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Battery icon has vanished! (today screen)

It used to be there, and now it's gone! i didn't do anything, soft reset doesn't help! any ideas?
Rob

Hi Rob
Having the same problem with the Xda Exec.
After I did a soft rest the battery icon desapered.
Anybody out they knows how to get it back on the Today Screen.
Please help.
Gigino

I actually searched for a while to find a way to remove the battery icon. In the end, the only way I'm aware of to remove it is to run this:
Signed_UNI_Remove_BatteryIcon.sa.CAB
from the O2 XDA Exec extended ROM. Since I have a Jasjar I had to download that cab from the FTP site here. My guess is that you have an XDA Exec and you recently hard reset it and allowed the CABs in the extended ROM to run, or you ran that program from the extended ROM manually.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure how you undo it once it's been run. It doesn't appear in Remove Programs and while I'm sure it just makes a registry change somewhere I haven't got a clue where
Personally, I never did like that battery icon anyway... it didn't seem to be terribly accurate and it was only visible from the today screen. I use the freeware program batti as a battery monitor instead.
hth,
Brett

I have the same problem, though I don't miss it that much. Must specify that in my case, it didn't happen after a soft reset, it just happened.

Have you not tried opening the CAB in WinRAR, manually looking at the files and attempting to find which registry entry it modifies? I can't find the CAB on the FTP site, but I'm not that bothered as I don't have a Magician but if someone passes me a link for it, I'll have a look.

try this regkey
HKLM\services\power\ShowIcon
Change the 0 to 1
Soft reset - and you're cookin'

Nice one, giving that a go now - slightly unrelated but I'm using GS Pocket Magic and when using the 'Close All' command, my shortcut bar buttons disappear, the ones at the bottom of the screen that read CONTACTS and CALENDAR.
Any ideas?

ashleyhall said:
Nice one, giving that a go now - slightly unrelated but I'm using GS Pocket Magic and when using the 'Close All' command, my shortcut bar buttons disappear, the ones at the bottom of the screen that read CONTACTS and CALENDAR.
Any ideas?
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It's a known issue with Pocket Magic... there was a thread on it a while ago. From what I understand, there is some program or process that runs in the background that makes those shortcut buttons appear. Since Pocket Magic was designed for WM 2003 it doesn't know about that process, so it kills it when you do the close all. Since I'm no longer using Pocket Magic I don't know if anyone has managed to resolve the issue.
Brett

Ok, thanks for your reply - I notice PocketMagic has the functionality to NOT terminate certain programs (this option is in the Preferences for it), so if we can identify this process, we can exclude it...
I'll investigate...hang on!

Frustratingly my version of SKTools only lists the top 6 processes, if we can go through each one by one, we can suss out which process it is!

hi Robt,
to get back your battery icon, just do a hard reset and the battery icon it will appear again..it works for me. i've got same problem like you.
hope this help you and other
ps:i'm use universal with corporate install
good luck

NO Don't hard reset, thats just stupid!! For anyone looking for a genuine answer that won't cause loss of data, do this...as the chap recommends above.
1. Use registry editor to browse to 'HKLM\services\power\ShowIcon'
2. Change the value 0 to a 1
3. Soft reset
No data lost, and a nice battery icon for you!

since i dont have many data and many program installed in my exec, the simple things just do it my way (although u will lose your data). but hey that the simple way since i'm a beginner and it's difficult doing some registry hack for me. any way you can do it with hard reset or soft reset like ashley.
my 2 cents

Did you mean the batter icon at the top of the screen or at the bottom. Because the batter icon in the title bar is an O2 program that runs from a link in the start up folder.

The problem with doing it with a hard reset to get the battery icon back is: as soon as you perform a soft reset, you will again loose the battery icon. So there is no point really of performing a hard reset to get the battery icon back since you will loose it anyway if you perform a soft reset.
To me this battery icon is USELESS! Why? Its only purpose is a shortcut to Start>Settings>System>Memory>Battery level. To be completely useful to me, it should be a real INDICATOR icon of the actual battery level. But sadly it is not. Maybe this is the reason why they want it out of the way.
Plus, I use HandyMenu which has an option to show the battery level at an instant. Plus I get more functionality with it.

