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Comm Manager Taskbar Icon

I've got a UK Orange M600 (Prophet) and have a number of today plugins but i'm running out of screenspace in the today view.
there is a taskbar at the bottom with an icon for the comm manager which i'd love to get rid of. I already have a hardware button for the Comm Manager i don't need an icon on my today screen as well and it takes up the whole width of the screen even though it is just one tiny icon
does anyone have any idea how to get rid of it, i've even swapped to the latest Dopod rom and not loaded any of the extended ROM and it is still there
Sorry if this isn't exactly the right place to post this but it's been driving me crazy.
Any help would be appreciated

Go to windows\startup. There should be an init_tray.lnk there. Delete it, then reset the device.

Cool
thanks worked a treat.
I knew it should be something simple
Do you know what Capnotify.lnk is? which is also in my startup dir

Nope. It links to Capnotify.exe in windows dir, but I have no idea what that does.
You could always try cut / paste to move the link somewhere else, boot without it and see what's missing (my guess, some notification won't work).
As long as you don't delete the link completely it should be relatively safe.

Instead of being lazy i looked it up
found this
Looking inside my \Windows\Startup folder on my Wizard, I found a shortcut to an application called CapNotify.exe. Upon inspecting the file in a hex editor, I found a registry key called "EnableIndicator" which was not found in the registry. After creating the registry entry called EnableIndicator at \HKCU\ControlPanel\Keybd and assigning the DWORD value of 1 to it , then soft-resetting my device, an indicator appeared next to the keyboard icon on the bottom of the screen! Tapping the Shift key showed a "C" while tapping the Dot key showed a dot! Very cool!
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from here http://www.howardforums.com/archive/topic/791011-1.html
sounds like a typical Windows Thing, something which is run all the time on everyones compauter but not even enabled in 99% of cases
OhWell

Thanks. No I know I can get rid of it since my device doesn't have a hardware keyboard.

beat task switcher for WM6

Guys
Whats the best task switcher for WM6?
I heard some time ago that magic button and WM6 dont like each other. is that still the case
Thx
bhayani

bhayani said:
Guys
Whats the best task switcher for WM6?
I heard some time ago that magic button and WM6 dont like each other. is that still the case
Thx
bhayani
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I prefer pBar. It has some problems with WM6 concerning the taskbar when using the clock display. But I've turned off this option. I've created a shortcut to my start menu, and assigned pBar to a hardware button

pbar, tman, say NO to x-button.

pbar is good but it came as an executable which i dropped into stratup.
i also put a shortcut on my start menu
but how can assign it to a hardware button?
. seems that only registered programs are in the drop down
bhayani

If it is in Start Menu, it must appear in the "Buttons" menu in settings. so you can assign it to any HW button, I prefer voice button.

Dinarsoft Handyswitcher is light and useful to me...

SPB Pocket Plus
Pocket plus has a good task switcher like windows xp and you can set it to the voice record button then you can use it all the time.

Klael said:
If it is in Start Menu, it must appear in the "Buttons" menu in settings. so you can assign it to any HW button, I prefer voice button.
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I have just hunted for a buttons menu but found nothing.
the only files/folders on my system with buttons are 2 dll files, no folders at all?
can you tell me where i should be looking?
thanks

bhayani said:
I have just hunted for a buttons menu but found nothing.
the only files/folders on my system with buttons are 2 dll files, no folders at all?
can you tell me where i should be looking?
thanks
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It is not in the system folders. It is in settings menu that yo can acees with start menu. And buttons menu is in "personal" tab.

Fuze PTT button remapping problem

Before I start, I apologise if this has already been answered elsewhere, as I've spent about five hours trawling through threads looking, in vain, for a solution.
I have bought a new Fuze but the PTT button causes a problem with the aluminium case I bought for it. The problem is that the case is for a Touch Pro and the latch is right where the PTT button is (meaning the button is permanently depressed when the case is closed). It cannot be remapped in Settings/Buttons.
All I want to do is to be able to disable the button completely, or failing that make it an 'OK/Close' button. I have got rid of the PTT link but would greatly, greatly appreciate if someone could tell me what commands should be written in "short_PTT.lnk" and "long_PTT.lnk" to be able to do this. I've tried just leaving both blank but then the PTT button brings up an error message when pressed about not being able to find the shortcut.
Is there a way to achieve either of these solely using the registry, and without using third-party software?
Thanks for your time.

