yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] innovator8:
If you are using the Stock Rom, it may be worth it to maybe get a different file explorer than the stock winmo.

I use Resco File Explorer, the demo version is free and all features work for 14 days I think, then after that, most of teh normal features still work, very useful and far mo finger friendly than the stock file explorer or even total commander that some custom roms come with.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Sleuth255:
if you go into HKLM\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start you'll see keys corresponding to your folder names. Add an "Icon" string value there having the location of a png image if you want to make a custom folder icon. I've not found a way other than restarting to activate the new folder icon (yet)...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] igolfchip:
I'm in the stock ROM (really like the quality of this vs. the stock Fuze rom) and in Windows 7 trying to reorganize the start menu icons.

For some reason, windows is telling me I don't have permissions to make these changes. Anyone have an idea why?

Thanks!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] wpbear:
I tried this and it works in the full screen showing under the startmenu but in the app quickmenu it does not show the custom folder icon; however the custom folder icons for standard folders such as Games does show a nice icon in quickmenu. Any ideas..
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Sleuth255:
Sorry, I'm not a manilla user so can't help w/quickmenu icons.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] wpbear:
Ok thanks.

the quickmenu icons are independent from manilla. http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-quickmenu-v2-7.html
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] mkeyslehman:
**(12-10-09) This version will serve those who are running the Sprint 1.56 maintenance update but NOT Fresh 1.0. If you're using the latest Fresh, please visit the latest version built specifically for Fresh 1.0.

All APKs were pulled from Fresh Rom .7, which uses files from the Sprint 1.56 maintenance update. Because all applications have some kind of signature, you MUST maintain release versions. For all running Roms built on the Sprint maintenance release, you should be fine. All others please stick with Ratcom's original port (Modaco 1.1 users, this means YOU)

Clear home buttons download - Rosie.apk

Fade-out home buttons download - Rosie.apk

Clear Lockscreen - com.htc.resources.apk

HTC Widgets - Music, Weather, Bookmarks, Calendar, Clock, Contacts, Settings

"Clear" keyboard - background is removed so you can see the application behind the keys. HTC_IME.apk

See-thru Notifications Window - framework-res.apk

Credit where credit is due (or, those whom I blatantly stole from:cool:)

Flipz and Fresh, makers of FreshRom, and Flipz further for providing the update script education

Chuckhriczko - Gutted Rom

Ratcom - Original Clear as a Bell port, and whose link to theme design got me started and provided all the education necessary. For all intents and purposes, this is his work

And all those at XDA making it possible for us to better use our phones. Thanks!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] kavoc_zero:
Your links seem to have an erroneous http// in them.

Anyhow though, I downloaded and attempted an update that was aborted due to:

E:Can't find update script

I'll try to re-download and flash again

EDIT: It is still failing for me. Thanks for trying to get this together though, and I look forward to getting this once its working (at least I am hoping it isn't just me).
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aaron130:
I wanted to download this but the link wont work,is it being fixed??
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] 27s:
Hey,

I am having the same issue as kavoc is. "E:Can't find update script"

Cheers,

Matt
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] flipzmode:
Hey mkeyslehman,

PM me and I can help you with the update script. Thanks for your contribution. Also yea we have optimized frameworks however in my testing I was receiving random FC's and had tracked down the framework as the possible cause so I removed the optimized ones (other than adding in the animations) before release.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] esoteric1311:
mkeyslehman

You the man. I'll probably have to dl OTA cuz the one day I decide not to bring my USB cable..... But this is what i was waiting for, a combination of Fresh & Clear
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] dagnasty:
I'd like to take a look at this. Got the link?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] mkeyslehman:
Ack. Sorry all. This is what happens when you post things right before you go to bed.:(

I've got it working great on mine, but I slipstreamed the changes directly into Fresh .7. So I'll be in touch with Fresh to get the update script worked out and will take the links down.

