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Vibrate function sucks in WM6

I couldn't find anyone else complaining about this which surprised me.
I have tried all ROM's so I assume this is a WM6 issues but in WM5 with my 8525 when using the vibrate function whether it be for phone calls or new emails etc it would be a nice long constant vibrate.
Now with WM6 the vibrate function is a wimpy ass short 3 vibrate pulses. I mean I carry my phone right on my belt and I can barely feel it go off sometimes.
Is there a way to change this in anyway?

It vibrates AND sucks and you Complain ??
(sorry, couldn't resist....)

HAHA
but its my phone not my girl
Man I can't believe I'm the only one that this bothers and I can't find anyway to change it :-(

wbless said:
It vibrates AND sucks and you Complain ??
(sorry, couldn't resist....)
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LOL! 10/10

Finally usable vibrate, the wm5 constant vibrate was so loud and hard that it was impossible to hear ring tone beneath it

WM5 used to sound like a cow mooing if on a wooden desk.

wbless said:
It vibrates AND sucks and you Complain ??
(sorry, couldn't resist....)
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Now that's funny
Anyway, to try and give a possible solution (cos I don't always just complain about people posting repeat questions ) I remember reading something about ring \ vibrate patterns ages ago...
If you look in the blue angel wiki reg hacks page (here) there is a section about a third of the way down about phone settings and there's quite a bit there.
I've not tried it but it seems likely to be the fix
Good luck!

Yes but that is for just the standard ringtone because I already tried it. That hack doesn't do anything to the vibrate function for new email notification..
So my search continues but thanks..

wbless said:
It vibrates AND sucks and you Complain ??
(sorry, couldn't resist....)
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some people are hard to please

I love the three short bursts... just enough to tell me theres a message but not too much to make my trousers look like there's a ferret in there trying to escape (like in WM5)!

unwired4 said:
I love the three short bursts... just enough to tell me theres a message but not too much to make my trousers look like there's a ferret in there trying to escape (like in WM5)!
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Honestly I thought the same thing at first but I have noticed recently that I am missing them because its just not strong enough..Heck if I could up the amount of times to like 6 maybe that might help also..

Ok so to change the vibrate function during a phone call ring its
Phone Ringtone Script [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Sounds\RingTone0]
Change the value of "Script"
Here's the code:
a - stands for display
r - repeat/replay the script again
c - sets the volume C50, c150, c100
f - means flash .. f1 flash for 1 second and f0 stands for flash continuously
p -means play ringtone
v- vibrate then incorporate te]with number to state how many seconds it will vibrate example. v3 vibrate for 3seconds or v0 for continous
w - stands for wait or pause then specify how many seconds like w3(wait for 3 seconds)
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So I figure with any luck I could find a registry setting for the vibrate on new email notification. The best I could find is under
HKEY CURRENT USER/CONTROLPANEL/NOTIFICATIONS
the ones at the top reprsent all of what you have for settings under sound notifications which I want but under the new email one theres no value called script.
Anyone else who is a bit more familiar with registry settings give me any ideas or anything?
thanks

kha said:
Finally usable vibrate, the wm5 constant vibrate was so loud and hard that it was impossible to hear ring tone beneath it
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I agree I could not stand the wm5 vibrate, I am constantly using im+ and that constant vibrate would freeze the device when I would receive simultaneous messages.

my phone is still vibrate like WM5, long and non-stop.

WM5 was too much, I definitely prefer WM6 vibrate, but think something halfway between would be better.
It seems to me that not only is it not continuous but it doesn't vibrate as hard, thoguht hat might be because the motor takes too long to get up to full speed, so the 3 bursts don't get it running flat out?
Definitely an opportunity for someone to put together a little application to make it easy to customise.

Has anyone been able to find where this is in the registry? I have reverted back to wm5 and would like to change it to the wm6 3 pulse vibrate rather then the continuous.

Has anyone figured this out yet?
The long continuous one of wm5 was really annoying (esp. when phone is sat on the desk) but at least I didn't miss calls / not see texts/emails arrive.
I would prefer something inbetween. Perhaps 2x 1 sec bursts.

