BITS Computer Repair Orlando Company Gives 7 Critial Tilt 2 Updates Remove AT&T Bloatware, Stop tilt 2 Freezing, and more
The ATT Tilt 2 is a great phone for business users or those who want to break free from the constrains of the Apple IPhone. I have owned the models of HTC slide out keyboard phones (8525, 8925, and the Original Tilt) so I was pretty fired up about buying the Tilt 2 with Windows Mobile 6.5. Once I opened the box and started using my Tilt 2 my excitement slowly burnt out. I powered the phone on an noticed it was full of AT&T bloatware that needed to be removed, no tethering, today screens that needed customizing, and not to mention my AT&T Tilt 2 was freezing every time I tried to do anything with email messages. After a couple of days I slowly started to think spending $300 on this device was not such a great decision. Once time allowed I began finding fixes to my issues and fell in love all over again. I have outlined solutions to all my problems below so you don’t have to spend the hours and days I did searching for them.
Removing 45MB of AT&T Tilt2 Bloatware
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=UninstallingTilt2Software
TouchFlo Internet Tab Set Internet Search Default to Google
Change “HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila\InternetSearchUrl” to “http://www.google.com/m/search?q=%s”
Change Tilt 2 Internet Tab from AT&T Webpage
http://www.fuzemobility.com/how-to-change-the-default-page-on-the-internet-tab/
I had to add extra icons to set default browser to Internet Explorer (Opera wouldn’t load Bank of America Mobile Site)
http://www.fuzemobility.com/add-an-application-short-cut-to-the-internet-tab-2/
My “InternetPortal-en-US.xml” file
icon for bofa mobile
icon for fandango mobile
If you use the default WM 6.5 today screen download “Home Screen Customizer” to remove unneeded items from today screen.
Setup Configure Tethering Tilt 2
I changed HKLM\Comm\InternetSharing\Settings\ForceCellConnec tion to “MEdia Net”
Tilt 2 tmail.exe Freezing when Texting, emailing, or downloading headers
I have 5 email accounts setup on my phone. When my settings were set to download all message headers and attachments for all my accounts my email would freeze just about every time I opened a message. Although I wasn’t downloading the full messages or attachments it had a hard time keeping up with all the data. To solve the problem I changed the settings to download all my messages and attachments less than 256K from only my main email account. For all my other email accounts I only downloaded message headers within the last 24hrs with no attachments. Since I made this change my tilt2 has not frozen on me at all. I guess it was having a problem indexing the tons of messages in all my email boxes.
Hope this helps
Have you tried Skyfire as a browser? I’ve used it on my Treo 750 and my Tilt (1?). It uses flash and java, lets you watch video and all kinds. I don’t know yet what the new WMIE is like, but Skyfire blows the next recent one away. It does suck battery though, so I still use IE for checking email, Twitter & FB. Thanks for the tips here. Getting my Tilt 2 in the mail tomorrow, so I’ll report back here with my results. @arkansite
So how do I get the Bloatware off my phone? I got the Tilt 2 and have it running on TMobile. I want to remove the ATT junk as it is of no use to me. I went to the “Removing 45MB of AT&T Tilt2 Bloatware” link and it only lists the software, not the steps to remove it.
wow, this helped. just got the TouchPro2 last night and have been looking for a fix for the internet tab search. hate yahoo… thanks dude.