Today Screen / battery, memory, etc

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"vvf" <novvfspam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> I just purchased an HP iPAQ hx4705 Pocket PC [it has Windows Mobile 2003
> SE.] Everything is great except that sometimes on the main screen (today
> screen) I loose the bar that has the battery icon, memory icon, and the
> other ones that come on that last bar on the screen as default. It's like
> that entire bar dissapears and then when I navigate to other menus and
come
> back to the main screen, the area allocated for the bar is not
"re-freshed"
> so I see the screen underneath through it... the weird thing is that if I
> click on where the battery icon would normally be, the battery screen
shows
> up... so it's like it is aware of the icons but it just doesn't draw
them...
> it doesn't always happen, but just occasionally.. the solution is a
> soft-reset... did any of you experience a problem like this? What could it
> be related to? I thought maybe it just doesn't have enough memory for the
> drawing, so I played w/ the memory settings, I stopped all programs
> running.. I tried everything and nothing fixed it.. just a soft reset.
> Thanks a lot!
>
>
>

Same happened here with a hx2750. To get it back without a
soft reset, go to Start>>Settings>>Today>>Items>>untick
the TodayPanel check box, close everything, then go through
the whole thing again and check it back on.

A soft reset is easier ;-)

I finally decided that the Today Panel simply does not play well
with the 2750, and I just turned it off permanently. My 2750 runs
better without it, and all the stuff it does can be done in other ways.