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Hack the LED on a WM6 device - Possible?

Ok, now we have many ROM cooking tools. So I want to ask: Is it now possible to hack the LED drivers to control the behavior of the LEDs. A fast blinking blue or red LED would be nice on an incoming text message.

Which device?
V

A Windows Mobile 6 powered device.

Ha. Yes this is very possible. In fact there are many programs available that control the blinking of the LEDs - I'm particularly fond of Resco Audio Recorder which blinks the red LED on my Hermes while I'm recording.
I imagine it would be possible to create a small program that could check for an SMS notification icon at the top of the screen and blink your LEDs accordingly whenever you receive a message, however there's probably an even more simple way of going about doing this. So in short, yes it's possible but I don't believe 'hacking' any drivers would necessarily be required, just a bit of creativity.
Cheers
Sir Lancealot
PS - Also keep an eye on this post that was made just 3 hours before your post as this person had exactly the same question. Try the forum search next time

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Excellent answer!
I think I can do this on my iPaq 1710... Oh wait, it only has one LED and it can only do orange and green. How do I get it to blink blue?
Sorry about that, I didn't mean to insult you or anything, but you obviously don't understand the concept of "hardware driver".
Basically, the driver is what connects the OS which is generic (same for all devices) with specific hardware component (like LED) which is different or at least connected and accessed differently on different devices.
For example, I saw a picture of an upcoming samsung phone running WM 6 and it would have completely different LED driver than say a Wizard (also running WM 6).
And just for the record: There is a big difference between cooking a ROM, and actually creating a hardware driver from scratch (which is more or less what you need here). Plus if one could access the existing driver with a simple app that monitors the desired event replacing it would not be necessary.
P.S. The colors are wrong on purpose. Just remembered this little game all of a sudden...

belinea said:
Ok, now we have many ROM cooking tools. So I want to ask: Is it now possible to hack the LED drivers to control the behavior of the LEDs. A fast blinking blue or red LED would be nice on an incoming text message.
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Hey what if you could get your camera flash to blink a few times. That would be kinda fun.

that would be possibly using mortscript and vijay's software (candela?)

Midget_1990 said:
that would be possibly using mortscript and vijay's software (candela?)
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haha thats funny I just thought of that but I can't seem to download mortscript. Just posted http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=289197&page=4 there requesting someone upload install

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Especially a HTC TyTN.
But it seems that´s impossible to control the LEDs.

belinea: Thanks for specifying hardware device. Lancealot is talking about the standard notification led, which is required by the standard PocketPC hardware specification. This can be controlled by anyone through the operating system. However, the other leds (eg Blue, Green etc) are typically manufacturer specific, and thus, as my good friend levenum says, these will almost certainly require a specific, per Manufacturer (or even per device) solution.
But it seems that´s impossible to control the LEDs.
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- Have you tried VJPlumBum?
V
PS btw, there was once discussion of using VJCandela to make a Text to Morse Code app. You can certainly use the flash as a notification device if appropriately programmed, but not much functionality I guess.

vijay555 said:
- Have you tried VJPlumBum?
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WAAAAAAH, thats GREAT vijay555 !!!!
It´s also possible to drive the LEDs.
Are you interested to spent some time to program a tool to lit up the red or blue LED on a incoming SMS notification? I will send you a big donation if you can do that.
Can you post some detailed informations how to lit up the TyTN LEDs (some sourcecode parts of VJPlumBum)? Or is this a little secret ?

belinea said:
Are you interested to spent some time to program a tool to lit up the red or blue LED on a incoming SMS notification? I will send you a big donation if you can do that.
Can you post some detailed informations how to lit up the TyTN LEDs (some sourcecode parts of VJPlumBum)? Or is this a little secret ?
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I'd love to write such an app, but I'm working on two fairly large projects for someone else right now which take priority over my smaller stuff. I'd be very interested in writing such an app though - how big a donation are we talking? PM me if it's VERY urgent.
I'm afraid the source code of VJPlumBum can't be released right now for various confidentiality reasons. You could reverse engineer the same functionality using an app like Haret though. It'd be messy, but possible. The necessary hardware info is probably already on the wiki I think, for the Universal. However, AFAIK, Haret for Hermes isn't fully functional yet.
The app that you suggested is something I have in mind for a future project though, including some other major OS mods in the same area...
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Great informations vijay555.
If I can change the color of the LED and the blinking frequency with your tool on an incoming SMS, I wil donate you with 100$.

Would love to see a tool for controlling the LED - one of the big areas that software hacking has yet to cover.
Personally I think it would be great if the orange flashing when a message was received should be a solid orange. Sometimes I have to stare at my phone waiting for a flash to see if I have a missed call/message. Surely the dll can be hacked to change orange flashing to orange solid...

vijay555 said:
I'd love to write such an app, but I'm working on two fairly large projects for someone else right now which take priority over my smaller stuff. I'd be very interested in writing such an app though
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@vijay555: Have you started the "LED project" already?

