One thing that I HAVE been spending a lot of time with recently is my new Cingular 8125 – based on the HTC Wizard. You can read the review on my site to learn more about it.
The thing is since I’ve had the device, I’ve started to really enjoy it more and more for the simple reason that *gasp*, it’s Windows. Granted there are several problems with Windows in general, biggest ones being security and stability BUT one of the advantages of having a Windows OS on your PDA/handheld device is the familiarity you automatically have with its functionality.
The Windows Mobile 5 devices have among other similarities with its big brother Windows is the registry. A tree data structure that provides a central location for both system and application components. Where there is a registry, there is flexibility – sounds corny, but I didn’t mean it to.
Many adventorous people have slaved away at finding all kinds of goodies from editing that lovely registry and I’ve decided to post links to the best resources I could find.
What You Need:
A registry editor software. Windows Mobile 5.0 does not come with any type of registry editing software because frankly users are not supposed to be snooping around and messing with stuff in there.
Some potential candidates are:
- Resco Explorer 2005 – This costs $ BUT it is my favorite and highly-highly recommended. It not only gives you a very friendly registry editor but an amazingly versatile file manager AND a Today screen plug-in to monitor system resources. The only reason you shouldn’t get this is if you’re just trying to make this difficult on yourself
- Total Commander – This one is free and I haven’t tried it but I believe it serves its purpose quite well. I have heard this one is not for those who are not as technical as they would like to be but hey, it’s free.
- PHM Registry Editor – Older app that is also free but again, nothing comes for free so the interface is not as user-friendly as Resco.
Download one of the above apps and install it onto your Cingular 8125 (or any HTC Wizard based device).
Before we get to the good stuff, I have to put out a disclaimer like everyone else does, that making changes to your registry can be potentially harmful to the device and can lead to (rarely) a corruption of data or having to restore your device to the original factory state (called a hard reset).
Where To Get The Info:
Now to the good stuff. Here’s a link to an amazing site called xda-developers.com. They have a page up with most if not all of the tweaks that are really important.
HTC Wizard Registry Tweaks at XDA-Developers.com
Happy Tweaking! I’ll post more stuff about my Cingular 8125 as time goes by including more tips, tricks and recommendations for software.
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#1 by WebHavocMaster on August 15th, 2006
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Joey,
This is something that many people have tried to solve but it is unfortunately just not possible on the HTC Wizard series. I also wish there was a solution but so far doesn’t seem like there is a way.
#2 by Joey Picerno on July 6th, 2006
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Hello,
First of all let me say that I have really enjoyed all of the tweaks. Finally someone with a big list of registry edits that are laid out plain and simple. I do have one question for you though. I have a cingular 8125 with windows mobile 5. The only thing I do not like about this phone is the keyboard backlight duration. There is a tweak to change it in the list but like it says in your list it does not work for some devices including mine. If any way possible could you please help me find a way to accomplish this ONE THING. There has got to be someway to do it. Something controls the light duration and there has got to be some way to do it in the registry. PLEASE HELP ME