So it's been a month since I got my HTC Touch pro and all the problems I have with it, I've had with the HTC TYTN II. To list them:
- Volume is too low during conversations, it has to be fairly quiet around to be able to hear the other person (even with the volume turned way up)
- There's a 2-3 ring delay on incoming calls.. which means people hang up before you get a chance to answer.
- Sometimes trying to call a number, the phone will just display the Calling Number screen and you hear no sound at all in the speaker.. then after 10 seconds it will end with 3 beeps.. Like it couldn't get a signal or something, even though there's plenty of signal on the signal gauge. You try again 2-3 times before it works.. REALLY annoying (Never had a phone that did that, other than the TYTN II!)
- Answers calls in pocket. You go for the phone, but the touch screen is on and you answer or hang up (in my case apparently almost always hangs up) while the phone is still in your pocket. Also VERY annoying.
- Alarm or snooze malfunctions. This happens rarely for me, but since I use it everyday as my alarm for waking up, I notice! It's not because I sleep past the alarm. I've been lying awake listening for it to ring... the vibrator works, but no sound is played. This means that I can't trust my phone to wake me up if I'm going to catch a plane or other important stuff. It's very rare, but it happens.. it also did on my TYTN II, except that didn't even vibrate! My guess is windows is busy doing something else .. then doesn't play the sound properly.
- Then there's the slowdowns.. not really a fault, but like windows 95 it can become very slow or unresponsive for a short period for unknown reasons. A phone has to work when you need it... not delay you for 30 secs while it thinks things over. I've had to reset my phone a couple of times this month. (No I didn't run 10 apps at the same time while trying to use TF3D to look at pictures)
- It takes 4 seconds to lock the phone (So that it doesn't also MAKE calls in your pocket) .. is there a way to tweak this? Like only pressing the off-hook button for 1-2 seconds instead?
These problems are the reasons that I'm considering selling my phone to some other unfortunate person. They are BASIC functions that just have to work! I love the HTC touch pro for it's PDA functionality and my Tom Tom maps etc. but I'm really starting to hate it for these basic functionalities that work very poorly!
I know other people have experience the same problems.. couldn't we make a sticky with problems and possible solutions for it? I also really hate that fact that I have to hack my phone in able to make it function properly!
ssndk said:
So it's been a month since I got my HTC Touch pro and all the problems I have with it, I've had with the HTC TYTN II. To list them:
- Volume is too low during conversations, it has to be fairly quiet around to be able to hear the other person (even with the volume turned way up)
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Tweaks enough around
- There's a 2-3 ring delay on incoming calls.. which means people hang up before you get a chance to answer.
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I don't have that problem?
- Sometimes trying to call a number, the phone will just display the Calling Number screen and you hear no sound at all in the speaker.. then after 10 seconds it will end with 3 beeps.. Like it couldn't get a signal or something, even though there's plenty of signal on the signal gauge. You try again 2-3 times before it works.. REALLY annoying (Never had a phone that did that, other than the TYTN II!)
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never had that either
- Answers calls in pocket. You go for the phone, but the touch screen is on and you answer or hang up (in my case apparently almost always hangs up) while the phone is still in your pocket. Also VERY annoying.
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try this solution
- Alarm or snooze malfunctions. This happens rarely for me, but since I use it everyday as my alarm for waking up, I notice! It's not because I sleep past the alarm. I've been lying awake listening for it to ring... the vibrator works, but no sound is played. This means that I can't trust my phone to wake me up if I'm going to catch a plane or other important stuff. It's very rare, but it happens.. it also did on my TYTN II, except that didn't even vibrate! My guess is windows is busy doing something else .. then doesn't play the sound properly.
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Did you try a different alarm already?
- Then there's the slowdowns.. not really a fault, but like windows 95 it can become very slow or unresponsive for a short period for unknown reasons. A phone has to work when you need it... not delay you for 30 secs while it thinks things over. I've had to reset my phone a couple of times this month. (No I didn't run 10 apps at the same time while trying to use TF3D to look at pictures)
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Don't have that problem
- It takes 4 seconds to lock the phone (So that it doesn't also MAKE calls in your pocket) .. is there a way to tweak this? Like only pressing the off-hook button for 1-2 seconds instead?