Maybe we're talking about different battery meters but mine appears bottom right hand corner and acfurately reflects the status of the battery - The simple registry change does it!

ashleyhall said:
Maybe we're talking about different battery meters but mine appears bottom right hand corner and acfurately reflects the status of the battery - The simple registry change does it!
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Yes, that is the icon I was referring to. The one that can be shown by what you posted.
HMMMMMMM, maybe I did not look hard enough on mine. I remmber on mine when my battery was 89%, the battery icon still looks like it was full, thus making my assumption it does not reflect the actual battery charge. I did notice that it shows if I have it plugged in though. Maybe I should try it again, now that my battery is low.

cktlcmd said:
HMMMMMMM, maybe I did not look hard enough on mine. I remmber on mine when my battery was 89%, the battery icon still looks like it was full, thus making my assumption it does not reflect the actual battery charge. I did notice that it shows if I have it plugged in though. Maybe I should try it again, now that my battery is low.
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It does show the battery charge, but it does a terrible job of it. As I recall, the battery needs to get well past 75% before the icon shows anything but a full charge. It was really pretty useless if you ask me.
Brett

BrettS said:
It does show the battery charge, but it does a terrible job of it. As I recall, the battery needs to get well past 75% before the icon shows anything but a full charge. It was really pretty useless if you ask me.
Brett
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Thanks BrettS, you save me a reset. I was timing my lovely puppy here how long it can work without any problems without a soft reset. So far 5 days and still running in excellent condition. I am trying to prove to myself that pocket PCs nowadays are stable as can be. This is my first pocket PC and I was afraid to buy a pocket PC before because a lot of palm users said you need to soft reset PPCs a lot to get it running neatly. Now I know it is BOGUS and purely INCORRECT.

cktlcmd said:
The problem with doing it with a hard reset to get the battery icon back is: as soon as you perform a soft reset, you will again loose the battery icon. So there is no point really of performing a hard reset to get the battery icon back since you will loose it anyway if you perform a soft reset.
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in my case, after performing a hard reset to get back my battery icon, i didnt
notice and didnt count exactly how many times after i performed soft reset then the battery icon gone again.because this my first experience with battery icon vanished. but as long i remembered, after i performed a hard reset then next day performed a soft reset, the battery icon still there.so i assumed that the best way for me to get battery icon back, since i'm not expert with registry hack and worried if do anything wrong with my new toys.
just want to share my experience with a beginner solution.
yeah maybe the icon is not usefull, but the icon looks cute.

Bought a Qtek 9000, first impressions & questions

I bought a Qtek 9000 a couple days ago and I'm pleasently surprised. I heard all the bad stories about the MDA PRO, O2 Exec, ... so I kind of feared the worst. But I took a chance and bought it anyway and the Qtek doesn't seem to be as bad as the other versions.
It does ring when I get called and the ring isn't late. I didn't notice any difference with my previous phone. So that's positive, I didn't change the ringtone on the other hand, so I don't have a large mp3 as ringtone.
Second, it is stable. Haven't had a crash, hangup, program error. Nor does it crash when I receive a SMS. I have received about 10 SMS'es though, not alot i know. The device is pretty snappy, I never have to wait a few seconds when opening programs or changing the screen-rotation. Also when I bring it back from standby, I don't have to wait at all...
I did a soft reset after setting the regional settings and the phone has been on for allmost 5 days. No major RAM issues, although the free RAM is shrinking, stopping applications in the memory-settings does free up some RAM, but not all. When I first booted the device I had just over 30MB free, and it has slowly decreased to about 18-19MB. I haven't installed any extra programmes on it.
So I might consider a soft reset when it reaches 10MB or so. But my question is, is a soft reset bad? Because you can't really shut the device off, you can only put it in sleep/standby. So rebooting it like a normal pc isn't possible. Does a soft reset damange any programs, settings... that's my main question.
Also, what's the best way to keep the battery in top-condition. Charge it when it's at 20% when the device tells you to charge it. Or charge it when you can, because it doesn't matter when you charge...
And one last thing, MSN Messenger doesn't draw the conversation window that well... Sometimes the part of the screen where your received/sent messages are shown is really small (about 3 lines high) and there is a large whitespace under the field where you type your message.
Thanks a lot to the guys at this forum for providing me with the most reliable info about the device, so I knew what I was getting.
Emmerman
PS: I ordered a Brando Screen Protector Plus, any comments, things I should know before I put it on the screen?

This is a good post to read first: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=32218&start=150
Here you will have an is\dea of what to expect between a QTEC and an O2 NEW ROM version have to offer.

Thanks for the link, but I wasn't really looking for a new ROM. As I'm quite new to the Universal, I prefer getting to know the device itself better, before I start doing the more 'professional' things. Besides, I don't have any major issues with the Qtek ROM at the moment.
I just wanted to know a little more about soft-resetting the device and how to charge your battery for best longterm performance. Because I find the manual quite minimalistic.

