Want MORE RAM? Disable HTC Dialer Skin

[njmarchetti]

Posted this over at XDA. Thought I would share the tweak here.
VZW - More RAM / disable Dialer Skin

Want 8-12 more MB of free RAM on your horribly gimped 6850???? Just disable the pretty HTC dialer skin. The dialer will switch back to the default WM one, which to be honest, I still prefer. Little did I know the HTC skin was sucking up about 10 MB of RAM.

Give it a shot and share the results. You can use several apps like Advanced Config or Diamond Tweak to disable the HTC dialer skin, or change it manually via the registry.

Below is the manual registry tweak:
-'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Security / Phone / Skin'
-change the value of 'Enabled' from 1 to 0.

Hope that helps make all the 6850 users smile.

[darren.wlsn1]

omg, now you have to kill your dialer skin for ram? sounds good..

[[sammich]]

I just had a mogul flashback...

[njmarchetti]

Not ideal, but well worth the increased RAM (IMHO). I don't mind the default WinMo dialer and I almost always disable the HTC dialers in favor of it.

[Success100]

i dont have a TP, but this is a good find. messed up that VZ users have to resort to this, but still good find

[creedin]

what is a dialer?

[njmarchetti]

The Dialer is what you use to make phone calls. HTC made a special skin for it on the Touch Pro/Diamonds, but it looks like it uses a ton of RAM. You can diable it and just use the default WinMo dialer instead if you need the extra RAM.

[Success100]

Originally Posted by creedin

what is a dialer?

in all fairness, your probably gonna get flamed for asking such a simple question, but i guess your new to the ppc world so i wont flame you.

the dialer is the on-screen numeric pad used for dialing numbers and calling people. the touch diamond and pro come with a nice white clean dialer screen, it uses up extra memory though.

there is a stock dialer that comes installed on every windows mobile touch screen phone, its a generic dialer with small buttons and looks pretty ugly in my opinion.

The verizon version has very very limited memory cuz verizon crippled it like they do all of there phones, so this is just an alternative to people who need to free up memory. hope this answers your question

edit: sorry njmarchetti u beat me to it

[BRIVERS73]

Originally Posted by darren.wlsn1

omg, now you have to kill your dialer skin for ram? sounds good..

Originally Posted by saumaun

I just had a mogul flashback...

LOL

Originally Posted by Success100

i dont have a TP, but this is a good find.

I have to agree. That's a nice size chunk of ram back to use for something else!

[creedin]

no ya i figured thats what it was but mine didn't change after that the registry edit lol. so that's why i was like okay? and well my last stupid question, what exactly is a wrong? just the basic core of the device?