Hi,
I've just got an XDA IIi (having had XDA I and II before) using O2 in the UK.
I notice that the O2 Active application has a button in the bottom toolbar called "screen view" which rotates the display by 90° (i.e. making it landscape instead of portrait).
I don't use O2 Active itself as it's too clunky for what I want, but I would like to have access to the rotate screen feature.
Is it possible to put this on a button in my lower toolbar on the today screen (i.e. next to wireless and bluetooth icons). If so, how? Alternatively, can I have it as a button on the "desktop" (I use "Rhino Launch" to give me shortcuts to programs on the today screen). In the latter case, I'd just need to know where the exe for it is or a .lnk that will activate the switch in the display.
Thanks a lot,
James.
There shoud be an icon on the bottom taskbar far right to change screen layout.
If you hate the O2 active crap thats on the phone, do a hard reset and when prompted for "Personal" or "Corporate" user ..... choose the corporate option and use the password "0506"
The screen layout swapping icon is deffo on the corporate install.
The little icon which rotate the screen sometimes missing( after i install some software e.g. spb Diary,)
actually i don't really care to use the O2 active that softare, but does anyone konw what is the short cut of the screen view ?
cos i want to put it in my spb pocket plus..
or does anyone know what is the short cut for changing the screen?( setting--system---screen--Landscape ( right-handed)?
or even the short cut of the little icon in the right hand corner?
really thx..
Thanks for the replies.
I removed O2Active from the start-up (by removing "connections" from the /windows/startup" folder) and did a soft reset. Now that O2 active doesn't run, the icon for changing the screen orientation is now being displayed in the lower right corner.
Problem solved.
Cheers,
James.
I removed the O2 shortcut from the startup folder ages ago and the little screen orientation icon remained at the bottom of the today screen until today.
However it just dissapeared while installing some software (Calligrapher.) If I start O2Active a similar icon appears but it hasn't come back to the today screen. I'm sure it's not the same one. (Note the wi-fi icon in O2 does different things from the today screen one.)
So anyone have any ideas how to bring it back?
In future I think I'll backup the entire unit before every install.
Of course, as soon as I entered my reply saying the rotate screen icon had appeared in the today lower task bar after removing O2 active (does anyone actually use O2 active?), it promptly vanished and I didn't even install any software in between. This is very mysterious. I did a soft reset but it didn't come back.
Can anyone shed light on this?
Thanks,
James.
After a few resets and some experimentation I think I've good evidence to show that the icon dissapears on the next soft reset after installing spb diary. I've submitted a polite request to their support. It might be worth someone else doing the same if they can prove to themselves that spb diary is causing this.
Mike
i've experienced this as well and there's no O2Active program on my Startup folder....does anyone have any updates on this? thanks....
UPDATE: fyi, got a response from customer support:
With regard to your query below, are there any third party applications? Any software conflict may cause malfunction to the unit. To remove any software conflict, you may want to do a hard reset then without restoring any data, monitor the performance of the unit.
1) To perform a full reset:
Warning: Clearing memory deletes all data and restores the Pocket PC Phone to its default settings. Programs installed at the factory remain, while data you have created and programs you have installed are erased.
Before performing the full reset, use ActiveSync to keep a backup of your Pocket PC Phone data so that if you need to clear memory, you can restore the data on your Pocket PC Phone.
To perform a full reset on XdaII, press and hold the power button, and then use stylus to press the soft reset button at the same time. After the full reset, you will be prompt to recalibrate the touch screen.
2) Without performing any synchronization with your desktop PC to Restore back the information(under an enviroment of no possibility of software confliction), try to use and monitor the functionality of the Xda II.
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This is for you experts in XDA land that I can really trust. Just let me know if any of you have similar experiences and if anyone can give me a fix to my list.
First of all.....
I'm Currently using newest Qtek Rom.
Installed to Main Device:
Batti
Wisbar Advance
Marsware Weather
Resco Explorer and REgistry
iLauncher
Voice Command
Pocket Informant
and everything else is on my Storage
my problems:
-No phone calls come through while on GPRS-goes straight to voicemail (Should I turn my AlwaysON tweak to always off?)
-Volume control changes to silent automatically
-After PIE cache and history set to Storage Card and cleaning up with SKTools, Internal Memory is left to 14.3mb only
-Ram left at Today screen is 13.9mb (What is taking so much process memory?) I have Agile Msgr stopped, Marsware weather is running, and that's it. This device's processor is soooooooooooooo slow!!
-sometimes tapping on start menu doesn't bring up cascading menu
-MMS does'nt send(even with settings from Cingular Rep)on this new Rom because Media Net is gone. Anyone know the settings or the reason?
