[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] melaskalany:
Greetings all!

This is the weirdest problem ever. When I purchased my X1i, I purchased iGo8 along with the map of Egypt. I set it up, then moved the files installed to my phone memory to the memory card; i.e. all related files were stored at “Storage Card/iGo8”. It worked like a charm! I flashed my phone several times afterwards for all different reasons and every time I would just run iGo8 from the memory card without having to re-install it. Simply I would copy the “iGo8.exe” file and paste a shortcut to it in the “/Windows/Start Menu/Programs” folder.

A few weeks ago, I decided to build everything from scratch again since I was going through a complete data migration on my home network. I backed up everything, formatted the memory card and flashed the phone. I installed everything from scratch including iGo8. Now I have files on the phone memory, which I didn’t move this time, and others on the memory card including the map, the 3D buildings file, and other resources such as help, voice, etc…

For the sake of safe driving, I enabled the “iGo8 Today Plug-in” on the “Microsoft Today” Panel so that I can start the program without having to touch the screen or take out my stylus; just scroll down and click to load. Afterwards, I noticed this weird behavior: after a few times of switching panels, or either after approximately an hour or so, if I clicked on the X Panel button, it would wait for 3 seconds before illuminating the LED (usually it illuminates the LED almost instantaneously) and then nothing happens! The panel I am on would freeze and if I waited for 5 seconds or so it would resume normal operation. If I got a little pushy and pressed the X Panel button again or tried clicking on the d-pad in any direction then clicking on the centre button (thinking I might be able to blindly choose another panel) I would get the message "We’re sorry! PanelManager.exe crashed/send error report".

I unchecked the "Today Timeout" option but the problem persisted. Next I unchecked the iGo8 Today plug-in and ever since PanelManager.exe has never crashed, not even once! The phone has been running for two weeks straight now without turning it off or soft-resetting it, with me switching panels all the time! I just don't understand why anything like that would happen! I can’t find any logical reason for it! Do I need an edit to the “sys” file?! That glitch and the fact that iGo8 doesn't display properly in landscape mode are really pissing me off! Now, every time I want to start iGo8 for car navigation I either have to pull over or fiddle with my phone while driving, which I really don't like.

Any one encountered the same problem? Should I try to add a plug-in key to the registry and have it point to a certain iGo8 DLL file instead of using the available “Today” plug-in option? I found this registry edit where you can add a Wireless Manager and I fell in love with it ever since. Any feedback would be seriously appreciated! If you ever come to Egypt I will take you to the Giza Pyramids free of charge! :D

Some useful data:

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- X1i, Black, Production: Week 17/2009

- Firmware: R3AA - Generic UK

- Phone Lock: Set to 60 minutes, simple PIN code

- Panels: Today, SBP MS 3.0.1, PointUI Home2, On-the-Road, Media-Xperiance, Radio, Skype 2.5, CNN, 3D Fish

- Apps: Bing, Communicator Mobile, Garmin Mobile XT, iGo8(obviously!), MS NewsBreak, MS Reader, Registry Editor, SkyFire, YouTube Client

- System Packages: .Net Compact Framework 3.5, Sony Ericsson ActiveX deployment, SDKCerts

- Registry Tweaks: Today Wireless Manger, Hide Plug-in Separators