ATT Fuze NEWBs only - Little setup guide (Touch up 02/10/09)

[tyguy]

Touched up some stuff that you don't have to click around through the whole thread. All LINKS are now in a separate post (#349) found here.
Edit 02/16/09 - Performance tweaks

How to make a stock Fuze ATT nice unbloated and performing reasonably well?
Lately several NEWB threads popped up and got answered individually which is very hard to track.
I thought I make a small write up what can be done with the stock ATT ROM without unlocking the phone and still have a decent device. Assumptions are that you don’t want/need the “goodies” supplied by ATT (called bloatware) and that you are willing to do some customization yourself. This is not in any disrespect to any ROM developer but I think some NEWBs are simply scared to tinker from day one with their device as in unlocking (SIM/Security unlock) and flashing several ROMs without really knowing what they are doing. They’ll do this later as soon as they are accustomed to their new shiny black fingerprint magnet.
NEWBs don’t forget that a lot of people here in the XDA community have a fairly good experience with HTC phones and come to the Raphael/Fuze through numerous other HTC devices (Tilt/Trinity etc. etc.) and know most of not all quirks and risks involved with flashing and hacking.
What you need:

• PC with active sync working (I’m not a MAC guy so some may chime in)
• SD card (highly suggested)
• Basic understanding what a soft- and hard reset is
• Quiet time (put kids, girlfriends, wives away for an hour or two) a good espresso, coke or coffee.

Installing stock ATT ROM without bloatware:
If you power on your device the first time you will be asked to align the screen, play with cut and paste, set a password. AFTER this step a large window will appear that the device will customize in a few seconds. At THAT MOMENT soft reset with the stylus in the reset hole. This will NOT install all ATT bloatware and will NOT install ATT’s version of TouchFlo3D (aka Manila). I bet that you will fail the first time, so look at the little ATT flyer where HARD RESET is explained and simply do it again. Hard reset will wipe out all you personal data. Not a big deal right now since you have none.
If you were successful you will have a green screen with some information on it.
Preparation:

• <Settings – Personal – Menus> Take everything OUT beside the “File Explorer”
• <Settings – Personal - Today – Items> take ALL checkmarks out, NOTHING should be checked.
• Switch your phone off and back on, your start menu should be empty and showing “Today/File Explorer/Programs/Settings” that’s all you need right now!
• Download the file in the provided link at the end and unzip to your PC.
• Connect to a PC using active sync (you actually need not to sync, just to connect so say “cancel” and do not establish a partnership).
• In active sync go to explore “MyWindows-MobileBasedDevice”, double click and double click on “Storage Card”. Create a new folder (File - New – Folder).
• I call mine “@ESSENTIALS” that it appears right in top regardless what will be installed later. Copy all files to your storage card under the newly created folder.

My package includes an OEM Manila and all basic tools to setup your device. Credit goes to all original creators (too many to list).

Installation:

• Open the File Explorer on your device and go to Storage Card “@essentials” /ManilaOEM tab on Manila animation and install ON DEVICE not storage card!
• The phone will say it’s an untrusted application confirm with YES (we’ll take care of this later).
• Phone will request a reboot, if not, reboot manually (power off/on).
• After reboot you will have a basic Manila, do NOT play with it yet!
• Open File Explorer on your device and go to the NetCF folder on the storage card and install NETCFv35.wm.armv4i on the device.
• Go to the Config folder and install ALL applications which are listed there (Advanced_Configuration_Tool_v3.3/Diamond TF3D Config Setup v0.6.7/Diamond Tweak 0.5.3_English).
• Power off/on you phone
• Go to Programs and Advanced Config Tool (acknowledge the warning and check the box that it doesn’t appear in the future).
• Perform the following changes:
  • User interface – Nothing
  • Today – Nothing
  • Performances – File system cache enabled / Cache size 2MB / Filter cache 4096 / Glyph cache 32 KB
  • Power Management – Nothing
  • Screen – Nothing
  • Input – Keyboard backlight timeout 30 seconds
  • Network – Nothing
  • Phone – Show Band page YES
  • Bluetooth – Nothing
  • GPS – Assisted GPS disabled (if you are NOT using ATT’s costly GPS service)
  • Log file – Leave untouched for now
  • Data Connections – HSDPA icon enabled / HSUPA support enabled
  • Internet Explorer – Proxy Auto Detection enabled
  • Messaging – Nothing
  • Calendar – Nothing
  • Camera – Save location DCIM
  • Locations – Change all DEFAULT STORAGE entries to \Storage Card\My Documents\ and then the folder name (pictures etc.)
  • Don’t touch other entries and go straight to
  • Light Sensor – Polling disabled
  • Miscellaneous – Security warning disabled
• Confirm with DONE and reboot phone

