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PHM crashes Album!?

Ok, interesting problem.
i have pocket hack master installed, every single thing runs fine.
It runs with scaling on, and 4 levels ranging from 390mhz [156:39:78:T] to 624mhz [208:52:104:T]
it works perfectly for everything, EXCEPT when i load up the HTC album software. it locks up.
if i exit PHM (no matter what speed) and then try to run album, its fine.
it seems completely independant of the clockspeed, just the fact that PHM is running.
i have tried setting a profile for Application speeds that will change it to default for the album.exe, but it makes no difference! still crashes.
i have done this correctly, and the overclock profile to 624 for my emulators works perfectly.
has anyone else experienced this problem!? its so annoying to have to close PHM to open up the album.
any suggestions?
i am running:
latest PHM,
Small Menu,
Xbar3
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just tried opening album first, then opening PHM. album works!!
if i now close album and re-open it, album seems to be working fine!
if i re-set the device (and PHM auto loads), album crashes the device again.
i have 24mb of program memory allocated.

MrNibbles said:
Ok, interesting problem.
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Indeed. It seems you have tried anything that would get into my mind, and to me it looks like some kind of bug in either Album or PHM which you cannot overcome by some clever configuration or workaround. The only thing I would try is hard reset (backup beforehand) and then only install PHM and nothing else. See if the problem persists. If it does there is nothing more I can suggest. I would try to contact the PHM author and report the bug as closely as possible (does PHM have the ability to record crash logs? include one if it does). Maybe he can figure out what the bug is and fix it. If the bug is in Album there might be a way for him to workaround.
MrNibbles said:
just tried opening album first, then opening PHM. album works!!
if i now close album and re-open it, album seems to be working fine!
if i re-set the device (and PHM auto loads), album crashes the device again.
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If there is no support on PHM you might be able to workout some clever autostart sequencing / macro that automatically loads and minimizes/closes album on system startup and then loads PHM "by hand" afterwards. Not a beauty solution, but if you really need Album and cannot replace it with some other media player/viewer the only solution. MortScript might come in handy when setting up this autostart sequence (including delays etc.)

My guess is the problem is with album. There are other bugs with it, eg it reads the height value of bitmaps as an unsigned value when in reality it should be signed(with nasty side effects). I have also noticed that album will not work properly sometimes when it is launched from a thread that is supposed to process window messages. It must send something to all windows and wait for a response. If the launching thread is waiting for album to do something then it may deadlock. In my apps when I launch album i do it from a new thread, perhaps the author of the phm software did not do this and used the ui thread instead.

notification queue? can someone explain it to me?

hi all,
been testing quite a bit of software (spb mobile plus, omapclockplus, batterystatus-plugin, etc) and i often find that sooner or later my notifications are screwed - i don't get popups reminding me of meetings etc. i've tried cleaning the notification queue, removing duplicates etc, and always end up doing a hard reset and reinstall of all my software.
this is getting *annoying* - can anyone point me at an explanation of what's going wrong and how I should try and fix it?
ric

fixed.
landwomble said:
hi all,
been testing quite a bit of software (spb mobile plus, omapclockplus, batterystatus-plugin, etc) and i often find that sooner or later my notifications are screwed - i don't get popups reminding me of meetings etc. i've tried cleaning the notification queue, removing duplicates etc, and always end up doing a hard reset and reinstall of all my software.
this is getting *annoying* - can anyone point me at an explanation of what's going wrong and how I should try and fix it?
ric
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have just used a variety of tools, none of which did anything with automatic deletion. what actually *worked* was using memaid, and searching for all notifications with an action of "NONE" and deleting them all. soft reboot and all appears well.
now, how do i stop this happening again?

I would like to know too But, it seems to be gone so far. It seems like installing uninstalling software will cause this problem?

Info
Check out here:
http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/cn_overview.html

thanks
heronlen said:
Check out here:
http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/cn_overview.html
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i've seen that (can't install it right now as at work and exes in zips are blocked) but it's nothing particularly new. installing the battery_status plug in borked my calendar reminders last night and clearing all notification type "none" entries using memaid hasn't fixed it this time. i suspect the answer is to stop using plugins like spb mobile shell and battery_status. just restoring my wizard now via SPB backup to see if it helps...

