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First Time - Hello + a few questions

Hy,
My name is Felipe and this is my first post. I wish the best for everybody here.
I just put my hands on my new XDA II and I have a few questions, if someone could help me with them I will apreciate very much.
1st- Yesterday I had to hardreset my unit, after that I found strange that the camera button does not turn on the XDA2, it still bring the camera function but only when the XDA2 is on. I found that strange because I am almost sure that I was able to bring the camera mode on with the XDA2 off with the press of the camera button. Soo, what is up? Does the camera button had to turn on the unit or it is the only button that does not turn on the unit if pressed?
2nd- I read all the manual and I saw nothing about speach dialler, I can´t belive a fantastic eletronic like this does not have this feature. I would like to confirm and if soo, I would like to know about one or two software to help me on this since I will almost always use the XDA2 on my bag and headset on.
3rd- I found the IR port just too little, I know sometimes size does not matter but have someone used the XDA2 as a remote controler for home eletronics? If it is not good enought could you please tell me if there is a IR emitter as a SD card, since the XDA2 does not have a CF card slot and the to be released backpack will have the cf slot placed in the botton. I heard that the Total Remote is a great solution, does it uses the earphone jack?
4th-I found something strange on my XDA2, on "settings" - "device information" - "call duration" I found that my unit received 1193046hours and 27 minutes of incoming calls. How this happen if the unit was suposed to be new (at least it arrived as new on box with seal, without any sign of used mark? is this any kind of test or bug? Is is possible to reset this number so I can have a real record of it?
5th- I bought a Blue Monkey usb/bluetooth dongle to be used on my desktop. I planed to use it to make the sync between the XDA2 and the descktop. But I found some problems. First I cant get the thing to work, so I ask is that possible to sync both of them with bluetooth? Two I had problems to find the descktop with my XDA2 while I had the Jabra250 instaled on the XDA2, soo can I have two bluetooth units bonded within my XDA2 or I need to chose and install only one?
Lots of questions for a first post.
I thanks in advance for the help.
Felipe

Zzzzzzz
Sorry, I fell asleep before the 2nd paragraph

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Sorry, I fell asleep before the 2nd paragraph
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Hooo please, go back to sleep, you does not make anythink better.
Felipe

felcas said:
1st- Yesterday I had to hardreset my unit, after that I found strange that the camera button does not turn on the XDA2, it still bring the camera function but only when the XDA2 is on. I found that strange because I am almost sure that I was able to bring the camera mode on with the XDA2 off with the press of the camera button. Soo, what is up? Does the camera button had to turn on the unit or it is the only button that does not turn on the unit if pressed?
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I just found out my device has deeply discharged itself over the course of just two days, so I can't test it right now. I would say it depends on the setting in one of the phone menus which determines whether any button wakes up the device, or whether you need to explicitly turn it on.
2nd- I read all the manual and I saw nothing about speach dialler, I can´t belive a fantastic eletronic like this does not have this feature. I would like to confirm and if soo, I would like to know about one or two software to help me on this since I will almost always use the XDA2 on my bag and headset on.
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No voice-dial app comes with the device. A number of voice-dial and more general voice command applications exist. "Fonix Voice Dial" and "Microsoft Voice Command" come to mind immediately. Use Google for more details.
3rd- I found the IR port just too little, I know sometimes size does not matter but have someone used the XDA2 as a remote controler for home eletronics? If it is not good enought could you please tell me if there is a IR emitter as a SD card, since the XDA2 does not have a CF card slot and the to be released backpack will have the cf slot placed in the botton. I heard that the Total Remote is a great solution, does it uses the earphone jack?
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I was thinking of performing an internal modification of the IR-port on mine.
4th-I found something strange on my XDA2, on "settings" - "device information" - "call duration" I found that my unit received 1193046hours and 27 minutes of incoming calls. How this happen if the unit was suposed to be new (at least it arrived as new on box with seal, without any sign of used mark? is this any kind of test or bug? Is is possible to reset this number so I can have a real record of it?
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That number of hours works out to exactly 0x123456 in hexadecimal, so that is unlikley to be the real number of hours. Funny though... There is at present not yet a tool or method to reset the Hmalaya call timers.
5th- I bought a Blue Monkey usb/bluetooth dongle to be used on my desktop. I planed to use it to make the sync between the XDA2 and the descktop. But I found some problems. First I cant get the thing to work, so I ask is that possible to sync both of them with bluetooth? Two I had problems to find the descktop with my XDA2 while I had the Jabra250 instaled on the XDA2, soo can I have two bluetooth units bonded within my XDA2 or I need to chose and install only one?
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I played with Bluetooth sync and found it not to be worth it at the moment. You need to hit 'Sync over Bluetooth' on the device, which is annoying, and you need to soft-reset and re-bond frequently. Wait for newer ROMs before actually using this feature.
Lots of questions for a first post.
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No worries, I stayed wide awake.... Welcome to XDA-developers...