Here's full instructions on remapping your PTT button: http://www.fuzemobility.com/?p=598
To just disable it so it does nothing follow the steps at the beginning:
Using a registry editor delete HKLM\Services\PTT.
Next delete HKCU\Software\HTC\PTT.
Navigate back to the Windows directory and rename PTT to PTT2
Now create a new folder called PTT and set the properties as System and Read Only
If you follow all of those instructions and want to map it to close use this app and map it: http://www.fuzemobility.com/?p=1249

Problem fixed
You're a great person, bugsykoosh. I had done the first part you suggested, but the second link - and use of a tiny program called Zap It - fixed it perfectly.
Thank you heaps.

Okay so what is the joke why does this work for EVERYONE, except me. I mean seriously. I followed the steps but nothing. I press the button and I get nothing at all except the noise that indicates the keypress was succesfull WHAT GIVES.

bugsykoosh said:
To just disable it so it does nothing follow the steps at the beginning:
Using a registry editor delete HKLM\Services\PTT.
Next delete HKCU\Software\HTC\PTT.
Navigate back to the Windows directory and rename PTT to PTT2
Now create a new folder called PTT and set the properties as System and Read Only
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This is overkill. You don't need to mess around with the PTT directory. If you just stop the PTT service from running, nothing will look in the PTT directory and its contents don't matter.
Just change HKLM\Services\PTT\Dll to an empty string and soft reset. The button will be completely inert. You can then remap it using AEBP or the short_PTT/long_PTT shortcuts, if you choose, or just leave it inactive.

Today
WMM,
If you change as you suggested, it looks like the long and short still work. I've remapped and did all the steps, but it looks like yours may be a little easier/cleaner. I'm curious, and I've looked extensively to no answer, but if I want the short press to just send my Fuze back to "Today" (in TF3D), is there a way to do that? If I press Start the first option is Today and this does exactly what I want. There's no shortcut that I can locate anywhere (and I'm sure it's my ignorance/technical inability) and the next step is to make a copy of that shortcut and name it short_PTT which I can handle. Any suggestions?

So, it isn't possible to map the PTT button from the Settings - Buttons screen? Looks like the method linked to above, with the short_PTT and long_PTT shortcuts, won't allow me to map the PTT buttons to work as the left and right softkeys.

As far as I know (which isn't very far, sometimes), the only way to get the PTT button to execute "Home" or the left/right soft keys is to use AE Button Plus. There may be applications that do those things that you can download (I know there are for things like toggling wifi and bluetooth, killing the current application, etc.) -- these are really tiny utility applications that are specifically intended for mapping to a button -- but I don't know of ones that do those particular things. (AEBP is able to do all those things, as well as giving you four mappable events -- single, double, triple, and long press).

okay seriously here do the links need to have special settings or anything. I mean what attributes should they have. Nothing works!

For the life of me, I can't remap my PTT button.
On a short press, it activates the voice command system.
On a long press, it activates the camera.
This seems to be from flashing NATF's ROM.
Following instructions above, I have no HKLM\Services\PTT or HKCU\Software\HTC\PTT in my registry editor.
I did the short and long_PTT/link and PTT folder in Windows. The links work there, but doesn't change what happens when the button is pushed.
I have AEButton Plus, but can't get it to add the PTT as a button.
Any suggestions where I can find in the registry what is making my PTT button act as it is? I'd rather have it do nothing than what it is doing now.
Thanks,
Chris

txemsdoc said:
On a short press, it activates the voice command system.
On a long press, it activates the camera.
This seems to be from flashing NATF's ROM.
Following instructions above, I have no HKLM\Services\PTT or HKCU\Software\HTC\PTT in my registry editor.
I did the short and long_PTT/link and PTT folder in Windows.
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Yes, I believe NATF did not add the PTT stuff from AT&T into his ROM; the instructions above are for the stock AT&T ROM. You'll have to ask NATF how to remap the PTT button using his ROM.

