I've had this problem for a while now and its starting to bother the hell out of me. I've talked to a friend of mine who has the wizard and he had a similar problem, but couldn'y find an answer either.
Every now and then, saw when i open programs, or the dialer, i'm not able to go back to the today screen! I try to get to it from magic button (have that installed) and through the start menu, and nothing, its gone! Only a soft reset gets it back. VERY frustrating.
I have a t-mobile rom installed.
I searched the forum but couldn't seem to find anyone with a simalar problem.
Thank you!!
Its a bug in magic button. Sometimes it shuts off the today screen when you're closing apps. Remove magic button for a day or two, your today screen will be fine
awww, i love magic button!
Any recomendations on another good task manager?
f18viper said:
awww, i love magic button!
Any recomendations on another good task manager?
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Yeah, I loved Magic Button too when I used it. Awesome freeware just wish it didn't have that bug. Right now I'm using Wisbar Advance 2. It's a theme software but the task manager built in is really really nice, plus it has cascading windows from the start menu. It's not free though.
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The most annoying thing ever!
The bloody app/programs window wont close!!
And not even hitting the k/b win logo > Today will work either.
Not even magic button works - only a soft reset will do it . then you are waiting till you either use the phone or venture stupidly into MyPrograms
Bloody infuriating..
anyone have a solution?
cheers guys,
LR
The phone app works best if you mark it as "Keep Alive" and "Don't show when inactive" in Magic Button. I've seen the "Programs" issue you mentioned, but selecting "Today" always gets rid of it for me.
Cheers,
Steve.
thx I will give the M. Button options a whirl!
Did you guys found a solution on the small blank square spot on the upper right hand corner of the screen where the OK button lies when using Magic Button?
Sorry - not sure what problem you are refering to...
Cheers,
Steve.
No problem with Magic Button...
For killing phone app, I found 2 utilities working...
First Xbar3...let you show the phone app and a trick to kill it.
Second one...http://www.vijay555.com/index.php?Releases:VJPhoneToggle works on 2003se and 2005 Qtek 9000.
Curious. Why would you want to close the Phone app?
Isn't it the whole point of the device?
If you use your pocketphone more as a pda than a phone, the phone app takes somme Mb of memory... Really closing it after a call give you the possibility to take some precious Mbytes back for running programs...
VJOkButt also has a specific option, -phclose, to close the phone after each use - very useful when assigned to the red hangup key with AEButtonPlus.
Note, closing the phone doesn't stop the phone ringing, so does save you some memory without sacrificing the phone's functionality, but it does cause a minor incompatibility - trying to dial from Contacts may crash out.
However, in day to day use I don't recommend closing the phone unless you're really tight on mem.
V
StevePritchard said:
Sorry - not sure what problem you are refering to...
Cheers,
Steve.
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No problem with Magic Button...
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Actually, it is not a problem but an aesthetic concern on my part. I am not using any skin program. The last time I tried Magic Button, if I am at the today screen with no open application, the location on the upper right hand corner where the "OK" button is shows a blank square. I was just wondering if I am the only one who had this oddity.
I have no skinning soft and I don't have a blank square... The color of that part of the taskbar, when nothing written, is the same than the rest of the bar. But I read stuffs like yours on other forums...
bonisalive said:
I have no skinning soft and I don't have a blank square... The color of that part of the taskbar, when nothing written, is the same than the rest of the bar. But I read stuffs like yours on other forums...
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I just tried Magic Button again, and no blank square. HOOOORRRRRAYYYY! I wonder what made that skin problem in the first place...
StevePritchard said:
The phone app works best if you mark it as "Keep Alive" and "Don't show when inactive" in Magic Button. I've seen the "Programs" issue you mentioned, but selecting "Today" always gets rid of it for me.
Cheers,
Steve.
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I can't seem to find this option in Magic Button. Can you please direct me on how?
Great little app, but I constantly find I can't close the last open application to get back to my Today screen - and if I go Start > Today, nothing happens - it seems as if the XDA *thinks* it's at the Today screen already, but my last open app (usually Phone) is still on screen, an no matter how often I clikc the little Magic Button X, it won't go away.
This only usually happens when I have a single app open, if I have 2 or more they close fine with Magic Button, right down till the last 1, then this problem starts.
Even more annoying because if I can't get to Home, I can;t lock the device.