I don't have WM6 yet, but have been reading these threads before I do apply it -- and THIS is why.
good thing you reported back nahgum. I agree it's long and annoying, but at least if ur in a position that you can't glance at your phone, you know whether someone called or txted.
For those saying WM5 is long -- it would be great to find a way to do something like 2 1 2 for phone and 3 3 3 3 3 for txt. MrDSL is on the right track, just gotta find the key -- then someone could probably whip a little gui to make it nice and smooth.

I have WM6 (Black Satin) and it still has the long long vibration, which is quite annoying.
Any idea how to change to the 3 short pulses mentioned in this thread?
The registry tweak is quite limited (cannot have pulsing vibrations while playing ringtone).
Thanks!

You guys should look into a program called "Phone Alarm". It allows you to change the vibration feature to your heart's content.

HTC Phone Lock (Transparent)

Hi All,
Does anyone know how to get this working on our beloved HD's? I hate the way the screen goes completely black during a call, we can't use the light sensor to tell the phone that the call has finished and it is away from your ear (so screen comes back on a la iphone), and i keep doing things during a call with my ear!!
So this seems like the ideal solution - but i can't get it to work!!
I've copied over the file to the windows folder, then soft reset. Changed the registry entry for phoneLockEnable to 1 in HKLM/Software/HTC/Phone but still no joy!
All help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
DF

hi, where you found out this software? it look's great, can you share the link to me? recall i saw some post like this, but just for diamond, i'm looking one for my hd, is there anyone have?

chanmama said:
hi, where you found out this software? it look's great, can you share the link to me? recall i saw some post like this, but just for diamond, i'm looking one for my hd, is there anyone have?
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Sorry, i don't have the cab file, i just saw the screenshot and thought 'that's what i need'!!!
Hopefully some bright spark here can help us both (and others probably).
Regards
DF

Beside this transparent canvas, where can I get the orginal canvas?
I am using a offical ROM but I don't see this function!

I hate the way the screen goes completely black during a call, we can't use the light sensor to tell the phone that the call has finished and it is away from your ear (so screen comes back on a la iphone), and i keep doing things during a call with my ear!!
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that's interesting, because my screen doesn't go blank during calls and it happens quite often that i accidently disconnect a call (i suppose because i hit a button with my ear).
so in search for i solution i found in Advanced config a tab Light sensor > Light sensor polling which i set enabled. the explanation says "uses light sensor to automatically turn screen off when the phone come near from your ear to answer a call". so this should set it like the i-phone does, right?
hence when i tested it, the screen still was on, even when i put my thumb onto the light-sensor.
is this because i don't have a stock rom (i use Duttys HD V1.9b XTREME) or is there something i can do about it.
it would be really nice to have the screen locked when i answer a call and to outomatically unlock it if i remove it from my head to use some function on the screen..

take55 said:
that's interesting, because my screen doesn't go blank during calls and it happens quite often that i accidently disconnect a call (i suppose because i hit a button with my ear).
so in search for i solution i found in Advanced config a tab Light sensor > Light sensor polling which i set enabled. the explanation says "uses light sensor to automatically turn screen off when the phone come near from your ear to answer a call". so this should set it like the i-phone does, right?
hence when i tested it, the screen still was on, even when i put my thumb onto the light-sensor.
is this because i don't have a stock rom (i use Duttys HD V1.9b XTREME) or is there something i can do about it.
it would be really nice to have the screen locked when i answer a call and to outomatically unlock it if i remove it from my head to use some function on the screen..
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Hi take55,
Yes, i'm aware of the advanced config tweak (also in HD Tweak), and as you correctly state, the screen should/will go blank on call connection (i'm running kwbr's A Touch Of HD 3.3.4 and mine doesn't, even with tweak applied!!).
Unfortunately, when the call ends and you move the phone away from your ear, the screen still stays blank????? I've read somewhere on these forums that it never will work like the iphone (not sure why, as the light sensor should recognise that we've moved the phone away from our ears).
So that is why i'm trying to get this other method to work. What i have noticed is that with the bmp copied over to the windows folder or with a cab i found by A-Math installed, my dialler locks up after every call (as if the transparent phone lock is in place) but i can't actually see it. None of the screen works and i have to soft reset. Maybe something is stopping the bmp to show on the phone....who knows.
It also might be the fact that this was designed for the Diamond (found the cab on the Diamond forums).
Just hoping some genius here might now how to sort this.
I've attached the cab file i've found, give it a try and see if you have the same issue as me.
Regards
DF

