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Windows Mobile 6.5 - Lock Screen is slow

Hi,
I have installed the latest WM6.5 Build 21725 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=513605) on my HTC Touch Pro.
But I have a problem (which occurs on all tested roms) with the lock screen: I lock the device. The lock screen appears fast and is immediately responsible. But when I go to suspend mode (by waiting or pressing the power key) and then let wake up the device, I have always to wait a lot of time until the lock screen is responsible to unlock the device. This is very annoying and I want to fix that "bug". Can anybody help me?

Same here. And does anyone know how to remap one of the softkeys to lock the screen? Instead of have to push start >> lock?

i had this with a 6.5 rom
what i did was after i turn backlight on i quickly press the hangup buttton and then the slide works fine
this may have to do until the rom becomes more stable

-PiLoT- said:
i had this with a 6.5 rom
what i did was after i turn backlight on i quickly press the hangup buttton and then the slide works fine
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Thanks for your tip, but it doesn't work

Sorry this was gibberish

then im sorry i cant help
all i can do is ask youve tried this on a 6.1 based rom

this is a knowing trouble because of the beta
Hey pilot... this is a real kick on the ass cause nobody answer this many times users needs a third party app to lock their devices... i didnt lock my device... i just turn it off and disable all the buttons you see... its like a locked simply and crapy phone function.

well i know it looks good que but the problem i had was after a while in standby the buttton would shift to any side however i know the phone wasnt crashed due to the little arrow animatiuons kept going as normal all i did was tap the phone down button and then it worked as it should mind you this was davie ducks v8 on the hd

I figured out that the lock screen is immediately responsible if you set a password. But I don't want to slide AND then type a password

just slide the time bar at the below screen before slide the lock :| i got this bug after upgrading into a 6.5 rom :| now it's done by myself :">

remember at the time of the OPs question 6.5 was very buggy
a lot of the latest releases are a lot better

Laggy
I also have this laggy problem when clicking the right key to bring up unlock screen, takes a while for the unlock screen to appear.
Was looking at ThrottleLock which looks good, but not compatible with 6.5.
I hate iphones so don't want S2U2 !!
Looking forward to update

Correction
Correction, just tried an older version of throttlelock app 0.6, and it works with windows mobile 6.5

Is there some way to just turn the lock screen off? I hate how slow it is on my backup phone, an LG KS20

You may have it in settings-personal, if not, go to HKLM\software\microsoft\shell\lockscreen, and change 'enable' from 1 to 0. Then, you'll have to old-style lockscreen. If you want to see the lockscreen settings applet, then change 'ShowLockScreenPicker' from 0 to 1. You may need to soft reset (but you may not).

Farmer Ted said:
You may have it in settings-personal, if not, go to HKLM\software\microsoft\shell\lockscreen, and change 'enable' from 1 to 0. Then, you'll have to old-style lockscreen. If you want to see the lockscreen settings applet, then change 'ShowLockScreenPicker' from 0 to 1. You may need to soft reset (but you may not).
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Thanks Ted! Works perfectly, for some reason the Lock Screen settings applet won't show, but that's not important as the first registry key solves my problem.

Yeah one way is to set back original WM5x/6/6.1 LockScreen but I have solved it another way... Maybe you have noticed that the new WM6.5 lock screen has delay ONLY on first run so what about put a shortcut to "\Windows\Startup" to lock device on startup (http://www.vijay555.com/?Releases:VJDeviceLock - working also with WM6.5)? I mostly don't need to use the device in first seconds after startup so everything necessary can load to memory and then after unlocking my device is everything relatively fast ;-) BTW you can set lockings with tool named Smart Lock (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505032).

