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My wife own's the MDA which is great for text entry into her spreadsheets but what about those darn number keys. It seems that on a standard keyboard, numbers are entered when they are typed from the top row. I would like to map one of the buttons to toggle those on/off as needed with an indicator of some sort so that she would know if numbers were on/off. Is there a good app for this.
Also, our child (2nd grade now) has had trouble writing and it occured to me that the MDA could make an excellent teacher of such tasks if the software existed. Does any software exist that might allow a child to practice writing?
Tapping the "dot" (key left bottom) twice will put an "dot" indicator on you're screen and you will type only numbers. Tapping twice again will turn it off. Tapping once will give you one number. Is this what you mean?
molski has a cab file on his site to enable the screen to show a 'dot' or a 'c' (Caps lock) if either is selected. there is also a registry fix - see the wiki fro wm5 tweaks
vippie said:
Tapping the "dot" (key left bottom) twice will put an "dot" indicator on you're screen and you will type only numbers. Tapping twice again will turn it off. Tapping once will give you one number. Is this what you mean?
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sort-of. By default, on a PC, you have numbers when you type. By default on an MDA, you don't. If I wanted to change the registry or some setting elsewhere so that it would more closely mimic a standard keyboard (sort-of backward from the current method), could this be done?
In the power settings on the WM side, I can set to "Turn off device if not used for x minutes". When the device turns off, how do you turn it back on?
The only thing that I have been able to figure out, is to use the Shift Control on Vista side to Reset SnapVUE. Am I missing something?
I am running ThaiHugos snapvue+gps rom.
i believe it's auto...
i believe that when you press the button to go to the snapview side it gets swiched on automatically...
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i believe that when you press the button to go to the snapview side it gets swiched on automatically...
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That is the first thing that I tried. And the screen remains black. I also tried to press the button to go to the snapview side, and then slide the power button (the same as bringing Vista out of sleep). No go.
Did you try pressing it twice? When the screen powers off, pressing the "Shift" button will shift the device to Vista but the screen will be blank if Vista is not running. Pressing it again shifts it back to SnapVue and the screen should come back again.
At least that is what happens with the stock rom!
Regards,
Dave
Go to settings -->connections-->USB to PC and check "enable advanced network functionality" for some reason this causes problems with resuming.
sniveri said:
Go to settings -->connections-->USB to PC and check "enable advanced network functionality" for some reason this causes problems with resuming.
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Thanks! Works again. But it is a bummer as I cannot use USBTool when this is unchecked.
If someone would make new version of usb-tool that unchecks that setting if it is registrysetting and maybe sets "turn of device if not used" to "never" when usbtool is in use. When querying usbtool to close it would undo those changes. This would not be hard to do after all?
sniveri said:
This would not be hard to do after all?
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In that case, do let us know when you've done it.
Pantaloonie said:
In that case, do let us know when you've done it.
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I have done launcer that first sets Enable advanced network functionality unchecked via registry and then launches USBTool. After USBTool Exits my launcher sets Enable advanced network functionality to checked state. I did`nt find this registrykey for device turning off yet. I had to do own launcher because I did`nt know where to get sources for USBTool.
I didn`t find correct settings for that "turn off device if not used"-setting so I just made Power-settings to appear Before and after USBTool is executed so I can check and uncheck it easily when I want to use USBTool. Now it works everytime.
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I didn`t find correct settings for that "turn off device if not used"-setting so I just made Power-settings to appear Before and after USBTool is executed so I can check and uncheck it easily when I want to use USBTool. Now it works everytime.
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How did you make it appear before and after?
Thanks
Ram
Removed the tool for a while..
I withdraw my sarcastic message telling you to make the tool yourself!
This has still one problem.. After rebooting WM side you have to manually go check and uncheck USB to PC setting and after that this works.. Sorry about it
EDIT: It is someway related how the USB-drivers are loaded? After those are once loaded you can switch between them or something, I don`t really know.. But something like this would be nice to get to the next generation of USBTool.
To get this "USB to PC" functionality work there is few registry settings that is changed. First of all there is driver setting that set is the RNDIS or Serial_Class used. Changing this checks and unchecks USB to PC checkbox. This can be found at:
Code:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\USB\FunctionDrivers
There is DefaultClientDriver what changes between RNDIS and Serial_Class.
