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.
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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.
raymonds said:
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
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Looking at an MDA Vario, on the homescreen you can "lock" the device.
I'd like to be able to PIN Lock my device by pressing a key, like I used to my C500 - or a button on the homescreen would be even better. The C500, just pressed the power button and chose "Device Lock" - nice and easy way of securing the phone, preventing anyone from using it.
Whilst I've got the timeout set on my MDA Pro, it doesn't always seem to kick in, and I'd like to be able to lock it manually, but can't find the way...
Can you help?
I agree...
The Qtek 9100 has this nice function as well. Why can't we use it in Universal as well?
set the time to 0 minutes, and then simply switch the device off. This will lock it.
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set the time to 0 minutes, and then simply switch the device off. This will lock it.
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I think the point is, we want to have the "OFF and LOCK NOW" option to click whenever we feel like it, without the inconvenience of having it lock every single time we turn it off.
I see. Looks like a simple program would do that registers for a wakeup event, sends the unit to sleep and then blocks the device until a PIN is entered. However, that can be circumvented easily by a more sophisticated user...
What if a user of a Qtek 9100 (Wizard) could take the Lock Device.exe they have in their ROM's and give it to us???
Wouldn't that solve the problem? :?:
well, let's try !
Anyone??? All we need is the Device Lock.exe I believe from a Wizard...
There is no such file in the Wizards ROM. many have been looking for it, because we want to bind it to a hardware button and remove it from the Today screen. However, none of us have been able to find it. Posting it to you is therefore not possible, sorry.
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There is no such file in the Wizards ROM. many have been looking for it, because we want to bind it to a hardware button and remove it from the Today screen. However, none of us have been able to find it. Posting it to you is therefore not possible, sorry.
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I didn't know that my friend... That's unfortunate...
Thank you for your reply though
I don't even want to bind to hardware - just the software would be good for now!
I installed the latest UK TMobile Rom, and the lock device today plugin or something like that suddenly appeared... and works perfectly
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.
It may be a newbie question, but I have tried to find it out for a couple of weeks now and failed:
How do I turn the Universal off, apart from taking the battery out? Does Windows Mobile have a menu option that turns the deice off? I can't find the key combination that does it either.
What is the safest way to reset it? If I use the reset button, some recent text messages get lost.
I am using Helmi UNI AKU3.5 ROM. Might it be the rom's fault?
Hi there,
In fact, most PDAs are never "off" because else it wont turn "on" to do the reminders...
That said, few 3rd party tools allows you shutdown your device or restart it.
Like http://ppcsoft.narod.ru/english/
Or GsPocketMagic++
I think VJEschaton can put it into a "deeper" deep sleep. I can't remember if this works on the Universal, it should work on all HTC Xscale devices, but I think it was only tested on the Magician.
The device can be forced into any power state you want. But the OS doesn't support that, so it's OEM specific typically.
V
I had that prob with losing messages..
How you can fix it, is if before you reset you press the power button one (to make it sleep) then press it again (to wake back up) then do the reset.
It will keep that exact state its at then.
I think this is what you mean?
My MDA IS GOING CRAZY!! Every time I press the power button to take the phone off of the standby mode the phone seems to randomly just open up contacts and then try to delete one of the ones that are first on the list. Also the two soft buttons aren't working. the keyboard, some of the letters aren't working either, and every time i press the left softkey on the keyboard the menu on the right always opens up when I am on the internet. For some reason it just started acting like that when I increased the size of the cache. This one time all the keys worked for like 5 minutes the other day, then they went back to not working. I already did a virus scan and nothing came up, so yea. I am willing to pay if needed to the person through paypal, whoever helps me fix up my mda. NEED HELP!!!!
Have you tried updating to a newer firmware?
Are there any magnets in the immediate vicinity of the MDA?
I know it sounds crazy but even the magnet on the included t-mobile case can do things like switch the screen to landscape or bring up the calender.
