I saw a thread about the a guy changed his wizard after using it for 5 months
What do u think mates?Is this a phone that just seems good when you firs got it?
My review about this phone is(cingular 8125)I've been using it for a month now.
keyboard got a lit' bit loose..
Poor battery life.(1day at most)
and it keeps dialing the last call while in my pocket in case i forgot the lock itlol(btw is there any autolock program for wizard)
Cheers :lol:
Hi Mate,
I have it just for 3 days now , but I wanted to ask you, how can I lock the keypad when I put it in my pocket to avoid dialing by itself by accident ?
i'm using the regular wi5 lock button at the today screen but there are some programs that allows you to choose a hard button and use it as a lock
but im looking for an autolock
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Hi Mate,
I have it just for 3 days now , but I wanted to ask you, how can I lock the keypad when I put it in my pocket to avoid dialing by itself by accident ?
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Well, since its going into your pocket and you won't need the screen, can't you just hit the power button once to make it go into standby mode. Two benefits, you save battery, and lock the phone (only a press of the power key unlocks it again). In standby, you will still receive phone calls and get email (if its set to poll every XX mnutes, dunno about push email). The only downside to using the power button as a keylock is if you're using the wizard as mp3 player or something becuase standby causes the app to stop.
There's a cab out there that allows you to map the key lock to a button, I forgot what thread its in. I've got keylock mapped to the voice record button (hold). It works well.
Thanks Edyhan, I thought that this Lock is to lock the PPC and give it a password so that nobody can use it without knowing the Password well I am very new with this Pocket PCs, I am still figuring out the beauty.
KINetics, thanks for your reply, I know about the Power button, but it can b pushed - accidently - too then your PPC gonna do some jobs while it is in your Pocket, this is why Locking the buttons is the best solution.
But I really don't need any other apps just to lock the keys, as long as there is a Lock already in the WM5.
I wish the Wizard owners answer the main question of the Thread Starter
Edyhan said:
I saw a thread about the a guy changed his wizard after using it for 5 months
What do u think mates?Is this a phone that just seems good when you firs got it?
My review about this phone is(cingular 8125)I've been using it for a month now.
keyboard got a lit' bit loose..
Poor battery life.(1day at most)
and it keeps dialing the last call while in my pocket in case i forgot the lock itlol(btw is there any autolock program for wizard)
Cheers :lol:
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I got the tmo mda the day it was available in the US and I like it a lot more now than when I got it. I can't say my keyboard has come loose but it does seem to close with less than a snap now and then. Still, it seems to work fine, as does the phone, so I'm not concerned.
The custom 2.17 rom available on this site seems to work wonders for battery life. When using the stock tmo rom, battery life was a couple days. With the 2.17 rom, it takes 3 days to hit 50%. Your mileage may vary, of course, but it added a couple extra days for me. I've since gotten a battery that's about twice as large (needs a custom backplate for the phone) and it seems to last forever but I haven't measured the time.
Finally, I agree with the above. I hit the power button before putting it in my pocket and it's never once dialed on it's own. I also discovered the secret of hitting the power button after I call or answer the phone. That prevents random screen frenzy from your face as you talk.
I had a Blue Angel phone before the mda and I really liked that phone a lot. It had a larger screen and was much faster but...the mda had WM5 and the BA was 2003SE. Eventually I learned that there's a different "rhythm" to using the mda and once I found it, I stopped overclocking and now I think it's an awesome phone.
For locking the Wizard I normally use a combination of both lock and standby, ty hat way if the power button does get pressed in pocket (which has happened on a couple of occasion) the screen comes on but the pad is still locked.
I've owned mine since January and have been more than happy with it, sure its bigger than my old Orange C500 but it does way more too! only got around to hard reset it the other day to wipe off the T Mobile due to having so much installed on it, tis faster now tho. Overall a great phone, even my stylis still stays in tho it doesn't extend when u pull it out anymore.
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I did post previously about this and I think I've stumbled onto a solution.
If you click on the ariel from the Today screen or anywhere else, it takes ages to switch off (show the X) BUT if you go over to the dialler screen (pess the phone button) and then click the ariel & turn off, it switches off in about 2 seconds !!!
That's what it does on my machine anyway - maybe others can confirm this behaviour.
Ravi
Didn't work for me
Just tried that, but it still took around 5 secs for the popup menu to appear. Once it's popped up once though, it seems to then be selectable quite quickly.
I guess the real solution is to get a hardware button to turn it on/off!
Lee.
I just tried it again and it takes just as long as it did before. Damn !!
