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Screen lock/unlock dodgy

I am either going nuts or this is a common isue:
Normally when you tap "lock" on home screen the brightness diminishes and the phone is locked. To unlock, you have to tap "unlock" on the lower left side of the screen, hen you get a message telling you to tap again unlock in the middle of the screen and its unlocked.
Well, my Polaris only does this sequence sometimes. Especially if I let it go in standby for a couple minutes, as soon as I press any key I get another story:
In lower left corner of screen I have the word" cancel". Tapping it doesn't give me another "unlock" button on screen and the phone remains locked. I have to put it in standby from the power button and then try again to get the normal unlock behaviour.
Anyone else experiences this?

Nobody? So everybody's unlock feature works like it should?
Then I think it's reset time for my Polaris....

I personally don't use, the device lock feature... Just the standby, whith the HW buttons off... and it works just fine for me

I have noticed that when you press the central button in the TC, what you describe is what exactly happens. But this happens to me only when I do that. If a tap the screen without touching the button, I have the normal behaviour.

Yes, exactly.
@gnick: if I use the standby with HW keys lock it works ok for me also.
The issue is only with the HTC Home lock feature and the central key

dtancu said:
I am either going nuts or this is a common isue:
Normally when you tap "lock" on home screen the brightness diminishes and the phone is locked. To unlock, you have to tap "unlock" on the lower left side of the screen, hen you get a message telling you to tap again unlock in the middle of the screen and its unlocked.
Well, my Polaris only does this sequence sometimes. Especially if I let it go in standby for a couple minutes, as soon as I press any key I get another story:
In lower left corner of screen I have the word" cancel". Tapping it doesn't give me another "unlock" button on screen and the phone remains locked. I have to put it in standby from the power button and then try again to get the normal unlock behaviour.
Anyone else experiences this?
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Yes, but very rarely and even then when I press Cancel the normal lock screen resumes and I unlock in the normal way. I have "Do not lock all buttons" selected in the Key Lock settings. Don’t know if this is significant.

2 stages for screen lock?
I use my TC while riding motorcycle, so I want several apps (TomTom, gps tracking [gps.run]), music [was WMP, but now Coreplayer] and TellmeText) running and the screen off so as to save battery power.
If you press the power button when key lock is on it will turn the display completely off, and *most* programs will keep running. TomTom is a notable exception- it stops working, presumably because it can no longer access the gps?. But better behaved/next generation GPS apps such as run.gps continue to run. WMP, bless its pathetic cotton socks, seems to work sometimes!
Are these inconsistecies uinique to my unit, or known quirks?
Anyone suggest a app that will turn the screen off and allow ALL open apps to run, including TomTom?
Thanks

I don't know how you're operating any of the buttons on the TC with riding gloves on!!

hambola said:
I don't know how you're operating any of the buttons on the TC with riding gloves on!!
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anyone got anything more useful to add to what was a serious comment/Q

Man, the battery life sucks on this device So my quest on how to turn the screen completely off and lock the keys properly while running all software (especially GPS based such as TomTom) continues....
Anyone know of a 3rd party app that will do this?
I have not read all 200 pages, but it seems there are mixed results for running S2U2 on the Touch Cruise (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353008) ? Anyone having success?
Thanks

I know its late but I just saw this and thought I would mention that I managed to over come using TomTom without the device being on. However it doesnt save much on power as the GPS device need power to work.
But I using a simple function I wrote in my application to lock the device using the standard device lock API calls and then rather than switchingthe device into sleep mode (off) I switched it into IDLE mode, which is basically just switching the screen off, the device lock prevents any unwanted button presses.
The power button would just return this back to normal.
I have not yet worked out how to stop the device brightness changing when the screen lock is enabled on the device... :/ Which is my next task.

Ramakin...
well that would be great because even saving having the screen dimmed during lock would help battery life. And, pressing the power button to resume would be MUCH easier than stabbing around at in the sun trying to unlock the screen. It would also make TomTom behave like all other 21C GPS applications, i.e. run on idle.
So, can you send details?
During a recent motorbike trip where I just used TomTom and tracking software (even turned the phone off) I was SHOCKED at how crap the battery life was

How to turn Backlight OFF

Hello,
i am using my touch cruise (or better o2 xda orbit 2) for navigating on my bike.
I use it in my pocket, only listening. After some research and testing i found a way to use tomtom with locked screen.
I now want to turn the backlight off because of power consumption. But when locked the backlight is only turned to minimum, not off. How can i turn off the backlight completely ?
I tried several tools which turns the whole display off. This works fine with all applications except tomtom, i dont know why but as soon as the display is switched off tomtom stops.
So i want to turn at least the backlight completely off, but how can i do that?

remoh said:
Hello,
i am using my touch cruise (or better o2 xda orbit 2) for navigating on my bike.
I use it in my pocket, only listening. After some research and testing i found a way to use tomtom with locked screen.
I now want to turn the backlight off because of power consumption. But when locked the backlight is only turned to minimum, not off. How can i turn off the backlight completely ?
I tried several tools which turns the whole display off. This works fine with all applications except tomtom, i dont know why but as soon as the display is switched off tomtom stops.
So i want to turn at least the backlight completely off, but how can i do that?
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With my older pocketpc's and pocketphone's the backlight could be turned down with pressing the power button for a longer period.
I told it was about 3 sec holding te powerbutton and the backlight stops.
But with the HTC TC i din't tried it yet..and my device is now at the repair centre..so you have to try it.
But when the backlight is down..you don't see a think when ther is enough sun light..so why do you want that..buy a usb car powerplug and you can charge it and use it with full light on!

