I am familiar with flashing ROMs. After flashing NBD 8.0, I managed to drop the phone to the ground just as the device was resetting. The touchscreen is cracked. I now can't get past the align screen program. Though the crack is at the bottom right of the screen, I have problems with the pointer on the top right; after some futile clicks there, at the best align screen starts from the beginning.
Obviously any number of resets doesn't help as the align screen is the first thing to come up.
Is there anything that I can do? It is not trivial for me to get the touch screen fixed in the next 10 days.
Edit: For once, I found the solution outside this forum. The solution was to somehow to get activesync work, and then use it to remove the welcome shortcut in windows\startup. This made the align screen program (and may be something else too) not appear during the initial bootup. Touchscreen is pretty much dysfunctional now; but I at least have the phone working.
kernelguy
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I found this some time ago, I never used it but you may want to give it a try.
kernelguy said:
I am familiar with flashing ROMs. After flashing NBD 8.0, I managed to drop the phone to the ground just as the device was resetting. The touchscreen is cracked. I now can't get past the align screen program. Though the crack is at the bottom right of the screen, I have problems with the pointer on the top right; after some futile clicks there, at the best align screen starts from the beginning.
Obviously any number of resets doesn't help as the align screen is the first thing to come up.
Is there anything that I can do? It is not trivial for me to get the touch screen fixed in the next 10 days.
Edit: For once, I found the solution outside this forum. The solution was to somehow to get activesync work, and then use it to remove the welcome shortcut in windows\startup. This made the align screen program (and may be something else too) not appear during the initial bootup. Touchscreen is pretty much dysfunctional now; but I at least have the phone working.
kernelguy
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I have the same problem, and i have no idea to figure it out .... maybe it is only bug in NBD v8.0 for few devices .... so we could contact autor directly this version of ROM and ask him ... because i dont know ....
Skip Align Screen
I can confirm that the program works.
BUT the touch screen becomes unusable!!!!
Mine's broken so it won't make a diff.
My touchscreen had a crack only at the bottom. After skipping the 'align screen' during initial ROM load, I lived with a non-functional touch screen for a day or two. I then remembered the post from equinoxe that had registry settings for his phone. I took those settings and updated my registry. I now have a decent touch screen - at least the top 3/4 works fine.
The key and settings are:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData"="1922,1957 3330,639 3317,3276 600,3230 609,677 "
I could surmise that the screen is being treated as a square of 3900 x 3900 dots. 0,0 seems to be the top, right corner.
kernelguy
kernelguy said:
My touchscreen had a crack only at the bottom. After skipping the 'align screen' during initial ROM load, I lived with a non-functional touch screen for a day or two. I then remembered the post from equinoxe that had registry settings for his phone. I took those settings and updated my registry. I now have a decent touch screen - at least the top 3/4 works fine.
The key and settings are:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData"="1922,1957 3330,639 3317,3276 600,3230 609,677 "
I could surmise that the screen is being treated as a square of 3900 x 3900 dots. 0,0 seems to be the top, right corner.
kernelguy
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I asked the same question awhile back and pretty much got no useful response. It's actually easy. All you have to do is to put a file in the root of your mini-sd card named welcome.not and the system will skip the alignment stuff (and presumably all that crap with moving the appt and stuff too).
mate .... im using your advice to remove the windows shortcut on windows/startup .. but i cannot proceed ... a warning appeared after my attempt to delete the file :
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Error Deleting File
Cannot delete file Welcome : Access is denied .
Make sure your mobile device has sufficient memory, that the file is not set as read-only, and that you have permission to copy this file type .
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that is the exclamation .. is this because the file is a read only ?? how can i change the file permission ??
thx b 4 mate ...
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mate .... im using your advice to remove the windows shortcut on windows/startup .. but i cannot proceed ... a warning appeared after my attempt to delete the file :
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Error Deleting File
Cannot delete file Welcome : Access is denied .
Make sure your mobile device has sufficient memory, that the file is not set as read-only, and that you have permission to copy this file type .
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that is the exclamation .. is this because the file is a read only ?? how can i change the file permission ??
thx b 4 mate ...
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Same problem with me, even with the welcome.exe, so that's not gooing to cut... my next attempt is the registry tweak, i'll create the reg file and put it to SD, every time the alignment is messed up, re run the reg and soft reset
Little update
I've been toying with my k-jam trying to find a solution, i'm writing this as the process is being done.
