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First Post / KeyLock

Hey everybody! This is my first post on the xda-developers forums and I thought I'd make it a useful one. I attached the first WinMo6 application I made for my Tilt. It's a program which locks your keypad with the standard PIN prompt and quits. It's use? Lock your phone and set it to standby with two keys and no stylus.
Reason I wrote it? The second day I got the Tilt I found that the concept of being unable to lock the phone without the stylus confused and infuriated me.
Here's how you use it:
1. Download the .Zip file to your computer.
2. Extract the contents and copy the contained .Exe to your phone
3. Use jgermuga's PTT remap instructions found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1577293&postcount=12
4. For the \HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Keys\40C7 key set the (Default) value to "\Path\To\KeyLock.exe" (Obviously replace \Path\To\ with the appropriate path, mine was "\Temp\")
5. Also add a string called ResetCmd with the same value.
I used "MobileRegistryEditor" to edit the registry on my Tilt. Also included in the .Zip is the source code in case you want to compile from source, audit the code, or just don't trust me. Compile it yourself if you wish.
With the above steps you can have a simple method to lock and standby your phone: Hold down the PTT talk button for just about 1 second then quickly tap your power button. As soon as the application begins launching your phone is already being locked so you do not have to wait for it to display anything other than the spinning "please wait" wheel. Power it off right away.
This has made my life significantly easier, and I hope it helps yours!
Enjoy
-Anthony

Hmmm, doesn't seem to be working to well for me.
I orginally had setup up the 40C7 to open my "File Manager" (which worked fine)
SO I reset the value to "\Program Files\KeyLock.exe" where I had placed the file.
I ran the program.. it asked me if it was ok to run I told it yes... Scratched my head for a minute wondering what happened.. Went back to the post realized I missed step 5 "5. Also add a string called ResetCmd with the same value."
So I created a new string ResetCmd with the Value "\Program Files\KeyLock.exe" restarted the phone.. when I press the button now the loading thing comes up and the screen seems like it either flashes or flickers.. and nothing happens..
Than tried reseting the phone by pressing the little button at the bottom, after it booted up still no luck.
Let me know your thoughts... ( I used mobile registry editor as well )
What language is this programmed in, I'll just get the software from my work and see if I can play with it a bit...
OH and FYI running AT&T's Stock loaded Windows Mobile 6 Professional.

or you can download devicelock1.2, and map it to one of your hardware buttons. pretty much uses the built in device lock, but it makes it available so you can map it to a button, thus no need to use stylus to lock.
no need to unzip, just drag the file into your phone and install.

NguyenHuu said:
or you can download devicelock1.2, and map it to one of your hardware buttons.
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Where would I get this?

^ i updated my post, its attached now.

Ty, I ended up searching the forums for it and found it. I'll give it shot and post back in a few.

Thanks Device Lock 1.2 Works Like a Champ. TYVM for your help sir.

Hmm whats the deal with the beeping noise right before it initates the locking?
(I take it back, I like the beeping noise..)
Whats the deal with if you have it on EASY unlock. and Black Screen
When you hold down PPT to have it lock... then after it the screen goes black you press ppt again... Your easy lock is than disabled?
(I should probably post this in the Device Lock 1.2 orignal thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=305402&highlight=device+lock)

I'm honestly unsure why it would not lock your device although I did set up a numeric PIN for my device which it prompts me to enter. Try running the .exe from the Program Files directory if you're still interested. If it doesn't lock your phone then I'm unsure why.
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Hmmm, doesn't seem to be working to well for me.
I orginally had setup up the 40C7 to open my "File Manager" (which worked fine)
SO I reset the value to "\Program Files\KeyLock.exe" where I had placed the file.
I ran the program.. it asked me if it was ok to run I told it yes... Scratched my head for a minute wondering what happened.. Went back to the post realized I missed step 5 "5. Also add a string called ResetCmd with the same value."
So I created a new string ResetCmd with the Value "\Program Files\KeyLock.exe" restarted the phone.. when I press the button now the loading thing comes up and the screen seems like it either flashes or flickers.. and nothing happens..
Than tried reseting the phone by pressing the little button at the bottom, after it booted up still no luck.
Let me know your thoughts... ( I used mobile registry editor as well )
What language is this programmed in, I'll just get the software from my work and see if I can play with it a bit...
OH and FYI running AT&T's Stock loaded Windows Mobile 6 Professional.
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Yea I had tried that too. But the Device Lock 1.2 seemed to have solved my problem. Thanks though.

