Alt Key Keyboard Issue - Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development

Well - I really like everything about the new ROM - installed it on my T-Mob US phone and everything is great. Except... the alt-key doesn't work.. meaning, I can't use important keys such as '?', '@'... etc. I have to open the onscreen keyboard to get them.
Any idea what I might have done wrong?

What ROM have you installed?
Please search and then post in the relevant thread instead of creating a new one.
Ta
Dave

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Registry tweak on the new dopod firmware

Dears,
anyone able to enable the hidden GPS, edit HTC homeplug, add disconnect button, etc working on the new rom ?
After I edit it, it seems to reset back to original state after soft reset.
can anyone give me some advise.
TIA
Registry tweaks work perfect with latest DOPOD D810 ROM,
but only if you wait about 30 seconds after changing the values - before Softreset. The OS need a little time to write the registry back to the device.
Seems to be a common WM5 issue.
mdacfan said:
Registry tweaks work perfect with latest DOPOD D810 ROM,
but only if you wait about 30 seconds after changing the values - before Softreset. The OS need a little time to write the registry back to the device.
Seems to be a common WM5 issue.
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Or, alternatively, just keep the power button depressed and answer Yes to the question. This will make sure everything is flushed back to the flash ROM, as has also been pointed out in my related article.
Thanks all, it's working as it said.
BTW, anyone here in Hong Kong using 3 3G ?
It seems the old mod to able to access mobile.three.com.hk is not working.
Anyone can give me advise on where in the registry to detect the browser version ?
The previous mod as below which is not working now with the new firmware.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent
edit the "default" string as below:
SANYO-S103/1.000 UP.Browser/7.0.2.1.sn.1.222 (GUI) MMP/2.0

backup, upgrade rom, restore questions

I have a Tmo mda gen 3
task: upgrade rom to faria
So I wanted to try the new wm6 rom (faria) so I starting reading and reading here on XDA and other places for any and all information about the best way to do an upgrade, mind you I already upgraded to 2.24 so my mda is already unlocked and ready to get flashed.
So I did a backup with sprite, I didnt do a updatefile step which is suppose to make an upgrade file so when you do get the new rom on its suppose to help ,but anyways I got a backup.
I flashed the rom to my mda and I had it working, just like everyone said, it was faster, more toys and seemed to work!
Now I did a (selective) restore (only restoring needed stuff), well... sprite warned about rom versions ,but it restored my files including my registry.
low and behold EVERY one of my programs worked, GPS, google maps, etc
,but 2 issues I can not resolve.
timewizard.exe randomly pops up
voicecommand does not work
so it appears the only advice for the timewizard.exe was reflash , which I have done a few times in trying to get voicecommand working ,but the popup message seems to come back, mainly after a registry restore.
voice command is the bigger one, it appears when I restore the registry it blows away some voice command entries from the pre installed voice command 1.6 and then voicecmd.exe does not want to run.
So my question is I am sooooo close to being able to make a backup change roms and get EVERYTHING back WITHOUT reinstall of software I can taste it ,but I need some input!
anyone know some good registry tools / editing suggestions to backup the registry and restore it without killing voice command?
Jeff
Try flashing back and creating an upgrade file. I'd love to know whether it works ;-)
Thats what I did and it worked, however what I did first was
flash to the orginal rom, 2.24 xcel
I restored the sprite backup , however voice command didnt even work going back to orginal rom.
then I removed voice command 1.5 from installed programs.
cleaned up some file space only had 6 meg left on main storage.
then I create the updatefile and saved it to sd card.
finally did another complete backup
flashed to new rom and then did a restore and now voice command works, I will be doing some more testing ,but I think I got it.
if I would have had to install each program seperately that would have killed me!
jeff
well.. forget what I just said.... nothing works!
back to the drawing board......
all the files restored correctly ,but the registry did not restore when using the update mode AND the updatefile.
none of my programs appeared in the start menu and none of the registry entires were restored....
I'll try doing some manually restoreing and see what I get... maybe I missed something....
Jeff
well... I hope my ramblings help someone else!
so I think the key here was simpling removing voice command from the backup file and upon restore everything will work.
so in short, backup upgrade rom , restore works with sprite , but without using the updatefile mode as it seems it just ignores the windows folder and the registry , so whats the point?
I test some more and post my comments to help others who do not want to reinstall everything when they upgrade rom's.
If you get this to work, that would be great, but I think you are playing with a loaded gun trying to do this. Many things are very different between WM5 and WM6. Depending on the type of backup done and what all gets restored, I can see corruption of the registry, and things just not being put in the right place.
Well... so far ALL my apps are working, gps, google, opera, etc about the only thing now is I am getting a Notification
TimeWizard.exe could execuite.
I am hunting that one down in the reg right now.
any ideas?
jeff
Well ... to follow up my thread with my self and maybe help a few others.
the last issue I had after a rom upgrade and a restore was the dreaded timewizard.exe notification popup when you turn on the mda or come back from power save.
after hours/days of messaging around I found that in the "Task Manager" tool you can view Notifications and in there I found timewizard.exe listed a few times, I just assume it had this as a warning/notification and was simply "Notifing" me of a "past" problem. after I cleared it out of there the mda has not shown any more Can not execute TimeWizard.exe popups!
I hope this help anyone else with this issue.
Jeff

