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Touch Tips & Tweaks !

Hi All,
I am sure many of you have some tweaks for the Touch to make it a better phone. I prefare "Registry" tweaks, there is a little lag when you end call, like 3 seconds & i cant find the Tweak for it in the registry.
So if you have some tweaks you think they are usefull, please feel free to post them here.
Thank you All.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\PHONE\PhoneExtendSetting]
Change the value of EndCallTime from 3000 to 1000 (that's one second). Enjoy!

ramirezf said:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\PHONE\PhoneExtendSetting]
Change the value of EndCallTime from 3000 to 1000 (that's one second). Enjoy!
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what does it realy do? more precise endCallTime?
Thanks
Math

Yeah... in milliseconds... 3000 = 3, 1000 =1... pretty neat!

"there is a little lag when you end call, like 3 seconds & i cant find the Tweak for it in the registry"
It reduces that lag from 3000ms to 1000ms (or whatever value you type)

Anyone nows where i can find that for a nl rom ? PhoneExtendSetting is not there when i click the phone folder

NP9660 said:
Anyone nows where i can find that for a nl rom ? PhoneExtendSetting is not there when i click the phone folder
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me too...italian rom
where is this setting?

i dont have that registry key already... should i add it? if so what exactly should the registry key say?

unfortunatly that key does not exsist in the registry, its avalaible on the Touch Dual, so anymore on that ?
Can we add that key ? Anymore usefull tweaks?

i have touch enhanced 256 MB version with English ROM and even I dont have this key.
Please help somebody. this 3 secs wait is damn annoying for me
Rajeev

Seems to be a very nice tweak for the Touch Dual.
Have the Touch Surface 1.31WWE on my Elf, but reg-key unfortunately also not avail in that rom.
We might ask very nicely to one of the great cooks on this forum...

Lets hope someone knows how to cut that 3 seconds lag, its ticking me off.
Pretty Please =)

Just add it...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\PHONE\PhoneExtendSetting (not that there shouldn't be a space between Extend and Setting)
3000 = 3 seconds and so out

skanndelus said:
Just add it...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\PHONE\PhoneExtendSetting (not that there shouldn't be a space between Extend and Setting)
3000 = 3 seconds and so out
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So we must make a new folder inside the PHONE folder named PhoneExtendSetting. In that folder add a new regkey with the name EndCallTime and give that the value 1000. Is that correct ?

Touch Tips & Tweaks
Hi,
Where in the phone can I find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.....to change the settings?
gc

gc2105 said:
Hi,
Where in the phone can I find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.....to change the settings?
gc
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You need a registry editor to access to this section of Windows Registry

where do i find that registry tweak downloader thing at?

I tried it on the Touch and I don't see any difference. What delay are you exactly talking about, is it the time the Touch takes to get back from the Dialing screen to the Home screen? If so, it doesn't work on the 'normal' Touch.

ok, i have exported the file using Klimregedit. just import it on ur elf & it should work, i have the settings set to 0 "ZERO" not 1000.
Please rename the extension to .reg

naser404 said:
ok, i have exported the file using Klimregedit. just import it on ur elf & it should work, i have the settings set to 0 "ZERO" not 1000.
Please rename the extension to .reg
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Just copy it to the folder named PHONE ?

One nice tweak for the Xperia

The menues in like Outlook are incredible small, use this tweak from the Diamond tweak thread to make them more finger friendly
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\gwe\menu\popfnt
and change the value for the "Ht" entry to "1000" decimal
Now I just need to change the startmenu for it is also incredible small - and the HTCenlargestartmenu cab available makes the start menu funny on Swedish OS. In English OS I am sure it will work fine and it also sets the menues bigger like in the regtweak above

Cheers! This is just the sort of thing we'll need once we start getting our X1's :]

You can make it a lot easier if you use SK-Tools. You can make a lot of changes including the font-sizes. No need for manual changes and it has a set-back-function, if I remember well. I used it for my G900 too, which has WVGA too at the same size

pf said:
You can make it a lot easier if you use SK-Tools. You can make a lot of changes including the font-sizes. No need for manual changes and it has a set-back-function, if I remember well. I used it for my G900 too, which has WVGA too at the same size
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Can it also make the startmenu bigger ?

where to get english os ?

