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How do you get the most out of your TP2?

I have had my TP2 now for about 4 months and have managed to make this device a part of every hour of every day. I thought about it for a while and I personally think its pretty neat how unobtrusive most of the functionality I use is to my accomplishing my tasks.
4:30 TP2 soft reset automatically (cleanRAM)
4:55am my TP2 turns on WIFI automatically (BeyondPod)
5am my podcasts and RSS feeds begin updating and downloading automatically (BeyondPod)
6am downloads are complete and I can catchup with a cup of coffee while getting ready for work
730am leaving for work, I can continue to listen to podcasts with a car mount, adapter, and charger... or pandora... or the FM radio on the TP2... or plop on any other media I wish to listen to during my commute. Best part is that phone calls, text messages, and emails are read to me as they come in through the car speakers. I don't even have to look at it to get the message details. (voice command)
During the workday I can stay abreast of what is going on with the TP2 from schedules to messages to appointments all using mymobiler, bluetooth, and voice command.
at noon and 4pm my podcasts update again automatically (need that latest CNN update for the ride home) (BeyondPod)
For navigation I use a combination of Bing and Nav4All (both free).
At home and during waiting times (dr office... etc) I use thechanner or watch a show on tv.com.
This is by far the best PDA I have ever had (and I have have had many).
Oh yeah... let me put in a plug for my favorite interface. Really this is the key behind the in-vehicle usability for me. SPB Mobile Shell is a sweet sweet interface. It cost 30 bucks but it is completely worth it. The interface is so simple and customizable that it makes using the device while driving as easy as using a regular radio (you do have to setup your interface though ). SPB 3.5.3 is IMO light years ahead of Sense/Manila.
Im running the stock TMo 6.1 ROM with .17 radio. I tried the TMo 6.5 ROM and it broke most of what I did before. BeyondPod didnt work right... 6.5 froze frequently... That new start menu ... It was a nightmare. I tried it for a week and went back to 6.1
Aside from the stock 6.1, Im using
- SPB Mobile Shell
- Spike's MicNeo taskbar
- qwertymemory and dcibattery -- puts the battery and memory indicator at the top of the screen.
- Swype
- Battery 1% driver
- Lumos backlight tool
- WMLonglife
- Changescreen -- screen rotator
- cleanRAM
Apps
- BeyondPod
- theChanner
- TCPMP
- Bing WM6 (NOT THE NEW VERSION)
- nav4all
- Pandora
Tools
- Registry Editor
- Advanced Config
- HTCPedia Rhodium Tool (highly recommended!)
So thats how I use my TP2. Does anyone have another use for it? I really love the automated features that I use.

I used my TP2 to read push emails and make phone calls.
Other useful feature I commonly use is Copilot

klasital said:
I used my TP2 to read push emails and make phone calls.
Other useful feature I commonly use is Copilot
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Oh yeah... it makes calls too. LMAO
But since google voice and text voicemail... Im a call screening SOB! My phone answer rate has drop 50% easily.

Here's my Tilt 2's "schedule" daily I suppose one could say...
3:00 am - Sprite backup backs up the system, reboots the phone
6:30 am - GAlarm wakes me up for work
6:35 am - GAlarm's snooze goes off
6:40 am - GAlarm's snooze goes off...... okay I'll stop here..
8:00 am - PhoneAlarm changes the Profile to Home (sets various settings, increases volumes etc)
8:00 am - FlexMail is automatically launched by PhoneAlarm's "Home" profile, fetches my email, runs the rest of the day
8:00 am - GPSToday starts recording my location with its "smart" algorithm, logs to memory card for later upload to TrackMe's web service
8:00 am - CellID starts uploading my approximate celltower location to my website every 10m if the cell ID has changed
8:30 am - Waze guides me to work, showing me the congested routes etc
9:00 am - PhoneAlarm sets profile to "Work" (makes most things quieter)
9:00 am - TodayAgenda gets me moving towards the right meeting in the morning
9:00 - 17:00 - Mix of ActiveGCSync (sync calendar against Google) and Pocket Informant to track meetings
9:00 - 17:00 - PhoneAlarm sets profile to "Meeting" which nearly mutes the phone sounds during meetings
9:00 - 17:00 - Mix of SpeedReader, allReader, fim, Nitrogen gets me through the day between things
13:00 - Top off phone battery during lunch or between meetings in the afternoon
18:00 - PhoneAlarm sets profile back to Home
18:00 - Waze shows me the way to where I'm going after work
19:00 - GcZII guides me to the latest nearby geocaches if I have time
19:00 - 23:00 - Speedreader, allReader, PocketTwit, fim, nanoGroove, Nitrogen, among many other toys/utilities/tools work for me the rest of the day
23:30 - CellID and GPSToday stop tracking me for the night
23:45 - PhoneAlarm sets the profile to "Night" which mutes everything
Somewhere in there I might make a call or two But not much. Had the phone since 10/15/09 and Device Information tells me 6:08 incoming, 3:01 outgoing.

