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Weird PIE Problem

If I try to search anything on Google Images, all I get is a blank page.
In single column view, I get everything except the pictures i.e. search field, page numbers, other little graphics etc.
In default view, I get a total blank page.
In desktop view I get a blank page again but I also a horizontal scrollbar with it.
The odd thing is that if I view the source of the results page, it's all there, it just doesn't load at all. I have checked by installing Opera and Google Images displays fine but I don't want to keep Opera.
Any ideas on what's causing this?
Thanks

Anyone have any ideas?

Sounds obvious but you have got PIE set to display images haven't you (Menu-View-Show Pictures).
Sorry if that sounds patronising but it usually is fogetting the obvious

Sounds to me like PIE is a bit screwed, either that or your registry settings are a bit fubared...
Personally I like to use both Opera and PIE, because PIE can load SWFs (provided you've installed the PPC Flash Player 7 cab, of course) so I can get my Weebl and Bob fix, but Opera is just so much better at rendering pages, and its download manager is far superior... And it feels less clunky... And it can do FTP... and... well, just use both side by side for a while and you'll realise it's not a bad investment

Weebl and bob on the phone, what a fantastic idea. <off to load Flash 7>

apologies for my previous post, when I wrote it my phone connection wasn't working so I couldn't try it out. I also am experiencing exactly the same problem as described. Would say it's most likely down to PIE not being able to interpret the script used by the Google Images page.

Yeah, i agree!

I also am experiencing exactly the same problem as described. Would say it's most likely down to PIE not being able to interpret the script used by the Google Images page.
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But why on some devices and not others? I used to be able to browse perfectly on my JAM.
Anyway, I wanted to avoid a reset but it looks like the only way it might fix whatever's gone wrong.
Thanks

Windows Mobile Event Viewer

I dont think one exists( ive searched) but im wondering what the feasability of an "event viewer" type app for wm is.
For example it could log any errors it hits or even sucsesses.
The reason i ask is that my phone no matter which rom ive used, original or any of the TNT's (my fav ) it will from time to time get stuck in standby and I'm fairly sure that its something in the notification queue that falls over but its next to impossible to find out what, ive tried till im blue in the face installing and uninstalling things but still cant work it out.
an event viewer could say log each notificaion event as it happens then if your phone freezes up in standby, soft reset and check the log and you should see the big gap between when the failed item ran and when you restarted your phone.
does this make sense? if it is possible is anyone here up for the challenge.

funy,
you can try SKtools, it has event viewer and other for you to troubleshoot the problem you are facing with your phone.

just trying it now but eventviewer doesnt really show much which might suggest a problem. anyone got any more ideas? driving me nuts.
thanks

Sprint HTC snap firmware update.

Today my Sprint Snap 511 popped up a dialog that asked me if i wanted to accept or reject a new firmware update. I'm happy with how the phone has been performing, so i rejected the update pending some research.
anyone have an idea what this was? is it winmo 6.5? some sort of minor update? how do i even get back to that dialog if i want to accept the firmware update?

I have the same question. Noone knows anything?

dougmwpsu said:
Today my Sprint Snap 511 popped up a dialog that asked me if i wanted to accept or reject a new firmware update. I'm happy with how the phone has been performing, so i rejected the update pending some research.
anyone have an idea what this was? is it winmo 6.5? some sort of minor update? how do i even get back to that dialog if i want to accept the firmware update?
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i got the update it seem'ed to have improved battery life i have not charged my phone since the update, about 48 hours ago .... maybe

Firmware Update for Sprint Snap--->DO NOT DO IT!
I installed it, and while the phone seemed to work well at first, it does one thing that will render your phone almost useless.
You can no longer change your default ringer, even to one of the pre-installed ringers.
In fact, I cannot even set the phone to vibrate.
HTC will tell you to do a hard reset but it will not fix the firmware problem.
So DO NOT INSTALL THE FIRMWARE UPDATE!
It is not a WM6.5 update.

I saw someone post in another forum that after they did the firmware update they could not change their ringer and they also could not receive text messages. They could send text messages though. I'm definitely going to wait.

Does anybody have any of the old firmware that they can upload? this new firmware is just ridiculous.

I agree with Dr. Gizmo. DO NOT download this new firmware.
I have been noticing something odd with my yahoo! email service on my Snap. I used to be able to attach multiple pictures into one email message. Now, I can no longer attach pictures in my email message. If I want to send an image via email, I have to locate the file in my album, then click 'send in email.' This is extremely frustrating, as I can only send one message with one attached file at a time.
I thought by doing a reset of the factory settings this would remedy the solution. I was wrong! After backing up my files and defaulting all of the settings, now my ringer is stuck at the default option. I can change it from silent, to work, to normal. However, I can make no changes to the actual ringer, ie "standard2, melody, drums, etc, etc."
I was half asleep when I pressed "accept" when prompted the firmware update. I wish I had pressed "Decline."
DO NOT accept the firmware updates.
Does anyone know a work around? Is there anyway we can reverse the firmware updates?