I wish somebody would figure this out !!
Ravi
A workaround could be phone profiles, which are offered for example by Ultra Profiler 2.0 (http://www.mobilesolutions.ro/)
It offers the profile "Airplane", which switches off the phone immediately.
Unfortunately, it seems to be buggy. After switching between some profiles, it changes to a strange ring tone.
I also tried this, and it still takes ages
sorry any more tricks to try....
John
to turn it off quickly you could just throw it your hardest against the floor the harder it hits the floor the more faster the device will switch off.
but i wouldnt do this as it would be a waste of money :lol:
Funny you sould say that, as when it locks up or dose not do what i needed it to do i oftern think of using your super fast turn off mode
john
I think the reason for delays in switching off is that mobile phones send out a signal to the Providors transmitters to tell them its being switched off, so it needs to do that before it will turn itself off.
I believe the phone switches itself off the moment you open the sim door cover; there is that little microswitch there...
So I have been looking around the internet and on this site, and I found a few programs that lock the phone including the two programs created by vijay555 and armstrom but they just don't do what I am looking for. This is what I am looking for:
1) When I press the power button I want my phone go into sleep mode and lock
2a) When I press the power button again I want it to turn the screen back on and advance me to the screen where i just press unlock on the touch screen( not unlock on the soft keys and then to unlock on the touch screen. I would like to skip the soft key press.)
2b) Instead of the need to press the touch screen to unlock it would be great if when I hit the power key to turn back on that it allowed me to press the middle nav button(such as the lock on the palm 700 wm)
Hope someone can help! Thanks alot! I have a Cingular 8525!
well now once you hit the power button to sleep it will only leave the power button active, so you dont have to lock it before you put it to sleep.. also the latest version of battery status has an option that will lock the phone upon wake up.. now i know you are looking for something to lock it prior to sleep and unlock during wake up, but personally i think unlocking during wake up could cause issues if the phone is on your pocket.. you can also still answer calls while the phone is locked
VJDeviceLock locks on power off if required. Advancing to second stage could be done. Making device unlock on pressing enter is possible but semi-complex. I don't know if Matt is still developing, but I could update mine if required.... I'm very busy and pre-occupied, but if enough call for it I'll give it a go.
V
that would be amazing if you could look into it. I would really appreciate it!
hi, vijay555. does your device lock affect activesync synchronization? the one i tried always give out an error message, so i had to remove the program.
Don't know if it does. If it does anything at all, it should do the same as the normal device lock today screen plugin. Let me know if it does something else.
V
i have yet to find a device lock that kills activestink on the phone
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i have yet to find a device lock that kills activestink on the phone
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this one (included in the addon folder), when installed and set up, disrupts synchronization on my phone (xda2s on helmi's 3.2 rom). but i can still explore the phone via activesync.
i will try vijay555's program. thanks.
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this one (included in the addon folder), when installed and set up, disrupts synchronization on my phone (xda2s on helmi's 3.2 rom). but i can still explore the phone via activesync.
i will try vijay555's program. thanks.
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ok, you are referring to the AS on the pc getting disabled... or let me state that better, when you use that app to lock your phone it halts synch between pc and phone.. thats odd.. i will pull apart that cab and see whats up with it, however im not well versed on versions earlier than WM5.. but in theory it should work the same way.. i will report back
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wait, im an idiot, i dont need to pull it apart to answer your question, dont know why i didnt think of this earlier, when you put your device to sleep it should kill the connection over usb (why your able to browse via AS is still beyond me). i have experienced that on all the WM5 devices i have owned farrady, wizard, hermes...
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That cab is doing exactly that, when you activate the device lock it puts the phone into sleep mode via reg key HKLM/Software/Devicelock and the dword "SuspendAfterCheck". now with that being said there may be a reg key to also disable power save modem on the active sync connection, but im not sure if it exists for earlier versions of WM
thanks, shogunmark. btw, my unit is already on WM5... and i got lost on the 2nd EDIT, lol!
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thanks, shogunmark. btw, my unit is already on WM5... and i got lost on the 2nd EDIT, lol!
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oh, i thought your particular device was wm2003 device, my bad.. that 2nd edit showed a registry setting that suspends the phone when using that app, if you have regedit you can try to play with that setting and see what happens, the HKLM is HK local machine key in the registry.. its currently at a value of 0. from this app, you could try changing it to a 1. but then again that program may overwrite that value each time its ran, but i dont think so, its worth a shot
okay so now that i have played with my phone for a couple of days i know exactly what i want now. I would really like a program that would lock my phone and then shut it off with just the simple press of the power key on the side. I have used both the programs for vijay and the other device lock and they both will lock after device awakens, but I would really like it to lock before then. If that could be possible, i could then use the device lock program to run a program when the phone wakes, i will run vijays button press to press the left soft key and then all i will have to do is press the screen to unlock, thus exactly what i need is taken care of. Hopefully everything is understadable. I am super tired right now, but i have been testing all day and wanted to update the post.
