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Hi, have a question..
when i uninstalled a couple of apps recently, all of its shortcut in programs are still there without there original icon and when you click on it, it give out this message "Cannot find <application name> make sure you've entered the correct path and filename, etc.."
was wondering if theres a way for me to remove or delete those floaters since they should'nt be there anymore since i've uninstalled the program app associated with it..
thanks!
use gsfinder etc and navigate to \windows\start menu and edit as required.
This can also be done through activesync explore.
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it worked...
yey... it worked.. didnt realize it was that easy.. anyways, thanks a bunch with the help... this forum really does rock..... keep the information flowing guys...... cheers!
Hi,
This forum helped me to decide on getting an O2 Orbit 2, so thanks for that..
I have searched for this but haven;t found a solution but forgive me if I am repeating a thread.
I am trying to find a way to add a shortcut to the Today screen that directly opens up a new SMS. At the moment I have to go to messaging>SMS>Menu>New>SMS, which seems very convulted, having come from a standard phone.
Is there any way to do this at all?
new_orbit said:
Hi,
This forum helped me to decide on getting an O2 Orbit 2, so thanks for that..
I have searched for this but haven;t found a solution but forgive me if I am repeating a thread.
I am trying to find a way to add a shortcut to the Today screen that directly opens up a new SMS. At the moment I have to go to messaging>SMS>Menu>New>SMS, which seems very convulted, having come from a standard phone.
Is there any way to do this at all?
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Try these. I'm not sure about a today plugin. But these cab's create a shortcut for you in \Windows called New SMS.lnk. You could always copy them to your start menu and uninstall the CAB if you dont want to lose a softkey.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2287306&postcount=6
Ta
Dave
DaveShaw said:
Try these. I'm not sure about a today plugin. But these cab's create a shortcut for you in \Windows called New SMS.lnk. You could always copy them to your start menu and uninstall the CAB if you dont want to lose a softkey.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2287306&postcount=6
Ta
Dave
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Thanks. Tried them both and the left one just changed the name of the soft key but still pointed to the calendar and the right one changed it to got the route of the SMS directory not to a new SMS message. I uninstalled them but the right one still stays the same
Any way of getting it back to the contacts?
new_orbit said:
Thanks. Tried them both and the left one just changed the name of the soft key but still pointed to the calendar and the right one changed it to got the route of the SMS directory not to a new SMS message. I uninstalled them but the right one still stays the same
Any way of getting it back to the contacts?
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Just un-install the CAB.
It might depend on the messaging software.
The shortcut should point to "\Windows\tmail.exe" -service "SMS"
Ta
Dave
DaveShaw said:
Just un-install the CAB.
It might depend on the messaging software.
The shortcut should point to "\Windows\tmail.exe" -service "SMS"
Ta
Dave
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I did unistall the CAB and it didn't do anything, just removed itself from the Remove Programs bit. The shortcut is no longer there either, so I cannot check it.
Having looked at your CAB file presumably all I need to change it to calendar is find a registry editor and change the settings your CAB made back to "Calendar" and the correct shortcut?
new_orbit said:
I did unistall the CAB and it didn't do anything, just removed itself from the Remove Programs bit. The shortcut is no longer there either, so I cannot check it.
Having looked at your CAB file presumably all I need to change it to calendar is find a registry editor and change the settings your CAB made back to "Calendar" and the correct shortcut?
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There is a "Softkey changer" app, or a program by schaps called "Advanced Config" both of those will save on the Reg hacking.
Ta
Dave
The Solution.....
Install the attachment...
You can place a shortcut to "NEW SMS" on your left or right softkey....
PS: Next time search or follow the link on my sign....
Sorted
Hi Guys,
Thanks to both of you for your quick replies and help. I have created a working New SMS on my today screen using the last app and the o2 shortcuts program that comes with the mobile.
Knew this was the right place to come!
PS: I did search and nothing useful came up...