chanmama said:
hi, where you found out this software? it look's great, can you share the link to me? recall i saw some post like this, but just for diamond, i'm looking one for my hd, is there anyone have?
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Hi chanmama,
Found the cab file for you, see previous post.
Regards
DF

Datafanatic said:
What i have noticed is that with the bmp copied over to the windows folder or with a cab i found by A-Math installed, my dialler locks up after every call (as if the transparent phone lock is in place) but i can't actually see it. None of the screen works and i have to soft reset. Maybe something is stopping the bmp to show on the phone....who knows.
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It has nothing to do with the BMPs but with the registry setting that the CAB also makes. It sets HKLM\Software\HTC\Phone\PhoneLockEnable to 1, in wich case you'll have to press the power button to unock (no need to soft reset). For the BMP to work the phone/dialer software will have to support it, otherwise it just locks the phone in the usual way: black screen, power button to unlock.

Datafanatic said:
Hi chanmama,
Found the cab file for you, see previous post.
Regards
DF
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tks but your cab only for the canvas skin only, do not contain the original software (slidable canvas), anyway, tks for your help

I've also found this problem to be quite annoying during a phone call but have found some sort of way to deal with it.
Firstly my ROM isn't tweaked, its just the basic one already installed.
After a call is connected, the screen switches off. But if you need to access the screen again during a call, I just press the "Back Arrow" key, one of the four hard buttons on the bottom which brings the screen back up again.
If you press the phone button instead whilst the screen is off, the screen lights up again but it puts the call on hold.
This probably isn't the best way to deal with this, but it seems to work for me for the time being, hope this helps anyone else here.

rubbermonkey123 said:
I've also found this problem to be quite annoying during a phone call but have found some sort of way to deal with it.
Firstly my ROM isn't tweaked, its just the basic one already installed.
After a call is connected, the screen switches off. But if you need to access the screen again during a call, I just press the "Back Arrow" key, one of the four hard buttons on the bottom which brings the screen back up again.
If you press the phone button instead whilst the screen is off, the screen lights up again but it puts the call on hold.
This probably isn't the best way to deal with this, but it seems to work for me for the time being, hope this helps anyone else here.
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Useful info - I found this particularly annoying yesterday during a ouple of calls.
Also discovered Gyrator tries to turn the phone screen and was laggy - which was even more annoying!

Everyone!!!
CHECK THIS OUT - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=489034
Answer to all our prayers - a screen lock which uses the g-sensor and not the light sensor.
Now, when a call is connected, holding the phone to the ear blacks the screen, but when you bring the phone down (to use the keypad or something), THE SCREEN COMES BACK ON!!!!!!!
Tried and tested on kwbr's A Touch Of HD v3.3.4 (probably the best manila2 ROM out there!)
Regards
DF

Screen going White on Kavana 6.1 Work Around (edited)

I wanna make another post here cause in the last post this issue wasnt resolved and i wanna fresh thread here, please only post if you have the solution, thanks hope theres someOne who can get this issue resolved.

Do you use AutoKeylock ?
I had this problem when I started using 6.1 ROMs first.
In my case I had about 6 applications I always installed right off the bat after a new ROM flash. One of those was Maniac's AutoKeylock.
I timed the duration between answering a call and having the call go white one day, and it seemed to me to match precisely with the screen timeout settings I had in AutoKeylock.
I removed the application, and have never seen the problem happen again.
However, I do miss having AutoKeylock.
I realize that this could be totally coincidental, and thus I asked before whether others who had the problem also used AutoKeylock but never got a reply.
Perhaps you can reply as to whether you use it or not. And, if you do, whether removing the application resolves the issue for you.
If there is a correlation then we can alert Maniac to the issue, and he may be able to find a solution.

