I have used the registry hacks to get rid of the battery icon and the wireless manager icon from the bottom tray. However, when I switch the phone to vibrate, there is still an icon there that shows up (a black rectangle with a red line around it). Is there a hack to stop that icon from showing?
I guess that is a no?
I would like to know if this is possible also.
There is a shortcut on my Hermes called 'TrayIcon_MannerMode' pointing to /Windows/TrayIcon_Mannermode.exe but nothing seems to happen when I run it.....
Think twice before you remove comm manager from there as it make boot unstable and device very slow.
This would not be a full solution, but could the icon simply be shrunk (ie. to 1 pixel tall) so that it if it was the only thing in the tray at least it would steal minimal screen real-estate ?
Mike
I was able to remove that icon by disabling TrayIcon_MannerMode from the list on the startup items. The problem is that after doing that it became impossible for me to activate the vibrate mode using the default hardware key (long press on commmgr key). If you are fine with that then perhaps you could try it.
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I was able to remove that icon by disabling TrayIcon_MannerMode from the list on the startup items. The problem is that after doing that it became impossible for me to activate the vibrate mode using the default hardware key (long press on commmgr key). If you are fine with that then perhaps you could try it.
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Can you tell me where you find the list of startup items? I am not the best at this stuff.
Thanks.
BuckAv said:
Can you tell me where you find the list of startup items? I am not the best at this stuff.
Thanks.
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file explorer/my device/windows/startup
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So how do I remove those little icons down there? Looks like they are not part of "Today" screen (which can ofcourse be customized), I can't remove them there.
There must be some kind of registry tweak to remove that.
Battery status is completely unusable to me becouse track battery status other way on the Today screen.
nevermind i found out how to do it.
just remove init_tray from windows\startup and thats it!
Well i did just that and it works. but i noticed one not so good side effect. When i press down on the d-pad. Select the last thing on my today screen and press down again. The selection color (box, whateveryou want to call it) disapears and does not come back when i press up. I have to use the touch screen to get the selection color back.
Removing the status bar
When I checked the windows/startup folder there was no tray_init listed on my XDA Orbit.
However, I renamed the windows\TrayAp.exe by putting my initials in front as follows -
windows\ahTrayAp.exe
I then did a soft reset and the tray and icons no longer appear.
I have reset a few times and it the stus bar still doesn't appear
Hi, I usually slide open just to power on the phone.
So, I would like nothing to happen when I slide the phone open when on the today screen..
Does somebody have an idea how to do this?
Are you talking about the Keypad QuickTasks?
You can easily find the option on Start -> Settings -> System Tab -> Keypad QuickTasks
Yes, I mean the dialpad quicktasks.
When this is disabled I get the dialer instead.
As a "workaround", you could just press the red "hangup" button after opening the phone to return to the home screen...
Royan
Royan said:
As a "workaround", you could just press the red "hangup" button after opening the phone to return to the home screen...
Royan
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this annoys me too, i may write a small program that looks for the keyboard opened event, and minimises the phone program
this annoys me too, i may write a small program that looks for the keyboard opened event, and minimises the phone program
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That will be cool!
Oh.. I've been using a certain "Yet another lock app" v1.2 or something like that... and I always set mine to lock and suspend everytime I do a right to left sweep (via FTouchFo). And everytime I slide the keypad, it automatically unlocks and nothing comes up; no quicktasks nor phoneapp). I'm not kidding... I don't know if it's a good "side-effect", but that's how it works.
can you post a link or the cab?
I hate the search function!
lostsoul said:
can you post a link or the cab?
I hate the search function!
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i second this vince!!!Please post the cab!
This is where I found it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=261277
I actually prefer this than any other locking app out there since this app uses the same built-in Device Lock program with a few nice modifications.
Enjoy!
Optional Alternative
I wrote a mortscript file to disable both menus
1. Extract
2. Place "Kill" folder in Program Files
3. Place run.mscr in startup
4. Reset
Enjoy
Simple fix for this
Hi there,
I just got my Niki a couple of weeks ago (with T-mobile in the UK) and this has been bugging me too ever since.
I figured that there must be a registry setting to control this somewhere as the Keypad Quicktasks are able to adjust this behaviour. Last night , I finally found it.
