Cracked touch screen - skip align screen

[tommhnyc]

Hi guys,

My touch screen is cracked and unfortunately I did a hard reset. Everything was working perfectly before but I wanted to clean up my phone before I receive new touch screen and fix it.
Now when I turn the phone on, it asks me to do alignment of the screen. Unfortunately I can't do that because my touch screen doesn't work properly. However, there is only 1 or 2 spots which respond to touch.

My question is: can I skip/pass this step (align the screen) and get inside the phone to use it without the touch screen as I could before hard reset?

Thank you very much for any replies and suggestions,
Tom

[BigDamHero]

After hard reset, connect the phone to the PC
The PPC will stop at the align touch screen bit obviously - but active sync will still allow you to set up a partnership.
Set up a partnership and navigate to Windows\Startup on the device
Delete Welcome.lnk from that directory.
Soft Reset

The welcome program where you align the screen and are forced to prove to Microsoft that you don't actually fall to the floor in a confused fit because right clicking is tap and hold, should not run.

Let me know if that works, as I've never actually tried it.

thanks
Lewis

[tommhnyc]

After hard reset, connect the phone to the PC
The PPC will stop at the align touch screen bit obviously - but active sync will still allow you to set up a partnership.
Set up a partnership and navigate to Windows\Startup on the device
Delete Welcome.lnk from that directory.
Soft Reset

The welcome program where you align the screen and are forced to prove to Microsoft that you don't actually fall to the floor in a confused fit because right clicking is tap and hold, should not run.

Let me know if that works, as I've never actually tried it.

thanks
Lewis


Hi,

thank you for suggestion but i can't delete this file. it says: "Cannot delete file welcome: The file may be in read-only memory, on a write-protected disk, or currently in use by another application." Probably it's the last thing that blocks deleting b/c after restarting a phone the screen pops-up saying "Tap the screen to set up your Windows Mobile-based device"

What else can i do in that case?

Thank you,
Tom

[BigDamHero]

Hmm its only a shortcut so it can't "be in use". Its only a symbolic link to another file.

Don't know to be honest - can you not remove the read only attribute (right click properites)? Try that. If i think of anything else Ill let you know.

Lewis

[BigDamHero]

This page suggests some options

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?cat=143

Let us know if any of them work

Thanks
Lewis

[tommhnyc]

I can't change any attributes. When i checked properties it says it's a system file and all attributes are grey.

I will try what it's said on the website that yuou pointed.

Thank you,
Tom

[tommhnyc]

ok, i tried the solution described in this article (http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?cat=143). Downloaded a program called Remote Screen Alignment (http://www.codefactory.es/downloads/mobile_speak_pocket/release/MSP_RemoteAlignment.zip) from this website (http://www.codefactory.es/mobile_speak_pocket/msp_downloads.htm). File is placed in the very bottom section of the site. If you want to use this program, I suggest to download User's Manual (http://www.codefactory.es/downloads/mobile_speak_pocket/Remote_ScreenAlignment_Manual.doc) placed below as well.

After installing this program on your computer, run it and chose one of the options. Program has few features that you might want to use in the futer. One that I used was SKIP, basicaly to avoid the Align Screen step after hard reset because my touch screen is broken.

Once again thank you BigDamHero for your help.

Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Tom

[brot]

hello there, also got cracked touchscreen on my mda vario (GERMAN!) 've tried to skip align screen with remote screen alignment - but doesnt work, i think becuz of german rom version (welcome.ink is called willkommen.ink in german, i think the app doesnt find the welcome.ink and i get an error). ive also tried installing pocket controller prof. but i cant install it becaus i need to get out of the align screen menu - but i cant do that. any1 got other ideas how to get rid of the ts align screen? thanks

regards

[unicorn78]

This page suggests some options

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?cat=143

Let us know if any of them work

Thanks
Lewis

I tried these programes but what can I do if my phone doesn´t have any working point on touch screen? So, I can´t pass the step "Tap the screen to set up..."
Thanks for your answer.

[unicorn78]

The problem is new ROMs didn't activate USB serial Sync Mode at beginning. Insteead of this is RNDIS Sync Mode or some other things. So, activesync wasn't activated.