Original Keyboard comes up with phone pad is selected

[ceanth]

Hi all, has anyone had any problems with phone pad when you select it the original keyboard comes up :confused: :confused:

Its driving me crazy!

[triplejay]

search around this has been discussed here before somewhere...can't remember where! :D
I think it might be to do with memory (lack of)... have you changed the page pool size?
Maybe you have apps running in startup?
if you have something like "SPB pocket plus" installed, you could try loading Windows in "safe mode" and see if it lets you choose the phone pad then...

<edit> removed my other edit as per post below

[zeroed]

search around this has been discussed here before somewhere...can't remember where! :D
I think it might be to do with memory (lack of)... have you changed the page pool size?
Maybe you have apps running in startup?
if you have something like "SPB pocket plus" installed, you could try loading Windows in "safe mode" and see if it lets you choose the phone pad then...

<edit> ha, just clicked on your username. Why don't you try the 12mbPP version, or change your PP to 12 with the tool....

hahahh,you are killing me :) i have problem with 8mb pool size version :)))

[ceanth]

ok this is weird!


I have been playing about and i tried the following:

1. turn on flight mode
2. reboot
3. wait until the backlight turns off
4. change the input method


This (for some odd reason) worked! But i have a funny feeling its totally random :confused:

What advantages are there of the 12mb pp? I was always under the impression that the lower it was the better (in terms of memory)

[ceanth]

ok this is weird!


I have been playing about and i tried the following:

1. turn on flight mode
2. reboot
3. wait until the backlight turns off
4. change the input method


This (for some odd reason) worked! But i have a funny feeling its totally random :confused:

What advantages are there of the 12mb pp? I was always under the impression that the lower it was the better (in terms of memory)


Just done this trick of mine and its not working :confused:

Shouldnt have rebooted the phone :rolleyes:

[ceanth]

changing pool size didnt work (cause my phone to hang for some reason)


The only solution i found which worked is this:


http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1662514#post1662514


:D :D :D

[triplejay]

good that u got it sorted...I guess if you load as "default" it will load the phone pad into ram instead of the standard keyboard thus saving some memory :)

Why don't you try the 12mbPP version, or change your PP to 12 with the tool....

hmm i posted that? whoops. Ok, I wasn't sober. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.

y'know, i used to know this stuff, How did I manage to get things so confused...

i can't find the links to the msdn developer blogs where it's all explained nicely :mad:
(and that search button is just saying "come and trawl through 1000 noob posts" lol)
so now I'm confusing myself :confused:

Deep in the depths of the operating system of your device, there is something called the 'PagePool'. Without going into too much detail (and as I understand it!), the PagePool is a special area of memory reserved for loading apps into from ROM. This PagePool is a lot faster than ROM, so when things are executed from this 'cache' instead, the performance of a device will be quicker. On the flipside, if you have a 8MB pagepool (HTC Touch) and you're using, say, 4MB of the pagepool, then 4MB of space is wasted that could be program memory. Similarly if you have a 12MB pagepool (!) (T-Mobile Wing) in this instance you would we wasting 8MB of space!

from http://www.modaco.com/content/Daily/256280/Pauls-guide-to-changing-the-HTC-Touch-T-Mobile-Wing-PagePool-size/

so I'm not even sure about anything anymore, but at this point I think that zerod is correctly indicating that I gave you the wrong information regarding page pool, and that 12MB will give you less free memory and less likelihood of running phonepad?....
so...I'm gonna go ahead and edit out that recommendation, as people all over the web view xda as a goldmine for WM info, and there's no point in leaving bad info for them....

and if anyone wants to elaborate on page pool, or leave some links here...please do