d0ugie over at www.xda-developers.com found a nice registry tweak to turn your Panoramic photos from the standard (1408 x 480) 0.67mp to (4506×1536) 6.92mp. This registry change seems to work for the HTC Diamond / HTC Touch Pro / HTC Fuze / HTC Touch HD.
So fire up your favorite registry editor (like the one attached) and make the changes or try the cab which may work then reboot the phone, start the camera, switch your way to panorama and, if you’re in the mood, post here advising if it worked or not. If you’re paranoid, write down the original registry settings for those two entries or export the P3 section before you mess with it.
Most Windows Mobile smartphones tend to be on the expensive side. This however does not always have to be the case. Samsung has released the i200 Windows Mobile Standard smartphone some months ago, aimed directly at the low-end of the market with the tag line “My Very First Smartphone“. The device has always been very affordable, and now dropped to an even lower price.
For no more than £190 (215 Euro) you can get yourself a HSDPA device with a 2.3 inch QVGA screen, a 2MP camera and Windows Mobile Standard. Unfortunately, the specifications does not include Wi-Fi support, and the 3G is only on the european 2100 Mhz band, but that is the only thing issues holding this device back from a solid recommendation.
Still, the price is great for what i200 has to offer and surely beats many dumb phones or Symbian powered devices in the same price range.
Baby Monitor for Windows Mobile, written by Russian resident Pavel Ananyev (where child protection laws must be less strict than here) allows you to use your windows mobile smartphone to detect noise made by a baby waking. It features advances noise suppression software which allows it to ignore environmental sounds which could trigger false alarms, and automatically silences the ringer, so your child wont be woken by an incoming phone calls.
On hearing a sound the phone will dial a pre-selected number, and you can listen in and confirm your baby is indeed awake. The author commends his solution, as it prevents issues with interference related to radio noise which plagues devices which run on the unlicensed spectrum that most baby monitors use, and of course features an unlimited radius of action, meaning you could be anywhere in the world (!) and still hear when your baby wakes up.
Lumos is fully customizable auto-backlight changer developed as a complete replacement for HTC built-in auto backlight service in newest HTC devices starting from HTC Diamond and Raphael. It focuses on minimal CPU usage (0.05-0.2%), maximum battery saving, low memory footprint and maximum backlight change smoothness and responsiveness. Lumos combines only the best from all currently available auto-backlight solutions and adds many extras.
Program installs to \Program Files\Lumos\ Lumos.exe = starts/stops auto backlight service LumosWizard.exe = tool to configure all aspects of Lumos settings.txt = configuration file is not included in the package, it will be automatically generated by LumosWizard after successful calibration, you can edit it manually or by using LumosWizard. LumosStarter.exe = (re)starts Lumos service without any visual feedback (used for startup after soft-reset and for special issues)
Features:
- simple and clean installation and uninstalation
- extremely low CPU usage when working, 0.05-0.2% on polling
- 0.00% CPU usage when display dims and in standby
- low memory usage considering all the options, 395.53KB in v08
- NO battery drainage overhead if you don’t use your phone
- you don’t lose configuration and calibration data between versions (v07 and better)
- simple and reliable configuration GUI with calibration process
- many options that let you change every aspect of how your backlight works
- program exceptions to set different backlight for any application
- integrated tool to detect all active application names, leave it running on the background and it will log all application names you use
- configuration failsafe. No matter what you do, Lumos won’t crash, just tell you what is wrong and use defaults.
- supports HTC Raphael, Diamond and Blackstone
System requirements: TouchFLO 3D enabled VGA device
Installation instructions:
1. Disable TouchFLO 3D
2. Unzip all files from “Device” dir into device root (”\”) OR install the .cab
3. Run TouchFLO 3D
4. Add/arrange all necessary applications/bookmarks to main menu, customise icons (default iPhone iconset included)
5. ???
6. PROFIT
XDA-Developer umexed has created 2 power utilities for the HTC Touch HD. They improve the GUI and usability of features already on the device.
Touch HD Power Off replaces the current function of a long press on the power button, but also presents new options.
The first is the traditional full power off of the function, the second is an automatic soft-reset, which is quite useful, as this is the only reason would really power down the device in the first instance, and it saves one having to turn it back on again after it shuts down fully.
The second app is a bit more complex, but also more controversial.
HTC Touch ReCharger prevents your device from charging when connected to your computer until the battery has been depleted to a certain level specified e.g. 5%. Many people believe that keeping a battery topped up reduced performance, and prefer to allow the battery to fully discharge before recharging it. Of course this belief is certainly left over from the Memory Effect found in old NiCd batteries, but some people believe it still persists into modern Li-ion batteries.
A less controversial use may be for conditioning the device when one has just bought it, when you may want to give the battery a few charge and discharge cycles. The advantage of this application is that while USB charging can be disabled in the power settings, it wont be automatically re-enabled when the battery runs low.
Brandon notes the browser is a bit slow, and appears to be largely PIE running with an IE 6 engine from a UI point of view. While Brandon expresses the belief, rather optimistically, that the final public release will be snappier, I do not share this view.
According to berryreview.com (who got the news pics from a tipster) you will soon have the option of running the Blackberry OS as an application on your Windows Mobile device.
This is what RIM is officially calling the BlackBerry Application Suite which we told you about in the past that is posed to replace the aging BlackBerry Connect. Essentially the BlackBerry OS is running as an application on Windows Mobile virtualizing the BlackBerry OS. From what I can tell this will have all of the BlackBerry 4.2 OS features in it. (more…)
Lumos is fully customizable auto-backlight changer developed as a complete replacement for HTC built-in auto backlight service in newest HTC devices starting from HTC Diamond and Raphael. It focuses on minimal CPU usage (0.05-0.2%), maximum battery saving, low memory footprint and maximum backlight change smoothness and responsiveness. Lumos combines only the best from all currently available auto-backlight solutions and adds many extras.
