This week, the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace was closed. The end of an era :)

Introduction and disclaimer

Turbo3D v3.0 (formerly known as HD2/Leo 3D Driver Patch) has been released both on XDA and Marketplace (experiment).

Time for another update!

There's a new BETA version (2.50) of my HD2/Leo 3D Driver Patch out. I need some non-stock-ROM, Expo, TG-01 and S200/F1 testers :)

Version 2.0 of my HD2 3D driver patch has been released. This version brings full configuration of the driver settings (+ UI).

WMLongLife has been updated to v0.66. The only changes are a small bugfix regarding background connections and the removal of the timebomb.

Today (March 12) mmTask 1.2 was released on Marketplace. 1.0 had been available for a while, but still had some issues - as some of the comments on Marketplace also state.

Due to excessive nagging primarily from jug6ernaut but also a few others, I've attempted to make a HTC GSensor Emulator for the LG Expo GSensor.

Updated to 1.1 on 24 February 2010

This just in through Tweakers.net: Windows Phone 7 Series can run Windows Mobile 6.x applications!

So, yesterday was Microsoft's press conference about Windows Phone 7 Series. I'm sure we all saw it and many have written up their responses to it. I thought to let it sink it in for a day before writing about it, and that day has now passed. There a ...

Here are some options that can be configured in \windows\yamato_panel.txt . This file may not exist on your device, but it will be used if you create it manually.

Tweakers.net posted some a Windows Mobile 7 preview (click) with some slightly different information than (at least I) previously heard.

Small bugfix update release. However it also comes with a small API now!

MultASync 0.80 has been released (BETA!). Check out the thread at XDA-Developers.

So, we all know many new devices have much of the same sensors: GSensor, Compass, Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, etc.

Well as you all know I hardly post anything about WMWifiRouter on this blog, as that is the domain of Morose Media these days.

The name says it all. Once again, HTC fails at drivers.

As posted in the XDA thread here:

CFC and CFC GUI have been updated to version 0.60 and 0.60.35 respectively.

The subject says it all:

CFC 0.60 is in testing by some chefs right now. The CFC GUI app is not fully compatible with Manila/Sense 2.5+ yet, but the basic functions to be able to create a CFC compressed package should work now.

The first version of the OpenGL v1 (and HTC) compatibility layer for the Omnia II, Omnia Pro (QWERTY) and Giorgio Armani 2 has been released by GinKage at Modaco.

RoamFreely (formerly a part of WMLongLife) is an application to automatically disable data connections when roaming and re-enabling when not roaming, all in one easy service.

Marketplace "copy protection" cracked ("standard") - method not disclosed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=567870

Small update to FPU Enabler, to fix the crash issue among other things. Some more instructions supported as well (though not all of them very useful).

See my post at Modaco, also for the actual download:

WMLongLife version 0.61.205 has been released. Alas not nearly everything I wanted to fix has been fixed. Next update :)

MultASync 0.75 has been released (BETA!). Check out the thread at XDA-Developers.

GfxBoost [HTC-MSM7K] has been updated to version 1.2. See the thread at XDA-Developers.com

I have started work in a OpenGL ES v1 compatibility layer for the Omnia II and Pro. This to make older OpenGL ES apps function on these new devices.

Here's a crappy video of the work-in-progress in action:

WMLongLife 0.60 has finally been released to the general public!

YouWantThat posted my review about the Touch Diamond 2 (Topaz) and Touch Pro 2 (Rhodium).

As posted in the thread, I'm opening up WMLongLife 0.50 for a select few BETA testers ... right now!

I promised in one of the threads here that I would look into our (EU !) Rhodiums only reporting battery in 10% increments. As I received my Rhodiums today I did look into this. However, I didn't figure it out. I did see the structure of the battery d ...

Taskbar Customizer is an effort to give you a proper good-looking many colored taskbar in WM, that your friend will drool over. At the time of writing it is in design stage.

CFC and CFC GUI have been updated to version 0.55 and 0.55.25 respectively.

Seems I overlooked something when building the CFC compressor. After revisiting it in my head today over my morning coffee and ciggarette, a very obvious optimization struck me.

Thanks to some heavy use of IDA, and hack-testing by Dan-<device>, Conflipper and AstainHellbring, it seems we have figured out 2G/3G band switching for MSM7K CDMA (MSM75xx). In this case, 2G is 1xRTT only, 3G is Hybrid, and 3G 'Force' is EV-DO ...

As some of you may know the latest update to CFC enabled UltraHQ mode - PNG quality inside QTC files.

RC4 of the Raphael Elite Project ROM [GSM] is being released by MrVanx as I write this.

Seems an XDA-Developers member is already reversing WMLongLife code.

XDA-Developers member wg5566 posted some bad news over in this thread.

I just wanted to explain some stuff some of you may and/or may not be aware of. Please consider that I am not a Qualcomm engineer and how I see things are probably not always 100% correct, and my own research on these things is still in progress / ev ...

For HTC-built MSM7K-based devices only! All MSM7K are technically capable, but only HTC's may have the correct drivers. Will probably not work on stock ROMs. I suspect the CDMA versions of the older MSM7K devices - pre-diamond - do not have the neces ...

I'm lightly involved in xboxmod's TF3Dv2 port. My contributions have mainly been patches to background images/rendering, aside from the obvious of CFC compression being used.

From the thread on XDA-Developers:

NOTICE: This software is only for the GSM variants of these devices: MSM7xxx based devices, Samsung i900 Omnia, Samsung i780 !!

The Raphael Elite Project ROM is the Touch Pro version of the well know "Project" series. This series is aimed at providing a professional ROM for advanced users, with all the things you need out-of-the-box.

While originally porting TF3D to QVGA - as partner to the Kaiser D3D/OpenGL Drivers project - I had to make some heavy modifications to the OpenGL interface TF3D used. I also needed to convert the VGA imagery to QVGA.

The original show-off app for the Kaiser D3D/OpenGL Drivers project. Heavy porting and hacking was involved to create this, and many Kaiser ROMs include it these days. Created in co-operation with the HTC Class Action website.

WMRegOptimizer is a small tool that tries to optimize registry access - "defrag" it, if you will. It doesn't perfectly defrag it, but it goes a long way. This results in somewhat faster registry access for applications where this is the bot ...

FireROM was a prestege thing: the first custom ROM available for the GSM Touch Pro (Raphael). It was basically a stock ROM, cleaned up, tweaked, and adding a couple of very handy programs I personally like to use.

We all know about the driver issues on HTC drivers. In co-operation with the HTC Class Action website and a few other hackers we ported D3D and OpenGL drivers to the HTC Kaiser (TyTN II).

ROMCompare as a tool originally written to detect slight differences between ROMs. With having people test cutting edge things on their devices it is a handy tool for when problems occur and often makes tracking down the problem simple and fast.

Many carriers remove the ICS component needed by several Internet Sharing applications. It took some research, cooking and a lot of trial and error, but eventually I was able to create a CAB file that installs this component. Google will help you fin ...

WMWifiRouter allows you to share your Windows Mobile phone's internet connection with other device over Wi-Fi. WMWifiRouter was the first application on any phone that could do this.

KaiserTweak was one of the first XML-based Windows Mobile tweak utilities. Originally written for the Kaiser by me, then maintained by Nika GL, and translated by several enthousiastic users.