The setting in question is:
HKLM/Software/HTC/Biotouch/ActionScreen/Check
With the Keypad Quicktasks on, it is set to 1. With them off it is set to 0 and will instead launch the phone app.
Simply set it to anything else (e.g. 2) and both the Quicktasks and the phone application are disabled upon sliding open the phone. The active slide event is still recognised and sliding the phone open will still answer an incoming call.
Sweet.
fenallen said:
Hi there,
I just got my Niki a couple of weeks ago (with T-mobile in the UK) and this has been bugging me too ever since.
I figured that there must be a registry setting to control this somewhere as the Keypad Quicktasks are able to adjust this behaviour. Last night , I finally found it.
The setting in question is:
HKLM/Software/HTC/Biotouch/ActionScreen/Check
With the Keypad Quicktasks on, it is set to 1. With them off it is set to 0 and will instead launch the phone app.
Simply set it to anything else (e.g. 2) and both the Quicktasks and the phone application are disabled upon sliding open the phone. The active slide event is still recognised and sliding the phone open will still answer an incoming call.
Sweet.
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you are a genius, problem solved! 10/10
winwiz said:
you are a genius, problem solved! 10/10
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Agreed Thanks fenallen
i've come accross a problem - a reset seems to wipe the settings and has reverted to showing the phone screen???
Well it seems to survive a soft reset as well as power cycles with the battery removed so I presume you mean a hard reset, in which case ... isn't that the point of a hard reset?
I would be amazed/worried if it wasn't set back to default by a hard reset.
nope, i am on about a soft reset! i'll try again to see if it keeps the settings this time
Im happy to say it works fine, after i made a soft reset.
power on/off
it´s posible to change the action of the power buton hardkey?
thanks
Hey Guys,
Finally, Im into windows mobile development & Im no big developer right now. Here's my first app to enable or disable Start Bar i.e. Top Bar. At first its of no use, But one example is to use it with S2U2, assign StartBarEnable.exe to run whenever the device is unlocked by editing S2U2 registry settings & it'll disable the Start Bar, Later you can enable it by running StartBarDisable.exe
Works good and does what you say, But its very unnessacery
WhiteRussianBC said:
Works good and does what you say, But its very unnessacery
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i would NOT say it's unnecessary. this is perfect if youre making a theme that moves the top bar to the bottom, or just disable everything completely. great work.
This is great! Thanks! Now I can make my own top bar in ThrottleLauncher!
cool
nice idea... is there a way to hook that program to launch when I slide my keyboard out (t mobile wing), at the moment I use Vjay's toggletoday and everytime I open/close my keyboard the start menu reappears.
Thanks!
THANKs................
For a future rev...hide/unhide the start bar... Different than stopping it. Like on desktops, if you get your stylus near the top the start bar pops back up, but disappears again when there is no pressure on that part of the screen.
Great little app, but just one thing: on non-English devices it installs the shortcuts in the wrong Start Menu folder. "Windows\Start Menu", instead of the correct, locally named one.
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For a future rev...hide/unhide the start bar... Different than stopping it. Like on desktops, if you get your stylus near the top the start bar pops back up, but disappears again when there is no pressure on that part of the screen.
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ooooo ya I like that idea
jeepers007 said:
For a future rev...hide/unhide the start bar... Different than stopping it. Like on desktops, if you get your stylus near the top the start bar pops back up, but disappears again when there is no pressure on that part of the screen.
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Wow, that would be amazing! If it's possible it would definately be a winner!
where does it install this to? i cant find it in programs?
One thing I really liked about the HTC Touch Pro 2 (my predecessor to the HTC HD2) was that there was a key on the corner of the keyboard for flipping the WiFi on and off. Now of course on the HD2 I have to go hunt around and find the Comm Manager to then Enable WiFi, and the darn task manager to shut down the Comm Manager once I have turned on the WiFi. And no, I don't want to have to use up a shortcut off the main screen to launch the Comm Manager...
Doesn't anyone have a quick and easy way with one click to flip the WiFi ON and then Back off? Like some kind of a one-click (or better yet key-press) toggle utility?
check out CHT 1.8
has all sorts of great toggle buttons.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=625483
That may be true but I don't want a cookie monster phone.
