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Dpad dead

Hi all.
I´ve installed the Custom 2.26 ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=276700) and it works great except for one tiiny detail. The Dpad doesnt work anymore. Its completely dead. I suspect that this could be related to smartskey. What happend is that after I turned off the phone and turned it on again the Dpad was dead.
I have tried to alter the smartskey.ini file and set the DPAD value to 0 but it didnt do anything. When I run smartskey.exe all I get is an popup asking me if I want to close smartskey. Whats that about? How does it work?
Does anyone have a clue what could be wrong and/or how to solve it?
Thanks
/dodgy

anyone? pretty please? I don´t wanna flash it again....
/d

dodgy said:
Hi all.
I´ve installed the Custom 2.26 ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=276700) and it works great except for one tiiny detail. The Dpad doesnt work anymore. Its completely dead. I suspect that this could be related to smartskey. What happend is that after I turned off the phone and turned it on again the Dpad was dead.
I have tried to alter the smartskey.ini file and set the DPAD value to 0 but it didnt do anything. When I run smartskey.exe all I get is an popup asking me if I want to close smartskey. Whats that about? How does it work?
Does anyone have a clue what could be wrong and/or how to solve it?
Thanks
/dodgy
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i have never heard of this problem with smartskey. however, if you really do believe it's related to smartskey, you can close the program by following the steps:
1. click the smartskey.exe
2. a popup window will ask if you really want to close it. just click "ok".
3. then you must change STARTONREBOOT=0 in the ini file.
4. next, go to windows>startup folder and remove any shortcut refering to smartskey.
5. soft reset your phone. it will start witnout smartskey.
and you can confirm if the problem is really related to smartskey, although I really doubt it.
if the above fail, hard reset. if still fail, reflashing to your last known good rom file. if all fail..... you've got yourself a new dpad hardware.

I think your are right, it´s not smartskey. Reverted back to my old 2.17 Sve ROM and I now have to same problem, it was fine for a while but now I have the problem again. I have installed very few apps; TotalCommander, TCPMP, and some a2dp cabs.
I´m thinking if I could attack this problem from a different angle; to install something that remapps the Dpad and see if that works. I have a hunch that the Dpad is locked for some reason and not broken.
Another approach is to go in the registry and have a look but I really dont know where to look.
3rd option is to take it back to the manufactuer. I suspect they will discover that I messed with it (unlocked it, installed dodgy ROMS and such) and refuse me.
On a sidenote I got my Sony Ericson HBH-DS970 headphones today. Looks really nice. I think that someone said the sound quality improves with AKU so i´m eager to get some new ROM installed. Is it possbile to just install AKU upgrades? or are they always bundled with a ROM ?
Thanks alot for your reply ecchi, I´ve posted about this problem a few time and never got any response.
/d

My on/off butoon stops working, my kaiser is dying under my eyes..

Hello all,
some weird things are happening to me...
Very recently, my on/off button began not working when trying to put my kaiser in sleep mode. I would press it but nothing would happen, my screen would remain on...
But now, the reverse is happening : my kaiser is in sleep mode, and whenever I press this on/off button, nothing happens. I have tryed to call the phone, but it would even not respond to an incoming call... Looks like my kaiser is falling asleep under my eyes
The only solution is to do a soft reset...
Any hint ? I am with Schaps excellent 4.30 Rom. And I would like to avoid a hard reset
Thanks
Regards

did u try soft reset or are u trying to avoid that? sorry man i would hard reset hopefully some one else can help u

same problems here...

Hard-Reset.

Well, somebody called me and I was totally unable to catch his call. So hard reset
I would like to undestand why this situation? Why is it like thing go worse as time goes by ???
I am anxiously waiting for Android version !!!
Thx for the help anyhow

What other apps have you installed? Sounds like something that doesnt agree with Shaps rom.
So either uninstall the recent apps you added... or try a different rom.

unwired4 said:
What other apps have you installed? Sounds like something that doesnt agree with Shaps rom.
So either uninstall the recent apps you added... or try a different rom.
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Well, I have installed :
- Pocket Informant 8
- Fizz Traveller 3
- Tomtom
- eWallet 5
- NoniGPSPlot
- FingerFirendly Friends
- pointUI (maybe the cause ???)
- backlight bug fix (I am not sure what this is, but the next day I made a hard reset, I have the same backlight bug, i.e. after a phone call, the back light becomes unstable)
Msoft has installed onenote ...
Thx

Backlight dimming & keylock?