Hi easycure1974,
yes, it can do this and a lot more

pf said:
Hi easycure1974,
yes, it can do this and a lot more
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I must be blind, I have owned this app since years but i have not found how to change the startmenu size - must look harder

Start sk-tools, then tune-up, then got through the tabs at the bottom to fonts or so (after colours, sorry, I have the german version and don't know the english names), there the 8. point is menu-bar-font-size (or so). Play here and you see the start-menu grow But remember, it needs a softreset to get the new settings!

pf said:
Start sk-tools, then tune-up, then got through the tabs at the bottom to fonts or so (after colours, sorry, I have the german version and don't know the english names), there the 8. point is menu-bar-font-size (or so). Play here and you see the start-menu grow But remember, it needs a softreset to get the new settings!
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Found it but it does not change the size of the startmenu

What do you mean with the size of the start menu? If you make the font bigger, the start menu, using this font, gets bigger too. I have tried it and got a start menu up to nearly the width of the screen (much too big).

pf said:
What do you mean with the size of the start menu? If you make the font bigger, the start menu, using this font, gets bigger too. I have tried it and got a start menu up to nearly the width of the screen (much too big).
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Strange, for me nothings happens with it - the menues in apps are bigger by ther other font setting but with that nothing happens

Schap tweak

I just got my HD and is brilliant !
Does anyone know if we can use Schap`s tweak on the HD ?

First thing I installed after Net3.5, runs all ok without any problems so it seems.
Have set all the tweaks I'd done for the Diamond and it restarted fine, also changed the icons to 4 across and that's fine too..
Schaps 3.3 I installed.

ooh can we see a screenshot of the 4 column version of programs on the HD? You would probably hardly need to scroll as everything would be on one page.

Aye, I'll upload when I get home

Here's a screen shot - I use the cab file to make this change though not the Config tools

Windoze9t8 said:
Here's a screen shot - I use the cab file to make this change though not the Config tools
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Which cab file did you use - pls post it ...!
THANK you

If you have a registry editor you can also add the settings yourself:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\
Add New Key “IconConfig”
In there Add DWORD Value:
“HorizontalIconSpacing” Dec value=”112″
“VerticalIconSpacing” Dec value=”115″
“IconTitleFontSize” Dec value=”6″
then softreset - voila!

You can use Schaps too to do the change, the settings are under the user settings at the top. Just change the values to the ones above..

Just tried it with Schaps ACTool and it workedd perfectly
Thanks to Trixster101 for the hint!
Ascenca

doublepost

Good tweak. Thanks for the tip.
Has anyone tried to put 5 icons per row? If so, what should be the values of those registry?
Edit: yes. I now have six icons per row.
I have horizontal spacing : 75
Vertical spacing :115
Icon size:5

Shapp AC
I use the Advanced Config v3.3 and its wonderful . I have managed to set my opening animated gif from HTC to my own ones and with my own WAV audio file and to rename my Bluetooth name to what I want... That tool is epic and very easy to use.
As it warns tho, be careful because improper use can much up your phone. Im very happy with my new customisations.

Big Menus

Is there a chance to turn off these big thumb-friendly context menus? Id rather have more items on the screen...
Thanks

lilithpro said:
Is there a chance to turn off these big thumb-friendly context menus? Id rather have more items on the screen...
Thanks
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Disable TouchFlo 2D under Settings Today Items.

That didnt change anything. i also would like to keep the TF2D Today Plugin

Maybe there is a TF2D theme with smaller items.

Im not talking about touchflo (but maybe theres a connection) but about all the standard windows menus. they used to be much smaller on my previous winmo device.
Its the scroll buttons which are bugging me when menus get long...

I found a solution in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=398265 htc diamond tweaks
32. Change system and context menu font size:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\gwe\menu\popfnt
and change the value for the "Ht" entry to "1000" decimal (from 1200)
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The original value for the touch 3g is 1050, i changed it to 700, which was a little too small, and now i have 800, which is about perfect

lilithpro said:
I found a solution in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=398265 htc diamond tweaks
The original value for the touch 3g is 1050, i changed it to 700, which was a little too small, and now i have 800, which is about perfect
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Could you please to clarify which is bigger font size "1050" or "700"

1050 is the original value, which is pretty big. 700 is really small and imho 800 is a great value, you can go higher for better thumb-ability

ConsultantR said:
Could you please to clarify which is bigger font size "1050" or "700"
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Sorry, I have got the point after soft reset

Way to alter menu sizes...?

