Your AT&T Fuze BLOWS! So change the fuze here.

Ladies and gentlemen, your new AT&T Fuze blows. But with my help it could be cool and calm like the shine on a radiator grill. The last time I updated the site was Nov 16th and it's currently March 10th. In case you didn't notice people I am on a haitus from which I am about to slowly return so cut me some slack. For programs under heavy development I supply thread links for you to double check plus you can use AppToDate which checks for new versions of some of the apps (mostly things born on XDA) you have installed and upgrades them. Just so we're clear, this ain't Rapidshare, sucka. Here you will find no CAPTCHAs, no fancyboy limpwristed jive-turkey 4shared java GUIs, no limits, no timeouts, no waits, no email registrations, no ads. This ugly-ass site is best viewed on any browser at all resolutions.

Announcement: Own a Tilt 2 yet? Me too and guess what I made a website for it, tilt2.blownfuze.org. I apologize for not having updated this since friggin' November but I've been writing for these guys, check it out.

Bigger announcement: I hereby unveil batteryboss.org, a consumer resource for deciding which battery to buy. Currently only Tilt 2 batteries but that may change soon.

Table of contents - updated = since the last Sunday:

1) Flash a new ROM.
2) Basic should/must have apps and tweaks.
3) Web browsers. Updated!
4) RSS readers.
5) Today screen/TouchFlo3D.
6) Config tools.
7) Email.
8) GPS.
9) Multimedia.
10) Notifcations.
11) Chat, fun and games.
12) Impressive XDA developed applications.
13) AT&T warranty compliance flashing.
14) Radios motherfuckers!
15) Experts and hacker wannabe section.
16) WinMo 6.5 bitches.
17) Battery conservation.
18) What's on my phone now?
20) Bigass list of the files.
21) Fan/hate mail.
22) Drop me a quick line!

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Update: I need a job... :(

Attention developers: Please add apptodate support to your software -- here's how. If I am redistributing your work against your wishes or you see software here that shouldn't be or I'm missing their coffee links or any of that shit, send me a message through the contact form at the bottom.

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1) Flashing a new ROM: Don't even fiddle with the AT&T rom, it blows. You're driving a Ferrari in first gear and we need to get you a custom ROM right now. But to do that you need RaphaelHardSPL_1.9 by Olipro. Simple instructions on the thread. If you have any perseonal data you want to back up and restore use PPCPimBackup. Basically you get activesynced through USB not bluetooth with a >50% charge and run the exe and click your way through, your phone asks you if you want to install something (hit install), the phone blinks black, Windows *might* detect a new phone and ask you if you want to continue installing unsigned software and hopefully it will start flashing and finally reboot at which point you're free to flash roms and Raphael radios (but not Diamond or Blackstone radios without Olipro's SIM/CID/Security unlock tool for $18). Fire up HardSPL then move on to the next paragraph! Actually skip down a few paragraphs, the next ones are specific rom recommendations, not how-tos.

Updated 9/2: Guess what buddy, I've got yet another new favorite rom to identify as the best rom in the world (for my average visitor): TCP v3.1 with M3Dv2.1.1 by my man twopumpchump. So impressed with it I just threw a few bucks at him. This sucker comes fully loaded with the new new Manila in addition to Titanium, both nicely decorated and enhanced, packs a few themes to switch if you're inclined, packed with Titanium plugins including JMLStocks which is otherwise a bitch to install but many more too, a ton of useful programs you'll be pleasantly surprised to discover on a freshly flashed phone and decent performance. If you flash it -- and trust me on this, you should flash it -- you'll want to use radio 1.14.25.35 (check the radio chapter for instructions).

Updated 8/27: Got a new rom to recommend to y'all and that is ShEp's WinMo 6.5 build 23016 w/ TF3D2.1 RC1. At the moment there are higher build roms that put the start bar and OK button on the bottom of the screen which is cool but it's buggy and you don't want it yet but 23016 is solid. A few of you emailed me asking for something other than RRE and Chrome but not bare-ass bones like Da_G so ShEp's is my response. I can't say I've used it extensively (just flashed it this morning) but after bouncing around with my usual stress tests I can tell you that in addition to coming fully loaded and elegantly tweaked, it's snappy and doesn't burn juice heavily on idle with no data connection. It comes, by the way, with the super new TF3D2.1, all blinged up for you. Without too much bloat it looks good, a nice eye candy/performance balance (again, at a cursory glance). I like a chef with a good eye for decor and sHeP's got it (though I could do without his wEiRdLy capped name). Woah hey got another rom to recommend, TCP. Very very nice.

Updated 7/12: If you read below I go on and on about how badass Da_G's rom is but citing what, to you, may be one downside of its being extremely barebones (it doesn't include nothing except the essential software to boot your phone up plus some crazy-fly tweaks). To deck it out and pimp up Da_G's work, you gotta know what you're doing and, no disrespect, you probably don't (and even if you did you probably don't have the time and commitment) and will be using a fast and efficient and stable rom but with little eye bling. So for the average visitor here I am switching my recommendation from Da_G to my main man jmckeejr's Chrome which is a product of Da_G's absolute latest zero day kitchen plus most of the badass additions you may not realize exist. It's fully loaded so it will drain your battery a little harder and leave you with less storage and free ram but so would Da_G if you installed things like TP2TF3D on top of WM6.5's Titanium (they don't both run at the same time, you switch them to your liking). A skilled chef like jmckeejr and aruppenthal knows what's best for you however and they don't put in too many things you won't like. So, if you want someone to do a lot of the work for you, try Chrome and if you're in the mood compare it to RRE which is maybe equally dope if not more but I haven't tried it in months. Read on because I mention some other talented chefs whose threads are worth perusing. And hey if you think you can handle it and want to do the equivilant of driving your phone in stick shift then cook your own rom with Da_G's kitchen. Once you get the hang of it, release your own, start a thread and if you're as good as you thought you were maybe I'll switch my recommendation to you. All that said, I'm gonna flash back my own flavor of Da_G's I'm a stick shift guy.

If you want a rom with the new Touch Pro2 Manila port bundled in go for Chrome or EnergyROM, getting a lot of email asking me to list that one though I haven't tried it. At0mAng rom's also AT&T-friendly like RRE, another great one. Energy (aka NRG) doesn't seem to be specifically targeted at AT&T but I don't think you'll have any more trouble getting it up and running in terms of GPRS and keyboard map settings. If you don't want the new Rhodium Manila TP2TF3D thing because it's buggy and slow and drains your battery faster, use RRE, the one with Manila included. Or grab the one without Manila and then either don't use Manila, install the regular Manila or go to the TP2 TF3D thread and install the latest one manually. More work that way but the best approach. If you dig through the rom forum and find one that's badass but it's got a weird Euro keyboard layout, no problem, use the Fuze keymap fix. If you just want a superfast superfly clean barebones rom with no extra goodies, Da_G's your man (I use his rom btw). Trust me, if you think you know your shit and can handle a barebones non-US rom, Da_G's is the best in terms of horsepower. If you ask "hey I'm a n00b what's the best ROM pm me lol" and get flamed by self-righteous "senior members" just ignore them; the answer is Da_G. They'll tell you "wrong lamer the Raphael Elite Project is the bomb" or "I for one use RRE and you're immature" but ... well I don't know, maybe that one is better. Whatever, just pick any custom rom and if you like it less than the stock rom you'll be the first. (Updated 7/10),

Update 6/3: HTC just released a new rom, longly anticipated (fuzemobility article). My advice is don't bother but the new radio might be worth your while. Instead of trying to fiddle with their serial number form on their website to get it, because I'm so awesome you can use my bandwidth and download the rom here or the radio (1.14.25.35) here.

Some guy just asked me how to flash roms with Vista. I researched wrote him a ton of complicated stuff and hit send but he gave me the wrong damn email address so I figured I'd put it here but since then I found an easier way so here's what you should do to flash a rom if you're running Vista. Get HardSPL on there as I explained, I'm not sure but I believe it's the same procedure to flash HardSPL. Someone correct me now if it's not. Then format your SD chip with a FAT32 filesystem. Don't have a chip reader? Find a computer with one. Unzip the rom you downloaded, make sure the .NBH file is named RAPHIMG.nbh (caps sensitive) and copy just that file, no other files, onto the freshly formatted FAT32 SD chip. Pop the chip in the phone and with the phone on, hold down the Volume Down button, jam the stylus into the reset hole, remove the stylus, wait for a funky tricolor screen to appear (the bootloader screen) and then release the Volume Down button after which you follow onscreen instructions that will hopefully appear. When it says Update Complete, reset with the stylus. This is unnecessary but some people swear it helps performance: When the phone gets to the screen where you calibrate the stylus, hard reset by holding down Volume Down, the circle button of the DPAD and press reset with the stylus and while still holding those other two things down release the stylus until the reset screen appears then follow the instructions and bam you're good. You can do this with a Mac and with Linux too, just google how to format sd fat32 [os x or linux]. Again, must be FAT32, must be named RAPHIMG.nbh, must be the only file on there.

There are many roms from talented "chefs" that are both different from each other and in most cases excellent (relative to AT&T's stock rom at least) so if you want to shop around yourself do so here. Since you're using an American keyboard you might need the Fuze keymap with roms that say WWE or don't say Fuze. Bloat-free roms sometimes trim a little too much fat for your liking so if this is the case for you here's the text recognition transcriber input thing plus I got your default rings in the notification chapter if you lose those. Unless you want to put in your data network settings in manually for AT&T on a non-custom-AT&T rom, grab this cab and it will do it automatically after you flash (though most ROMs can figure out your carrier and plug in the settings for you). Note that some of these roms including ROMeOS do not come with the default rings. I posted a couple of my own plus the default packages in chapter 9. Note that charging via USB gives you at best 500mA whereas your charger spits out double that. And for all you Sprint and Verizon people, stick to your own silly XDA forum for CDMA-friendly ROMs and radios.

2) Basic apps and tweaks: We're gonna be messing with cabs so to make your life easier fire up CABviaActiveSync on your PC. When you want to install a cab, fire up activesync, just right click the cab you download on your PC and you can install it with one left click. Definite must have. On your PC (and later the phone), wouldn't it be nice if you could see and use your phone with your computer's monitor, keyboard and mouse? Install MyMobile. Frickin' awesome. Wish you can VNC instead of just RDP? Here's a VNC viewer courtesy of pkshr. Update 5/10: Here's an official Adobe Flash Player 7 but I don't know just yet if that works with Opera so you may want these: My_Flash3_1 (good for Opera) -- unless you use the new build of Opera in the Web Browser chapter but you might be better off with Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 depending on your browser and rom. Do not install MyFlash or Adobe Flash if you try that new Opera browser. Here's Adobe Reader, and for voice speed dialing take your pick between CyberonVoiceSpeedDial v1.2 b80731 (updated 5/23) (you tag your contacts with your voice first) -- or Cyberon Voice Commander v2.5.1 b806192 (updated 5/23) (which does not require the tagging to recognize speech though I heard it's heavy on the battery) or Microsoft Voice Commander v1.6.21040 (update 7/14), a simple notepad called PNotepad, some HTC ZIP tool and an unrar app and a hard keymapper for a long end key press for various functions like vibrate. You want InCall_ScreenTweak v1.1.2 (updated 7/10) to keep the phone from sleeping fast during calls (though you can accomplish the same and more in the registry editor section). It also lets you set the phone to toggle the speaker phone when you lay it down on a table, shit like that. Oh and here's a black themed comm manager from the RRE rom.

Here's your dialing keypad vibrator but if you like that you'll love TouchResponse instead. Do you suffer from OCD and need to know you have the exact time give or take a nanosecond? DaveShaw coded TimeSyncTZ v.06 (thread), a time zone aware NTP client complete with a healthy list of servers and it doesn't need help opening a connection. Get AEBPlus (mild nagware) which lets you not only map the few buttons on the Fuze but lets you map double, triple, long, really long etc style pressing to launch apps, alt tab, you name it. Must have. Want to show off your phone to the XDA community? Take screenshots with this. Get this cab if you're missing the 3G/EDGE toggler in your comm manager. Depending on the ROM you flash and what apps you're trying to use, here's SQLite and MS Compact Framework. And use AppToDate from the boys at MoDaCo which is a great utility that will scan your applications to check if any (that participate with MoDaCo's operation) are upgradable and automatically downloads and installs the updates for you. It will probably start by updating itself. Keep up the good work, fellas. Here's fexplorext and here's its thread. Basically an enhanced version of the regular file explorer but not as geeked up as TotalCommander.

Update 7/23: If you want to back up everything on your phone in case you need to hard reset or exchange it, Sprite Backup (pc install) may come in handy. In addition to contacts and phone logs, stuff that PPCPimBackup handles, it backs up programs, the registry, basically everything except for the core of the rom. You run it, you tell it what not to back up (like email), and it will spit out a large phone-executable file on your chip. Should you need to restore that data, provided you are using the same or almost the exact same rom as the one on which you made the backup, you can do what it calls a level one merge. But if you go from a year-old ROMeOS to Chrome, you gotta do level 2 or level 3. Those tone down the aggression of backing up and won't overwrite or mess with the new rom's features but, for example, it won't restore things in startup, it may not mess with your registry and you may have to reinstall or reconfigure some apps like aebutton. Trial and error. But this has saved me a ton of time.

Update 7/10: Got a call coming in but you want to show off your new bluetooth piece but you kept the bluetooth radio off in the comm manager to save juice? With Bluetooth Toggle 1.0 by someone at shubaroo.com, on the phone, you hit menu, hit Turn On Bluetooth and that will save you from having to tell your mom to hang on for a minute while you snake your way to the comm manager. Does TomTom clip audio when you've got it on bluetooth? Try TomTom Audio Fix v1.11 by JohnnyDH (thread).

Ladies and gentlemen, here's my very first cab which will tweak your registry to let you take seven megapixel panorama shots (thread). I didn't discover how to modify this particular setting, someone else did for the Kaiser (I don't know who) and I just made a cab out of it. If you know who figured it out originally let me know so I can credit him. Here's Skype b3.0 you cheap bastards. You're going to need at least 3G, Edge will not be fast enough. Keep in mind that this is a very CPU-heavy program. I haven't done battery tests but in addition to transmitting a lot of data, compression and decompression is involved, so you may want to have an extra battery on you if you rely on Skype. If you want to figure out the battery consumption thing yourself, use abcTaskMan (shareware but power meter function is free). Finally found a battery monitor tool somewhere called Battery (ppc exe).

Now I don't know if this actually does anything you'll notice but it might and at the least you'll get the placebo affect by using Defragment Mobile (website), a thirty day trial, to defragment your SD card and your RAM as well. Matt Chapman from FuzeMobility seems impressed with it. I could use some feedback from you all on whether or not this helps as I don't love pushing trialware unless it's really sweet so scroll way down to do that. SMS_Tweaker v1.5 by PC Master (thread) allows you to easily toggle threaded mode and change the font size of your text messaging action. Nice. SensorScroll v.0.7.1 (updated 5/22) (thread) by demosten enables you to enable the wheel thingy to act as a scroll thingy for whatever apps you specify. I present to you the Touch Pro 2 calculator.

