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I have searched the site for the modifications that I am after, but cannot quite find what i want for my Touch Pro.
1. Calendar tab on the TF3D menu
2. Modify existing Internet tab to display the coloured 'globe' - currently just a list of favourites.
3. Modified comm manager (keeping existing icons) so that 'switches' are htc green and not red and the highlight focus is htc green and not vodafone red.
4. I think it's the *.tsk theme to change so that highlight focus is htc green and not vodafone red on enlarged menus but grey else where retaining the black bars top and bottom with white text.
I am currently using the LantisOS TF3D with HD contacts (cfc compressed) - have tried installing other 'fixes' to give the calendar tab but it tries to over write the contacts and history tab which I already have and screws it up. I have also tried various other methods of getting what I want, see here
I do not want to change the ROM for various reasons so I am offering beer money or more to whoever wants to take this on.
OS details;
6.1 Pro 5.2.19965 (Build 19965.1.2.3)
ROM: 1.90.161.5 WWE
ROM Date: 09/03/08
Radio: 1.02.25.19
Protocol: 52.33.25.17U
TF3D: Version 3.0 (Build 29946) 1.2.34837.3_1813.6
1. Have you tried the calendar tab over here? Read through the posts, there are a few hints and tips to be found there...
2. Can't help you out here
3. Check out this thread, I guess that'll answer your question.
4. See if this also changes with the fix in question 3.
longice said:
1. Have you tried the calendar tab over here? Read through the posts, there are a few hints and tips to be found there...
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Hadn't seen that!
Ok, have tried to manually back up the manila files and replace them, can't seem to do it in total commander, even if I change all the file attributes, won't let me copy and replace.
Ok, I have got the calendar tab working, credit due to those who have worked on it However, it doesn't link to my actual calendar and you can't touch any of the dates to bring it up?
I think I'm pretty much there on the green highlight in the comm manager, just 4 *.png files to edit.
Still stuck on the the other issues. So any help much appreciated.
Am almost to the point of giving up as I can't even change the png files, oh well.
Offer still stands if anyone is interested, am happy to pay someone for the modifications that I'm after.
Thanks.
longice said:
1. Have you tried the calendar tab over here? Read through the posts, there are a few hints and tips to be found there...
2. Can't help you out here
3. Check out this thread, I guess that'll answer your question.
4. See if this also changes with the fix in question 3.
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Thanks for your help chap, sorted out the colours on the comm manager here
Decided I'm not too fussed about the Calendar tab, no-one seems interested in helping out on that front as it would seem that my TF3D is all a bit 'old hat'.
Still need some help on the Internet tab though
I can put a cab file together if anyone would be kind enough to let me know which files I need for the coloured globe internet tab.
Thanks.
Sorted out most stuff, the Internet tab was the easist, didn't realise that i just needed to mod the InternetPortal-en-gb.xml file.
Now displays exactly what I want.
Still working on the calendar tab and have changed my tf3d to 12aon's full manilla rether that the CFC version as a lot of stuff like the clocks don't quite work properly with it. Also modding for the call history tab too.
Good to hear you're getting somewhere Not much is happening with the calendar tab, unfortunately... I guess you'll have to upgrade to some kind of cooked TF3D2 to get more functionality...
Contact details gone, now contains "{\pwi<FDMID>9830431</FDMID>"
Since moving to WM6.5 ROM's (initially Miri's REV7, 7.1 and now Dutty's Leo R2) I noticed that any Contacts added to the TF3D Favourite Contact screen have lost data - specifically the free-format "details" field now contain just;
{\pwi<FDMID>9830431</FDMID>
The correct "details" were defo there prior to my re-flash this morning (from REV7.1 to R2) because I updated them yesterday. Fortunately I have an archive of my Contacts within Outlook so I can restore the data, but what a PITA.
I haven't used any restore utilities other than ActiveStink.
Has anyone else noticed this ?
Or even better, figured out why it happens ? and how to fix ?
PS: I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to raise this but as I've only noticed it since moving to WM6.5 ROM's, so I figure it's as good a place as any to discuss the issue.
TIA
farqui said:
Since moving to WM6.5 ROM's (initially Miri's REV7, 7.1 and now Dutty's Leo R2) I have noticed that any Contacts I have added to the TF3D Contact screen have lost data. Specifically the free-format "details" field now contains just;
{\pwi<FDMID>9830431</FDMID>
The correct "details" were defo there prior to my re-flash this morning (from REV7.1 to R2) because I updated them yesterday. Fortunately I have an archive of my Contacts list within Outlook so I can restore the data, but what a pain.
