Why don't Registry edits "stick"?

[msh441]

OK, I've recently "upgraded" to Verizon's 6.5/Sense 2.1 and I'm running into a reoccurring problem that I did not experience running 6.1/TouchFlo3D.

There are a TON of mods and regisry edits that just don't seem to stick when powering down, or soft resetting the device. I've particularly noticed this with notification light tweeks, memory edits (Dynamic Resourse Proxy edit), Opera edits (casche and tabs edits), and while trying to delete HTC start menu items etc.

I'm using Resco's File Explorer and Registry Editor and I'm fairly comfortable navigating and tweeking registry items or .xml file.

So what do I have to kill to get my phone to retain my work and behave how I want it to?

Please help!

[chas123]

See if you have CM Guardian in your windows folder.

Edit:
It may be called HTC CM Guadian. If you have it use DotFred's task manager and set it to manual.

1) open the task manager and navigate to services.
2) tap and hold HTC CM Guardian
3) from the menu tap set to manual
4) soft reset.

[Unknown Zone]

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=88014

Also try "CM_Killer" post1 it will tell you what it does....to sum it up it disables CM Guardian to allow changes in the reg to take place.

[rube77]

Originally Posted by chas123

See if you have CM Guardian in your windows folder.

Edit:
It may be called HTC CM Guadian. If you have it use DotFred's task manager and set it to manual.

1) open the task manager and navigate to services.
2) tap and hold HTC CM Guardian
3) from the menu tap set to manual
4) soft reset.

Originally Posted by Unknown Zone

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=88014

Also try "CM_Killer" post1 it will tell you what it does....to sum it up it disables CM Guardian to allow changes in the reg to take place.

I have tried both these methods and the reg has still come back for me...running vzw 6.5 upgrade. So if someone has another work around I would like to hear it please, or if one worked for you...maybe I need to retry one.

[[sammich]]

Are you soft-resetting immediately? Close the registry editor, press the power button, let your phone sit for a minute, wake it up then reset. It sometimes takes some time for regedits to sync with the system.

[rube77]

Originally Posted by ⌥ saumaun ☢

Are you soft-resetting immediately? Close the registry editor, press the power button, let your phone sit for a minute, wake it up then reset. It sometimes takes some time for regedits to sync with the system.

I know that I did...actually quite a few times. Each time I made sure the entry was at zero and that cmguardian in Dfred was set to manual, but on each reset my resproxy value would come back to its original set instead of zero.

[Unknown Zone]

when you installed "cm_killer" did you get the count down and a display that guardian had been killed or something to that effect?

[helix139]

The problem is NOT the CM Guardian service. That prevents making changes to your data connection, but not to other parts of the registry. There is a stealth program in here somewhere that is preventing any edits to certain registry values from sticking. Thank you HTC, apparently you know what is best for everyone and don't believe in user choice.

[msh441]

If anyone's interested, there's a way to edit/see hidden running programs that don't show up int he task manager (such as Opera, for instance):

HKCU\Software\HTC\TaskManager\ExclusiveList\System

That registry lists all the programs that will run, hidden in the background.

I deleted the Opera9.exe, so I can see when Opera is running in the background, and kill it when I need to via the stock programs manager... since there are times where I want Opera to hold a particular web bage or stay running while I work on somthing else, etc.

Maybe clues to the suspected hidden program is in there somewhere?

I installed the FDcSoft Task Manager and shut down the CM Guardian program. I haven't had any issues with registry edits not working since then. I should say, however, that I do not use the Dynamic Memory Proxy, since I don't feel like memory fluctuating between 55-75% over the course of the day under moderate use is too darn bad. I might try the edit manually, just to see if it sticks after a reset, and I'll report back.

[WBFAir]

msh441, have you been able to get the data connection to stay off by any chance?

If you haven’t tried that one may I beg of you to try it for me as I just spent the whole day yesterday doing my first flash with a MightyMikes 6.5 ROM and trying to keep it off but to no avail could I get it to stick so I then had to reinstall 6.1 and spent the whole day today rebuilding my system.

But as I didn’t try the FDcSoft Task Manager so now I wish I had but to do all of that again just to try would be a nightmare.

If you don’t know the Reg location I could give it to you but also a real easy way to do this would be to use the NoData program here http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/attachment...2&d=1263679674, which I got from a guy yesterday and tried it and it worked fine plus I’m currently using it on my 6.1 setup now without issues.

Basically you just run it, use it to disable your connections, possibly double check to be sure that data switch is off in your WM Comm Manager menu, soft reset and see if the connection stays disabled in NoData and the Comm Manager as well as by with no WiFi or Bluetooth on, being able to get any data info from places such as your browser or e-mail or Quick GPS and stuff like that.

If you could try this for me I would be eternally grateful as it would be a real nightmare for me to go through all that again only to fine out even with the FDcSoft Task Manager I still could not get that to happen.

Thanks a bunch.

p.s., if you care to read about it, you can read the thread on my attempts here: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=106600