When I got my xda2 it also said I had millions of hours of outgoing calls, once you make a call however the pointers reset to zero and start counting, so dont worry about it.

felcas said:
Hy,
1st- Yesterday I had to hardreset my unit, after that I found strange that the camera button does not turn on the XDA2, it still bring the camera function but only when the XDA2 is on. I found that strange because I am almost sure that I was able to bring the camera mode on with the XDA2 off with the press of the camera button. Soo, what is up? Does the camera button had to turn on the unit or it is the only button that does not turn on the unit if pressed?
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Refer "Start - Setting - System - Button Lock"
When it is locked u cannot on camera by pressing camera button when XDA is off

No worries, I stayed wide awake.... Welcome to XDA-developers...
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Thanks a lot Peter, that is the kind of help I was looking for

cruisin-thru said:
When I got my xda2 it also said I had millions of hours of outgoing calls, once you make a call however the pointers reset to zero and start counting, so dont worry about it.
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Yesterday I was able to use a chip of my girlfriend on my XDA2 and it worked very nice with the only exeption of the GPRS feature that I was not able to make work due to lack of information on my operator.
Anyway after I seen your post I had a look at the counter and unfortunately it did not zeroed but added the time I was using.
I will have to note it and then substract if I want to know on the future.
Anyway I thank you for the response.
Felipe

KCChia said:
felcas said:
Hy,
1st- Yesterday I had to hardreset my unit, after that I found strange that the camera button does not turn on the XDA2, it still bring the camera function but only when the XDA2 is on. I found that strange because I am almost sure that I was able to bring the camera mode on with the XDA2 off with the press of the camera button. Soo, what is up? Does the camera button had to turn on the unit or it is the only button that does not turn on the unit if pressed?
Refer "Start - Setting - System - Button Lock"
When it is locked u cannot on camera by pressing camera button when XDA is off
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Hummm, I forgot to tell that I tried to unlock the button but there is no option to lock just one button or unlock it but only all of them or none (with exeption to the power button). If I do lock, then it work as stated on the manual, but the strange is that if I unlock, the camera button continues to be the only one that does not power the XDA2 when it is off. But it work fine if the xda2 is on. I tried to assign diferent role for the camera button to see if it have to do with the assigned functions but it appear that the problem is direct related to the button not to the function.
What I would ask is to you just verify if your xda2 turn on with the camera button. And tell me.
Thanks for the help.
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Buttons suddenly stop responding

hi..
I've got a huge problem with my imate jam.
Sometimes the buttons stop responding. The touchscreen keeps working just fine. I flashed my jam to rom 1.12.00 WWE but that did not solved the problem. After soft-resetting my jam the bottons will respond again but i keep getting the same problem within minutes! . Does anybody know what to do?
tia!

maybe it's something you've installed??

i only got gsplayer and bluetoothtools installed...

I've had it too but only a handful of times. A real pain when pressing the hang up button and nothing happens.
More often I get the "service command not recongnised" error that causes the soft key hang up button in the dialer to fail.
When the two happen together I have to soft reset to hang up!!! Not fun!

Leeeeon, the problem is GSPlayer. There should be an option to switch off button mapping in GSPlayer itself. You will notice that this will only happen if GSPlayer is open.

