Palm Treo 500v - Can you turn off or replace the Vodafone skin?

[insider555777]

Hi there,

does anyone know if you can turn off or replace the Vodafone Skin on the Treo 500v. I'm sure they were thinking it made it easier to navigate, but it's overkill and clunky. there's no way that I've discover so far to get to the normal Windows Smartphone interface.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[motin]

i am on for that too please help us to close this menu system or if any one has some kind of rom update to upgrade to the palm rom

it would be the best

thanks

[rubbish]

That's what I'm dreaming about too! It's ridiculous to have a wm device without being able to use wm menu/UI. The bad thing, apart from being uncomfortable, it creates 2 extra processes in memory!
Perhaps it's possible to switch the Voda UI off with some registry edit; I've been looking for the key(s) responsible but didn't succeed... Otherwise the device is really good, what a pity.
It'd be nice if some guru could help us.

[remacca]

hi guys,

i'm into the device despite its shotcomings, (very slow, can't allocate web key) its a fresh approach to WM device's and hopefully will be supported with firmware updates.

any tips on speeding up the device would be appreciated


mac

[rubbish]

hi remacca, have you tried this?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE
change limit from 16384 to 32768
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\STORAGEMANAGER\FATFS
change cachesize to 4096

Also, killing the tasks/processes after using applications helps to maintain the speed

[rubbish]

It doesn't look like we get any advice for now. May be some kind soul will share a generic Palm 500 rom?...

[Cid_78]

Does anybody know whethet the SDHC Driver works in this Palm 500v? It will be very cool if Treo 500v can use 8 Gb MicroSDHC..

[rubbish]

no sdhc support according to pdadb.net info

[iridaki]

About turning off Vodafone skin:

HKLM\Security\Phone\Skin\Enabled = 0 (DWORD decimal)

That should do the trick, it is supposed to remove the skinapp and it worked with my Samsung-skinned SGH-i620.

Give it a shot!

[defcomg]

There 2 Version to this phone the vodafone branded 500v and the standard one The Palm Treo 500 maybe you could get the unbranded ones rom and flash it . Its Kinda like the motorola v360v and n0mal v360 it als0 was simalar u could flash with either firmware

[rubbish]

Dear My_Immortal

HKLM\Security\Phone\Skin\Enabled = 0 (DWORD decimal)

Tried that, it only changes the phone in-call skin. Thanks for trying to help though.

[rubbish]

defcomg
this would work but we didn't find anyone willing to share basic Palm 500 ROM yet...
thanks

[giannisk]

I am willing if you say how...

[defcomg]

Try Buzz Light Years Rom Dumper App Search Dev &HACKING SECTION IT APPS THAT DUMP THE R0M 0NT0 SD CARD

[remacca]

hi,

i'm currently using a ??fake?? 8gb micro sd for music, other than the issue of the siz of the card it play's music from it ok (just dump's anything over 4 ish gb into an unknown folder!!) am gonna return it to seller (amazon seller) and if they return a genuine card i'm confident it'll pick up all 8gb.

p.s anyone have a progamme to verify card capacity's??


cheers



Does anybody know whethet the SDHC Driver works in this Palm 500v? It will be very cool if Treo 500v can use 8 Gb MicroSDHC..

[johnstrike]

I installed Smarttoolkit (freeware, http://e-natives.com/) to avoid the Vodafone launcher in combination with a nice skin from http://smartphone.kleinweder.ch/downloads/index.php.

My Treo 500v now feels a little bit like a smartphone again. Still not perfect. I hope we can get an unbrandend ROM very soon.

[johnstrike]

I installed Smarttoolkit (freeware, http://e-natives.com/) to avoid the Vodafone launcher in combination with a nice skin from http://smartphone.kleinweder.ch/downloads/index.php.

My Treo 500v now feels a little bit like a smartphone again. Still not perfect. I hope we can get an unbrandend ROM very soon.

Too bad, Smarttookit makes my Treo 500V very instabile. Had to remove it, back to the Vodafone skin:mad:

[argosy]

I'm also looking for waste free 500v,
there are some new issues?

[rubbish]

thought I'd post it here as there's no specific thread for 500/500v. By default single press of 'side button' does nothing (how stupid), here is a simple registry tweak that will let you get some use out of it:
navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell\KeyMap s
change value for the key 197 to 2 (Quick List) or 3 (Key lock).
Not many options, I know, but at least something. I mapped it for the Quick List since it's a lot easier to hit side button rather than reach for the top power button.

[altcineva2009]

my treo has vodafone rom but is sim unlocked, i don't know how got unlocked, i buy it second hand, if anyone whants the rom let me know

[lucian777]

no sdhc support according to pdadb.net info

sdhc 4gb transcend works ok!