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3) Web browsing: First go into Start > Settings > Connections and get into the Advanced editing section of your selected network to add these addresses as your DNS servers using 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 which are public DNS servers belonging to OpenDNS who make their money by datamining and redirecting you when you type in a wrong address (but they're fast). This may reduce latency (not increase throughput) as your phone won't need to figure out which DNS servers to use on its own. Pocket IE is only good for bandwidth tests. So's this program (ppc exe). You want Opera.

Update 11/16: Big news everybody, Opera 10 just hit. Been a bit busy working on the tilt2 site so test it yourself or watch this video and I'll comment on it later.

Update 10/5: Time to lay the latest Operas on you. First we got regular Opera 9.5 build 17351 (thanks At0mAng), second Opera 9.7 beta build 35432. No wait, here's a newer one, Opera 9.7 build 35443. Don't ask me what's the difference between these and the most recent builds but hey, higher build number baby. You may like DomSim's tweak that either enables zooming or scrolling function with your D-Pad wheel depending on which Opera you're using. Note: Someone reported that Opera 9.7 build 35432 and Opera 9.5, at least on the AT&T updated rom, don't coexist so if you like 9.5 you may want to avoid 9.7.

Update 10/4: So this dude dearmasfamily swings by the Raphael software forum on xda and drops this thread in which he declares he discovered a registry tweak that will give you more throughput. Whenever someone says they'll speed up your phone, they're generally met with skepticism however on the thread it looks like roughly four out of five people responding to the thread report increases. I'll never know because AT&T is so shitty in my city so I'm not limited by my phone's registry settings but maybe you are. SH4Y cabbed the settings up for you or you can put them in yourself.

Update 8/9: Here's Fennec 1.0a3pre, Mozilla's answer to Opera Mobile. Before I suggest you try it, I should try it myself, but I don't have my usb cable on me so I'll post it on my site anyway and then go to my site on my phone and download it. I love that about my site, that it actually helps me too.

Update 7/1: Herg from fuzemobility.com just got his hands on Opera 16983 (update 7/10, it renders slow, stick to 9.7b1) which apparently is an AT&T version, the first I've seen (other than the stock rom's opera) that doesn't pop up that fucking annoying keyboard when you're on landscape. Don't know the story on flash support but hey, keyboard thing and hey, highest build number. Thanks Herg. Update 5/29: Yay Opera 9.7b1 with Turbo was released today, just after midnight. Like Opera Mini, when you fire up a web page (and you have to enable Turbo first in Settings > Advanced), Opera's servers download the thing first then they compress it heavily (up to 80% they claim), then they shoot it over to your phone (this is called a proxy server). Except unlike Skyfire and Opera Mini, this is a full-fledged browser but it doesn't do flash unless you install Flash Lite. Here's an add-on for Google Gears. If you can't get it to work try uninstalling your existing version of Opera as well as Turbo and then reinstall this one. Update 6/28: Some are saying Opera 16702, leaked after 9.7b1, has code-wise speed similarities to 9.7 (minus the Turbo proxy thing) while being more XDA-like in terms of not being dumbed down and it supports Flash Lite. It does have the highest build number and can coexist with 9.7. Update 5/29: Captain_Throwback ripped Opera 16643 from the Rhodium, a WVGA device and somehow got it working on VGA resolution. Next he posted a cab to get a horizontal slider skin on top of it. Seems nice to me, not sure what's improved as we don't get much of a changelog these days, but a lot of you like the highest build number so there you go. 5/29: Are you blind? No? ... Well then I don't know why you'd want this but TopSoft has brought you Nemonika Voice Browser 1.1 (website) which reads the websites to you with a text to speech engine. That's a ppc exe so copy it somewhere like your SD chip or if you have room stash it in \windows\start menu\programs.

Here's 16277. I can't tell anymore what improvements come with the build number augmentation but I can tell you that it works fine for me. Someone ripped Opera 16070 from a Blackstone/Touch HD rom so here it is for AT&T's default MEdia Net settings or grab this one if you're using isp.cingular or another carrier. Unclear what the perks are so far (other than the higher build number of course). One thing to look forward to is Opera 9.7 which will use Opera's proxy servers which download a web page for you, compress everything up pretty tightly and forward your phone that. Think you can already do that on your computer but you'll feel the difference on the phone and won't notice any or as bad compression you'd get on a large computer monitor. Watch the demo or read the announcement and once they release it (or let it "leak") I'll pop it up.

Old: The most sturdy non-official build of Opera that the badass chefs are bundling is currently 15613 for the Fuze and 15613 for non-AT&T Touch Pros. Actually, though there's disagreement on build numbers versus file timestamps, Opera 15954 may be the best (after all it has a higher build number) mais si vous parlez un peu français, essayez cette 15945 (merci, guizzmo, who tweaked it up nicely). That works with Flash Lite and handles Youtube fine I am told. If you want the "official" beta which has support for Google Gears, here's Opera v9.5b2. But the following leaked versions just might be more badass if you're in the mood to experiment. Here is Opera build 15529. It definitely feels faster, I like how the page scrolls a little faster than you scroll your pen, you drag the pen or slide your thumb vertically on the right side and you get this cool translucent zoom thing, flash support embedded finally, javascript, youtube, even has an advanced menu section which is pimp tight but no wheel zooming or autorotate (I can live with that). But be advised that this is as bleeding edge unofficial as you get. Actually it looks like it was abandoned but it's still my favorite. If the auto keyboard thing pisses you off, you may want Null Keyboard which will supress the keyboard pop-up problem. You install the cab, reboot and switch soft keyboards to it.

Look I'm not your Opera testing bitch. If you want to get the low-down on all the versions out there, save me some time and bandwidth and go to this XDA thread which is like the ultimate radio thread but for Opera builds. A lot of people love Opera Mini so for the freshest Opera Mini beta I could find, here's a cab for 4.2.13337 but it also comes with a beta JBED (Java runtime thingy) and you may have to uninstall your current JBED according to the thread. Or you can install the VGA JBED and then install Mini. You may want that regardless for VGA support of all Java stuff you use. If that's too complicated, though you might only get an older "official" beta for QVGA, on Pocket IE (not your PC) go to mini.opera.com/beta and it will download and install smoothly like Google Maps would (but where's the fun in that?). Update 6/1: And here's Skyfire v1 which just came out of beta (fuzemobility review). Basically it's like Opera Turbo except it has been released -- it downloads compressed versions of your pages it grabs through Skyfire's proxy servers. Does Flash 10 and Silverlight 2. Good for youtube and even Hulu. But it ain't VGA so you won't enjoy those extra pixels you paid for.

4) RSS readers: So, you like to read? Listen to podcasts or whatever you kids are calling that shit? pRSSreader v1.3.1's my favorite but v1.4.3 has improvements (and in my opinion downsides so try them both).. Save yourself the hassle of typing in a bunch of URLs and import my pRSS feed file (old). My channels are Fuze Mobility, Google Trends, Slashdot, XDA devel and hacking, XDA Raph general/software/Raph ROM, Engadget, Drudge Report, Wall Street Journal, Google Mobile blog, GroupHug.us, Google Mobile and Onion Radio. Update 8/2: Here's my new RSS feeds opml file which works in any client I believe. Subscribed to xda dev and hack, raph software, slashdot, fuze mobility, wmpoweruser.com, techcrunch, google trends, wall street journal, NYTimes, Engadget Mobile, Trollaxor, Onion Radio News, grouphug.us, TMZ =P and hermssoftware.

Note that this is an older version than the current but this one is apparently intended for VGA whereas the current version is universal. Also the current version is uglier, the Okay button minimizes the program rather than return to the channel index, it's a step down. RSS_HUBv2.1.1b107 (updated 5/23) is pretty popular too, but I am content with pRSS. I haven't this one either but fan who emailed me said BeyondPod rocks but I can't get it to work right. Looks more for media RSS feeds than simple text glancing at their web page. Whichever way you swing in, to make entering your RSS URLs less of a bitch, use MyMobile to do it from your computer and copy and paste that shit. Not quite an rss reader but check your stocks and shit with raftbone's EasyShares (thread). Don't own stocks yet but have $400 lying around? Call your broker and buy a share of Google!

Update 7/28: If you want a rich media RSS reader, you might like viigo (website) but you may have to install NetCF3.5 to get it running. If you have a google account with RSS feeds lined up, I'm hearing good things about Speeed Reader v0.82 by emuneee (thread, website, donate).

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5) Today screen: Like the TouchFlo3D thing? Not bad, huh? Wrong buddy, it sucks balls; but to make the most of it, grab this config tool to jazz it up your way. But what you really should do is ditch TouchFlow altogether and free up the Today screen for TodayAdgenda, the best task/cal organizer period. Or you can compromise and run both the eyecandy and flip to a second virtual today screen with SecondToday. Not a must-have but a should-have. Want a pop-up action screen that looks like this? Disable TF3D from the Today settings, install Fabliv's Action Screen, reboot, enable TF3D and enjoy elevated productivity (thread).

Update! Thank you xboxmod, dharvey, herg and others for releasing the long-anticipated Manila Rhodium Touch Pro2 port v1D! Read the readme.txt (you must read it as there are steps involved, multiple cabs). Almost guaranteed you'll run into bugs so check the thread. A few optional goodies included. Set aside a good half hour to install it and another few hours to play with it. I'll write more once I've finished that process but expect your phone to boot slower and eat up maybe fifteen more megs of ram. Read the readme! I'm fucking serious. Update 4/5! Xboxmod just released another update. If you already installed the first or second or third build, disable TouchFlo 3D, install this cab, reboot, reenable TouchFlo 3D. According to the post, they fixed the internet tab, music tab, start menu (?), other menu problems, wallpaper, HTC photopicker, gsensor and "some others." Got TP2 TF3D running but want to make it look a little different? Disable it, fire up the T-Mobile TP2TF3D skin and if you like that, check the thread for ways to tweak the home tab to include more appointments and some other shit. DHarvey and You Know Who got the Rhodium Album nicely ported which is kind of good given that installing TP2TF3D screws up Album. I don't know if this one works without the new TF3D, I'm guessing it does, but whichever Manila you're running disable it when you install it. Update 4/11: Thanks to caldito, we now have the Topaz Comm Manager (thread)! Just installed it, don't know why exactly it's worth installing, but this guy probably worked hard on porting it so do it on principle!

Update 7/27: Well done ITNV and cparkhorn; these guys figured out how to remove the stupid envelope in TF3D that covers your email previews (thread). To remove it, disable TF3D, install this cab and reenable TF3D. To restore it, again, turn off TF3D and install this cab and reenable TF3D. Oh yeah, good job fuzemobility guys for making those cabs.

WinMo 6.5 only: Modernize your taskbar icons with WM6.5 Chome V3 (7/14) by Reefermattness (thread, donate). Pretty sweet, but uninstallable.. 5/3: Thanks to blezalex you can now have your oldschool Today page embedded within a Manila/TF3D/TF3D2 tab! Thank Christ, I'm so happy about this. Grab the cab from the Manila Today Page thread (too frequently updated for me to post the file). Wish you bought an iPhone instead? Check out MiToNiOeS's iPhoneToday thread! In light of the TP2 Manila release this paragraph is now here just for posterity: From the Touch HD rom xboxmod has been working his balls off on porting Manila/TF3D HD to the Fuze with some impressive success. It lets you do a bunch of sweet shit like giving you a Stocks tab to see how much money you lost today (or made if you own stock in Smith and Wesson or Rugar, SWHC and RGR). Call log, calendar, better weather tab that gives you the five day forecast in the same screen, even a comm manager. Tweak the tabs in the settings tab. Toss this on to make the email preview thingy transparant. But landscape doesn't work - yet - so if you want that you could install the Landscape cab I mentioned earlier which I don't think is dependent on this HD Manila. I'm keeping a sharp eye out for the real deal Evander Holyfield TouchPro2 Manila and let you know when it's ready.

Disable TF3D before installing any of this shit: Here's a must have for TF3D, a glass envelope frame for the email preview thing so you can read a little more of the message brought to you by giangishanghai and cabbed up by the Fuze Mobility guys. Whether you are lame and need TouchFlo3D or are badass and prefer an oldschool setup or are respectable and go with a SecondToday hybrid you may want some wallpapers to choose from so here's a rar of 51 VGA backgrounds brought to you by the xda community and here's a rar utility. Here's a straight up black vga background. And 12aon worked his balls of on landscape support (thread) for TouchFlo3D but no guarantees that it will work especially if you're on a stock rom (here's the non CFC version). What's CFC? I think one of the letters stands for compression. Maybe fire up this black clock cab.

You know what? Fuck TouchFlo3D. Do what I just did and go retro with the HTC Home today plugin ripped in VGA from the Athena by pjc007. Not quite as effective for showing off your phone to strangers on the train but it gets the damn job done without eating up your cpu, ram, messing up your softkeys and notifications and preventing you from putting TodayAgenda and BatteryStatus where they belong. Tweak that shit with HTC Home Customizer by emunutz.

Got a few emails insisting I try SPB Mobile Shell and after twenty seconds I can say that yes, it's pretty badass. Step aside HTC. Their EULA is enormous and rather than getting a lawyer to figure out whether or not I can redistribute their official release, according to the consensus on an XDA thread posting SPB Mobile Shell 3.0. rc1 b6501 (updated 5/22), the buggy development version, may be okay to post here (I should probably just ask them, right?) but if you want the stable build go here and download it from them to get your 15 day trial. Worth the download of a trial which will help you decide if it's worth $30. A shitload of wallpaper packs number one, two and three. 4/20: Want to gay up your menus? Try this.

You definitely want WkTaskL 1202 (5/17) which turns your top bar into a dumbed-down normal computer task bar with, what do you know, a neat battery meter line on top. Program freezes? Hold the pen on it and you can terminate the process as if it were the killall command in Linux. It's so badass my back hurts. Want more icons stuffed into your Programs and Settings section? Use GC_4_Columns which is supposed to shrink the icons a tad and give you 4 columns but on my phone it gives me 7x6, truncating the names, but I like it like that. Aruppenthal (the RRE guy) made his own 4 column icon cab which actually does what its name suggests. Live in Bumblefuck which isn't in the cities list of TouchFlo3D? No problem, use HTCWeatherMaster by JoeWilcox (thread) which will help you add Bumblefuck and other great but lesser-known cities. This cab will shove the date right blow the title bar clock.

