Discussion: New HTC Fuze ROM Released

"Jolylady,

You can disable the TouchFLO by going to Settings/Today/Items and unchecking TouchFLO 3D. This will give you te basic Windows Mobile start screen (Today). If you cannot find a solution to your TouchFLO 3D issue, you might do this and use third party software such as SBSH Pocket Breeze and SPB Pocket Plus to manage the software on your dievice and see your schedule. These are Today plugins that work great. I have not yet tried them with the Fuze though.You can get these and other Windows Mobile applications from www.handango.com. I am also thinking about installing SPB Mobile Shell on my Fuze which will give it a total makeover. Has anyone else out there tried SPB Mobile Shell on the Fuze?"

"I had just gotten my new Fuze on the 10th. As I was checking the HTC website, I saw the new ROM. I decided to be brave and try to install it in the hopes that some other quirks I noticed would be resolved. The ROM install went off without a hitch and all the advertised feature were appropriately added. In fact, something I've never had showed up...when I get an email that is high-priority and I have my Bluetooth headset on, the system reads the header line of the email to me as it's signalling a new email as arrived. The first time it happened, I was totally freaked out - but now I've gotten used to it. However, I can't seem to find any way for the volume to be increased. With my other phones (Moto Q, LG Incite) when the phone rang, the tone would be able to be set for a loud volume and the ringtone would also play through the headset. Now, unfortunately, this phone rings rather quietly (even on the highest volume setting)! Add to that, when it does ring - all I hear in the headset is a 'beep'. This can be a problem -especially while driving. I'm not going to make this an HTC fault just yet. Although they don't seem to have a way to create your own ring profile and have it ring loud, this other problem could be just that my Plantronics Voyager headset has finally worn out after 2 years. I'm going back to my favorite AT&T store and see if it's any different scenario with a different headset. If any of you have any experience with any of this, I would greatly appreciate some guidance. TIA"

"Did you flash the ROM upgrade from an XP based PC or a Vista based PC?"

"I upgraded the new ROM and can not set a different ringtone under the phone settings. I can move music to My Ringtones and set it there using file explorer... but, everytime I go to the phone options to set a different alert, the ringtone is "undone" and I have to reset it in file explorer. Anyone else having this problem?"

"The ROM upgrade doesn't change the look and feel of the interface. It is still TouchFlo3D. This ROM upgrade is to fix bugs in the original ROM. Of particular interest to most users is the fix for the Voice Command/ Bluetooth conflict where VC doesn't allow duplex phone communication with a bluetooth headset. If you want a different look and feel, there are cooked 6.5 versions available. I have been using Spb Mobile Shell that I like better than TouchFlo3D or the 6.5 interface. Look at www.spbsoftwarehouse.com for details on Mobile Shell 2.0 and 3.0. I am using 3.0 on my Tilt and 2.0 on my Fuze. They both work very well and allow me to customize the look and feel of the device to do what I want."

"Now I am having an issue where my Touch-Flo is not working correctly. I go to my e-mail and try to scan down to highlight and it will not highlight at all. I can hear the audible for the Touch Flo but it is not working. Seems like there is a bug."

"Mine never had a problem with that. Buletooth with voice command always worked fine from the start. The issue my FUZE had was a long delay between an incomming call, and a ring. The way I solved that one, was with DIAMOND TWEAKS. Now there is about a 1 ring delay, from the callers side, before the audio on my phone kicks in. I can live with that. My problem before was that most of my incomming calls would go into voicemail, before my phone would ring."

"Thanks for that info. I had heard that he VC/BT conflict problem didn't exist on some of the Fuze phones, but you are the first one I've heard of that actually has a phone that was unaffected by the bug. I'm planning to flash my ROM with the new one that is suppose to fix the problem. I have not heard about the ring delay issue. FYI - I looked at Diamond Tweaks, but ended up downloading Advanced Configuration 3.3 because it has more tweaks available. If DT does what you need that's great. If you need more tweaks take a look at AC3.3. I put up a page on this Wiki with download and install details for AC3.3, and also a reference to the website that gives details of what AC does."