Hi everyone, great forum - and my question comes right out of the box. I recently got a 8525 for Rogers Network - and I am charging it. The LED goes from Orange to Green - but it won't turn on.
Do I have to wait until it's fully charged to turn it on? And does it need to have my SIM card in as well for it to turn on. I'm thinking I was given a Lemon.
What you think?
It will turn on without a sim card. Are you holding the button in when you try and turn it on?
I had to do a reset to get it going - i got it slightly used for an amazing deal - i am starting to see why now.
The power button isn't working
that's REALLY not good.
You need that button to work to turn ON/OFF the screen allllll the time.
I am getting a swap done on the phone - so no problem. Thank you all though!
Another question - if i have wifi set up in my house - and i want to make sure the device won't pick up the Roger Network and start charging me - is there a way to turn off that feature.
So if I am at a hotspot - it will automatically go there and not the rogers network?
***EDIT: Nevermind - just have to hit the call button.***
Download Modaco NoData. You can toggle Roger Network connections on and off.
Really?? I'll check it out - thanks man.
Another question - sorry for so many - and this might be a programming thing. But is there a way to have the phone option as a shortcut on the today/home screen?
Or even make it a soft button option?
torontotytn said:
Really?? I'll check it out - thanks man.
Another question - sorry for so many - and this might be a programming thing. But is there a way to have the phone option as a shortcut on the today/home screen?
Or even make it a soft button option?
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there's already a shortcut to the phone in the start menu, so u can just choose that to be one of the aps in the home screen. the shortcut is real descriptive too.........its called phone
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there's already a shortcut to the phone in the start menu, so u can just choose that to be one of the aps in the home screen. the shortcut is real descriptive too.........its called phone
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LOL - I saw that - I was looking for something that I could get at one handed without accessing the start menu.
thanks though
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Nevermind - hitting the call button brings up the phone. Nevermind..
hehe
welcome to the forums.....there's loads of information everywhere in these forums so pls spend some time reading so you dont turn ur phone into a brick
Will do - thanks man.
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I did post previously about this and I think I've stumbled onto a solution.
If you click on the ariel from the Today screen or anywhere else, it takes ages to switch off (show the X) BUT if you go over to the dialler screen (pess the phone button) and then click the ariel & turn off, it switches off in about 2 seconds !!!
That's what it does on my machine anyway - maybe others can confirm this behaviour.
Ravi
Didn't work for me
Just tried that, but it still took around 5 secs for the popup menu to appear. Once it's popped up once though, it seems to then be selectable quite quickly.
I guess the real solution is to get a hardware button to turn it on/off!
Lee.
I just tried it again and it takes just as long as it did before. Damn !!
I wish somebody would figure this out !!
Ravi
A workaround could be phone profiles, which are offered for example by Ultra Profiler 2.0 (http://www.mobilesolutions.ro/)
It offers the profile "Airplane", which switches off the phone immediately.
Unfortunately, it seems to be buggy. After switching between some profiles, it changes to a strange ring tone.
I also tried this, and it still takes ages
sorry any more tricks to try....
John
to turn it off quickly you could just throw it your hardest against the floor the harder it hits the floor the more faster the device will switch off.
but i wouldnt do this as it would be a waste of money :lol:
Funny you sould say that, as when it locks up or dose not do what i needed it to do i oftern think of using your super fast turn off mode
john
I think the reason for delays in switching off is that mobile phones send out a signal to the Providors transmitters to tell them its being switched off, so it needs to do that before it will turn itself off.
I believe the phone switches itself off the moment you open the sim door cover; there is that little microswitch there...
Looking at an MDA Vario, on the homescreen you can "lock" the device.
I'd like to be able to PIN Lock my device by pressing a key, like I used to my C500 - or a button on the homescreen would be even better. The C500, just pressed the power button and chose "Device Lock" - nice and easy way of securing the phone, preventing anyone from using it.
Whilst I've got the timeout set on my MDA Pro, it doesn't always seem to kick in, and I'd like to be able to lock it manually, but can't find the way...
Can you help?
I agree...
The Qtek 9100 has this nice function as well. Why can't we use it in Universal as well?
set the time to 0 minutes, and then simply switch the device off. This will lock it.
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set the time to 0 minutes, and then simply switch the device off. This will lock it.
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I think the point is, we want to have the "OFF and LOCK NOW" option to click whenever we feel like it, without the inconvenience of having it lock every single time we turn it off.
