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Curious behaviour after hard reset

Hallo community,
my Ameo showed some problems since yesterday:
The Screen brightness when running on battery couldn't be adjusted anymore. It stayed always to lowest level.
Soft reset didn't work, had to perform a hard reset therfore.
Now there occured some curious things:
When choosing "Einstellungen (settings) - System - Beleuchtung (Illumination ?) - Helligkeit (Brightness ?)" I can only adjust "Energiesparmodus (Energy saving modus ?)". Until hard reset I had had two settings "Battery" and another for a connected modus.
Another thing:
When choosing "Einstellungen (settings) - Persönlich (personal ?) - Menüs(menues ?)" there are some menu items twice. It is "web'n'walk", "Nachrichten" and "Tray Display". "Web'n'walk" and "Nachrichten" are both ticked and I cant untick them to remove from startmenu.
How to remove these double items from the menu and how to untick these unnecessary items ?
Dieter

Sounds like a good time for a second hard reset.
Did you restore settings from a backup thew first time? That could be it.
I did have some "baby growing up" issues with my Athena the first go around. I tested, re-tested and generally <censored> around with it.
After I had to hard reset, and I tried to remember what worked, and what didn't.
Keep in mind, nothing works perfect but things can be worked around.

Had the same problem and this post from Daryl Mushtaq solved it for me!
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hi Devany
not sure if you managed to find a resolution but i too had a similar problem.
i think mine was caused by phonemanager (which i have since uninstalled)
i found that when on battery power the slider in backlight settings did absolutely nothing. the only time the backlight would become brighter was when the alarm was going off.
searching throught the registry i found the solution.
navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\controlpanel\backlight
change the onoffbat key to 1 (mine was set to 0)
once done press the power key down for ages to reboot.
my slider now works fine.
hope this helps
Daryl Mushtaq

edeplano said:
searching throught the registry i found the solution.
navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\controlpanel\backlight
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Sorry - is a Newbie question:
how can I search the registry on a mobile device ?
how to navigate to the HKEY ?
Dieter

There are lots of registry editors for PPCs I use resco reg editor because it came with resco explorer but there are plenty of free ones.
As always with registry editing BE VERY CAREFUL you can easily brick your machine if you don't know what you are doing.

Thanks to confucius.
Dieter

A few UI modificaiton questions.

I've been searching around quite a bit but have been unable to find solutions for what I would like to do to my PPC.
I have a hermes running At&t wm5 with no intention of upgrading yet;
but my questions are:
1. I would like to change the icons of the programs in all of my menus such as start>programs and start>system>settings. I assume a program or patch, as well as a lot of work is needed. Any ideas how to go about doing this?
2. I want to change the 2 bottom soft keys on the today screen (phone/contacts) to Lock / Contacts. As in just hit my left hard or soft key to lock the phone.
Any help is much appreciated
(Also, sorry if this is the wrong forum)

Sirgatory said:
I've been searching around quite a bit but have been unable to find solutions for what I would like to do to my PPC.
2. I want to change the 2 bottom soft keys on the today screen (phone/contacts) to Lock / Contacts. As in just hit my left hard or soft key to lock the phone.
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try the attached file for this... called softkey changer.

hey. thank you for the app! I tried it but unfortunately it did not have an option to place the device lock as a soft key.
so unfortunately both problems are still left unsolved =/

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.

HELP!! TF3D doesn't startup after softreset

Is there a way to manually start the TF3D? Sometimes it takes up to 5 resets to start. Really annoying, since I don't want to hard reset the device...

Hmmm, should start every time if you have it in the today settings.
Check: Start - Settings - Today - Items (bottom of screen) - scroll down to TouchFLO 3D and make sure it is checked. Best to uncheck everything else as TF3D generally conflicts with other today plugins.

Cheesy Dave said:
Hmmm, should start every time if you have it in the today settings.
Check: Start - Settings - Today - Items (bottom of screen) - scroll down to TouchFLO 3D and make sure it is checked. Best to uncheck everything else as TF3D generally conflicts with other today plugins.
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Yes, it's there and checked. Nothing else is checked and I have no other today plugins installed.

jouh said:
Yes, it's there and checked. Nothing else is checked and I have no other today plugins installed.
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Hmmm ! Sounds like maybe a manila file is messed up. I guess your best bet is a hard reset.
Alternatively you might try installing a TF3D theme from the forums and see if that fixes it.
Sorry, I can't help much more than that (I've never experienced this problem).

Cheesy Dave said:
Hmmm ! Sounds like maybe a manila file is messed up. I guess your best bet is a hard reset.
Alternatively you might try installing a TF3D theme from the forums and see if that fixes it.
Sorry, I can't help much more than that (I've never experienced this problem).
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Thank you for taking time and trying to help me!
Perhaps a hard reset would be in place...

Right Soft Key keeps getting assigned to "today"

when it should be "right soft key" just like the left soft key should be left soft key
any idea why this could be happening?
i always change it back but after a restart of the phone it always gets assigned back.
dont recall this happening before TF3D install though

comeradealexi said:
dont recall this happening before TF3D install though
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and there's your answer! must be at least the 5th thread on this now...

artesea said:
and there's your answer! must be at least the 5th thread on this now...
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really? - dam soz - there fix??

I removed TF3D and it worked again, now my right key is for soft reset =D

gundamboy said:
I removed TF3D and it worked again, now my right key is for soft reset =D
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oh aye? i got the left one for the windows thing and the right one for change orentation - guess i gotta remove tf3d then lol

sure there is not a reg fix or something similar??

comeradealexi said:
sure there is not a reg fix or something similar??
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Hi,
I also play with this problem a lot - for me it looks that this is a bug of TF3D.
Until reset this can be simple fixed by Settings > Buttons and then assignee Right Key to Right SoftKey. Unfortunately this change is gone after reset.
The same is for Registry edit - it is gone after reset.
Currently I am using AE Button Plus application - in there I assigned Right SoftKey to Right SoftKey - it works even after reset.
Hope this helps.