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Start menu popping up - Grrargh!!

I wouldn't exactly blame this problem on any one ROM, though it does happen more often on my Dutty Touchflo Tilt ROM, beta 2. It has happened on every ROM for this phone, though.
Basically, the Start menu will pop up for no reason. At first, I thought I must be hitting the button, though it happened far too often to chalk it up to user intervention.
Now, I have my phone sitting on the desk, and it's been waking up every few minutes. This happens probably every 5 minutes or so.
Any idea what could be causing it??

Flapjack said:
I wouldn't exactly blame this problem on any one ROM, though it does happen more often on my Dutty Touchflo Tilt ROM, beta 2. It has happened on every ROM for this phone, though.
Basically, the Start menu will pop up for no reason. At first, I thought I must be hitting the button, though it happened far too often to chalk it up to user intervention.
Now, I have my phone sitting on the desk, and it's been waking up every few minutes. This happens probably every 5 minutes or so.
Any idea what could be causing it??
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One possibility is that part of the case/bezel is pressing on the digitizer in the area of the start menu -- This is the worst case scenario though. When the start menu appears do you lose touchscreen functionality?

interesting
I have not heard of this problem, might be your phone. Sorry.
On an unrelated hijacking note: does anyone know how to make the start menu solid instead of displaying my background picture?

rob.ocelot said:
One possibility is that part of the case/bezel is pressing on the digitizer in the area of the start menu -- This is the worst case scenario though. When the start menu appears do you lose touchscreen functionality?
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Nope. I can simply click elsewhere and the start menu goes away. It is driving me crazy.

maybe.....
have you tried reassigning your start menu key? and I assume you've tried a hard reset.

I figured it out! The phone is connected via USB to my PC, and I'm using My Mobiler to be able interface the phone (send/receive txts) from my computer.
If I push the mouse to the upper-left most corner of the screen of my PC, the start menu comes up on the phone. Weird....

Cruise cannot be turned off

I installed several programs on my Cruise and unfortunately the device cannot be turned off anymore.
If I hold the button on top of the device and hold it, you get the message that you are turning the device off....but it puts it in hibernate....
I don't really know which program caused the problem, since I seldom turn my phone off. So in the 2 weeks I have the phone, I tried to turn it off only once.
In the beginning the button worked...but now...not anymore.
I know I can try a hard reset, but I am reluctant...since I have to install everything again.
The software I installed were:
SBSH PocketBreeze (uninstalled it)
PZP tools (uninstalled it)
BatteryStatus Advanced
SPB Diary
HTC Home Customizer
At least these are the programs of which I think could have caused the problem.
Does anybody know how to correct this, without hardresetting?

Same situation for me .....
Maybe HTC HomeCustomizer ???

you can try soft reseting the device with the stylus and see once it is back on if the problem persists. then u might want to try uninstalling the last application u installed to see if it makes a difference.

Jackster said:
you can try soft reseting the device with the stylus and see once it is back on if the problem persists. then u might want to try uninstalling the last application u installed to see if it makes a difference.
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I did it but with no relevant results, now i am going to hard resetting it....
Anyway thanks for the suggest.

ERIC.67 said:
I did it but with no relevant results, now i am going to hard resetting it....
Anyway thanks for the suggest.
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I have used HTC Home Customizer and do not have this problem. Have you tried a short double press of the power button? Sounds like the long press power off works by your descriptions. You may also want to check if xpshut will work for you.

raskell said:
I have used HTC Home Customizer and do not have this problem. Have you tried a short double press of the power button? Sounds like the long press power off works by your descriptions. You may also want to check if xpshut will work for you.
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I tried xpshut also with no results, now after hardresetting seems it's all ok. If the situation will repeat i'll write it in this thread, thanks mates

Problem seems to be resolved
The problem seems to be HTCHome v2.1 necessary for HHCustomizer to work. I installed it and i'm not able to turn off the device, after uninstalled it's all ok.

At least there is someone to share this inconvenience. Glad to hear you found out what caused it....however, does your Home Customizer still work?

foske said:
At least there is someone to share this inconvenience. Glad to hear you found out what caused it....however, does your Home Customizer still work?
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No, it doesn't work without HTCHome v2.1

Keypad service
There's also a service, keypad, that if stopped, disables all buttons. Not sure if this applies to you or not, but I had stopped it on my TC by accident, and had the same issue you described.
Dave

dfields said:
There's also a service, keypad, that if stopped, disables all buttons. Not sure if this applies to you or not, but I had stopped it on my TC by accident, and had the same issue you described.
Dave
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I didn't verified it, probably was the same for my device. I have Italian ROM on it and you ???
bye,
eric.67

ERIC.67 said:
I didn't verified it, probably was the same for my device. I have Italian ROM on it and you ???
bye,
eric.67
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UK WWE ROM

[Q] Shut down toggle switch?