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Now you mention it, yes, that is annoying... Would love to see a tweak for that as well!!
These problems are the reasons that I'm considering selling my phone to some other unfortunate person. They are BASIC functions that just has to work! I love the HTC touch pro for it's PDA functionality and my Tom Tom maps etc. but I'm really starting to hate it for these basic functionalities that work very poorly!
I know other people have experience the same problems.. couldn't we make a sticky with problems and possible solutions for it? I also really hate that fact that I have to hack my phone in able to make it function properly!
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Have you considerd a custom Rom yet? I am currently running the DCS Rom, and don't have the problems you mention above. It made my TP much more responsive!
A lot of these problems though, are mentioned throughout this forum, and can be solved. Either by ROM updating, or tweaks... What Rom are you running?
I understand completely. I feel differently though. My TP is the best phone ever. The issues I have were seen on my previous devices (HTC devices for the US). The faster processor, increased storage, and TF3D make me happy. Don't get me wrong, I have cussed at this phone, missed inportant business calls, and missed a flight thanks to the alarm. I soft reset 1 - 5 times a day to proactively minimize these issues. But overall, the TP is a huge improvement over my Wing. So long as my new devices are improvements to the one before, I am happy. I can't live with a standard cell phone, and love my Raphael.
joeltje said:
I don't have that problem?
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Try calling your phone from a land line phone.. how long does it take before your cell actually start ringing?
joeltje said:
Did you try a different alarm already?
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Yes, but it happens so rarely I can't say if its the sound. Besides, it's the rooster sound that came with phone. No matter what it should never happen. It happened on my TYTN II too.. So I guess it's probably a windows thing.
joeltje said:
Have you considerd a custom Rom yet? I am currently running the DCS Rom, and don't have the problems you mention above. It made my TP much more responsive!
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Hmm.. I might try that.. but I often see people start having entirely different problems with their phone then (lock ups and strange behaviour). If there is a stable ROM that fixes these issues and doesn't break down hard once every week. I'm all for it!
I'm running the standard ROM that came with the phone. Ver.: 1.90.403.6 DAN (Danish) ROM date 08/23/08, Radio: 1.02.25.19, Protocol: 52.33.25.17U
If I call my cellnr. from the home phone, it starts ringning as quickly as all my other mobile phones... So no, I really don't have that problem, thoughj I did just see another topic from somebody with exactly you problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=432415
You might want to follow that.
On the alarm, I have 2 kids, so I don't use an electrical alarm Sorry...
The different ROM may be something you can test at least. It fixed a lot of annoyances for me anyway. Look in the Wiki for different Custom Roms, there are a couple out there, and for me, DCS worked best. You can always go back to original, should you not like the ROM. I'm running DCS now for three days, no resets, and it is still fast....
ssndk said:
- Sometimes trying to call a number, the phone will just display the Calling Number screen and you hear no sound at all in the speaker.. then after 10 seconds it will end with 3 beeps.. Like it couldn't get a signal or something, even though there's plenty of signal on the signal gauge. You try again 2-3 times before it works.. REALLY annoying (Never had a phone that did that, other than the TYTN II!)
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The issue above really annoying. Normally that will cause my TP to go mute and can't hear each other. Have to soft reset. This issue is discuss in another thread here. Since I'm overseas for at the moment, can't go complain to my vendor.
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- It takes 4 seconds to lock the phone (So that it doesn't also MAKE calls in your pocket) .. is there a way to tweak this? Like only pressing the off-hook button for 1-2 seconds instead?
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Using the registry hack for the touch diamond I'm now using the "lock on backlight turned off" fix.. it works, and my phone locks when I press the screen off button. Way less annoying than waiting 4 seconds for it to lock.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight\AutoDevic eLockEnable from 0 to 1 and everytime your backlight goes off the device is locked
Nice, 1 Question though; What happens if you make a call? The display goes of as well then, will the keyboard then lock as well? Cause that's not handy, to say the least
joeltje said:
Nice, 1 Question though; What happens if you make a call? The display goes of as well then, will the keyboard then lock as well? Cause that's not handy, to say the least
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The touch screen locks, but the keyboard (Off-hook etc.) button doesn't..