Leeeeon said:
i only got gsplayer and bluetoothtools installed...
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I had the same problem with BTools ver.1.1 (if I'am not misteking) without GSPlayer installed. There was an info that 1.02 work better on Magician but as for me, after that bug I don't want to experment with btools. I have gps, headset and ASync nice working with ms bt stack.

it might just be bluetoothtools! Yesterday i uninstalled it and i havnt had the problem ever since! Useually i had to reboot my phone for like 5-10 times a day.
Lets hope it wont come back for a few more days.. then im sure its solved...

Assign Speed Dial to Hardware Button?

Is there any way of assigning Speed Dial (not Voice Speed Dial) to a hardware button?
Why do I want to do this? I'd like to be able to press a button which would bring up the Speed Dial list. I would then use the jog wheel to scroll through the list and scroll-click to dial that number.

With the phone application open to the keypad press the d-pad left and it brings up the speed dial list.[ Power>Green Phone>Left D-Pad ]Three buttons but still pretty quick.

quicker: power->green phone->jog wheel DOWN (or UP for call history)

Hi all,
I've lost this shortcut (Green button->left D-PAD) and I don't know what happened. As I lost also the Smart dialing menu item. It happened to me once before I upgrade my ROM which returned that back. Now I lost it again and I am going crazy trying to know how this happened or which application I installed did that.
Do you have any idea?
Thanks in advance

ISnowmanI said:
Hi all,
I've lost this shortcut (Green button->left D-PAD) and I don't know what happened. As I lost also the Smart dialing menu item. It happened to me once before I upgrade my ROM which returned that back. Now I lost it again and I am going crazy trying to know how this happened or which application I installed did that.
Do you have any idea?
Thanks in advance
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With an unaltered Ext_ROM, a hard reset should do the trick.

I don't know if I am missing something, but neither of the key sequences suggested (Power>Green Phone>Left D-Pad or power->green phone->jog wheel DOWN) do anything at all on my Hermes. I even tried a Soft Reset before trying these sequences and nothing happens.
I'm running the latest (South African) HTC ROM, as posted here, if that makes any difference.

Philip said:
I don't know if I am missing something, but neither of the key sequences suggested (Power>Green Phone>Left D-Pad or power->green phone->jog wheel DOWN) do anything at all on my Hermes. I even tried a Soft Reset before trying these sequences and nothing happens.
I'm running the latest (South African) HTC ROM, as posted here, if that makes any difference.
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Not sure what is happening there, because I have not used that ROM. Did you install all the cabs from the extended rom? If so, it may be that this was left out of the South African version for some reason. My TyTN is out for repair/replacement due to SA issues and I can't check it, but I think the latest TyTN ROM functioned this way. My 8525 with latest Cingular ROM certainly does.

Some hardware buttons won't work!

This is my first post and I must say that this is a great group of people who know what they are talking about!
Anyways, I have had my 8525 for about two weeks and I am loving it. For whatever reason some of my buttons do not work! The dpad works but the two soft buttons, the start button, ok button, email, PIE, and the green and red buttons don't work. The power, scroller, comm manager, the left ok button and the PTT all DO work. I did a hard reset hoping that would fix it but no luck. I been installing and trying a lot of programs but I thought after the hard reset that any program that screwed this up would be gone. Please help I love this phone and really don't want to take it back.
Thanks,
Dan

I took it back and that solved all of my problems.

you took back , what?
i am having the same issue with a HTC Tytn.

terracot said:
i am having the same issue with a HTC Tytn.
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My hermes has a similar problem, buttons under the screen sometimes won't work, but if I turn off backlight and turn on, it works... but not very well because if I press green button then red button continually, buttons don't work again after few pressions....
I have changed my ROM but it's the same, it isn't a hardware problem because if I turn the scroll it works again...
This problem is known?
Thank you very muche for your help and sorry for my bad english.

same issue with my TyTN...

Same issue here with Tytn, buttons won't work but if I use scroll button a bit then buttons work again.

