Database Info

Comm Manager - missing discriptions for icons?

I read somewhere this may be due to a system font being replaced but I have not installed any new software in weeks.
Anybody know how to recover? I can't afford a hard reset.

Descriptions, But no icons or background
Maybe our problems have the same cause. The comm manager wizard worked for me before on my 8525. Then updated to WM6 and now it installs partway and stops. Message is "not enough permissions". I get the text for the buttons, but not the icons or background. Also can't afford a hard reset.
Would rather have your half of the problem. At least you can still see the keys.

Update. I was able to fix the problem.
At: http://blogs.conchango.com/stuartpreston/archive/2005/11/10/2376.aspx
found directions. Have included them below as modified to fix my particular problem.
The following reg editor at the blog site did not do the job on my 8525. RegEditSTG http://blogs.conchango.com/stuartpreston/files/regeditSTG.zip
I used the reg editor at here:http://www.8525software.com/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,27/func,fileinfo/id,86/
Followed the directions for what keys to fix in the link above. Reinstalled the comm manager "CommManager_8button_wizard.cab" and it works well. Looks good, too.
The reg edit I used works on the 8525 remotely from the PC. Just unzip and execute with the 8525 connected. Change the security policies as follows:
Navigate to HKLM\Security\Policies\Policies\
Write down any entries you change, before you change them.
Delete the entry you need to change.
click add DWORD and insert the correct values in the dialog on the PC's screen.
Change "00001001" value to 1 (decimal) (recovery note: default is 2)
Change "00001005" value to 40 (decimal) (recovery note: default is 16)
To fix the security policy, I changed only ...005 to 40.
Reboot device.
I believe WM6 is taking on the same baggage as PC Windows, so that this type of fix will become the norm instead of the exception.

Doubled contacts

Hi guys,
I know that Diamond users had similar problem but I cannot solve this issue the way provided on Diamond forum. Or I'm doing something wrong :]
Reason - I've just copied my contacts from sim to TP and in Contact TAB i've got everything doubled.
I've tried:
1. Modify registry (ShowSim = 0) - doesn't help - after soft reset this value is still 1 (is registry locked? I've tried CeRegEditor with unlock registry option first - no effect and with TotalCommander - the same)
2. Tried advanced config for Diamont - No Sim contact, soft reset - nothing.
3. Tried this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1959449&postcount=4 - doesn't help.
Any other ideas?
Regards
B.

bzdziagwa said:
Hi guys,
I know that Diamond users had similar problem but I cannot solve this issue the way provided on Diamond forum. Or I'm doing something wrong :]
Reason - I've just copied my contacts from sim to TP and in Contact TAB i've got everything doubled.
I've tried:
1. Modify registry (ShowSim = 0) - doesn't help - after soft reset this value is still 1 (is registry locked? I've tried CeRegEditor with unlock registry option first - no effect and with TotalCommander - the same)
2. Tried advanced config for Diamont - No Sim contact, soft reset - nothing.
3. Tried this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1959449&postcount=4 - doesn't help.
Any other ideas?
Regards
B.
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TBH Make a backup of your contacts as they are now (even if they are doubled)using PIMBackup....and delete the contacts from the SIM card. Atleast you have a backup on file off the device??
I havent used SIM memory for MANY years now.

Hmmm I've tried everything many times (mentioned below) and resigned.
Then after 2-3hours I've installed Green Battery soft, then restart and... now it works like hell !
I mean that no sim details in contacts.
So I have no IDEA with action fix this problem - a little confused now :?
Regards
B.

Windows mobile will ALWAYS display your SIM contacts as well as contacts in the phone memory. There are plenty of third party apps out there that will stop this, or you can find the registry edit in the site somewhere.
Easiest way is to use something like Schaps 3, or that battery soft that you mention.
Can't understand why som many people insist on using SIM memory nowdays, when people hae multiple numbers, you end up with multiple contacts for the same people....
Well, each to their own i suppose.

My contacts were on SIM because I'vw switched from.....Nokia 6310i
Now I've fixed the problem manually (regedit) because AdvancedConfig tool doesn't help. Just funny thing that to save registry settings SHUT DOWN of device is required not soft reset.
Regards
B.