I'd be lost without it. Where to start?
First of all it's my alarm to wake me up for work and class. I also use it as my daily planner and schedule all my plans in my calendar.
I do most of my e-mailing from my TP2, so thank god for the awesome keyboard. I constantly am reading RSS feeds on the internet via Google Reader and love having mobile internet in general.
I take tons of photos with it as well and listen to music on it frequently, both Pandora Radio and internal music. Ever so often I use the GPS function to get me around, I do use Google Maps to find stuff near by and check for traffic.
SPB TV, check! Nothing like sitting out in public and watching TV on my cell phone. So many people get weirded out by it in the sense it's something they weren't expecting to see.
I do a lot of mobile facebooking and pockeTwit to keep in contact with family aboard.
I use Midomi to check the name of songs and cleanRAM to keep it all running smoothly.
I actually have to edit papers on Microsoft Word ever so often and read over PowerPoints for class. I try and keep my notes together via OneNote. I'm debating on switching over to EverNote or Google Internet notes.
I think the shorter answer would be what don't I do with my Touch Pro 2? I use it less as a phone for calling and texting and more like a Mobile Internet Device or laptop.
I'm just waiting for Android for Rhodium CDMA to be completed so I can dual boot the two.

khaytsus said:
Here's my Tilt 2's "schedule" daily I suppose one could say...
3:00 am - Sprite backup backs up the system, reboots the phone
6:30 am - GAlarm wakes me up for work
6:35 am - GAlarm's snooze goes off
6:40 am - GAlarm's snooze goes off...... okay I'll stop here..
8:00 am - PhoneAlarm changes the Profile to Home (sets various settings, increases volumes etc)
8:00 am - FlexMail is automatically launched by PhoneAlarm's "Home" profile, fetches my email, runs the rest of the day
8:00 am - GPSToday starts recording my location with its "smart" algorithm, logs to memory card for later upload to TrackMe's web service
8:00 am - CellID starts uploading my approximate celltower location to my website every 10m if the cell ID has changed
8:30 am - Waze guides me to work, showing me the congested routes etc
9:00 am - PhoneAlarm sets profile to "Work" (makes most things quieter)
9:00 am - TodayAgenda gets me moving towards the right meeting in the morning
9:00 - 17:00 - Mix of ActiveGCSync (sync calendar against Google) and Pocket Informant to track meetings
9:00 - 17:00 - PhoneAlarm sets profile to "Meeting" which nearly mutes the phone sounds during meetings
9:00 - 17:00 - Mix of SpeedReader, allReader, fim, Nitrogen gets me through the day between things
13:00 - Top off phone battery during lunch or between meetings in the afternoon
18:00 - PhoneAlarm sets profile back to Home
18:00 - Waze shows me the way to where I'm going after work
19:00 - GcZII guides me to the latest nearby geocaches if I have time
19:00 - 23:00 - Speedreader, allReader, PocketTwit, fim, nanoGroove, Nitrogen, among many other toys/utilities/tools work for me the rest of the day
23:30 - CellID and GPSToday stop tracking me for the night
23:45 - PhoneAlarm sets the profile to "Night" which mutes everything
Somewhere in there I might make a call or two But not much. Had the phone since 10/15/09 and Device Information tells me 6:08 incoming, 3:01 outgoing.
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PhoneAlarm and GAlarm are next on my get list.

jmmmmm said:
- HTCPedia Rhodium Tool (highly recommended!)
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Check out schap's advanced config, just search for "advanced config" on this forum. Far better than rhodium tool

