Hello
Just received my Sensation. New to Sensation, new to HTC.
From what I have read, there is no stable and reliable S-off method; I hope S-off will be out within 7d ... so that if I brick my phone, I can send it back for free (I have 8d grace time); I would prefer dev S-off over HTC unlock (HTC will not unlock everything, and, my operator ROM may not accept HTC fix). I have found Fr3vo for temp-root (and learnt to use it).
Q1: I have read on Ebay that there are case for 4G and G14; are they two brand of Sensation ? what's the difference between them ? how do i know which one I have ?
Q2: The screen is not sensitive enough for me: I have to press too hard on confirmation buttons, I would like the Sensation to be very much more sensitive. Is it possible to tweak ? => one of com.android.development-1.apk or com.android.sdksetup-1.apk provides a tool prooving that the screen is by itself sensitive enough for me, but I would like sensitiveness to be customisable for the whole phone; not just in a dev tool. I will create a feature request on http://b.android.com/ . => http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=19036 . I still hope one of you will tell me: install THIS app ...
Q3+A: I have found how to stop vibrating on keyboard (on letters), but it's still vibrating on many other buttons; how do I stop compleetely vibs ? => some where in sound params.
Q4+A: How do I know the serial number of terminal (IMEI ?) the software way ? => found: *#*#4636#*#* ... then search
Q5: With defaults, what's the use of the Recovery mode ? I could enter it, but did not understand what I could do with it.
Q6: I dislike the auto-adjust-light of screen; it's too bright inside home; can I adjust the curve ? I definitly need to keep the light auto, but I want it darker.
Q7+A: How do I compleetely disable the "PC sync" mode ? Calendar creates by default all events on this cal; and I want events to be created by default on my Gmail account. I want to compleetely remove this mode because I never will use it, and because I could not find a way to move a PC sync entry to the Gmail cal (Thunderbird can do it in the edit options, my phone can't do it). => no real solution, but after wipe, I restarted from scratch, and it now works fine.
Q8: how to keep wifi network up , without keeping screen on ?
Q9: how to put screen off without putting the touch sensitive layer off ? i want to be able to wake screen with a simple touch, without having to press power button and slide the ring. Screen is power consuming; I have a hard case to protect screen; but I need the phone to stay awake, and light screen up as soon as I touch it.
Thanks.
up ? (tell me if ups are forbiden on this forum ... 8d without any answer)
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I tested wm5.0 rom on my xda-2 and but have degraded it to WM2003SE because it was too slow in my device. I like the simple but nice "Today Screen Plugin" on wm5.0 to lock and unlocked device. I've looked for this kind of software to lock my device for a long time. But no one can be as good as the one in wm5.0. So does somebody can draw it out from wm5.0 rom or can advice me a software with similar function worked in WM2003SE platform?
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First, I don't have the locking software you are looking for.
But, why do you want to 'lock' it? As a matter of fact, I'm using WM5 and one of the very first thing I deemed useless if the 'lock' features. That is, whenever, I want to 'lock' the device, I just switch it off to 'ready' mode and switch it on whenever necessary.
BTW, there are a few security software that is able to 'lock' your device with a password, do those software fit your bill?
Also, see if this helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=38364&highlight=
To avoid to call out by careless touch the dialpad in my bag, I wish to find a simple but useful software to lock the screen and key. And easy to unlock the device without input password. So I feel that today plugin in wm5.0 satisfy my need.
Lock the buttons
if u mean that u want something to prevent the calls which can be done by pressing the keys acceidently .. i will tell u how without a software ...
prss on start then setting then system then mark on ( Lock All buttons except Power button ) ... then ok .. this is going to lock all the buttons but not the power button ....
peace outttttttttt
I really hoped I would be out of unlocking problems with my new Touch Cruise. But no! And I cannot find any usefull help. So I turn to this site for help.
Even when I soft-lock the Cruise and after that push the power button, it will automatically unlock by calls, received messages and agenda reminders.
Since I use the agenda very frequently, it unlocks and then drops the agenda item that he was reminding me of. Or it opens the agenda after an unnoticed received call, since the agenda button is at the left bottom of the screen and drops an upcoming item.
Recently I looked at my phone and it opened a picture by itself.
When I lock the device, I want it to stay locked until I tell it to unlock.
I found S2U2, but only 0.98 for WM5. Can anybody help me to solve this disturbing problem?