I see. Looks like a simple program would do that registers for a wakeup event, sends the unit to sleep and then blocks the device until a PIN is entered. However, that can be circumvented easily by a more sophisticated user...
What if a user of a Qtek 9100 (Wizard) could take the Lock Device.exe they have in their ROM's and give it to us???
Wouldn't that solve the problem? :?:
well, let's try !
Anyone??? All we need is the Device Lock.exe I believe from a Wizard...
There is no such file in the Wizards ROM. many have been looking for it, because we want to bind it to a hardware button and remove it from the Today screen. However, none of us have been able to find it. Posting it to you is therefore not possible, sorry.
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There is no such file in the Wizards ROM. many have been looking for it, because we want to bind it to a hardware button and remove it from the Today screen. However, none of us have been able to find it. Posting it to you is therefore not possible, sorry.
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I didn't know that my friend... That's unfortunate...
Thank you for your reply though
I don't even want to bind to hardware - just the software would be good for now!
I installed the latest UK TMobile Rom, and the lock device today plugin or something like that suddenly appeared... and works perfectly
So I have been looking around the internet and on this site, and I found a few programs that lock the phone including the two programs created by vijay555 and armstrom but they just don't do what I am looking for. This is what I am looking for:
1) When I press the power button I want my phone go into sleep mode and lock
2a) When I press the power button again I want it to turn the screen back on and advance me to the screen where i just press unlock on the touch screen( not unlock on the soft keys and then to unlock on the touch screen. I would like to skip the soft key press.)
2b) Instead of the need to press the touch screen to unlock it would be great if when I hit the power key to turn back on that it allowed me to press the middle nav button(such as the lock on the palm 700 wm)
Hope someone can help! Thanks alot! I have a Cingular 8525!
well now once you hit the power button to sleep it will only leave the power button active, so you dont have to lock it before you put it to sleep.. also the latest version of battery status has an option that will lock the phone upon wake up.. now i know you are looking for something to lock it prior to sleep and unlock during wake up, but personally i think unlocking during wake up could cause issues if the phone is on your pocket.. you can also still answer calls while the phone is locked
VJDeviceLock locks on power off if required. Advancing to second stage could be done. Making device unlock on pressing enter is possible but semi-complex. I don't know if Matt is still developing, but I could update mine if required.... I'm very busy and pre-occupied, but if enough call for it I'll give it a go.
V
that would be amazing if you could look into it. I would really appreciate it!
hi, vijay555. does your device lock affect activesync synchronization? the one i tried always give out an error message, so i had to remove the program.
Don't know if it does. If it does anything at all, it should do the same as the normal device lock today screen plugin. Let me know if it does something else.
V
i have yet to find a device lock that kills activestink on the phone
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i have yet to find a device lock that kills activestink on the phone
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this one (included in the addon folder), when installed and set up, disrupts synchronization on my phone (xda2s on helmi's 3.2 rom). but i can still explore the phone via activesync.
i will try vijay555's program. thanks.
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this one (included in the addon folder), when installed and set up, disrupts synchronization on my phone (xda2s on helmi's 3.2 rom). but i can still explore the phone via activesync.
i will try vijay555's program. thanks.
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ok, you are referring to the AS on the pc getting disabled... or let me state that better, when you use that app to lock your phone it halts synch between pc and phone.. thats odd.. i will pull apart that cab and see whats up with it, however im not well versed on versions earlier than WM5.. but in theory it should work the same way.. i will report back
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wait, im an idiot, i dont need to pull it apart to answer your question, dont know why i didnt think of this earlier, when you put your device to sleep it should kill the connection over usb (why your able to browse via AS is still beyond me). i have experienced that on all the WM5 devices i have owned farrady, wizard, hermes...
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That cab is doing exactly that, when you activate the device lock it puts the phone into sleep mode via reg key HKLM/Software/Devicelock and the dword "SuspendAfterCheck". now with that being said there may be a reg key to also disable power save modem on the active sync connection, but im not sure if it exists for earlier versions of WM
thanks, shogunmark. btw, my unit is already on WM5... and i got lost on the 2nd EDIT, lol!
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thanks, shogunmark. btw, my unit is already on WM5... and i got lost on the 2nd EDIT, lol!