I know, I know before the torrent of replies happens - "Why didn't you Search", "You should have searched before posting" et etc ...... I did search and the results didn't help
I have two Kaisers with identical software builds (slightly different contents but the base OS is identical). On both of these I have (had..) the backlight issue where if the backlight was off when the device was locked (either via the 'Device Lock' Today item or via Battery Status 'DeviceLock on Wakeup'). To enable the backlight it must be unlocked and in bright sunlight this is very difficult.
Now for some reason this behaviour has changed on one of the Kaisers - the 30-second dimming still happens when locked or unlocked, now however tapping the screen turns the backlight on. This is exactly the behaviour I want I assumed there would be a registry difference between the two however I can't find one. All the values in the keys
Code:
HKCU\ControlPanel\BackLight\
HKCU\ControlPanel\BackLight\LockLevel\
HKLM\ControlPanel\BackLight\
are identical. I was hoping to copy the changed registry values and include them in my next ROM re-build but I can't see any differences.
Does anyone know what other registry keys I should look at?
Cheers
Andy

Install this cab and power the phone off and power it back on.
Hey presto brightscreen when you want to unlock the phone!

dwarf said:
Install this cab and power the phone off and power it back on.
Hey presto brightscreen when you want to unlock the phone!
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Thanks for that but that is the behaviour I have at the moment without a startup application. There is obviously something in the registry that is making this work as I want it on my Kaiser. I just want to know what it is?
Andy

I think I have fixed it....
After rechecking the registry settings I found a difference and I don't know how I missed this previously. I have made the change on the Kaiser that wasn't working as I wanted it and now it's working exactly as I would like:
Code:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight\LockLevel]
"LockLevel"=dword:ffffffff
No more guessing when trying to unlock it in sunlight....
If anyone is interested?
Cheers
Andy

TQ very much.
It is working like you said.
No need to use 3rd party app. Just a simple registry tweaking.
Regards,
morisa

dim backlight on device-lock
I recently flashed to a WM6.1 ROM (ATT 3.57.502.2) and I have noticed that now when you enable the device-lock it does NOT dim the screen. I actually preferred it that way as it helped me realize when I had a successful tap to enable the lock. Not to mention battery-life issues when putting phone in a tight pocket, immediately afterwards.
Can somebody enlighten me on how to make it behave as it used to? I tried to edit some of the registry entries mentioned in this thread, and others, but none seem to apply to the device-lock. Again, I'd like to have the screen dim on device-lock as it did with my old ROM.
Thanks in advance everyone.
,jR

ADB100 said:
After rechecking the registry settings I found a difference and I don't know how I missed this previously. I have made the change on the Kaiser that wasn't working as I wanted it and now it's working exactly as I would like:
Code:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight\LockLevel]
"LockLevel"=dword:ffffffff
No more guessing when trying to unlock it in sunlight....
If anyone is interested?
Cheers
Andy
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Thanks, that works... BUT
on my Kaiser only until the next soft reset, then dword is back to 00000000. Anyone else see the same? Solution?

Loewe538 said:
Thanks, that works... BUT
on my Kaiser only until the next soft reset, then dword is back to 00000000. Anyone else see the same? Solution?
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For me also same problem, OS is WM6.1

Loewe538 said:
Solution?
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Found out that the cab from post #2 partially solves it. You still have no backlight the first time after a reset, but at least you don't have to go into the registry every time after resetting.
Too bad it sets the level to x0A instead of x0FFFFFFFF.

Key to try for backlight woes
I've had this problem since flashing from 6.0 to 6.1 AND selecting an unlock password at initial startup. Sometimes it would reset backlight time to 10 sec. after soft reset and it was even resetting it without a soft reset for a while. Changing the "Locklevel" key helps as previously posted, but sometimes it would get reset to "0" from my setting of "7" intermittently and then the problems returned. a soft reset always reset this key to "0". I found another key below which I changed from "1" to "0". everything has been totally normal for a week of heavy use. I have not yet reset, but at least it behaves normally even when I use the Today screen Device Lock.
The key is HKLM-Control Panel-Backlight-DimBKLinUnlockScreen
The only remaining issue is sometimes when I power on from suspend the screen comes on and then goes off immediately. Hitting the button again keeps it on.
Good Luck!

