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Disable Screen Alignment

Is there a way to disable te screen alignment utility on the QTEK 2020? I mean the welcome.exe that runs when your battery was empty or when you do a reset?
I'm searching my ass off but i'm not finding anything.

I think it would require i OS ROM modification since it is "factory" clean if you loose the power. Extended rom customization kicks in after the screen calibration.
It´s a painfull process to calibrate but ít´s an even more painfull experience with a non calibrated screen :wink:
/Regards

Would you really notice it if you wouldn't calibrate the screen? Would be the same like not calibrating a joystick on a PC? If you don't do that you always keep moving because the joystick thinks it's not centered.
I'm just thinking here, during the calibration, would there be anything saved to the registry, of the calibration, because then i would be able to export it to a .reg file and let it be imported during the extended rom customization?
I gonne search some more...

Why all the effort to avoid the calibration? After all you are only forced to do it after a hard reset and the time it takes is minimal compared to the following Extended ROM installation. I can't see why it's such a big deal :?

because i have more than 1 PDA to configure

dcs said:
Why all the effort to avoid the calibration? After all you are only forced to do it after a hard reset and the time it takes is minimal compared to the following Extended ROM installation. I can't see why it's such a big deal :?
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Because it is a great hassle to have it always appeared when you press your Joystick and Calendar hotkey together. And I need these buttons when I play some games or use Sega/Atari and other emulators ((

because it's a touch screen it's much more troublesome not to calibrate
i mean a joystick if no callibrated will wander but a touch screen will not know where or what you are pressing on with the stylus or finger

the alignment isn't a problem for me. just the stupid copy/paste tutorial is a nuisance. But unfortenately it is in the OS. In the beginning developers here tried to make a custom welcome.exe but they gave up. The effort was too much for the benefits.

Great! I didnt know about the joy + calendar button :-D
Rey, my guess is that calibration is device individual so they cant be copied. But using the joy+cal trick at a later stage makes removing it in the OS ROM much more interesting.

oh well, at least i found out how to automaticly get the GMT zone in, so i can just click next and don't have to scroll
For those who are intrested:
Fill in the setting, i have it on GMT +1, then go to your registry editor and export the following value out of the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Time]
TimeZoneInformation
save somewhere and put it an a the EXTENDED_ROM in a .CAB that auto installes, i put in in the IIWPO.CAB in platformxxx.reg works for me

Restorator
Rey said:
oh well, at least i found out how to automaticly get the GMT zone in, so i can just click next and don't have to scroll
For those who are intrested:
Fill in the setting, i have it on GMT +1, then go to your registry editor and export the following value out of the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Time]
TimeZoneInformation
save somewhere and put it an a the EXTENDED_ROM in a .CAB that auto installes, i put in in the IIWPO.CAB in platformxxx.reg works for me
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Try Restorator utility (search this forum on: restorator) for individual and multiple setups. Works for me! Thanks to SP!
Unfortunately, it doesn't solve our alignment issue

Dunno if it can help..but I remember ..some cooked ROMs for XDA1 haven't got this Copy-Paste procedure.. some programmer have removed it.
So,try to search for it..

Help! Slow input type selection window!

When you need to input text, you can click on the icon at the bottom of the screen to bring up the text entry area. You can tap on the little triangle beside the icon to bring up a window to select between block recognizer, keyboard, letter recognizer, phone pad, and transcriber.
On my 8125, it is taking a long time for this window to pop up after tapping the triangle. It is taking a few seconds, when it used to take maybe 1/3 of a second. It is quite frustrating!
Why is is doing this? And what can I do to speed it up like it used to be?
This has happened before. It was when I first got the phone and was installing apps and games on it. One day I noticed this slow behavior, and I ended up doing a hard reset and slowly adding my apps and registry tweaks back on one at a time to see what would cause the problem. Well, nothing caused the problem and it stayed fast for a long time.
Then yesterday I updated to Summiter's latest ROM and started adding my apps back on. This text entry type window was working just fine through most of it, and suddenly as I'm finally finished putting everything back to where I want it, this problem is back!
Help! I don't want to do another hard reset already!

I have the same problem, I use transcriber as SIP but since it takes so long to show up when you click the triangle, I just put a shortcut to transcriber.exe in the start menu folder. So, I just use the Programs menu, it's much faster

I like to switch between letter recognizer, keyboard, and transcriber. I suppose I could put links to them in the start menu, but it would be so much nicer if I could just figure out why it's being so slow!
Any ideas?

I've read this is due to having MS Voice Command installed, although I haven't confirmed this myself.