I haven't used any restore utilities other than ActiveStink.
Has anyone else noticed this ?
Or even better, figured out why it happens ?
PS: I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to raise this but as I've only noticed it since moving to WM6.5 ROM's, so I figure it's as good a place as any to discuss the issue.
TIA
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I have noticed the same thing... I guess the strange data is entered by TF3D to store info relating to the "favorite"-status of that contact. Not sure, if there is any way to avoid that - although it definitely sucks if you don't know about it beforehand! Glad you had a backup!
MAMeingast said:
I have noticed the same thing... I guess the strange data is entered by TF3D to store info relating to the "favorite"-status of that contact. Not sure, if there is any way to avoid that - although it definitely sucks if you don't know about it beforehand! Glad you had a backup!
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Same here, I initially thought it was related to a Facebook link (you can tie a contact entry to a facebook entry WM6.5 (or HTC added this).
However, upon further investigation, it's linked to the favourites entries in Manila. This a terrible way to handle an extra field. I could like with them ADDING the pseudo tag to the Notes field, but not replacing the Notes field (thus erasing any genuine notes added by the user)
Not happy about this at all, since many of us use the Notes field extensively.
farqui said:
Since moving to WM6.5 ROM's (initially Miri's REV7, 7.1 and now Dutty's Leo R2) I have noticed that any Contacts I have added to the TF3D Contact screen have lost data. Specifically the free-format "details" field now contains just;
{\pwi<FDMID>9830431</FDMID>
The correct "details" were defo there prior to my re-flash this morning (from REV7.1 to R2) because I updated them yesterday. Fortunately I have an archive of my Contacts list within Outlook so I can restore the data, but what a pain.
I haven't used any restore utilities other than ActiveStink.
Has anyone else noticed this ?
Or even better, figured out why it happens ?
PS: I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to raise this but as I've only noticed it since moving to WM6.5 ROM's, so I figure it's as good a place as any to discuss the issue.
TIA
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Just wondering have you washed your phone?
justwonder said:
Just wondering have you washed your phone?
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What?
MAMeingast said:
What?
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I'm assuming he was referring to the misprint in first post, i.e. activestink
Fallen Spartan said:
I'm assuming he was referring to the misprint in first post, i.e. activestink
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LOL - didn't even see that!
Fallen Spartan said:
I'm assuming he was referring to the misprint in first post, i.e. activestink
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That's not a misprint
Has anyone found a solution yet?
It is annoying that for the favorites contacts in the TF3D Favorite Contact screen have lost data, in the "details" field, where notes and such are kept.
farqui said:
Since moving to WM6.5 ROM's (initially Miri's REV7, 7.1 and now Dutty's Leo R2) I noticed that any Contacts added to the TF3D Favourite Contact screen have lost data - specifically the free-format "details" field now contain just;
{\pwi<FDMID>9830431</FDMID>
The correct "details" were defo there prior to my re-flash this morning (from REV7.1 to R2) because I updated them yesterday. Fortunately I have an archive of my Contacts within Outlook so I can restore the data, but what a PITA.
I haven't used any restore utilities other than ActiveStink.
Has anyone else noticed this ?
Or even better, figured out why it happens ? and how to fix ?
PS: I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to raise this but as I've only noticed it since moving to WM6.5 ROM's, so I figure it's as good a place as any to discuss the issue.
TIA
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Well known issue and complete screw up by HTC.
We 'think' it's related to HTC indexing your contacts so it can link them to Facebook and to the Manila shortcuts.
I would not have minded if they just 'added' this tag, but to replace the notes is dangerous and unforgivable (some of us have real data in there, and could lose it)
I had this problem too... Luckily i had some back ups
Issue resolve in latest Manila
Over the weekend I updated my ROM to Duttys LEO R6 (Manila 2.5.1920) and find that this Contact "Note" bug is no longer an issue
At first glance it seems that Manila is now using a new Contact Group called "HTC Favorite" to identify contacts on their favourites tab.
So folks, get our those Contact archives and start restoring your missing contact Notes.
However it's not perfect because if you have the same contact on both the favourties and home tabs then the contact is allocated into the "HTC Favourite" group twice - a minor acceptable buggette
What's wrong with ActiveSync?
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That's not a misprint
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If it is any help, it happened to me, but for the facebook linking mine got appended to the notes section, and still does this now. Not sure on teh favourites as had no notes on any of my favorites.
