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HTC UNIVERSAL HACK COLLECTION POOL!

Dear Friends,
As an one month owner of Htc Universal, i searched the internet a lot and found lots of information. Also this great forum is really helpfull for me to do the rom updates or hacks provided by the experienced members... But i am thinking to open a topic to share what i found with all description... So i want to upload all the cabs and hacks i found, in an ordinary way... Probably most of the hacks which i uploaded here may be given a time ago in these forum or somewhere else... So this topic is aimed to be a collection pool of all the hacks for newbies like me and i will try to update the topic frequently... Any help to me is really great and for any mistake of mine, please forgive me...
Regards and thanks...
HTC UNIVERSAL HACK COLLECTION POOL!
**** NONE OF THE HACKS, UPLOADED IN THIS TOPIC, BELONG TO ME...I HAVE COLLECTED ALL OF THEM FROM THE INTERNET... THANKS GO TO THEIR PROGRAMMERS AND FOUNDERS....
*** AFTER APPLYING HACKS, PLEASE POWER OFF THE PHONE AND WAIT FOR 5 SECONDS AND THEN SOFT RESET...
HARD RESET:
PLEASE DONT FORGET TO BACKUP YOUR IMPORTANT DATA.
PRESS BOTH SOFT KEYS ON THE KEYBOARD AND RESET HOLE WITH STYLUS AT THE SAME TIME TO DO A HARD RESET...
BOOT LOADER MODE(USB/SERIAL):
FIRST DEATTACH SIM AND SD/MMC MEMORY CARD.
DISCONNECT USB CABLE.
PRESS BACKLIGHT BUTTON + POWER BUTTON + RESET HOLE AT THE SAME TIME.
YOU WILL SEE " SERIAL " ON THE SCREEN.
NOW CONNECT USB CABLE TO ENTER " USB " MODE.
PHONE KEYS VIBRATION EFFECT:
With this hack, you can feel the vibrate effect while pressing phone keys...
PHONE KEYS SOUND EFFECT:
With this hack, you can go back to default settings after phone keys vibration effect hack...
SHOW CONTACTS FIRST NAME SURNAME ORDER:
With this hack, you can change the view style of contacts to first name surname. After installation, tap and hold any contact and slect the file as option from the menu...
CHANGE BACKLIGHT KEY COMMAND:
With this hack, you can change the command of back light button to any program other than backlight function...
CLEARTYPE ON FOR PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE MODES:
With this hack, you can activate clear type both for portrait and landscape modes...
ACTIVATE PHONE SKIN WITH 3D BUTTONS:
With this hack, you can activate phone skin with 3d buttons in the expense of some memory and speed..
BLUETOOTH VOICE DIAL COMMAND OFF:
With this hack, you can deactivate the launching of voice command program and get opportunity to transfer the playing music directly to bluetooth headset by pressing the voice call button on the bluetooth headset (must be supported by bluetooth headset)...
BLUETOOTH VOICE DIAL COMMAND ON:
With this hack, you can reactivate voice call function over bluetooth headset...
DISABLE SECURITY:
With this hack, you can disable security procedures just after a clean hard reset without extented rom installations...
PERFORMANCE TWEAK HIGH RESOURCES:
With this hack, you will change the all storage caches,audio prioty,soft keyboard sensivity,font cache,glyph cache,deactivate start menu and windows animations with high amount of memory allocations...
PERFORMANCE TWEAK LOW RESOURCES:
With this hack, you will change the all storage caches,audio prioty,soft keyboard sensivity,font cache,glyph cache,deactivate start menu and windows animations with low amount of memory allocations...
WIFI G MODE ON:
With this hack, you can activate the mode for connecting wifi networks only for g protocol but be advised that there is no significant speed improvement over b mode...
WIFI SCAN INTERVAL LOW:
With this hack, you can consume some battery power while wifi is on by lowering the scan interval of wifi networks...
POCKET IE TWEAKS:
With this hack, you can change the parameters of pocket ie.the changes are make fit,zoom to small,search page as google,max request and max connections,cleartype on for ie,pocket ie as msie6.0 ...
ENHANCED FILE DIALOG:
With this Hack, you can enhance the builtin file dialog applet to browse whole the phone easily in the dalog window.just copy all the files in the archive to windows dir and soft reset.After run the file dialog applet from control panel and check the option Exchange standart File Dialog.
SOFT KEY APPLET:
With this hack, you can change the soft key commands.Just copy the file in the archive to windows dir and soft reset.After run the applet from control panel...
DSP ENHANCER -BASS&TREBLE SETTINGS:
With this hack, you can set the level of bass and treble easily via applet in the control panel. Especially you can feel the basss and treble changes by headset... ( Removed! Reported to be not working with Htc Universal )
UNLOCK EXTENDED ROM:
With this hack, you can get extra 10 mb free space in the new mounted storage area called ExtendedROM...Simply after installing cab, just run the ExtROMUNLOCKER from start menu - programs and soft reset.After you can add or delete any file in this new storage space or organize it with the cabs which you want to automatically be installed after hard reset...
HIDE ROTATE ICON FROM TRAY BAR:
With this hack, you can hide rotate icon from tray bar...
SHOW ROTATE ICON ON TRAY BAR:
With this hack, you can show rotate icon on tray bar...
HIDE WIRELESS MANAGER ICON FROM TRAY BAR:
With this hack, you can hide wireless manager icon from tray bar...
SHOW WIRELESS MANAGER ICON ON TRAY BAR:
With this hack, you can show wireless manager icon on tray bar...
HIDE BATTERY ICON FROM TRAY BAR BATTERY:
With this hack, you can hide the battery icon from tray bar...
SHOW BATTERY ICON ON TRAY BAR:
With this hack, you can show the battery icon on the tray bar...
ACTIVATE TRUE VGA MODE:
With this hack, you can activate true vga mode (96 dpi instead of 192 dpi). Installation information included.
WM5 NEW MENU
With this hack, you can change one of the soft keys as a new menu like in windows mobile 2003...
DISABLE GPRS AUTO CONNECT
With this hack, you can disable gprs autoconnect and then connect manually whenever you want...
BLUETOOTH ICON ON TRAY BAR
With this hack, you can see and change the status of bluetooth from tray icon.
***UPDATE: 03.03.2006***
TUNE CLEAR TYPE LEVEL:
With this hack, you can tune the level of clear type from high to low or from low to high. Very usefull when using true vga mode. Install and run the program from start menu...
POCKETIE BLANK HOME PAGE
With this hack, pocketie will start with a blank home page...
DATE+TIME ON TITLE BAR
With this hack, date and time is available on the title bar...