----The sliding keyboard "loosens" and is not as tightly secure as it was at first. Also the backing where the camera lens is, I can feel is starting to loosen too.
--When pressing Messaging Hardware button, message function lags before appearing or sometimes doesn't appear at all. Tapping on Today screen Message plugin opens the mail/message app always and fast.
Anyone know how to redirect Cache and History of Opera browser?
Anyone have any ideas for fixes?
Anyone have a CAB file of all necessary Registry tweaks and a list of what are included in the file?
Maybe I can just start over....
or else....anyone want an 8125 for sale?
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I recently just noticed that when I browsed using Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE), the "Back" button on the bottom left hand side is no longer shown. It only shows the "Favorites" button, thus I can NOT go back to the previous web page.
I didn't make any registry changes or anything like that and the only programs that have the capability to changes hardware button settings are SpB Plus and SoftKey and they don't have the option to change the PIE application button.
Anyone know how I can bring the "Back" button back?
It only shows "favorites" when there is nothing to go back to. ie the first page of the session. As soon as you navigate to the next page it changes to "back"
That is correct. But what I meant is that even after I navigate to a website, the button still shows as "Favorites".
I.e. From "Home" screen, go to cnn.com, then go to yahoo.com. The "Back" button is not shown and I can't go back to cnn.com
sparkyxda said:
It only shows "favorites" when there is nothing to go back to. ie the first page of the session. As soon as you navigate to the next page it changes to "back"
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lanwarrior said:
That is correct. But what I meant is that even after I navigate to a website, the button still shows as "Favorites".
I.e. From "Home" screen, go to cnn.com, then go to yahoo.com. The "Back" button is not shown and I can't go back to cnn.com
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Things to check:
Have you changed any setting that disables the PIE cache.
Is PIE able to cache pages eg is it to storage card and does it's folder still exist and is SD card reachable.
Perhaps try changing cache location?
Mike
Yes, I did change the PIE cache location to "Storage Card". That folder exist in File Explorer and I can see in "Storage Card" that there is a "Temporary Internet Explorer" folder.
I tried changing the size of the cache, move to "Extended ROM" and ROM storage, but to no avail.
I removed (but not uninstall) WisBar, thinking it may change it, but also to no effect. However, I don't think WisBar did anything to it, since it only skin the application.
I am thinking that some application may messed up PIE, but all the apps that I installed are the same ones I have installed in my old MDA and there was no issue on the MDA. If there is some registry change I can apply to fix it, do let me know.
Mmmm.....
Couple of things I'm curious about - SpB Plus and SoftKey. I don't have either of these. But It's worth setting back any setting you have entered since your problem developed. Just because it has no specific setting does not mean that a seemingly non related change has not caused problem (for example if you set smooth scrolling in PIE using say Tweaks2k2 you will find the tab behaviour when sending SMS messages has changed!). Do not just uninstall these apps as this will not reset the registry changes they may have made.
The reason I asked about cache was simply that with no cached pages to return to there would be no back option available,
Of course you will have a nice SPB backup or two available to restore with won't you!!!? I play around with mine so much (!) that I keep several backups at various stages of application installation and over time.
Also curious to know if your history is being recorded in PIE drop down list in URL box. At a pinch you could use this as a rough sort of back button.
I have not looked into all the registry keys for PIE. This forum Wiki or indeed the wiki for some of the other devices may already have the keys mapped out . I did find info on setting cache size.
In the end it may be simpler to hard reset if those backups are not available.
Mike
Thanks for the detailed info, Mike.
I did disable SpB Plus, but to no effect. At the end, I uninstalled WisBar, Spb Plus, and SoftKey but nothing change either.
Yes, I can do hard reset, but I am trying to avoid that because I have to re-install everything. I have a "base" backup using SpB backup, but it still requires me to install other program as the other daily backup sets may already have corrupted PIE registry.
I am hoping that I can do something about this via the registry, unless this is something that really require hard reset just like the issue I have with duplicate notifications. i.e. after soft reset, the alarm reminder and sound will start although no appointment or task is scheduled at that time.
Now I know why PDA is not popular for most people.. it's just too damn fragile! And I used Windows CE since the time of Cassiopeia...
Mods - I don't even know where to put this (although I've looked for similar posts, sites, wikis, you name it, I haven't seen it).
