I have a few questions, and I'm sure the answers are here somewhere but filtering through these forums is rather daunting, so I hope you'll suffer a fw questions.
After installing WM6, there's no t9 input language. So there are seperate cabs for each language, but it seems that if I install 2 cabs, it overwrites the first language and I'm left with only one (the last) language installed.
How do I get to languages for input, like English and Spanish?
Just to clarify, I'm using andot's perfect wm6 ROM.
If I copy my contacts off my SIM, is this data going to be stored on my SD or in the memory?
Similar question for documents, temp files and ringtones. How do I keep all of this off the ROM/RAM?
Hardware Questions:
I found one copy of the i-mate PDF manual for this device, which turned out to be exactly like the paper copy I already had for Qtek.
Oddly, there's no picture of the device itself with arrows pointing at all the buttons, bells and whistles.
The jack on the bottom of the phone, is that 2.5mm? Is it just for hands free, or can it use a stereo headset for music?
The tiny hole right by that... is that for a hard reset?
WTF is the little slot-like gap in the top of the phone between the power button and the windows logo?
What do you call the internet and media player control buttons and is there an app to reasign them?
There are 3 led light holes on the face, what do they signal?
Install a T9 wich you can find in the extras.zip in phils BETA-thread. That will enable input.
The jack on the bottom is 2,5mm. You can buy 2,5 ->3,5mm adapter, or a headset with 2,5mm. Yes stereo hp is supported.
Tiny hole next to that is prolly a mic.
Slot-like? I'm not sure, but can imagine it's for use in a car. There is a button-fix in the before-mentioned extras.zip.
The green LED blinks to show that you have coverage. Blue LED for bluetooth, and the third blinks when wifi is activated. When charging your phone, one LED turns red.
Exitao said:
I have a few questions, and I'm sure the answers are here somewhere but filtering through these forums is rather daunting, so I hope you'll suffer a fw questions.
After installing WM6, there's no t9 input language. So there are seperate cabs for each language, but it seems that if I install 2 cabs, it overwrites the first language and I'm left with only one (the last) language installed.
How do I get to languages for input, like English and Spanish?
Just to clarify, I'm using andot's perfect wm6 ROM.
If I copy my contacts off my SIM, is this data going to be stored on my SD or in the memory?
Similar question for documents, temp files and ringtones. How do I keep all of this off the ROM/RAM?
Hardware Questions:
I found one copy of the i-mate PDF manual for this device, which turned out to be exactly like the paper copy I already had for Qtek.
Oddly, there's no picture of the device itself with arrows pointing at all the buttons, bells and whistles.
The jack on the bottom of the phone, is that 2.5mm? Is it just for hands free, or can it use a stereo headset for music?
The tiny hole right by that... is that for a hard reset?
WTF is the little slot-like gap in the top of the phone between the power button and the windows logo?
What do you call the internet and media player control buttons and is there an app to reasign them?
There are 3 led light holes on the face, what do they signal?
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2.5mm, any other 2.5mm headphone can be used
There isnt any hard reset button for that phone, to hard reset, you either use the software or press the two soft key and on the phone
The 3 LED light holes? I think you mean the top there
There are 5 holes, the left most one is for power status, yellow for normal, orange for charging, red for low power, the right most hole is for connectivity, yellow for WiFi, blue for BT, the 3 in the middle is simply the earpiece, while the hole above is the loudspeaker
Thanks for the replies guys! Just a few clarification questions and a bit of repeating things back to ensure I have it correct.
In regards to the language thing:
I did find the Extras.zip and did use the "English xT9.cab", but this only gives me one language input option when I hold down the * key. If I install a Spanish T9 after the English T9, I only get the Spanish language option when inputting text. I want them both... Is there any place to get the full western language(s) WM5 T9 cab?
Audio Jack:
It's good to hear that the jack is stereo. So I could get a set of stereo headphones/handsfree combo for music. Now I just have to wait for someone to hack support for bigger than 2gb of miniSD (I know there are some that still work, but the newer ones are faster...)
So, onto the lights:
To be clear, I'm not talking about the LCD display, just the lights in the hardware fascia.