@lance18: i'm not sure if i read correctly, but maybe you could opt to have your unit power off after a certain amount of time, without using the power button
start>settings>settings>power>advanced
@shogunmark: thanks for the idea. i just realized i could have one program run after locking my unit, so i chose activesync. i now have
no more problems synchronizing
When my screen goes into standby mode / I press the off button and then I want to use my phone again it takes a few seconds after pressing the home button before I can swipe to unlock or enter a unlock pattern.
Is this the case for everyone else? It's really annoying... nothing even registers on the screen for a few seconds.
same with my previous HTC Magic, it took 2 seconds
with this one 1 second =( a bit annoying. but oh well.
I'm using Screen unlock pattern, the time i press the home button the screen show instantly or at most less than a second.
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I'm using Screen unlock pattern, the time i press the home button the screen show instantly or at most less than a second.
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the screen shows instantly, but it doesn't register the touch for me. I have taken some videos of it I'll try and upload later.
I should note that it doesn't do this all the time, at this minute, I'm using unlock pattern and it works fine, but a few hours ago, it wasn't. I wonder if any apps can be causing this??
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the screen shows instantly, but it doesn't register the touch for me. I have taken some videos of it I'll try and upload later.
I should note that it doesn't do this all the time, at this minute, I'm using unlock pattern and it works fine, but a few hours ago, it wasn't. I wonder if any apps can be causing this??
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could be, or could be cpu was idle too long, or live wallpaper. etc...
rodh257 said:
the screen shows instantly, but it doesn't register the touch for me. I have taken some videos of it I'll try and upload later.
I should note that it doesn't do this all the time, at this minute, I'm using unlock pattern and it works fine, but a few hours ago, it wasn't. I wonder if any apps can be causing this??
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i can 2nd than, after finish charging it and boot up again now take 1 to 1.5 sec for the screen to show up!!!.then the touch register normal with no delay.
Thanks for your replies,
I've recorded a couple of videos (one a couple of days ago, one today) of the problem. Yesterday my phone was perfect! No sluggishness, no delay in unlock, battery life lasted from 4am to 6pm (double what it has been).
Now today its stuffed again. I left the battery off charge from 11pm last night (was freshly charged then) and it had run out by 8.30 this morning (all it was doing was sitting there! I wasn't even awake). And my swipe to unlock is slow, sometimes i just can't use my phone for a few minutes as it won't let me unlock it/ turn screen on.
I put my phone on charge, and it said that I was on 20% charge after a couple of minutes, but then it started going down.. didn't appear to be charging at all, maybe coz the processor was getting axed?
These are the videos.
1, with standard unlock mechanism.
http://qik.com/video/8164995
2. with pin number mechanism this morning
http://qik.com/video/8164835
Can anyone help me diagnose this?? It must be a rogue application or something right? Problem occurs on both samsung and other launchers. At present, I've turned my phone into flight mode, and it is now charging normally (and quickly) and the screen is responsive once again, does that give any clues??
thanks in advance for your help, this is really putting a downer on my new expensive phone purchase!!
Same here
I have the same trouble. Yesterday I should show my precious for a friend. It was impossible to unlock the screen. Happened before. Tried to do it for 40 minutes then I removed the battery. Is it better with the pattern-lock? Never used it.
rodh257 said:
When my screen goes into standby mode / I press the off button and then I want to use my phone again it takes a few seconds after pressing the home button before I can swipe to unlock or enter a unlock pattern.
Is this the case for everyone else? It's really annoying... nothing even registers on the screen for a few seconds.
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my Galaxy S have the same problem.
Did read about the problem, and myself have never thought about any delay. So did look more after every time i unlock it..but still my device seems to have no delay on that front. Still just got one delay on my device and that is the DialPad, better now after tak killer do the work, but when i did get the phone it could take a litle bit to get DialPad upp...
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Did read about the problem, and myself have never thought about any delay. So did look more after every time i unlock it..but still my device seems to have no delay on that front. Still just got one delay on my device and that is the DialPad, better now after tak killer do the work, but when i did get the phone it could take a litle bit to get DialPad upp...