Once that's done I'll learn to post and not have duplicate https too:rolleyes:
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] mkeyslehman:
Ratcom's original Clear as a Bell theme can be found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=582056&highlight=clear

Check his signature for Theme creation links
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Moguledyouth:
Thank you for this, love Clear as a Bell theme, I only wish it went a step further and had the transparent side buttons and center like the theme linked in the original Clear as a Bell thread.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] flipzmode:
Ok I typed this up really fast and didn't proof read it so I hope it even makes sense. Good luck.

http://geekfor.me/faq/create-your-own-update-script/
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] mkeyslehman:
Bleah. Something so simple...

Thanks Flipz! Once again, thank you.

I should have everything fixed and re-posted this afternoon, after testing both.

As for the buttons, I'd be more than happy to take a look at them; I've included everything (as far as I know) from Ratcom's original 1.1 port. His 1.2c omitted Rosie, of which the only thing changed is the home button background at the bottom of the phone. Everything else is HTC widgets, really.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] mkeyslehman:
Personally ran both .zips to prove they actually work, we should be good to go this time.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] 27s:
Worked like a charm this time. Thanks!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] kristopherstoker:
alternate download site? 4shared doesn't work well with Hero's Browser :( and I don't have USB availablity at work.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] lv2bll:
will this work with fresh .6?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] mkeyslehman:
Yes, this should work just fine with Fresh .6 or for anyone running the Sprint 1.56 update.

When people throw around the word "optimized" on these boards, they're saying that the images of each application have been compressed. No code has been changed. This reduces the size of the application; the smaller the app, the quicker it responds and is loaded into RAM.

I found the original theme, and see what you're referring to. Though I don't know if I quite like completely removing the side buttons. Maybe just a simple transparent gradient... I'll play around with it a bit this weekend and see if I find something I like.

Know of anything else (free!) that works? I just used it because most of the other zips are hosted there. And it's free.:D Would be more than happy to post on a mirror.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Jace100:
If you could make this a gradient or semi-transparent I would open-mouth kiss you.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] esoteric1311:
Thanks for the hard work man.... I kinda sense that it lags a little bit now when opening programs. Has anyone else had that problem?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] mkeyslehman:
I haven't noticed anything. Then again, I've been running one form or another of this for a few weeks now, so maybe I don't know any better.
[HD2 General] tehwateva:
Hey guys,

Right now my Leo is unable to launch HTC sense after I did a soft-reset after modifying the registry "Change - CacheSize to 4096" gotten from the Leo Hints & Tips thread as well as uninstalling Nimbuzz.

Also I also created a shortcut for Task Manager to put into the start menu and added it to the Manilla shortcut at the main page.

A couple of soft-resets still doesn't solve it, and sometimes it will say tap here to start HTC Sense but tapping doesn't do anything. Able to open the dialing menu but takes quite awhile.

Pressing the contacts menu gives the error message "The file "contacts" cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted cert, or one of its components cannot be found. If the problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file.

Any ideas?
[HD2 General] no1san:
Got the same problem.

Duttys HD Holy Grail

I tried to reinstall the rom but I can't connect with usb.

did you try that?
[HD2 General] kuku2004:
same problem here.

rom is 1.48 from stock.
[HD2 General] keith0r:
also had the unable to launch sense error, couldnt find a way to solve it so i had to hard reset (AGAIN!!) :(

having to link 90 contacts with facebook manually sucks!
[HD2 General] vhjc:
Does anyone have been able to solve this problem? I faced it today, I was doing some tweaks to my HD2, did some soft resets but then sudenlly it stops working, Sense freezes and has been unable to launch it, sometimes I can access to start menu but I can't load anthing, every link I tried to open tells me that the file cannot be opened either it's not signed or one of its components cannot be found. Nothing but the phone can be opened.

My rom is 1.48 stock.

Is the only solution for this a hard reset? :confused::mad:
[HD2 General] edwardl:
I faced similar problem before if I added the tweak of FATFS=4096. I did "hard reset" and then reinstalled all stuffs. I reinstalled all programs and readded the tweaks except FATFS one. The phone resumes normal.

