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Autolock

Hello,
I am looking for a program that automatically locks my touch pro as soon as I put it in standy, with the on/off button. Because normally my phone is on vibrate and when I take him out of my pocket again it has typed text messages, called people etc etc.
Thanks!
Bob

Search for S2U2, Pocketshield, Throttle Lock, Touch Pro Lock... There are plenty of these programs on XDA.

You can also use AdvancedConfig to enable autolock if you don't want to install any 3rd party software.

bubble said:
You can also use AdvancedConfig to enable autolock if you don't want to install any 3rd party software.
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what setting in adv config? I don't see one that controls screen lock. Am I just blind?

chrisjaffe said:
what setting in adv config? I don't see one that controls screen lock. Am I just blind?
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I hate to report that yes, you are lol. It's under the "Screen" set of options in Advanced Config. Once you enable it, it's exactly wat ur looking for, no need for other battery draining 3rd party apps lol

since this thread is already started, i didn't want to start another one. does anyone know of any way (like tweak) to prevent the built-in autolock feature from minimizing all programs? for example, i'll be on opera, have to get sumwhere quickly so I press the power button to put on standby and enable the autolock, and when I turn teh screen back on, the TF3D Home screen is showing, and opera will be minimized. can get pretty annoying if ur in the middle of doing something important on the phone lol

nitroblu said:
I hate to report that yes, you are lol. It's under the "Screen" set of options in Advanced Config. Once you enable it, it's exactly wat ur looking for, no need for other battery draining 3rd party apps lol
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I'm not seeing it either. Version 3.3 and only thing under screen related to lock deals with the backlight.

KCMatt said:
I'm not seeing it either. Version 3.3 and only thing under screen related to lock deals with the backlight.
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Whew!! I thought I was going nuts. I was sure that it was not there. I was using NATF's 2.2 ROM and installed ADV config 3.3. There was not an auto lock option. However, this week I flashed to RRE's v4.4 ROM which has adv config preinstalled and there is an option for Auto Lock and to set the delay. I am pretty sure that they were both version 3.3 so i am not sure what happenend.
Oh well. It is there now.
cj

i am using pdacorner rom v17, and in advcfg, there isn't any autolock, in screen, What should i do

In ACT 3.3.0.0 under Screen, the 4th item is called "Auto device lock". Put it in Enable and you have what you want

I'm not seeing the option for 'Auto Device Lock' either, and I'm running Advanced Config 3.3.0.0 as well.

I have downloaded advanced config 3.3 from schaps and it does not give me the option to set the autolock either. I have also used a version packaged with RRE's 4.4 ROM and that did have the option. So I must be doing something wrong but i am not sure what.
But if you want to set it you can always try Diamond Tweak. that gives you the autolock option also.
Hope this helps
cj

Yes, thanks very much for the tip about Diamond Tweak. That worked perfect.

The only problem with this autolock feature is that it's still pretty easy to answer a call inadvertently. Ohter screen locks make it more difficult to answer a call by accident.

I can't get AutoLock Screen v 1.7 to start... I've installed it, soft-reset, made the settings, pressing the "Cancel" button...
...and my OMNIA is getting locked with the "traditional" way, the left bottom button "Locked" appearing and if I'm pressing it another button in the middle of the screen appears.
WHERE IS THE BLOODY AutoLock Screen v 1.7??? Why doesn't starts?

WMP doens't play next song when screen turned off.

I open up WMP, go to the Library, Menu->Open File, and I select a music file from a directory full of music files. Normally if I leave it when it finishes playing the song it will move on to play another song in the same directory with shuffle.
However if I turn off the screen when it's in the middle of a song, it will continue playing the song but when it finishes it will not move on to another. It will only continue when I turn on the screen again.
Is this some weird default behavior, should it be happening? Can I override this?

There is a place where you can change hot key settings, there is a key setting for the screen. Hope that solves your problem.

