A total newbie here........
so go easy "Geeks" otherwise i will give you a hard time when you need a question answered about "getting a life" !!!!!
This "screen turning off" during a call issue.
Now i have read many threads on this and other forums. And i have noted that for some..its not that easy and we feel a bit worried about screwing things up.
Is there not one simple way to do it . maybe a "stickie" just for this to allow a beginner the confidence to know that the info is 100% correct and the way to do it isnt going to cause a nightmare!!!!
I have yet to be confident about one members thread about it..due to such technical talk etc !
Thanks !
Did you try Kaiser tweak? There is an option to turn on/off this function.
Obviously, one thing to keep in mind is that the screen is designed to go off so you don't touch it with your face and inadvertently hit a button. But yeah, KaiserTweak would be the safest way (imo) to go about it.
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Greets,
I am running a tilt with stock AT&T roms, but with the bloatware avoided through the timely soft reset.
I am wondering ... can I replace the home screen if I don't flash to a cooked ROM? If so, how?
Thanks!
if by "home" you mean "today" screen, then yes. simply by adding any today screen plugin.
a few things for you to search for:
start|settings|personal|today|items
HTC Home
SPB plus
HTC Homeplug
there's a good start for you
Tried ... Failed ... Help?
Greets,
I attempted to install HTC Home on my stock AT&T Tilt. It did install (confirmed by the fact that when I saw no evidence of it running, I tried to reinstall, and it told me it was already installed).
This still leaves me with my same old screen (except now, the orientation icon changed to a battery with a question mark on it).
Once installed on a stock AT&T Tilt, how do I run HTC Home to replace my main screen?
Thanks!
Changing the Today Screen options is explained in the book that came with your phone called a manual.
jgermuga - Interesting (not to be confused with helpful) response.
Had the presence of mind to check to see if your prior posts were also obnoxious ... not surprisingly, many are. Needless to say, I will not be responding further to anything you might care to characteristically come back with.
Great having you here - you clearly bring a lot to the table.
Start -> Settings -> Today Screen
I guess it may be possible that jgermuga was a bit snide but I can't really blame him/her.
Check your manual, do a search, or try to make your question more understandable.
If you want to change your Today screen, try this link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/articles/softwaretips/personalize.mspx
It may be one of the most basic things to do on the PDA. How did you find us anyway?????
No good ...
I respectfully disagree! I do my fair share of answering questions on forums and the usenet, as well as those that come to me via email. I have NEVER been insulting or snide with people who ask questions. If they ask, they are hoping to get an answer, and very little is as disheartenening as learning that someone has posted a reply, only to see that it wasn't a (useful) reply at all.
One can spend their brain cycles coming back with a clever snide statement which does not help at all (and feel morally superior for the wit) or one can be helpful and answer the question. Since this is a forum, and people search for responses, the snide answer only provides a dead end for everyone who may seek help in the future.
So to those who actually answered the question, thank you VERY much.
In my case here, the provided answers did not work, but perhaps I asked the wrong question. I will need to look into this further.
As much time as you have wasted writing long and pointless replies, you could've read your manual and had your question answered already. Trust me - sit down with your phone and your manual and a beer or two and go through every page. I have done that with every phone I have owned and I learned a LOT of interesting little details that I wouldn't have known otherwise.
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Trust me - sit down with your phone and your manual and a beer or two and go through every page. I have done that with every phone I have owned and I learned a LOT of interesting little details that I wouldn't have known otherwise.
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I agree. I've been using a PocketPC for over 5 years, and I still take the time to read over every manual. I always find a cool function for a button that I didn't know about, or something new about the OS that was changed, etc.
if i slide out the keyboard on the home screen and close it part of the today plug in get cut off for all buttons. the only way to fix the problem is to do a soft reset. does anyone have the same problem. maybe someone knows how to fix this issue. thanks
pic 1 is before the keyboard slides out
pic 2 is after. you can notice that part of the date is cut off.
pic 3 is after another keyboard slide out.
Is this stock or are you running a custom ROM?