Other settings are found at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Active\ + some number. For USB Driver-settings they change between 50-135(on my machine.. I don`t know about others). For example settings could be found at:
Code:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Active\120
If you have unchecked "USB to PC" setting, you should have values:
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BusName: USBFN_1_0, REG_SZ
BusParent: 5543120, REG_DWORD
Hnd: 5544944, REG_DWORD
Key: \Drivers\USB\FunctionDrivers\Serial_Class, REG_SZ
Name: COM8: , REG_SZ
For me those BusParent and Hnd settings are something that I don`t understand. Those values varies each time you check and uncheck USB to PC CheckBox. If this could be found out after that you could start rnaap.exe and rapiclnt.exe with correct parameters and after that USBTool should connect right away. So does anyone know how to know what should be used for BusParent and Hnd values. If those are wrong I get error when connecting to "`USB".
Easier solution would be to just show user this USB to PC -window for first place but it has some bug that it closes at the same second when opened with cplmain.cpl, 28 command.
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I withdraw my sarcastic message telling you to make the tool yourself!
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Only sarcastic thing is that I shared cab which did not do the job actually. It worked for me 15 times but after that I was in trouble again.. but after all device turning off-settings worked fine.
Tried also with IOCTL_UFN_ENUMERATE_AVAILABLE_CLIENTS and IOCTL_UFN_GET_CURRENT_CLIENT. But available clients returns only current client so this was a dead-end too.. I have to give up.
Just a quick question, does the stock ROM have power off after X enabled?
I have disabed power off and have no probems now with any change in battery life (using thaihugo's myself) and just shutdown the screen with the screen switch button. Always comes up then and have no data disconnects.
Just wondered if this should be the norm as never looked at the default setting on the stock ROM.
av searched no luck i have a small issue am having and its like on my tytnii kaiser when i wanted to send a text;and began to type the letters of the contact i wanted to text for instance if i typed m it would automaticaly bring up the contacts which start with m for me to choose but my HD is not doing the same i have to search for the contact first any suggestions please thanks
When you at SMS typing screen, press option, click "Word Completion" tab. Make sure u tick every boxes.
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When you at SMS typing screen, press option, click "Word Completion" tab. Make sure u tick every boxes.
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thanks i guess whst you are tyring to say is settingd>messeging>sms\MMS then options but these no such option for word completion perhaps if you could elaborate more on how i can reach this option thanks
Ok.. Click Windows logo at top left corner
>> Click Setting at the bottom of the menu
>> In "Personal" tab u will see "Input" setting (The keyboard picture) Click it.
>> Change to "Word Completion" tab down the bottom.
>> Make sure u "TICK" every boxes u have in there.
DONE !!
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Ok.. Click Windows logo at top left corner
>> Click Setting at the bottom of the menu
>> In "Personal" tab u will see "Input" setting (The keyboard picture) Click it.
>> Change to "Word Completion" tab down the bottom.
>> Make sure u "TICK" every boxes u have in there.
DONE !!
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mate did what you said went into word completion and ticked the following
>suggest words when entering text
>add a space after word
>enable auto correct.
but still no luck am using the new spb keyboard and even tryd the default keyboard but still no luck any more suggestions cause if its a bug the phone will go back first class to orange tomorrow
If that doesnt help i dont know what else to do man.. im sorry. --____----"
thanks
vosszaa said:
If that doesnt help i dont know what else to do man.. im sorry. --____----"
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thanks mate for your effort can anyone else help me please
Just replace
"HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Layouts\e0010409\Ime File" value with "\Windows\compime.dll" instead of most owful ime implementation AKA eT9ime.dll by Tegic (not sure in they dll name spelling though)
P.S.: as usual, be warned about changing registry.
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Just replace
"HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Layouts\e0010409\Ime File" value with "\Windows\compime.dll" instead of most owful ime implementation AKA eT9ime.dll by Tegic (not sure in they dll name spelling though)
P.S.: as usual, be warned about changing registry.
