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New Messageturning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) zhensel
Does anyone know an easy way to turn off the sound played when to tap the touch screen? Even if I mute the audio (through the registry - Current_User->ControlPanel->Volume), it still makes an audible click. I want to bring this thing into school and play chess/tetris while feigning taking notes, so I need help :)
02-27-2001 14:26:52

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) Yuloo
I had to change the screen registry key to 0 with tascal regedit, then had to do a soft reset before it worked. After that, no sound.
02-27-2001 15:45:49

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) zhensel
Where is the screen registry key? I searched every key, but didn't see any obviously named ones.
02-27-2001 16:38:42

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) Zonyl
Non technical solution:

Buy a headphone jack (98 cents) from Radio Shack and stick it in the headphone port (That will turn off the speaker amp and no sound will get out at all)

02-28-2001 16:27:49

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) nukem
I run the control panel Ezex.exe that came on the pod and select Audio mute enable. Then I just have to toggle the power using the suspend button.
To enable the sound you don't have to toggle power

Still looking for sometning that just turns off the key click

02-28-2001 19:09:34

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) zhensel
Yeah, all I really need to turn the click off for is to take notes in class (or play games in class :) ) - it would be nice to get rid of it all together since it serves a pretty useless purpose (knowing if your click registered or not), but it's not a big deal. I suppose there is a wav file that I could delete or fill in with an empty wav, but whatever.
02-28-2001 19:17:53

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) Ionizer
zhensel, we meet again!

yeah i would too like to know if anyone has figured out how to get rid of the clicking
sure i stuck a headphone in, but that makes it clumsy and defeats thewhole purpose of an epod

so if anyone knows of a software way of getting rid of it, let us know!
-Ionizer

03-07-2001 21:16:16

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) zhensel
I've just gotten used to opening ezex and muting the sound when I'm taking notes or something. Not ideal, but good enough. I've found that I have the run the program every time I change the room I'm in anyway as the lighting changes enough to require a contrast/brightness switch. Especially with flourescently lit rooms (I've also found it can work in sunlight as long as the angle stays pretty constant and you adjust it right.)
03-07-2001 22:40:46

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) Courier5
All you have to do is go into registry under volume and change the screen key from 1 to 0, I think the key is local machine©ontrol panel\volume\ Then do a soft reset and the click noise does not return after a suspend.

I do not have the pods in front of me right now, so I'll check tonight for the actual key.

03-08-2001 11:54:28

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) JoeFloyd
The key is

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/ControlPanel/Volume/Volume

This key set the current overall volume of the device. Setting this value to 0 will make the click very quiet, but is does not eliminate it.

However,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/ControlPanel/Volume/Screen does control the click. Set this to 0 and the click will not be made, but all other sounds will still be at current volume level.

03-08-2001 13:57:31

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) zhensel
Thanks... Yuloo alluded to the screen reg key, but after a quick (apparently too quick) search I couldn't find it and gave up. I'll try that tonight.
03-08-2001 16:48:47

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) Zonyl
Part of the "Click" is a sound being generated from the Wave device and part of it is being generated by the audio amp turning on to play that . If you set volume down to 0 you will still here the pop from the amp. EZEX auto-mute disables the audio amp through whatever special purpose GPIO on the machine and probably wouldnt be settable in the registry under standard WinCE options. Might want to search for EZEX registry keys.
03-09-2001 06:52:53

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) zhensel
To conclude this overly confusing thread (for such a simple problem), JoeFloyd's suggestion works just fine. To summarize:

1) Open up Tascal Registry Editor and change "HKEY_CURRENT_USER/ControlPanel/Volume/Screen" to "0"
2) Soft Reset the machine by pushing the black button on the back with the stylus
3) Enjoy the audio benefits of a click-free environment

There may be a different solution for epods without either of the software hacks applied, but AFAIK this should always work. If you don't have one of the hacks, you will have to install Tascal - see www.geocities.com/epodsfiles

Also, if you want to mute the sound all together, you are best to use ezex (start->programs->utilities->ezex w/ hack) and turn on audio mute. That will get rid of the click and everything else.

03-12-2001 20:37:36

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) MISMan
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Excuse me for my dense nature, but let me clarify: You CAN get rid of the annying click AND keep normal audio? If this is true, I nominate it for addition to the shell.
03-12-2001 22:15:09

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) MISMan
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Can anyone confirm this is true, no click but keep audio.

THanks.

03-15-2001 19:36:43

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) Perplexer
Confirmed. I just made the registry change and am enjoying click-free audio.
03-15-2001 22:03:00

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) OXXH
Well, I tried to change the screen registry to 0 and after a soft reset the click sound won't go away. One thought, I am using hack 1.02.
03-17-2001 11:15:45

New MessageRE:turning off the clicking noise... (modified 0 times) zhensel
Yep, it seems to be working. There might be some people who want the click though, so perhaps it would be best to just include these instructions with the mouse-pointer-removal instructions on the software page. If anyone is up to some winCE programming, maybe we could make an extended epods configurator program. It'd be pretty simple - just have a program where you pick the options you want - mouse pointer, click, screen color depth, etc and it outputs a text file that can be imported into the registry. You could even make a batch program that would import it for you, then run the sreset.exe and have you up and running. I don't know if it is possible to import a registry file like in the desktop registry releases, so maybe this would be difficult. You could also include the regular ezex and control panel configuration options as well and make an all-in-one epods configuration utility.

OXXH: try changing the registry and doing another soft reset. I suppose it could be an issue with the v1 hack vs. the v2, but it really shouldn't matter. As far as I can tell it should work with the virgin epods registry as well.

03-17-2001 14:55:34

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