The HTC Shift HDD is 40 GB, exactly 40000536576 bytes. The Host Protected Area starts at 0×88FE00000 and is exactly 3GiB, from linux dmesg output: sda: Host Protected Area detected. current capacity is 71826615 sectors (36775 MB) native capacity is 78126048 [...]

After a dozen of reboots and hangs trying to figure out what was preventing the suspend / resume to work on HTC shift I finally managed to get it working (both, suspend to ram and hibernate are working ) The pm-utils offer a nice interface for hooking your own scripts which are called during the [...]

Previously I used Wubi-installer to install Ubuntu 8.04 on my HTC Shift, but this time I wanted to partition my Hard Drive and use separate partitions for Ubuntu. Here’s what I did… First, resize the Vista partition: You don’t need Partition Magic or gparted to do this, vista itself can do it. Right click on my [...]

I recently got an UMPC HTC Shift (also known as HTC P9500, HTC Shangrila or HTC Clio). You can install Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 using Wubi Installer, so you don’t need to partition the Hard Drive. Installation is pretty straight forward, just choose the installation size (I would recommend no less than 7Gb) and click “next”, [...]