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Problem with Large Start menu on non HTC devices

hi there!
I downloaded JUVS HTC Large Titlebar and HTC Enlarge Start menu CABs and installed both on my E-TEN M800 (VGA).
They installed fine and I now have the "large start menu" item in my system settings.
But when I check the checkbox to turn it on, it still doesnt enlarge.
I rebooted the device and still nothing. I basically only need the zooming of the notification icons in the start-bar.
have I missed something? do i need additional files?
thanks
Bernhard

the old one just for QVGA, try this one, but dun know can it work on ETEN

thanks, but it doesn't work.
maybe it needs touchFLO so its only activated when you use the finger? or something like that?

No touchflow wouldnt make a difference on this. Unfortunatly some of the items on here will only work with HTC devices and i think this may well be one of them im afraid. Unless anyone else can shed any light

Tried the Large Start Menu once on my iPAQ, and what I found was that the service (htcStartMenuService.dll) doesn't automatically start. Using DotFred's Taskmanager to manually start the service made the large start menu appear... until the next soft reset.
The same thing probably happens with the large titlebar thing.

thanks ridolfo, this works!
now i have to find a way to start it automatically on reboot
makes my e-ten even more userfriendly!
edit: i just added this nice and useful taskmanager to my StartMenu and on reboot, i open it, go to the services tab and click the little start icon for the LargeTitleBar service. thats it.
works like a charm.

IIRC, you can even open it on the services tab, using a command-line switch. Have a look in the "About" screen for possible command-line switches (I think it's in the "About" screen, but I'm not sure).
I'm still hoping that someone can explain why some of the HTC services do auto-start, but others don't.

yes, because when you install the LargeTitleBar it correctly creates its entry in the Registry and is bound to be started, but somehow it doesnt.

In my brand new HTC Touch Cruise, large menu option is ticked, but after playing around with apps or settings it becomes small, allthough it's still ticked. I have to disable and reenable it to make it big again. It's a bit of a problem, as it happens often. Advice would be appreciated.

same problem
couldn't this problem be fixed by some registry entires ?
I mean to put an application into autostart shouldn't be a problem, well for me, as a hardcore newp it is acutally, but maybe not fo you guys
on my xperia x1 i've got the same problem .

large start menu
bommel0815 said:
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now i have to find a way to start it automatically on reboot
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Hi! at all!
Have you found a solution?

Display is too dim when unlocking

When I lock my Orbit II/Touch Cruise the display is automatically dimmed - standard procedure, I assume. When I come to unlock it, in anything except a darkish room indoors is is very difficult to see the display sufficiently well to type in my unlock code. Is there a way to have the have the display bright when coming out of standby when the lock is on?
Regards,
Bob

this cannot be changed !!! cause configuration comes with rom [email protected] least i guess ---

I use an excellent auto-locking program that can be configured to light the screen for a few seconds to allow you to unlock it.
You can find it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=386451
Craig

I use throttle lock. Very cool app, and very ligt >>> http://www.throttlelauncher.com/portal/downloads/34-public-releases/65-throttlelock01http://www.throttlelauncher.com/portal/downloads/34-public-releases/65-throttlelock01

Change the Locklevel
Hey Man!
Use eg.the registry editor from schaps and rename LockLevel to LockLevelX
HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\LockLevel =>
HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\LockLevelX
Reset your device and be happy!
This works fine for me and activating the device happens in full brightness
So far
Frank

Changing the name in the registry works fine. Thanks for the tip!

Thanks for the tips (and the other folk too) - I'll get the registry editor and try that.

Dim backlight on Orbit 2
I take it you're still running the O2 today screen?
Load the HTC.Kaiser.Home.Eng.0409.6Tab.sch Home screen and Slide to Unlock (S2U2-1.05-WM5.cab) and you won't have problems again.
No need to fiddle with your registry or buy a registry editor either.
Search the forum for both the above files but make sure you download and run the specific file above for your Orbit 2 or else the backlight adjust tab won't work.

get the 6.1 update and this is all sorted out in it

Lomcovaks said:
I take it you're still running the O2 today screen?
Load the HTC.Kaiser.Home.Eng.0409.6Tab.sch Home screen and Slide to Unlock (S2U2-1.05-WM5.cab) and you won't have problems again.
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Is the home screen essential to the process? I use WindowsVistaBlackQVGA and don't want to change it.

chris10230 said:
get the 6.1 update and this is all sorted out in it
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Running the Windows Update says everything is up to date, so I assume I'm already running 6.1 - I can't see a version number anywhere to confirm. "About" says Windows Mobile 6 Professional and a build number of CE OS 5.2.1623 (Build 18129.0.4.5) If there's another way to update and it would fix the problem that would be the way to go.

