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how to keep loudspeaker funtion on the phone found it @ mmo2

Is it possible to activate the loudspeaker on my Xda before choosing a telephone number?
Dial a number. Disconnect and tap onto the signal symbol in the title bar. Tap onto the disconnect telephone button and then immediately press the green button (accept telephone call) keeping it pressed until the note appears: The loudspeaker is activated.
The telephone then disconnects without establishing a connection. The information that the loudspeaker is activated remains.
Turn on the telephone. The loudspeaker is turned on instantly with each dialled number.
thats the info in their faq section but i dont understand???? what ive been trying to do is:
dial 4444....
hit the red button and then click the signal bar at the top of the screen
tap red button then hold green button down....
just doesnt do nothing :\ anyone know how to do this?

figured it out
right.......
phone loaded up as normal
dial any number and use the stylus to tap talk on the screen
then when connected use stylus to hit end on the screen
then quickly tap the signal bar and hit turn phone off or flight mode on
then quickly hold down the green BUTTON and speaker phone will turn itself on and the phone will turn off.
then just tap the signal bars again turn the phone part backon
there you go you now have h/f mode on all the time good for when driving
gaz

Yup, it works, a real convoluted way of doing things dont you think but something I have been trying to do for ages and finally gave up. Thanks

i wouldnt call it a propper way of doing it lol id call it more of a glitch in ppc lol but at least it works but you dont get no tones from keypad numbers if you turn them on and then so softreset they come abck on but h/s mode disapears......
but guess whats in my statup folder for some strange unknown reason a shortcut to handsfree.exe i click it it doesnt seem to do nothing but its just appeared in there for no reason.
ive searched windows directory and cannot see handsfree.exe so i linked to my pc to search found it i try copy it over from the ppc to my xp pc with show all files turned on but the icon just dissapears then i try copy it over again and it says do you want to overwrite this file so its on my pc but it just dont show up :\
it would be great if i could get this h/f thing into my startup lol so it comes on when turning the phone on

gazzaman2k said:
then quickly tap the signal bar and hit turn phone off or flight mode on
then quickly hold down the green BUTTON and speaker phone will turn itself on and the phone will turn off.
then just tap the signal bars again turn the phone part backon
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I can't believe O2 tells people to do this. Surely the effort of coding this small feature s less than the extra hassle of having your customers perform such 'dirty' workarounds.
There's some serious glitches in the support->coders communication pipeline for these devices, I tell you.

i totally agree
it would be nice if it done like......
when receiving a call and the screen pops up answer / reject
if it had aonother box option for like loudspeaker answer that would be cool

Maybe obtuse, but it works
On several occasions, I had fumbled fingered my PPC during a call and wound up with the H/S turned on semi-permanent. I never could figure out what I did. This is great info, but I agree, a nice little app would be a LOT better.
david

when u do this after turning the fone part back on hold the green button it goes off hold it again it comes back on if you tap the green button the telephone screen shows tis pretty cool but the device liek sounds low? till after the softreset

The other way round?
Having turned the XDA II off for a flight by powering down rather than putting on flight safe mode, all phone calls now are handsfree. How can I get it back to 'normal' mode?????
Driving me insane!!!

[Q] Question! Permanent Car Dashboard Project.

Hello Gentelmen,
I am rather new to android dev but seassoned in linux, i decided to convert my old phone (samsung admire) into an in dash computer.
I am using two basic applications:
* Torque OBD2 Connector: This connects to the car's OBD2 Port, reads the computer and displays information on screen (like HP, Torque, Manifold Pressure and temp, Boost ...... )
* Autoguard Blackbox: This app acts as a CCTV recorder taping my driving and saves it in case of accident so i can have video evidence.
I have modified the andoid system to open both applications on boot and on external power and to kill them when external power has been disconected. Also when external power is disconected phone will wait 5 minutes then go to sleep. (yes i realize there are apps for that but i like shellscript)
This means that when the key is turned and the car is on recording automatically begins and my gauges come up, when the car is off they close AND STOP RECORDING and go away without any kind of interaction on my part.
The problem: Whenever the car turns back on, external power is connected and i would like to have the phone do a full boot so that my scripts kick in,however instead it goes into charge only mode where it boots in to some kind of "hybernation state" that only displays the battery charge in the middle of the screen.
I would like to bypass this and have the phone do a full boot whenever the power is connected.
I have searched for weeks and have found nothing but people withthe same problem and solutions that involve harware and wiring and soidering however this is not an option for me because the phoen is exposed (not actualy insidethe dashboard)
I am not afraid to compile a custom rom and have it run on the phone ... the phoen is solely for the propose of having the dashboard display. (i dont use it for calling)
Could you guys point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance.
(some pictures attached for reference)
Edit: See this link for reference ... some one in the same kind of predcament.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1815131
Edit2: Link to dashboard cam footage
http://youtu.be/MQLE8g5DkO0

[SOLVED with Fix] - Broken lock/power button cant power on (Desire s)

