Sometimes all touch based equipments loose their touch alignment.
Similarly HTC’s Touch Diamond too looses it’s touch alignment. Sometimes it goes to such an extent that you can use the Start Menu at all. In such situations the following method can be used to reach the alignment screen directly.

HTC Touch Diamond

Press Volume UP Button and Centre Button simultaneously

In Windows Mobile, when a GPRS connection is established and the work is done, the connection is not disconnected automatically.

Even though this doesn’t lead to any specific problems, it might have some effect on battery usage.

To over come this there is a tweak which can help auto-disconnect the GPRS connection.

Download the following cab installers which will create a registry entry for auto disconnect.

Auto Disconnect 1 Minute	Auto Disconnect 5 Minutes

Recently I was struck with an idea, is there a possibility of using our PDA as external GPS receiver which can be used with Laptop ?

And yes its possible and free too.

Take a look at this web link GPS Tools where you can find application to connect your PDA to Laptop using Bluetooth or TCP/IP and transfer GPS Data from PDA to Laptop or PC.

Now you can view GPS data in big screen !!!

Few days back I posted a tweak by which you can increase the scroll bar height and width in Windows Mobile for easy navigation.

Now a developer at XDA Forums have come up with an application/service with which you can scroll using the Diamond's Navigation Sensor Wheel.

Tried in my HTC Touch Diamond and it really works !!

You can get the cab installer at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=466377

Tip: Don't Install in Internal Storage !!
When I connected my Diamond in Disk Drive Mode the app stopped working as Internal Storage is not accessible in this mode.

Basically Windows Mobile is not touch optimised. Especially scrolling through explorer, e-mail etc.

Fortunately HTC has done some tweaking to UI so that we can touch anywhere in the screen and scroll, instead of touching the Scrollbars.

Unfortunately some application don't support this feature and again you have to use your stylus to scroll.

But there is a solution. By making some changes in registry entries we can make the scroll bar wider and use it without the stylus.

Instead of making registry changes I used a tweaking application specific for Diamond called as "Advanced Configuration Tool" v3.3 with which we can do lot of changes.

You can find the free tweaking application here and a  discussion about it going here

The following screen shot shows the tweaks.

Launch Advanced Config > User Interface > Change the values in Horizontal scroll bar height appropriately > Do a soft reset(restart the device) and you can see the result.

Launch Advanced Config > User Interface > Change the values in Vertical scroll bar width appropriately > Do a soft reset(restart the device) and you can see the result.

I find 22px appropriate for my finger size.

Note: In my screen shots the scroll bars are already wider because the tweak was already applied.

Happy Scrolling