I want to use my I-Mate Jam as a PDA only. And I want to disable the phone feature so that it wont pop up all the time to ask to put in a SIM card. How do I do that?
Tap on the "no SIM" or antenna icon in the top bar. A bubble should pop up with "turn flight mode on" link. Tap it and the phone part will be disabled.
By the way are you using Jam or Jamin?
In Jamin (which is the prophet) you can also do this through comm manager (button on the left side of the device).
I am using JAM. But I dont want to enable flight mode on as I want to use bluetooth. all I want is just to disable phone feature. I want to use this device for GPS only in my car. That is why I want to disable phone only.
Well first off you are in the wrong forum. Please check the pictures (I really don't remember what the name for the JAM is, but it is not prophet).
Second, from my experience, at least on WM 5 device you can enter "flight mode" which will turn off all wireless, then re-enable bluetooth through BT manager or similar.
The phone part will stay off until you exit "flight mode".
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Is it possible to turn off the phone, but stay with bluetooth turn on&
you can, just switch the flight mode on (click on network indicator on the top bar and select "turn on flight mode")
Like this, phone function will be powered off, but pda and it's utilities won't.
Bluetooth will also be turned off in flight mode, all wireless communication will be
sorry to disagree but i just made the test now and with FLIGHT MODE ON my bluetooth still works.
What happens is when you turn on the flight mode the bluetooth will be disconnected, but if you turn the bluetooth on it will remain on and working.
Well then your phone must be faulty because in a flight no wireless communication is supposed to take place and when i did what you said my phone turned the bluetooth off and said "Turn off flight mode first".
In a flight any Ghz Band Communicatioin (GSM/GPRS/Bt/WiFi) Could disrupt comunications between Flight and Tower so all that has to be turned off in a flight.........
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Well then your phone must be faulty because in a flight no wireless communication is supposed to take place and when i did what you said my phone turned the bluetooth off and said "Turn off flight mode first".
In a flight any Ghz Band Communicatioin (GSM/GPRS/Bt/WiFi) Could disrupt comunications between Flight and Tower so all that has to be turned off in a flight.........
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@georgexoasi I don't disagree on your point about DSM/GPRS/WiFi because it interfere with radionic-link. Bluetooth don't because it uses not such a high impedance radio transmition to work. Although some flight companies ask not to use any kind of radio transmitions, most of flight companies allow bluetooth because it does not interfeer with radio communications and they are not able to detect if you use it or not during the flight. Also notice that bluetooth operate on 2.4GHz frequency (it's and unlicensed frequency, usually used for garage doors openers, microwave ovens, and things like that), were is no way to interfeer with plaine-tower communications that use much higher frequencies.
Still you say that your phone is able to operate BT in flight mode? That has never happened in any phone that has flight mode that i have used viz. 6630,P800,P900,P910i,I-Mate, O2-Mini. None support it. if u go to offline/flight mode all radios go off
Yes i tested again with Qtek S100 and the BT works with Flight Mode ON.
Later I can try with Nokia 9500 Communicator to see what happens.
I agree with georgexoasi. You cannot use Bluetooth when Flight mode is enabled. Maybe you did a REG tweak but normally it won't work
@georgexoasi
Did you try to do it or are you only saying that enabling Bluetooth doesn't work while in flymode? For me it makes sense to allow this to the user since people might want to use Bluetooth without using the phone (as like a normal PDA). The only possibility to turn off the phone is to go into flymode (without using any extra software). That doesn't always mean you're currently flying. On my Magician, you can go into flight mode and turn the Bluetooth radio back on. Maybe it depends on the ROM version you use.
@coelhoapm
Bluetooth don't because it uses not such a high impedance radio transmition to work
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What are you talking about? The impedance is given by the medium (air) and can't be changed. What you mean might be the low power that is used for transmitting bluetooth signals. That indeed counts since it only can slightly interfere with the onboard electronics. But, to be honest, do you really think all people always turn off their phones on all flights. It doesn't seem that modern planes have trouble with this, which is good :shock: .
Ofcourse i tried it it is not possible
In flight mode, when I press the BT icon I get a warning: "Please switch off flight mode first!". When I switch off flight mode, BT switches ON automatically. It's weird that some device allow it. Never had a phone that allows BT in flight mode either!
I just contacted Portuguese Airforce and BT are generally allowed when flying. The criterium of allowing or not depends on the flight company.
