i've read all the posts about installing and running smartskey, yet continue to have a real problem. i placed the .exe and.ini files in a new folder (smartskey) within the windows directory on my device. when i run it, it appears that everything works fine..hold left key opens start menu and hold right closes running application. after a few minutes, holding left key does not open start menu..i hear the system sound, as if it is starting, yet nothing. in fact, i can't even use the touchscreen to open it..must soft reset. any ideas what could be causing this? could it be that i am using wisbar advance and it opens a cascading menu? seems that would not be the problem as it works fine for a few minutes.
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well, after visiting the wisbar forum, I have an answer to my own question. smartskey works fine with wisbar, it just craps out when you close the start menu with the softkey. once you do that, the startmenu will not come back up unless you soft reset.
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Ok here is one for the books.
How come after I reset or power up my 8125 my email button kinda works.
Kinda being that the title bar says comcast or whatever mailbox it is at and I have the "New" and "Menu" soft buttons at the bottom of the screen and they work, BUT no middle of the screen no matter how long I leave it.
BUT if I go to programs and messaging it pops open just fine and then the button works fine ????
I have tried reassiging the button to make sure it knows where it is.
Any ideas and solutions.
I dont think it has anyyhing to do with the ROM its self as it happens with 1.8, Mr. Clean, 2.25.
All I am running as addins is
HanDBase 3.0
Resco Explorer and Reg Edit
eWallet.
PDA Sudoku
All Mobile Mines.
plus the standard Reg tweaks.
I get the very same problem. I am not running any of the applications that you are running, stainlesspc. I've tried turning off Wisbar as well as all of the today plugins, but it does the same thing.
This is an on-going issue with all Roms.. There are several discussions on this especially within the AKU 2.2 & AKU 2.3 Rom threads.
Makes no sense. Messaging always opens okay from the start menu or wotherwise but if the wind is blowing in right direction and a frog farts in the corner then messaging buggers from that button. Other apps work fine through.
Ditto here. When it happens, I can still open it from the start menu.
It seems to happen when the messaging app has been closed. When it's been recently started and I'm sure it's still open, the button usually works fine.
well it is iffy if I kill it in running programs, at best it is slow.
BUt no matter which button it is tied to it still wont start after a reset.
This is kind of bizarre...every time I click on my start menu, the number of items shown as the recently run programs just duplicate themselves! For example, if I have two items there, the next time I click on my start menu I will have 4, and then 6, 8,10,12, etc...
Aside from that, once the list goes over 10, the start menu turns white and I can only see the icons without the text labels of what they are.
Anyone else run into this or know how to fix it?
Yes, had the same thing. Backed up my PIM data, then HR'ed and it was the last I saw of the double-then-white start menu.
But it was EXTREMELY annoying, damn right.
Ah, one more thing: you mislabeled the issue but described it accurately: it's always two latest entries that get doubled, until the whole goes out of bounds and turns white...
Fixed part of the title
I HR'd a couple times and continued to have the same problem after re-installing various software...so I tried being more deliberate on installing the software and testing things out after each install (if for some reason having a certain program in the list was causing the problem). So far things are good.
i had the problem when i was using the Cube on my phone. I changed from the original 3 sided cube to the Sclpc++ cube and no longer have the problem. So if you are using one of the cubes, that may possibly be the problem.
I thought about using another, but ended up going with sclpc++ from the get-go. There's a -slight- possibility that the problem could have been from accidentally trying to run multiple instances of efrost's touchflo software. But that's just a theory...and from what it sounds like, the problem occurs in different instances that aren't visibly linked.
you might be on to something as I've just realized that the whole thing started soon after my changing ROMs to Schaps' 4.31 AND installing a cube with its own FtouchFlo config... right now, I'm using an older cube (Vista-style by poorlyduck), but have deactivated Schaps' TouchFlo. And haven't run into the white menu since.
Then again, it may be just an unfortunate combination of installed soft and/or customizations...
I'm not so sure that it is the cube though...I ran into this problem when I first received my tilt and was isntalling software on the stock image. After removing and the SR'ing the device followed by the software re-install, the problem went away...granted it only happened once. Regardless of when it happens, it seems thusfar to correct itself after re-installing/removing software so it's hard to say exactly what's causing it.
