How to skip 'align screen' after ROM update

[kernelguy]

I am familiar with flashing ROMs. After flashing NBD 8.0, I managed to drop the phone to the ground just as the device was resetting. The touchscreen is cracked. I now can't get past the align screen program. Though the crack is at the bottom right of the screen, I have problems with the pointer on the top right; after some futile clicks there, at the best align screen starts from the beginning.

Obviously any number of resets doesn't help as the align screen is the first thing to come up.

Is there anything that I can do? It is not trivial for me to get the touch screen fixed in the next 10 days.

Edit: For once, I found the solution outside this forum. The solution was to somehow to get activesync work, and then use it to remove the welcome shortcut in windows\startup. This made the align screen program (and may be something else too) not appear during the initial bootup. Touchscreen is pretty much dysfunctional now; but I at least have the phone working.
kernelguy

[luiggi]

I found this some time ago, I never used it but you may want to give it a try.

[eifel.96]

I am familiar with flashing ROMs. After flashing NBD 8.0, I managed to drop the phone to the ground just as the device was resetting. The touchscreen is cracked. I now can't get past the align screen program. Though the crack is at the bottom right of the screen, I have problems with the pointer on the top right; after some futile clicks there, at the best align screen starts from the beginning.

Obviously any number of resets doesn't help as the align screen is the first thing to come up.

Is there anything that I can do? It is not trivial for me to get the touch screen fixed in the next 10 days.

Edit: For once, I found the solution outside this forum. The solution was to somehow to get activesync work, and then use it to remove the welcome shortcut in windows\startup. This made the align screen program (and may be something else too) not appear during the initial bootup. Touchscreen is pretty much dysfunctional now; but I at least have the phone working.
kernelguy

I have the same problem, and i have no idea to figure it out .... maybe it is only bug in NBD v8.0 for few devices .... so we could contact autor directly this version of ROM and ask him ... because i dont know ....

[piranha--]

I can confirm that the program works.


BUT the touch screen becomes unusable!!!!

Mine's broken :( so it won't make a diff.

[kernelguy]

My touchscreen had a crack only at the bottom. After skipping the 'align screen' during initial ROM load, I lived with a non-functional touch screen for a day or two. I then remembered the post from equinoxe that had registry settings for his phone. I took those settings and updated my registry. I now have a decent touch screen - at least the top 3/4 works fine.

The key and settings are:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData"="1922,1957 3330,639 3317,3276 600,3230 609,677 "

I could surmise that the screen is being treated as a square of 3900 x 3900 dots. 0,0 seems to be the top, right corner.

kernelguy

[Avatar28]

My touchscreen had a crack only at the bottom. After skipping the 'align screen' during initial ROM load, I lived with a non-functional touch screen for a day or two. I then remembered the post from equinoxe that had registry settings for his phone. I took those settings and updated my registry. I now have a decent touch screen - at least the top 3/4 works fine.

The key and settings are:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData"="1922,1957 3330,639 3317,3276 600,3230 609,677 "

I could surmise that the screen is being treated as a square of 3900 x 3900 dots. 0,0 seems to be the top, right corner.

kernelguy

I asked the same question awhile back and pretty much got no useful response. It's actually easy. All you have to do is to put a file in the root of your mini-sd card named welcome.not and the system will skip the alignment stuff (and presumably all that crap with moving the appt and stuff too).

[dincth13]

mate .... im using your advice to remove the windows shortcut on windows/startup .. but i cannot proceed ... a warning appeared after my attempt to delete the file :

-----------------------------------------------------
Error Deleting File

Cannot delete file Welcome : Access is denied .

Make sure your mobile device has sufficient memory, that the file is not set as read-only, and that you have permission to copy this file type .
-----------------------------------------------------

that is the exclamation .. is this because the file is a read only ?? how can i change the file permission ??

thx b 4 mate ...

