Database Develop

Touchscreen digitiser dead

Hello all. I purchased my Tilt about 3 weeks ago from an ATT store. It was running a little sluggish so i wanted to re flash the ROM. I have done this on many other Phones with great success. I used Duty's new version 7 and liked it very much. My problem is that after running it for about 1 day my touch screen stopped working. I have hard reset it and even flashed it with new and default Roms but when it starts and goes to do the setup i cant click the screen to do the setup. The phone is working behind the setup screen , I have answered phone calls. Is there any way i can bypass that part of the setup so i can restore my Tilt to its original form so i can return it ? I guess i would need a ROM for the tilt that didn't have that specific part in the setup. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have been reading the forums here for the past 4 days and cant find the answer anywhere else so i made this post. I want to run Kaiser sspl from my phone but cant get to it with that screen in front. Thanks in advance

Please read follow up
OK this is an update on my situation . I actually got pocket controller pro installed on my computer and on my Tilt so i can now access my devices registry , startup folders etc... Does anyone know what the process is or maybe a registry key that i can change in the start up that will stop that part of the setup from running ? Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

there is an app some place on this forum that does just what you need just never used it so I don't know what its called so do some searching on the forum and you will probably find it

Thanks for the response. Do you mean it will bypass the touchscreen alignment screen ? or i can run a program from my PC as if it were on my PCP?
By the way awesome stuff at your site

Cyberjudas said:
Thanks for the response. Do you mean it will bypass the touchscreen alignment screen ? or i can run a program from my PC as if it were on my PCP?
By the way awesome stuff at your site
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can activesync right? If you can... Try this:
http://www.mtux.com/
Allows you to control the mobile's screen from pc.

Thanks for the reply
The problem is that even when accessing the ppc from a program on my computer i still cant get past the Align screen.

If can can access the /windows directory with activesync, delete the 'Welcome' shortcut in the /startup folder. That should stop the screen alginment program.
Edit:
Another (possibly easier) way to do this is to put an empty file (create with a text editor) called 'Welcome.not' in the root directory of a card in the MicroSD slot.

