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[HD2 General] p13tr0:
add me to the list. 6pm yesterday my sense would not load. I soft reset lots of times and enabled/disabled sense. I also opened manila from the windows folder. after lots of arseing about, I finally got sense to load again without a hard re reset. this is all very strange... bit like flash forward.
[HD2 General] LeeMC79:
I had the problem as well (see my earlier posts).

Hard reset at 11am - fingers crossed all has been fine since. Phone is now 95% back to how I had it before.
[HD2 General] supervillainbow:
what's going ooonnnn?

i've added the e-reader tab to my homescreen and all of a sudden th "Launching HTC Sense..." message came up, since then i've not been able to get Sense working... any ideas????
[HD2 General] supervillainbow:
how did you exactly get it to work again without having to hard reset?

i'm not really sure how to open manila manually, i'm a bit of a n00b.
[HD2 General] supervillainbow:
can anyone give me a hand here? my phone is completely knackered. i've done a hard reset, tried to load some cabs to put the phone back to how i had it... and sense does the same thing. the cab i installed was the touch x transparent slider... could it be this that has broken it?

i'm using Duttys Holy Grail ROM, is there any way I can sort it out without hard resetting AGAIN? please, my girlfriend was due to give birth last Friday, she's about to burst! I need my phone sorted!!!!
[HD2 General] mstephenson:
I don't think so. As I said in my earlier post I haven't installed anything on my phone apart from a couple standard marketplace apps (MSN Weather & Shazam) and I had the exact same problem. Touch wood it's been fixed by a hard reset.

Just to add, my sense problem happened around 6 - 6:30pm yesterday - definitely odd that it happened to so many people at the same time.
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
@supervillainbow

try this, cant guarantee it'l fix the problem but it was the last thing I did before I succesfully reset my phone.

Disable sense (settings, today screen settings, uncheck htc sense)

Soft reset,

Re-enable sense,

Hard reset.

After that leave your phone alone for about 20 mins before you do anything.

Im pretty sure it wasnt that cab that messed things up.

edit. just got this reply on another forum;

im sure that doing this just a hard reset though.

I had the same problem which was sorted by doing a "clear storage"

To perform a clear storage

1. On the Home screen, slide to the Settings tab and then tap Security > Factory reset.

2. Enter “1234 ” and then tap Yes
[HD2 General] supervillainbow:
cheers guys, much appreciated.

i've ended up doing a hard reset via the clear data thing. which is a bit crappy because now all my facebook links are gone (even tho i thought i'd backed them up) all the pictures linked to my contacts are gone and aren;'t coming back when i try to update it.

the touch x transparent slider cab is definitely the thing that kills sense. i tried to install it again, and i got the same "unable to launch sense" message

it's totally weird.

i'll have to live without the transparent slider, which is massively disappointing.
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
if you assign the "me" contact card to your own facebook account it should sync up contacts and fb profiles automatically. Did for me anyway.

As for that cab, i was trying to install cabs straight away after the reset (ms my phone) so maybe any installation will kill sense???
[HD2 General] sidsid:
I think I have a fix...

Go to Start

-> select the Getting Started icon

-> click on the link to Set background

-> click the link to change the background image

-> You should now be in the Today settings screen, select the Items tab

-> untick HTC Sense

-> click ok

-> do a soft reset by taking off the cover and pressing the red reset button -> once it restarts go to Start

-> Settings (which should now work)

-> Today

-> select the items tab and turn back on HTC Sense and click Okay

This fixed the problem without a hard reset or factory restart for my HTC Sense which stopped running around 6:30pm on Tuesday 2nd March on my O2 HTC HD2. I've no idea what caused the problem, the last app that I downloaded the prior weekend was MSN Weather.
[HD2 General] sleegrony:
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[HD2 General] ploppyjim:
hey all.

my hd2 has completely fixed itself it seems. around 9am it wouldn't turn on. I pulled the battery out, started up and hey presto sense was back up and running. all very odd. hope some of you have had a similar experience.

one for tails of the unexpected if you ask me.
[HD2 General] ooFunk:
nope... no such luck for me!!

I was intrigue by the possible fix above but ive never had the settings not working on mine... so by access the today screen this way is no different, from what i understand about the red reset button its the same as powering down or removing the battery... or am i wrong about that??

Still mine isnt working right so im closer and closer to that hard reset! To be fair i haven't had any issues with the phone running in windows default, as an example i haven't had one sms stick in the outbox!!