bkf1 said:
Yeah one way is to set back original WM5x/6/6.1 LockScreen but I have solved it another way... Maybe you have noticed that the new WM6.5 lock screen has delay ONLY on first run so what about put a shortcut to "\Windows\Startup" to lock device on startup (http://www.vijay555.com/?Releases:VJDeviceLock - working also with WM6.5)? I mostly don't need to use the device in first seconds after startup so everything necessary can load to memory and then after unlocking my device is everything relatively fast ;-) BTW you can set lockings with tool named Smart Lock (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505032).
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The problem with the 6.5 lockscreen is that it kills gwes.exe (at least in my experience). Do a soft reset, open up a task manager and look at gwes.exe. With dotfred's, I'll start at maybe 15 MB, and as soon as I open the lockscreen (I get the delay, too), the gwes usage jumps by about 6 MB, and none of the ram is released. It makes my device buggy over time. Gwes.exe is bloated enough with 6.5.3 roms, you really don't need the lockscreen killing it like that.
I don't know if it's an issue on a stock rom, but the cooked ones have problems. In the 6.5 cooking thread, Da_G said a while ago that it had to do with how most kitchens compile roms. They compress all files the same way, and ignore flags in the dsm's that say whether or not a file should be compressed. He's said that cooking an uncompressed rom fixes the problem. I've tried making a cab of the lockscreen and running it that way, but I still get the initial delay and the 6 MB ram-tax on gwes.exe, so whatever is breaking the lockscreen during cooking because of the forced compression isn't in the lockscreen packages. Anyway, the lockscreen is cool, but I personally hate what it does to gwes.exe, so I don't use it.

What your saying about cooked vs. stock is likely correct, as I had briefly owned an HTC Pure (ATT branded Diamond 2), which shipped with 6.5, and there were absolutely no delays with the lock screen. On the other hand, I still haven't flashed 6.5 onto my X1, so I don't know if its just that my LG can't handle the lockscreen with its 400mhz qualcomm.

Black screen where TF3D should be at startup..

I'm not sure what happened, but I've been noticing that now when I boot up my VZW TP2, the launching touchflo 3d screen pops up, then goes away and there is nothing but a black background and the windows taskbar.
The black screen looks like a program with an all black background and no text/content, it has an X in the upper right hand corner and I can click that X to reveal TF3D.. I can also click anywhere on the screen and/or END key and reveal TF3D.
This happens at startup every time now.
Things I've done since I noticed the problem;
Installed HDBoobs
Installed Diamond Halogram w/ ATi Graphics Driver
Put HTCAPI.dll in the \windows\ directory
Installed .NET CF 3.5
Installed Schap's Registry Editor
Installed J.S. Advanced Configuration Tool 3.3
Installed Ilium Software Screen Capture
Installed Windows Live (newest version)
Installed Microsoft Facebook Application
Did '7MP Panorama' Tweak
Did 'Reveal 5 Hidden Camera Settings' Tweak
Things I've done after noticing the problem;
Installed Microsoft ICS
Installed Garmin MobileXT
Did 'Close Opera with X instead of minimize' registry mod
Did 'ResProxy ShareMemSize=0' registry mod
Installed NoPushInternet
EDIT 1:
I've now removed;
'ResProxy ShareMemSize=0' registry mod (slowed me down too much)
HDBoobs
Diamond Halogram w/ ATi Graphics Driver
Nothing has changed.
EDIT 2:
I had it setup to be password protected. After removing the password option and soft-resetting, the problem is gone. Is this a bug? Is there a fix for this? I know it seems minuscule, but this isn't how it should work and I want to fix it
I'd like to avoid doing a hard reset if possible.. so any advice, other than 'ignore it' would be appreciated.

I think that I have the same thing happening. I don't think that it was like this out of the box, but I'm not sure when it started. Basically, my phone loads showing the taskbar at the top and the two soft keys at the bottom. Everything in between is black. If I touch the screen, then the TouchFlo stuff shows up. After that, it's fine.
I do have a lock code enabled. It was forced by an Exchange Server policy. Not sure if this "issue" arose at that point or not.

I asked the same question here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=560636
Seems to be related to having the PIN lock enabled. I too am required to use this for work reasons, and have not found a way to get TF3D to display on boot up without having to touch the screen.