Okay, after I found out that S2U2 WM5 does work on WM6 and I found out how to unzip the rar files (I used 7-zip), I was able to install S2U2 on my Polaris. And it seems to work (at least with agenda items).
You can also try pocket secure, a very useful application
http://www.totalpocketpc.com/ps5web/index.html
is here any developer or someone who is able to create a programm that just unlocks the xda when i push the button. s2u2 is nice but it starts problems though.
(my music is disturbed by that as long as it is switched on)
my phone is allowed to make sounds, but not to unlock when i get a call or a reminder.
who ever solves this problem is supposed to be one of the greatest
jan.jansen said:
When I lock the device, I want it to stay locked until I tell it to unlock.
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if I have not understood badly, you can resolve your problem planning a device password.
(in my italian Touch Cruise: >Impostazioni>Blocca
in English I believe:
>Setting>lock
and set time to sleep and password.
When the device is locked if you receive a call you can only to answer and if you do not introduce your password you cannot do anything.
Try, I use so my Touch Cruise
nice idea , tough i think this is unhandy...
this is what i imagine:
the button on the top right corner at the orbit2 makes the screen light up and unlocks all buttons.
and sometimes (a phone call, a reminder) the screen lights up and unlocks the buttons too. i don't like that (starts other programms and so on). i just want the phone to "screen lights up and unlocks the buttons" when i push the button on the top right corner. (the phone is still allowed to make sounds ^^)
i bet you know what i mean. (s2u2 is ok, but not perfect.)
or how can i contact the people developping the software for the phone to ask them?
thank you
PS: yeah, i want what jan wants too ^^
I personally never use the hard call button to make a call, and it is still often a source of accidental calls.
I use Exidler's Hd2ProximityScreenOff, so i don't need in theory a screen lock. Very, very usefull. Some accidental calls have been made though.
Here is what i found so far :
- Vangrieg InCall Lock is great, but works only when a call is received.
- Aebutton plus doesn't help for long press on call button.
- I searched on whole registry for "cprog.exe" (The dialer processus) without interesting founds.
I would be so grateful if someone find a way to remove this call function when pressing the button, if possible using with no process in background ...
Why dont you just enable the lock screen that way you cant accidentally make a call when it comes on.
thank for your reply optiknerv.
with hd2proximityscreenoff, I think we are in a new and intuitive way to use phones, something apple did not patent already ! ;-)
we dont need anymore a screen lock, but kind of key lock can be, in very rare cases, useful.
I guess it is impossible to map this button ...
Have you ever tried AEBPlus??
It locks every kind of key - software keys too - and make them addressable to other application
You'll find it on http://ae.inc.ru
Sichroteph said:
thank for your reply optiknerv.
with hd2proximityscreenoff, I think we are in a new and intuitive way to use phones, something apple did not patent already ! ;-)
we dont need anymore a screen lock, but kind of key lock can be, in very rare cases, useful.
I guess it is impossible to map this button ...
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Why insist to map the button? Screen lock solves your problem. Try S2U2 or TLP. They will make sure you don't press the green hard key by accident. If you use proximity to auto unlock, there is no extra action on your side. The green hard key (and the phone) is locked whenever the phone is in your bag or pocket.
thanks you very much alex. touch lock pro solved my problem and can use well proximity sensor after some settings.
Hello! Long time user, but noob on a windows 7 phone, It has some problems.... when you type on the on screen keyboard, you cant type a message properly, its like there is bad calibration issues, but when you try to ring a number, all the numbers work okay, is there a way to calibrate the screen? also calculator works okay, also some options you cant click on say for instance, the logging into windows marketplace, you cant enter your email address but can enter password??? WTF HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
Your primary Windows Live ID (the one used for Marketplace) is set and locked when the phone is first run. If you messed up then, you'll need to hard-reset the phone and start again. Actually, you may want to do that anyhow.
I don't know any user-accessible way to calibrate the touch screen on an HTC phone. It shouldn't need it, though. Note that the on-screen keyboard does have some tricky predictive stuff that means it may occasinally think you ment to hit a key next to the one you tapped. You can turn this off in Settings. However, it should never hit more than about half a finger-width from what you actually tapped, and I very rarely see that much. Tapping squarely on a specific key should always work. You can also make the keys larger (most of the time) by putting the phone in landscape (rotate it).