Can someone please help me using roms???

I recently got myself an X1, and I have to honestly say, its brill!
I am mainly using the spb shell panel, and like it for the reason that I can use my thick fingers to operate it. Is their any other user interfaces like this one?
Ok, I am a smart enough guy…(sometimes)…but I cannot for the life of me understand roms…and what you guys are going on about in these forums.
What I am looking for is a good selection of panels to choose from, however from what I can get from these forums is that I am better installing something completely different on the phone.. I assume this gets rid of my panels?
Do roms completely overwrite what is currenly on the phone? Ie. Panels, tomtom, etc.
Any tips would be much appreciated, as I am interested in a user interface that I can better customise to suit myself (cant customise spb mobile shell)…..
Thanks..
Roughly said a ROM is a collection of appz put in one file together with the WinMo OS.
What those appz are, and which version of winmo, totally depends on the creator of the custom cooked ROM. In the threads of the custom ROM is always a summary of what is included.
Most chefs delete the panels from their ROMs, except for the standard panels and the panelmanager. So you can install the panels you want to use.
When installing a new ROM (custom cooked or stock) it always deletes the phone memory, not your SD-card! So you need to install appz, change settings to your own need, and ofcourse put contacts, agenda, etc back from back-up.
Nice, thanks.
I think in that case that I will avoid them for now, as I do not have a good enough understanding of how it works. I will how ever make more of an effort to read into the process to understand how it will benefit how I use the phone.
Thanks for the heads up.
May I suggest you to read this thread:
(sticky thred, on top of the forum)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=477801
You'll find what you want to know
Ah, perfect. Thanks for the link!
Nice resource btw.
Goodluck...Enjoy Reading...
Ok, took the plunge, and installed a custom rom....
I installed Touch_IT v4.5 and it is excellent..however
Anyone else experiencing lots of crashes? I am getting lots of crashes for stupid things like trying to open the X panel....
Whats annoyed me most is that I have taken off the back cover so much to remove the battery (to restart) I have cracked the part under the camera :-(
Just out of interest...to convert back to the stock o2 UK rom do I simply download "X1i_GENERIC_UK_CDF1215-1832_R2AA010 - uploaded" from:
NEW ORIGINAL X1 ROMS (all released variants) update 14.3.2009
Then Hard SPL, and install this original rom?
Thanks..
djglenn1337 said:
Ok, took the plunge, and installed a custom rom....
I installed Touch_IT v4.5 and it is excellent..however
Anyone else experiencing lots of crashes? I am getting lots of crashes for stupid things like trying to open the X panel....
Whats annoyed me most is that I have taken off the back cover so much to remove the battery (to restart) I have cracked the part under the camera :-(
Just out of interest...to convert back to the stock o2 UK rom do I simply download "X1i_GENERIC_UK_CDF1215-1832_R2AA010 - uploaded" from:
NEW ORIGINAL X1 ROMS (all released variants) update 14.3.2009
Then Hard SPL, and install this original rom?
Thanks..
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Yes, and yes.
Edit: You don't need to HARD SPL again before you flash it.
I believe that ROM is the generic SE one without any of the O2 branding.
If you need to return it for any reason you will need to reflash it with the O2 ROM (which I believe is available in the same thread as you found the one you pointed out).
You'll also need to change the hard spl back to the original.
Shame about the crack under the camera, did you know you can soft reset by holding down the power button for 3-5 seconds?
insom81 said:
You'll also need to change the hard spl back to the original.
Shame about the crack under the camera, did you know you can soft reset by holding down the power button for 3-5 seconds?
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Thanks for the help.
How do I change the hard spl back to the original??
I do assume though there is no way to reset the phone when it has completely crashed, without removing the battery. Holding the power button down has no effect.
Its a shame as I love the touch-it 4.5 rom. I almost would live with it being unstable just for some of the features (i.e Camera with autoflash, and the touchflo 3D interface).
djglenn1337 said:
How do I change the hard spl back to the original??
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In the Hard-SPL thread you can read how to change back to original spl.
djglenn1337 said:
Its a shame as I love the touch-it 4.5 rom. I almost would live with it being unstable just for some of the features (i.e Camera with autoflash, and the touchflo 3D interface).
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Did you hard reset after flash, because I've been using Touch-IT 4.5 since the day after it was released and aren't experiencing big stability issues (hard reset is press the two directly under your screen and press reset button with stylo).
djglenn1337 said:
I do assume though there is no way to reset the phone when it has completely crashed, without removing the battery. Holding the power button down has no effect.
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When the batterycover is removed there is a tiny hole next to the battery, you can use your stylo to press the reset button inside the hole (soft reset).
hard reset after flash? no...how do I do that?
As I didnt do it, will I have to reflash it again and then hard reset?
I dont understand "press the 2 under the screen" sorry...
Thanks again..
Hey guys I just too got an X1a and want to install this ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485624 But still not really quite sure what to do. So I just download the ROM and ROMUpdateUtility.exe yes? (where can i find the rom update utility for the Xperia?) Then I just install it onto the phone? I know I hav to backup etc. Will this void the warranty though, will I be able to get it to factory settings if I want to change it back?
Thank you.
Need a reply asap..
Oh and is the Touch-IT good?
djglenn1337 said:
hard reset after flash? no...how do I do that?
As I didnt do it, will I have to reflash it again and then hard reset?
I dont understand "press the 2 under the screen" sorry...
Thanks again..
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Hard reset:
1. turn off the phone
2. Hold both right and left buttons (the ones right under the screen, dont know the name)
3. press reset button with stylus, while still holding the others
tai927 said:
Hey guys I just too got an X1a and want to install this ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485624 But still not really quite sure what to do. So I just download the ROM and ROMUpdateUtility.exe yes? (where can i find the rom update utility for the Xperia?) Then I just install it onto the phone? I know I hav to backup etc. Will this void the warranty though, will I be able to get it to factory settings if I want to change it back?
Thank you.
Need a reply asap..
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Please read the sticky's in the ROM thread before trying to flash....
How to flash?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=446070
Hard-SPL
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=431218
How to back-up your ROM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=462926
Have fun reading....
Lokatho said:
Hard reset:
1. turn off the phone
2. Hold both right and left buttons (the ones right under the screen, dont know the name)
3. press reset button with stylus, while still holding the others
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Ok, so the reset button is the one underneath the battery cover?
and the right and left buttons are the silver rectangular ones that you can assign as anything?
Should I reflash the phone and hard reset it then, or might hard resetting it now work?
djglenn1337 said:
Ok, so the reset button is the one underneath the battery cover?
and the right and left buttons are the silver rectangular ones that you can assign as anything?
Should I reflash the phone and hard reset it then, or might hard resetting it now work?
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Hard reset without reflash should do the trick
ps remind that hard reset will set the OS back like it has never been used before
Curious on how revert the hardspl to original.
I'm new to all this as well,
I want to make registry edits, i downloaded the free trial Resco file explorer, which is supposed to be able to make reg edits, but i CANNOT (or simply i just dont konw how or where) find the HKCU folder. I can only see the regular Device folders, thats about it!! Where am i supposed to look at??
chris28j said:
Curious on how revert the hardspl to original.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=431218
chris28j said:
I want to make registry edits, i downloaded the free trial Resco file explorer, which is supposed to be able to make reg edits, but i CANNOT (or simply i just dont konw how or where) find the HKCU folder. I can only see the regular Device folders, thats about it!! Where am i supposed to look at??
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Don't know Resco first handed, but looking at the screenshots (http://www.resco.net/pocketpc/explorer/indepth.asp) you should be able to enter the registry at the base of the folder tree.

