I've had some problems with ROMs not getting past the 'Calibration' screen at startup...I think I've isolated the problem to the cube.
every time I select the cube or Touchflo in the kitchen, I get this problem.
Everything else the same:
Cube = no worky
No Cube = worky
Anyone else having these problems?
Anyone find solution?
Thanks,
Matt
Bump.....no one has the solution?
I tried to use OEMizer's No Calibration options, but my phone still seemed to go thru calibration... hmmmmmmmm
I made OEM's of the Cube and Touchflo just fine and I dont have problems with the calibration screen at all.
I am going to cook a rom with out FtouchFlo or HTC cube and see. Maybe something with those programs when cooked via OEM.
I was experiencing problems, but I put my calibration information directly in a .rgu and I bypass the welcome altogether.
What i did was disabled the welcome message and skip all that calibration. once the phone booted and everything, the green window mobile will get stuck and start menu bar shows up, all you do is click Start and that'll go away.
The above only works if you use DCD kitchen, or if you use other kitchen search for welcome and delete the link and the welcome.exe.
vboy,
Disable Welcome? I didn't see that option in dcd 169? how would I do this?
does anybody know how to cook a cube that will work into a rom?
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Hi guys
I've been facing since I bought my HTC Athena irregular freeze everyday.
I upgraded the Device to WM6 the next day I received it, it went very soomth with my applications installed.
However, the freeze appear very randomly, it could be while launching a new program, or playing backgammon, sometimes after device wake up, also once when received an SMS.
A very weird behavior also, is that sometimes I need to soft-reset 3/4 times in a row to get passed the HTC and the Windows Mobile splash screen.
For info, the soft-reset is not necessarly done after a freeze ....
I decided to start this new topic in order to see if other people are facing same symptoms on their Athena, and to share our experience together.
Cheers
Hope you run Oli's SPL Unlocker/patcher...
BigDede said:
Hi guys
I've been facing since I bought my HTC Athena irregular freeze everyday.
I upgraded the Device to WM6 the next day I received it, it went very soomth with my applications installed.
However, the freeze appear very randomly, it could be while launching a new program, or playing backgammon, sometimes after device wake up, also once when received an SMS.
A very weird behavior also, is that sometimes I need to soft-reset 3/4 times in a row to get passed the HTC and the Windows Mobile splash screen.
For info, the soft-reset is not necessarly done after a freeze ....
I decided to start this new topic in order to see if other people are facing same symptoms on their Athena, and to share our experience together.
Cheers
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Sorry no such problems here, but did you run Olipro's SPL patcher/Unlocker before flashing thee ROM? I know tupsindin released a few WM6 ROMs a while ago that could be flashed without CID unlocking your X7500, but Olipro's Unlocker will make your device unbrickable.
If you have already done this, try flashing the new WM6 Dopod U1000 ROM seems very stable to me with no issues so far and slightly snappier than the other WM6 ROMs.
Thks mackaby for your reply
I did unlock it via the UK website I found on XDA forum, sorry but can't remember the name (soemthing IMEI), so I did that then flashed with the WM6 ROM ver 2.20.405.1
Im doing some more testing
what is really annoying is that I need to do 4/5 soft reset very ofently in order to pass by the HTC/Windows Mobile splash screen
I just bought my HTC Advantage X7500 with WM6 already installed and I have lock up issues if I have auto shutoff enabled it will not start backup after a auto shut off I keep using the reset to get it back up. When it is up I just disabled the auto shut off and now have no problems.
Im not having same pb as you, but I saw on one thread on XDA forums that people having that problem fixed it by assigning a the turn on/off device to a hardware button. and apparently it fixed their problem.
Try that and it must fix it for you
BigDede said:
Hi guys
I've been facing since I bought my HTC Athena irregular freeze everyday.
I upgraded the Device to WM6 the next day I received it, it went very soomth with my applications installed.
However, the freeze appear very randomly, it could be while launching a new program, or playing backgammon, sometimes after device wake up, also once when received an SMS.
A very weird behavior also, is that sometimes I need to soft-reset 3/4 times in a row to get passed the HTC and the Windows Mobile splash screen.
For info, the soft-reset is not necessarly done after a freeze ....
I decided to start this new topic in order to see if other people are facing same symptoms on their Athena, and to share our experience together.
Cheers
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Hi,
I have encountered in the past this problem, and I observed that it was happening after I installed HTC X-Button v1.5, and it was even worse after HTC X-Button v1.51.