Top Left
blinks green for GSM service
solid amber when connected to USB charger/PC
Top Right
blinks green for WiFi
blinks green for WiFi
Centre Bottom (under the "0+" key)
I've seen it lit when the keypad was lit for bootloader. I don't know when else it lights up
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The T-Mobile quickstart guide says that middle bottom one is the mic, which makes no sense as mine is filled with that plastic like the other LED lights. More likely the mic is the hole between the headphone jack and the pound (#) key .
The slot-like opening on the top back of the phone is the ringer/loud-speaker.
Along the narrow outer side of the phone, going clock-wise, we have 3 buttons:
volume toggle
comm manager
power/quicklist key
camera button
So the left and right-most buttons on the Start/Home row of buttons under the LCD are the "soft keys."
On the face above the standard numeric keypad and beneath the LCD, from top to bottom:
Start, Home, Back, Contacts/Menu/Context
Internet, Rewind, FF and Play/Pause
Extended press of Start key does nothing.
Extended press of Home starts Celetask (what would it start if no Celetask, and how would I configure it?)
Extended press of Back key does nothing.
Extended press of Contacts key does nothing.
Extended press of ie and windows media buttons do nothing, when not playing media, all 3 media buttons do nothing except start windows media player (and because these buttons are bigger than the more useful row above, windows media player starts a lot).
Is there more configurability for changing purpose of Media buttons when at Home screen or there is no Media context?
Is there any more configurability for adding extra extended key-press function for home/start row keys?
The "button fix" cab is to do what? Just make the buttons work properly with WM6, or to allow reassignment?
There's no way to disable all function (i.e. backlighting) of thumbstick while phone is locked?
I guess this is more of a WM6 question, but this type of smart phone doesn't use the Today screen with tabs?
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I'm actually a little surprised that there's no diagramming anywhere of button functions and that most binaries released don't have NFO files or that there's no list of what these standard files everybody downloads do. There's a couple nice lists of files to download, with some reference links, but a lack of information about their purposes.
That's why I was hoping that somewhere there was a Quick Start guide for the phone. Actually, I just found T-Mobile's here (clicky)
What's really stupid is that every other provider/reseller than T-Mobile of this handset makes you sign up for a "club" to access these PDFs and if your IMEI or serial number isn't in their database, you can't join the club.
Again guys, thanks for the info and I look forward to being able to contribute in the future.
I think they have to make you sign up for a club because it contains the ROM upgrade and the ROM are licensed, hence they just can't publish it publicly. Same reason why the ROM archive in xda-devs was told to be taken down months back ( but we dont give a damn )
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I think they have to make you sign up for a club because it contains the ROM upgrade and the ROM are licensed, hence they just can't publish it publicly. Same reason why the ROM archive in xda-devs was told to be taken down months back ( but we dont give a damn )
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I applaud that. I really hope they can't do anything against you.
I still have a few hanging questions.
I read somewhere about the Bluetooth stereo needing a registry hack. Does the hardware audiohone jack also require a hack? Is it proper stereo or joint stereo?
I'm still interested in changing functions of media buttons and adding extended keypress function to otther buttons like Celetask uses with the Home key.
Exitao said:
Centre Bottom (under the "0+" key)
I've seen it lit when the keypad was lit for bootloader. I don't know when else it lights up
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The T-Mobile quickstart guide says that middle bottom one is the mic, which makes no sense as mine is filled with that plastic like the other LED lights. More likely the mic is the hole between the headphone jack and the pound (#) key .
The slot-like opening on the top back of the phone is the ringer/loud-speaker.
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that's the light sensor.
and about the xt9 thing i think in smartphone general forum it's a sticky topic about this. now i write from mobile and don't have the mood to 'research' :-D
DSF said:
that's the light sensor.
and about the xt9 thing i think in smartphone general forum it's a sticky topic about this. now i write from mobile and don't have the mood to 'research' :-D
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The files there are for Vox and Xcalibur (sp?), do they work for Tornado too?
