So way back in march I got a HTC (Fuze) Touch Pro and have since 'modified' the original behavior. I finally moved away from the stock rom that the phone came with. Last night I upgraded to a new rom with a new OS version and I have to say one thing: why didn't I do this before? Besides the obvious answer that the custom roms were buggy and WM 6.5 was very beta I'm not sure why. Now 6.5 is more stable and cooked roms are better than ever.
I upgraded to a rom from ShEp found over at xda developers. This upgrade has improved the performance of the phone by at least 4x, things respond faster and even better I have more ram and rom available to me! Another surprising benefit seems that battery life remains about the same as my tweaked ATT rom, maybe better but too early to tell.
So you've heard of this 'MyFi' stuff from verizon huh? Think it's snazy that this is a mobile hotspot? Well I got that as well in my phone :) While I don't have the 'teathering' plan which is an arm+leg more I can use my phone to connect my laptop in emergencies (say @ airport and flight gets canceled) or comca$t goes down or is slower than dialup again... Yes I'm bitter about it. They probably aren't fixing it because they know our whole street will go to fios once installed.
Never again will I use an ATT rom and have the ability to use Windows Mobile!
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Cell phone goodies!
So after a few weeks of having my new cell I'm going to write about it. Let me start by saying it is a MASSIVE improvement over my old phone. I got the HTC Fuze (AKA Touch Pro) and I could not be happier about it. This phone does everything I was looking for - maps, messaging, youtube,web and basically what ever I want. Of course, anyone who knows me well knows I cant leave well-enough alone so I modified this thing so much I already had to hard-reset it because of a boo-boo :)
My old phone is a HTC 3125 (Right) and my leatherman (left) and the HTC Fuze (middle). One of the things I miss is the external screen on my old phone, but that's minor over getting a touch screen!
When opened it's clear that the Fuze is much better at messaging. The vibrant screen is light controlled and the resolution is excellent (640x480)... better than almost any other phone.
The camera on this is very nice in that it's auto-focus. I believe it used the same idea as a CD reader by using electo-magnets with a lens element. The reason why I say this is when trying to focus on an object really close and it gets a lock, once I let go of the button it snaps to return to normal state. --- This is another nice feature, all the buttons are captive in that a touch activates a first level and a press is another (like a SLR camera button).
So, as stated above I did many, many upgrades to the base install. Here's a few of the things I found particular useful and stable (Not going to link since they can be updated - most of them are from http://www.freewarepocketpc.net)
I got the MS Dev packages (free!) for windows mobile and plan on giving that a try to see what I can do with the g-sensor and what not.
My old phone is a HTC 3125 (Right) and my leatherman (left) and the HTC Fuze (middle). One of the things I miss is the external screen on my old phone, but that's minor over getting a touch screen!
When opened it's clear that the Fuze is much better at messaging. The vibrant screen is light controlled and the resolution is excellent (640x480)... better than almost any other phone.
The camera on this is very nice in that it's auto-focus. I believe it used the same idea as a CD reader by using electo-magnets with a lens element. The reason why I say this is when trying to focus on an object really close and it gets a lock, once I let go of the button it snaps to return to normal state. --- This is another nice feature, all the buttons are captive in that a touch activates a first level and a press is another (like a SLR camera button).So, as stated above I did many, many upgrades to the base install. Here's a few of the things I found particular useful and stable (Not going to link since they can be updated - most of them are from http://www.freewarepocketpc.net)
- S2U2 - Slide to unlike like iphone (required due to lack of locking).
- Advanced Configuration Tool - Tweak it! Used to increase cache sizes to speed thigns up and also to improve battery life
- Diamond TF3d Config - Tweak Touchflow 3D settings (also used to remove a tab)
- Diamond Tweak - Another tweak, similar to Advanced Config tool
- Google maps - Boo ya! Also included latitude :)
- Gremote - use the phone like a mouse, in the air :) Uses accelerometer for positioning.
- HTC Album TP2 - Upgrade to album viewer in this release.
- Microsoft Live Search - Like google maps but can accept voice queries and is sometimes more accurate.
- MoDaCo Smartphone GPS Activator - enable GPS to be useful for other things
- Power Guard - see what consumes the most power (typical Idle is 80mA-100mA)
- Seismo - neat little tool that uses accelerometer. Hit the table and see!
- Total Commander - Must have for registry hacks
- WM6.1 fix for smtp mail [WindowsMobile61-KB958639] - Required to send email with this version (link to MS)
- Fuze PTT mod - Stupid PTT button was useless, remap to camera or something.
I got the MS Dev packages (free!) for windows mobile and plan on giving that a try to see what I can do with the g-sensor and what not.
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