I guess you win some and you lose some!!
[HD2 General] Bakzoom:
This did not work for me. All I get when I turned on HTC Sense was a message stating Unable to launch HTC Sense. While the phone was on with this message, I hit the restart button on the back again hoping to fix the issue. No luck...
[HD2 General] dkaralis:
Hi guys,

I also experience the same problem since yesterday. I basically have two questions for you experts:

1) Has anyone contacted HTC re this issue?

2) Is it possible to install any of the numerous themes / skins available on the net or are they all based on sense?

Cheers

Dimitris
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
I have emailed htc about this, im pretty certain they're already aware of it but hey.........

I've asked for an explanation as to why it happens....

How to fix it....

And how to prevent it happening in future....

I think they'l just advise a rom update though.

I'll be sure to post any reply(if i get one) here for you all to see.

To try and answer your second question,

You can disable sense and use alternate skins/themes for "classic WM" or tweak sense to your own preference, quick search on here should provide you with plenty of options. Cant really point you in a specific direction as its not something Ive really bothered with.
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
Heres that response in full;

"HTC has been reported about this issue with the manila in the home screen, and we are investigating the device to find the reason why this is happening with the devices. We recommend to keep monitoring the web site for further information regarding your issue."

In other words;

"Eh? Oh that, Errr.... Dunno mate. See Ya."

Welcome To Jazz Club, Nice.
[HD2 General] Bakzoom:
At least you received a reply. Unfortunately it wasn't very helpful...lol. Well, hopefully they'll have something for us soon. I'm using the Windows Default option and it's not bad but I do miss HTC Sense.
[HD2 General] ooFunk:
Well mine is now running better than ever, no fix.... just updated to latest Rom.

Which maybe if you were like me and could never find the time to update because of the hassle its a god send!! I probably would never have updated the rom if this didn't happen but now im kind of glad it did.

Still intrigued to know what actually has happened as it cant be coincidence it happened to us all at about the same time.

Funk
[HD2 General] Bakzoom:
Do you have a link of where you got the updated ROM? I've never updated my phone.
[HD2 General] ooFunk:
Hi Bakzoom...

I posted another thread earlier as i couldnt download from the official HTC site due to being locked to Vodafone UK.... if you have a look at the post http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=642438 your find a couple of links in there, one to vodafone and another to a thread on this forum talking about the custom roms. I just downloaded the Vodafone one due to the lock and all is good....

The Official HTC Rom can be found here http://www.htc.com/uk/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=297&cat=2&dl_id=856

Funk
[HD2 General] Bakzoom:
Thanks ooFunk. I purchased my phone from Clove and will check out the links you provided. Hopefully I can just reinstall a newer version of the stock ROM to get this working.
[HD2 General] ooFunk:
If i were you i would try the HTC one first, You have to enter your s/n and you cant download it if your lock to a vendor it would seem.
[HD2 General] Gilles92:
I am also member of the fast growing club of "htc sense does not start" (French ROM designed for SFR)

Just lets imagine 2 scenari related to problems between the "fruit" & HTC : one is a malware by one party, the other one is deactivation by the other one afraid....but this is pure fiction isn't it ?
[HD2 General] 4braid:
I was waiting to upgrade to a newer rom but could not download one from HTC because I was told it was not suitable for my device. I found out from another post that the reason for this was that T-Mobile did not want me to have it as it would de brand my phone. I've now installed the Artemis rom and am really pleased with the phone and all the tweeks.
[HD2 General] lswyheart:
try to delete pim.vol at root directory
[HD2 General] abhineetzmail:
The problem happened for me too after I installed 23XXX ROMS. It works when I do a soft reset with Memory card removed. The issue is my Touch HD has 288 MB RAM available which leaves little memory to kick off Sense when working on 23XXX ROMS. . Once I restart with card removed I can reinsert the card and it works. The whole issue is after everything system is left with 30-50 MB RAM to run everything else.. Anybody has a fix for this ?
[HD2 General] stkongsv:
Another member of this rather disappointing club... Mine was a bone stock Norwegian Rom, with only a few applications installed. No tweaks.

I did notice that my phone have been reacting a bit slower than normal lately, so it could be that some kind of cache or something filled it up slowly until it had enough and died..? I can start File-explorer now, but seems like I am not allowed to delete any files, no matter what directory I am in.

