OK I have spent a lonley evening searching the forum for the answer on this - if its here I am sorry i cant find it - on my (new today) xda IIi there is an o2 Icon on the task bar - it sits in the most troublesome of places and covers up parts of program headings - it must be simple enough but I canot work out how to get rid of it - I have searched for the icon file itself to get the name and search for a value in the reg but no avail - please help - someone - anyone!!!!!!!!!!!!
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hi,
browse to the windows startup menu and it should be under connections, delete that shortcut and voila.....................
thank you somuch -
that was doing my brain in - what possesed them eh? - tell me that!!!!!
once again - thnks- it was the only thing PISSING ME OFF SO FAR
o2 icon
no probs........here 2 help
You can actually just tap and hold for a second or so on the icon, and a menu appears with a slide bar...letting you move the icon wherever you want it, that's if you want to keep it anyway.
I just cancelled the install of that all that O2 Active rubbish.
As I've stated before in here, I quite like the version that's on the 2i as it allows you to have different themes without it looking crap. Some of the features on this version are quite useful as well.
I've always wanted a screen that makes use of all aspects of the screen as it would a normal Nokia mobile, for example with battery life up the side and signal strength up the other, with some space to actually show the picture you've chosen.
I don't suppose anyone's found anything like that recently have they? I gave up looking 6 months ago!
Cheers
Anthony
New Update of O2 Connections
New Update of O2 Connections...
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Hello fellows,
When there's more than one "pending" icon near the clock, such as: new message arrived, phone call missed, speakerphone ON, etc. -- they are (expectedly) replaced by one icon that looks like a bubble with some lines in it.
It's great way to see there are many notifications waiting for you. When clicked, this icon displays another row with all the constituent icons.
However, with O2 1.72.187 image (without Blackberry support as I don't need it) there is a permanent O2 icon displayed. And the worst about it is -- it is treated just like it IS one of "pending notice" icons! So if you get a text message, you don't have cute envelope icon, but you have a BUBBLE already!
Previous versions allowed to move the O2 icon (centre or left), and it didn't count as notice, so "new message", or "Missed call" icon displayed as is - and only when you had let's say "new message" AND "missed call" you used to get the "composite" bubble icon. Now you can not do anything with O2 icon (it used to display connections menu), and it's just a piece of ****e sitting there for no reason.
That issue really ticks me off as I can't instantly see on the screen - what exactly has my XDA II received! The red LED on the top right corner is very helpful to indicate waiting things, and if I could somehow make that O2 icon to NOT count into pending icons -- or may be just bump up +1 the wrap limit for that place, so it would accomodate one more icon before wrapping into bubble icon, -- I'd be a happy camper.
Can it be done via registry?
Thank you for your attention!
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I have the same frustration. Hoping that some wiszzard out there will be able to help
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I have the same frustration. Hoping that some wiszzard out there will be able to help
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I have the same frustration. Hoping that some wiszzard out there will be able to help
I looked into this thing with the O2 icon. Before the 1.72 release it used to allow selection of connection and to disconnect. It was also possible to position it elsewhere. Now all that is possible is to tap it and it brings up O2 Active. It sucks. :evil:.
I found the registry entry that specifies the position of the icon, but altering it is useless because when ever O2 Active starts it changes the registry entry back to its 'middle' position setting. Sort of defeats the object of having the data in the registry in the first place! Even deleting the entry in the registry is no good as O2 Active re-creates it! :roll:.
I dont have the O2 Active burtton no more, i deleted it from the startup folder in windows and it doesnt load it up at start up, but if you click O2 Active then it shows up and you have to restart the xda2 again to get rid of it...
Thank you guys for your involvement.
I tried to just stop O2 app; it only could be cancelled with End Task, and the bloody icon still sat there, only this time doing nothing.
Seeing not much practical use in that "newfangled" O2 icon -- I thought I'll rather give up that interface at all.
Thank you dcs, it looks like they really deliberately locked things up to make it linger -- breaking the good thing and achieving the opposite effect. The old O2 app icon was a) useful; b) moveable between left corner & centre and c) didn't spoil the notifications count, so I didn't mind.
So I just went to add/remove programs and scrapped both O2 apps.
Then had to change background, as even after reboot there was ugly leftover on the screen (I think the right part remained transparent, ugh :evil. Finally it is all working fine now and I see what comes to my XDA2.
