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Annoying, VERY annoying problem - function keys

Hey guys,
As the title says Ive got a very annoying problem with my xperia. Problem is that the right function keys (silver one) assigned action always changes from "right function key" to "Today" upon restart.
Id like to not do a hard-reset if possible. Anyone got any suggestions how to make sure it sticks with what action I assign to it?
Cheers

Agaas said:
Hey guys,
As the title says Ive got a very annoying problem with my xperia. Problem is that the right function keys (silver one) assigned action always changes from "right function key" to "Today" upon restart.
Id like to not do a hard-reset if possible. Anyone got any suggestions how to make sure it sticks with what action I assign to it?
Cheers
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sounds to me like the assignment isn't "sticking" in the registery and goes away after restart. try a registery editor and manually assign the key to the program you want.

Agaas said:
Hey guys,
As the title says Ive got a very annoying problem with my xperia. Problem is that the right function keys (silver one) assigned action always changes from "right function key" to "Today" upon restart.
Id like to not do a hard-reset if possible. Anyone got any suggestions how to make sure it sticks with what action I assign to it?
Cheers
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i have the same problem. do you have tf3d installed ?

yes I do have tf3d installed. which registry key should I change?

I have the same problem. In addition to tf3d I installed the cab that enables to make a panel out of it. Help?

Use AEBPlus to re-assign the key(s). For each hard keys, you get 4 different actions. You will appreciate what u can do with the hard keys!

Also mine after installed touchflo3d.
Guys, remove TF3d! We have a Xperia, X-panel is more than enaught.

gohyc said:
Use AEBPlus to re-assign the key(s). For each hard keys, you get 4 different actions. You will appreciate what u can do with the hard keys!
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doesn't work in my x1. something keeps changing the registry value back ... :-(

yep I had this problem too when I installed TF3D. In the end I uninstalled it because I wanted the right button mapped to voice command and it got annoying having to remap it after every soft reset
if someone has successfully stopped it automatically setting it to "today" please tell us how

I am using Touch-HD Manilla instead of TF3D and don't have this problem. Why not use Touch-HD Manilla instead? From what I read, this is faster than TF3D.

gohyc said:
I am using Touch-HD Manilla instead of TF3D and don't have this problem. Why not use Touch-HD Manilla instead? From what I read, this is faster than TF3D.
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which cab are you referring to ? if you can point me in the right direction i'd be grateful ...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442154
Post 1, Manilla HD Full
or
Post 2 Manilla HD, components
I have only so far installed Manilla HD Full, and have never tried the the individual components.

Interesting, I have this too, and I also have TF3D installed as a panel...

NZtechfreak said:
Interesting, I have this too, and I also have TF3D installed as a panel...
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and you're using manilla hd full ?

Yes, am using Manilla HD Full. Also installed the T3FD panel, but later removed it.
I am on ROM 1.02 (was on ROM 1.01 also) by Jack Leung, AEBPlus works on both with Manilla HD Full installed. Didn't bother to install the panel.

I have Touch HD,but I also have this problem,why...

Just curious, are you on the original rom?
I understand some ROMs, the email signature also doesn't get saved. Wonder if this is a related issue.

Non-working Programms because of W-VGA ? Try this..

I read alot in the Blackstone section and I guess some Blackstone owners missed this little tool :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442426
I posted it for the X1 but since the resolution of the X1 and the Blackstone is the same..
I hope it will work on the Blackstone too
It works nicely with emulators, SKYFIRE Beta 0.85 etc etc .
fotoingo said:
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A week ago I received my X1 and tried WVGA Fix (Version 1) ! It didnt work...
After some searching i found a improved Version -WVGA FIX 2- now supporting all WM 5, 6, 6.1 and WVGA devices.
This little Program virtually "cuts" the pixels bigger than VGA from your device.
Dont get scared.. This only happens as long as you run the program.
Those pixels get black and the program emulates a VGA screen.
When you choose to get back to WVGA everything is fine again
So most programms (not only emulators) will work fine on our nice WVGA screen.
I thought some people here will love this tool too.
PS:Install the cert first, then WVGA FIX2 second.
Cheers !
All credits for this tool -> Cotulla
(Cant find the original downloadsource anymore)
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Tried it already, Pocket UFO runs thanks to it.

Thanks! This has allowed me to try out SkyFire...
J

It doesn't work for me.
It change allways the display to landscape before freezing.

