Recently I upgraded my 838Pro to Windows Mobile 6 using the official Dopod Australian/Asian ROM. I hadn't used it for long with WM5 so these might be long standing annoyances that I hadn't previously noticed, but it had been away for repair for longer than I've owned it until recently so I hadn't become very familiar with it. Anyway.....
Everywhere I've looked on the internet, I read that when entering a phone number into contacts, Outlook should automatically enter the area code. I'm sure it worked that way with WM5 as I remember wondering about why it entered (042) and working out how to change that. But with WM6 it won't enter the area code automatically. After hours of experimenting I finally discovered that if the Region setting is set to United States, Outlook then happily & automatically enters the area code set in options, however when I change the Region setting to Australia, it's all over and it doesn't work anymore.
It wouldn't bother me so much, except Outlook 2007 (Desktop) always enters the area code without any way (that I can see) to stop it, and I'd just prefer to keep them both consistent (despite them both being Microsoft programs). Anyone with an idea if this can be fixed?
The other annoyance is the password setup. Unless I'm missing something, what were Microsoft thinking?
I simply want a key lock just like the one on my last five Nokia phones, with the ability to require a password to unlock the device when it's woken up. Microsoft give us some sort of password timer, one of the options being zero minutes. Now I must be an idiot, but how is zero minutes the same as one minute? I assumed if I set it to zero, the Dopod would only ask me for a password after I'd put it into suspend mode and woken it back up, but zero apparently means it has to annoy me once for every minute of inactivity? Anyone with any idea on how to achieve a sensible key lock? Is there software that locks the phone and simply requires a password when you unlock it, preferably keeping everything locked except the answer key if the phone rings?
Oh and one final.... rhetorical question.....
Why is ActiveSync such a huge pile of annoying &%^$ and why is it always synchronizing right when I'm in the middle of doing something, slowing the PDA to a crawl and making me wait until it's finished, which quite often is after I've had a cup of coffee and a couple of cigarettes... and could I sue Microsoft on the grounds that my caffeine and nicotine consumption increases exponentially with the amount of time I spend using their operating system?
Thanks in advance if anyone can help,
Dash
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After updating my Vario to the latest T-Mobile UK ROM I noticed quite quickly that when I had set the device to lock itself after 30 minutes, it still locked itself when charging/syncing with my laptop. Old version never locked itself whilst syncing/charging - which is sensible. New way it works is just annoying.
However, on Saturday I was doing a long journey in the car, so used TomTom on my Vario (in a charging cradle) and about 30 minutes into the journey, it locked itself and asked for the password. Now, that isn't just annoying, it's actually dangerous. You'd either just have to ignore it and wait until you can stop to disable it (on the motorway, easier said than done), or try to do it whilst driving (far from ideal!). Again, 30 minutes after entering the password, it does it again - so I turned off password now.
Any idea how to get the password to work as it did on the Original T-Mobile UK Vario ROM? Any hacks? Anyone else experienced this? I could live with the annoyance of the PDA locking itself whilst syncing - but not whilst driving. It never did this before.
Any advice?
Thanks
It's an annoyance MS introduced in AKU2.
The only way to get around this is to remove the password protection before you use TomTom, then turn it back on when you've finished travelling.
This may be related to some of the software I have on the device, but once or twice a week I turn on the unit, and the screen's totally black. The funny thing is that it isn't by any means locked up. If I use Pocket Controller to dial in, I can use it in a normal way. So it seems it's something that works on the monitor driver. Has anybody else seen this? I have the latest WM6 image.
I think it may be a hardware problem, not a driver problem. You should send it to O2 support.
Thanks for the suggestion. But since they are in Hongkong, and I am in Norway I'm at least going to do a hard reset and run it a few days without the five billion programs I have on it (SPB stuff and lots of other things). Especially since it didn't happen the first weeks I had it, and I have steadliy installed new software. But if that doesn't help, I'm gonna contact Expansys and see what we can arrange.
Just to keep this updated, I have now been running it on the last WM5 ROM for four days, and not once seen the above mentioned problem. I'm gonna do a week, then I will reflash the WM6 image and run that on only the bare essentials (like now: NetRemote, Pocket Hosts, Derago dNote and the O2 plus program suite). The first day I even had an automated script send me E-mail on the account where I have E-mail warnings through SMS every minute for around three hours. Not once did it do anything but wake politely up from suspend and work as it should. Which should be a good sign that something in the WM6 ROM or one of the gazillion programs I installed is the guilty party.