I have the problem and never installed Voice Command, so there must be another explanation

anyone idea what the keyboard exe is called?
thanks

This is supposedly caused by a bug in the OS. I use an application called 'Smartskey'. There is a setting that talks about reboot notification for a Wizard. This affects the time it takes for the input method choice popup-. See the text about it from the manual:
REMOVEDUPSDDAEMON=0 (0 or 1)
Only for HTC Wizard. The function is originally not related to SmartSkey. The HTC Wizard contains a program called sddaemon that is the voice command program for wizard. It contains a bug that it will automatically create one more
notification for each reboot. It will make the program slower and slower after a number of reboot and overflow the notification system. To set this to 1 will automatically remove the duplicated notification event. If you are a user of Wizard, it is suggested to set it to 1. The flag is harmless for other machines.
I cannot remember where I downloaded the program, but if you search this forum, you should be able to find a copy.

i dont use smartskey, so is it something else causing my slowdown? i dont understand.
is that a reg key your talking about there?

funy said:
i dont use smartskey, so is it something else causing my slowdown? i dont understand.
is that a reg key your talking about there?
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Smartskey isn't the problem. It solves a problem with the OS. zIt appears that every time the device restarts, it makes a record in a log file somewhere. Eventually, the log is so full, it takes longer and longer to pull up the menu. I don't recall all of the details, but I found it here. You can probably search to find more information.
The setting I put in the post is a smartskey.ini setting to resolve the problem.

thanks, might give it a try then

mrschwarz said:
Smartskey isn't the problem. It solves a problem with the OS. zIt appears that every time the device restarts, it makes a record in a log file somewhere. Eventually, the log is so full, it takes longer and longer to pull up the menu. I don't recall all of the details, but I found it here. You can probably search to find more information.
The setting I put in the post is a smartskey.ini setting to resolve the problem.
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just put that ley in but stil doesnt seem to have done anything

Broken Touchscreen

I bought an xv6700 with a broken touchscreen. The guy I bought it from said that it could be navigated decently with just the buttons. But before he gave it to me he hard reset it and now it is stuck on the screen saying "Tap the screen to set up your Windows Mobile based device." I tried pressing all the buttons and doing hard and soft resets, but nothing will get me past that screen. I don't really want to get a new digitizer because the guy who sold it had tried that already and it hadn't worked.
Anyone have any ideas to get past that first screen? Is there some way that I could access it through my PC and modify some file that would make it think that I had set it up already? (I flashed it with wm6 if that makes any difference.)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

News Flash!!!
I figured out that if I hold in the action button and press the windows logo key, it will skip past the first screen. But now it's on the 'align screen' screen. There has got to be a key combination to skip past that too. So.... I'll keep pressing buttons.

i dont think its posible because it ask you to do a lot of touch programs after that
not to seem pesamistice but if it dosn't work out can i buy your talk end keys module

I have the same exact problem with my 6700.. (this was days before my contract with Verizon ended)
The touch screen stopped working and I thought a hard reset might fix it, but now i'm stuck at the Welcome screen..
I upgraded to the 6800/mogul and updated to No2Chem's 6.1 rom. I noticed that he removed the welcome center and it booted right to the today screen.
I will have to ask him how he removed it and find an Apache rom to modify.

Solution
1. Connect device to PC using Activesync.
2. In Activesync click explore.
3. Navigate to Windows/Startup
4. Delete the 'Welcome' file.
5. Reboot.
I downloaded a program called 'fake cursor' which lets you use the buttons to move a cursor on the screen. Most things can be done with just the buttons though.

I have the same problem. My PDA is HTC TyTN and I have WM6 installed. But I can't find any Startup folder. I've found welcom.exe and welcome.lnk, but they can not be deleted. Help to solve the "initial set-up" problem.

axissolutions said:
I have the same problem. My PDA is HTC TyTN and I have WM6 installed. But I can't find any Startup folder. I've found welcom.exe and welcome.lnk, but they can not be deleted. Help to solve the "initial set-up" problem.
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Same Prob here want to use the phone but no way to get past "tap the target firmly" "tap the screen to set up your windows mobile-based device" or and dont want to brick the phone by using a rom without unlocker think I saw somewhere you could use ceregeditor but tried deleting the welcome center in hkclassesroot and still does same thing

pmcculfor said:
1. Connect device to PC using Activesync.
2. In Activesync click explore.
3. Navigate to Windows/Startup
4. Delete the 'Welcome' file.
5. Reboot.
I downloaded a program called 'fake cursor' which lets you use the buttons to move a cursor on the screen. Most things can be done with just the buttons though.
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ps. are these instructions fpr wm 6 or 5?

Bump, what file to delete in what Registry to skip tap to setup?
Bump, what file to delete in what Registry section to skip tap to setup? 6.1 pretty please?!

pmcculfor said:
I figured out that if I hold in the action button and press the windows logo key, it will skip past the first screen. But now it's on the 'align screen' screen. There has got to be a key combination to skip past that too. So.... I'll keep pressing buttons.
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i have the same problem with my x1i pls which is the action button

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Hello,
Connect you phone to your PC with Activesync and browse.
create an empty text file and rename it "welcome.not"
Place it in the root of your phone storage and reboot.
It's magic !
It worked for me but now I have this problem : how to substitute the soft keys ???
Most of the menus ask for the "OK" or "Cancel" with the 2 soft keys on the screen... how to deal with that ??
Thanks for your replies

Touch Screen Answer Button doesn't work

Has anyone encountered this problem??
On an incoming call, I attempt to press "ANSWER" on the touch screen and nothing happens. Pressing "IGNORE" seems to work.
I have the following installed:
- Gyrator 2
- Diamond Tweak 0.5.3
- TF3D Configuration 0.6.7
- AppToDate
Could any of these be creating some form of conflict? I know I should probably delete one by one, but was wondering if anyone else has heard of this.
Thanks
Lee

Chek in: \windows\startup
What do you have?

