HI guys,
After installing a couple of other soft keyboards/languages the pop-up selector seems to slow down before popping-up.
A while back I found a thread which actually fixed this problem by exporting the registry, deleting the original and importing the exported registry back in, soft reset and viola, pop-up speed is back up to normal even if you have a list as long as the screen.
Problem is that I did not bookmark the wbepage/thread for the fix. Does anyone know of this, have the link etc. Looking to do a hard reset and reinstall and this is very useful.
Thanks for the assistance.
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I've tried searching, I can't seem to narrow my search enough to get relevant results.
I installed NullKB to block the annoying SIP popup from searchfromtoday. I first installed it to the memory card, and went into settings ~> input and selected it as the default input method. I go back to my today screen and the SIP still pops up when I tap the searchfromtoday box. I think that maybe it needs to be installed in main memory to work, so I uninstall, and reinstal to device. Still the same thing. I noticed that I can go into input, select nullkb, tap OK, then come back and it goes back to keyboard. It's like the change to nullkb won't "take" so to speak. Any ideas? Search from today is amazingly useful, but the SIP popup is a deal breaker.
Another quick question: How do I make programs launch on startup? I like to have magicbutton task manager launch everytime I start up the device. As it is now I have to open it after every reset.
If i remember correctly if you go into magic button settings, there should be an option to automatically start.
As a rule if you want a program to startup when the device starts place a link in the windows\startup folder, i.e. a lnk file to the program.
MSigler - after installing NullKB, try a soft reset. Also, don't set it as the default keyboard through the registry - if you do, you may end up with the device not booting anymore and requireing a hard reset (lose all data).
Mark - Thanks for the tip, I found that, but I'll use the startup trick in the future.
I did do a soft reset and it still doesn't work.
I've installed and uninstalled several keyboard input software in the past few weeks including Resco Keyboard, Hikeyboard, and is about to try out Ten-Go.
I have the following problems:
1) I'm unable to uninstall Resco Keyboard cleanly. Using file explorer, I managed to delete away the unwanted directory. I've also used Register Edit to remove the entries whenever I see it. However, I still see Resco as one of the choices when I select the input method while using the soft keyboard.
Can anyone tell me how I can get rid of this entry?
2) More serious problem is that I cannot select the keybaord that I want anymore. Only the default keybaord is appearing no matter which other one I try to choose. Even if I set it to be the default keyboard, the system seems to ignore it completely.
Soft reset does not cure the problem. I hope to avoid a hard reset if I could. Can someone help?
Try this little app to change your default input panel. Hopefully it'll solve your problem.
Hi Cayotte,
Thanks for the CAB file. Unfortunately it does not help. I could choose, say Ten-GO with the select button. Then the application will exit. If I come back again, it is reverted back to the standard keyboard. If I choose block recogniser, it will stick. Letter organiser sticks too.Phone pad also sticks. Symbol pad and transcriber all would also work, with or without this utility.
The problem is it will not allow the others to be selected. These include TenGO, PenPower, CE-Star input method. They could not be made default. They also could not be selected at any place.
cayotte said:
Try this little app to change your default input panel. Hopefully it'll solve your problem.
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Useful app - Thanks.
What does "Initial Delay" do?
eaglesteve said:
I've installed and uninstalled several keyboard input software in the past few weeks including Resco Keyboard, Hikeyboard, and is about to try out Ten-Go.
I have the following problems:
1) I'm unable to uninstall Resco Keyboard cleanly. Using file explorer, I managed to delete away the unwanted directory. I've also used Register Edit to remove the entries whenever I see it. However, I still see Resco as one of the choices when I select the input method while using the soft keyboard.
Can anyone tell me how I can get rid of this entry?
2) More serious problem is that I cannot select the keybaord that I want anymore. Only the default keybaord is appearing no matter which other one I try to choose. Even if I set it to be the default keyboard, the system seems to ignore it completely.
Soft reset does not cure the problem. I hope to avoid a hard reset if I could. Can someone help?
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Have you try this simple solution...
1. install Resco keyboard again. Soft reset then test if it works.
2. select default keyboard as your current SIP
3. uninstall Resco keyboard.
With these steps, hopefully it cleans all resco registry...
Good luck.
I solved the problem. TenGO's founder actually posted his solution at another forum. In summary, this is what you have to do in order to make TenGO selectable.
1. Ensure TenGo was installed in the device, and not the storage card.
2. Close up all plugins
3. Remove storage cards
4. Let the selected keyboard be the default one, if it is not already the case.
5. Go to setting>Personal>Input method. There you are able to choose TebGO and the default input method. In the option screen, check that it is the default.
6.Switch off the device
7. Soft reset
8. Go to an application such as word or excel that needs a keyboard.
9. You should see that TenGo is now the default keyboard.
10. You can now put back your plugins, then switch off the unit.
11. Put back your SD card
12 Do soft reset again.
After this, TenGO should be always selectable.
This is a very interesting, powerful, and quick input method. Try it.
Edit:
Go to www.free.tengo.net for the free version and www.tengo.net for commercial versions.
bastono said:
Have you try this simple solution...
1. install Resco keyboard again. Soft reset then test if it works.
2. select default keyboard as your current SIP
3. uninstall Resco keyboard.
With these steps, hopefully it cleans all resco registry...
Good luck.
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Bastano, thanks for the tip. I saw your post only after my hard resets.
After my first hard reset, resco obviously was not there. But it returned after the sprite restore.
