AllShadow.com Performance Enhancements v1.0

Posted by Mike Benton on June 17th, 2008

Thanks to the AllShadow Community! If it wasn’t for the Contributors in the Forum this post wouldn’t be possible!

For new Shadow owners, or those that don’t want to mess with the registry, this file will provide some basic performance enhancements. After installation you will notice that your Shadow is running more to your liking. Be sure to check back now and then as updates will happen.

Enhancements/Changes this file makes to the Shadow are:

  • Application Unlock – enables certain programs to fully operate (i.e. Google Maps ‘My Location’ feature)
  • SMS Sent Notification turned off – gets rid of that annoying Message Sent notification you get when sending texts
  • Disabled Neo Interface Windows Media Player (WMP) – this does not remove WMP from your phone or make it unusable, it only turns off the ‘pane’ in the Neo interface. This specific pane uses a lot of memory and slows your phone down. You can still use Windows Media Player from the Start menu
  • Slimmer Scrollbars – slimmer scroll bars means more screen Real Estate
  • Larger Glyph Cache – speeds up graphics
  • Enable Clear type – smoother fonts

To Install:

  • Download AllShadow.com Performance Enhancements v1.0 to your computer and then transfer to your phone.
  • Go to Start > File Explorer > and navigate to where you downloaded the file and run it (highlight and press center select)
  • After Installation turn your phone off, remove the battery for 30 seconds (to be sure) then turn the Shadow back on.
  • AllShadow Community Veterans: If you feel there is something I should add to this that most people will enjoy please post in the comments (a link to the forum post describing the addition would suffice as well).

    Here’s the file in case you didn’t see it up above:

    AllShadow.com Performance Enhancements v1.0.cab

    This is the same file as above except in a zip file: AllShadow.com Performance Enhancements v1.0.cab.zip

    If you want to suggestion an addition to this read the forum thread . Please read everything and use the Search feature before requesting support.

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    1. City Transit on Google Maps Mobile
    2. Here’s a Quick Way to Change the Homepage
    3. SMS No Sent Notify .CAB
    4. Kill the “Message Sent” SMS Notification
    5. Another Great Way to Navigate AllShadow.com


    59 Comments

    • phazz said:

      nice

    • Rich said:

      i enjoy using the smart tool kit. maybe that should be added too.

    • Rich said:

      is there a cure for getting an entire email without having to use send/receive and to automatically download internet pictures?

    • Dave said:

      This is great simply for finally removing the windows media player from the neo homescreen. I have mistakenly hit that button several times and had Avril lavigne come on during a meeting or other inopportune moment!! never again. Thanks Alot!

    • vdubjb said:

      This is brilliant! I cant wait to get home to install this! Cheers to all involved!

    • ajb303 said:

      wow, thats awesome. thanks mike

    • JEFF said:

      I WANT TO THANKYOU FOR MAKING IT EASY AND FUN ON MY SHADOW. THANKS MIKE….

    • SJSMR2 said:

      If I end up not liking the improvments made to my shadow can this be uninstalled?

    • derrick said:

      i am gonna try this

    • derrick said:

      will this work while i have the smart tweaker installed on my shadow?

    • mike said:

      awesome

      maybe add the hack that changes the thinking icon to the smaller one

      the default one is way too big

    • devin said:

      is this possiable to do on a apple computer?

    • dan5150 said:

      WooHoo! This is great! I simply e-mailed the file to myself, and saved the attachment on the phone, and installed it. Google Maps now works! Thanks! If I could just remove the WMP from the HTC Diamond Home screen that would be awsome!

    • jmts80 said:

      Thank you so much this is a great improvement. Thanks to this site my shadow is a much better phone

    • SJSMR2 said:

      did you all need to pull the battery as the directions said? Or did a soft reset do it?

    • TY said:

      A definite improvement … Thanks! Love not having the WM player on the home screen. Keep it coming!

    • Aaron said:

      THANKS FOR THE GREAT AND USEFUL ENHANCEMENT….all the sh!t that I can do on my phone makes me not even think about how im gonna pay for the HTC Diamond right now…right now im good with my shadow

    • Jose C said:

      nice!!!!!!!!

    • Shadow Mike said:

      Good Job… Mike, Is this what your PM was about the other day ?