By the way... A friend has a BlueAngel and I asked him to test this... and BT on blueangel also work when flight mode is on...
Well.keep saying it if it makes you feel better......
Adios i gues i've said what has to be and believing or not is upto u.
Ok, enough of the arguing!!! 8)
To settle this, I have a XDAIIi / Alpine and my bluetooth does NOT work when flight mode is enabled.
Coelhoapm post pictures of your today screen with flight mode enabled and the bluetooth icon showing that it is actually ON.
I actually want it to work, so is there any REG Hacks that can enable this to work, if anyone knows please post.
Cheers,
LydiaChris
flight mode
Hi i just tried flight mode then re-enabling bluetooth it left the phone switched off but said yurn on flight mode again at top of screen.
Mda2(Himalaya) 8)
Hope this helps
@georgexoasi & lydiachris
Attached the picture of my screen with Bluetooth and Flightmode enabled. I guess it's due to my old Firmware which is the first that was released (1.01 or something). This looks like a real drawback of the newer firmwares (where as I'm still looking for their advantages ...).
Enough said!!!
Sorry about that
VERY nice today screen background, where did you get it from!?!?!?
Nothing to feel sorry about. As i said, it might be due to different ROM versions. I prefer it the way it's done on my ROM actually, because I can use all combinations, especially I could use my Magician as normal PPC even when the SIM card is inserted.
Concerning your question about the background: It belongs to an extended theme for SPB Pocket Plus, called Spb Black Ext. You can download it from their site I think. I am only using the system icons for battery, light etc. from another theme because they are smaller.
hello, worse that everything you said, I tried to enable bluetooth and Wireless and both are working in flight mode.
I think is a bug from rom 1.40.0 of Qtek 9090
Regards
Marcus
i have a qtek 9100 with tomtom 5.210 installed.
when i use tt5 i must leave my radio unit turned on (flight mode deactivate) if i turn off radio unit (flight mode activate) my tt5 stops connection with gps and a message appear (no gps with flight mode activate)
please help me...tomtom site have only ridicolous answers...
When u turn on flight mode, all radio communications are turned off.
Bluetooth, wifi, and gsm.
So your bluetooth gps will not work anymore.
Havn't found a way yet to turn off the gsm without turning on flight mode, but personally i see no reason to do this.
the reason:
when i leave my country for holiday i usually turn off my telephone that i use for work but i would like to use my tomtom navigator. with my old magician i could do with newest wizard no... please help me....
sorry for my english
Put your networksettings to manual and your phone will look for you home network and will be unable to connect
Or don't enter a pin but push cancel (not certain about the last one)
Couldn't you put a different SIM in when yuo go on holiday?
The workaround is to configure TomTom to use "Other Cable NMEA" instead of "Other Bluetooth" - then you can have your phone switched off, and Bluetooth switched on.
thank you very much for trying to give me a solution...
the tip of network doesn't work...the phone doesn't connect home and request me to choose another network.
the tip of the nmea cable doesn't work...i can't reach com6 port in setting configuration of tomtom program
i think i probably don't have a solution...
Did you try the trick of not entering the pin for your SIM mentioned above?
That would be a nice solution because you still would be able to call emergency number.
Very handy for when TT sends you straight off a cliff or something
I use to have to turn my phone part of on my XDA IIi for TomTom as my SD card (SanDisk Ultra II 2GB) locked up when the radio was on.
There are 3 ways to achive this that I have all found successful:-
1. Remove your Sim Card
2. Create a PIN on your Sim Card and press cancel when asked for it.
3. Download PocketZenPhone (http://zendrui.free.fr/) this will allow you to create a profile with just the phone radio turned off that you can toggle on and off.
I now use a Transcend 80x 512mb SD card for TomTom which never locks up (Thanks to the forums here for recommending this one!!! ).
Hope this helps
David
the pin trick works fine thank you very much....and marry xmas
hi, i have an o2 xda mini s. My wifi and bluetooth work fine with flight mode on.
rgds
what's your rom release? which version of tt5 did you install? thks
My girlfriend would like to borrow my MDA for TomTom use.
I would like to turn off all phone functions, but can't find the option.
Flight mode also disables Bluetooth, so thats no use. Diverting all call's does not stop SMS messages.
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My girlfriend would like to borrow my MDA for TomTom use.
I would like to turn off all phone functions, but can't find the option.
Flight mode also disables Bluetooth, so thats no use. Diverting all call's does not stop SMS messages.
