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[Guide] Getting your Fuze fast, fun, and useable.
Hey everyone, I'm a relatively new WM nerd. I'm not knowledgeable when it comes to flashing ROMs in the least, so when I got my new Fuze today I immediately set out to fix everything I could without replacing the default ROM.
After I did this, I realized there wasn't one cumulative post explaining all the things you should do once you get your Fuze. Obviously I dont take credit for most of this information, since I learned it all from elsewhere. I'm just distributing.
After doing all I did, my memory use with nothing open has gone down Around 8-10%, my phone looks and feels MUCH better, and most of the kinks seem to be gone, and I've only had the phone 2 hours. So here's my suggestions.
1. Get rid of the AT&T Bloatware. This was a bit of an issue at first, because you lose a lot of important things. Here's how to avoid that.
2. Now that you've gotten rid of the bloatware and gotten touchflo and opera reinstalled, I made my device a bit less hideous.
Currently mine looks something similar to this:
That's not mine, but it's very similar. Here's how you do that:
Alright, now your phone looks much better and probably runs a bit faster now that the bloat is gone and it's not covered in ATT logos.
Next thing you need to do are registry tweaks. This probably sounds daunting to you if youre not tech saavy, but don't worry, it's not.
Final thing I did:
Weather Customization. If you don't live in a major city like me, then you probably already noticed that the HTC weather plugin doesnt do you much good. Luckily, there are workarounds for those willing to put forth a bit of effort.
Im not going to explain this fully because I think I'd do more harm than good. XDA Dev has a TON on this subject, and their guides are better than anything I could write. Only things I'm going to add are these:
Next on the list of things I'm working on is to figure out how to rebind that useless PTT button. If I find an easy way of doing it, I'll try to post here.
Also, just to repeat: I take absolutely NO credit for this information. Most of this is gathered from XDA Devs and Fuzesite.com. Great work to both of them, and my sincerest of thanks.
Hopefully I save you guys some time googling and moreso help you guys get a bit more out of your devices.
-Alex
After I did this, I realized there wasn't one cumulative post explaining all the things you should do once you get your Fuze. Obviously I dont take credit for most of this information, since I learned it all from elsewhere. I'm just distributing.
After doing all I did, my memory use with nothing open has gone down Around 8-10%, my phone looks and feels MUCH better, and most of the kinks seem to be gone, and I've only had the phone 2 hours. So here's my suggestions.
1. Get rid of the AT&T Bloatware. This was a bit of an issue at first, because you lose a lot of important things. Here's how to avoid that.
- Do a hard reset. (Settings -> System -> Clear Storage)
- When your phone gets back to the configuration screen, go through the calibration/password screens.
- When it says "Tap here to blahblahblah", tap the screen and IMMEDIATELY push in the soft reset button. (By USB port.) If your timing is right, It'll reboot to the regular windows mobile green today screen.
- Now, you have to get touchflo running again. Go to programs -> File Explorer. In File explorer go to My Device, then to the Windows folder. Now you've got a TON of files to sort through. Run the following: PT_Manila_Reg .cab, MSFT_Security.cab and WM6_PPC_HTC_Opera9_WWE.cab
2. Now that you've gotten rid of the bloatware and gotten touchflo and opera reinstalled, I made my device a bit less hideous.
Currently mine looks something similar to this:
That's not mine, but it's very similar. Here's how you do that:
- Download this cab file.
- Copy the cab to your phone.
- DISABLE TOUCHFLO BEFORE YOU DO THIS. To do this, go to settings -> Today and uncheck touchflo3D
- Install the cab file, restart the phone, etc.
- Go to settings -> Today. Change your theme to HTC black and recheck TouchFLO 3D
- Now you've got the Flip Clock, the original HTC black theme, and you got rid of that pesky AT&T Tab on the touchflo menu.
Alright, now your phone looks much better and probably runs a bit faster now that the bloat is gone and it's not covered in ATT logos.
Next thing you need to do are registry tweaks. This probably sounds daunting to you if youre not tech saavy, but don't worry, it's not.
- Download Diamondtweak from here.
- Install it and muddle through everything and set things how you like. If you don't know, either put it on (Advised) or don't mess with it.
- This'll help even more with performance and overall useability.
Final thing I did:
Weather Customization. If you don't live in a major city like me, then you probably already noticed that the HTC weather plugin doesnt do you much good. Luckily, there are workarounds for those willing to put forth a bit of effort.
Im not going to explain this fully because I think I'd do more harm than good. XDA Dev has a TON on this subject, and their guides are better than anything I could write. Only things I'm going to add are these:
- You have to run .NET Framework mobile 3.5 for this to work. To install, copy this CAB on to your device and run it.
- For the fuze, the version you should run of the WeatherDatabaseEditor is Version 1.1 Modified. The rest you should probably be able to find. If your city has a space in it, like Palm Springs, Vero Beach, etc. Youre going to run in to problems with weather codes. Best advice here is if you get the problem, enter in the closest 1-word town instead and just name it what your town is named.
- For an EXCELLENT guide on this, see XDA devs here. You need an account to download the cab of Weather DBE, but you should get one anyways. XDA Developers are amazing.
Next on the list of things I'm working on is to figure out how to rebind that useless PTT button. If I find an easy way of doing it, I'll try to post here.
Also, just to repeat: I take absolutely NO credit for this information. Most of this is gathered from XDA Devs and Fuzesite.com. Great work to both of them, and my sincerest of thanks.
Hopefully I save you guys some time googling and moreso help you guys get a bit more out of your devices.
-Alex
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RickWilley
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15 years ago
If you open your file explorer and browse to the window's directory, you will find a ton of .cab files that are there but not "installed" on your device. Locate the .cab file with the program you want to install and click and run. Even though you didn't install the bloat it's still there
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GSK
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guandalf
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15 years ago
If you install the new ROM for the Fuze, you dont need to go through this process as you can do this from the settings. No need to edit the registry0
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floralxprt
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14 years ago
HELP! I did this and now I can't sync my email with work email using ActiveSync. Also, I can't access the internet which is what my helpdesk tells me is why the email sync won't work. Can you help me?
I'm LOST without my phone!
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hidden_dragon
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14 years ago
When you connect your phone via ActiveSync, it should tell you that it's a new device and will prompt you to sync with your work mail server. You will need to re-enter your MediaNet settings (do a search for this) in order to access the internet again and be able to receive MMS messages.
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