Hi guys,
I have a Touch HD (running Dutty 2.9 right now) and there one thing that I just don't understand about this model as well as all the other smartphones out there. The Touch HD has some of the most advanced hardware specifications in the industry, the Windows Mobile OS can practically run any kind of software we can think of, and yet the notifications for basic things like missed call and new SMS message are from the stone age. I swear my old Sony K750 had much better ways of notifying me I had missed stuff on the phone.
I want to be able to select on my Touch HD what kind of alerts to receive when I get a missed call. I want to set the phone to ring an alert every X minutes, vibrate every Y minutes, flash the LED light and so on until I see what call I missed. If a get a new SMS while I'm not in the room, I'd like my phone to play the "New text message" every M minutes until I read it, as well as vibrate from time to time.
These are just examples. I just want a better notification method, one as advaced and customisable as the phone itself and its OS. Obviously MS isn't doing anything about it (and it's for small reasons such as this one that they've lost so many customers to iPhones or other devices), so does anyone know a good software that does what I require?
PS: after flashing Dutty 2.9, the screen turns on whenever I receive a new SMS. This is driving me crazy, since it's pressing stuff inside the pouch. I'm sure I've seen the option to disable this somewhere, but where? I can't find it anymore...
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Standard GSM phone usually starts ringing exactly at the same time caller can hear ringing tone on his side.
In case of PocketPC it's not so obvious, because OS has to wake up, show calling screen, load ringtone and start playing it. We know this well.
In case of BlueAngel WM2003 needed up to 3 rings to start ringing. After several discoveries this time was reduced to less than one half full ring - it's hard to notice any additional delay.
Now back to our beloved Hermes: I used stock WM5 from Polish T-mobile branch (Era GSM), now I'm using Black 2.5. In case of both delay is quite long: in WM5 Hermes starts ringing when caller can hear 3rd ringtone, in case of Black it's much better: ringtone appears when caller is already listening to 2nd ring. So still it takes a lot of time and many callers complain that it takes so much time for me to pick up the phone.
Notice: in all cases I use default OldPhone.mid as ringtone; when I initiate call device is sleeping and has no active applications working in background)
So question to you:
How does it take for different roms to start ringing (I used not very precise measurement unit called "ring" - for me "one ring" this is time from begining of first ringing tone up to begining of the next ringing tone on caller side; there will be problem for UK (and similar) users, as ringing tone is doubled, but I think we can cope
How can we reduce the delay (apart from not using MP3s as ringtones)?
From standby, my WM6 ROM also picks up on the second ring. However, on a hermes it generally takes one full ring to wake up the device. This is not a call dependent delay; you'll see it when you press the power button as well. I'd doubt based on this fact that you'll ever get it below one ring unless you disable powersave mode.
Yes, you are right: wake up takes much longer in case of Hermes compared to BlueAngel... Is it only hardware dependent delay?
It seems to be.... I've never uncovered where this occurs.
I thought it was just from loading all sorts of stuff on here and/or "type" of ringer -- if it's a long .mp3 it takes longer to load.
I neer did much testing, took it as a fact of life. It would be great if this is controlable.
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It would be great if this is controlable.
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That's why I'm asking - In case of BlueAngel improvement over time was impressive, and maybe it's possible to achieve something with our Hermes.
Today I've tested my TyTN's response time.. and it's pretty ok. Using a land-line it was always 1 up to 1.5 rings before I got full information about the caller. And with mobile-mobile calls this was always about 1 - 1.1 rings.. So it's not that bad..
What I hate the most.. is when sth hangs and then I get a phone-call or a text-msg.. this drives me crazy :/
Ive tried every possible solution from different forums and the delay still there on my HTC Athena. Didn't try it yet on the Kaiser
But I found some forum talking about changing the the Slot Cycle Index
It was on a Samsung i-760 PDA Phone, and Ive tried the procedure
but wasn't able to go further then 2nd step
If somebody who's more experienced with that can check, it will be great
links
http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/samsung-sch-i760/95260-delayed-ring-3.html
http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/sams...menu-slot-cycle-index-changes.html#post681001
Hiya.
Im using my TP2 for two month and Im really satisfied with this phone (as I did with TyTnII (thanks for tab and ok keys there ;-).
But few things bother me so Im trying to ask here:
1) Default action in email is reply all. Is it possible to change it to reply?
2) incomming SMS have long vibration time. Where can I to make it shorter?
3) When Im calling someone and he pick it up, it vibrate. But too short, can it be longer?
4) there is possible to set phone to switch to external microphone when its faced down. But in spite of the fact that I have it checked, it doesnt work :-(
5) row, where is battery, time and notification pole is everything extept battery notification filed. It means that anywhere I click Notifications is opened. What bother me the most is, that there is for example new email and when I click on it nothing happened ;-(. Rhodium Pack should solve this problem, but its not avaible anymore because of some licence problem.
6) I was always using another than original rom. In TP1 I was using song recognize program, TCPMP, etc. Can someone give me advice, what ROM is now the best? What ROMs are you using and why? Can someone explain me what are shortcuts in the names (WWE etc)? Im in Western Europe, but why its so important?
Thanks a lot!!
John
I don't know the answers to everything, but I know that there are places in the registry that can be removed (named OutlookEnhancement) to remove the reply all. Here is one area to look:
[HKLM\Services\OutlookEnhancement]
"DLL"="OutlookEnhancement.dll"
Remove the OutlookEnhancement.dll field. I'm sure if you searched for something like remove reply all, you will find hits on it explaining how to do it.
