Hello!
This forum is a wealth of resources and knoledge, so thanks so much to all the people here... I'm rather new to the world of WM, so I need to learn lots of things - fast!
Anyway, I have a question/request that I don't know where to post - please guide me! It's not about TyTNII in particular but for other devices as well:
I find the way that the device locks down very awkward and unintuitive - I don't want to be reaching for the power button just to see if I have any messages etc! So I was thinking about iPhone's slider, and lo and behold, google gave me a couple of alternatives. Sleeeeeek! I thought, but not so much so after installing them.
My ideal screen/button locker would:
-turn off the screen after a specified amount of seconds
-sense when the screen is touched, or a key is pressed, and light up the screen at a low light level, awaiting for the move to unlock the device
-it would NOT look like iPhone!!! Why on earth should it?? I mean, the slider is very neat as an interface thingy, efficient and easy to use, but I don't want to have a different interface with it. So, I would like to keep just the slider, and still be able to see my Home Screen - I simply do not need another one...
So, the question is, is there such a thing? Or, can a slider applet be customized so?
Thanks to everyone, and have a happy holiday season!
there are a lot of sliders around.. just gotta search. and as for the screen dim and off stuff.. it comes with most of that as settings options
Well... I did look around and searched quite a bit, did not find anything that comes near my description... would you have a name/idea?
Thanks again,
T
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=308361&highlight=s2u2
Well, yes, that's the first I tried, but I didn't find a way to keep only the slider itself, as I described above...?
Anyone...?
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Hi !
I'm looking for a way to scroll with the thumbwheel (right now it's just as pressing up/down which does different things depending on the app). I know it could be done, since we have the finger scrolling which works as a REAL scroll, so if moving the thumb down would act the same as finger scrolling for 1cm, for example, than it would be a real scroll.
BTW: as i'm typing this, i'm starting to program an app to do it, so if i don't find a solution, i'l make one myself... muahahaha(evil laugh)... of course i'll share it... free.
Please tell me if you know a solution, so i don't waste my nights programming (again).
Thanks,
RPG
i haven't been able to find a solution and I looked high to low. I think the wheel should be more like a page down than arrow down.
I have never understood why you can't get it to go vertically. It does it on the program and settings but not on the today screen.
I think you are onto something here.
I saw one of the button mapping programs that allowed you to assign screen actions to buttons, but I am not sure how well it would work. If it did, I would imagine it could be pretty quirky and not the most efficient way to do in things, since you be basically reinterpreting another event. Sounds like it might be useful, but I would suggest maybe providing the ability to to toggle between the normal behavior and the true scrolling by double clicking the jog wheel button.
I had an 8125 and now I have a tilt. In making the switch I have run into a few anooying problems that I am sure someone already solved? I have looked all over the forums so if these are answered, could you please point me in the right direction?
1) The ever popular PTT issue. Took me a while but I got it going. It was interesting that there was an incompatibility between the fix and BatteryStatus. Not sure what THAT was about? But it is working now.
Soooo...How do I get button FIVE to appear on my button maps? Neither the stock button feature in the settings nor AEButton Plus shows button 5, the camera button. It would also be kewl to map the OK button on the side, but I am guessing that is too much to ask? *Blink*
2) I have set the brightness at about the medium level (that was a disappointment because I was able to set it to the lowest on the 8125) but somehow the backlight keeps going dim after a time. I have looked all over the parameters to configure this but I can't find it? How do I keep the display from going dim on me? I have the tilt set to sleep at 1 minute and I do not have the backlight going dim at all, so I don't know what else to do?
3) Now that PTT button is mapped, I did what all of you did, I set it to Voice Command. But of course the push and hold I want the convenience of RECORD like I had on the 8125. I have tried all of the shortcuts and such I could find on this site and everyone of them put the voice recorder on my screen but did NOT initiate the record feature. Is there no way to do this on the tilt? I think I remember something about a parameter? /b or something like that? I tried to find it again but I was unable to.
Thanks for your help, guys...
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ThomasMcKean said:
I had an 8125 and now I have a tilt. In making the switch I have run into a few anooying problems that I am sure someone already solved? I have looked all over the forums so if these are answered, could you please point me in the right direction?
2) I have set the brightness at about the medium level (that was a disappointment because I was able to set it to the lowest on the 8125) but somehow the backlight keeps going dim after a time. I have looked all over the parameters to configure this but I can't find it? How do I keep the display from going dim on me? I have the tilt set to sleep at 1 minute and I do not have the backlight going dim at all, so I don't know what else to do?
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Hi Welcome
Not sure bout your other two questions, but the backlight is easy
Look in Start/Settings/System/ Backlight
You want the second tab, which is for Battery Power.
There you can set the timeout for it.
PS: If you have already tried this, then sorry for pointing it out, but sometimes the obvious solution is hard to find
AEButton Plus
I am able to remap both the OK button on the side and the Camera button with AEButton PLus.
