Pocket PC Tweaks and tricks

How-to fix bubbles, dirt or fingerprints behind your screen protector

For all the people that have bubbles, lint, dirt or fingerprints behind their phones screen protector from a fumble or rushed, botched install – here is the guide:

It is a little known fact that “most” of the screen protectors are completely washable. The “sticky” side wont wash off or smear or in any way ruin.

How-to:

1. Peel it off.
2. Run under water and use your hand to remove lint, dirt specs, smudges ect.
3. Hold by the corner tightly (little as possible) with an absorbant towel and shake vigorously in front of a fan or air purifier (better) until completly dry.
NOTE. Slowly air drying will leave water spots from impurities in the water. Purified water may solve this problem.
4. Clean the screen.
5. Reapply the protector, but carefully this time.
6. Repeat if necessary for perfect clean lay.

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Tips for Windows Phone 7 and HTC HD2

If you already flashed your HTC HD2 with Windows Phone 7, seanyuan62 from XDA-Developers have some tricks for you 🙂

Here is the list:

Using the Windows Phone 7 voice controls:
Press and hold the Windows key at the bottom of your screen and you can start talking to your phone. Try saying “Open Calendar”, to see what we mean.

Adding apps to the Start screen:
When you are in the long applications list on your phone pressing on an icon and holding brings up a contextual menu that gives you a series of options, one of which is “pin to start”. Press on this option and the app will be shown on the Start screen.

Add people to the start page:
No it’s not just about adding apps to the start page, but people too. Find them in your contacts book, click on the “pin” icon, and they’ll be added to your Start page so you can speed dial them whenever you need.

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New life for your old Windows Mobile phone

Do you have Windows Mobile 5 or 6 phone? If you have one and thinks that it’s already an outdated device, get your words back now and take a look at this post 🙂 Windows Mobile is amazing mobile OS, full of apps, games and tweaks, you can do what you want on your phone, but it’s officially dead OS and it was replaced by Windows Phone 7, which is completely different platform. Now, since is only “officially dead” doesn’t mean that this is the end, not of course, all you need is some fresh ROM for your device and the latest apps!

Let’s “pimp your phone” – first, take a look at our WM6.5 ROMS section and search for the latest custom ROM that is ported for your device, read the  instructions and flash it, if there is no WM6.5 for you, don’t worry, just search over the XDA-Developers forum. Anyway, you can use the latest Windows Mobile apps on almost every OS version and device.

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