Pretty strange issue I've had since a couple of days: ActiveSync still works perfectly but the window can't be brought up to the screen. When it's not minimized to the system tray (as an icon), it shows up on the active programs bar but the window itself is never visible. When I right click it in the program bar, the "previous size" and "maximize" buttons are greyed out.
It's annoying as I can't see the synchronisation status, but other than that the program works fine.
Anyone had this before?
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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?
Hello,
For some reason, task reminder/alarm/calendar reminder no longer appear on my Cingular 8125 screen. More specifically, it used to work like this: when a reminder is triggered, the lower left of the screen shows a "Notification" button, clicking on it shows more of the current notification and allows me to dismiss it. Now, only the sound is played and there is no "Notification" button. The result is i can't dismiss my morning alarm, which drives me crazy. Did i set something wrong to cause the "Notificataion" to disappear? Did anyone else see this before? How get i get "Notification" button to appear again?
Thanks a lot
Start/Settings/Sounds & Notifications/Notifications, choose reminders from dropdown menu and fix your settings.
Now as to how it was changed, that is a mystery.
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I have the same problem, even though my notifications are set to pop up and play notification sound, it just stopped working and now I am considering hard reset.
I am still waiting for those slackers at IMATE to release a new update before I hard reset, but I have a feeling they will nolonger be releasing an update since AKU 2.0.
Hi,
I have an application which has been running nicely on Harrier and iMate devices, well any PPC devices really because of their rectangular screen shape.
My client has gone and bought some Palm Treo 700wx devices, and they have a smaller square screen.
In the resource of my project the screens are designed to fit PPC. When it runs on the Treo the Treo automatically pops up a scroll bar to allow the whole view to be seen.
The issue is when I first go into the app I can't see the top of the screen, about 20 odd pixels heigh aren't displayed. The scroll bar still displays and I can scroll down to the bottom of the view, and when I scroll up again the top of the screen is still out of sight.
If I exit the app just by tapping on the x in the top right corner (so the app is still running, not exiting properly via my Exit button which shuts down the app), I exit the app and then when I go back into the app the screens are displayed correctly, there is no missing space at the top of the screen.
If I exit the app via my exit button and then start the app again, the top of the view is missing again.
Does anyone know why the screen isn't displayed correctly when I first enter the app, or why it should come right when reloading the view again? Has anyone else had problems with screen layout when putting PPC apps on the square Treo 700wx?
Thanks
It sounds like you have a 'refresh' problem. I haven't encountered this my self and it is really hard to diagnose when you don't even tell us what language your app is written in, but basically here is what I think happens:
When your app is launched, part of its window doesn't get properly painted (not sure why exactly).
When you click the X the app isn't closed, but minimized.
When you return to it the window is maximized and repainted. Second repaint goes correctly.
The quick solution to this would be to force a window refresh just after the app is fully started.
Sorry I forgot to add the language.. it's written in eVC++ 3.0
I'll give the refresh a go, thanks
Further Questions..
I thought that minimising and then maximising the screen fixed the problem, but only partially..
Because the screen in resource is designed for regular PPC it is bigger than the Treo 700 screen size, so the OS automatically shows a scroll bar.
The new issue I'm seeing is to do with the scroll bar. The steps I take to reproduce the issue are:
1. Go to View1, and I scroll down the view (I'm using CView not CDialog)
2. Go to View2
3. Go back to View1. When I go back to the first view the scrollbar is scrolled down in the position I left it.
4. Scroll up to top of view and some of the controls in the wrong place. Some controls I dynamically create in OnInitialUpdate, and as part of the Create() I pass in CRect to tell it where to create the control.
If I set CRect.top to say 10, it's created 10 down from the top of the visible screen. The problem is that because I've scrolled the view previously the view draws it 10 down on the visible portion of the view.
I had thought that the easiest solution would be to always reset the scroll bar to the top of the view before creating my controls, but I'm not sure how to force the OS scroll bar to the top of the view. I've tried SetScrollPos(0,0) or ScrollWindow(0, y). ScrollWindow moves the actual view up or down, but the OS scrollbar is still in the same position.