PPS: I also couldn't have read your link on the sign as it is posted in the area that says to not post unless you are a developer or hardcore tecchie. I am neither and so didn't go there. Thanks for the help though.
Over a year later and the information in this thread has proved invaluable for me. Thanks.
The correct solution to directly compose a new SMS with a shortcut is the following:
tmail.exe -transport "SMS" -to ""
Works great on my Tilt2. However, I do think I used the syntax above posted by DaveShaw with a prior WinMo device and it worked. However, it does not work on my Tilt2.
You can also get a lot more complicated such as:
Creating new MMS with given recipients, subject, body and attachment:
tmail.exe -transport "MMS" -to "8005551212" -cc "8001234567" -bcc "[email protected]" -subject "simple subject" -body "simple MMS body" -attach "/My Documents/test.jpg"
Anyone know how to turn these into executables since my today launcher only accepts exe's?
If You haven't got a reply to that yet... You can make a simple mortscript (like runmms.mscr) with Run (tmail.exe etc...) and then have the mortsript dummy.exe renamed to the same runmms.exe which, when executed, results in the desired action.
Hi everybody ! (my first post on this board). I'm desperately searching something I don't find, I think that developpers will be able to help me :
Where does the windows file used to write a new message locate ?
I mean, it might be a .exe and when I click on it, it opens a new sms message. It might be somewhere in the Windows files.
What's more, is it possible to open a new message like this with the phone number of one of my contacts already set in the box where to put the receiver phone's number ?
(sorry for my english, it might be awful and difficult to understand : I'm french and I'm still learning this language !)
Thank you for spending time answering me.
Oh, I forgot sthg : I use a 6.1 Windows Mobile with a HTC Diamond, but I don't think that the phone model has sthg to do there.
Up please ! Tell me if I'm not understandable...
it's not an exe for a new message. it's an exe for the mail app called tmail.exe
you can use command lines to load other things. if i'm not mistaken a new message is "tmail.exe -new'
Thanks. I could have foreseen that it's not a .exe file. I'm gonna try what you said and I give you news about it. What's more, I'd like to know if it's possible to open a new sms with a predefined receiver's phone number. Yes, I've got some favourite contacts...
Well, it seems like it doesn't work. Maybe I did something wrong, here is a screen where you can see what I did on my phone : I use the prog TF3D Detacher to assign an argument to my left softkey. But when I click on the "new" button on my homescreen, nothing happens. (not any error message too). Let's look at it :
What's wrong there ?
please try again with a space between exe and -new.
I had already tried. It doesn't work.
Shouldn't you write "tmail.exe" on the App section and not the args section?
App: tmail.exe
Args: -new
Text: New Message
Try that please
I made You a clumsy tool if You cant solve it in any other way
It can be started with arguments, like below
(Shortcuts with arguments can be created from inside soft)
(Start it with Nr preset)
\\MyTools\SMSNrPreset.exe "077 1234567"
(Start it with both Nr and MSG Preset)
\\MyTools\SMSNrPreset.exe "077 1234567" "Hello Friend"
(Start it with both Nr and MSG preset, and auto send and close app)
\\MyTools\SMSNrPreset.exe "077 1234567" "Hello Friend" 1
Arlanthir said:
Shouldn't you write "tmail.exe" on the App section and not the args section?
App: tmail.exe
Args: -new
Text: New Message
Try that please
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You are right Arlanthir, I realise how very stupid I was. (I'm just a noob). So, this works ! I just still encounter an issue : so when I assign my left softkey to this app and this argument and when I click on it, a window opens and asks me if I wanna write a new sms message, or a new e-mail, etc. Could I directly, with that kind of arguments, be able to write a new SMS message ?
