Hi,
since one week I’m the owner of a new mdaIII by t-mobile/austria.
I like it a lot, but I also have some problems with the usage of the device.
Now I’m searching for some advice of experts.
Turning on and off the mobile phone of the mdaIII by using the signal-strength-icon in the upper-right corner of the display is not very convenient, because you have to use the pen. With the finger it is often a problem, because sometimes I hit the volume-icon (on the right), sometimes the bluetooth-icon (on the left).
I'm searching for a possibility to switch on and off the mobile-phone by mapping it on an hardware-button. Is there a possibility (hidden feature or a software) to do this?
Thanx
Hans
there is a radiooff.exe (by HTC) that switches off the Himalaya GSM radio (not bluetooth!).
maybe that works for Blue Angels too.
If so, you can map that s/w to a button
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Hhere is a cab of the s/w i mentioned.
Just run it on your device to install
Its un-installable
You could use pocket zen phone to turn the radio on/off
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=6162&start=2650
but it can't change the bluetooth settings on the blue angel.
Thanxs a lot,
It works great.
Hans
On the XDA1, you can also press the red button (the one you use to end a call) for 3 seconds.
Does it not work any more on the MDAIII?
This works great on the PDA2k. Thank you so much for posting!
bdarras said:
On the XDA1, you can also press the red button (the one you use to end a call) for 3 seconds.
Does it not work any more on the MDAIII?
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No it doesn't work with the MDAIII. Unfortunately.
Hi all,
eDsuB, seems Radio on-off by HTC, as packaged by yourself is not fully working on the Blue Angel (i-Mate PDA2k)...
Pressing the button turns the flight mode on just fine, but pressing later on to switching the flight mode off again does not work, giving error message:
"Radio Problem
Problem. Try one more time or do soft-reset!
Retry / Cancel"
Only after a reset and taping with the stylus via the icon in the taskbar I can switch back off flight mode...
Pocket Zen Phone seems also not to work on the Blue Angel unfortunately.
Any other suggestions ?
cheers,
bins
The latest beta for PocketZenPhone does work on the Blue Angel.
Radio on-off has same behaviour on all supported devices.
It seems radio on-off is only useable to quickly switch the GSM radio off & on (ie to change your active sim when using a dual sim adapter). I saw that when I switched off the GSM using Radio on-off for a meeting, I got this same message saying to try again / soft-reset.
I also noticed I could simply use the into/outof flight mode function to get the GSM back on again.
BTW: radio on-off switches the GSM only. It is NOT the same as flight mode (in flight mode all radio's are off)
The red button method doesnt seem to work on my O2 xda 2.
Related
Is it possible to activate the loudspeaker on my Xda before choosing a telephone number?
Dial a number. Disconnect and tap onto the signal symbol in the title bar. Tap onto the disconnect telephone button and then immediately press the green button (accept telephone call) keeping it pressed until the note appears: The loudspeaker is activated.
The telephone then disconnects without establishing a connection. The information that the loudspeaker is activated remains.
Turn on the telephone. The loudspeaker is turned on instantly with each dialled number.
thats the info in their faq section but i dont understand???? what ive been trying to do is:
dial 4444....
hit the red button and then click the signal bar at the top of the screen
tap red button then hold green button down....
just doesnt do nothing :\ anyone know how to do this?
figured it out
right.......
phone loaded up as normal
dial any number and use the stylus to tap talk on the screen
then when connected use stylus to hit end on the screen
then quickly tap the signal bar and hit turn phone off or flight mode on
then quickly hold down the green BUTTON and speaker phone will turn itself on and the phone will turn off.
then just tap the signal bars again turn the phone part backon
there you go you now have h/f mode on all the time good for when driving
gaz
Yup, it works, a real convoluted way of doing things dont you think but something I have been trying to do for ages and finally gave up. Thanks
i wouldnt call it a propper way of doing it lol id call it more of a glitch in ppc lol but at least it works but you dont get no tones from keypad numbers if you turn them on and then so softreset they come abck on but h/s mode disapears......
but guess whats in my statup folder for some strange unknown reason a shortcut to handsfree.exe i click it it doesnt seem to do nothing but its just appeared in there for no reason.
ive searched windows directory and cannot see handsfree.exe so i linked to my pc to search found it i try copy it over from the ppc to my xp pc with show all files turned on but the icon just dissapears then i try copy it over again and it says do you want to overwrite this file so its on my pc but it just dont show up :\
it would be great if i could get this h/f thing into my startup lol so it comes on when turning the phone on
gazzaman2k said:
then quickly tap the signal bar and hit turn phone off or flight mode on
then quickly hold down the green BUTTON and speaker phone will turn itself on and the phone will turn off.
then just tap the signal bars again turn the phone part backon
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I can't believe O2 tells people to do this. Surely the effort of coding this small feature s less than the extra hassle of having your customers perform such 'dirty' workarounds.