Ah! One of the best handsets Nokia ever made. My Landlord has three, just in case one of them dies!
Great phones!
Although again, it came with Nokia PC Suite to sync to outlook, but it was a real PITA as it always puts the mobile numbers in the 'other' field in outlook so they don't get touched by activesync!
as for the soft reset thing, seems to work ok on mine. Change something in schaps 3, and soft reset when it tells me to and all seems to be well.
lol, well i guess that's why windows mobile is such fun huh??

whats registry setting did u change? AdvancedConfig isnt working for me either. I cant delete the sim contacts, cos its a temporary SIM. Ill have a blank SIM soon, but for now, I'd like to stop SIM contacts showing up.
Thanks
I just got it to work using AdvancedConfig. I said 'No' when it asked to soft reset. Then checked contacts and the SIM contacts are gone. No restart, no shut down, nothing. When i did this and said 'yes' to the soft reset, it didnt work. Odd

If you go into settings, Phone, Call options is there no longer a check box to not show SIM contacts as in WM6.0 phones?

You must change value
HKCU\ControlPanel\Phone\ShowSim from 1 to 0
and then (very important) do not soft reset because value will be restored to 1
you must shut down TP - this information was provided by someone here and it works
BTW
Even if you switch off ShowSim option, for the first 10-30sek after booting TP you will find doubled contacts but then the sim contacts are dissapearing
Regards
B.

Two problems (boot, file in root) and a question (Barcelona GSMA 2009)

Problems:
1) I'm having some trouble to boot, as sometimes the registry is corrupted and my device can't load some of the apps listed in the boot list. I must enter in safe mode and later editing the registry, wait some time, and try again. The problem in the list disappears but sometimes I can make my device boot in standard mode and sometimes I must ask for Safe mode without an apparent cause (this is: I don't modify anything in my device and it boots or sometimes it decides not to boot). Is there any solution or problem related to this ?
2) A file named TaskBarAttachLog.txt appears in the root folder, and increases its size continuously till my device begins to have problems with the free space. Then, I delete it and it begins to grow up again. There's nothing related with this file - I could not find anything in any .INI file, any .CAB file, any registry key - and I could not find any information in the net. Does somebody know anything about it ?
My device is an official (not locked for any carrier) Herald with WM6.0. working with Simyo carrier. Pagepool to 8 Mb. OMAPclock to 228 or 240, depending of my stressed life.
THE QUESTION: Is somebody coming to Barcelona to the GSMA Mobile World Congress ? (I suppose it's difficult, as I read the price for the tickets...) I'm having lots of things to do in other things, but I live about 400 meters from the fair, and it will be a pleasure to shake hands with xda-dev's people.

Internet/streaming Radio help needed

I have a Sprint TP2 with stock ROM (updated from 6.1 to 6.5) and I installed Slacker but when I choose a station it keeps saying:
Oops! Something went wrong. Skip to the next track.
And when I do nothing happens. It does this for any station I try. Happened on my TP2 and my mom's TP2 with 6.1
Then I installed Pandora and it works okay but the buttons are wayyy too small. It's meant for VGA not WVGA.
Any suggestions? Even if you can point me to good threads I'd appreciate it.

Have you tried increasing the TCP window? Change to 98304 from 415030.
If that doesn't work, try installing this CAB:

i actually checked out the TCP change and my number was 65000 (actually 65XXX cant remember the exact number) instead of 98304 and when i changed it to 415030 no change happened, even after Soft Reset. I changed it back to the original 65XXX.
I will try out that CAB and post my results when I can.
Thanks for your help!

pcorlatan said:
i actually checked out the TCP change and my number was 65000 (actually 65XXX cant remember the exact number) instead of 98304 and when i changed it to 415030 no change happened, even after Soft Reset. I changed it back to the original 65XXX.
I will try out that CAB and post my results when I can.
Thanks for your help!
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Try the TCP window of 98304. When I had pandora installed it helped music playback, maybe its similar for slacker.