6) Configuration: While you're tweaking this and that, install Schap's Advanced Config 3.3 (thread) to modify pretty much everything about the phone. You can also try DiamondTweak (thread) but it doesn't seem to offer much more than Advanced Config from what I could tell but for these two programs especially make sure you run AppToDate to make sure you have the latest versions. When using Opera you might get pissed that when you tap into a text field the stupid simulated keyboard pops up even when your keyboard's out and you find on a thread dude who says he finally figured out the registry tweak to fix it and even though he's probably full of shit you still want to try it, either on the phone you can install PHM Regedit or if you want to go buckwild on this mutha you can install Mobile Registry Editor which lets you edit the phone's registry from your computer through Activesync. Note that sometimes Mobile Registry Editor runs into write permission problems in which case use PHM manually. TotalCommander's a full-featured file manager and I believe a regeditor too. Registry patches: Keyboard lagging? Maybe this will help. Wifi busted? Try this and reset (thank you YouKnowWho). Probably won't do anything but herg knows his shit. His sig's a little long but he's smart. This is the Diamond2 G-sensor manager thing, well I'm not fully sure what it does or why it's better, but I think it works well in conjunction with G-Config by makeveral (thread) which is a rotation app white listing thing. Courtesy of herg and Jmz.

Update 10/4: Okay here's the latest comm manager delivered by AssassinsLament (thread). By the way, should I feel like a douche for using my actual name instead of something badass like BadassUglyHelpfulSiteGuy? I mean, what the hell is it with these guys and their cute Internet names. What's wrong with your first name, why can't you use it. Jesus.

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7) Email:

Update 10/4: Google Sync with push mail over ActiveSync SSL for regular gmail accounts for email, contacts and calendar is in the house!! But it's tricky to fire up yourself so let my man Laos walk you through it.

This thing really belongs in the Impressive Apps section but let me mention it with no delay. If you want "push" mail but you don't want some weird Exchange Activesync funky setup and you have access to a traditional IMAP server but you do like Pocket Outlook even though those douchebags didn't bother including IMAP-idle in the mail client, you can install ImapPusherService by this guy which runs in the background and when your mail server says Yo wake up you got some mail, this program jump starts a send/receive in Pocket Outlook. I think that's pretty brilliant and am glad someone finally figured it out. You have to do a manual install and create a shortcut to pop in \windows\startup but if you know what you're doing it sounds promising. Or use FlexMail (two week shareware) as it supports IMAP-idle (keepalive connection). In the past I would not have posted this program because it's too heavy but the Touch Pro can pump through its bloated code pretty well. The shareware dies in two weeks but that's long enough for you to realize it's worh the $30. If you're glued to POutlook but IDLE hacks scare you, sign up wtih mail2web which will relay your IMAP mail through their Exchange server to your phone, pushed. People from XDA vouch for it. Here's the official BBConnect (updated 7/28) off of HTC's site in case your company's a Blackberry operation and you're just too cool to go with the flow but want access to company email.

Guby, or mjg7876 from xda, made a totally badass app, [Pocket] Outlook Email Scheduler which lets you define cyclying frequency over two periods of each weekday and another seperately definable periods on weeknights. In other words you can get Pocket Outlook to check your email every five minutes during business hours and then once an hour or not at all while you sleep with the option for different time profiles on the weekend so you can save gas. And in the most recent release, .70beta (which is still very beta) he has implemented IMAP-idle support which means, if you want and have an imap-idle-capable server and don't care about your battery life, you can get your push mail without needing FlexMail or an Exchange server setup. Downside at the moment is he hasn't quite nailed getting it to work on gmail and, though other people on the thread have, I've had no luck with my own imap servers -- but I got warmer this time than I did with ImapPusherService and this is definitely more user friendly. I can't post it here until he both irons those bugs out and gives me permission to redistribute it but you can grab a copy off his website and here's the thread. Is your phone lying to you about having new messages? Slap it upside the head with this cab to reset the unread count. I think it works for both text and emails. Update 5/3: Use POutlook with multiple accounts and want to be able to do a send/receive on every account simultaneously? Grab SendReceiveAll (ppc exe) by krazy_about_technology (thread). I think you put that in \windows\start menu\programs.

Some commercial operations of interest to give you push mail include Seven, mail2web and vgsmail. But I'm only going to mention them without linking them (use google) because I want to keep the heat on the guys above to finish their projects. Here's the new email setup wizard from the Diamond2.

8) GPS: Sick of slow/no GPS fixes, poor accuracy and long lags for the mapping software to catch up with you? Fucking bullshit that they released this phone with far inferior GPS than the Tilt. Not to worry though; the XDA community has made it a lot better. But it's going to take some work on your part, invasive action involving flashing and starting over, but it's worth doing. Some rom chefs got their hands on new drivers from AT&T that fixes this and assisted GPS. To get your GPS pretty decent, here's what you gotta do but only if you're AT&T: Though possibly not necessary it would help anyway to flash Chrome or RRE (read the flashing section if you don't know what flashing a custom rom is). Get that shit working, then make sure aGPS is turned on by going to Start > Settings > System > AGPS Settings and make sure that's checked. Now flash radio 1.12.25.19. Go to Start > Programs > Navigation > QuickGPS and download the latest satellite positions. Okay. Now go into Start > Programs > Navigation > GPS Test (included) then go into Menu > GPS Settings and put in COM4 and 38400. Go outside and see how quickly it gets a lock then thank me. Again, do not do this if you're not AT&T and definitely do not flash that radio if you're not using RRE.

Update 9/25: This you may like. These guys made a turn-by-turn GPS thing that, like AmazeGPS, requires a data connection, but it also uses that connection to aggregate (and subsequently share) traffic data from its users. Meaning if you're driving under 25 on a part of I-95 your phone may get the Waze servers to tell other phones there's a traffic jam on that stretch and reroute accordingly and people can share speed traps with each other. Problem is it's pretty new and not too many people are using it but that's changing and it's worth checking out. Here's a just-released alpha version 1.2.4 of Waze (I stress the word alpha), here's their website.

Update 8/27: Google just released Google Maps 3.2.1 (#17) (updated 9/25, slightly newer version) which does layers and some other shit. Once you've got it installed go on your phone's browser to m.google.com/fav to download overlays of C-list celebrities commenting on local spots of interest including Moby for NYC. As with previous releases it also includes Street View and Latitude, their answer to TrackMe, which lets you see your friends' position (GPS or tower approximate location) and them see yours if you both activate the feature. Google's answer to TrackMe. I believe it may work on your wife's Blackberry if you go to m.google.com/latitude on her phone. If you don't take my advice about flashing RRE or you're not AT&T, do not flash radio 1.12.25.19; alternatively do not use assisted GPS, and flash radio 1.11.25.01. Set software like GPS Test, HTCGPSTool, TomTom and BeeLineGPS to use COM 4 at 38400 baud. Use BeeLine or HTCGPSTool to jumpstart your GPS fix for things like TomTom and Google Maps. Update 7/27: In the mood for some open source navigation? Haven't tried it myself but wingmanjd Navit, working on it in this thread which you should go to first. You can get the cab here but you also need to get your maps here. In addition to being free, being able to hand-pick maps for not too broad locations may be key for you if you don't have a lot of room left on your storage chip.

Update 8/17: Advanced/experts only: GPS lag sucks especially when you're using TomTom and you're in a city where accuracy matters so you don't miss turns. Try out ttn7bot by beemerTPPC which tells TomTom to chill out and not max the CPU which he believes is responsible for some of the lag. I haven't tested it but there are positive reviews in his thread. A little tricky to install: you gotta put the exe in the folder in which the TomTom Navigator.exe file resides (probably \program files\navigator\). Now you need to edit your TomTom shortcut in \windows\start menu\programs to point to this executable and not the original exe. Do that by syncing up, copying the TomTom.lnk file to your desktop, start up notepad and edit the file and change the file at the end of the path to ttn7bot.exe and then copy that file back to your phone so you can start TomTom with this helper from your start menu. You're pointing the menu shortcut from the original exe to this helper exe. Just in case your TomTom exe file looks like mine, here's my shortcut file for you to put in the start menu\programs folder or a subfolder therein, but mine might not work for you depending on your TomTom build (you might need an underscore somewhere for example).

Find your car, like the iphone advertisement, with Dude Where's My Car by smrtdrmmr (thread). I'll expound on that later, getting tired now. Wait no, what else do I need to say about it. You park your car, start that thing up and figure out the rest yourself. Self explanatory. I'm a city boy and it doesn't work in the subway so I can't test it for you. What just a simple fucking speedometer? Me too! So I found GPS Speedo by scott8813. Copy to and execute the exe off your phone (EG copy it to \windows\Start Menu\Programs), execute it, tweak the colors to match my website, set the comm port to 4, baud rate I guess to 38400. Want to use your phone as an external GPS receiver for your computer? GPS2Blue, which I haven't messed with yet but it might work, may output GPS data in a conventional format through USB or Bluetooth in TCP/IP if you want that something like Google Earth perhaps but you may need to install this on your computer. How-tos are here and here. Let me know if it works. Keep in mind that using AGPS or not or QuickGPS is carrier and rom dependent so read the threads on your rom for tips. If you use TomTom and take the road not taken where the signal drops, use StartTomTom (now a cab) by StevePritchard which will start TomTom and will supress annoying no data connection error bubbles. Smart, Steve.

Update 5/29: Fitness freak? Say hello to GPS Cycle Computer v3.107 by AndyZap (thread, google code download, donate). I myself am not at all a fitness freak so I'm not exactly an authority on the matter but someone claiming to be a triathelite posted this raving review on FuzeMobility. Update 5/30: HTC GPS Tool v1.2.2.17, new leaked version (?) courtesy of Da_G, does what GPS Test does (helps jump start your GPS connection) but in a more stick shift-kind of style where you can see the actual raw data streaming, it will let you see a crude map of where the satellites sort of are relative to each other, it will give you your DOP value (dilution of precision, how accurate the thing thinks it is where 1 is ideal and 50 is not so ideal), you can tip it off upon starting it whether it's facing a cold, warm or hot start which might make the thing strategize differently somehow to grab that fix quicker... I don't know, it's complicated; but what it definitely is better at doing is getting you your fix tout suite whereas GPS Test makes you stare at the splash screen forever before it starts working.

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9) Multimedia: Best simple lightweight player with the features you want is Nitrogen v0.2.1 (a Google Code project btw) or the newer v0.3.2 which I don't really like as much. Nigroten's finger friendly, got an equalizer, skinable (skins for v0.2.1 or v.3.2). Does oggs too. I realize it has a lower version number and this is gonna sound nuts but there's a good chance you'd prefer the older 0.2.1 version even more. If you really like it If you're obsessive about tweaking buffers and all the settings imaginable go with MortPlayer. One perk of that one is if you've got a bluetooth headset like the S9 you can control playback from the headset. Have a Sirius subscription and want to listen to Howard? Use SiriusWM5 by the Toolbox Geeks but I would recommend that you use it with TCPMP 0.72RC1 recomp 0.3 (thread) (5/17) but you gotta drop these two Windows codec files into your phone's \windows\ folder. By the way, this version of TCPMP's pretty good and if you, like me, couldn't stand how bad your pr0n would stutter on your Kaiser unless you converted them to 200x150 resolution at 2 frames per second. I don't know who made TCPMP but high five buddy. When I'm wrapping up my day at work I use it to listen to Howard, put it on pause for like forty minutes and on my walk to the subway I hit play, enjoy the show, get in the subway, lose reception, but TCPMP has saved the audio like TiVo. Hit a commercial? Fast-forward. Try *that* with Windows Media Player. Much better survival rate of uninterrupted Howard if you get in an elevator if you're using tcpmp, especially if you mess with the buffer settings. Also it's got a preamp which you want if you're using bluetooth like the Jabra BT8040 A2DP pass-through earpiece.

Update 7/29: Got a new version of Nitrogen v1.1 for ya, my favorite lightweight audio player. Update 7/27: I think it might have been herg who brought us a new HTC YouTube client, version 4_2_5_19151528_00 (??). I couldn't get it working, gave me some certificate error, maybe because my rom is anal about certificate security. But other people seem to be enjoying it so I'll post it. Great job guys on the long ass filename. I'll put your thread up as soon as I can track it down. Oalla put together a Tachi port in VGA of HTC Album 3.0.19141129_0 (thread) which he characterizes as being the best. I'm not sure if you need Manila/TF3D to run it or not but if it is running disable it before you install the cab then reboot then reenable TF3D.

Step aside SiriusWM5 because you crash too much and require a second application to play the stream and you don't do XM and your channel list is old and your channel images don't work anymore and C-ApiSRO, by R-Capi of ppcgeeks (thread), has the opposite of those traits. Thanks R-Capi! May I have your permission btw? Only downside to C-ApiSRO, other than its weird name, is that you can't run TCPMP, only its embedded player, which means you can't have a preamp to bump the volume to the absolute max. Small trade-off and hey, better for your ears.

This boosts the non bluetooth headset sound a bit, this boosts it a bit more and this restores it back to normal (thanks DiamondTweak guys). If don't like how Opera handles youtube, you may want ~~youtubeplay~~ YouTube_v1.6 (newer version above) a standalone client. Might need MSCF to run it. I heard a PornTube player's on the way. Check back for that. Stream your ass off with SlingBox's SlingPlayer. Don't know if it's a demo, advertisements, not sure but David K from fuzemobility.com recommends it. Here's a BBC streamer I believe, myPlayer. From the guy who brought you S2U2, here's S2P v0.58 (Slide2Play) (thread) which is a stylus-free mp3/wma player with album viewing and all that shit. Haven't tried it but it looks iPhone-ish (haven't tried that either actually). Want to use the TF3D player but you're not getting your album art? Try moving your music to \Storage Card\My Documents\My Music\ (thanks shafez). Don't like the fancy volume adjusting thing? Get rid of it with this.No infared port got you down? No problem, you can still control winamp on your PC through bluetooth using your phone with BlueAmp by hedphelym.

Herg hooked everybody up with HTC Album 2.5.1820.4127 which works with "footprints" which I think means it lets you upload to facebook but I have no idea, not my bag, geotag diarying. He also posted HTC Album 3.0.1911.1826 (newer version above) which he describes as not working with footprints but is a Touch Pro 2 rip or port. People in the thread are pleased and here's the Fuze Mobility story. However I was not able to install it myself, possibly because my rom has too many read-only permissions. Microsoft is quietly pushing Microsoft Recite. Apparently you pretend you're a scientist taking voice notes and when you accumulate a lot of them and want to have it reply an old one you recite a fragment of what you think you recorded and it will search through what you saved and try to dig it up with basic voice recognition. Kind of stupid but potentially helpful if you like to be subversive in your voice note taking and drain your battery.

Want to be able to secretly record yourself getting laid off in case you want to try to sue your company after but want to do it in mp3 format in case your lawyer doesn't know what a wav is? Notem. Want to record your prank and phone sex calls? Try this repacked version of InCallRecorder ripped from the Touch HD which you can configure where it saves and in which format in the Programs list and to start recording during a call, depending on your skin and rom, might need to switch to speakerphone but people say you don't, tap menu during a call to start recording (again first run IRC in Programs to configure where it stores and either in WAV or AMR format). This is beta material, you've been warned. Just found these volume boosting cabs: Regular, Light Boost and Full Boost. I don't know what they amplify (headphones, rings/speaker, bluetooth too?) but I'll post them anyway.

