Hello all!
I am having a strange problem with my MDA III (Win Mobile 5). Some month ago I did not have a connection to the GSM network but only a plane symbol, where usually the antenna signal is.
I was not able to activate GSM, so I made a soft reset (I have to do the soft reset quite regulary because often my screen will not go on, when I push the power button).
After the soft reset everything worked fine and I forgot about this. But then four days ago I was entering a plane and tried to activate the flight mode by tipping the antenna icon. When doing so I only get an pop-up named phone with the name of the provider and the option to go to the settings. but no option to turn the flight mode on.
I tried every menu on the phone and was not able to find it. So I decided to update the ROM to Windows Mobile 6 using Helmi BA WM6. The update worked fine, but still I do not have the flight mode option. Quite strange, because I thought I will remove everything from the ROM with this update.
So if anybody has an hint or solution how to get the flight mode option, I would approciate it very!
Cant you just go into the coms manager in WM6 and click on the phone icon to turn it off?
You can just turn all the Radios off from there as well, wouldnt that do the job?
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Hi,
I was wondering if anybody can help me assigning a hardware button to turn flight mode on/off. I am using Vito Button Mapper program. I can assign a hard ware buton to turn the power on/off but still have to take out stylus to turn off the phone (a.k.a flight mode). Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
read this thread and get the EXE, then map your hardware button.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=13377&highlight=radio
Thanks for your help. I just downloaded the cab file. I'll try it and let you know if it worked.
Thanks again.
Keep in mind that the difference between radio on-off & flightmode is that with flightmode ALL radio's (GSM, BT) are switched off
Radio on-off only toggles the GSM Radio.
This is handy when during switching off-on (ie when you use a dual SIM)you want to maintain ie your BT GPS connection.
Thanks again for explaining the function of radio on/off program. I did downloaded the program but for some reasons it did not work on iMate PDA2k. It also made the flight mode inoperable even with stylus. Once I uninstalled the program, now flight mode is working again with stylus. Oh well, I tried. But I do appreciate your help.
Thanks
It works on my PDA2k... you may want to try a reset after installing.
Outz:
You are right. It did work after I reset the PPC. I guess I was too impatient. There is a very slight time lag after I push the button (althout less than a second) but I was not waiting long enough. Secondly, I noticed if I don't have any signal in a particular area, delay to turn off is even longer but I am so glad it works.
Thanks for your help.
Press and hold "end call" red button for 3 seconds.
bdarras: Thanks for your tip. I already tried that because it did work on MDA II but not on MDA III (or PDA2k).
you're right!
I just gor my xdaIIs yesterday, I didn't realize they had disabled it!
i was wondering if it was possibloe to switch of and on flight mode using a button. couldnt find this option. the significance of this is that those who have dual sims can switch between networks easily. i know there are today profile manager avilbale like phonealarm and zenphone but i dont see a point using them as they just clogg up my today screen. im just trying to keep as little aplications on there as needed. someday ill get myself to remove pocktplus if i can find a good close program. ive tried magic button and battery pack both are no where close.
I use tel-on-off.exe from www.freecabs.de, a very small util. I bound it to a hardware button using AEBPLus, found on this forum. When I now press the calendar button twice, the phone radio shuts down and I go into flightmode. Pressing twice again reactivates the phone and shuts flight mode down.
You can also find a flight mode switcher on the site of Crino, who made Call SMS Blocker. You can find that thread with his homepage link on this forum.
That link doesn't seem to be working, try this one! http://www.inntalinfo.de/apboard/useraction.php?action=get_upload&id=252
thanks found tel.on-off.aebplus caused a mess with my phone last time so not installing that. another question i have is..
how do i display on today screen which operator is being used at present. (i.e. when i switch from orange to o2 it should show me on screen in big leeters)
Use pocketzen. gives u a lot of functionality
http://zendrui.free.fr/
Recently upgraded to WM6 off the t-mobile page that someone posted on here. Everything was fine ofr a week or so, then things started going wrong on me today.
if i go to the start menu and then programs, it opens fine, but as soon as i press on something (i.e. media player) it changes and says "Windows Media" in the top left hand corner but all i can see is the program list still, almost as if its an image over the program.
