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Basic issue with Windows Media Player

I recently got an O2 XDA IIi (Alpine) and have fiddled about with it a bit, not gone as far as flashing the ROM or whatever. Havn't even paid for it, so don't really want to totally screw it just yet.
What I have done is transfer some songs to my SD card, and I listen to them whilst travelling to work. I just put WMP on to play, and manually disable the backlight at the moment, but its still possible for buttons or the screen to get pressed.
Simply put, short of getting a full case for it or turning it off (which stops Media Player playback) is there anyway to lock the touchscreen and hard buttons, ie: like the original Nokia Menu > * keylock? I will eventually get a case for it, but right now I've got -zero- money.
I've searched as far as I'm able this evening, and have come up with nada!

I've got a quick fix for this, in that I set my PDA to password-lock at 0 minutes, turn off the backlight manually and then turn it off and on again.
Is there a simpler way to accomplish this?

On your way to work, you could also read the manual whilst listening to the sweet music. Then you would realise that your "solution"is not the best you can find :shock:
Seriously, you can set a hardware button by clicking on Menu>Options in windows media player and set hardware button for whatever you want 8)

That works fine, but it doesn't have any keylock function. The closest is "toggle screen", but that doesn't disable any of the hard buttons (The hangup/pickup, camera, notes, calender, contacts buttons)
Also, it'd be hard to read the manual when I'm cycling to work

I use GSPlayer http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA032810/
It is lot lighter, stable and has better playlist support. It has shut-off screen and buttons lock option that you can assign to a h/w button. Very handy.

Is there an MPEG4 AAC codec/plugin for GS? I've got TCPMP at the moment with the AAC codec from rareware.
Also got a free leather case from work, so it's not too much of a problem now.

Tried ScreenLock? http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=14621
It's freeware.
I used to have another locking app on my XDA, but lost it when I hard reset, and now I can't remember its name Its icon was a big yellow padlock though, and it let you lock the keys by clicking on the shortcut in the Start menu, and you pressed and held down a combination of keys you set up during the installation process, which would unlock the device again (I chose the top button + the action button, for simplicity's sake).

Previously i used Resco Audio. Because it has automatic screen toggle function, and also, when riding bike or driving, it easy to skip songs by pressing either the camera or recorder button.
But for now i just stick to WMP10 since the volume control is differentiated with the phone's volume control. Unlike Resco Audio, when i try to lower the sound using hard button, the phone volume also lowers at the same time... making me missed my important calls. OTOH, I use SPB pocket plus, and put the screen toggle button on the today's screen. Hope my solution could solve your problem. TQ

Use psShutxp
Do a google search for psshutxp (make sure you get the one for a QVGA screen (NOT VGA)). The site is in Russian, but there's also an English version of the website. It's a free app that simulates the "Log off" screen of Windows XP. When the "Log Off" screen pops up, there's a button (the left one) that says "Light Off". It turns off the screen (not just the backlight) and prevents any "input".
I'm listening to Erasure on WMP using this. It should work for you. It does not disable the hardware buttons (i.e. if you press the contacts button, the Contacts application will be launched (but it will not turn the screen back on)) but I don't see that as a big issue.
Justin

Locking the Diamond

I was wondering is there a app that will lock my Diamond by clicking a shortcut?
I don't want S2u2 it's buggy imo. But i would just like to use the std. locking through a shortcut.
Pressing and holding the hang-up button just doesn't work for me.

If pressing and holding a button for 2 seconds is too hard for you then perhaps you should consider buying a slave to do it for you....

It isn't the fact that i don't wanna push it.
But after using it one week i already notice that the pad hangs to the hang-up button a heightdifference of a mm is already present.
I don't like that so i'd rather push a shortcut.

I press the power button briefly, not sure if that's lock, but it works for me.

chech the thread "Lock Screen or put into "standby"? Best set-up?", post 9 & 10.

MSSH said:
I was wondering is there a app that will lock my Diamond by clicking a shortcut?
I don't want S2u2 it's buggy imo. But i would just like to use the std. locking through a shortcut.
Pressing and holding the hang-up button just doesn't work for me.
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You could do HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight\AutoDeviceLock Enable from 0 to 1 and everytime your backlight goes off (which is quite quick with the Diamond) the device will automatically lock

Ensure that Long Press End Key is set to lock your device (Start -> Settings -> System -> Long Press End Key -> Automatically execute the seleted action: Lock device.
Next open a registry editing program and navigate to HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\HomeLSKPath and enter \windows\endkey.exe.
Then navigate to HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\HomeLSKText and enter Lock (or whatever text you want to be displayed on the button).
Save the changes and soft-reset the device (or disable and re-enable HTC Touch Flow 3D) to implement the change.

Personally i've started using Sensor Lock which seems to work really well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=422871
Locks and unlocks by rotating the screen. Has lots of nice options and locks the hardware buttons too which is good.