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10) Notifications: Let's now focus on how the phone grabs your attention. Been up all night trying to read my long-ass site and need to wake up tomorrow? G-Alarm v2.1.2 (update 6/28) by this guy (thread) makes you do some 4th grade level math or play a Labyrinth-like game to make sure your snapped out of delirium and ketamine. Update 7/2: I just used two of your donations to buy a license for G-Alarm. I could have just flashed another rom and installed the same version to dodge the trial limit but this software is so damn good I decided these guys earned the money (five pounds) so I grabbed it and while I was on the site I downloaded the female text to speech talking clock plugin which will help make me realize it's time to stop snoozing. Thanks again for the cash people.

Update 7/10: iAgenda v0.4 by allelimo (thread) is hands-down the best task/calendar manager/interface thing - so good that he just made it to Google Code's prestigious repository. Finger friendly too.

I customized my own for you by cropping, amplifying and adding silent spaces to get you a quick loud chirp or ring and keep the phone vibrating. The idea is you use these wavs to get the best shot of hearing your phone make one quick loud noise (possibly overmodulated) and then continue to vibrate for a while to give you the best odds of hearing the notification and responding to it without the sound repeating and pissing everyone off. These are not goofy rings. Here's the zip (just four wavs) or try what I'd recommend for email, text, and your choice of an old fashioned ring with a few empty seconds for added vibration without repeating the ring as frequently and the same with a modern ring. Like the Blackberry's cool Sonar tone? Well here it is cranked up louder and here it is cranked up louder with a couple seconds delay for a longer vibration. I recommend that one if you get a lot of emails as it's less abbrasive than the other two I tweaked for texts and emails. I worked hard on this stuff, yo.

I've been going through a 24 binge and want to pretend I work for the counter terrorism unit so I got my hands on their ringtone and, of course, cropped it, amplified it, made a second one with a short silent delay if you want your phone to vibrate longer so here's the 24 CTU ring with and without the one second vibration delay. Chloe get me the goddamn satellite feed! Want something subtle? Here's a soft version of the XP Outlook/Thunderbird default incoming mail tone. Thinking out of the box a bit I recorded the DTMF tones for the numbers 1 and 2. Use one for text, the other for email. Short, loud, simple and people will disregard the tone as some kind of glitch in life. Want to fuck with people's heads (or look like a total jackoff)? Use this. That will do the trick. Except maybe down south. If you saw the movie Crank you'll appreciate this (and here it is with an extra three seconds of silence for longer vibration before it repeats). Actually whether you saw the flick or not you'll like it, mellow, trippy but not that fruity.

Cut some more hot custom wavs for you, four badass, one arguably cool and funny, the other arguably funny not arguably gay and another one that's just a bad idea: Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Chile played by Steve Ray Vaughn with just the first four beats of the intro riff, a longer one with the riff opening into the song and fading out by the eighth beat with eight blank seconds so it doesn't repeat, Neil Young's Down By The River, Old Dirty Bastard's Shimmy Shimmy Ya (slightly overmodulated and not much bass so turn vibration on to compensate) and last and definitely least the chorus of Cindy Lauper's True Colors -- not to be used when watching football with your homeboys. Have fun with those but depending on whom your with both ODB and Cindy Lauper could result in your ass and phone getting a serious beatdown. And this one will force you to say "Everybody be cool it's just a ringtone." If you're going to use that one, put your phone on vibrate when you go to the bank. I also got my hands on the ring pack for the Topaz but to dodge any copyright issues (and wastes of bandwidth and time) I've trimmed the pack way down to the useful alert tones that don't suck that much (relatively speaking). If you want the gay ones too, comb rapidshare. You can cut up your own ringtones with MP3 Trimmer and if you go that far that means you may have a serious custom ringtone addiction because, c'mon, I'm giving you enough here.

If those wavs aren't enough for you or you lost your sounds when flashing a barebones rom, here are HTC's and MS's predominantly gay rings and here are but in compressed wma and not at an amplified volume like mine. A cool guy named Eric asked me to post the Diamond tones so here are the Diamond's alerts which are decent, one ring pack which is adequate and a second which is mediocre. I just got my hands on the Blackberry tones but half of them are midi files and off-hand I don't know if that will work on WinMo. But the wavs will and when I get a minute I'll amplify the wavs and if necessary convert the midis to wavs for y'all. For incoming calls you definitely want VAlert1.21 (updated) by this guy which will let you customize down to the millisecond the pulsing patterns of the vibrator so that it gets your attention better than it otherwise would. I don't know if there's a similar thing for text and email but get this and subscribe to the thread for updates. According to some guy, you should not use .wmas and mp3s as ring tones and stick to wavs instead as it costs you "3 to 4 seconds" of additional delay to decode the files and finally ring. You can turn a wma or an mp3 into a wav by starting Windows's Sound Recorder, setting your audio input in the volume thing to get the computer to record itself, start recording, play the wma/file, stop recording, crop and amplify accordingly and save the wav. This cab may decrease your ring delay (must install cab from the device).

I get pissed off when my phone turns on in my pocket and it calls my old lady. I guess that pissed A_C off too so he made S2U2 v2.04 (update 7/13) (thread, website, donate). It does a whole lot of shit, all of which you can tweak but you really should read the xls in the zip first, but basically when in locked mode it shows the time, a pretty battery indicator, the weather, calendar, task count and message counts.You need to RTFM with this software. I included a clock pack in the zip.

Update 5/9: Netcallerid v4 by netlon (thread) does what the name implies and does it very well, although only after the call is complete. Unless they're calling you on a cell you'll probably get their name, number, carrier, address and names and even age of their relatives with links to do criminal history checks. Crazy. Gay up your notification pop-up system with this. Update 5/3: Thanks to mb286 you can tweak MissedCallReminder v1.3 to chirp and vibrate and intervals of your choosing about missed calls and unread text messages (thread). Use wifi stuff like WiFiFoFum and get pissed when you get those notifications that other networks were detected? Yeah well NuShrike took care of that with WirelessNotifyOff.

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11) Chat, fun and games:

Update 8/9: Okay I got some funny shit for you that you gotta check out. Works only on pictures of women though, you've been warned. It's called hdWobble by elAlem (thread, site, donate, download). It enables you to load up a jay-peg (some included) of a fly, sexy and buxomous chick, you tell the program where her busoms are and, get this, you shake your phone and her jugs start jiggling! That's so badass the guy won't let me redistribute it. Check out this video, it's awesome. Need more VGA babes? Go to the Diamond Sexy Wallpaper thread (warning, no nudity). Show your girlfriends and wives, they'll be really impressed with your phone's capabilities. :)

Update 8/2: From the maker of Dog Whistle and Magic 8 Ball and others, Herm has blessed us with iToilet. It provides you with an interactive virtual toilet flushing experience. That's it. No OpenGL candy, no g-sensor magic, and the toilet sound isn't even that good. Tricky figuring out the point of this unless you're really high but I like this guy's style. I encourage you to check out his site. If this sort of thing fascinates you, you could pay a dollar to get the "full" edition of Dog Whistle which oscillates and pulses and fifteen other high pitched antagonizing sound wave production unlike the free version for maximum effect, whatever effect that may be. It wouldn't kill you to pay a buck for one of the nonfree ones. Okay maybe I should practice what I preach and buy the full version myself. Done. I feel good now. Seriously I just bought it. Not a very familiar feeling, paying for software, but right now I'm liking it. Now it's time to figure out what to do with this program.

Update 6/29: If you're a proud drunk dialer and wish to enhance your drunken communication, you're in luck because someone, I'm not sure who, made the Drunk Dialing Assistant 1.0 (pc installer) which when you fire it up you can shake the phone to bring up a random contact and then call that person and go on about how much you love or hate her. Update 6/28: Want to piss a lot of people off or freak dogs out? Hermanm, author of Magic 8 Ball and Shake&Win, answered your prayers with Dog Whistle v1.3 (thread, donate) which lets you blast out really high-pitched sounds. Better than the fart_machine as the sound is ubiquitous, more annoying, and it's harder for people to triangulate your position to ask you to stop being such a dick.

Update 5/17: Step aside Tetris and Bubblebreaker, stephj has created 5x5, a masterpiece of simpicity (thread). Download it (ppc exe), run it from your phone and try to make all the boxes black. Not easy and I wonder what happens when you beat the first level because I gave up. Update 5/9: Updated Facebook client v0.17 in the house thanks to pseudonymous or jug6ernaut (thread). I could be wrong but it doesn't do facebook chat so use FacebookIM by blutz (thread). Because I'm a total badass I made myself a twitter account and because I don't have an unlimited SMS plan I grabbed Dromio's pimp-tight twitter client, PockeTwit which is so dope it made it onto Google Code so go there or to his thread to download it. After installing Magic 8 Ball by hermanm (thread, coffee), I asked my phone if I'll get sued by someone for this site. "My reply is no." Phew! "Are you sure?" "As I see it, yes." Double phew! Nice, hermanm. Need to find the thread and I haven't tested this but I think GetSportz is some kind of sports scores getter. Do you actually go outside and also use Facebook? Congrats. Not my thing but you can try (revised 3/28) Microsoft's new leaked Facebook app someone ripped out of something.

Tricky call regarding which section to put Waterlevel in because if you're a serious architect you are not going to rely on your phone's bubble-leveler emulating G sensor cabatilites to build a home so the only thing I could think of to use this program for is to show off how advanced your phone is in that it can sense where gravity's pulling it toward. A glorified G-sensor calibration utility basically. A more helpful tool if you ever go out at night is FuzzyBillSplitter (ppc exe) by DaveRage (thread) lets you figure out how much you should tip the waitress but do you really want to be that guy, pulling out your phone to calculate a tip for a dinner that's expensive enough you'd need a calculator to figure this out? C'mon. Fuzzy math, round up, and tip in cash when you can. Aruppenthal (the RRE guy) worked hard to bundle up a 21 meg cab full of games for you. Here's the thread including the games it includes as well as more reasonably-sized packs. Throw that guy a few bucks, that along with all the other work he does... that's a lot of work, good guy.

Some guy named Leo Bueno made the first fully realistic flight simulator for WinMo way back, brilliantly entitled Leo's Flight Simulator. Excellent game either on the phone or PC. And it just resurfaced but designed for the Diamond (our phone minus the keyboard) to take advantage of its gravitational sensor in order to let you fly the fucking plane by tilting your phone! Sweet, right? Sweeter than the graphics... You may get it here. Use the stylus to control the throttle, gear, flaps, view, a zillion options including what type of plane or helicopter you're flying. And if someone knows who Leo is please let me know so I can credit him and give him a link (and ask retroactively for permission to host his work). Update: Nevermind I found his site, emailed him asking for his permission.

I present the Fart Machine! The name says it all. Funny for at least two minutes. But someone took PPC farting a step further with BSFartApp ($2). That is one of the most sophisticated programs I have ever scene or imagined, its purpose notwithstanding. It runs a web and SMS server on your phone so that you can log into its webserver if it's on your lan's wifi or if you're phone's connected to the carrier's network outside of a NAT and is not firewalled which for you is most likely the case. Anyway from either your computer's web browser or another cell phone with SMS you can track the GPS coordinates of your "mark's" phone, you can have it call you so you can eavesdrop and you can execute one of a number of farts remotely. Go on the guy's website and watch the video. I don't know which is more hilarious, the farting, or that someone actually put this much talent and effort into designing something so complex -- just for fart gags. Want to give a girl a heart attack? Fire up GClippers by sd00 (thread) which turns your phone into a pseudo electric hair buzzer/clipper thing. Approach your victim, preferably when she's sleeping, turn on the buzz, and when you put the thing on her hair as if to cut it it lowers the frequency, creating a clipping sound, and vibrates for added effect. I did this on my girlfriend when she was cooking. She was both startled and unimpressed with the sophisticated g-sensor utilization. Like the Fart Machine, it will give you about two minutes of fun then you move on in life. Oh, it also has a shaving function. Xtrakt will both entertain and remind you that you bought a phone with some juice under the hood with its 3Dness. It's basically Japanese motorcross anime meets Alice in Wonderlands, it's 12mb and it's worth the download. It was ported I believe from the Sony Xperia which has different resolution so some of the menu options are clipped but it works. Play it landscape, keyboard not extracted, and use the stylus to lean left or right or to tap to shoot hostile flying robot things.

Lonely? Get PocketIRC (gentle nagware). Pop in irc.efnet.net or even better irc.freenode.net, switch the colors to green on black and /join #xda-devs for a good time. Haven't tried it but zsIRC's supposedly a good client too. For instant messaging you're gonna like Agile Messenger more than Slick IM but at some point Agile's gonna want some cash from you. Worth comparing, get both. IM+ is also an option, but demoware like Agile. Parlingo's another but I haven't messed with it nor am I sure whether it's shareware or not but people like it. Want to tune your guitar or prove to people you have perfect pitch? Fire up FrequencyTuner (PC install exe).

And hey, please install the absolute best game in history, ported from the TI-82 to ROMeOS by the sharpest software engineers in Tawain, DopeWars, which I'd call an edutainment program to train you to become a broker. Think of the drugs and cop killing as metaphors for dealing equities and hiding from the SEC. Labryrinth is a little addictive yet stupid but good to show off your phone's G sensor. I'd never played it but I understand that Bubblebreaker's fairly addictive. There are plenty of others but I need to work on the other sections so check back later. Bookmark my ass.

Two new and old games for you courtesy of Floft Games: Touchtris, as the name implies, is Tetris but you can do the tetris thing (left, right, down fast and change shape) by touching, no more keys. Bubbles is the minimalist's answer to Bubblebreaker (you pop packing bubbles and it makes a noise - brilliant!). If you find this funny for more than forty seconds, ... I don't know what to say without insulting you but whatever here's the Staples Easy Button for your phone brought to you by chargedRam. And you may tuned to his thread as he actually intends to release this in other languages.

So far no one has been able to design a smoothly functioning PS3 or X-Box emulator for the Fuze but do you remember the original 8-bit Nintendo? Yeah, me too. Gotta hand it to those Japs, they knew how to take full advantage of those eight bits -- and now you can too with PocketNester (PC installing exe), a Nintendo emulator, that runs rather well on the Fuze (once you configure the keys to control it, which isn't that hard). Install it, configure the keys to your liking (consider full screen mode which puts soft keys on the screen), set it to be the default handler of NES files and then you can duck hunt your ass off with .nes files for which you may turn to your friend Google to track down -- sorry, not giving them out here. If you're messing around with emulators or putty, anything that was intended for a different input device like something with an A and B button or CTRL, you may want KforTouchPro by dilta whose description is a tad over my head: "KforTouchPro 1.0.0.3 supports dynamic switching between M$ IME and eT9/MultiPlay to solve the key code mapping problem for Touch Pro. Now, you may play games/emulators with any key on the hardware keyboard."