From the software that you have mentioned, the only common software you and I have is this battery_status. However, it just doesnt seems right as I don't think battery_status mess with noti q.
Well, if you want to keep battery_status, you may want to take this drastic approach. The last time, when I've noticed the same problem, I've searched and try to solve the problem by clearning the noti q. However, accidentally, instead of removing doubtful noti, I removed EVERYTHING. However, to my surprise, after a soft reset, the system seems to have rebuilt the q, each and every reminder.
Do a backup first before this drastic approach.

landwomble said:
i've seen that (can't install it right now as at work and exes in zips are blocked) but it's nothing particularly new. installing the battery_status plug in borked my calendar reminders last night and clearing all notification type "none" entries using memaid hasn't fixed it this time. i suspect the answer is to stop using plugins like spb mobile shell and battery_status. just restoring my wizard now via SPB backup to see if it helps...
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Here you go the cab files

Careful
What the Scarybear notification removal software, it sometimes clears out them all, leaving activesync failing. If this happens run 'FixASRunAt', you can find it by search in the forums, this will ensure Activesync does not fail.

thanks
funman said:
Here you go the cab files
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much appreciated, dude!

I had the same problem. Suddenly the tasks did not remind me anymore. The device turned on at the scheduled time but there was no notification popup or sound.
What I did was delete every task from the device, delete all the notifications related to TASKS.EXE with the tool found on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=280104, sync with Outlook and move the deleted tasks from the Deleted items folder to the main Tasks folder so they're back, and that's it. It's working again!
Hope the tip helps someone!

Clock Issues

Hi everyone, I'm having a bit of trouble with my devices time keeper....
Ever since I changed the home tab clock, the regional settings don't seem to work. I like my clock to be in 24h format but all I get is bloody AM/PM!
I've tried to uninstall .cab and soft-reset back to original to no avail, and just wondered if anyone else had this problem or an idea of how to sort it?
Thanks in advance.

Time format...
What time format do you have set in your 'Regional Settings'? If they are set the way you want, but the time still displays in another format, the developer has coded the format within the application, so you won't be able to change it from the device settings

I have it on UK regional settings, when bought it was on US settings, but, having changed backwards and forwards it does'nt seem to like either.... I'll try with a few more regions and see what happens....

Sorted now.... for some reason it started to work when I changed the settings to another region, switched back to UK and all was fine

Camcorder resolution stuck

For some reason my 'Camcorder' application resolution is nowstuck on "S (128x96)".
This is when I go into the settings->Advanced page.
It doesn't matter which codec I select, the resolution stays greyed out.
Any ideas? This is really annoying.
Ta,
FM

fatmonk said:
For some reason my 'Camcorder' application resolution is nowstuck on "S (128x96)".
This is when I go into the settings->Advanced page.
It doesn't matter which codec I select, the resolution stays greyed out.
Any ideas? This is really annoying.
Ta,
FM
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In the main video menu, you have the "mms video" option selected.
There is a camcorder icon in between the settings cog and the album icon, you can change it in there.

Camcorder Resolution Stuck on S (128x96) VIDEO AND NOT MMS VIDEO option
My 'Camcorder' application resolution is stuck on "S (128x96)" also.
This is when I go into the settings->Advanced page on 'Video' option - (MMS Video option is actually set to M (176x144), ie a Higher resolution than Video option).
Changing between MP4 and H.263/4 format doesn't help, the resolution is always greyed out.
I have a stock 1.43.206.4 WWE ROM and have only applied the official HTC Patches.
Does anyone know of a reg edit to fix this???, I've installed dotfred Task Manager with RegEdit built-in.
Hope someone can help, please.
Thanks.

You had me excited there, thought it was going to be that simple, but alas, that's not it.
With 'MMS Video' selected - the envelope with a camcorder at top right - the resolution is fixed at "M (176x144)".
The proble is when I have 'Video' selected - a camcorder on its own - At this point going into the settings cog and then advanced, the resolution is fixed at 128x96. Its greyed out so cannot be changed - just the same as with MMS Video selected bu an even lower resolution!
Very odd.
Any other augestions?
-Ta,
FM