[orangeworx]

mate .... im using your advice to remove the windows shortcut on windows/startup .. but i cannot proceed ... a warning appeared after my attempt to delete the file :

-----------------------------------------------------
Error Deleting File

Cannot delete file Welcome : Access is denied .

Make sure your mobile device has sufficient memory, that the file is not set as read-only, and that you have permission to copy this file type .
-----------------------------------------------------

that is the exclamation .. is this because the file is a read only ?? how can i change the file permission ??

thx b 4 mate ...

Same problem with me, even with the welcome.exe, so that's not gooing to cut... my next attempt is the registry tweak, i'll create the reg file and put it to SD, every time the alignment is messed up, re run the reg and soft reset

[orangeworx]

I've been toying with my k-jam trying to find a solution, i'm writing this as the process is being done.
So i installed and ran the remote remote screen alignment tool mentioned above (attached for simplicity) I only used the first option in the software (you'll see, you wouldn't need the other 2, unless you have working screen alignment)
At least, now I know that after a flash, the phone will work, the screen iffy but... we're in!

I'm trying the registry tweak now, looking for a registry editor for PPC.
OK. PHM RegEdit will do for now, installing
I'm using the regedit because i'm not sure what's the RegistryEditorVersion for WM6, hopefully PHM will lock the settings in
I've manually changed the calibrationdata numbers with great difficulty, soft reset and now the screen is beyond effed up... tapping start goes to calendar..
tapping calendar opens contacts...

Ok just for the sake of curiosity, checked regedit again to find another set of calibration numbers, re-entered the numbers from the post above. This time the numbers remained. No soft reset, just shut down the wizard and turned it back on.. i've regained much of the touch but now i believe it's the digitizer to blame.... will open up the wizard and keep u posted.

So as far as my experiences go for this, software-wise, definitely a success with the calib data given. hardware-wise to be determined..

HTH

Edit: can't attach the remote tool so here's the link
http://www.codefactory.es/descargas/family_1/product_3/MSP_RemoteAlignment.zip

[strazicic]

thank you so much, it worked with no problem...

[SJO3RD]

hehe
maybe i have a solution too
i had a broken screen too but still could enter my device by using SOTI

http://www.soti.net/default.asp?Cmd=Products&SubCmd=PCPro

after a while the battery drained and when i reconnected it it did a hard reset
i got stuck at the align screen too
but soti already installed on my device even it didnt setup yet
soti has this task manager and i fooled around with closing some threads, i dont know wich ones exactly
anyway i could pass the align screen that way

[adnan2001]

i have lg ks20 how to skip align screan

[KJM777.GP]

the welcome.not function works perfectley...
a blank note pad file saved as "welcome.not" change save as type from text document to all files, then i put it in the root of the sd card and the internel momory...

[mndgz]

to sum up:

to skip the align screen:
create a blank file with notepad and rename it to welcome.not
place it into root folder of the internal memory of your phone and soft reset
worked like a charm on touch pro

[capang9555]

My touchscreen had a crack only at the bottom. After skipping the 'align screen' during initial ROM load, I lived with a non-functional touch screen for a day or two. I then remembered the post from equinoxe that had registry settings for his phone. I took those settings and updated my registry. I now have a decent touch screen - at least the top 3/4 works fine.

The key and settings are:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData"="1922,1957 3330,639 3317,3276 600,3230 609,677 "

I could surmise that the screen is being treated as a square of 3900 x 3900 dots. 0,0 seems to be the top, right corner.

kernelguy
i have a problem with my wing i have a little crack... at the bottom. i skipped the screen part i red your message with the stats but i dont know how to put them onto my phone i know how to back them up but i dont know how to put the new one on.!!! please please i need help!!!!

[vizionforever]

having same problem on my titan, can someone tell how to place file and where? I know it is root but like windows folder or ? tried using ceRegEditor and could not drag the .not into the root dir there probably not the right root anyway but I am...sigh anyway I used the tool it is great and is here not here here but follow this linky http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355010

[mailforkrishna]

I tried the registry value but, no success.