LiverpoolFCfan said:
I had this problem when I started using 6.1 ROMs first.
In my case I had about 6 applications I always installed right off the bat after a new ROM flash. One of those was Maniac's AutoKeylock.
I timed the duration between answering a call and having the call go white one day, and it seemed to me to match precisely with the screen timeout settings I had in AutoKeylock.
I removed the application, and have never seen the problem happen again.
However, I do miss having AutoKeylock.
I realize that this could be totally coincidental, and thus I asked before whether others who had the problem also used AutoKeylock but never got a reply.
Perhaps you can reply as to whether you use it or not. And, if you do, whether removing the application resolves the issue for you.
If there is a correlation then we can alert Maniac to the issue, and he may be able to find a solution.
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You know if the reason you miss autokeylock is for the ability to set a time for the screen to turn off and the keypad to lock, smarttoolkit does that, with no problems.

HTCP4000PPC said:
I wanna make another post here cause in the last post this issue wasnt resolved and i wanna fresh thread here, please only post if you have the solution, thanks hope theres someOne who can get this issue resolved.
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How often it happen?
With my phone running Kavanas I will get a white screen once after a reboot and then I press and button and it goes back to normal and wont do it again. I have gotten used to it.
For some reason I think it has to do with Tornado PowerControl, do you have that installed? I just cant figure it out exactly. Maybe we can find a solution.

We'll i believe this White screen has something to do with the backlight settings in power managment, i find if you leave screen on full and turn off the phone from turning off the screen, the white screen wont happen, this isnt so bad, cause if u want the screen to go off just hold down the disconnect phone button, not too bad cause when your not wanting to use the phone anymore the screen still goes off, also you can turn the backlight off in accessories which is the same as setting the screen to go off automatically in 5 seconds, white screen fixed moreless.

Same issue with Ricky's v24 and now with Rose 1.7
I also am experiencing this issue, but do not have installed neither Maniac's AutoKeylock nor Tornado PowerControl.
It happens sometimes during a call, sometimes not.
It happens when leaving the phone unlocked and timesout idle time. If hit the Home or back buttons, it shows the home screen again and next timeout does work fine.
I have beeing looking up and down for fixes but was unable to find one. Some say turning off "Run Lowlight" JOGGR setting, some say flash after a hard reset...
It seems that running lowlight (joggrinfo.exe -m -t) helps a bit. If the phone is fully bright and rests on the table, the screen goes white after timeout.
However, if run lowlight and let it alone, it turns off the screen normally.
Also when it goes white and hit back or home button, the screen goes mid-bright, and then turns off normally.
However, when unlocking, it goes full bright, and then the issue comes back.
In summary ...
Full Bright -> Times out to whitescreen.
Mid Bright -> Times out to lights off.
Unlock -> Goes full bright -> Times out to whitescreen.
White screen -> Hit Back/Home button goes mid-bright -> Times out to lights off.
It would be great if lowlight could be run when unlocking the device.
Does it work same way for you guys??
Regards.

This will stop White Screen from happening.
ok this is a way to avoid the white screen issue, (Click on Light Config) then open CeleTask and in CeleTask - Tools use Close Screen this will turn off your screen and allow the backlight from turning on when screen turns back on, also remember u need to set your power settings to (Backlight time out on battery 5 Seconds and Backlight on AC can be 1 minute which u never use) and Display time out Never..)
You can also use CeleTask to disable the screen when you make a call, just open CeleTesk when you hit call.

Topic should be changed as not a fix but work around "sortof":
Process of illimination:
My recomendation would be try a hard-reset, don't install any programs see if that fixes it now when installing programs don't bung them all on install 1 @ a time soft-reset give it while see if problem resumes, do this for all software then you may find the culprit?
This is not an issue faced by all so something has to be the culprit.
Bad Flash?
Software Install?
JOGGR?
Power Settings?
They are just examples.
I had this happen once but on WM6 and a hard-reset was what was needed and didn't pop up again........