There's some serious glitches in the support->coders communication pipeline for these devices, I tell you.
i totally agree
it would be nice if it done like......
when receiving a call and the screen pops up answer / reject
if it had aonother box option for like loudspeaker answer that would be cool
Maybe obtuse, but it works
On several occasions, I had fumbled fingered my PPC during a call and wound up with the H/S turned on semi-permanent. I never could figure out what I did. This is great info, but I agree, a nice little app would be a LOT better.
david
when u do this after turning the fone part back on hold the green button it goes off hold it again it comes back on if you tap the green button the telephone screen shows tis pretty cool but the device liek sounds low? till after the softreset
The other way round?
Having turned the XDA II off for a flight by powering down rather than putting on flight safe mode, all phone calls now are handsfree. How can I get it back to 'normal' mode?????
Driving me insane!!!
I have just purchased the above smartphone and am having trouble finding the answers to a few basic questions:-
1. How do you turn off the MDA? The manual tells you to hold power button down for 2 seconds but this does not work. Aslo tried holding down for various time ranges. T-Mobile support tells me that you have to take out the battery which seems unreal given the number of places mobiles are banned.
2. Can you use the MDA functions without the phone (e.g. MP3 Player or Organiser while on a plane)?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
Kind Regards
hut1
I believe these devices do not actually turn off. Holding down the power button puts the device in to standy mode.
There is feature called 'Flight Mode' (check it out in your manual); This is the feature you would switch off in 'no mobile phone areas'. The 'phone' side of the device will not operate when in this mode but the rest of the PDA functions will.
hut1 said:
1. How do you turn off the MDA? The manual tells you to hold power button down for 2 seconds but this does not work.
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You have to press the power button for a short time -> Just press and release..... This turns off the display. The phone part will still be working.
hut1 said:
T-Mobile support tells me that you have to take out the battery which seems unreal given the number of places mobiles are banned.
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In this case the MDA is completly off....
hut1 said:
2. Can you use the MDA functions without the phone (e.g. MP3 Player or Organiser while on a plane)?
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Yes you can. Therefor you´re able to turn of wireless communcations (Bluetooth and GSM) by activating flightmode....
HTH
Stefan
You can never fully turn off a PocketPC- if you do, it will lose its memory and wipe everything in memory (not storage card). This can only happen if you remove the battery or don't charge for a long time.
However, turning off the phone with the power button puts it in standby mode, it's still awake to respond to schedules/alarms/phonecalls etc, but otherwise it's not doing much.
To go to flight mode, click on the network icon next to the clock and choose flight mode.
V
First Time on this forum and what a swift response, thanks to all for your answers, I now have it sussed and faith is once more restored in my MDA
I flash the my hima with the TofClock 2.01a32WWE ROM, and it works fine, and I'm very glad with it.
But now, some time I turn off my hima by pressing the power button, the screen went black, after a while, I want to light it to operate, the hima keeping black, and the hima cannot operate any more, and I tried to call my phone(hima), the hima didn't ringing. Also, SMS, MMS, all function dead. But the same time, the 2 leds, Blue and Green/Red, flash like normal.
At this time, the only way to operate hima normally was soft-reset it by press the hole with my pen.
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
Is there someone experience this situation, and is there some way to solve the problem.
:idea: :idea:
ps: in the Settings --> System --> Power --> Advanced page, the 2 options can set "Turn off device if not used for" some minutes, when "turn off" time out, the same problem occurs like above, I called it Auto Turn Off
My device is Dopod 696 (Maybe Chinese mainland version of O2 XDA II).
:wink: :wink:
I also experienced similar problems, but with the 64 version.
After a while, when I tried to turn it back on, it began to act strange. First the automatic turn off backlight option was every time reset to 10 sec and then after a day or 2 I noticed that the screen was sometimes still showing some black lines. Changing the volume still gave the corresponding sounds, but nothing else seemed to work (or wasn't visible). Normal operating mode was only reinstated after a soft-reset.
I gave it a hard reset and restored a backup (using SPB). It's operating again, but it already contains the 10 sec change.
So probably have to start clean again and install everything from the beginning, but before I do I would like to make sure it will not happen again.
Appears like the Power Off option is screwed, no matter in which way I use it (button or a program).
Anyone have any thoughts on it?
zplei
yes, i have same problem on my O2 XDA ATOM
with last rom and other
I have the same problem too, the only ay to have it back is softreset
i was using spb to toggle display mode.
someone said can be solve by reegedit. but how to.
anyone found a solution..?