Hi:
Sorry if this is a dumb question. When you use DeviceLock, do you still have to press the power button to wake up screen before unlocking? I hate that power button, it is too hard for me to find sometimes lol.
Thanks!

cincy1020 said:
Hi:
Sorry if this is a dumb question. When you use DeviceLock, do you still have to press the power button to wake up screen before unlocking? I hate that power button, it is too hard for me to find sometimes lol.
Thanks!
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when you use device lock, it will lock your phone and dim it, not turn off the screen. so you do not need to press the power button to wake it up before unlocking.
there are options in the settings that will let you turn off the screen when you lock, but i dont think that is what you want. leave that setting unchecked.

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so i downloaded the CAB file and installed. but it doesnt appear. i still have the bland home screen. i did a soft reset and nothing. any help?
in my mind i followed the instructions from this link http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-htc-home-plugin-v1-0.html to a "t".

it cant be this simple...
I dont suppose you went to Settings > Personal > Today > Items(tab) and adjusted your settings.

closet410 said:
so i downloaded the CAB file and installed. but it doesnt appear. i still have the bland home screen. i did a soft reset and nothing. any help?
in my mind i followed the instructions from this link http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-htc-home-plugin-v1-0.html to a "t".
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Connect device to PC. Use Active Sync to move the (unopened/unextracted) CAB file to your device (storage card or if not main memory).
Then on the device use file explorer to find the CAB and tap on it to install it. Choose install to main memory for this CAB.
AND follow above posters advice to ensure the plugin is set to show on the Today Screen.
Mike

not that simple
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I dont suppose you went to Settings > Personal > Today > Items(tab) and adjusted your settings.
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already done that.

ditched the original link and downloaded schen's version on these very forums. so far so good!

look for schen's HTC Home at pocketemu.com. Then download HTC Home Customizer from the same Link and use it to customize your HTC Home.

weather
i know i've seen this question asked elswhere but how do you switch the temperature on the weather to not show celceius?

closet410 said:
i know i've seen this question asked elswhere but how do you switch the temperature on the weather to not show celceius?
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2 ways
HHC can do it for you under one of its tabs
or
Go to the weather tab on HTC Home, tap on your city name and change it from the Menu option corrosponding to the right soft key.
Play around with it first and see if you can figure things out.

I downloaded the home plug and schen's cab, but the today screen only appears as the HTC home plug should appear. I tried reinstalling the cab file, but nothing changed. I can't find it under settings.
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I'm not even gonna bother deleting my previous post here. That was dumb of me. I thought I was to look around in the settings... Then I checked programs. You may now bash.

Screen not responding to the stylus?
I can not for the life of me get my stylus to work on my tilt. this is my first touch device but im sure its not hard. i can tap the screen and im fine but when i go to use the stylus it wont respond. could i have disabled something by accident?

Have a screen protector??? May need to adjust the sensitivity. Don't have the exact key, but I know it's in several posts. try filtering your search with the term pressure threshold.

No, it happened to me today too
Tilt w/Duttys latest.
I was reading email, when suddenly the touch screen stopped working. I could use the DPad, but no response to touch. Opened and closed the keyboard, still no response. Soft booted and it went back to normal.

I have had it happen 2 or 3 times on my tilt with dutty previous release. Rebooted and it went back to normal.

The problem is usually related to FTouchFlo, a simple soft reset cures the issue. If you don't have FTouchFlo installed, I'm not sure what could be causing it

I can also say that the issue is coming from touchflo. happened to me twice before so i've just disabled touchflo and hasn't happened since.

