Develop Bugs

Really REALLY Slow Text Entry on Reply to Text Message?

Evening....
Anyone else frustrated with how slow the device responds when you try to reply to a message. Its only the very first few seconds, but I wanna go ahead and type away.
What is the best WM6 rom to deal with this?

yeah pisses me off too. Doesnt do it in palm sms app though. Nice and fast. Only the built in one so it scews me when i try to type emails but not sms.

rjefferis said:
yeah pisses me off too. Doesnt do it in palm sms app though. Nice and fast. Only the built in one so it scews me when i try to type emails but not sms.
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Whats this Palm SMS app? Is it available on WM6 on XDA-Devs?
On a slightly related note, what do people think is the best, fastest LITE version ROM available? I want as little as possible left, but WM Player is needed - nothing else.

Does anyone have any ideas on stopping this slowdown?

clublander said:
Does anyone have any ideas on stopping this slowdown?
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not at the moment... but it is an issue...

Did you try disabling auto completion?

Refreshing the display seems to be a high priority task for this device; when you slide the keyboard you enforce your hermes to redraw your entire screen and your today screen in landscape mode. As this operation is heavy (depending on your today screen thus) and high prioritized, it slows down the other applications.
One solution would be reduce the amounts of items on your today screen.
This behaviour seems to be common; i even get the screen to turn itself off in some rare powerconsuming conditions when I flip the keyboard out.

I get the same slowdown and power problems. Turning off autocompletion helps, but then it doesn't auto complete your contacts which blows. I wish someone could find a fix for this honestly, it is a royal PITA

experienced this issue as well..
is it relate to any specific ROM? or any WM6 ROM is affected?
I'm using black dymond 3.5
what's on yours..?

also having the same issue... anybody has anything????

LED Notification flash - Not working?

I haven't fully tested this issue yet mainly because I've only had the phone for a few days... I wanted to check if anyone else had this problem.
Under Settings -> Sound & Display -> Notification Flash
I have all the options ticked.
In theory, whenever I have a missed call or a SMS or email etc, I should be able to tell that I need to check my phone be a little blinking light in the top right corner off the screen. I just came back to my phone and this LED wasn't blinking but when I turned on the phone, there was a missed call and a SMS.
Other times, it seemed to work fine.
Anyone else noticed this problem?

it only flashes for 5 mins and then stops. There is no way to change this without additional apps.
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Oh... How disappointing. Pretty useless imo. Thanks for the info. I wonder if they will fix it. My previous phone, Touch Diamond, had something similar but it never stopped flashing until you looked at your missed calls.

Now that explains things. I tend to look for the led after I've not used the phone for a while. In my pocket or elsewhere. Quite a few times I've seen no flashing but have a notification in the top left. I thought it was another one of those little 'features' we keep finding.

Yeh i discovered this awhile back and it's annoying as hell, i just use a app called Missed Reminder which can be configured to allowed it to keep flashing indefinitely

I was just going to make a post about this. I thought the LED notification wasn't working at all on my Desire, since I've never seen it, but perhaps it had just stopped before I had the chance to catch it, then

ardsar said:
it only flashes for 5 mins and then stops. There is no way to change this without additional apps.
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What apps are you referring to? It would be nice to be able to have the LED flash longer.

I'm guessing this is to save battery time, I don't know how much power a small LED uses but it surely can't help with the already abysmal battery life

I first thought the LED was located behind the optical trackpad, because the trackball on my Hero could light up. I think the LED-notification is pretty dumb since it's almost invisible when it lights up. The lighting trackball was much much better

This is a known issue. I thought that did not happen in Android, but I guess I was wrong.
If the phone work in Windows Mobile, there are a registry key to let assign values to the options, so they are usable.
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4846399#post4846399
In Android, I have no clue... maybe my info help in any way.
PMoto

It would be nice to be able to change the flash time from the default 5 minutes, or atleast an option for no time limit.
I know it's to help save battery life, but I'm willing to say that the light flashing will use less battery then the back light coming on everytime I'm away from my phone for more then 5 minutes, from me checking to see if I have new messages, email, or missed phone calls.

Same issue with my recently purchased A40.
No blinking at all despite screen flash notification selected.
Hope someone can help

[Q] Vibrate on EC05

I've been having an issue with my ringer since the upgrade. It seems to be weaker than it was before the update, and this is a big issue for me. I leave my ringer on vibrate because of school or work, and it's so weak that I cannot feel it in my case. This has rendered my phone almost useless.
My question is, is there any way to increase the intensity of the vibration ringer? I don't care if I need to root or anything like that, I just want to be able to do it. I know if there is anyone that can help me this is the place. Also I'm on the stock rom, not rooted. Thank You guys.

I feel the same way.
My friends mytouch3g might as well be ringing when it vibrates.
He likes to say "The epic is too pretty to vibrate like that. It has to be elegant!" lol
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Did you turn the vibration intensity all the way up under sounds?

Yea but that only changes the haptic feedback. I need the vibration for the ringer and notifications. I know there is a way to change it, there has to be.

Bump. Has nobody else experienced this?

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Bump. Has nobody else experienced this?
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+1. I have missed so many calls and texts because of it. I wish there was a way we could up the intensity on the vibrator and i'm sure there's is a way...maybe theimplare747 or k0nane know?

I feel the same way...miss many calls and texts because of this. I would love to be able to increase the intensity of the vibration during calls/texts.

shahin26 said:
+1. I have missed so many calls and texts because of it. I wish there was a way we could up the intensity on the vibrator and i'm sure there's is a way...maybe theimplare747 or k0nane know?
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I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing this. I took it to a sprint store, and the rep swore that his was the same on his phone. If they can do it with an update, there has to be some way to do it manually? Any help would be appreciated.