It seems to me that the tweak of FATFS may not work on HD2.
[HD2 General] vhjc:
Yes, actually I managed to remove that tweak without hard reset it, reverted it to FATFS=0 and everything came back to normal, my HD2 is now like it was before.

We MUST warn every HD2 owner to not apply this tweak.
[HD2 General] calyon:
I've cautioned this particular tweak on the main thread before.

changing the FATFS would hanged the HD2 (ROM: 1.48 Asia Region) and you'll need to hard reset to revert to the default settings.
[HD2 General] vhjc:
Ohhh I didn't see that...

Thanks calyon! :)
[HD2 General] Icecubed17:
HOw you do that?!
[HD2 General] vhjc:
First I disabled HTC Sense from Home, then I move to the top of the start menu the registry editor (in my case it's SKTools Registry Explorer), then I turned it off and on several times and every time I tried to run the registry editor, when I was unable to run it I turned it off and on again, until I was able to run the registry editor, then navigated to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS and changed back the FATFS to 0.

I don't know how many times I've had to turn it on and off, but I thinks it's better than do a hard reset, specially if you don't have a backup or your data.
[HD2 General] dheehd:
I confirm... This is working!

(considering you have a reg editor already installed of course)

Thank you very much vhjc... you saved all of us lots of painfull time!
[HD2 General] izumisano:
Hello,

I just changed the FATFS registry value to 4096 based on the tweaks hint & tips and now my HD2 hangs and couldn't launch the HTC Sense app. Reading the responses above, it seems that it's possible to disable HTC Sense from Today setting in this kind of condition. However no matter how I tried to click on the "Setting" icon on the Start Menu screen, I only got the error window saying that the program is missing and we need to restore or reinstall... I couldn't connect the device to my laptop thru activesync to remove the registry since the activesync app (the switcher between storage device & activesync window) failed to load as well...

Could you please share how did you manage to go to the Today setting window to disable the HTC Sense? I couldn't see any other options since no other shortcuts are available, nor I can run any app from the start menu :( Is there a way to load HD2 standard WinMo OS in safe mode only...?

I'm really desperate on this situation and as much as possible I don't wanna hard reset my HD2 since I haven't done any backup yet... :(

Please help... Thank you very much in advance!

cheers
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
Im getting the unable to launch htc sense message too, even after a hard reset the problem re-occurs. can anyone advise me what to do??
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
Sorry, should have mentioned this above, I have not changed the registry setting of fatfs to anything other than 0, so this is not whats causing this problem for me. I have tried using a reg editor ro confirm the setting is 0 still no luck.

before the problem occurs i get an error reporting message saying theres been a problem with manila.exe

Any help pleeeease....
[HD2 General] LeeMC79:
I have just encourntered the very same problem with HTC Sense - and I have not changed anything on my phone for days, if not weeks...

Anyone????
[HD2 General] 4braid:
Me too. I wasn't even using the phone when I got an error reporting message about manilla. Several soft and 1 hard reset but sense still cannot load.
[HD2 General] LeeMC79:
Literally just in the last hour or so?

Something very odd is going on here...
[HD2 General] jagster:
The same happened to mine 2 hours ago. Didnt make any changes to the device or installed any software etc:confused: Tried soft resets but no joy

Im considering a hard reset unless someone has a fix please
[HD2 General] ooFunk:
Mine has done exactly the same thing!! was working fine earlier on the way home from work, went to check it about 6pm and it had locked saying a problem with Manilla.exe had occurred... couldn't get it to do anything so took out the battery and ever since HTC sense wont load..

Everything seems fine, al programs work, phone is ok etc just sense wont load, was just about to do a hard reset after backing up data and removing card when i read this post so stopped...

Has anyone else had this?....
[HD2 General] ploppyjim:
Yip, exactly the same thing happened to me around the same time of day.

something very odd is going on.

It seems like the phone side if things is working fine, the windows side of things is working fine, but HTC Sense wont load.

sheesh, bad time of year. my PS3 had issues on feb the 29th too.
[HD2 General] LeeMC79:
Time to look for some commonality - at least until the experts arrive and tell us what to do!!

