Ugly Start Bar On SPB-MS3.5 with WM6.5.1 ROMs - Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General

Hi there,
Does anybody know how to avoid this ugly appearance on SPB-MS3.5?
It makes me craaaazzy?
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On every WM6.5.1 trial, I get this problem on my TouchHD. But one of my friend who has Samsung-Omnia-i900 with WM6.5.1-23071 (I mean same version of WM) does not have this problem on his SPB-MS3.5.
So I thought this could be eliminated, but how?
May be with some Registry work, or any other else...

Hi,
the Problem is caused by the showcase-Taskmanager.
You have to edit the corresponding registry-key which is
HKCU\Software\e-Natives Technology\Showcase\SUITE_PositionFix_Winclasses
There you have to remove "manila" from the value of the key.
After a softreset the problem should be gone.

Or, if Showcase is not installed, you should remove PositionFix shortcut from Windows/Startup folder.

I'll give that go as that's the only thing that's keeping me from using SPB MS 3.5 right now. (I mean with the new builds lol)

smaver42 said:
Hi,
the Problem is caused by the showcase-Taskmanager.
You have to edit the corresponding registry-key which is
HKCU\Software\e-Natives Technology\Showcase\SUITE_PositionFix_Winclasses
There you have to remove "manila" from the value of the key.
After a softreset the problem should be gone.
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Thank you bro, you are my saver42 (as smaver42)
It worked quite well...

UglyStartBarOnManila
Yesterday was a great day that I found the solution with msaver42's advice, this was great. But suddenly this morning sthg happened to my phone and gone crazy with manila.
That registry fixed SPB-MS3.5 problem but now the problem is existing eith Manila, where it was NOT with it yesterday.
Is there any method completely get rid of this disgusting problem?

Bump. I have same issue with MS3 and task manager. Removing link fixed the MS3.5 page, but created the problem described above.

hknklbk said:
Yesterday was a great day that I found the solution with msaver42's advice, this was great. But suddenly this morning sthg happened to my phone and gone crazy with manila.
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That registry fixed SPB-MS3.5 problem but now the problem is existing eith Manila, where it was NOT with it yesterday.
Is there any method completely get rid of this disgusting problem?
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mwcostello said:
Bump. I have same issue with MS3 and task manager. Removing link fixed the MS3.5 page, but created the problem described above.
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This is because that file or registry value were added to fix Manila. Removing the file or registry value fixes MS3 as it never had a problem with 6.5.1. Manila did, you removed it's fixed which bugged out MS3. So, choose one or the other.

Hello,
This worked for me... i am in the uk and have o2 with the htc touch hd.
Problems before this were that other roms would not let me use sms. I then used energyrom 2381 which let me use sms, with spbshell but with the cut off bottom. I then used the cab on this part of the forum..and i now have a win 6.5 powered htc touch hd, in the uk with o2...so thanks again.
steve.

remove PositionFix.lnk in your startup folder

i delete "manila" from registry and reset device but nothing is changed. mobile shell is covering bottom bar completely.

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Phone skin settings in registry

In my Vario i had the ugly T-Mobile skin in the phone app. I've found the registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin, with the keys for defining whole skin.
If Enable is changed to 0, after the reset is skin ignored and phone looks as the keypad for PIN enter. The bad thing is that smartdialing doesn't work.
So i tried another way. My friend has qtek 9100. In the registry he have no keys for defining skin, cust Enable entry with value 1 and dll path.
So i changed my registry in this way, but it didn't work. Skin entries are back an i can no more change Enable value to 1.
Does anyone know how to remove phone skin with smardialing working?
I have been looking at this - I tried renaming the subkeys (DIALER and PROGRESS) and that mostly de-skinned it (had to soft reset after changing them before it took effect). The smart dialing still worked (enable was still set to 1). The smartdialer graphics were not deskinned though.
However, changing it seemed to conincide with problems I had with my GPRS settings going dodgy, and on changing back GPRS seems fine. That could just be a conincidence though.
I have found that all the skin graphics are in graphices files in the windows directory. Some of them are the ones mentioned in the registry here, and some of them are called indialer_*. These indialer_ graphics are the ones that were not deskinned by renaming the DIALER and PROGRESS keys.
There is also carrierlogo.gif that is used in the background.
I recon that renaming the keys, and getting the indialer_ graphics from a non-skinned ROM should do the trick. But I am not sure if my GPRS problems were related or not.
Not had a chance (or another ROM) to play further though.
I've tried to rename DIALER and PROGRESS keys, but noeffect. After reset, the are back the same.
I know that indialer* is skin for smardialer. Smartdialer is sometimes called interdialer..
Finally, I've made it. Skin is nice blue with working smartdialing.. New know-how about registries.
The Skin!!!
Hey can u post a screen shot of the skin you are using and if possible how to change the ugly T-mobile skin!, i just got my Vario a few days ago and havn't found how to change the skin.
Thanks
It looks exatly like PIN enter screen.
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how have you done this? let us into your secret!
Thanks
Ash
I've desribed that here http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=207192