Thanks! That worked.
One more thing though, I am using a 6.5ROM and Titanium has a lovely WMP plugin. I find it quite convenient to control the playing song from there - so is there a way to turn off the screen the same way when viewing the Today screen so that when I turn it on again I see Titanium?

noidtluom said:
Thanks! That worked.
One more thing though, I am using a 6.5ROM and Titanium has a lovely WMP plugin. I find it quite convenient to control the playing song from there - so is there a way to turn off the screen the same way when viewing the Today screen so that when I turn it on again I see Titanium?
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The best I can come up with is use a hardware button to launch a "Screen Off" app. You should just be able to Bing or Google "Screen Off .cab" and find something free. Have you tried Locking then waiting for the screen to Time-Out? maybe the screen will just dim, my guess.

erickbryce said:
... Have you tried Locking then waiting for the screen to Time-Out? maybe the screen will just dim, my guess.
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Thats what I do with Sat Nav, works a treat. No point having the screen on when its in my pocket (im on a motorbike using handsfree to listen to instructions).

Nifty, I guess locking then waiting for the screen to time out is good enough for me. No sense in getting some extra program and binding it to another key.
Thanks

How to make corepalyer play in standby?

Hi guys
How can I make corepalyer plays in standby?

play in standy? or play with the screen off?

Aegishua said:
play in standy? or play with the screen off?
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in standby I mean.
i know there's a blank screen function in coreplayer but it's drianing all o my battery and it's difficult to select every time.

Well, if its in standby.. that means the CPU activity will be minimised or completely inactive. When the screen is off, thats a completely different story because the CPU can play the music. So, if your battery is draining too fast you should consider buying an extended battery or using a less power hungry media player.

Aegishua said:
Well, if its in standby.. that means the CPU activity will be minimised or completely inactive. When the screen is off, thats a completely different story because the CPU can play the music. So, if your battery is draining too fast you should consider buying an extended battery or using a less power hungry media player.
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So how can I turn the screen off
I dont mean the blank screen function
Is there another way?

Use the xda-devs search and try to find a lockscreen or toggle screen app and you'll need to use the key mapper to bind a key function to run that app.. im not sure how well it may work since coreplayers inbuilt screen off function doesnt seem to effective. you may want to try a different media player like pocket player, nitrogen or S2P

Aegishua said:
Use the xda-devs search and try to find a lockscreen or toggle screen app and you'll need to use the key mapper to bind a key function to run that app.. im not sure how well it may work since coreplayers inbuilt screen off function doesnt seem to effective. you may want to try a different media player like pocket player, nitrogen or S2P
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Thank you
But I didn't have this problem with my previous rom.

Try a different ROM then, some are very power hungry

cmstackar said:
Try a different ROM then, some are very power hungry
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Would you mind if you suggest one?

But I have another question
When you press the power button coreplayer stop working but manilla of some other apps don't
So is there anyway to make cpu threat with coreplayer just like the others?or even the playe of manilla?

I dont have this problem and i think its due to installing SRS WOW HD version 1.5.1.0.
It gives more options for sound quality and imo sounds a lot better than the stock that comes with the TD2. Plus by the looks of it, it seems to put it into that so called "whitelist" as i had the problem with stock 6.5 rom and then one day the problem just fixed itself. It seemed to match the time when i installed on SRS WOW HD but i didnt wana uninstall and reinstall to check.. Can anyone confirm this?
If this is the case i have a version for it that works perfectly on my TD2 and can send it to u to try

Something ridicules happened to me
When I started coreplayer and pressed the power button it stopeed playing but after 5 seconds a msg arrived and played a tick sound(msg notification) then coreplayer started to play!!!!!
Can anyone plz explain this?