OMGWTF_BBQ said:
I'd be lost without it. Where to start?
First of all it's my alarm to wake me up for work and class. I also use it as my daily planner and schedule all my plans in my calendar.
I do most of my e-mailing from my TP2, so thank god for the awesome keyboard. I constantly am reading RSS feeds on the internet via Google Reader and love having mobile internet in general.
I take tons of photos with it as well and listen to music on it frequently, both Pandora Radio and internal music. Ever so often I use the GPS function to get me around, I do use Google Maps to find stuff near by and check for traffic.
SPB TV, check! Nothing like sitting out in public and watching TV on my cell phone. So many people get weirded out by it in the sense it's something they weren't expecting to see.
I do a lot of mobile facebooking and pockeTwit to keep in contact with family aboard.
I use Midomi to check the name of songs and cleanRAM to keep it all running smoothly.
I actually have to edit papers on Microsoft Word ever so often and read over PowerPoints for class. I try and keep my notes together via OneNote. I'm debating on switching over to EverNote or Google Internet notes.
I think the shorter answer would be what don't I do with my Touch Pro 2? I use it less as a phone for calling and texting and more like a Mobile Internet Device or laptop.
I'm just waiting for Android for Rhodium CDMA to be completed so I can dual boot the two.
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I absolutely love Evernote for notes. I use it for my TP2, on my desktop and if for some unfathomable reason I not near either, I can access my stuff via the cloud.
Truth be told though, if OneNote was free, I'd be using it though...

a2002cmacg said:
Truth be told though, if OneNote was free, I'd be using it though...
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Do you mean the desktop client? Because my T-mobile TP2 has OneNote mobile included in the stock rom, and I can't find any ways it's crippled or restricted. I have the stock 6.1 ROM though, so I don't know if that was omitted in the newer 6.5 ROM.

sirphunkee said:
Do you mean the desktop client? Because my T-mobile TP2 has OneNote mobile included in the stock rom, and I can't find any ways it's crippled or restricted. I have the stock 6.1 ROM though, so I don't know if that was omitted in the newer 6.5 ROM.
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Yeah its on 6.5 too, but the desktop client isn't free. I think its $100 or something crazy. I must be able to sync my notes to my laptop so its evernote for me.

I miss the pre-anti-trust lawsuit days when basically all of Microsoft's software was preloaded free on their computers:-(

a2002cmacg said:
I miss the pre-anti-trust lawsuit days when basically all of Microsoft's software was preloaded free on their computers:-(
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Oh, they still typically are, but it's a 30 or 60 day trial. My wifes new laptop came with Office 2007 on it, she's an educator so she was able to buy it cheap. When she did, it insisted she download 370M to install even though it was clearly already installed... Go figure.

few things from my limited experience with wp7

long time android user, just switched to a focus s on wednesday.
so far, i have been really liking the wp experience. here's a few issues i have had so far though.
when playing audio through headphone (to my car stereo), there are clicks in the audio between songs. as if it's changing audio device back and forth.
no start page in IE? whenever i open it, it just starts from the last page i was at. don't really like that since if my kids pick it up and go to IE, i could have been viewing something they should have been (lol no goat porn)
contacts can only have 2 emails? i personally have 5 different email accounts for different side businesses that i have. i set up myself as a contact so i can easily send it to others as a business card and it would have all of my contact info on it. i'm really limited with only being able to have 2 emails. i can add them all to my profile on live.com, but, i can't add my addresses there. am i missing something here?
other than these, the change over has been a great experience. the google sync and smart merging easily pulled all my contacts and organized them. the stability has been great as well and i keep telling myself to stop looking at battery percentage every hour (lol bad habits die hard).
the focus s is the most beautiful piece of hardware i have ever owned as well. and really compliments wp7. i'm really looking forward to more wp updates as the os grows out of infancy. can't wait to see what this will be like once it's fully polished.

oh and another i miss... xbmc remote. i have tried a few from the market place. 1 doesn't work at all. and the ones that work, have a horrible interface. the ones that look good, don't work right.
i wish the remotes on the ones that worked, looked more like the regular xbmc app, rather than trying to match metro with making buttons look like text in square boxes.

Not sure what you mean about the two email thing I have some contacts with 3

adesonic said:
Not sure what you mean about the two email thing I have some contacts with 3
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yeah, 3... lol, i need more than 3. you get personal, work and other.

