As you all know Micro$oft is replacing the clock on the titlebar with the battery indicator icon. I feel the pain too, I think Micro$oft should allow us some options to have clock on the titlebar. So far I only can find 2 workaround for the clock issue.

TodayTime
LVMtime

Hope this thread can generate some suggestions or tricks for the clock titlebar thingy

Porting the battery icon discussion over from another thread
http://www.ppcsg.com/http://www.ppcsg.com/index.php?showtopic=75139&st=34


Here's the updated list of workarounds


TodayTime
LVMtime
Battery PackPro
Wisbar Advanced

A fix for the clock problem in AKU2.2 (due for release in the future)
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archiv.../28/586453.aspx

The bad news is that there's no way to get the clock back in AKU2. The good news is that there will be a way in the next minor release (AKU2.2). But the other bad news is that I don't know which hardware devices will use AKU2.2. So I can't tell you when or even if you'll be able to make use of this change.

thanks for the find mini
puts the matter to rest...

Moderator's Note:

Thread moved to Tips and Tricks

Mike Calligro in his article mentioned above says...




this works on the newly leaked ROM of Atom.

the new leaked ATOM ROM, is it a AKU2.2 version?

Will be interesting to see if Atom will be the first phone to have AKU 2.2.

I tried the registry fix but on the AKU 2.0.0, it doesn't work.

yep.. its 2.2.1

atom is really rocking man

So looks like most of us have to wait for AKU2.2 ROM updates before we can start enjoying this hack.

Just to confirm, bobby, you only did this one hack only, right.
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell - dword - 1

yep thats the only hack i used after flashing my atom with the newly leaked TEST rom.

diz how it looks...

back to normal

note the version number, today time and the batt indicator there

it works! i got rid of battery indicator icon...
tq

Can you explain what you did? I used the ShowTitlebarClock reg hack on my 818Pro, but it didn't work. I then used the TBOpt reg hack and what I got was the batt meter on top of the date in my Today screen:

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but on other screens, it appears normal:

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hi Cywa,

this doesnt work on AKU2.0 ROMS...this tweak only works on ROMs that features AKU2.2 which is present on the latest XDA Atom ROM upgrade...

Thanx Riv, that's what I figured after reading Mike's blog... just thought that someone may have found a solution...

RW6828 is a AKU2.2 device. Tested working on mine.

just got my 818pro yesterday.

ROM version: 2.15.13.27 WWE
ROM date: 3/9/06


the thing is, on my Today screen, the battery icon appears as if its cut in half, leaving a blank at the top right hand corner. the icon goes away in other screens, replaced by the time and the Close icon...

why is the battery icon like that? is that normal? or is my set faulty?

appreciate the help in advance.

This is normal for this version of ROM on the 818 Pro. If you're using the default "Close" or rather, if you don't have a task manager, then you will see as you have previously described.

*EDIT* i see what you mean from other threads. Yup this is very normal once the battery drops below 60%, at least for AKU2.0 versions of ROM

yeah bhenchoddon atom really rocks... the clock on titlebar will function only on AKU 2/+ and thats becoz of the protests by us, the users. :)

Any hope for 6818? I cant find the "show clock" thingy. My device version is same as yours?

But I don't know id my ROM is latest or not? (how can I check?)
Here is my ROM version (is it latest?): 1.00.03 WWE / Date 06/04/21

I noticed that when i enable the password screen, and when the password screen is activated, the time will appear on the title bar...

FYI of those who still have trouble removing the battery indicator with the time and/or date on titlebar here is how u do it.

in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell

add the following string value
"TBOpt"=dword:00000001
"ShowTitleBarClock"=dword:00000001

below is an extract from www.mydigitallife.info/2006/08/03/change-the-display-of-clock-time-or-date-on-wm5-taskbar-for-windows-mobile-5-phone/ which shows what the TBOpt value means (I used value 1 here)

To show nothing:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\TBOpt = 0 (DWORD decimal)

To show just the clock:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\TBOpt = 1 (DWORD decimal)

To show just the date:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\TBOpt = 2 (DWORD decimal)

To show both the date and the clock:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\TBOpt = 3 (DWORD decimal)

And here is a screen shot of my atom. Btw I did not display time and date because the date part will not display well as the 6 in year 06 is blocked by my vbar. And also just displaying time alone looks nicer..

^^

Strange leh? Got no vbar but the year only shown xx/xx/0.
Any help bros.?

The hack to show the date and time gets cut off by the X. Reason for this is the font is in bold.

You might wanna change the system font (arial narrow for instance), coz i don't think its possible to overide this bold.

Ah, thankful for your fast reply n explanation.
Will let it be, me no good in poke n peek routine.

try this,

in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\nls\overrides

look for SSDte

add two spaces after yy

Thought of trying another shot at it,
locate as per your example shown.
But unfortunately my device’s overrides
doesn’t have the SSDte.
Anyway, many thanks for sharing.

u can try to add that in. format is dd-MMM-yy

At last, got it there, at the Today title bar.
Many thanks for your tips.

there's too little space, so i removed the yy instead, and used period "." rather than "/" or "-" as it takes the least amount of space.

Thanks man, got it changed, now looks nicer loh.