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Messaging and device lock disappeared from todayscreen

I just noticed that the today items messaging and device lock disappeared from my today screen on my Atom. I would like to get them back. anybody know how? The don't show up in start>setting>today>items however, they are visible in the registery (and enabled) and visible with memmaid.
Please let me know if there is an other solution than to hrad reset my device.
Thanks in advance

there are limits of how many today items you can have
forgot how many
but the today item list is limited to 13
if you remove some in the reg the ones you are missing will show up
in today items

Hi Rul,
The other thing to check in your registry is the value of the Reg_DWord called "Order" for each of your plug-ins. Occassionally my plugins will play hide and seek if I've installed a new one and its default order number clashes with any of the other plugins. They do however still show up in the today settings. I'll post my reg settings so you can check yours are ok and then double chekc that the dll's for each are where they are supposed to be.
Good luck - Mallow1

Oops, forgot to mention that for me I have the Device Lock disabled anyway (so just ref to the other reg settings) as I have it in the sys tray instread to save Today Screen space, thanks to an excellent cab writen by armstrom http://buzzdev.net/component/option,com_simpleboard/Itemid,59/func,view/catid,27/id,17285/#17285 which uses the underlying Device Lock but via an exe which you can then assign to the sys tray using any of the tray launcher programs out there.
Regards - Mallow1
PS I swapped the icon out to be the same as Device Lock (armstrom's exe uses a different one if you happen to go down this route).

Thanks for you reply's.
With the messaging and device lock items I have 13 today items. (now 11 since these two don't show up anymore).
I have checked the Reg_DWord called "Order" and there are no clashes...
Any other solution?
Thanks for the device lock thingy in the sys tray, very useful.

What have you done differently since the last time you could see your missing items? Loaded anything else? Reflashed etc? It may help us track down what has gone wrong if Rudegar's suggestion didn't work and you have no clashes when you checked my suggestion.
Of all your 13 items do you run/ wish to run all of them or are some disabled (and unlikely to be used again). If some are redundnat, did you try Rudegar's suggestion of removing them from the registry?
On a side note, and without wishing to get side tracked or complicate your issue have you tried "MoreTodays" to see if that helps at all if all your 13 items are "must haves" but you are only seeing 11. It allows you to have multiple Today Screens each showing different plug ins. Depending upon how it works it may allow for >11 (or >=13) whatever the formal limit is, plugins to operate. See http://www.jgui.net/moretodays/index.html
Regards - Mallow1

Some of the today Items are disabled, in fact 5 of the 13. So I deleted a couple of them. Still not showing ion my todayscreen.
Well, as far as I know I have installed some programs, don't know exactly which I have installed, so that's not really helping.
I tried the program you've suggested and I can select messaging and device lock. But they still don't show up on my todayscreen.
I think I will have to learn to live with it, which is not that hard though, or I will have to hard reset my device.
Thanks for your help and suggestions.

After you deleted some from your registry did you try a simple soft reset (rather than having to resort to the horror of a hard one)?

yep, did that after every change I've made. No results though.

Sounds basic but have you checked that the dll files concerned are still present. If they are present it may be that a path is wrong in the registry (try adding an explicit path/double checking path matches location), else we can resort to simply replacing them just in case they have been corrupted.
On that last point did you try the Device Lock exe I highlighted. If that works it means that the underlying device lock dll works too (as the exe uses it rather than emulates it) and it is therefore a Today Screen issue we are facing not a corrupted dll.
Now that you removed your unwanted dll refs from the registry, how many Today Items are there left there? I have at the back of my mind that there is also an upper limit to the number of resources WM can handle at any one time (think I recall this causing problems with Wisbar not being able to skin a few things simply because too much was already loaded and the required dll file scould therfore not be used).... but we can save broadening the issues until we've eliminated the simpler more direct ones.
Regards - Mallow1
PS FYI I have 9 Today items in my registry and 7 that are enabled. If you delete your unused 5 items out of 13 that would at least bring you down to within the same range loaded in my registry and we could eliminate the "number in registry" from the list of possible issues.

