Hello,
I have a question about the red key (for ending phone calls) in Windows Mobile.
In the past I could use it, to quickly minimize every application. So I could get back to the today screen very fast.
Now it is doing the same, but it also disconnects any active GPRS connection.
And this button disconnects me even if I lock the device or shut off its display.
How can I change this behavior? Is there any registry entry, which lets me adjust this buttons functions?
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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 one issue after switching to Windows Mobile 6 (at first "Faria real thing", now "Crossbow Reloaded"). Sometimes the phone behaves as if the sound was switched off.
I read various discussions about which radio ROM is better etc. for not missing calls, but I guess it is not that problem. The call gets through (so I guess radio rom is ok). When having the phone in such state, I checked it by calling from the fixed phone on my desk - the call got through, there was message on the display that somebody is calling (just the ring was silent).
Once in such situation I tried to switch on/off the phone application - no change. The one thing which seems to cure it reliably is to go to the phone settings (I usually try the ringing tone I use - it works ok - and press ok). Afterwards it is normal (the phone rings).
I have not found yet any pattern when this happens... Is it possible that the phone somehow loses setting (about the set ringing tone, or about volume) and it is fixed by going to phone settings?
Has anybody else such experiences?
Othewise I am happy with WM 6 (especially I like "Internet Sharing", quicker booting and the fact that when running "Opera Mini" in "Midlet Manager" it no longer ignores hardware soft keys). Just this think is a bit of nuisance.
Mirek
I've seen this a few times myself, and yes, just playing your ringtone via the Phone Settings will fix this issue. I can say that I haven't seen this issue in some time, and thats since I stopped using the press & Hold of the CommManager button (upper left side of the phone) to switch my phone in and out of Vibrate mode. I used to use that to do a quick switch and it seemed sometimes after coming back out of vibrate mode, this issue would happen (not always, but a few times). I've now quit using that button that way and I don't think I've had the non-ring issue since.
Thanks you for the information, I will try it. It may have been the problem with that button - I mapped there task manager which I use often and pressed it sometimes a bit longer...
Mirek
I have the following little problem with WM6. Every time i press the "power button" on my device, WM6 returns to the today screen. What i really want is, that it stays in the last application which was open before i switched the device off.
This behavior is especially annoying when i use tools like "ScreenOff" which does nothing else but turns the screen off (the programs are running further). This is useful when it comes to mp3 listening or something like that. But when i press the power button to turn the screen on again there is no mp3 playing application but the today screen.
Can anyone tell me where to change that behavior?
whats the today timeout set to in settings->today->items ?
It is activated and set to 8hr.
You need to disable the password lock in Security settings. This will mean that a password will NOT be required to unlock the phone upon restart or after the pre-determined timeout.
With the password lock disabled, every time you power up your phone, it will be at the last application you had open.
I already have the password lock disabled. So that can not be the problem.
If you are using the today screen battery meter there is an option for it to do that. Annoyed the hell out of me till I disabled it.
Thank you, thank you!!!
You made my day
Just moved to Android from my Diamond and was wondering if there is a Standby app so I can turn off my phone with a screen icon instead of using the hardware button.
I use to have a program called poweroff which was simple and perfect for the job.
Any help would be appreciated.
Note. I only want the phone to sleep and not shut down completely.
Sleep mode starts the moment the screen goes dark - so long as you are not running an application which prevents sleeping. (The screen can be blanked, but applications can still prevent it from fully "sleeping", for instance listening to music.)
Convince yourself of it this way:
- Exit any apps you are using (with a task manager, or whatever) so the phone is in a "quiet" state.
Edit: Put Settings in your ATK exclusion list.
- Settings -> About phone -> Status and scroll all the way down
Locate the "Awake time" at the bottom of the screen and note that it is increasing.
When it rolls over to a full minute, hit the End button precisely at that moment, so that the screen sleeps - and remember the number of whole minutes the counter was at.
- Now wait 2 or 3 minutes.
- Wake the phone up and quickly unlock the screen - and quickly look at the "Active time" status.
If there was no activity, you'll notice that the active time is only a few seconds more than the elapsed active time when you blanked the screen - about the amount of time it took you to unlock the screen, and maybe a few seconds more than that.
Note there is nothing special about "sleep mode" that prevents applications from running. After all, it's the way the phone is designed - for instance be able to receive "push e-mail", or periodically retrieve "pull e-mail" while the phone is sleeping. Obviously, though, the goal is to try and save power, so the OS schedules processes for execution less frequently depending on their status (ForeG, BackG, etc), delivers interrupts less urgently, etc.
Also, applications can choose to receive notifications about power state - and change their behavior as a result of that, so the fact that you sometimes hear a noise 10-20 seconds after you have powered off the screen might just be an app responding to that state change.
If you do the same thing overnight (monitor the increase in active time), you'll see that the phone accumulates some number of minutes of active time. How much additional time it accrues depends on not only the apps you have installed/running, but also how much mail you are receiving, your app settings, etc.
HTH
Thanks HTH.
But simply, I just want to simulate turning off the phone ie flicking the power button instead of using the hardware button.
Hi. I've got a GPS aplication running on my WM6.5 cellphone (chinese clone:TOPS A1 TOUCH). The navigator works properly until I receive a call. When I answer the call (my cellphone is connected via bluetooth to a PARROT) the screen starts turning off and on every 30 seconds. This way it is not possible to go anywhere usin the iGO, of course :S. Even when the OS power saving settings are disabled I get this funny behaviour.
I guess that should be possible to prevent the cellphone to power down the screen while a call is being done. Maybe there exist a registry key that can be modified... I don't really know.
Any of you knows how to get rid of this issue? Any idea will be very appreciated.
Many thanks for your support, guys.
Cheers,