SecretAgentMan said:
I think that I have the same thing happening. I don't think that it was like this out of the box, but I'm not sure when it started. Basically, my phone loads showing the taskbar at the top and the two soft keys at the bottom. Everything in between is black. If I touch the screen, then the TouchFlo stuff shows up. After that, it's fine.
I do have a lock code enabled. It was forced by an Exchange Server policy. Not sure if this "issue" arose at that point or not.
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This is exactly what is happening to mine..
Sublimedelta9 said:
I asked the same question here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=560636
Seems to be related to having the PIN lock enabled. I too am required to use this for work reasons, and have not found a way to get TF3D to display on boot up without having to touch the screen.
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At least we're not alone.. now it's a known issue, hopefully someone will look further into it (since I don't know how to fix it)
-mak

Here too
First I installed XDA shutdown to perform soft resets. Then the memmaid demo to further my efforts to be clean & mean. Just installed s-k-tools to my HTC Sprint Touch Pro 2 (because memmaid demo misreported my memory!)and after running clean I'm getting cprog.exe & sktools.exe errors and now "bluetooth stack failed to load" -my friggin bluetooth wont load. Only other non stock thing is Duttys disable push internet. Did I make a mistake in purchasing this tweakware? Can I rectify these situations without a hard reset? Somewhere along the way the black screen thing occurred too.

Grindscorelink said:
First I installed XDA shutdown to perform soft resets. Then the memmaid demo to further my efforts to be clean & mean. Just installed s-k-tools to my HTC Sprint Touch Pro 2 (because memmaid demo misreported my memory!)and after running clean I'm getting cprog.exe & sktools.exe errors and now "bluetooth stack failed to load" -my friggin bluetooth wont load. Only other non stock thing is Duttys disable push internet. Did I make a mistake in purchasing this tweakware? Can I rectify these situations without a hard reset? Somewhere along the way the black screen thing occurred too.
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Do you have a password-required device lock setup? If so, and you're getting the black-screen issue just after you unlock your phone when you first boot it up (from an off state), then you're probably in the same boat as us..
-mak

Same issue here.... yes I have a PIN lock code.

brent372 said:
Same issue here.... yes I have a PIN lock code.
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interesting. I don't have the code, and I've never seen this. Then again other software installed might make a difference.
WTF is HDBoobs?

LOL... I had the same question.

Believe it or not . . .
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-hdboobs.html

Sprint Touch Pro 2 ScreenLock

Drives me crazy that microsoft wouldent think to program the lock to automatically come on when put into standby ?
who wants to click start then lock everytime they set there phone down doesnt make any sense i am here to try and find i solution with some help ?
i noticed that if you put a password the lock works perfectly so my idea is to find a way or someone tell me a way to set my phone up with a password then erase that password so it simply does not ask for it after i slide to unlock ?
any ideas.

I prefer TouchLockPro.

there is a cab around here or ppc geeks thats i have used to solve this idiotic problem. dhr lockdevice. try it out works good

her ya go pulled it off my device

tseidel said:
Drives me crazy that microsoft wouldent think to program the lock to automatically come on when put into standby ?
who wants to click start then lock everytime they set there phone down doesnt make any sense i am here to try and find i solution with some help ?
i noticed that if you put a password the lock works perfectly so my idea is to find a way or someone tell me a way to set my phone up with a password then erase that password so it simply does not ask for it after i slide to unlock ?
any ideas.
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You can also program the END key such that a long press will lock the phone. To do so, go into all settings, personal folder, buttons and the long press tab.

ajkron said:
her ya go pulled it off my device
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thank you worked like i wanted i dnt understand y this wouldent be a default feature of the phone ?

well in the mean time i figured this out while trying to solve this if your like to change left soft key on the home screen
HKLM.Software.Manilla
HomeLSKPath - windows/EndKey.exe
HomeLSKText - lock
note have to set lock to hold end key and described above

it is a registry setting edit...
goto: "HKCU/controlpanel/keybd" change the value for "DeviceLockWhenSuspended" from 0 to 1

isleepinabucket said:
it is a registry setting edit...
goto: "HKCU/controlpanel/keybd" change the value for "DeviceLockWhenSuspended" from 0 to 1
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have you tried that on the sprint touch pro 2 ? cus it didnt work for i seen that somewhere it may have been controlpanel.backlight

tseidel said:
have you tried that on the sprint touch pro 2 ? cus it didnt work for i seen that somewhere it may have been controlpanel.backlight
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i never tried it on Sprint version... however for most of the ones out there it does... it also depends on what rom you are running...

isleepinabucket said:
i never tried it on Sprint version... however for most of the ones out there it does... it also depends on what rom you are running...
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yea tried it after hard reset didnt work that setting was allready set to 1 for some reason but i have seen that before however the cab attached up top devicelock v1.6 works perfectly thank you

Automatically activate speaker when placing phone face down

On my old Rhodium TP2 there was a feature to automatically activate speaker when placing phone face down. Is that possible with HD2?

