yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] pinhead:
Exactly!! I have noticed this problem and I couldn't solve it. I prefer using the device with Smartskey software so much that I just removed Wisbar's software.

I keep reading people's posts saying they would love Smartskey "if only it could..." or some similar request of wish for additional functions. As I recall this was just made to perform a function that was sorely needed on the Wizard and not on other devices. I am thankful for it as it is. It makes using the device MUCH easier.

I too like using it on other devices now but I don't *expect* that it will work. I just hope that it will. For anyone who wants to add functions, try AE Button Plus, and stop whining about whether you can scroll with buttons that were not intended for that function and just enjoy that you now have easy access to the Start Menu and Close function. Smartskey is designed to make one device in particular more user friendly (the Wizard) and it accomplishes that at no cost to the user. Don't complain!!!

Oh, and if you want to make a request, maybe you should send the guy (Water I think) some cash. I believe I sent a small amount via PayPal a long time ago and if I didn't I sure as heck will.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] schwieb:
I dont think I'm whining. I agree this is an excellent program and think people should donate to the developer. The author just asked for requests or suggestions, and I gave him mine. As for AEButton plus, I would prefer not to install yet another program that uses even more memory.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
Other software can do it, so not in top priority.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
SmartSKey send PAGEUP/PAGEDOWN key event to the phone if volume slider is pressed. Firstly you may request the author of opera to handle VK_PRIOR and VK_NEXT key event, that should be easy. Or I may implement other scrolling method in coming versions.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
I will check it.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
I have tested but didn't find the problem that you mentioned. I am using this one:

http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/products.php?prod=WisBar+Advance

and tested on Wizard.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] biolover:
Thanks water's back. It's long time the software was not updated. It has no much bug but a little conflict with a new software celedial (http://www.yonsm.net/read.php?247), when the dpad function is set on. If the dpad can be switch off automatically when the celedial window is active, it will be excellent.

I attached the Chinese translation of the readme and ini for your 0.54 version here.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
That should be easy. Will be fixed in next version.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] TwanS:
Nice program! but how do you remove it?

There's still a pop-up message that's saying: cannot execute "Storage Card\smartskey.exe

Now i've manually deleted the file after i've got that message, and i've deleted all related files out of the windows directory, and out of the "startup" directory, but i still get the message: cannot execute "Storage Card\smartskey.exe

quite annoying...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
run smartskey.exe, then run smartskey.exe and click yes to close it. The program will clear all related notification when it close itself.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] huythach83:
I uses Inesoft Address Book instead of the original Contact come with WM5. Inesoft Address Book take over the link to the original Contact (that mean when I press the softkey for Contact on Today screen or in Dialer, Inesoft Address Book will be pop up). But when I press the key on the D-Pad to launch Contact in Dialer (using SmartSKey), the original Contact will pop up instead and after that, whenever I press the softkey for Contact (now Inesoft Address Book), the original Contact pop up.

Would you be able to make SmartSKey to launch the custom contact manager program that user install (in my case is Inesoft Address Book) instead of the one come with WM5?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] rayfizzle:
THANKS! GREAT PROGRAM. fixes work well with 8125 so far
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] templar:
Any chance that this could be modified to work with an ipaq (hw6945)? It works well on my wizard and was hoping to fix the same problems on a recently acquired ipaq.

thanks for all the work on a great program!

greg
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
I don't have hw6945 and cannot test. What's the problem when running smartskey on it?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] templar:
The main issue I see is that it does not work at all on the phone. You cannot remap the dpad up/down/right or left to the call history or speed dial. If you try them, nothing happens. The softkeys work sort of, but it seems like the key repeat is getting in the way? I used the stock ini file that works like a charm on my wizard and when I press and hold the left or right smart key it will close a program (ok/close action) or bring up the start menu, but it will also bring up contacts and calendar (what are default mapped to my soft keys). I'd be glad to help debug if there is something I can help with... short of shipping my Ipaq to you. :)

greg
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] toshe:
Unable to unzip version 0.54.

Is the file gone corrupted now or is it only me?

Getting errormessages on more than one PC when trying unzip.

---------------------

Edit: I was able to unzip at my work. I wonder if this has to do with security settings or firewall on my computers...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
I have reuploaded it. Please try again.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] toshe:
Thanks Water! Unzipping without any problems now!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] blazoner:
Thank you, Water, for all of your hard work.

