Screensaver not playing - Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General

Hi,
In the pictures&vid tab I have the "Play screensaver when connected to my PC and idle for 2 minutes" button checked but, when it's idle after 2 minutes, I get a very brief switch from home screen to pics&vids-so brief, it only shows the top toolbar for a split second,then just goes back to my regular homescreen.
Have pics that play in the slideshow manually, but don't know why it won't play the screensaver. Turned off any auto-update stuff, and even don't let it get data through active synch. Any help?
addendum-found the issue; sort of
seems all the extra crap that ATT installs, was causing the problem. After I did a hard reset and not allow the ATT customization-it's working fine!
Alemaker

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How to stop Today screen on power on?

Hi all, whenever my Kaiser goes to sleep and I turn it back on, it closes whatever app was up, and presents the Today screen.
I am sure I saw a setting to prevent this but cannot find it any more in Advanced Config or Kaiser Tweak.
Anyone know how to make it come out of standby showing the same screen it entered standby with?
Today timeout....... under settings?
No that's something different to what I described.
I was thinking the same thing as grizzley. Can you describe a little more on how it is different than what you described?
My Tilt always comes out of standby to whatever program was running when it went into standby.
That's it really, mine doesn't. E.g. I'm in Calendar, and the device automatically goes into standby after 2 mins. I press the power button and it instantly wakes up, closes calendar, and shows the home screen.
I have seen this option in BatteryStatus but it doesn't have any effect if I tick or untick it.
Yes, I see.
There is also the "Today timeout" setting under Settings>Personal>Today>Items, but I do not think this will help you either.
The only other thing I can think of is maybe you have a Today plug-in that has some sort of "timeout" feature?
Actually, I also have a vague recollection of a setting (maybe in SKTools) that might have been something like "Today screen on resume." But I might be imagining this; I will do a little investigating.
Sorry I can not be more helpful.

More frequent checks for new emails and sms

I have an AT&T tilt with stock ROM and everything. I am using ifonz0.9.9. I was just wondering if there is any way to make my phone check for new emails and sms more frequently. My phone is linked to my gmail account. I was sending myself some test emails and i was getting them very quickly. But each time i would have to open my messages folder and then click on menu>send/receive, in order to update my inbox. Then i exited out to the home screen, sent another email and decided to just leave y phone alone. Well then about an hour or 2 later i finally get a notification sound and when i wake my phone up, there was a little red bubble with the #1 in it letting me know that i have a new message. So this leads me to believe that my phone must only check for new messages on its own like once every hour or something like that. Is there anyway to make it check more often. And on another note, if someone sends a SMS i do get a notification sound and a little window pops up saying "received new SMS" or something like that and then goes away after 5 seconds. Now this is fine, but once that message goes away it doesnt put a little red bubble notification on the icon. So if I wasnt near my phone and then came back later and just glanced at my screen I would have no way to tell if I had a new SMS or not. If someone could shed some light on this subject I would really appreciate. This was my last resort because i couldnt find anything On the main board or in the stickies or anything. So thank you in advance if you can help me out.
When i set my email up, one of the very last options was how often to check, i manually set mine to 1 hour, i think it was on check every 2, just checked on mine.
Email inbox > Menu > Tools > Options > clicked my email (yours would be gmail) >Edit Account Setup > Press Next 5 times until you see Automatic Send/Receive:, then set it to whatever you want, 5, 10, 15 minutes > Next > Finish
Hope that helps.
Email notification
This is only mildly related, but I want my new email notification to show the sender and/or subject line and not just "You have ## new email messages..."
I can't find any notification settings that would adjust this. Any suggestions?
The Enter Key is your friend, my friend. Makes it easier for us to read and give you the proper answer.
Menu, Tools, Options, select your account, send/receive schedule, and change your time...if you want faster than every 5 minutes youll need to go with push email.
Just know that each time you check your email a little bit of battery gets eaten up as well. So there is a bit of a trade off.
Keep in mind that if its asleep, and you are using wifi only, you will get no checking until you wake it up.
I wish I could find a fix for that..
dealwagon said:
Keep in mind that if its asleep, and you are using wifi only, you will get no checking until you wake it up.
I wish I could find a fix for that..
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I don't know for sure since I use my 3g for everything, but wouldn't disabling that feature in kaisertweak allow it to check while the screen is off?
You can set the tweak to leave WiFi on when the device is on standby. But you'll have your battery empty in 4-5 hours doing that.
Regarding auto check e-mail, for me this was waking up the device each time it wanted to check. So the screen will turn on, which means that for it to turn off automatically it will wait for the timeout to occur. So let's say you set it to check email every 5 mins, and set a power off timeout of 3 mins, the device will turn on to check mail, turn off after 3 minutes then 2 minutes later turn on again. etc.
Personally I found that with the device in my pocket as the screen would always get touched the device would actually never turn off (besides clicking random things) when auto email check was active. So, goodbye battery again. I ended turning off email autocheck.
That last point might get solved by using S2U2 and telling it to turn screen off after like 10 secs as it ignores screen presses at locations other than the slider, but I don't like that personally.
Yeah this is what I figured...I have used the S2U2 method as well. In regard to the battery drain, more than likely one would leave wifi on while stationary because having it on in your pocket while say driving around would lose the wifi anyway. So one "could" plug it into the wall and leave it alone.
kilrah said:
You can set the tweak to leave WiFi on when the device is on standby. But you'll have your battery empty in 4-5 hours doing that.
Regarding auto check e-mail, for me this was waking up the device each time it wanted to check. So the screen will turn on, which means that for it to turn off automatically it will wait for the timeout to occur. So let's say you set it to check email every 5 mins, and set a power off timeout of 3 mins, the device will turn on to check mail, turn off after 3 minutes then 2 minutes later turn on again. etc.
Personally I found that with the device in my pocket as the screen would always get touched the device would actually never turn off (besides clicking random things) when auto email check was active. So, goodbye battery again. I ended turning off email autocheck.
That last point might get solved by using S2U2 and telling it to turn screen off after like 10 secs as it ignores screen presses at locations other than the slider, but I don't like that personally.
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I have a "fair use" internet abbo on my tytn. But i also have my wifi on 24/7 because it is faster when i'm at home or at school.
For receiving my e-mail i use http://live.mail2web.com/. There you can make a FREE PUSH MAIL account. You can send your gmail and other e-mail accounts (if you have them) to your mail2web account. And then it is automaticly pushed to your tytn.
You will receive an e-mail send to gmail within a couple of minutes and mostly within a minute.

