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Just got my new Orbit - a few questions

Just got hold my new Orbit and I must say I'm very impressed. I've had just about every xda released over the years and I would never have dreamed of having so many features packed into such a small package a few years ago.
Anyway, I have a couple of questions which I'm hoping someone can help me with.
Something that has always bugged me about transfering files onto the device is that using USB via activesync seems about 10 times slower than using a memory card reader. Now that the memory card is not easily accessed is there a faster way to transfer files from pc to memory card? Is there a setting somewhere in Activesync to speed things up or some other faster way (bluetooth, wifi etc?)
Secondly, is there an easy way to key/screen lock this phone and/or turn the screen off while playing mp3's?
Assuming I'm playing a few mp3's in MediaPlayer or TCPMP, I want to be able to put it in my pocket right? So far the only method I've found is to close the player and hit the "lock device" on the today screen. Two problems with this though... Every time the mouse is touched (constant movment in my pocket) the backlight comes on. To then pause the music, adjust the volume or change track I have to first unlock it, reopen the player and hit the button, then go through the whole rigmarole again.
Why can't it just keep playing after switch off like the radio

bump.
Anyone?

USB transfers are always slow.
Try deltalock (freeware) for the screen problem - assign it to a key.

Mortsaver is also pretty good for the screen issue.

This may solve the screen off while playing MP3s as it has a screen off button built in
Today Player is a cool mp3 player on today screen, only takes up one line, also shows battery & memory bars when not playing music, and equaliser bars when it is, free download at http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=811

How to lock the f*in' display ?

I'm really annoyed by the screen.
What i mean is that when i'm using Beta Player, or whatever program that plays music (incl. Media Player) the screen stays active, and keeping in my pocket the phone means that after getting it out i see that i had sent several sms, opend tons of apps, and activated at least the GPS, very often GPRS also activates.
So please can you tell me what program to use (because in o2 German version of the firmware there is no possibility to lock the screen and hard buttons) to lock the device ?
As u might guess, when i use the on/off button it stops my music ...
So i nead a program to lock the device, cuz otherwise it costs me pretty annoying bill raises ...

I don't know of any Utility that does this, but is there no Music/Media Player that keeps playing even when you turn off the device? I think my MDA Compact II did so with Windows Media Player, if i'm not wrong, although you're right about the XDA Orbit, it stops playback. But since the FM Radio keeps playing when the device is switched of, maybe you will have more success with searching for a Mediaplayer that just does not stop playback...

Um, can't you use the Device Lock today plugin?
Or VJDeviceLock, or Matt's Yet Another Device Lock?
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Check out the 5th item down in the "how to:" section here:
http://wiki.howardforums.com/index.php/HTC_Artemis

Awsome dudes
Matt's Yet Another Device Lock
Does just what i wanted ... the other program probably is OK too, but doesn't work on my device.
BIIIIG Thanx people, really big one.

[Q] Music controls disapear on status bar

I know hat there is already a thread about this, and i posted there something that i tought it resolved the issue, but in fact it did not.
When i'm playing music outside of the google play music and press pause, either trough the status bar or the widget, sometimes the status bar controls stay there, which is what i want since sometimes you just want to pause the music for a couple of seconds, but most of the time they just vanish and i have to go to the music player to contiue the song.
This happened on CM9 and now i'm back to stock 4.0.4 and the issue still persists.
Does anybody know a fix for this?

I haven't had the controls vanish while using the phone but it gets closed pretty quickly by the system when your phone is in standby. I think it's because the player is holding a wake lock which would drain your battery if you'd forget the player is still on pause.
I use the widget as a workaround to quickly start the music again since it remembers the last song and position.

Yes! They go away once you enter the play music app. I know its a drag, but I get used to it now
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA

Thanks for the responses, i know that when you are on the music app it goes away and that i could hold wake lock and drain the batery, but that is useful when you going to see a video for example or respond to e-mail and want to concentrate, them you could pause the music, do whatever you gotta do and then play the music without ever leaving to the home screen.

Does anyone knows how to resolve this? bump...

