Hi All,
I've tried various search strings looking for an answer to my issue but found nothing related. Anyone else have an intermittent problem whereby pressing softkey for "Messaging" yields no body or list, only a title bar and softkey menu as normal? When it occurs, I just see the Today Screen where either the message contents or list of messages should be displayed. After some fumbling and clicking around I can usually get the content/list to appear. I only noticed this problem when I first loaded summiter's ROM but now I have the official Cingular ROM loaded and problem still exists.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts or solutions.
can you access the messaging if you go through the start menu or do you have the same problem there??
is your soft key mapped right to the messaging link?
softkey mapped
Thanks for response, yes, softkey is mapped; as I mentioned earlier, when you launch messaging, I get only the top and bottom elements of the program (Title, New, Menu) but the middle content (message, list of) is missing)--you see only the Today Screen in foreground.
It happened to me as well once I started to force 'exit' on all the apps instead of just minimizing them. Part of Pocket Plus close button.
I'm not sure if this is the same case as you are experiencing but it looks like after the Messaging program is completely terminating, the softkey cannot launch the complete program. I was still able to launch it from the start menu with no problems (sounds very strange, I know).
The way I recovered from that is to put the "Messaging" program in the exception list of the close program; this way it stays in memory and I get the messaging complete program every time I press the softkey now.
I *Hope* that helps...
maybe???
interesting thought... well, i don't use that program BUT i am using smartkey and that likely shares the same process SO i will try that from now on after soft-reset and report back...
Thanks for the tip! It's definitely one of those hard to track down the cause kind of issues, how did you come about that as a solution?
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Did a search, but not coming up with anything....
Are there any known problems with the messaging program and other apps? Of all of the programs on my MDA/Wizard, that one gives me the most problems. It:
- looses settings
- freezes up
- has intermittant problems sending email
- wont launch from the Today Screen, the Start menu OR the designated hardkey.
I have to soft reset my device atleast 2x a day when the msging craps out and wont respond.
Any ideas?
thats odd, do you have any 3rd party apps related to do with messaging installed? the only messaging problem i've encountered is sending a message to a group.
Hi Thx for responding!
No, other than Agile, I have nothing else and my set up is not fancy - I'm only pulling my Yahoo pop3 to the device.
It's just so weird - no other program is giving me these problems. :x
what bugs me with messaging is that you can't move between the To: field and the Message body itself with tappin on the screen pressing TAB or the down keys just scrolls down the display but doesn't move you to the field very counter intuitive IMO. Hampers stylus free operation.
I have had some problems getting it to launch from the today screen or the hardware button.
I have the same problem with my t-mobile MDA> I called tech support and they said that it was a known problem that they are hoping to fix it withan upcoming ROM update but they didn't have a date. So, they are sending me another handset. -I don't know why as I'm sure that it's going to have the same problem.
Also, I have a qtek9100 as well and it has never had this problem.
That's something to note - that it is rom related. I wonder if flashing to a newer rom would stop it from happening all together.
bnycastro said:
what bugs me with messaging is that you can't move between the To: field and the Message body itself with tappin on the screen pressing TAB or the down keys just scrolls down the display but doesn't move you to the field very counter intuitive IMO. Hampers stylus free operation.
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I had this problem too. I found that it was caused when I enabled IE smooth scrolling in the registry.
Ok, I've been using Magic Button for about a week but lately i've been encountering some issues that seem to happen every day.
I'll have a few applications open, or through general use (phone, text, etc) there will be other things open. Sometimes when I go to close everything, or close the programs that I don't want to use/have open, I get stuck on certain screens (for example the phone keypad screen) and cannot return to the 'Today Screen' at all, even if I hit the little House icon or go to Start - Today. No matter what I hit, where I go, there are no running programs, I even close Magic button and still cannot get back to the 'Today Screen' until I do a soft reset.
How is this happening and how can I stop it? It's really annoying to have to do a soft reset whenever magic button screws up.
This is a cingular 8125.
Thanks.
thisisunique said:
Ok, I've been using Magic Button for about a week but lately i've been encountering some issues that seem to happen every day.