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I heard that the Euro version don't have this problem, i tried many sample phones here in Singapore, all have similar problem. and this is not only happening while unlock the phone, but also have delay while opening application.
Aha, that explains it then. As Friend have one to and no delay on his sgs, did ask him after i had write first post here. Guess we had more luck here on that part then..
i have a similiar problem with JPK and now with JM8...when i press the home key the screen turn on in about 1,5-2s. There isn't any delay when i plug in the device with usb cable or ac adapter.
Please help me
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the problem is the microsd...
The only time I have experienced such a delay, is when the phone is in the process of installing something...
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i have a similiar problem with JPK and now with JM8...when i press the home key the screen turn on in about 1,5-2s. There isn't any delay when i plug in the device with usb cable or ac adapter.
Please help me
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the problem is the microsd...
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I have the same problem with the screen. I took of the microsd and it`s ok like this, but my question is what is the problem with the card? I have an ADATA 8gb
has anyone faced the phone switching off even when it's screen locked? This happened a few times to me.
1st scenario is when my phone is in a waist pouch which is a little tight for this model. when i take it out of the pouch, i either find it off or waiting at the sim unlock screen. this is caused by pressing the power button accidentally.
2nd scenario is after charging over night, i wake up to find the phone asking me to key in sim unlock pin (it will not be completely off because whenever charger is plugged in, it will power up). The phone was screen locked before i charge it and i did not touch the power button by accident unlike scenario 1.
which ever the scenario, by right the power off button shouldn't work whilst in screen lock right?
The same scenarios happend to me, sometimes more than once a day. Very annoying.
I too have this issue, especially the overnight charging one, which is annoying because then the alarm fails to go off!!! After convincing 2 other people to get the Trophy 7 they also experience this.
I called HTC support in the UK yesterday and all they could suggest to me was that I reset the phone settings, which I've done, and of course ended up needing to put all my settings back in which is extremely frustrating when I expect that it won't fix anything.
I really would recommend calling HTC support in your country and logging a call, because the guy told me that I was the first to report it.
You can get the phone numbers from the htc website, which i cannot post the URL to since I'm a new user, but I'm sure you can find it. Go to "Support" -> "Customer Service" -> "Support by hotline"
Of course, you could not call them to report the issue, but then they'll think that I'm the only user in the world with the problem and not actually resolve it!!! It's going to take you about 10mins and they'll keep talking to you about windows mobile 6.5, instead of windows phone, but the more calls logged = greater chance of resolution.
I've had the turning of when it's in my pocket, but i've never had it turn of overnight when charging.
at least not that i've noticed
Whilst experimenting with android on my touch pro from the very beginning when you couldn't enter a sim code, i've removed it and i'm to lazy to set a new one
All the problems (screen freeze of crazy dancing icons of phone shutting down) solved after FLASHING newest WWE ROM from this forum. Maybe helps, but U have to decide and do it yourself or not.
This has happend MANY times on my trophy aswell.. I ended up turning off the sim lock code (That way the phone starts up again after boot and your alarms etc works)
Yup, I've had the "pocket" thing also happen to me, more than once in the same day... quite frustating.
Qtek S200 (HTC Prophet) After ROM update, its now shutting down whilst in sleep mode
Sorry to dig up an old thread, but recently I upgraded my s200's ROM using the CD utility that came with it. Its now running Build 14928.2.2.0 of WM5.
Before the ROM update it has never done it once.
Some people said they got the problem when it went into lock screen, my lock screen is fine. It will only do it when the phone is in sleep mode, if i disable the "power off" timout setting then its absolutly fine aslong as i dont press the power button.
Did anyone ever find a solution to this problem?
Somebody did mention about flashing the rom from one of OS's on this site, but all the ones I have found contain dead rapidshare links.
Any help appreciated
Thanks
My solution on Trophy is simple, using a Casemate case on my phone. It makes the off button so stiff, that it's hard to shut off.
I guess I never realized why it was such a pain in the case to shut off... this MUST be the reason. Also, since I now have two Trophy's (one for developing roms), this other one I just bought has been through hell, and it's difficult to half press the camera button to focus. The Casemate case I have on my good Trophy makes it far harder to press the camera button, but my year old Trophy that I've always had doesn't suffer from any problems with its camera button.
This is the newer version of the Casemate case I was using on my HTC Trophy. I don't know if this will help you with your older phone, but maybe Casemate makes a case for it. Since it's an older phone, it will be difficult.
Some time ago I installed Android on my HTC HD2 and was quite happy with it.
Until gradually it became impossible to unlock the phone.