Me too!!!
closet410 said:
I can not for the life of me get my stylus to work on my tilt. this is my first touch device but im sure its not hard. i can tap the screen and im fine but when i go to use the stylus it wont respond. could i have disabled something by accident?
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Check out this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=337979
I did everything in it, but sometimes my screen stops and freezes for a few seconds. Sometimes it gets so bad that it freezes like every 20 or 30 seconds when I am typing something using the stylus. I don't think I have touchflow because I never installed it. I just have the stock HTC rom.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.

fone_fanatic said:
I can also say that the issue is coming from touchflo. happened to me twice before so i've just disabled touchflo and hasn't happened since.
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same here. i removed touchflo all together

i got it working again. just had to realign the screen.

What we browser are you using?
I have an att tilt so i have internet explorer mobile and im not really feelin it to much. what browser are you guys using?

many people like the latests beta opera mobile

No Camera Software

I have just bought an AT&T Tilt that has arrived without camera software and without HTC Home plug ins. The reseller has sent me the plug ins, which I have installed and that work fine. As to the camera software, he has sent me this: "Nadavi_HTC_Camera_5_0_4_2915_00_NEW_HTC_FIX". I have installed it, but it does not work. So my phone has no camera function. From the looks of it, it seems to be a "FIX" for a software already installed. But unfortunately, my phone has no camera software AT ALL.
Therefore my question is: does anyone know if there is a site I can download this Nadavi camera software? In the alternative, can someone tell me how to make this "FIX" work?
Thank you. I appreciate your time

did you map the camera button to the camera app?

XtreMe_G said:
did you map the camera button to the camera app?
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The camera button (Button 5) does not show any camera app. It originally showed "Pictures & Videos" and now it is mapped to HTCAlbum. There is no camera in the applications

see if there's a camera.exe in the \windows directory, if its there, create a shortcut for it and place it in the \windows\start menu\programs directory

Here is what I found:
in the \windows directory there is a "Camera" file of 733K. Unfortunately when I tap on it, nothing happens. I can see the Pocket PC center icon starting, but then it stops.
I then created a shortcut and placed it into the \start menu\programs directory, but again nothing happens.

millipup said:
Here is what I found:
in the \windows directory there is a "Camera" file of 733K. Unfortunately when I tap on it, nothing happens. I can see the Pocket PC center icon starting, but then it stops.
I then created a shortcut and placed it into the \start menu\programs directory, but again nothing happens.
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Wait a minute: I found it! There is a "Camera.exe.0409" in the windows directory. So I copied the shortcut into the \start menu\programs directory.
NB: in the windows directory, when I click on the "Camera.exe.0409" I get a dialog box that reads: "There is no application associated with "Camera.exe.0409". Run the application first, then open this file from within the application".

hmm i'm not sure if u want but maybe u can flash a new rom and see how that goes for u...but then again i suggest u read all before flashing a rom if u do choose to go that route

millipup said:
Wait a minute: I found it! There is a "Camera.exe.0409" in the windows directory. So I copied the shortcut into the \start menu\programs directory.
NB: in the windows directory, when I click on the "Camera.exe.0409" I get a dialog box that reads: "There is no application associated with "Camera.exe.0409". Run the application first, then open this file from within the application".
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Now "camera" appears in the Start menue of the screen, but when I click on it nothing happens.

bapssystupr3m3 said:
hmm i'm not sure if u want but maybe u can flash a new rom and see how that goes for u...but then again i suggest u read all before flashing a rom if u do choose to go that route
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Well, I spent almost an hour browsing the Kaiser FAQ's but couldn't find pretty much anything about this camera issue. Now the camera icon appears Programs, but when I tap it nothing happens.
Can anyone suggest how to associate the Nadavi app to the Camera.exe.0409? Maybe that works.
As to flashing a new rom, I don't even know what it means ....

millipup said:
Well, I spent almost an hour browsing the Kaiser FAQ's but couldn't find pretty much anything about this camera issue. Now the camera icon appears Programs, but when I tap it nothing happens.
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Look, you should have stopped a lot earlier. What ROM does that device have? Who sold it to you? And under what conditions? Is that supposed to be an official HTC TyTN II or AT&T Tilt? Press camera button and reset, check the SPL version.
The camera should be working on a new device, no need to install anything, and less a CAB taken from a forum.
Yo can also flash the new HardSPL 3.28 and then flash any ROM that works better than that one.