      Also I hope to see more :)

    • Robb said:

      this makes the phone run so much faster…..kudos!

    • Nick M said:

      if i already have some of the apps offered in this download do i have to uninstall them before i download this file?

    • Mike Benton said:

      Rich, I considered adding Smart toolkit, but it is in beta and offered from their ad supported page.

      SJSMR2, yes you can uninstall it. Pulling the battery is recommended to ensure the changes happen. But you don’t have to, I’m guessing you have a case around your Shadow. Just leave it off for 30 secs.

      Shadow Mike, no the PM was a little different for a different project.

      Nick M, you don’t have to but it is recommended so if you do uninstall them after it won’t mess anything up.

      To Everyone else, thank you. Keep the ideas coming. Any future releases of the AllShadow Performance Enhancement (ASPE) will contain changes and enhancements that 70-90% of the community will enjoy. It won’t be possible to include everything but we will consider everything.

      Thanks

      Derrick, yes it will work with smart tweaker although I can’t tell you how ST will interfere with the changes this makes.

      Devin, yes if you can sync your Shadow to your apple then download and transfer it. Otherwise you can email it to your email account setup on your Shadow (or mms it)

    • Mot's Shadow said:

      Mike,

      Thanks for the great download. One cab I would love to see added is a copy and paste feature.. I find that I need to do this from time to time in emails.

      Thanks again for the great stuff! Keep it coming everyone!

      Mot

    • Lishous said:

      ok i’m a dork but i have most of these already installed/setup. If i run this cab will it recognize that i’ve done some of these already or will i get conflicting errors?

    • ajb303 said:

      Lishous, no. I too already had the no sent msg and wmp taken off. No problems here.

    • nawar said:

      where can i find just the smoothing text and larger glyph cache cabs? i dont need the other things

    • Rich said:

      mike, is there a way to get whole emails with pics without having to use the send/receive?

    • vclassic1500 said:

      This add on along with the others I have down loaded have worked great from the get go, its nice seeing that slide bar gone.

    • SJSMR2 said:

      Well I just installed the .cab file and I am liking the improvements made.

    • Nick M said:

      is anyone else having problems downloading it? do we have to save it on the computer and then sync it or can we download straight to the phone?

    • Shadowsoprano said:

      I think save to PC, then sync to phone is what you need to do

    • SJSMR2 said:

      Or Email it to the phone. I did it this way. It is also mentioned above in the comments.

    • tippingvan said:

      is there a way to be able to pick the upgrades we want to add to our phone. Instead of applying all of them. I kind of just want the last three.

    • SJSMR2 said:

      To the post above. I wanted to do the same thing. But trust me. Killing WMP on the Neo screen saves memory. And the app unlock opened up Google Maps and I am sure it will be useful for other programs too.

    • DJ_Zephyr said:

      I have found 1 problem so far: when I go back to the home screen from wmp, it stops playing and I can’t open it up again. I am forced to soft reset my phone to get it back.
      I like the cab except that it messed with my wmp, I would like another 1 that has that fixed

      to those who are running opera mobile, you can download it from there straight to your phone
      I tried off of skyfire (which I love btw) and internet explorer but opera is the only 1 that got through

    • Mike Benton said:

      DJ_Zephyr, I was unable to recreate the problem you are having. Check the button assignments you have in WMP. In WMP > Menu > Options > Buttons. What button are pressing to go back to the home screen? Do you have any custom panes in the Neo interface?

    • ShadowFan2008 said:

      Love the “all-in-one” enhancements!!!!!!!
      Didn’t require a bunch of different CABS to accomplish all this. I’ve tried a couple of homemade CABS that you mentioned on this site, and my Shadow acted up, so I removed them. But this CAB is working flawless.

      MY LOCATION actually works on Google Maps! I believe I asked about MY LOCATION on Google Maps before on this site, and someone replied that I needed a bluetooth GPS connected. The Google Maps loaded pretty fast with the tz-hck.

      No problem with my WMP going back to the home screen.
      Love the faster NEO. Glad you got rid of the slow loading WMP neo icon and made all icons smaller.

