Weird problem: Phone button launches Calendar - Treo Forum

rtstyk · 03-16-2007, 10:05 AM

The Phone button (left-most with the handset icon) is hardcoded in Prefs to launch 'Phone' application (that's the new application with tabs for Keypad, Favorites, Main, Contacts and Call Log).

The problem is that when I press this button I get Calendar application! WTF? I'm not able to change it anwywhere. I tried setting Button Prefs to default but to no avail.

One interesting thing is that when already in the Phone application, clicking on the Phone button actually puts me in the Favorites tab (which I chose as the default Phone application tab).

This is super-silly I know. Has anyone seen this? Is there a hard way of changing the button preferences? What else could be overriding the assignments?

alex_mathews · 03-16-2007, 10:30 AM

See if BtnFix from ShSh software fixes the problem. I'm not sure if it works on the 680, so you might want to double check with the developer.

bigcatny · 03-16-2007, 04:30 PM

I'd guess that a piece of software has hijacked the button functionality. What are you running? HAve you deleted anything recently? Perhaps a soft or hard reset might do the trick?

natasha · 03-17-2007, 10:57 AM

I was running 3-rd party software (Agendus) on my Treo and it caused exactly the problem you were describing. I contacted them and they sent me an updated version that took care of this probelm. On the Treo user guide, they do say that some 3rd party applications do this kind of stuff.

MarieC · 03-18-2007, 03:45 AM

I was having the same problem, but with the Calendar button : it would launch the phone application instead.
A soft-reset corrected the problem.
FWIW, I also use Agendus, but the latest version (11.1) which is compatible with the Treo 680.

rtstyk · 03-19-2007, 09:22 AM

BtnFix from ShSh software fixed the problem! Thanks Alex!

This highlights how small choices make a big splash. There are few things that combined onto this problem:
- Prefs normally in Palm never had anything 'hard-wired'. You could change the assignment of all buttons.
- The 'hard-wired' Phone application button probably didn't check if it was actually assigned to the Phone application but just assumed that it was.
or
- The 'hard-wired' Phone application button did check that it was assigned to Phone application but maybe it was in some table where Phone application name pointed to some other application.
- Because of either of the above, clicking 'Default' didn't really reasign Phone back to the Phone button because it appeared like it already was.

It's not a big deal but I if someone knows how the Prefs button assignment works I'd be interested to know.

03-16-2007, 10:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
rtstyk A Few Questions.... Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Weird problem: Phone button launches Calendar The Phone button (left-most with the handset icon) is hardcoded in Prefs to launch 'Phone' application (that's the new application with tabs for Keypad, Favorites, Main, Contacts and Call Log). The problem is that when I press this button I get Calendar application! WTF? I'm not able to change it anwywhere. I tried setting Button Prefs to default but to no avail. One interesting thing is that when already in the Phone application, clicking on the Phone button actually puts me in the Favorites tab (which I chose as the default Phone application tab). This is super-silly I know. Has anyone seen this? Is there a hard way of changing the button preferences? What else could be overriding the assignments?

03-16-2007, 10:30 AM	#2 (permalink)
alex_mathews Regular Contributer Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 120 Thanks: 0 Thanked 10 Times in 9 Posts	See if BtnFix from ShSh software fixes the problem. I'm not sure if it works on the 680, so you might want to double check with the developer. __________________ TreoBits (News, Internet Radio, Software/Hardware Store, Ringtones, Wallpaper, and more...)

03-18-2007, 03:45 AM	#5 (permalink)
MarieC A Few Questions.... Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Belgium My Treo: Treo 680 Posts: 15 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I was having the same problem, but with the Calendar button : it would launch the phone application instead. A soft-reset corrected the problem. FWIW, I also use Agendus, but the latest version (11.1) which is compatible with the Treo 680. __________________ PalmAttitude.org your n°1 french-speaking Palm resource on the web !

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03-16-2007, 04:30 PM	#3 (permalink)
bigcatny Regular Contributer Join Date: Dec 2006 My Treo: Treo 680 Posts: 118 Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	I'd guess that a piece of software has hijacked the button functionality. What are you running? HAve you deleted anything recently? Perhaps a soft or hard reset might do the trick?

03-17-2007, 10:57 AM	#4 (permalink)
natasha A Few Questions.... Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ottawa, Canada My Treo: Treo 680 Posts: 10 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I was running 3-rd party software (Agendus) on my Treo and it caused exactly the problem you were describing. I contacted them and they sent me an updated version that took care of this probelm. On the Treo user guide, they do say that some 3rd party applications do this kind of stuff.

03-19-2007, 09:22 AM	#6 (permalink)
rtstyk A Few Questions.... Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	BtnFix from ShSh software fixed the problem! Thanks Alex! This highlights how small choices make a big splash. There are few things that combined onto this problem: - Prefs normally in Palm never had anything 'hard-wired'. You could change the assignment of all buttons. - The 'hard-wired' Phone application button probably didn't check if it was actually assigned to the Phone application but just assumed that it was. or - The 'hard-wired' Phone application button did check that it was assigned to Phone application but maybe it was in some table where Phone application name pointed to some other application. - Because of either of the above, clicking 'Default' didn't really reasign Phone back to the Phone button because it appeared like it already was. It's not a big deal but I if someone knows how the Prefs button assignment works I'd be interested to know.