Programs stop when I shut the screen off (on AT&T Tilt/ HTC Kaiser)

When turning off the screen (on my AT&T Tilt), the programs stop running. Active sync disconnects, Wi-Fi disconnects, voice recorder pauses, and etc. Does anyone know if there is a setting on the phone that will let these programs run in the background with the screen off? Or a configuration tool (3rd party software) that can do this?
To clarify further, all the programs run okay when the screen is dimmed (backlight off). The problem is when I press the "Power" button (quickly) to shut the screen off (but not turning off the phone completely, I can still get calls, but all the buttons are locked except power button, but thats okay). When I do that (to save power), the problem is the Wi-Fi disconnects, Active Sync disconnects, and the voice recorder pauses recording. Then everything resumes again when I turn the screen back on. On my laptop when I am organizing or reading files, favorites, music, videos, etc. and transferring files back and forth it runs the laptop battery down because the screen has to be partially on (you can still see the time even though it is dimmed out, and the phone gets very hot too after a while like this, I know there is a way to shut off charging, but I still want to charge and work with the files on the phone with my laptop, but I don't need the phone's screen to be on). So it would be nice if Active Sync kept working with the screen off (rather than just dimmed out).
The Wi-Fi disconnects too when the screen is shut off, which is okay unless you are doing the same work organizing/ transferring files over a wireless link with a LAN network (especially if you left your data cord elsewhere). I know I could just have it dim and not turn the screen off, but it still wastes allot of power even with a dim screen.
Also I use the voice recorder for dictation, meetings, and long conferences, so the battery runs down as long as it is recording (If I tap the power button (to turn off the screen) it pauses the recording, when I tap it again and the screen turns back on it resumes recording). Perhaps there is a 3rd party voice recorder application that keeps running regardless of the display screen being turned on or off (but I have not been able to find one, thats why I think there may be a setting I am missing to allow programs to run in the background even if the screen is off).
this is a BIG miss in WM6. it was posible in WM5.
we also talk about this inability to turn only the backlight off in WM6,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=448355, and we just hope HTC or Microsoft will help us,
unfortunately it seems that untill now noone have found a solution for this

GPS seems to enter sleep when the screen is off

Hi,
I often use the RunKeeper application when I make long walks. In all my previous phones, the GPS kept working when I turned off the display and put the phone in my pocket. In the mi 5, however, it seems like the GPS stopped functioning as soon as I turn off the display put the phone in my pocket. When I take it back out, it shows the same position that I was at when I put the phone in my pocket, and within a few seconds it is updated to my actual position.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a matter of settings (maybe even permissions)? Same happens with navigation apps like Waze - if I put another application to run in the foreground, such as Youtube, then Waze (while still working in the background) loses my location, and when I switch back to it after some time, it takes a few seconds to show me my new location.
Thanks,
Shlomy
Hi,
This has happened to me also while using the Starva app and the reason is MIUI doesn't allow to use the Location in Background.
To allow that, go to
Settings -> Battery & Performance -> Power -> App Battery Saver
and select the app you want. Then you'll see that Background location is Restrict. Make it Allow and you're good to go.
Regards,
Samitha
Thanks so much! Almost got me to try custom roms because of that.

Captions everywhere!!!

On all my devices, Note 9, Sony Android TV, Roku stick, etc, captions keep turning on in multiple apps. I know how to turn them off. But every time one starts watching a video again, they turn themselves back on. It getting really frustrating. What do I do?
Jwikoff99 said:
On all my devices, Note 9, Sony Android TV, Roku stick, etc, captions keep turning on in multiple apps. I know how to turn them off. But every time one starts watching a video again, they turn themselves back on. It getting really frustrating. What do I do?
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accessibility options maybe?
probably something you or someone else enabled because this ain't default behavior foe sure.
I've tried the settings in all the apps that captions show up in, the accessibility settings on my phone, tvs and roku sticks. Some initially say they are off, but captions show anyway. Some are set to on, but when I turn them off, they go right back on when I exit the menu and try to play a video/movie.
Jwikoff99 said:
I've tried the settings in all the apps that captions show up in, the accessibility settings on my phone, tvs and roku sticks. Some initially say they are off, but captions show anyway. Some are set to on, but when I turn them off, they go right back on when I exit the menu and try to play a video/movie.
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i dont know then. reset should take care of it if you cant figure it out.

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