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After downloading firmware 1.1.3 for the iPhone today, I quickly noticed that Google Mobile and Mowser, when added to the home screen, displayed custom, and I just had to know how they did it. So I dug around for a bit until I figured out how it works.
From the iPhone Dev Center:
To specify a bookmark icon for all pages of a web site, place a PNG image named “apple-touch-icon.png” at the root directory of your web server - similar to the “favicon.ico” for site icons. To override the site bookmark icon on a specific web page, insert a <link> element similar to <link rel=”apple-touch-icon” href=”/customIcon.png”/> within the <head> element of the page. The bookmark icon dimensions should be 57×57 pixels. If the icon is a different size it will be scaled and cropped to fit. Safari will automatically composite the icon with the standard “glassy” overlay so it looks like a built-in iPhone or iPod application.
Just a quick update on the prior Cingular 8125 Hacks post. NBD 8.0 turned out to not be the most stable ROM for my phone. I’m now running NBD X Update 1. I’ve been on this ROM since it was released in October without issue.
Well, there is one minor issue that I have noticed, actually. To me, it’s so minor that I don’t really even consider it to be a problem. When the phone is ringing, on the original ROM, I could hit the volume down button to silence the ring without sending the call immediately to voicemail. With NBD X, the volume button has no effect when the phone is ringing, and I’m instead forced to just hit the ignore button if I don’t want to take the call. For me, this is really not a big deal, especially considering that every other feature is rock solid.
OK, so last night I got lost on the xda-developers.com forums. When I say lost, I really mean lost. I spent at least 3 hours poring over the various threads about upgrading HTC Wizards (the Cingular 8125’s formal name). And today I have an upgraded device. Windows Mobile 6, Office 2007, upgraded camera software, and more.
Here are some links to the upgrades that I went with:
NBD v8.0
IPL/SPL 3.08, Radio 2.69.11
Cingular WM6 Radio Fix2
The following were honorable mentions that I haven’t tried yet:
XDA Mobile 6 Release 2a
See No Evil v2.0
The forums forced me to drool over some of the 8525 (aka Hermes) upgrades while I was there:
Sleuth’s v3.0 Developer ROM
vp3G’s WM6 v3.0
There was a ton of info on the wiki, too. If you’re a Windows Mobile fan, visit these links with caution. You might lose a day or two of your life to WinMo hacking.