Nordlicht277 said:
Hey Man!
Use eg.the registry editor from schaps and rename LockLevel to LockLevelX
HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\LockLevel =>
HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\LockLevelX
Reset your device and be happy!
This works fine for me and activating the device happens in full brightness
So far
Frank
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Just to confirm that it is the DIRECTORY name "Locklevel" that needs to be changed, not the Locklevel entry in that directory :-
Name Data
Default (value not set)
Locklevel 0
Perhaps changing the value of Locklevel from zero might have a similar effect?

RealVGA 96dpi Updated ResPack / Remove Battery Indicator

I'm sure all of you know about tobias.walvogal's RealVGA by now. Awesome program by the way, found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=327830
For those of you that have used it you know that the respack provided by tobias may be a bit outdated and is missing the a few dll's. Attached is my respack cab pulled from ATT's Tilt ROM CE OS 5.2.19214 (Treo Pro is 5.2.19216). Sorry, English only.
Edit (11/11/2008): You also need to install sdkcerts.cab below because my dll's in the respack are signed with sdk test certs.
Also, you will notice that the battery indicator is pretty much useless once you go 96 dpi. Simply unzip and copy the attached BatteryIndicator.exe to your Windows folder on your pro via ActiveSync and soft reset. No need to use Total Commander or Resco Explorer. You will lose the line that is now your battery indicator and you will have the volume symbol instead. To revert back simply delete BatteryIndicator.exe again via ActiveSync and soft reset again.
Lastly, to get the regular windows mobile battery indicator back you will need to go to HKLM/Software/Microsft/Shell and change ShowTitleBarClock from 1 to 0. If you guys want a cab to make this change I can make one, but if you're already able to complete the 2 steps above you should be more than capable of making a registry change.
Good Luck!!

Is there any other way to remove the useless battery icon from the tray? Tried your program a few times and worked at first but now, its a no go.

Thanks for the files, but for me this made things worse.

happycollin26 said:
Is there any other way to remove the useless battery icon from the tray? Tried your program a few times and worked at first but now, its a no go.
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Instead of removing the battery icon, you can use ArielBattery 2 (freeware). You can position this meter over the old (useless) battery icon.
Optionally you can add a link in the Windows\Startup directory to the program, to automatically load it after startup.

oVan said:
Thanks for the files, but for me this made things worse.
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Just curious, what got worse? Other than some sizing problems.

Hi,
How do you make the registry changes stick??? I got them to change, but they go away when I perform a soft reset.
Thanks,
Rich

The DK96 res pack certainly seems to be better than the original in that the threaded SMS icons are now displayed However, the 'Start Menu' icon found at the top-left of the screen and the "X"/"OK" normally found at the top-right of the screen are now missing!!
The 'Coms Manager' seems to have problems whichever 96 respack you use.

In addition, I have just noticed that the icons shown on my start menu are wrong (they show application icons for 'Programs' and 'Settings'.
It would be great if these issues could be resolved

Indeed, those were my gripes too...

I was never able to figure out the Comm Manager issue. As for the remaining icon issues you need sdkcerts. Sorry, totally forgot. See first post.

Thanks akadonny, the missing icons are now there!
I just have to find some way around the Comms Manager now. Does anyone know if there is another Comms Manager I can use?

When I use RealVGA I just turn off the HTC Comm Manager. I don't actually use it other than to turn the bluetooth on and off. You just need to change:
HKLM/ControlPanel/WrlsMgr
Redirect = \Windows\CommManagerLink.exe
to
Redirect = \Windows\wrlsmgr.exe
You'll be left with the generic wireless manager that only has Phone, Wireless and Bluetooth. All of the Treo Pro hardware buttons (radios off with top power and long hold of side for wifi) should still function normally.

akadonny said:
Also, you will notice that the battery indicator is pretty much useless once you go 96 dpi. Simply unzip and copy the attached BatteryIndicator.exe to your Windows folder on your pro via ActiveSync and soft reset. No need to use Total Commander or Resco Explorer. You will lose the line that is now your battery indicator and you will have the volume symbol instead. To revert back simply delete BatteryIndicator.exe again via ActiveSync and soft reset again.
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When I attempt to copy the unzipped batterIndicator.exe file that is 0 bytes to the palm pro, a message appears that asks if I want to replace the existing file that indicates the current file is 19.9 KB and date which it was created. I can click, Yes, Yes to All, No, or Cancel. If I click Yes or Yes to all, a dialog appears that states BatteryIndicator cound not be placed on the device. You do not have permission to create this item. Now, whats up? I asked earlier and did not get an ANSWER.

