HTC HD Mini is a smaller version of the famous HTC HD2. XDA-developers members flunkyou2 and michyprima can make your phone become HTC HD Mini. Well, only for the lock screen. They extracted the lock screen and make it as cab.
Download Jmz Android Dual-Boot for HTC HD2
Open file explorer in Windows Mobile. Go to ‘Android’ folder in SD card. Click on CLRCAD.exe and click on Haret.exe in the end. This is what I do in order to bring up Android 2.2 Froyo on my HTC HD2 last time. Now I just need to have 1 single click to load Android. Thanks to Jmz Android Dual-Boot for HTC HD2.
How to hide folders with pictures from HTC Album?
Arr… My HTC Album shows too many pictures already. It shows pictures from my album in DCIM folder which is correct. But it also show other folders with pictures which I don’t want. How to hide these folders with pictures from HTC Album? It is not hard to hide them. All you need is Windows Mobile Registry Editor. And key in some values.
Things to do…
- Open the registry editor
- Go to HKLM\Software\HTC\HTCAlbum\Ignored (create the Ignored key if doesn’t exist)
- Create a new String Value and name it whatever you want (Example, Garmin)
- Set the Data for the new value to the full path of the folder to be ignored (Example, \Storage Card\Garmin)
- Finally, restart your phone to take effect
By the way, the folder and its sub folders will not show up in HTC Album after you set it. This trick works on my HTC HD2. It should work on other HTC devices like Touch Diamond 2, Touch Pro 2…
Improve HTC HD2 3D performance with HD2/Leo 3D Driver Patch v2.0
Slow 3D performance on your HTC HD2? Poor video performance too? No worry, XDA Moderator, Chainfire created a HD2/Leo 3D Driver Patch for all of us. I did install version 1.1 before forgot install it back after ROM upgrade. So far I don’t have issue with games on original stock driver because I am not a hardcore gamer on mobile phone but desktop. In short, HD2/Leo 3D Driver Patch is a hack to HTC HD2 3D driver. It will improve HTC HD2 3D performance a lot.
glBenchmark result (stock driver vs Chainfire HD2/Leo 3D Driver Patch v2.0)
GLBenchmark HD ES 1.1: 487% ~ 1598 Frames up from 328
GLBenchmark HD ES 1.1 no GPU Skinning: 502% ~ 1647 Frames up from 328
GLBenchmark PRO ES 1.1: 107% ~ 229 Frames up from 215
GLBenchmark Pro ES 1.1 no GPU Skinning: 157% ~ 625 Frames up from 397
Swapbuffer speed: 496% ~ 556 up from 112
Averages: Lights: 116% ~ 1550 kTriangles/s up from 1350
Averages: Texture Filter: 159% ~ 2150 kTriangles/s up from 1350
Averages: Texture Size: 158% ~ 2150 kTriangles/s up from 1350
Averages: Triangles: 161% ~ 2150 kTriangles/s up from 1350
Want to improve your HTC HD2 3D performance? Head to xda-developers to download it.
8GB PenDrive SDHC Class 4 Card Review
Writing speed is very important on SD card as you don’t want your SLR camera to miss any shot. 8GB PenDrive SDHC Class 4 Card is another SD card bundled from my Panasonic HDC-SD700 HD Camcorder. PenDrive is a Malaysia brand. Let’s see how a local company product performs.