jro2020 said:
okay seriously here do the links need to have special settings or anything. I mean what attributes should they have. Nothing works!
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I'm not sure what you're talking about here. As I mentioned in my last posting just above this one, this probably only works in a ROM that supports PTT, like the stock AT&T ROM; if you're running something that doesn't support PTT, it would be a real surprise if "short_PTT" and "long_PTT" meant anything special, no? Assuming you are running the stock AT&T ROM, here's a step-by-step procedure for creating the short_PTT link to point to the Camera application using the built-in File Explorer.
1) Open File Explorer. If the drop-down box at the upper left says anything other than "My Device," tap the small down-arrow next to the label and then tap on "My Device."
2) Tap on "Windows" and wait a few seconds for the folder contents to appear.
3) Scroll down until you see "Camera" (the one that's 794K). Tap and hold that until the pop-up menu appears and then tap on "Copy".
4) Tap on "Menu" in the lower right, then "Edit", then "Paste Shortcut".
5) Scroll to the very bottom of the folder contents and you'll see "Shortcut to Camera" that was created. (The name may be truncated, depending on the size of the font and the screen orientation. Mine says, "Shortcut to Ca..." in portrait orientation. In any event, it will be the last thing in the folder contents.) Tap and hold on that until the pop-up menu appears and then tap "Rename". Then just type "short_PTT" to overwrite the existing name and hit return.
That's all you need to do. (If the application you want to run with the PTT button is in a different folder from \Windows, navigate there, tap-hold on the application executable, and select "Copy". Then navigate to \Windows and do steps 4 and 5 exactly as above.) This works exactly the same for the "long_PTT" shortcut.
If you do exactly that, does it not work? What happens if you tap the "short_PTT" shortcut in File Explorer? Does it start the camera?

Here is a link to a cab that will allow you to remap the PTT button: http://www.fuzemobility.com/ptt-remapping-revisited-application/

Remap PTT to launch phone Speed Dial?
I have disabled PTT so that I can use the button to launch programs - I just dont know how to launch phone speed dial - Does anyone know if there is a file that will launch speed dial that I can use to link to the PTT button?
Thanks!

pdafish said:
I have disabled PTT so that I can use the button to launch programs - I just dont know how to launch phone speed dial - Does anyone know if there is a file that will launch speed dial that I can use to link to the PTT button?
Thanks!
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if your goal is to map your PTT button to call a single person check this posting: http://www.mobilitydigest.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3635

Here is another source that gives you step by step instructions.
http://htcblogger.com/2009/06/07/ho...utton-on-your-att-fuze-htc-diamond-touch-pro/

Note that if you're using the stock Fuze ROMs, the updated ROM from HTC adds the ability to remap the PTT button without any registry hacks.

PerfAlbion said:
Note that if you're using the stock Fuze ROMs, the updated ROM from HTC adds the ability to remap the PTT button without any registry hacks.
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Can you post instructions as to how? I tried it already and the pulldown that shows you the available apps you can pick only shows PTT.
Best regards,
JD

So I followed the registry edit method, and created a file (not a folder) called PTT and things work great .... except ... when its on Airplane mode (Phone, Bluetooth and Data set to off) and I press the button (short or long) the PTT function kick off.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Anyway to change this behaviour?

jdomi99 said:
Can you post instructions as to how? I tried it already and the pulldown that shows you the available apps you can pick only shows PTT.
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Something's odd with your phone, then. Mine shows the full list of apps and options. I remapped PTT to VC without an issue.
Is it possible that you've got an application that's taking over the Buttons Control Panel? On mine, I had to remember to shut off SPB Pocket Plus's control over the buttons since it doesn't work with the Touch Pro line. When I first fired up the control panel, it listed no apps until I remembered that I had Pocket Plus running and turned of that feature.

Editing the home screen

Is it possible to change camera&phone from the bottom of the home screen to eg. wifi&phone?

emili000 said:
Is it possible to change camera&phone from the bottom of the home screen to eg. wifi&phone?
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yes it is possible

Yes! I've used Advanced Configuration Tool v3.3.cab.
In advanced configuration you can select different applications to set in the bottom of the home screen.

Could you tell me where will I find it (which option should I choose)

Search here in XDA for "advanced configuration tool V3.3.cab" (thanks shape!) and install it!
Then U go in "User Interfaces"->menu->more setting->key mapping and here you can sett every programs you want assign to the sofkeys!

in order to not make another thread; where will I find "phone"? I've changed it by mistake, and now I can't switch it back.

If you use AdvancedConfig then, you can change the softkey by looking up the "phone" shortcut from the drop down list or you can just leave it blank & it will change it automatically to the default setting.

Maybe a little OT... But I read that .NET 3.5 needs to be installed. Can I simply download and install it or do i need to manually do register changes afterwards (read that I had to somewhere)?

Just install NetCF3.5 to your phone (Main Memory or Storage Card) does not matter, mine is running just fine from SD Card. Soft reset & it should run with no issues.

Continuing the OT:
The Netcf 3.5 is not replace automatically but we must change the values on the register.
HKey_Local_Machine -> Software -> Microsoft ->. NETCompactFramework
click on item 2.0.7045.00 and change the value from 1 to 0
click on item 3.5.7283.00 and change the value from 0 to 1
Close ... soft reset and you have the ROM with the NETCF 3.5!

ok, now I know. However it worked for me without having to change registry settings.

or use this progam, works on diamond 2 too..

