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Camera.exe keeps disappearing

Can anyone tell me what's going on with my XDA2i pls. It's been very stable for the past 6 months which is the last time I Sprite backuped. But last week the camera disappeared and Windows media player appeared on the camera button. So I thought I would re-install the ROM then restore from the June Sprite backup - remember I have been using the camera which must have been on that backup.
After the ROM install, the camera is there and working, but if I try to then do a restore from the Sprite backup, the camera is removed.
Thanks
Mike

search it at here, im sure you'll find any camera software to install....
if you need something great camera application, try CoolCamera at www.ateksoft.com
you can do it! Mike!
thanks

Thanks Clustered .... I will definitely try that camera app, - does it improve the quality of the images (I find them much worse than the supposedly poorer camera in my old XDA 2)
I have since discovered that the camera app is not being removed (there are still 4 camera related files in the Windows directory), but all reference to these are being removed somehow, so that the camera program is not visible in the 'Programs' section, nor is it associated with the camera button on soft boot.
I have temporarily got round the problem by placing the camera.exe icon in the SPB Today function, so at least I can get it started with the stylus
Any clues .... should I be looking at some registry entries.
By the way .... ironically I would like to reprogram the default for the camera button to scroll-down which I use in microsoft reader. Do you know how I could do this (tried Vito button mapper yonks ago but it seemed to cause quite a few problems)
Thanks
Mike

I had this, do you find the battery is discharging at a quicker rate??
The history with mine was it lost the cam function swapping to WMP on the button. Only way to cure it was to hard reset.... of course it would go and do the cam fail just when i had got everything set up and running nice for a few months. I found as it went further down the line that using the back up i had would instigate the cam error quicker than if i didnt.
It started to do it more and more. So i sent it back, they said all fixed. of course it wasnt 'cos the internal battery had discharged thus doing a hard reset clearing the error
Finaly on the 3rd return they did a board swap... which meant i had to get tomtom to re do the activation codes for me.
Load of hastle but it hasnt been a problem in 3 months now.

Aaargh ! yes that's exactly what's happening - battery running down quickly, so I just ordered a coupla new ones (fortunately didn't pay the O2 price of £39 and have ordered from Hong Kong at about a fiver).
Sounds like it isn't worth me returning it to O2, as a board swap would cost a lot - it's 13 months old now
Interestingly though ..... a hard reset puts it right, but as soon as I restore data and programs from a Sprite backup, the problem is back. And yet the Sprite backup was done back in June when I definitely wasn't having this problem. And an earlier backup does not cause it. Does it seem possible that one of the applications we are using has a time -related problem? Only thing I can think of recently was the British summer time auto correction.
Thanks
Mike

dont worry bout it being 13months old they got 2 yr warranty!!!! get it down to them now. you will get it sent off, if they dont replace the board, call the number for the repair company as soon as you get it back, tell them its doing the same (as you can tell from my post before the prob clears n they just turn it round) they send you a package and you send it off as a bouncer, give then a fault report, they will swap the board.
make a note of all yer device info, imea, mac address etc. to confirm the board has been replaced.
i put a pen mark on the warranty void sticker under the battery covering the screw to see if they went inside.... they didnt the first times it went back.
if you have tomtom you will need to scan n send them a copy of the board change document to get your codes reset, also send them the device code tomtom gives you when you try to run it. they require that. it took them about 5 days to sort out at tomtom
You know what gets me about this place is i could have just said send it back but i prefer to give folks as much explination... like i would in return.... unlike i have had on posts ive made where folks have said post it in the right section etc.... not telling me where or assuming you understand all about reg editors or rom changes..... following link from page to page is so frustrating... sorry rant over now
hope you get it sorted soon.,... wish i could get my Q's answered.