SOLVED
How to fix - Do the staple trick that I did IF you pryed your lock button open. There are contacts which aren't visible unless you open your phone up. Put a staple lightly but directly into the slot without touching the contacts for you camera or any other components. A light touch will trigger it and the power button should create a electrical circuit for a second and my phone turned on!
Hey guys,
New to the forum members but not new in experience as this site is a great help :victory: (not sarcasm)
YES I WATCHED THE NOOB VIDEO - found another thread which said "Use a little screw driver move black tape and you'll see little lines touch the with screw drive should turn on"
Link to another thread I found but didn't help - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621940
(MY PHONE WAS OFF AT THE TIME) Right.. so I dropped my phone on Monday and probably fell on top of the lock button when there's a case (yeah I know.. weird right) So I couldn't turn it on and had to take the backplate off and with staples on the bus (I looked like an idiot) but voila! it turned on. But when I reached home I pryed out the lock button as I dented it too much and now it's broken and the lock button mechanism is broken (the little cube with the clicky button)... I installed an app when I got home to use the proximity sensor to lock and unlock the phone (TAP TAP APP) *Free*
-TODAY- I woke up a while ago, and called a number I didn't know but called me.. so just as I got off the call I needed to end the call but the screen kept waking and not waking but he could of ended it but was stupid enough not to darn telecom marketers.. so I waved my hand to unlock it but then the black screen just stayed there and I took out the battery.. (stupid I know but I didn't want my minutes to go).
Thank you guys much appreciated if I get this done today. IT IS A ROOTED PHONE BY THE WAY!
Fixes i've tried - Plugging into a computer
Taking out the battery whilst it's charging and placing it back in
Placing the battery in, charging it, taking it off charge and charging it again

Speaker intermittently stops working

So I'm not sure what to make of this but sometimes the speaker on the bottom of the phone won't work. For phone calls or music or anything. Earlier I was trying to figure out why and I gently pressed on the middle back of the phone and the sound came right on! What does this mean? What is it going to take to fix my phone.

Wdustin1 said:
So I'm not sure what to make of this but sometimes the speaker on the bottom of the phone won't work. For phone calls or music or anything. Earlier I was trying to figure out why and I gently pressed on the middle back of the phone and the sound came right on! What does this mean? What is it going to take to fix my phone.
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The exact same thing happens to me. I can get sound from earbuds, but when I unplug the earbuds, the speaker doesn't turn on like it should. But tapping the phone hard, such as on the back, will make the speaker turn on. Sometimes the speaker turns off by itself, I can tap it hard again to turn it on again. Just started happening in the past week or so.
See this other thread for solutions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=2945842

Help with LG G3 Turns off During Boot & Unable to Factory Reset (is it a lost cause?)

Help with LG G3 Turns off During Boot & Unable to Factory Reset (is it a lost cause?)
Hello everyone. This is kind of a complicated issue, and I would love any help I can get.
Back story:
I have a Verizon LG G3, purchased in December of 2014. I never rooted the phone, so it has been stock this whole time. A couple of months ago, the SD card holder randomly stopped working (no spills or drops). I tried multiple, new SD cards, formatted them and everything, but the phone just kept ejecting the SD card, and corrupting them, so I just gave up on it and stopped using an SD card in the phone. This is not the current issue at hand, but I wanted to preface that I've been having issues with the phone.
Fast forward to a month ago. I had my phone plugged into the wall charging, and was not using it. I noticed out of the corner of my eye that my phone turned off. I unplugged the phone and tried turning it back on. It showed the LG logo screen, then the verizon screen, and then just turned off. When I tried powering it again, it did nothing. I pulled the battery, put it back in, and pressed the power button. I got the same series of lg logo, verizon logo, then off. I thought maybe it was a battery issue and took it to a local phone repair shop. They put in a new battery, but got the exact same boot problem I did. I left the phone with them, and they took it apart to see if it was a hardware issue (and the infamous stuck power button issue). When I returned, they told me that they did not find any hardware issues. It also was not an issue of the stuck power button/power button not working. They decided that it must be a software issue. Their explanation was that the phone had probably tried doing a software update and something went wrong. They said they could only fix it by completely wiping the phone and installing the software back on. I was reluctant to go through with it because (1) I would lose all my data (and I did not back it up, my fault, I know) and (2) it seemed like they wanted me to pay almost 100$ for something I could do at home. So I kept the phone and left it alone for a while. Now, it has been a month since the issue began, and I'm trying to see if I can fix it. Here is what I have tried.
1. Tried to power it normally again, but now the phone won't boot past the lg logo screen (no verizon screen, just turns off)
2. Held down the power button and volume down button, and able to get into recovery.
3. Tried safe mode -> boots to lg logo and turns off
4. Tried wipe cache -> boots to lg logo and turns off, does it twice
5. Tried USB debug -> shows the android icon, looks like its working, turns off
6. Finally tried factory data reset -> goes through the "are you sure" screen; select yes; shows android icon, looks like its working, turns off
7. Tried holding down the up button and plugging it into a computer to reinstall firmware, shows logo and turns off
8. When I plug the phone into the wall, it charges normally. Simply won't turn on past that.
I'm not sure what else I can do to the phone. Is there a way to factory reset from a pc or mac without the phone being on? Will I just have to take it to the tech store so they can do whatever magic they seem to possess? I already plan on never getting another android after the issues with this phone (and many androids before this one), but I need this phone to last until December.
Sorry for rambling and thank you for any help!

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