Hard reset next?
[HD2 General] jwloo:
unable to launching htc sense.....

hey guys...

need help.... my htc hd2 unable to launching htc sence...

i already hard reset my phone..

now my hp cannot run any application...

now unable to plug in usb cable...

my menu just have HOME icon... setting and other icon all gone....

any guys can help me solve tis problem..

i just bought last week.. =.= please need help @.@

or can email to me... jwloo8838@hotmail.com

:(:confused::(:confused::(:confused::(:confused::(:confused::(:confused::(:confused:
[HD2 General] Meiyo:
Mine is having the same problem on Stock Rom 1.48 :mad::mad::mad::mad:

:(:(:(:(:(

Anything other than a hard reset , please ?
[HD2 General] baitoey99:
Same for me

Just trying to install skyscape to my mobile

But first i can sync my mobile with my notebook via active sync

Then i've tried to soft reset my HD2..... BOOOM!! my HTC sense has gone too..

Tried so many things that u guys mentioned but still can't pull it back

Moreover i can use only some of the apps that i've installed

Many apps cant be opened together with the loss of sense :(

I'm afraid of hard reseting by myself..... waiting for some hope >.<

Manilla Version 2.5.19211619.0

Rom version 1.66.707.1
[HD2 General] bomba6:
Similar thing with Cookie's home Tab

Installed CHT 1.70. worked fine.

Uninstalled CHT 1.70 (it asked me too when trying to install 1.7.1). Then after reboot I was unable to launch Sense.

Soft resets didn't help.

When trying to re-install 1.7.1- sense cameback to life.

Now I'm afraid to uninstall CHT.
[HD2 General] slow_mo:
Thanks... I renamed my PIM.vol to PIMold.vol and soft reset.

It worked. Now to restore my PIM.vol

Cheers.
[HD2 General] TapeWormZ:
Hey guys im new to the HTC world, just came from the Iphone world so i admit im a complete NOOB. This is what I have.

Tmobile US HTC HD2 Ram size 576/1024 Mhz speed.

OS Version: 5.2.23562 (23562.5.5.0)

Manila Version: 2.5.20121412.1

ROM Version: Cell Series WWE

Rom Date: 04/20/10

Radio Version 2.10.50.19_2

For the life of me I cannot get the Unable to Launch Sense, Tap to to retry, error to go away, i tried hard reset, didnt work, tried soft, didnt work, tried changing roms and radios, didnt work i am almost at the point where I want to throw the phone to the wall... if you know what I mean. I honestly dont care about losing everything on the phone, Can somebody give me instructions on how to fix this?
[HD2 General] Deftonez:
Use "B_L_Group_FixStartManila_2.5" and enjoy.

For example, when I installed "B_L_Group_FixStartManila_2.5" and then delete it, then restart the phone I could not run HTC Sense. I installed "B_L_Group_FixStartManila_2.5", run it, delete it and restart the phone again. After all, everything works fine.

I would be happy if this helps.
[HD2 General] dinoware:
Hi guys, I had just now the some problem.

But onlu happen after install NDRIVE gps software.

what I notice is when running the NDRIVE for the first all go ok, but after the HD2 start to work very slow, and restart the ndrive, and for my suprise Ndrive start in a small size in in top left of the screen.

after that my Sense don´t work, try to soft reset and nothing.

What I see starnge the some menus the size of the letter increase very much!

for example in resco explorer the size of the menu increase a lot

there is any kind of setup to increase the size of menus and letter typs? like other HTC?

here can Hi see that in registry?

thanks
[HD2 General] dinoware:
maybe something about large menu option?
[HD2 General] Zezen:
Solution for "unable to start htc sense, tap here to try again"

Hello,

After a couple of hard resets, changing ROMs (I have used Energy's for over a year), etc. wasting hours this one worked for me:

htchd2forum. com/

general-htc-hd2-discussion/unable-to-start-htc-sense/msg7171/

1. Disable manila in Settings, Home, by selecting the default Windows skin

2. Remove the hkcu/software/htc/manila/animatedbackgroundpath key data

3. Change hkcu/software/htc/manila/home.wallpapermode to 0

4. Reenable manila

It's been working since.

Another solution is to get rid of animated background on the home screen, or else select the default Windows home skin in Settings (a tad ugly, granted).

