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How to change the default App for the Soft Buttons?

Hi,
How can I change the default settings of the Soft Buttons like "Contact" and "Calendar" to us PI?
Also, how can I change the setting for the Back-Light button? Because it seems to be not useful for now...
Thanks a lot in advance,

Its a reg key, i cant remember it off top of me head, search i saw it here somewhere, i now have messeging and contacts, contacts you cant change the the other is free to do whatever prog you want really.
soz i cant remember it :?

HKCurrentUser\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\112

thanks a lot for the help... But I have installed PI and now when I click on Contacts soft button it calls PI Contacts... I want to put it back as the default Built-in Contacts software??! Any clue...

Changing shortcut buttons

Is it possible to change where the buttons at bottom of the screen point to, when i press Calender it always goes to the default calender rather then Pocket Informant. And yes i've selected pocket informant as my defualt PIM.

Yeah, someone posted the registry keys necessary to change the softkeys....
After a bit of a search, I didn't find the post I was originally thinking of, but this thread will give you the correct registry keys...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=155314

What is the best app to use for regedits?

Help | Softkey mappings for the Phone Dialer and Contacts ..

Guys
What are the softkey settings for the Phone Dialer and Contacts? Basically, I want the left softkey to be the phone dialer and the right one to be the contacts on the today screen.
How do I do this using the SoftKey applet?
JoKer

Start reading this from post seven...

Please tell me again how does that help me .. I have already downloaded and installed this app as specified in this thread ..
But I cant find the location to the phone dialer and contact programs .. So, I am not able to set them up correctly ..

Phone dialer is cprog.exe in windows.
Contacts is "poutlook contacts".
Just find the appopriate shortcuts in your \windows\startmenu and examine the existing shortcuts.
V

Thanks Vijay. That's exactly what I was looking for .. Why couldnt rename it to something simple ..
Another stupid question .. How do I examine the shortcuts?

Use gsfinder/resco/total command and choose to view properties, noramlly by press and hold on filename.
Otherwise drop it into notepad!
V

Uhm, am I missing something? Why would you want to map the dialer under the left softkey? When you press the green phone key (next to the softkey) it will launch the dialer already.

Because it is much easier for one-handed operation .. it's difficult to reach down and click the green phone key .. with just one hand ..

New SMS link to home screen?

is there a way to do this, our maybe just a shortcut to the quick menu (same as the one that launches when you slide open Keypad. Or it would be nice to assign it a key via a good key map ap since the built in key map ap doesn't have settings for long press :-(
Suggestions any1?
Regards,
muzikfreakah

Hi
U can Use 'AE Button Plus' where U can assing a long press to eny button, or U can sinply remap one of your soft keys
shlomi.

Cool, ok thanks, I just thought there was a way to call the quick tasks which is already there in the phone, and launches when you slide out flip.
Will try AE.
Thanks!

Hi,
I was just about to post the same question. Is it possible to call up the "keyboard quick tasks" that you get when you slide open the phone as a hard button or a soft button (task or something).
Anyone know?

Hi
the task screen can be lunched by mapping one of your soft keys to windows\HTCActionScreen.exe , or u can copy a shortcut of this file to the windows\start menu\programs then u will be able to assign a hardware button to it.
shlomi.

I uses AEButtons, I assigned a button as LAUNCH A PROGRAM
Which options do I need of creating a new SMS ?

\windows\tmail.exe -service "SMS" -to ""

Thanks a million!

Thanks!!
Aside from AE is there another ap I can use to map? I want to map to a softkey? Instead of calendar I want to put that i also want to remap the contacts soft key to the "phone" menu.

Hi,
Try this: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-remap-softkeys.html
It worked for me

This one might be even better for your newSMS shrtcut:
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-keyswop-v0-2-1.html

for some reason, this doesnt work... i click on browse etc, and nothing happens...

Thanks guys, do any of these aps allow long press action as well atleast you get 4 actions on two buttons
Wish dual had more buttons really like the tytnII :-( I can even find button 2 and 3 which is specified on the buttons application wheer voice recorder and voice commander are mapped too :-(

By the way I got it to work with remap softkey, I used this one coz I am already like the HTC quicktask launcher

I got wisbar advance in the end... thats got a soft button app built into it... which works...
and i also got the htc action commander thing for new txt, new email etc...

hey thanks for the shortcut. one thing tho, the cursor goes to the body first anyway to get it in the "to:" field?

Right now im using Ultimate Launcher and have programmed some gesture action to work with HTC action

Contacts on HTC HD MINI

Hi all,
I've got a HTC HD MINI and I would like to go to contacts clicking on just one key. If I want to go to contacts I have to click on "Green" key and then "More" or go to "Start" key and then "Contacts".
Anyone know any software or something like that to create a shortcut to a button?
Thanks.
PS: I also would like to add an invisible X button to my device. I've tried one .cab that I found here on this forum, but it didn't work.

What do you mean by the "Green" key? Which Contacts are you referring to? HTC People or WinMo Contacts?
Anyway, whichever Contacts app you are referring to, you can use Bsb Tweaks to assign the left soft key to the Contacts. One click brings you to that app.

What's the left soft key?
I wanted to put it on the 4th key (the reverse one).

Why don't you just go Settings/Personalise/Home Screen Tabs and move the Contacts tab to one of the first positions ? That way you can open Contacts from the Sense screen, or from any other program by hitting the Home key then Contacts (I know that's 2 presses but it works well!)

But I want the other contacts application. The one that has the phone numbers with the name of the person. And I wanted to put it on one of the keys... and I've got a software to do so, but it doesn't open when I click the key... and I'm not understanding why.
My ROM is the last PT original ROM.