I found my answer to the English Spanish question here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=271641&highlight=t9+spanish+english
* Extract T9SpanishLdb.dll and T9ImeRes.Dll040a.mui from t9_tornado.rar to \Windows
* [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\T9 Input Method\LDBs], add string value '040a' with data 'T9SpanishLdb.dll'
* [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\T9 Input Method\MUI\Languages], add '040a' to the list of 'Available', so the data will be '0409,040a' (or whatever your phone uses.. just add the one for the language you're installing)
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Any updates on re-mapping the media buttons? I would love to re-assign these keys to Messaging and other apps I use frequently.
On my Samsung Blackjack, there is actually a function in the Windows Mobile Settings called "Buttons", which allows me to reassign the buttons to pretty much anything. Does anyone know if there is a small app or something that could do this on my SDA (I have upgraded it to WM6 using the posted sticky instructions - thanks you guys, awesome work!)
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Any updates on re-mapping the media buttons? I would love to re-assign these keys to Messaging and other apps I use frequently.
On my Samsung Blackjack, there is actually a function in the Windows Mobile Settings called "Buttons", which allows me to reassign the buttons to pretty much anything. Does anyone know if there is a small app or something that could do this on my SDA (I have upgraded it to WM6 using the posted sticky instructions - thanks you guys, awesome work!)
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I don't know anything yet and no one has answered here.
The buttons are pretty stoopid. I didn't buy this phone for mulitmedia. I bought it for productivity apps. And these media buttons are so big that it's hard to miss them when using softkeys.
So until someone gives an answer, I guess we have to find our own answers and there's a bit of a learning curve for me.
I think I found it - check out post #4 in this HowardForums thread:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=865189
These exact instructions worked for me on my SDA running WM6 Perfect English Edition. I changed the last button to go to Messaging (tmail.exe).
Exitao said:
I found my answer to the English Spanish question here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=271641&highlight=t9+spanish+english
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This wasn't the full answer to my question.
There's also a reg key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\T9 Input Method\Settings] Options
Changing the d-word value to 1033 (00000409 should work too) from 00003317 is what gave me my language settings back.
It took a bit of looking to find out what 00003317 was. 3317 is a ghost script name for a Chinese simplified font, as far as I can tell.
The one thing you'll notice as you look at that string is that key shares that string with a another dword entry, "chinese pinyin."
As I don't read or speak putonghua, or any hua, I thought it might be nice to delete this key. But it just keeps turning up over nad over, like a bad penny.
there's another string elsewhere:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH] Which could probably be safely removed from the ROM.
I wonder if we collected a list of all useless registry entries and had someone remove them from a future ROM, how much space could we save?
bigern79 said:
I think I found it - check out post #4 in this HowardForums thread:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=865189
These exact instructions worked for me on my SDA running WM6 Perfect English Edition. I changed the last button to go to Messaging (tmail.exe).
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Yes, you did find it. Yay!
Short_AP1
Short_AP2
Short_AP3
Short_AP4
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The files are in the Windows directory and they're just shortcuts. Easy to edit.
Just make sure that you use the button fix if your upgrade mod requires it, otherwise those shortcuts don't exist.
We'll also have to find out if it interferes with media player when it's the active app/window.
Hi all,
After a phone call i often see that a lot of programms has been launched accidentally due to the contact between my ear and the touch screen.
does anyone have a tip to automatically lock the touch screen during a phone call ?
benjb said:
Hi all,
After a phone call i often see that a lot of programms has been launched accidentally due to the contact between my ear and the touch screen.
does anyone have a tip to automatically lock the touch screen during a phone call ?
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Lol, my ear once accepted another incoming call from this girl that I was avoiding for ages... and I didn't even realise I was talking to her, thought it was my other mate.
MrSmith22 said:
Lol, my ear once accepted another incoming call from this girl that I was avoiding for ages... and I didn't even realise I was talking to her, thought it was my other mate.
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Ouch!
If i'm not wrong, S2U2 can turn display off during a call. Great software!
I've tried two progs more: PhoneScreenLock and InesoftAddressBook.
Inesoft provide many features including display switch off during a call.
Phonescreenlock keep the display on showing info about the call, locking the screen.. but with long conversation you may frie your ear
Bye
KK
Any updates on this one please? I have the same problem with running gazillion apps on my Polaris with my ear in call as benjb did.
Tried PhoneScreenLock - did not work well for me because its buggy (the lock screen pretty often appears somewhere BELOW the in-call buttons or start menu and needs to be switched to via closing in-call screen, which obviously renders it useless).