My FN key does not work after Flashing

Hi,
I have recently flashed my X1i with some ROM I found on these forums, and whenever I use my FN key, it inputs the wrong symbol. I have been trying to find an answer, so I went into the registry using CeRegistryEditor and tryed changing the "CurLang" registry key, but it made no difference whatsoever. I even tried to change it to "Farsi" to see if it made any difference between now and then, but no.
Also, I bought these phone pre-unlocked, so there i'm not too sure what region it is from, so could someone please help me find out? I have tried the US, UK and AUS CurLang values with no luck.
What am I doing wrong?
Oh, if it helps, it had a generic UK ROM which worked fine before the new flashed ROM.
Flash another ROM, if the problems is still there, flash another. Then flash a Generic ROM. If there is a problem after that, it is hardware related, if not, it is ROM related.
Pretty simple and effective .
Thanks orelsi.
I tried flashing it with another ROM, and the keyboard worked fine. I would still like to use Touch-IT Xperience 14.2.1. I took a screenshot of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/HARDWARE/DEVICEMAP/KEYBD and all the values are exactly the same between the two ROMS. So I think it could be some software causing the FN key not to work. Does anyone know what software could cause this? I havent installed anything else other than the ROM.
Did any software come pre-installed with the ROM? A keyboard or AEButton plus or another mapping app?
Hi,
Just fixed it. The problem was I needed to change 2 registry values. One of them which I didnt change was this:
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tegic\eT9\IME\KeyboardLayouFiles]
And now it doesn't work again.... Could this possibly be a hardware problem?