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oh, i thought your particular device was wm2003 device, my bad.. that 2nd edit showed a registry setting that suspends the phone when using that app, if you have regedit you can try to play with that setting and see what happens, the HKLM is HK local machine key in the registry.. its currently at a value of 0. from this app, you could try changing it to a 1. but then again that program may overwrite that value each time its ran, but i dont think so, its worth a shot
okay so now that i have played with my phone for a couple of days i know exactly what i want now. I would really like a program that would lock my phone and then shut it off with just the simple press of the power key on the side. I have used both the programs for vijay and the other device lock and they both will lock after device awakens, but I would really like it to lock before then. If that could be possible, i could then use the device lock program to run a program when the phone wakes, i will run vijays button press to press the left soft key and then all i will have to do is press the screen to unlock, thus exactly what i need is taken care of. Hopefully everything is understadable. I am super tired right now, but i have been testing all day and wanted to update the post.
@lance18: i'm not sure if i read correctly, but maybe you could opt to have your unit power off after a certain amount of time, without using the power button
start>settings>settings>power>advanced
@shogunmark: thanks for the idea. i just realized i could have one program run after locking my unit, so i chose activesync. i now have
no more problems synchronizing
wondering if there is a registry trick, notification or program to be able to turn on and off my universal with the lid (i know it turns off the screen by default but i thinks this would be cool) im currently using WM6, i searched here and read the whole wiki page but i was unable to find any relevant info hope someone can help. thanks
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wondering if there is a registry trick, notification or program to be able to turn on and off my universal with the lid (i know it turns off the screen by default but i thinks this would be cool) im currently using WM6, i searched here and read the whole wiki page but i was unable to find any relevant info hope someone can help. thanks
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....one thought couldnt you turn off the power off after xx minutes setting, so that your device is always on?
Matt
matt1971 said:
....one thought couldnt you turn off the power off after xx minutes setting, so that your device is always on?
Matt
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Yet another thought... Have you ever tried taking out the battery, putting it back in, then starting the Universal back up? It takes time. Imagine taking all that time each time you open up the screen...
thanks for your reply. actually i did not mean turn off completly the phone i meant standby i was able to do this by deselecting the turn off the phone in the setting so every time i open the lid it is already on but this is affecting my battery life (i see about a 25% increse battery drain) so the point is to send the uni to stand by every time i close the lid and to bring it back from stand by as soon as i open it. thanks
Hi Guys, I haven't own a new phone in while so I decide to give WP7 a try. I have a few question regrading the DVP I just receive today. Built Date is 01/06/2011. I've heard theres a lot of issue w/ this phone, so I would like to know if my phone has any of it, like what are some of the known issue. First Off I have a few question.
1. When the Phone is in Close Position, The front of the phone wobble a little when pressed at the bottom. Is that normal?
2. How do I unlock the Phone so I can use it on AT&T's GSM Network.
Thats it for now...
Thanks
Crimson Lotus said:
1. When the Phone is in Close Position, The front of the phone wobble a little when pressed at the bottom. Is that normal?
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Yes, mine is the same.
Crimson Lotus said:
2. How do I unlock the Phone so I can use it on AT&T's GSM Network.
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I don't follow the unlocking scene too closely, but I don't think it has been successfully unlocked yet. Also even if you unlock it, you won't get 3G on AT&T.
Some others report frequent lockups, particularly on the 16GB model, so keep an eye out for that. The Marketplace app tends to crash and freeze on a lot of WP7 phones, so you can probably ignore that for now.
How do you find out the build date of the phone?
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How do you find out the build date of the phone?
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Thanks a lot pjfans, as for built date, I believe it said so on the box if I'm not mistaken.
I have one more question, How do I extend the Back light time of my hardware keyboard. I fine that it turn off way to quick, I want to extend the time in which it turns off.
Thanks.
Crimson Lotus said:
Thanks a lot pjfans, as for built date, I believe it said so on the box if I'm not mistaken.
I have one more question, How do I extend the Back light time of my hardware keyboard. I fine that it turn off way to quick, I want to extend the time in which it turns off.
Thanks.
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I haven't found a way to adjust the keyboard back light time out. But pressing any key lights it up again, so I usually tap the fn key if I need to turn it back on. The fn key is a press and hold key, so just tapping it once won't affect the message you are typing.
Update!
Is there a way or option to add sound to your hardware keystroke as you type. I want to add the on screen qwerty sound to my hardware keyboard when i type. Hope it makes sense.