Suck it up and make the extra clicks? Another case of everything is amazing nobody is happy.
bow chicka wow wow.

Hey troll nobody is complaing here, it is jut a freaking question, if you cant help shut up

@rbiter said:
Suck it up and make the extra clicks? Another case of everything is amazing nobody is happy.
bow chicka wow wow.
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Same applies with the lock screen controls - when you pause, quite often the controls will mysteriously vanish and leave you having to wade back into the music app (which is quite a pain). Wonder if it's a memory management issue - i.e. if the music app is no longer playing, we can recycle it
Oh, as for your comment - if you can't post anything helpful, best to leave this to the big boys

daern said:
Same applies with the lock screen controls - when you pause, quite often the controls will mysteriously vanish and leave you having to wade back into the music app (which is quite a pain). Wonder if it's a memory management issue - i.e. if the music app is no longer playing, we can recycle it
Oh, as for your comment - if you can't post anything helpful, best to leave this to the big boys
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Hey man first thanks for your comment, this guy just seems to be troling a lot of post lately.
And yes sometimes it vanishes from the lock screen, the thing that is really bothering me is the fact that there is no consistency, so i can never be sure if the controls will be there or not

use the cm9 player it has a option to keep notification on pause.

Hey tks for the reply, i am on stock 4.0.4 for a few weaks, i was running cm9 but it seems that they will never put a beta so a went back to stock, how can i get their player? also does it sync with google music?

Get from the cm9 site. I'm also using dsp manager.
http://www.seeingpixels.org/2012/01/cyanogenmod-9-music_16.html
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

Htc one x query

Dear all
I am new to this forum and new to using HTC, so therefore would like to share my experience and to see whether anyone else shares the same experience:
In terms of battery life, I can get through virtually the whole day on one charge, this includes streaming videos for around 2 hours, playing games like GTA3, Shadowgun, Riptide, for an hour~ Listen to FM radio for 30 minutes and just general texting now and again.
HOWEVER I have had the phone since April 5th and since 2 or 3 days ago I have been experiencing a bug that prevents me from unlocking my phone. Once the screen is blacked out in standby mode and I click the power button to turn on the screen and try to pull the ring up to unlock, I am unable to do so. The ring stays locked at the bottom with a few minor bounces and at the top of the screen a text reads pull the ring up to unlock. The only way for me to unlock the screen is to activate the settings menu from the locked screen and then click the home button. Additionally once I am back from the unlock screen the lower portion of my screen where I had difficulty unlocking the phone operates as normal. I have tried searching this forum but maybe I am a uber noob but can't find any mention of this or any fixes. Does anyone have this issue? Do I need to return my phone? The phone is with Three UK and I purchased the handset through Affordable Mobiles.
Additionally is it me or does the phone not enable multitasking? I have loaded a youtube video for example half way through but if I use the recent app button or home button to access another program say "Fruit Ninja" and then reload into the Internet app, the handset is forced to reload the webpage thus losing all my previous loaded stream. This is the same when I play GTA3 if I hit the home button by mistake and then quickly try to re-enter the game it loads the game from the start rather than resuming the gameplay.
I have recently also seen "noise" and other artifacts and screen anomalies. Additionally the screen flex is becoming more and more noticeable.
Hope someone can help! But atm I am thinking how the hell can they have released this product after alpha and beta testing should have uncovered these issues right?
Best wishes