To soft reset: YOU RETAIN YOUR SETTINGS.
1) Just press the small pin hole found at the back of the Universal right beside the USB plug.
To hard reset: YOU LOOSE YOUR CURRENT SETTINGS. BACK TO FACTORY SETTINGS.
A) Method One
1) Go to Start.
2) Go to Programs.
3) Go to Clear Storage.
4) Type in the code: 1234
5) Press YES.
6) Wait for the automatic reset.
B) Method Two
1) Press and hold the two keys with this mark (-) at the same time found at the top most part of the keyboard.
2) While pressing these 2 keys, press the pin hole found at the back of the Universal for 1 second.
3) You will notice a reset and a blank screen will appear.
4) It will prompt you to either press X or 0.
5) Just choose which one you prefer.

emmerman said:
Does a soft reset damange any programs, settings... that's my main question.
Also, what's the best way to keep the battery in top-condition.
PS: I ordered a Brando Screen Protector Plus, any comments, things I should know before I put it on the screen?
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1) No, a reset both hard and soft does not damage your Universal. A soft reset to clear out the memory is good to speed up things better.
2) The best way is to leave it charging for more than 16 hours the first time. Unplug and use it till it drops to around 15% then charge it fully again, this time it does not need the 16 hours. Just wait for the green light indicating a full charge. After following these first two, just keep it plug-in before going to sleep at night making sure you got a full charge for the next morning.
3) I don't know about Brando's screen protector but I used Proporta's screen protector which included a wipe cloth and a screen spreader. I've had my screen protector on before I started even charging and using my phone. Another tip is to use a small peice of tape to take off some dust or specs that might have stuck on the screen before applying the screen protector. Sometimes even with the wipe there are still dust residues. You can also use the tape to clean the side of the screen protector that is going to stick on the screen.

Isn't a soft reset similar to pushing the reset button on your desktop? So couldn't you loose cached data that is in the RAM, because it wasn't written to ROM yet?

emmerman said:
Isn't a soft reset similar to pushing the reset button on your desktop? So couldn't you loose cached data that is in the RAM, because it wasn't written to ROM yet?
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I had never lost any data after a soft reset. It free up unused memory that was being kept by the system for faster processing. Plus WM5 has persistent memory now. May be that was the difference?

So in fact, you can't shutdown a Qtek? You can put it in standby modus, but the phone is still working then. And resetting it, is just rebooting it. So if you want to take out your SIM card, you have to take the battery out while it is actually running?

You actually can turn you device off, with a little help of some small programs, like PsShutXP for example.

Hmm, thanks for the info. I will look into that one, but at the moment I'm still very hesitant to install any third party applications on my 6-days old precious.
One other question, does the led blink orange when you receive a SMS. Because now it doesn't, it blinks green, like normal. But I seem to remember the first I got it, it blinked orange. Or am I confused.

@emmerman
You are right you can lose data. I have lost emails and other users have reported loss of WEP keys etc. But I have never had this problem with Symbian devices.

emmerman said:
One other question, does the led blink orange when you receive a SMS. Because now it doesn't, it blinks green, like normal. But I seem to remember the first I got it, it blinked orange. Or am I confused.
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Can anyone answer this one.

Go to Start>Settings>Sound and Notifications>Notifications Tab>Choose the event you wish to correct.
The changes in any settings never occurred on mine nor any type of freezes. Something I am glad about.
What I did when I first turned on my device, off from the box or right after a hard reset, was to go through those settings and made sure they are all configured the way I want them to notify me. This is the only difference I could possibly think of why others have disappearing settings on notifications.

Battery lacks!

Does anyone knows what could be the reason of this:
In result of this a bzzzz and a popup saying that "you should immedialty save your data to prevent possible loss blablabla" appear every time I switch the phone on (short press on the "ON" button in the upper right part of the phone).
Could the problem be in hardware, or it can be repaired by software?

does the battery indicator in settings show a correct battery state or not?

When I charge it via cable - state is shown as "In AC" with corresponding icon. The type is shown as "LiIon" with no percent bar.
When I plug out the cable, I get the picture and effects that I described above.
Check it out:

probably worth making sure that all of your battery contacts are nice and clean.
then try a hard reset and or re-flash of the rom (if you can find the same version that u currently have in the wiki). Do not flash to anything other than your original because it might well invalidate your warranty.

