Once you flash a new rom on your Windows Mobile device or Hard Reset it, you have to go through all the steps of setting up date which is already configured itself, copy & paste a text which isn’t necessary, to password protect your device which many of us just skip. There is also an screen alignment which requires you to tap on five spots as specified by the pointer, which is meant to calibrate your screen but it isn’t necessary either so you can bypass it. It becames an issue sometimes as when you lost your stylus, its becomes difficult for some users to tap precisly on the spots & the alignment screen just keeps on cycling the same process.
Here is a trick to bypass the alignment screen
Create a blank text file called “welcome.not” instead of “welcome.not.txt” and place it in the root of your storage card. Next, flash a new rom or hard reset and you’re done. It’s up to you whether you leave your SD in during flash, I do. If you do not, after the rom flash, stick your SD in and hard reset. If all goes to plan, the “welcome” phase will be bypassed, any you will not be prompted to align the screen or set the date, location, time etc. If for some reason it does not, go into the root of your SD and manually or via activesync on your desktop create a new blank file in there and name it welcome.not. That actually worked for me. If it works then leave it in the root of your SD and it will allow the bypass with each new flash or hard reset.
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