Is there a hidden contest or something???
I should preface by saying I am in rare form today and normally keep to myself, but DAMN Elypsar - You're really burnin' up the threads today, aren't you? Seems to me though, you are just posting to post – I could be wrong and probably am, but your answers are so generic and really do not offer anything other than pleasantries and questions of your own to the question at hand and that's it. So it makes me wonder a motive or why someone would just post responses to threads with no rhyme or reason.
Forgive me, but I am in a skunky mood today and that is probably why I am taking a moment to comment. I understand that you are taking the time to help others out, but if you are going to help out, why not elaborate a little bit more than a one liner? Many of which are repeated throughout different threads, on different topics and the only response being yours.
Are you in some kind of race with yourself? Perhaps you like seeing senior member under your total posts. You recently joined so perhaps that is it. I understand about feeling like you are part of something, but you will know that your post count was built on general responses lacking substance.
Maybe you are going for something loftier. I dunno, but it seems silly to respond with generalities and such. Yes. I know some questions need more amplifying information as to properly ascertain what the problem is, but it just stuck me as funny because you offered really no help besides what ROM are you using and, Did you install something which could cause a conflict – basic at best, not even fundamental.
Not that this should even concern me, but as I said, I am in rare form today so deal with it.
~Gwen
P.S. VIPER - Have ypu tried to re-align your screen/recalibrate? Also, you may not want to, but, when in doubt, purge it out (i.e. Hard Reset)
Try downloading/using Kaiser Tweak and set the HTC Home to locked.
I had the same issue with the last rom I was running, one of Duttys. It seemed to me that it was the scroll bar causing the issue. I tend to keep the today screen free of BS shortcuts, so there is no scroll bar, but when the screen goes to landscape there is no escaping it. The transition from landscape to portrait ( i think thats the right term) it will keep the scroll bar up for a second, then when it goes away, your left with a blank spot where it was. Does all this sound correct? If so my only recommendation is to try a new rom. I am using the L26 V6. and I haven't duplicated that problem since I flashed it.
is there any way to prevent diamond from vibrating on startup?
thank you!
There probably is but it woudl mean you have to go through the registry to find the relevant keys and adjust them. I myself dont know which keys would do the job but im sure someone here will be able to help you out.
Now this is probably not the answer you are looking for - but why? Not trying to flame or anything, but I've noticed sometimes a lot of energy can be spent on irrelevant problems. With all due respect, this seems like one of those to me.
A bit more to the point - I strongly doubt a registry value can change that - the vibration occurs apparently BEFORE the operating system is loaded, so registry is meaningless at this point.
I think the phone does a self-test....like said before: it does vibrate before the OS loads, so I don't think there is any registery tweak for this
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I think the phone does a self-test....like said before: it does vibrate before the OS loads, so I don't think there is any registery tweak for this
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Ya it does, it cheks all the systems on startup. So be worried if it does NOT vibrate, means your vib crappppeddd out.
Cheers boys
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Now this is probably not the answer you are looking for - but why? Not trying to flame or anything, but I've noticed sometimes a lot of energy can be spent on irrelevant problems. With all due respect, this seems like one of those to me.
A bit more to the point - I strongly doubt a registry value can change that - the vibration occurs apparently BEFORE the operating system is loaded, so registry is meaningless at this point.
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sure it's one of the less important things...
but for me it's a annoying one because i always let spb-backup do a daily backup (which is rebooting after the job) early in the morning when i'm still sleeping - it was fine with trinity (there i had also to do a reg-tweak to disable startup-animation with sound) - with diamond sometimes i get scared from the vibration...
and yes - i'm not sleeping like a log...
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sure it's one of the less important things...
but for me it's a annoying one because i always let spb-backup do a daily backup (which is rebooting after the job) early in the morning when i'm still sleeping - it was fine with trinity (there i had also to do a reg-tweak to disable startup-animation with sound) - with diamond sometimes i get scared from the vibration...
and yes - i'm not sleeping like a log...
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Hehe - I see your point. Not much you can do about it though, I'm afraid.