I rechecker the contacts and I have made a hard reset for couple of times, but no use.
I have notices one thig, also: when I had reset, some sort of "autorun" starts.
Just after the screen calibration, a progressbar appears and some .tsk starts to load, inluding some filewith my rom version number, anda file with a name of my cell phone operator (I believe it's a skin, because after that I get a today skin with operator logo in it).
I believe it's possible for me to make a recording of that kind of installation that take place after the hard reset, if that will be helpful.

KayTrance said:
I rechecker the contacts and I have made a hard reset for couple of times, but no use.
I have notices one thig, also: when I had reset, some sort of "autorun" starts.
Just after the screen calibration, a progressbar appears and some .tsk starts to load, inluding some filewith my rom version number, anda file with a name of my cell phone operator (I believe it's a skin, because after that I get a today skin with operator logo in it).
I believe it's possible for me to make a recording of that kind of installation that take place after the hard reset, if that will be helpful.
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afte a hard reset, the process you see is the personalisation process of the device - it installs the themes/soft/etc of your operator.

Big problem,calibration loss on HD

Hello guys,
Since yesterday i experience a loss of calibration of my screen, when i touch an area it react 2 or 3 inch lower ou upper it makes me sick, i just cant answer a call, or do anything due to this chit, can someone handle this, it is ever happened to you?

up!!! help!

grafikastudios said:
up!!! help!
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Not to state obvious but have you tried to recalibrate it? Or perform a hard reset?

Hi,
I have exactly the same problem, I did a recalibration and this is very strange, first when I finish the calibration, then it restart from the beginning and I have to recalibrate 3 or 4 times before it exit the calibration tool. Then the device works normally, but few minutes later, this is the same, recalibration is lost. I did a hard reset and even change the ROM, but it is the same.
I do not know what to do
I see also after a reboot, the calibration is good again, but this is not always the case.
What can I do ?
Thanks
Denis

morind79 said:
Hi,
I have exactly the same problem, I did a recalibration and this is very strange, first when I finish the calibration, then it restart from the beginning and I have to recalibrate 3 or 4 times before it exit the calibration tool. Then the device works normally, but few minutes later, this is the same, recalibration is lost. I did a hard reset and even change the ROM, but it is the same.
I do not know what to do
I see also after a reboot, the calibration is good again, but this is not always the case.
What can I do ?
Thanks
Denis
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Sounds like a faulty device. Flash back to stock rom
& SPL if you haven't already and return under warranty.

Hi,
thanks for the answer.
I flashed back to the original ROM and I think this has also set the original SPL, but I am not sure. How can I check this ?
When starting up the device I can see :
R 1.13.25.24
G 52.62.25.34U
D 1.56 .00 .00
Is it correct ?
Thanks
Denis

morind79 said:
Hi,
thanks for the answer.
I flashed back to the original ROM and I think this has also set the original SPL, but I am not sure. How can I check this ?
When starting up the device I can see :
R 1.13.25.24
G 52.62.25.34U
D 1.56 .00 .00
Is it correct ?
Thanks
Denis
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Go into bootloader to check SPL, i.e.
Turn off phone
Hold vol down
Turn on phone while continuing to hold vol down
You should enter a tri-colour screen. This is bootloader and it should state your SPL

ok, you're right, the SPL was wrong, I set it back to 1.13.
I resintalled the ROM and now I fell down on a loop in the alignement screen
I will send the device to repair...
thanks
Denis

