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Paul's MDA Vario III de-Brand (0.3)
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Posted 28 September 2007 - 03:11 PM

I vote BS ;)

Sadly people still think T-Mo coverage is like it was 'in the old days'...

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Posted 28 September 2007 - 03:11 PM

I've been to all of those places and never recalled having signal probs!

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Posted 28 September 2007 - 03:39 PM

It's not working for me...(installation was unsucessful)

would it be because I have already done the start menu ordering and W n W button myself??

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Posted 28 September 2007 - 04:03 PM

Shouldn't make a difference mandt!

Version 0.2 now online with Comm Manager de-Brand.

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Posted 28 September 2007 - 04:30 PM

Its coming up as a .php file for me.

downloading from my vario, so i cant change the file extension.

Oh any chance of adding the GPS Camera regedit?

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Posted 28 September 2007 - 04:36 PM

That's not a de-Brand, that's a tweak, so is in the tweak pack ;)

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Posted 28 September 2007 - 04:44 PM

Ah cool, Ive got the debrand now, emailed it to myself from my work pc. ;)

Thing is, in the tweak pack, some of that has already been coverd by the T-Mobile customisation.

Does it cause any conflicts installing over the top of the Vario III?

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Posted 28 September 2007 - 04:45 PM

Nope!

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Posted 28 September 2007 - 04:48 PM

Nice, installing now. ;)

Its the weekend!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted 28 September 2007 - 04:58 PM

Still no good, dunno what's going on.....installed loads of other bits

will have a play some more, need to get rid of the pink and feel all manly again ;)

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Posted 29 September 2007 - 12:01 AM

Downloaded as a index.php for me too using PIE on my Vario III, a quick trip into total commander (the first thing I installed on the phone when I got it) and that was fixed and the cab installed. The HTC Home plugin looks so much better in the original colours. ;)

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Posted 01 October 2007 - 11:21 AM

Installed fine, but 'Ringer' icon in comm panel still comes up pink for me ;)

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Posted 01 October 2007 - 11:37 AM

And the Web n Walk button now comes up with the error "Error starting \windows\start menu\messages\messaging.lnk" ;) :wub:
WnW doesn't appear in the buttons config page any more but the IE button does and changing that has no effect.

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Posted 01 October 2007 - 02:19 PM

Guys, just ordered my Vario via T-Mobile so doing some prep work in advance ;)

Paul, can I do these tweaks on my Mac G5? Or do I need access to a PC?

Also, being totally IT illiterate, are these tweaks also know as a "de-brand"? Or is the de-brand totally different?

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Posted 01 October 2007 - 08:47 PM

View PostLeeJS1, on Oct 1 2007, 11:37, said:

And the Web n Walk button now comes up with the error "Error starting \windows\start menu\messages\messaging.lnk" ;) :wub:
WnW doesn't appear in the buttons config page any more but the IE button does and changing that has no effect.


OK, this was actually to do with AEButton and not this, but the ringer icon is still pink!

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Posted 02 October 2007 - 01:27 PM

Pinned! Getting somewhat lost amongst the other posts here. Don't forget to update this thread with the latest versions of your de-brander rather than starting a new one... mmmkay!

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Posted 02 October 2007 - 01:33 PM

View PostLeeJS1, on Oct 1 2007, 21:47, said:

OK, this was actually to do with AEButton and not this, but the ringer icon is still pink!


The only time I find the ringer icon is pink is when it is set to off. It is blue when it is on and when set to vibrate on my Vario III after installing the tweak pack.

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Posted 02 October 2007 - 08:08 PM

For the guys (like me) who are having trouble with this, here are the default Kaiser icons, one zip for the Comm manager, one for ther HTC Home plugin

Attached File  Vario_III_Comm_manager_blue_icons.zip (117.46K)
Number of downloads: 312
Attached File  Vario_III_HTC_Home_blue_icons.zip (99.16K)
Number of downloads: 318

Simply unzip 'em to \Windows and overwrite when prompted, You will probably need to use Resco or Total Commander to overwrite the files

Soft-reset and no more pink!!

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Posted 03 October 2007 - 01:18 PM

May I ask for a little help please... before I mess up my new toy ;)

Can someone please give me an idiots guide to carrying out the de-brand.

I've downloaded the zipped files. Do I email the Zip file to myself on the phone and then let the phone do the rest?

Or do I have to Unzip all the files first and then send them to the phone?

Thanks

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Posted 04 October 2007 - 07:09 AM

Ok........Idiot :D

Firstly let me reassure you that you won't mess up your phone, all you're doing is overwriting a pink image with a blue image

Tools you need:
Resco Explorer or Total Commander

you can either unzip the file on your desktop, or send the zip to the phone and unzip it on the phone using the built in zip utility (found in the Start menu), this will probably depend on how you want to send the files. If you email them then leave them zipped and unzip them on the phone. If you connect the phone to your PC using ActiveSync ( or WMDC if you have Vista) then unzip the file on the desktop and copy the individual files over

Either way get the images into a folder in, for example, My Documents

Now using Resco Explorer or Total Commander (that you already installed :wub:) browse to the files and copy them into \Windows, as I said in my post above you will probably get a warning saying they are system files, are you sure blah blah. To which of course you say yes because they are just pictures!!!

now go to Start>Settings>Today>Items and remove the HTC Home plugin, reload it again and it should be all blue ;) If not then a soft reset will sort it

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