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Tweaks2k2 on the HTC Universal

Is Tweaks2k2 really that necessary for our Exec (HTC Universal)?
Can anyone comment on compatibility on our Exec?
http://www.tweaks2k2.com/

it's compatible (runs only in Portrait mode though).
Is it necessary? No. You can do all the registry changes manually.
Is it convenient? You bet! It takes much less time to do everything manually, and it allows you to try the VGA brute force method on various programs (and revert back if it doesn't work)

RE
You don't really need ALL the registry tweaks that comes with the program if you know how and where to edit your registry.
You only need some of the registry tweaks so don't waste the precious memory of the EXEC

95 % of the tweaks are here,for free.....
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Universal_Registry

Reg keys

Hello everyone, i need you help.
I have been flashing and flashing, and each time i have to reender info and i was just thinking does anyone kow what reg key are used to do the below. (I write the cab file i just can not find where to put the reg keys) Or if anyone knows what programme i can use to pull the whole reg and compare it to a plain one to see what has changed.
1. Owner Information
HKCU/Controlpanel/Owner/(Binary)Will change for everyone
2. Set screen to screen text size
3. Set backlight brightness level and turn off time
HKCU/ControlPanel/Backlight/ACTimeout(min 10, max 300 secs), BatteryTimout (min 10, max 300 secs), Brightness(min 0, max 4).
HKLM/system/CurrentControlSet/Control/Power/Timeouts/ACSuspendTimeout(min 60 max 1800 secs), BattsuspendTime(min 60 max 300 secs)
4. Set Device Id
HKLM/Ident/NameWill change for everyone
5. What showsup in the Menu
6. Turnoff Events sounds(Warnings, System events)

anyone out there can help?

Search for some discussions we had on this topic. I use a free app called ssnap.
http://s-k-tools.com/index.html?m_util.html
V

vijay555 said:
Search for some discussions we had on this topic. I use a free app called ssnap.
http://s-k-tools.com/index.html?m_util.html
V
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Thank you for that, but it is not what i asked about!!! I can write cab files and install them with out my mum and dad, but i can not find the correct reg keys the the things, so can any one help me to look at the right place.
But thank you for your reply!

Please can anyone help here? I am still having problems find a couple things!

You could just use taskmanager from dotfred to extract complete registry :
I know that take a shot before and after installation and then use a tool like winmerge on your pc, will allow you to detect changed keys...
It's probably not the most efficient way (probably araxis merge is better comparator app) but it's free and it does work...

naboleo said:
You could just use taskmanager from dotfred to extract complete registry :
I know that take a shot before and after installation and then use a tool like winmerge on your pc, will allow you to detect changed keys...
It's probably not the most efficient way (probably araxis merge is better comparator app) but it's free and it does work...
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thanks, apart from menu, i have it all sorted

Processor speed change tool

Hello,
I'd like to introduce small tool which I designed for Wizard overlocking.
It is used for changing Wizard processor speed directly from PC via ActiveSync connection. It uses great OmapClock.exe for overlocking.
With this tool it is possible to change speed permanently and temporally.
Permanently means, that after SoftReset processor speed will be still overlocked,
Temporally means, that after SoftReset processor speed will be restored to default 195[MHz] - useful while testing high speeds
In both cases return from suspend mode keeps new (overlocked) speed.
link: http://www.mdsoft.pl/wizardautoclock/wizardautoclock.exe
Exe file contains all required tools (OmapClock.exe).
Originally tool was designed in polish, so sorry for eventually mistakes in translation
I hope it can be useful for You

Over clocking mda
Hi,
How do I know, this tool really worked.. I did a device info.. still i see the clock speed as 195mhz even after installing and fine tunning.

Hi
I tryed to install on my HTC S710 / WM6 but get a error message "Cannot read Programs Folder!".
Whats wrong?

