Dear All,
Does anyone knows how to get rid of the telfort link/icon in start menu? If I delete it, it will appear again after resetting the phone It's quite annoying - I doubt if anyone ever used it.
it is probably the network settings icon that is installed by your sim card. just move it to the bottom sand forget about it.
Dear samsamuel,
If this is the only option I will stick to that.
i used to deelete mine but now i also just leave it (called Natel on mine) and it does indeed come from the providers sim programming
It sometimes re appears after deleting it or at least it does on my o2-uk handset. BSBTweaks has an option to turn off the sdk service so the icon does not come back anymore after deleting.
Great!
Thats what I was looking for! No annoying icon after reset. Thank you very much.
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Hello fellows,
When there's more than one "pending" icon near the clock, such as: new message arrived, phone call missed, speakerphone ON, etc. -- they are (expectedly) replaced by one icon that looks like a bubble with some lines in it.
It's great way to see there are many notifications waiting for you. When clicked, this icon displays another row with all the constituent icons.
However, with O2 1.72.187 image (without Blackberry support as I don't need it) there is a permanent O2 icon displayed. And the worst about it is -- it is treated just like it IS one of "pending notice" icons! So if you get a text message, you don't have cute envelope icon, but you have a BUBBLE already!
Previous versions allowed to move the O2 icon (centre or left), and it didn't count as notice, so "new message", or "Missed call" icon displayed as is - and only when you had let's say "new message" AND "missed call" you used to get the "composite" bubble icon. Now you can not do anything with O2 icon (it used to display connections menu), and it's just a piece of ****e sitting there for no reason.
That issue really ticks me off as I can't instantly see on the screen - what exactly has my XDA II received! The red LED on the top right corner is very helpful to indicate waiting things, and if I could somehow make that O2 icon to NOT count into pending icons -- or may be just bump up +1 the wrap limit for that place, so it would accomodate one more icon before wrapping into bubble icon, -- I'd be a happy camper.
Can it be done via registry?
Thank you for your attention!
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I have the same frustration. Hoping that some wiszzard out there will be able to help
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I have the same frustration. Hoping that some wiszzard out there will be able to help
Speach Bubble
I have the same frustration. Hoping that some wiszzard out there will be able to help
I looked into this thing with the O2 icon. Before the 1.72 release it used to allow selection of connection and to disconnect. It was also possible to position it elsewhere. Now all that is possible is to tap it and it brings up O2 Active. It sucks. :evil:.
I found the registry entry that specifies the position of the icon, but altering it is useless because when ever O2 Active starts it changes the registry entry back to its 'middle' position setting. Sort of defeats the object of having the data in the registry in the first place! Even deleting the entry in the registry is no good as O2 Active re-creates it! :roll:.
I dont have the O2 Active burtton no more, i deleted it from the startup folder in windows and it doesnt load it up at start up, but if you click O2 Active then it shows up and you have to restart the xda2 again to get rid of it...
Thank you guys for your involvement.
I tried to just stop O2 app; it only could be cancelled with End Task, and the bloody icon still sat there, only this time doing nothing.
Seeing not much practical use in that "newfangled" O2 icon -- I thought I'll rather give up that interface at all.
Thank you dcs, it looks like they really deliberately locked things up to make it linger -- breaking the good thing and achieving the opposite effect. The old O2 app icon was a) useful; b) moveable between left corner & centre and c) didn't spoil the notifications count, so I didn't mind.
So I just went to add/remove programs and scrapped both O2 apps.
Then had to change background, as even after reboot there was ugly leftover on the screen (I think the right part remained transparent, ugh :evil. Finally it is all working fine now and I see what comes to my XDA2.
Enough time spent, mine and yours. It better be changed in next versions, or will be permanently kept out of my XDA-2.
<rant>Whoever designed that change just drove me off using the O2 app. (Talk about luring new customers?) I sincerely hope someone from O2 reads all the bitter words in this thread, and passes them to people responsible for packaging new OS versions. I like O2 as company, but the current state of O2 app is an abomination. (Also lots of referenced to paid services from the menu, but lack of free services)
By losing this app, there is no way I can subscribe to any of O2 "value-added" services. I have TomTom for realtime voice "satnav" and AvantGo for my news -- all with no rolling subscription fees.</rant>
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So I just went to add/remove programs and scrapped both O2 apps.
Then had to change background, as even after reboot there was ugly leftover on the screen (I think the right part remained transparent, ugh :evil. Finally it is all working fine now.
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Out of interest, just selecting a different theme in the Today settings clears the display problem (after uninstall) or prevents it from happening if done before uninstalling.
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Out of interest, just selecting a different theme in the Today settings clears the display problem (after uninstall) or prevents it from happening if done before uninstalling.
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May be I had selected a wrong theme, (or may be the same theme and didn't realise it), but I had to also [x] "change background" checkbox. Then I selected the bright blue Default and that was it
Edit: "Change background" has nothing to do with background problem it's actually related to adjacent Browse button.
In fact there were only 4 Today themes that had this problem, all the rest of them worked fine. I presume they were old version or something.
Glad that you managed to solve the problem. However, mine continues as I use CommonTime mNotes to interface to Lotus Notes.
So whereas I has the speach bubble permanently on the today screen (sharing the frustration that I didn't know when I had received a missed call/SMS, revceived a new note etc), I now have a permanent 'M' symbol where the speach bubble originally was.
I really just want it blank and only to come up with a speach bubble where there is something new.