Another suggestion - though not tried by me on the Kaiser. Works for Hermes:
Remote ScreenAlignment User's Guide
Copyright © 2007, Code Factory, S.L.
Introduction
Screen alignment is part of the boot process of the Windows CE device, and is only necessary the first time the device is booted, or after a hard reset. Since Mobile Speak Pocket works on mainstream hardware and does not involve any specialized firmware changes, the screen alignment process cannot be completely bypassed.
However, we understand that the screen alignment process can be difficult for most users as it requires sighted assistance. In order to overcome this limitation, therefore, we have developed the Remote Screen Alignment application.
The Remote Screen Alignment Application runs on your desktop computer and retrieves the alignment information from the device. It then stores the information in a file on your computer. As long as you have this file, you will never need sighted assistance to align the screen no matter how many times you hard format the device.
We have included screen alignment information for certain devices in this application, so users of such devices can immediately use the program for its intended purpose. However, users of devices for which alignment information is not yet available in the application will have to get the screen aligned manually the first time. Once this is done, the user may retrieve the alignment information from the device and use it whenever the device needs to be formatted and its screen aligned again.
The Screen Alignment Process
When the device is turned on for the first time or a hard reset is performed, the "Setup your Pocket PC" wizard is displayed. You will hear an audio indication that the wizard has come up on the screen. This wizard is a set of screens that help the user align the device screen, testing the touch screen functionality, and setting the time zone for the user's region. The screen alignment process involves following displayed instructions to tap a target location which differs on every screen of the wizard.
Installing the Remote Screen Alignment Application
1.
Download the Remote Screen Alignment application installer from the Mobile Speak Pocket Downloads page.
2.
Run the Remote Screen Alignment installer file from where you have saved it in your computer.
3.
Select the installer language you wish to use, then activate the OK button.
4.
The next screen displays the License Agreement for this application. Press the "I agree" button when you are ready to proceed.
5.
The program to be installed is checked by default in the next screen. You can just activate the Next button.
6.
You may change the program folder for this application, but by default, C:\Program Files\Code Factory\Remote Screen Alignment is selected. Use the Browse button to choose another location, or press the Install button to accept the default and continue with installation.
7.
The application is then installed and if there were no problems with installing, focus will be on the Close button of a screen informing you that installation was successful. Press Enter here to exit the screen.
Using the Remote Screen Alignment Application
Following the successful installation of the Remote Screen Alignment application, you will find shortcuts in Start Menu > All Programs > Code Factory > Remote Screen Alignment for opening the Code Factory Downloads page, running the Remote Screen Alignment application, and uninstalling the program.
When you start the Remote Screen Alignment program, you will find four buttons with focus on the first one:
· OK button - is pressed to close the application. Tapping the Escape key or pressing Alt+F4 will achieve the same result.
· Skip button - is used to align the screen of your device remotely from your computer.
· Retrieve button - allows you to get the screen alignment information from your device, given that it is already properly aligned, and to store it in a file that you can use later to align your device screen after a hard reset.
· Alignment button - runs the normal screen alignment process and store the alignment information on your computer. You will need to manually align the screen if you select this option.
Aligning Your Device Screen Remotely from Your Computer
To find out if screen alignment information for your device model is already available upon installation of the Remote Screen Alignment application, follow these steps:
1.
Establish an ActiveSync partnership (standard or guest) between your computer and Pocket PC device. For instructions on how to set up a partnership, refer to the Mobile Speak Pocket Users Manual or ActiveSync Help.
2.
Run the Remote Screen Alignment application on your computer.
3.
Tab to the Skip button and press Enter. If the file containing the appropriate screen alignment information exists, then the message "Please wait while your device is being configured" is displayed, shortly followed by the message "The operation has been completed successfully. Your device will be restarted."
4.
Press Enter on the OK button already in focus and your device should restart.
5.
On your computer, you are returned to the Skip button and you may Shift+tab back to the OK button and activate it to close the application.
Note that the same steps are performed in order to align your device screen after every hard reset, if the screen alignment information is already stored in your device, whether or not you had to retrieve that information manually or was already included in the Remote Screen Alignment program.
However, if the screen alignment information for your device is not yet available, then activating the Skip button yields the message "No screen alignment information can be found for your device. The screen alignment will need to be done manually. Would you like to skip the welcome screen anyway?". It is suggested that you activate the No button in this screen, and ask a sighted person to align the screen for you.
Retrieving Screen Alignment Information
If you have already aligned the screen of your device, you need to retrieve the screen alignment information from the device. Follow these steps to do so:
1.
Make sure there is an existing ActiveSync partnership between your computer and Pocket PC device.
2.
Run the Remote Screen Alignment application on your computer.
3.
Press Tab to go to the Retrieve button and hit Enter.
4.
If the information was retrieved successfully, the message "The screen alignment information has been successfully stored" will be displayed and you can press the OK button at that screen to close it.
5.
Exit the application by activating the OK button.
The screen alignment information is stored in a file on your computer. This file is named according to your device model with a .dat extension. It can be found in C:\Program Files\Code Factory\Remote Screen Alignment, or in the program folder you selected during installation of the application.
You should ensure that the file for your device is not deleted or misplaced. You will not be able to align the screen without sighted help if you do not have this file in the future. Moreover, if the screen alignment information for your device was not included in the application files, we ask that you email it as an attachment to [email protected] so that we can add it to the next version of the Remote Screen Alignment program.
Codefactory
http://www.codefactory.es/mobile_speak_pocket/msp_downloads.htm
Application Download
http://216.139.221.18/downloads/mobile_speak_pocket/release/MSP_RemoteAlignment.zip
Manual
http://216.139.221.18/downloads/mobile_speak_pocket/Remote_ScreenAlignment_Manual.doc
Cheers
Mike

Thanks for all the Help!
rob.ocelot You Rule Brother! That was soooo easy ...I put it on the card an it worked ! Awesome !
I'm fixing it as i type this . Thanks again
On a side note, I called ATT support today and explained what was happening and he said that they would send a new phone out right away and will have it in 2 days. Than within 14 days i send the old one back to them. All in all a good experience with them so far.
Had to come and Edit my post here. After using your tip on putting that file on my card and rebooting i was able to run the software to restore my Tilt and is now 100% Restored to original ! The Guides from the people on this site are top notch and Thanks to you all ! Problem Solved and New Tilt on the way !