Do you guys have any tweaking apps installed?
The reason I ask is I have MPEG4 as a format option, which I think is only accessible with a tweak app, like BsBTweak (or reg file of course), I notice Firestorm33 does.
The only things greyed out on mine are metering mode and prefix, both of which I can guess the function and doubt they are related to this.
What options do you have selected in the Advanced options for video?
I have:
Resolution: VGA (obviously this is the one in question)
Review Duration: 10 seconds (I have tried all options in here and cannot reproduce your issue)
Capture Format: MPEG4 (which I think is only accessible with a tweak app, like BsBTweak (or reg file of course)
Recording Limit: No Limit
Keep Backlight: On
Record with Audio: On
Shutter Sound: Off (have toggled this, no difference)
Under Image Properties: +3 for all
Effect: None
Metering Mode: Spot (greyed out)
Prefix: Default (greyed out)
Counter: 52 (unlikely to cause issue though!)
Flicker Adjustment: Auto
Help/About are unnecessary.
Do these match yours? (bar the MPEG4 option)

Camcorder stuck resolution - S (128x96)
I don't have a lot of time right now, I'll get back to you rp-x1 on settings and apps later.
Initially I was just re-iterating that I have the same problem as FM, but to explain my problem in more detail, the first day I owned my HD2 I recorded a video (at a higher resolution, ie an acceptable quality for everyday use, will try and get the actual res later) than I can now, so something I've installed since then, whether it be the the official HTC Patches or some other app must've locked down the resolution to the S 128x96 setting. I've not installed a whole lot of 3rd party apps yet, will post more details tonight.
I have thought about doing a Hard Reset to take the phone back to factory settings, but hoping I don't have to.

I do have BSB Tweaks installed, yes.
And to be honest I couldn't say either way whether this problem started around that time.
I'll post a mesage in the BSB Tweaks forum as well to see if anyone there has seen anything similar (there's no mention as I did a search there before posting here just in case).
-FM

fatmonk said:
You had me excited there, thought it was going to be that simple, but alas, that's not it.
With 'MMS Video' selected - the envelope with a camcorder at top right - the resolution is fixed at "M (176x144)".
The proble is when I have 'Video' selected - a camcorder on its own - At this point going into the settings cog and then advanced, the resolution is fixed at 128x96. Its greyed out so cannot be changed - just the same as with MMS Video selected bu an even lower resolution!
Very odd.
Any other augestions?
-Ta,
FM
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Hi guys,
I've exactly got the same problem, have you found a issue yet ?

Haven't been able to find what caused this, so yesterday I took the plunge and hard reset.
Camcorder, of course, came back all good and I've since installed all my apps again (I think they're all on now) and the problem hasn't come back.
One thing I did notice, though, is that 'mobiletag' no longer seems to work. This possibly stopped working around the same time that the Camcorder issue started - though I'm not sure about that.
Even after the hard reset and re-install 'mobiletag' throws an error that it's 'unable to load camera library'. The error details aren't particularly helpful either as the charcter set appears to be odd. The errors are:
Code:
at #.#.#()
at #.#.#()
at #.#.#()
at #.#.SpecificInit()
at #.#.#()
at #.#.#()
at #.#.#()
at #.#.#()
where each of the # characters above is actually a square character like you get when a character is missing from a articular font.
May be related, may be not.
Would be interesting to know if anyone else who has had this problem also has 'mobiletag' installed - it uses the camera so there's some logic to that being to blame.
-FM

[Solution] MUST-HAVE For X2 Users! Speed Tweaks & How to Disable "Slideview" & Panels

