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Want 8-12 more MB of free RAM on your horribly gimped 6850???? Just disable the pretty HTC dialer skin. The dialer will switch back to the default WM one, which to be honest, I still prefer. Little did I know the HTC skin was sucking up about 10 MB of RAM.
Give it a shot and share the results. You can use several apps like Advanced Config or Diamond Tweak to disable the HTC dialer skin, or change it manually via the registry.
Below is the manual registry tweak:
-'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Security / Phone / Skin'
-change the value of 'Enabled' from 1 to 0.
Wanted to see if others saw the same results by simply disabling the dialer skin.
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I also gained about 10MB of memory and i also like the default dialer
I tried it and noticed my total ram usage went from about 66% to 58%, so that is a pretty nice improvement. I do prefer the skinned dialer for looks but it seems like the default dialer is a little bit more responsive.
Gained roughly 11 MB of Memory after this tweak!
Very nice tweak..thanks
very nice find. I saw it in the advance config, never tried it until now. Didn't expect it to take 10MB!
wow i just used it on my fuze and i only have 29 pct of memory being used now
thanks for the tip i never expected that much memory freed up
im at 24% ram usage wow. i wonder a normal windows theme not the TF3D this tweak will do to the battery life and then polling reg change 813AM took off charger just did 10TXTs with TF3D still on will get back to this later and edit it. to tell of my findings.
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WM Dialer isn't much worse if any. 10MB is a nice chunk.
Great find, THX!!! I too like the default dialer better.
***UPDATE*** - This makes the bluetooth icon disappear from the task line at the top, when using the manual registry tweak. Don't know if the same thing happens when using the two tweak programs.
You can also disable the HTC SIP menu (SIPGT_app.exe) for a couple more mb of ram.
(Remove HCKU\Software\HTC\BootLauncher\Apps\SIP_Menu. May want to back it up if you wish to bring it back.)
The menu to switch between soft keyboards won't function if you stop SIPGT_app running at boot.
On second thought, I decided against this hack.
It also affects the incoming call screen. Much harder to answer a call with the screen that comes up with the HTC dialer.
lexluthor said:
On second thought, I decided against this hack.
It also affects the incoming call screen. Much harder to answer a call with the screen that comes up with the HTC dialer.
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This does change incomming calls back to the default WM style. You can use the Green/Call hardware button to answer incomming calls.
Am I the only one who lost the bluetooth icon?
Disabling the dialer extension has the unpleasant side effect of disabling the nice indicator that tells you whether your data link is dormant or not, however ("data arrows" will stay lit forever).
I prefer to switch back to PhoneCanvas.dll (the xv6800-style dialer) as the dialer extension and then rename away the DIALER/PROGRESS bitmap settings in HKLM\Security\Phone\Skin. (Set "ext" to "\windows\PhoneCanvas.dll", and leave Enabled set to 1.)
This still saves significantly on RAM, but it doesn't break the nice indicators for data activity or not, which I personally find useful.
skywing is right. i verified it on my sprint touch pro. his mod does work better. I just wish we had a full skin like kokko's old skin or paul's big button dialer. that would be nice to have in vga mode.
thanks,
sid
it does get rid of bluetooth notifier i switched back to regular luckily i have the att version so 10 mb isnt a big deal haha
lbhocky19 said:
it does get rid of bluetooth notifier i switched back to regular luckily i have the att version so 10 mb isnt a big deal haha
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what is the default dll name?
thanks,
sid
sidwin said:
what is the default dll name?
thanks,
sid
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If I understood your question, the default that the phone came with was:
\windows\phcanhtc.dll
Hope that helps.
one problem with skywing's method is the once u make a call u get a whitescreen that looks like the HTC dialer interfering with the WINMO dialer. i just disabled the key and used the default dialer. I can live with the arrows. not that big of a deal.
Request-anyone knows how 2 get the "older buttons" showing at bottom of HTC Sense?
Dear Chefs
First of all congratulations for all the efforts in bringing out newer Roms so often. It is always a joy to try new things on the HD2. Just one tiny request.
