Is it possible to edit the Atom Exec rom to fix the screen flicker problem in standard Atom?
I have two Atoms, one I bought December last year and currently has the Exec rom this device does not have the LCD flicker after battery removed or flattened, why?
What has changed in the more recent Atoms that causes this problem? Im guessing it can only be hardware or in particular the LCD's.
Come on, there must be some brainiack who can modify the rom or point me in the right direction. I might assume the overclocked xscale processor is to blame as well as power management? what if we could create a profile for the processor speed as the battery power lowers that could also be manually slowed when the need arises to remove the battery, could that profile be carried through boot up of device? could it somehow be applied as a reg tweak? Twice now my Atom screen has gone black and been unable to restart wthout removing the battery, then I've had to go through the whole procedure of flashing back then reflashing to Exec rom.
Hi,
I am sure there is someone here who uses a Dopod U1000 that has been upgraded to WM6. Are you experiencing any periodic sluggishness in your unit?
The sluggishness is very obvious in the rather slow refresh rate of the screen. Typing using using the hardware keyboard is a pain, as the letters come out seconds after you have pressed the keys.
Using SK Tools CPU Usage utility, I can see that gwes.exe is having high CPU utilization that borders from 70 - 75%
The frustrating thing is that there is no fixed pattern to the occurrence - one moment my unit is running well and is zippy in performance, the next it will start to slow down and this will persist across soft and even hard reset!
U bet
I have both u1000 and htc advantage x7500
my 7500 works like a piece of cake but u1000 sucks a bit
where as the sound quality of x7500 is better but u1000 has a louder volume level
chrisoyh said:
Hi,
I am sure there is someone here who uses a Dopod U1000 that has been upgraded to WM6. Are you experiencing any periodic sluggishness in your unit?
The sluggishness is very obvious in the rather slow refresh rate of the screen. Typing using using the hardware keyboard is a pain, as the letters come out seconds after you have pressed the keys.
Using SK Tools CPU Usage utility, I can see that gwes.exe is having high CPU utilization that borders from 70 - 75%
The frustrating thing is that there is no fixed pattern to the occurrence - one moment my unit is running well and is zippy in performance, the next it will start to slow down and this will persist across soft and even hard reset!
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i have same situation. i am not sure why it happens but looks related some softwre incompatibility. what do you have installed?
Do you have BatteryStatus installed? I had it installed and noticed extended periods of 100% CPU utilization. Only a soft reset fixed it. I uninstalled BatteryStatus and it performs much better.
Are you running weatherpanel from marsware? The authenication server has been down, thus causing the pgm to search internet often for the server....
No I do not have BatteryStatus nor Weatherpanel installed on my unit. So far, the only third party software I have installed are:
1. SK Tools
2. Pocket Informant 2007
3. TCPMP 0.71
4. PocketXpdf
5. CE Star
6. MapKing R12
7. Magic Button
Anyway I have sent my unit to the local HTC Care centre and showed them that the lag will still be there even after a hard reset. They acknowledged there could be a problem with my unit and has kept it for further diagnosis. So I don't think this is software related.
hi everybody!! i've a touch pro and 3 days ago i decided to flash energyrom 2.0 31909 whit the new tf3d2 interface!!really beautiful and a really fast rom!! i installed also the last version of S2U2!! this mornig, after i charged my TP for about 2 hours when i slide the bar of yhe S2U2 to unlock it, the bar still remain blinking on my screen, all program and TF3D2 interface are working..but the slide bar still remain on my screen, such a trasparent bar blinking...i've made a soft-reset, an hard-reset and then i decided to re-flash my Tp but the screen problem still remain!! that strange bar il also present in the screen during the flashing of my TP, during the boot screen...it's always present!!!!
Did you have someone a problem like this??
What do you think??
ASK YOUR QUESTION IN ENERGYROM THREAD
DON'T START A NEW THREAD!!!