Hello everyone,
I have an unlocked Nokia Lumia 710 running a custom ROM and all in all the phone is good. However, the proximity sensor doesn't seem to work properly (I don't know if the problem is from the custom ROM or from the phone itself but it doesn't really matter) - when I'm in a call I keep pressing the Hold and Mute buttons (no matter how I hold the phone) which makes me really irritated. So I was wondering, there should be registries I guess that make the buttons active when pressed during a phone call. Can someone point me to the correct registries that control if the buttons are active or not when pressed so that I will hopefully be able to completely disable these two buttons (so that when pressed nothing happens)? I don't use them anyways, so completely disabling them would certainly fix my problems. I'm posting in the general WP7 section because I guess the location of these registries would most probably be the same for all phones...
Thanks a lot in advance!
There's a registry value that is updated automatically by the proximity sensor and indicates its current status system-wide, but I doubt you'd want to use it. For one thing, it would almost certainly get immediately reset by the sensor, faulty or otherwise. For another, the Phone app isn't the only thing that uses the proximity sensor; you would end up locking out the touchscreen in some other apps too. Finally, this would also prevent you from pressing the End Call button!
I don't know of a registry value that's specific to the Phone app's use of the proximity sensor. However, even if there is, the first and third reasons above still apply.
I instead recommend that you simply tap the power button when putting the phone up to your ear to talk. This will turn off the touchscreen (and incidentally save power) and you can tap the Power button again to access the Phone app or any other app on the phone when you need them, without interfering with the call.
There may also be a tool in some built-in Manufacturer or Diagnostics app that would let you test and adjust the sensitivity of the proximity sensor. This would perhaps be the best option, but I don't know where or if it exists on a Lumia.
What I want to do is not to play with the proximity sensor itself but rather with the buttons on the screen during a call. I guess I didn't make myself clear enough, sorry about that. The idea is that when I'm in a call, the proximity sensor does not work properly and I always press either the Mute or the Hold buttons. So, these buttons can still appear during a call but when you press them, I don't want anything happening. I mean, the idea is even when the phone is not next to your ear and the screen is active during a call, pressing the buttons to do nothing. I'm just following some simple logic, which might of course be incorrect (or too simple), but I'm thinking that there is most probably a separate registry for each button that controls whether this button does some action when pressed or not. I'm also hoping that they'll be separate registries for each button so that I can, for example, disable the actions for the Hold and Mute buttons, but leave the End Call button active. The problem is that I have no idea where to look for this registry since I'm still new to WP OS.
Heck, it would even be OK for me to completely remove the buttons from the screen during a call (or substitute the current buttons with some 1x1 px transparent images), if that's possible, so if someone knows how to do even that, tell me.
I was also considering using the power button when in call but I first want to see if there is any other way to do what I want. And since I'm not using the Mute and Hold functions at all, I just thought about disabling them.
No, I understood you. I was suggesting the "fix your proximity sensor" option because normally, the problem you're experiencing just doesn't happen; that's what the prox sensor is for. Sometimes it's miscalibrated, though, or something is covering it up (some poorly-cut or installed screen protectors do this, for example).
The "Phone" app isn't a Silverlight app like third-party ones; it's a native EXE that we pretty much can't modify without using a custom ROM. That's going to make changing it the ways you suggest (disabling or resizing certain buttons, etc) quite difficult.
I'm pretty sure you don't want to disable all the buttons always, even if that were possible. For one thing, that would prevent you from hanging up, as I mentioned before. It would also prevent you from dialing any numbers, which would make the use of touch-tone automated services impossible.
The Power button option really seems like the best fit for you. It's easy, doesn't require any hacks, doesn't break any other functionality, and should be the next-best solution beyond actually solving the problem.
I see now, makes sense. In my head it sounded simpler than what it really is. I was considering resizing the buttons because I'm also using iOS and I quite enjoy digging in the OS and changing some elements, so it's possible there to, for example, substitute some buttons with transparent 1x1 px images, etc. But that's irrelevant. Looks like WP is different and I still need some time to get in to it. Anyways, thanks for your help.
P.S. The screen protector was the first thing I "accused" but unfortunately it wasn't causing the problem.
On a custom ROM, you could definitely tweak the Phone app if you wanted to. However, the way WinCE (the kernel behind WP7) works, OS files are almost always marked as "in ROM" which means that the filesystem driver will refuse to modify them while the OS is booted. This makes tempering with the stock OS difficult; we have to find ways to modify the behavior of apps and system features without modifying the apps or features themselves.