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Just wanted to say thanks Fixed my problem...
AE said:
Just replace
"HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Layouts\e0010409\Ime File" value with "\Windows\compime.dll" instead of most owful ime implementation AKA eT9ime.dll.
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Thanks!! This works with Touchpal really well, don't forget to soft-reset after the registry change otherwise you've disabled your mail and messaging ;-)
i think i'm misunderstanding something here... when i put my cursor in the To: field, i start typing letters and names will automatically appear above the keyboard. i can continue to type until the correct recipient/name appears or i can scroll the "horizontal list" to find the name i'm looking for. does the registry tweak above present all possible selections in a "vertical list"? thanks for clarifying...
Yep. A white box pops up below the text field with possible matches, shows about 8 at a time.
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Yep. A white box pops up below the text field with possible matches, shows about 8 at a time.
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does this happen when the cursor IS NOT placed in the "To:" field? thanks. i made the change and when i placed the cursor in the "To:" field, i did not have a list to choose from.
2cortez.i: the functionality you describe is built into default (but not standard!) keyboard you use. If you choose original windows keyboard or install any other third-party keyboard like Resco which have no similar functionality built in - then default system autocomplete contact list popup feature (supressed by tegic) is the only option. Specially if your contacts are not in English
And IMHO default contact list popup is much better than built into tegic keyboard because it let you to choose from list with one tap instead of reviewing them one-by-one...
2mlalahoi: yes, sure I'v just fogot to note that soft-reset is required
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2cortez.i: the functionality you describe is built into default (but not standard!) keyboard you use. If you choose original windows keyboard or install any other third-party keyboard like Resco which have no similar functionality built in - then default system autocomplete contact list popup feature (supressed by tegic) is the only option. Specially if your contacts are not in English
And IMHO default contact list popup is much better than built into tegic keyboard because it let you to choose from list with one tap instead of reviewing them one-by-one...
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aahhhhhhhhhhhh... i understand now. i tried the registry tweak again with the standard keyboard and it works as you described. but, if i use the HTC Full QWERTY keyboard, the vertical list will ONLY appear AFTER i type 2 letters AND THEN hit the backspace key. i prefer the vertical list for sure! however, i prefer the "To:" field to be automatically populated as is done with tegic dll. too bad the registry tweak above requires an extra "backspace" keystroke. thanks for explaining the difference.
thankssss
AE said:
Just replace
"HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Layouts\e0010409\Ime File" value with "\Windows\compime.dll" instead of most owful ime implementation AKA eT9ime.dll by Tegic (not sure in they dll name spelling though)
P.S.: as usual, be warned about changing registry.
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tried it and it worked you are a star mate just wonder how these guys manage to pick up staff like that thanks mate
For me, this only half works now. I start entering a name and it's not until I delete a letter that it looks the name up? Any fix for this?
AndyCr15 said:
Just wanted to say thanks Fixed my problem...
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hi it worked for me, if i use the standard keyboard or full qwerty, bu if i use the phone pad keypad, it doesnt work. infact it doesnt type anything.
i tried typing it in the text area of email / sms but no success.
so i have to change it back to et9ime.dll , but if you can provide me the solution so that it works with phone keypad along with the qwerty, than its really cool tweak.
please help.
AE said:
Just replace
"HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Layouts\e0010409\Ime File" value with "\Windows\compime.dll" instead of most owful ime implementation AKA eT9ime.dll by Tegic (not sure in they dll name spelling though)
P.S.: as usual, be warned about changing registry.
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Hello there,
I have tried your changes , it works!! but only on one keyboard, i cannot use the others because it types figures instead of words...
Can you tell me how i apply it on the other keyboards?
Thank you in advance
Lost "Phone" and "Menu" softkeys in bottom taskbar on startscreen after setup ExServe
Hello all,
after setting up my companies exchange server I somehow lost the "phone" and the "menu" softkeys in the bottom taskbar on the startscreen (refer to attached picture). On all other screens like "email", "camera", "twitter", a.s.o. the softkeys appear normal and work fine.
As a sidenotice: The exchange server forces the phone to set up a device lock (4 digit passcode, whenever the phone the risen from sleep mode).
