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Button for Contacts

I've just received my MDA Vario.
It's a great phone (I sent my MDA Pro back, because it was just too big - the Vario is perfect).
But in the Settings/Buttons section, 'Contacts' does not appear amongst the list of applications which I can assign buttons against. Most programs are in the list (such as Camera, Excel Mobile, etc), but there is no 'Contacts' and no 'Calendar' and no 'Notes' - although Record is there.
Since Contacts is one of my main points of use, I need a Contacts button.
Please can someone help me get Contacts into the list.
Thanks

I dont get it, Contacts is a pre-set button on the Vario. If you hold it upright looking at it without keyboard out, above the red button bottom right and below where it says T-Mobile is the preset contacts button.
Furthermore when you are in contacts, you get each persons name, just hold the central button at the bottom centre of the phone the loaf of bread shaped one if you like, hold it for a few secs in contacts and a list of different attributes for that contact pop up, you can scroll down and select phone numbers and email addresses.

monkeyphonix said:
Contacts is a pre-set button on the Vario
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No - It's a soft key - So Contacts is only available from the Today Screen, unlike the other buttons which are always available.
Whatever program I'm running, I want a one button press to take me to contacts.
Why isn't Contacts in the Settings/Buttons list of applications ????
Please help someone ?

My K-JAM lets me assign ANY of the hardware buttons to Contacts.
It could be that SPB PocketPlus has enabled this as it has extra features for button mapping however i am sure it was available before i installed PocketPlus.
Could this be an issue with the Vario ROM maybe?
Chris

AndrewK said:
monkeyphonix said:
Contacts is a pre-set button on the Vario
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No - It's a soft key - So Contacts is only available from the Today Screen, unlike the other buttons which are always available.
Whatever program I'm running, I want a one button press to take me to contacts.
Why isn't Contacts in the Settings/Buttons list of applications ????
Please help someone ?
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Well I've not done anything to it and it always pulls up contacts, whether you are in a programme or on today screen, the only difference is, if you are in say Calendar you have to press and hold and not just click. What ROM do you have ?

monkeyphonix said:
Well I've not done anything to it and it always pulls up contacts, whether you are in a programme or on today screen, the only difference is, if you are in say Calendar you have to press and hold and not just click. What ROM do you have ?
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No, press and hold just actions whatever the context menu option is (in exactly the same way as a press). So no good !
My Rom version is 1.3.2.2 ENU (9/29/05)
Protocol 4.0.13.17
ExtRom version: 1.3.2.102
Can you help ?

Please.
One of you guru's must be able to help me.
Please, please, please, please.

AndrewK said:
monkeyphonix said:
Well I've not done anything to it and it always pulls up contacts, whether you are in a programme or on today screen, the only difference is, if you are in say Calendar you have to press and hold and not just click. What ROM do you have ?
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No, press and hold just actions whatever the context menu option is (in exactly the same way as a press). So no good !
My Rom version is 1.3.2.2 ENU (9/29/05)
Protocol 4.0.13.17
ExtRom version: 1.3.2.102
Can you help ?
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Your is different to mine.

That'd be very useful if it worked... Mine is however working the same as Andrews...
Any hints on what the differences might be?

Although it's tediously two presses, doesn't the red "phone" button take you back to today (from anywhere except in a live call) and restore the contacts softkey just above it?
Dox

My Dutch MDA Vario has the contacts app in the start-settings-buttons menu, so I am able to map it to a button. If you want to do it without the settings menu, because it does not show up there, make the regedit. It can be found in the thread "Lost" some of the buttons on my 9100 or something like that. search for "lost"+ buttons and I am sure you will find it. In that thread are the registry keys where the right values for the keys are given. Just take the key you want to map contacts to and change the paths to point to contacts application (probably /windows/contacts.exe, or something similar).
Save the reg edits, soft reset and bingo. It should now show up in the start-settings-buttons.