Quick Menu in top right corner has disappeared

The Quick Menu that is normally located in the top right hand corner of the screen has disappeared on my TyTNII. Tried a soft reset and that didn't help. Don't want to do a hard reset as it takes ages to reload all of the software and data. Does anyone have any ideas. Any suggestion is welcome?

pbeaco said:
The Quick Menu that is normally located in the top right hand corner of the screen has disappeared on my TyTNII. Tried a soft reset and that didn't help. Don't want to do a hard reset as it takes ages to reload all of the software and data. Does anyone have any ideas. Any suggestion is welcome?
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when u click on the screen where should be the icon, does it load the menu?

Try running Quickmenu from the Programs folder. That should fix things.
Make sure that there is a Quickmenu shortcut in your Device>Windows>Startup directory. This will ensure it starts after soft resets.
It's is a good idea to invest in a good backup program like SPB Backup which I use or Sprite Backup. This ensures that you save all your PIM info, messaging, settings, shortcuts etc etc. If and when you do need to perform a hard reset, you just run the executable that the backup program creates, and voila, you're good to go.
I normally backup once every week to ten days.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
MAC

Thanks for the quick response. That may be my problem. It is not in my startup menu, but I also don't have a Quickmenu icon on my program window? Maybe it got deleted? How do I restore it?

When I tap in the top right corner where the icon used to be, nothing comes up. I think I must have deleted the program somehow?

pbeaco said:
Thanks for the quick response. That may be my problem. It is not in my startup menu, but I also don't have a Quickmenu icon on my program window? Maybe it got deleted? How do I restore it?
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I think you may have deleted it inadvertantly. Just restore it and make sure that there is a shortcut n your startup folder.
Here is the App and the two dll files to drop in your windows directory. It is an executable, no need to install. Just copy the executable anywhere on your device and create shortcut in startup folder.

Thanks - very much appreciated. Loaded and working. Great. Have a nice day!

Remap left softkey to lock the phone

i have a remaping app for my tilt , but i cant seem to find the lnk or exe for device lock.
any one can help me on remapping my left softkey to "lock my device"
thanks !

Re - Remap left softkey to lock the phone
Why don't you try HTC end Key.cab, it works great and you don't have to lose the use of the soft key.
see - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=356192&highlight=Long_End.lnk

I use this right here courtesy of AllTheWay.

Vampire2800 said:
I use this right here courtesy of AllTheWay.
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I just tried this and the phone lock is not an option on my phone with this. Also when I tried to uninstall this cab my left softkey that is mapped to calendar, now gives me an error, something like, the file 'htc calendar cannot be opened......' Also when I installed it, it changed the color of my today screen back to att default. I fixed this by just changing my theme and then changing it back. Any clue how to make the calendar button work right again?

alright im going to take a look @ that.

What Rom are you using?
Found the solution for you but need to know what ROM you're running.

On your phone, open your registry editor. If you don't have one, get it here. Navigate to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\112\Open. Change the Data String from \Windows\??????? to (This is what a stock ROM should be) \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Device Lock.lnk
If you have a different ROM, I have no clue. But, I will keep checking for ya.

I am running the stock rom from att. I don't have a registry editor yet, but I will try the one you posted and try to fix it in the morning, when I get back up to work. Thanks!

Good luck, bro. I'd check the link I provided (Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Device Lock.lnk) to make sure that Device Lock.lnk is there. If it is then you'll be good to go. If not, check in other folders for it. It will be in your windows folder or windows sub folders somewhere. Let us know how it turns out for you.

i think that devicelock.lnk is what i cant find when remapping . its not in my windows folder
im using L26 v11 Rom

I am not able to find the devicelock.lnk either, I have looked in the windows/startup/programs folder and it is not there. I looked all through the windows folder also and could not find it although the windows folder itself is quite large and I may have just missed it.