One improvement I would love to see in your program is an editable exception list for the volume slider, so that we could quickly control volume within apps such as WMP and TCPMP, yet have the up/down functionality where it will do the most good.

Regardless, this is a killer app! (and an essential on the WIZARD)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] kyphur:
Greg, what other apps are you using on the Ipaq? I have the exact same issue with the softkeys on my wizard running the latest released versions of WiseBar Advanced2 & WiseBar Desktop.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] templar:
I use resco today, pocket weather, memaid, xcpuscalar, and Tweaks2k2. I am not sure if any of them are causing the problem? I really could live without the softkeys part, I just want the wm2003 functionality from the phone. It is hard to believe MS could have messed the phone app up so much in wm5?

greg
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
version 0.55 is updated in the first page.

0.55 (2006-11-15)

Fixed: Compatible with CeleDial

Fixed: DPAD function will call default Contacts/Text Messaging instead of calling original Contacts/Text Messaging directly. So if you have installed any third party replacement, it will be called when DPAD in Phone app is pressed.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] olegonsky:
smartkeys doesnt work...

smartkeys doesnt work on my s200.

only scrolling in resco explorer, but doesnt work mapping in dialer..

OS 2.9.7.25
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
Have you read the readme.pdf and change the ini file? The default setting Phone app dpad remap is disabled.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] olegonsky:
it's my ini-file...

; INI FILE MUST BE SAVED IN UNICODE, PLEASE USE NOTEPAD TO EDIT IT

[MAIN]

; set LSKEY to 1 if you want to override Left Soft Key (DEFAULT 1)

LSKEY=1

; set RSKEY to 1 if you want to override Right Soft Key (DEFAULT 1)

RSKEY=1

; set VOLKEY to 1 if you want to override Volume Key (DEFAULT 1)

VOLKEY=1

; set DPAD to 1 if you want to use dpad to launch call log, contacts in phone app (DEFAULT 1)

DPAD=1

; set CLOSEAPP to 1 if you want to close app instead of hide (DEFAULT 0)

CLOSEAPP=1

; set STARTONREBOOT=1 to 1 if you the program to be start automatically during

; reboot, use with RSKEY (DEFAULT 0)

STARTONREBOOT=1

; set VOLUMEONPHONE=1 if you want to set volume using volume key in phone app

; use with VOLKEY (DEFAULT 1)

VOLUMEONPHONE=1

; set VOLUMEONTODAY=1 if you want to set volume using volume key in today

; use with VOLKEY (DEFAULT 1)

VOLUMEONTODAY=1

; use with lskey, rskey (DEFAULT 1)

PAGEONEXPLORE=1

; set OMAPCLOCK to the clock if you want to use omapclock and automatically

; set the clock speed after wakeup, you should put OmapClock.exe in the same

; directory of smartskey.exe

; REMEMBER TO REMOVE ';' BEFORE THE LINE TO ENABLE IT

;OMAPCLOCK=264

;REMOVEDUPSDDAEMON=0

;STARTMENUMETHOD=0

;DUP=0

;DDOWN=0

;DRIGHT=0

;DLEFT=0

; 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
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] dodgy:
DPAD dead

Hi

My DPAD is completely dead eversince installing smartskey, it seems like a great app and i really want it to work. The buttons that should go to the softkeys are also dead. I´ve tried all kinds of configurement with the ini, removed that app completly, tried different roms, but no. It is not any hardware problem with the dpad, it works until I install smartskey. When I boot the phone, I can scroll one step with the DPAD and then it freezes. I had this problem before and suddenly it went away, dont know why. I´m now using the volume slider to scroll thru contacts and such, but since it works like page down its a bit frustating.

any ideas?

cheers

/d
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] biolover:
Thanks water for release a new version and make modification for CeleDial. Unfortunately, the application 0.55 still have imcompatible behavior with CeleDial. The DPAD seems only stop function when the popup menu of CeleDial shows, but the practicable cases is that the DPAD should stop founction when CeleDial window and CeleDial window show. Otherwise, it is a quite trouble when you need go to another contact or to change the phone type with DPAD.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
It is fixed. please dowload 0.56
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] WilliamGalindo:
Water,

First of all, thank you for this great program! I'm currently using it with my XV6700 and it's working great. The only thing that I'm having trouble with is editing the ini file. I'm basically trying to set it so Smartskey doesn't interfere with my volume slider but my settings wont stick, it keeps on setting it so I can only adjust the volume on the today or phone screen. I've followed all the instructions but I just can't get the settings to stick. Anyone else having this problem?

