Customization Ideas (Help a NOOB)

[jweaks]

I thought I would update this for any noobs like me wondering how to customize.

I finished my mods last night and I'm very happy with my touch!

Here is what I did:

Cokeman unlock
"leaked" rom install
then I got the kitchen and did my own rom install
(all the above is fairly simple and easy but you must read the threads regarding these upgrades and follow the instructions.)

up and running on new rom...
I installed SPB Mobile Shell. I like it but I'm not sure it's worth the cost. It is however working very well for me. I installed one of the "PointUI" themes for the shell and found the layout change to give me a 9-button launcher. I spent a little time figuring out how to tweak the registry and modify two of the menus.

I needed to get to my Gmail so I just did the imap setup which was easy, except that WM6.1 trys to get the settings automatically and does POP instead of IMAP. You have to feed it bad info to get it to stop and allow you set it to imap.

I needed to get google calendar and contacts on there. I tried a lot of options but nothing worked better than OggSync. It's pricey but it works! It does not get my contact pictures however from google and put them in my Touch. (Seems like it would do that... would be a big time saver!)

I'm still looking for a better weather app... trying pocket weather at the moment. The app in the mobile shell gives me a look at my hometown weather. I tried SPB weather, but just didn't get the setup... seemed to complicated.

I ended up putting pocket weather on the Today screen along with a battery status program and did away with a lot of the other stuff on the Today... that way everything I normally use is in the Mobile Shell... when I want to see more extended weather reports or look at battery usage or a couple other things, I just "swipe down" in the shell to get to the today screen. Ideally it would be great if the Today screen were gone altogether and replaced by another page of "plugable" items in the Shell. I have no idea how that would be done.

Now I've got pretty much everything I need, readily accessible and it looks good.

Now to play around with the GPS...

jw

[maggyban]

kool stuff.

[Spencer_Moore]

Check Your Pm

[ajm144k]

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[[sammich]]

I think SBSH PocketBreeze will do most of that for you. Add their weather plugin and you've got an amazing today screen.

http://sbsh.net/product.php?id=20