Ooh, another quick one to try (I use it when I have items checked in the Today settings that have failled to show in the Today Screen), is try running this little app which simply refreshesd the Today Screen. See if your missing items appear afterwards.
Regards - Mallow1

Mallow1 said:
Oops, forgot to mention that for me I have the Device Lock disabled anyway (so just ref to the other reg settings) as I have it in the sys tray instread to save Today Screen space, thanks to an excellent cab writen by armstrom http://buzzdev.net/component/option,com_simpleboard/Itemid,59/func,view/catid,27/id,17285/#17285 which uses the underlying Device Lock but via an exe which you can then assign to the sys tray using any of the tray launcher programs out there.
Regards - Mallow1
PS I swapped the icon out to be the same as Device Lock (armstrom's exe uses a different one if you happen to go down this route).
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Hi, i love your today screen! Tidy but functional! Could you please tell me what apps/plugins etc you've got going on there?

Hi fuel925,
Thanks. There's something like 30-40 packages making up the entire screen and functionality. Rather than clutter this thread with an off topic reply I'll see what I can knock up and post in a separate thread to give you an insight and post a link here afterwards.
Regards - Mallow1

Hi fuel925,
Just follow the link...http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=46855&highlight=forgot+mention
Regards - Mallow1

Hi. Mallow1
I've tried everything, nothing is working. I rest my case. Thanks for your help anyway.
regards,
Rul

Hi Rul,
Sorry to hear that. I've heard that theAtom has had a chequered start. Sounds like hard reset time (and I did hear somewhere that since so many of the early Atoms were having problems that an updated ROM had been relased quite quickly post launch). If yours was an early one you may find searching or checking for the updated ROm and reflashing helps (I want to say I think I saw this with respect to Aussie Atoms but can't swerar to it).
Anyway. Good luck - Mallow1

When I got my Atom I imediately put the "leaked" ROM on it. So it is not the case of an old ROM or something.
I just noticed that it is not showing the smartdailing plugin from the Treo 700w I just installed on it. So I guess there is something seriously wrong with the today plugins.
Regards, Rul

cant filter my sim contacts in WM6.. anyyone have a solution?

I like to have all my contacts saved onto my phone so I can add pictures and other info to the contact infromation that it doesnt allow you to do if it is just on the sim card... I also like to keep all my contacts on my sim card in case the phone crashes and I need to pull the sim and switch phones.. here is my problem. Since I have my contacts on both my phone and my sim, they show duplicates in the contacts list. Is there any way to filter out the sim card contacts so I dont have 2 of everyone(1 on phone, 1 on sim)??
fyi: Im using WM6 vanila

Try this
I think it inserts a registry hack called "ShowSim" to 0.
I don´t remember, where to edit it by your own, so use this cab-file.
Or use Sktools - OK I like the program.

Go to
HKCU/Control Panel/Phone
ShowSim "1" will show the sim contacts "0" will hide sim contacts
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thanks a million

going a little further...
to go a little further... when i send a text message, both names come up. any one got a fix for that?
tia

sciron said:
to go a little further... when i send a text message, both names come up. any one got a fix for that?
tia
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doesn't show up twice for me, maybe it's cause I have a dash though.

When you change the registry and reset the phone it somehow reverts back... Any idea how I can sort this out?

Hide SIM contacts
My simple program which change registry value after Soft Rest (precisely speaking one minute after SR). Install cab - thats all
Enjoy

Hi, I'm new and I have the same problem with my HTC Touch Cruise. I have just tried to edit the registry changing the value 1 to 0 in the string HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Control Panel / Phone but nothing.......after the soft reset the contacts are always visible.
Rstein.HideSimInstall.CAB or hide_sim.cab would resolve my problem?
Thanks and have a nice day

moury: AFAIK Yes.

Thanks RStein, but is "AFAIK Pocket Word"? I don't find it.....
Best regards

RStein said:
moury: AFAIK Yes.
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worked for me thanks on my O2 Orbit 2.

moury said:
Thanks RStein, but is "AFAIK Pocket Word"? I don't find it.....
Best regards
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As Far As I Know .....

hello..wanted to know if the show sim cab works for the htc wizard...and if so can you give me directions on how i can go about using it to disable the sim. thanks

oechazu: Probably Yes:
Only install cab to Your device - no another action required. Keep it simple and stupid rule

RStein said:
oechazu: Probably Yes:
Only install cab to Your device - no another action required. Keep it simple and stupid rule
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HI! Sorry to ask a stupid question...how do we reverse this process? Uninstall the cab?