After careful consideration I've decided to move this thread to general discussion as its more of a backup issue when going between different versions of wm
it certainly isn't a backup issue...
bloody HTC, since I use Exchange, thus have my contacts on my phone and in my e-mail, I thought not to backup those... guess I was wrong
Lost alot of notes now ((
I also see the HTC favorites group (prob. because I changed Roms)
(btw, this happened on my HD2, so it's not a general HD topic)
I am experiencing this problem too on my HD2. Previous Touch HD did not suffer from this. Any fix discovered?
Furthermore, I have double-byte characters (Chinese) corrupted and became question marks in the Notes field beyond just pending the <FDMID>9830431</FDMID> string to the Notes field. In other instances, the string becomes <FDMID>9895967</FDMID><sn></sn>
Very frustrated by this data corruption!
hi the same thing happended to me using an omnia pro b7610 after installing Pocket Informant 9. the worst thing is that by the time I figured out about it I had already synced with MYPHONE so I mess all my contacts with notes
Reported the HD2 Notes data corruption to the HTC Support Centre. They acknowledged that it was a problem as they could reproduce it. Now waiting for a response and hopefully a fix?!
In the 2.5.2012XXXX version of HTC Sense, the way the data is stored in the notes field has changed from <FDMID>9895967</FDMID><sn>id:000000000/friendof:000000000</sn> to the following :
<HTCData><!-- Please do not modify -->
<Facebook>id:000000000/friendof:000000000</Facebook>
<Favorite>actionid:CallMobile</Favorite>
</HTCData>
And they use the HTC Favorite catagory for each contact add to the Quick Links.
I'm very sure it also adds the info to the notes field below any data that is already there.
I have a couple of problems with the contact list and the phone favorites portion of the Sense UI.
1) Are there any way to display First name then Last name in contact list? Everyone in my contacts have Last name then First name.
2) Also, if it's just a company name, when you add a contact to the "shortcuts" (the 3x3 boxes), it says "No Name". There must be a way to fix that.. right? I'd hate to go into all of my contacts that only have business names and fix it by putting the company name in the first name field. Especially considering that I'm syncing contacts with Google contacts and I would prefer to have each field be accurate.
3) Lastly, because most of my contacts do not have pictures, and the "shortcuts" will only display first name. I would for example have 5 Johns w/o any way of immediately knowing which John it is. Are there any workarounds for that?
If it's a configuration setting for some/all of these issues, could someone please point them out to me? I apologize in advance if it's a simple thing and I just couldn't find where the settings are.
Allied to the points just raised - I would like to change my favourite contacts to display surname, not just the first name. Is there a workaround to achieve this please?
Bump. Are we the only 2 people that see these as issues? Or have you guys figured out some workarounds?
Count me in...i am shouting about this from my touch pro 2 time ... i have put a shortcut to contacts in main tab, and set it to view them filtered by company name, it helps a little.
To get first name first =
Find a contact, edit the contact... scroll all the way down to the bottom, and push the "more" button. Change the second "name choice" - I cant remember what exactly its named in english. But is should be the choice of how to vies the contact. In this form you can choose first og last name.
I have'nt figured out how to do/if its possible to mass change this. I have onlyd found one by one solution
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mobilebuddha said:
2) Also, if it's just a company name, when you add a contact to the "shortcuts" (the 3x3 boxes), it says "No Name". There must be a way to fix that.. right? I'd hate to go into all of my contacts that only have business names and fix it by putting the company name in the first name field. Especially considering that I'm syncing contacts with Google contacts and I would prefer to have each field be accurate.
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Company logo as the contact picture perhaps? I've done that myself, far better than a blank box anyway.
Similar thing with your collection of Johns.
scrabble8 said:
To get first name first =
Find a contact, edit the contact... scroll all the way down to the bottom, and push the "more" button. Change the second "name choice" - I cant remember what exactly its named in english. But is should be the choice of how to vies the contact. In this form you can choose first og last name.
I have'nt figured out how to do/if its possible to mass change this. I have onlyd found one by one solution
Hope it was helpfull
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I think what you're trying to say is change the 'File as' to First name, Last name.
Perhaps there's a registry hack to change the default behaviour of this field?
ContactFix
Search for ContactFix v1.3 & this will do what you're looking for. I use this & it works great on HD2.
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I think what you're trying to say is change the 'File as' to First name, Last name.
Perhaps there's a registry hack to change the default behaviour of this field?
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Yes ! That is the name of the field for changing first or last name Thanks !
could you point to me where ContactFix v1.3 is? I found a posting by someone with 4 cabs here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=966683&postcount=3
However, installing it does nothing on my HD2. Can you tell me where the ContactFix v1.3 is? thanks!
