I have a upcoming event which I will need to be in constant communication with my peers, but a conference call would not suit the purpose, and I do not own a set of walkie talkies with enough of them. I have however, found a Push To Talk App that I like. There was no setup required, it just uses phone # and data connection /wifi. I tested it with one of my peers who will be at this event, and he had it installed and working in literally no time. However, this app simply sits in the foreground with some info about the "call" and a talk button. However, if you press the sleep button, the screen turns off and the phone locks while the "call" stays active.
I was wondering if anyone knows of a similar PTT app that allows use of a hardware button rather than an on screen talk button to a hardware button, for instance the camera button, or something like that so that it can be used with the phone in locked mode with screen off.
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Hello,
Yes, I searched everywhere but didn't find any answer.
Is it possible to disable the backlight when notifications comes ? For example, when a SMS or an e-mail arrives, the screen powers up and my pocket presses the screen and do bad things on the screen. This would be a cleaner idea than locking the screen!
I know that phoneAlarm have an option for this but I'm using PhoneWeaver for this profiling job (which is smaller than it). I think it must be a reg key somewhere for this :/
Thanks in advance for your precious help!
To be honest, I do not understand you question but I think you are searching for the sound and alert settings?
Go to start > settings > sound and alerts (and then the 2nd tab)
If this is not what you are looking for, could you be more specific?
he want it to when it turns on because of an alarm or sms or the likes that it
dont have backlight on the lcd
personaly i doubt it's possible i believe that when notifications turn the device on it's 100% the same thing that is sendt to the os as when one press the on button if that is the case that the os cant tell the diff
i doubt it could have different backlight settings depending one
what turns it on
holding the button down for a bit turn off the backlight on many devices
untill the button is pressed for a bit again
also when it's turned off so when the notification turns it on the backlight will be off
but ofcause so will it when power button turns it on
I would like my device (TyTN/Hermes) under windows mobile 6 not to "turn on" when a message arrives because my phone case press on the screen while on my pocket and some strange things arrives (delete messages, surf on the Internet, ...) as random parts and buttons are pressed...
I was hoping this simple thing could have been done easily
slide2unlock
I was wanting the same thing also since I carry my phone in my pocket(htc mogul). As I would reach into my pocket to pull out the phone I would end up pressing button to where programs would open and what not. I tried slide2unlock and I think that has solved my problem pretty good. The only time the phone get unlocked is with an incoming call. Other than that the screen just turns on with an incoming text. Good thing about this program is that if you turn on your screen, the buttons won't do anything without sliding the slider to unlock.
if a password is set it dont go to the today screen and random screen pokes will not result in wild pr0n surfing
or getting a case with s screen in front like the silicon ones or the
full plastic ones will safe the screen from clicks and damage too
I am also looking for a solution. I am currently using slide2unlock, but I would prefer the behavior mentioned above. Specifically, I would like the phone to stay in standby mode (screen off, not responding to button presses or screen taps) when an incoming SMS arrives or phone acquires or loses signal. Currently these behaviors will turn on the phone by itself.
I recently updated to Shamanix 1.3 (aka Schap's 4.01 customized) which has this behaviour
The phone don't turn on when an e-mail/sms/mms arrives (only when a phone call arrives)
Anyone has found the solution for this?
Thanks!
GM.
Hi all,
After a phone call i often see that a lot of programms has been launched accidentally due to the contact between my ear and the touch screen.
does anyone have a tip to automatically lock the touch screen during a phone call ?
benjb said:
Hi all,
After a phone call i often see that a lot of programms has been launched accidentally due to the contact between my ear and the touch screen.
does anyone have a tip to automatically lock the touch screen during a phone call ?
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Lol, my ear once accepted another incoming call from this girl that I was avoiding for ages... and I didn't even realise I was talking to her, thought it was my other mate.
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Lol, my ear once accepted another incoming call from this girl that I was avoiding for ages... and I didn't even realise I was talking to her, thought it was my other mate.
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Ouch!
