Thread: Touch Cruise performance tweaks

Step by step guide dedicated to increase the performance of your HTC Touch Cruise.

Most of these require a registry editor like PHM

1. Speedup Touchflo by increasing Frames Per Second
- HKLM\Software\HTC\Biotouch\Biotouch\
- Change "DownFPS", "LightFPS" and "UpFPS" from default 15 to 60
- Change "LeftRightFPS" in 60

2. Increase Touchflo sensitivity
- HKLM\software\OEM\TFLOSettings\FingerPressure
- Change from default 2908 to 10892

3. Better Touchflo scrolling
- HKLM\Drivers\Touchpanel\PressureThreshold
- Change from default 18866 to 19866, 20866 or 40866. Makes the scroll better.

4. Disable Large startmenu
- Go to "Start -> Settings -> Personal -> Large Start Menu"
- Disable large startmenu by unchecking the box.

5. Disable the HTC Taskmanager
- Go to "Start -> Settings -> System -> Task Manager -> Button"
- Disable "Enable the "X" button to end running programs" by unchecking the box.
- Disable "Enable Quick Menu on Today screen" by unchecking the box.

6. Increase font cache
- To increase the font cache, speeding up font rendering at the cost of a bit of memory:
- HKLM\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE\limit = 16384 or 32768 (DWORD decimal)
- To change it back to the default:
- HKLM\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE\limit = 8192 (DWORD decimal)

7. Enable FileSystem cache
- To enable the FileSystem cache, speeding up overall performance at the risk of the cache not being written on a sudden reset:
- HKLM\System\StorageManager\FATFS\EnableCache = 1 (DWORD decimal)
- To disable again:
- HKLM\System\StorageManager\FATFS\EnableCache = 0 (DWORD decimal)
Note that by default, the cache size is zero, and you will see no effect. See "Increase FileSystem cache" to incease the cache size.

8. Increase FileSystem cache
- To increase the file system cache:
- HKLM\System\StorageManager\FATFS\CacheSize = 4096 (DWORD decimal)
- To return the file system cache to zero:
- HKLM\System\StorageManager\FATFS\CacheSize = 0 (DWORD decimal)

9. Increase FileSystem filter cache
- To enable the file system filter cache, speeding up overall performance with file mangement:
- HKLM\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt\Rep lStoreCacheSize = 4096 (DWORD decimal)
- To return the file system filter cache to zero:
- HKLM\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt\Rep lStoreCacheSize = 0 (DWORD decimal)

10. Disable Menu Animation
- HKLM\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu, make sure the value of "AniType" is 0.
- This disables the menu animation which helps in speeding up the device.

11. Disable ClearType of screen fonts
- Go to "Start -> Settings -> Screen"
- Select the "ClearType" tab
- Disable "Enable ClearType" by unchecking the box.

12. Fix slow scrolling large webpages Pocket Internet Explorer
- By default Pocket Internet Explorer is very slow scrolling larger webpages due to rendering problems. This can be fixed by replacing the file called "webview.dll" in the "\Windows" sytemfolder with an older version. The attached CAB file puts the faster webview.dll in the windows folder. A softreset is needed after installation. (you can simply uninstall the patch by using the program manager and restore the webview.dll file to factory default)

13. Increase concurrent connections in Pocket Internet Explorer
Increase # of concurrent connections in PIE to speed up surfing.
- HKCU\Software\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVe rsion\Internet Settings\MaxConnectionsPerServer = 10
(the default is 4)

14. PIE Cache on memory card
Make a Pocket Internet Explorer cache directory on your memory card. Let's call it, for example, 'cache' (its name is really irrevelant).
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
Enter the new path instead of the old (\Windows\Profiles\guest\Temporary Internet Files); for example, \Storage Card\Windows\Cache

15. Disable a keyboard/input method and free up memory
(disable=0,enable=1)

E.g. disable Transcriber:
KEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{F0034DD0-2AD4-11D1-9CB0-E84BE8000000}\IsSIPInputMethod\(Default) = 0

E.g. disable Letter Recognizer:
KEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{42429690-AE04-11D0-A4F8-00AA00A749B9}\IsSIPInputMethod\(Default) = 0

More $SIP_CLSID$ keys:
{198D503A-EFFE-4AFD-BC54-EED333C80E6D}TOUCH KEYPAD
{62B00599-25D2-4E09-8C48-03BF26DB8517}TOUCH KEYBOARD
{42429690-AE04-11D0-A4F8-00AA00A749B9}Letter Recognizer
{42429691-AE04-11D0-A4F8-00AA00A749B9}Block Recognizer
{F0034DD0-2AD4-11D1-9CB0-E84BE8000000}Transcriber

16. Disable security warning when installing non certified apps
Speed up installation of non certified programs:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Policies\Policies\0000 101a = 1 (default 0)

17. Smooth video playback
For video playback buy Coreplayer 1.2.2. This release does NOT fix the driver issue. However they have figured out the QTv video overlay API’s and are able to take advantage of them. Fixes in version 1.2.2 related to QTv:
- FIX: Qualcomm QTv / Camera issue
- ADD: Qualcomm QTv Hardware Overlay support
For converting DVD movies quickly take a look at CloneDVD Mobile.

Quick question:

I used the registry editor and disabled all keyboards except from KEYBOARD.

In the Settings/Keyboard I have KEYBOARD as my prefered / default keyboard.

However, when I soft reset the device, the keyboard that opens by default in all apps that use a keyboard (the contacts for example) is one of the diabled ones. Even though the Settings/Keyboard still show the KEYBOARD as the only option.

What is the registry tweak to ensure that after a soft reset I have my prefered keyboard as a default?

Thanks in advance.

Not sure if I'm allowed to post this link here, but try this:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=271008

I've been looking for the same thing. I haven't tried this yet, but it seems like it will work.