So if I'm listning to my voicemail, and need to press "3" for deletion, I can't? Or will it disable after I extract my stylo?
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So if I'm listning to my voicemail, and need to press "3" for deletion, I can't? Or will it disable after I extract my stylo?
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you can extract the stylus but the you have to juggle around with it OR you can press the standby button on top to unlock it. It's a pain I know but the problem is that it is a touch screen so pressing a button to unlock is less worse than without it.
So functionality actually remains as it is now... That's good, I'll give it a try!
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So if I'm listning to my voicemail, and need to press "3" for deletion, I can't? Or will it disable after I extract my stylo?
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It unlocks when the stylus is extracted..
ssndk said:
So it's been a month since I got my HTC Touch pro and all the problems I have with it, I've had with the HTC TYTN II. To list them:
- There's a 2-3 ring delay on incoming calls.. which means people hang up before you get a chance to answer.
I know other people have experience the same problems.. couldn't we make a sticky with problems and possible solutions for it? I also really hate that fact that I have to hack my phone in able to make it function properly!
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Sounds like you are using a ringtone from your microSD card. This will cause a delay. Your ringtones need to be copies to your device and activated by holding the stylus over your selection & hit set as ringtone.
Hope this helps,
Rgs,
J
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The touch screen locks, but the keyboard (Off-hook etc.) button doesn't..
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Try SensorLock. It's a great little utility that unfortunately has stopped working for me. Must be something I poked somewhere. lol
As for the alarm, mine works fine... but I do notice the ringing a couple of times on the sending end before the phone starts to ring. I'd sort of passed that off to a network thing, not a phone thing.
The 3 second ringtone delay is a WM issue. Look at the postings for VAlert in the general hacking section. The only known fix is http://www.tweaks2k2.com/portal/staticpages/index.php?page=20050224182009983
but no one seems to have figured out their registry setting change...
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- Alarm or snooze malfunctions. This happens rarely for me, but since I use it everyday as my alarm for waking up, I notice! It's not because I sleep past the alarm. I've been lying awake listening for it to ring... the vibrator works, but no sound is played. This means that I can't trust my phone to wake me up if I'm going to catch a plane or other important stuff. It's very rare, but it happens.. it also did on my TYTN II, except that didn't even vibrate! My guess is windows is busy doing something else .. then doesn't play the sound properly.
TRY G-Alarm. It works well for me.
Klaxon (sp?) alarm looked cool and would have also been practical, but it would crash - totally unreliable.
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Sounds like you are using a ringtone from your microSD card. This will cause a delay. Your ringtones need to be copies to your device and activated by holding the stylus over your selection & hit set as ringtone.
Hope this helps,
Rgs,
J
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No, in my TPro the delay is exactly the same (oviously using the same mp3 file in memory card or in the device)..i've reduced delay sound installing Diamond tweaks and setting "without delay" in ring tone..then i've erased diamong tweaks because use too much battery now i have only 1 ring with light (and identified call incoming on the screen) and without sound, and BEFORE the second ring my device correctly sound
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The 3 second ringtone delay is a WM issue. Look at the postings for VAlert in the general hacking section. The only known fix is http://www.tweaks2k2.com/portal/staticpages/index.php?page=20050224182009983
but no one seems to have figured out their registry setting change...
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If your referring to this one,
108-Allow users to disable the 3 seconds delay between rings in devices with Windows Mobile Phone Edition
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see the following thread at PPCGeeks.
If your talking about the fact that the NAV wheel starts flashing 5 seconds before the audio starts playing, then it's not the same scenario.
ssndk said:
Using the registry hack for the touch diamond I'm now using the "lock on backlight turned off" fix.. it works, and my phone locks when I press the screen off button. Way less annoying than waiting 4 seconds for it to lock.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight\AutoDevic eLockEnable from 0 to 1 and everytime your backlight goes off the device is locked
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I have a HTC TouchPro and had the same issue of not wanting to press the long press end key for 5 seconds to lock the phone. I tried the code you gave and unfortunately the phone still does not lock when I push short press the power button to turn off the back light and put th phone in sleep mode. I really want this to work since when I am driving, I think when I go through good and bad coverage areas, the phone will automaticallly wake up about 3 times each way, so if it is not locked, I can accidentally call people while driving.