I'll have a few applications open, or through general use (phone, text, etc) there will be other things open. Sometimes when I go to close everything, or close the programs that I don't want to use/have open, I get stuck on certain screens (for example the phone keypad screen) and cannot return to the 'Today Screen' at all, even if I hit the little House icon or go to Start - Today. No matter what I hit, where I go, there are no running programs, I even close Magic button and still cannot get back to the 'Today Screen' until I do a soft reset.
How is this happening and how can I stop it? It's really annoying to have to do a soft reset whenever magic button screws up.
This is a cingular 8125.
Thanks.
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Phew - I thought I was the only one. I seem to have a few funnies with MB on my O2 Mini. I think you will be able to get back to the Today screen from the Start menu option, if you have it there.
I've just put MB on again the other day, but I think I'll prolly take it off today.
No your not but i'm surprised more people haven't posted about this, I couldn't find anything when I was searching. How is this such a great program if you have to soft reset every day???
I tried hitting the Today option in my Start Menu and that doesn't do the trick either. Trust me i've tried hitting every program in the book only to just waste more time trying to close them all.
Anyone have a fix, solution, beta, anything?
I had the same issue but found that the red 'hang up' button would reliably get me back to the today screen
Hope this helps
Vlado
I had the same problems so stopped using magic button. Try wisbar - same as mb but does not have those problems. Version 1 is free. For a simpler solution use smclose which just changes the minimize button to close button and of course there's vj okbutt which you can map to a button to close an app. (and smartskey as well!)
I've posted several threads about this problem, here and on Modaco. I find vBar is a bit more stable than MB, but even it has problems. I'm told InClose and SPB PocketPlus don't have these problems...
magic button acted funny for me, too, so I went to xbar. Another big plus with xbar (for me) is how easily it's accessed without having to pull out the stylus.
The first day i installed magic button it worked perfect. after letting the phone sleep all night it's gone crazy. All kinds fo freezing. Mine seems to have something to do with magic button being installed on the sdcard instead of in the main memory because it keeps telling me at startup that it can find the require files, even though it's running.
So i diabled autostart and tried just manually starting when i boot up and have had fewer problems. But still problems none the less.
I really don't like the fact that the close button is only set to either-or. It would be nice if we had a close button AND a minimize / put program in background button.
is there any program like this? I wonder how hard it would be to modify the source to do that.
Try the Cyberon voice speed dail, you can close a programm by speech. is on de MDA vario. no los off extra memory and no problems.
Magic Button
I have not experienced any problems at all with Magic Button and have found it to be the best Task Manager for closing running programs, and I also like the fact thast you get an 'active' decktop.
One thing I have noticed since I started running the new o2 ROM is that the Phone icon is ever-present, whereas on the previous ROM it did not stay on the screen permanently. Generally impressed by the speed of the new ROM, but not having any major problems with Magic Button.
I must be the only one who DOESNT have a problem with MB, I've had it since I got my HTC Apache without a hitch I installed it on the main memory and it seems to work quite well with allowing me to keep certain apps alive i.e. phone app, agile, etc.
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anyone know what would cause this and how to fix it? REALLY annoying. The only things on my today screen are spb whether and tomtom. Nothing exotic. Any ideas?
spb "whether" sounds pretty exotic, where'd you get it from? i only have spb weather... sorry just messing with you ;D
umm.. what do you mean you can't get back to the today screen, are you trying to say nothings loading on it? or apps won't close? Maybe you have to many programs running and they're eating up your memory. Get SPB Pocket Plus or Magic Button and see if that helps.
i have magic button. What i mean is that i can't seem to close apps and get back to the todayscreen. the apps just won't close for some reason.
Try InClose Mobile instead of Magic Button - much better
I have the same problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=275030
But I haven't found a solution for this .....
Remove the plugins one by one.. and determine which one is the one causing the problem.
I'm my case the problem is not related to a today-plugin.
It's just that for some reason it is possible to 'close' the todayscreen when tapping in the right-top corner.
Sometimes it DOES do that and sometimes it WON'T, but I can't figure out the conditions.
Today visible
Is the problem that if you close apps, you see the word Today in the upper left, but the most recently viewed app still shows as the body?
I had this problem, and now don't; I think moving to 2.26 ROM fixed it, but it could have been the rebuilding associated with moving to 2.26 (which cleaned out leftovers from uninstalled apps). In any case, a workaround was to open calendar and close it, which would bring back Today.
Your workaround didn't work for me.