Ryszard, relieved
[HD2 General] arrrsv:
I had an issue with CHT. I never got the 'Unable to start sense' error mine just locked up. Was working fine for acouple of days but just stopped this morning i guess.
[HD2 General] NyCee:
Yes ... very popular "Unable to start Sense, ..." error!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=6930977#post6930977
[HD2 General] NyCee:
Me too ... but this post may temp help you

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=6930977#post6930977
[HD2 General] NyCee:
New Jun 26 Roms R UpLoading ... Yeah!

Just flashed the Jun 26th Cookie Rom and everything is back to normal ... don't know what happen, but i sure am back to being happy!
[HD2 General] sayborg:
Guys,

I have a similar problem.

It says "Launching HTC Sense" and nothing happens.

None of the hard keys work, the screen does not react to any press, it is just frozen.

Actyve Synch dos not work also. I am even not able to hard reset because the phone does not react anymore. It still says "Launching HTC Sense".

I have tried to remove and put back the sd card, no result.

I have hopefully backed up a recent version in my SD card.

How could I hard reset the device?

Please help
[HD2 General] reborn_hi:
You can hold both the volume buttons down ( do not release ) and press the on button to get it on .

You see the screen asking you to hard reset by pressing the volume button down or up (sorry kinda of forget ) but its there on prompt.

Then you can just do a hard reset .
[HD2 General] reborn_hi:
Actually, you can just press the windows button at start up and it will bring you to the menu , what you need to do is go to settings , today settings and untick htc sense .

then from there you get a registry editor and edit

hkcu/software/htc/manila/home.wallpapermode to 0

and just reboot your phone and enable HTC sense ,you be fine at least work for most of us.

Do this first before you do a hard reset .
[HD2 General] onslaught86:
I just spent a frustrating 30mins fixing my HD2 after it suddenly refused to launch Sense - but I did fix it without hard resetting.

Reading through this and other threads, it seems a bunch of people have different symptoms which will naturally have different causes. My specific issue was that it would display the 'Launching Sense' message, then spin the Loading Wheel of Lag, flash the screen, 'Launching Sense' again, then 'Unable to launch' et cetera.

I'm running Dutty's latest 6.5 ROM with CHT 1.8.5, so no issues with the wallpaper. Tried soft resets multiple times with no joy. Eventually, I happened across the posts that recommend removing the SD card. I did so, soft reset again, and Sense booted up.. So it had to be something on the SD card that Sense was accessing. And the only thing that fit that category was the Music tab. Sure enough, when I hit the music tab with the SD card reinserted, it would crash Sense again.

So, to fix this, I backed up my CHT settings with CHT editor, restored default, removed SD card, soft reset & restarted Sense, removed the Music tab and the mini player, reinserted the SD card, re-added music tab, restored CHT settings, and I'm back on track.

Looks like it's some kind of corrupt temporary music database file that killed mine. Notably, I'd deleted a bunch of music folders earlier in the day. Hopefully some others manage to fix theirs without hard resetting also.

EDIT: I'd wager this also had something to do with WMP mysteriously attempting to sync every piece of music in my >500GB library with my 16GB SD card.

Double EDIT: Also be sure to delete the cache files from the /application data/htc/audiomanager_eng/ folder.
[HD2 General] BuiltLikeATank:
This has just happened to me as well. Really frustrating, as I'd just finished installing a whole load of mods and games onto my phone (which was probably the cause of the problem). I think the problem was the CHT + Editor that I installed, as all the games and stuff were working okay, but after I'd changed a few settings on CHT and done a soft reset, it was unable to load HTC Sense.

I'm using a stock 1.48 ROM, and a hard reset is the last resort for me, as I've got a ****load of files on there which I don't want to have to put back on.

HELP!
[HD2 General] arthur.serrano:
I have the same problem. Managed some tweaks in registry then sense would not load. Not a even a hard reset solves the problem. Please advice.
[HD2 General] cinciopillo:
Same problem ("Launching HTC Sense" and nothing happens).

I've tryed all suggestions above but the problem still remains.

I wait for a solution before do an Hard Reset and reinstall all my favourite applications...(sic!)
[HD2 General] Kvarten:
Unable to launch Sense

The same thing have just happened to me. Haven't done anything recently with apps or other stuff. This happened just as I received a SMS-messages. The phone froze and only way out was to remove the battery. When I started the phone again the "unable to launch Sense" messages appaired, and I have tried everything but Hard reset, but nothing works.

This is really frustrating.