Does anyone know how you might, in a similar vain, get Notes to appear on the home screen?

@marcelvanblankers:
doesnt work on my td2! after restart it seems like it does, as there actually are the replaced buttons being displayed, but when tf3d launches there are "phone" and "camera" back again.

That's BS.
I just installed NetCF 3.5 via .cab and Advanced Config worked, without any registry changes.

i was talking of the softkeymanager1_1_diamond_beta.ARM_WM5.cab

woelv said:
@marcelvanblankers:
doesnt work on my td2! after restart it seems like it does, as there actually are the replaced buttons being displayed, but when tf3d launches there are "phone" and "camera" back again.
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you must check the checkbox in the program to change the keys when using TF3D....
one is for standard today, the other for TF3D..
greetz

that's exactly what i did. i just tried it again - same thing, no change.

I'm looking for a solution to replace the calendar by the tasks and notes in the home screen.
Does anyone knows how to do it?
Tks

woelv said:
that's exactly what i did. i just tried it again - same thing, no change.
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change the keys in program, save settings then exit.
in TF3D switch a tab and switch back to homescreen.
now it will be changed, it works on my diamond2. in TF3d and in original today.
do you have .net 3.5 installed? i know i have.. don't know if it matters..
greetzz

soft-reset button when long press Power Off

I have a wish: when I long-press the OFF button of my HD2 a screen appears with these options:
Power Off
Lock Device
Set Vibrate
Terminate Data Connection
Basically I only use the 1st option (Power Off)
I would like to have a new button: RESTART (or Soft Reset).
Is it possible?
Is there any cab available?
Is it possible to "rewire" the "set Vibrate" button or the "Terminate Data" button as a "Soft Reset" button?
Thanks and waiting
Saulo

saulo866 said:
I have a wish: when I long-press the OFF button of my HD2 a screen appears with these options:
Power Off
Lock Device
Set Vibrate
Terminate Data Connection
Basically I only use the 1st option (Power Off)
I would like to have a new button: RESTART (or Soft Reset).
Is it possible?
Is there any cab available?
Is it possible to "rewire" the "set Vibrate" button or the "Terminate Data" button as a "Soft Reset" button?
Thanks and waiting
Saulo
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+1 to that, great ideea, or we could remap the long press end button to start xdashutdown.

+1 to that

Great idea!
Alternatively it would be not bad at all link xda shutdown to power button instead of htc quick list

I agree this would be more useful. Maybe someone can look in to it and remap the button.
Edit: I did a quick check in the Package for LongPressEndkey and there are no reg entries to change. Button graphics could be changed easily. I think all the functions are embedded in the exe file

+1 yes I like the sound of this too, would be very useful

Guys,
I have been strugglig for almost two weeks to have it working.
To have Slide2Shudown instead of the regular LongPressEndKey software, you have to use vijay555's VJBrisk, rename it as EndKey.exe, create shortcut file to the application you need, rename it as EndKeyLNK.lnk, place eveything in your Windows folder and voila
I attached the files I use to this post (assuming Slide2Shutdown.exe file is in \Program Files\Slide2Shutdown\).
The_Steph

The_Steph said:
Guys,
I have been strugglig for almost two weeks to have it working.
To have Slide2Shudown instead of the regular LongPressEndKey software, you have to use vijay555's VJBrisk, rename it as EndKey.exe, create shortcut file to the application you need, rename it as EndKeyLNK.lnk, place eveything in your Windows folder and voila
I attached the files I use to this post (assuming Slide2Shutdown.exe file is in \Program Files\Slide2Shutdown\).
The_Steph
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Fantastic, it worked like a charm! Thanks a lot!
I suggest you to post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638 because it's very useful!

Great idea +1

The_Steph said:
Guys,
I have been strugglig for almost two weeks to have it working.
To have Slide2Shudown instead of the regular LongPressEndKey software, you have to use vijay555's VJBrisk, rename it as EndKey.exe, create shortcut file to the application you need, rename it as EndKeyLNK.lnk, place eveything in your Windows folder and voila
I attached the files I use to this post (assuming Slide2Shutdown.exe file is in \Program Files\Slide2Shutdown\).
The_Steph
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Awesome! Got xdashutdown working a treat now!

Have you had any bugs yet ? any problems with the end key since using that ?
And by the way its a great ide