Hi all,
I was attempting to Liberate my HTC Shift (X9500, German language) before trying out some of the ROMs here, and disaster has struck! I'm fairly experienced but I cannot see how to fix my problem. Please help if you can, otherwise my Shift has to go back to HTC for "repair".
The problem is that when I open "Settings" the resulting window is an absolutely empty white window. Not a single icon is displayed, only the time and network icons at the top.
The liberate process describes cutting (Cntrl-X) the folder windows\settings, pasting it elsewhere, adding some more files and finally moving the modified folder back under windows. I think what happened is that when doing this, I fumbled my fingers and deleted the entire folder. My fault entirely, but how to recover? I tried both a cold reset from Vista and also a Fn/F3 restore of the whole system from the recovery partition. Both the WM and Vista sides still work, but still no "settings".
I thought of just recreating the \settings folder in \windows but have no way to do this (no Explorer or ActiveSync), and apart from the Liberate files have no idea what other files should be present in that folder. Any ideas in this direction would be greatly appreciated.
I've played around with other WM phones and I'm guessing the way forward is to reflash the standard HTC ROM, but how to do this? Is there a secret key combination? Can the ROM update from a memory card? And I guess it's easier to find the English ROM than German and I'd prefer English, but are there any issues with changing languages (I'm aware of the reg hack to change keyboard language)!
Pleeeze HELP if you can!!
Richard
PS – also posted in MoDaCo
I suspect that you are more experienced than I, but maybe I have an idea that might help:
Could you copy the contents of another Shift's WM windows/setting directory into an email, and email this to your shift WM side, and then paste it into your Shift's WM /windows directory?
When I sent my Shift back to HTC Support for a replacement screen under warrenty, they reflashed the original stock WM SnapVue. I guess only HTC have this facility.
Thanks for that Flanimal, I thought of trying that as well but could not figure out how to email a "folder", rather than individual files. Unlike in "real" Windows, there also seems to be no way to create a new folder when doing "save as".
But just as your email arrived, I figured out how to get past my problem (read the manual!)
I simply ran Shift Control Center from the Vista side. There's an option to reset the SnapVue side - it requires you to enter 1234 and answer that you're really sure. Doing this wipes all the SnapVue settings back to default - apparently like a hard reset, and afterwards the settings icons reappear.
I'm posting this in case anyone eles makes the same mistake I did! It also gives me the confidence to once again try liberating my Shift.
Thanks again,
Richard
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Hi to everyone,
I just installed HTC.Kaiser.Home.Eng.0409.5Tab.schen.cab and I renamed right dll (I have an italian wm6).
All ok, home plugin appears but... I can't add items to favorite people or launcher. I tried with 3 tabs version and seems all ok: I can add shortcuts to launcher simply tapping on an empty space. With 6 version if I do the same thing, nothing happens. I can only delete items...
Anyone with same problem and hopefully with a solutino?
I had the same issue. Then I have installed the touch plugin.
However if someone has any solutions regarding this....
nobody has any solutions for this issue ?
did rename all theese?
HTCHome.dll.0409.mui -> HTCHome.dll.0414.mui
HTC HDlg.exe.0409.mui ->HTC HDlg.exe.0414.mui
HH_0409_WeatherCities.xml -> HH_0414_WeatherCities.xml
htcbtql.dll.0409.mui -> htcbtql.dll.0414.mui
(0414 is norwegian countrycode ofcourse, yours needs to be the italian....ofcourse )
If not there is a whole bunch of HTC home plugins, why not give them a try?
I use the HTC.Kaiser.Home.Eng.0409.6Tab.schen.cab without any problems after renaming the .dll, .mui and the .xml files
besides, try use total commander for editing.
Another thing worth noticing is that all files in windows folder are read-only, and you cant change or edit them...
But, if you use total commander, then go to your windows dir, select all files within the win folder, go to properties, then uncheck the read-only box.
Then you can in.ex change the windows boot screen (not the splash from HTC) you can edit the welcomehead.png and be able to replace the original with your new one
Ok for the moment I have the HTC home of the THT Touch.
I will remove it and install the kaiser plugin again
(I use Resco explorer)
Ok I have installed a new time the kaiser plugin and rename all the files.
That is working correctly now
Thanks a lot itje
no problem, glad I can help out, allthoug I did only point out what someone else has figured out
btw, I cant get the kaiser 10 button to work, I get that the file dont have the permissions to install, even though i disable com manager, but I got the 8 button touch com to work, its good enough for the time beeing
yes, there were some other files to rename. Thx
I'm looking for a program which will let me text someone using a standard mobile keypad...does anyone know if this is possible to do or even better, program which is already out there somehwre.
I have had a look via Google and on this site but not had any luck :-(
xx
I really like tengothumb. check it out. it has 6 buttons instead of 9 like a cellphone pad, but its still realllyyy fast.
I personally use touchpal pro. Find at www.cooltek.com Or try using Phonepad.
please let me note if this file is infringing anything, I extracted it from my WM5 Rom.
Anyway, hope I could help.
diigibio (diigimatrix)
To install on such devices as "Universal" just use .cab
Any other install .cab then extract all files from zip, highlight them and copy them to the devices /windows folder replacing the originals.