My touch screen doesn't work, I don't have a start menu that has anything in in except "Today." The rest is blank. It didn't disapear right away, either. My touch screen worked after one soft reset, and I still had the expected display of the start menu, but none of it worked. Somewhere in the middle of all that my .tsk changed to the default. After another reset, I am here:
No Start Menu (Today option only)
Default .tsk
No links from Ultimatelaunch to startmenu links work, but links to Programs themselves do (in Program Files)
No CommMgr via hdwe key, but my wifi was on when this all started, and keeps restarting, without recognizing my network (I just re-entered my WEP key)
the joystick works, and the keys do things, but the camera and CommMger keys can't find thier apps.
the joystick won't select my wifi bubble radio button, but otherwise works.
AEBPlus stopped working, so I can't get to my MortButtons to launch anything else.
Since I don't have a start menu, I don't have a file explorer I can get to (yet I have 3....)
Phone works (but only using hdwe keys)
I can't do much else (no screen print uless you want me to take a picture of it with my Wiza200)
I'm doing quick copy of my Program Files and App Data foldera to catch all the changes I did today, the rest is synced (but I'll copy what I can) via a Guest partnership, since the name of the device seems to be gone as well.
I was playing with assigning hardware keys, fisrt with AEBPlus, then I switched to Calligrapher's config mgr (I was trying to regain the functionailty of button 3 press&hold, which went away with assigning the other keys with AEBPlus). It was all I did, besides play a few audio files with Vito Audio Notes and Vito Sound Explorer, since my last reboot.
Prior to that I was trying to get my video streaming up & running this way:http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=FlashVideoBundle
, and I installed Vito Metronome (just to see. kind of a waste. KOOK K-met is better, even tiny on VGA), and MccMobile Finder, but had reset a few times to recheck my timing in a Mortscript to bring back my today screen after having MccMobileFinder and Vito Audio Notes launch on start up (niether of which will automatically minimize.)
I had just entered all my reg codes earlier today, and I know there are too many, so this sucks.
Are there any viri (viruses, I guess) that might do this? I mean, yeah, I can spend an hour or two (I'm afraid it might be more, since things go all complicated on me all too quickly) getting back to running, but what the *{^ ( |<* happened?
I hope I'm off my rocker for the moment and no one ever sees this happen to them. Any ideas?
New development: I loaded up, started doing a few things I need to do manually (I like to do my AEBPlus, and have never been successful at imprting Phonealarm setting), and lo, I soft reset, and the boot screen stcuk. The red boot characters went away, but the button lights never turned on.
Can anyone tell me if I should be sending it in to PPCTechs, or might this be a ROM (or software????) issue.
Any input is welcome.
Have you tried hard reset? If yes and still unsuccessful, try re-flashing the ROM.
something similar happened to me once when i banged my phone on something..
all shortcuts / programs dissappeared...
i only had 2 options in start menu..
did a hard reset and everythign was restored
I have a problem with the htc hd 2, when you press the windows logo button on the bottom of the phone you jump to menu where all the icons are (such as installed programs icons and settings).
what happened is that all icons are missing except the today icon, how can
you bring all those icons back?
Also when you install a new program the phone doesn't make any icon in the menu. I have soft reset my phone with the reset button on the back but wouldn't work.
Can somebody help me with this problem?
Rayan1987 said:
I have a problem with the htc hd 2, when you press the windows logo button on the bottom of the phone you jump to menu where all the icons are (such as installed programs icons and settings).
what happened is that all icons are missing except the today icon, how can
you bring all those icons back?
Also when you install a new program the phone doesn't make any icon in the menu. I have soft reset my phone with the reset button on the back but wouldn't work.
Can somebody help me with this problem?
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I hope for your sake I'm wrong, but that sounds like a hard reset is needed, to me. Wait and see if anyone else has any suggestions, but that sounds quite a nasty problem.
I have got the same problem... any ideas how to fix it without hard reset?
I have two such icons .. HTC people and HTC calendar. It seems it has something to do with turning corresponding tabs off and on again.
Yes it would me nice to fix it without hard reset Any suggestions?
corresponding tabs off and on
Dr.Sid said:
I have two such icons .. HTC people and HTC calendar. It seems it has something to do with turning corresponding tabs off and on again.
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How do you turn the corresponding tabs off and on?
Another thing hhen you go to the setting en press menu on the right corner then press more then nothing appears/happen?
Settins / personalize / home screen tabs
And I can confirm it .. first I had no such icons. Then I disabled calendar tab. Still nothing. Then I enabled calendar tab. And THC Calendar icon with no picture (only default one) showed up in the start menu. Now if I remove the tab, the icons gets removed too. But as I enable the tab again, icon is back.
Same for HTC People icon.