Any ideas on how to set my view window to the top and to reset the scrollbar?
Thanks again
How to refresh a view?
I have sorted the issue mentioned just above, by finding the scroll position and factoring in that when I set the value of CRect area of the controls I need to dynamically draw.
I'm now just left with the first issue, of when I first start up the app the top part of the window and scrollbar are covered by the Title/Taskbar at the top of the screen.
If I close the app via the x button and restart the app, the issue resolves itself. Or if I open up any dlg like the About screen or even display an AfxMessageBox, when I close the dialog the original screen is redrawn correctly, in the correct position and scroll bar fully shown.
I have tried calling RecalcLayout(), RefreshWindow(), UpdateWindow(), Sending WM_SIZE messages and a whole range of things, but I can't seem to get the screen refreshing correctly apart from when I open any dialog and close that dialog.
When you close a dialog what messages get sent to the previous view that force it to redraw? Does anyone have any suggestions how I can force a refresh myself?
Thanks again
Did you try InvalidateRect?
I am getting a bit rusty with MFC, since I now try to do things the hard way and use pure win 32, but this should work.
If you can't use it as a class member, call the API directly using you view GetSafeHwnd() function for window handle). Use NULL for lpRect to redraw the whole window and FALSE for bErase to prevent flickering.
Note that UpdateWindow() only triggers repaint if part of the window becomes invalid (the contents needs redrawing).
No I hadn't thought of using InvalidateRect(), so I should give it a go.
In the end I just wanted the issue fixed so opted for a quick 'n dirty solution of displaying a temp CDialog as soon as the app starts and calling EndDialog() immediately in the OnInitDialog() so the dialog disappears before you see it.
It worked and the original screen gets updated to correct size, layout and scroll bar.
Cheers.
Hi all,
I have noticed a few problems/issue, just wondering if anyone else has noticed them:
1. Poor streaming from youtube - it becomes very pixelated and I can hardly see or hear a thing.
2. When you have the security set on the phone (PIN) and the phone is locked, when you receive a call you cannot see who is calling you!! Even once I have typed in my PIN and unlocked the phone I still cannot see who is calling me!! Very annoying cos i love the PIN feature.
3. Phone lags heavily once I have sent a text message. I mean about 10 or 11 seconds it freezes and doesn't respond to any input.
4. How do you pan in and out (zoom in and out) using the GUI? I can do it with the volume rocker but in the guide it says to "to pan a page, touch and hold the screen, then move your finger" which doesn't do anything for me but scroll..
5. Activesync keeps appearing in my running programs. I haven't set it up and have not used activesync yet so i'm not sure why it keep appearing in my running programs - I have to stop it roughly 8 or 9 times a day! Not sure how to disable it.
6. Panels - anyone have any idea when we might see some new panels? I've looked at the Sony Ericsson "fun" site and tried a couple of those but just wondering if anyone has any info on when we might see some new ones?? and where??
7. The RAM. This doesn't seem as though its pushing that extra RAM that we were promised. It states that it's running 256mb RAM but i'm sure SE told the world that we would see 400mb RAM? Apparently the extra RAM is locked to the CPU (so i've read) but how can we be sure?? Anyone know more about this?
Can't think of anymore issues I got but they are the main ones. On the whole its a great phone, i love it.. I've been waiting for a very long time for this and its really lived up to expectations.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
Nav
4. How do you pan in and out (zoom in and out) using the GUI? I can do it with the volume rocker but in the guide it says to "to pan a page, touch and hold the screen, then move your finger" which doesn't do anything for me but scroll..
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Double tap.
nkhangura said:
5. Activesync keeps appearing in my running programs. I haven't set it up and have not used activesync yet so i'm not sure why it keep appearing in my running programs - I have to stop it roughly 8 or 9 times a day! Not sure how to disable it.
