[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Luxon:
Hi ExtremeGTX,

First of all, thank you for sharing the app here! That's a wonderful idea and I hope the tool will work on my configuration as well.

Please do not consider the information below as a kind of ranting but rather as F.Y.I.

I am hoping for your help.

I would not speak for 100% that the problems are caused by your app, but there is a chance that the tool messed up sound settings on my HD2. Once again, I am not saying that it is your app that corrupted the registry settings.

Granted, I installed the app and a few hours later I noticed that all the notifications come out soundless.

Here's what I did.

1. Installed the cabinet on my HTC HD2 with Windows Mobile (Russian).

2. Ran the HeadsetService tool, selected the Core Player as a preferred Music Player and set the Service Status to Enabled.

3. Clicked Apply and... of course the app crashed (I believe this is due to a fact that I have \Windows\Автозагрузка folder instead of \Windows\Autorun).

I plugged in the headset, ran the Core Player and noticed that the side button on the HD2's body (the one regulating global system sound) started to mess up my Core Player's sound level. Usually, these two sliders are independent: you can regulate the system sound level without affecting the position of the sound level slider of the Core Player.

Okay, I removed the HeadsetService tool because I noticed that you became aware of the problem with different locale.

Of course that was stupid of me to not making a backup copy of registry but... what's done, done.

A few hours later I noticed that I have a ton of unanswered calls. I started investigating the problem and that's what I realized: ALL system notifications:

1. Incoming call

2. New SMS

3. New e-mail

all of these became soundless. You get the incoming call and... not ringing.

Okay, I opened Settings|All settings|Sound and notification (I am translating from Russian so some commands may not exactly reflect their names in actual 1033 locale). I opened the Sound and notification applet, switched to the Notification tab and... heck! I had the unknown Ring01-WindowsPhone selected in the Tone drop-down box instead of the Ring-OldPhone, which I had chosen by default! I tapped the playback button (>) under the drop-down box --- NO SOUND. I clicked OK at the top of the screen, the screen refreshed and the drop-down box's setting returned back to that unknown Ring01-WindowsPhone.

Okay, I opened Settings|Sound and Display and noticed that the Ring section was messed up! I had Ring01-WindowsPhone specified as the Ringtone and *none* set as the Sound type. I tapped Ringtone to select the Ring-OldPhone, found it in the list and tapped the ring --- No Sound! I tapped other options --- no sound.

I opened registry editor and opened the HKCU\ControlPanel\SoundCategories key. Observing the Ring and RingPreview keys under the SoundCategories key has shown that the DefaultSound string value was set to \windows\Ring01-WindowsPhone .wma ([sic!] exactly like this, there was a space before the dot). I do NOT have a ring like Ring01-WindowsPhone neither do I have the "Ring01-WindowsPhone.wma" nor the "Ring01-WindowsPhone .wma".

Checking the HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds key has shown that there is a multistring value Ringtones that has the following setting:

Ring01-WindowsPhone .wma

Ring02-Velvet .wma

Ring03-Flame .wma

Of course, I do NOT have any of the specified sound files!

Could somebody please help me here? Possibly, somebody could extract their HKCU\ControlPanel\SoundCategories and HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds?

Once again, I may be COMPLETELY WRONG associating this problem with your application. That said, I am hoping for your understanding and help.

Thank you for your contribution and best wishes,

Luxon.