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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

Volume Screen

Hi all,
I'm sure that you've all noticed that there are two types of volume screens : the full-screen one and the extremely thin one which doesn't cover the screen.
I noticed the thin one when I tried using the Youtube app...
I hate the full-screen volume screen because you can't quickly adjust your sound and go straight back to what you were doing (you have to wait for it to disappear).
Is there any way to get rid of the full-screen volume screen and replace it with the thin one for all applications (including TF3D)?
Thanks for looking

NeoGreendawg said:
Hi all,
I'm sure that you've all noticed that there are two types of volume screens : the full-screen one and the extremely thin one which doesn't cover the screen.
I noticed the thin one when I tried using the Youtube app...
I hate the full-screen volume screen because you can't quickly adjust your sound and go straight back to what you were doing (you have to wait for it to disappear).
Is there any way to get rid of the full-screen volume screen and replace it with the thin one for all applications (including TF3D)?
Thanks for looking
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Just tap outside of the volume bars and they disappear instantly

Well, that certainly makes me a little feel foolish...
I would have liked to have the small volume screen for everything so it doesn't feel so 'disruptive' as going full-screen but this is still good to know, thanks

lol don't worry about it.
it took me a few days to realize the same thing lolol

The small one it's just the default one for WMpro devices The other is custom made by HTC for the latests devices.

No, i think he's not talking about the WM default one.
He means the small bar on top of the screen (e.g. when you use the volume buttons in the youtube application or wmp):

Thanks for the tidbit. Though it's a shame there is no 'Automatic' button on the volume screen to set it back to vibrate for appointments.

samluke said:
Thanks for the tidbit. Though it's a shame there is no 'Automatic' button on the volume screen to set it back to vibrate for appointments.
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Yes there is. Go to Settings > Sounds. It is about the 4th option down.
The above option will vibrate only for all appointments. This will suit most people. If you want to be selective about appointment categories then you can use an application like SPB Phone. There are probably free applications (donateware) that do the same thing too. The standard functioanlity exists on your phone though.

Crazy Racoon said:
No, i think he's not talking about the WM default one.
He means the small bar on top of the screen (e.g. when you use the volume buttons in the youtube application or wmp):
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Exactly !
It's not a big issue but when you want to adjust the volume while watching a video with Core player the full-screen volume screen is really annoying...
I'd love to have that thin volume screen all the time....

Popup to change song

Hello.
First sorry for my bad english.
I searched a bit on google but didn't find anything. What I really like on the Iphone is the double tap on home button to show a popup to change songs, is there any app to do the same on android ?
If not, is it technically possible to develop it ? (I was thinking of a background application that could get the buttons you press like key mappers softwares on computers).
Sincerly, Kouray.

Yes, you have something very similar. You can double click on power button to show lock screen and then you can change to nex or previous song or pause

Or you can use a widget on your home screen - mixzing has a really nice one, so whenever you jump back to home you can change tracks

So I guess there is no other way, thanks guys

actually, you could use bar control, and put the a shortcut to the music app in your notifications bar, then you can get to it from anywhere in the phone, just by pulling the notification drawer. Does this help?

Any mods to get back decent volume sliders?

I'm really unhappy with Lollipop volume management. Particularly the fact that the volume rocker only shows up the volume slider that Android THINKS you want. So, if I want to turn down media volume, but I'm on the home screen, I get the alarm/priority volume. I have to go into an media app (or the multiple taps through settings) to get to a media slider. Even I'm in a media app, until some event happens in the software that says it's playing media, I'll often not get the right slider. And if I happen to be casting to a Chromecast in the background, I just get the casting volume button!
I badly miss something like the Paranoid Android volume sliders, where one pull gets you the main slider, and another pulldown of that expands to show all the volumes. I realize I can use widgets and what-not to try to get back this behavior, but I'm wondering what the most 'elegant' solution is? I think Google really is trying to hard to do our thinking for us, and as a result, making Android more of a crap-shoot in terms of knowing what will happen at any given point when you do something.
Thoughts? Mod or specific widget recommendations? Notification-based volume toggles? Ideally I'd like to hit the volume rocker and get all my sliders, and I have root, but I don't know if anything out there does this.
Thanks,
Randy

I'd like to know as well.

I have used Noyze in the past but it is currently incompatible with 5.0. The developer has stated that they are working on an update that will support lollipop.

Power Toggles has an option which displays all sliders IIRC.

[Q] How to change the music lockscreen button function?

I have my s5 mini for just a month and when I started using it, I was really pleased with the lock screen when playing music. There was a play/pause button and forward and back button. With the forward and back button I could swap between songs. But about 2 weeks ago the function changed and the forward and back buttons are now used to change the volume. This is really disappointing because I can simply change the volume with the hardware volume buttons on my phone, and if I want to go to the next or previous song, instead of just simply doing so from the lock screen I have to unlock my phone and do it there. Is there a way to tweak the settings of music lock screen? I have gone through all the settings and I don't seem to find anything. Please help!

I don't know how to return them back, just to say that I have the last firmware and the buttons are still present and work, so it will probably be related to some setting you made.
Did you make any changes to the music player or something like that?
(btw did you know that by double clicking the play/pause button on headphones you can skip the song also)

Lake292 said:
I don't know how to return them back, just to say that I have the last firmware and the buttons are still present and work, so it will probably be related to some setting you made.
Did you make any changes to the music player or something like that?
(btw did you know that by double clicking the play/pause button on headphones you can skip the song also)
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Well, I use Rocket Player. It's definitely the best music player I know. And yeah, I know about headphones (with Rocket player I can even go to previous song by clicking two times and go forward by clicking three times) but still I would love to have this function on the lock screen too. I have changed the settings of Rocket Player to fit my personal preferences. But I have never changed the lock screen buttons settings. All I have found there in the settings of Rocket Player is the look of Lockscreen and I have tried all of them, nothing changes the function.