Hello Community,
Ive searched the web/xda for this, but cant find a solid sollution, and i hope the pros here can help me
The security of the HD2 isnt fine with me, when i use PIN code setup after lock (after 1 hour for example), it will ask me the pincode every time i try to unlock the phone.
Also, what if i lose my phone, it doesnt have a SIM-lock, atm it would mean that everyone could just pop in a SIM card, read all my messages see my photos and what more.
And they will be able to use it ... this is not what i am used for a mobile phone.
What i would like is:
PIN-security, but only after 1 hour of inactivity on the phone.
Security that when i lose my phone, no one could possibly use it (cause its PIN or PW protected)
Hope some one knows what i mean, and can give me a decent sollution
(not the half baked things that i already found myselfe)
Thanks alot!
This can be done with group policy when using an exchange server.
Have you tried changing the time in Security > Phone lock?
Ofcourse, but every time i unlock my phone, it asks the password.
I cant imagen no one else is bothered with this?
not an exact answer for you, however the free software "remotetracker" has the ability (amongst many many other great features) to remotely disable your phone via txt message if you lose it, even if they change sim.
This is a widespread problem with the HD2, with no known fix so far. This bug and the constantly dropped data connection bug are making me seriously doubt my choice of buying an HD2. You'd think that 6 months after release these sort of kinks would be ironed out already.
Here's the main password bug thread:
***forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=582660
Azerox said:
PIN-security, but only after 1 hour of inactivity on the phone.
Security that when i lose my phone, no one could possibly use it (cause its PIN or PW protected)
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The first part, use S2U2. It locks after say 30 seconds, but won't ask PIN until after say one hour (but elapsed times configurable). It also means if the phone is lost, people can access everything if they have the hands on it within an hour, which is very likely.
I don't think the second is possible, if "use" mean using the hd2 as an hd2. If you want to protect your data in case of a lost, then
1) enable SD card encryption (in setting tab). Then people can pull the card and read it somewhere else
2) use remove tracker, allowing you to do remote operations like erasing files and things.
3) exchange admin can remote wipe your device
4) use the painful builtin PIN lock. Yes you are typing it every time, but if the PIN is wrong for 10 times, your phone is wiped clean.
Good Morning good people,
So, I have recently synched up with my company's Exchange Server with their blessing.
I am having trouble with the calendar, but I may address that in another post if I cannot figure it out.
PASSWORD PROBLEMS are what I am writing about.
They have enabled a setting on the server that forces the phone to use a PIN to unlock the phone.
For me, this in and of itself is a nuisance. I would rather not use a PIN before I slide my phone on, but even more so it is causing errors and crashes especially if I have a reminder come up as my phone boots up.
For example: This morning when I turned my phone on it came to the initial screen to unlock the phone. There was a meeting reminder present. I tried to snooze it and the phone crashed giving me the option to report to MS. I reported to MS. The screen then gives me the option to "exit" what I am assuming is the lock screen. She is frozen. It won't let me do anything.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A MONTH...I had to pull the battery and I got my phone back. This has happened now four times since I started using this yesterday.
SO:
1. Any idea?
2. Anyone have a registry tweak (rather a tweak than a CAB) to disable the mandatory PIN?
Thanks in advance.
Since you're using syncing with an Exchange Server then, the Exchange Server policies are in force. Try talking to your Exchange Admin and see if they are willing to take off the PIN Requirement Policy.
I appreciate the response.
Not a chance.
FQHC. Federal money.
I was hoping for a registry tweak to get around it.
It is definitely wreaking havoc with my HD2.
Camusa said:
I appreciate the response.
Not a chance.
FQHC. Federal money.
I was hoping for a registry tweak to get around it.
It is definitely wreaking havoc with my HD2.
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Sounds like you are out of luck, domain polices are in place for a reason. If you did override them you would be liable and on the hook for any damages that result from your loss of the phone. Not a something id want to worry bout, especially in the financial industry. you could have the feds coming after your ass
Heres a tip. maintain separate work and personal phones. My work offers a phone and usage, both for work and after hours use. Company uses sprint/nextel and i have an 8350i though work because it needs the nextel radio.
