Start menu: BLACK!!!! - Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General

Please help. I've done "something " with SK Tools (fonts? phone?), i don't remember what. soft-reset. Now, when i tap on start, the menu is all black...when i tap on the black "image", for a second a can see the programs then starts the program tapped... i've resetted fonts to defaults values but the issue is still present. so, to use start menu, i've unchecked " Active large start menu"....any suggestion? Thank you all

I did that the other day, i had removed touch flo from the today screen and not replaced with anything, so was a totally black screen
Paul

HKLM\Software\HTC\EnlargeMenu\ManilaCustomTexture
HKLM\Software\HTC\EnlargeMenu\ManilaCustomText

sushilange said:
HKLM\Software\HTC\EnlargeMenu\ManilaCustomTexture
HKLM\Software\HTC\EnlargeMenu\ManilaCustomText
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Hi! Have I to edit the registry as indicated?
With Resco Registry Editor I find .....|HTC|EnlargeMenu... two strings (DEfault-not defined and Enable 0x0)...where have I to write?

This happened to me when I enabled menu animations in the registry.
'HKLM\System\GWE\Menu\AniType 0' is default, I think the value '6' enables the animation and nasty evil black start menu!

derinahon said:
This happened to me when I enabled menu animations in the registry.
'HKLM\System\GWE\Menu\AniType 0' is default, I think the value '6' enables the animation and nasty evil black start menu!
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+1 on this

It worked
I had the same problem.
Changing the setting and doing a soft reset worked, thanks

derinahon said:
This happened to me when I enabled menu animations in the registry.
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...chenged to default, now all works fine. Thanx

medfcara said:
Please help. I've done "something " with SK Tools (fonts? phone?), i don't remember what. soft-reset. Now, when i tap on start, the menu is all black...when i tap on the black "image", for a second a can see the programs then starts the program tapped... i've resetted fonts to defaults values but the issue is still present. so, to use start menu, i've unchecked " Active large start menu"....any suggestion? Thank you all
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Did you enable menu animation using the tool?
If so, disdble it again, and you will be good.

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Force Landscape mode?

On the Diamond the screen options under settings do not include the Landscape / Portrait wwitch. Is there any way to force the device to Landscape?
you can force Landscape / Portrait with "WisBar Advance"
Or with QuickMenu...
yeah, personally I have this switch mapped to win-logo long press in QuickMenu
Found this, posted somewhere odd
iliew said:
The Touch Diamond does not show the WM screen rotation under settings so we can't manually set rotation for apps like Word, SMS. Here is how to enable it. After you've done the hack, run the app you want to rotate (eg. Word Mobile), then do Start, Settings, System, Screen to set rotation to landscape. The onscreen keyboard is much larger in landscape! When you click the HOME key it will go back to portrait.
Enable Manual Screen Rotation (Portrait/Landscape):
HKLM - System - GDI - Rotation - HideOrientationUI (change from 1 to 0)
Change is immediate effectively. No reboot is required.
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confirmed, this works.
HKLM - System - GDI - Rotation :
LandscapeFixed: set to "0" ( default is "1" )
extends options to:
Portrait
Landscape (right-handed)
Landscape (left-handed)
cool, thanks - this is handy for me being lefty; any chance of disabling the right-handed option forever?
You can do just what you want using Mortscript...
And the script should run automatically everytime you reboot your device....
czbird said:
yeah, personally I have this switch mapped to win-logo long press in QuickMenu
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i also set this up. works only on home page. f in an app, i get this new never efore seen menu that says \
Copy
Cut
Paste
Select All
Select all + copy
select all + cut
Undo
If we now can activate it from the system eventually we'll get to know how to use the acceleremoter in whole system or atleast in whole TF3D.
woho, nice to hear that the edit menu works on diamond too, cause it's dunno why not working for me. this is great feature of quickmenu allowing you to manipulate with the clipboard whenever you're in an editbox.
It would be nice to have G-sensor to automatically rotates screen in all apps. I'm sure that there is a way, registry entry perhaps.
You can, using this app:
http://msmobiles.com/news.php/7483.html
Works like a charm
czbird said:
confirmed, this works.
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Hi! I'm new with smartphone ...
I would like to set the rotation on my HTC Diamond. How can I do that?
I must install some application?
in a website I saw .."Using a Registry editor, go to....."
how can I access the Registry editor?
thank you very much!
dehmussi22 said:
Hi! I'm new with smartphone ...
I would like to set the rotation on my HTC Diamond. How can I do that?
I must install some application?
in a website I saw .."Using a Registry editor, go to....."
how can I access the Registry editor?
thank you very much!
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1.) Give Google a try and search for TF3D Config!
2.) go to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=430174
or
1.) go to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=492132 (what I did , month ago ...)