Enough time spent, mine and yours. It better be changed in next versions, or will be permanently kept out of my XDA-2.
<rant>Whoever designed that change just drove me off using the O2 app. (Talk about luring new customers?) I sincerely hope someone from O2 reads all the bitter words in this thread, and passes them to people responsible for packaging new OS versions. I like O2 as company, but the current state of O2 app is an abomination. (Also lots of referenced to paid services from the menu, but lack of free services)
By losing this app, there is no way I can subscribe to any of O2 "value-added" services. I have TomTom for realtime voice "satnav" and AvantGo for my news -- all with no rolling subscription fees.</rant>
EastExpert said:
So I just went to add/remove programs and scrapped both O2 apps.
Then had to change background, as even after reboot there was ugly leftover on the screen (I think the right part remained transparent, ugh :evil. Finally it is all working fine now.
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Out of interest, just selecting a different theme in the Today settings clears the display problem (after uninstall) or prevents it from happening if done before uninstalling.
dcs said:
Out of interest, just selecting a different theme in the Today settings clears the display problem (after uninstall) or prevents it from happening if done before uninstalling.
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May be I had selected a wrong theme, (or may be the same theme and didn't realise it), but I had to also [x] "change background" checkbox. Then I selected the bright blue Default and that was it
Edit: "Change background" has nothing to do with background problem it's actually related to adjacent Browse button.
In fact there were only 4 Today themes that had this problem, all the rest of them worked fine. I presume they were old version or something.
Glad that you managed to solve the problem. However, mine continues as I use CommonTime mNotes to interface to Lotus Notes.
So whereas I has the speach bubble permanently on the today screen (sharing the frustration that I didn't know when I had received a missed call/SMS, revceived a new note etc), I now have a permanent 'M' symbol where the speach bubble originally was.
I really just want it blank and only to come up with a speach bubble where there is something new.
How do I get rid of the 'M'?
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Hi everyone,
I am new to the forum, and thanks to you guys, i managed to unlock my O2 XDA11i . But, I haven't got the clock on the top most pane of my display.(next to the sihnal strength indicater) Can somebody help me to get it activated?
Also, I would like to install O2 Plus on my Alpine. Where can I find it?
Thanks
Priyal
Can I just bump this thread and also ask - how is it done? Driving me nuts, I've never had it on my 2i. :/
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Can I just bump this thread and also ask - how is it done? Driving me nuts, I've never had it on my 2i. :/
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Sorry for reading down a few pages and bumping old threads (again!) but I noticed this thread with no answer that I may be able to shed some light on!
From personal experience, the O2 Active stuff that installs with the 2i installs it's own clock on the Today screen, and completely disables the clock on the top bar.
Having originally owned a 2020i and then getting an XDAIIi forced on me by my insurance company when I broke the 2020i, I hated not having the clock on the top (aswell as having the useless O2 logo get in the way!), and managed to forcibly uninstall the O2 stuff manually. After a soft reset, the clock reappeared on the top bar and all was well in the world again!
If you have still got the O2 stuff installed on your 2i, AFAIK, no amount of playing in the settings will get the clock back in the top bar without uninstalling O2's crap!
If this is the case, I would be happy to put the procedure for manually removing the O2 software down in black and white! I'm not sure if it is actually on this forum - I haven't found anything other than preventing it installing in the first place!
Indeed - I found that when I did a hard reset of my phone and didn't install the O2 Active software (the 0506 corp install method) the clock appears and stays there on the top bar.
I also posted in another post about the reghack that you can perform to bring the clock back, and did some experimentation with registry values to see what different combinations would elicit (showing clock as digital / analogue, showing the date, showing both, different alignment and formatting etc)... You can find the post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=188032#188032 (it's in the thread called "XDA IIi Missing clock at the top right" in the Alpine forum, if the link doesn't work).
Hi
I followed the instructions of another user and cut and paste the active program from my windows mobile 5 startup folder elsewhere. This has eradicated the frankly awful O2 Active GUI but I am left with the O2 Connections Icon in the Start Menu Bar.
I noticed there was a shortcut for connections with the same O2 icon in the startup folder. If I remove this I expect it will remove the icon (that never worked as detailed in the manual anyway) but I am worried about possible knockon effects, like loss of connectivity.
Does anybody have any experience with this?