Hmm, SCUMMVM ???

yup I missed that... nice, definitely allows me to run some apps that otherwise screwed up... Especially skyfire
@vincent1: yes the rotation is annoying and not required, but it does Not freeze your phone. Your display mode changes and you still see the fix app running but it's just a frozen screen, press the today hard button and you will see manila, which instantly forces the screen to rotate back to portrait, after which you got normal VGA screen (except part of manila is missing). Now you can run any vga app you like. Just switch back to the fix program to undo the res change, press home again to fix the landscape mode, etc.

@nin2thevoid
thanks mate! Yep, pressing the today hard button is the secret

vincent1 said:
@nin2thevoid
thanks mate! Yep, pressing the today hard button is the secret
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NP... I use AEButton by the way and have assigned long press of the volume up button to rotate the screen clockwise (I don't always like g sensors to do this for me). This gives an instant fix to this problem as well, and it un-freezes the program instantly.

vincent1 said:
It doesn't work for me.
It change allways the display to landscape before freezing.
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I can confrim the above and the only way to solve it is to take the battery out as the screen does not react to tap.

hi
any news about this ?
Because I'm getting the same problem

I've tried this and it doesn't work on my HD. the phone becomes unusable.
Is there any other software to enable VGA programs? I'd like to run PocketUFO again.

any good for the hd2 ?.

touch pad lock

Hi guys, I have had the orbit 2 and orbit, now I have just got my hands on the Agnito (HTC Diamond. only thing im abit annoyed with is the lock system. Im unable to put the lock on. Can someone help me please. Also is there is a simple tool I could install.

There a plenty of locking programs, just have a browse through this forum.
If you are happy with the standard Windows lock then it's easiest to use a program called Long Press End Key. The program may already be installed on your diamond, try holding 'End Call' for 3 seconds or look in your settings folder.
If you set Long Press Endkey to always lock without asking then you can lock the phone by simply creating a shortcut to Windows\Endkey.exe - I have this program mapped to my left softkey.

Thanks dave,
I never realised that was there...that was my bad...do you remember the HTC weather home, on the orbit 2, is there something similer to that for the Agnito
How can i map that to the soft key?

R.A.G.S said:
Thanks dave,
I never realised that was there...that was my bad...do you remember the HTC weather home, on the orbit 2, is there something similer to that for the Agnito
How can i map that to the soft key?
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The Diamond is my first Windows Mobile device so can't help there!
This freeware is a great way to map softkeys:
http://fantasticbytes.com/products/softkeymanager

Davey101 said:
The Diamond is my first Windows Mobile device so can't help there!
This freeware is a great way to map softkeys:
http://fantasticbytes.com/products/softkeymanager
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NO WAREZ! READ THE RULEZ!

clampi said:
NO WAREZ! READ THE RULEZ!
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It's freeware dude. It's posted on here somewhere also as a .cab.
@R.A.G.S - Read the rules dude. Have a search and browse before straight up opening a new thread. There are a multitude of locking programs on here: StylusLock, TouchLockPro, Long Press End Key (default), SensorLock and Pocket Shield (not free) just to name a few.

dickenz said:
It's freeware dude. It's posted on here somewhere also as a .cab.
@R.A.G.S - Read the rules dude. Have a search and browse before straight up opening a new thread. There are a multitude of locking programs on here: StylusLock, TouchLockPro, Long Press End Key (default), SensorLock and Pocket Shield (not free) just to name a few.
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that would be a ware

clampi said:
that would be a ware
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Comedy!

[APP] DredSensor - Allow you to disable 'Home' and 'Back' keys while playing games

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New version 1.2 available here
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Reviewed on gadgetmix.com: See the article
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If you have tried to play a game needing left and right key on an HTC Touch Diamond, you noticed that they are 2mm wide and if you click next to it, you get back to home page or to dialing menu etc...
So I've written a prog allowing you to lock these 4 keys actions and replace it by classical key event (VK_LEFT, VK_RIGHT, ...).
In that way you can play tetris, and use "Pick-Up" and "Hang-Up" keys for going left and right.
Link ->: DredSensor
To use it, you need:
1) An HTC Touch Diamond (it's the only one i have so i can't test it on other models)
2) Install the .cab
3) Reboot your HTC
4) Run a game (or app or ...)
5) Get your stylus out and back-in, in less than 1 second
6) Click "Yes"
----- A config window opens:
7) Check that Type = "HardKeySimul"
8) Click "Ok"
Now you can use (and eventually assign) your 'Home', 'Back', 'Pick-Up' and 'Hang-Up' keys in that game/app.
Actually, the 'Pick-Up' and 'Hang-Up' keys are always defined as Left and Right events.
Have fun.
Ps:
For people interested, the other "Type" in the config window are:
- "Launcher": allow you to quicklaunch 4 app (that you define in the config wnd) when you double tap (not click, just tap) on one of those 4 keyz
- "Scroll": allow you to scroll the current window by tapping those 4 keyz panel
- "KeySimul": allow you to send left/right/up/down events by tapping those 4 keyz panel