After reboot go to the Storage Card folder “Tools” and install in the numbered order 07_FExploreEXT_2_03 / 08_G - DK 4.3 Add 3G to Comm Manager should force a phone reboot, if not reboot after EACH one. After the boot go again to the tools folder and install 09_SASHIMI7.5 which will ask you some questions after install, just follow the instructions no harm will be done. Do some forum reading for what it is for. It will take some ROM flashing, Hard Reset fear away. Last but not least install 10_Data_Backup v3.1 (which is HTC Backup).
That’s the basic setup and you’ll have a good and reasonably fast running ATT Fuze.
If you want you can install Skyfire browser (on storage card) and the latest Opera Browser (on device overwriting what was provided with the Manila Package) and the latest google maps (on the storage card) which are in the corresponding folders in my package.
@essentials package content: (check also upd_1 additions here)

• \Browsers
  • Opera_9.5.2808_VGA _acard
  • Skyfire_8184-PPC50
• \Config
  • Advanced_Configuration_Tool_v3.3
  • Diamond TF3D Config Setup v0.6.7
  • Diamond Tweak 0.5.3_English
• \Google\GoogleMaps_compressed (latest with street view)
• \ManilaOEM
  • Manila animation (fully animated version)
  • Manila_1.2.34569.1_1813.6_clock_animated (only clock animated)
• \NetCF
  • NETCFv2WM (netCF 2.0)
  • NETCFv35.wm.armv4i (net CF 3.5)
• \Tools\ (files numbered in order to install)
  • 01_GPSTest.ppc
  • 02_LumosSetupV08 (great tool for better setup of the auto light sensor – DISABLE auto light sensor in you settings
  • 03_No Sleep Raphael
  • 04_regedit.Mrln_ARM (registry editor)
  • 05_tcmdpocketarm (Total Commander)
  • 06_TNT Battery Level (little tool to display status battery on top)
  • 07_FExploreEXT_2_03 (file explorer extensions)
  • 08_G - DK 4.3 Add 3G to Comm Manager (enable 3G on off on CommMgr.)
  • 09_SASHIMI7.5 (auto installer which will come handy with future ROM flashes)
  • 10_Data_Backup v3.1 (HTC Data Backup) install on device not SD
• MyMobile123_06152008. Copy this exe file to your PC and run it that you can control your phone through the PC, make screen shots etc.

A last word regarding backup:

• Do frequently backups!!
• If you plan to flash ROMs, backup ONLY the PIM database because a restore of a full backup will ruin your newly installed ROM!!!
• If you stick with the same ROM a full backup will work .
• A PIM backup contains by default all contacts and emails.