How do I get rid of the 'M'?
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Hi
I followed the instructions of another user and cut and paste the active program from my windows mobile 5 startup folder elsewhere. This has eradicated the frankly awful O2 Active GUI but I am left with the O2 Connections Icon in the Start Menu Bar.
I noticed there was a shortcut for connections with the same O2 icon in the startup folder. If I remove this I expect it will remove the icon (that never worked as detailed in the manual anyway) but I am worried about possible knockon effects, like loss of connectivity.
Does anybody have any experience with this?
Cheers
Sean
So, I got impatient and thought why not just give it a go. I cut and paste the connections startup item into my personal folder then did a soft reset.
Low and behold the daft none working O2 item was no longer there and has been replaced by a nice text message notification icon.
YAY.
So is that it? Am I completely de O2 Active'd?
We shall have to wait and see, suffice to say my xda is far far quicker than it was before.
Sean
Yeah, getting rid of connections from your startup just gets rid of the o2 crap, there are plenty of posts about it on this forum.
Hi all,
on my o2 xda mini s / wizard. the today screen has a menu bar on the left part of the screen with shortcuts etc, which i really dont like.
ive been searching through the forums to find out how to get rid of this and but have only come up with changing the Rom on my phone to an unbranded one.
is there a way to get rid of this menu bar, without having to change my ROM from the o2 preset one, as messing with ROMS seems a little daunting to me.
thanks.
What you have there is O2 active (Not the web version), That comes in the O2 ROM. I did a basic install after a hard reset and it only shows up if I press the O2 active icon in programs, if i soft reset it goes. Might work for you? if not perhaps it is starting up after a soft reset? look in the \windows\startup folder to check. If so move it and if it works after another soft reset then delete it.
Hope this is of some use.
This forum is the best place to look for advice, just requires a lot of reading and bookmarking.
perfect! exactly what i was looking for.
thanks a lot!
Brand new WIzard today. Upon insering a SIM I get a "Message From Network" notification which lists the three nearest STD codes. My own, and two other surrounding areas.
I'm reasonably sure this is not a carrier thing - does anyone recognise what it is and can tell me how to get rid of it? It's pops up whenever I switch the unit on.
Thanks.
click start > settings > phone > more
then take the tick off broadcast channels and it wont bother you anymore
Cheers boss - unfortunately, broadcast channels isn't checked.
Tried enabling & disabling but still getting the notifcation.
its a cell info message from the network, similar to what you can have on my old nokia phones, use windows explorer to explorer your wizard with your pc and go to my device>windows>startup and see if there is anything loading at startup that you dont recognise. Not sure how clued up you are on ppc's but if you list whats in the startup directory ,myself or someone else will let you know what they are doing. Also state what network you are on?
Yeah mate - I remember the cell info on the old Nokias.
Startup directory has:
CapNotify.lnk
elatepushservice.lnk
Init_Tray.lnk
poutlook.lnk
sddaemon.lnk
Cheers for the help.
Just noticed after switching it off and back on again, the date restes itself to Novermber 2005... Hmm.
kryogenik said:
Yeah mate - I remember the cell info on the old Nokias.
Startup directory has:
CapNotify.lnk
elatepushservice.lnk
Init_Tray.lnk
poutlook.lnk
sddaemon.lnk
Cheers for the help.
Just noticed after switching it off and back on again, the date restes itself to Novermber 2005... Hmm.
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I think elatepushservice.lmk is the culprit, remove elatepushservice.lnk, better cut it from there n paste it in other location for backup.
Cheers for the help - no joy I'm afraid.
CapNotify.lnk - wouldn't let me cut.
elatepushservice.lnk - No difference
Init_Tray.lnk - wouldn't let me cut.
poutlook.lnk - wouldn't let me cut.
sddaemon.lnk - No difference
Strange...
Look here for your date/clock reset problem. It is the internal battery. Look for explanation on how to replace by me (Nandaly - second page).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=316622
regarding your other items. the elatepushservice is for direct push email. The other items are generally there for all Wizard OEM roms.
CapNotify is for activating an indicator on your screen when you are using your keyboard (tells you if you have Caps on or off and/or symbol on or off)
Init_Tray is to start the tray along the bottom of the screen with the power icon and comm manager indicator.
The reason you cannot cut some of them is that they are in the ROM memory of the phone. The others that you are able to cut are ones placed there during the customization of the phone (Extended ROM) added by the branding carrier of the phone (in your case TMo)
Pictures tell a thousand words so here goes, every-time I move or delete the circled icon in the picture it comes back, is there a way to get rid of it folks
Demon_man said:
Pictures tell a thousand words so here goes, every-time I move or delete the circled icon in the picture it comes back, is there a way to get rid of it folks
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I have the same icon but for O2 and as far as i know that is the icon that allows you access to the provider settings request system from the start menu. If i'm right it's created when the sim card is installed by windows so you can easily update the gsm settings and tbh i think it's persistant so you can't get rid of it and if you change sim cards the icon should change too.
I could be wrong on this but if i were you i wouldn't worry about it and just ignore it. It's not doing any harm.
yes that's right that's what it does I just don't want it there lol
i don't think there is anything you can do about it because it was in that exact same place in wm5, 6, 6.1, 6.5 and it's in the same spot in the latest energy 6.5.5 rom. This makes me think we have no control over it at all and just forgetting it exists is probably for the best (and good for your blood pressure )