I've asked this question before, but I never got a definitive answer, so I thought I would ask again...
When I install programs to my miniSD card, they don't show up as having icons in my start menu. How can I get around this?
Do you mean the icons of the seven most often used programs in the start menu or the icons in the start menu / programs. I assume the former. I had a similar problem where the icons would come and go - only of the programs stored on the storage card. I assume there's a delay in icon cache of those on the storage card and so they don't show after you boot up. I don't know if this is fixed on the newer roms and you did not mention which rom you use. I have any program that's in that seven on the start menu installed to the main memory and there is no icon problem. Hope this helps
I have a couple of programs where the icons on the start menu show up as the little blank window instead of the icon that is supposed to be there....What do I need to do to resolve this issue?
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did you, by any chance change the location of the applications?
do you have programs installed on to your memory card? if so, check to make sure that the memory card is properly plugged in, since it may be missing the necessary icon files that have been installed there.
deerhunter said:
I have a couple of programs where the icons on the start menu show up as the little blank window instead of the icon that is supposed to be there....What do I need to do to resolve this issue?
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What are the programs in the start menu that are missing icons?
I haven't changed the location of the programs and they were installed onto my SD card which is securely in place. The icons that don't show up are Lexi-Comp and Sanford Guide, both pharmacy related programs that I use at work
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I haven't changed the location of the programs and they were installed onto my SD card which is securely in place. The icons that don't show up are Lexi-Comp and Sanford Guide, both pharmacy related programs that I use at work
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Go to Start/Settings/Personal Tab (bottom)/Menus. Find your programs listed, and simply put a check mark in the box next to the programs. This should fix the icon issue. Or just copy the files from your SD card to Windows/Start Menu.
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I posted this over at the cingular website, but I thought I might get a better response here.
I have an 8525 with WM6 installed. Sometimes when I perform either a soft or hard boot, the boot time is extremely slow. For example, I read here that a soft boot once a day is a good idea to free up memory. So I performed one. It takes my phone about 1 minute to go from the Windows screen to the screen where I enter my PIN. It then slowly "draws" the screen with the keypad to enter my PIN and eventually the word "unlock" appears in the lower left corner. It seems like it takes forever to not only load, but then draw the screen. Any touch input is then delayed. In WM6 does eventually load, its completely delayed and bogged down. This happens until about the 3rd soft reset when it is fine and the system is stable.
I have the following running on my system:
Sleuth255's PTTfix
enunutz HTC Home Customizer
Skunworks FlashVideoBundle
TCPMP The Core Pocket Media
C. Ghisler & Co. gtotal Commander
Vicsoft Clear Temp
Also, I have made the following registry tweaks:
1. disabled start-up animation and sound;
2. removed battery and communication from lower task bar;
3. moved battery to top of screen;
4. changed scheduling of activesync.
I have 25MB of storage space and 24MB of program space. I also have a 2GB micro-ram. Any ideas or other occurrences like the foregoing?
It may be helpful to see what's in your windows/Startup directory. There might be some sort of collision between two processes or something.
Windows start-up directory contents
Includes:
ClearTemp Startup (12/18/07)
Launcher (9/1/07)
poutlook (9/1/07)
PTTStart (9/20/07)
sddaemon (9/1/07)
TrayIcon_Manager (10/11/07)
Any help?\
Also, it does appear that after 3 soft boots, the system loads normally - in other words, three's a charm apparently for some reason or another.
My apologies if you have already tried to following, just need to know:
Did you try starting your 8525
- Without the microSD card?
- Removing the sddaemon.lnk from the startup folder (it seems to be optional, but to be safe transfer it to your PC first)
- Disabling cleartemp, either uninstall or removing it from the startup folder.
I suspect that it may be cleartemp, but I've never used it. Perhaps another process is competing with cleartemp by trying to write to the temp directory??
Also, which ROM are you using? The official wm6? Sorry for all of the questions.
I have read on many posts that removing the COMM MANAGER icon (your item # 2) from the lower taskbar causes a slow boot and system lags. It actually happened to me once after installing a program, but I successfully remove it yesterday and so far have not detected any problems. I don't know at this point why it would happen.
I've tried removing the SD Card - no change, removed ClearTemp from the startup - no change. What is sddaemon anyway? And I'm running the WM6 Rom that you could download from http://www.america.htc.com/support/8525/software-downloads.html - I guess that's the official version.
