Not too long ago I was complaining about the memory leak and rapid memory loss on the Touch Diamond. As most Touch Diamond owners know, I’m not the only one with the problem. Luckily for us, James “Jamzb” @ XDA-Developers made a great app that graphically represents all memory usage on the Touch Diamond.

In my own test, which you can see above, Opera and TouchFlo 3D are not the biggest memory hogs. For me, it’s a temporary file. Kind of surprising, isn’t it? Turns out, it happens to be very different per user. The creator of the program posted a screenshot showing that Opera Mobile was taking up a lot of memory on his Diamond.

You can download MobileMonger from the developer’s site. Link

What’s hogging up all your memory? Post your results with Mobile Monger here.

I know I haven’t done a Feature of the Day for the stylus and its magnetic sensor, but here is an application that takes advantage of that feature. Instead of just making your Touch Diamond or Pro have its screen turn on when the stylus is pulled out, you can make it do anything you want. This software by PocketKai allows you to set programs to open, show today screen, play sounds, etc. when you pull out or put the stylus back in. I’d say this is a very useful app and would be great to use in tandem with TouchXperience, when that amazing software comes out.

By the way, keep giving me more names to replace Hack Trick. I like the one that have come in, but I want to see if anything else will come in.

Via MSMobiles, though Brandon showed me this.

Thanks to jbrb who posted a list of functionality apps/hacks on XDA, you can now add haptic feedback for the phone pad of your Touch Diamond or Pro, though it would be mainly aimed at the keyboard-less Diamond.

Haptic feedback is physical feedback to a user to allow them to know when they’ve pressed something on a touch screen device. In this case, it is a small vibration that lets you know when you’ve pressed key. The longer that you press down on the button, the longer the vibration. The feedback is great even if you quickly peck at numbers on the phone pad.

Unfortunately, at this time, it only runs in the phone dialer pad. It would have been better if this feature was extended to the soft-keyboard input panels that would make typing in Opera and any other app just as easy as in the phone app. Hopefully, this will be in an update soon.

You can download the app here. Just save it to your phone and run the cab file from the explorer.

You can also visit the original thread here.

The Touch Diamond Feature of the Day continues on! Today, I’ll be giving you a brief on both the main and secondary cameras. The main camera, which every variant of the Diamond will come with, is a 3.15 MP camera with autofocus. The main camera lives up to expectations and is one of the few smartphone cameras that can actually substitute as a camera. The color quality was vivid both indoors and outdoors. The autofocus is a nice touch that really helps with macro (close-range) photography and brings out textures and can also be used for taking pictures of text, which makes it useful with a scanner application like ScanR. Read on to find out more and see some test images taken with both cameras.
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The Touch Diamond and Pro are getting a major overhaul with some pretty cool 3rd party software. Where TouchFLO 3D left off with hiding Windows Mobile, Touch Xperience starts. It gives the Start Menu a much cleaner touch friendly menu. If you’re tired of the TouchFLO 3D or just want a change, you can use the included Touch Home interface which allows widgets and custom layouts via XML documents.

Specifically for the touch diamond and pro, the rotation with the g-sensor is extended to all apps and you can use gestures on the d pad to execute different actions or programs. The most interesting feature off this application is the custom profiles. You can make your phone perform a certain function or task based on different events and conditions. You can even have actions based on GPS locations!

From their website, here are the examples:
Enable flight mode during nights
Connect to Wi-Fi while battery is charging
Deactivate alarm when I turn my device face down
Put phone in silent mode at workplace
Remind me to buy bread when I’m near to the bakery

Unfortunately, this program is still in beta testing. If you want, you’ll need to apply to the waiting list over at XDA-Developers.

Via PocketNow - Notice this article’s by Brandon

HTC must have been feeling a lot of pressure from the consumers and the community. They’ve released an official update for the Touch Diamond that takes the phone quad-band (meaning you can use it on AT&T now, but only with EDGE data), like the unofficial update from not to long ago. Not only that, TouchFLO 3D is said to be faster, audio quality is higher with the booster enabled, and most of the small annoying bugs have been worked out. Not bad, especially when it comes to HTC and releasing timely updates. It’ll be interesting to see what other updates they do as the more features are unofficially unlocked. The ROM is available at the HTC’s Hong Kong website.

Via PDABreak

The people over at XDA-Developers have worked their magic again. A new unofficial radio ROM has been released to allow for the use of the GSM 850 band. This allows use of AT&T’s EDGE network which utilizes the 850 band and makes the device a lot more appealing for import from Europe or Asia. If you think about it, it’s not a long way from here to see the European/Asian Diamond have 1700/2100 for T-Mobile 3G data and use the 900 bands for voice.

Via Engadget Mobile

Remember that the Diamond Accelerometer API was hacked? Well, XDA-Developer susilange has developed an application to switch between different profiles by shuffling your phone. Sounds familiar, right? (Hint, hint: Windows Mobile 7). With a quick shuffle, you can switch between vibrate and normal profiles. Worried about it changing profiles when you don’t want it to? The program is sensitive enough to recognize a quick shuffle but will not change when you walk or shift position in a chair. Version 0.2 of the software adds on vibration feedback for switching profiles. One long vibration for vibration on, two short vibrations for volume on. Convenient, isn’t it?

Look here for the Diamond Profile Switcher. Login at XDA-Developers is required for download.

What’s more, susilange is offering to make more applications based off the g sensor at your request. Post your ideas here.

So what’s an API? For those that don’t know, an API is an application program interface. It is what allows software developers to control certain core functions of a mobile device, such as phone or contacts list.

The Touch Diamond and Touch Pro are among the first WinMo devices to sport an accelerometer. Unfortunately, HTC didn’t release the API of this feature so that software developers could make programs that use that particular function.

The geniuses over at XDA-Developers have figured out how to allow software for the Diamond and Touch Pro to differentiate not only between X, Y, and Z coordinates, but whether the phone is turned landscape, portrait, or face up. Once developers get their hands on this, we should see more programs that will automatically rotate when you rotate the device, plus games that are controlled by moving the device around.

The below video from msmobiles shows a simple application making use of the accelerometer API.