Same here, it seems like right after I upgraded to EC05, the vibration module switched to a different one.... It's like the phone has 2 different vibrating mechanisms.
EDIT: I'm on EC05 with SyndicateROM Frozen with the Twilight Zone Kernel, if that makes any difference

I thought from the title you were using the vibrator feature.....
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epicblows said:
I thought from the title you were using the vibrator feature.....
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Nope, just one of the many that are experiencing a now useless phone due the the lowered intensity of the vibrate function.

MrBeefy84532 said:
Nope, just one of the many that are experiencing a now useless phone due the the lowered intensity of the vibrate function.
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Add me to the mix. I'm sitting at my work desk right now and have the intensity on max... I just missed a text and its sitting right in front of me. I used to have it to about 75% and was fine. Darn update!!

preston411 said:
Add me to the mix. I'm sitting at my work desk right now and have the intensity on max... I just missed a text and its sitting right in front of me. I used to have it to about 75% and was fine. Darn update!!
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So, shortly after typing my last post, my phone had a meltdown. Everything force closed, if I tried to swipe screens too fast it would vibrate and then reset itself for about an hour, nothing would load, the dialer froze up when I received calls, text didn't go through, etc. I took it to a Sprint store, and the tech eventually gave me a brand new phone. I took it home and installed the update, without a hitch. Everything works fine.
And guess what? The vibrate is just as strong as it was pre-update. I'm thinking this is an issue with only some of the updates?

Excuse me for my ignorance, but wouldn't the vibration intensity have more to do with wear over time than updates?
I assume that the vibration intensity, if identified as a software issue, could be updated and integrated with developer roms.
Granted, I have noticed the weak vibration on my epic, but this is something I noticed from the beginning and chalked up to dampening from the slider mechanism. If the phone has a case, it would also reduce the vibration in conjunction with a slider mechanism.
I have had a few slider phones (HTC Mogul, Palm Pre) and each has has significant loss of vibration due to a split body dampening the vibration. Of course these are only my observations with products and reflect in no way a professional or coherent opinion.
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[Q] Vibrate....gotta be a way to increase the "oomph"!!!! Right?!?

I love this phone...but for my purposes, having it on vibrate = having it on silent. I missed TWO job interview calls having my phone on vibrate in my pants! I barely had time to call 'em back today to set up an in-person!!!!
I found a program a few weeks ago to handle my volume problems....is there a program that handles the vibration problems??? I guess I'm one step away from changing the vibration to just one long vibrate for texts and calls....but this soft motor probably still won't help it out!
Anything? Or am I doomed to putting this on craigslist and waiting for the next big phone???

Samsung has the worst agitator.
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ljwnow said:
Samsung has the worst agitator.
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I think it agitates everyone pretty well actually.
To be on topic, though, I don't know of any apps, or software mods at all really, that will increase the power on the vibration. That's a hardware thing.

ljwnow said:
Samsung has the worst agitator.
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Really? Seems great to me. Way better than my previous HTC phones.

Apparently Light Flow has settings where you can set particular vibrations for particular notifications (i.e. how long & how frequent you want them). Haven't tested it myself, but I've read about it. Link. Perhaps if Light Flow doesn't work, try Sound Manager V2?

anton2009 said:
Apparently Light Flow has settings where you can set particular vibrations for particular notifications (i.e. how long & how frequent you want them). Haven't tested it myself, but I've read about it. Link. Perhaps if Light Flow doesn't work, try Sound Manager V2?
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I tried light flow but I could never seem to get it to play nice w/Handcent.. It'd always stutter my ringtone. Even when I turned notifying for Handcent off...
On a table, it works fine. On a bed or couch or pocket...it's garbage. And I really didn't notice it until last week when I needed it on vibrate. Now, I wish I'd noticed it during the 30 day period of returning the phone....
Shoot!

Intermittent vibration

Hi,
Would really appreciate some help.
Not sure what you needed in terms of software versions etc but I'm happy to provide. Anyway, my Desire HD (around a year and a half old) has long experienced vibration drop off, for lack of a better term. It'd vibrate for texts and calls, but only occasionally for the keyboard and soft keys. Now that I've switched to Blackout ICS (latest), it's gotten much worse. It's a fantastic rom but now I'm stuck with a phone that only rarely vibrates for a text/call or anything else. Considering I usually leave my phone on silent this is a bit of a deal breaker! It does vibrate on boot. I'd love to stick with the blackout rom if possible.
I've heard flashing a new kernel can help but I'm not sure how/which
thank you.

Guyver17 said:
Hi,
Would really appreciate some help.
Not sure what you needed in terms of software versions etc but I'm happy to provide. Anyway, my Desire HD (around a year and a half old) has long experienced vibration drop off, for lack of a better term. It'd vibrate for texts and calls, but only occasionally for the keyboard and soft keys. Now that I've switched to Blackout ICS (latest), it's gotten much worse. It's a fantastic rom but now I'm stuck with a phone that only rarely vibrates for a text/call or anything else. Considering I usually leave my phone on silent this is a bit of a deal breaker! It does vibrate on boot. I'd love to stick with the blackout rom if possible.
I've heard flashing a new kernel can help but I'm not sure how/which
thank you.
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I am not sure but most roms are tweakeable from the menu. Check if there is a menu for vibration intensity....

glevitan said:
I am not sure but most roms are tweakeable from the menu. Check if there is a menu for vibration intensity....
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I've noticed a lot of the normal settings that would be on by default are turned off in sense 3.6. Check through all your settings like language and keyboard, phone, messaging settings, etc...

Thanks both, I can't find any tweaks and all the settings are set to on.
Gizmoe said:
I've noticed a lot of the normal settings that would be on by default are turned off in sense 3.6. Check through all your settings like language and keyboard, phone, messaging settings, etc...
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