PocketShield looks pretty cool. It's around $11 if you decide to buy it.

switch on the display

Is it possible to use central circle button to switch on the display of the PDA instead of use ON/OFF button?
Thank you.

would like to know if the center button can be map as the power button too.

Its not as you asked, bight might be worht considering:
If you go to settings>system>Lock Buttons and choose do not lock buttons, then all the buttons including the center button will trun on the screen.

Yes. Now every time I want to switch on the display I have to push the upper ON/OFF button and I think it would be better if i could do it by pressing the central circle button?
Thank you

Yes omar32, but i do not like this option because if all buttons are enabled, it is very easy to push them accidentalty and to do calls, etc that you do not want. I want that when the PDA is deactivated, i can switch display on with ON/OFF button or pressing the central circle button, but with others buttons disabled.
Thank you

I agree with you guys. If diamond is a phone why it can behave like a real normal phone. Using this stupid ON/OFF button is very inconvenient and annoying! I miss normal lock keypad-I mean like in SE press * and lock button(s0ft button) to unlock in reverse direction.To get this feature I have to use 3d party software like s2u2 which does the thing but destroys other like receiving MMS etc. I'm getting bored of this phone ale looking for all the time for the compromise between one feature I need and another.Just wanted a PHONE with possibilities of PDA not PDA with option of PHONE

So, is it no possible to use central circular hw button to switch on the display?

montarelonf said:
So, is it no possible to use central circular hw button to switch on the display?
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Hi
I can tell you how I "resolved" this problem possibly closest to the "normal" phone
First: in settings /system -> key lock -> set: DON't lock the buttons
Second: because pressing ON/OFF button is very inconvenient we have to bypass it..There are few programs *.exe which does exactly the same what ON/OFF button. So search the web for turnOff.exe and map it with soft key manager to any of the soft buttons you like(right or left).This lets you turn off the phone without pressing ON/OFF button on the top.
Third: Because now buttons are not locked it's easy to wake up the phone in the pocket and press sth on the touch screen so you have to use s2u2 for locking/unlocking. And that's all you have to do is spend some time on configuring s2u2 this is the hardest thing here.
Now you can wake up the phone with any button you like and unlock it in iPhone style(thanks to s2u2), when want to lock it you press the soft button mapped to turnOff.exe and that's it- you got your phone locked and turned off.

If somebody knows a different way to do it please share with us

[Q]app to disable touch screen while reading

Before you think i'm crazy let me explain why i want it.
I want to be able to hold my nook however i want with out the fear i might turn the page by accident. Where it my be my fingers touching the screen, the sheets or cookie crumbs.
So, im looking for an app that will disable the touch screen and can be linked to a hardware button(any turn page button, probably the left ones as i use those the least) whether by script of done by the app itself.

CoolReader have a possibility to disable touchscreen while reading. It can be assigned to some of the page-turning buttons - press a button, double press or long press.

I tried some tool called Screen tools 1 and i manage to "disable" touch but it would disable the buttons as well. I'll try coolreader, thanks for the tip

Activate camera with physical shutter button

Greetings all,
Per the above; is this possible? Hoping for an outcome whereby pressing the physical shutter button, whilst the phone is turned on, but not in the camera, loads up the camera app.
Thanks in advance

Yep, you just hold the shutter button down and it activates the camera from any screen. Also works when the device is locked and screen is off.

Can you reverse this with settings?
So can you stop the camera loading up by some setting on the phone disabling the physical shutter button?
As it's being accidentally pressed while getting the phone out of my pocket?
Cheers!

Probably not without rooting, but the button requires a fairly long, full press to activate the camera so I can't see it accidentally starting the camera by just getting it out of a pocket (it's certainly never happened to me)

SalsaSouls said:
So can you stop the camera loading up by some setting on the phone disabling the physical shutter button?
As it's being accidentally pressed while getting the phone out of my pocket?
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It is possible to disable this feature. I have done this since I kept getting pocket pictures as well. You have to go into the camera app, open the menu and select the third tab (the one with the screwdriver and spanner icon). The first setting on that tab is called "Hurtig start" on my phone which is in danish. I would expect this to be a translation from "Quick start" or something like that. This setting have four options, the last one being "Slukket" which is probably a translation of "Turned off". When selecting this option the physical camera button stops doing anything unless you are already inside the camera app.

Sorry about it being landscape

madsb said:
It is possible to disable this feature. I have done this since I kept getting pocket pictures as well. You have to go into the camera app, open the menu and select the third tab (the one with the screwdriver and spanner icon). The first setting on that tab is called "Hurtig start" on my phone which is in danish. I would expect this to be a translation from "Quick start" or something like that. This setting have four options, the last one being "Slukket" which is probably a translation of "Turned off". When selecting this option the physical camera button stops doing anything unless you are already inside the camera app.
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Thanks, that's sorted it.