Is there any "safe mode" for HTC Diamond?

Hi guys
I did a mistake and I increased the cash size of my Diamond too much. So, when I turn it on, it gets stuck at the green "windows page" (FLO3D does not start). So is there any "safe mode" so I can fix the registry without flashing the whole thing?

I have installed SBSH iLauncher and selected "always" safe mode prompt whenever soft boot. So far each time safe mode function well until I installed Microsoft Reader v2.4.1 few days ago. The device cannot boot up and finally display a screen saying something like I might have shut down the device wrongly or installed some software not compatible. I am forced to hard reset the device and installed everything again. The Monocube Safe Mode v2.x still cannot work in WM6.1 device. Same thing happen to Spb Pocket Plus since it is using the same Safe Mode. I am afraid there is only SBSH iLauncher offers safe mode, but it still cannot prevent my device from poor installation. Perhaps it might help not to load certain Today Plugin only when the safe mode prompt. For some scenario the device just cannot boot up the safe mode and there is no other alternative but to hard reset.

What do you mean by safemode????
There is no safemode in WM6. Hard reset and do it right the next time.
Cheers!

sensorama said:
What do you mean by safemode????
There is no safemode in WM6. Hard reset and do it right the next time.
Cheers!
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SBSH´s iLauncher as well as SPB´s PocketPlus DO provide an option for a safe mode on the WM platform......they do this by not loading today plug-ins and other certain modules, that can mess up your OS....
I think, there´s even a very good article about it in the WIKI of this forum. However, SPB´s products are still NOT oficially supporting WM6.1......

michi123 said:
SPB´s products are still NOT oficially supporting WM6.1......
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That said, I can confirm that the safe-mode function of SPB Pocket Plus does work fine on the Diamond.
To the OP, as discussed there are safe-mode programs available, however they require installing before you need them...
Mathew

sensorama said:
Hard reset and do it right the next time.
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+1
Although, as posted above, there is a way....
More interesting though, is what do you do when you've f*cked your device to the point it won't boot up, and you don't already have those programs installed? A way to edit the registry offline while the device is bricked would be nice... Like the PSP has the battery hack, a similar thing here would be nice. After all, the Diamond didn't come free, in fact there are quite pricey $$$, and there are many other things I would prefer to use as a paperweight before the Diamond.
I wonder if the ROM update software could be modified to allow editing the registry? I don't know enough about the way in which it functions internally, but someone here surely does. If it could, you could obviously reverse harmful changes and save yourself from hard-resetting and losing all those settings you took days to complete to perfection... Then you could relax a little more.. IF the IPL and SPL are working then you should be able to do anything within reason, am I right?

salada2k said:
+1
Although, as posted above, there is a way....
More interesting though, is what do you do when you've f*cked your device to the point it won't boot up, and you don't already have those programs installed? A way to edit the registry offline while the device is bricked would be nice... Like the PSP has the battery hack, a similar thing here would be nice. After all, the Diamond didn't come free, in fact there are quite pricey $$$, and there are many other things I would prefer to use as a paperweight before the Diamond.
I wonder if the ROM update software could be modified to allow editing the registry? I don't know enough about the way in which it functions internally, but someone here surely does. If it could, you could obviously reverse harmful changes and save yourself from hard-resetting and losing all those settings you took days to complete to perfection... Then you could relax a little more.. IF the IPL and SPL are working then you should be able to do anything within reason, am I right?
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Yea, see what you are saying. A kinda off-line regedit would be nice.
Well the future will tell. then again... its not that big hustle to reinstall your pda/diamond/whatever.... so im not that bothered.
cherrs!!!!

sensorama said:
What do you mean by safemode????
There is no safemode in WM6. Hard reset and do it right the next time.
Cheers!
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You don't seem to have read the sticky thread on reading the available information before asking / stating something... I've published several articles on Safe Mode. The Wiki even has a dedicated category at http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Systems programs, Safe Mode booting etc on safe mode apps...

michi123 said:
I think, there´s even a very good article about it in the WIKI of this forum.
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Thanks

i also got stuck on the boot screen after a faulty aplication.
but after removing the sim , it went ok and i could uninstall the aplication.
worth the try

yep, recommend hard reset. spb pocket plus safemode works fine on touch pro

I have installed this piece of crap on my HTC Diamond (Blackberry connect WM6 pro 4.0.0.90) and now its stuck on boot screen (HTC logo).Is there ANY WAY to make htc working without hard reset?