IM having a problem...after removing Real VGA and the 96dpi respack and then soft resetting i still have the same res as if RealVGA is still installed.....
Just wondering whats going on.....is this normal?

Did you notice under programs that there is a RealVGA icon?

akadonny said:
I'm sure all of you know about tobias.walvogal's RealVGA by now. Awesome program by the way, found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=327830
For those of you that have used it you know that the respack provided by tobias may be a bit outdated and is missing the a few dll's. Attached is my respack cab pulled from ATT's Tilt ROM CE OS 5.2.19214 (Treo Pro is 5.2.19216). Sorry, English only.
Edit (11/11/2008): You also need to install sdkcerts.cab below because my dll's in the respack are signed with sdk test certs.
Also, you will notice that the battery indicator is pretty much useless once you go 96 dpi. Simply unzip and copy the attached BatteryIndicator.exe to your Windows folder on your pro via ActiveSync and soft reset. No need to use Total Commander or Resco Explorer. You will lose the line that is now your battery indicator and you will have the volume symbol instead. To revert back simply delete BatteryIndicator.exe again via ActiveSync and soft reset again.
Lastly, to get the regular windows mobile battery indicator back you will need to go to HKLM/Software/Microsft/Shell and change ShowTitleBarClock from 1 to 0. If you guys want a cab to make this change I can make one, but if you're already able to complete the 2 steps above you should be more than capable of making a registry change.
Good Luck!!
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It doesn't work on my Treo Pro There is just 128 dpi...
Can somebody help me?
I did it like You said but realvga doesn't see your 96dpi. The old one works but there are many icons missing - in sms mode.

xxpinballxx said:
IM having a problem...after removing Real VGA and the 96dpi respack and then soft resetting i still have the same res as if RealVGA is still installed.....
Just wondering whats going on.....is this normal?
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Reinstall RealVGA
Select 128dpi
Then Uninstall.

Trying out RealVga on my treo pro in 128 and 96dpi.
After uninstalling (from 128dpi), was hoping that it would back to normal but i notice that my icon has grown bigger than previuos. I don't think this is normal.
What can i do? I don't like a bigger icon

akadonny said:
Lastly, to get the regular windows mobile battery indicator back you will need to go to HKLM/Software/Microsft/Shell and change ShowTitleBarClock from 1 to 0. If you guys want a cab to make this change I can make one, but if you're already able to complete the 2 steps above you should be more than capable of making a registry change.
Good Luck!!
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An exported bckp key (using Resco Registry) it's fine with me, since I can always imported back into the registry with the ShowTitleBarClock = 0 and do the soft-reset.

xxpinballxx said:
IM having a problem...after removing Real VGA and the 96dpi respack and then soft resetting i still have the same res as if RealVGA is still installed.....
Just wondering whats going on.....is this normal?
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I think you are supposed to first (before you uninstall realVGA) switch back to 128 dpi and then proceed with the unistall, so the qvga sticks after a soft-reset.

Remove battery icon in notifications? I swear I'm not a noob!

I've searched and tried everything I could find and have done in the past, and I still can't get the battery icon to go away when on the home screen. I edited the registry so that the time and date are shown in the notification area always, but on the home screen that green battery icon overlays them and just makes a mess. Is the raphael different than every other HTC device I've had so far in this regard? In case it matters I have a fuze and am running NATF's latest ROM (2.2 I think).

Maybe you should post this in the official NATF V 2.2 Thread. he should be able to help you.

I really don't think this is a ROM specific problem, but if nobody has input, I'll ask the chef...

Solved.
I installed Advanced Config and used it to change the notification from battery to time. I don't know which registry key was responsible, but it's all good now. None of the manual registry key edits I used on previous devices worked but apparently advanced config knows which one to change! It wasn't a ROM issue.

Just for info refering to above post
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell]
"ShowTitleBarClock"=dword:0
0= Battery; 1=Clock
(U can always see the reg hack in the adv cfg *.xml file)

ah hah! I was focusing on "TBOpt=3" to try to show both date and time and ignoring the "ShowTitleBarClock" part! Thanks!

Black screen where TF3D should be at startup..