Thanks mate .... I'll do all that. Fortunately I can afford the time, as I've got a couple of working XDAII that two of our guys ditched in favour of execs, so I'll just set one of those up until they sort the XDAIIi
Thanks
Again
Mike

Me too
Hi Guys
You have described exactly what happened to me. I use a Motorola BT head set (820 I think) and the tom tom navigator 3 with BT satelite reciever.
I gave up in the end. It seemed to be due to the BT stack or somthing to do with the Tom Tom BT drivers. I have 2 xdaIIi's and I now use one as a gps only (does not even have a sim card) and the other one as a phone (with the Motorola head set) I dont have any problems.
If I try to use two BT items together..... with in about one week the moment i loose the camera and the battery lasts about 6 hours from full.
If I remember correctly the head set would stop working or lock up the phone, you then have to do a soft reset then the camera goes etc etc.
I can tell you I am absolutley fed up with BT I am yet to come across a BT anything that works first time every time. Even if it does work today, tomorrow who knows if it will work. The reason i am looking athe postings is because my new £400 Garmin Nuvi 660 wont connect to the XDA!!**!^%$!£"
Any way best ot luck, you are going to need it.

Hmmmmm .... don't think it's bluetooth, as I don't ever have it switched on - I prefer to use the bog standard handsfree speaker kit and don't use GPS/TomTom.
Plenty of things lock up the phone though :-(
I've gone back to my XDA II and ya know what .... I prefer it. The quality of colour saturation on the screen is much better - OK it's not quite as bright as the XDA IIi but the latter is not really any good itrself on a bright day.
.... and the camera in the II is just a gem - OK only 640k but the way it renders the image is just like silk compared to the naff camera in the IIi
... and I'm not really gonna miss the wifi, and I never really bothered using IE in landscape.
So I think I'll stick with the old II and see what you guys think of the Orbit (?) when it comes along
Mike

Well.... great service (eventually) from O2. They sent me a replacement without even waiting for the faulty XDA2i. Bad news is they sent an XDA2s ....but they then sent an XDA2i the next day. It's not brand new but presumably it's been 'reconditioned'.
Charged it up, did a hard reset - camera was there OK. Did a Sprite restore from a known good time (last June). But camera had disappeared again
I guess it's remotely possible that they have sent me the one that Richard (?)returned but I think he said they'd definitely done a board swap on his.
Despite the good advice on here, I'm still inclined to thhink this may be a software conflict problem rather than a hardware issue. And somehow it seems to be connected with time. I had not installed anything new when I suddenly lost the camera about 3 weeks ago. I'm restoring from a Sprite backup that definitely was not displaying any problems when I made it.
Regards
Mike

my cam issue would come back if i used a restore from a good point too. But that was on the old board. Ive just done a full clean install of everything and its seems to be ok. I did wonder is some gimp out there had writen some kind of virus that i had got somehow.

It might be the startup programs/services...
Try checking the Camera_Detect.lnk if it's functioning normally...
Although I'm really not sure if it is the cause but I have a similar problem but not with the camera...
Rather, it's the rotatescreen icon...
I hard reset and the icon is there but when I have installed programs it disappears once I soft reset... not sure which of the programs installed overrides the icon startup...
But I think it's during the startup that somehow make these services (camera, screen rotate, etc.) fail to run because some of the programs might be clashing with them on startups/bootups/soft reset...

I think you might be correct, as the replacemnt XDA2i that O2 sent displayed exactly the same problem when I put all my stuff back on it, but after another hard reset I put just a limited range of utilities back on, and so far in a week or so, it has been faultless
Mike

Little white square/box underneath the X

I suddenly started experiencing a small white box under the X (to close/move apps to backgrubnd) on my stock HTC TyTN II. I can't really say when it first appeared but I'm pretty sure it happened today when I switched skins. I switched back to the stock skin of course but the little white box is still there.
Any ideas how to solve this?
If it's a uncommon problem I can try to post a pic but I don't have nay app to do screenshots on my phone so if needed please give me a hint there as well.
Also: I tried searching both the forum and google for this but I couldn't find anything that seemed really relevant to my problem.

undac said:
I suddenly started experiencing a small white box under the X (to close/move apps to backgrubnd) on my stock HTC TyTN II. I can't really say when it first appeared but I'm pretty sure it happened today when I switched skins. I switched back to the stock skin of course but the little white box is still there.
Any ideas how to solve this?
If it's a uncommon problem I can try to post a pic but I don't have nay app to do screenshots on my phone so if needed please give me a hint there as well.
Also: I tried searching both the forum and google for this but I couldn't find anything that seemed really relevant to my problem.
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Try THIS. You can make screenshots from your PC. It's still there after a soft-reset?

