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Most hardware hacks are not for the faint-hearted, and this one is no exception. PPCGeeks member Bigshady had become tired of the while ring of light around the D-Pad on the HTC Touch Pro and decided to personalize it a bit. Soon after, with a bit id disassembly, a firm hand and replacement coloured LED’s his Touch Pro not sports a rainbow of colours.

Fortunately micro-soldering is not the only way to achieve the look.  Disassembling your Touch Pro and using coloured sharpies on the LED and silicone windows behind the keys seem to work nearly as well, and is much less likely to leave you in tears.

Read the full PPCGeeks thread for more detailed instructions.

Via FuzeMobility.com

FuzeMobility reports that Touch Pro owners can now happily upgrade their old and busted TouchFlo3D to the new, nice and shiny TouchFlo3D 2, now modified to work on VGA screens.

The project is courtesy of Xboxmod, and is conveniently available as a cab file, so no troublesome ROM flashing required.

Get the download link and read more at FuzeMobility.com.

The HTC Touch Pro/ HTC Fuze has, in its TV out, a great feature, but it only works with a relatively expensive $21.99 HTC TV out cable.  For a feature that will not be used very often it can be a bit pricy, but I think at $2.79 it becomes a no-brainer.

This hack, discovered on the PPCGeeks forum, makes this radical cost reduction possible.  It turns out all you need is an iPod TV-out cable connected to the HTC Fuze multi-adaptor cable and a small registry edit to get TV out for cheap working.

The appropriate iPod cable can be gotten fro cheap nearly anywhere. DealExtreme is offering the cable at only $2.79 with free shipping. The registry hack it taken care of by this new control panel applet by no2Chem.

Read more about this great discovery at PPCGeeks here.

One of our commenters said the real size comparison they wanted to see was the HTC Touch Pro vs the HTC Touch Pro 2, which seems a fair question, the one being the successor to the other.

Unfortunately I have neither device here, but quickly mocked up this graphic showing the relative sizes.

The HTC Touch Pro is 51 x 102 x 18.05 millimetres, while the Touch Pro 2 is 59.2 x 116 x 17.25 millimetres. That makes the Touch Pro 2 a much larger device, 8.2mm (1/3 inch) wider and 14 mm (0.55 inches) taller.  In fact, the device is even slightly taller than the HTC Kaiser (59 x 112 x 19mm).  Of course of the 3 devices the Touch Pro 2 is the thinner, at 17.25 mm, but one does have to wonder about the range of appeal of such large device, even for business users.

Of course the big 62.1 x 115.5 x 12.3 iPhone 3G does prove that if you make a device interesting enough the public is willing to overlook trivial things such as the size of the device.

Of note also is the curved design, with sloping sides, which does a lot to improve the hand-feel of the device and gives the impression that its a lot smaller than it really is.

Is the Touch Pro 2 too large?  Let us know in the comments.

In 6 months time many HTC Touch Pro/ Fuze  owners are going to start having loose keyboards, and some intrepid owners will be looking at tightening the rails up themselves.

For these adventurous types the HTC Raphael Service manual may be of great use, as it describes in great detail how to disassemble the Touch Pro safely (and believe me, it looks pretty tricky).

The manual is presently available to download from HTCwinmobile here.  Get it quick, because who knows how long it will last.

A new app has been developed on XDA-Developers.com which solves the annoying problem brought on by the lack of a proximity sensor on HTC’s now older devices like the Touch Diamond, Pro and HD.

With these devices, the screen switches off soon after a phone call is started, preventing you from pressing on-screen buttons with your ear, but also preventing you from navigating various dial tone menus one often encounter. The only way to access these keys is to manually switch the device back on again.

The application, called Touch In Call Tweak, uses the G-sensor in the above devices to detects, while a phone call is ongoing, when a device is vertical (and presumably therefore held up to your ear) and switches the screen off, but also detects when the device is held horizontally, as when entering keys, and switches back on again.

According to the thread participants the software works pretty well, and is reducing annoyance levels all over the world.

Download Touch In Call Screen Tweak from XDA-Developers here.

Via FuzeMobility.com

As is usual with these things, the new HTC Diamond 2 ROM has brought with it many software updates which have trickled down, courtesy of XDA-Developers, to older devices. 

One such improvement is the new G-sensor accelerometer service, which now allows one to enable rotation of applications by simply adding the windows class to a list in the registry. 

While this is a lot simpler than running larger apps like Gsen, and should be more reliable because it does not require any 3rd party apps, finding our the window class of your favourite app is not that simple.

G-Config by makeveral solves this problem by allowing one to add applications to the registry list rather simply. One only need to run the G-Config, remove the stylus and insert it when the app in question is in the foreground. After the app is added to the list G-Config is no longer needed and can be closed.

To download G-Config visit this XDA-Developers thread here.