Err... yeah. You just place it face down

johncmolyneux said:
Err... yeah. You just place it face down
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LOLLLL
didn't know that

It never worked for me for some reason. It could be disabled but I can't find the setting to turn it on. Anyway, I am planing to do a hard reset this weekend and see if that feature is back.

ma6inista said:
It never worked for me for some reason. It could be disabled but I can't find the setting to turn it on. Anyway, I am planing to do a hard reset this weekend and see if that feature is back.
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I can only assume it will be there after a hard reset, as it's something I've used countless times and have never had to enable it. (I seem to remember reading it in the manual too!)

Confirmed working with Dutty's ML series ROMs.

It does not work for me. WWE ROM. I just did a hard reset.

Always worked for me on Stock 1.66 ROM.

Working on Axlor.
Weird this, ive always wanted it!
and just never tried it

joshzzz2001 said:
It does not work for me. WWE ROM. I just did a hard reset.
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that's strange. the feature is documented in the HD2 manual, so it at least works on all stock ROMs. If not, approach HTC support.

i'd say if it doesn't work, its something related to a flashed rom and a setting more than anything else

Turing On Speaker While Facing Up More Useful
I would rather somehow have the proximity sensor turn the spearkers on while the phone is facing up because it would be nice to multi-task and take notes or update my contacts while I am talking to that person/business. For example, a business gives me an RMA so I would have to edit my notes for that contact and enter the RMA number. I can't do this while the phone is faced down.

yea the speaker function works the same on mine as on the TP2

Is there a setting or reg key that I can change to enable this? (doesn't work on Artemis 6.0)

ma6inista said:
On my old Rhodium TP2 there was a feature to automatically activate speaker when placing phone face down. Is that possible with HD2?
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Maybe it's too late and you already found the solution but here it goes for other people:
To turn the HD2's speaker on do one of these:
1 - Long press phone button (furtherest left)
2 - Turn it upside down
3 - On the call screen slide down & press the speaker's button

Lock Screen

Hey all,
I recently unlocked, rooted, and flashed the ViperXL ROM. Pretty great experience overall aside from the user error on my part...
Quick question about my lock screen. Because I work in IT, my works exchange server requires a password or a passcode to unlock the phone if it sits for longer than 15 minutes with no activity. This is fine typically, but on this ROM I am having a problem with the keypad formatting when typing in my code. On the stock version when I went to type my pin the keypad came up as a single keypad, simple. Now when it asks me for a pin it comes up with a keypad, but on the right side there are a bunch of special characters that I don't need. This would be fine if it didn't make the keypad incredibly small in the process. I'm used to a large numpad that I can type in with one thumb using one hand. I find myself needing two hands so that i can be precise enough to hit the numbers accurately.
Does anyone know how to get the simple numpad back for the lockscreen pin entry? I am using swiftkey as well.
Thanks all!

Quick update. I found out that the issue is being had on many One X's running the Swiftkey3.
The screen appears like so:

jd101506 said:
Quick update. I found out that the issue is being had on many One X's running the Swiftkey3.
The screen appears like so:
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so if you use the stock KB it's as you like?

cr1960 said:
so if you use the stock KB it's as you like?
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Yes. When I switch back to the stock keyboard I get the attached image.
Apparently it's an issue of swift key itself and not the rom. It is weird though, my stock ICS rom worked perfectly with my swift key lock numpad.

I have yet to find a fix, so I am going to chalk it up to Swiftkey not displaying the correct keypad at the right time. I'll wait for their fix to come out and see.