Dox, thanks for that. Simple, but effective

Um forgive me if I'm being dense but looking at it isn't the list of applications available to map to the hardware buttons just whats in your Start Menu?
If contacts has gone the shortcut must have gone from the start menu so surely just...put...it...back?
Lewis

Text Messaging menu after change to WM6

With WM5, the softkeys were
Left softkey: New (text message)
Right softkey: Menu
after upgrading my Cingular 8525 to WM6 it is not that useful:
Left softkey: Delete
Right softkey: Menu
In effect, to create a new message I need to select Menu and then New.
Is it possible to assign New to the left softkey?

oh god yes

normanp said:
With WM5, the softkeys were
Left softkey: New (text message)
Right softkey: Menu
after upgrading my Cingular 8525 to WM6 it is not that useful:
Left softkey: Delete
Right softkey: Menu
In effect, to create a new message I need to select Menu and then New.
Is it possible to assign New to the left softkey?
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It might have been in your ROM!
Mine always had CONTACTS on the left and CALENDAR on the right! BTW: The HERMES has a direct MESSAGING button on the top left anyway, so, what does that matter? Next to you can enable the MESSAGING TODAY PLUGIN or assign / remap the buttons yourself!

This might help. Work on my WM6 ROM (vpG3 v3.62.3).
Start
Settings
System tab
Soft key
from there you can set up you soft keys to run the application you want.

He means with the MESSAGING menu, not on the TODAY Screen. Yes, on today it's Left-Calendar, Right-Contacts.
BUT
We want it back to the way it was on WM5.
Left - NEW
Right - MENU
Please oh Please can someone find a fix for this. Who new the geniuses at m$ could find such a simple way to make daily texting so much more annoying.

jcm96 said:
He means with the MESSAGING menu, not on the TODAY Screen. Yes, on today it's Left-Calendar, Right-Contacts.
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Yeah, I missed that the first time through... Sorry...

How to re-assign command bar?

I'm using Atom Pure /w WM6 0.7.2 01172008C1WWE 6MBPP
+ HTC Home Plugin
I have silly questions:
how to re-assign 2 shortcut on the (bottom) command bar on the first page?
T.q.

Oery said:
I'm using Atom Pure /w WM6 0.7.2 01172008C1WWE 6MBPP
+ HTC Home Plugin
I have silly questions:
how to re-assign 2 shortcut on the (bottom) command bar on the first page?
T.q.
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can you explain further what you wanted to create shortcuts mate? is it the soft button(left and right) at the bottom. If so, just use the built in soft key customizer in the ROM.

hi brian
i use the key customizer, but when i change it, it's say "error opening the shortcut or locating the target filename"
what should i do ?
thank you

PiaL said:
hi brian
i use the key customizer, but when i change it, it's say "error opening the shortcut or locating the target filename"
what should i do ?
thank you
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do it this way, lets say you have installed htc action screen and wanted to create a short cut on the left soft key.
open soft key customizer, then select customize.
label anything like NEW or HTCA or anything that you want. (In my case I use new) click ok
Then select the correct path with the .EXE e.g. /windows/HTCActionScreen.exe (I believe it should be written precisely if it's upper case or lower case so correct me if im wrong hehehe)
You are almost done! just select anything you want on the right softkey.
Yes on soft reset, presto! a new short cut on the left softkey!
Hope this helps

ow, i see how it works now, thanks brian
oh, i forgot to mention that calendar, contacts, messaging (in the option) don't work, if i select it then tap the key, it say "error opening the shortcut or locating the target filename"
how can i fix this ?
is there anyway to deactivated the softkey customizer ?
i mean to change back to the default setting
thank you

PiaL said:
ow, i see how it works now, thanks brian
oh, i forgot to mention that calendar, contacts, messaging (in the option) don't work, if i select it then tap the key, it say "error opening the shortcut or locating the target filename"
how can i fix this ?
is there anyway to deactivated the softkey customizer ?
i mean to change back to the default setting
thank you
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all the options worked for me. calendar/contacts et al. I personally use it to assign htc action screen on left soft key.
If you want the default ones, just run soft key customizer again then select what was the default key before then soft reset.

that's the problem, the calendar, contacts and messaging didn't work, so I can't select one of them for the right side softkey
Oh well, this is my first problem with this ROM, overall I like this ROM
Thank you

Huge menus...