A smartphone cannot run unsigned application unless changing security policy.

mdziedzic said:
Hello,
I'd like to introduce small tool which I designed for Wizard overlocking.
It is used for changing Wizard processor speed directly from PC via ActiveSync connection. It uses great OmapClock.exe for overlocking.
With this tool it is possible to change speed permanently and temporally.
Permanently means, that after SoftReset processor speed will be still overlocked,
Temporally means, that after SoftReset processor speed will be restored to default 195[MHz] - useful while testing high speeds
In both cases return from suspend mode keeps new (overlocked) speed.
link: http://www.mdsoft.pl/wizardautoclock/wizardautoclock.exe
Exe file contains all required tools (OmapClock.exe).
Originally tool was designed in polish, so sorry for eventually mistakes in translation
I hope it can be useful for You
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Are you not re-inventing the wheel ? Battery Status does exactly the same thing whithout the need for a PC plus it is a standard inclusion on most of the cooked ROM's.

sri said:
Hi,
How do I know, this tool really worked.. I did a device info.. still i see the clock speed as 195mhz even after installing and fine tunning.
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Come on now, how can using software to speed up the processor change the wording in device info? This is done by the mfg. The mfg. doesn't know if you're going to speed up your processor, only your device knows. The only way to tell if it's working is if you notice a change in the performance of your device like faster operation of the device. You can also tweak the registry for faster operation.

hjsaner said:
Hi
I tryed to install on my HTC S710 / WM6 but get a error message "Cannot read Programs Folder!".
Whats wrong?
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What was being installed when you got this message? Where was it being installed to?

Overclocking And Battery Status
Batt status has application overclocking which is great.
Phone and Camera need to stay at 195mhz. Over clocking overall system could eventually lead to some problems like glitches and being unstable resorting to frequent soft resets....

Making the Best out of ULTIMATE 8150

for a few days on searching for rom updates for ULTImate 8150 and found nothing, i had installed and tweaked the registry settings of my device and made some adjustments to improve its overall performance... here are some of what i did:
1. installed qmenu for the pupose of enabling the ok as close button so as to always close opened applications- this will enable the device to use more memory for applications that need more memory allocation. Dont forget to check the "enable at startup" setting.
2. installed advance configuration v.3 to tweak registry keys to maximize performance and battery saving of the device. in this version, you will find other options that also be useful such as softkey (left and right) launcher editing.
3. installed CF Version 3.5 to also increase slight speed with opening and processing handling of the device. i have not uninstalled the CF version 2 since you cant literally remove it from the ROM. then, changed a key in the registry from v.2 to v.3.5(search for "askd" post in how to speed up OEM roms). I also noted some good effects in doing this--- applications which requires CF v.2 or V3.5 can be used with my device, since i only tweaked the registry and not physically removed the version 2, applications which need either v.2 or v.3.5 can be used.
4. tweaked some display setting keys to ddi.dll to nvdddi.dll (im not really sure if this changed graphics performance) but i used TCPMP player and just did a few settings changes and videos played really smooth, dvd quality plays really good--i used converter to compress videos(avi-divx format). i am still testing few graphics driver i found including samsung's intel based driver and other graphics driver(ati and nvidia), i just post my feedback soon about this issue.
5. tweak the contrast key in the registry and unlocked a menu in the system settings with regards to contrast.
6. adjusted backlight settings to third bar from the left and set backlight to shut in 10 sec, 1 min respectively.
7. deleted some start-up applications which consumes additional running memory of the device.
8. installed other apps n tweaks but i cant remember all coz i think ive done almost a hundred softresets and hard resets for testing drivers and apps so ill just update this post. maybe you guys could add to this...
for now, im looking for apps for the camera, arcsoft or other, for better and additional options for camera.
also found a useful driver for enabling miniUSB to be a comm port. you can connect other devices to this port. still testing...
--hope this could help in a way for ULtImate 8150 users... im still testing some apps and tweaks with my device. ill just update this post if i find other good stuffs to post.
dhoosh

by the way, thanks to the authors of the softwares/apps/tweaks if mentioned... and to all contributor of this site...

i m new to ultimate 8150.....cud u plz plz plz give details how u did all da stuff (tweaking stuff)
thnx

