1 used to remove.
I've done soft reset, and also waited for couple of minutes as well - to no avail.
Would appreciate help on the subject.

__edwardo__ said:
Hi,
Searched through FAQ, however didn't find the exact match, so here it is:
Polaris, WM6.0 Professional, ROM v. 1.28.457.2 WWE .
Standard Launcher number of icons isn't enough, so am trying to increase. There's a suggestion in FAQ to increase amount of keys by duplicating exisiting ones in a registry somewhere under in HKLM\software\HTC\ , however this supposedly includes word "manila" and I don't have that.
What I do have is HKLM\Software\HTC\HTCHome\Launcher and keys from 0 to 8.
So I've created '9', '10', '11', and duplicated values from existing ones, with program links that I put inside, and no change happened - still only 8 usable slots + 1 used to remove.
I've done soft reset, and also waited for couple of minutes as well - to no avail.
Would appreciate help on the subject.
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Sounds like you are using the HTC Home today plugin and as far as I remember, you can only have 8 program icons. Have a look for a program called claunch - you will be able to place it on your screen under htc home and be able to add many more programs for launching.

cr1960 said:
Sounds like you are using the HTC Home today plugin and as far as I remember, you can only have 8 program icons. Have a look for a program called claunch - you will be able to place it on your screen under htc home and be able to add many more programs for launching.
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Thanks, I was using claunch before , but was hoping would be able to 'hack' HTC Home today.. But looks like no other choice.
Anyway, thanks for the suggestion.

you could also consdier flashing cooked ROM with M2D?

Increased Performance with Regkey?

Hallo to community, I experimented with some tweaks for my Wizard and one give me unexpected Performance, so plase can somebody control is it same on other devices or not.
The key I added is HKEY_Local_Machine/System/StorageManager/Prefetch DWORD=6144
So plase give my a feedback
Thanks

Is anybody there?
Is anybody outhere, nobody reply
I have WM5 on my phone and think it myght by the size of page pool but are not realy sure.
Thanks for reply

Miha said:
Is anybody outhere, nobody reply
I have WM5 on my phone and think it myght by the size of page pool but are not realy sure.
Thanks for reply
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Hi,
I'm running WM6.5, and there's no such value in my registry. Sorry. I was kinda hoping for a magic tune, 'coz WM6.5 is really slow on my wiza 200

bo_ said:
Hi,
I'm running WM6.5, and there's no such value in my registry. Sorry. I was kinda hoping for a magic tune, 'coz WM6.5 is really slow on my wiza 200
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You must create the key "Prefetch" (DWORD) with value of Your Page pool in Kb ( My is 6 Mb therefore 6144) in the HKLM/System/StorageManager/
To me it brought speed and no more crashes
Thanks for reply

It seems to work.. have to keep testing..

I have it
After some expirementing with key finaly sticked out what this key is for!!!!
If in key HKL/... Storage Manager/Prefetch is the same value as in CasheSize for SDCard speeds my WIZARD to 20Mb/s!!!
As I sad on my Wizard is still WM5, never the less I think this is tweak that func. on WM6.1 or WM6.5 and is not only for Wizard, is OS Based.
If there is someone to Test it please and post it here for feedback.
Thanks

Here are the values that I used
The keys to add:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/StorageManager/"Prefetch"=dword:1800
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/StorageManager/Profiles/SDMemory/FATFS/"EnableCache"=dword:1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/StorageManager/Profiles/SDMemory/FATFS/"CashSize"=dword:1800
Cash Size is set to 6mb, for me it was the best balance beetwen the performance and free memory. It can be also other value but Prefetch and Cashsize must be the same otherweise is speed increase poor or worse then before.
P.S. sorry for my bad English
Greets to community.