Does not work (3sec pwr button)
I dont need to see anything on the screen. it will be in my pocket while navigating so theres no need for backlight.
And a car charger on the motorbike - that would need a socket to plug it in.

remoh said:
Does not work (3sec pwr button)
I dont need to see anything on the screen. it will be in my pocket while navigating so theres no need for backlight.
And a car charger on the motorbike - that would need a socket to plug it in.
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Strange with my device it works.
But you can try this software: http://ppcsoft.narod.ru/english/
TDO

TDO said:
Strange with my device it works.
But you can try this software: http://ppcsoft.narod.ru/english/
TDO
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Thanks, i already tried it before. As soon as the screen gets black TomTom stops.
It says it turns the backlight off but as far as i can see it disables the whole screen. And as soon as this happens the f***ing TomTom stops the Navigation.
If i press the pwr button for 3 sec the device asks me if i want to turn it off.

remoh said:
After some research and testing i found a way to use tomtom with locked screen.
I now want to turn the backlight off because of power consumption.
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Hi remoh, I'm having the same problem. Have you found a solution for disabling the backlight by now?
How did you manage to lock the screen and keep TomTom navigating?

Let me get this straight... do you want to turn the screen off (i.e. lock it) or just turn off the backlight (in which case the screen remains active)?
For the second case there should be some options for it in TomTom, but it's primarily for in-car use. (never used TomTom before, it's crap for my country... i'm just basing on iGO)

gnick666 said:
Let me get this straight... do you want to turn the screen off (i.e. lock it) or just turn off the backlight (in which case the screen remains active)?
For the second case there should be some options for it in TomTom, but it's primarily for in-car use. (never used TomTom before, it's crap for my country... i'm just basing on iGO)
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Being able to turning the screen off would be great but just being able to turn off the backlight would be fine also. Tomtom doesn't have an option for this afaik.

Now, thats the second reason i won't use TomTom... if the first wasn't enough
Not even power saving options?

ATT Fuze backlight issue

Hi All,
I have a (strange?) problem with the screen backlight - dont know if this is a feature or a bug? I have the "Auto adjust backlight" checked on (by default). While I connect to my pc (via usb) during autosynch, the screen dims after a certain time - which is good, but the screen backlight does not brighten up when I start using the phone (the phone still being connected to pc via usb). The screen brightens up if I click the power button off and then on but this disconnects the autosynch and reconnect.
Am I missing something?
P.S, I have installed "Autoconfig" and "Diamond Tweak" both, but have not configured anything from there.
Thanks,
pkshr

Any suggestions ....

be patient... people will eventually help you
In the mean time why don't you just turn off auto backlight ?

Hi abc12345,
I am noticing this issue not only during syncing but even when using the phone too. If I use the phone for few minutes the backlight automatically dims even I am still using the phone.
Sorry if this seems a stupid question but why does the power button turn off and on brightens the screen if it has to dim after a while? Is this an expected behaviour? Is unchecking "Auto backlight" the only issue for this?

Is this problem only with my fuze ??

pkshr said:
Is this problem only with my fuze ??
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I have the problem too

Just waiting for a solution..it used to fine with my phone until i installed ThrottleLock0.4.. then the same things happened..i would auto sync my phone and when i would push the power button ..it disconnects the autosync..

same issue here

Programmatically disable backlight

I searched around a bit for this information but all I found was the section of the registry where you can control the backlight brightness. I also tried MBVklight but that doens't seem to do the trick either.
I'm trying to turn off/on the backlight using .NET. I would imagine it requires a P/Invoke so if anyone can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated. I want to do this because hitting the power button disables wifi, so I want wifi to stay on but have the screen off.
Thanks in advance!

Using advanced config 3.3 you can set the wifi to stay on after hitting the power button, which is effectively what you want to do yh? It will cane your battery tho, but its useful for donloading on device

Hmm yeah that would do the trick. Thanks!
I have an old Titan that I'm no longer using so I'm turning it into a bedside alert system in case my regular phone isn't on ring and someone needs to wake me up (I'm in charge of all the servers where I work). It needs to maintain a wifi connection so it can receive the signal but it's constantly plugged in so power isn't a problem.

sorted, no problems and good idea

I installed Advanced Config 3.3 and went into Menu -> More settings -> Connections and checked "Enable Wi-Fi on standby mode" and did a soft reset but it doesn't seem to be working. If I hit the power button on the phone to enter standby the wifi light stops blinking and it stops receiving connections. Is there another setting I'm missing?

mm let me try on mine, ill get back to you.......

Any luck? It's not really a big deal since I modified my application to be full screen with a black background so it would be doing minimal burn in, but I'd still prefer if it was fully off.

[REQ] Prevent standy in applications

I tried looking around and could not find anything.
Is there a tool/app/tweak that prevents certain applications to show the lock screen after a certain amount of time?
I am trying to use Google maps and iGo8 and the device keeps going to the lock screen. I have enabled the option for keep backlight on in iGo but it still does this

bump...kind of impossible to use the sat navs with this happening lol

I turned my security feature off so i dont put a pin in anymore to unlock screen, and so far the screen no longer goes into standby while in igo8 or google maps. This may work for you?

I turned the pin off to test it but it still goes into standby with the lock screen showing up. Also the screen dimming is another thing.
Tomtom so far is the only GPS app that prevents the device from going into standby for me

Vanilla solution:
Go to power settings, uncheck "Turn device off if unused for X minutes".
Better solution:
Install AEBPlus. You can bind a key to turn that feature on/off simply.