Nice post ¡¡

Hey man....Good Efforts.keep it up..

tweaks
awesome work mate cheers

oh man!!! I tried the Vibrating Keypad function, was cool,,,, but I wanted to revert back and boom; it messed up completely,,, i cant even dial fast now; your soundkeypad file seems to be problematic...
any solutions?!!??!?!?

hmm ok... fixed it by goind through the registry and deleting the SOUND as string and creating new SOUND as dword... that worked... :roll: oh man, what a hassle.
on the other hand::: your tweaks seem to be very interesting :wink: good work, keep it up!

Dear matt_x,
After your experience i have rechecked the hacks for phone keys and there is no problem in my device... Let me advise you;first install this hacks and then a soft reset should be a good way...
Regards and thanks...

How do view/install?
Hi,
Very interested in the hacks, but how do you install them? I can't open them or view them, can anyone point me in the right direction.
Cheers
Yohanson

Re: How do view/install?
yohanson said:
Hi,
Very interested in the hacks, but how do you install them? I can't open them or view them, can anyone point me in the right direction.
Cheers
Yohanson
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You should put them in the memory cord of your phone, then click them from there.
The .CAB files should be installed FROM THE PHONE.
goodluck

Hey great work with the hacks
Thanx for sharing

Used the Soft Key app & it works great. cheers.