HTCP4000PPC said:
ok this is a way to avoid the white screen issue, (Click on Light Config) then open CeleTask and in CeleTask - Tools use Close Screen this will turn off your screen and allow the backlight from turning on when screen turns back on, also remember u need to set your power settings to (Backlight time out on battery 5 Seconds and Backlight on AC can be 1 minute which u never use) and Display time out Never..)
You can also use CeleTask to disable the screen when you make a call, just open CeleTesk when you hit call.
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These instructions have fixed my device... I got an Elf and I made it my primary phone, and now I´m experiencing new ROM´s in my S621. This problem happens in my device (the S621, of course), and I´m now using NRG remade by Ricky and Stylez, and this problem with the screen seems to be solved with this tip.
This problem does not happen when I use "Kavana remade by Ricky and Stylez" only with NRG and it´s Remake.
Regards

If this isnt helping try just disabling Timeout and set everything else ur way u want.

Awaking phone on SMS receipt?

My T2 is not awakening on receipt of a SMS. I hear a sound; the screen stays dark.
I've been poking around here and I don't see a fix. Who gotz?

DLTempler said:
My T2 is not awakening on receipt of a SMS. I hear a sound; the screen stays dark.
I've been poking around here and I don't see a fix. Who gotz?
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This should do it.
Install and soft reset.
dwizzy130

Thanks. while I was looking around i found a setting in the Adv Config cab. Will be installing that shortly and if that doesnt work I can come back here for this one.

why does everyone say that their screen doesn't light up when the get an SMS? Is Tmobile the only carrier that kept this feature in, because mine lights up every time.

i have sprint model and i cant get it 2 stop lighting up....

Well, advance config didn't do it.
Neither did manually resetting the registry value.
Guess I will try that cab
Edit: I got the adjusted reg value to stick after a few times. Wake up on SMS now working.

ive got verizons tp2 and it always wakes up on new sms

For those of you that don't want it to wake, here's the reverse of the cab I posted earlier.
dwizzy130

This still isn't working for me. My carrier is Telus if it matters. Even with that 2nd cab installed, it still wakes up when an SMS arrives. Oddly, I think it disabled the sound though.

Screen Dims (changing settings doesn't help)

I have a Tilt 2, so does my Wife and my Father. This is the 3rd HTC device i've had (mogul, diamond). This setting should be pretty easy.
So my Dad is complaining about the screen dimming really quickly, I change the settings to 2 min. seems to work well for a while. Then he tels me it's still doing it. I check his settings and its back to 10 sec. we go through this a couple of more time, I'm thinking he is changing it and doesn't know it.
So we just turn off the dim feature (on battery) Today he says it's still doing it, we check his settings and the dim feature is turned off, still! but i saw it go dim after 7-10 secs.
Any ideas? Am i missing a setting, i have done mine and my wifes with no problems.

does he have his backlight on auto adjust?

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does he have his backlight on auto adjust?
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Probably, but i have never see such a dramatic change with the auto adjust. it doesn't seem to matter how much light there is. and it's consistantly 7 to 10 seconds.
I tried the at&t "chat" help, they were worthless.

maybe try turning it off. maybe need to do a soft reset on the side of phone.

we turned it off (unchecked it) but it still dims the backlight, never seen anything like it, i will try the soft reset tomorrow. hopefully that will work!

I had the same issue...
I created a reg file to manually fix. What is happening is when the device wakes up from screen sleep or changing from external to battery power, WM6.1 changes this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight\BatteryTimeout to 8 (seconds in hex).
I used my reg file and added to my start menu (you could also assing to a hardware button if you have the right tools), and run it when the device sets it to 8 seconds. Its a couple of clicks, but less then navigating to the UI settings.
The reg file is set for 2 minutes. Edit as you wish, but keep in mind you need to convert the seconds to hex.

Send it Back!!
The AT&T folks said to send it back (its still within the 30 days) Dad also told me that the speaker sounds funny, i really didn't believe him, thought it was just "different" from his old Razor.
So we tried it i used his phone and called him using mine, dang if it didn't sound funny!
So i am on the phone getting another sent!!
Thanks for helping!