The sound issue when using the headphone jack applies to any powered speakers. In other words, car audio connections, desktop speaker connections, etc. This issue forced me to return the Focus S and replace it with the HTC Titan. I couldn't be more happy and the Titan does not exhibit this sound issue.

Battery life is awesome

the focus s is a beautiful phone..
I can't wait until TELUS finally gets some new wp7 phones.
Hopefully before my upgrade so i don't have to go back to android

svtfmook said:
no start page in IE? whenever i open it, it just starts from the last page i was at. don't really like that since if my kids pick it up and go to IE, i could have been viewing something they should have been (lol no goat porn)
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You could pin 'google.com' to your start screen and unpin IE. That way, your kids will see google.com
(IE would still be accessible in the full list of programs. However, it's easy to click the tile so your kids would probably just do that. Also, possible they could see previously open tabs using the tabs menu).

Hi if you wish to share your contact info with others download this app "my contact tile: and set it up. You'll get a live tile with QR code that someone else can scan then they will be able to add you to their contact list easily.
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/f5ee77cc-d7cb-4c37-ba90-0efd11cd36da
im not sure if you can add multiple emails though but give it a try

google now no longer snowing events from Gmail?

First off not sure if this is posted in correct section, mods please feel free to move if not. More of a general Android/8.0 question.
Overall I'm not a huge fan of how the Google launcher has evolved. Some of the most useful features in the past for me have been the way Google Launcher almost sources of travel assistant. If a Flight confirmation was in my email, on my desktop it would show flight arrival times Etc. Similarly it would do the same for hotel reservations and even my travel companions plans. However, I haven't seen my new pixel 2 phone do this.
And yes, im sure I have checked all the right buttons in the play launcher, have given it access to Gmail, etc. Have told it I want it to display these things ( ideally on my desktop! With the Google now widget), although it just hasn't been doing so.
Again, I'm sure this is more of a software issue than hardware, although was wondering if anyone else has been having similar frustrations, or has any solutions

Cowbell_Guy said:
First off not sure if this is posted in correct section, mods please feel free to move if not. More of a general Android/8.0 question.
Overall I'm not a huge fan of how the Google launcher has evolved. Some of the most useful features in the past for me have been the way Google Launcher almost sources of travel assistant. If a Flight confirmation was in my email, on my desktop it would show flight arrival times Etc. Similarly it would do the same for hotel reservations and even my travel companions plans. However, I haven't seen my new pixel 2 phone do this.
And yes, im sure I have checked all the right buttons in the play launcher, have given it access to Gmail, etc. Have told it I want it to display these things ( ideally on my desktop! With the Google now widget), although it just hasn't been doing so.
Again, I'm sure this is more of a software issue than hardware, although was wondering if anyone else has been having similar frustrations, or has any solutions
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Same thing is happening to me. Nothing is showing up.

Google Now is slowly getting ruined. Only think that ever show now for me is packages, calendar, events, recipes, and time to work/home. They might as well deprecate it at this point and shut down the Newstand app as that's basically what Google Now is....now. Almost every story in Google now is the same thing in my Newstand.

AndrasLOHF said:
Google Now is slowly getting ruined. Only think that ever show now for me is packages, calendar, events, recipes, and time to work/home. They might as well deprecate it at this point and shut down the Newstand app as that's basically what Google Now is....now. Almost every story in Google now is the same thing in my Newstand.
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It used to be fantastic. I travel a ton and it would always keep track of all my flights or they were on time delays etcetera. Almost like a built-in travel assistant. All I needed was the flight information in my email that was sent to me at the time I book the flight. But for some reason I'm having trouble getting that.
The only work around I found so far is to click on the envelope looking icon at the top that shows upcoming events. This has given me better luck at showing the great stuff I used to see.

Same boat. It used to track my packages (through gmail).
It hasn't done that in a while though.

Yeah, same as above. I'm slowly moving things over to Outlook.

Might need to go with Google Trips to reliably get automatic importing of flight info from Gmail. I dislike how after opening up the Feed by swiping to left from home screen, I now have to click on that stupid icon on the upper right AND click it again on the bottom to get my personal info. Way too many clicks

Generic fitness band and Glory Fit app questions...

