xdaII (Qtek 2020 1.72 actually)
I am not entirely certain that this issue is tied to the (official) rom upgrade but it has only started to occur recently.
I have implemented the registry hack which displays both time and date in the top header (rather than only the time).
Lately, the top header is displayed in thin text after a soft reset, for some seconds, and then the text turns bold. As a consequence of this, the displayed text is displaced to the right and the time and date disappears off the screen.
Is there any way of keeping the text from going bold?
Have you recently run a utility that would change any font settings at all? A program like Tweak2k, WinCETuner, or even Nyditot Virtual Display with it's appearance settings could have affected your display in this manner.
Also, if you had recently installed a new theme (TSK file), this may also change your font settings.
I have used none of the listed applications and only the MS WindowsMobileOrange tsk which is what I was using before the upgrade. Reverting to the standard does not help.
I would be happy if there were a registry setting which would force the top bar to remain non-bold just the way it is directly after a soft reset
Lars
LarsN said:
xdaII (Qtek 2020 1.72 actually)
I am not entirely certain that this issue is tied to the (official) rom upgrade but it has only started to occur recently.
I have implemented the registry hack which displays both time and date in the top header (rather than only the time).
Lately, the top header is displayed in thin text after a soft reset, for some seconds, and then the text turns bold. As a consequence of this, the displayed text is displaced to the right and the time and date disappears off the screen.
Is there any way of keeping the text from going bold?
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Hi LarsN,
I got round this by altering the format of the time in the registry (adding a spaces to the time format, from "HH:mm" to " HH:mm "). The result was that the width used on the taskbar by time/ date was broadened resulting in the missing date info not being cut off. Incidentally I placed spaces before and after the time simply so that the time would be being centered underneather the date.
reg: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\nls\overrides\
String Value name: STFmt
Data: " HH:mm "
The final tweak I made was to reformat the short date to give the short "day of the week" (ddd) and date of the week (dd) as I always know what month we are in and certainly the year (but that's only my personal preference).
String Value name: SSDte
Data: "ddd dd"
Be advised that this tweak has knock on effects e.g. Clock & Alarms (usually on Today Screen) follows the formating when tapped, similarly File Explorer. For me I can live with such things but if ayone else knows the reg setting needed to only effect the taskabr time/date that would be better (I noticed that although my setting was originally HH:mm:ss only HH:mm was being displayed not the ss part so there must be another tweak out there).
Cheers - Mallow1
NB for those less familiar with tweaking the quote marks are only there for reference in the Data field and are not to be actually included.
I'n getting exactly the same problem, but mine seems to happen after the "G" for GPRS flashes up - interestingly it then disappears, but my this time it has moved the date and time to the right (lets forget about the font for the moment) so there is just not enough room for it to display date/time.
Has anyone had this problem with O2's "G" vanishing?
How do you cure it?
If I could work out how to copy the file for the o2 battery plugin - I thought about doing a corporate o2 install, then copying the o2 plugin back. I think this may work, because I think the problem is still related to the o2 crap they put on the machine
any help appreciated
I did a hard reset & cured the problem
Maybe it was font after all
MYTODAYSCREEN.exe
or
Journal Bar - Weather, News & more! 3.4.3 JrnlOD343.EXE
which I had uninstalle4d - but it obviously left something lieing around
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Can anyone tell me how to get the today screen back to the normal windows pocket pc today screen. Orange has put that bar of theirs on the left side of the screen. I have tried a few things to overide it but then it comes back up on the screen. How can I remove it or disable it.....
I want to use some pocket pc programs for the today screen but this orange bar overides the program.
cheers
The Dragon UK
What have you tried to remove it?
Presumably it's not shown in Settings > Personal > Today?
And \windows\start up?
V
Correct it does not work to disable the Orange Shortcuts Symbols on the Home Screen. I have in the shortcuts Contacts, Phone, Messaging, Calendar, Camera Expert Mode, Orange World on the Shortcuts Bar. I want to completely deactivate or remove it from the HTC. The problem I find is that if you go in the settings menu for today you cannot remove it.
Also when I did a hard reset the first time the screen was like it shows in the Windows Pocket PC Manual with the today screen. Orange seems to have put the overide settings in the rom of the unit when you boot-up the unit to show their tool bar symbols on the today screen.
I would like a an suggestion or fix in getting this removed since if I uses as a example a pocket PC battery program I can have full use of the program on my today screen. Currently the Orange seeting overide these setting to there own.
Regard,
The Dragon UK
Tried a hard reset again and went into the today settings. well this time it worked. I quess there was a lockup somwhere in the software. Question is in the items section what is the today timeout check box used for?
The DragonUK
Not sure I understand you but if you want to get rid of the Homescreen as Orange calls it go to:
Settings -> Today -> Appearance
and choose the Windows Default theme.
That will give you the standard windows start page.
If you do a search on these forums you will find most of the answers you need, it saves opening new threads all the time.
:lol: Problem Solved........ Thanks for the Help
DragonUK
DragonUK said:
:lol: Problem Solved........ Thanks for the Help
DragonUK
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Go to settings and go to today settings go to items and deselect orange today collate.
:shock: YUPP IT WORKED......
Thanks
disabling roaming indicator on smartphone, home screen background oddities & comm mgr
Apologies if I've put too simple a topic in this forum. I have three questions. My phone is actually a Samsung i320, but I'm hoping these questions apply across any WM5 smartphone.
1) How can I disable the roaming indicator? I've got an older Voicestream SIM and most unlocked/import phones think I'm roaming. I tried the same reg key as on the K-Jam PPC but it didn't work.
