Windows "Thinking" Animation

[ellistyle]

For some reason the "thinking/waiting" animation continues to pop up. Soft resents don't work. I have done a couple of hard resets to start from scratch. It just keeps coming on for 2 seconds and then disappears for about five.

Have you experienced anything similar? how do I fix it?

[Farsquidge]

For some reason the "thinking/waiting" animation continues to pop up. Soft resents don't work. I have done a couple of hard resets to start from scratch. It just keeps coming on for 2 seconds and then disappears for about five.

Have you experienced anything similar? how do I fix it?

We need to know what you actually mean.(soz to sound patronising but this is a world wide forum and I have only just got used to 'Tethering'...)

OK, I assume you mean the busy icon (rotating symbol like the hourglass from old windows).

Do you have any automatic mail checks or any other app's that require data access running in the background? (as they will not work without the following) do you have a working internet setup?

Let the guys know these things and someone here will surely help you...:)

[Prolab]

It seems like that pesky Activesync activating. Next time that happens, go look at your taskbar. Most likely its Activesync "activating".

Sometimes it happens too me a gazillion times a day. Sometimes it never happens at all. Still trying to figure that thing out.

[ellistyle]

To clarify, I am referring to the rotating red/green/yellow/blue circle. Here are the explicit details:

Unlocked TyTN II (ROM version 1.56.405.5)
3G At&T SIM I have a std voice plan and the unlimited media net internet plan
After the last hard reset I installed
Pocket Informant 2007
Memmaid
Resco Explorer
SPB Pocket Plus
I have a hotmail and gmail account setup to check the servers frequently, although that was the case before this started also.

The circle animation appears in flight mode also.

[Farsquidge]

The circle animation appears in flight mode also.


OH WOW....:rolleyes:

[smittyofdhs]

review your startup apps, use a file explorer and browse to /windows/startup. List for us what is starting up in there.

[ellistyle]

Unfortunately, i just isolated the cause of that friggin wait animation. I uninstalled SPB Plus 4 and now it is gone....Here is my new problem:

I love SPB Plus!!

What do I do now?

[smittyofdhs]

what options of PP4 did you have turned on. I use PP4 and that never happens so it's something in your config.

[Farsquidge]

Unfortunately, i just isolated the cause of that friggin wait animation. I uninstalled SPB Plus 4 and now it is gone....Here is my new problem:

I love SPB Plus!!

What do I do now?

Well you've grabbed smitty now who will sort ANY network prob out.. I'm off cause he blows me away in this area..:)

I'm just general stuff and GPS so I know when I am not wanted..SOB! BIG SMILES...;)

[ellistyle]

I had all of the options ticked in PP4. I guess the most important to me is the today plugin and the x close app. I will reinstall those and leave everything else out and see what happens.

This kind of sucks.

[smittyofdhs]

hmmm... after reinstall PP4, try this:

First, check the options you want and see if the same things happens. If it's not doing it, then maybe it was a bad reg entry on install.

if it's still doing it, then go to settings > system > task manager and make sure everything is unchecked.

My thought process on this is maybe you have the Close button from PP4 and the built-in task manager trying to compete.

Let us know...

[ellistyle]

i installed the Today Plugin, Close Button, Taskbar Battery Indicator and PIE Enhancements. It looks like smittyofdhs saved the day.

Thanks a lot, guys.

[smittyofdhs]

i installed the Today Plugin, Close Button, Taskbar Battery Indicator and PIE Enhancements. It looks like smittyofdhs saved the day.

Thanks a lot, guys.

was it just a reinstall that fixed it or did you do something more? It helps to list out what steps you took to fix the problem, for the sake of future users of this forum

glad to hear it's working again.... :)

[ellistyle]

As simply an enthusiast, not an expert, I am guessing that your advice was the solution. I don't think the reinstall by itself resolved it.

I would say that the original issue stemmed from conflict between the built in HTC task manager and the PP4 x-button.

I uninstalled pp4. Before reinstalling I disabled all function of the HTC task manager. Then I reinstalled only the PP4 today plugin, battery meter, x-button and PIE stuff.

When I have more time, I will uninstall pp4 and reinstall all of the pp4 components as i believe that the issue is isolated as described above.

Thanks again. you saved Christmas.

[smittyofdhs]

As simply an enthusiast, not an expert, I am guessing that your advice was the solution. I don't think the reinstall by itself resolved it.

I would say that the original issue stemmed from conflict between the built in HTC task manager and the PP4 x-button.

I uninstalled pp4. Before reinstalling I disabled all function of the HTC task manager. Then I reinstalled only the PP4 today plugin, battery meter, x-button and PIE stuff.

When I have more time, I will uninstall pp4 and reinstall all of the pp4 components as i believe that the issue is isolated as described above.

Thanks again. you saved Christmas.


cool, glad it was something simple. As soon as you said you had the PP4 close button turned on I figured that was the direction to pursue.

Glad to hear your christmas is saved... Have a good one! :)

[cfchong]

cool, glad it was something simple. As soon as you said you had the PP4 close button turned on I figured that was the direction to pursue.

Glad to hear your christmas is saved... Have a good one! :)

Hi Smitty,

I don't think it is the PP4 close button as I have also encountered the problem after installing version 4.0.2. I have always disabled the close button and battery indicator of PP4 as I used WKTask (http://soft.photoracer.net/docs/wktask_en.html) and pwrstat (http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/pwrstat.shtml) respectively.

As the busy indicator only showed on the Today screen and I have only 3 plugins activated (PP4, HTC Home and Calendar), I disabled the plugins one by one and found that PP4 is the one causing the problem.

Checking the options of PP4, I disabled the "Refresh icons in today plug-in when storage card is inserted." option. The problem disappeared. However, when I enabled back the option, I was unable to simulate back the problem.

Until now, I still have that option on but the problem has not manifest again.

[smittyofdhs]

Hi Smitty,

I don't think it is the PP4 close button as I have also encountered the problem after installing version 4.0.2. I have always disabled the close button and battery indicator of PP4 as I used WKTask (http://soft.photoracer.net/docs/wktask_en.html) and pwrstat (http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/pwrstat.shtml) respectively.

As the busy indicator only showed on the Today screen and I have only 3 plugins activated (PP4, HTC Home and Calendar), I disabled the plugins one by one and found that PP4 is the one causing the problem.

Checking the options of PP4, I disabled the "Refresh icons in today plug-in when storage card is inserted." option. The problem disappeared. However, when I enabled back the option, I was unable to simulate back the problem.

Until now, I still have that option on but the problem has not manifest again.

glad you fixed your own issue. In ellistyle's case, my solution helped him. Maybe they are 2 different issues caused by the same app. Either way, everyone is happy with their fix.