Hi everyone!
Ok, so it's cool that when i put the phone upto my ear, the accelerometer automatically answers the call, and when I set it down it ends the call.. what's not cool is if I pick the phone up quickly, it tends to answer the phone without it being to my ear.. to people I don't want to talk to, instead of giving me a chance to b***h button them, lol.
Anyways, is there a way to turn this off or adjust the sensitivity?
Thanks!
are you sure it answers from you putting it up to your ear?
i tried it with mine and it didnt work...unless you aren't using the at&t stock rom
Yea this is a stock ATT rom, I picked up the phone a few days ago... I'm not touching the answer button to my face either... hmmm...
It's the application Gyrator 2... BLAH.. Thanks anyways guys!
Yes I had the same problem and just unloaded Gyrator2 it is was cool. it made my phone pick up on its own even when I am not even moving it. hopefully Gyrator2's creator can fix this problem...
Actually, if you goto Menu / Events / and delete the Pick up event in the Gyrator 2 app, it will disable it, and you can still use the nice auto rotate stuff!
Ooo I didn't know Gyrator could do that! That's nifty!
Is there any way to completely turn off the accelerometer?
stick ur phone into a microwave for a few minutes.. that should do it hah jkin DONT DO IT!
like in the title, i have a problem with the alarm...
windows alarm don't start when the phone is off.. for this i have installed klaxon and i have integrated it with the home page of the phone, but the problem is remained...
How can i do in order to resolve this?
Thanks to all!
I have the same problem
No external applications is working well.
i need it too thanks
Hi guys,
i didnt wanna start a new thread so i will borrow this one, I have problem with my phone now after reinstaling to the newest swedish rom!
When i set an alarm, the Phone Either Frezes or Die totally in the morning when the alarm goes on!
And sometimes i Do hear an alarm for 1-2 sec then dead, and sometimes i wake upp and its dead!!!!`?
lelinolino said:
like in the title, i have a problem with the alarm...
windows alarm don't start when the phone is off.. for this i have installed klaxon and i have integrated it with the home page of the phone, but the problem is remained...
How can i do in order to resolve this?
Thanks to all!
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I've used pTravelAlarm for many years (Since my old XDA Orbit) - It's not free (not expensive £10-£15 I think).
This WILL wake up you phone when in standby. (Which is what I take you to mean by off?)
Obviously if you phone is completely off then I don't think anything will work.
No, thats not the problem! i never shut down my phone!
The phone is one and fine, but in the morning when its time to play the alarm sound, It either Frezes! and u have to do a soft reset!
Or it Frezes and Dies (the Screen is Totaly shut) and still you have to make a soft reset to get the phone stated again.
I wanna fix the orginal alarm since i dont wanna instal many apps + i dont use the alarm funktion more than once a day.
All my old mobile phones switched on at the alarm. I dont want to sleep with my HD2 on near me. So i switch it off... why is this so hard for the alarm to work?
Yeah the alarm sure give us a hell of a problem, it will only be on for a few seconds and its off again, the first day i shutdown my phone and i didnt know that the alarm didnt work if u shut off the phone, and luckly i have my n73 to wake me up... does anyone have any good solution for this...
thank you...
My last 4 phones were samsung phones and I used the Blocking mode all the time at night when I am on call. Now that I have the OPO i was wondering if you all know of another good program that works like Blocking mode. I always let it allow calls as I had to take call. Just trying to find something that is like it.
While I am at it, i got used to the samsung s planner widget. Now I also need to find another good calender widget. If you know of one please let me know.
Thanks in Advance.
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My last 4 phones were samsung phones and I used the Blocking mode all the time at night when I am on call. Now that I have the OPO i was wondering if you all know of another good program that works like Blocking mode. I always let it allow calls as I had to take call. Just trying to find something that is like it.
While I am at it, i got used to the samsung s planner widget. Now I also need to find another good calender widget. If you know of one please let me know.
Thanks in Advance.
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This would belong to q&a,
What do you mean by blocking?
Quiet hours?
If you mean them, they are available under "sound"
If you mean blacklist, this is under privacy!