aztigen22 said:
for a few days on searching for rom updates for ULTImate 8150 and found nothing, i had installed and tweaked the registry settings of my device and made some adjustments to improve its overall performance... here are some of what i did:
1. installed qmenu for the pupose of enabling the ok as close button so as to always close opened applications- this will enable the device to use more memory for applications that need more memory allocation. Dont forget to check the "enable at startup" setting.
2. installed advance configuration v.3 to tweak registry keys to maximize performance and battery saving of the device. in this version, you will find other options that also be useful such as softkey (left and right) launcher editing.
3. installed CF Version 3.5 to also increase slight speed with opening and processing handling of the device. i have not uninstalled the CF version 2 since you cant literally remove it from the ROM. then, changed a key in the registry from v.2 to v.3.5(search for "askd" post in how to speed up OEM roms). I also noted some good effects in doing this--- applications which requires CF v.2 or V3.5 can be used with my device, since i only tweaked the registry and not physically removed the version 2, applications which need either v.2 or v.3.5 can be used.
4. tweaked some display setting keys to ddi.dll to nvdddi.dll (im not really sure if this changed graphics performance) but i used TCPMP player and just did a few settings changes and videos played really smooth, dvd quality plays really good--i used converter to compress videos(avi-divx format). i am still testing few graphics driver i found including samsung's intel based driver and other graphics driver(ati and nvidia), i just post my feedback soon about this issue.
5. tweak the contrast key in the registry and unlocked a menu in the system settings with regards to contrast.
6. adjusted backlight settings to third bar from the left and set backlight to shut in 10 sec, 1 min respectively.
7. deleted some start-up applications which consumes additional running memory of the device.
8. installed other apps n tweaks but i cant remember all coz i think ive done almost a hundred softresets and hard resets for testing drivers and apps so ill just update this post. maybe you guys could add to this...
for now, im looking for apps for the camera, arcsoft or other, for better and additional options for camera.
also found a useful driver for enabling miniUSB to be a comm port. you can connect other devices to this port. still testing...
--hope this could help in a way for ULtImate 8150 users... im still testing some apps and tweaks with my device. ill just update this post if i find other good stuffs to post.
dhoosh
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i m new to ultimate 8150.....cud u plz plz plz give details how u did all da stuff (tweaking stuff)
thnx

touch.dll development/hacking ( cab file of the rebuild touch driver added )

This project is about rebuilding the touch.dll coude from the original dll assembly.
Latest package:
touch.cab
For adding the "developers certificate" ( read side node on update 21/11/08 ) you can use the following tool:
Microsoft Security Configuration Manager
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Update 21/11/08:
Ive finally managed to rebuild the touch.dll from assembly and recompiled it and im able to boot the new touch.dll
Ive cleared some of the calls made to some old features implemented in the original file like the touch cube etc.
Be aware that this isnt for daily use and only for testing purposes. But I really need some input on speed and reliability because i cant test everything on my own ( i flash my device every 4 hours or so so not really long testing times ). If you are not affraid of hard resetting your device and are willing to participate in testing current work please do but dont keep me responsible for freezes etc
I have only tested it on udk R4 because its easy for me to test speed on manilla 2d and it gives me a good impression of daily usability. And because i removed almost all calls to the original cube code it wont be any good for cube lovers as and original HTC roms.
Keep in mind that all ive done now has been done during work in a few hours and although ive tried to be on the safe side i cant tell you all is working as its suppose to and I think i havent done more then remove about 20% of garbage out of it.
I know not all is as fast as its supposed to be but like i said im better safe then sorry and i dont wanna hardreset every 2 mins or so... Some good testing can be done in Manila2d like scrolling through images fast and scrolling through the bottom bar. Also ive noticed that scrolling through the normal "All programs" is still on the slow side ( still need to resolve a lot of scrolling issues... HTC has included a lot of codes for all sorts of winmo controls like listviews etc ) but if you open up the all programs in manila from the programs menu u will see what kind of speed it can work at minimum....
As for the priorities mentioned earlier in this thread im going to set both the priority256 and the priorityhigh256 at 109 ( original microsoft value that can be found at msdn ) in the cab file so we can test the touch interface as it was suppose to be set up... you can easily change these values as you like ( read earlier posts ). Setting it lower then 109 will give it an higher priority which will make the device suffer more from touch input... Setting it higher ( upto 255 ) will give the touch input less priority and will make rendering faster but can also come of the cost of reliability.
Side node:
Make sure your rom has the "Sample Privileged Developer" Certificate installed because i signed both the file as the cab with this certificate ( files need to be signed because of being system file and they dont get any trust at boot without a certificate ).
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Start 15/11/08:
Ok so because i didnt had much to do this week i started digging into the touch.dll to see if there can be some solutions to the slow scrolling/stuttering etc when touching the screen.
I already found out that the graphics stuttering mostly happens due to the fact that the touch.dll is set to real-time process priority.
WinMo uses priority values from 255 (low) to 0 (real-time).. Normally touch should be set at 109 ( according to msdn ), but because htc put so much garbage in it ( touchflo related ) and it got slow as #@% they put the priority to 0 as a default and deleted the registry entries
Using IDA i found out that those registry values are still being accessed but since they are not there the default of 0 is used.
Just create the following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\Touch
And create the following values in it
Name value (DWORD)
Priority256 255
HighPriority256 255
This will not speed up the actual scrolling but it will also not make the device freeze when pressing the screen... So scrolling seems more natural. ( especially in programs folder and file explorer )
So this is not a fix but a good start for now.
Already found out a few things looking at the code that can be dropped out so im going to try to rebuild the touch.dll from asm without most time expensive calls ( hopefully shrike will help me out on this one ).