If possible, flash back to a stock ROM first.
nope
this user is right to start a fresh post
if i understand correctly, you have an 'overlay' of the unlock bar on all of the screens after and a slight flickering?
i also have this issue, it comes and goes and as a result htc wont fix it because when they test it, it decides not to present itself!
this is due to a dodgy lcd screen, you may notice it happens when the device gets warm
Yeah that image Retention glitch happened to me...it freaked me out too...but its seems it's when the device is warm or over used i had it off for a few hours while i was sleeping...when i turned it on the next morning it was all gone.
hope it turns out ok!
good luck
I just started to experience this issue about an hour ago. I left my phone charging just now plugged into my laptop.
I was running the same ROM as you, but v 32009
Problem is I left my phone on my laptop to the left of the trackpad RIGHT ABOVE THE DANG HARD DRIVE. I saw the image retention/blinking horizontal bands at the bottom the the screen, but only on the bottom half of the TF3D tabs. So I went to hard reset, and the bottom of the reset screen was doing a 60hz refresh blink. I figured the earth magnet got it, maybe its just a heat issue? Leaving GPS on by accident probably didnt help either. And it was tethered.
Im flashing back to stock, then to rre to see if the problem persist. Maybe I should just kill it for a few hours, TBattery reports 42c.
edit: left my phone off with the battery out for an hour and the issue persist. Flashing back to stock..
I decided to remove the battery for about 2 hours abd the problem magically disappear!! I don't know why, but now my screen is perfect!! thanks for the replay and sorry for my poor english...
so it's an hardware problem not software?
I got 2 HTC Touch Pro in my home, one is mine and the others is my sister own, and I get this on others ROM's the original ROM from HTC and the cooked. I was looking for something about and I found a HTC Touch HD Issues about flickering the lcd, nothing was mentioned about TP...=//
And the flickering only show up on my TP, my sister TP works fine.
I notice the contrast was really higher than my sister
i came across a fix for this on the HTC site..but its for the Touch HD
im not sure how it would work on the TP
Hot fix for resolving a display flicker of the title bar in TouchFLO 3D
In some circumstances, you may experience a frequent flickering of the title bar in TouchFLO 3D. If this happens, please install this hot fix to resolve this problem.
Date: 2009-01-07
Category: Hotfix
http://www.htc.com/europe/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=179&act=sd&cat=all
so my guess, its SOFTware related
after flashing back to stock and leaving the phone off for a few hours the issue has been resolved. Been back on ENERGY ROM since and no more flickering.
This issue happens to me as well. But it seems to come and go. I don't think it's the ROM since this happened to me using the ROMeOS and currently the Energy ROM. Definitely hardware issues. Sometimes this happens when I keep on switching from portrait to landscape mode. It goes away after a while though so it doesn't bother me that much. I just shake my head whenever this happens and say "f***ing phone".
thanks man! that did the trick,I've been flashing roms for two days thinking it was the rom. the response has even improved.
Giannis86 said:
i came across a fix for this on the HTC site..but its for the Touch HD
im not sure how it would work on the TP
Hot fix for resolving a display flicker of the title bar in TouchFLO 3D
In some circumstances, you may experience a frequent flickering of the title bar in TouchFLO 3D. If this happens, please install this hot fix to resolve this problem.
Date: 2009-01-07
Category: Hotfix
http://www.htc.com/europe/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=179&act=sd&cat=all
so my guess, its SOFTware related
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I've just emailed HTC about this too. Clearly there's some issue in the touch hardware or software which is causing this. It's pretty annoying that they have fixed this on the current model but are forgetting their older customers (I say old, I've not even had this thing 8 months!)
Very, very annoying. I hope HTC solve this quickly
My Raphael doesn't go forward from the align screen since I hard reset on Mystic 6.5 lite ROM. Now I have tried all stock ROMS with the same problem. I Will try to best describe the problem in a chronological order.