Could someone provide Screen calibration data from properly aligned Wizard.

it can be found here
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData" =


Thanks

[RoryB]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData"="1903,1948 3181,636 3187,3240 607,3242 592,648"

[HiTach]

A little extra info on my Cingular 8125 device with Mfrazzz's Windows Mobile 6.0 ROM.

My original problem was no touch functionality in the top 1/5 of the screen.
I did a system hard reset and was stuck in the Align loop.
I used Windows 7 Mobile Device center to access the device.
I used the SD card welcome.not to bypass the Align, but the xy of the touch point was WAY off, perhaps 20% of screen.
I tried to edit the registry using the reg editor installed in the ROM but could not navigate well enough using the D-pad keys and hardware keyboard.
I installed CeRegEditor on my Win7x64 machine, connected using W7MDC and then connected with CeRegEditor. I edited the coordinates
I installed CeRegEditor and updated the key
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData"="1922,1957 3330,639 3317,3276 600,3230 609,677 "
The alignment was still way off and the Screen Alignment app would still get stuck.
Then I changed the MaxError key value from 16 to 4000.
Bingo! After a reboot the next alignment was accurate and I can now use the touch screen normally.
I believe the screen calibration error was outside the maximum causing the Align loop.

Post if you find this useful.
Good luck!

[nik1123]

A little extra info on my Cingular 8125 device with Mfrazzz's Windows Mobile 6.0 ROM.

My original problem was no touch functionality in the top 1/5 of the screen.
I did a system hard reset and was stuck in the Align loop.
I used Windows 7 Mobile Device center to access the device.
I used the SD card welcome.not to bypass the Align, but the xy of the touch point was WAY off, perhaps 20% of screen.
I tried to edit the registry using the reg editor installed in the ROM but could not navigate well enough using the D-pad keys and hardware keyboard.
I installed CeRegEditor on my Win7x64 machine, connected using W7MDC and then connected with CeRegEditor. I edited the coordinates
I installed CeRegEditor and updated the key
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData"="1922,1957 3330,639 3317,3276 600,3230 609,677 "
The alignment was still way off and the Screen Alignment app would still get stuck.
Then I changed the MaxError key value from 16 to 4000.
Bingo! After a reboot the next alignment was accurate and I can now use the touch screen normally.
I believe the screen calibration error was outside the maximum causing the Align loop.

Post if you find this useful.
Good luck!

WITH REFRENC TO IMATE ULTIMATE 9502

1 i have made the registry and then posted in the root dir of hardware..
2 i installed the remote screen alignment then pressed skip...
it said "no screen allignment information can be found for your device.the screen allignment will be done mannually . the screen allignment will be done manually" would u like to skip the welcome screen anyway ?
3 now wat i gotta do ?
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please any one help me !

[nik1123]

dude maxerror key worked nice yyu huuuuuuuuuhhhhhh

man u are rocking !

[GreatPsycho]

I tried every solution from this thread,but except of align screen and welcome not i found no hope. My digitizer still noit works. I can not touch anywhere. Any help?

[zango]

See this thread. Corollatercel has explained a method to skip screen alignment using there attached utility, which is useful especially after fresh OS install / hard reset.

While running this utility you need to put a text file containing calibration data (pick up from any relevant post for your device) and naming it with <your device id>.dat (e.g. KAIS120.dat for my kaiser device)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355010

Good luck! :)

[fergerr]

I asked the same question awhile back and pretty much got no useful response. It's actually easy. All you have to do is to put a file in the root of your mini-sd card named welcome.not and the system will skip the alignment stuff (and presumably all that crap with moving the appt and stuff too).

Hi Avatar28,

I saw that you answered to a thread on how to bypass the welcome screen when the touchscreen does not work on TYTN II phones.

I tried your welcome.not tip by naming a file like that on my m sd card but it's still not working.

Any tips?