morind79 said:
Hi,
I have exactly the same problem, I did a recalibration and this is very strange, first when I finish the calibration, then it restart from the beginning and I have to recalibrate 3 or 4 times before it exit the calibration tool. Then the device works normally, but few minutes later, this is the same, recalibration is lost. I did a hard reset and even change the ROM, but it is the same.
I do not know what to do
I see also after a reboot, the calibration is good again, but this is not always the case.
What can I do ?
Thanks
Denis
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When you do a calibration, how accurately you tap the cross-hair dictates if the digitizer senses a second or third calibration is necessary. Most people tend to blow this off and use either a finger or fingernail to do the calibration. The digitizer gets the most accurate tap when a stylus is used. You might want to try using a stylus OR you can try the following modified registry hack which comes from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4998396&postcount=1
REGISTRY HACK TO ELIMINATE EFFECTS OF FIRST CALIBRATION
Using your favorite Registry program, navigate to HKLM:
1. HKLM\Hardware\DeviceMap\Keybd
2. Look for the entry named: FirstCalibration
3. If it's there, you can do one of two things: first, delete it; or second, change the dword value from 1 to 0.
4. If entry does not exist, you can create the dword FirstCalibration and give it a binary value of zero
5. Do a soft reset. It is recommended that a manual soft reset using your stylus is used as opposed to a softreset program. I have tested this hack on my device. As per the original post, some soft reset programs would not allow the Registry hack to take.
It is implied (or maybe I read it in a subsequent reply to this post/thread) that most digitizers are accurate enough without a calibration. Should you find that your screen when tapped is not accurate, you can always do a screen calibration later.
Historical Info
When PDAs first came out, digitizers were not as accurate as today's versions which mandated calibrations. Often on my first iPaq, which I bought when Compaq first built them, two or more calibrations were necessary because the digitizers were of poor quality. Part of the initial first set-up screen was a mandatory calibrate screen.
A Compaq engineer I chatted with stressed getting the first two if not all four taps as accurately as possible. He claimed that if all four were done in the center of the cross-hair's dot, a second calibration would not be necessary. What ticked me off is that the second calibration tap is often obscured or hidden by the onscreen words of the calibration statement.
Current Info from three smartphones
With today's digitizers, I have never had to calibrate my Dell x51V Axim. In fact on three smartphones I have either purchased or helped with the purchase thereof, I have never seen a calibrate screen when the phone is initialized out of the box new. The only time I have a calibration screen is when a Mass Clear is performed or the ROM is restored off the SD card.
Based upon usage, I believe that today's digitizers accurate out of the box and that the problem may be caused by either flashed ROMs or apps that are causing interference.
Try the hack and see if that works. Good luck and we're all counting on you!

Hi,
Unfortunately, i think the problem is hardware. I always use the stylus for calibration. Now I can't go out of the calibration window...
And this is not a ROM issue as I flash the original one from HTC, and during the fist boot, it ask for the calibration and I can't go further (loop in this tool).
I will send my device to repair... it is on warranty.
Thanks for the info
Br,
Denis

morind79 said:
Hi,
Unfortunately, i think the problem is hardware. I always use the stylus for calibration. Now I can't go out of the calibration window...
And this is not a ROM issue as I flash the original one from HTC, and during the fist boot, it ask for the calibration and I can't go further (loop in this tool).
I will send my device to repair... it is on warranty.
Thanks for the info
Br,
Denis
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I think in the thread I quoted there is a way to break out of the calibration screen which makes it skipped. Since it will take you a day or two to get the device ready to be shipped or repaired, you could read that thread as the Registry hack could be the trick. . .

thanks man ill try this and anwer back in hours

Wow i've made teh replacement in reg, it is worst, and after nother hard reset it kept the same values in reg, how can i o a complete flash, with all settings back to defaults ?

I had exactly same problem and I sent my device to repair ... they changed touchscreen and now it's ok

Have u tried re-calibrating it? if you cant go to the menu because of the loss of calibration just hold Up + Down of the volume keys and then tap the screen. (this is do be done while phone is already on)

Difference in resets

what is the difference in the following:
clean storage, soft reset (turning phone off) and that red button near the battery

clean storage is a hard reset... ie it wipes all data from your device returning it to factory settings.
soft reset (which can be achieved any number of ways) and the red reset button do the same thing.... reboot the device.
the red reset button is completely redundant imo and i have no idea why HTC put it on the device as it is easier and quicker to simply take the battery out and replace it.
If they really wanted a reset button they should have made it easier to press (ie/ without a pin)

Audio Oblivion said:
the red reset button is completely redundant imo and i have no idea why HTC put it on the device as it is easier and quicker to simply take the battery out and replace it.
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in theory you shouldn't do that when the phone is on, it can (in theory remember) cause sparks that can affect the internals. personally I've yet to try using the red button, seems the prefect size for pressing with a stylus.

samsamuel said:
in theory you shouldn't do that when the phone is on, it can (in theory remember) cause sparks that can affect the internals. personally I've yet to try using the red button, seems the prefect size for pressing with a stylus.
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correct theory... but in practice... ive been doing just that on every mobile phone ive ever had =)

Switching off the phone and after a few seconds switching it on again acts also as a soft reset, so no need for third party apps, red button or battery and it is safe also.

Except that most of the times I need to soft reset it's because the phone is frozen, so no way to switch off

kilrah said:
Except that most of the times I need to soft reset it's because the phone is frozen, so no way to switch off
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Fortunately I never encountered that problem (untill now at least).

I have discovered pulling the battery on my phone causes my email accounts to lose their pop and smtp addresses. Using the red button doesnt. Also when pulling the battery my router security code is gone too.