I use business calendar pro, really nice
Geri
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Blocking mode, is that like silent hour? Samsung got inspired by that mode a few years ago, so it's here.
Oh nice. Thanks for the info. That was what I was looking for. I will have to check out business calendar pro.
Thanks
Yeah you are looking for quiet mode. It's one of those features you expect every modern phone or ROM to have.
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Well im back to see if anyone may know of an app that works better on then the build in version. On the samsung phones I could make it a quick short cut on the menu screen to turn off and on blocking mode. On the OPO right now I have to go into settings. Plus if I turn off sounds it still turns my alarm off. Samsung did that right i must say. Hoping to see if any others have any other suggestions. I really hope they can work on this mode.
well I now have it in my pull down menu so that is a start. right now only pay for me to make sure its off so i can get my alarm is if i have the mode turn off 5mins till my alarm. That will work for now but its a bit more complicated then it was on the samsung phones.
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Well im back to see if anyone may know of an app that works better on then the build in version. On the samsung phones I could make it a quick short cut on the menu screen to turn off and on blocking mode. On the OPO right now I have to go into settings. Plus if I turn off sounds it still turns my alarm off. Samsung did that right i must say. Hoping to see if any others have any other suggestions. I really hope they can work on this mode.
well I now have it in my pull down menu so that is a start. right now only pay for me to make sure its off so i can get my alarm is if i have the mode turn off 5mins till my alarm. That will work for now but its a bit more complicated then it was on the samsung phones.
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It does not turn off my alarm... Any screenshots?
I like it at the pulldown menu... The quiet hours are turned on automatically from 0-6 o'clock...
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I've updated my G2 yesterday and missed my alarm this mourning!! Putting the phone into silent mode during the night apparently will also silence the alarms, which is just rubbish!! I've noticed there's something about muting everything except priority stuff but I don't see the alarm in it.
How does one goes about this?? Or should I just turn the phone off during the night?
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I've updated my G2 yesterday and missed my alarm this mourning!! Putting the phone into silent mode during the night apparently will also silence the alarms, which is just rubbish!! I've noticed there's something about muting everything except priority stuff but I don't see the alarm in it.
How does one goes about this?? Or should I just turn the phone off during the night?
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OK so when it hit the sound button on the notification bar, twice, to get to the do not disturb it says "no interruptions, not even for alarms. For alarms, set to priority only" But I don't see that option.
Found it. In sound settings, go to do not disturb, hit call and notifications. Then you get all, none, or priority only. But grrr, at night I used to hit (on KK) the LED and quiet mode quick button. Now many more hits, maybe that can be added with a mod.
Just found out too I don't get fast charge with AC plug.
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Found it. In sound settings, go to do not disturb, hit call and notifications. Then you get all, none, or priority only. But grrr, at night I used to hit (on KK) the LED and quiet mode quick button. Now many more hits, maybe that can be added with a mod.
Just found out too I don't get fast charge with AC plug.
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Yeah, I'm not trusting myself with this way of doing things. I bet I'll fail do it properly or forget it altogether more times than not.
I think I still have fast charge but I'm not liking Lollipop at all so far. Colour schemes, the weather app, no lunching stuff from lock screen, this nonsense alarm thing... I think I'm just going back to 20y and wait until some effort is put into this.
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Yeah, I'm not trusting myself with this way of doing things. I bet I'll fail do it properly or forget it altogether more times than not.
I think I still have fast charge but I'm not liking Lollipop at all so far. Colour schemes, the weather app, no lunching stuff from lock screen, this nonsense alarm thing... I think I'm just going back to 20y and wait until some effort is put into this.
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I was thinking the same but that makes me sound old! (This new fangled technology The ironic thing, I'm an EE and software dev.
I found the quick way, this is too easy... Hit a volume button...
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I was thinking the same but that makes me sound old! (This new fangled technology The ironic thing, I'm an EE and software dev.
I found the quick way, this is too easy... Hit a volume button...
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Well, I consider myself old, so I'm untitled to go back and scream at those damn kids playing on the lawn... something good as to come out of it!!
Hit the volume button... yeap, there's the priority mode!! I still don't like how you young lads go about this but I'll give it a try. Well spotted, that man!!