I have a generic UPX model waterproof fitness band, that probably goes by many brand names, and uses a fitness app called Glory Fit to sync, and show SMS messages, on the device... however, I have a question for those who may use those fitness trackers, or know a bit about hacking the Bluetooth. I would like it to show more information, such as music media information, except that the app 3rd party notifications feature only shows the app name not media information... so for instance, if i add Google play music or Samsung Music to the to the band's notification list, when a notification for it pops up and I click on it I get this... "Google play music:" or "Samsung music:" what I want to figure out is if anyone knows a way to take a non-rooted device and get the information to display properly, or at the very least, share the information as a text message with WhatsApp or the android SMS txting app, which are approved/included SMS provider in the app... any ideas would be welcome... and for your information, I didn't buy it, but got it from a relative, after it started chafing his wrist, so, while I wouldn't buy one that cheap, usually, I'm curious as to if and how we can hack it with extra phone apps to do more stuff... (such as displaying media information on the start of a new song or album)
**please note**
I do not have a background in coding, and am mainly a script kiddie, in everything except MS-DOS and Windows command line, as well as a few minor windows based ADB commands, so i cant build an app...
So...
#1 is what I am asking here possible, specifically on a non-rooted device???
#2 is an app for this available, and what would the probability of such an app working be???
#3 if #2is no, but it is possible, could someone make a small app to do the job???
The target android is anything 5.0 and up, my current Galaxy S6 being android 6.0, and the band does use BLE, and charges using a usb 2pin jaw clamp device, if that helps...
Also, the reason to have it be non-rooted compatible, is that my device is on straight talk and cannot be rooted...
If you need more information just ask, although I'm not on here or my email everyday and have email notifications off so may not respond right away...
I hope someone thinks this is worth looking into, because I can't find information anywhere, except for the mifit, or whatever it's called...
**edit** before you ask, I sent an email to the Glory Fit developer, and left a Google play rating, before jumping straight here... if i get a response from either, I will post a reply, or edit the OP...
**update**
Ok... just did some checking online, and either im typing the wrong thing in when I search for 'media information to sms converter', or there isn't anything out there that will take the author, album, and song name, into sms format and locally inject it to the local sms app, either offline or online... i prefer offline myself, as then it's not dependent upon having service...

LineageOS Stripped Down Kids Mode?

I've got two kids, ages 6 and 8, and we keep their screen time limited, but they love audiobooks and for the past few years we have bought them cheap mp3 players and loaded audiobooks on them from the library using the Overdrive app on a pc which then syncs the mp3s to the mp3 player. However, Overdrive has been discontinued and is likely to be fully killed off sometime in 2023 (no doubt thanks to pressure from the publishing industry) whereupon the only way to get audiobooks from the library will be through the Libby app, but this of course requires an internet connected device. For obvious reasons I don't want to just give my kids an Android phone with access to Youtube, social media, etc. I have played around with LineageOS to breath fresh life into an old Kindle tablet and various older phones, so I'm thinking perhaps picking up some cheap old Moto phones and loading them up with LineageOS would be an option, but I'd want to strip out some of the functionality and remove the web browser, phone and sms, and basically just have a camera, Libby app, k9 email client, and if possible voice recognition. presumably Libby and k9 mail could be sideloaded. Not sure about voice recognition, but it seems like maybe Gapps pico or microG might offer a way to implement google voice recognition? But is it possible to have voice recognition without having the play store? As far as removing the browser, it appears that LOSdiet should work for that purpose.
Anyone embarked on a similar task?

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Anyone embarked on a similar task?
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Why can't you use a guest account?

While I suppose using the Guest feature on a stock Android device might be an option, I'd prefer not to go down that route for a few reasons. First, it seems like it's mostly designed as a temporary option for loaning a phone to a friend, not as a permanent function, and I am afraid it would be easy to accidentally delete all the contents of the guest account which would result in a very unhappy kid. Second, if they know it can do all the things a "real" phone can do and they're just locked out of doing them, that will make them much more prone to nagging us to install random junky games and apps and fiddling around trying to access the main account. I'd prefer if it just wasn't an option at all.

Maybe try it out before you reject it.
Google Family Link

Yes, I have also the combination of google family link and LOS and IF it is working, it is working really great!
On some systems, you need to have two user profiles on the device, as the children account alone would lead to an FRP lock , at least on S4 and S5 neo.
I got it one time working by adding first the parents account and then afterwards adding the children account. In Settings, enable multi user and then add a PIN (or whatever) to prevent access to your account from the one your child is using.