Hey everyone,
First off i wanted to show my appreciation to the Dev's on this site for all your hard work, The minute I seen the HD2 I had to have it, But out of the box i was kinda let down with its UI and OS limitations, So i checked around and found this site and I've been making my phone more custom to my needs everyday, without these tweaks and mods, The phone would have most likely been returned within days. But now I'm hooked. And I'm def looking forward to seeing a 100% stable android rom so i dont have to use WMO anymore, and I know its just a matter of time. So again thanks a lot for your hard work!
With that being said, I'm relativly new to WMO and this whole customization process, I've gotten this far because of the tutorials on the site and just reading a lot, but theres still some i dont understand, But I'll ask those questions when the time comes in a whole new thread.
*NOTE: I'M ON TMOUS. ROM IS STOCK 3.14.*
The question I have is:
I just installed a cab (longpress reset) so that when i hold the endkey (red button on the far right bottom of the HD2) for a few seconds it soft resets my phone, which is awesome because my phone likes to lock up a lot and I really hate having to pull it apart and reseting it by pulling the battery or find a paper clip or something to push the reset button.
But even tho I have yet to actually turn my phone off, I feel like im going to miss the option (I no longer get the stock action screen with the turn-off phone option since i installed the said cab above.) And at this point, unless I'm missing something, I have no way to turn my phone off now.
I was looking for a - POWER OFF TOGGLE SWITCH/BUTTON - like the toggle switches that came with CHTeditor. Just a button I can place right on my home screen in my quicklinks that if i need to I can just click to power off my phone. Is there currently anything like this available? I've been looking for hours and cant find anything like it.
If not, is this something someone can put together, I would be greatly appreciative and would be happy to donate anything I could.
Thanks.
Dan

I think you are searching for something like this: XP Buttons

Dmac1984 said:
Hey everyone,
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I was looking for a - POWER OFF TOGGLE SWITCH/BUTTON - like the toggle switches that came with CHTeditor. Just a button I can place right on my home screen in my quicklinks that if i need to I can just click to power off my phone. Is there currently anything like this available? I've been looking for hours and cant find anything like it.
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Dan
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Just decide to use CHT 2.0. There you´ll find exactly the switch that restarts the phone

Dmac1984 said:
Hey everyone,
I was looking for a - POWER OFF TOGGLE SWITCH/BUTTON - like the toggle switches that came with CHTeditor. Just a button I can place right on my home screen in my quicklinks that if i need to I can just click to power off my phone. Is there currently anything like this available? I've been looking for hours and cant find anything like it.
If not, is this something someone can put together, I would be greatly appreciative and would be happy to donate anything I could.[/B]
Thanks.
Dan
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you can try my shutdown, it works perfectly...if you wanna have a quicklink that gives you a few options, xda shutdown works well too

or you could use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=742008
which is an awesome little shutdown + program

BOBO_01 said:
I think you are searching for something like this: XP Buttons
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Hey, thanks, I installed this and nothing happened ... what should it look like?
Santa-Claus said:
Just decide to use CHT 2.0. There you´ll find exactly the switch that restarts the phone
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Oh trust me, I dabbled with it the other day, as soon as its out of beta i'll install it. CHT is incredible.
damnshah said:
you can try my shutdown, it works perfectly...if you wanna have a quicklink that gives you a few options, works well too
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Thanks, But I no longer have the option to select anything when i hold my endkey, which is what i want, so when the phone freezes i can just simply restart it without taking it apart, so i'm just looking for a button (which as soon as cht 2.0 is out of beta, I guess i'll have) that i can put on my home screen for the time being, that just incase i need to i can just power off my phone with the hit of a single button.
It might be on there, but im just seeing the endkey menu thing like the one that came stock on my htc hd2.
Thanks everyone for the quick replies and help!
Dan

Dmac1984 said:
Hey, thanks, I installed this and nothing happened ... what should it look like?
Dan
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I think you will find the Links in Startmenue-> Tools
-Softreset
-Restart
-Shutdown

Try app: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=742008

post&telecommunications said:
Try app: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=742008
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chuckles
i already posted that link lol
now maybe someone could skin it real nice

Kameirus said:
chuckles
i already posted that link lol
now maybe someone could skin it real nice
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You can create your new skin.

BOBO_01 said:
I think you will find the Links in Startmenue-> Tools
-Softreset
-Restart
-Shutdown
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Yep, I found them, But when i push the "Shutdown" or "Softreset" buttons the cab installed, they just turn my screen off and lock my phone, just like when i short click my endkey. Weird.

Try this one, I wrote it specially for you 8) hehehehe

[Q] gTab Display Issue

I've been looking to see if I can find an answer, but so far no good. So, I thought I would just ask. It seems that I'm having intermittant problems when selecting or trying to select an app on my gTab. Sometimes I have to press kinda hard, sometimes no matter how many times I try I can't select the app. Then, there will be times that everything is great. I'm NOT using the stock system on it. I did install TnT 3.0. Does anyone have any ideas?
Also, sometimes when I get a notification, I get uncontrollable static, no volume control that is. When I clear the notification the noise clears.... Most of the time anyways.
Thanks much - I love my gTab

I had the same problem, and thanks to comhack it got fixed.
Make a calibration.ini (Just has to be a blank text file) in the root of your drive.
That fexed it for me.

bijan588 said:
I had the same problem, and thanks to comhack it got fixed.
Make a calibration.ini (Just has to be a blank text file) in the root of your drive.
That fexed it for me.
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Then reboot your GTab. Don't touch the screen until the Gtab loads completely. Either delete the file or rename it otherwise it will calibrate every time you reboot. There is no indication anything is happening but it does seem to calibrate the screen

sweet ill have to try this when i get home i thought for sure that it was just me not pressing it in the right spot enough or the "wrong finger" pressing the button than its used to haha.