So i installed and ran the remote remote screen alignment tool mentioned above (attached for simplicity) I only used the first option in the software (you'll see, you wouldn't need the other 2, unless you have working screen alignment)
At least, now I know that after a flash, the phone will work, the screen iffy but... we're in!
I'm trying the registry tweak now, looking for a registry editor for PPC.
OK. PHM RegEdit will do for now, installing
I'm using the regedit because i'm not sure what's the RegistryEditorVersion for WM6, hopefully PHM will lock the settings in
I've manually changed the calibrationdata numbers with great difficulty, soft reset and now the screen is beyond effed up... tapping start goes to calendar..
tapping calendar opens contacts...
Ok just for the sake of curiosity, checked regedit again to find another set of calibration numbers, re-entered the numbers from the post above. This time the numbers remained. No soft reset, just shut down the wizard and turned it back on.. i've regained much of the touch but now i believe it's the digitizer to blame.... will open up the wizard and keep u posted.
So as far as my experiences go for this, software-wise, definitely a success with the calib data given. hardware-wise to be determined..
HTH
Edit: can't attach the remote tool so here's the link
http://www.codefactory.es/descargas/family_1/product_3/MSP_RemoteAlignment.zip
Thank you !!!
thank you so much, it worked with no problem...
hehe
maybe i have a solution too
i had a broken screen too but still could enter my device by using SOTI
http://www.soti.net/default.asp?Cmd=Products&SubCmd=PCPro
after a while the battery drained and when i reconnected it it did a hard reset
i got stuck at the align screen too
but soti already installed on my device even it didnt setup yet
soti has this task manager and i fooled around with closing some threads, i dont know wich ones exactly
anyway i could pass the align screen that way
i have lg ks20 how to skip align screan
the welcome.not function works perfectley...
a blank note pad file saved as "welcome.not" change save as type from text document to all files, then i put it in the root of the sd card and the internel momory...
to sum up:
to skip the align screen:
create a blank file with notepad and rename it to welcome.not
place it into root folder of the internal memory of your phone and soft reset
worked like a charm on touch pro
kernelguy said:
My touchscreen had a crack only at the bottom. After skipping the 'align screen' during initial ROM load, I lived with a non-functional touch screen for a day or two. I then remembered the post from equinoxe that had registry settings for his phone. I took those settings and updated my registry. I now have a decent touch screen - at least the top 3/4 works fine.
The key and settings are:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData"="1922,1957 3330,639 3317,3276 600,3230 609,677 "
I could surmise that the screen is being treated as a square of 3900 x 3900 dots. 0,0 seems to be the top, right corner.
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i have a problem with my wing i have a little crack... at the bottom. i skipped the screen part i red your message with the stats but i dont know how to put them onto my phone i know how to back them up but i dont know how to put the new one on.!!! please please i need help!!!!
having same problem on my titan, can someone tell how to place file and where? I know it is root but like windows folder or ? tried using ceRegEditor and could not drag the .not into the root dir there probably not the right root anyway but I am...sigh anyway I used the tool it is great and is here not here here but follow this linky http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355010
Calibration data
I tried the registry value but, no success.
Could someone provide Screen calibration data from properly aligned Wizard.
it can be found here
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData" =
Thanks
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData"="1903,1948 3181,636 3187,3240 607,3242 592,648"
A little extra info on my Cingular 8125 device with Mfrazzz's Windows Mobile 6.0 ROM.
My original problem was no touch functionality in the top 1/5 of the screen.
I did a system hard reset and was stuck in the Align loop.
I used Windows 7 Mobile Device center to access the device.
I used the SD card welcome.not to bypass the Align, but the xy of the touch point was WAY off, perhaps 20% of screen.
I tried to edit the registry using the reg editor installed in the ROM but could not navigate well enough using the D-pad keys and hardware keyboard.
I installed CeRegEditor on my Win7x64 machine, connected using W7MDC and then connected with CeRegEditor. I edited the coordinates
I installed CeRegEditor and updated the key
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData"="1922,1957 3330,639 3317,3276 600,3230 609,677 "
The alignment was still way off and the Screen Alignment app would still get stuck.
Then I changed the MaxError key value from 16 to 4000.
Bingo! After a reboot the next alignment was accurate and I can now use the touch screen normally.
I believe the screen calibration error was outside the maximum causing the Align loop.