Let me be the first to say thank you. I am not sure I did the things right, but my Polaris seems more alive than ever. I will post an exported regkey, please confirm that I've done it correctlly.
I have noticed an improvement in sliding in S2U2 and on everything that involves touching the screen. This indeed is a great step forward for Polaris.

Thanks for trying... As soon as development will progress ill create a cab file which will include the registry keys.

Big difference... great job,
I've noticed though that in icontact, when you scroll contacts, the animation has to finish so that it can accept new gesture, so i set it to 109, scrolling is still good and icontact work propertly..

Great find Rogro! Was irritating me how the graphic stutters whenever I scroll in programs and phonebook..
Just wondering though, if it was such a simple fix, why did they remove the reg key to begin with? as far as i can see, the impact on the processor speed seems really minimal..
I look forward to more of your discoveries..

Nice job! Performance is much better... but in the all programs list the icons all still flashing when scrolling, although its much less.
Thank you

Great job in all programme speed seems little better.

nice
thanx

Hey Rog,
Nice to see you're trying different things.
I looked at my HD but it didn't have the slowdown the Polaris has. But it also doesn't have the registry keys... so i added them and soft reset. Now, my HD's TFLO3D is really unresponsive and stutters... So maybe it's only for non-TF3D devices?

Thank's
It's working well in my M-Amine 2.0 Final Rom.
Here is the little Cab.
EDIT: If you install this cab or change the register by hand (Is the same) , the scrolling work well but maybe you will have problems with Igo, TomTom or destinator.
Please take that in your mind.

Thanks a lot Rogro!! It's wonderful for every application that uses touch scrolling.
Why do HTC engineers leave us alone with those awful bugs? Is it so difficult to add those 2 DWORD values?

Actually it fixes the screen response AND the All Programs scrolling in Manilla 2D

thanks for sharing rogro82.
cheers

Thanks rogro82.
It's working
BTW i've notice something,,maybe wrong.
When you scroll (very fast) in file explorer or program folder, stoping it(the scrolling) with a sigle tap it's not so easy. Or when you tap to stoping it ,then turning to another direction(up or down).
Also the icontact scrolling isn't good enough.
I use the "cbolumar" cab.

BTW i've notice something,,maybe wrong.
When you scroll (very fast) in file explorer or program folder, stoping it(the scrolling) with a sigle tap it's not so easy. Or when you tap to stoping it ,then turning to another direction(up or down).
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Thats because the scrolling is still way off in terms of speed... the only thing that happens when you change the registry settings is that it will not allow touch.dll to eat all resources and hang all other processes..
Maybe you could try to set it to 109 ( what it should be on a normal driver )..
I never use any gestures or whatever so setting it to 255 works for me for now until i can start cleaning code.

TomTom7 with these settings
Nice find. But in Tomtom7 something strange happens. I have to press the screen much harder then without these reg keys. I Use M-Amine's RTM rom.
Anyone else have this or is it just me having this bug?

ViNZ! said:
Nice find. But in Tomtom7 something strange happens. I have to press the screen much harder then without these reg keys. I Use M-Amine's RTM rom.
Anyone else have this or is it just me having this bug?
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The same bug for me with Navigon Mobile Navigator 7
kr.,
Frepke

Bug with IGO 8
The same for me , i have a lot of problems with the screen in Igo , the problem disappear after delete the register changes.
To delete this, you must go to the register and delete the new values by hand, not the touch entry but the priority entries.
Only uninstalling the cab is not valid because the driver is in use.

Thanks a lot!
It's like early Christmas!
It´s because of people like you that my Polaris is an increasingly awesome machine. Continuing like this in the near future it will teleport me from one place to the other!
Keep up the good work.
Don't ever leave us Rogro!

TT6 don't work
The screen is no usable.
I have delete all the key and now work well
ROM M-Amine 2.0 Final ITA