Two start menu's am I doing something wrong

I just installed Dutty's Diamond Rom! I didn't like the start menu, so I installed QuickMenu 2.7 and now I have two, even though my QuickMenu is set to overwrite the default menu!
Help!
Update!
So If i click the windows icon it opens the start menu, and if I click I Start it opens the other menu. Is there a way I can turn the Windows default one off?
Disable Large Start Menu
Goto: Start, Settings, Personal, Large Start Menu.
No Large Start Menu
When I navigate to Settings > Personal, there is no option for large start menu! I click Menus but that has nothing in terms of disabling it. Sorry for the trouble!
jatin.ahuja said:
When I navigate to Settings > Personal, there is no option for large start menu! I click Menus but that has nothing in terms of disabling it. Sorry for the trouble!
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Hmm... I'm not running Dutty's ROM currently.
Maybe the setting to disable Large Start Menu is under TouchFlo settings.
[EDIT]
Found it in Dutty's thread!
omar302 said:
To disablelarge Start Menu go to settings>system>touchflo> uncheck "Enable Large Start Menu".
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Got it! Thank you soo much!!
Also, if you open quickmenu start bar, and goto quickmenu->option-> and then on the general tab check "replace system's start menu". That does the trick too!

[Solved] Odd Looking Desktop Icons Windows XP

Hey guys,
Off topic.... My desktop icons have a black bakground (see jpeg enclosed) and no matter what i do i can not repair them. They work correctly but look crap
Steps tried so far: (mostly gotton from google.....)
1 used tweakui to attempt repair.
2 adjusted colour depth from 32 to 16 and back again.
3 deleted icon cache, restarted to force rebuild of file.
4 several reg fixs none of which worked.
5 tried several wallpapers/themes and tried tweakin many settings.
None of the above worked and im tired now, so im hoping you guys have some suggestions
Many thanks.
Easy....
Open System Properties in Control Panel, choose the Advanced tab, and click Settings in the Performance section. Turn on the Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop option, and click Ok.
Job done
Mark.
Mark Crouch said:
Easy....
Open System Properties in Control Panel, choose the Advanced tab, and click Settings in the Performance section. Turn on the Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop option, and click Ok.
Job done
Mark.
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Yea,. i ever have that problem once,... and thats the way i fix it,.
or to use another color, right-click on deskop, select Properties and Select the Desktop tab (2nd tab), see in the end, in right hand side, there is an option named Color, choose the color you wish and voila!
-G- said:
Yea,. i ever have that problem once,... and thats the way i fix it,.
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Thanks for the suggestion which im afraid didnt work. It was already checked on. I of course turned it off then on again and was no different
ather90 said:
or to use another color, right-click on deskop, select Properties and Select the Desktop tab (2nd tab), see in the end, in right hand side, there is an option named Color, choose the color you wish and voila!
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I know this can be done, but i would like to see the icons & text sitting on top of my wallpaper, not with a background colour, but thanks for the reply
Any other suggestions guys?
Found in the web - at least worth a try:
If you have tried everything already mentioned and still cannot get your icons to have transparent you may want to try this. Change following reg keys to a value of 0 User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ Explorer] System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ Explorer] Value Name: ForceActiveDesktopOn Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) Value Data: (0 = default, 1 = enabled) This is what did it for me. Something, I don’t know what was changing this value to 1 on my system. Once I set this to 0 I had my drop shadows back.
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In addition, give TuneUp 2008 a try, it can fix a lot of REGISTRY and SYSTEM problems. The Trial Version is fully functional for 15 days.
Junner2003 said:
Found in the web - at least worth a try:
In addition, give TuneUp 2008 a try, it can fix a lot of REGISTRY and SYSTEM problems. The Trial Version is fully functional for 15 days.
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Thanks for the advice Junner2003.
The first reg setting you suggested was at 0 already. The second one simply did not exist
Value Name: ForceActiveDesktopOn Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) Value Data: (0 = default, 1 = enabled)
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I am going to try the app you suggested and will report back...
Many thanks
Solution
Ok guys,
I managed to find the solution. Tune up 2009 app didnt solve it although it did make my destop looking like vista (black bars and cool icons)
The problem was in "display properties/desktop/customise desktop/web". I did have at one time active web content on my desktop which i had turned off many moons ago. Along with the two web page addresses (which were inactive) i had a file "file:///C:\DOCUME~1\TIM&SA~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image002.jpg" which was active? what this is and where it came from i dont know, but de selecting it did the trick and my desktop is now back to normal.
Many thanks for all your ideas and help chaps, long live XDA