2) I've created a custom home screen with a transparent top menu bar. When I select a background jpg for it the jpg is cropped (for lack of a better word) to the size it would display if the top menu bar was not transparent. So depending on how I align the image (top or bottom) I get to see the background color where more of the image should display. Even stranger it behaves normally on the jpg files on the phone labelled "protected content" which seem to make a copy of themselves in \Windows under a shared file name when selected.
3) If I have another WM5 HTC smartphone (a StarTrk for example) is it possible to take that comm manager and copy it over to my Samsung i320? I miss the option to turn on and off the MS push. Alternatively what is the reg key entry to turn this on and off? (Yes I realize I can set schedules,etc, but it was sure nice on my K-Jam to just hit one button to temporarily disable it)
Thanks all for your expert help.
-Jim
It works some registry hack: HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL
DisableRoamingIndicator
Change value to 1
...and it warks graeat. BUT !! remember afthe changing value wait some time, about 1-2min before make RESET, it is important !
Hi
It seems that there is a bug with creating short cuts for applications to appear on the today screen! In theory you can create up to 5 shortcuts. This feature is very unstable and currently I cannot create even one short cut. In the short cut selection screen it keep saying 5 short cuts although I have selected non, then I can’t exit the screen unless I do a soft reset.
Any one has the same problem?
Its easier to use clauncher or WiseBar2 with the desk top plug in to get desktop shortcuts installed (have a look at the iPhone threads in the General section for some ideas) - Mike
If this is the bt shortcuts today plugin, on my device it has two sets of options,one is directly accessed from the o2 icon bottom right of today screen and the other, where you select it to actually display the 5 shortcuts, is in settings/personal/today/items/shortcuts. Apologies for stating the obvious. I know nothing.
Yes there is a bug as I have it as well. Ignore the second comment on this thread....its not about how to display the shortcuts but how to get rid of them! I set up 4, but the Orbit said I had 5...and on my Today screen there are now 4 shortcuts plus one strange greyb box the same size. Tried soft reset etc etc...definitely a bug!
asaadxda said:
Hi
It seems that there is a bug with creating short cuts for applications to appear on the today screen! In theory you can create up to 5 shortcuts. This feature is very unstable and currently I cannot create even one short cut. In the short cut selection screen it keep saying 5 short cuts although I have selected non, then I can’t exit the screen unless I do a soft reset.
Any one has the same problem?
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On my orbit i have created 5 short cuts successfully. Any tweak to increase no of Shor Cuts...
yarstoft said:
Yes there is a bug as I have it as well. Ignore the second comment on this thread....its not about how to display the shortcuts but how to get rid of them! I set up 4, but the Orbit said I had 5...and on my Today screen there are now 4 shortcuts plus one strange greyb box the same size. Tried soft reset etc etc...definitely a bug!
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I have exactly the same problem. But I stopped using it after I had installed another application provides better service.
Hi,
Could it be that there is a problem/bug in Pbar 1.5 ?
I am using regional settings Dutch(Belgium). This, amongst other settings, changes the clock to a 24h format (so no AM/PM).
Now when I choose in the Pbar settings to put 'Local time' as main number in the task bar the problem occurs...
After a soft reset:
- the clock setting is changed to a 'strange' 12h format (starts at 01:00 to 12:00; no AM/PM).
- calendar appointments change from i.e. 15h (3PM) to 03h (AM/PM not defined, but in Google Calendar, after syncing, it appears to have changed to 03AM).
I hard resetted several times to reproduce the error, and it happens every time.
Any idea's?
BR,
Pete
this problem is really caused by pbar! the solution to me was changing in Start>Settings>System>Regional Sett>Time>Time separator... from ":" to "º"
Was running ATT WM5 and all was well. Flashed to Offical ATT WM6 using SPL2.1. Now I'm at ROM 3.62.502.3 1.54.07.00 32.86u.7020.23H. At this point, still ok. Installed PPTFix to remap button 5 to Voice Speed Dial and setup Plantronics head set. Still ok. Added some email accounts and a customized background. All ok. Synced Contacts, Notes, etc. Still ok. Decided I didn't like the Comm and Battery Icons on the bottom tray and ran MobileRegistryEditor and changed values from 1 to 0. Still ok the rest of afternoon and last night.
Got up this morning, did a soft reset, and everything went to hell. Booted normally up to the green Windows screen, then hung there for 3 or 4 minutes. Finally got to the Today screen, but all apps run like honey on a cold morning. I can use VoiceCommand to place calls and I can Dial out Manually, but if I tap my contacts button, no contacts show up. Email won't send/receive, but I can get incoming calls. Today screen shows correct appointments and task, but tap Calandar and they don't show up there.
Before I do anything else, I wanted to get some ideas on where to start.
Pretty sure hiding the comm manager was your problem
I'm pretty sure hiding the comm manager icon was your problem, I've heard there are numerous problems when you hide the comm manager icon. Change that key back and see if your problems go away.
KarhU said on the ROM benchmark :
6. Never hide the WirelessManager Tray Icon at the bottom.
Don't believe me?
Try it and feel the difference.
This is the key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\WirelessMgr]
"Keep"=dword:00000000 ;<--- (dword:00000000 to hide and dword:00000001 to show)
Yeah, I've seen this issue in many of the recent WM6 ROM Threads. It's a true shame, since it means we're stuck with having to keep the bottom tray visible. I (for one) do not like that waste of screen space.
Too bad the fix for this anomaly is so elusive.
-pvs
Thanks for the help. It looks like the Comm Mgr icon may have been the problem. My 8525 wouldn't connect to the Internet, Email or (thru Active Sync) to my desktop. Finally went into Settings/System/Clear Storage and it completely reloaded WM6. Reinstalled all my extra apps and things are fine. Of course I haven't tried to edit the registry and get rid of those bottom icons, and I don't think I'm going to. If anyone finds a sure method to get rid of the bottom system tray, please post.