William
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
May be you didn't save your ini file in unicode so that the program cannot read it correctly and so use the default setting. Try to edit it in notepad on your PC and choose "Unicode" in save dialog. BTW, in next version the program can read both unicode and ascii ini file, so you will get less trouble.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] sevakm:
WindowsMediaPlayer

Thanks a lot for this great application. This and MagicButton are The best addition to my MDA.

I have one suggestion. It would be great if the volume key would act as the volume key when WindowsMediaPlayer is the active (topmost) application, even when the default behaviour of it has been changed. Maybe you could add another option in the .ini file?

In any case, it's a great program.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] WilliamGalindo:
Water,

IDoes it matter if its unicode UTF-16 or Unicode UTF-8?

William
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
You can actually set the volume slider as volume setting in Windows Media Player's options. In this case, you will set the volume when WMP is in foreground.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] sevakm:
Thanks, that works too. It works a little differently (you control not the main volume level, but the level in Windows Media Player), but does the job.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] biolover:
Thank you for make a new version to fix the problem. Now it works pretty well in the normal phone interface with CeleDial installed.

However, it still conflict with CeleDial under the CeleDial setting interfaces. Under the option, acknowledgement, help, and about interfaces of the CeleDial setting, pressing of left or right of DPAD will call Text Messages or Contacts. Moreover, under the command interface of the CeleDial setting, pressing of the DPAD will even delete the existed command line.

As well, you can found other conflicts exist between SmartSKey and some direct sub-window of Phone application. For example, after switch to the Call Log or Quick Dial interface and make a deletion from the popup menu, it will pop a confirmation dialog box. Normally, DPAD can jump between the buttons "Yes" and "No", but now it will also associate with the SmartSKey's DPAD action. Such SmartSkey's DPAD actions also exist under the editing interface of the Quick Dial. Another example, when you open the view contact window from the menu of Phone application, the SmartSKey's DPAD actions function with the left and right.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
Please help to test this version.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mccune:
Great program!

Smartskey should be standard in every ROM :D

I was wondering if I can change the function of the D-Pad when pressing Left.

Now it's assigned to Messaging, I would like the program to op "Palm Messaging" since this is my standard messaging app.

TnX in advance! :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Shaman2:
I settup addressbook as contacts by default, but smartkeys (last version) is not open addressbook. What I have to do ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] biolover:
There are still the problem what I told within your attached version.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] borja:
new idea

Whether it is possible to appoint on Dpad functions: up - " All calls ", Right - "Incoming", Left - "Outgoing", Down - "Missed". Such probably to make? And that each time handles in the filter to get to have. Bothers.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] blazoner:
Windows Media Player

unfortunately in my application this is not a real solution. for 3 reasons:

1) doesn't work as fast as the original volume slider.

2) i use the volume setting in WMP's internals to adjust the output level to my stereo system and regulate the amount of distortion. constantly messing with this is EXTREMELY aggravating!

3) same basic thing applies when running third party apps as well.

i know this may sound nit-picky, but PLEASE consider making a per application exception list for the original volume slider functionality!

xiè xiè
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] jwhemmer:
simple question....

Where is the main file for SmartSkey ?? :eek: I tried the three files at the bottom of Water's thread, but all I get is a redirection on my mobile phone to the registry or total commander. Thanks...

-J.W. ;)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mccune:
No problem here downloading the files ;)

Be sure you are loged in, and click on one of the links, don't use recht key, save as.. ..because that doesn't work with all browsers..
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] makedjakila:
TCPMP

Hi !

It seems that Smartskey doesn't work with TCPMP. Whenever I open TCPMP, I have to reboot Smartskey !

Did anyone else encounter this problem ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Don Baron:
How to remap left soft key on mine qtek s200?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Vladimyr:
Dpad problem

Hi all, at first thanks to water for this nice stuff! :)

It's very comfortable to use wm5 softkeys and volume slider.

Unfortunately, dpad hasn't got any additional functions (seems there is "dpad=0" in the ini-file, but really "dpad=1", i checked it twice ;)

I was trying this with different roms (molski aku2.3, faria aku3.2, some older ones) and dialers (integrated dialer, eten dialer with smartdial, eten dialer without smartdial).

It seems the problem is connected somehow with strange dpad behavior, started some time ago after flashing another new rom (it was 2.17 or like this): during navigation in menu, pressing dpad up or down moves cursor on two items, not one! I still was able to move cursor on one line down by pressing it right.