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Setup a fake server connection with any data in ActiveSync. Set it to manual update. After that, delete it again and it should stop appearing. Have done so on other WM phones, but haven't tried it on this one.
Thanks for the replies,
I tried the Activesync thing and i'll let you know how it goes.
Tried the double tap for the "pan" and it still didnt do anythin (tried it whilst using IE, Opera, and viewing images) Does the "pan" mean to zoom in or is it to scroll? I'm confused lol..
Anyone experience any of the other things?
double tap is for zoom and if you move your finger it moves the page
oh ok.. I have tried double clicking on nearly everything that I can zoom in on (IE, Opera, images etc) but it doesn't seem to respond..
Is there a setting or anything that I need to select?
In Opera it should work without any problems. So if you double tap nothing at all happens? did you try it with the stylus?
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1. Poor streaming from youtube - it becomes very pixelated and I can hardly see or hear a thing.
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Mine does this unless im in a 3G/H area then its perfect
Hi,
I got the zoom working with the double tap in opera..
My youtube always seems to be messed up even if im in 3G/H area
Activesync still seems to be playing up - it just appears in my running programs now n again and i have to stop it. ive even synced up to my pc and changed all settings to manual and tried to disable and other connections
Sorted number 2 and 3 by turning the phone off and taking out the battery and putting it back in and turning it on hehe
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Activesync still seems to be playing up - it just appears in my running programs now n again and i have to stop it. ive even synced up to my pc and changed all settings to manual and tried to disable and other connections
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This is what I did to disable the auto ActiveSync, seems to work fine for me:
1. Open ActiveSync.
2. Hit 'Menu' --> 'Configure Sever'.
3. For Email Address, type "[email protected]" (or whatever you like) and uncheck the box.
4. 'Next', server address, type "[email protected]" (or whatever) the box underneath stays checked.
5. 'Next', User name, PW, and Domain: Type "Blah" for all of them and check the box.
6. 'Next', uncheck all the data it wants to Sync and hit 'Finish'.
7. Back in the ActiveSync home hit 'Menu' and 'Schedule', Make sure 'Sync during' is Manually for both options and uncheck 'Send/Recieve when I click'. Hit 'Ok'.
After that I didn't have any issues with ActiveSync connecting on it's own and Task manager stays unburdened.
for youtube try the standalone player and panel it works better.
Hint: after sending sms hit OK on the keypad or the screen.
It freezes when you hit "dismiss".
"Pan" maybe means enabling smooth scrolling? It works everywhere: contacts, menus, email.....
Aha, the RAM: X1 has 256MB for user,
PLUS 128MB for graphics.
Total: 384MB.
Hi guys,
I'm having a problem with setting contact icons on Windows Mobile 6.5. I'm actually running Dutty's Holy Grail R1, but I'm not sure that that's part of the problem.
To add an icon to a contact I navigate to the Photos and Videos tab. From there I select the picture and press Set as Contact Icon in the menu.
If I keep my phone upward all the time everything works: I get the crop selection, afterwards the Add to new/existing menu and I select a contact and everything works out.
However, then the contact icon is turned sideways. This makes sense, since the picture was also in landscape mode when cropping (i.e. the bottom was at the left side of the phone).
I think the solution by design for this is to turn your phone sideways when viewing the picture and selecting the Set as Contact icon menu item. This works up to the point when selecting Done after cropping. The next menu appears partially, or not at all, and I'm not able to set add the icon to a contact.
I've disabled Sense 2.5 in the UI, and that gives a bit more insight in what's going on. With Sense disabled and holding the phone in landscape mode, I do get the Add to new/existing menu briefly, but the start top bar also appears on the left side of the screen.
I think the phone is trying to rotate the UI to show the menu, but fails with the menu partially visible.
Are any of you having the same problem?
A solution might be to temporarily disable the G-sensor and rotate the screen manually. Or I could set the contact icon from the Contact card, but then I'm not able to crop. I'm actually using active sync, so I could also set my contact icons in Outlook, but the quality was really crappy when trying this.
Regards, Stijn