Sergio PC said:
Chek in: \windows\startup
What do you have?
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I have the following in Windows\Startup\....
- GAlarm Reload
- Personalizer
- poutlook
- Services
- Voice Command
Also, it seems to be an intermittent problem, which makes it even more frustrating!!

Nooo all good there I was wondering if you had a keydisabler, but you dont.
When things go sour on you phone you should preform a hard reset that solves all problems.
Greets.

I know this is my first post but my answer key became unresponsive when I changed the pressure sensitivity of my screen...
I used the values people posted on the forum and everything else was fine but the green answer key on the screen wasn't working properly. I changed the values back and it works fine now!

wolf peterson said:
I know this is my first post but my answer key became unresponsive when I changed the pressure sensitivity of my screen...
I used the values people posted on the forum and everything else was fine but the green answer key on the screen wasn't working properly. I changed the values back and it works fine now!
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Could you please tell me where in the registry you made those changes so I could check the values. Also, let me know what values you have listed so I can compare.
Thanks

Have I Completely Screwed Up My Phone?

So I was reading this page on a registry tweak from pocketnow.com that could help reduce the pressure you place on your touchscreen, apparently. It is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\TouchPanel Value=PressureThreshold
I changed the number to 34 in decimal, which I think I misread and now should have changed to 240, but what can you do (in case anyone is curious, DON'T try this tweak unless you want to risk losing your phone data. It doesn't take effect until restart, at which point you might be screwed).
So I applied the tweak without restarting, and then at one point my phone froze, so I soft reset it. My phone came up as usual, and because I use Chobit's SmartLock, I think it locks on boot up (Windows Mobile 6.5 doesn't do so by default, does it?).
Herein lies the problem: you need to slide across the screen to unlock, but upon reboot, my touchscreen is basically non-responsive.
I've tried using desktop Windows Mobile registry editors, but they require ActiveSync running, which can't happen on my phone because the touchscreen isn't working for me to select "ActiveSync" rather than "Removable Disk" to which it defaults. I think SmartLock is getting in the way here too, as . I've removed my storage card, but the same prompt still comes up, making me unable to use ActiveSync. Is there some way to force ActiveSync without this prompt? I think then at least I could edit the registry and remove this tweak. I can't even use something like MyMobiler or CERegEditor, because they require, you guessed it...ActiveSync.
Is there any way to save my phone and data other than a hard reset? I do have access to the Storage Card, so is there anyway to run a program from there like people 'unroot' their phones? Is there perhaps a set of soft key presses that can run the screen calibration program?
EDIT: Ended up hard resetting because I couldn't figure out how to get around the lock screen. Oh well!

yummybunny said:
So I was reading this page on a registry tweak from pocketnow.com that could help reduce the pressure you place on your touchscreen, apparently. It is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\TouchPanel Value=PressureThreshold
I changed the number to 34 in decimal, which I think I misread and now should have changed to 240, but what can you do (in case anyone is curious, DON'T try this tweak unless you want to risk losing your phone data. It doesn't take effect until restart, at which point you might be screwed).
So I applied the tweak without restarting, and then at one point my phone froze, so I soft reset it. My phone came up as usual, and because I use Chobit's SmartLock, I think it locks on boot up (Windows Mobile 6.5 doesn't do so by default, does it?).
Herein lies the problem: you need to slide across the screen to unlock, but upon reboot, my touchscreen is basically non-responsive.
I've tried using desktop Windows Mobile registry editors, but they require ActiveSync running, which can't happen on my phone because the touchscreen isn't working for me to select "ActiveSync" rather than "Removable Disk" to which it defaults. I think SmartLock is getting in the way here too, as . I've removed my storage card, but the same prompt still comes up, making me unable to use ActiveSync. Is there some way to force ActiveSync without this prompt? I think then at least I could edit the registry and remove this tweak. I can't even use something like MyMobiler or CERegEditor, because they require, you guessed it...ActiveSync.
Is there any way to save my phone and data other than a hard reset? I do have access to the Storage Card, so is there anyway to run a program from there like people 'unroot' their phones? Is there perhaps a set of soft key presses that can run the screen calibration program?
EDIT: Ended up hard resetting because I couldn't figure out how to get around the lock screen. Oh well!
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You could have used the d-pad to scroll to AS from Storage and then press the center button "enter".

for next time... search for "i-tweak sensitivity"
it has two registry edits... the difference is amazing! Its a must do for me no matter what phone i use.