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A few questions about the XDA ORBIT 2

Hi
I received my XDA ORBIT 2 and have been using it for 2 days now.
Just got a few questions to ask..
1) When making a call to the device, it is normal for the phone to ring 3 times before the XDA ORBIT 2 starts ringing? I just thought it was quite a big delay.
(Yes it is normal - credit to gnick666 for the help there, thanks)
2) Does anyone have a problem with the handsfree kit - if you are listening to the radio and press any button on it, you will get a really bad signal for a few seconds. Its even worse when you press MUTE, it just gives a really loud static noise even if the signal was perfectly fine before
(Problem dissappeared with hard reset)
3) Doesn't the main camera seem very choppy and bad quality? I mean the camera is meant to be 3 Megapixels but if you compare it to other 3 Megapixel phones it is obvious that the XDA ORBIT 2's camera is crap! It looks like a 2 Megapixel!
(Fix provided, however doesn't really fix the problem - download from this linK: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2049527)
4) Is there any way to edit the Touch Cube? It has CoPilot on it but frankly CoPilot is very bad in my experience and uses really old maps - it couldnt find any of my destinations that TomTom could. Is it possible to swap the CoPilot button with a TomTom one on the cube?
(A program can edit the Touch Cube - download from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=71953&d=1203658279)
5) Also, has anyone had the problem where the phone takes forever to send a text mesage even if you have full signal? Every 30 seconds or so it will tell you your balance but it will take a long time before it actually sends the text message - could be as long as 10 minutes!
(Problem resolved - do not send any messages to 20202 or this blocks the outbox queue)

Also, has anyone had the problem where the phone takes forever to send a text mesage even if you have full signal?
Every 30 seconds or so it will tell you your balance but it will take a long time before it actually sends the text message - could be as long as 10 minutes!

prank1 said:
1) When making a call to the device, it is normal for the phone to ring 3 times before the XDA ORBIT 2 starts ringing? I just thought it was quite a big delay.
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Sadly it is... I don't know about the homebrew ROMs, but in the original ROMs the delay is definitely there...
prank1 said:
2) Does anyone have a problem with the handsfree kit - if you are listening to the radio and press any button on it, you will get a really bad signal for a few seconds. Its even worse when you press MUTE, it just gives a really loud static noise even if the signal was perfectly fine before
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Is that a Motorola hands-free kit?
prank1 said:
3) Doesn't the main camera seem very choppy and bad quality? I mean the camera is meant to be 3 Megapixels but if you compare it to other 3 Megapixel phones it is obvious that the XDA ORBIT 2's camera is crap! It looks like a 2 Megapixel!
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There's a fix for it on the HTC support site, free to download...
prank1 said:
4) Finally, is there any way to edit the Touch Cube? It has CoPilot on it but frankly CoPilot is very bad in my experience and uses really old maps - it couldnt find any of my destinations that TomTom could. Is it possible to swap the CoPilot button with a TomTom one on the cube?
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Check out the Polaris Upgrading suborum... you'll have to dig a bit, but there are detailed descriptions and programs for it...
prank1 said:
Also, has anyone had the problem where the phone takes forever to send a text mesage even if you have full signal?...
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No, never noticed something like this... My messages are sent instantaneously...

Hi
The handsfree kit is the one that came with the PDA.
can you give me a link for that fix? I looked on the HTC website and I cant find it...
Did a hard reset and ithe text messaging issue appears to be working fine now.
Thanks for your help!!!

You need to log in into the HTC e-club to download the patch.
Register, Log-in and select the Touch Cruise under software downloads.
Greetz.

virbotrix said:
You need to log in into the HTC e-club to download the patch.
Register, Log-in and select the Touch Cruise under software downloads.
Greetz.
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Could you possibly upload the file here for me? Just thought that it would result in not needing to register because all I need is just one file..
Thanks and I know i'm asking a lot here but i'd really appreciate it.
Thanks!

The fix has actually has been posted on this forum... search the attachments...

Thanks finally found it

Eerm about the text messaging problem, I thought I fixed it but its still there..
I found the culprit, infact. Because I am a pay and go customer, I regulary check how many free text messages I have got.. this is done by texting BALANCE to 20202. But everytime I text that number to check my balance, my phone never sends the message, it gets stuck in the outbox queue and every 30 seconds it will tell me my balance. Because of this the phone cannot send any other text messages. The only way to solve this problem is to delete the text message from the outbox, soft reset the phone and never text 20202 again.
It works fine now and an alternative to check you free allowance is by calling 4444 and selecting option 2 twice. This bypasses the text problem.
Just thought I would explain it incase someone else gets the problem.

HI to prank1,
I have the same camera problem with my touch cruise. been searching the forum for hours, still cant find the fix for camera, can you help me by showing me where to look ?
THanks so much.

Hi leynos
The camera fix does not help that much, still a bit choppy. In fact it is meant to address a different issue:
If you zoom in on a captured photo and notice grainy, maze-like patterns within the image itself (this problem is caused by too much sharpness enhancement being applied in bright-light environments), please download and install this hot fix to solve the problem. Sharpness parameters within the photo will then be reduced with only a minimal loss of image sharpness
If you still want to download the patch, visit this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2049527

The choppyness of the camera is because of the drivers, the fix only helps whith some quality issues...

Help Please RE: Slow texting speed and freezing when writing texts

I have notices that when writing text messages the keys freeze and sometimes the letters jam on and continue to writeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee like that.
Please if anyone has a solution to this let me know.