Thats because when the sms came it must've come out of the standby mode even if the screen stayed off and hence the music started playing

[APP] [UPDATED] KeepAwake v1.1 - make apps prevent standby

Here is an application to make specific programs(like ebook reader,SatNav etc) prevent standby when they are running. It will watch them even when they are in background, so be careful, if you just forget them running in the background, your phone will not go into standby. (v1.1 change: now you can disable background watch by checking "monitor active window only")
Installation:
1- Just install the latest cab file onto Device Memory and NOT Storage Memory.
2- You need .NETCF 3.5, if you don't have it, install it.
Usage:
1- If you will use background watching, find the executable name from Task Manager/Processes, drop .exe part, type it into textbox and click add. (AdobeReaderLE.exe -> AdobeReaderLE)
1a- If you want to watch only the active window (so that your battery doesn't drain if you minimize the whitelist app) Find the window title of the application (Either task manager/applications or just look at the title if it is not hidden) and insert it as above. (Adobe Reader LE this time) you can have both versions live together. There is one limitation to active application watching though, if the application doesn't report a window title in task manager, you can only background watch it. (e.g. htcreader)
2- if you want to remove a certain app, select its name and click remove button.
3- if you want to have KeepAwake open but still not active (to force into standby) click stop.
4- this app autostarts with each boot, if you don't like it, delete the shortcut under \Windows\Startup\KeepAwake.lnk
5- this app starts minimized. if you want to configure settings, select the icon one more time or switch to it using a task manager.
6- if you click quit, obviously the software quits and no more monitoring is done, so click X after configuring if you want it to monitor your apps.
7- if you want to turn off screen and lock keys (for listening to music maybe) you can click the lock button. If your app is running, the phone will still stay awake.
Tips:
1- You can map KeepAwake to a hardware button for easy access and screen locking.
Credits:
Thanks goes to Frank T. van de Ven for ProcessCE library.
Thanks a lot to DaveShaw for letting me use xdaShutdown application.

I'm pretty excited about this... I've been looking for something exactly like this to prevent specific standby times.
I hope it works with most of the applications I have in mind.

Any bugs? Would you guys find it useful to have a lock button so that it turns off the screen and locks keys but still keeps the device awake? I have implemented this for the latest version I'm using (to have my GPS logger going but preventing accidental touch on screen and keys.) Or is it better to keep it simple?

Will this also prevent Windows MSN not to idle which will cause lost connection too?

Sorry, I'm new to the WinMo scene, just saw this on Pocketnews. Let me get this straight, will this work for apps that run in the bg that don't close out IE:
Facebook
Google Maps
Email
Albums
etc.?
because they slow down my phone, I want to close them out completely, not run them in the background so they can take up valuable resources.

espaleena said:
Will this also prevent Windows MSN not to idle which will cause lost connection too?
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I haven't specifically tried MSN app, but I see no reason it shouldn't work.

Raadius said:
Sorry, I'm new to the WinMo scene, just saw this on Pocketnews. Let me get this straight, will this work for apps that run in the bg that don't close out IE:
Facebook
Google Maps
Email
Albums
etc.?
because they slow down my phone, I want to close them out completely, not run them in the background so they can take up valuable resources.
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I think you need a task manager so that you can close apps. This one is for making certain apps prevent the phone go standby.

ozkaya said:
Any bugs? Would you guys find it useful to have a lock button so that it turns off the screen and locks keys but still keeps the device awake? I have implemented this for the latest version I'm using (to have my GPS logger going but preventing accidental touch on screen and keys.) Or is it better to keep it simple?
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I haven't given this a try yet, but any more additions are welcomed! This is something I've been looking for. I think it might be nice to give a way to put settings per application for standby perhaps (like some applications don't let the device go to stand by for 3 minutes, others are like 30 miuntes, etc). I think having't the screen off is a good addition, but keeping the device working is good, so things like voice recorder can work without having the screen on.

Seems to work well for IM services.
I haven't tested it completely for Opera and internet-browsing programs.
Nevertheless, this is a great idea.

new version is up..

What about on option... KEEP IT ON ? (Like LOCK)
This option would simply keep the phone ON, if the application is running in background even if we haven't listed anything
Is it possible? Maybe it's already included?
Thank you
Great app !

It doesn't work on my HD2. Youtube is running and my device locks and stops YT...
Any ideas??