Help needed reverting back to WM6.1

Hi, if anyone could please help me i would be gratefull, i recently purchased a D2 but its already preloaded with WM6.5 rom version 2.53.405.5 (76952)WWE, But i really wanted WM6.1 as, among other things, i wanted to use the handwriting rec.
does anyone know what stock rom to reload? and where i can get it? sorry to ask such a basic question.
thanks in advance,
http://www.htc.com/europe/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=249&cat=2&dl_id=613
thanks for that, however it seems to have just bricked the phone
thanks for that, however it seems to have just bricked the phone
it seemed to work, all the correct messages displayed
but......
now all that happens is it turns on, shows the touch diamond2 screen, then resets
it has the following text in red in the lower left hand corner
r 3 . 43. 25 .19
g 61. 20t. 25. 10U
d 1. 39. 47382
does any one have any ideas?
Try to hard reset.
tried that before i posted
and a soft reset, and another hard reset to be sure,
i searched the forum but couldn't find any reference to that type of error either.
any ideas on how to retrieve it from paperweight mode?
Download stock ROM for your region
Unpack it with WinRar or TotalCMD
Rename RUU_signed.nbh to topaimg.nbh
Copy topaimg.nbh on your SD card
Enter bootloader (hold volume down and turn on phone) and follow instructions
edit:I guess for wm 6.1 you need lower version of SSPL
thanks dude, i used the bootloader to reinstall the latest rom from HTC.
Topaz_S2_HTC_WWE_2.53.405.5_Radio_Signed_Topaz_61.44etc.25.35_4.49.25.91_Ship
my phone is no longer a brick however i am back to square 1 in that i still have wm6.5, and i want 6.1
ive tried to reflash with the older rom fighter7139 suggested
RUU_Topaz_HTC_WWE_1.39.405.3_Radio_Signed_Topaz_61.20t.25.10_3.43.25.19_Ship
but it gives me the same rebooting error.
any ideas why wont the older rom work on my phone? or if theres an alternative to that rom ?
thanks
I've loaded hardspl 1.83 and extracted the file RUU_signed.nbh and renamed it to topaimg.nbhand,
i moved it to the SD card, reflashed the phone with the 6.1 rom,
but i get the same error.
any idea on what rom i should use to update from?
or what stock spl i'd need to run this rom's version of 6.1 ?
a thought
maybe i don't even need 6.1, all i want to do is to fix two things -
1) make the sms messaging work like on the old htc devices ie diamond or tytn ie not use htc messaging
2) add handwriting recognition
- would also be nice to have the taskmanger icon, the battery icon and the original windows start menu back too, but im not dependent on them....
so i guess any rom would do that allows these functions, any help or info on this would be much appriciated
terminalkhaos said:
1) make the sms messaging work like on the old htc devices ie diamond or tytn ie not use htc messaging
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Try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3771519&postcount=2991
2) add handwriting recognition
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http://www.htc.com/www/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=249&cat=0&dl_id=824
thanks for that, however that was the first thing i tried, i saw the download for the handwriting ap just after i got the phone, not knowing it didnt have it when i swapped from my diamond,
the thing is the update only works on certian AP version control builds -
the message on the site is -
Note: AP version control -> The criterion will pass if the Touch Input for Pocket is equal to Version 2.1 (Build1919.1320), or lower.
mines a higer version, which i assumed originally had to do with it being wm6.5 not 6.1,
- i have tried downloading and installing anyway but it wont load.
does anyone know how to get this update to load, or how to change the AP version control back to a lower version ?????
any help would be much appriciated.
if it matters,
i'm running Duttys HG, and ive flashed to hardspl,
i don't mind flashing back to whatever, i just really need the handwriting app
The handwriting SIP is likey hidden.
There is a reg edit to unhide, just search SIP Reg Edit and you should find it.
If I recall it was under the WM general tweaks.
thanks for that, i got the letter and block rec working, but still not the transcriber the reg key shows it should be showing, but i think the actual file may not be there,
fixed after changing the reg, and downloading the update, you then need this transcriber cab
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3661845&postcount=47732
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Any luck finding a way to get 6.1 working on this phone? I just bought the Pure from AT&T as a replacement for my LG Incite that had 6.1 on it. So far I can't stand 6.5 at all. My main beef is with IE, I really like the one on my Incite vs. this one. And my other problem is with the start menu, I also prefer the drop-down style in 6.1.
Thanks for any replies or help.
TheNorthSideWhiteGuy said:
Any luck finding a way to get 6.1 working on this phone? I just bought the Pure from AT&T as a replacement for my LG Incite that had 6.1 on it. So far I can't stand 6.5 at all. My main beef is with IE, I really like the one on my Incite vs. this one. And my other problem is with the start menu, I also prefer the drop-down style in 6.1.
Thanks for any replies or help.
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Start here.
Once you unlock your phone, you can flash to anything you want.
6.5 is hands down better than 6.1, there are 6.5.219xx builds that have the drop down start menu.
Thanks Bruce!
For some reason I couldn't find a good Pure forum, so that link helps a lot.

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