Problem sorted
Or some reason when I was downloading the files they were changing to .php not .cab. So with a quick change of name all working fine.
Anyone know how to change internet explorer reg back to original settings?
cheers

Dear yohanson,
Most of the tweaks for pocket ie can be easily changable within pocket ie by options menu...
Regards and thanks...

protochip,
great works !!! thanks for the "compilation"
Manage to installed :
DSP ENCHANCER -BASS&TREBLE SETTINGS
* Works very well.
SHOW CONTACTS FIRST NAME SURNAME ORDER
* Works very well.
POCKET IE TWEAKS
* Can't find where to do the changes. Unable to find the new setting in IE menu.
cheers,
Simon

brilliant

Dear simontee,
After applying pocket ie hacks there will be no new menu.I meant that if you want to go back,you can change some of the tweaks within pocket ie.For example you can change the zoom setting to larger or make fit to desktop from the menu of pocket ie.But other tweaks are directly written to registry ( cleartype, pocket ie as msie6.0, ... )
Regards and thanks...

Nice work will give them a try on my BA...

protochip...
thks for replying.... great works !!! keep it up !!!
cheers,
Simon

HI.
HI. PROTOCHIP.
I KNOW YOU FROM SX1 FORUMS.
I THING YOU CHANGE YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM.
ANYMORE YOU WILL USE WINDOWS MOBILE.
ONCE UPON A TIME YOU PREFERED SYMBIAN.
WELCOME TO WINDOWS MOBILE.
GREAT WORKS.

Dear wildwind,
As you know, technology is improving very fast... As an ex-owner of Siemens Sx1 i am proud of it. Now it is time for windows mobile and time for Htc Universal... Who knows what will become popular next year, be sure i will be so close to it...
Regards and thanks...

HTC Home Profile tab options

Is it possible to have Ring+Vibrate option through HTC Home Profile tab? May be through registry?

That can be set up sounds & notifications.
Then when HTC Home is set to ring, you will get Ring+Vibrate.

Yes, this i know. But i want the 4 tabs to do the following.
Ring only
Ring & Vibrate
Vibrate only
No Ring, no Vibrate
So you see, i cannot get option 1 & 2 without changing manually from Notifications.

Same question for me.
I want to modify the four profile, as saifias said.
I seek registry and HTC Home folder but I didn't see anything that can helps.
It is possible to do?
@+

volume control via hardware left side control

hi, I've just purchased a HD2 and I'm new to WM.
After installing some tweaks, I discovered that when i tune the volume using the button on the side of the phone, instead of showing the original volume level in a black screen, now it shows a small window on the top right corner.
How can I get back the original black volume control screen ?
i'm on Manila ver 2.5.19211619 and ROM 1.66 with 6.5.2 OS.
thanks
SN

Have u installed any taskbar modification?

i installed the following :
- cookie's home tab
- flashlight
- CHTEditor
-.Net CF3.5
-bluetooth toggle
- close album with X
- disable accidental link
- lonngpress send key
- faster manila tweaks
- opera 6 tabs
-reset and wifi
- speed up screen scrolling
-start menu icons and BG transparent
will any of the above cos the change ?
Thanks

Its definetely not cookies home tab, flashlight and probably not Net cf3,5, your best bet is to uninstall app one by one and soft reset after each to find out which one could be the culprit.

Thanks.
it's the last one that removed the original volume control.
i now have a new 'problem' - i could not remove the icon completely. Tried removing and the msg is that there are icons that are not removed completely and asked whether i want to tremove them, i confirmed 'Yes' but that prog will still appear in the list of installed prog. Tried a few times and it is the same.
Now the silent/ringer mode icon is mission from the task bar.
Looks like I will for other icons or reinstall the task bar icons and make do with the 'not so nice' volume control.
Thanks again

Sktools is great in uninstalling things, u can try it.

One touch Jump to Alarms from home page

Can someone provide me with a cab that would allow me to touch the alarm icon indicator on the home page (just below clock and above calendar) that would jump me to the "alarm settings" page? I am new to the HD2 and the only way I can find to navigate to the alarms is through Settings>all settings>clocks & alarms. Alternatively, I would like a way to create a quicklink to such things as Alarms; sounds; and system. I am not brave enough to use registry editor yet, so something simple would be helpful. I am using an unlocked TMo on ATT. Thanks
ROM: 2.10.531.1
ROM Date: 2/22/10
OS: 5.2.21889 (21889.5.0.87

see the control panel items link in my sig.