Bump. Could someone point me to the location for the ContactFix program? I searched but couldn't come up with exactly v1.3 of the program. Anyone?
Thanks in advance for the assistance!
Contact Fix
mobilebuddha said:
Bump. Could someone point me to the location for the ContactFix program? I searched but couldn't come up with exactly v1.3 of the program. Anyone?
Thanks in advance for the assistance!
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Check your PM......Cheers!
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Check your PM......Cheers!
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Could you pm me with the info to please
I'm sorry to dig up an old thread of my own, but I still have an issue un-resolved from the ContactFix solution. The ContactFix solution does provide the sorting fix. However, in the Sense UI's "shortcuts" for the People, I can still only have a first name.
So if you've got 5-6 Johns and you don't have a picture for them, then you are pretty much screwed - you can't really tell which is which unless you have memorized exactly where on the shortcut list you've placed them.
HTC, could you please fix this? I really don't understand how something as basic as this was missed in QA!
mobilebuddha said:
I'm sorry to dig up an old thread of my own, but I still have an issue un-resolved from the ContactFix solution. The ContactFix solution does provide the sorting fix. However, in the Sense UI's "shortcuts" for the People, I can still only have a first name.
So if you've got 5-6 Johns and you don't have a picture for them, then you are pretty much screwed - you can't really tell which is which unless you have memorized exactly where on the shortcut list you've placed them.
HTC, could you please fix this? I really don't understand how something as basic as this was missed in QA!
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I believe the shortcuts are meant to be used with a photo. There's no room there to put labels with first and lastname. So unless you name them John1, John2 etc, I don't think there's a solution.
30 seconds in MS paint should give you an image with Faceless John's full name typed on it. It's a reasonable workaround for those shadowy figures with no visible appearance.
Not perfect, but it's something.
Further to the earlier raised issue of contacts defaulting to File As.. Last Name, First Name.
I have between 450 - 500 contacts in Outlook and sync'd to my HD2 via Exchange Server. Works well. Nearly all of the time my contacts are added/edited on my laptop and I love the fact they are automatically 'there' on my phone.
I also like the HTC front-end interface for the Contacts bit of Windows Mobile 6.5, making it easier (finger friendly) to add contacts. However this interface neither gives you the option to default to File As.. First Name, Last Name nor let you change it on entry/edit. Instead you have to then go into the native WM6.5 Contacts bit and change it there. A bit of a pain and oversight in my opinion.
Ideally there'd be a way to set a default? Any ideas anyone?
Thanks in advance..
I'm sorry, but that's not a reasonable request from my point of view. The system should at least give you the option.
To be honest, I really think you've used to mediocre OS for too long. I did not just spend $800 so I can use MS Paint to paint a faceless John full name typed on it. If I spent $50, I might be okay with that, but not when I spend $800.
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30 seconds in MS paint should give you an image with Faceless John's full name typed on it. It's a reasonable workaround for those shadowy figures with no visible appearance.
Not perfect, but it's something.
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Actually, I have a question: Would a custom ROM for HD2 be able to fix this? I'm just asking about the possibility, not whether we can do it right now or not. I know that the phone is so new that we don't have custom ROMs yet.
But would it be possible for a custom cooked ROM alleviate issues like this?
Actually, I have a question: Would a custom ROM for HD2 be able to fix this? I'm just asking about the possibility, not whether we can do it right now or not. I know that the phone is so new that we don't have custom ROMs yet.
But would it be possible for a custom cooked ROM alleviate issues like this?
Hi everyone
I finally changed my phone to htc hd 2 after being hooked to iphone for 3,5 years and frankly, I'am pretty happy with my choice
But i really can't get some thing straigt, why do people change their original rom's giving by the manufacturer to the custom ones made by those genius developers?
Is Manila the name of the rom made by the developer? And isn't sense the real name of the firmware?
Where can I purchase a ebook reader to windows mobile 6.5?
And finally is there a quicker way to connect my contacts to their facebook profile then to do it individually?
Thank you for taking the time to read the post and thanks for all the help that may come.
Sincerely
Alan
Hi,
I can help you as to why you would upgrade the roms, simply because the phone has lots of stuff on it you wont use and if its not there then the phone works faster and better, also the roms may have other utilities built into it that are very handy that do not come with stock...personally its also taste as well...roms are made in the 'kitchen' and the people that put them together are called 'chefs' they are all different and i am finding that out myself...as for the other questions...cant help you there........YET.
celeb1981 said:
Hi everyone
And finally is there a quicker way to connect my contacts to their facebook profile then to do it individually?
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once you have done it once, so long as you backup your contacts you don;t need to do it again.