I've seen the long vibrate on text, and haven't felt the need to change it but every now and then a bug happens where it vibrates REALLY long, like over a minute, and then I just hit a button to stop it.
I've never seen a Vibrate on Connect modification to let it vibrate longer.
Mine usually switches to external mic when I flip it upside down. I've had it not to it once or twice. Does your G-Sensor work in applications? Maybe Calibrate it? And try it on a level non moving surface (like a table).
WWE means World Wide English. Best ROM questions usually go unanswered here. Everyone's preferences for a favorite rom are different. Line up and sample the Chef's selections and see which one tastes best to you
Hi,
I have my Touch Pro2 only a couple of weeks now, but I get pretty annoyed by the fact that it only notifies me randomly for a new SMS. Most of the time the green light will go flashing, but the three consecutive vibrations won't come out of themselves, or will be done spread out over a minute or so. They do kind of get jump started when I press on the standby button on top of the phone, but that's kinda the wrong way around isn't it?
I have a 'normal' TP2 (T7373) and only the original ROM-stuff, updated with the official HTC-manila update. I bought it at a smartphone shop and chose T-Mobile as my provider, it isn't the T-Mobile version of the phone.
I have looked around here for some answers, but couldn't find them. The whole HTC SMS app also runs slow, but I think that's the extra weight of 2.5 (even while running addictRAMcleaner).
Is there some kind of fix for this or a way to give this task a higher priority?
Thanks in advance,
Tiemen
I have had this notification lag. I never found a way to solve this. I suggest you learn how to flash your TP2. Also the sms client from the official 2.5 version really sucks. Most of the custom roms have ripped this out and have put a decent sms client in their roms. If you learn how to flash you won't regret it and you never want a stock rom again.
flash a recent rom that many people are using!
like Tuberculosis your problem was so yesterday.
Is it possible to stop text messages flashing up at the top of the screen as I would rather not have personal texts read by colleagues etc when I am away from my desk at work. I see nothing in settings to allow you to stop this..
Doubt it. Why not take the phone with you when you leave your desk?
Why don't just take the phone with you?
Also I don't think your txt would show up on the lock screen, just a number for missed calls and unread txt. If it did indeed show up then I'm sure you can disabled it in the settings.
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Just tested it on my Samsung Omnia 7 and it flashes up the first line of the text message at the top of the screen even when the screen is locked. I think this is a basic privacy issue and there should be an option to not display it as there was in windows 6.5
I often walk to a colleagues desk for a couple of minutes why should I have to take my phone everywhere?? I also demonstrate things to colleagues at my desk and I dont want personal texts being viewed by other people. I dont think this is unreasonable and should be fixed quickly as I know it would put many people off.
Is there a forum where these issues can be flagged to microsoft to fix in a future release.
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Just tested it on my Samsung Omnia 7 and it flashes up the first line of the text message at the top of the screen even when the screen is locked. I think this is a basic privacy issue and there should be an option to not display it as there was in windows 6.5
I often walk to a colleagues desk for a couple of minutes why should I have to take my phone everywhere?? I also demonstrate things to colleagues at my desk and I dont want personal texts being viewed by other people. I dont think this is unreasonable and should be fixed quickly as I know it would put many people off.
Is there a forum where these issues can be flagged to microsoft to fix in a future release.
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I agree. This is not an unreasonable request. Hopefully support will be added for it.
Two years ago I bought the Xperia X1, and it was all problems. One of the main mistakes (which you won't test when buying a phone) is the vibration.
I'm a student and have many colleges so I always have my sound off. Since I have my Xperia (this month two years) I always have had it on vibration as well as all the other phones I had.
But with the X1 the main problem is that I miss more than half of my calls. Especially when I'm walking or by bike.
Now I'm doubting to buy the Desire or the Galaxy S, so one of my questions is:
Is the vibration strong enough to feel when I wear the phone in my pocket?
The second question is about ActiveSync and Exchange. My university has e-mail through a Exchange server (so activesync is not running on my pc). So my question is:
Can I use this phone (or android) to receive mail via exchange and that it automatically updates my contacts and especially calender?
Most of the topics I found were about running a special version of ActiveSync on your pc, but in this case I want to update the calendar everywhere (like I can now with ActiveSync on WinMo) and not just when it is plugged in on my pc.
I know it is a matter of personal feeling about the vibration, but if you own this phone can you tell me if you think the vibration is sufficient when I wear it in my pocket?
I have my phone on vibrate only and I never miss calls. Also, the desire does all you mention natively for Exchange (mail, calendar, and contacts all sync ota)
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your post seems incomplete.. there's settings and situations you forget.. as in using a case or pocket and stuff.. although.. when it's vibrating.. i always feel it. no problems..
Most of the time I'm wearing them in my jeans pocket. The other phone I now have I don't feel when I'm walking or cycling. When sitting I feel it, but most of the time I react more to the light buzzing sound of the vibration.
I'm almost satisfied with the answers, but can some more who have this phone let me know how they feel about it?
Dear All ,
I wan to disable all vibrations when im using General sound profile.
I was able to disable Alarm, ringing & notification , touch feedback and text typing.
But i was unable to find for two things.
1] When i dial a number using dial pad.
2] After sending sms I get a pop which shows my remaining balance. During this popup it vibrates. But if i check my balance manually the popup wil appear without any vibration.
Thanks