Problem solved (it was the "show battery status during call" tweak that for whatever reason didn't work with my current skin.
I disabled the tweak, chose my skin, rebooted the device, applied the tweak, rebooted again and now it's working properly.
Thanks for the proggy though, I was just thinking about this (showing my phone display on my desktop screen) earlier today.

2 problems after flashing rom

hey guys, i flashed one of the WM 6.1 roms, didnt like it, so i re-flashed duttys #7b rom. was working perfectly before, however i now have two problems
1- this is the major one, the gps doesnt work! when i open up quick gps, it scans through all the ports and doesnt find anything. however, when its scanning com4, the gps light comes on, but doesnt find anything. i've tried setting it to com4 only and put the baud at 4800 and 9600 and still doesnt find the gps....whats going??
2- this is a more minor problem, just annoying really.. i got this annoying thing on my home screen (look at arrows), it hides part of the home screen, how do i get rid of this? thanks
omar

1) Dont forget to reflash your old radio also.
2) Decrease font size in settings->screen->font

hey, i did reflash my old radio... but why would that even make a difference.. gps doesnt use the radio?
and i decreased the font size, still there.. however i definately didnt have that there before even with the font size the way it is.. and the thing is, even when theres not that much stuff on the screen its still there, ie, look at this picture

omaralt said:
hey, i did reflash my old radio... but why would that even make a difference.. gps doesnt use the radio?
and i decreased the font size, still there.. however i definately didnt have that there before even with the font size the way it is.. and the thing is, even when theres not that much stuff on the screen its still there, ie, look at this picture
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Don't have a Kaiser yet, but I've been running the HTC Home plug in on an emulator and I've see issue #2. Try this:
1.) Install HTC Home Customizer (linked to in one of the CAB stickies in this forum)
2.) Run the HTC Home Customizer and go to the Options tab.
3.) Make sure the "Lock plugin on Today screen" box is CHECKED.
Now, when it's checked you'll notice the scroll bar may still show up on the bottom of the screen. This is likely because something on the bottom half of the screen is flooding below the visible screen area. If it's still there, try removing that bottom plug in temporarily. If the bar goes away, you know something in that plug-in is creating the issue.

Problem with HTC Kaiser...Quite weird...

Hello everyone!I flashed TCP Elite V1 three days ago...Everything perfect the ROM worked like a charm...I also installed djkoa 3g dialer v2...Everything fine...After a few days i noticed that the pureblack theme which is installed inside the rom and it is fully black was changed....The background was black and now is black and purple!!Well i didn't bother and then i saw on people tab of manila very blur photos and like they were having sepia effect...Still no concern for me...But then i opened today my camera and saw that my camera screen was like using thermal googles!!!Like sepia effect was the default...Well i tried to find out what's going on but no luck...I soft reseted hard reseted even changed 4 roms but the problem still persists...A changed theme and the same issue with camera...Also i noticed in the tri color sreen that the green color is not fully green but has some differences but only in the green line......Any ideas???

Any problems with a specific rom after a flash should be posted in that specific rom thread!!!

sure thing i did that but this is a general problem...Every rom i flash from now on keeps doing this...So any thoughts?

Sounds like a general problem that should be asked about in the general forum for Kaisers, not ROM developement. Not to seem harsh, but non-rom related posts clutter up the ROM forum and make it hard to find the right info.
It sounds like a hardware problem with your screen.

ok then if a mod thinks it's wrong placed please move it...