Hi, yes uninstall the cab.

RStein,
How can i make your program to work with SPB Diary?

RStein said:
My simple program which change registry value after Soft Rest (precisely speaking one minute after SR). Install cab - thats all
Enjoy
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Ok so I used your cab file and everything worked except now I want my SIM contacts to show so I can't figure out how to do it. I uninstalled the .cab file and deleted everything that had anyting to do with it and still can't get my SIM contacts to show back up. Any suggestions? Thanks.

How can we go about making a .cab file that shows the SIM contacts then?
Is this just a simple registry tweak that we can do?

interesting problem on tilt?

hello everyone, long time member of howardforums and just joined xda and find some very usefull info, thank you all. i ran into a small problem last night. i have a tilt , not flashed but i have installed the htc home screen and everything worked great. last night i tryed to install the touchflo program found in a few places in this forum and it didn't work but thats when the interesting stuff happen....after deleting all touchflo cab files and restarting the tilt every time at startup it gives me a warning " FTouchFlo.exe cannot be open, its either not signed with a trusted certificate or one of its components can not be found. try reinstalling or restoring file." ????? and now the icon that used to be under the clock for favorite people that would send me their pics so i can just one touch dial is GONE? tryed installing the cab for the htc homescreen again but the same....there is a music short cut that lets me launch the music player that wasn't there before? i downloaded the htc home plugin customisor and even when i set for 6 icons on the bottom of the clock it still just gives me 5?
at the end of the day i would like to have the touchflo program but its not a big deal if i dont, i would however really like to have the pic dialer back on my screen as its really convinient to dial my fav people with it.thanks in advance

try this for the favorite people tab
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1614132&highlight=favorite+people#post1614132

To get the favorite people tab back, delete this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/OEM/MASD/QuickDial
i'm asuming this is what you meant? sorry but where do i find this key? thanks

bobcho10 said:
To get the favorite people tab back, delete this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/OEM/MASD/QuickDial
i'm asuming this is what you meant? sorry but where do i find this key? thanks
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Keys are in the registry. To access and change the registry you need a registry viewer/editor. There are many but for simple "everyday" use this is a good one:
http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/
Be careful though delete the wrong things and you'll end up needing a hard reset.
Mike

mikechannon said:
Keys are in the registry. To access and change the registry you need a registry viewer/editor. There are many but for simple "everyday" use this is a good one:
http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/
Be careful though delete the wrong things and you'll end up needing a hard reset.
Mike
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thanks mike, sorry for the noob question but what do i do once i install this on my comp ? do i install on the phone as well and run the program or ? .....

bobcho10 said:
thanks mike, sorry for the noob question but what do i do once i install this on my comp ? do i install on the phone as well and run the program or ? .....
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PHM downloads as a .MSI windows installer. So it will not install properly unless you have your device connected via active sync when you run the downloaded file. So connect your device via usb cable. Let active sync connect and update. Then while still connected run the installer download. During the process a message will pop up on your device. If a choice is offered it will be ok to install to storage card if you have one.
Cheers for now.
Mike

thanks guys , can anyone tell me how to delete .exe files? i still get warnings at start up that touchflo.exe and bio-something-.exe can not run because some files are missing.....thanks

Protecting Owner Information?

All respect to senior members, don't u ppl think that there should be some lock or password or something like that for protecting the "OWNER INFORMATION" contents being edited by somebody other than the actual owner itself.
This actually happened with me, a friend of mine picked mey phone(jokingly) edited the owner information and kept it back.
I was shocked to see his name instead of mine.
I seriously look forward for resolving this **** issue left by microsoft.