Only tweak I use which could have something to do with this enabling all settings icon in start menu (via BsB tweaks).
Dr.Sid said:
Settins / personalize / home screen tabs
And I can confirm it .. first I had no such icons. Then I disabled calendar tab. Still nothing. Then I enabled calendar tab. And THC Calendar icon with no picture (only default one) showed up in the start menu. Now if I remove the tab, the icons gets removed too. But as I enable the tab again, icon is back.
Same for HTC People icon.
Only tweak I use which could have something to do with this enabling all settings icon in start menu (via BsB tweaks).
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I see what you mean thanks for the effort, but with these icons the htc has no problems, its with icons you see when you press the windows logo button, its a long list with all the installed applications. In this screen they all disapeared except the today icon.
Some help from anybody would be very appreciated?
Hmmm
I had the same issue.
Flashed 1.48 over it.
Havn't had the problem since.
Check this dudes thread for additional/replacement icons...stunning stuff!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591754
Updating rom solved the problem thanks for help me out!!
Any other solution available other then updating my ROM...cause it's already up-to-date.
I got this issue after a soft reset by BsB Tweaks.
nljuggler said:
Any other solution available other then updating my ROM...cause it's already up-to-date.
I got this issue after a soft reset by BsB Tweaks.
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Additional info:
- I'm using a Dutch ROM (so "\Windows\Startmenu\Program files" is called "\Windows\Startmenu\Programma's" )
- It happened after a soft reset after altering the Led Notifications/Message Notification setting
(I think the soft reset itself might have caused it)
- I have been moving startmenu items around using my ActiveSync connection
All I've found on the forum thus far is: Hard reset your device...but I really don't wanna.
Damn, it happened again. I'm stuck with just the Today icon again.
For a while I thought: leave it be. With Co0kie's Home Tab I can access all applications I need.
But I recently noticed that I cannot access my advanced settings screen either... and there's no shortcut for that.
Too bad, nobody came up with a solution that doesn't require a hard reset or ROM Update (which basically means the same: Clean slate).
Anyone?
Yesterday, something suddenly went wrong with my phone. It became very unresponsive; programs wouldn't open, screen froze.
I had CHT 1.8.5 installed and suspected it may have something to do with that (though I'm not sure at all). I managed to uninstall it and get the original Sense back, but a number of things are still broken:
* Start menu: can't open it, neither with hardware Windows button nor with onscreen start button.
* Right hand corner icons "x" and "ok" don't show.
* Text input doesn't work: I can type on the soft keyboard but the letters don't appear.
I want to do a hard reset but would like to backup my text messages first. Problem is: I can't input my Windows Live password in MyPhone, since text input doesn't work.
Does anybody know what's wrong here and how to repair it? Or are there any other reliable ways to backup AND later restore text messages, that don't require text input?
Edit: I can use Resco explorer (except for text input) and most other programs, but it takes some trickery as they don't come to the foreground when I open them from the Sense home tab.
still have the problem?
the absent start menu and X buttons sound like a symptom of an overeager task manager terminating Shell32.exe. A soft reset will bring them back, until the task manager kills them again. I had the same problem with WKtask or xTask if i forget to exclude shell32.exe and mainila.exe from the exclusion list, (LINK).
if you don't have those task managers, but can still use the touchscreen for other things, then install MyMobiler in your PC to control the HD2 via usb. Do a full system backup, and use ActiveSync to start uninstalling a couple programs at a time until the problem goes away, and you'll know which program did it.
also, turn off CHT's lock screen, it causes more problems than it prevents. the stock hd2 lock screen should be good enough.
absent text input panel? don't know about that, but again, MyMobiler will take care of that from the PC.
Damn... that's a very informative reply. Thanks very much. I wish I had waited just one more day but I already performed a hard reset.
Still, it's great to get a little more insight on this as I was baffled by the behaviour of my phone. And I've seen a lot of weird things over the past years with different Windows Mobile devices. I don't know what could have caused Shell32.exe to shut down as the problem was present immediately after each soft reset, and I only use Resco Explorer's task manager which, I think, excludes critical stuff by default. And then there was that weird text input issue as well: it's not that the input panel was gone, but when typing on it the letters never appeared. I tried my Bluetooth keyboard and that didn't work either.
The touchscreen was still usable though, and your solution would probably have worked and saved me a lot of trouble...
I wonder if CHT's lockscreen could have been the problem. I uninstalled CHT first thing right after everything went wrong, but its lockscreen was enabled before that and maybe the uninstall left some unwanted stuff in place that kept causing trouble.
Anyway, thanks a lot for helping me understand a little more about all this.