Never seen this issue...do you have several things working in the background? Unless you were drowning the memory elsewhere, I can't think of anything except dirt or something else in the keyboard itself.
Good luck.

Thank you, for your responce.
I have checked the memory and made sure it was the only programme running and the problem still persists.
I have another quiry regarding sms's, is there any way you can increase the size of the text screen when replying? At the moment i can see the past conversations on the large portion of the screen and i only have a small area to write in.
Any advice or shall i just give up? lol

Hey, if got the same problem with my TP. I really dont know why.

I had a similar problem. I had changed wifi settings to best performance (from default of best battery). My keyboard slowed to a crawl and repeated characters. Changing the setting back to best battery cured it but it is annoying that you can't actually use the setting without messing up the keyboard.

Thanks for the advice, i have noticed the keyboard is more responsive with the WIFI off. If anyone knows a better way to solve this and keep wifi on please let me know.
Has anyone worked out a way to increase the typing space or not have the past messages on the screen while writing sms messages?

kapa said:
Thanks for the advice, i have noticed the keyboard is more responsive with the WIFI off. If anyone knows a better way to solve this and keep wifi on please let me know.
Has anyone worked out a way to increase the typing space or not have the past messages on the screen while writing sms messages?
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please read the wiki on rapheal to solve ur problem related to typing area size.
look under known rapheal issues. involves changing value of a registery key from 35 to 70 .. this gives u 3 lines.

I didn't need to turn wifi off entirely, the setting I changed was
Start>Settings>Connection(tab)>Wireless LAN>Power Mode(tab)>Move slider to "best battery". Other people have needed this slider in different places - dependent on ROM. Try it in all 3 positions and see how you get on. You might need to soft-reset between changes.

Disable wake on any notification

Hi guyz,
Googled it with no real solution, nobody in the Touch Pro forum seem to have it either.
Is there any way to disable waking my ppc or at least lock the touch panel on notifications like low battery, appointments etc. Message notification is easy to disable, Answerkeys Disabler works like charm when it comes to incoming calls but I want to disable waking up the device on any notification and have only audible alerts.
Often when in pocket or case my TP wakes on low battery or appointment reminder and starts random dialing, texting, etc. which is getting annoing.
Thanks in advance,
dEM

there may be a registry key you can delete so that you don't get notifications at all.... i'm not real sure about which ones though. i'll look around.
EDIT: SHNotificationRemove at msndn :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa455968.aspx

Good question,hope someone has an answer

how about usin s2u2? doesnt solve it exactly but maybe a workaround?

There are some locking solutions over there. I'm looking for one that doesn't lock my device all the time but only on these notifications. The best will be if it doesn't even wakes up.

Just great! More than a month I've been trying to find a solution to this problem with no success!

Hi,i hope this keeps the thread alive,i would also like to know if its possible and how

Me Too!
I have this exact same problem. When a reminder alerts me on the phone it wakes up the unit and turns the display on. If this stays in my holder it just keeps the phone on because it senses all the pushing... We have a PIN enable so it won't do anything major. But there are times I've pulled out my phone to find it awake (on) and there are * in the password field - so I know it is sensing touches when in the holder. This definitely drains the battery.
HELP PLEASE! Any Fix found?

I'm having this problem as well - anybody out there got any ideas...?

I hate how there seems to be no solution to this! It didn't happen to me in WM6.1, so it must be buried within 6.5 in some dark, fetid, unreachable place :-(
I keep accidentally dialing people with my bum when one of my reminders goes off. Grr!
EDIT: I did finally cave and install a slide to unlock feature (S2U2) which I got from http://a2-s2.com. I was surprised with the level of customization you can do with this program, and I do love how I can have the slider's wallpaper change randomly, so I am greeted with a different image each time I unlock the phone. I know it's not what any of us were looking for, but it's a workable solution for now.

I've since gotten round this by using PocketShield - works well for me. Doesn't work well with the PIN lock though....

I'm using Smartlock for locking the screen; incoming call and stand return from suspend.
It has an option "suspend after lock".
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505032

disable wake on notification
finally figured it out, a few years later.
still can't find a factory setting for it, but i downloaded NILS (notification lock screen) and it gives you the option to disable wake on notification. hope it helps

HTC P-3600 and Problems answering a call

Hi to the list
hope in an help to solve me my big problem.
Often when i get an incoming call, when i go to answer the call by the green key,
i do not hear anybody.
Then i try to close the call by the red key but the call does not close and i alwasy see on the display the receiver open.
It seems the PDA becomes stuck and i need to make a soft reset.
I tought it was a problem with the radio and have changed several ones but still have the same problem.
I have also tried to change several ROMs like ELIAS and FLO and now i am using the one as in the signature.
This problem is annoying me because the ones on the other side tought that i close the call without answerin it.
Please is there anybody can give me an hand to solve it?
sure in an help, i send my best reagrds to all of the forum.
Enzo

[Q] Samsung Galaxy 4

I am sure this question has been asked 5000 times but
for my particular phone I did not see answer.
Auto correct driving me crazy..tired of sounding foolish.
Using Samsung keyboard. Went to settings, and then?
Also, am I able to turn off auto correct and still use the
word suggest?
Thank you forum people. Merry Christmas.

Do you mean the predictive text (word suggestion) and auto replacement ?
Cause for me, I can turn on the predictive text and turn off the auto replacement .