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A few weeks ago I posted 37 Tips & Tricks For HTC HD2 Leo, well I am posting 15 More Tips & Tricks for HTC HD2 Leo. So follow these 2 posts to Supercharge your beast even more.

1. Disable Extra Animation on Clock
Everytime you refresh the home screen, the flip clock starts 1 hour and 2 minutes back to show off the flip animation. You can disable this extra animation so it only flips when it needs to flips. Download the modified manila file (1581). Disable HTC Sense in Today settings. Backup original Windows file (you are going to overwrite) to your SD card. Extract downloaded file to Windows directory on your device (overwriting the original). Enable HTC Sense again in today settings.

2. Speed Up Web Page Loading Considerably
The following registry tweak will enable almost instantaneous web page loading in the web browser. It apparently enables wireless N mode but seems to work with cellular data too. Go to:
HKLM/Comm/BCMSDDHD1/Parms
11nModeDisable = Change from 1 to 0

3. Enable Magnifying Box When Selecting Text
Press and hold your finger on any text in a HTC app such as Messaging and an iphone-esque selection procedure with handles to drag and highlight text will appear. Modify the following registry entry to add a magnifying window as you select and highlight the text. Go to:
HKLM/Software/HTC/TextSelection/EnableMagnifier and change from 0 to 1.

4. Enable Graphical Send Icon Button in HTC Messaging
To send a text message you need to hit the left softkey button. The following registry tweak adds a graphic send button above the paperclip button. It also changes the ’send’ left soft key to a ‘back’ soft key.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\Manila\LSK_Send_Msg
Change from 1 to 0.

5. Permanently Delete Reappearing HTC Icons from Start Menu
If you delete the HTC shortcuts to Peep, People, Messaging etc and reset, they always come back. To delete these shortcuts for good (not the apps just the shortcuts) use the tweak below.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\Manila\IsShortcutEn able
Change to 0 and soft reset.

6. How to Enable More Than 1 Hotmail Account in Email Tab
By default you can only check one hotmail account at a time. Here is how to enable more hotmail accounts.

1. Create a new email account.
2. In the email field write your email but replace the “@hotmail.com” with “@hotmail.con”, this way the OS is not going to load Windows live messenger to sync your email.
3. Disable the option “Try to get e-mail settings…”
4. Select the email provider, in this case, Internet e-mail.
5. Complete the name and account display name
6. Incoming server: “pop3.live.com:995″. Account type: POP3
7. Complete the form with your username and password. Note: the username is your full email address: “yourusername@hotmail.com” and not “yourusername”.
8. Outgoing mail server: “smtp.live.com:25″. Check the “outgoing server requires au…”. Click on Advanced settings and check the “Require SSL…” for incoming and outgoing e-mail.
9. Complete the rest of the setup.
10. Now, go to your email account and go to Tools > Options, once there, click on the email account you just created and click on “Edit account setup.” NOTE: It might make you wait until it syncs 1 time.
11. Replace the “@hotmail.con” with the right one “@hotmail.com” and hit next ’till the end of the setup, and done.

7. Prevent Accidental Link Activation When Scrolling
Do you scroll and find you accidentally click on something? This tweak is for you.
HKLM/System/GWE/Touch/Filter/Minimumtaptime
Change from 0 to 30

8. Excellent Graphical Task Switcher Alternative
As the HD2 does not come with the task switcher/killer in the top right corner anymore you can use the task manager in system settings menu. However install Showcase and and the program icon to your homepage quick links for instant access to running tasks with a lovely graphical UI. Add it to the top row, right most icon. Good spot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530564

9. Enable More Than 10 URL Thumbnail Shortcuts on Internet Tab
By default you only get 10 shortcuts to your favourite websites on the internet tab. Now you can have as many as you want (multiples of 2) or even less than 10 if you so wish.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\Manila\Internet.Cou ntOfPush
Change from 10 to 12 or 14 or 16 or 18 etc etc

10. Add ‘Mark All Read’ to Email Inbox Menu
Install the MarkAllReadInbox (715) cab to add the feature to the menu of your email inbox. By default only Mark As Read is in the menu, not All read.

11. Add an Extra Row to Menu to Show More Options
By default the maximum amount of rows to show in pop up menus are 9. You can add one more row to show a total of 10 rows now.
HKLM/Software/HTC/HtcMenus/PortraitMaxItemCount
Change 9 to 10 and reset.

12. Enable 3G Button in Comm Manager
In Comm Manager, you can substitute the Microsoft direct push for Outlook button for a GSM/3G button by installing this HTC HD2 CommManager 3G (1569).

13. Enable All Currency Symbols from Main Keyboard
If you want to input the Euro, Yen or Pound symbol, you have to tap on the ‘12#’ key and then go to page 2. A bit cumbersome. Now you can have access to all of the currency symbols just by pressing and holding the ‘f’ key and then drag to choose the symbol you want. Install this cab (310).

14. Speed Up Scrolling of Internet and People Tab, Album Page and All People Page
You can speed up the speed of scrolling when you flick your finger by modifying the following registry tweak.
HKLM/SOFTWARE/HTC/HTCScroll/velocity_factor
Change to 20000 or higher. Experiment to what suits you.

15. Enable SMS Delivery Reports on O2 Network
O2 sadly do not support sms delivery reports no matter even if you enable them in sms settings or the registry. An alternative way is to add *0# in the body of the message followed by a space and then begin your message. The recipient does not see the code but you will get a message back saying when it has been delivered.

Source: xda-developers

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