Problem fixed. Thank you!!!! Glad I asked. gTab works like a dream now. But, alas, still wondering about the sound issue. Oh well, no biggie.
Chuck

[Q] VEGAn Observations/Questions

Naturally I bought a g Tablet Saturday and Woot has them today for almost $100 less! Oh well. Big big big improvement from my old FlyTouch2 which was a great idea poorly executed.
Immediately flashed VEGAn with supplements etc. All working VERY well but a few questions/observations.
1) If I wanted to hook this up to a USB or Bluetooth modem (well, actually a BlackBerry) it looks like there is no setup for this? Yes, I know if I could find a way to make the BB broadcast WiFi but its corporate so that's a nonstarter.
2) When I hold down the power button, the menu that comes up it clipped off at the bottom. Is that normal?
3) Screen lock on Kindle software is not getting the accelerometer fix somehow. The trick was to put the thing in portrait UPSIDE DOWN and lock the screen. That caused it to lock it 180 degrees off. But then when it is locked you can go back to right side up (to me, right side up is with the buttons to the top). Of course, if you want to lock it another way you have to experiment.
4) Camera Fun shows camera upside down. No big deal -- again accelerometer I think.
5) Sometimes I am sure the machine is asleep and when I turn it on it is booting from the birds screen. Anyone else seeing this?
6) I don't understand the .nomedia thing although I've read a lot about it. I don't seem to get files erased, but nothing shows up in Video. But if I navigate to the folder (on /mnt/sdcard2) and play videos that's fine. Then later the files will show up in video. Whoops spoke to soon. Now they are gone. What's up with that?
7) My old tablet had GPS but without the external antenna it was worthless. But it still managed to find rough location with WiFi somehow. I assume by figuring out the geographic location of the IP. That doesn't seem to work on this machine. Yes Use Wireless networks is checked in Location and security.
8) What's with the little plastic cover? How hard is it to take out? I don't want a little rubber dingle rolling around inside.
8) In System Preferences, About Device | Status consistently crashes.
9) Does the audio jack support a headset or just headphones? Yeah I know -- I could just try it.
If it matters I'm using Launcher Pro.
Still and all the VEGAn ROM is superb. Compared to the FlyTouch this is super fast, the screen is a joy, and the battery life wonderful. And with the woot deal only about $80 more than a FlyTouch2.

Ok I'll answer some of my own questions:
5) I think this is the unresponsive power button problem. If you press and wait it seems ok. If you press, get impatient and press again you might reboot.
9) No, at least not with a Blackberry headset.

Most of these are answered on the forum somewhere, but I'll give it a shot..
wd5gnr said:
Naturally I bought a g Tablet Saturday and Woot has them today for almost $100 less! Oh well. Big big big improvement from my old FlyTouch2 which was a great idea poorly executed.
Immediately flashed VEGAn with supplements etc. All working VERY well but a few questions/observations.
2) When I hold down the power button, the menu that comes up it clipped off at the bottom. Is that normal?
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wd5gnr said:
5) Sometimes I am sure the machine is asleep and when I turn it on it is booting from the birds screen. Anyone else seeing this?
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I get this sometimes, too. It is a known issue, and there may be solutions out there... I just deal with it.
wd5gnr said:
8) In System Preferences, About Device | Status consistently crashes.
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Known issue.

These aren't much help (maybe reassurance?)
1) Pretty sure it's wifi only. Have trawled the internet looking for a usb or bluetooth alternative because wifi hammers the phone battery
2) It happens on mine as well, so it's not just you
5) Same here - I just turn it off when not in use now
7) Only GPS functionality seems to come with the need for an external GPS unit
8) Think this is normal
(Re reading above, it looks like I'm negative re VEGAn - this is not the case. It is way better than what came standard and does everything I need it to do)

Yeah I like it too. Haven't tried the others, but very satisfied with Vegan.

Another observation: Long pressing the Menu button (hardware) brings up the keyboard. However, long pressing the menu button on the status bar does NOT have that behavior.

Clemsyns newest kernel will fix sleep issues. Also has some other great improvements too.
Buttons on status bar do not respond to long presses. Home doesn't bring up its usual long press of recent apps either. Funny, i Never even tried long press on status bar keys before now.
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I have Pershoot's kernel. I'll try changing. I presume I shouldn't need to clear too many things in CWM after flashing a kernel. Maybe the Dalvik cache?