Later on, a new version was published, and it works flawlessly since. The exact file is HTC X-Button v1.51 build 30229.
Hope you have same issue. Good luck,
Zohar
Thks zoharbl for you reply
I don't have HTC x-button
For now, I found an alternative with Running Pocket Hack Master at 663 Mhz, and I modified the sequence for startup processes using SKTools putting Pocket Hack Master as #1 in the order, Wisbar Advance 3 as #2, SPB Diary as the last one and Norton Antivirus just before the last one.
I noticed that SPB Diary is slowing down a bit my device, and specially after a reset, this is because I created custom tab adding plugins inside this tab such Phone Alarm, SPB Weather and Resco Explorer Plugin ...
I tried many config, and found out this one works the best for me, the device is resetting with less then 30 sec without any hanging anymore.
zoharbl said:
and I observed that it was happening after I installed HTC X-Button v1.5, and it was even worse after HTC X-Button v1.51.
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Really interesting comment. I have original WM5 configured UK Ameo and have always experienced random crashes. After reading this, I looked again at my settings and found the X-button configured - I don't need it as I use the same functionality from Wisbar. Turned it off and it hasn't crashed since.
You learn something every day
BigDede said:
For now, I found an alternative with Running Pocket Hack Master at 663 Mhz, and I modified the sequence for startup processes using SKTools putting Pocket Hack Master as #1 in the order, Wisbar Advance 3 as #2, SPB Diary as the last one and Norton Antivirus just before the last one.
I noticed that SPB Diary is slowing down a bit my device, and specially after a reset, this is because I created custom tab adding plugins inside this tab such Phone Alarm, SPB Weather and Resco Explorer Plugin ...
I tried many config, and found out this one works the best for me, the device is resetting with less then 30 sec without any hanging anymore.
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Hi there BigDede
Don't know if this will help...
Even since before I have upgraded to WM6 I have had problems similar to yours. At the time I had WA3 and WAD installed as well as Spb Weather, Spb Diary and certain parts of Pocketplus. I did a trail and removed all software from Spb and Wisbar and everything worked perfectly. In the meantime I have now only added Spb Mobile Suite and use iLauncher on my today screen together with the plugin from Resco Explorer - no more problems!
It seems to me that some of the above software have compatibilty issues with the U1000/Athena/Ameo (whether wm2005 or wm6 makes a difference I don't know).
Cheers
Thks Superdawie for your reply, you are right, I was suspecting Wisbar, SPB Diary abd phoneAlarm to be the origin of my problems.
But as I said previously, I found a workaround to make the Athena runs ok by playing with the order of startup programs. It's been more then one week without any freeze
Mrsums said:
Really interesting comment. I have original WM5 configured UK Ameo and have always experienced random crashes. After reading this, I looked again at my settings and found the X-button configured - I don't need it as I use the same functionality from Wisbar. Turned it off and it hasn't crashed since.
You learn something every day
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Same for me, working well on WM6 since I turned X-Button 1.51 off.
In WM5 I had this problem all the time as WM5 totally sucks!
In WM6 I only experienced this problem when programs "collided" due to timing issues as you've found out. By changing the load order or timing of some applications (some programs have it built right in like SmallMenu....it's resolved all of my lock up issues, etc. Most of the problems can be resolved by playing around with the software you have loaded, as you found out. Not sure if it's because of a crappy OS or because of crappy coding by the developers of the software we're installing...maybe both.
I flashed to DCD's 2.10 ROM last night and loving it (thank you DCD!) The one issue I have is with Resco's Today Plugin. I've installed the full version of Resco but I don't see anything in the Today>Items.
Any ideas what this is? Any workarounds, or am I just stuck here? Are there any Resco-esqe Today plugins that do essentially the same thing?
Any thoughts on this?
I have had it working on my 6.1 installs. I don't usually use it though.
Just curious, why do you install that on the today screen? I use resco as well for the registry editor, but I never install the today plug in. Is it really convenient or does it add something? I guess I like to keep my today screen clean.
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Any thoughts on this?
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only that it's pretty frustrating...
i've tried as well different skins and themes, but nothing was displayed properly. either the plugin was completely missing from Today or there was no icons displayed. reinstalled couple of times, but no luck.
i think there's something wrong with the plugin itself. waiting for a new release...
ps. using WM6.1 Test2 from Lenny on my x50v.
pss. 1999TL^, to answer your question: apart of giving a good overview of what's the memory and battery status, this plugin is a great quick-launcher from the desktop. very handy.