Post if you find this useful.
Good luck!
HiTach said:
A little extra info on my Cingular 8125 device with Mfrazzz's Windows Mobile 6.0 ROM.
My original problem was no touch functionality in the top 1/5 of the screen.
I did a system hard reset and was stuck in the Align loop.
I used Windows 7 Mobile Device center to access the device.
I used the SD card welcome.not to bypass the Align, but the xy of the touch point was WAY off, perhaps 20% of screen.
I tried to edit the registry using the reg editor installed in the ROM but could not navigate well enough using the D-pad keys and hardware keyboard.
I installed CeRegEditor on my Win7x64 machine, connected using W7MDC and then connected with CeRegEditor. I edited the coordinates
I installed CeRegEditor and updated the key
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData"="1922,1957 3330,639 3317,3276 600,3230 609,677 "
The alignment was still way off and the Screen Alignment app would still get stuck.
Then I changed the MaxError key value from 16 to 4000.
Bingo! After a reboot the next alignment was accurate and I can now use the touch screen normally.
I believe the screen calibration error was outside the maximum causing the Align loop.
Post if you find this useful.
Good luck!
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WITH REFRENC TO IMATE ULTIMATE 9502
1 i have made the registry and then posted in the root dir of hardware..
2 i installed the remote screen alignment then pressed skip...
it said "no screen allignment information can be found for your device.the screen allignment will be done mannually . the screen allignment will be done manually" would u like to skip the welcome screen anyway ?
3 now wat i gotta do ?
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please any one help me !
Hy guys, I need help. I read that some of you had enabled readyboost and sidebar in Vista business on the Shift. I have an italian version of it, and i'm not able to enable the sidebar a message said to me that the sidebar is used by the amministrator" but i'm the admin! and for the readyboost? every memory pen or sd that i tried can't shown me the option for enabling readyboost.
many thanks a lot..
The search button is your friend.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=12115809
You can use it to find the sidebar info too.
ooooh you are a big boss. thanks Man!
Above link seems to be deaad...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=375008&highlight=sidebar
Shift - upgrade BIOS problem
Hy guys,
Please I need help. I did upgrade BIOS HTC shift to 1.1.0.8.
Shift screen goes to black and shift looked as shut off.
After 10 minutes i started SHIFT again, but bios crash in start screen where is sign:
Press F1 to run setup
Press F2 to load default values and continue
But nothing does not work :- (
Is there some solutions?
many thanks a lot..
I updated my bios without any problems.
You might do better starting a new thread about this, as it may not be seen tagged on the end of this one. But a failed bios update usually means a warranty claim.
thread
Thank you, i will do a new thread about this.
Had the same problem .. simply entered Bios Setup, checked the settings and saved ..
Had the same problem .. simply entered Bios Setup, checked the settings and saved .. and it didnt appear again!
Hopefully just a small checksum error etc.. but dont worry .. press F1.. enter setup.. check settings.. sit wont disturb u again! Shif is working fine after that!
pavat said:
Hy guys,
Please I need help. I did upgrade BIOS HTC shift to 1.1.0.8.
Shift screen goes to black and shift looked as shut off.
After 10 minutes i started SHIFT again, but bios crash in start screen where is sign:
Press F1 to run setup
Press F2 to load default values and continue
But nothing does not work :- (
Is there some solutions?
many thanks a lot..
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the large clock on the desktop only displays 1 or 2 numbers of the time. Is the new start button causing that problem. Also the was an icon I think for settings, I dont have that any more. Anyone ?
Hi,
try a soft reset from WM side or go to Vista and reset Snapvue from there using the control center.
S.
Soft Reset
I don't see any way to reset on either side. I can reset SnapVue by using file explorer. Will I lose WM6 .. Guess I will find out in a few minutes.
Display Problems
I learned the hard way, Clear Storage is NOT a soft reset. Back to square 1. Thing is .. when the start button is at the top of the screen, the isn't room at the bottom of the screen for Settings and SMS.
Everything Is Back To Normal
I think that the start button was not what was causing the display problems on my machine. Maybe adding and extra email address did it ...thanks for the help !!
I spoke too soon
Can't get the today reg to import. Tried it over and over. Do I need to start from scratch ?? Now I am afraid to start with the VGA because I am afraid I will get half way through that process and at some point it will not allow me to do something .. somewhere .. The only major change I made to the computer since the first time I modified winmo6 is adding the sidebar .. had to jump through some hoops to do that...