kingyip said:
Dear all
I am new to this forum and new to using HTC, so therefore would like to share my experience and to see whether anyone else shares the same experience:
In terms of battery life, I can get through virtually the whole day on one charge, this includes streaming videos for around 2 hours, playing games like GTA3, Shadowgun, Riptide, for an hour~ Listen to FM radio for 30 minutes and just general texting now and again.
HOWEVER I have had the phone since April 5th and since 2 or 3 days ago I have been experiencing a bug that prevents me from unlocking my phone. Once the screen is blacked out in standby mode and I click the power button to turn on the screen and try to pull the ring up to unlock, I am unable to do so. The ring stays locked at the bottom with a few minor bounces and at the top of the screen a text reads pull the ring up to unlock. The only way for me to unlock the screen is to activate the settings menu from the locked screen and then click the home button. Additionally once I am back from the unlock screen the lower portion of my screen where I had difficulty unlocking the phone operates as normal. I have tried searching this forum but maybe I am a uber noob but can't find any mention of this or any fixes. Does anyone have this issue? Do I need to return my phone? The phone is with Three UK and I purchased the handset through Affordable Mobiles.
Additionally is it me or does the phone not enable multitasking? I have loaded a youtube video for example half way through but if I use the recent app button or home button to access another program say "Fruit Ninja" and then reload into the Internet app, the handset is forced to reload the webpage thus losing all my previous loaded stream. This is the same when I play GTA3 if I hit the home button by mistake and then quickly try to re-enter the game it loads the game from the start rather than resuming the gameplay.
I have recently also seen "noise" and other artifacts and screen anomalies. Additionally the screen flex is becoming more and more noticeable.
Hope someone can help! But atm I am thinking how the hell can they have released this product after alpha and beta testing should have uncovered these issues right?
Best wishes
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For the unlocking, do you use a silicone cover for your phone? I heard this stops the screen from working due to static no ground (which would usually be your hand) as the silicone cover isn't a conductor the screen has no ground!!!

I don't have a silicon cover but I do have a screen protecter. Does no one else have a issue with the unlocking ofthe phone

smart stay

The smart stay has been a hit or miss for me. Can anyone make the screen stay with mere movement alone? This would be helpful when reading in low light situations. I am not interested in shaking but utilizing theaccelerometer, if we can keep the screen bright, then camera limitations could be avoided.
Thank you in advance.

You can look up smart stay ex lite and paid version in play market to see if the dev would look into that. Or it might already have it. XDA reviewed it before on the main page.
Sent from my SGSIII with the XDA Premium App

thank you very much for the response I shall contact the developer and get some more information thank you once again.

I use screebl.
It is orientation based, rather than using the camera to detect eyes. Smart stay didn't last long with me.
Screebl basically keeps the phone on when in a non-horizontal or non-vertical orientation... So like smart stay, you can set your timeout to 15 seconds, and not play the keep alive game. It also has a mode to detect non-movement so that if you leave it in an "active" orientation, but there is no movement at all, it will timeout and shut off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzgFuUu0oxg

Smart stay seemed to work well for the first few days but is now more miss than hit. For now I have just used tasker to increase the screen timeout on certain apps that I'm more likely to reach a timeout before I touch the screen. Of course, if you don't already have tasker, it is kind of pricey to buy just for that purpose.

I'm going to try screeble.. tho smart stay seemed to work, i like this idea better?

if you go in the camera app and look at your self using the front camera, you have to keep it at a somewhat far distance in order to get a full head shot of yourself.
If smart stay is enabled and you keep it at the same distance as when using the camera app it actually works. But with that said it to far away from the eyes and makes it far to read.
I have to keep it almost half my arm distance away in order to make smart stay work, which is someone of a let down in bad light such as a bus etc.
The other thing i have noticed if you keep the sgs at eye level the camera may not see you face/eyes and may just be seeing your forehaed and thus does not work.

I personally use screebl. I have had the pro version for a couple years and would never consider not having it. The default setup works great for me.
Also there is the application "screen on" that will keep the screen on when an application is opened or device plugged in.
I have taster, but i do not like how it will allow the screen to dim. I have not found a way around that.

Thank you very much for this very useful tip. I tried it just now. It worked very well.I have deactivated smart stay application. thank you once again.

Smart Stay seemed to be stuck on my phone yesterday... I didnt know what the eye icon was on my phone so looked on here to see it was teh smartstay feature, but for some reason mine would stay on the top toobar and wouldnt go away... I couldnt get it to turn off so finally had to reboot my phone to deactivate it.. my battery was discharging at an outrageous rate....from full charge to low battery warning in three hours...dont know if thats what caused it or not, but today I took my phone off the charger at 7 am and its 215 now and I still show 75% battery left??