Has anyone noticed in 6.5 using Windows default that if you have automatic retrieval of email messages set, and you return to the home screen,after awhile the Home screen will display the title "Messaging" at the top and the close X button will appear. Also the soft key changes. I have used about 4-5 different ROM's from different cooks and it seems to be appearing in all of them. Any solutions or suggestions?
U can just ignore it. If i'm not mistaken, it happens only if pushmail is enabled.
I get it too, but don't have push mail going. I have retrieve every 30 min. I don't think much of it. Just close it. It hasn't caused me any issues yet.
jblakk said:
I get it too, but don't have push mail going. I have retrieve every 30 min. I don't think much of it. Just close it. It hasn't caused me any issues yet.
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It's just a nuisance. But definitely some kind of small bug.
I find this bug to be completely annoying. This morning on my way to work, in the middle of getting GPS directions, "Messaging" pops up as an empty window. I've been looking for a way to fix this, but so far, I've come up empty.
Hi guys, I think it's an issue with tmail, at some point in 6.5 development I noticed that when tmail.exe -noui is executed it doesn't display a dialog or draw the screen, but it still draws the menubars/titlebar - seems in 6.1 when tmail.exe -noui is executed it has the same behavior but the app does not come to foreground (gets placed behind all other apps)
Any app that launches tmail.exe -noui will cause this behavior, many htc apps do this periodically.
Da_G said:
Hi guys, I think it's an issue with tmail, at some point in 6.5 development I noticed that when tmail.exe -noui is executed it doesn't display a dialog or draw the screen, but it still draws the menubars/titlebar - seems in 6.1 when tmail.exe -noui is executed it has the same behavior but the app does not come to foreground (gets placed behind all other apps)
Any app that launches tmail.exe -noui will cause this behavior, many htc apps do this periodically.
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I can't imagine it'd be possible to use a tmail.exe from a 6.1 ROM, as changes/updates/improvements? have been made to it, right?
Or is the answer to find a version of 6.5 where it didn't do this, and replace the current version with that? Does the 21210 side of the tree have this issue, I wonder?
I first noticed it way back in 21169 or so, so i'm pretty sure any build after that has the issue.
Haven't tried anything to fix it, i suspect it's an issue with shell32 not properly hiding the hidden window..
tmail.exe from 6.5 is hugely different from 6.1, so you'd be losing quite a bit by replacing it (if it worked)
I noticed that this does not occur with the 21613 build as in Karmbab's kitchen
Hi,
I am on orange UK Wm6.5, I have installed few programs on the micro-SD card, however their icons are white in the start menu program list. I tried formatting the card and reinstalling the programs, however after a soft reset the problem is back again.
Has anybody encountered the same issue or is it just my device?
Many thanks
Hi,
My device has the same thing occur, in fact i have seen this on previous WinMo devices ive owned.
There's an app called REstart in this thread that allows you to change the icons of all items in the start menu - this seems to work ok for me
I also recommend grabbing Awesome Start from Here
Also grab the JSPA'sProgram manager from that Thread.
Hope this helps!
Cheers
Paul
Hi All,
I've just found out how to manually change the icon's for all start menu items the tool i linked earlier works but was unable to change the Today icon, this method allows even this to be changed.
Go here in the Registry and each start menu item will be listed, each one should have an icon key that just needs a path to a new .png icon
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\
Enjoy
Here's a link to the info i found :- http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/wi...using-custom-icons-in-windows-mobile-6-5.aspx
Cheers
Paul
Thanks Paul for your help, I will try that.
It must be a software bug as this never occurred to me before with other WM devices.
Cheers, M
Im not too sure - i do remember similar things happening with my HTC diamond though But these solutions do work! It was something that was really beginning to bug me too.
Glad i could help!
I solved with an APP from xda called menustart4columns
Hi all - first post on xda - please be gentle ;-)
Can anyone suggest what may be the most stable setup on the HD2? the constant freezing is starting to make the phone unusable for me as I use it for work and before I move to something else I thought I'd ask some advice on a better setup.
I have had WM machines (pocket PC) for a long while mainly Ipaq and my last 4150 worked for years without a hitch - couple of screen taps and any info I needed was there quickly mainly excel spread sheets e-mails and schedule, the thing never missed a beat in years. The HD2 seemed the ideal phone replacement.
