Guys,
Do you know of a WM5/WM6 utility that will lock the keypad controls when the screen goes blank after 5 mins on my Trinity? What I would want to happen is that I press either the power button to take it out of standby mode and activate all keys again as it is hen its in my pocket the buttons get pressed and aspects like the start menu or contacts open automatically.
What i want is like on the Orange C500 where you press * enter or something to activate the keypad.
Cheers
Hawk
Simply go to your settings-system.key lock. There you can enable this function without a tool!
you can try an utility for vijay555 at www.vijay555.com, it locks by phone with the standard lock utility (the today plugin included by default) and turns off the screen, you can assign it to a key to have both things done automatically.
when you power on the device, you will have to unlock it to get the phone pad activated.
The default keylock does not work! It locks the softkeys but it does not lock the hard keys on the control pad as they often get touched and do things like access contacts etc when i do not want them too!!!
The default Keylock works for me- Orange SPV M700 with WM6 MunRus ROM- selecting 'Lock all keys except power key when off' also disables the navigation and phone keys.
It needed a couple of soft resets for it to take though.
tried that and it does not work?
or use the Slide2Unlock, it works excellent.
I configured it to lock when Light is dimmed, and then turn of the screen after 15 seconds, but without putting device in standby.
Then I disabled standby in the Power panel.
I also assigned to manually start it when pushing the button next to the power button.
So now I can start the music player, push that button and it will keep on playing. and to get back, I push the power button and slide finger over screen.
Done.
Real handy.
Don't forget to give some coffee to developer.
where is that utility?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=314703&highlight=Slide2Unlock
The power button on HD is useless for me because I dont use TF3D.
Is it possible to use these buttons (home/back) to pop the start menu/close app?
I tried AEButton, but it does not seem to have an option for something like that.
Also,is it possible to change soft keys when using standard windows homescreen from calendar/contacts to something else?
Thanks
You might try spb pocketplus which has a button map functionality also.
AEButton works for the back button. (you don't need to add a new button : use "ok key")
Sadly, it doesn't for the home button
Now im sure i had this working, but not 100%, now it dont work, ive searched, but there only seems to be mention of in the media players, ie tcpmp, core, nitrogen etc, the option to turn the screen off.
Theres other threads on here about getting the screen off, but not locking the keys, i allways seem to dial someone when doing it this way!
Now ive just dug out my TyTn 2 and tested
run tcpmp, played an mp3, gone back to my main screen, locked the keys and hit the standby button, = phone screen off, phone lock, but still getting mp3 playback.
Why cant i get my touch pro 2 to do this????
I use Nitrogen with S2U2 and it works just fine. No amount of button presses turn the device on, except for the power button.
agentdr8 said:
I use Nitrogen with S2U2 and it works just fine. No amount of button presses turn the device on, except for the power button.
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Tried that, but you still cant lock the phone 1st then turn the screen off, unless im missing something?
Has this S2U2 got anything to do with what i want?
I think it has to do something with the headphones being used. I can lock my device with s2p running being pluged in to a 3.5 cable while i drive.
no one share this issue then? still bugs me i can do it on older devices and not my TP2?
fil said:
Tried that, but you still cant lock the phone 1st then turn the screen off, unless im missing something?
Has this S2U2 got anything to do with what i want?
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I'm guessing you're trying to use the standard windows lock screen and then power button? I don't use the built-in screen lock, and just use S2U2, which I've set to only come on when the power button is pressed. So I can start nitrogen, play music, hit the "screen off" button on the default skin, which blanks the screen, and when I hit the power button, S2U2 comes up first.
The other thing to look at is possibly the Keylock under start, settings, system. Not sure which ROM you're running, so it may or may not be there. I have mine set to disable all buttons except the power button when screen is off.
I'm having the same problem, when I play my music on my TP2 on speakerphone and press the power button to turn the screen off (to save power) it shuts the music off. I would like this to stop.
Try looking at
Code:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\BattPowerOff
I think on some ROMs it's set to 180. Try changing it to 0 and soft-reset & test.
not to be thick in the head...but could you spell it out for me what this would do before I do it
ok, so I regedit it and the value was 0 already so now what do I do? I tried changing it to 2 but I don;t know what I'm doing
since no one seems to care about this lol, I found a solution. I just downloaded "turn off the light" app and that works great. it cuts off the screen to conserve power but doesn't kill the music
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=550973
grant9908 said:
since no one seems to care about this lol, I found a solution. I just downloaded "turn off the light" app and that works great. it cuts off the screen to conserve power but doesn't kill the music
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=550973
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I realize I am a bit late to the discussion, but mortsaver is an older but functional utility for this. There are probably more elegant ones nowadays, but on my apache I use mortsaver with wm6.5 when I am listening to music or even with google maps when it used to freeze if the phone was put on standby.
Hope this is helpful. It's attached. Thanks to everyone on these forums!
agentdr8 said:
Try looking at
Code:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\BattPowerOff
I think on some ROMs it's set to 180. Try changing it to 0 and soft-reset & test.
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Just had a look and get asfar as the power part then theres no Battpoweroff
grant9908 said:
since no one seems to care about this lol, I found a solution. I just downloaded "turn off the light" app and that works great. it cuts off the screen to conserve power but doesn't kill the music
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=550973
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Can allready do that with the nitrogen player
cameld00d said:
I realize I am a bit late to the discussion, but mortsaver is an older but functional utility for this. There are probably more elegant ones nowadays, but on my apache I use mortsaver with wm6.5 when I am listening to music or even with google maps when it used to freeze if the phone was put on standby.