Hey all, I am having an issue with my Tilt locking up after it goes into sleep mode or stand-by mode. Not sure which one, but it happens when I'm on a call or when I soft-press the power button, to force stand-by mode. I already disabled the "Fast sleep" & "Sleep", but it sucks the battery like crazy. I want to leave that feature on, but after a call ends after the phone goes to sleep, all I get is a black screen, like it's in sleep mode. All buttons don't respond, including the "power" button, so all I can do it a soft-reset. One thing I figured is that when I lock it BEFORE it goes into sleep/stand-by mode, I can still access it if I need to by waking it up.
I don't want to do a hard-reset right now, for those who are thinking that, & it was working fine on my stock AT&T rom, but noticed it on Dutty's 6.1 rom and now, Sleuth's 3.03 rom. I was wondering if there was a way to program WM6.1 to lock the device before it goes into sleeps/stand-by mode. I installed MortScript, but have no idea how to attach that file to run BEFORE an automatic sleep mode, forced by WM6. Any help or suggestions would be great!!! Thanks!!
This is a well known issue with the Tilt/Kaiser. It particullarly affects devices when BT or WIFI is left on & unattended.
I have used both Dutty & Sleuths 6.1 ROMs on both my devices, a Tilt & a TYTNII, without this issue occuring.
It did occur on the stock ROM, but only when left to sleep while using WIFI, GPS or BT. This can especially happen if you mess with the power properties of the devie with KaiserTweak, etc.
I've searched for this one but can't find any mention of it...
I'm finally switching back to an o2 Serra / Touch Pro after they finally admitted to having some in stock again! (Not through sales channels though, and it took a five page letter complaining about their Customer Service!).
Anyway, over the last 3 months I've had to make do with an SE xPeria X1.
The one thing about the X1 (other than the WVGA screen) that I preferred with the X1 was that you could hit the power button to turn the screen off and ActiveSync (and therefore MyMobiler) would stay connected. Nice!
Is there any way to make the Touch Pro do the same?
Cheers,
FM
fatmonk said:
I've searched for this one but can't find any mention of it...
I'm finally switching back to an o2 Serra / Touch Pro after they finally admitted to having some in stock again! (Not through sales channels though, and it took a five page letter complaining about their Customer Service!).
Anyway, over the last 3 months I've had to make do with an SE xPeria X1.
The one thing about the X1 (other than the WVGA screen) that I preferred with the X1 was that you could hit the power button to turn the screen off and ActiveSync (and therefore MyMobiler) would stay connected. Nice!
Is there any way to make the Touch Pro do the same?
Cheers,
FM
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Find a program that only shuts the screen off like HandyMenu.
The power button puts the phone in standby.
I use Pocket controller to view the phone on my PC and use Haandy Menu to turn off the screen.
Is there much difference in power consumption between standby and just screen off?
What I'm thinking is, is it a good idea to change the function of the power button (I know there are tools to do that) to only switch off the screen in normal use as well or am I going to just make the short battery life more of an issue?
Cheers,
FM
I might have missed the point here, but why would you only want to turn the screen off in normal use?
I can understand not wanting the screen on (in line of sight) if its in a cradle syncing all day, but unless you're wanting to have programs running & working all day (gps mapping something i guess) i cant see any advantage.
Finally, i'm not sure if you can unmap the power button, you can almost certainly re-map it, but that may not remove the original function (i cant test today, mine's off for repair).
fatmonk said:
The one thing about the X1 (other than the WVGA screen) that I preferred with the X1 was that you could hit the power button to turn the screen off and ActiveSync (and therefore MyMobiler) would stay connected. Nice!
Is there any way to make the Touch Pro do the same?
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I've often wondered the same thing. My phone sits on ActiveSync all day at work with the screen un-necessarily on. There has to be a fix other than a paid application...
Essentially I'd like to replicate the power button function of the SE X1 on the Touch Pro.
The X1 seems to only power off the screen rather than going into standby - ie all apps keep running, bluetooth and wifi stay connected etc.
This means that when the phone is connected using MyMobiler or similar the screen can be off as I am displaying the screen contents on my PC screen.
Rather than having a seperate function to switch the screen off (I'm going to try EdgeWat PocketPC Utils for that), it would be nice if the power button could be mapped to just switch the screen off.
My concern is that if I swap the functionality of the power button (their do seem to be a few apps that allow you to re-assign the power button funtion) I won't just be using it this way when the phone is connected to a PC, I will ALWAYS be just switching the screen off. So, when I am out and about would doing this cause a big increase in battery drain?
-FM
And I would guess this functionality must be possible in software as it seem the Pandora client does it when you are running it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534319&page=7
-FM