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12) Impressive XDA-born applications:

Update 11/13: Okay listen up because I'm going to hit you with some crazy shit right now. Thanks to noellenchris and many others you may now run Google Android on your Fuze off your SD card -- without losing your data or fucking anything up. A few things don't work like sending text messages and the keymap is funky but it is otherwise crazy badass. To save me from having to repeat just fire up this fuzemobility article I mostly wrote. Or if you already know how to run Android ports, here's what you need.

Update 8/16: Now this is pretty fucking badass. If you don't know what Google Voice is, here's a detailed list of what it gives you and go here to get an invite. Took two weeks for them to hook me up. Once you have a number, you're going to want to install OneDialer_v14b1 by m_drunk (thread, donate) because that sucker will tell Google over data to call your phone and once you pick up it completes the call. The purpose of that is so people see your new google voice number on caller ID both for your privacy and also to get people to realize sooner that you have a new number (though both will work). OneDialer also does free SMS over data. You may also use iDialer by Doug Melton (thread, website, donate, config instructions) which you may prefer if you don't want to use any data for whatever reason to initiate the call and I think it's a little less rough around the edges. Whether you go with iDialer or OneDialer however, you're going to want Doug Melton's GreenButton (gotta regedit to configure I think) to map the send button to one of these dialers or use AEButton maybe or don't do anything. Seriously if you don't know what Google Voice is, read about it here. Oh hey here's another one, gVo v0.1b by AssassinsLament (thread). This guy says he wrote it because he was dissatisfied with OneDialer and iDialer so he burned through a couple all nighters and whipped this up. Simple, worth a try. Doesn't initiate the callback over data like iDialer, it places a call and then you receive a call to make your call which I think may cost you an extra minute. Not sure about that. No WinMo Google Voice VoIP client -- yet. I'll let you know.

Update 7/28: Want a WM6.5-esque finger friendly file explorer thing? Then try APBilbo's feature-packed ThrottleExplorer v0.2 (thread, website, donate) which at first glance I'd say is pretty sweet. Update 7/27: Fantastic job Slothie for coding Auto Call Recorder! When you install this sucker you can set it to record your calls (sort of like ICR) and it will ask you once the call has ended if you want to save it or not. Records in duplex in a few different formats at different bitrates and such. It's probably illegal in your location (as if you care). Gotta grab it from the thread, Slothie doesn't want anyone redistributing it. Update 6/28: Chetstriker just released Phone Creeper v0.4 Espionage Suite, the most borderline-illegal phone software I've ever seen. Basically you install it on your victim's phone (it runs itself in the background, no trace of it) and from your phone you can get the person's gps/google maps location, you can delete their contacts, appointments and tasks, you can spy on their text messaging, delete them, wipe their storage card, "send a fart," pop up a message, have it call you so you can eavesdrop on the phone's mic, send someone a text message from their phone and drop calls. The instructions are kind of complicated and Chetstriker updates it a lot so I'm just going to direct you to the thread. Have fun, stalker.

Update 6/1: Need help making a decision (or just want to be impressed by your phone's graphics capabilities? Well now you can just flip a coin with l3v5y CoinToss v0.2 (thread) which uses OpenGL which means it's badass and that l3v5y knows his shit. When you open up that zip you want to install all three cabs and then read the readme to figure out how to change currencies (bbonzz photoshopped a bunch of replacement coins because he's the man). Update 5/29: Remember PocketCM? Me neither but I think iContact v0.93 (thread, website) is probably better than most if not all contact managers and it had better be because Doug Melton's been working on it for over a year which is a long ass time not to make something truly badass. Take it for spin and if you love it and are bored you can skin it. Donation link's on the site for you do-gooders.

On the caller ID front: In response to emails I've received begging for a caller ID program here is LocateCaller2r2 (updated 4/11) -- by gbm85 (thread) which will give you give you the city and state of incoming callers. For now its database is for United States and Canda area codes but check the thread as I suspect that will eventually be updated. Oh and you may not redistribute this app but feel free to buy gbm85 some coffee. Some junior member from xda (thread) released Advanced Network Caller ID v5 (updated 7/10) which is basically an after-the-fact caller ID tool that googles the hell out of an incoming call number (sadly) only after, not before, the call takes place. But it's still provacative to know the full name and address of your caller, FTC complaints associated with the number, telco info, location, somehow even their relatives and links to further information on any criminal records they may have. No I do not know if it works on cell phones. I don't think it does. Still, that's badass. So between LocateCaller and this thing, you're covered like a jimmy cap. Update 5/23: Tired of soft resetting all the time? Seems like it's getting worse as the builds have augmented. Well, you're in luck because ronenpg of htcaddicts.com whipped up a lil' somethin' somethin' called cleanRAM v1.5.5 (updated 7/14) which scrubs out the crap from your ram like runaway processes and memory leaks and what not. You can run a basic purge which terminates non-responsive processes or two more aggressive and badass scrubbing methods. Very tweakable, you can schedule clean-ups and it even has a progress bar! If you like this thing and appreciate fewer soft resetting situations, throw this guy some cheddar because he earned it. C'mon you cheap bastards. :)

TouchResponse (thread) gives you your haptic feedback (which comes from the Greek word Ελληνικά which means badass). Your phone vibrates just a little when you touch the screen. Worth trying, I love it -- but do not redistribute this. Thanks, Snailslug! Step aside NoSleepRaphael because Touch InCall Screen Tweak v1.1.1 (updated 5/22) is in the house! Brought to you by StevePritchard and 600GOL, when you're on the phone and the screen turns off but it's time to enter in your credit card to connect to a phone sex operator, this will detect when it's time to fire up the backlight using the g-sensor. And when you put the phone back up to your ear, it does the opposite. Put the phone face down on the table and it fires up the speakerphone (it also subsequently does the opposite if you set it to). And it does not eat up CPU and memory by constantly running in the background, only during calls. This app is young so the developers ask that you report bugs you get and what rom you're using on the thread.

The Fuze has a light sensor which it uses to automatically adjust the backlight levels but nik3r took it many steps further with Lumos v10rc2 (updated 4/11), a "fully customizable auto-backlight changer" that will both save you more juice while cranking your blacklight to the levels you want with low processor and ram usage (thread). I wish it were a year ago when I could have posted WMWifiRouter by Chainfire before he turned into a suit but that's a shareware link to a program that will essentially turn your phone into a Linksys router to share its internet connection. Or you can share your computer's connection to other computers ad-hoc style. By my math at least, it's theoretically faster than tethering through USB or Bluetooth as WMWifiRouter uses 801G or whatever which is faster than both and depending on your carrier etc your phone's bandwidth can actually outrun USB (at least on the Kaiser, don't know what kind of USB the Fuze has) and definitely bluetooth. Downside is your phone gets hot as hell and you'll soon be in the market for a battery but when Time Warner zapped me for payment deliquency and cut my cable modem Chainfire's program held me over for three weeks of pr0n and countless gigs of movies and AT&T turned a blind eye, no tether plan, no penalty.

Custom Scroll 1.1 by cichy3000 (thread) lets you tweak what happens when you flick your finger or pen to scroll the screen up and down to, for example, control how much momentum continues to drag your scroll after you flick so you don't have to flick and flick and frickin' flick as much. It does other shit too like let you fuck around with the sensitiviy of something. You could do all of this (actually I doubt you could if you're my average visitor :P) by modifying the registry but this simplifies it with a nice little GUI. Well done, cichy3000, who got some press coverage for this. Though it's still got a few bugs Cinemo, your portable IMDB, will come in handy when you want to catch a movie. Brought to you by Daniel Gary, here's the thread. Oppdatering: Nå kan du oversette dritt på telefonen! I was cruising XDA and found that w0lf made a Google translator front-end that will let you translate between almost forty languages back and forth (provided you have character support for the weird languages). He calls it w0lf's Translator and it's impressive and apparently born on XDA so I put it in this section. Jag är inte så smart som jag tror att jag är. Fun! Mam odbiegające pornografii na moim komputerze. Okay that's enough.

The most fascinating app I've used is TrackMe by Staryton (thread). You may need to install SQLite but probably not MS Compact Framework depending on your ROM. It does a shitload of things but the best example I can come up with to characterize this thing is that you can install it on your girlfriend's or wife's phone and watch her every step live on Google Earth (it also can give you less accurate plots using Google's cell tower database). If you're a supergenius with nothing to do you could theoretically program it and your server to fire up your pool heater when you're driving home from work as it doesn't drain that much juice when using the cell tower mode. D-Pad left/right issue got you down? Try this new app GController (thread) by Scotchy45 which, if you can figure out how to configure it, will let you move up down left and right by tilting the phone using its gravitational sensors. HTC really dropped the ball on the d-pad but the XDA croud as usual is coming to the rescue. Though you may agree that it's mostly for fun, for showing the phone off to others and is unusable when not sitting still. Might want to subscribe to the though. Want more G-sensore fun? You gotta get DiamondHologram by pauloke (thread), another impressive piece to show off your phone. Watch a demo.

13) Flashing back to AT&T: Scuffed up your phone and want to try your luck with AT&T's warranty exchange but you flashed custom roms and don't want them to sting you for $500 if they feel like it (which they theoretically could even though they seem to turn a blind eye from my experience)? Download the AT&T ROM from my little mirror, install it. If you changed radios, reflash AT&T's 1.02.25.32. Then just to be safe (it's probably unnecessary, these clowns aren't too bright) flash back the original bootloader last. But if you got it wet, pop the battery, look for a tiny rectangular strip on the very lower right of the battery wall and make sure it's white otherwise you're screwed. Don't bother trying to bleach it or use white-out, they test for that. Note that if you got the phone less than 30 days ago you'll do the switch at the store from which you bought it and after the thirty days you call 611, they'll cross examine you and ship you a new phone which includes a postage-paid box to send your old phone back to them. Usually takes one or two days.

Now that you realize these things are fragile, consider paying AT&T $5 a month extra to sell you a Fuze for like $185 even if you break it by conducting salt water experiments or using the phone to beat your wife too hard. Not the best warranty insurance plan but given that this phone is still flipping on ebay for $500 I decided to get it. Also to hard reset your phone which clears all data you installed since you flashed your last ROM may come in handy, the last thing you should do before you send it off to AT&T. To do that, and this is truly fucking strange that they made it this complicated, turn the device on, hold down the volume down and enter/circle buttons, jam the stylus into the reset hole to the right of the little USB jack, release the reset button (but continue to hold the volume down and enter/center circle button) until you see the warning screen about hard resetting after which you press Volume Up and it will clean itself out but will not restore the AT&T rom if you burned another ROM, it will just revert to the screen calibration thing and wipe your data. Don't forget to take out your memory chip and sim before you send the phone back otherwise you'll feel like a real douchebag, which you theoretically would be.

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14) Radios: Your phone has radio management software on it that makes a lot of complicated decisions. HTC, AT&T and other carriers periodically release new versions of this software with the aim, you'd think, of enhancing signal reception, throughput, GPS quality, sound quality and battery life. But that's a balancing act, you can't just make all five improvements and release a better radio rom every few months; and sometimes, even though the version numbers get higher, they take a step back and make some screw-ups which is why older radios sometimes get the most votes. Or maybe they go for a balance on a new radio release that's intended for Joe PDA but not Joe Phonephreak -- for instance maybe you really care more about data throughput and not much about the battery (or vice versa), poorer GPS locking but better GPS accuracy in which case an older radio may be your bag. A lot of people insist that you have to test all of this yourself because performance in general varies based on your location, ROM and carrier which has some truth to it. Some truth. Before you flash anything here, keep in mind you need to be unlocked (first chapter) and you also need to install the corresponding rilphone.dll cab to the new radio you're flashing for best performance.

Update 7/27: Kudos to ChaosR for whipping up an original and up to date Touch Pro-only voting thread using a script he coded on his own server. In addition to listing the results and allowing you to vote easily, he supplies download links for the radios and the rilphones and offers six voting categories including GPS, battery, reception, call quality, Internet (speed?) and overall. To give you a taste as of now 1.12.25.19 takes the lead for GPS though 1.14.25.35 edges out a small lead on call quality over 1.12.25.19 -- however 1.11.25.01 has the highest overall voteshare and battery, actually everything except GPS. I suggest you stick to 1.12.25.19 in spite of that because, I believe, 1.11.25.01 is universal for all carriers whereas 1.12.25.19 and 1.14.25.35 are AT&T-only (so you're seeing skewed results) and are also necessary to take advantage of assisted GPS. If you don't care about GPS however, in light of these results, maybe give 1.11.25.01 a try. Don't forget your rilphone cabs! They're on that voting thread but here's the 1.12.25.19 rilphone, the 1.14.25.35 rilphone and the 1.11.25.01 rilphone cabs. But don't forget to flash the radios too, separate thing. If you're confused, stick to the other chapters.

Update 6/3: Hero Ripper Captain Throwback extracted the radio, 1.14.25.35, that was bundled with the new rom HTC just released. He also made a rilphone.dll cab to make your life easier. Hopefully this radio is better (though 1.12.25.19 was a huge improvement). I'll let you know when I've got feedback of my own or others.

Sometimes HTC (and even other manufacturers) come up with radio management software for other devices like the Diamond, the Blackstone and even the Xperia which, if you drop some cash on Olipro's security unlock, you can burn onto your phone as some people claim they did a better job with those radios perhaps because they're more popular than our phone or they're marketing those phones more aggressively and are putting more R&D money into them. But to minimize confusion and the chance you'll brick your phone because you don't realize security unlocking does not equal HardSPL, I'm only posting Raphael/Fuze/Touch Pro-compatible/signed radios for now. Don't forget you need HardSPL for these or you'll fuck up your phone and it's a bitch to recover: AT&T's 1.02.25.32 is probably what came with your Fuze and what you'd want to flash back to if you did a warranty exchange.

As of 4/4 HTC's 1.08.25.20M1 and 1.02.25.28 are the XDA community's poorly-poled favorites, mostly praised for its GPS performance and all-around reliability. But 1.11.25.01 hit not too long ago and it isn't in that poll but from breezing through the threads plus my own personal experience it sounds like that is the overall safest bet for being the best radio for you -- unless you read the next pragraph and qualify for an even newer radio. If you get Olipro's unlock and want to go crazy with radios released for other devices, hunt them down here, I'm not posting them.