Their facebook info is held in each contacts 'notes' field. So long as that gets synchronised when you backup/restore, facebook associations will still be there as soon as you log in to facebook from the phone.
celeb1981 said:
Hi everyone
I finally changed my phone to htc hd 2 after being hooked to iphone for 3,5 years and frankly, I'am pretty happy with my choice
But i really can't get some thing straigt, why do people change their original rom's giving by the manufacturer to the custom ones made by those genius developers?
Is Manila the name of the rom made by the developer? And isn't sense the real name of the firmware?
Where can I purchase a ebook reader to windows mobile 6.5?
And finally is there a quicker way to connect my contacts to their facebook profile then to do it individually?
Thank you for taking the time to read the post and thanks for all the help that may come.
Sincerely
Alan
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Manila and Sense are both names for a user interface built by HTC to sit on top of WM and iron out some of the wrinkles.
Latest versions of WM6.5.5 have a reader tab built into Sense but there are a number of other options out there. I believe Freda is a free reader? You should find it via Google.
Whilst I appreciate that your question in the thread title is hypothetical, I would suggest that the direct answer for now is 'you shouldn't'. Get used to the phone, do a lot of reading here, try out some of the tweaks and apps, and forget about ROM upgrades until you know the phone and the operating system better - may save a bit of heartache in the short term to fight any initial temptation!
originally i flashed mine to get rid of all the telstra lock downs imposed on the phone and remove all the foxtel and bigpond junk, but as a byproduct of flashing my phone is now faster, has longer battery life, is much prettier, has loads of customizing tools and upgraded browsers, and can perform many more functions.
in the all contacts section the events tab auto detects possible matching facebook and local contacts, where you can attach them with 1 click, i find the manual way much better in the long run however.
i am experienced with flashing other devices though and i would recommend a lot of reading first before attempting it, and never flash with the sd card as it will end painfully.
Best ereader in my opinion is allreader:
http://shapeservices.com/en/products/details.php?product=allreader&platform=pocketpc
Does it break the warranty to flash it?
And do you know of a rom that would allow me to write in Russian/English and preferably also Norwegian? Thank you!
Linking contacts to Facebook
To automatically link all your contact to their Facebook profiles:
1. Go to 'All people' in the contact tab.
2. Slide across to 'Updates and Events'.
3. All the profiles that match up (by name) will appear below your profile at the top. This will take a while if there are loads.
4. Select this, check they all are right and click done.
Also you have to put HSPL on your phone to install a cooked (or any other) ROM which will invalidate your warranty. Although it can be uninstalled to send it back if necessary. (Read all about it in the sticky HSPL thread in ROMs and development).
Hope this helps.
Murg
murgers said:
To automatically link all your contact to their Facebook profiles:
1. Go to 'All people' in the contact tab.
2. Slide across to 'Updates and Events'.
3. All the profiles that match up (by name) will appear below your profile at the top. This will take a while if there are loads.
4. Select this, check they all are right and click done.
Also you have to put HSPL on your phone to install a cooked (or any other) ROM which will invalidate your warranty. Although it can be uninstalled to send it back if necessary. (Read all about it in the sticky HSPL thread in ROMs and development).
Hope this helps.
Murg
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Thanks for the tip about linking fb profiles, for some reason mine dont save when i restore my contacts using 'microsoft my phone' so this has saved me a bunch of time !
this question has been asked before, i have searched as I know many will request me to do. The problem is there has been no solution yet, and possibly A) because not enough are away of it and B) because it hasn't been asked in the right way.
almost all the cooks, and devs have worked and manipulated 2.1 and 2.5 to their liking so i believe there has to be a way to fix this:
In manila 2.1, when facebook was logged in to, and the profile picture was updated with the FB pic, that picture was also updated to the WM directory and then would save to outlook. Most people brought this up when it stopped happening in 2.5 because of the dialer, but my reason is for the outlook part.
Now what I would like from the devs, if anyone can check, HOW 2.1 saved the pic (like what was the registry setting) compared to 2.5 causing the latter to not save to the WM contact directory itself. All i know now, is 2.5 saves it in a path of windows\fbcontacts.
I searched registry settings last night, left and right in hkcu and hklm, to software, htc, then manila to see how it handled "people" but no luck there as i don't know how to add values to make it do what I want.
Thank you in advance, and I hope we can come up with a solution.
P.S. I understand there are other "programs" namely booksync and outsync but if we can fix this it will completely eliminate the need of having to use our pc just to "try" to match it up with our phones (since with outsync you can't manually link profiles like our manila 2.5 fb can.)