Or,is there any way to save my personal data (contacts,photos,etc)and after that to do hard reset?

safe Mode for windows mobile
There is a way to restart in safe mode.You have to install SPB Pocket Plus for that.

diamond2 needs reset to wakeup! Please help!

Happened this morning, I noticed that my diamond2 is not responding when pressing the power button as usual... black screen!
It wakes-up in two cases:
1. soft reset with the stylus.
2. removing the battery and putting it back then pressing the power button.
This happens after I leave it turned off for 5 minutes. It is working fine as long as I don't turn it off. When it is off 5 minutes then no response!
Note: I am using the latest htc rom.
Don't know if this is a software or hardware problem. Any help is much appreciated.

I have actually had a fairly similar problems with my TD2. Not regular and not at spercific times like after 5 minutes but there have been times when my screen doesn't want to turn back on, the device is still on because it still make some of the regular sounds, eg the ping on the home button but the screen is dead.
Like you it will only wake again after a battery out reset, sometimes after several attempts.
I'm pretty sure this is hardware related as like you i'm on an official rom. The first time this happened was after using the phone as a modem and it got quite hot so i think perhaps heat is loosening the connection to the screen, only a guess though so any other opinions welcome.

After trials for 8 hours, I figured out a work around.
I Forced the mobile to work in the GSM only band, from that moment, it is back to normal... 3G is important to me, but I think I will wait until the WinMobile 6.5 is out for our TD2... may be this will solve the issue!

Hard reset it at least once..... That may take care of the freezing issue.

tomtommy306 said:
Hard reset it at least once..... That may take care of the freezing issue.
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did not solve the problem! could this be a network problem or the device's radio rom?

My phone did the same, i disabled the TouchFLO and it worked Fine

mkh1983 said:
My phone did the same, i disabled the TouchFLO and it worked Fine
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This one also did not solve the problem. Any other suggestions!

Problem solved
As I guessed, it was a network error and problem sovled after changing my Sim Card and getting a new updated one from the Service Provider!
Now my TD2 can sleep well and get back whenever called

6.5 is out, has been out for a while now for the TD2...What are you waiting for, might solve this issue...gogogo!

Free Man said:
6.5 is out, has been out for a while now for the TD2...What are you waiting for, might solve this issue...gogogo!
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I have the same problem and i notice that sleep everytime who i use Alarm(clock)...
Noticed that??????

Some times alarm clock sound doesn't work.... the audio level is high...

Free Man said:
6.5 is out, has been out for a while now for the TD2...What are you waiting for, might solve this issue...gogogo!
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I am afraid I have to bump the thread.. I received my device from the HTC service with a new 6.5 ROM installed, and I started having this problem. The deviced sleeps and does not react to pressing Power button, neither to pulling the stylus. The only way how to wake it is to remove the battery and switch it on again. Any idea how to solve this?

The same problem
cassper1 said:
I am afraid I have to bump the thread.. I received my device from the HTC service with a new 6.5 ROM installed, and I started having this problem. The deviced sleeps and does not react to pressing Power button, neither to pulling the stylus. The only way how to wake it is to remove the battery and switch it on again. Any idea how to solve this?
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My TD2 starts the same problem . After some standby time the power button stops working. I tryed to re-flash ROMs , Hard Reset, Change the battery, and nothing solve the problem. The Power Button not working! The only way is soft reset... Any idea?

This is referred to as the "Standby of Death"
The only fix I am aware of is to flash a custom ROM.

hello guys. there is no need to flash a new rom. i had same issue, but hard reset and backup restore helped me. try this on your phone. for back-up, use sk tools
http://www.s-k-tools.com/index.html?sktools/m_feat.html