I'm not sure what happened, but I've been noticing that now when I boot up my VZW TP2, the launching touchflo 3d screen pops up, then goes away and there is nothing but a black background and the windows taskbar.
The black screen looks like a program with an all black background and no text/content, it has an X in the upper right hand corner and I can click that X to reveal TF3D.. I can also click anywhere on the screen and/or END key and reveal TF3D.
This happens at startup every time now.
Things I've done since I noticed the problem;
Installed HDBoobs
Installed Diamond Halogram w/ ATi Graphics Driver
Put HTCAPI.dll in the \windows\ directory
Installed .NET CF 3.5
Installed Schap's Registry Editor
Installed J.S. Advanced Configuration Tool 3.3
Installed Ilium Software Screen Capture
Installed Windows Live (newest version)
Installed Microsoft Facebook Application
Did '7MP Panorama' Tweak
Did 'Reveal 5 Hidden Camera Settings' Tweak
Things I've done after noticing the problem;
Installed Microsoft ICS
Installed Garmin MobileXT
Did 'Close Opera with X instead of minimize' registry mod
Did 'ResProxy ShareMemSize=0' registry mod
Installed NoPushInternet
EDIT 1:
I've now removed;
'ResProxy ShareMemSize=0' registry mod (slowed me down too much)
HDBoobs
Diamond Halogram w/ ATi Graphics Driver
Nothing has changed.
EDIT 2:
I had it setup to be password protected. After removing the password option and soft-resetting, the problem is gone. Is this a bug? Is there a fix for this? I know it seems minuscule, but this isn't how it should work and I want to fix it
I'd like to avoid doing a hard reset if possible.. so any advice, other than 'ignore it' would be appreciated.

I think that I have the same thing happening. I don't think that it was like this out of the box, but I'm not sure when it started. Basically, my phone loads showing the taskbar at the top and the two soft keys at the bottom. Everything in between is black. If I touch the screen, then the TouchFlo stuff shows up. After that, it's fine.
I do have a lock code enabled. It was forced by an Exchange Server policy. Not sure if this "issue" arose at that point or not.

I asked the same question here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=560636
Seems to be related to having the PIN lock enabled. I too am required to use this for work reasons, and have not found a way to get TF3D to display on boot up without having to touch the screen.

SecretAgentMan said:
I think that I have the same thing happening. I don't think that it was like this out of the box, but I'm not sure when it started. Basically, my phone loads showing the taskbar at the top and the two soft keys at the bottom. Everything in between is black. If I touch the screen, then the TouchFlo stuff shows up. After that, it's fine.
I do have a lock code enabled. It was forced by an Exchange Server policy. Not sure if this "issue" arose at that point or not.
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This is exactly what is happening to mine..
Sublimedelta9 said:
I asked the same question here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=560636
Seems to be related to having the PIN lock enabled. I too am required to use this for work reasons, and have not found a way to get TF3D to display on boot up without having to touch the screen.
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At least we're not alone.. now it's a known issue, hopefully someone will look further into it (since I don't know how to fix it)
-mak

Here too
First I installed XDA shutdown to perform soft resets. Then the memmaid demo to further my efforts to be clean & mean. Just installed s-k-tools to my HTC Sprint Touch Pro 2 (because memmaid demo misreported my memory!)and after running clean I'm getting cprog.exe & sktools.exe errors and now "bluetooth stack failed to load" -my friggin bluetooth wont load. Only other non stock thing is Duttys disable push internet. Did I make a mistake in purchasing this tweakware? Can I rectify these situations without a hard reset? Somewhere along the way the black screen thing occurred too.

Grindscorelink said:
First I installed XDA shutdown to perform soft resets. Then the memmaid demo to further my efforts to be clean & mean. Just installed s-k-tools to my HTC Sprint Touch Pro 2 (because memmaid demo misreported my memory!)and after running clean I'm getting cprog.exe & sktools.exe errors and now "bluetooth stack failed to load" -my friggin bluetooth wont load. Only other non stock thing is Duttys disable push internet. Did I make a mistake in purchasing this tweakware? Can I rectify these situations without a hard reset? Somewhere along the way the black screen thing occurred too.
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Do you have a password-required device lock setup? If so, and you're getting the black-screen issue just after you unlock your phone when you first boot it up (from an off state), then you're probably in the same boat as us..
-mak

Same issue here.... yes I have a PIN lock code.

brent372 said:
Same issue here.... yes I have a PIN lock code.
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interesting. I don't have the code, and I've never seen this. Then again other software installed might make a difference.
WTF is HDBoobs?

LOL... I had the same question.

Believe it or not . . .
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-hdboobs.html