I have a complaint about Magic Button also. On my wizard, it opened the phone menu everytime I close the window of Settings. The other annoying thing is that the X did not blend in with my theme colors. It's always a different color and looks very odd.
So what I did was uninstalled magic button and have started to use InClose program. It is MUCH better.
IMO, Magic button is crap. I dont know why people recommend it so much. Well ok, it might just be that it does not get on with the wizard.
It kept crashing for me, so i started using InClose. Brilliant freeware app and has been working perfectly for a few months now. Get it.
Zero problems with Magic Button here. Been running it for a while now
Magic Button was unacceptable to me on my Blue Angel and it's been no better for me on my Wizard. Personally I prefer wclose or smclose (which I believe are pretty much the same program) in conjunction with Smartskey.
Just my two cents worth!
I had the same problem with magic Button. After closing all the applications, the phone application would maximize. (you aren't allowed to actually close the phone application.) So with the phone application maximized, and no way to minimize it. It would get stuck on the top of the screen for me as well. I dont like in close either. It crashed alot on my system. Just use smartskey. It works great.
Hi, I had same problem with magic button and changed it to vbar (http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/vbar.shtml). It's nice program with one bug - the X/ok button have blue bacground no matter what theme and color you have.
For vBar you can select your own BMP picture.. ..works like a charm!
I've been using MagicButton for a long time now, and I didn't have any problem with it on my Wizard or Prophet.
Solved it, InClose was the answer, great app, thanks all!
Hey there guys. I previosly owned mostly symbian phones. Now I have a WM5 one. So my problem is: is there any way (trick) to switch between open apps on my device? This is a prob lem for me because , for instance, I had the IMplus (mesenger app) open , my phone entered standby after the period that I chose (2 minutes) and when I tapped the screen , my app was gone somewhere in the background. So I had to look it up again through the menu, and reopen it. It was working of course, but it was in the background. So is there any way, like it is on symbian, to find your opened apps and choose which one to bring back into the mainscreen, using only a simple button press or smth like that? Or maybe at least an app to do that?
Thank you.
magic button, GSPocketMagic, and a hundred other softwares...
LOL. Yes thank you. So nothing embedded already, but lots of apps to do that. Got it thanks.
I like SmallMenu Plus.
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Smellmenu Plus is fantastic, in addition to the task manager aspect, there's the cascading start menu. It's the first thing to go on any of my devices, and with the scrollwheel of the hermes, it's twice as good as normal. Makes one-handed operation so much easier.
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Smellmenu Plus is fantastic, in addition to the task manager aspect, there's the cascading start menu. It's the first thing to go on any of my devices, and with the scrollwheel of the hermes, it's twice as good as normal. Makes one-handed operation so much easier.
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SmellMenu? Gosh this is better than I thought.
Please add your own jokes here . . .
WisBar, PocketPlus, iLauncher ... Tons of others ..
I use AE button Plus. It cheap and will give you exactly what you are looking for as well as a Alt Tab. It will multiply what your hard buttons can do x4.
Thanks guys , I got an idea now.... Using Magic Button for now, but I will try Button Plus right now.
leoking3 said:
Thanks guys , I got an idea now.... Using Magic Button for now, but I will try Button Plus right now.
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Tell me how you like it.
is it just me? every now and then it crashes if i open and close the keyboard too much. on the today screen it just freezes and it looks like a gargled start button. does anyone else have a problem with it crashing?
prolly only its users...do.
nothin said:
prolly only its users...do.
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i can't tell if that was supposed to be sarcastic
If you're talking about the HTC X-Button program, there's a similar one called pBar that I'm putting through its paces right now. You can find it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=284952&highlight=pbar
Thus far, I like what I see, only problem is that it's difficult to hit the arrow to use it, as it piggybacks onto the clock/battery icon rather than creating it's own icon.
-- Joe
HTC Home Problem
In my start menu, my Programs button opens up the program list just fine... But in my program launcher, I have one button dedicated to open up the programs list... but just recently that button just became dead. How can I fix it?
Sorry, edit is acting weird.
By dead button, I mean dead link, nothing opens up.
That's actually happened to me a few times. Only thing I found to fix it was uninstall and then reinstall HTC Home.
Thanks, I'll try that out.
With sooo many visitors here, i thought i would get a reply sooner.