What happened to my “Recent Programs” listing in Windows Mobile 6.5? If you’re a veteran Windows Mobile user, you probably have a heavy reliance on the recent programs listing in the Start menu. This feature kept a handful of your must recently used programs right there at all times so that they were only two taps away no matter what program you were in. This feature was ESSENTIAL for multitasking. Unfortunately, the feature was removed …
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The 12 Year Bug
Have all your friends’ birthdays disappeared from your Calendar? Maybe they suddenly decided to change their recurrence pattern to every 12 years instead of every 1 year. Or maybe they’ve changed to recur every 144 months. Either way, this bug is a great way to get you in trouble for forgetting some one’s birthday. My dependency on Outlook syncing birthdays with my Windows Phone has always been essential for planning enough time to buy birthday …
Continue readingHTC’s Bluetooth Software Still Sucks
If you remember our post about the buggy Bluetooth software HTC has decided to use on the Touch Pro2 and new HD2, you’ll remember how annoying it is. Well, now that these new devices have been available for a while, it turns out there are a lot more problems with this non-standard Bluetooth stack. Many users are having issues connecting to other types of peripherals that worked great using the Microsoft Bluetooth stack normally used …
Continue readingSet Opera as the Default
If you’ve got a T-Mobile Touch Pro2 and you’re not happy with how Internet Explorer Mobile is the default web browser on the Internet Tab of TouchFLO 3D and throughout the operating system, you might want to set the included Opera 9.5 browser as the default. It requires a bit of registry editing as well as some changes to a Manilla XML file. However, luckily some one at XDA-Developers created a few CAB files that …
Continue readingBring Classic Word Completion Back!
WM Experts found a good tip for getting the native Windows Mobile word completion back on your HTC Touch Pro2. The registry edits might also work on other devices where word completion has been disabled. The instructions are also detailed on XDA-developers.com and there’s a CAB file auto-installer at PPC Geeks. If you have a registry editor installed, the changes are pretty simple. Be sure that: HKLMSoftwareTegiceT9XT9SupportMSSip has a value of 0 Change these two …
Continue readingHow to Fix the T-Mobile Touch Pro 2’s Conference Calling Limit
In my review of the T-Mobile Touch Pro 2, I was a bit disappointed in the conference calling capabilities. Mainly, I didn’t like the fact that it was limited to only calling 2 people! That’s not much of a conference call. More like a ménage a trois. Anyway, if you fire up a registry editor, then navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareHTCPHONE Then open the key named: “MaxConferenceSize” By default it’s set to 2, and that’s where you’re …
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