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WMP10 won't start anymoer

Hello!
I'm having a problem with my windows media player 10 on my XDA Mini S running windows mobile 2005. I had a crash with a program that uses the media player interface. Now the player won't start anymore. If I try to start it (from the start menu or the exe from the windows directory or trying to open eg. a mp3 - this makes no difference) nothing happens, no error - just nothing. It even will not show up in the running programs list.
Tried soft reset but it didn't change anything. I realy don't want to make a hard reset because I have so many third party programs installed.
As I have seen, there is no WMP to download and reinstall available.
Anyone any ideas?
Thank
Maik

Yeah you're right: I tried with copy/paste, winrar, winzip, gsplayer. You just can't get it copied because it's embedded in Rom. But if you make a backup with SQB Backup you can backup everything (except for the Rom). Perform a hard reset and restore with full backup.
It takes about 15 minutes. Otherwise there's indeed something wrong with your ppc, i.e. register. Therefore you maybe want to use Winamp (see attachment).
Suc6

Multiple Text Messages...

have any of you run into this problem...where you receive double or triple text messages from someone and visa versa...its really irking...if so is it the provider or is it the phone??? thanks in advanced...

I've heard that programs such as SPB Pocket plus that actually close programs instead of putting them to background mess with Palms messaging app. You have to blacklist that from any close button software and the problem *should* go away.

@marsonist
what do you mean by having to blacklist that from any close button software? i'm facing the problem as well which is annoying...

I guess my suggestion only applies if you are using software that really closes programs when you hit the 'ok' button or the 'X' symbol on the top right.
Normally when you hit either of these the program doesn't really close, but instead it is sort of minimized. You don't see it, but it is still actually running in the background. Programs like 3rd party programs like SPB Pocket Plus make the 'ok' button and 'X' symbol behave like they do in windows... when you hit them the program process is killed.
These programs have system function processes on an ignore list so that you don't kill something important. Palm's messaging application is unique to Palm and doesn't show up on these ignore lists. So, if you have one of these tweak apps installed and go to close your Messaging program it throws it out of whack.
Most of these tweak programs, however, also give a way of manually adding programs to an ignore list (name of the list or setting will be different from program to program.) I believe Palm's app is called messaging.exe... add that to the list and you should be in business.
If this is still not making any sense, post a list of installed software and we'll see where we can go from there.

I get you now, Thanks marsonist! will try your solution and post the result
Thanks again

Hey Marsonist, thanks for the quick reply...well i have magic buttons, smartkeys, and X-button...i also get an error report message when i receive a text from time to time...i usually use the smartkeys to close an app...can you point me in the right direction to solve this...thanks again...

RiNo808 as far as I know each one of those programs when used in conjunction with the Palm Messaging app will cause problems. For Smartkeys, there should be an INI file in the same directory where it was installed. At the bottom of the INI you should see this:
; if you set CLOSEAPP to 1, the program will hide the following
; apps (by title) instead of closing. Other apps will be closed.
; maximum can set 16 apps
[EXCEPTIONLIST]
APP00=Text Messages
APP01=Outlook E-mail
APP02=Hotmail
APP04=MMS
APP05=Contacts
APP06=Calendar
APP07=Camera
Add "APP08=Messaging" without the quotes to the bottom of the list. This should keep smartkeys from closing the Messaging app.
I am not familiar with the other programs and recommend you go research their individual settings on how to exclude the Messaging app.
FYI: Smartkeys uses the title of the running program in for its exclude list. (i.e. The name you see next to the windows start menu flag) Other programs often go by the name of the running executable. (i.e. the name of the EXE file as you would see it in File Explorer) So for the case of Palm Messaging, "Messaging" is the title and "messaging.exe" is the name of the executable (located in directly the /windows/ directory). What I listed above for smartkeys should get you started. This info might come in handy, however, for the other two programs.
Let me know if any of this helps.

thanks Marsonist, so far so good...no complaints of multi texts...i guess we have to keep the sms open on the treo...thanks again...

Notification Error on Wakeup?

I tried installing chome nrg weather without realizing that chome was some other program that was required (and not on my 6.0 pro phone). Now whenever my phone wakes up from being locked I get a notification error that it cant find that program to run (I uninstalled it). I thought maybe it was S2u2 but it still does it even when I have no weather program selected.
I've been trying to look and see if there is a launch on wakeup folder hiding somewhere but I figured if there was it would have a shortcut to that file in it. Running a search looking for a shortcut turned up nothing. Same with looking in the registry. Where is the cause of this little annoyance hiding?

maybe you should try looking for mortscript????????