Additional note: when the problem occurs, it always shows me my phone-screen or call-list instead of the todayscreen.
When I select 'today' using the start-button in the top-left corner nothing happens.
Any other application form the start-menu does work fine.
Hello everyone,
I've discovered quite useful thing about contacts manager, but unfortunately don't know how to turn it on or off, it starts, let's say randomly.
Sometimes when (on today screen) i press right softkey which is by default assigned to 'contacts' and i get a list of names, i see something like a pop-up window with letter 'A' and by using the jogdial on the left side of the TyTN i can switch between the first letters of the names in contacts. Then i can select exact name without scrolling through all of the contacts in between A and f.e. G.
Unfortunately i don't know what is the cause of starting this feature, people at HTC support don't know nothing about it, and told me that it must be some kind of software glitch however I find it very useful, maybe someone else got the same thing? And someone does know how can it be turned on that it happens every time i want to find a contact? that would really be operating with one hand then
thanks in advance for opinions and advices
If it's what I think you mean, go to contacts.
For example, hold down down (on the dpad). It'll start scrolling the list for approx 5 seconds. After that, the large letter A will show up. Use the dpad to select appropriate contact start.
Otherwise use the sip to start typing your contact.
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szturchen_pl said:
Hello everyone,
I've discovered quite useful thing about contacts manager, but unfortunately don't know how to turn it on or off, it starts, let's say randomly.
Sometimes when (on today screen) i press right softkey which is by default assigned to 'contacts' and i get a list of names, i see something like a pop-up window with letter 'A' and by using the jogdial on the left side of the TyTN i can switch between the first letters of the names in contacts. Then i can select exact name without scrolling through all of the contacts in between A and f.e. G.
Unfortunately i don't know what is the cause of starting this feature, people at HTC support don't know nothing about it, and told me that it must be some kind of software glitch however I find it very useful, maybe someone else got the same thing? And someone does know how can it be turned on that it happens every time i want to find a contact? that would really be operating with one hand then
thanks in advance for opinions and advices
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It works on all variants of the Tytn, you just go to contacts, press and hold down on the d pad and in a couple of seconds the 'pop up window' appears with a large letter, it just makes it easier to scroll through the contacts without having to get the stylus out.
Thanks guys !!
That's the 'pop-up' that I meant. Pressing and holding d-pad works. However I occasionaly get it when using jog-dial. In my opinion that would be even better for operating TyTN with one hand. Any clues on this one?
The Hero has this function where you hold down the search button and it launches google voice search, or the other option messaging.
I noticed when you press this while in the "all programs" screen, it activates it immediately even if you just press it.
This bug won't let me search all programs. Anybody have a workaround for this?
Maybe disabling the long press?
Even uninstalling Google Search voice, it just exits all programs when you do a search button.
I'm using the Modaco 1.1 core, I'm not sure if this is the same with the stock hero.
Thanks!
I still have the stock Hero ROM.
When I press the magnifying glass hw button while in all programs, it briefly flashes the 'Search programs'. But then closes all progs and takes me back to Home with the Google voice search in the foreground
I definitely still haven't found a workaround for this, and this is definitely a bug.
Hopefully sprint fixes this on the upcoming update.
After a little more research, apparently this has alot to do with handcent's quick text message function problem goes away when you uninstall handcent. which is kinda retarded.
runsoverfrogs said:
After a little more research, apparently this has alot to do with handcent's quick text message function problem goes away when you uninstall handcent. which is kinda retarded.
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Hmm...I never installed handcent. Don't do a lot of text messaging so I left that alone. Maybe uninstalling handcent fixes something? Who knows..
I just tried this, and don't seem to have a problem... I press the button for all programs, then press the magnifying glass and I can "search programs"... I have a European Hero, maybe that makes the difference ? Don't know...
This is odd, but I noticed this thread, had the same issue with google search (voice search) crashing when the program tray was open. But I also had (still have) the issue of updated programs not updating title/icon correctly after a reboot.
After reading up I saw that clearing out the boot-cache fixed the program title/icon issue. I did this and noticed that the I no longer got a crash when I hit the search icon (the magnifying glass hardware button) while the program tray was open.
See if it works for you, but basically (you must be rooted) run the command:
'rm -rf /data/boot-cache/*'
and my search/voice search from the program tray started working