The InesoftAddressBook is not an option either, cause I already have other address book app and would like to stick with it (BTW my current address book has "slide-to-pick-up-call" feature, which makes me afraid that it would conflict with S2U2).
Sadly the Polaris doesn't have motion or light sensor... It would make my life sooooo easier with ZuinigeRijder's TouchLockPro...
So any ideas on what else I could use please? Thanks!
two things...
1) Are you aware that after you answer/make a call but before you put the phone up to your ear you can press the power button (not press & hold, just press & release) which will turn off the display, but not disconnect your call (or, turn off your phone)? No stray on-screen button pushing this way! With the screen off the "end call/hang up" button still functions and when you press it the screen will come back on immediately. If you need to access your address book or make a note etc during a call, press & release the power button and it will turn the screen back on and not effect your call in any way. If your phone is set up like mine and it returns to the home screen each time the screen is turned on, then simply press the green phone button and the dialer comes back to the top.
2) If #1 doesn't do it for you and you need software to accomplish this, then search this forum for MissedCallReminder (just like that - no spaces). Besides having an option to "lock screen on connect" it has a very handy feature (the main feature actually, as the name indicates) of being able to set up repeat reminders for missed calls and missed sms messages. Very handy. It can be setup to run automatically at startup so you don't have to remember to start it up manually. It also automatically unlocks the screen when you end your call.
Turned out I had bookmarked the app, so here's a link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=441593
So, here's my situation:
After I go to the gym, I like to go to the hot tub. That's simple. What I do is put my Mogul in my backpack and play music through my HT820 Motorola headphones. Also easy. Problem is: I have shuffle through my WHOLE collection of music on my storage card to get anywhere, which can take minutes sometimes. Enter MSVC.
This seemed like the best thing for my needs, the only problem is that it requires hitting the blasted Voice Command button on the phone in order for it to do anything. Which, in my case, is not exactly possible (As the steam would probably degrade/destroy my phone). So, I was wondering whether or not it was possible to assign the Voice Command button to the right "M" button on the headphones. Unfortunately, after pairing the devices on the offchance that that button showed up under the "buttons" menu, I realized it wasn't going to be quite that easy. So... In summation... Is this possible at all, or is there some other means of accomplishing it?
Bumpity bump bump, as I could really use some help on this.
Did you want someone to read through the posts on assigning buttons for you and retype the answers here? I have some time next Thursday and can do that for you.
are you sure you are using your headset right , I have a sony ericsson hbh 970 stereo headset, and that has a button on it, that activates VC for me ! maybe you need to press and hold something.
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=000825...and?+&sa=Search&cof=FORID:0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=22086
Don't worry about it.
Hi guys, Just wondering if there is any media player that will allow me to set the next track function to lots of different buttons.
Basically i want to set all the face buttons well 1-9 and * and #, just so when its in my pocket i can prod my phone to change the tracks and not have to find a specific button. I have wmp and tcpmp on my phone now so if theres a way for either of those that would be great.
Cheers.
Fed
p.s cool forums btw already found plenty cool stuff on here.
Ok guess not, nevermind. What about my headset, it has the button to accept calls etc could i map that to the next function? ive tryed in wmp but doesnt recognise it. Also when i double click the button on my headphones it rings one of my contacts which ive done accidently once or twice now, anyway to stop this?
Cheers.
i'm quite sure this is a very common annoyance people have with touch phones.
80% of the time, when i answer a call and talk, once the call is finished i have a program opened/opening; due to my ear touching the display and doing things unknowingly to me.
especially with win6 or w.65, since the start menu button is on the top, it tends to be where the top of my ear touches and ends up opening programs (in wm6.5) in the start menu.
HOW can i easily prevent this? why has microsoft not resolved this design issue?
On my case 95% of the answered/maked calls are connected to my bluetooth
Also you can push the off button.
Cheers,
Yep, pushing the power button to turn the screen off will solve your problems. I use S2U2 which also has a feature to automatically switch off the screen.
As stated by the above poster S2U2 works as well as other applications that could be found by searching on google for "freeware applications wm".... hope that helps you