KruseLudsMobile said:
That may be true but I don't want a cookie monster phone.
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The next closest solution is to use one of the existing stand-alone wifi toggle buttons, but you'd still have to give up a quicklink spot to use it, so I don't know if that's acceptable to you or not. Attached is the one I use (also gives you a reset button).
This one gives you several toggles.
On the stock ROM there's an easier method than what your using.. only 2-3 steps, and it's the same steps to turn it ON/OFF.
press the area in the top right corner of the screen (opposite side from where the start menu is)..
once in there, you're at the "Notifications" screen.... at this screen tap the icon on the right side of where is says "T-mobile Data" (where the "3g" or whatever data your on ICON is... looks like a box).
This will take you to the COMM Manager.. you can toggle on off from there...
pretty easy..
Thanks, two other thoughts, and final resolution
I did find I could create a text file which I named wifi.lnk which has only these contents and put it into the /Windows/StartMenu/Programs folder and use that as a quicklink -
46#ctlpnl.exe mycpl.cpl,7?shellres.192.dll,-13999
HOWEVER, SOMETIMES THE OLD TRIED AND TRUE IS BETTER - I JUST REINSTALLED THE GOOD OLD 'QuickMenu' (that can be downloaded from other forums here) and I am using that, take a look at the handy shortcuts it has in the attached screen snapshot (click on the picture to see a larger view).
I have always loved QuickMenu as it lets you get to one of hundreds of programs to launch it quicker than any other method I have ever seen, as well as letting you switch to other programs already ruinning - or shut all the running programs down - very quickly as well.
So, I actually not only saved a quick link spot by not having to have a link to it THE COMM MANAGER, but I also got rid of having to have a dedcated link to the task manager as well!
(CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW TO SEE AN EXPANDED VIEW OF IT)
I'm not sure how other Rhodiums are set up...but the Tilt2 has the rather annoying feature of 'full screen' pop up volume indicator always coming up when you press the volume buttons. But in a very select few programs just a sidebar pops up...almost like a mini version. Is there any registry setting to change to make the 'mini' one the default?
This cab works for me....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2718080&postcount=7
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I'm not sure how other Rhodiums are set up...but the Tilt2 has the rather annoying feature of 'full screen' pop up volume indicator always coming up when you press the volume buttons. But in a very select few programs just a sidebar pops up...almost like a mini version. Is there any registry setting to change to make the 'mini' one the default?
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I actually prefer the full screen version, it is easy to use with the finger. Touching to the left or right of the volume indicator will remove the display and go back to your normal screen.
yatrg said:
This cab works for me....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2718080&postcount=7
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Does this make it smaller, or remove it? Reading it over, it seems that the latter is the case.
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Does this make it smaller, or remove it? Reading it over, it seems that the latter is the case.
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It removes it. I like it, the volume buttons are more responsive instead of take a second or 2 to actually change, and the full screen is annoying.
I was bored at work and decided to poke around the registry to see if I could figure this out. I think I'm on to something. When you go to: /HKLM/SOFTWARE/HTC/VolumeOverlay/InhouseEnable2ndUI there are a bunch of folders for apps on the phone. I went into Manila and set it to 2 and then went back to the home screen (I have Sense 2.5 active) and had a little volume bar at the top of the screen when I went to change the volume. I may try to add other apps and see if it works, but I'm lazy, so I might just go play some tower defense instead. Hope this helps get someone else a little more motivated to help. hehe
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I was bored at work and decided to poke around the registry to see if I could figure this out. I think I'm on to something. When you go to: /HKLM/SOFTWARE/HTC/VolumeOverlay/InhouseEnable2ndUI there are a bunch of folders for apps on the phone. I went into Manila and set it to 2 and then went back to the home screen (I have Sense 2.5 active) and had a little volume bar at the top of the screen when I went to change the volume. I may try to add other apps and see if it works, but I'm lazy, so I might just go play some tower defense instead. Hope this helps get someone else a little more motivated to help. hehe
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Setting this value to "1" will give you the slim vertical slider on the left of the screen, but this slider is not operable by touch on the screen, it is only a visual aid to let you know where your volume is at when you press the vol up and down hardware buttons.