This being said, if that vibration wakes you up, I really hope your home is VERY soundproof
Or simply put your diamond on or under a pillow.
Obviously there needs to be a movie about those horrible phones that go around terrifying people in their sleep!
That said, presumably you are putting the phone on a hard surface? Try putting it on something soft and wooly. Should significantly cut down the noise from those demonic vibrations.
Don't think there's a way to do that. The Touch Cruise does the same, and no one has figured out a way to disable it there as far as I know.
The issue with putting it on a soft surface to not make noise is (presumably) that if he did get an actual call or message, it would also silence that as well.
Can you change your schedule for SPB Backup to do its thing just as you go to sleep instead of in the middle of the night? Or if you don't always sleep at the same time, kick it off manually just as you go to sleep or step into the shower?
I know these don't solve your question, but are ideas to create the desired outcome
i hope i am not ruining this important topic with my high tech proposal for a solution.....
maybe it will be less stressful if you'll program the back up at a different hour....let's say ....when you are brushing yr teeth in the evening....BEFORE you go to sleep.
the back up (thanks god for SPB backup, it saved my ass so many times) takes only 3-4 minutes. right before you'll go to the lalala world you'll hear the reassuring vibe and you'll fall asleep with a smile on yr face knowing that the job is done.
good night, sweet prince. good night back-uped diamond....
I love how this topic gets so many replied but more usefull problems get none. Got to love the internet
I could code you a microcontroller to ignore any vibration signal for the first 30 seconds from start. All you'd need to do is open your diamond and solder it inside.
Hey its a solution
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I love how this topic gets so many replied but more usefull problems get none. Got to love the internet
I could code you a microcontroller to ignore any vibration signal for the first 30 seconds from start. All you'd need to do is open your diamond and solder it inside.
Hey its a solution
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lol! yr solution is very low tech comparing with mine...that's all you got?
Hey.
I just got my new (used 6 months) Diamond, after my Trinity has crashed. But what i observed is that the battery life is extremely low. Is there any possibility to make it last longer. I have seen somwhere on a forum that the combination of SPL, Rom, and Radio might help, but i lost somewhere this thread, cannot find it anymore....
So please can you help me to solve that issue? The Trinity could go much longer when i was using GPS. I was thinking that Diamond should be better.
Plese help.
could you please help?
i ve seen response to threads like this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=539418
so do not ignore me please.
thanx for help anyway.
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so do not ignore me please.
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Holy #@$*'ing @$*t ! Sorry your highness for making you wait all of one day to respond to a question that has been discussed ad nauseam throughout the entire internet.
Google is a good friend. Try typing in "Diamond battery life" into Google search and you'd be absolutely amazed as to what happens when you subsequently click on the search button! Let me show you: http://www.google.com/search?q=diam...-ca&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1
In a nut shell;
1. Diamond battery is very small @ 900mAh. Buy a bigger battery if you want
2. Don't leave bluetooth, wifi, and 3G on when you don't need it. All of them draw a lot of power
3. Turn off auto backlight adjustement and set it to a brightness that is comfortable for you to read.
Some more advanced stuff can be found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=463233 and http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=178457
Hello,
I see in most of the guides I've read here on XDA that people mention that not all the ROMs are compatible with the devices and it depends in many factors, but most of the time, the information either it's not mentioned or it's confusing (for me at least)
Is there a guide of some type that I can read to learn about all this?
I want to be able to go and test as many of the ROMS around here and see wich one fits best for me, and I want to do it without bricking or semi-bricking my phone.
For example, this phone I have right now I bought it from another person and it was already been tempered with. How can I tell what has been done to the phone (without having to ask the last owner)?
Been going around all the forum but I only get more and more confused from all the comments I've read.
Thanks a lot for the pointers/help/tips or whatever you can help me with!
Well first lets go over what was done to your phone by the previous owner. To make this a little less confusing I want you to power off your phone and when you go to power back on, hold power and the volume down key. there will be info on the screen that comes up. put that info here and I will help you.