When I kill the outlook email account and disable the device lock, the home screen returns to "normal", meaning the softkeys again are available.
It seems to me, that somehow the forced device lock is causing the startscreen, and only the startscreen, to loose the link to the normally assigned softkeys.
Is it possible to set up the softkeys on the bottom taskbar manually? I am no expert in this and approach you kind guys with a lot of hope that someone can help me as I am really lost in what to do in that case. Spent already hours on different forums searching, but did not find something really helpfull .
Thank you so much!
Matri *just lost*
I tried to bring back the softkeys by using BSBTweaks 1.6. Asigning the left softkey to e.g. evernotes did not yield any results on the startkeys.
Also modification of the registry keys did not lead to success. When I look u the respective keys in HKLM/Software/HTC/manila/ there is the correct entry for the left softkey. The values for the right softkey were blank. I tried to change them like this:
HomeLSKText: Rechner
HomeLSKPath: \Windows\calc.exe
No results unfortunatelly after softreset.
I really do not know what is going on there.
After endless testing it became very apparent, that the problem is caused only after the reboot of the HD2. The encoding of the phone due to to forced policy seems to change the homescreen slighly and makes it buggy.
Still do not now how to solve the issue. Webadming of my company is lost, too. Disableing the enforcing of the policy for me is - obviously - no option. Contacted HTC for support.
Typical situation: I have an outlook note (.pwi) file that I keep stored in "my documents" since the pocketpc before my last one, where my WPA TKIP passwords for home and work networks are stored; today I needed to setup the work wifi connection on this hd2.
I open the note, I open the wifi password dialogue, but lo, even if i can select the PSK in the note file and copy it in the clipboard, I cannot paste it to the wifi dialogue, as there is no way to copy/paste text which is outside the scope of the "main" htc apps like mail, sms and such.
There are several empty keys in the second layout of the "symbols" in htc keyboard which could have been filled with useful functions, but none of the buttons in HTC keyboard is able to do the basic cut/copy/paste... either that or I am totally clueless, since hovering the various working keys doesn't come up with any help either (for example hovering the return key in pocketCM keyboard accessed cut/copy/paste).
End of story, I had to switch to home, open taskmanager, switch to note, keep note of some chars, switch to home, open taskmanager, switch to wifi dialogue, write some chars, repeat until PSK is complete. After this I installed the showcase-on-longpress-send cab, but it's still unbelievable that there is no way of having copypaste support in HTC keyboard... and I even like it for the remaining part.
Is there any way to achieve copy/paste functionality feasibly everywhere without recurring to a different keyboard?
I obviously searched the forums here, and the web outside XDA, but to no avail... and I really would like to copy/paste easily everywhere on the HD2 without having to switch keyboards
From within a note, select the text, press and hold the screen, wait for the popup menu to popup with options such as cut, copy, paste and clear.
Jump to the (for example) wifi setup page, press and hold the (example) wep key input box, wait for the popup, you should find only paste is allowed.
Job done.
You might also like this tweak (doesn't work for notes but does for sms and the like)
40. Enable Magnifying Box When Selecting Text
Press and hold your finger on any text in a HTC app such as Messaging and an iphone-esque selection procedure with handles to drag and highlight text will appear. Modify the following registry entry to add a magnifying window as you select and highlight the text. Go to:
HKLM/Software/HTC/TextSelection/EnableMagnifier and change from 0 to 1.
copy/paste
Hi,
I've got the same problem on the wifi interface, impossible to copy/paste. On all other screens it's ok but not there (on the HTC HD2)
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From within a note, select the text, press and hold the screen, wait for the popup menu to popup with options such as cut, copy, paste and clear.
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That's what I did
Jump to the (for example) wifi setup page, press and hold the (example) wep key input box, wait for the popup, you should find only paste is allowed.
Job done.
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...not quite, alas! That's what I did, no popup for that dialogue. Maybe it's because, as a password field, it is cosidered "unsafe" to have copy/paste funzionality.