[request] Orange m600 Today Screen Plug-in

I just ran across some pics of the Orange m600 (HTC Prophet) today screen and noticed that it uses a really cool plug-in, different than any today screen plug-in I've yet to see (with the exception to WA2).
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Would it be possible for anyone that has one of these to extract the plug-in from the ROM image?
u sure? I had orange rom and hated that plugin....
nonetheless here it is if you want to try it:
ftp://xda:[email protected]/Universal/Extended_ROMs/Orange_Extended_ROM/UI_Orange_UK_0727.cab
cheers
may i ask why you did not like this plugin? did it slow down the device too much?
From my point of view I prefer the normal today screen.
There's a guy in our office has one and likes the plugin.
Try it and see, that's all I can say.
ady said:
u sure? I had orange rom and hated that plugin....
nonetheless here it is if you want to try it:
ftp://xda:[email protected]/Universal/Extended_ROMs/Orange_Extended_ROM/UI_Orange_UK_0727.cab
cheers
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Just tried it and it doesn't seem to work. It only changes task, calendar, and contact icons in the program folder
mcnasby said:
ady said:
u sure? I had orange rom and hated that plugin....
nonetheless here it is if you want to try it:
ftp://xda:[email protected]/Universal/Extended_ROMs/Orange_Extended_ROM/UI_Orange_UK_0727.cab
cheers
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Just tried it and it doesn't seem to work. It only changes task, calendar, and contact icons in the program folder
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Same problem here, doen't seem to work.
btw I allready did a soft-reset
it does not works because inside the cab file there is nothing except some shortcuts and one folder in programs folder
xplode said:
it does not works because inside the cab file there is nothing except some shortcuts and one folder in programs folder
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Thanks for looking into the cab-file (why I didn't do it myself?)
Is there any way to get the Orange plugin or is it an endless quest......
Kick.... :lol:
You can try to get from the ftp here, which is the extended ROM of Orange Magician.
The problem is, you do not know which one it is. Make your guess.
BACKUP YOUR PHONE before installing any of those CABs. You may not able to remove it later.
Anyway, my guess
Orange_New_Today.sa.CAB
Let us know what you've got.
No it is just TSK inside... i have not found in any of the orange ext roms such plugin
TSKs are almost regular CABs. You can check it - change the TSK extension to CAB and open in OCPSoft WinCE Cab Manager.
I know this of course, my point is that in Orange_New_Today.sa.CAB there is only one TSK file

[WM 6.5] Can we add custom Today Screen items?

Hi All,
I would be missing it completely, but can we add custom Today Screen items in WM 6.5? Something like what Titanium does? I dont want to use Titanium, but just add extra items to Today screen.
Is there a way to do it?
Thanks,
Chaks
chakkaradeep said:
Hi All,
I would be missing it completely, but can we add custom Today Screen items in WM 6.5? Something like what Titanium does? I dont want to use Titanium, but just add extra items to Today screen.
Is there a way to do it?
Thanks,
Chaks
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i think you are talking about something like HS++ or rltoday.... installing those things should work fine just make sure you tick the appropriate box in today item...
Hi,
I want to create a new Today Screen item in the Windows Default Today screen like the Favorite People Plugin, but I dont want to use Titanium Plugin.
Is that possible?
Hi man,
have you finally find a solution, because i want to do the same but there is no Hello world app for that...
depending upon what version of manila you have, you could use TFDetacher (works with 2.1 but not 2.5). I use it to create a second today screen for my plugins, and have it set to a softkey to toggle between manila and the other today screen. I also use Second Today to have a third today screen that I have Weatherpanel as the only plugin; I use a hard key to toggle to it. Hope that helps.
I too am looking for a similar solution. I tried Titanium mod and I don't like it I gave it two tries and both times resulted in a hard reset. The program itself is fine and feature rich it just isn't mature enough for liking and I kept hitting too many bugs which for me made it unusable.
It ok I found one a little basic but works for my needs. I found it in the MS App store called "Home Screen Customizer" One thing I found straight away was the weather panel works for me first time. The titanium one always used to come back with either .net 3.5 message errors or state issues finding a certain url.
Also its quick and easy to just add my own apps to my own panel and remove default existing panels this all works on the fly without having to reboot or disable and reenable home screens.
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Use Manila Today Page
I use Manila Today Page that added one more tab towards the end of the TF3D tabs.... Works wonders for me....