I now have my HD.
But whenever I click on one of the bottom menus (you know, the one that says 'menu' or something in the bottom left) I get a massive menu.
Two questions: Would SPB Shell sort this out? Or is there another way to tell I I don't want mahoosive menus? (The 'start' menu has been shrunk already!)

Xarra said:
I now have my HD.
But whenever I click on one of the bottom menus (you know, the one that says 'menu' or something in the bottom left) I get a massive menu.
Two questions: Would SPB Shell sort this out? Or is there another way to tell I I don't want mahoosive menus? (The 'start' menu has been shrunk already!)
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You can adjust this to something smaller. HTC has deliberately made it big to be finger friendly, but that results in scrolling for some program with longer list of items on the menu. I think under the tips and tricks thread you can see how to do it.
Cheers.

It also says in the user manual that this is the case and it shows you how to change it.

ScarySquirrel said:
It also says in the user manual that this is the case and it shows you how to change it.
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Are you talking about the start menu or the bottom menu? The start menu text size can be changed as described in page 41. In which page can you find how user could change the bottom menu text size?
The registry key has been mentioned in the Tips and Trick section. Alternatively, you can also change it using SKTools.

Some little questions

Hi,
I've just purchased a HTC Leo, and i've some questions because some features of my old HTC Diamond 2 aren't here anymore... And i want them back
First of all, i want the little arrow in the up right corner of the screen, that allow to see open applications and close them. How to get it back?
Then, i noticed that the SMS manager is now a custom HTC menu, and i want the old SMS "outlook" back. How to do?
I want be able to access to the Windows setings old menu too, not the HTC one.
Is there any registry tweak or application for change these features?
Please help me, because i am dissapointed and about to sell my Leo and use again my Diamond 2...

TheMafioso said:
Hi,
I've just purchased a HTC Leo, and i've some questions because some features of my old HTC Diamond 2 aren't here anymore... And i want them back
Please help me, because i am dissapointed and about to sell my Leo and use again my Diamond 2...
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*Sigh*
Did you use search? These questions have been asked (and mostly answered) before, and can be easily found around here.
First of all, i want the little arrow in the up right corner of the screen, that allow to see open applications and close them. How to get it back?
-> 7. Get the old Task Manager Back (works great)
Then, i noticed that the SMS manager is now a custom HTC menu, and i want the old SMS "outlook" back. How to do?
Last post in this thread sounds promising.
I want be able to access to the Windows setings old menu too, not the HTC one.
From HTC settings tab, right softkey 'Menu' -> 'All Settings'.

Thanks for your answer.
I noticed that i don't have the Windows calandar anymore, but only the HTC one, wich i really hate.
Ive make a shortcut in "Programs" folder, for "calandar.exe" and it works fine, but the shortcut don't have icon, and is ugly...
How can i put the calandar icon to this shortcut?

TheMafioso said:
Thanks for your answer.
I noticed that i don't have the Windows calandar anymore, but only the HTC one, wich i really hate.
Ive make a shortcut in "Programs" folder, for "calandar.exe" and it works fine, but the shortcut don't have icon, and is ugly...
How can i put the calandar icon to this shortcut?
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Easy! Sell your HD2, put your SIM Card back in your Diamond2 and that's it!

About that calendar -
TheMafioso said:
Thanks for your answer.
I noticed that i don't have the Windows calandar anymore, but only the HTC one, wich i really hate.
Ive make a shortcut in "Programs" folder, for "calandar.exe" and it works fine, but the shortcut don't have icon, and is ugly...
How can i put the calandar icon to this shortcut?
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You can go to Start->OutLook->Calendar (This is the regular windows calendar)
Or - with htc-sense - you can add a shortcut to the "Today" page (Where the clock is) by tapping an empty link place, and selecting the calendar from the list of suggested programs.
Enjoy