Sounds Great, will give a try....
If you can make this buttons to be assinged to other apps the whole time you'll be a hero

palmbluetooth said:
Sounds Great, will give a try....
If you can make this buttons to be assinged to other apps the whole time you'll be a hero
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In fact if you launch /Program Files/DredSensor/DredSensorCfg.exe, you can edit the "Default" config that applies every time no other config matches...
So if you set the Default config in "Launcher" mode, you can quicklaunch app from everywhere...
Actually, the Launcher mode works with "double tap" rather than click. But i can update it quite easyly to make it work on click if you want.

Dredger, can't wait to try this. This is my biggest gripe when playing games, and I didn't even think to post on here to see if someone could come up with something. I'll test today and let you know how it works!

Very Nice App, really works well.
The only thing is that I don't know how to add 'start', 'ok', answer and hang up to the buttons, do you have any suggestions?
Thanks, I'm loving it.

not able to download. all it gives me is a lot of squares and nothing else.

clever idea, finally i can play racing game on my diamond, thanks!

A very nice and welcome idea. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with my Raphael. Tried it with Kevtris: succesfully installed, soft-reset, started the game, and configured DredSensor for the game, but when I push e.g. the phone up key, it still brings up the phone application. I didn't change any of the settings in the DredSensor config screen (I did check that "HardKeySimul" was selected).
Hope you can make it work for Raphael too, it is so annoying trying to play games with the d-pad, when you accidentally press the home/phone/etc. keys all the time.

Work perfect on Diamond but... it doesn't work on Touch HD... (error.. Unable to load HTC API DLL)

aBE-One said:
A very nice and welcome idea. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with my Raphael. Tried it with Kevtris: succesfully installed, soft-reset, started the game, and configured DredSensor for the game, but when I push e.g. the phone up key, it still brings up the phone application. I didn't change any of the settings in the DredSensor config screen (I did check that "HardKeySimul" was selected).
Hope you can make it work for Raphael too, it is so annoying trying to play games with the d-pad, when you accidentally press the home/phone/etc. keys all the time.
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pinele said:
Work perfect on Diamond but... it doesn't work on Touch HD... (error.. Unable to load HTC API DLL)
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Sorry, i only have an HTC Diamond so unless you offer me a Raphael or HD, it's quite hard for me to check anything.
For the touch HD, maybe you should download HTCAPI.DLL somewhere, put it in /Windows and try again.
For the Raphael, on the related article on gadgetmix.com (see 1st post for the link), it seems it works on HTC Touch Pro so it should work on yours.

palmbluetooth said:
Very Nice App, really works well.
The only thing is that I don't know how to add 'start', 'ok', answer and hang up to the buttons, do you have any suggestions?
Thanks, I'm loving it.
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Sorry, i think i don't understand exactly what you would like to do...
Start, Ok etc are default functions on that buttons so you have nothing to do to get them doing that...

Thank You
Hey! This looks like a really good program idea. Its not all that simple to figure out. I'm also not too sure there is an alternative way to customize the program.
Once I had it figured out, it works really well. Kudos for the update. My Diamond is getting much more reading use now. I just found that the d-pad was pretty much useless until now.
Also kudos on the stylus idea. Pretty nifty way to activate the menu.
Two thumbs up. I'm looking forward to any updates in the future.