I have not gone mad with the phone it is pretty stock with a couple of usable mods (CHT and editor etc) every day or so, maybe twice a day I press the on button to bring up the lock screen and it freezes - always when I need it most - it freezes in a particular way ie I can see the taskbar at the top, MENU and PHONE on the bottom (which "react" when pressed but do not bring up the function) and blank screen in between - it needs a soft reset - I have installed the endkey long press which works but this always happens when I need the information quickly and waiting for it to reboot is not quick enough
I would dearly miss co0kies home tab and the couple of mods but if a standard ROM is the best so be it (was going to try the vodafone 1.72 ROM) - or is there a real stripped down ROM that is simple and stable removing all the baggage on the standard ROM. I've never done it but I'm not averse to having a go at cooking a ROM if it will get me what I need
I use all the "business" type functions - dont need twitter/facebook/footprints etc would really use the documents Tab
ROM 1.66.405.2 (76641) WWE
Radio 2.06.51.07
Manila 2.5.19211619.0
Co0kies home tab 1.8.5
CHT editor 1.8.5.1
Resco Registry add in
Resco explorer
Skype
SPB Backup
Avian waves BattlineSvc
Microsoft .NET CF 3.5
Windows marketplace
Each time it locks up I'm getting fed up of friends/colleagues swiping their Iphones at me going "look! mine doesn't do that"
I like the HD2 I'd like to be able to say "but yours doesn't do all this" with all the extra capabilities - instead I seem to be always rebooting - waiting for sense to launch
I don't want to lose the HD2 and its capabilities but If I cant get it to be a bit more stable the Desire is looking tempting or even (wash my mouth out with soap) an Iphone?
Any thoughts or suggestions would be really appreciated
My hd2 became unstable when i had cookies home tab, its been solid as a rock since I uninstalled it, give it a go, I don't miss it anyway.
oh, and if they want proof, my friend has had the same locking up issues on 6 replacement iphones. it crawls to a halt then refuses to react, so he has to wait until the battery goes flat as he can't reset it...
You might want to try moving up to the 1.72 wwe rom and try that with and without cht, perhaps even try rolling back to an older version of cht.
I used to suffer the lockscreen freezing on the stock 1.66 rom.
I cant remember if it persisted after moving to the 1.72 im afraid, I dont think it did though.....
Does it only freeze when using the cht lockscreens?
HardSPL your phone and flash-
http://www.vbnfiles.com/xda/g_lewarne/CleanEx/CleanEX%20Core655%203.50.7z
CHT works fine along with anything else I have thrown at the ROM!
Stable as a rock and is an excellent dive board into Android as well.
For extra "cut down" disable sense and run Resco today plug-in as your home screen.
I used to flash numerous times a week, but, I haven't changed a thing since 16th Aug and that's a record.
what version of CHT are you using as i had to revert back to v1.7 due to the latest one giving me problems...i would suggest to upgrade your Rom to 1.72 start fresh again and install all necessary apps you need one by one that way you can analyse if certain apps are conflicting causing the frezzing problem that you have ....if that doesnt work try a custom rom.
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My hd2 became unstable when i had cookies home tab, its been solid as a rock since I uninstalled it, give it a go, I don't miss it anyway.
oh, and if they want proof, my friend has had the same locking up issues on 6 replacement iphones. it crawls to a halt then refuses to react, so he has to wait until the battery goes flat as he can't reset it...
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On the iPhone tell him to hold the sleep button + the home button for a few seconds... That should do the trick.
i had the exactly same issue on my second hd2 and had my phone sent in (also vibracall was sounding abnormally), i should get it back this week. i hope CHT works then, my first hd2 never had problems like that....
Thanks indeed for the info I did have a sneaky suspicion that CHT may be a problem, I will try the stock 1.72 and maybe try a few things one at a time see if it helps thanks again
ive had problkems that sound like that, the lockscreen disapears and you can see the screen you have behind, except you still have to slide to unluck . with the vbn rom my lockscreen problems dispaeared complelty. it still seemed to suffer from memory issues but for the most part it was stable.
i hardly use windows mobile anymore, as android is way more fun, and it never complains about not having anough memory
I would suggest couple of things:
- make sure, that all the additional icons (if any) and wallpapers used are in phone memory, i.e. not on sd card.
- using bsb tweaks You can disable wm 6.5 lockscreen and give s2u2 a try