But still, even if it HAD the popup on finger-hold, it would still be a shameful missing capability in any other dialogue (and I've had this problem several other times with this HD2, the wifi was just the last I remembered... no popup-on-hold menu for copy/paste in the window I needed it in, and no function at all in the keyboard for copy/paste.
must be a rom thing then, because I tested it before I posted. (I even dug out my old htc touch to create the note)
opened the note, selected the text, pressed and held the selected text, chose copy from the popup, jumped to the wifi screen, taped the wep key box to put the cursor there, pressed and held, popup appeared with everything greyed out except the paste option, chose paste and a row of stars appear in the wep field.
gonna do it again now to test again, ill edit if I find anything different.
Edit - ahhh ok, i see now, you can't paste into the HTC wifi screen with the green signal strength bar below the network key entry field, but you CAN paste into the winmo wifi advanced screen.
So, you turn on wifi, it finds a network, (shown on the screen with the wifi toggle at the top, networks listed below) click advanced, change network, and select the network from there. The 'configure wireless network' screen appears, click next to get to the authentication page, and you will find if you press and hold the network key box (after unticking ''the key is automatic'' of course ) you will get a popup with paste enabled.
You can also get to those settings pages by going settings - menu - all settings - connections - wifi - advanced.
uhmmmm JayFR appears to have the same symptoms. I am running on ax*lor rom, which is 2.02 and manila 1921, plust 6.5.2, a frequent combo in custom roms.
Still... without necessarily focusing on the wifi key dialogue, I am convinced a copy/paste update to the keyboard is in order, as I recall 100% having had the same problem with missing copy/paste-on-hold popups before elsewhere on this phone...
So, you turn on wifi, it finds a network, (shown on teh screen with teh wifi toggle at the top, networks listed below) click advanced, change network, and select the network from there. The 'configure wireless network' screen appears, click next to get to the authentication page, and you will find if you press and hold the network key box (after unticking ''the key is automatic'' of course ) you will get a popup with paste enabled.
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thanks for the workaround Yet, don't you think that copy/paste SHOULD be integrated in the keyboard through some hold-popup maybe, like accented letters or symbols? <waves hand in the air in jedi fashion>
Oh absolutely, yes, but then i use swype keyboard, where it does have those functions, so i haven't really had any problems to make me notice the lack of function on the default keyboard.
I see :-/ Either I change keyboard, or maybe someone is able to point me to a solution that doesn't involve that?
Possible solution
Try Resco Keyboard. It's not free, but some skins have a ctrl key, that means you can use the ctrl-c and ctrl-v keycombo's like you would on a desktop PC.
Same goes for ctrl-a, ctrl-x etc.
It takes some practice to use the small keys without stylus, but I now can use it with my thumb. I've had it since my wizard. And everywhere else you can use the built-in keyboard.
If you use it a lot it may be worth the steep price ($20)
check here: http://www.resco.net/competition/default.aspx
Thank you for the input, yet spending 20$ to have copy/paste is out of my scope... especially considering that it should be one of the basic function for a SIP. Like saying that you need to pay for another electricity contract because your current one allows you to power almost everything, BUT xmas tree lights I'd rather complain with the service company (which I did on HTC site BTW) instead of paying more to have a more lively festivity!
give "finger keyboard" a try. free and written by an xda dev plus has cutcopypaste as press and hold keys along with arrows home end .com uk and such like. looks nice too.
By using QuickMenu you can have the copy, cut and paste.
Goto QuickMenu option, General tab, tick "Long-press win logo", select "Text edit".
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give "finger keyboard" a try. free and written by an xda dev plus has cutcopypaste as press and hold keys along with arrows home end .com uk and such like. looks nice too.
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that's in fact what I used on my old ipaq, and the first thing I'll be installing if nothing else but changing SIP helps
cayotte said:
By using QuickMenu you can have the copy, cut and paste.
Goto QuickMenu option, General tab, tick "Long-press win logo", select "Text edit".
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I did download and install "quickmenu for hd2", thanks for your suggestion! Now that's something. Maybe overrated to install all that just to have copypaste function, yet it works.
After all, for 55kb of occupied ram, and1-2% of CPU only when doing something with it, it's a good deal!
Which also came useful in another occasion where copy/paste was missing from keyboard: editing file names from within total commander... sweet!