I dont have that installed. Is that something I need to fix the problem?
(yes im a windows mobile newb only had it for 3 months)

If you get this error. it means you have some program's execution scheduled in the system notification queue. Basically, it's a kind of system's "do do" list. It contains various actions to be executed at given circumstances - such as sounding the alarm clock at given time, piopping up a reminder, doing something on wakeup etc. It's much lower level than the startup folder and normally, it's not accessible to users. But thanks to some great devs around here we have freeware tools to manage it
Go and grab dotfred's task manager:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=280104
Fire it up, and choose "notifications" section (use arrow button in top right corner).
Look if you see any references to programs you recently removed there. If you do, simply delete these entries (the button with red minus sign in the bottom menu). Or if you're not sure what to remove, post a screenshot(s) of your queue and i'll try to help.

That worked great! and I now have a new software tool too. Thnx for the help!

How to assign default application for file types?

I'm having an issue with avi video files not having a default player anymore. I know that the actual default player cannot play them, and I do have other programs for it. Unfortunately though, I cannot seem to figure out how to change the default program used for a specific file type.
Searching the internet keeps coming up with going into Manage Applications then clearing defaults of something that currently is the default, but that option is always ALWAYS greyed out (I went one by one for everything in there). Regardless, I did find a program on the Market called "ClearDefault" that basically clears all defaults for programs, but it did not help.
Also, the problem is not that something else already is the default. The problem is that NOTHING is the default for it right now (something happened to change this but I can't figure out what).
There must be a file somewhere inside the phone that decides this. If it isn't accessible inside the phone, then I'm looking for how to do it manually via my PC, terminal, or adb.
This is something I want to learn for future reference as well as the current problem at hand.
Hopefully we can come together and figure this out.
EDIT:
I forgot to mention that attempting to open the file via Astro or the browser's downloader just comes up with an error. I can obviously open the file/s via the player's file selection browser, but I cannot figure out how to make it open said player upon download or clicking.

kbone213 said:
I'm having an issue with avi video files not having a default player anymore. I know that the actual default player cannot play them, and I do have other programs for it. Unfortunately though, I cannot seem to figure out how to change the default program used for a specific file type.
Searching the internet keeps coming up with going into Manage Applications then clearing defaults of something that currently is the default, but that option is always ALWAYS greyed out (I went one by one for everything in there). Regardless, I did find a program on the Market called "ClearDefault" that basically clears all defaults for programs, but it did not help.
Also, the problem is not that something else already is the default. The problem is that NOTHING is the default for it right now (something happened to change this but I can't figure out what).
There must be a file somewhere inside the phone that decides this. If it isn't accessible inside the phone, then I'm looking for how to do it manually via my PC, terminal, or adb.
This is something I want to learn for future reference as well as the current problem at hand.
Hopefully we can come together and figure this out.
EDIT:
I forgot to mention that attempting to open the file via Astro or the browser's downloader just comes up with an error. I can obviously open the file/s via the player's file selection browser, but I cannot figure out how to make it open said player upon download or clicking.
Click to expand...
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Long press in astro
select open as
select video
select default ceckbox
select program desired
finished

Thanks a lot for the response. I'm glad someone finally came to the rescue. Unfortunately, I tried that already (and forgot to mention it). It just opens the default HTC player which cannot play avi files. Although, I did try it again just to be safe.

kbone213 said:
Thanks a lot for the response. I'm glad someone finally came to the rescue. Unfortunately, I tried that already (and forgot to mention it). It just opens the default HTC player which cannot play avi files. Although, I did try it again just to be safe.
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Click to collapse
Damn. I'd try installing again. Or you could dive off the deep and and convert all of them to h264 lol

Oh come on, no one on xda-developers (hackers united) can figure this out? I'm having the exact same problem! Except I have the issue with both music and videos.
Tapping an .mp3 in astro opens up the default Music player, and if I go into astro settings and remove 'audio' from the MIME type for .mp3s and long-press the file > open as > audio it still plays with the default Music app. Going into home > settings > applications > manage applications > music does no good because there are no defaults set, the button is grayed out!
And I have the problem with videos too, except in settings > applications > manage applications, there is no option for 'Dell Video Player' (I have a Dell Streak) or even 'Video Player', it's not even in the list!
If any android genius out there can figure this out I'd really appreciate it.

[Q] IE Navigation

Theres a strange issue in Windows Phone 7
Basically open up IE, load something like google then another site. Press Windows Key, then open another app.
Close that and then load up IE again. Now how the heck are you ment to navigate back a page?
As the back button will now take you back a step in apps and not pages.

Press the Tabs icon... should have a small 2 on it now (two open IE windows).

Theres no extra tabs as I don't open links in new tabs.