Changed from the original of 65536 to 98304 and soft reset but Pandora still has the screwed up UI (im guessing still VGA sized). Also Slacker LOOKS fine (finger friendly and all) but the same "OOPS!" error mentioned above still happens
Oh and no luck with that CAB either. nothing changed
Thanks for the suggestions though

Try this version here, it has fixed the problem for some people:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5621708&postcount=75
Or you can try downloading the official version from:
http://m.slacker.com/

that first link worked on both phones. thanks a lot!

data crashes

hey all.i have problem with my htc tornado.so i triyed to update rom,and i have "data crashes" when sim card inserted.so what i must to do with my phone?i tried to use any unlockers for that and any ROM's,but it still data crashes.
so what should i do with that?

Here is your answer

As gutek85 already pointed to my post, let me add that your problem has nothing to do with ROM upgrades. ROM upgrades (aka "flashing") have different parts you usually do not touch (Splash-Screen, Radio + Low-Level-loaders: IPL and SPL) and those that you want to change (OS - aka "Windows Version").
None of those are touching the "encrypted block".
When getting a device from anyone, always check if the device can work with your SIM Card. If you get the "data crashes" message - see the post referenced. If you get a message about entering an unlock code then your device is SIM locked.
The Lokiwiz tooling can remedy this problem and (if applied correctly and with care) supply you a SIM unlocked and CID unlocked device.

i was bought this phone and unlock it with code one year ago..
i think its need some soft operation

The diagnosis is 100% sure. If you have the message "data crashes..." when inserting your SIM and trying to get Radio contact, then your encrypted block IS corrupted. If everything was ok after you unlocked the device, why did you bother to do something more to that? What went wrong? I never had problems with lokiwiz - enough written about it in my kitchen post.
Please mind that to my knowledge all tools dealing with unlocking (lokiwiz or wizardunlock, which does not work on my Tornados) are reading the whole encrypted block (just 64k), modify something inside (either remove CID lock or remove SIM Lock - some even claim to change the IMEI) and then write back the whole block. So if anything goes wrong to the things these tools are writing in the encrypted block, your only way to get back is to restore the original block. If you do not have it any longer - you are lost if on your own. You can play around for hours or days (and fail) or pay 10GBP to the imei-check.uk guys and you are done - your choice.
Luckily you can still use the device as a WinMo music player or alike - just GSM Radio will not work as long as your encrypted block is broken.

i can pay 10 GBP...they send me block's or they send me code only?

look it up here: http://imei-check.co.uk/c600_unlock.php
C600 is one of the many Tornado variants - it will work for you as well.

Is it posible to write backuped encrypted block from another Tornado phone?
It could be a solution for people like kviaff...

No it does not work - you can try (if you backup the original to restore later). It seems that the IMEI (read with *#06#) is taken from another (hidden?) place and it must match the one stored in the encrypted block.
This is why the "data crashes..." message appears! The IMEI do not match. I had received such a wrong written Tornado board (from AlainL - we had a thread about this here in the forum, in my kitchen thread I believe) and it could successfully be recovered with the imei-check.uk method (paying them, of course).
Mind that the lokiwiz will not take care of existing lock-backup.bin files in its directory. The next call to any option will overwrite the previous. It could be safeguarded in the batchfile (for those who are batch wizards), but you can rename this yourself before calling the next option.

What if I change my imei (with Wizard Service Tool) to imei of the phone with corrupted encrypted block and then create backup? Maybe it can help fix problem...

Well you are the only one that has reported that the Wizard Service Tool works on the Tornado - and only with the 6.5 ROM from SGregory.
I don't know what actually these tools are doing in detail to the devices - and time as well as effort to investigate on this is not worth it if you just shell out 10 GBP to have it working again.
You would also first need to find out which kind of corruption the encrypted block actually has. It could well be that a non-matching IMEI is just one of many reasons to issue this "data crashes..." message (it was for me - as reported).
You should know (you do, I think) that changing the IMEI is illegal and you must obviously obey the rules how an IMEI is constructed. So why bother with all this?
kviaff must discuss what he did to the device with the guys at imei-check.uk and ask them if their procedure will recover it. We can only guess here as he did not tell how that happened to his device yet.

