Homescreen problem - certain screens just stopped working

[Guest beavis82]

Hey,

When making Homescreens, I've discovered a strange problem. When making a homescreen with either the 'Missed Calls' or 'Call In Progress' details, the homescreen doesn't show up in the list of screens within settings. If I take these functions out of the XML file, the homescreen shows up in the list correctly. The strange thing is - it used to work! It stopped showing my homescreens with Missed Calls and Call In Progress information built in all of a sudden last night.

The default Orange homescreens that display such information do show in the list however, and they work correctly.

Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers

Si

[Guest madu]

Maybe a single missed character in XML file?? Usually that f**** it up.. Open XML in IE for viewing - it will point out sections with errors

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Yep, one wrong character will stop the phone from identifing the entire home screen (I missed a ' " ' once :/).

Check and double check everything is present and correct.

[Guest beavis82]

Cheers for the tip - that sorted it out! :) There were some foreign language words in the XML files that contained 'illegal' characters - Internet Explorer pointed them out. They were always in the files, so I don't know why it worked for a while and then suddenly stopped. Interestingly, when I opened the default Orange homescreens in Internet Explorer it pointed out that they also contained illegal characters, yet they still work on the phone :roll: ah well, yet another quirk on a quirky phone!

The SPV is definately a female phone - irrational and it makes no sense! Maybe it's my phone's time of the month? ;) *

*no offence intended

S

[Guest Richie M]

Beavis, some characters the Internet Explorer say are illegal are perfectly valid in XML :roll:

For example and ASCII space, is valid in a text tag but IE will complain about.