1. Had stock ROM latest with TF3D2
2. Flashed to Mystic ROM 6.5 lite, took three cycling of align screen to get through
3. After 24 Hrs lock screen got stuck, no sliding action worked,
4. Performed soft reset, phone boots up to lock screen again.
5. After several tries decided to hard reset
6. Normal boot up until Align Screen, The align screen markers keep rotating on tap, but doesnt pass through to home screen or customization.
The phone connects to active sync, and I can synchronize, flash roms normally.
I like to think that 6.5 ROM changes some screen sensitivity settings, and this is not allowing the screen to align normally. Somehow these settings could be stuck,
I request one of you experts to guide me in getting my expensive phone back. FYI, I have no warranty, I am not even in UK, I have purchased this phone over Ebay, I have flashed around 15 ROMs since my 2 month ownership of the phone, with no problems.
create an empty file called welcome.not and place it on your sd card then hard reset
welcome.not
Warjcowski said:
create an empty file called welcome.not and place it on your sd card then hard reset
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Done that and it successfully skips the alignment section...but.....
It now recognises touches but The touch screen takes wrong inputs, some times it doesnt, how can I recalibrate, without going into align screen, or can I go there too??
Where do I go from here
sandandrocks said:
Done that and it successfully skips the alignment section...but.....
It now recognises touches but The touch screen takes wrong inputs, some times it doesnt, how can I recalibrate, without going into align screen, or can I go there too??
Where do I go from here
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here are a few links and misc info. Unfortunately development was stopped since calibration wasnt perfect, but its worth a shot.
http://www.wmexperts.com/align-your-touchscreen-automatically
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473976
Cab location (post 45): http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=149596&d=1232741513
(post #48) Try editing this reg:
HCM\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH\CalibrationData
values: 485,500 785,171 785,820 193,820 188,175
Hi, if the align screen markers are not accepting your input, it is more than likely something is interfering like a screen protector or case putting pressure on the screen. (or a digitizer failure)
the only reason it would not accept the inputs is if the data it's receiving is too far from the actual point of the crosses.. it makes you keep cycling through until it's within a level of tolerance..
Warjcowski said:
here are a few links and misc info. Unfortunately development was stopped since calibration wasnt perfect, but its worth a shot.
http://www.wmexperts.com/align-your-touchscreen-automatically
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473976
Cab location (post 45): http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=149596&d=1232741513
(post #48) Try editing this reg:
HCM\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH\CalibrationData
values: 485,500 785,171 785,820 193,820 188,175
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Thanks for that ready info, really appreciate it.
Though it does give me some promise, but as you know I cant use the touch screen accurately, so installing a cab or changing the registry is near impossible scenario, unless those can be done via a computer. Right now, wherever I click on the screen, the notification area comes up with battery, network strenght info etc.
Do you know of any way how we can clean up the entire TouchPro (waever it means) and make a new flash. I presume flash does that, but then again I think there is some leftovers from previous ROM, as mentioned in the "Flashing your first GSM ROM" sticky, where it is recommended to hard reset immediately after flashing.
All your help required to save the phone and my money going down the drain. It just hurts that I was so much in love with this phone, since using Wizard for 3 years. Cant bear to lose this fight.
Da_G said:
Hi, if the align screen markers are not accepting your input, it is more than likely something is interfering like a screen protector or case putting pressure on the screen. (or a digitizer failure)
the only reason it would not accept the inputs is if the data it's receiving is too far from the actual point of the crosses.. it makes you keep cycling through until it's within a level of tolerance..
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Thanks DA_G for considering to help me overcome this.
At the moment I have no screen protector on, I had one on for two weeks, and as it wasnt a good fit and collecting dust underneath, I threw it out arnd 2 days back. I have always used the normal sleeve case from HTC.
If you say there is no other reason for this behavior other than hardware issue, then I have no options left. You mention that the digitizer may be broke, couldnt it be that the software part of the digitizer is broke and we can rectify that.
After using wizard for three years, and that too very roughly, I have like dropped it several hundred of times, and not facing a problem, I refuse to believe HTC quality has dropped down so low. This touch pro was used most carefully for arnd 2 months only.