Thanks babe...I couldn't get either of the programs you downloaded to work but managed to get PhonePad on and it works fine - exactly what I wanted!
xx
This is a fantastic keypad!! But when i copy the folder of the language and i start IntelliPadOpt.exe the first option is missing, is not visible. Is visible only the square. Because? Is normal? The first time the option was visible, but second time the option there wasn't visible
I have a quick question. Is anyone willing to e-mail me the Tilt's (HTC AT&T 8925) original/standard spbcalc_L (landscape mode) and spbcalc_P (portrait mode) files? These two skin files allow the phone's original calculator to display. In the process of installing a few new skins for my calculator, I wrote over the standard files and lost them. I'd like to roll back to the phone's standard calculator, but I am now unable to do so without these two png image files. Please let me know if you're willing to send them to me. The two files are located inside of the Windows folder, which can be accessed via the File Explorer program. Thanks a lot. I know this is a relatively minor issue, but I'd appreciate the help.
P.S. If anyone has the HTC AT&T 8525 model, then the files from this phone would work for me, too. Thanks!
Sorry, I have to say you may need to hard reset you phone.
Because I cant find no where about your spbcal* files. I believe you are looking for SPB calculator P & L. The original Tilt doesnt go by that name. You may want to reinstall your SPB software to get make correction. Mine is called calc.htm & calc.lnk, if this is what you are asking for original calculator file.
Hey, thanks for the reply. I appreciate your time. I looked at a Tilt recently and noticed the same thing - that the calculator files are named differently on the Tilt from how they are named on the 8525. I looked for the calc.htm and calc.lnk files, but I couldn't find them on my phone. Thanks anyway for trying. I'll have to try and figure something else out.
I just flashed my Kaiser to Dutty and as a result it's wiped my Onenote Mobile notes (no great surprise there).
Before I flashed, I took a Sprite Backup. Does anyone know where the actual "notes" live? Is in a directory or registry entry somewhere? I'd like to restore them if possible. I have searched XDA Devs, but there's nothing I can see explaining this.
Thanks in advance...
\Application Data\Microsoft\OneNote Mobile.
I've been looking for a way to move them to another folder but I cannot find it.
Ta,
Dave
Thank You!
Thanks very much for this solution. I copied from the backup and I can see all my notes again.
You just saved me a lot of frustration
I love this forum. Every time I have some obscure question, someone has already asked it and, usually, someone else has answered it perfectly!
Thank you!
amazing
Amazing, I was asking myself this same question this afternoon on the way to school. You guys are amazing!
Thank you! Been flashing new ROMs and needed to back up my notes... this forum rocks!
one note 2010
dear all
one notes stores in local device memory instead of storage card. any solution to store the one notes 2010 files in storage cards. Please help me
just navigate to \Application Data\Microsoft\OneNote Mobile... highlight the "OneNote Mobile" folder, select menu edit, copy...then navigate to your storage card...place it anywhere you want it by hitting menu, edit, paste. Now they will be on your storage card for future retrival
Signman1123 said:
just navigate to \Application Data\Microsoft\OneNote Mobile... highlight the "OneNote Mobile" folder, select menu edit, copy...then navigate to your storage card...place it anywhere you want it by hitting menu, edit, paste. Now they will be on your storage card for future retrival
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But how to make OneNote store to SD?
Haven't figured that out yet either...still working
I think it's Pocket Mechanic that has the option to move applications to run from storage card...I've successfully moved most everything I've tried with it. Has anyone tried 'moving' folder to storage card with this app? I'm not sure how it works...if it leaves a shortcut behind pointing to new location on card maybe? I use OneNote for work, and can't afford to screw it up and have down time trying to fix, so wondering if anyone has tried that route yet?
UPDATE: Tried above method, and it did not work. Has anyone else found a feasible way to do this yet? With it storing audio recordings in .wav format, it's basically not usable without being able to store to storage card. I run out of memory in less than one minute.
The frustration continues
Hi everybody,
I have been grappling with this damned issue with OneNote 2007 on my HD2 forever. It’d be nice if some of the top dogs here at the XDA took a minute or two out of their busy schedules to fix us up with a way to force OneNote to SD card. I mean come on people, don’t you leave us at the mercy of windows unpredictable array of hangs, crashes and total system annihilations, give us a way out.
I have personally wormed around the registry and found a way for that whole attachment thing JVolger. Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>OneNote Mobile>12.0.
Once there edit the attachments String value with your favorite registry editor and change the string entry with the address of the folder where you like one note to save your attachments.
Now if someone could figure out a way to force one note to save to the SD entirely, I would be one happy man!!
I was wondering if its possible to ad characters or fonts to the kaiser for MS word and powerpoint. Im taking a japanese class and were starting to do assignments in hiragana and kankji...is there anyway to add these fonts/characters to he tilt so they don't come up as squares when I open .doc and .ppt files?
Thanks in advance....
http://www.declan-software.com/chinese_ppc/mingliu_ppc.htm
try google next time
sorry i wasn't able to...it took me 10 minutes just to load this website and make this post using pocket IE. my connectivity wasn't going well, so searching google was a bit tough. Thanx though
after messing around w/ that site and their various fonts for about an hour, nothing seemed to work. For future reference, if anyone needs to get a font on their PPC that they have on their comp no matter what it is, you can simply go to Windows/fonts on your pc then DRAG (@ least on windows vista it doesn't allow you to copy directly) to another folder. when you drag it will copy it, then from that folder you can load it into the /Windows directory of your phone, then do a soft reset.