      Can’t wait to see whats in store for v2.0 :o)

    • DJ_Zephyr said:

      well I just press the home button or end
      another thing is that im not using the neo interface, im using a mobilerob alarm info homescreen which looks like the normal windows mobile homescreen except it includes a shortcut to the alarm

    • DJ_Zephyr said:

      I just did some testing and found that as long as I press the end button, I am ok

    • ShadowMite said:

      I loaded this cab and I didn’t see any changes.
      I still had WMP on Neo home screen.
      Also SMS Sent Notification was still popping up.
      Is there something I did wrong?
      I e-mailed this cab to me and loaded like the instructions said.

    • rob said:

      I would like to see the “clock time always on top” in the next performance enhancement. So far I love this one!

    • rob said:

      one more thing. Is it ok to put .cab file on my micro sd card and install it on my micro sd card, thanks!

    • somali said:

      Shadowmite just restart your phone to notice the changes.

    • Mike Benton said:

      DJ_Zephyr, perhaps it is something about that plugin then.

      Rob, this needs to be installed to the device, it is only 2KB.

    • shadowuserAC said:

      I’m glad I downloaded these enhancements but I’m already missing the WMP pane on my homescreen lol. Is there a way I can restore that pane but keep the rest of the enhancements? Also, why not include the tweak to have the clock on every window that you open? That’d be sweet. Nonetheless great work ShadowMike!

    • ShadowMite said:

      somali, I did restart my phone and took battery out for 30 seconds still no change.

    • MiKe said:

      Odd thing happened to me… I downloaded and installed the file (along with SMS bubbles and streaming media) and they all functioned but my Shadow was running super slow. Did I have too many programs installed?

    • newshadowmemeber said:

      Wow. The programs from this website work great. i wish i would have know about this website when i got my phone! there is so much helpful information on here that i have to explore. thank you for all your help!!!

    • tim said:

      Guys I can not get this to install on my shadow. I emailed the 3 files to myself and was able to download. When I tried to open the .xml file, it gave a bunch of code. I tried opening the other 2 files but the shadow said it is unrecognizable. Someone please help a brother out!

    • Aubrey said:

      I am having the same problem as Tim. I put the update on my PC then transfered to my phone and clicked on it but just a bunch of coded stuff popped up. The other 2 files it doesnt even recognize. What am I doing wrong? Please help me!

    • jeffdman64 said:

      why cant you have the media player still on the scroll bar and still have the phone work faster.

    • Heather said:

      Same thing as Tim and Aubrey. My phone was pretty new, so I did a hard reset, re installed this….same code. same pop up after text…i am not sure what changes i am suppose to notice, but I notice nothing.

    • Kalvindawg said:

      If I already have the htc diamond installed will this mess with that install at all? Or is it ok to go ahead and install cause I love the htc diamond home screen!! Thanks!

    • Shhon75 said:

      It’s not working for me. I have a Shadow. I tried emailing it, MMS. Please Help ME

    • Shhon75 said:

      Thanks Dj_Zephyr. I download it from opera mobile and worked.

      Thank you Mike for creating this.

      to those who are running opera mobile, you can download it from there straight to your phone

    • Jimmy said:

      the link doesnt work anymore…?

    • City Transit on Google Maps Mobile - AllShadow.com said:

      [...] Google added Public Transit Directions for most major cities to Google Maps Mobile. So if you take the Bus/Train/Blimp a lot (or are traveling to a city that eats subway cars for dinner) then you might consider upgrading your Google Maps. If you don’t have Google Maps yet then what are you waiting for? In addition to the ever familiar map it also supports an external Bluetooth GPS (which we have in the store…ahem). Google Maps also has a My Location feature which is handy if you only kind of need to know where you are. Sometimes it is accurate to within 1000 meters and at othertimes 5000 meters. You will need to App Unlock your Shadow to get the My Location feature working, which can be easily accomplished by installing the AllShadow.com Performance Enhancements. [...]

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    • ~Kay~ said:

      I must be doin’ something wrong… I downloaded this onto my computer and then used the file manager that Shadow offers to transfer it onto my fone… prob is that I try to click on it under documents and it wont do anything? What am I doin wrong? This is NOT the first time I tried using advice from this site and it not work… not the site’s fault if other ppl r able… its just this shadow dork isnt savvy… HELP!!!


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