Hi, I get the impression,
that you do it the hard way. But for the first steps, before you start with RealVGA there is a very easy way to liberate the shift.
Look in the main Shift Thread. There you find from the top Sticky number four: Enabling the Shift the really easy way.
Or did you do that? It can be found on the modaco site.
And be very careful with RealVGA and read exactly the thing about the startup folder as you have an Italian Shift.
S.
VGA ...
And be very careful with RealVGA and read exactly the thing about the startup folder as you have an Italian Shift.
S.[/QUOTE]
I think that I have a USA model .. are you confusing me with someone else ? or do I have an Italian model and don't know that I do ??
Finally I did it......i got it installed.....really great rom (new BlackStone ROM)
Some notes:
1) In landscape mode still facing a problem at home screen.
2) There is no MSN messenger or Live.
3) Same problem of Wifi disconnection on standby.(Kaiser tweak didn't work also) and i tried it manually(changing the registry) it worked BUT when it goes to standby the screen keep blinking light (ON/OFF).
4) Album same problem as i must put all pics in one folder (it don't read folders).
5) Music same problem as i must put all files in one folder (it don't read folders).
6) Dialer is nice but if i want to make a video call how i can do that (No obvious option)
7) At home screen Programes icons keep turning to the default window icon and turns back to its shape again when i click or open it.
8)When i put the (Multinedia and Utilities folders) in the start menu.....they disappear from the inside programes menu.
9) THE RESOLUTION OF THE CAMERA KINDA BAD..BAD..BAD (CAN I RESTORE THE OLD CAMERA VERSION)
10) The WOREST OF ALL NO 3G .... NO VIDEO CALL ..... NO FRONT CAMERA.
These are all my notes till now.
But anyway great job .. i like it and thanks for the great effort.
REQUEST: 1) Could any one tell me if someday i want my device back to its original sate (rom setting) how i can do that.....and please in detail.
2) The above problems can any one help me with them...Please!!!!!!
THANKS IN ADVANCE
medomgmg said:
Finally I did it......i got it installed.....really great rom (new BlackStone ROM)
Some notes:
1) In landscape mode still facing a problem at home screen.
2) There is no MSN messenger or Live.
3) Same problem of Wifi disconnection on standby.(Kaiser tweak didn't work also) and i tried it manually(changing the registry) it worked BUT when it goes to standby the screen keep blinking light (ON/OFF).
4) Album same problem as i must put all pics in one folder (it don't read folders).
5) Music same problem as i must put all files in one folder (it don't read folders).
6) Dialer is nice but if i want to make a video call how i can do that (No obvious option)
7) At home screen Programes icons keep turning to the default window icon and turns back to its shape again when i click or open it.
8)When i put the (Multinedia and Utilities folders) in the start menu.....they disappear from the inside programes menu.
9) THE RESOLUTION OF THE CAMERA KINDA BAD..BAD..BAD (CAN I RESTORE THE OLD CAMERA VERSION)
10) The WOREST OF ALL NO 3G .... NO VIDEO CALL ..... NO FRONT CAMERA.
These are all my notes till now.
But anyway great job .. i like it and thanks for the great effort.
REQUEST: 1) Could any one tell me if someday i want my device back to its original sate (rom setting) how i can do that.....and please in detail.
2) The above problems can any one help me with them...Please!!!!!!
THANKS IN ADVANCE
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Flash an non-chef orginal rom, like the htc branded rom, whatever you like,
second you should really post this information in the HD3 tread ( because ur using his rom ) so copy/paste your entire question en put it there, alot of people will help you out over there.
its btw important for number:
1 Manille doesnt have that option just not yet ( its coming i tell ya )
2 to install windows live messenger ( also founded it that specific tread.
3 Try running advanced config 3.3 and look for that option ( i really dont know if its possible yes or no.
4+5 put ur music in storagecard/mydocuments/my music ( also ur album art ) and manilla will found ur music.
6 install another dialer ( also founded in the HD3 tread : the 3g xperia dialer ( by sakajati! )
7 blank
8 u need to copy them not cut. just copy them back into programs, and ur fine.
9 for that camera stuff, install another camera ( yes, also founded in that tread )
and last but not least The tread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=397121
thx fo help
thank u so much for ur help...i will try all ur advices and tell u later