Mine:

ROM: T-Mobile stock rom

BSB Tweaks installed

Recent changes: None (apart from downloading a game from the Marketplace)
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
ok this is seriously fkd. someone else just posted about this elsewhere. Any chance this could be something similar to what fkd over everybody sps3 yesterday. lol probably not.
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
Im also on a t mobile uk stock rom with bsb tweaks installed (been installed for months though so i dont see why it should start acting up now). Last thing intalled was worms 2010 a couple of days ago.
[HD2 General] ploppyjim:
ROM: 02 phone

Never installed any tweaks. only thing I've done is install an update from the HTC website (months ago)

Recent changes: None at all

Got an error message when texting around 6pm saying there was a problem with manilla.exe. when i checked my phone about an hour ago got the "unable to start HTC Sense" message.
[HD2 General] LeeMC79:
That would suggest it is something HTC, rather than individual changes, provider ROMs then.

Not sure where we go from here...
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
has anyone else done a hard reset to attempt to fix this yet? Im on my fourth hard reset now and its been ok for about an hour but im scared to try reinstalling software putting back my cutom settings in case it goes again...

just wondering if anyone else has the problem reccurring after a reset.....
[HD2 General] ploppyjim:
not done a hard reset yet.
[HD2 General] ooFunk:
Well mine is Stock 1.43 Vodafone.... Last thing i did was install the latest version of FPSECE that was emailed to me and clean up some of my Gmail emails, I was in a traffic jam while doing that and so just put it back in the case, then as said above manilla error...

Well there must be something going on, there is noway we can all just get this at the same time!!
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
I've read somewhere else that it could be related to animated wallpapers, i havent yet re-enabled the weather wallpaper since the hard reset (sense has been ok for an hour or so), gonna try that now and see if it ****s up again, I'll let you know....................
[HD2 General] LeeMC79:
Brilliant, cheers. I just saw your post on another forum and was going to ask you if you had tried it.
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
ok, the weathers back on the today screen and all is well, touch wood. I've also changed the sense tabs (causing it to restart to add in the twitter tab and remove the stocks tab) it restarted just fine............... seens to be holding up a lot longer than it did after the other hard resets........ as they say 4th times the charm....
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
Ha Ha Im posting like a madman left right and centre.. hope that helps...
[HD2 General] LeeMC79:
ok cheers. Never done a hard reset before. What do I have to do...?

Presumably I lose anything / everything stored on the phone that wasnt there at the start...
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
Yeah you will, if youv used "Microsoft My phone" (from the marketplace) then you can get it all back pretty quickly, to hard reset it you'll need to turn it off, then hold down both the up and down volume buttons, keep them held while you press to turn it on, you should get a reset warning, then you can let them go and press vol up to reset.

Your phone will go back to way it was when you unboxed it though.

Like I said I've had to do this 4 times already and I'm still not convinced its totally solved the problem so you may want to wait until theres more info from one of the resident experts round here. My knowledge of these things is very limited....
[HD2 General] LeeMC79:
Cheers

I think i might wait like you say - given the phone still technically works without Sense, i'll see if someone can get to the root cause.
[HD2 General] Bakzoom:
I did absolutely nothing to my phone and now it keeps saying 'Launching HTC Sense.' After a while I get the message saying 'Unable to launch HTC Sense. Tap here to try again.' Tapping there doensn't fix the problem. It goes back to the 'Launching HTC Sense' message.

Will doing a hard reset cause me to lose all my pictures, files, etc.?

Any other fix for this?
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
From my experience a hard reset wont guarantee a fix.............. and you'll lose everything stored on the phone memory, back evrything up to your sd card. You should still be able to get to file explorer via the start menu and move anything you need to keep.

I'm gonna start reinstalling apps and changing settings one at a time, I'll let you know if one thing in particular messes with sense, as i said before I've already re-enabled the weather animation, assinged some quick links, set up an email account and chnged the sense tabs, so i dont think its any of that.............
[HD2 General] Bakzoom:
Thanks. Another thing I noticed is that when I slide the slider to unlock the phone, the phone automatically locks again in less than a second. This is rather strange. Phone was working fine till about an hour ago.