It's just a thought and a possibility.
nope no magnets, and the rom is the 2.6 one, the newest rom, dunno what wrong with the phone, im willing to pay to fix it up. whoever helps me fix it up, i will pay them.
if i were you, (thankfully i'm not because i have had enough problems with my XDA!! lol) i'd do a hard reset, but i'll assume you can't do that because of the mind of its own issue, so power down the phone, and leave it on charge so there's atleast 50% battery in the phone. meanwhile, goto the t-mobile website and get the latest rom (or re downlownload the rom that's already installed...2.6 i think u said?) and try to upgrade using bootloader. todo this, hold the camera and the power buttons until a funny screen comes up, run the update utility, and then plug in the phone to the firewire cable (then onto the usb) on the first screen of the program (if that makes sense). then run the update utility and that should work.
there's no reason why it shouldn't. i had a similar problem with a se w800i about a year ago, and it turned out a button was stuck down, so check that.
i hope you get it sorted, as i kno how frustrating these phones can be.
thepolice
thizzmaster said:
My MDA IS GOING CRAZY!! Every time I press the power button to take the phone off of the standby mode the phone seems to randomly just open up contacts and then try to delete one of the ones that are first on the list. Also the two soft buttons aren't working. the keyboard, some of the letters aren't working either, and every time i press the left softkey on the keyboard the menu on the right always opens up when I am on the internet. For some reason it just started acting like that when I increased the size of the cache. This one time all the keys worked for like 5 minutes the other day, then they went back to not working. I already did a virus scan and nothing came up, so yea. I am willing to pay if needed to the person through paypal, whoever helps me fix up my mda. NEED HELP!!!!
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Ok, you need to give more info. What IPL/SPL, Radio, version, etc. etc. What other steps did you follow? Downgrade to 1.08 unlock? CID unlock? Upgrade to 2.26? Then flash whatever ROM you are using...and which ROM is it? What other apps have you loaded? How old is the phone? Who is your service provider? What is your bank account number? (ok maybe we don't need that one haha) What SD card are you using? Have you dropped the phone?
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uuh, i haven't dropped the phone at all. Its unlocked, and I changed the network settings so that I get unlimited internet and other data transfers for free. I have Tmobile prepaid. Other than that I am going to try to hardware reset it, tried it already, it didn't work. So, I will try to update the rom, the phone is unlocked, so if I update the rom hopefully it wont become locked again.
It won't become locked again, it sounds like a hardware problem it is most likely a button or key on the keyboard is getting stuck and/or shorting every so often causing this behaviour.
Have you recently loaded any apps? Maybe changed the key settings? Deleted a file by mistake?
How large did you make the cache? What program did you use to change the cache? Did you change anything else besides the cache?
uuh i made the cache to 4 MB and I did change the settings for the IE but I changed them back, I used Resco Registry Editor, also I went to this website to find the registry tweaks http://www.pocketpctweaks.com/pocketpc_tweaks/
Then I went to the 2 performace tweaks:
http://www.pocketpctweaks.com/pocketpc_tweaks/speed_up_your_pocketpc
http://www.pocketpctweaks.com/pocketpc_tweaks/increase_performance_speed
I also did this one on the IE using Resco Registry Editor:
http://www.pocketpctweaks.com/pocketpc_tweaks/change_pocket_internet_explorer_6
Other than that I haven't done any other ones, I tried overclocking by using a software called Omap Clock, but that software sucked, it would be overclocked for a while, and it would return back to the default speed whenever I would press the power button to put it on standby.
if i were you..
if you are willing to pay for those who ever fix you phone, i'd rather pay my nearest service center to fix my device.
Here is a tiny program to soft-reset your phone without having to take the back cover off the phone. You access the program from the programs menu (Start--Programs).
http://www.clickapps.com/moreinfo.htm?pid=19165§ion=PPC
@Beards: I added it to the wiki list, but for some reason the table structure of the item following is messed up (the version appears in the comments cell). It was my first time editing the wiki, so let me know if I did something wrong.
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Here is a tiny program to soft-reset your phone without having to take the back cover off the phone. You access the program from the programs menu (Start--Programs).
http://www.clickapps.com/moreinfo.htm?pid=19165§ion=PPC
@Beards: I added it to the wiki list, but for some reason the table structure of the item following is messed up (the version appears in the comments cell). It was my first time editing the wiki, so let me know if I did something wrong.
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The thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450643
has a soft reset app i wrapped. It has no prompts, and just F.D.I
I have to say this does exactly what we need, no fuss, it just works.
Thanks.
Power button will do also
If the unit has not frozen completely, you can long press the power button and get the dialog box asking about losing data and asking Yes or No to continue.
This is actually the first time I have ever seen a built-in option of actually shutting the entire unit completely off! Just like removing the battery!
I tried this method a few times when it looked like the whole thing locked up (experimenting with old/incompatible apps) and it worked like a charm. I have had to remove the back cover only once to use the reset button.
Regards,
Gordo
Yes, this is the method I use and it is very convenient. Even when my screen freeze or the unit seems to hang, holding the button will still allow me to shut down. Hold again to restart.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3034819#post3034819