As soon as i get home that 8350i goes on the desk and doesnt move till the next morning.
I get the choice of what i want to use in this case my HD2, up until the evo there was nothing on sprint/nextel i wanted and even if i wanted to i couldn't go evo on the company account since there's no nextel radio, though there is an android phone coming out on sprint/nextel with an iden radio next month. The motorola i1. it still uses the iden network for data though, so that's kinda crappy, iden data is worse than GPRS. They should have done an iden/cdma hybrid phone. iden for radio, cdma for cell and data. This is possible. The Motorola Buzz that sprint/nextel had a few years back was just such a hybrid.
I dont have to worry bout someone else snooping though my phone usage records
I can do whatever i damn well please with the phone and not get stuck in a situation like yourself where company policies have locked down my phone.
Not to mention if you get ****caned at the company you work for, you've gotta then go get your own phone and get everyone your new contact info.
So, Love my HD2 still, but...the bloody thing deleted itself last week on Friday.
I seacrhed the forums and found this to be a well-known issue, but no fix that I could find and I want to be able to sync with Exchange without worry.
I was wondering if anyone has a fix for this "lock-out" issue.
PS-yes, I have hacked the registry to give me SOME of the original options back for the calendar other than snooze five minutes, but I want my old options back (2 weeks, 1 week, 2 hours, etc.)
To HTC:
This is very upsetting and I hope that this gets read.
With all its foibles I still loved this HD2.
It does not do the calendar well: I need things to be able to snooze for more than 5 minutes. I would like the functionality back for multiple snooze options.
The battery life is pretty poor.
Other than that I have loved this device-UNTIL NOW!
Last week my phone locked me out.
I am synched to my exchange server at work and policy mandates that I use a password for this in that I work in an FQHC.
All of a sudden I wake up and the phone will not let me in.
Now, I am not employing a genius password it was "2222." That was it!
I tried again and then once more and the phone prompts me to input characters to make sure that my keyboard is taking the strokes properly. It was.
I removed the battery and tried again. Still nothing.
I note that with my fumbling around that I have exhausted 6/8 of my attempts.
I wait to call HTC.
I get on with my IT department first and ask them if they forced a password change. They had not.
I called HTC and was told that this was terrible...have I tried removing the battery?
Yes. Then I am asked to do it again.
I do so. When the phone comes back up it states:
"You have one more attempt left. If you enter the wrong password again all of your data will be erased." Mind you, I am not pushing any keystrokes, just resetting the phone.
Then the rep asks me to do a soft reset.
Stupidly, I do so.
Upon rebooting the phone informs me that it is resetting the phone to factory defaults, wipes the whole phone INCLUDING my SD card which had photos, movies and other.
I look on the forums and see that this is a KNOWN issue since back in MARCH!!!
All of my information is gone.
I will not be able to sync to the exchange which I need for my calendar and work emails because I refuse to lose EVERYTHING again.
I spoke to another HTC rep yesterday and he was simply aghast. Very knowledgeable gent, but did not know how to address this issue.
So please, along with the calendar, the battery, and some other much needed updates...what is your team doing to resolve this "lock out" issue?!
I can almost deal with the other problems, but this one?!
Please, let me know.
Very sincerely,
for the snooze, use bsbtweaks "windows dismiss x notifications" tweak.
or go to hklm/system/shell/notification/oem find customUIDLL and change the filename to,well, anything. bsbtweaks adds a "2" before the ".dll"
Will this work even though my company forces out a lock as its exchange policy?
I found some interesting answers in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=582660
it has nothin to do with lock, it simply stops the htc snooze/dismiss popup from showing, so it defaults to the windows one.
for the lockouts ive never used lock so never seen the problem, so can't help.
I found an answer that seems to work (for now) in an old post linked to a WinMo Blog:
Enable/Disable the Exchange security policy - HKLM\Security\Policies\00001023: 0 = Enabled; 1 = Disabled
I just did this moments ago and the forced password is now not being forced, but I do not know if they push the policy out more than once (like every 24 hours). I guess I will find out!
I saw some other keys:
"HKLM\Security\Policies\Policies" folder.
00001005 to 1
00001006 to 1
Have not touched these yet.
I am a little worried that if they kick the policy back in I won't have the proper password (or any) and will not be able to get in, but I guess this one is going to be trial and error for a bit.