Troubles and Problems

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I've had my Mini for just a few days. I had a Touch (elf) and I am having difficulty doing some of things on the Mini that I did on the elf.

1. Some of the fonts are atrocious. Clear Type? Well, I read that you have to tweak the registry to make the Screen function available. So, Supwitdat? Seems a step backwards. Maybe there's another way.

2. The calendar on the Elf has a robust array of of selections for scheduling appointments. For example, I have an appointment that happens every other Sunday. I couldn't figure out how to schedule that appointment in the Mini. Did I miss something? Perhaps there's some good calendar software that I could install to replace the HTC version.

3. Ok, I'm a bit long the tooth and my hearing ain't what it used to be. The thing is that unless the phone is in my hand I can't hear the audio files provided for ring tones, reminders and notifications. The volume on the phone is full blast, too. Perhaps there are web sites where loud (for the older folks) can be found.

4. Apparently, the full keyboard doesn't have a delete key. That's weird.

Thanks in advance.
Anybody got any Ideas or suggest, I'd be grateful.

I had the same gripes with the new calendar. HTC dumbed it down into basic useless eye-candy. I used ThumbCal 1.4.3 to replace that. (Not exactly replaced. I deactivated the calendar tab from the homescreen, and changed the left soft key to ThumbCal for easy access.) ThumbCal is a magnificent calendar app. Answers to most, if not all, of my calendar needs. Including scheduling complicated recurrence and making duplicates. Although the tiny icons-only tags can be confusing at first. As opposed to the text description of WinMo Calendar. But you'll get the hang of it shortly.

For the ringtones, the speaker actually works fine. Good enough. But the problem lies in the physical design of the loud-speaker grill. It's flushed with the rubbery back cover. So the surrounding rubbery cover tends to provide an airtight confinement around the grill if you placed it on the desk. Effectively muffling the speaker. Same case when in the pocket. So you have to place it on something uneven on the desk, and rely on the vibrator in the pocket.

As for the full keyboard, you'll just have to rely on the backspace key.

I got another major problem with the mini.

In Excel Mobile, HTC somehow strangely disallow you to hide the headers and scrollbars in normal view. It can only automatically disappear in full-screen mode; but together with it, the status bar disappears, and you're not allowed to unhide it in full-screen mode. Making Excel quite difficult to use in mini.

Anybody knows how to tweak this in registry?

Thanks for you input, Fellas. I really do need a better calendar so I am now on the hunt.

Hi thar,
i have realy major issue with this mini device ... it came to me with old 1.06 ROM, so i've decided to download and flash the new 1.36 ROM, since that time iam unable to play any mpeg4 video, no matter what player iam trying (TCMP, CorePlayer, Smartmovie, Default Windows player so far) all those keeps telling me that iam missing some god damn MP42 codec all i can play is basically only MPEG, MPEG2 and uncompressed AVI. I've tried my best to find this codec on the interwebz, yet i failed badly.
So if anyone got any idea how to fix this annoying problem i would realy appreciate it.

P.S. yes i've tried redownload/reflashing the ROM