Zogito said:
sure thing i did that but this is a general problem...Every rom i flash from now on keeps doing this...So any thoughts?
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Hmmm are all other colors in the ROM look ok? Maybe LCD giving out?

sounds like its an issue with your phone, not the software.

well i think it's the lcd...Because when i try to capture a photo the screen looks like it's sepia effected.Although i took a photo...In my mobile it looked like sepia and couldn't see a thing...When i transfered the photo to my pc the picture was clear....

Zogito said:
well i think it's the lcd...Because when i try to capture a photo the screen looks like it's sepia effected.Although i took a photo...In my mobile it looked like sepia and couldn't see a thing...When i transfered the photo to my pc the picture was clear....
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that is definitely your LCD then, you can get a new one on ebay. though changing it is not fun

well yes i found an lcd for 25 pounds but now i'm in dilemma i don't know if i should buy it since i don't know if i can't replace it...And since you say it is not fun i am much more discouraged because it will be difficult...

Zogito said:
well yes i found an lcd for 25 pounds but now i'm in dilemma i don't know if i should buy it since i don't know if i can't replace it...And since you say it is not fun i am much more discouraged because it will be difficult...
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There are guides on how to do it some of them show you strip whole thing but there is also a way to just unscrew the 4 x screws on back of display undo ribon cable carefully attach new and slip screen screen in do up screws "i haven't done it" but read it on XDA will be worth finding guide as has pics

Screen replacement is too bad... find a youtube video and watch that first so you have a good idea.
All you gotta do is remove the back of the panel that holds the screen, no need to take the whole thing apart... 4 screws, 2 top and 2 on the bottom outer edges. You do need to get a Torx head driver in the right size... it can be kinda hard finding them that small, but Sears should have a Craftsman set of micro torx head drivers.
As long as you are methodic and careful with what you do, you will be just fine.

maybe radio?
Zogito said:
Hello everyone!I flashed TCP Elite V1 three days ago...Everything perfect the ROM worked like a charm...I also installed djkoa 3g dialer v2...Everything fine...After a few days i noticed that the pureblack theme which is installed inside the rom and it is fully black was changed....The background was black and now is black and purple!!Well i didn't bother and then i saw on people tab of manila very blur photos and like they were having sepia effect...Still no concern for me...But then i opened today my camera and saw that my camera screen was like using thermal googles!!!Like sepia effect was the default...Well i tried to find out what's going on but no luck...I soft reseted hard reseted even changed 4 roms but the problem still persists...A changed theme and the same issue with camera...Also i noticed in the tri color sreen that the green color is not fully green but has some differences but only in the green line......Any ideas???
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Tried a different radio version?

changing lcd
please please be EXTRA careful with the flew cable, one in the kaiser got slightly bent and pulled by the slider and now I have a white screen on good days, and very thin earthy-toned vertical rainbow or rain on resets...

HELP!! my screen works....but it doesnt....