So, the latest decent radio, 1.12.25.19, is hands-down the best, at least in my opinion and those of many others, especially in the GPS department, but *ONLY IF* you are running a custom rom based on the new leaked AT&T FUZE rom's drivers including, most importantly, the new rilphone.dll properly configured and with the right assisted GPS settings embedded in the registry. And that rom is RRE. Also AT&T must be your carrier. If you flash that radio on a rom that does not satisfy those requirements, the only thing you'll notice is how amazingly fast your battery drains. So, if you are salivating to get the best GPS experience and have the stones to go through with this, flash RRE or if you want TP2 Manila also flash At0mAng, then flash 1.12.25.19, turn on aGPS, fire up QuickGPS to download the latest satellite positions, go outside (or put the phone against your window), start GPSTest or better yet BeeLineGPS (both configured to Comm 4/38400 baud) and enjoy the best locking speed and accuracy and lowest lag available. It might even remind you of your Tilt days. But DO NOT touch this radio is you aren't AT&T or aren't certain your custom rom has these updates. QuickGPS and aGPS are carrier dependent, yo.

Update 4/20: Actually you might be able to get away with flashing that radio and installing this badass cab by Chainfire and P1Tater to fix that rilphone shit up for you without having to use RRE, Da_G or At0mAng (even though you should anyway unless you're too cool for school like me and go with ROMeOS. 4/20: Vodaphone's 1.14.25.05 radio hit last week but it sucks so NO LINK for you!

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15) Experts: Welcome to the you're-on-you're-own section. If wardriving is the sort of thing that turns you on, here's WiFiFoFum by Marek who wants you to enjoy it noncommercially free of charge but would also appreciate £10 (insisting on it if you use it for business purposes though I have no fucking idea what kind of business relies on Pocket PC wardriving). Shows peers as well as access points' encryption types, SSIDs and ESSIDs, mac addresses, measures distance between you and them on a little radar thingy using decible levels, grabs longitude/latitude coordinates when available and you can export all that shit into KML (Google Earth). And btCrawler is a dumbed-down version of that for scanning nearby bluetooth devices and what services they offer. Good if you're both eccentric and ride the subway or are a flight attendant and take that FAA regulations a little too seriously. The German Man shut this guy down so there will be no future developments however you can still donate some love on his website. What to sniff packets? Use Handy Sniffer which grabs and neatly parses data in promiscuous mode using your phone's various adapters including wifi and GPRS (not sure if it's only your data or everyone's). I think it's somewhere between free and shareware and the vendor asks for $15.

Update 10/24: Okay this shit is way over my head so let me quote the man who wrote me this because maybe one of you might find this interesting and useful:

I just wanted to pass on to you this interesting app called LME or Light Math Engine (cab, instructions) for windows mobile. The program is a mobile version of the math-programming language/development environment MATLAB. Matlab stands for MATrix LABoratory, and it's heavily used in nearly every field of engineering. Matlab turns the solving of an engineering problem which used to take a complete day 20 years ago into a 10 minute solution. For example, Matlab is commonly used by companies in the design of the F-15, F-16, F-22, and F-35 fighter aircraft. I'm an electrical engineering student, and we use matlab practically every day, so when we found LME, we were all pretty excited. You have to admit, it's pretty impressive that this program has all the capabilities and engineering tools needed to design complex control systems, fighter aircraft, and simulate the behavior of endless numbers of electronics, and it runs on your windows mobile phone.

Thanks, Don, keep it coming.

Update 8/2: Here's one for you network administrators: WakeItUp by David Johnston (website) sends wake-up UDP packets to machine on your network that you specify provided they are equipped with Wake on LAN on both their eithernet adapters and motherboard (and maybe bios too). Might need these instructions. Also might need MSNetCF. Neat trick and potentially handy if you've got a large network and want to save electricity overnight but be able to fire things up fast with this the next morning. Again though, you gotta be on the lan either through wifi or activesync and you also need the mac addresses of the computers you want to wake up. It's complicated which is why it's in this section. Sounds like more trouble than it's worth -- to normal people that is.

NBStat (ppc exe) will scan your network for netbios shares, vxUtil is good to have if you're a sysadmin (or are your sysadmin's enemy) and want to do wide-range portscans, tracerouting, the usual ns queries, it's got a finger client, a subnet calculator and a ping tool. Might as well mention PocketPutty (ppc exe) again in this section (telnet/ssh/rlogin client) and the VNC client. Ready to move on to cracking some hashes? Cain (install from PC) is your friend but not your battery's friend. If this section is beginning to make you nervous and you're thinking VPN is a good idea, here's your OpenVPN client.

Update 7/14: According to wikipedia MSVC 1.6.2104, recently released, has some kind of support for 6.5's Titanium. Here's a lil' something for your p2p needs. Be advised it's a battery killer.

Update 7/10: Here's Mobile FTP Client v1.1.6.1 by GMEKS (thread) and here's FTP Server for Windows Mobile (pc install) by Mochasoft Aps. Maybe you can run them both at the same time and see how fast it goes. Update 6/28: Make your own cabs with IABovine's QuickCab 2.0 Cab Creation Utility (thread). Good for basic installation of files and registry tweaks, also for themes, ringtones, whatever. Handy if you want to contribute to XDA by taking someone's new badass app that they released as a weird exe and cabbing it up for them.

Update 5/9: Hacker/cracker/admin/admin wannabe/curious nerd/digital troublemaker? You might like PingBox2 v2.1.6 by aDEO (thread, website, donate) which, as the name implies, pings hosts sort of like ping.exe or /bing/ping but with a gui frontend. It also will mass ping a range you specify, arp scanning, tracerouting and it's got a whois client. Not exactly nmap, but handy. Want to really piss someone the fuck off? Better have an unlimited text plan before you use SMSpam v0.2 (5/17) by thschorn (thread) to blast as many text bombs at your victim as you want! Works great at funerals. Careful, "You might physically damage recipient's phone." LOLs. Update 5/3: Get your bluejacking on with btspammer which fires off text, an image or a file to any vulnerable bluetooth devices in bluetooth vicinity (thread).

Want to get back at some asshole bigtime? Or are you yourself an asshole? Both, right? Then get ZM_Dialer (ppc exe) and copy it into \windows\Start Menu\programs which will let you bang in your target's phone number and wardial them over and over and over while hanging up before they answer (to avoid charging you). Not sure how legal that is. In case that fails to satisfy your mischief needs, use FakeMail, a nice little smtp client, to forge your from: address to "order your mates the latest 'bottom toys' from sexshop.com!!!" The guy says you need wifi I think because he thinks that's the only way you'll be able to relay mail but you can either use a wifi to relay forged mail through an smtp server connected to your lan or run your own on your DSL line and open it up just very tightly to your phone's IP range (don't fuck that up please) and you're good. Note that using this program is a great way to get your company's mail server blacklisted as a spam relay. Also may be a great way to get fired, expelled from school, kicked off your ISP, cut off by your phone carrier or indicted.

16) WinMo 6.5: Wondering if you should flash this? My advice, if WM 6.1 ain't broke for you, don't try to fix it with this unless you live for eye candy. Engadget did a good write-up on it with a video so check that out and read the comments to help you make up your mind and if you do in fact want to go through with it, though this shouldn't mean much to you as I've only tried one WM 6.5 rom and have been using it for just a few days, flash RRE WM6.5 without Manila. Or LouzeBerry 6.5, whatever. The rest of this chapter should be regarded as being intended for those of you who have already flashed a WM 6.5 rom, no more bullshit.

So 6.5 comes with this interface called Titanium. Play around with it for a day, decide if you like it more than Manila or SPB Mobile Shell (or nothing). If you do like it, okay, now we can add some stuff to it starting with a "tab" organizer called Titanizer 7.01 by twolf (thread) but install Flash 7 first (Flash Lite won't suffice). Now you can move shit up and down, unselect, add, all that shit. Think the WM 6.5 IE is gay? Okay, roll back to PIE for WM 6.1. What next... Widgets I think you'd call them? Tabs? (5/29) Actually no, not tabs just yet; if you're going to get crazy with WM6.5 you'd best install MortScript 4.3b2 (website) as some of these cabs rely on it. Not sure how to describe it, maybe XDA's answer to MS Compact Framework? Whatever just fire it up.

Well before you install any tabs, keep in mind if you flashed RRE or another custom rom it may have already come with these. Anyway to be the safe side, disable "Windows default" in the Today settings panel, then install the cab and then reenable Windows default. You may already have this depending on which ROM you flashed but if you don't grab larbke666's Titanium Notifications (thread) which gives you these indicators for email, text, calls and voicemail. Here's CFacebook Titanium Pugin v0.5 by JukEboXAuDiO (thread) but you may want to check that you have the latest Facebook and FacebookIM installed. Want a nice big happy analog clock up top like this? Then install CAnalogClock v0.6.3b (6/7) by rpereira (thread, donate) which needs MortScript 4.3b2, also in a chic black theme (5/22) which you install second (if you want), and then launch start menu > rpereira > StartAnalogClock just for the first time. If you twit that's great because you can use CTwitter v0.5 by JukEboXAuDiO (thread) but you need PockeTwit which you can get here. Get CVolume by duhhh (thread), a sweet lil' volume profile manager.

Update 10/4: If you're like me, you flashed a recent high build WM6.5 rom and got pissed by how vertically spaced out everything is like your emails in POutlook, files in File Explorer and the pop up menues. Really annoying and I spent a long ass time Googling for a registry fix until I gave up and later accidentally discovered that climber187200 took care of this problem and squished things back down a bit. If you're like me, you also like to know what time it is and the weather right up top. No problem, give CHeroClock by chriscsh a try (thread). Small tiny problem though, when you tell the program where you are for the weather reports, the build-in accuweather code generator doesn't really work for more than a dozen countries but you can get the codes yourself here or if you're in the US, here. Note, you need to remove the [countrycode]\yada\yada in the list before you put it into the settings (EG US\NAM\NY\etc should be NAM\NY\etc). If you want it to auto update, drop the two files in this zip into \program files\cheroclock and then you can configure it in the settings menu.

Update 7/13: Pain in the ass to scroll your ass off through the start menu ain't it. No problem because muttim86 (thread) cabbed up some tweaks for you that will let you change your WM6.5 start icon layout to four columns and even five if you can handle it. I think he may be working on six but that's crazy (though badass). If you get scared you can revert back to three with this. I'd recommend five though the more icons you have on the screen the less smoothly it will scroll (phone has to think about more pixels). Also note that the text in the names of your icons may get clipped off on the edges a bit as you beef up the columns (and rows, the rows also go up proportionately).

Update 7/10: Sn123 just made my favorite 6.5 plugin called Taskanium v0.5 (thread). People stopped caring about supporting tasks like with Manila and until now 6.5 and this thing is very helpful but requires a couple steps to install (no pain no gain?): Unzip the file, drag the Taskanium folder onto your phones \program files\ directory, go into it with file explorer on the phone, tap taskaniumInstall and reboot. Not too hard, do it.

Update 6/12: Showaco's a WinMo 6.5 badass who has brought you a bunch of hot shit (thread) including reSTART, a WM 6.5 must-have and good in conjunction with twolf's Titanizer 7.02 (thread) (6/28), which lets you reorder and manage the icons in your start menu as well as a thing to give your menu four by six icons which you can do honeycomb style or regular. Give a shit about the weather? Use showaco's TitaniumWeatherv4.2. Having trouble updating? Download this and put it in \program files\titanium weather\ and try again (7/10). He did some other pretty sweet shit but that stuff is probably over your head but if you think you can handle it check his thread. Update 6/28: Check out hComber v.01 by mushipkw (thread, donate) which lets you change start menu icons if you're bored and care that much about your start menu.

Update 5/29: Salut! Some Frenchman won the race to crank out a stock widgit, JMLStocks v1, and it ain't bad at all, just a bitch to install. If you want you can go on his website (translated) but to try to get you started myself you gotta have MortScript installed. Then download the rar on your computer, activesync yo'self, put the JMLStocks folder in the rar onto your desktop and then drag that into the phone's \Program Files\, then you got to go on the phone, get in File Explorer or TotalCmndr, make your way into \Program Files\JMLStocks\ and hit JMLStocksInstall.mscr and you may be done with the easy part. Want to configure your own stocks and indices? Good luck with that, you're on your own. (5/30): Oh wait here's a thread someone started on this guy's behalf.

Themes. You want themes? I recommend ibrythill's Black&Blue or m.carroll's PureBlack2 (thread) (5/17) but if that's not enough for you you can find more here. Would you like Titanium more if it had a Windows 7 look to it? Well be careful with this decision because some or most or all of those widgits won't work with it. The latest beta of ibrythill's WM 7 Titanium Project, beta6.9 as of 5/17, makes WM 6.5's Titanium look more like Windows 7 (thread) but consult the thread for messing with its configuration or tabs. The only thing I've got right now that I know should work with this is CVolume_for_WM7_Titanium_Project but I need to look harder (I just flashed this thing, cut me some slack).

Update 5/17: Use this if you don't like 6.5's PIE and want to roll back to 6.1's PIE (thank you emaster101 from ppcgeeks). Want to freshen up the taskbar icons up top? Use Reefermattness's WM6.5 Chome V3 (thread, donate) (updated 7/10). Warning, uninstallable.

Okay I've been working on this site all day long and I'm really messed up by the Red Bull, Adderall and LCD radiation so that's all you're gonna get for now. Maybe help me out with this chapter by scrolling down to the contact form and giving me some tips because I know jack shit about WM 6.5 at this point. Until I get my shit together, use this link, this one and this one.

17) Battery conservation: Yo I posted this on XDA, pretty badass I'd say and superlong and deserving its own chapter, so here's a little copypasta action of myself in case you missed it which you did unless you got here from clicking my sig.

[res] Battery Conservation Fanatic thread.

So I read this fuzemobility.com article about battery life and thought I'd write a super long comment with sweet hyperlinks but it turned out to be too long for their blog configuration. So my XDA friends, here it is. I invite you to contribute any tips and insight you may have to the handful of gems I came up with about gems other people came up with:

WMLongLife by Chainfire, the venerable codemaster known most for wmwifirouter (even though his other work is awesomely impressive), drops you down from H*/3G to EDGE when your screen shuts off for a minute. It will also kill the data connection if inactive for a minute. When you turn the screen back on, it stays on edge, but if you start an app from a 3G whitelist you make, like including Opera and SiriusWM5 but not FlexMail, that app will kick it back into 3G. Switching from edge to 3G takes roughly six seconds he says but probably worth it if you like to save yourself battery (and your gonads from radiation).

Lumos by nik3r is a great replacement to HTC's included backlight adjusting system. It uses the light meter and you can specify how dim you're willing to go in dark conditions and how bright you have to have it in sunlight. You can tweak every point in between if you want, define what conditions you believe to be bright (and warranting full backlight juice) and dark (running low power). Very low cpu usage, low memory, no battery drain when not using the phone, no cpu involved with fluttering backlight levels, delightful gui frontend, fun to configure. Requires phone with a light meter like the Raphael and Diamond. This one is more for convenience than it is a miracle battery saver, but Touch InCall Screen Tweak by StevePritchard shuts your screen off when you take a call and put the thing to your head and, using the light and g-sensor, when you pull it away as if to dial in your calling card it lights it back up and when you put it back to your head, it dims it. Very handy. The NoSleepRaphael killer.