Turning off HTC Sense and going to Windows default allows me to at least use my phone but would like HTC Sense to be on.
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
yep, without sense, you cant let the phone lock itself or that will happen, not sure if you can disable autolocking, I have no experience of Windows Mobile without sense, hence the reason i desperately wanna get this sorted.........

Just been into the marketplace and installed the myspace app, rebooted the phone and assigned it a quick link, also logged into twitter and facebook. No adverse effects.

Phones been ok for nearly 2 hours now, after all the other resets it only lasted 20 mins tops.......
[HD2 General] Bakzoom:
So aside from the hard reboot, there's no way at this time to fix this correct?

Anyone know why this happened? Again, I didn't make any changes to the phone and everything was working fine till now.
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
It looks that way.......... Im sure there'll be an explanation pop up on here at some point, im afraid I've no idea though, as I said before, a hard reset (or 4), MIGHT solve the problem.

Only other solution is to use you phone in "classic WM" turning on and off as and when you need to use it due to the lock screen thing.... Im just a guy with a phone though, i know jack **** about how they work, Im hoping one of the pro's on here can give us an explanation....
[HD2 General] hoss_n2:
hard reset and never do it again
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
Do what again??
[HD2 General] ooFunk:
I have set mine back to Windows default too and its ok, although feels a bit funny sometimes like its doing stuff in the background.. slower somehow.

I also have the lock problem, but found if you leave it a few moments before sliding the lock it works...?? (actually just found that if you use the lock at the bottom of the start screen it works fine)

I also have a green flashing light yet i dont have a txt message, email or miss call?? Battery is at 61%

Its almost like an upudate has failed, but i know i havent run any... maybe its some form of virus!
[HD2 General] mstephenson:
Hi all, only rediscovered this site in the last week so first post but just wanted to report I have similar problems to the rest of you. I've only had the phone a week and not dared mess about with changing roms or anything yet, only thing i've done to my phone since getting it is adding a few apps from marketplace.

Interesting. Since Sense screwed up for me and I did a hard reset I seem to have lost the animated weather wallpapers, coinicidence?
[HD2 General] Rocochino:
Same thing happened to me around 6:30pm, was in the middle of sending a text then the phone just hung, so i did a soft reset and now sense isn't loading. I wonder how widespread this problem is......
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
Well im glad to say that sense made it through the night with no more errors.

Im pretty sure that before my 4th and final hard reset i did something like;

disable sense,

soft reset,

enable sense,

hard reset.

hope that helps anyone still affected after a hard reset.
[HD2 General] LeeMC79:
Is anyone else still having this problem? Given the odd nature of what occured last night, I find it hard to believe there are not any more people affected out there...

Also, any very clever people on here any ideas as to why this is happening?
[HD2 General] ploppyjim:
As a note I've found that unlocking the phone by pressing the home button rather than the power buton gets rid of the problem where t turns itself off after a few seconds.

I'm holding out hope for some kind of fix on this till tonight. If nothing comes up I guess I'll just back everything up to my PC and hard reset.

Not a big issue for me really, only installed one program (WiFi tethering), a couple of HTC updates and got a few photos and the like. Certainly seems very odd though for the problem to be so simillar in terms of timing. Surpirised I've not found more about this online really.

Cheers all.
[HD2 General] ooFunk:
Same here still... I've backed everything up and the phone is working fine with Windows default Home screen but no Sense!

Still holding out waiting for a fix but i guess ill end up hard resetting tomorrow...

Find it hard to believe that there isn't some kind of issue here with the device... how can it happen to so many people at the same time??
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
Its weird thats for sure, doesnt look like we're going to get an answer though........

Mines been ok all day, I've been reinstalling all the tweaks and apps I lost, no problems so far.... I find it hard to beleive that there isnt anyone out there who knows whats going on.....
[HD2 General] Kro3si3:
well im in the same boat, Sense has been down for 5 hours now after i restarted the phone . . .