[Solution] MUST-HAVE For X2 Users! Speed Tweaks & How to Disable "Slideview" & Panels
DISCLAIMER: This works for me 100%. I have noticed 200% - 300% longer lasting battery life, AND at least 3 - 4 times more responsiveness throughout the whole phone, you can even benchmark the difference between stock X2 and an X2 run with my solution. I will not be held responsible for any damage to your phone!
I've read a lot, and done a lot on my X2 recently. From what I tested, black screen of death (when in standby mode) = DONT USE AUTO BACKLIGHT! Try this & see what happens.
Now, my X2 barely freezes or gets any lag at all, in fact, it is SMOOTH. Yes, you heard it, SMOOTH (even when scrolling through start menu).
Using the X2 as of now is a nightmare, but I've come up with a solution until MR2 comes out. And, lets hope MR2 really is for the best.
This solution is based on the standard WM today home screen. I haven't come across ANY problems at all.
One day, I came up with an idea. If I dont use tilewave, why do I have to keep it? Considering growing panel, pixel city panels caused lag to the phone, I decided to delete tilewave altogether and now my phone is significantly faster!
Standard WM today screen I think, is in fact I think its the best:
Less battery drainage, simple, fast, efficient, no black screen of deaths.
This solution works BEST if you follow ALL STEPS BELOW:
1) Uninstall Growing Panel, Pixel City (Day & Night) | (Start -> Settings -> System -> Remove Programs)
2) Uninstall all SPB shell and software. (Start -> Settings -> System -> Remove Programs)
3) Start -> Settings -> Today -> Tick Date & Messaging (Or any other plug-in of your choice, less the better)
4) Delete tilewave panel in (File Explorer -> Program Files -> Panels)
5) Delete the other panels of your choice, I deleted everything except google panel (In case today panel for some reason crashes, I still got google panel to work with) | (File Explorer -> Program Files -> Panels)
6) SKtools (Search SKtools on XDA forums search function) -> Tweak -> Optimise -> Tick Font cache size and TCP window size -> Action -> Performance -> Optimise -> Soft reset
7) Advanced configuration tool (Search in XDA forums for the program / google it) -> Performances ->
ENABLED
File system cache: 8MB
File system cache size: 16384 sectors
Glyph cache: 32kb
8) SKtools -> Category -> Clean up -> Go to EACH and EVERY option to delete bad registries, temp cache folders, bad uninstall info, etc. MAKE SURE clean up EACH option in clean-up. INCLUDING registry optimiser, do it!
9) To resolve the messaging lag: Search "SMS lag fix" in XDA forums to get rid of lag.
10) Disable Slideview: Delete the string "launch199" from HKLM\init (Use TotalCommander program, credits to bazsikar & jerpelea for this one!)
11) Disable Panel Manager (OPTIONAL): Delete ALL panels except MS_Today panel in programfiles\panels to disable panelmanager.exe
12) Disable XKeyhandler: SKtools-> Services-> Delete xkeyhandler. Step 2: Totalcommander-> HKLM -> init -> Delete Launch65
13) DONE! Soft-reset one last time, and FEEL the difference =)
This solution covers, as far as I know, the general basic operations and responsiveness of the entire windows mobile system for the X2 and/or other WM devices. I don't suffer any MR1 upgrade issues with this solution other than the "Storage card disappearing" issue, which everyone is having a problem with as well.
Disabling slideview is good option for those who think its totally useless (like me) and just causes the system to crash, and hogs A LOT of CPU resources and thus, lags the phone and also plays a role in causing the black screens. You will notice a SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE in battery life and less bugs and crashes with this one!
Credits go to XDA-developers and their respective authors for the posts, you know who you are. All I've done is complile the information and made a solution for the X2 users out there.
UPDATE: To disable slideview, read step 10, credits to bazsikar & jerpelea =)
UPDATE 2: To disable panel manager and panels, read step 11 & 12 =)
ALL THE STEPS COMBINED ABOVE WILL GIVE YOU A FAST, SMOOTH X2 WITH NO BLACK SCREEN OR CRASHES + 400% IMPROVED BATTERY LIFE (1 MONTH SO FAR, I HAVENT HAD A SINGLE CRASH OR BUG)
Feedback welcome, and please report if this works for you, because it worked for me 100% =)

Thanks for the update , I will give the SK tools thing a crack later.

Thanks for tip!
I got stability on a real good level
by just not using TileWave.
SlideView has sometimes problem with
video playing in Landscape mode...

Seems to be a bit quicker, we will see how stable it is.

thx royalbloodvi but nothing new in the solutions

Just finished with the tunning, it seems faster, lets give it a try
for now i leave my benchmark results
Integer 316.5749
Floating Point 7.565
RAM Acccess 594
Draw Bitmaps 699
MainStor Write 2011.79
MainStor Read 5667.90
Storage Card W 962.86
Storage Card R 1189.31
File List 1443
File List S Card 1034
Mine its a little slower on the internal and external memory.. idk why..

Too bad Tilewave/Slideview is one of the things the X2 had over the X1

harveydent said:
Too bad Tilewave/Slideview is one of the things the X2 had over the X1
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Slide View is actually almost flawless in my case...