IMAP-Idle or push Exchange Activesync or instant messaging or PocketPuTTy or PocketIRC or PornTube or anything that keeps the data connection open, even with very little throughput going on, drains substantially harder than having no data connection (just phone, SMS) so use that knowing you're sacrificing battery life (which I do). I'm not sure about this but if you like to use AIM and have an unlimited text messanging plan, using an sms-based IM client like OZ Messenger/Mobile IM may use less juice than something like Agile or IM+ which keeps the connection alive. What I am right about is insisting that you use Outlook Email Scheduler (thread, website) to specify Pocket Outlook synchronizing frequencies over peak and off-peak hours, brilliant program (also does imap idle!!). So with this, in addition to "push" mail which now supports gmail (it's actually called IMAP-idle with non-Exchange mail servers), you can set your phone to cycle pocket outlook synching, say, every five minutes during the day and every half hour after 10pm, whatever you want.

I definitely do not recommend trying this if you are afraid of danger or bricking your phone but here are two links for you crazy underclockers. I can't tell so far if it does in fact successfully throttle my processor, I can't tell if I was able to get the speed back up either by setting it back or by uninstalling, I just don't know but here it is. Couldn't find much feedback so if any of you know how to test battery drain and also don't care about warranty compliance, maybe post results in this thread which I have no doubt will blow up into huge popularity. You must have a Qualcomm MSM7XXX(A)-based processor, so google first to double check: nueDynamicClock, nueClockControl

Make sure you got the right radio with the right rilphone.dll properly installed. If you're AT&T grab 1.12.25.19, not 1.14.25.05 (I've only seen mixed reviews and I myself was not breathtaken it), and then Chainfire and P1Tater's 1.12.25.19/rilphone.dll combo cab. If you're not AT&T, I believe you want to stick to 1.11.25.01 (and grab the right rilphone cab accordingly). If you're fully Olipro-unlocked, you probably know enough about non-Raphael radios and don't need my advice. Links: Raph radios, Chainfire/P1Tater raph rilphones. If you try to do your own power tests to contribute your scientific studies to your local Ultimate Radio Thread, keep in mind that in lower signal areas your phone must crank out bigger radio waves to reach the tower. So you must be careful to keep everything constant except the variable, the radio, including the time-range during the day you do battery and bandwidth tests (including weekdays versus weekends when switching from one to the other) as in dense areas, capacity gets maxed out with carriers who don't have enough infrastructure to handle the loads. I get this all the time even in Manhattan where you'd think AT&T would get their poop together.

Rhodium Manila is badass, I know, and I have a lot of respect and appreciation for xboxmod and his posse (I'm really in awe) but don't use Rhodium Manila if you want to save battery life (or ram or storage or cpu) more than you want to be dazzled by TP2TF3D. Use pjc's ripped oldschool vga rip of HTC Home with TodayAgenda underneath. Maybe SPB Mobile Shell's better than regular Manila, it's probably better than Rhodium Manila (in terms of battery at least) unless you're spinning the 3D stuff nonstop. I don't know about WM6.5's efficiency. Just flashed it. If you know, post. SPB Mobile Shell's trialware btw.

Contrary to popular belief, there is no memory effect issue with lithium ion batteries. Don't do full discharges with this intent. Don't do that. Your battery's longevity diminishes over usage, including deliberate discharges. Best bet, for a phone you rely on, is to charge whenever you can charge. Yes a battery's longevity diminishes faster over time if you store it with a full charge (verus 50%) extendedly, but hey, you need that sucker ready to go so use it and buy another one eventually. Temperature and resistance also accelerates decline meaning if you use an equivilant amount of milliamp hours over a week with your phone on standby versus four hours using GPS or wifi, and you do this a lot, it takes a heavier toll on your battery. If you have two batteries and tether or GPS or wifi a lot and then are in situations where you don't do that, consider designating with a sharpie one battery for brutal use and the other for light use. If you're draining heavily over long periods of time while charging your phone, that eats away at your battery's long-term longevity the same as if you used it and then charged it. Actually probably a little more because charging your battery heats it up even hotter than tethering all your pr0n which hurts. Two batteries. Drop $45 at your local dealer or search on froogle to save a few bucks.

You could cruise through the Accessories forum of your phone (here's the Raphael's) to hunt down an extended life battery but those tend not to be cheap, they make your phone thicker, you have to recalibrate your phone's mechanism to measure battery power and the initial charging training is a bitch and there's a chance you'll get ripped off so consider just buying an extra OEM battery and maybe an extra charger for your office. They fit well in that little secret pocket of your jeans, unless you already use it for a zippo lighter.

According to IRC, there is no idle drain difference between regular 3G and HSDPA (but there is between either of those and EDGE). It all comes down to throughput, not the protocol; however, if you're in a rural area where there is only EDGE, you probably want to shut off 3G as, I'm told, your phone eats up considerable juice by trying to search for a 3G tower. Note that charging on USB theoretically gives you 500mA tops (more like 400 at best) whereas your charger is 1A (at least for the TP). If your phone gets hotter than 43 degrees celsius (use Battery.exe, a ppc exe to monitor temperature and drain) it will, based on my studies, charge slower, and not at all at 47. ABCPowermeter, by the way, does not work on Touch Pros and I'm guessing on its cousins either.

Update 7/14: Bauerpavel just did a ton of research on li-ion batteries and if this is something that interests you, saving juice and long-term longevity, read this thread.

That's it I'm done.

Like that shit? Nice right? Post a damn comment on the thread!

18) What Doug's running (I'm Doug):

Update 9/2: Woke up with a little flashing fever and fired up TCP which is without a doubt the rom to advise you to flash.

Update 8/16: Back on Da_G, 23016 this time. Da_G closed the thread and is going to lay back in the cut and chill. You can still get his kitchen and rom but they won't have the latest CE build on them. Different story with Chrome which I may jump back to yet again once I get bored. By the way people, a little public service announcement: When you're on XDA's custom rom threads, don't ask questions that you could otherwise google or look through other pages in the thread to find the answers, don't complain that something isn't working right especially when right on the first post the chef says this or that isn't working yet and definitely do not ask for an ETA on something being released. And maybe throw them a few bucks. I do not mean that this is necessarily why Da_G's taking a possibly permanent break, but it is why other guys like Monx (ROMeOS) and briefly RRE did. Be polite and grateful, keep the signal to noise ratio in their threads nice and clean.

Update 7/30: On Chrome and enjoying it.

Update 7/29: Just cooked and am presently flashing Da_G's 23016 (rom, kitchen). Also testing out radio 1.11.25.01 (rilphone cab) because of its high votes on battery and call quality (I fucking hate dropped calls). Update 7/28: Currently running Da_G's WM6.5 build 23009, cooked it myself. I'm using Opera 9.7 without Turbo enabled, got Facebook, a guitar tuner, PockeTwit, ThrottleExplorer, G-Alarm, Nitrogen, Spb Weather, iAgenda, SiriusWM5, FlexMail, pRSSReader 1.4.3, Dog Whistle, GMM 3.2 w/ Layers, BeeLineGPS, TrackMe, WiFiFoFum, GPS Speedo, Taskanium, Titanium Weather, Titanium Notifications, the Tachi Album, Cinemo, Outlook Email Scheduler, Lumos, Touch InCall ScreenTweak, NetCallerID, Titanizer, In Cal Recording, Auto Call Record, AdvancedConfig, DiamondTweak, PhoneLog, AEButton Plus and Sprite Backup. I'm not going to link these, not enough time, so hit CTRL+F to find the shit I named. If Da_G doesn't release 23013 soon I may try Chrome again.

Update 7/14: For the hell of it I tried Chrome. Very badass and that's my recommendation for you (read chapter 1, I rant about it). Then I flashed back to Da_G's WM6.5 which I recooked with his kitchen for 23004.

Update 7/10: Just got a fresh phone (my keyboard wore out) so I immediately put Da_G back on, 23004 which I cooked myself, and managed to get up and running immediately with Sprite Backup with did a good job not screwing things up. Great guy, Da_G, and even if you aren't using his rom there's a good chance your custom rom came from his rom kitchens.

Update 5/29: Listen up because I just flashed what I'm going to boldly call my favorite rom, one I am having trouble picturing myself abandoning for another series, and that my friend is Da_G's Clean Fuze ROM WM6.5 21725 Edition. I didn't just do it for the high CE build number (though that did play a roll, Da_G is the build leaking pioneer and I am a build number junkie), I did it because this guy knows how to strip roms down to absolute barebone goodness, something important to me as I had been suffering from frequent crashes of my programs since ROMeOS's ConFUZEd edition. Wanted to see if that would all go away and guess what, even on a WM6.5 rom, it did -- no crashes, superfast boot, general snappiness, the thing rocks.

BUT before you think "Hey this Doug guy must know what he's talking about so if he loves this thing so will I so time to click that link," be firmly advised again that this is a barebones rom meaning it's not much different out of the box from the newest OEM's but it has all the crap removed and performance tweaks added. So if you're used to RRE and NRG, expect to turn this on and think "Hey where's all that neat stuff that should have come with it based on my experience with other custom roms?" It ain't there because this rom is for people who are willing to build up from scratch but don't want to cook their own roms. That means you'll put more time into it but the final result is a rom so tightly customized to your own needs with nothing you don't really need either cluttering up the memory or polluting the boot process. The in-between used to be ROMeOS but he took his work off the public market.

Out-of-date update 4/4: So right now I'm back on Arrupenthal's RRE 5.8. Switched to that from At0mAng after having switched to that from RRE after having switched to that from ROMeOS because of the claimed improvements from past RREs, specifically aGPS support, that radio 1.12.25.19 brought but I think are specific to AT&T and if you flash that radio onto most roms you will only end up killing your battery. Needs some dll from the new leaked AT&T rom and a few AT&T chefs like Arrupenthal, At0m, Da_G and I think NATF took advantage of so you need one of those roms for this radio unless you know really what you're doing with a hex editor and the registry. So yeah I flashed this rom just to use the new radio. Downside to the switch was that ROMeOS, at least in my opinion (no disprespect Aruppental), is more robust, fast, streamlined and stable (but is very barebones and requires more TLC to get up to snuff whereas RRE is pimp tight out of the box). As far as RRE vs At0mAng goes, At0mAng saves you some steps with TP2TF3D already fired up but with new releases coming all the time I'd rather stick to a clean RRE without Manila already in it. Also I know Aruppenthal, I know his reputation and how prolific he is; that is not to say At0mAng isn't, I just happened to click on the other guy's thread first.

Dusted off PPCPimBackup to get my text messages and call logs back in. Fired up WkTask to get a Windows-style taskbar and battery meter. Next, AEButton Plus to map my keys: volume up arrow mapped to left, long press mapped to SiriusWM5, triple press mapped to Nitrogen v0.2.1 which I like more than the newer v0.3.2. Volume down mapped to right (I mapped up and down to left and right mainly to switch articles in pRSSReader v1.3.1 to which I mapped a triple press of the volume down), long press FlexMail to get my imap-idle "push" mail on. I also mapped long send to Cyberon Voice Speed Dialer (after I removed MS Voice Command from the startup folder) and long end to vibrate. Also got SensorScroll v0.7.1 (update 5/22) in there to scroll up and down and that's it for the button manipulation.

RRE already had Lumos for backlight brightness management, one of a handful of essential goodies that came with it (others included AdvancedConfig, dotFredTaskManager/RegEditor, InCallRecording, TotalCmndr, FileExploreExt, my high res panorama tweak, DiamondTweak and RRE 4 Icon Columns). I disabled XT9 because I don't know what the hell it does other than suck balls. RRE did not come with Opera so I installed 15529 because I like the accelerated scrolling and the side zooming. For listening to Howard with SiriusWM5 I use TCPMP which required putting in the WM codecs in \windows\. Also bumped up the headphone volume with a lighter boost cab from Aruppenthal I think.

What else.. for GPS I use GPSTest, BeeLineGPS, GPS Speedo, Google Maps and WiFiFoFum (war driving). For the no sleep fix I use Touch_InCall_Screen_Tweak_v1.1.1 and to feel the thing vibrate better I put on VAlert. To know the location of people calling me I've got LocateCaller and to know more about them after the call I've got netcallerid v4 (updated 5/9). For TF3D I put in DHarvey's BlackFlipClock and if I didn't use FlexMail I'd use Giangishanghai's transparent envelope preview skin. Some miscelaneous items include IM+, putty to watch my server logs, PocketIRC to debate in #xda-devs my site's color scheme, DaveShaw's TimeSyncTZ, Touchtris and Kevtris (my girlfriend likes Tetris) and w0lf's translator just in case. To wake my ass up I got G-Alarm which won't stop blasting Biggie until I do three math problems.

Got SecondToday with TodayAgenda and BatteryStatus running with the softkeys mapped properly and that's basically it. Oh and all my notifications. I tweak a lot more than that, things in AdvancedConfig, registry tweaks, tweaking each program's settings and so on so you can see why it is such a pain in the balls for me to flash.

Old update: (actually not an update anymore as At0mAng comes with it bundled) I took the plunge and installed the Touch Pro2/Rhodium Manila/TF3D. Impressive, but plenty of bugs. Those guys have their work cut out for them (thread).

Hey buddy, you just bumped my php counter to 344455! Do me a favor and spend like thirty seconds writing me a short message or jump back to the thread and post a comment. C'mon. I worked my ass off on this thing and my girlfriend's really pissed I didn't spend any time with her this weekend [update: or the last ~~two weekends~~ ~~three~~ ~~four months~~ Valentine's day]. Please feel free to post this site's address anywhere but don't you dare archive it or zip everything up and put it on rapidshare or your own site, at least not without asking me. I didn't make the cabs but I worked pretty fucking hard tracking them down, picking them out, testing them, making sure I don't violate the authors' wishes, adding new ones, updating old ones, not to mention maintaing my server and giving out bandwidth and finally writing this site and it would really bum me out if someone stole it. Don't be a dick an do that. And no hotlinking the files! I don't have the time to fuck with apache to stop you cocksuckers from doing that so I appeal to your sense of decency to me and what bandwidth I have left for everyone else.

That's a lot of effort, isn't it, to read all this crazy helpful shit. Imagine what effort it takes to create and maintain the damn thing. Takes effort just to imagine that! Now don't forget the developers but I'd grately appreciate -- but don't expect -- some love so if you got a few minutes and a few dollars to "buy me some coffee" as they say on xda:

Jah bless,
Doug Simmons

Your name or however you want me to address you.

Your email so I can agree with your agreement or defend myself against your vituperative criticism.