CalliGrapher App

I installed the CalliGrapher 7.0 in my Diamond. After a required soft reset... the phone just freezes in the PIN Check loader. If I press the Home tab it directs me there but nothing is accessible. It's just frozen and nothing works... just like a screenshot of your home tab. How do I uninstall this app without having to do a hard reset... can I somehow access the Add/Remove Panel from my computer?
Edit: I checked again and found out that the touch UI is no longer working. I played around with the buttons and it seems that I can somehow controll the phone via buttons but I can't get the Start Menu to open so that I can reach the Settings Pannel.
To make it short: How do I access the Add/Remove Pannel using buttons only? ( no touch )
Edit2: Eventually, I managed to uninstall the CalliGrapher app using Pocket Mechanic and using only buttons but it didn`t solve anything... I still have a non responding touch UI and I can't come up with anything that would fix it... other than a hard reset. Any suggestions for a non responsive Touch UI? It's kinda frustrating to work a "Touch" Diamond using buttons.
val3nteen said:
I installed the CalliGrapher 7.0 in my Diamond. After a required soft reset... the phone just freezes in the PIN Check loader. If I press the Home tab it directs me there but nothing is accessible. It's just frozen and nothing works... just like a screenshot of your home tab. How do I uninstall this app without having to do a hard reset... can I somehow access the Add/Remove Panel from my computer?
Edit: I checked again and found out that the touch UI is no longer working. I played around with the buttons and it seems that I can somehow controll the phone via buttons but I can't get the Start Menu to open so that I can reach the Settings Pannel.
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Maybe in safemode lots off phones are set so that if you reboot in a certain time 2 or 3 times it will automatic ask you or you want to boot in safemode.
Good luck
Willem
I had no luck with the safe mode... rebooted 5 times and nothing happened, no safe mode option. There has to be a way to get me into that Add/Remove Pannel using buttons only...
val3nteen said:
I had no luck with the safe mode... rebooted 5 times and nothing happened, no safe mode option. There has to be a way to get me into that Add/Remove Pannel using buttons only...
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Did you try the safemode way for the second third and so on time before boot was complete, I mean you have to softreset before boot complete again.
Hope this helps
Willem
I tried and it didn`t work... I managed to get into the file explorer and I`m trying to find the "Settings" shortcut from the Start Menu... Do you know where it is located? I would use the search option but I can't type in letters and such... I started looking in the win files but it is kinda taking me too long. If it is a Start Menu shortcut then it must be somewhere within the Windows folder, right?
Edit: I found the "Settings" folder but when I open it, nothing... Tapped to "Show All Files" but no result. The Add/Remove Pannel is here but I just can't see it! How do I make it show?? Can I find it elsewhere?
The Icons in the "Programs" folder seem to appear. I pretty sure the "Settings" icons are system icons...
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I tried and it didn`t work... I managed to get into the file explorer and I`m trying to find the "Settings" shortcut from the Start Menu... Do you know where it is located? I would use the search option but I can't type in letters and such... I started looking in the win files but it is kinda taking me too long. If it is a Start Menu shortcut then it must be somewhere within the Windows folder, right?
Edit: I found the "Settings" folder but when I open it, nothing... Tapped to "Show All Files" but no result. The Add/Remove Pannel is here but I just can't see it! How do I make it show?? Can I find it elsewhere?
The Icons in the "Programs" folder seem to appear. I pretty sure the "Settings" icons are system icons...
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If I where you I would do a hard reset.
Willem
Wilsas said:
If I where you I would do a hard reset.
Willem
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Not an option atm.

How to put menu letters bigger?

How to increase the letters on the start menu?
I have the old start menu view as you can see in the image, but letters are so small at natural
I think I've seen a trick to change the registry but can not find it. Thank you
I don't know if the ones in the menu are changed, but go to: settings - all settings - system - screen - text size. Again, don't know if only the message text is changed or the menu. Sorry if this is not the solution
georgeono said:
I don't know if the ones in the menu are changed, but go to: settings - all settings - system - screen - text size. Again, don't know if only the message text is changed or the menu. Sorry if this is not the solution
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Is not, but thank you... You are very kindly and try to help that´s the spirit of this pages...
The problem is make bigger the letter in the extended menu that are really small... Any other idea?
Thanks all....
I'm sure it can be done, there are programs for it, but I can't find it at the moment, sorry.
whizz said:
I'm sure it can be done, there are programs for it, but I can't find it at the moment, sorry.
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I think is not a program... Is change some key from registry... I use to have a Diamond and I do but know I can´t find the page with instructions But it can be done.... Sure someone remember the way
HTC have "Enlarge Start Menu" that does that... Never heard of registry settings for it though...
This is what you're after. See attached screenshots to see the difference.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\EnlargeMenu]
"Enable"=dword:00000001
You have to soft reset the device for the change to take effect.

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