Phone Keypad Disappears!

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What can I do to fix this? Restarting the phone always fixes it (although that's not really a "solution" per se), sometimes restarting the phone app fixes it. Sometimes the keypad is there, but is up and to the right (off the edge of the screen, covering the leftmost side of the list of calls).
i think i had the same problem. try changing to landscape and back to normal.
shu8i said:
i think i had the same problem. try changing to landscape and back to normal.
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My phone dialer doesn't rotate...
Yes, annoying this. I got the problem the other day then things went back to normal after a soft boot. I am aware that rotating the app does fix the problem (until the next time) but have never tried it.
To get your phone app to rotate, install BSB Tweaks. Once done select the phone app as an item to be rotated which should give you what you are looking for.
WB
wacky.banana said:
Yes, annoying this. I got the problem the other day then things went back to normal after a soft boot. I am aware that rotating the app does fix the problem (until the next time) but have never tried it.
To get your phone app to rotate, install BSB Tweaks. Once done select the phone app as an item to be rotated which should give you what you are looking for.
WB
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Thanks, this fixed it!
Wondering if there's been a better solution uncovered to this than "rotate the phone". That's not very fluid since the phone tends to rotate/unrotate in call and the keypad disappears again, making using menu options in voicemail (for example) much more of a pain than it needs to be.
Don't even understand how this is a problem, given that my TP2 had the same dialler and had no problems...
Bump ...
No chance for a response here...?
mazzarin said:
It'll auto-configure on first boot.
BTW, the dialpad issue has been fixed for at least two months now - there's a dll or a cab floating around somewhere
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Would really like to find these...searching the forums yields nothing...
Still hoping for a reply...
Try overwriting the dll posted by fards with total commander or resco. Using wm 6.5 myself so haven.t tested.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=640759&highlight=dialer+fix

SOLVED: My Keyboard has jumped up

After spending the last 5 days trying different rom's and configurations I finally got my phone just as I want it - perfect - (apart from my emails not syncing but that's been like that for a while )
Anyway last night I went to send a text message and noticed my keyboard looks like this
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as you can see the screen has sort of jumped up a little and it makes the spacebar bigger and all the symbols are half cut off. It is only the portrait keyboard that does this.
I have seen this before by someone on this forum but after a search I can not find the post.
I don't want to hard reset my phone for what'll feel like the thousandth time so does anyone have a solution to my problem. I was thinking that maybe someone could send me their keyboard files (if you know where they are) so i can copy them to my phone and see if it solves it.
Thanks
anyone know of a fix
I had the exact problem only yesterday mate. I flashed Dutty's latest ROM and everything was great. I then installed the currency keyboard cab (it gives a £ on the standard keyboard) and it did what you've shown above. Uninstalling it did nothing, so I did a hard reset. That wasn't a big deal for me as I'd only just flashed the ROM.
What ROM do you have?
just as I finished writing this I thought I'd unistall the currency keyboard plugin and the touch screen 3.3 cab to see if it made any difference.
After a reset my phone completely froze over so I pulled the battery out and then it booted up fine and the problem has gone away.
I've used both of these cab's everytime I have hard reset my phone and never had a problem. Strange.
I'm gonna install the touch cab again and then back everything up and then install the currency one again and see if the problem comes back.
I'm using Miri's HD2 6.5.x V3 rom
chris_lyon82 said:
just as I finished writing this I thought I'd unistall the currency keyboard plugin and the touch screen 3.3 cab to see if it made any difference.
After a reset my phone completely froze over so I pulled the battery out and then it booted up fine and the problem has gone away.
I've used both of these cab's everytime I have hard reset my phone and never had a problem. Strange.
I'm gonna install the touch cab again and then back everything up and then install the currency one again and see if the problem comes back.
I'm using Miri's HD2 6.5.x V3 rom
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I'm pretty sure you'll find it's that cab then. Last night, after a hard reset, I checked the keyboard and it was fine. I then installed the currency cab and the keyboard was immediately knackered. I had to hard reset to get rid of it though, so you've had more luck fixing it than I had.
ok cheers for the info. I'm not going to bother installing the currency cab again then
chris_lyon82 said:
ok cheers for the info. I'm not going to bother installing the currency cab again then
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Me neither. Its a shame though.
Saying that, I don't think I've used the £ character since that cab was made lol
you guys need to be checking out swype... it is by far the best keyboard i have ever used on a mobile device!
http://www.swypeinc.com/tips-tricks.html
the cab install is floating around xda somewhere

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