If i'm not wrong, S2U2 can turn display off during a call. Great software!
I've tried two progs more: PhoneScreenLock and InesoftAddressBook.
Inesoft provide many features including display switch off during a call.
Phonescreenlock keep the display on showing info about the call, locking the screen.. but with long conversation you may frie your ear
Bye
KK
Any updates on this one please? I have the same problem with running gazillion apps on my Polaris with my ear in call as benjb did.
Tried PhoneScreenLock - did not work well for me because its buggy (the lock screen pretty often appears somewhere BELOW the in-call buttons or start menu and needs to be switched to via closing in-call screen, which obviously renders it useless).
The InesoftAddressBook is not an option either, cause I already have other address book app and would like to stick with it (BTW my current address book has "slide-to-pick-up-call" feature, which makes me afraid that it would conflict with S2U2).
Sadly the Polaris doesn't have motion or light sensor... It would make my life sooooo easier with ZuinigeRijder's TouchLockPro...
So any ideas on what else I could use please? Thanks!
two things...
1) Are you aware that after you answer/make a call but before you put the phone up to your ear you can press the power button (not press & hold, just press & release) which will turn off the display, but not disconnect your call (or, turn off your phone)? No stray on-screen button pushing this way! With the screen off the "end call/hang up" button still functions and when you press it the screen will come back on immediately. If you need to access your address book or make a note etc during a call, press & release the power button and it will turn the screen back on and not effect your call in any way. If your phone is set up like mine and it returns to the home screen each time the screen is turned on, then simply press the green phone button and the dialer comes back to the top.
2) If #1 doesn't do it for you and you need software to accomplish this, then search this forum for MissedCallReminder (just like that - no spaces). Besides having an option to "lock screen on connect" it has a very handy feature (the main feature actually, as the name indicates) of being able to set up repeat reminders for missed calls and missed sms messages. Very handy. It can be setup to run automatically at startup so you don't have to remember to start it up manually. It also automatically unlocks the screen when you end your call.
Turned out I had bookmarked the app, so here's a link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=441593
I'm currently running m2d on my polaris. I was wondering if there was a method for me to map one of the buttons on the phone so that it will open the phone profile windows (ie. normal, vibrate, silent). Its somewhat of a hassle to have to change the profile since it requires several button presses to do so.
Also, another idea would be to have a program that ran in the background and each time you pushed a mapped button on the phone, it would cycle through the different profiles. This way, you might not have to look at the phone when you want to change the profile (food for thought). Not sure if anybody or company has come up with this yet.
"long press end key"... an HTC software, changes between unmuted and vibrate. i use it all the time.
you can also find the shorts to switch between profiles in the forum and map it to hardware buttons (and even use cycles) using HButton
i'm quite sure this is a very common annoyance people have with touch phones.
80% of the time, when i answer a call and talk, once the call is finished i have a program opened/opening; due to my ear touching the display and doing things unknowingly to me.
especially with win6 or w.65, since the start menu button is on the top, it tends to be where the top of my ear touches and ends up opening programs (in wm6.5) in the start menu.
HOW can i easily prevent this? why has microsoft not resolved this design issue?
On my case 95% of the answered/maked calls are connected to my bluetooth
Also you can push the off button.
Cheers,
Yep, pushing the power button to turn the screen off will solve your problems. I use S2U2 which also has a feature to automatically switch off the screen.
As stated by the above poster S2U2 works as well as other applications that could be found by searching on google for "freeware applications wm".... hope that helps you
Hello,
i am searching for a long time to find a way for catching double-volume-up key press (like a double click) while the screen is off.
My service runs in background even with the screen off, and gathers some gps coordinates, all i want to do is double-press the volume-up button and start/stop my background service without having to actually unlock the screen.
Any directions, samples, guides, proposals etc would be appreciated.
My phone isn't rooted, i need a method that would work on non rooted phones to actually add this functionality in my app if i decide to upload it to market.
Thank you for your time, i hope someone in here will have a solution on that :/