Remote Screen Alignment may not work on 6.5
Had a similar problem, though was on WinMo 6.5 (Anryl's 21725).
Unfortunately, this solution does not seem to work on 6.5- everytime the Remote Screen Alignment (RSA) executed successfully, and the phone restarted, but went back to the "Tap to setup device" screen.
Went back to stock HTC 6.1 ROM, and the RSA works fine.
Did not see this post in time to try the welcome.not tip on 6.5- will try that out once my phone is repaired!

You might try one of Abusalza's Ultimate X2 ROMs. I don't believe they want you to align the screen when you hard reset.
Dave

Thanks!
Thanks for the heads up, Dave.
Am trying one of his ROMs now, and you're right, they don't default to the "Tap..." screen.
Feels nice to be back with touching the screen again (my phone is back from repair)... When the touchscreen was dead that I really understood the versatility of the Kaiser, and most of the programs in it... I could get by most of my day by using various hardware keys!
Cheers!

GoodLink problem, anyone can help?

I have goodlink installed on my Kaiser and can't remove it since it is required by the company.
Well, the bad things are:
1. The goodlink main program "GoodApp.exe" can somehow start itself automatically. It really eat a lot of battery and can cause extra GPRS traffic.
I've remove the .lnk file from \Windows\Startup directory so that GoodApp can't start during system startup.
But, it will still run after several minutes and can't be correcly stopped.
Generally, there're two Good applications displayed in the TaskMgr: GoodApp.exe and GmdMoniterApp.exe, it's easy to kill the GmdMonitorApp.exe but when you want to kill GoodApp.exe, it will always prompt an error, though after that it seems the GoodApp.exe disappears in the TaskMgr. However it will start again after several minutes. CRAZY!
Anyone knows how to kill the GoodApp.exe so that I can run it on my will?
2. The Good software modifies the shortcut to the "Contact" menu (on the bottom-right corner of the screen). Normally when you hit the "Contact" menu it should display the contact list of your SIM card or so. But after installing Good, this menu points to the Good contact list. It's really annoying!
Where could I get the "Contact" menu back?
Thanks a lot!

I'm in the same boat, hate what Good Mail hijacks! Found a couple of ini's but since Good's support site is garbage, it didn't help much.
Have tried a whole mess of things, all to no avail....
If anyone else comes up with any suggestions, I'm all ears.
MBN

Just as a follow up, I've reflashed my phone umpteen times trying various "fixes" with no luck. Thought I'd found the registry entries (HKLM\Sofware\Microsoft\Shell\RAI) and tried tweaking those.... no help, DOH!
Tried to overwrite the various exe's with empty "fabricated" ones (renamed empty text docs and overwrote the Good mail ones), still nothing.
A couple of weeks ago I had a version of Good that at least left the contacts in my dialpad intact...latest version hijacked that one as well.
I have my IT dept contacting Good to see if they will offer any insight (not holding my breath). I fear I am left only with trying a third party PIM.... but the way things are going, Good will hijack that too!!!
If I hear or find anything, I'll update.
MBN