My programs!!
Hi all
Im having a strange and annoying issue..., i dont know if it was after or before the procedure depicted here by royalbloodvi but maybe you can know what is going on..
If i install software on the storage card, i can see the folder created under "Program Files" and i can execute the software with no problems.
Then when i close the app, somehow, automagically the entire folder structure under "Storage Card\Program Files" gets erased, doesnt matter if i have one or twenty apps there, always happens the same thing ....
I dont know if i explain myself clearly, in fact english is not my mother language as you can see haha, but i dont know whats going on, even in this case i dont know which keywords i have to use to google it...
Please if you can give me some advice or trick would be very appreciated, even the "right" english keywords to search for it.
Thanks in advance dudes...
Alex
Mexico

coloboxp said:
Hi all
Im having a strange and annoying issue..., i dont know if it was after or before the procedure depicted here by royalbloodvi but maybe you can know what is going on..
If i install software on the storage card, i can see the folder created under "Program Files" and i can execute the software with no problems.
Then when i close the app, somehow, automagically the entire folder structure under "Storage Card\Program Files" gets erased, doesnt matter if i have one or twenty apps there, always happens the same thing ....
I dont know if i explain myself clearly, in fact english is not my mother language as you can see haha, but i dont know whats going on, even in this case i dont know which keywords i have to use to google it...
Please if you can give me some advice or trick would be very appreciated, even the "right" english keywords to search for it.
Thanks in advance dudes...
Alex
Mexico
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This is a KNOWN issue for all X2 users, using my solution or not.. only way it can be fixed is up to SE itself since they screwed the X2 over.

UPDATE: Read step 8 to disable SLIDEVIEW for significant extended battery life and a more stable X2 =)

royalbloodvi said:
DISCLAIMER:
8) Disable Slideview: Delete the string "launch199" from HKLM\init (Use TotalCommander program, credits to bazsikar for this one!)
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Credits to jerpelea for this one!

Adjustments made credits to both of you =)

royalbloodvi said:
Adjustments made credits to both of you =)
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Thanks!
And also thanks for your sharing, I'm just removing everything you suggested and let's see. Although I'm a bit sad because I like SlideView and TileWave, especially visualy but I need some functions working properly instead, so I give it a try.

As I extensively use X2, using most of it's features (besides GPS)
I must say that the main thing FOR ME was to not use extensively TileWave.
After beeing really frustrated and unhappy, I was still tracing the places where the device crash.
And found it was using some functions on TileWave, I can say it
after repeating the patterns about 50 times, I was like a real beta tester....
So avoiding it, the device works almost seamless....
The bugs I see:
As I mentioned, the main SlideView bug is playing and exiting video playback
in landscape... This always crash sooner or later.
Besides that, the device gets stuck in Sound&Notification settings once you go there sometimes
and WM Homescreen sometimes doesn't see the pictures from memory card.
Besides that, it works and if they'll ever make it reliable,
it's my best choice.

volks,
i have been using x1 for over an year and been in XDA for yearssss,
that thing that i notice in openGL (msn 7200 platform)freeze the phone and crash the system.
if you wanna crash your sytem use slideview panelmanger ,play xtrakt then run a video and your xperia will crash.
opengl on the msm 7200 platfom is very unstable(maybe its the lack of good drivers or window mobile integration).
avoid opengl stuff and you will be good.

UPDATE: To disable panelmanager.exe, simply delete all panels in programfiles\panels EXCEPT MS_Today panel, and panelmanager will no longer run.
Result: Extend battery life EVEN further! Works best for those who dont use panels like me (I find it pointless)

royalbloodvi said:
UPDATE: To disable panelmanager.exe, simply delete all panels in programfiles\panels EXCEPT MS_Today panel, and panelmanager will no longer run.
Result: Extend battery life EVEN further! Works best for those who dont use panels like me (I find it pointless)
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Yes, I deleted it aswell from HKLM\init together with xkeyhandler.exe
Good battery life and stable system, no freezing at all, no missed sms or calls.
Although camera still doesn't start sometimes even if saving location is set to phone memory.

bazsikar said:
Yes, I deleted it aswell from HKLM\init together with xkeyhandler.exe
Good battery life and stable system, no freezing at all, no missed sms or calls.
Although camera still doesn't start sometimes even if saving location is set to phone memory.
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Camera sometimes doesn't start with certain apps in the background
that's my finding.
I've had it with stopwatch running.
Once I turned this off, camera went fine.
As for me - I use panels and SlideView, but just don't use certain
things from these, also no freezes at all.
The main concern is memory card problems now!

(please excuse my english)
thanks for this solution, X2 is better whitout slideview.
but i have always probleme this memory card (like everybody)
and some crash in standy by mode -> black screen and soft reset :'(
other problème : illluminations don't work normaly (maybe because i have use a cab find in xda ...)
and picture in mms are very very very small ...
anybody was an idea ?
thanks