I think that there are allready many ways to protect your device with multiple passwords. If you have an auto lock on your device before using it there should be no problem.
If you want to use the phone without accessing the registry I think I've found one weakness already. A user can't edit the owner info, but can use TotalCommander and import a reg.key with new user info. Or simply mess up the owner info by edit the reg.keys containing the current info.
The best way to protect your device is by not to hand over your phone to anyone And use one of the many phone lock apps around.
Just my € 0,02

I second the request for owner info lock, I want it to be there on the Today screen, butit should not be edited by every touch of the screen, the same I would like to have for the clock of the Today screen, every time I take out my phone from my pocket the Owner screen or clock screen are open.
Anyone?

This seems like a valid concern. I too would like to know what steps I can take to protect my user info... But I'm not entirely surprised that security on a Microsoft OS has taken the back seat...

I would like to ask again, is there A way to lock the Owner Info applet, the same as there is an option in some tweaking programs to lock the Clock applet?
Please someone look in to it, (I can't have my Owner Info changed all the time.)
Thanks in advance.

There might be one option to do this. Can't say it works 100% but you can enter your contact details and hide the owner information icon by changing the right settings in the registry.
Don't know the exact registry value but I guess it should work. Someone with a lot of time and knowledge could change the personal information by reversing these steps but it should be sufficient for most paranoia people

I think it would be easy enough to disable the control panel in a handful of different ways, but if you want to prevent access to it from Settings, use your registry editor, go into
HKLM\ControlPanel\Owner
and add a dword value called "Hide" (no speech marks) and set its value to 1.
That hides the panel from settings (after a soft reset).
It may still be accessible from the today plugin, but I don't use that.
If you need to disable the panel entirely, it's possible, but requires more low level hacking.
V

That's the one I meant Thanks vijay555!

vijay555 said:
I think it would be easy enough to disable the control panel in a handful of different ways, but if you want to prevent access to it from Settings, use your registry editor, go into
HKLM\ControlPanel\Owner
and add a dword value called "Hide" (no speech marks) and set its value to 1.
That hides the panel from settings (after a soft reset).
It may still be accessible from the today plugin, but I don't use that.
If you need to disable the panel entirely, it's possible, but requires more low level hacking.
V
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I don't understand how this can help,
#1) This will not block the Today screen plugin from being edited by mistake, (and worst thing is, this changes your user name which is needed for registered applications, I once had it changed just by laying in my pocket, and all app's where unregistered).
#2) If you hide it, and also don't show it on the Today screen, then why do you need it at all?

pinny said:
I don't understand how this can help,
#1) This will not block the Today screen plugin from being edited by mistake, (and worst thing is, this changes your user name which is needed for registered applications, I once had it changed just by laying in my pocket, and all app's where unregistered).
#2) If you hide it, and also don't show it on the Today screen, then why do you need it at all?
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The owner info plugin is a complete waste of space. The idea of hiding it in the registry hides the owner info icon from the control panel so it can't be accessed. Just make sure your name is right and hide it. You shouldn't ever need to change it, and nobody can see it.

Uninstaller/uninstall???

Hi Everyone,
I have recently installed the .cab version 1.2.4 of Smart Protect to my HTC Touch HD, however when I came to uninstall it, which I tried by entering the password "123456" to the programs built in uninstaller, this was unsucessful as it gave me an error message.
So I went to settings, system, remove programs and tried from there (it didn't ask for a password). This cleared the application from the programs menu, although now when I start the phone it gives me an error securityservice.exe cannot start... or something along those lines.
Basically I'm just asking for an uninstaller/instructions to manually uninstall, here is a list of some of the processes that I believe this program might be using: rapiclnt, SmsCommand.exe, NK.exe BTW I dont know for sure but I've never seen these processes running before so I suspect that the program has not completely uninstalled. Also there are still some reg keys (which I dont want to remove without someone with more experience has told me its safe to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, ControlPanel, Security, SSecure.
Thanks in advance,
Grant.
P.S. I've also posted on the devolopers tread but i haven't had a reply so i guess that the thread is dead.

\windows\startup
and delete the shortcut to it

Thanks for the advice Should I delete the reg key that I talked about in my first post? Because it stores all of the Smart Protect settings, e.g partner number, app password(encrypted), partner name ect...
Again thanks for the advice, it's much appreciated.
Grant.