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Preventing accidental button pressing

Hi,
I've got a problem with my Trinity, where if it rings and I pull it out of my pocket, sometimes one of the buttons gets pushed as it rubs past the material, so either the call can be hung up on or it gets answered before I can see who's calling.
I also get a similar problem if a calendar alarm goes off, or if there is a text message. Sometimes these can be dismissed before I get a chance to see what is causing the notification.
I guess this is a problem on many PPC phones which dont have a cover. Does anyone else experience this?
Does anyone know of any way to solve this? Perhaps having a secondary lock button which needs to be pressed before the hard buttons become active or something like that...?
I guess it would need some software installed, as I havent found any way to do this through the normal settings.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Cheers,
Ben

My Jasjam comes with a screen lock. Once this is activated you first need to press the unlock button which gets assigned to the left soft key followed by another button on the screen. Quite effective I would say.
Regards

srmz said:
My Jasjam comes with a screen lock. Once this is activated you first need to press the unlock button which gets assigned to the left soft key followed by another button on the screen. Quite effective I would say.
Regards
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Hi,
Is this the same as the "Device Lock"?
My phone has this too, but it doesn't work for when there is an incoming call...ie you dont have to unlock the phone first to press the green "handset" button.
Ben

Hi Ben,
I have been having the same issue as you with my Jasjam. I tried using a hard case which was just too bulky and annoying, so I've since used something like those iPod socks and just keep it in my pocket. I just take extra care when pulling it out so it doesn't knock the green answer key. I think this is just something we're just going to have to get used to unfortunately.

Front Hard Key Issues?????

Anyone have problems with the 4 hard keys on the front of the phone and the scroll wheel? Talking about the att fuze here. Randomly when using the text program it will scroll in and out without stopping. Only way to make it stop is to press the power button to turn the screen off then again to turn the screen back on. Also, when i press the bottom left key to bring up the dialer sometimes it will not and just do nothing. Just as in a phone call i press the bottom right hard key to hang up the call and sometimes it will not respond what so ever.
I know the keys work because when i press them they light up showing i pressed them but they have no effect. This happens about 50% of the time and not at all rom related. I have tried over 8 different roms including those with tf3d2 and wm6.5 and all have the same problem. I have even tried flashing to the stock att rom and even on that rom i am still having this problem. I have never dropped my phone or any physical damage. Any ideas? I have already called warranty exchange and have another fuze on its way to me. I am convinced it has to be hardware related some how since no rom will work 100% for me with these keys. I have had my phone since january and out of the blue this all started about 3 weeks ago.

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I dont have that problem, but sometimes my keys dont work and I have to turn off the screen and turn it back on
sometimes I even have to soft-reset my phone

this is partially because the Left and Right directional button is roughly between the Home/pick up and Back/hang up keys respectively. you have to press more towards the corner otherwise it will register as a left or right press.
another situation is when it is running a bunch of processes in the background it forgets what keys are what and you just have to turn it off and turn it back on (the display) and it should work again. that or open a random program and exit out back into tf3d
goodluck

Actually, I have exactly the problem that you're reporting where the zoom in happens circurlarly, without any ceasing. It's driving me batty.

HTC Touch Pro power on button problem

Hi guys, I find this quite annoying and wish there is a mod for this. I don't know about other HTC Touch Pro owners but i find my fone quite sensitive.........it's "EASILY" turned on by a single "SHORT" press of the power button.
I didn't even hold it for 1 second, if i suddenly press or tap on it really quick, for not even a second, it turns on.
In case ppl don't understand and tell me that maybe my fone was on in the first place but just have the backlight off, and with a single tap on the power button, the backlight goes back on again. I knew that already. But what the problem really is, is that it's totally off, and when i tap the power on button, it turns on, i.e it vibrates and shows the welcome screen and all that other startup animation.
Is there a way to increase the delay of the finger-press on the power button? Coz it's so annoying that it gets turned on when i don't want it to, especially since this fone's weakness is that it hogs battery even though i've already applied tons of tweaks etc to lower the performance and increase battery life......
Oh and i have another problem, i find the signal kinda weak, is there a program or tweak to increase the signal?? Coz on my old phone Sony Ericsson W950i, the signal is great and I never have bad signal problems with it. But using HTC Touch Pro, i have this problem. This only happens when i'm at Uni, but it's not like they have bad reception or signal blockers there like how schools or colleges have. Just that when i'm inside buildings and there're tons of other buildings around, i can't send the txt coz of bad signals and it's bloody annoying, but using my W950i works fine.....
also I noticed that when i type a txt message using the hardware keyboard, it seems to fail to send most of the time, but only when i'm in UNI. But if i switch to the software keyboard, the one that you use ur fingers or stylus, then when i send the message it often works compare to using hardware keyboard.......any ideas?