Cheers
Sean
So, I got impatient and thought why not just give it a go. I cut and paste the connections startup item into my personal folder then did a soft reset.
Low and behold the daft none working O2 item was no longer there and has been replaced by a nice text message notification icon.
YAY.
So is that it? Am I completely de O2 Active'd?
We shall have to wait and see, suffice to say my xda is far far quicker than it was before.
Sean
Yeah, getting rid of connections from your startup just gets rid of the o2 crap, there are plenty of posts about it on this forum.
Hi,
Recently upgraded to the M5000 from the M2000 (Blue Angel)
....and I am very pleased with the phone overall but have a couple of questions - I have searched but cant seem to locate the answers:
1. Does the battery drain more when constantly connected to UMTS?
2. Where has my "New" menu gone i.e New text, appointment etc?
3. When the clam shell is closed with the screen on the inside - what are the 3 holes on the top (Looks like a speaker)
4. Why doesn't Excel or Word retain the zoom settings when saving a document?
5. Writing a text using the phone pad the auto lookup for contact names doesnt work - which makes writing one handed texts impossible!
6. Finally, sometimes the icons contained within the settings>system panel disappear and only reappear after a soft reset - any idea why?
Thanks in advance.
Matt
first of all update the rom, and in regards to the 3 holes when the shell is closed, yes its a speaker, u can actually pick up a call without opening the shell, and those 3 holes are wot u put next to your ears to hear the other person.
Looking up contacts via the keyboard works fine wiv me, i got a orange aswell.
In regards to UMTS, i think it will only drain battery if your actually using it to transfer data, once idle, shouldn't have much impact. I personally think wifi uses more battery than UTMS.
If your worried about battery life, get a double capacity battery from ebay.
In regards to the "new" menu, i dont know which one ur refering to, the ORange customisation for the Today screen?
I let someone else answer the rest.
But if you havent, then do update the rom. I had my orange received last week, and it still shipped with the rom that came out last year. Update the rom.
1. Does the battery drain more when constantly connected to UMTS?
Don't know tbh.
2. Where has my "New" menu gone i.e New text, appointment etc?
WM5 removed it in favour of the 2 "Soft-keys" at the bottom of the screen. There is a hack to replace it - do a search on this forum.
3. When the clam shell is closed with the screen on the inside - what are the 3 holes on the top (Looks like a speaker)
4. Why doesn't Excel or Word retain the zoom settings when saving a document?
no idea.
5. Writing a text using the phone pad the auto lookup for contact names doesnt work - which makes writing one handed texts impossible!
Using Contacts to find the person first is faster.
6. Finally, sometimes the icons contained within the settings>system panel disappear and only reappear after a soft reset - any idea why?
:?: :?: :?:
The new menu is now integrated into the orange app that puts a taskbar on the left side of the screen..
You enable it from the today menu
Top icon is contacts inc new
3rd icon is new MMS/SMS etc
4th Icon down is Appts
Next one is MSASUNC, notes, file explorer Calculator and options
Bottom is WWW selections
Thanks for all your help!!
I am loathe to try any unofficial upgrades to ROM until Orange release a new one (I know there is a new Business one but nothing on the customer side).
I received my phone on Thursday 6th April 1900 GMT - and as at 1625 GMT on 12th April - am finally happy with my setup - so am not trashing it just yet!!
Thanks again
Matt
Hi, all, just received my phone today and i am very pleased with it indeed, apart from some really stupid annoying things that HTC should be shot for, but have found fixes for most of them here today.
1: One of them was no notification LED`s on messages ect, i found a cab to fix it, but nowhere in the menu do any options appear?
2: Also on the TABS scroller at the bottom of the HD2 your are given the option to rearange the order, great!, what what about the shotcuts menu with the big icons, do i have to place every programe in the exact order i want it, does not seem to be any option to move it them about.
3: While i am on the subject of icons, is there any way in this world to move the icons on wm 6.5, into your own order without upgrading to 6.51 with the honeycombe option?.
4: I also read somewhere that the data connection does not also disconnet after a email download, there is a reg fix, but is there a cab for this, as i dont like messing with the reg.
Anyway sorry to go on, but after fixing about 5 other things that bugged the daylights out of me, i`m almost close to having the best phone in the world, just a little more tweaking.
Thanks for your help .
No takers, will subscribe and wait