I do have a slight problem that I am looking for a solution and hope someone knows the answer. When I remapped the OK button on the side, the first press still gives me the start menu no matter what I have it set for. The second press does the function I have programmed for double press. But is there anyway to not have it give me the start menu on the first press? I have it as none in the standard WM6 buttons panel. And I have it as lock phone on AEButtonPlus for both the first press and double press. But it always requires double press to make it happen. Any ideas?
-- Charley
I've looked around and I didn't see anything except references to WM 7 might have something like this, but it occurred to me today as I glared at the big ugly scrollbar on my Today screen that it'd be nice if there was a semi-transparent and/or floating toolbar which would let the text flow under it, be readable, yet still usable to scroll down.
Is there anything that can do this? I've seen some different looking scrollbars around, such as one that looked like this <---->, but it was pretty low-profile and such, but it wasn't floating, but I'd still like to know about anything that makes the scrollbar less ugly.
Thanks!
Maybe less items on the today screen?
SouthernLuke said:
Maybe less items on the today screen?
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Yeah, that'd help for that, but there are other places where it'd be nice to have less obtrusive scrollbars.
I've tried several things for the today screen.. I didn't much like either SBP option (Shell or Pocket Plus) but at least they let you put different things on tabs. I like HTC Home + HHC but it takes up lots of room.
I'm still experimenting a bit, but this is more of an overall query, not specific to the today screen, although that's one place that'd definately benefit from it.
It's much more of a better idea if you don't put your scroll bar in your today screen...what I mean is not to put too much information in your today screen.
This program from VJ helps a little, removes the soft keys from the bottom of the Today screen:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=320349
i've been searching for an application that can make my phone vibrate on screen taps. i would try to use this instead of sound on screen tap because it looks like a good idea. so i'm very interested in this kind of app and i hope i'm not the only one.
during my search i found something called VibeTonz, but this does not come as a program, it is a feature built in some devices.
here on xda i found some threads about dialpad vibration and this thing works, so i think it would be possible to create something that would make phone vibrate on any screen tap.
P.S.: sorry for my bad english. hope you could at least understand what i'm talking about
yeah it would be cool to see something like this, the dial pad vib program is freaking sweet.
hmm.. yeaa that would be kinda cool. btw.. ur english is perfect
you mean something like this:
Phone pad vibrate when tapping numbers?
as i mentioned above, there is a cab like this on xda forums, but it only works for dialpad. what i need is something that could make the phone to vibrate on ANY screen tap. what i don't like about dialpad vibrate cab is that it makes the phone vibrate just as long as you keep dialpad number pressed,so if you just tap the number too fast there is no vibe or it is too short and so it's not suitable for fast typing. the thing that i would like to see would vibrate for fixed time (let's say 100ms) on any screen tap (including dialpad tap). i think this kind of touch screen response would make the use of it much easier and faster. but i can't know that because i didn't try this.
maybe if someone has a VibeTonz enabled phone could tell as about experiences with this kind of response?
anyway, thanks for your efforts and i'm glad to see there are some people supporting this thread and some interested in this.
I am searching for this app to, it would give great fingerpushing feedback. It will feel like pushing "real" buttons on your screen
About the vibrating dialpad: i thought i read somewhere that you can alter it so that it will vibrate instantly.
I second that!
I'd love this kind of app. My kaiser has particularly flat keys on the keyboard and there's no travel to them. So I stumbled across the dialer vibrate cab while looking for a solution. I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to mod that cab's registry entries to make it vibrate on any keypress, such as while typing... but so far no luck. A touchscreen vibrate cab would be awesome too. I think any program that is possibly developed should include settings for both the touchscreen and the keyboard.
Someone with a little spare time want to work on these ideas? Pretty please?
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I didn't have time to try this, but if you are interested here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=425063
I would like to find a way to modify the amount of time the backlight is on for the bottom buttons. I know there is a MOD that uses these for notification in place of the LED we don't have; so I am guessing someone knows how to modify this setting. I would like to be able to make the backlight remain on anytime the screen is on. I am more than willing (and would actually like to) to do the work if someone here can get me started.
Thanks
Jeff
no one has yet found a way to do this, not sure if it's possible, but who knows.
https://github.com/project-voodoo/backlightnotification/tree/master/liblights/
^ that's neldar's work for backlight notifications, lights.c is the modified file and lights.c.original is what was modified. go ahead and play with that to see what you can find out.
Thanks for the info and link. I will certainly look into it and see what I can do. Persistance may pay off eventually!
Jeff
actually the epic 4g has this setting built in. on that phone the slide-out keyboard back light has the same timer as the 4 soft keys and you have the option to sync both to the screen.
so maybe posting over there to or just getting the epic source would help.
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actually the epic 4g has this setting built in. on that phone the slide-out keyboard back light has the same timer as the 4 soft keys and you have the option to sync both to the screen.
so maybe posting over there to or just getting the epic source would help.
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the setting is still tied to liblights.c and it isn't tied to the length of the screen timeout, it's the softkeys tied to the keyboard keys (which use the same settings/binary)... the keyboard is just an extension of the softkeys so the solution would still lie in modifying liblights.c
Just get one of the i9000 roms with the setiron kernel, it has backlight notifications among other things.