Dredger97 said:
For the Raphael, on the related article on gadgetmix.com (see 1st post for the link), it seems it works on HTC Touch Pro so it should work on yours.
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Well, maybe they're using another ROM or something. Are you sure they tested it with a Raphael? Maybe they just tested it with a Diamond and presumed it would work on a Raphael (I'm not familiar with the site, so I don't know what devices they're using).
Anyhow, after some more testing, it is actually partly working. That is, sometimes the phone/hang up buttons work as left/right, sometimes they don't. With the phone button it's about 50 % working, 50 % not (in Kevtris). For some reason the hang up button is working more frequently, something like 80 % working, 20 % not.
Also tried it with another game - Marble Worlds 2 demo - again only a part of the key presses are registered correctly.
I understand it's hard for you to test anything when you don't have a Raphael, but if I can do anything to help (apart from donating my Raphael to you ), just ask.

aBE-One said:
Well, maybe they're using another ROM or something. Are you sure they tested it with a Raphael? Maybe they just tested it with a Diamond and presumed it would work on a Raphael (I'm not familiar with the site, so I don't know what devices they're using).
Anyhow, after some more testing, it is actually partly working. That is, sometimes the phone/hang up buttons work as left/right, sometimes they don't. With the phone button it's about 50 % working, 50 % not (in Kevtris). For some reason the hang up button is working more frequently, something like 80 % working, 20 % not.
Also tried it with another game - Marble Worlds 2 demo - again only a part of the key presses are registered correctly.
I understand it's hard for you to test anything when you don't have a Raphael, but if I can do anything to help (apart from donating my Raphael to you ), just ask.
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You probably run another program that uses the same sensor API and that conflict with DredSensor.
Don't you have G-Scroll or something similar installed?

Is it possible to assign the home and back hardware button to make left and right soft keys?

aBE-One said:
A very nice and welcome idea. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with my Raphael. Tried it with Kevtris: succesfully installed, soft-reset, started the game, and configured DredSensor for the game, but when I push e.g. the phone up key, it still brings up the phone application. I didn't change any of the settings in the DredSensor config screen (I did check that "HardKeySimul" was selected).
Hope you can make it work for Raphael too, it is so annoying trying to play games with the d-pad, when you accidentally press the home/phone/etc. keys all the time.
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On my Raphael program works perfectly. My ROM is PROven ROM 1.09 PLK.

Claus72 said:
Is it possible to assign the home and back hardware button to make left and right soft keys?
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Not in that first version but as it seems people find it usefull, i'll probably update it to let you choose which key or app-launch you affect to each button.

Dredger97 said:
Not in that first version but as it seems people find it usefull, i'll probably update it to let you choose which key or app-launch you affect to each button.
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When you do that, can you consider left and right softkeys? That'd be a significant advantage, as I find the lack of the two keys annoying in some apps (esp java ones).
On a side note, does the software poll for input? While I doubt it would affect the battery that much, I'll probably limit my usage to be on the safe side.
Great app!

g2tl said:
When you do that, can you consider left and right softkeys? That'd be a significant advantage, as I find the lack of the two keys annoying in some apps (esp java ones).
On a side note, does the software poll for input? While I doubt it would affect the battery that much, I'll probably limit my usage to be on the safe side.
Great app!
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So if I understand, you'd like the possibility to simul left or right softkey by clicking on 'Home' and 'Back' for example?
On the side note, it doesn't poll for input, but it polls every second to check which app is on the foreground. The input job is event based.

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So if I understand, you'd like the possibility to simul left or right softkey by clicking on 'Home' and 'Back' for example?
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correct
On the side note, it doesn't poll for input, but it polls every second to check which app is on the foreground. The input job is event based.
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Which I'm assuming is not happening when the screen is off (through power button)?

flip the screen

Hi all,
It will be great if someone will be able to assist me.
I was told that there is an application that assist flipping the screen with one of the hotkeys of the Polaris.
Can anyone advise ?
Thanks !

evolfin said:
Hi all,
It will be great if someone will be able to assist me.
I was told that there is an application that assist flipping the screen with one of the hotkeys of the Polaris.
Can anyone advise ?
Thanks !
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You can try AE Button Plus

evolfin said:
flipping the screen with one of the hotkeys of the Polaris...
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If you mean rotating the screen from portrait to landscape and back with a hardware button, you don't need an extra app for that. Just go to Settings>Personal>Buttons and for one of the buttons in a drop down list select <Rotate Screen>. That's it.

ScreenRotationToggle
You can do this with a Mortscript:
If ( Screen( "portrait" ) = 1 )
Rotate( 90 )
Else
Rotate( 0 )
Endif
kr.,
Frepke

Thanks, it was easier than i thought