Problem No 1: Try Touch Lock Pro
Problem No 2: Try to burn the newest RadioROM.

thx but i'm not trying to lock my phone, so i don't think TouchLock Pro is what i need.......

My Raphael turns also on after pressing the power button for a little few moment. With touchlock Pro you can prevent that you mistake your Raphael. I hope you can understand what I write in my "own" english

Ok so i've got it installed now and went through all the settings but couldn't find anything that can delay the power-on button press, I still have this problem. The app is a screen-lock app, there aren't any options regarding to power-on delays.......
plz tell me what settings etc to use.

I've never said that you can fix your problem with TouchLock Pro. With this you prevent to use your Raphael when you press your power button accidentally.

ya but that's only useful when my fone is on and it locks the phone but i'm trying to prevent my fone from turning on in the first place if i accidentally press the power on button for not even 1 second, because then it will turn on and i don't want that.

same problem here...the phone I thought I had turned off was back on, because accidently it got touched by something else in my luggage.
The only solution which to me is unsatisfactory, is to take out the battery so that it cannot power up.
C'mon...there has to be a better solution than this, no???

jewelkobayashi said:
same problem here...the phone I thought I had turned off was back on, because accidently it got touched by something else in my luggage.
The only solution which to me is unsatisfactory, is to take out the battery so that it cannot power up.
C'mon...there has to be a better solution than this, no???
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wow yay finally someone else other than me also report having the same problem, boy am i glad to know that i'm not the only one having this problem, i thought it was just something wrong with my fone and not all HTC Touch Pros....
i can't believe there aren't any results on Google, no forum discussions or solutions to this whatsoever. Also, nobody seemed to report this problem or come up with a solution on XDA as well as other forums i use like PPCgeekz or WMusers etc.........which is odd considering how this problem is quite annoying, that if u suddenly power on the fone by accident, it can drain battery life and god knows HTC Touch Pro has a crap battery life.............

I think that htc has done a bad job testing the powerbutton on the tp2.
There are some other things like weith, thikness and batterylife that could be improved but the powerbutton issue is realy a BIG bug.
Why they didn't make a slidebutton or a timeout between push and activation?
A dobble tap on the powerbutton could also be a solution.
The next rom shoold have a improvement about this button.
People, please react on the powerbutten problem so someone can fix this.
Thanx

jewelkobayashi said:
same problem here...the phone I thought I had turned off was back on, because accidently it got touched by something else in my luggage.
The only solution which to me is unsatisfactory, is to take out the battery so that it cannot power up.
C'mon...there has to be a better solution than this, no???
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Leaving the Touch Pro (Raphael) for some minutes without battery will stop the clock. So, when you put back on the battery and power up the device, the clock will display the wrong time. The time when you remove the battery.

This is hardware related.
Can produced different symptoms though.
Facts Behind the Power Button
If take a look at the inside of the powerbutton, there are 2 points making contact when you press the button. If you press it, the software will recognize this and the screen will turn off.
If you press it long enough you'll get the "QuickShutdown" message.
But, if water/alchohol/liquid gets underneath the button, the 2 points may be making contact, because water/alcohol conducts.
The button is very weak. Due to this, it may not properly work if you have used it for a long time.
As a result, despite the fact that you hit hibernate/sleep/suspend on the hardware power button = yes, the screen fades to black. But IT IS STILL ON. That explains the battery being drained.
Solution:
Open the phone hardware. Clean the power button connector manually.
Disassembling Instructions:http://www.pdacenter.ru/razborka/htc-touch-pro/
Power Button Connector: http://kudryashovda.ru/content/ne-rabotaet-knopka-vklyucheniya-na-htc-diamond

off / on / off on
i heart everyone talking about the sleep of death and to be honest, i havent really experienced this, but i definatley do have an intermitent power on and off button problem on my touch pro 2.
i read on some other forum that it could possibly be the slider that is casuing the problem. but to be honest, the button its self feels fine and looks fineand when i does work it works a treat. i havent had any water damage done to it what so ever. so im not sure , i am new too all this self help mobile stuff. so please excuse my ignorance. Ive doen the usual hard reset, button works for a few hours then calls it a day. soft rest, was working up until this week. i cant get ot to boot up again, while fiddling with the batter and a power lead. but the power button is so intermitent its driving me nuts. id be so grateful if anyone could shine any form of light on this. thanks in advance

answer/end panel issue.