Hope this is helpful. It's attached. Thanks to everyone on these forums!
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Installed but still cant get it to what i want?
Going back to my 1st post, all i want it to do as my previous WM did
run tcpmp ( or any other media player )
play an mp3
go back to my main screen
lock the keys
hit the standby button
= phone screen off, phone locked, but still getting mp3 playback.
fil said:
run tcpmp ( or any other media player )
play an mp3
go back to my main screen
lock the keys
hit the standby button
= phone screen off, phone locked, but still getting mp3 playback.
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I just tested this and you're right, it won't work this way. By pressing the standby button, it suspends the audio. I'm sure it does that by design, and most likely to save battery. So there's possibly a regkey to address that. But in the meantime, why not do it this way:
setup s2u2 to lock on power button press
run nitrogen
play an mp3
hit nitrogen's screen off button on the default skin
profit
That's how I do it, and the music keeps on playing indefinitely. All the keys are locked, and the only one you can hit is the standby/power button, at which time s2u2 comes up and prompts for either a password (if enabled) or a slide to unlock, all the while music is still playing.
Cheers agentdr8 that does the job, but after using s2u2 for a day, i dont like it! The touching the slide to unlock tab on the screen just aint big or as usable as i like.
Pocket Player by default has "do not suspend power while playing," it keeps the music playing when your phone turns off.
Unfortunately, pocket player costs $25 or something like that.
I use psshutxp to turn off the screen & hold the end key to lock it....
http://ppcsoft.narod.ru/psshutxp/psshutxp_eng.vga.xscale.cab
Description:
With psShutXP for Pocket PCs you can easily control power and display of your PDA. psShutXP is good free extension for Wisbar Advance 1.x and 2.x. Extend WisBar Advance functions with psShutXP. Unlike other similar utilities psShutXP covers all power functions:
Soft Reset;
Shutdown;
Display switch Off/On (You can bind it to any hardware key);
Password lock;
You can also schedule all these functions using timer dialog;
Icon in "Today" screen in the tray for quick access
Microsoft Windows XP-style main dialog with gray background and shadow;
Program is very small, only 35 Kb;
look for and apply funny skins for psShutXP or create new one;
for advanced users psShutXP has a hidden function: hard reset with double confirmation;
Also we have special version for WM2003SE that supports VGA screen.
some WisBar Advance themes include skin for psShutXP!
pimppoet said:
I use psshutxp to turn off the screen & hold the end key to lock it....
http://ppcsoft.narod.ru/psshutxp/psshutxp_eng.vga.xscale.cab
Description:
With psShutXP for Pocket PCs you can easily control power and display of your PDA. psShutXP is good free extension for Wisbar Advance 1.x and 2.x. Extend WisBar Advance functions with psShutXP. Unlike other similar utilities psShutXP covers all power functions:
Soft Reset;
Shutdown;
Display switch Off/On (You can bind it to any hardware key);
Password lock;
You can also schedule all these functions using timer dialog;
Icon in "Today" screen in the tray for quick access
Microsoft Windows XP-style main dialog with gray background and shadow;
Program is very small, only 35 Kb;
look for and apply funny skins for psShutXP or create new one;
for advanced users psShutXP has a hidden function: hard reset with double confirmation;
Also we have special version for WM2003SE that supports VGA screen.
some WisBar Advance themes include skin for psShutXP!
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this worked fine for me thanks
I want to toggle between Vibrate and Ring+Vibrate with the PTT button.
If you're talking about the PTT button them my guess is that you have a Tilt2 -- and if that's the case then all you need to do is press and hold the far right hardware button on the front ("hang up"): this will switch between the ring you have set (presumably vibrate+ring) and vibrate.
Now you've got the PTT button free to map to something else useful. For mapping I would suggest the Rhodium Keyboard Controller (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=554240).
Yes. I do have the ATT Tilt Two.
I'm running the stock rom. I used Crud Scraper to remove the bloat. When I press and hold the end call, it locks the phone. I have no need for that function because when the screen is off on the Tilt 2, the keys lock, unlike on the Tilt 1. I had to use S2U2 on my old Tilt.
Look for the setting
I think it is start>settings>Personal>Long End Key to change the behavior of the 'hold end key'.
The link provided by pistou will do what you need with the PTT button.
I decided to use the PTT button to turn on the Comm Manager.
I copied it from the windows directory to the start menu, so that it shows up under the button options. Now I can disconnect data more easily for added battery life. Thanks for all your help.
Hey people, I've searched around and have not been able to find a solution for a while now so I thought i'd ask the question here.
The Touch Pro 2 has 3 softkeys: 2 on home screen and 1 in the start menu that says (Lock)
The two first softeys are quit easy to manage with different apps or directly from the registry. The third, however, is dedicated to the lock screen (phone) function and I have not found a way to reassign what this button does.
I would like to reassign this button to S2U2 instead using the WM6.5 original lock function.
I've enabled the appropriate options on S2U2 to over ride this button, but whenever my RAM usage reaches critical and Apps autoclose, it seems to break the function of this button and only a restart will solve it. I've even tried adding iLock2 into the task manager exception list but nothing seems to work, which is why i'd just like to assign the lock button to S2U2 permanently.
Does anyone have any idea on how to solve this ?