I still ask you to give me more options before going for hardware replacement. As of now I will remove welcome.not, hard reset and try aligning as long as I can bear it.
hi you should be able to use the keypad to cycle through... is it? i use to have tytn II. so u can install the fix or do a reg edit with it.
gaiden said:
hi you should be able to use the keypad to cycle through... is it? i use to have tytn II. so u can install the fix or do a reg edit with it.
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I have tried it with the keypad, unfortunately, it doesnt work as well as one would want it to ,,,,unlike the wizard I had.
The biggest problem you face here is to click the left and right soft key commands like OK, UP.
Wizard had the hardware keys for that as a fall back but not here.
I am at my wits end,.....wasnt that long!
Look up Pocket Controller @ Handango (it's expensive, but the demo's great). It allows you to run your ppc remotely. It has a pretty trick regeditor. It's a high octane version of active sync. You can probably align the screen with it (Settings>System>Screen). It shows you a big pic of your touch pro screen on your pc, and you can click things with your mouse.
Farmer Ted said:
Look up Pocket Controller @ Handango (it's expensive, but the demo's great). It allows you to run your ppc remotely. It has a pretty trick regeditor. It's a high octane version of active sync. You can probably align the screen with it (Settings>System>Screen). It shows you a big pic of your touch pro screen on your pc, and you can click things with your mouse.
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Well I didnt try that but I used the My Mobiler, well the catch is you cant align your screen using these softwares, you can do all rest, install cabs everything, except align screen.
I believe the hardware digitizer has given up on me, I have just dropped it at the service center, who will ship it to another one, then they will quote for the repairs. So i keep my fingers cross until next week and see how they try to rip me off.
Did you revert to stock rom, radio and spl before you took it in? I hope so.
Farmer Ted said:
Did you revert to stock rom, radio and spl before you took it in? I hope so.
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I reverted to only stock rom and radio, not the SPL.
As it is I havent given it in warranty, so I assumed it wont effect either ways.
It's weird you started having the problem after you removed the screen protector. Why did you remove it? Did it come off easily, or did it stick a little and give you problems? Do you think you might have messed up the screen when you were taking it off?
Farmer Ted said:
It's weird you started having the problem after you removed the screen protector. Why did you remove it? Did it come off easily, or did it stick a little and give you problems? Do you think you might have messed up the screen when you were taking it off?
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I dont think that my removal of screen protector could have hurt the screen. As it is the screen protector was stuck on loosely.
The protector I had was a little hard kind and thick kind as opposed to the usual thin layer. I really didnt like it.
I am still of the opinion that WM6.5 rom had changed the sensitivity or some other parameter of the screen to an extent where the hardware couldn't cope. As I first faced the problem with align screen repeating 3 times when I installed that.
Within 24 hrs my digitizer had given up on me. Hence I think, if I the ROM can be completely sanitized and then flashed, the digitizer should work.
I am in no way an expert on these things, but I am just trying to apply some logic.
T Mobile MDA IV Screen Calibration Data
Can some owner of TMobile MDA IV mobile give me the screen calibration data from the registry.
It can be found at
HKLM > HARDWARE > TOUCH > CALIBRATION
I will be most thankful
HTC Fuze Alignment issue
Okay I have an HTC Fuze right, and I did a hard reset on it because the touchscreen was freezing, and working in only certain parts of the screen, so now Everything seems good with the touchscreen except the align screen part.. itwon't let me go past this stage, and Ive been at it for 2 days so can someone please help me out with my issue, I would sincerely appreciate it and thanks.
Dude, there is nothing much that you can do. There are ofcourse ways to skip the calibration screen and get to the desktop, but the functionality of the screen is allready gone.
If you are lucky enough to have a warranty for the thing, its time to use it now !!! If not, then start budgeting for a new phone.
As I didnt have a budget, I am using the phone in this condition since around a year and now thinking to replace it with Nokia N900.