Really? Can't you just tap the clock and then navigate using the tabs? I have the tmous version.

(lol i did think that, too, on mine i tap the alarm button on the homepage below the clock to get htc alarms, but that was so obvious i assumed the OP meant windows alarms, heh.)

Yeah... that functionality is already there... :S

Jump to Alarms
Perhaps I am missing something, but it does not work for me to "tap the clock" to get to the clock or the alarms. Nor does it work for me to "tap the alarm" indicator. The only way for me to get to the clock or the alarm is the method that I described earlier. Nothing happens at all if I tap the clock or by tapping the alarm indicator. If there is some way to set the clock on the home page to respond to my "tap" then I don't know what it is and would appreciate someone telling me how to do it. I will investigate the method mentioned above by samsamuel about setting shortcuts to control panel items tomorrow and post my results.

have you been messing with cookies home tab settings? because that program can set what program ( if any ) comes up when you tap areas of the screen.
failing that i'd be backing up and hard resetting.

Hmm
Since i got my phone Orange UK i have been able to tap the alarm icon to go straight to the settings.
ROM 1.66.405.2 WWE Manila 2.5.1921

Can't access clock / alarm from home tab
Samsamuel: Thanks for the control panel quick links work around. I've created the shortcut links following your directions and was then able to add a quick link on my home page to go directly to the clock / alarm. In my case it actually takes me to the alarm page first which is just what I needed. I'm still unsure why I need this if other users are able to access their clock and alarm directly. You asked about messing with home tabs and cookies. I have not done that (or at least not on purpose that I know of). How do you conduct a "hard reset"? I've installed the one touch "soft reset" cab which works great, but hasn't fixed my clock problem. If I do a "hard reset" will I have to reload my contact data, quicklinks, reload the cabs I've installed, etc? I'm just a new guy trying to get my phone to do what I need. Thanks to everyone that has helped so far.

to be honest you're better off using the windows alarms anyway, i don't quite trust the htc one just yet, not that its failed, it just doesn't seem quite as solid.
to hard reset, remembering that this is a factory reset, phone is wiped, so back up ya stuff, power off the phone, press and hold both vol up and vol down. it can be a touch tricky, i find you get a better press with the battery cover off,,,, press and hold those two, and tap and release power. phone should start into bootloader but immediately turn grey with blue writing. you can release the vol now.

Windows vs HTC clock / alarm
How do I know whether I'm accessing the windows or HTC clock / alarm? The control panel quicklink I've established takes me to a page that looks like my old windows phone alarm page. Is the item on the homepage (which doesn't work) supposed to take me to an HTC clock / alarm? If I do a hard reset, it sounds like I'll have to reload all of the cabs I've just installed (task manager, battery indicator, zoomer, keyboard, soft reset, etc.). I presume that my sim card contacts will be left alone. Is there another way to reset / clear cookies without doing the hard reset?

If you do have Co0kie's Home Tab installed, run the CHTEditor, go to the applications page and click on Alarm. Then, select "Default" (bottom right softkey) and "Menu", "Exit" and apply changes (if it asks). If it doesn't ask if you want to apply changes then it was already set as the default application and something else must be at work here.

Windows clock vs HTC
I do not have CoOkies Home Tab. From what everyone is saying, my home page is not responding properly, but I don't know why. I am willing to do the hard reset, but would rather not go that route unless it is necessary since I will have to reload a bunch of stuff.

I would definitely consider a hard reset if the quick links are not working.
I'm not convinced that the HTC alarm is less reliable than the windows mobile one since the HTC alarm is just a nice interface setting the windows alarms!

Is there a way to make the Headphone control key work with coreplayer

Hello
Did anyone manage to get the control keys of the headphone to work with coreplayer?
I don't use Htc sense I use Spb shell and I wish if the control keys would work with coreplayer.
ALso the home button in our leo can it be adjusted to bring home screen of spb shell?
Thanks in advance

someone tried this and can give us some advice here please

have you tried setting up the htc WMP control plugin under options --> WMP UI plugins ?

Thank you my dear friend for your reply
I checked the box beside htc wmp plug in but still whenever i press the play key from the headphone it brings up wmp