As for Eurocrypt, I really thank you for your little app, it works too but it doesn't appear well on my screen, I mean it's very little. What's more, I'd like to keep the original app included in my rom if possible. But I really appreciate your contribution.
dlg said:
You are right Arlanthir, I realise how very stupid I was. (I'm just a noob). So, this works ! I just still encounter an issue : so when I assign my left softkey to this app and this argument and when I click on it, a window opens and asks me if I wanna write a new sms message, or a new e-mail, etc. Could I directly, with that kind of arguments, be able to write a new SMS message ?
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Try giving it these arguments instead:
-service "SMS" -new
OR (if that doesn't work)
-service "SMS" -to ""
Wow. I really thank you for this. The second works fine ! It's great. Now I can have a softkey assigned to my favourite contact and which permit me to write this contact a new sms, pressing only one button. I thank you again and I hope that others will benefit of this too. So the arg working is this one :
-service "SMS" -to "the phone number you want to predefine"
Note : the fisrt argument you gave me opens the received sms box (I think it's like that we say ?).
dlg said:
Wow. I really thank you for this. The second works fine ! It's great. Now I can have a softkey assigned to my favourite contact and which permit me to write this contact a new sms, pressing only one button. I thank you again and I hope that others will benefit of this too. So the arg working is this one :
-service "SMS" -to "the phone number you want to predefine"
Note : the fisrt argument you gave me opens the received sms box (I think it's like that we say ?).
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It's called "inbox" but I understood it
I'm glad it works!
Something else now. I've already seen that, is it possible to create a file and to put it on my today screen so that when I click on it, I can write a new sms with my predefined number ? I've already done sthg like this on windows xp, with the notes application, I have written some cmd lines and changed the extension (but I do not remember what it was).
I thank you in anticipation.
dlg said:
Something else now. I've already seen that, is it possible to create a file and to put it on my today screen so that when I click on it, I can write a new sms with my predefined number ? I've already done sthg like this on windows xp, with the notes application, I have written some cmd lines and changed the extension (but I do not remember what it was).
I thank you in anticipation.
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Do not think of today like a mobile desktop. Desktop has files, whereas Today has programs. You can't "put files" on the today screen, just programs.
What you did on Windows XP was probably creating a .lnk manually. That's the common "shortcut"
You can do the same thing and make it appear on WM Start Menu>Programs, and then configure your today screen application (manilla, for example) to launch that shortcut.
Hi all,
I previously had a Hermes where there was a little tool to change the soft-keys at the coners of the screen to to applications of your choice.
Either I did not look to find the tool in the Raphael or it does not exist in the HTC standard ROM. Is there any tool to use for changein the soft-keys?
Thanks for support.
Best Regards
Rolf
http://rapidshare.com/files/292980474/SoftKeyApplet.rar
put this fil in ur windows folder and voila...
in settings u can change the softkeys
Thanks, it works as expected until TouchFlo ist started . When TouchFlo is running, the keys automatically swich to left: Telephone, right: programms. I dont find a way to change that. Any suggestions?
Best Regards
Rolf
This is what I, found it in the diamond forum.
just change hklm\software\htc\manila its not hard. homelsk options for the left softkey and homersk for the right. path and text.
Hi Jack,
thanks, the solution works , even with touch-flo. I could put the calendar as soft key. Do You know the name of the file where the contats are stored?
Best Regards
Rolf
dont trust me too hard on this im doing it from memory, but... set your path to "\Windows\poutlook.exe" and your argument to "contacts". without quotes on both of course.
Hi Jack,
thanks, I will try this tomorrow, today I forgot my mobile in the office :-(.
Result: I tried it and nothing happened, no contacts shoowing up or any error-msg. So it should be an other file I guess. Do you have any idea?
Best regards
Rolf
i was wondering why that wouldnt work and i tried it on mine and it does. you can check your spelling for any typos or whatever but it should work. no quotes, no caps on contacts, \'s not /'s. hope you can get it working.
If you install the cab i posted you dont need to edit the registry, just select the app you want the link on the soft key to be and click save.
alot of people like to do it themselvs or dont like extra apps. ill check it out and see what it does later.
