Since my phone was now wiped of all previous settings and info, I needed to reload My Contacts and begin to personalize it. I'd previously saved all my contacts/friends numbers through Microsoft ActiveSync. I opened it and it thought I was connecting a brand new phone to it, so I had to go through the set up before it would sync with it and reload all my friend’s numbers and information. The process was quite quick and it even loaded the photos associated with my friends... sweet!
At this point I'm ready to rock with a streamlined version of the official ROM. There are a lot of tweaks, themes, software, etc. out there to load on a Windows Mobile phone... what first?
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Removing AT&T's Bloatware
AT&T adds on top of HTC’s WM 6.1 ROM a bunch of added junk. It's a bunch of AT&T programs, trial software, and games. Reading around in the forums, it sounds like their added junk can slow down the phone's performance fairly significantly. Booooo!
So, here are the steps to remove it. First, back up your phone's contacts through ActiveSync and save any photos or files you want, this will completely clear your phone and reload the software. Make sure your battery has at least a 50% charge and the phone isn't connected to your computer.
Then, go to Start >Settings>System>Clear storage, type 1234 and OK as it prompts you to, the phone then clears and reloads in anywhere from 3-10 minutes. You then set up the phone like the first time, tapping around the screen. Hit “skip” on the two tips. Then it will say to tap screen to use phone. Stop for a second at this point.
Get your stylus ready to push the Soft Reset button by the USB port. There is about a one second window between when the phone loads up and when an AT&T software loader pop up starts. You need to Soft Reset the phone in that second. Tap the screen with your finger, see the main phone screen, then hit the soft reset button with your stylus before the AT&T pop up comes. If you’re late it’s no biggie, you will just have to go through the set up again and try to time it better... it took me two tries. When you time it right, it will soft reboot and not load all the additional AT&T software.
Here’s a longer account of how to do this with a video, only for some reason the guy pulls the battery out instead of doing a Soft Reset to stop the ATT&T software from loading. The Soft Reset is much easier.
So, here are the steps to remove it. First, back up your phone's contacts through ActiveSync and save any photos or files you want, this will completely clear your phone and reload the software. Make sure your battery has at least a 50% charge and the phone isn't connected to your computer.
Then, go to Start >Settings>System>Clear storage, type 1234 and OK as it prompts you to, the phone then clears and reloads in anywhere from 3-10 minutes. You then set up the phone like the first time, tapping around the screen. Hit “skip” on the two tips. Then it will say to tap screen to use phone. Stop for a second at this point.
Get your stylus ready to push the Soft Reset button by the USB port. There is about a one second window between when the phone loads up and when an AT&T software loader pop up starts. You need to Soft Reset the phone in that second. Tap the screen with your finger, see the main phone screen, then hit the soft reset button with your stylus before the AT&T pop up comes. If you’re late it’s no biggie, you will just have to go through the set up again and try to time it better... it took me two tries. When you time it right, it will soft reboot and not load all the additional AT&T software.
Here’s a longer account of how to do this with a video, only for some reason the guy pulls the battery out instead of doing a Soft Reset to stop the ATT&T software from loading. The Soft Reset is much easier.
My New Tilt and First Attempts at Tweaking
So... my new Tilt/Kaiser arrived. After less than 24 hours playing with it, I was hot to start tweaking it. I installed a few different things, but then decided before I got too far, I should unlock the SIM and CID, one makes it region free/unlocked, the other opens it to flashing a hacked ROM on the phone. The unlocking seemed to go fine using KaiserUnlocker... but it had a bad side effect, it disabled my ability to hear or talk during phone calls. Woops! That's more than a minor problem.
From reading online forums I found a lot of people had this problem when tweaking the Tilt. Phew, at least my phone wasn't defective. So, following this guide, I stripped everything I’d loaded back off to make it factory fresh again. It worked like charm, I could make phone calls again. But, I now had a boring non custom phone. This was yesterday.
I decided to skip unlocking the phone or using a cooked/hacked ROM, basically to take a less intensive approach, at least at first, to tweaking my phone.
From reading online forums I found a lot of people had this problem when tweaking the Tilt. Phew, at least my phone wasn't defective. So, following this guide, I stripped everything I’d loaded back off to make it factory fresh again. It worked like charm, I could make phone calls again. But, I now had a boring non custom phone. This was yesterday.
I decided to skip unlocking the phone or using a cooked/hacked ROM, basically to take a less intensive approach, at least at first, to tweaking my phone.
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