After the second hard reset, I avoided that route, choosing instead to reinstall all applications one by one. Almost all data need by restore as there are already in sd card. A async took care is the rest. After this, resco was by more there.
I now have the free version is tengo. What a simple,intuitive,quick,and smart keyboard!
I've found another way of overcoming the sip selection problem. There is no need to disable today plugin, Just do a safe mode reset, then you will be able to select without problem. After that, do a normal reset.
I just discovered that even if you have managed to use the above methods (i.e SIP change program, or disable all plugin, or safe mode reset) to successfully select the desired SIP, the selection reverts back to the standard keyboard once Compaction Thread kicks in (This is when the WM5 file system starts working very heavily and freezes up the unit for minutes or hours).
In order to minimise the chance of this happening, ensure you do not install programs into the device (instead, it should be to the storage card or microdrive) unless the program creators requires it to be so.
One of the steps I've taken in order to avoid memory shorfall is to relocate all PIE and Opera Cache/history/cookies from the device to storage card.
See this thread on how I did it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=310420
Hello there,
Can someone please provide a definite answer. Where is the Contacts application and how to run it? I've tried many variations... Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
You apparently remapped the Contacts button on the Today screen by installing Nadavi End Key, whatever that is. Hard reset your device and the Contacts button will reappear and then be careful what you install.
Until then, try starting the Phone app and the left soft key hopefully will be Contacts; or after ending a call you should get a screen with a Contacts button.
PocketCM V.17 just came out...
You could try loading it and giving it a testdrive. Maybe it will work out better than the default contacts app. Might even re-map the contacts button correctly for you too.
Just a thought...
Contacts shortcut is
/windows/AppButtons/Contacts.LNK
Ive uploading the Reg key for the Right Soft key (contacts) if you want it. Just use a reg editor like PHM Registry Editor to import it.
found a solution
I ended up using the link
Windows\Start Menu\Contacts.lnk
Many thanks to all of you for your assistance
on wm5 in messages at the bottom would be the menu on the right soft key and new message for the left soft key. on wm6 the left key has been replaced by delete, how can I change it back?
I was still wondering if this was possible
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319468&highlight=collection
look for "softkey changer" in that first post.
are you sure that changes the soft keys in the messages application?
I have a soft key changer on my phone already but it only changes the ones on the today screen.....I'll download this anyways and see if it's different, although I'm pretty sure I've downloaded it before
yup....just downloaded it again and it asked me if I wanted to replace the one that was already on my storage card.....I said yes (maybe it was an update) but it's the exact same thing that only allows you to change the soft keys on the today screen. (unless I'm missing something )
so I'm still looking to change this. I don't like the delete key there since I rarely delete my sms messages but always reply or make a new one.
so is this at all possible?
if i was you i would just start living with it...it now that big of a problem
well I am living with it.....I'd just prefer it to be the way it was on WM5
Yesterday, something suddenly went wrong with my phone. It became very unresponsive; programs wouldn't open, screen froze.
I had CHT 1.8.5 installed and suspected it may have something to do with that (though I'm not sure at all). I managed to uninstall it and get the original Sense back, but a number of things are still broken:
* Start menu: can't open it, neither with hardware Windows button nor with onscreen start button.
* Right hand corner icons "x" and "ok" don't show.
* Text input doesn't work: I can type on the soft keyboard but the letters don't appear.
I want to do a hard reset but would like to backup my text messages first. Problem is: I can't input my Windows Live password in MyPhone, since text input doesn't work.
Does anybody know what's wrong here and how to repair it? Or are there any other reliable ways to backup AND later restore text messages, that don't require text input?
Edit: I can use Resco explorer (except for text input) and most other programs, but it takes some trickery as they don't come to the foreground when I open them from the Sense home tab.
still have the problem?
the absent start menu and X buttons sound like a symptom of an overeager task manager terminating Shell32.exe. A soft reset will bring them back, until the task manager kills them again. I had the same problem with WKtask or xTask if i forget to exclude shell32.exe and mainila.exe from the exclusion list, (LINK).
if you don't have those task managers, but can still use the touchscreen for other things, then install MyMobiler in your PC to control the HD2 via usb. Do a full system backup, and use ActiveSync to start uninstalling a couple programs at a time until the problem goes away, and you'll know which program did it.
also, turn off CHT's lock screen, it causes more problems than it prevents. the stock hd2 lock screen should be good enough.
absent text input panel? don't know about that, but again, MyMobiler will take care of that from the PC.
Damn... that's a very informative reply. Thanks very much. I wish I had waited just one more day but I already performed a hard reset.
Still, it's great to get a little more insight on this as I was baffled by the behaviour of my phone. And I've seen a lot of weird things over the past years with different Windows Mobile devices. I don't know what could have caused Shell32.exe to shut down as the problem was present immediately after each soft reset, and I only use Resco Explorer's task manager which, I think, excludes critical stuff by default. And then there was that weird text input issue as well: it's not that the input panel was gone, but when typing on it the letters never appeared. I tried my Bluetooth keyboard and that didn't work either.
The touchscreen was still usable though, and your solution would probably have worked and saved me a lot of trouble...
I wonder if CHT's lockscreen could have been the problem. I uninstalled CHT first thing right after everything went wrong, but its lockscreen was enabled before that and maybe the uninstall left some unwanted stuff in place that kept causing trouble.
Anyway, thanks a lot for helping me understand a little more about all this.