Uses 1.66 shipped rom
[HD2 General] Kamen666:
Hey guys,i have the same problem from today :(

I unninstall the cookies home tab and cht editor,make a soft reset and now everything is fine.

I was with 1.8.5 from one week and today was the big crash :),before that with 1.7.2 - no problems !

I hope to help you.
[HD2 General] Babylonian:
Having the same problem :( After a soft reset Sense cannot be launched. I have been trying everything written in this thread, but nothing helps... I guess I have to do a hard reset & loose everything... gutted :(
[HD2 General] MaT0:
Hey everyone.

I had the same issue. I've tried the solution with uninstalling cookies home tab (I was using the 1.8.5 version) and everything seems to be working fine now. :cool:
[HD2 General] DeanMihaylov:
Confirmed, uninstalling cookies home tab and cht editor solved the problem for me.

Ok, after my phone is fixed, i installed Cookies home tab again, seems to work fine. Installed CHT editor, no problem. But when i imported my previous settings of CHT, here we go again, failed to launch sense again. Cant find what causes the failure, maybe some dead links or something ? Oh well, going to reinstall CHT editor again.
[HD2 General] Rolfhu:
Club Member ?

I am now also a member of this club :(. Tried a lot till now, but nothing is working. Using "start" I can only move the icons up and down. Just installed the new 1.66.708.1 ROM ..... and istalled all programs :mad:

The last change I had done, was the FATFS

Change – CacheSize to 4096
[HD2 General] PINki92:
That ****ed me to.
[HD2 General] Proz00:
i install now the new cht 2.0 beta and its fix the problem

:) i uninstalled it and it back to working
[HD2 General] mukturno33:
YEs that`s the thing - you must first uninstall the previsious versionv of your cookies home tab - then soft restart and install the cookies hme tab 2.0.0 and soft restart again.When you uninstalling the previsious version of cookies maybe not all the files will be deleted but when you install the ne version i think everything will be OK - that worked for me.

Best Whishes!
[HD2 General] -r0bin-:
fixed for me, thanks to this cab:

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=327813&d=1274135081

Cab name: B_L_Group_FixStartManila_2.5.cab

Link: http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=327813&d=1274135081

worked for me :)
[HD2 General] briteway:
It's happened to me also today, none of the above worked, so suspected the Cookies Home Tab, backed it up with CHTEditor, uninstalled, reinstalled, soft reset, SENSE STARTED, imported backed up data via CHTEditor, SENSE DIDN'T RESTART.

This tells me there is a problem in what has been installed onto CHT and what it's trying to access. It's definitely the CHT, in my case V2. Never had an issue with v1.8.5.

EDIT: Restoring/importing saved files doesn't solve the problem as there's something that's crippling the CHT, so I've set them up again but most of them were there anyway. I just wonder what was crippling the CHT down?

At least, didn't have to hard reset. :)
[HD2 General] obee51:
And same here: Of some unexplicable reason, Sense didn't suddenly launch today. I tried many things, but finally I uninstalled CHT 2.0 and CHT Editor 2.0, soft restarted, now Sense started.

I re-installed CHT 2.0 and Editor, soft restarted, and Sense still launches. But when I import my CHT settings, the Sense problem is there again!

I agree with Briteway, there must be something wrong in CHT 2.0. or some unexpected conflict may occur between Sense and CHT.

Well, now I just have to build up my CHT Home screen again, its not a big issue, but will this problem come again? Would be nice to know the reason, and if there's a fix for it.

HTC HD2

ROM 1.66.405.2

Radio 2.06.51.07

OS 5.2.21869

Manila 2.5.19211619.0
[HD2 General] xnomad:
I thought the new ROM helped but it hasn't. The manila.exe (htc sense) causes frequent freezes. Even without the cookie's home tab, htc sense hangs up.

It's annoying when someone calls, then suddenly it freezes and needs reboot while in the middle of the conversation !
[HD2 General] hreijm:
I had it yesterday, tried all of the suggestions here, nothing worked. Untill i decided to download FixStartManila. That did the trick. Downloaded and installed Cookies hometab 2.0 again and that also worked. So i'm happy to say that the problem is gone.
[HD2 General] gup_:
sense not lunching

had the same problem.......nothing worked until

Cab name: B_L_Group_FixStartManila_2.5.cab

Link: http://xdaforums.com/atta...3&d=1274135081

thanx heaps :D