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Recent additions: Climber_7-in-a-row.cab, DomSim_Enable_Zoom_Wheel.cab, Opera_Browser_9_70_35443.cab, Opera_Browser_9_7_35432.cab, Opera_Browser_9_5_17518.cab, CHeroClock_v0.1.cab, accuweathercodes.zip, US_accuweather_codes.txt, SH4YsRaphaelNetSpeedBoost.cab, AL_CommManager_Suite.cab, GoogleMaps_3.2.1_num17.cab, waze_alpha1.2.4.cab, GoogleMaps_v3.2.1.cab, ttn7bot.exe, gVo.cab, iDialer.cab, OneDialSetupv14b1.cab, fennec-1.0a3pre.cab, iToilet.cab, WakeItUp_arm.cab, myChannels.opml, nitrogen-1.1-wm5.cab, SpeeedReader_082.cab, ViigoPublicBeta.cab, throttleexplorer_0.2.cab, BBConnect_WM6_4.0.0.106.cab, navit-0.1.1.cab, FuzeMobilityNoEnvelope.cab, FuzeMobilityYesEnvelope.cab, HTC_YouTube_TEST4_2_5_19151528_00_C.cab, HTCAlbum_3_0_19141129_0_VGA.cab, SpriteBackup_HTC_6.2.1.2269.exe, GoogleMaps_3.2.0_layers.cab, MSVC_1.6.21040.cab, wmtrnt.cab, CVSD_Patch.cab, MenuStart3Columns.cab, MenuStart4Columns.cab, MenuStart5Columns.cab, S2U2-2.04-VGA_plus_clocks.zip, netcaller-v5.cab, TomTom_Audio_Fix_v1.11.cab, wmftp.exe, Toggle_Bluetooth_v1.0.cab, iAgenda_04.cab, MobileFTPClient_1.1.6.1_Setup.cab, WM6.5ChomeV3_uninstallable.cab, Taskanium.05.zip, Touch_InCall_Screen_Tweak_v1.1.2.cab, TitaniumWeather.mscr, galarm_talkingclock_english-female.cab, Alpha.cab, Opera_9.5_build_16983.cab, drunkdialer.msi, Dog_Whistle_v1.3.cab, Opera_9.5.16702.cab, hComber_v0.1.cab, Titanizer7.02.cab, galarm_2.1.2.cab, S2U2-2.02-VGA.zip, reSTART.cab, nitrogen-1.0.0.cab, DaveShaw_TimeSync_v06.cab, operabrowser_wm_97b1.cab, operawidgetman_wm_97b1.cab, rp_app_titanium_CAnalogClock_wvga_vga_qvga_wqvga_0.6.3b.cab, rp_titanium_CAnalogClock_vga_0.6.2b.cab rp_titanium_CAnalogClock_vga_0.6.1b.cab, Skyfire_v1.0.0.11783.cab, l3v5yCoinTossv0.2plusextrasandcoinsbybbonzz052909.zip, HTC_GPS_Tool_1.2.2.11.cab, iContact.cab, MortScript-4.3b2-PPC.cab, JMLStocks.rar, defragment_wm6.cab, GpsCycleComputer_3.107.cab, mnemonika.exe, Opera_9.5_16643_VGA_Rhodium.cab, T-Back_Opera_Zoom_Slider.cab, htcAddicts_cleanRAM_v1.3.6.zip, RSS_HUBv2.1.1b107.cab, CyberonVoiceCommander_v2.5.1b806192.cab, CyberonVSD_v1.2b80731.cab, rp_CAnalogClock_b0.5.2b.cab, rp_CAnalogClock_b0.5.2b_black.cab, SpbMobileShell3.0.1rc1b6501.cab, SensorScroll-0_7_1.cab, Touch_InCall_Screen_Tweak_v1.1.1.cab, galarm_2.0.6.cab, SMSpam_0_2.cab, 5x5.exe, 6.5ChomeCOLOR.cab, sdkcerts.cab, htcAddicts_cleanRAM_v1.3.1.zip, WkTaskL_1202.cab, XDA_PIE_For_WM6.1.cab, rp_titanium_CAnalogClock_0.5.2b.cab, Titanizer7.01.cab, m.carroll_PureBlack2_VGA.cab, fp7_ppc_en.cab, Battery.exe, Titanizer6.5.cab, CVolume_default_WM6.5.cab, CVolume_for_WM7_Titanium_Project.cab, CTwitter_Titanium_Plugin.cab, Showaco_TitaniumWeather_v4.2.cab, SMSpam_0_1.cab, Titanium_Notification.cab, CFacebook_Titanium_Plugin_V0.5.cab, C-ApiSRO_Setup.cab, netcaller-v4.cab, aDEO-PingBox2.cab, SMS_Tweaker_v1.5.cab, Facebook_v1.0.0.7.cab, SpbMobileShell3.0.1beta1build6456.cab, Magic8Ball_1.5.cab, Opera_16277.cab, GetSportz.cab, facebook016.cab, GoogleMaps_3.0.1.6.cab, btspammer.cab, SendReceiveAll.exe, MissedCallReminder_1.3.cab, FuzzyBillSplitter.exe, HTC_Tachi_Notification_Enhancments.cab, Raph_1_12_25_19_rilphone.cab, SensorScroll-0_6.cab, GParkSInstaller.cab, HTC_Tachi_Menu_Enhancment.cab, SpbMobileShell_b3.cab, WallpaperPack1.zip, WallpaperPack2.zip, WallpaperPack3.zip, TouchPro_MegaArcadePack_v2.1.cab, Opera9_16070_ATT.cab, Opera9_16070_UK.cab, netcaller-v3.cab, WaterlevelInstaller.cab, ICSControl.exe, EasyShares_v2.1.0.cab, CinemoSetup.cab, GoogleMaps_Latitude_3.0.1.4.cab, CustomScroll_1.1.cab, Topaz_Comm_Manager.cab, Opera9_15954_FRA_VGA.cab, Opera9_15954_WWE_VGA.cab, Touch_InCall_Screen_Tweak_v1.0.19.cab, LumosSetupV10RC2.cab, xbmod_Update_1D.cab, COMPLETE_MANILA_PACKAGE_v1d.rar, WirelessNotifyOff.cab, HTC_Rhodium_Album.cab, xrakt.cab, HTC_Diamond_MP3_Trimmer_VGA.cab, S2U2-1.62-VGA.zip, parlingo.cab, S2P0-58-VGA.zip, Touch_InCall_Screen_Tweak_v1.0.16.cab, GClippersSetup.cab, xbmod_TMOBILE_SKIN.cab, At0mAng_ATT_aGPS_Fix.cab, RILPhoneUpdate_1_12_25_19.cab, StaplesEasyButton.cab, opera_v9.5beta2_gears.cab, Skype_beta3.cab, BeCoolThisIsARobbery.wav, ODB_Like_It_Raw.wav, downbytheriver_intro.wav, voodoo_short.wav, voodoo_long.wav, CindyLauperTrueColors_gay.wav, decent_tones_from_topaz_pack.zip, COMPLETE_MANILA_PACKAGE_V1c.rar, xbox_Manila_fix_V1C.cab, Touch_InCall_Screen_Tweak_1.0.14.cab, galarm_1.5.1.cab, fart_machine.cab, Touch_Incall_Screen_Tweak_v1.1.3.cab, COMPLETE_MANILA_PACKAGE.rar, KforTouchPro_v1.0.0.3.cab, disable-xt9.cab, FdcSoft_TaskMgr_3.1.cab, netcallerid.cab, KorandTopazProgramsIcons.cab, LocateCaller2r2.cab, SensorScroll-0_5.cab, Touch_InCall_Screen_Tweak_v1.0.8.cab, touchtris.cab, bubbles.cab, LumosSetupV10RC1.cab, fexploreext.cab, w0lfTranslator.cab, Diamond2_G-Sensor_and_app_regs.cab, FdcSoft_TaskMgr.cab, FacebookIM.Mosko.Mobi.cab, Facebook-Ather_wm6.5.cab, Bsb_G-Config.cab, footprint_vga_tomtomsupport.cab, HTC_Calculator.cab, HTC_Album_TP2.cab, Opera_15613_vga.cab, RAPH_Radio_1.12.25.19.zip, ResetUnreadCount.cab, Opera9_15954_WWE_VGA.cab, LocateCaller2r1.cab, S2U2-1.50d-VGA.zip, S2U2ClockPack-VGA.zip, black_vga.png, Giangishanghaienvelope.cab, nitrogen-0.3.2-wm6.cab, HTC_Album_2.5.cab, HTC_Album_3.0.cab, Crank.mp3, crank_3secvibedelay.mp3, VGA_wallpaper_pack.rar, rar.cab, Landscape_Final_CFC.cab, Landscape_Final.cab, HD_Transparant_Envelope.cab, LocateCaller2b4.cab, FacebookIM1.14b.Mosko.Mobi.cab, XDA_HTC_Calculator_V2.cab, BBConnect_WM6_Professional_v4.cab, Opera 9.50_15613_WWE_DEVICE_VGA.cab, Opera 9.50_15613_PROXY_WWE_DEVICE_VGA.cab, MicrosoftRecite.cab, GoogleMaps_Latitude_3.0.0.12.cab, LocateCaller2b1.cab, PocketSpeedTest.exe, ShowDateAndClock.cab, DecreaseRingDelay.cab, S2U2-1.45-VGA.zip, Skyfire-0.9.0.9151.cab, leofs_cmp_DIAMOND.cab, leofs_pc.exe, XBmod_HD_Manila_1.8.5_CFC.cab, BlackFlipClock_CFC.cab, DTMF_1.wav, DTMF_2.wav, kill_deer.wav, XP_email.wav, 24_short.wav, 24_vibe_delay.wav, galarm_1.4.6.cab, StartTomTom.cab, Raphael_Radio_52.58.25.30_1.11.25.01_Ship.rar, GoogleMaps_3.0.0.2_with_StreetView_and_Latitude.cab, RaphHighResPanorama-RegistryChanger.cab, ROMeOS_NOSLIDE_n_NOCURTAIN.cab, LocateCaller-0.9.1.cab, TouchResponse_v0_3_2.cab, fakemail.cab, ZM_Dialer.exe, wFaceBookVGABeta3.zip, Opera_9.5.15529_VGA.cab, HTCHome.cab, HHCv10Final.cab, BatteryStatus.cab, HDManilaProjb.01.zip, HTCWeatherMasterInstaller.cab, sonar_BB_normal.mp3, sonar_BB_louder.wav, sonar_BB_louder_delay.wav, GPS_Speedo.exe, S2U2_V1.42_Touch_Pro_Edition_Black_Clock_VGA.cab, Fabliv_HTC_Diamond_Action_Screen_VGA_v2_EN.cab, Skype_beta2.5.cab, abcTaskMan-1.4.cab, PocketNester.exe, InCallRecording.cab, activesync.msi, DiamondAlerts.zip, DiamondRingtones1.zip, DiamondRingtones2.zip, Preloaded_BB_Ringtones.zip, Notem1.21.zip, Nitrogen-0.2.1-vga.cab, OperaMini4.2.11137plusJBED.cab, VGA_Esmertec_Jbed.cab, S2U2-1.40-VGA.cab, BeyondPod3_1_0.cab, iris-browser-1.0.16.cab, FreqTune15.exe, LumosSetupV09b.cab, RRE_BlackCommMgr.cab, vxUtil.hpcPro_arm.cab, nbtstatce.exe, ovpnppc.en.cab, Cain_setup.exe, WiFiFoFum.cab, zsIRC.cab, hsniffer2.04.cab, btCrawler-v1.1.0-beta.cab, VAlert_1.21.cab, DaveShaw_TimeSyncTZ_0-04.cab, DaveShaw_TimeSyncTZ_0-02.cab, LumosSetupV09.cab, Remove-Htc-Volume-by-Hallengreen.cab, AppToDate.cab, DiamondHologram_v2.02.cab, Add_3G_to_Comm_Manager.cab, Skyfire_8184.cab, RR_Keyboard_Speed_Increase.cab, PsiDOC_Wifi_all.cab, ATT_Settings.cab, Google Maps v2.3.0.9 with Street View.cab, Audio Boost Full/Light/Original.cabs, StarPlayr.cab, nullkb.ARM4.cab, Raph radios 1.02.25.28, 1.02.25.32 and 1.08.25.20M1, Google_Maps_v2.3.2.jar, MS_VoiceCommand_v1.6.cab, Keypad_Vibrate.cab, BubbleBreaker.cab, GoogleMaps_2.2.0.19.cab, galarm_0.9.7.2.cab, Slick_PPC.cab, AgileMessengerWMPPC-85.cab, implus_5_42_ppc.cab, youtubeplay.cab, StockSPL_ForWarranty.zip and AT&T_stock_rom.exe.

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-Original "core" list.-
AEBPlus.cab
Adobe_Flash_Lite.cab
Adobe_Reader_LE.cab
Advanced_Config_3.3.cab
BeeLineGPS.cab
CABviaActiveSync.exe
CapScrUtil.pro.wm6.cab
CyberonVoiceSpeedDialer.cab
Diamond_TF3D_Config.cab
DiamondTweak_0.5.3.cab
DopeWars.cab
FlexMail_4.01.exe
GC_4_Columns.cab
GController.cab
GPSTest.cab
FuzeKeyboardFix.cab
HTC_Labrinth_Teeter.cab
HTC_LONG_PRESS_END_KEY.cab
HTC_ZIP.cab
HTCGPSTool.exe
hTorch_v3.2.cab
HW-VSp3-single.zip
ImapPusherService_0.6.zip
JCEspi2005_GPS_Lag_Fix_Raphael.cab
GPS_Lag_Fix_Raphael.cab
GPS2Blue.cab
MobileRegistryEditor.zip
MortPlayer3.31b69.exe
MyFlash3_1.cab
MyMobile123.exe
NETCFv35.cab
NetFrontv3.5_build729.cab
NoSleepRaphael.cab
Opera9.5build2745_VGA.cab
Opera2745.vga.dlmgr.skin.zip
Opera.9.5.2808_VGA_acard.cab
Opera95_2808_vga_FL.rar
pnotepad.cab
PocketIRC.cab
PPCPimBackup.exe
pRSSreader-1.3.1-en.VGA.cab and myChannels.opml
pRSSreader-1.4.3.cab (universal res)
putty.exe
RaphaelHardSPL-Unsigned_1_90_3.zip
regedit.Mrln_ARM.cab
RSS_HUB.cab
SeaSGEE.exe
SecondToday.cab
SiriusWM5.cab
Skyfire_7927.cab
Skyfire_8184.cab
sptimesync.cab
sqlce.ppc.wce5.armv4i.cab
TCPMP-0.72TC1-ARM-PPC-recomp.cab
TodayAgenda_1.5.cab
TotalCmndr2.5.cab
TrackMe.cab
VAlert1.14.cab
WkTaskL_1200a.cab
wmvdecoder.zip

EmailLoudStacatoWith2secSilenceForVibe.wav
ModernRingAmplifiedPlus7secSilenceForVibration.wav
OldRingLouderPlus4secSilentForVibration.wav
TxtLoudStacatoWith2secVibeSilence.wav
All_Four_Wavs.rar

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