Hello guys, I have one raphael, and it started a very stupid issue, and this makes me crazy because in the principals times I need to use it, happens that the Panel wich have the answer button, the end button, the house and the back-arrow buttons also, and in the midle have the circular button, wich there are 4 mini arrows, (left,right,up,down), always I press the house and the answer buttons, it is working as left arrow, and the <- with the end button working as right arrow.
I always percepted it, but now it is happening all times, all times I need to press the answe button to go the phone it keeps working as the arrow, surfing on the tf3d.
I need the original configurations of the buttons, I cant persist with it, What should I do?

im pretty sure that bottom area gets messed up over time.
mine now only works with each area whenever it wants.
sometimes all work great.sometimes 3 do sometimes none.
my buddy had a fuze for about a week when the whole bottom panel stopped working for good
usually for me a soft reset helps

I made so much soft resets!
It doesnt work, do you think a hard reset?
What a hell could I do now?

oh my god
could anybody be helpful with me?
I'm needing this help
my fuze is stopping working as phone

that is not descriptive. what doesnt work

the panel
the four butttons on the panel
(house,back,call/answer, end)
It has started messing a long time, and now messed forever, I can make a soft reset than it keeps asking crazily these buttons, everytime as arrow left or arrow right
I need to configure the house as house
the phone(answer/call) as phone
the end call as end call!

basmareck, are you running a custom ROM?

I am running the official raphael's ROM, downloaded on the official website of HTC.
The error is in the panel, at the four buttons, the send/answer button is working as left arrow all the time.
It is messed up!

damnit!
no helps for me, its making me mad

its faulty. youve had it under a year right? get it fixed

Have you tried a hard reset or reflashing the stock rom? What about cleaning the panel? I believe there are only two buttons under that panel, one on the left and one on the right, and the function is dictated by the capacitative nature of it, so maybe it's dirty? I'd say if a hard reset or reflash doesn't fix it, try to seek a warranty exchange.
Also, are you using any programs that make the scroll whell work as something else like SensorScorll? That has a setting to enable touch so you wouldn't need to push down to use the arrows, maybe that got switched somehow to be persistant with everything? I'd give that a check too.

Raphael typing issues(keyboard button problems), volume down button stuck

Problems that I cannot find on google. Not sure if it's due to wear & tear. Not sure what's the problem, suddenly having this problem all the time. This phone's slightly less than 1.5 years. Anyone got the same issues? What's caused this? Using it for a year with no problems, problems only arose these 3 months!
Mods installed:
Raphael Keyboard Controller GSM/CDMA v1.4 (mapped quite a few keys to apps)
DredSensor (use it only when i activate manila. Now i dont use manila so it's disabled)
mobileSRC Gscroll (disabled. of no use to me)
1.
Volume down key got stuck, the clicking mechanism is spoilt, but pressing it down very hard & sometimes volume down works. But this is very problematic as i have to press volume up & see the volume control on the screen before i can lower the volume.
2.
Keyboard keys giving problems. (wiring problems? or the button problems?)
Caps lock: double presses although i press it once
Space: Does not space although i press it. works 50% of the time is very frustrating to type!
Backspace: Same as Space
FN: Same as Space but only 20% of the time
Right direction key: Same problem as space!

Help?
Anyone has this issue??

Help
Uninstalled Gscroll & keyboard config. Soft resetted. I only noticed the phone speed increase slightly as the keyboard config takes up a lot of cpu power, and about 10MB of RAM. The keys still are giving me the same problems.

Still facing this issue. Anyone could help?

I have similar issues. Double space-ing, "b" "v" "ctrl" gets doubled or not pressed at all. I thought soft reset would help, but since you already did that, I guess it's
wonderous said:
Not sure if it's due to wear & tear.
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this.
What I am wondering about is whether to try waranty repair.

I have gone through two fuzes with keyboard issues. As long as water tab is fine warranty should work fine for it. My carrier and maybe HTC seem to be in complete control of determining if it is the physical damage (your fault) and null and voiding the warranty.
Anyway your issue would sound hardware related to me. In which case you can try warranty, insurance, or repair. Repair is not as simple as replacing just the keyboard, I believe you need the whole case. Unless I a mistaken that was roughly $140 USD when I tried to find one for myself.

I think I might have found the solution,
The thread mentioned quite a number of people who's keyboard/keys stopped working after they dropped their raphael
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=62876&highlight=keyboard+replacement
Seems like there some wires lying underneath the keyboard (one of them under the center of the keyboard (g, h, v, b keys). Pressing down hard on these keys might press the wire back to it's intact position. I tried that & now my space bar works fine, although the other keys remain problematic..
Let me see if opening up and reconnecting the wire properly would solve this problems..
We should avoid dropping this phone as much as possible, i dont think HTC put much effort into their drop tests, this phone is way too heavy to survive drops Imo