Hey guys,
Exactly the same problem here and it's infuriating when I'm trying to make calls on the run and sometimes I can't even pick up calls.
I have an I-mate Jasjam ROM 1.31.305.2.
If anyone has any fixes or solutions that would be great. Or do I have to send it in for repair or something?

So has anyone managed to fix this? Anyone tried a hard reset?
I have no idea how to diagnose the issue and even whether it's a software or hardware fault.

Jasjam- Same here
Also my screen turnes white some times

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So has anyone managed to fix this? Anyone tried a hard reset?
I have no idea how to diagnose the issue and even whether it's a software or hardware fault.
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I'm also having these problems with the front buttons not working. Very frustrating. The problems seem to be platform independent.
I really cannot believe this. When I used the search function I noticed so many people are having these problems with the TyTN, and no resolve.
It's my second machine I received from HTC, first one also had these problems.
HTC sucks BIGTIME.

X1 FM Radio Issues

Does anyone else have a problem with the FM radio on the X1?
On my X1 the FM radio only seems to work when it feels like it. Often sitting saying "Powering On..." and not doing anything else. It something crashes the phone as well.
Also, is there any way to soft-reset without popping the battery? Like other HTC devices having the soft-reset button which you use the stylus to press.
(I'm using the (Nov 21) Touch-IT X1 M-HD 1.1 ROM with Panels and the SE FM Radio installed afterwards. The HTC FM radio has the same issues.)

Noticed that now using the radio as well - had to soft reset.
No idea though, also looking for a solution.
Something unrelated - does anyone know how to save the radio stations??
Whenever I change the panel, and back again, the stored radio stations in slots 1,2,3,etc are lost..

i cannot solve your issues but i have one of my own.
in the intructions it shows a settings menu button on the bottom right of the screen but on my voda it shows the live button.
this means i cannot acess the settings menu and yes i have tried the settings going into the pannel mode.
can anyone with aan unbranded x1 please tell me if they have the settings button.
i cannot set my aalarm or get any rds features due to the button missing.
thank you for your help

My problem solved itself - wierd.
There's a setting button??
All I see at the bottom are the standard "agenda" and "SPB Menu" (I have SPB menu installed). (Stock Dutch ROM)

Yeah if you look at the pannels quick manual that come in the box it shows a settings menu but i dont have it all i ahve is a live button from vodadumb
have a look cause you should be able to recieve traffic and rds feeds as well as setting an alarm on the radio pannel so the radio wakes you up. all of this i cannot do.

Booger. I can't access the settings also then.
Stuff the panels idea - is there a Radio Application?? (one which can run while I have FB panel open?)

i dont knw hope someone does tho

There is a soft reset button,
1) remove the battery cover
2) take out the stylus.
3) you can find now a small hole you can put the stylus in next to the battery (when the stylus is inside the mobile, it will block this hole), put the stylus in this hole and press the button inside it.
here you go, soft reset

I do think they were a bit dumb about the reset button.
Surely the whole point of a reset button is so you DO NOT have to remove the battery cover?
Its quicker to pull the battery out than to operate the reset button which makes it near pointless. Especially as getting the X1 cover off can be tricky, and once you get it off trying to get it to STAY back on is problematic.

how did we get onto the soft reset topic? this is nothing i was talking about.
My problem and many other people have noticed a missing menu in the radio pannel.
on the bottom right of the screen should be a settings menu but its not there? WHY?
people with or without a branded phone dont have the menu specified in the instructions.
Can anyone have a look at the instructions and look at there radio pannel to see if they have it.
and im not talking about the one when you enter pannel mode

i cant seem to start the Radio anymore. the on/off buttons dousnt respont.
the other buttons still working. running WM6.5 on it.
anyone got a solution for me?

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i cant seem to start the Radio anymore. the on/off buttons dousnt respont.
the other buttons still working. running WM6.5 on it.
anyone got a solution for me?
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u cant use the radio panel on wm6.5 . use the media panel which has a radio in it.

proatiku said:
u cant use the radio panel on wm6.5 . use the media panel which has a radio in it.
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thanks for the help!