RE: T-Mobile myFaves removal.
Hello everyone,
I have a Touch Pro 2 coming in the mail I'm very excited. A big letdown that I noticed in comparison to the EU version of the device is that my home screen has to be the myFaves tab. I was really attached to the flip card style clock home screen. My questions are:
Is there a way to get around this? If so:
Is it necessary that you will need a completely new ROM to do?
Couldn't I just get a copy of the EU edition's ROM, upload that?
Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance.
I have a TP2 and I will say I do NOT have the MyFaves icon as the home icon. I think that it only affects people with MyFaves, but I don't know. I got mine on launch day too.
If the account has no MyFaves, the Myfave screen will not show up at all.
If you account has MyFaves, it will Default to the MyFaves screen, no Flip clock.
Do get the Clock back.. go to Settings tab, select MyFaves.
Select 1. Display, then select Off.
f1ip said:
If the account has no MyFaves, the Myfave screen will not show up at all.
If you account has MyFaves, it will Default to the MyFaves screen, no Flip clock.
Do get the Clock back.. go to Settings tab, select MyFaves.
Select 1. Display, then select Off.
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As I suspected. Thanks for confirming it!
A little trick
In most HTC devices, one can go to settings/system and then click the clear storage icon which asks you to type 1,2,3,4 and then hit yes. This hard resets most HTC devices.
As the device is booting and you get past the alignment screen, the device will start loading the carrier specific garbage that's stored in Extended ROM. As it starts loading those programs, one can use the stylus to reset.
The reset on other devices will cause the device to boot without loading the carrier specific stuff. It would be neat to try that out and see if all the TMO stuff is kept off the device. Then you can load only the cabs (programs) you want.
This way the device acts like you've loaded a very clean ROM, usually increases speed etc.
To reload what was on the device originally, one can just go back to the settings/system and hard reset again and let it do so without resetting during the loading of the carrier specific software.
I'd like to know if anyone has done this with the TP2 from TMO yet?
Tmo TP2 setup isnt all that bad. Not as bad as other carriers.
Only unuseful apps in the program list are, Handango Inhand, Getting Started, and Telenav.
3 games that are NOT trials.
aside from the Tmo Myfave app in TF3D, it is a Usable feature for those who has MyFaves, it can easily be turned off.
The rest of the Apps are the ones usually included in a custom rom.
thebluecoat said:
Hello everyone,
I have a Touch Pro 2 coming in the mail I'm very excited. A big letdown that I noticed in comparison to the EU version of the device is that my home screen has to be the myFaves tab. I was really attached to the flip card style clock home screen. My questions are:
Is there a way to get around this? If so:
Is it necessary that you will need a completely new ROM to do?
Couldn't I just get a copy of the EU edition's ROM, upload that?
Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance.
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Hello!
Just an FYI if you do have an account with MyFaves and do not want to do a hard reset, you can simply turn off the MyFaves tab in TF3D. What you need to do is in TF3D fo to settings/MyFaves/Option #1. This will allow you to hide, show or turn off the Myfaves home screen display. Note: even if you turn it off, your MyFaves will still work as normal. Hope this helps!
Hello to all! And new to the forum! I just bought my Touch 2 a month ago and this is my first 'smart' phone.
I have the Sprint Touch Pro 2 (WM-v6.1) (I do have the quick fix for SMS '2016' too.)
Questions I have:
Where do I get 'apps' for this phone?
Is there any upgrades/hacks I can do?
Can you put emulators(games) on this phone?
-Where do you get them? Torrents?
Problems:
Phone had to be set back to factory due to a 'freezing' problem and lost everything except contacts. Is there any apps that will save all my saved setting so I can back up everything? aka... (SBC BACKUP?)
I also find it very difficult to forward texts to many of my friends. When I forward text, I INDIVIDUALLY have to click every contact that I want to forward to? Same goes for sending pictures to contacts. And when you want to forward texts or pics 15 times, it gets really annoying.
This phone is the sexiest phone I have ever put in my hands and just want the best out of her.
Thanks for you time, Curv
to back up your phone maybe you can use pim backup.
My AT&T HTC Tilt 2 is nearly a year old now, and I've recently run into a very irritating problem. Every time I try to use the "Update Now" feature (Contacts -> Updates and Events tab -> Menu -> Update Now) to update contacts' Facebook pictures and whatnot, the entire UI crashes and has to reload. No error messages or anything like that at all; the screen simply freezes for 15-30 seconds and the HTC Launching TouchFLO 3D screen comes up.
This issue has expanded to encompass any time I try to edit a contact (on that note, the "Link to Facebook account" button no longer does anything except cause TouchFLO to crash) or even open the Updates and Events tab.
I'm still using the same ROM that came with the phone (hard reset once or twice, so essentially the same thing), meaning Windows Mobile 6.5. Like I previously mentioned, I'm using the TouchFLO 3D UI (my attempt to update to the Sense UI went terribly).
Is there anything I can do to fix this, aside from hard resetting again? I've got a lot of contacts (more than will fit on my SIM card, in fact), and I'd really rather not go through all the steps of personalizing my phone for a third time if I don't have to. It'll be like November before I'm eligible for an upgrade with AT&T, so that's not a viable option right now, as much as I might like it to be.
Another side note: Using Windows Mobile Device Center, is there a way to basically copy all of my contacts and whatnot from my phone to my computer without adding in the contacts from Outlook? I'd really rather not deal with a bunch of random email addresses sitting in my phone's contact list. If this is possible, I may just try to use this method, hard reset, and then put the contacts back on the phone. The rest of the personalization isn't nearly as time-consuming as adding in another 80-ish contacts and then fixing the names of the ones I managed to fit onto the SIM card (because the SIM card saves them in the format of "Smith, John" in the last name field and nothing in the first name field...).
I've also got a 16GB microSD card, if that would be of any benefit in any of these endeavors.
Any and all help is appreciated! Thanks!
Any ideas?
Not sure about all your facebook issues, but a great, quick and easy program that can save and restore contacts anywhere (including your storage card, if you like) is PIM Backup:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1189061&postcount=1
I use it all the time since I flash daily and I NEVER have any problems restoring my 200+ contacts using PIM Backup.
So I am looking for an app to make one of my phones more like an IPhone. No, no really... well not exactly. I actually do want to take away much of the coolness of android and limit the options, much like a crappy Iphone.
I want to be able to lockdown a phone to certain apps. But not in a "kiddie" type of way. And I want to be able to include direct dial shortcuts. But I want to lock or effectively remove everything else that is not and "approved" app.
All the apps I have seen rely on a password that is on all the existing app. So all the options are still there, but have a password. I want to remove the outside options. And I think it has to be a home replacement in that it has to control the notification area too. All of the lock down apps also seem to not be able to stop the play updates and then you can get into the app from the "updated" notification.
So I want the screen to have like 10 direct dial number shortcuts, a few games and that is all with no way (without effort and knowledge) to get to all the other goodness that is android.
Why not lock (password-protect or whatever) Play Store and Disable auto-updates?
I have a note 2 and until about a month ago I had my work email set up and everything was good. Now corporate makes us use mobile-iron to use our devices with the corporate email. I have not installed it as it encrypts the phone and not that I do anything illegal or out of company policy, gives them the ability to my personal life. During work time i don't have a issue with it, but on my time I don't like it. I had the thought of making up 2 roms one personal, and one for work, but then every time i switched I would have to back up text and call history and restore it. Is there ant way I can have to profiles on one phone or is there any way to use the same folders for sms and phone history? Thanks in advance. Howard