I tried Hard resetting but cant seem to get it to work ( the two buttons way wont work and the second way i cant see the clear storage program just like media player)
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
For the hard reset try hitting the windows + OK (the middle two buttons to the right & left of the dpad) then while holding those two in with the stylus tap the reset switch on the bottom of the phone. Not sure if this was the sequence you used because you did not say.
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Re Flash the phone.
The first hard reset i tried was with the camera and voice call buttons as it says on some websites and that didnt work, just tried that way you suggested and it just reset normally.
I was planning on re-flashing but, when i connect to usb the ornage light comes on to charge but the pc doesnt detect it.
What device do you have? Refer to your manual for hard reset. If not, use the clear storage in settings>system menu.
USB not Connecting
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The first hard reset i tried was with the camera and voice call buttons as it says on some websites and that didnt work, just tried that way you suggested and it just reset normally.
I was planning on re-flashing but, when i connect to usb the ornage light comes on to charge but the pc doesnt detect it.
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Go into the Settings/Connection Settings and on the USB connection disable the advanced by un-ticking it's check box and you should connect normally. In WM6 it's enabled by default but does not work correctly most of the time.
Ive had my GN for a week and the phone has gone into aeroplane mode twice. It seems to me that once the phone has been in deep sleep for over 2 hours it decides to switch too Boeing flight mode.
I already have a faulty screen so its going back anyway but I would like you guys too know just in case you come across the same problem. Anybody else have the strange occurrence?
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I've had it for about a week. I put my phone into airplane mode before and its just kind of hung. Like its thinking about switching the radio off. Can't turn the airplane mode back off. Only thing left is to switch it off and restart it.
I put my phone into airplane mode on and off sometimes out so it can find the network again. Used to do it with my X10.
Though its never gone into airplane mode on its own. It just sometimes hangs when trying to go into that mode.
Barometric pressure sensor?
Has happened to me once, had to reboot to get out of aeroplane mode.
happened to me today as well.. very unexpected..
I just tried it. I pushed the power button and held for a second. The modes switch screen came up and I selected airplane mode on. As soon as the screen went away (1-2 seconds), there was an airplane icon in the notification bar.
Repeated the process to turn it off, and the airplane mode turned off quickly with no airplane icon in the Notif. bar.
ianwood said:
Barometric pressure sensor?
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think so
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@NatTheCat, do you actually see the "airplane" icon on the notification bar when it switches over? (Not sure if its a similar problem as mine - it feels like it has gone into airplane mode, but don't actually get the icon)
My one experience of putting my phone in airplane mode (manually). I hit the toggle from the power button, nothing seemed to happen. No airplane icon. I went back to power button menu and my airplane mode was grayed out... so I rebooted my phone and haven't tried again yet.
I just tried this earlier, it took almost 4 minutes to actually enter airplane mode. It's almost like the processes it was trying to connect online were hanging it up and wouldn't release. During this time, the airplane mode icon was greyed out and I could not switch airplane mode off. Once ap mode actually kicked in and the icon appeared, I was able to turn it back off through the power menu.
This is getting really frustrating. I can't use my phone for anything.
It started a couple of days ago.. My phone started losing wifi connection but then connecting again almost immediately. My data network isn't great at home and that means, when the wifi drops nothing works.. I've tried everything I can think of.
The wifi doesn't turn off, it's set to never sleep.. It just disconnects for about a second, even when I'm using it.
Any ideas?
Does it only happen to your phone?
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Does it only happen to your phone?
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Yes, my transformer stays connected and so does my pc..
Edit: Actually I had a weird problem where my transformer pad couldn't connect a couple of days ago. Nothing seemed to work and I think that is around the time this started happening.
Edit2: It seems it happens only when bluetooth is on...
I had the same issue and fixed by typing at the dialing keypad *#197328640# then press the menu button and choose WIFI then disable WIFI Power Saving Mode , after every restart you need to do it again
tantan911 said:
I had the same issue and fixed by typing at the dialing keypad *#197328640# then press the menu button and choose WIFI then disable WIFI Power Saving Mode , after every restart you need to do it again
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I read about that and it's not really a solution to me. What bothers me the most is that it only does this when bluetooth is on.