Immediately after this some games stopped being controlled by dpad, but i don't like games so much, so i didn't pay attention at this issue, and later, when i flashed another newest rom and it had the same behavior, i decided that this was a conceptual change in all new roms and calmed down with it :)

But now, i wish to use dpad in dialer! The idea seems great.

If anybody has the same issue? Or maybe there is a workaround?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] bvinayakh:
This app is not working on my Imate Jam Pocket PC. When i copy the files to my pocket pc and run the app it gives me an error stating that "smartskey is not a valid Pocket PC application".. please help :(
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] cutejules:
Where do I install it?

Hi guys, I've had this software before, sorry to ask a newbie question but should I install this in the startup folder? I noticed that there are two files, one is the program itself and the other one I have no clue. Do I put both files in the StartUp folder or the Programs folder. I keep getting an error whenever I turn my phone back on. Thank you for your time. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
It may be a problem with the new rom, since smartskey make some assumption on the structure of current phone app. and will not work if it is changed. However, mine is not in the new rom yet, I will flash to newer later and will fix it if there is any problem.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
Jam is PPC2003, smartskey is for WM5 only.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
No, don't put it in startup folder. Read the readme before you install.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] WRMG3:
wrong message typed here.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Vladimyr:
Thank you for reply, then please check also different dialers.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] placido:
Can you please make smartskey DPAD compatible with hp rw6828? Seems not working for DPAD.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] WRMG3:
you can set the dpad for different functions as well? under what registry is that?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] ugilad:
smartskey 0.56 and Atom

Hi,

Did anyone get this app to work correctly with O2 Atom ?

I saw some comments about it from long ago, but no progress since.

In my atom, the app mapped the volume up/down correctly, but the dpad is not mapped.

It may be worthwhile to mention that the atom does not have "softkeys" but a dedicated start buttom (unmappable by start->settings->buttons) and a "media" button.

Thanks.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mrw45:
HELP PLEASE...Notification Error

While this was installed on my Cingular 8125 I kept getting the following error:

Notification error: "\Storage Card\Program Files\Smartkey\smatskey.exe"

So I uninstalled as the readme file indicated also removing it from the startup. Thinking I would reinstall and try again. This file and directory no longer exist on my machine, however, I still keep getting the message. It seems to occur mostly when the machine goes dormant and I turn it back on. It is also giving it emidiately after a soft reset. Not sure what to do here or how to fix the problem. The readme file indicated that execution of this file would not make any adjustments to the registry or anything like that, so I'm confused as to why it is still trying to execute anything.

HELP PLEASE!!!

Thanks

Randy
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mrw45:
Still have problem after REMOVEDUPSDDAEMON=1

I just reinstalled and tried to change the ini to reflect suggestion in read me file for Wizard.

REMOVEDUPSDDAEMON=1

Ran softkey then ran sofkey again to reverse and still am getting the notifaction errors. Still not sure what is going on. Thanks for any help you can give.

rw
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
Make sure you are using 0.56, open smartskey.exe and then open it again. During the second time, it will prompt for u if you want to close it or not, say yes. and the program will remove all notification that related to smartskey automatically.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] The Solutor:
Hi

My first post here :)

I tried smartskey on a treo 750v (Italian), the problem is that

VOLUMEONPHONE=1

and

VOLUMEONTODAY=1

aren't working, both Up and Down volkeys aren't working as espected in phone app and in today screen, the hint with battery charge is triggered in both cases.

Any idesas ?

Thanks in advance.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] TheGMan:
Regarding workaround for using the volume slider in WMP.

I couldn't agree more, as I have the exact same issue.

Smartskey is without a doubt the most useful app I run. This issue and the volume slider scrolling (Opera, Pocket Informant, etc.) issue are my only nits.

Hey Water ... I'm sure we could raise a PayPal fund to help support your efforts in these areas. Let me know if you are interested and I will see what I can arrange.

Thanks, Greg
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mangier:
Smartkey and HTC Apache w/ AKU 2.2?

Is there any way to change the behavior of Smartkey in this ROM? It will no longer close a program by holding the right softkey. It will suspend the program and take you to Settings|Memory|Running Programs but it won't close them. Of cource you can then close the program from there but it requires user input and extra step to close. Smartkey .56 worked fine in the older AKU 2.0 ROM. Any suggestions?