The "slide to unlock" does no longer respond
So after a lot of trial and errors I decided to flash the rom again and went back to HTC Sense (WM6.5) factory settings... Unfortunately this did not change anything
I don't think the touchscreen is broken as the slider region on the display reacts fine once I'm in (after reset e.g.)
It's only the fact that I'm not getting in once I set the device to standby
anyone an idea what I could try ?
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Some time ago I installed Android on my HTC HD2 and was quite happy with it.
Until gradually it became impossible to unlock the phone.
The "slide to unlock" does no longer respond
So after a lot of trial and errors I decided to flash the rom again and went back to HTC Sense (WM6.5) factory settings... Unfortunately this did not change anything
I don't think the touchscreen is broken as the slider region on the display reacts fine once I'm in (after reset e.g.)
It's only the fact that I'm not getting in once I set the device to standby
anyone an idea what I could try ?
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Your digitizer is probably busted, meaning you'll have to ship that baby for repair.
I had the same things a couple of months back. Screen looks ok, but actually it isn't, as it doesn't respond.
Well, that's what I thought first...So I sent the device to DynaFix... who are in charge of all repairs for HTC in the BeNeLux
After 2 day they already send me an offer for the repairs
As the device was "dropped" (How the hell do they know -to be clear: device had NOT dropped in any way)
Repairs would cost me roughly the same as a new HD2 - I wonder... would this have to do with the fact that the device was just over one year old ?????
Anyways, I objected and demanded proof of "the device having dropped"
Their response: "Sorry, we looked into the case again and detected illegal software on the device" They referred to Android and stated that the guarantee was no longer valid. End of story you think ?
Not realy. If they were convinced that the illegal software caused the device to malfunction... then they should just flash the device back to factory settings.
So I asked for a new offer to do this
Their response ? The original offer to replace everything (motherboard, screen,...)
Since then, I could mail, call,... whatever... DynaFix no longer responded to my questions... and what strikes me: they just send me the device back (of course with an invoice for the investigations) - without me having agreed on that.
back on topic now:
The digitizer could be faulty, that's right, but what is strange is, that if I do a reset... and bypass the slider, the device works perfectly. Even the area where the non-responsive slider is located, is reacting just fine
It seems that the touchscreen is not initialized/not powered when I switch the phone on and try to "slide"
Just now I did a reset, put the device in standby, switched it back on and the slider worked mysteriously !
Back to standby, switched it on again... slider did NOT work - Back to square 1 ?
I would like to find a way to remove the slider.... just to switch the phone on and immediatelo to home screen... without a "slide to unlock"
This way I could check whether the problem is related to the slider/"switching on" or not
Does anyobne know if this is possible ?
one question: which button to you use to wake the device when it is running and screen is off in sleeping state?
try using another button and avoid using the power/endcall button...there are many threads here about people describing nearly the same problem as you are. and nearly all of those users concluded that their power/endcall button was indeed faulty, causing the touch screen to stop responding, unless the power/endcall button was pressed at a certain angle.
most android builds allow the device to wake up using ANY of the buttons (except the volume keys). since i read those threads, i have taught myself to use all the buttons evenly.
your analysis is interesting, but i don't think there is a software solution...after all, you did try stock ROM and the problem remained. sounds to me more like a faulty power/endcall button that sometimes interferes with the touch screen.
try to recalibrate touch screen
well well well... you were right !
When I use any of the other buttons (except the power/endcall) the device reacts smoothly... even unlocks without any problem
So it must be the power/endcall button which is bugging me
Now just have to test what happens with incoming calls.... can I unlock them - that's the question
But anyways, great help guys ! Much obliged ;-)
im using an htc hd2 - t-mobile version and im also experiencing the same problem
have you tried pressing the home button on the lower left instead of the other buttons to wake up ? works for me though
any of the buttons will do apparently to wake the device and make the slider respond
What about answering calls ? Any issues with that ? Which button do you use for answering incoming calls ?
back to square 1
the freezing up of the device when trying to unlock was fixed by using another button to wake it up... and then some days later that magic trick no longer cut it either.
Warranty ? yeah, that's a real joke - they refer to moisture (not at all) or Illegal software (android is illegal ???) as reasons why warranty does not apply !
I just wish I could remove the slider in a way.... just switching it on and off... and maybe use it as a multimedia device instead of a smartPHONE. It's far from being SMART now
So now I'm stuck with a €500 device which worked perfectly for about 1 year and now the device closed the door on me (and locked it for ever)
I was an HTC fan before.... but all their credit is gone now.