Is it possible to get back the 'older' style text buttons at the bottom of the HTC sense screen? The main reason is that they take up less space (even though the newer ones look nicer). Besides the HD2 has 5 hardware buttons at the bottom which do the same job.
Is there some registry tweak which could do the trick?
Many Thanks
you cannot make the soft-keys smaller, but you can remove the Close and Windows Softkey by tweaking the reagistry, or use my tiny application: [TOOL][WM 6.5.3][16.06.2010][Updated] SoftwareButtonHider v0.9
When writing a text message the 'Write message' area takes up the whole screen so you cannot see older text messages above the input area. Does anybody know how to reduce the size of the input area?
I have come from blackberry and find this one little niggle thats really quite annoying, not being able to see the text i am replying to whilst typing
Thanks
You minimize the keyboard by the button on the bottom-left. Then you can read messages again, and when you want to write, just tap input area again.
Hope this helps
or buy a phone with a bigger screen ;-)
But tje best thing to do is minimize the keyboard
It is because the send button appear when you enter the message, the button enlarged the input box. This is stupid design, so i use another SMS apps.
This question might have been asked before but I did look in all the threads that I found on search, neither really providing any solid or concrete answer.
So what choices/options do I have for making my Caller Images larger?. I tried downloading full screen caller from the market, which sadly make the image completely full screen, but also hides all the buttons so I cant record calls, or input DTMF tones etc
Ideally I would prefer a solution that would merely allow me to scale the images to the point of them touching the borders of the screen and thus leaving amble space for buttons or whatnot.
A russian or Ukrainie made an mod for the rom that allowed you to get bigger caller image while still retaining all the buttons, keys etc. Sadly the mod was only made for russiann keyboards, and now the mod is absolete as it is for an old old rom.
So what options/choices do I ideally have to solve this slight annoyance?
I think you didn't play with the settings of full screen caller, it can do what you want,,, and talking about hiding buttons, well you can hide full screen caller with the back button.
sohebq said:
I think you didn't play with the settings of full screen caller, it can do what you want,,, and talking about hiding buttons, well you can hide full screen caller with the back button.
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Well having to hit back to hide it it just excess button presses. Its ok its there when people call, but then it can *beep* off when I have taken the call and show the actual dialer.
And are you sure I can setup full screen caller to only enlarge the image to the sides, and not take up the full screen, and still show the original dialer?
Anyone that knows?
The are 3rd party apps and mods just search forum as it has been posted or head over to market..
I tried some of them and they all scale to full screen and wont go away when the call has been taken.
All i really prefer is to keep the original dialer, but make it possible for the image to at at least fill the entire width of the screen rather then being a tiny stamp at the middle..
Agree, just need a larger picture.
Im surprised that a genius of xda has not managed to modify the phone.apk to do this.
Would be a popular mod.
Yea, you would think so. But noone seems to have been able to, or willing to post anything here that is close to a solution, or a possible solution. Other then getting FullScreenCaller or another app like it, and thats not what I want :/
Anybody any closer to finding a solution for larger caller ID using standard phone.apk?
When looking at webpages my screen does not automatically reformat/resize the columns so that I can read the page easily. It does resize the text but not the text column. It does not fit the text to the screen width. This results in me having to scroll left, right, left, right in order to read a page. It is quite frustrating. Coming from a thunderbolt, I am used too it resizing the column when I enlarge the text so I don't have to constantly go left and right to see all of the text.
Is there a setting I am missing or something to cause it to do this? How can I fix this problem?
SCH-I545
Thanks
Anyone?
same problem - think it has to do with font size
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Anyone?
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Please see my post of today in which I describe the same problem and note that on my ancient Samsung Droid Charge I had none of those difficulties. But there was no choice of font size.
Do you have the ability to pinch and zoom? Mine doesn't seem to work right if I'm supposed to have it. For me, in the long run, it will be a deal-breaker. I spend an average of 2 hours/day reading on my phone.
Please see my post
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