This happens to me at least once every two weeks. I have found that it occurs when program shortcuts get moved down to the bottom box on the start menu and are then grouped in with the "Programs" and "Settings" folders. If you go into "settings" then click "menus" and change a few check marks around it should reset, however there will still be a shortcut or two on the bottom box. Another thing to try is to go into the windows folder then the start menu folder and just play around in there until it goes away...maybe delete the shortcuts in question and then recopy them back if they disappear from the start menu. Uninstalling and reinstalling the offending programs works as well, it's just a little more hassle in my eyes. My two noob cents.
-Louis
Try checking this out here...I'll be trying this out being as this has been a suggested solution to the problem.
dtjunkie07 said:
Another thing to try is to go into the windows folder then the start menu folder and just play around in there until it goes away...maybe delete the shortcuts in question and then recopy them back if they disappear from the start menu.
-Louis
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Thanks dude that worked..!! I just cut/pasted the shortcuts to another folder and then pasted them back when it was working fine...
Oh and for me the problem occurred after installing touchflo and sclpc++
-dnash
Morning All
I need Help my startmenu which used to work just fine but now every time you tap it the drop down list doubles up the recently used programs until the list scrolls off the screen and they are then just listed as icons with no program name,I don't really wish to do a hard reset and suggestions as how to remove them.
I think it started after I installed FTouchSL 2.5 which has now been uninstalled.
Also the "taskmanager drop down" from the top right hand side has gone walk about
Restored from backup not many progs to reload
Working now
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Morning All
I need Help my startmenu which used to work just fine but now every time you tap it the drop down list doubles up the recently used programs until the list scrolls off the screen and they are then just listed as icons with no program name,I don't really wish to do a hard reset and suggestions as how to remove them.
I think it started after I installed FTouchSL 2.5 which has now been uninstalled.
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Its because you didn't assign a program to all of your application button in the cube. This was discussed earlier, but would not be surprised if you couldn't locate it.
I am assuming you had SCLPC++ .51 installed correct? Once installed make sure you download the Cube Configurator 2.0 and assign every icon to a program. Save the init file and soft reset. Your problems with the cube will be gone!
Hope this helps.
Thanks will reinstall it soon and try again It may not have been installed correctly I certainly hadn't assigned the all the app buttons
Some of these threads are getting far too long to be of any use!
Is there a definitive guide to installing to SCLPC++, because I would love to have the cube working, it was the best feature of the Touch Dual
Help...!
Something crazy just happened to my start menu...
Anyone seen this kind of craziness before...?
Seemed to fix with a soft reset, but I don't want it to happen again, meaning I have to soft reset all the time...
do you use the normal start menu as default or the one provided by tf3d
tf3d provides different start menu?
yes, the tf3d one is bigger and a little finger friendly
Maybe try this:
a) go to \Windows\Start Menu
b) rename Programs folder to something else
c) rename it back to Programs
This should reload Start Menu's recent positions.
Everything's normal, just a freakout by WM, I suspect...
Soft reset fixes it...
Luckily, it seems like it was a once off...
I did the PTT registry edit fix (created two new keys, deleted the PTT key), and did a soft reset. Upon restarting, I got a series of windows saying "PTTwindow failed". I can deal with this, since I don't restart my phone every day, but is there any way I can get rid of the windows anyway?
Also, is there any way to quit a program other than pressing the "X" at the top right of the screen? Like, maybe assigning it to a button? It's all the way in the corner and sometimes my big fingers have trouble hitting it correctly.
Try going to \Windows\Startup and seeing if there is any PTT related shortcut, and if there is, delete it. On my old AT&T ROM, PTT used to load on startup, so I disabled it that way.
And yes, if you go to button settings, and select the button, at/near the top of the list of commands, select "OK/Close".
Dave
There was a PTT related shortcut and I removed it. Soft resetted and still get the messages: "PTT FindWindowFailed" and "PTT Unregister Class Failed".
And the OK/Close button just minimizes my programs, doesn't end them. If I leave them running won't it drain my battery faster? I am using Spb mobile shell, if it makes any difference.
What happens if you rename or backup then delete the PTT program? I think it's in the \Windows folder. If you delete anything, I would highly recommend backing up every file you delete.
And I would guess that although background programs would drain battery a little more, mobile shell probably drains just as much.
Hope that helps,
Dave
Thanks Dave - I found that there was a PTTFix program on my Tilt (I don't remember installing it - as I said I did the manual registry edit), and when I deleted the PTTFix program the boot popups stopped. I appreciate your help!
Sure, glad it all worked out.
Dave