Have tons of fun with your new toy!!
Appearance content:

• RC Mod v.2.1 ENG.CAB
• Blue Hue.tsk
• Default_ROMeOS.tsk
• Default_TiR.tsk
• Diamond.tsk
• Glossy Black Bars.exe
• HTC Black.tsk
• myBlue_Void.tsk
• WM 6.1 Black.tsk
• WM 6.1 Blue.tsk
• some & screenshots named by the TSK files
• Clocks
  • Zitoun_Black
  • Matt_Jackson
  • JStar_Black

Notes:
TouchFlo3D aka Manila 3D has some default colors, so does ATT's version of Manila (I guess orange highlights). These are hard coded into the reg.
To change you have to edit the registry (regedit in the essentials).
Please read here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442286 at LEAST the first two pages to cover the large start menu as well!!!
To change upper and lower bars / softkey background I made a little appearance pack which you can download (screenshots are included).
I also included RCMod 2.1 from o3blig here in the forum if you really don't like any of the TSKs and Glossy Black Bars.exe for .. guess what GLOSSY BLACK BARS
Clocks
To change the basic clock you need to overwrite six files in the Windows directory using Total Commander provided with the first pack.
I suggest to copy the original files FIRST somewhere else in case you don't like the clock!!![/B]
The filenames are:

• 0aa5b915_manila
• 1bbfdc9b_manila
• 1c813f6c_manila
• 4e670504_manila
• 757e7332_manila
• 78ca32be_manila

[d0ugie]

Well-written and very informative yet more concise and effective than the Wiki if you ask me, at least for the audience you're targeting. That's sticky material in my book (but not in my bookmarks :P).

I linked your post on the top of my site which is more of a next step for the noobs once they make their way through your instructions. Feel free to reciprocate.

Doug

[KD8DNS]

Very good job, I can see you spent some time on that.

[Kerensky97]

Originally Posted by tyguy If you power on your device the first time you will be asked to align the screen, play with cut and paste, set a password. AFTER this step a large window will appear that the device will customize in a few seconds. At THAT MOMENT soft reset with the stylus in the reset hole. This will NOT install all ATT bloatware and will NOT install ATT’s version of TouchFlo3D (aka Manila). I bet that you will fail the first time, so look at the little ATT flyer where HARD RESET is explained and simply do it again. Hard reset will wipe out all you personal data. Not a big deal right now since you have none. If you were successful you will have a green screen with some information on it.

I did this when I first got my Fuze and it installed all the bloatware anyway after the soft reset but ran worse than with the bloat.
I don't mean to say this method doesn't work, just a word of warning that it's not 100% foolproof either. You might have to do it a few times to get the timing right for it to work; I just went with a cooked ROM in the end.

[tyguy]

Hey thanks for the comments and - yes - I ran more than once through this routine (this happens when you catch a BAD cold and have nothing to do at home ...).

@kerensky97

Hahaha mark my words ... upps QUOTE my words

At THAT MOMENT soft reset with the stylus in the reset hole. This will NOT install all ATT bloatware and will NOT install ATT’s version of TouchFlo3D (aka Manila). I bet that you will fail the first time, so look at the little ATT flyer where HARD RESET is explained and simply do it again.

[fuzewoes]

I first want to thank you tyguy, i followed your directions and am quite pleased. Secondly i wanted to ask if there was a way to reactivate the 'zoom' wheel feature to the opera browser.

[jdomi99]

Great guide! Exactly what I was looking for. I do have one issue: I already got past the first time powering on and setup, so all the ATT bloatware was installed. Any cures for this scenario?

[fuzewoes]

Originally Posted by jdomi99 Great guide! Exactly what I was looking for. I do have one issue: I already got past the first time powering on and setup, so all the ATT bloatware was installed. Any cures for this scenario?

a hard reset can be performed by Start>settings>system>clear storage>1234>ok.

this will allow you to start the process over

[jdomi99]

Thanks, fuzewoes, I'll try that.

[Furious911]

Dude I've had my FUZE for about 3 weeks and have it all setup nicely but Im gonna save a backup an hard reset and try this, just sounds to great to pass up, does the manilla you have us install look like that black one or does it look like the gray style that comes with att stock? Does it let you set backgrounds to all tabs?

Thanks man!