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Remove the SIM
Tap the sigal icon and in the ballon popup there should be a flight mode option.
When I put my phone into flight mode I can still use wifi and bluetooth - just use the comm manager to turn each function back on as required. The phone becomes a PDA in flight mode with everything else bar the phone still being functional. If you still can't get bluetooth back on then you're doing something wrong.
Just swicth off the phone in the Comm Manager. You can leave the other (BT or Wifi) on if you need them.
Flight mode will turn off everything (wifi, BT, and phone).
Has anybody found a way to toggle wifi off/on with one click, instead of going through comm manager? Vijay' volubilis responds that "no compatible wifi found" when executed on my prophet.
Anyone? Or Vijay himself maybe shedding some light on this issue?
VJVolubilis's wifi feature has only been tested on the Universal, because that's the hardware I have. The Wizard wifi control is not perfect, because I don't have one.
I'm slowly thinking about how to try to implement a more generic wifi control, but unfortunately this is not really an OS feature, it's OEM specific, so it's something I'm still investigating. I haven't thought about the Prophet before. Let me check it out...
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If you need any info (registry or what-not), let me know.
Thanks for looking into this.
vjvolubilis can be used for turning on/off wifi on prophet..
but there is one additional step to make it work..
ie after every soft reset, u need to use comm manager to turn on/off wifi 1 time. after which , u can use vjvolubilis to control it..
this issue is the same when u are using phone alarm with skins that can allow one touch wifi on/off... ie comm manager must activate it for at least once before it will respond to oneclick controls from either vjvolubilis or phonealarm..
I own a dopod818 [ singapore's version of prophet ]
Hey, I didn't know it (kind of) works on the Prophet... so it uses the same architecture as the Wizard I guess.
I'll try to think about Wifi control a little more as soon as I get a bit of time.
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Not quite. Yes, true, I realized now that once Comm manager is employed once, Vijay's app CAN turn wifi on. But it does not turn it off, if you press wifi toggle again...
At least on my Qtek S200 with latest Dopod rom.
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Found a solution for this issue
Just put a shortcut to \Windows\WiFiInit.exe into your startup folder and enjoy the quickly activating wi-fi! After a soft reset this vill activate wlan for a second (green led will flash once and a wi-fi icon will appear on a place of network icon — don't worry).
But, as krale said, there is another little bug with VjVolubilis: you have to create both -wifion and -wifioff shortcuts to control wifi on Prophet because -wifitoggle shortcut does not turn off the wi-fi, it just can activate it.
When launched with -status parameter, it says that Wisard wi-fi is activated.
I was told by someone that had and hd2 that they could not bluetooth to another HD2. Sure enough, I tried it with another HD2 and we never found each other when we did a search. We tried for a half hour. Has anyone heard of this or know a fix (if this is truly the case)?
I had an issue with this also. We had to use multiple passwords on each TP2, it was a real pain, possible-but not easy like with the Hermes(8525). I recently found a reg edit that disables the password, but I have not tried it yet.
My wife and I ran into the same problem during lunch today. I saw this thread and then went looking for the answer.
Here's how you make the phone discoverable to other devices beyond headsets.
Turning Bluetooth on and making your phone visible
Turn Bluetooth on and make your phone visible (discoverable) when you want other Bluetooth-enabled devices to detect and connect with your phone.
1. On the Home screen, slide to the Settings tab, and then tap Menu > All Settings > Bluetooth.
2. When prompted to turn on Bluetooth, tap Yes.
3. Tap the Settings tab ( ), and then tap Not Discoverable.
4. Select Always Visible.
Note If you select Visible for 60 seconds, Bluetooth visibility will turn off automatically when the time elapses and your phone has not yet connected to another Bluetooth device.
5. Tap Done. The icon then appears in the title bar to indicate that your phone is in visible mode.
Tip To easily switch Bluetooth off or back on, tap Wireless controls on the Home Screen’s Settings tab to open the Comm Manager and then tap Bluetooth’s Off/On switch.
Your phone remembers whether visible mode was previously enabled or disabled. If you did not disable visible mode, switching Bluetooth on in the Comm Manager also puts your phone in visible mode automatically. For more information about using the Comm Manager, see Chapter 14.
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I got this from the manual for the HD2 on page 209. I downloaded it from tmobile.com in the mytmobile section under support. I would attach it but the file is too large.
^^ yep its that easy been transfering files from the laptop to the phone...so easy