Zepiii said:
What about on option... KEEP IT ON ? (Like LOCK)
This option would simply keep the phone ON, if the application is running in background even if we haven't listed anything
Is it possible? Maybe it's already included?
Thank you
Great app !
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I thought about that but later decided that not many people would find it useful. if enough request comes, I will add it. In the meantime, you might just add an always running app like device or cprog into list manually when you want to keep it on always. or just minimize an app in the whitelist

Quider said:
It doesn't work on my HD2. Youtube is running and my device locks and stops YT...
Any ideas??
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that's odd. I just tried and Youtube keeps itself open while playing a video for me even without this app. (Locks on the search screen) But still, KeepAwake seems to detect it when it is running. After installing have you clicked on the icon to run KeepAwake? Then minimized it by clicking on X? Have you tried another app, like Adobe Reader for instance? Is youtube minimized or active?

Hi,
Will this application disable lock option on device while using some application - eg. iGO Navigation?
Thanks

mdzepinajr said:
Hi,
Will this application disable lock option on device while using some application - eg. iGO Navigation?
Thanks
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as long as you don't lock it yourself, yes, it won't be locked.

Very nice app...much thanks!

The app works for eReader on my Omni II running 6.3 One word of caution I have the x= app closed option turned on so the x shuts down keepAwake. It took me some time to figure out I was closing the app not minimizing it.

How would I go about disabling the standby while in a call? What's the name of the application I need to put in there? I'd like to use it so the sleep during call doesn't stop the call recording utility from working, but I still would like the screen turning off when keeping the phone at the ear.

Doesn't work on touch pro2
The software breaks error when we try to add software to the list, only with the program in background it goes to sleep anyways. It's a good idea, but not there yet...

Htc leo music player lockscreen - request

I've been looking around on the forum and googling for a while for an application like this. But would anyone mind creating an application where when we lock the phone we can still change the music and shows what song is playing. I get tired of unlocking my phone just to change my music.
Much gratitude!

mykewillz48 said:
I've been looking around on the forum and googling for a while for an application like this. But would anyone mind creating an application where when we lock the phone we can still change the music and shows what song is playing. I get tired of unlocking my phone just to change my music.
Much gratitude!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=625483

Hi mykewillz48,
I agree with shu8i. Use Co0kie's Home Tab v1.8.5 .
It will do what you want perfectly and is probably the best app available.

i'm ok with DINIK, Cookie home tab 1.8.5 is excellent ! and you can listening your music in lockscreen. but you can't change album or (my selection) when you are in lockscreen, play, stop, next ect... it' ok

Yip, Cookie all the way!! Its ace changing music on lock screen

I really don't want to flash my HD2 i'm not very good with things like that. If there isn't just a cab file to do it, I probably would just deal with it. I like how my phone is besides a few things. Maybe in the future I would want to flash it but right now I like mos things about my phone.

CHT is just a cab you install. Preferably make a backup of your phone, just in case because you never know. After installing CHT you just restart the phone and can customize everything. You should install CHTEditor of course!
btw is anybody expierencing the fact that, if you put the music player on the lock screen, sometimes when you unlock the phone it seems like it has played a few tracks on it's own? Sometimes I see that I'm 3 or 4 tracks ahead in the middle of another track without actually doing that. somebody else who had that?

Yeah Cookie Lock is awesome, I missed that option from Android with Sense. You can adjust the size of the player and everything

Is there an application that will allow music player on the lock screen and will also allow for a passcode?

mykewillz48 said:
I've been looking around on the forum and googling for a while for an application like this. But would anyone mind creating an application where when we lock the phone we can still change the music and shows what song is playing. I get tired of unlocking my phone just to change my music.
Much gratitude!
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I would kill for a good program that does this... cookies always crashes on me and either unlocks when it shouldn't or wont unlock when it should, or just gives me a sleep of death and becomes unresponsive... it's annoying because it looks awesome and I want to use it...
(tab hangup and answer a few times whilst the phone is locked and you can make a call to the first person on your recent call lists without touching the slider onscreen to unlock... which was happening to me in my pocket, also occasionally I would hit the hangup key to unlock it and the home screen would just appear, not even trying to lock the screen )
S2U2 does it if you have S2P installed but I find S2U2 blows through my battery really fast for some reason... and my system regularly becomes unresponsive.