Hi,
so I tried again the manila cab that was postet above. Well, it works fine, I just cannot find the "contacts" in there which I like to set as left soft-key. The "calendar" setting works fine either as direct setting in the HKLM or using the cab.
I also tried again to start the poutlook.exe directly out of the file-explorer and in contrast to the start of the calendar, nothing happened. So it must be any other file to start ???
Also I tried to link the "kontakte" (a small link-file) directly in HKLM, but got an error-msg telling me that the file does not have the required security-attributes or whatsoever.
I will keep on searching but happy for any adviece.
Berst Regards
Rolf
Hello,
I am trying to set my left softkey to the windows contacts app, a shortcut to this app is \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Contacts.ink .. which leads to poutlook.exe
Regardless of what I set the LSKpath to in the registry editor, I always get an error that the file can not be found.
The only time that it will work is if I set it to the manila contacts app ( Manila://people\browserlayer\?.page )
For example, I set it to " \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Contacts.ink " or ":MSCONTACTS?outres.dll,-10000" or "\Windows\poutlook.exe" even "\Windows\appbuttons\contacts.ink"
it will say: "The file 'contacts' cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of the components cannot be found. If the problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file"
Like I said this only happens with the Windows Contacts app, but not the Manila Contacts.. Any ideas??
I'd really like to use the windows one because it loads alot faster..
Thank you, sorry for the lengthy post
Hi,
are you on a official or cooked ROM? If it's really a matter of trusted certificates, you could try to install sdkcerts.cab on your device..hope it helps.
I am on an oem rom, what does this cerficates thing do ?
Thanks
ice2x01 said:
I am on an oem rom, what does this cerficates thing do ?
Thanks
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It disables certificate warning and allows you to install\run uncertified programs.
To test for your softkey, navigate to the shortcut in explorer and make sure it opens before adding to registry.
lol, apparently shortcuts end in .LNK not .INK .. that fixed it
ice2x01 said:
lol, apparently shortcuts end in .LNK not .INK .. that fixed it
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That's funny!
I´m trying to do the same since hours: connecting the LSK to the original WinMo contacts interface (not the HTC one). And I begin to resign...
I entered the ValueData of the according entry in the registry (HKLM\SOFTWARE\HTC\MANILA\HomeLSKPath) to:
\Windows\poutlook.exe contacts
or
\Windows\poutlook.exe
or
"\Windows\poutlook.exe" contacts ... and so on. But nothing happens when I press the LSK. Not even an error message.
What do I wrong? Could PLEASE somebody tell me the right command for the Value Data (respectively the right argument for poutlook.exe to start the contacts-interface)?
Thanks in advance!
p.
ps: Ok, call me stupid... or noob. Finally I found out, that the Registry is an other thing than a CommandLineInterface ;-) and that the argument "contacts" has to be written in HomeLSKArguments and not as an argument behind the program path in HomeLSKPath...
Finally it works!
photona said:
I´m trying to do the same since hours: connecting the LSK to the original WinMo contacts interface (not the HTC one). And I begin to resign...
I entered the ValueData of the according entry in the registry (HKLM\SOFTWARE\MANILA\HomeLSKPath) to:
\Windows\poutlook.exe contacts
or
\Windows\poutlook.exe
or
"\Windows\poutlook.exe" contacts ... and so on. But nothing happens when I press the LSK. Not even an error message.
What do I wrong? Could PLEASE somebody tell me the right command for the Value Data (respectively the right argument for poutlook.exe to start the contacts-interface)?
Thanks in advance!
p.
ps: Ok, call me stupid... or noob. Finally I found out, that the Registry is an other thing than a CommandLineInterface ;-) and that the argument "contacts" has to be written in HomeLSKArguments and not as an argument behind the program path in HomeLSKPath...
Finally it works!
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Another option would be Windows\Startmenu\Contacts.LNK (or whereever the link resides)
use shaps advanced config to edit it if you want