Remove orange battery icon from M700?

[Guest]

I've just got a white SPV M700 and so far I'm having a lot of fun with it

However I hate Orange's theme and have reverted back to the default windows theme for the time being. I've got my Today screen pretty much how I want it, but I can't get rid of the ugly bright orange battery icon in the top right corner. I assume its a leftover from Orange's theme, does anyone know how I can get rid of it?

Also for roaming, it'd be very useful to see what carrier I'm connected to somewhere on the Today screen. Is there a plugin or registry tweak to get that to show?

Kind regards

Dave Waugh

[Guest Neil5459]

I've just got a white SPV M700 and so far I'm having a lot of fun with it

However I hate Orange's theme and have reverted back to the default windows theme for the time being. I've got my Today screen pretty much how I want it, but I can't get rid of the ugly bright orange battery icon in the top right corner. I assume its a leftover from Orange's theme, does anyone know how I can get rid of it?

Also for roaming, it'd be very useful to see what carrier I'm connected to somewhere on the Today screen. Is there a plugin or registry tweak to get that to show?

Kind regards

Dave Waugh

I think the taskbar battery icon is part of the WM5 O/S. We have been trying, through a succession of WM5 devices to get rid of it, to no avail. So far, only the today screen 'masking' apps like Wisbar Advance Desktop have been able to acheive it.

[Guest jimbouk]

There's loads of reg hacks for other similar WM5 devices to remove the battery icon - and HTweakC removes it.

[Guest]

There's loads of reg hacks for other similar WM5 devices to remove the battery icon - and HTweakC removes it.

The registry hack did the trick. HTweakC enables/disables a different battery icon in the bottom right corner. Is there a resource anywhere of other useful registry hacks?

Cheers

Dave

[Guest mandt]

Hi davew,

Here are some links to some registry editing for you:

WM5 Performance

WM5 Colours

WM5 Other

In the 'Other' link there is a tweak to 'Show wireless today item' this will also show which carrier you are on ;)

Happy tweaking!

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Here ya go, a CAB by yours truly to do it.

The ability to remove it and change it back to a clock was added in AKU 2.3.

I've successfully installed this on my M700.

;)

P

AKU23Clock.noUPX.CAB

[Guest mandt]

Paul have you ever thought about posting all your various tweak cabs in the Download section?

You really should you know...

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Yeah, you're right, I probably should.

There's definitely a valid argument for having a tweak section on the new Wiki too.

Since each device will have it's own Wiki area (see http://wiki.modaco.com/index.php/Device_In...ion#Pocket_PCs), tweaks could live somewhere in there too. Hmm....

P

[Guest]

Here are some links to some registry editing for you:

Thanks for those, much appreciated.

Does anyone know if the Orange trinity ROM (with GPS enabled) has the lost bass problem? with the crummy headphones it shipped with I can barely tell :-)

Kind regards

Dave

[Guest Neil5459]

I use my Anycom BSH100 Bluetooth stereo phones, and the bass is fine. Not tried with the supplied headset, nor with WMP, as I use 40iPlay for music, and don't watch videos.

I did need to enable true stereo in the A2DP profile registry settings.

[Guest The Doctor]

Yeah, you're right, I probably should.

There's definitely a valid argument for having a tweak section on the new Wiki too.

Since each device will have it's own Wiki area (see http://wiki.modaco.com/index.php/Device_In...ion#Pocket_PCs), tweaks could live somewhere in there too. Hmm....

P

[offtopic]See my Windows Mobile 5 Registry Tweaks wiki page ;)[/offtopic]

Phil

Edited March 19, 2007 by The Doctor

[Guest Enliven Fire Ltd]

I have a similar problem, i would like to remove the orange battery icon and REPLACE IT with the standard original icon. I have tried several today plugins but not one of them can restore the original battery icon.....

Colin Walker