I'll try putting the comm. manager back in. It's hard to know if that was the problem, but I'll give it a shot. When you make a lot of registry edits and install programs in often hard to pinpoint exactly the problem.
dgaud007,
It may be a little early, but so far you're a genius. Looks like it may have been the removal of the Comm Manager from the bottom. I've had three soft boots now without incident. This begs the question, do some of those other today customizers which allow you to remove the Comm Manager slow down the system too, or is it just a product of using the registry tweak? On a side note, can somebody go into their registry at HKLM/ and see if there is a subdirectory called "5"? It's empty on mine and didn't know if I just created it by accident.
Thanks everyone!
Glad to help. I still would like to know why this happens. As I recall I had removed the comm manager icon when I first got this phone and it worked fine until I tried to install a kaiser type comm manager program, which didn't work. After that I experienced all the symptons, i.e. slow boot, slow redraw, etc. I then uninstalled the kaiser comm manager and put back the comm manager icon on the screen and the symptons were gone. A couple of days ago I removed the icon again just to see what happens, and so far is working fine WITHOUT the comm manager icon. I will try to duplicate the problem...
Update 12-26-07
I duplicated the problem installing this file: "JUVS_HTC_CommManager_Kaizer_fix.cab". After installing it with comm manager icon removed, it took > 4 minutes to reboot and all the symptoms re-appeared. I enabled the comm manager icon, did 2 soft resets and the symptoms were gone (i.e. boot time < 2 mins). I removed the application and installed "Kaizer Comm Manager(10 Buttons).cab" and so far is working fine without the icon in the today screen.
Same problems...
I can't really help much, but I've been having the same problem, both with the default ROM I had and with vp3g's ROM: extremely slow boot, with a successful boot on the third try...I'm thinking that the system keeps track of the number of times you try to boot, and streamlines the process the third time around to ensure a success.
Several days ago, I did this whole sequence of soft boots, and my phone actually "reset" itself: it went through the phone's "first-time-use" setup sequence, unpacking and installing default programs. I'm still running vp3g's ROM, but it now appears to be a blend of that ROM's customizations and the original system ROM, thanks to that weird reset. Anyone else know about this?
Every time I do soft reset my touch dual, there is a notice said that one of program shortcut in startup folder cannot find the program - always say missing or no sufficient memory. But there will be different shortcuts that has the same problem while reboot. I found there are totally 16 shortcuts in startup folder. I tried to remove some shortcut...the problem solved. But I wonder whether there is a limit of numbers of shortcut that can be run in startup at the same time.
Hope someone can help me and many thanks to all!!
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Hi,
I've noticed that my pimg.exe keeps crashing in several folders. I can start the program but then when I navigate to certain folders the program just closes unexpectedly. I turned the Error notification option ON and a report is sent every time it crashes...
I it very anoying because one of the folder where it crashes is the default folder to where photos are saved when taken with the camera.
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I've learned some things about this. If your symptoms are similar, this may help.
I've been having pimg.exe crashes on Windows Mobile 6 (CE OS 5.2.1238), HTC Advantage 7501, factory ROM, "Pictures & Videos" application.
I've found that it has a tendency to crash upon tapping Menu, and the odds go up as the folder of images gets larger. A 18MB folder with 200 images (mostly .jpg) is more than enough to cause trouble, but I can sort of work around it. Certain other functions are also crash-prone, such as breaking out of view mode.
First, avoid the application's Menu, if you can. It's safest to navigate to he image folder in Total Commander 2.5.1 and double-click on the image I most want to see. If the image comes up, navigate using arrow keys ONLY. If you must break out of view mode to the browser mode, or must use the menu, WAIT, as discussed below.
Second, if you start the app directly, navigate to your target without tapping any images. Once there, it may be useful to highlight several images (tap-drag) before tapping menu.. It MAY be useful to use the arrow keys to scroll up and down a little way from your target so that ~6 rows thumbnails above and below your target are drawn. Now, JUST WAIT. 1 minute is sometimes long enough for a 200 image folder. Tap Menu and see if it cashes.
Third, It may be useful to navigate to a small folder of images (less than 1 screen of thumbnails) and let it draw he thumbs, then come back. I have sometimes gotten from a state where none of the above work, to one where some do.
Check encryption setting for storage card
What I have noticed is that when I copied the pictures to storage cards and encryption is turned on, the pimg.exe (picture viewer) crashes. I experimented by turning off encryption and then recopied the same folder with images to the storage card and did not get the same error on the same folder.
Perhaps you might want to try that.