I am running Tomal's Rom and I need to add a shorcut to the "front page" (the screen where you see the time the missed calls, battery ram rom flash and so on.
Basically I need to be able to lock the screen with one touch.
I can activate it on the "Today" list but that adds an annoying scroll bar to the right of the screen.
Any ideas ?
Thank you
1000QA.
PS: BTW what do I have to do to be able to turn the display on with one touch of the screen (let's say the screen turned off to save power). The Backlight settings seem to be ignored by the PDA. I mean if I check the optin "Turn on backlight when a button is pressed or the screen taped" it is not working
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While playing music in windows media player, i assigned a button to "Toggle Screen" function which effectively turns off the screen but keeps buttons alive so i can skip/seek/pause/etc... but the problems is that after about 1 minute, hardware buttons get disabled as well (but music keeps playing), which is quite frustrating when you expect buttons to work but they dont anymore.
i'm assuming its because in my power settings i set it to "Turn off device if not used for 1 minute".... But the confusing part is that i've used to have same settings on my PPC-6800/Titan/Mogul and the hardware buttons stayed on forever after i turned off the screen using WMP's "Toggle Screen" function.
is there an excpetion list somewhere that would turn my device off in 1 minute if not used UNLESS there is "WMP/wmplayer.exe" process running? or maybe there is an different solution that would produce the desired result?
PS: i'm running Sprint's stock rom.
Thanks!
You could use AEButton Plus to assign the Screen Toogle to any button you want (for example to long press the action key). That would work in any application, also in WMP.
tried it and AEButton Plus does the job. assigned the function to the d-pad's down button (center button is used for enter, ok/minimize, close, and task-manager through one click, double click, tripple click, long click respectively)... xcept now there is this half a second lag everytime i want to scroll down with the d-pad. quite annoying...
btw after some experimenting i found that wmp's "toggle screen" function turns off the screen and keeps desired buttons working, indefinetely, only if i disable the whole "Turn off device if not used for x minutes" option (Turn off the backlight option doesnt have any effect on wmp's function). so it seems that this function is causing the problem.
since on ppc6800 wmp's function worked perfect without any hiccups even with that power setting turned on, i suspect that there just has to be some way to replicate same behavior on touch pro. is there some place in registry that controls the power settings and its preferences?
PS: i need to "toggle screen" only when in wmp, cuz in other cases i just use power button to effectively turn off and lock the device using s2u2.
I use WMP's built in function of toggle screen. Set it to hold left. It works like a charm.
Kraize92 said:
I use WMP's built in function of toggle screen. Set it to hold left. It works like a charm.
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what are the settings in your "Start > Settings > System > Power > Advanced" screen? and also, what ROM are you running? because setting 'toggle screen' to hold left and having 'turn off device after x..' set still produce the bug i mentioned in the first post, hardware buttons disabled 40 seconds after initiating 'toggle screen' with wmp...
Hi
i'm running wm6.5 on my raphael and i've got a problem:
when the screen is automatically locked, the screen dimm to save power. fine
but even if i unlock it, the screen is keeped dimmed.
i have to press the power button to get the screen bright again
i've found in Advanced config in the screen section an option: "Backlight lock level " but when i try to change it, after a soft reset, the value is not saved...
is there a fix?
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i'm running wm6.5 on my raphael and i've got a problem:
when the screen is automatically locked, the screen dimm to save power. fine
but even if i unlock it, the screen is keeped dimmed.
i have to press the power button to get the screen bright again
i've found in Advanced config in the screen section an option: "Backlight lock level " but when i try to change it, after a soft reset, the value is not saved...
is there a fix?
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Check to see if your backlight is set to auto adjust in your Power settings.
there is a bug in WM6.5... autolock and/or the auto dim is causing this problem(for me too)... i disabled autolock, and the problem's gone...
use S2U2 or something else
yep but i've got some problem with the last version of s2u2... i wasn't able to answer
i asked the same question few days ago in teh NRG rom thread - basically it was suggested to me to use a different program other than adv config to setup the autolock - searchn the forum for an app called 'Smartlock' - ive installed version 1.6 and it seems to work
only thing is it ignores slideshows (i.e. will dim and lock while viewing slideshow), slightly annoying but no biggy
hth
I have HTC Sense disabled on my Today screen so it looks like a basic today screen. When I lock the phone, it shows the sliding unlock icon. When I slide to unlock I need to enter my PIN to use the phone (forced due to work email security). Sometimes when I turn the phone back on after the screen has turned off due to inactivity, the screen is blank (the sliding unlock icon isn't visible). The only things I can see are the top row (clock, speaker icon, signal/data icon, battery remaining icon, QuickMenu icon, and Start button). None of the items in the top row respond except for QuickMenu, but nothing in there functions since it is still locked. I end up having to soft reset the phone. I am using the most current stock ROM WM6.5.
Anyone seen such a problem or know how to fix it? Is there a program like QuickMenu that has an "unlock" link in the menus? I wonder if that could be a workaround. Thanks.
So I really like how I can turn off my screen by tapping the lock key on the dock. However, it would be really nice to be able to turn the screen back on in the same way.
I've searched around, and haven't found anything about it really (unless I missed it, in which case I'm sorry).
Can this be done? Perhaps with something like a button re-mapper program??
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Smith
Settings --> screen --> uncheck powersaving mode
I need an app like the "Go to sleep" future available in CM roms in the power widget. I KNOW there are a bunch on the market, but they have a flaw: after i lock the screen with it and power the screen on by button, my wallpaper dissapears for 3-4 seconds then it comes back. Also i need a simple app that does only that (shortcut or widget, dosent really matter) and not having extra options, so the ram usage would be minimal.
The "go to sleep" future works well (no wallpaper problem, no ram usage), but i dont know how to create a shortcut on the screen for it, also is annoying to pull the notification bar all the time to push it.
Screen off and lock works perfectly for me. If you want no ram usage, go with the donated version.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.katecca.screenofflock&hl=en
I agree ^^^^^ ++1!
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i'm using Lock Screen App by Kenneth Cheng, but this isn't really good either - if u lock the screen u can't unlock it right after ....u have to wait 2-3 sec. I have tryed the Screen off and lock but it got stuck in the ram and that annoyed me. Anw, ty for the answers.
Well, I tried "Screen Off and Lock" by Katecca, "Lock Screen App" by Kenneth Cheng, "Turn Off Screen" by Marinelli.Tv. The best of them is "Turn Off Screen", although sometimes the lockscreen appear before the screen is completely off, there's no false sleep like "Screen Off and Lock" (this app always give me false sleeps). Currently, I'm using Elixir2, it has widget to turn off the screen, and the screen doesn't flicker, lockscreen doesn't re-appear, there're false sleeps, but very rare.
False sleep: the screen is turned off, but when you turn it on, the lockscreen appears for ~1 seconds and it turns off. Several pushs on power button is needed to make the lockscreen stays there to be unlocked.
yes, "Turn Off Screen" by Marinelli seems to do the job almost like the power-off button, ty !