I have the same problem as all of you and I feel like an idiot for accepting the update when it popped up on my phone on March 24. I cannot change my wallpaper to a picture of my own or change the main ring tones. I called HTC support and they told me they sent NO firmeware updates out and that I should hard reset the phone. Do not hard reset the phone as this DOES NOT correct the problem...which really scares me because if a hard reset does not work then what the heck will.
Does anyone know if there is a way to disable the update or undo it?
Also, if HTC did not send out the update, it might have been an update that windows sent out and they are to blame. This needs to be addressed and fixed soon. By the way Sprint, please don't tell people to hard reset the phone...That DOES NOT fix this error.
Please help anyone
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PirateTD,
You should be able to change your homescreen background image (wallpaper) from the menu at the bottom of the htc homescreen.
The ringer won't change from anywhere

SnapJoeSnap
Nope..changing wallpaper overall is not working.. try to change the wallpaper to one of your personal pics and it will say "Unable to set picture as Home screen wallpaper."
it will say this no matter what picture you try to change it to and this DID NOT start until the windows update.
If you go under settings and click on homescreen and then change it under where it says background image, it will change it but it will not change it to what you select. I have selected multiple different images under here and it either stays the same or changes it to something TOTALLY different from what you selected and i have no idea but it wont let you pick a wallpaper now.
Please try this everyone and let me know what it does to ypu

Anyone have any idea how to get the old ROM prior to the update and how to install in on the phone..
Any help would be appreciated

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SnapJoeSnap
Nope..changing wallpaper overall is not working.. try to change the wallpaper to one of your personal pics and it will say "Unable to set picture as Home screen wallpaper."
it will say this no matter what picture you try to change it to and this DID NOT start until the windows update.
If you go under settings and click on homescreen and then change it under where it says background image, it will change it but it will not change it to what you select. I have selected multiple different images under here and it either stays the same or changes it to something TOTALLY different from what you selected and i have no idea but it wont let you pick a wallpaper now.
Please try this everyone and let me know what it does to ypu
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Funny thing, this win mobile is... I went through start>settings>home screen and I CAN change the picture setting to whatever I like (it does not give me the error) BUT the image displayed won't change. If I go back to settings>home I can see that the change stuck, but the picture won't change even thou it looks like the wallpaper is 'refreshing'. I was sure I could and did as I rechecked before posting and I would get the "error..." message from settings>homescreen but not from HTC Home sliding panel AND I saw the diff pic in the wallpaper.
EDIT: Wait just a minute... I can't insert files into emails!!! What the...???

PirateTD said:
Anyone have any idea how to get the old ROM prior to the update and how to install in on the phone..
Any help would be appreciated
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Yes it would be. Can anyone help us guys out?

Sorry I can not help you with uninstalling the firmware update, but I can tell you this the update if from neither HTC nor Microsoft it is a Sprint Firmware update. The word is the update that has caused problems for our phone was released in part to put an end to the practice of using the phones data services on our laptops. As much as I do not agree as to how Sprint has handeled this I understand their reasons with some people taking advantage of this ability to hog bandwith with torrent downloads, watching movies... So if you are one of these people thank you very much and as a Sprint user I do not want to see Sprints service affected like ATT's with not being able to make calls because everyone is using their IPhones. Get your self an aircard!
Ok I have found a few work arounds to the main ringer and the home screen picture issue.
The first work around the Home Screen Picture - thanks to the update above and a locked registery the settings panel no longer works... But if you use the Picture and Video app (included with the phone) to set your home screen back ground picture. Just open the image you want to use with the app and with the use of the "menu" you can set your home screen image there.
The main ringer is a little different but along the same lines. Making this change requires something along the lines of a ringtome manager that allows you to change the main ringer in it, and the phone does not come with one. However I did a trial version of Photo Contact Pro that had this ability. Now I did not care for Photo Contact Pro after trying it out but still it allowed me to change the main ringer while I had it on my phone. Now I can no longer change my main ringer because I uninstalled the App but then because it was a trial version it did not cost me anything. So if you really need to change your ringer once here is an option, however if you are one of those who wants to change their ringer on a regular basis, you will then have to find an app that will allow you to did this or wait until a fix is released.
As far as an email issue someone wrote about here you will need to double check your email account settings. I had problems sending emails from my phone and found the auto settings were not correct for the smtp (out going mail) server and I had to set them manualy...

Sprint finally released an update to the Snap s511, you can find it on the website. It fixes all the problems that the bad update caused

[Q] gtalk problem

Does anyone else have this problem? Talk is showing the conversations above my writing, not in time order! How do I change this?
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this is weird...

instead of the messages being like in a chat, all his are on top and all mine are on the bottom

I was just about to post about the same issue. I thought the design of gtalk was made like this on purpose until a colleague of mine showed his not doing this.
I've tested to force gtalk to forget all data, but it has not helped. It has virtually made gtalk unusable, as after talking to someone for a few minutes/half an hour, I have to scroll pages up to view what the person responds with. Records so far is that I have to scroll four full length (portrait mode) pages to get to the text to the person I am conversing with.

I have the same problem but thought this was normal until being brought up in this thread

Solved!
The reason was for some unknown reason, it had not applied summer time (BST, for me) so I was running base clock on the device an hour wrong so it showed the correct time.
I went into settings for the date & time and re-selected "London" (was already selected) and suddenly it applied BST correctly. Then just adjust the clock so it shows the correct time and voila, it works again.
Me and my colleague just tested it out and my gtalk has turned from "useless" to "wonderful" in just a configuration change

thanks!

[Solved] Emtpy Slots in App Drawer?

Hi i got a little problem in/with my appdrawer. I install an later uninstall some apps and now at the place (end of the second page) there are some empty slots. Don't know about it, never seen before. Cause on Page 3 there are still Apps. Don't know why they don't appear on Page 2.
Fyi Screeny:
Did someone seen the problem before. Or better has a fix for it?

Just get into edit mode and get the icons from the other pages and delete the empty page if you get one then. This isn't really a problem, and no need to call it an "issue"? lol
SGS2 has the same "issue".

Thank you for help, my old HTC and Dell does not have these edit mode, so I don't know about it. And yea you are right "issue" is a little bit to "important".
Will edit it

Well I call this a feature. For example you can designate page according to type of apps and page need not always be filled. Like I have most imp apps on page 1, games on page 2 etc.

yeah your right, but i don't know this before from my previous phones.