ok guys and gals, heres one for you. i know im a noob but this one has got me stumped and i cant for the life of me find anything in this or any forum or even google. i have the tilt. just flashed a cooked rom for the first time several weeks ago thanks to everyone on here and all the FAQs and stickies. (to any other noob, all the info is out there!!!!! dont be lazy!!! SEARCH AND READ YOUR HEART OUT!!!!) anyway, im running Witscheys latest 6.5 rom build 23071 HSPL 3.34 w/ radio 1.70.19.09. ive been tweakin it pretty much every day tryin to get it to the way i want.
well im so close to finishing and the the screen suddenly decided to randomly not respond to my touch. the buttons were the only way to control the phone. even after numerous soft resets. then it would decide to start responding. so i was doing some research and tried a couple diff methods of fixing "screen freezes" (but i dont think its a "screen freeze" as it worked fine with the use of the buttons) finally found a post in the thread for the room that read:
Originally Posted by cpala
Hi witschey,
I work with you rom a week a go, but sometimes the device screen freeze.
ugoff
Member
I had that same problem. Need to change the cache settings in Advanced Config. The filesystem cache defaults to 512kb, so I set it to auto and it doesn't freeze anymore. I also turned up the glyph cache to 32kb. Between the two, the phone interface runs fast and smooth.
so i tried that and it still didnt fix it. then i decided to just do a hard reset and install one app a day at a time (all the ones i had before the hard reset) to see if one of them was casing it. well after the hard reset i didnt notice the problem anymore. i was stoked. now all i needed to do was figure out which app was giving me trouble. WELL about 10 min later when i was texting my friends as usuall, my phone recieved a message but the screen was black. so i slid it open (wake on slide) and the screen turned on. replied to my buddy,closed the lid and the screen went black..... WTF? slid it open, screen on. closed, screen black.... and so forth. this is the way it has been since yesterday. even tried two more hard resets with no change.
NOW HERES THE WEIRD PART!!! if i slide it open JUST A LITTLE very slowly, the backlight turns on barely. just enuf to see the today screen but its very very dim. its as if there is a bad connection. but the screen is in portrait mode like it should be. if i open it fast the backlight turns on, screen shows portrait, then switches to landscape like it should. close it, it goes black but i know it switches back cuz the next time i open it, i can see it change again.
EVEN WEIRDER--- if open landscape, get into an app or program such as contacts where i can flick to scroll, ill close the lid, immediately flick the screen, open lid and low and behold my friends are just scrollin by!!!! the damn screen is responsive but there is no backlight!!! so to test i plugged into my laptop, activated mymobiler, and EVERYTHING works like it should when i touch the screen, use the buttons, open close the lid. it all shows up on my laptop. but the damn screen is still black when lid is closed. so i can literally look at my laptop and touch the black screen on my tilt and controll it!! WHY IS THE BACKLIGHT SHUTTING OFF WHEN ITS CLOSED!!!!???
so then i decided to tear the damn phone completely apart about 2 hours ago, check all connections, and clean all the dust. all connections checked out fine, put it back together and still have the problem. i know there is a magnet and sensor that tells the screen when to rotate when the screen is opened or closed but its obviously working cuz it will rotate the screen. my guess was that some kind of registry entry has been changed somehow. but then i realized thats not it because the hard resets didnt fix it. now im thinking hardware...... IM SO SORRY THIS POST IS SOOOOOO LOOOONNNNGGG but i dont know what else to do. phone was working great up until yesterday and i cant have this!!! has anyone had this problem with this or any other device or even know which direction to point me in??? PLEASE HELP!!! thanks in advance for any replies!!! the quicker ther better

I think your flat cable is broken. Doesn't make connection when closed (no backlight), barely connects when opened (backlight on).
So I think you need a new flat cable...

I agree with blueflame... I think it has nothing to do withthe rom flash.. it sounds like your ribbon cable is "Starting" to go.. unfortunatly it will only get worse where it wont; read you memory card, and evenutally your Sim card as well (speaking from experiance here).... If you are handy with tools, you can try to but a new one yourself and install it... But there are also some shops aroudnthe world, aswell and some members here who may be able to fix it for you... for a price (and not, I am not one of them)... Sorry for the bad news bud.. but I personally would rather knwo that than hard resettign 100 times and nrto beign able to figure out the problem...

hey. thanks for the fast replies! thats not exactly what i wanted to hear but like Teej said, its better to know than messing around with something else. now by flat cable are you reffering to the biggest ribbon cable inside the phone that connects the screen half of the phone to the keyboard half? Or the connector that comes directly out of the screen itself (meaning i buy a new screen and install and all is well) or is it another cable? but i think those are the only two that have anything to do with the screen other then the one for the sensor/magnet. here is a photo to help point out which ones. i have the manual so i can grab more photos if needed. thanks again for the help so far. good stuff. we are getting somewhere!!
photobucket.com/albums/b145/kewljay223/tilt.jpg

since im not allowed to post outside links yet, type this-----> h-t-t-p-:-/-/-i-1-8-. (minus the dashes between characters) in front of the link in my last post in your address bar to create the ACTUAL LINK and it should take you to the picture.