I have to say that GoodLink is the most dirty PDA software I've ever seen.
It uses a lot of dirty method to protect it from being disabled.
There are 3 main programs related with the protection(I can't remembet all the names):
1. GmdLockApp.exe: to protect your cellphone with a password. it will force you to set a password and you'll have to input the password every time the phone come back from standby mode (or so...).
2. GmdProtector.exe: to protect GoodLink components. With this program running, you'll never get a chance to modify any configuration of GoodLink (such as renaming a GoodLink program, or change a Reg key of it...).
3. GmdLaunchGuard.exe: this is the most dirty program, it hijacks almost all other application's shortcuts. Try to search "GmdLaunchGuard" in the Reg table you will find there's many results indicating the original windows configuration was changed by it.
For problem 1 & 2, I got a workaround so that you can at least modify some Reg key to do furthur test and can kill the GmdMonitorApp.exe & GoodApp.exe at last:
Steps:
1. Use GoodLink backup tool to backup it on to the storge card;
2. On the root of storage card there's a directory "GoodLink Backup", enter that dir and just delete the GmdLockApp.exe;
3. Also in that dir, rename the GmdProtector.exe to GmdProtectorBak.exe or something like that;
4. Soft reset you cellphone (by pressing both function keys then press reset) to let it return to the original state;
5. After restart, in the storage card root dir, there's a Restore GoodLink short cut, excute it will restore GoodLink to the memory;
6. Enter Windows\Startup dir, delete the short cut which points to GoodLink;
After above steps at least GoodLink will not start immediately after system startup, but it can start at anytime (I'm not sure).
However you can kill the GmdMonitorApp.exe and GoodApp.exe in the TaskMgr. You'd better stop GPRS before you kill GoodApp.exe, or it will prompt you an error.
For problem 3 (actually it relates with displaying the contacts), I still didn't find a good way to resolve it (simply rename the GmdLaunchGuard.exe will not work, and perhaps will make you can't load any program).
However you can see your SIM card contact by pressing "Send" key, it will bring out the contact list though it's very inconvenient and lossing some functionality such as smart searching...

You can rename the GoodApp.exe so it will never be started.

I could probably live with the constant presence of Good, I just hate that it hijacked my contacts....
It links contacts to only one of our company's address books, and it happens to be the employee addy book.... doesn't exactly help me much.
Oh, and have I mentioned that it's pushing Lotus Notes...another favorite of mine!

Resurrecting an old thread here... I hate how Good hijacks the Calendar and Contacts softkeys and I want to work on that issue again. Has anyone made progress with that?
As far as the GPRS activity and battery life, if you launch GoodMail and then goto the options menu you can set it to "Work Offline" which prevents it from auto-checking for new mail. You can then go to that same options menu whenever you want and select "Send/Receive" to manually pull your mail.

phone "automaticly" out of powersave and selects more files.....

Hello,
I don't know how too make a good title for this topic, hope this will do?!
the problem I have is when I push the on/off button when the phone is on it use to go in to a powersave mode/ blank the screen but when I do the schreen comes up in a second, and when I repeat this the phone also repeat it
An other thing is when I'm in file explorer I select a folder (with the stylus) I'll get the same action as if I push the folder for a long time (the copy past selections)
Another thing is that it selcts more than one folder... the first folder is selcted and when I touch an other folder it also select that folder... (like ctrl on an regular pc)
When I write a text message it automaticly gives returns.....
Thanks in advance

added some info? maybe someone can help me?!

SUPER BIG PROBLEM PLEASE HELP No srvc no spb menu etc!!

Ok so as of last night my spb mobile shell, spb weather, the green phone button to get to the dialing pad to make a call does not work. The SPB menu i had added no longer shows. It just stays on the old today screen it had before the add ons. No longer have the extra add-ons as mentioned above and above all it says i have no service so i cant recieve calls or anymore texts. Looked in the com manager and its not in airplane mode or anything. The files for those add ons are still on my device though. The contacts have dissappeared from my text messages that were there from before this happened and now just the phone numbers show. I have tried and tried and searched and searched but no luck in finding a solution. If anyone could help me in figuring out what maybe happened and what i could do that would be so helpful. I have an AT&T Tilt unlocked to Tmobile. Did it relock itself? I went out with a friend and the phone was in a tiny clutch purse so it could be that it was pressing buttons while in there but i have the S2u2 lock app added which is the only thing that works still. The keyboard i added no longer shows up either but as i mentioned its all still installed on the phone. Did a reset with the tiny button at the bottom but nothing comes back up. When its loading back up a whole bunch of error messages come up in regards to some of the apps saying its is not signed with a trusted certificate or one of its components cannot be found. I tried syncing it to my laptop but the Windows Mobile Device just comes up with an error when its connecting it. I'd hate to loose everything because as many know it takes time in researching and learning and downloading all the tweaks for a phone. I have sprite backup but its not even showing the last backup i did. Please help me and direct me on what to do if you think you know what happened then that would help too. Thanks.