I know, that imei changing is illegal, but in situations of service it's legal. Similar to Windows Mobile modifications (you know it, I think) But back to the cost of reconstructing, 10 GBP is enough money to fix it by myself. In Poland i can buy SPV C600 for equivalent 15-20 GBP (in good condition) so it's uneconmic
I have one reserve C600 so I'll experimented with it (I'll make a backup copy of course) So wish me luck and of course will inform you of the results

By searching for something else I found this blog and finally also this XDA thread. I have not checked the tool yet (maybe will never do) - but in case anyone dares?!
Possibly the data-crashes goes away if everything is re-constructed in the encrypted block for a new IMEI (or the original one)? Should have found it in January this year when I payed IMEI-CHECK.UK the bucks to recover a Tornado board.

I'll try it and write if it works with "Data craches..." problem

tobbbie said:
Well you are the only one that has reported that the Wizard Service Tool works on the Tornado - and only with the 6.5 ROM from SGregory.
I don't know what actually these tools are doing in detail to the devices - and time as well as effort to investigate on this is not worth it if you just shell out 10 GBP to have it working again.
You would also first need to find out which kind of corruption the encrypted block actually has. It could well be that a non-matching IMEI is just one of many reasons to issue this "data crashes..." message (it was for me - as reported).
You should know (you do, I think) that changing the IMEI is illegal and you must obviously obey the rules how an IMEI is constructed. So why bother with all this?
kviaff must discuss what he did to the device with the guys at imei-check.uk and ask them if their procedure will recover it. We can only guess here as he did not tell how that happened to his device yet.
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I can vouch for the fact that Wizard Service Tool works on Tornado. I had Super CID unlocked my mob using some other method and then while doing some random stuff, had changed the IMEI to something like 000..123..90 or something just for fun's sake. Then a few months later, India passed a law which made phones with invalid IMEI useless. So, I had to use some software to recover my IMEI from a memory block, forgot which one I used ( I had erased the IMEI off from the surface below battery due to another freakish accident ) Then I used WST to restore my earlier IMEI.

Most probably you have loaded the WM65 ROM from Gregory - there it works and the "data crashes" message is suppressed (by the ROM). The corrupted block would not work with any other ROM and the WST would not work with any other as well.
At least these are the conclusions from gutek85 so far.
Mind that the WST is not the IMEI changer for the wizard!

It's posible to read original IMEI from (original) CID block with WST.
CID Action => Read CID block

Ok, finally I tried the IMEI change Wizard on one of my spare Tornados. Result is:
it works in changing the IMEI, if the device was ok before the change then there is still no "data crashes" after the change
it should NOT work in getting rid of the "data crashes" message because obviously the encrypted block is not linked to the IMEI of the device but to a HW characteristic of the device itself.
If I remember right (when searching for a solution for my old "data crashes" PBA) the encrypted block is linked to the Disc-On-Chip-ID which is HW unique per DOC in each device. It cannot be linked to the IMEI because otherwise a change of the IMEI would have created the data-crashes message. I have checked if the encrypted block is changed by the IMEI Update Wizard - and it is not. It is still possible that the "encrypted block" is extending beyond the 64k that lokiwiz is backing up.
So it is a nice tool to play with but has no real purpose for those who are legal owners of their devices. There is plenty of information regarding the consequences of changing the IMEI (legal and technical), so let me pick the simplest: If you change your device type (the first 6 digits) then the network may treat your device in a wrong way and you could experience strange behavior of e.g. MMS or configuration messages.
If you pick the IMEI of an existing (and connected) device you may bring the legal owner in problems - not only yourself.
For the curious:
In the scope of changing the IMEI the tool reads (and decrypts?) a block of 16k. It saves it temporarily in its program directory under "pdocread.dat"
after change (before write back) it holds the changed data there as well. For the Tornado you see that the IMEI is stored at offset x'300C safeguarded by some checksum at x'3008.
Mind: "IMEI Change Wizard" is NOT the "Wizard Service Tool (WST)"
I also finally succeeded to make the WST run with a stock WM5 Tornado. You have to manually add one policy setting:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Policies\Policies
add there a DWORD "0000101a" and set it to the value "1". This is what the "Cert_SPCS.cab" does but this will run only on PPC devices and not on a smartphone. Not sure though which of the operations from the WST will actually work on the Tornado and which will kill the device in one or the other way.

Good job
So there is still no way to fix Encrypted Block for free... Maybe someone could crack IMEICheck tool for avoid keyfile or make keyfile generator I tryed, but haven't enough knowledge...