Hi all,
I'm not sure what its called, but you know the context menus that come up basically whenever you hold your pointer over something for a while? It annoys me with the size they are in wm6.5. I love the speed of wm6.5 (tried both xplode's r7 (about to install 7.1...) and swampy's rls) but it really annoys me that they've made everything so big. Seems to take twice as long to do simple things now because now you have to scroll down menus to find what you're looking for. Is there anyway to bring this back to the good old "classic" sizes? I can't seem to find an option anywhere... and I realise loading a skinning app is just going to slow the OS down making the whole upgrade to 6.5 kinda pointless.
Also, does anyone know a way to speed up the actual time taken to register a tap and hold command? So that we don't have to spend as long to bring up the context menus?
Thanks in advance~
-kdp

that's a lot of questions. let me start with saying that i can not guarantee you, that the reg tweaks work. i found them for different devices and checked both my devices and didn't have the reg keys in there. so i don't knoiw if it helps you. Maybe, if i find out more, i'll post it later:
1. The size of the context and softkey menus:
a. the easiest way to influence the size and look of those menus would be, installing another theme. not just the color will change, but also the entire looks, so if you have a .tsk theme, copy it to the device and activate it, you will see it changed.
b. regitry tweak:
HKLM\System\GWE\Menu\Popfnt\
there should be two dword values that you can change to whatever you like.
ht=height is default set to 1000
wt=width is default set to 700
2. a skinning app is gonna slow down the os
- true, with wm6.5 there is really no need for anything else to make the graphics any nicer
3. tap and hold time:
HKCU\ControlPanel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay
right-click, select properties, and enter a value from zero to 999 milliseconds
if that value, does not exist, create it (string value)
if those values didn't work, you should try out advanced config, which can be downloaded here: http://www.pocketpc.ch/news/42529-freeware-advanced-config-3-0-a.html
there you have more than 200 tweaks for the os and don't need to search the registry for any values.

first off, a big thank you for the speediness of your reply.
i tried out the other tsk files i have... but unfortunately i don't have any older ones from wm5/6, only the newer 6.5 ones. they didn't seem to make much difference in size of anything... only the actual colour/font schemes. if you have any older tsk files that you wouldn't mind uploading, that'd be much appreciated as something to try.
the softkeys aren't so much an issue - i've got wisbar to disable them (yes yes, i know wisbar is a skinning app... but i prefer a nice cascading start menu to something i need to fumble through to find stuff any day) - its more the context menus that are annoying me.
the registry edit is interesting. changing the height and width actually also changes the zoom on the font size... i'm not sure how this is being calculated, but the font is clearly getting smaller the smaller you set the dimensions. it seems like its taking a predefined box with the text designed to take up a predefined percentage of it and then letting you put in the dimensions of the box... basically so that no matter what numbers you plug in, you'll always have the rather annoying amount of space being wasted between items in the context menus. though all that said and done, 750 for height and 350 for width are far more workable than the previous settings. more than legible too imo~
the tap and hold time tweak worked wonderfully
thanks again~

Tap and Hold time delay Setting
I found your post ref to Tap and Hold delays. I tried this Tap and Hold setting you said worked on your phone (see below) I tried it as shown below on a HTC wm 6.5 HTC pure(diamond2), and did not see a change, were you able to shorten the delay? Is that done with a String? or Dword?
3. tap and hold time:
HKCU\ControlPanel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay
right-click, select properties, and enter a value from zero to 999 milliseconds
if that value, does not exist, create it (string value).
I have spent hours searching the registry for a solution

it was a dword iirc... tbh, this hasn't been so much of an issue for me with the newer releases so i haven't bothered so much.

koi_desi_pagal said:
first off, a big thank you for the speediness of your reply.
i tried out the other tsk files i have... but unfortunately i don't have any older ones from wm5/6, only the newer 6.5 ones. they didn't seem to make much difference in size of anything... only the actual colour/font schemes. if you have any older tsk files that you wouldn't mind uploading, that'd be much appreciated as something to try.
the softkeys aren't so much an issue - i've got wisbar to disable them (yes yes, i know wisbar is a skinning app... but i prefer a nice cascading start menu to something i need to fumble through to find stuff any day) - its more the context menus that are annoying me.
the registry edit is interesting. changing the height and width actually also changes the zoom on the font size... i'm not sure how this is being calculated, but the font is clearly getting smaller the smaller you set the dimensions. it seems like its taking a predefined box with the text designed to take up a predefined percentage of it and then letting you put in the dimensions of the box... basically so that no matter what numbers you plug in, you'll always have the rather annoying amount of space being wasted between items in the context menus. though all that said and done, 750 for height and 350 for width are far more workable than the previous settings. more than legible too imo~
the tap and hold time tweak worked wonderfully
thanks again~
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If you still need themes for wm6.1, try http://www.wm6themes.com/
I use one from that site on my BA, but since i don't have wm6.5 installed right now, i can't tell you whether it'll help in your situation or not.