UPDATE
OK so I had to use my sprite backup create a backup so i could keep all of my files and then hard reset the phone. Now...question...I drug the SPB Mobile Shell, SPB Weather, Thumbapp Calendar, Kaiser Tweak, keyboard skin and Windows Mobile skin files from off the phone and just placed them on my laptop desktop. Now that I am starting with a clean slate, the service works (still unlocked ), I can use the green call button to make a call and the windows mobile device manager is recognizing and bringing up my phone on my laptop. Will i be able to drag those folders with the cabs etc from my laptop into my programs folder in my device from the WM Device manager or do i have to actually add the zip files and open in the phone?? In other words (in case im unclear) do i have to redownload all the cabs zip files for all the mods i made and open and load those into the phone, or can i just drag the folders from the previous load from my laptop onto my computer? Thanks for all your help.
P.S. after i hard reset, i restored that backup file and SPB menu still a no show, no other keyboard comes up aside from original and dialer is the default. So I hard reset again to start from scratch. Thanks

clearing the memory

I was thinking about selling my HTC TyTN II but I have a lot of junk on it that I'd like to be removed. Were I selling a computer I'd simply reformat the drive and then reinstall the OS that it came with via a hidden partition or via CD's or whatever. Or, failing that, I'd take the hard drive out and sell it without the hard drive.
But for HTC smartphones / Windows Mobile, I don't know how to do this. Any ideas?

Easy as pie.
Start -> Settings -> System -> Clear Storage
This will erase all the data on the phone (but will leave your SD card untouched) and return it to factory specs.

yawnmoth said:
I was thinking about selling my HTC TyTN II but I have a lot of junk on it that I'd like to be removed. Were I selling a computer I'd simply reformat the drive and then reinstall the OS that it came with via a hidden partition or via CD's or whatever. Or, failing that, I'd take the hard drive out and sell it without the hard drive.
But for HTC smartphones / Windows Mobile, I don't know how to do this. Any ideas?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Morning Yarnmoth, first remove any memory cards and your SIM card. If you want to sell the memory card with the phone then make a folder on your home computer and move not copy all the data from card to folder. To be double sure then format the card. Then connect the device to your Home computer. Use the home computer file explorer to open up the device. It will be rare that you haved saved anything outside the documents folder, but have a look anyway. If you have any folders saying for example pictures music or photos move them over to the home computer. Do the same with the contents of the documents folder. When you have removed all the data you require then remove device from your home computer.
The most important part, you have to profrom a hard reset details below
1 hold the left and right softkeys and then isert the stylus in the reset hole
2 keep pressing the soft keys and remove the stylus, after a short while you will see a screen saying "This operation will delete all your personal data, and reset all settings to the manufacturer default settings. Press SEND to restore manufacturer defaults, or press any other button to cancel."
3 release the two softkeys and press the send (green telephone) button.
Now your machine is in the factory default setting.
DO NOT connect your device to your home computer.
Start the device. You can set the phone up no problem ie time screen calibration.
use the built in file explorer to check if any data is on the device.
use the calendar contact programmes to check if of you personal info is on the machine
Any problems please message me

jcraigen said:
Morning Yarnmoth, first remove any memory cards and your SIM card. If you want to sell the memory card with the phone then make a folder on your home computer and move not copy all the data from card to folder. To be double sure then format the card. Then connect the device to your Home computer. Use the home computer file explorer to open up the device. It will be rare that you haved saved anything outside the documents folder, but have a look anyway. If you have any folders saying for example pictures music or photos move them over to the home computer. Do the same with the contents of the documents folder. When you have removed all the data you require then remove device from your home computer.
The most important part, you have to profrom a hard reset details below
1 hold the left and right softkeys and then isert the stylus in the reset hole
2 keep pressing the soft keys and remove the stylus, after a short while you will see a screen saying "This operation will delete all your personal data, and reset all settings to the manufacturer default settings. Press SEND to restore manufacturer defaults, or press any other button to cancel."
3 release the two softkeys and press the send (green telephone) button.
Now your machine is in the factory default setting.
DO NOT connect your device to your home computer.
Start the device. You can set the phone up no problem ie time screen calibration.
use the built in file explorer to check if any data is on the device.
use the calendar contact programmes to check if of you personal info is on the machine
Any problems please message me
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yarnmoth use Taurusbulbas method to hardreset your machine. but do not activsync your device

Thanks all!