HermLED
I'd waited for quite a long time for vijay555 to start his LED project.. but at some point I got enough waiting.. so I looked into the nleddrvr.dll and AllLEDMgr.dll. This took a while before I got it working, but it was tottaly worth it
Here you have a working program that allows you to control all the LEDs of Hermes. I've also attached full source code, so that you can use it in whatever way you like. It's licensed under GPL. It's not a masterpiece, but it's working and that's the point.
If I have some free time tomorrow, I'll make a RIL client so that you can use this for new SMS notification.
Edit: I've added the possibility to turn on/off the led not just blink
Usage:
hermled [R|G|B|AM|LG] [ON|OFF|BLINK [num_blinks] [blink_length ms] [interval ms]
R - RED
G - GREEN
B - BLUE
AM - AMBER (RED + GREEN)
LG - LEFT GREEN

Led on treo 700wx (WM5)
hey-
I was wondering is you could set the led to blink green when there is service, solid red when there is no service, now there is no setting option so you have to do some kind of hacking. Now I have a quick question: These LED's, can they do more than just the green/red/amber if so i would love to be able to play with the colors.

Sure, that would be possible to do service/no-service notification with leds. And the other questions.. From what I've found each physical led have two colours:
a) right: RED/GREEN
b) left: BLUE/GREEN
and for some reason it is impossible to mix left blue/green leds. Amber `led` for instance is a product of RED and GREEN turn on together. Perhaps there's sth more to discover, but right now it's all I got.

@piopawlu:
GREAT !!!!!!! Many, many thanks for this.

oh this looks like it has so much promise
Will have to test on my WM6 P3300 as soon as I have a chance.

This is something that can benefit ALL HTC Touch Screen Devices

I have been trying to work on something that will enable some sort of Haptic feed back on my XV6800. The Haptic feed back is a feature that enables vibration to the screen when you press on the screen. Such as the Voyager.
I dont intend to try and make this just to work with the XV6800 but for ALL HTC Touch Screen Devices and if it can others too.
There is a feature on my phone and on many others that allows our phones to play a sound when the screen is taped. I thought of an idea of why not replace the sound with vibration?
There is already a CAB out there that changes the dial tone into a vibration feedback ( when you press the dial buttons ) but it doesnt do much for the rest of the applications or screen.
So far I have been working on this for a couple of days but havent had much time to put much effort into it.
I was hoping that some developers / hackers can help out the cause and help develope or create a feature that enables this on ALL HTC Touch Screen Devices.
If I do find a way to do this I'll post my findings here, but any help to make this a reality would be gladly appreciated.

I was just reading about this very thing HERE: http://www.immersion.com/vt/haptics-for-mobile.php
I was wondering if somebody was going to give it a try. Good luck with it, BOO

it has already been done, and someone posted it up on these forums a while ago, probably buried extremely deeply by now... i forgot the name but i just know it's out there and although it worked, i quickly worried about battery life/hardware issues, so i uninstalled. i'll try to find it for you

bootheresa said:
I was just reading about this very thing HERE: http://www.immersion.com/vt/haptics-for-mobile.php
I was wondering if somebody was going to give it a try. Good luck with it, BOO
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Thank you. I am hoping that we can get this done.
I mean we are constantly trying to make our touch screen devices finger friendly. We enlarge buttons, the creation of Touch FLO and the Cube, enlarging menus and so on.
My theory is why not combine all these I deas with Haptic feedback and make it even more finger friendly and try to limit the use of the stylus. If made possible this would be able to work on any HTC Touch screen device or any WM Touch screen device out there.
This would also help users that have a hard time inputing anything into their phone. For example, some one trying to make a text message through t9 or even less then that just pressing on the screen to access a short cut with out having to pound their touch screen until it inputs that they are trying to press. This would help with that because it will acknowledge the input that was made.
Just an Idea

Azimuth21 said:
it has already been done, and someone posted it up on these forums a while ago, probably buried extremely deeply by now... i forgot the name but i just know it's out there and although it worked, i quickly worried about battery life/hardware issues, so i uninstalled. i'll try to find it for you
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If this has been made possible for the entire touch screen and all applications including the standard OS please inform me of this find. I would gladly appreciate it.

yeah it was an application that ran in the background (maybe as a service, i don't remember), but every single tap created a vibrate feedback. argh i just looked around for it and i have no idea where to find it. it was in some thread, someone's reply had the app attached to it. something about how he knew someone who was working on it, and waited for that person's permission to post the app here on xda-dev. sigh.

Azimuth21 said:
yeah it was an application that ran in the background (maybe as a service, i don't remember), but every single tap created a vibrate feedback. argh i just looked around for it and i have no idea where to find it. it was in some thread, someone's reply had the app attached to it. something about how he knew someone who was working on it, and waited for that person's permission to post the app here on xda-dev. sigh.
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Interesting. If it has been done already I wonder if we can replicate it and put it on this thread. That is if you dont find the link to the page or the program it self.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=354890&highlight=Vibrate&page=2
Around post #15. I do not know if it works or not..

appless03 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=354890&highlight=Vibrate&page=2
Around post #15. I do not know if it works or not..
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Thanks this is a good find.
Ill see if i can make it available using another method. Because they reported that it worked on every other tap of the screen and that it runs the battery down faster too.
What I might try to do is have mine work but have the option to disable it ( like the way you do when you disable screen tap sounds) to save battery power.

[email protected]$ said:
Thanks this is a good find.
Ill see if i can make it available using another method. Because they reported that it worked on every other tap of the screen and that it runs the battery down faster.
What I might try to do is have mine work but have the option to disable it ( like the way you do when you disable screen tap sounds) to save battery power.
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Hay [email protected]$
True like u said, i've tried it 2, but it do not respond to every fingertouch, if u can figur a way for an app that will respond 2 every touch even the small ones (where u don'nt need 2 hold for a sek before it regonise and verb.).. that will be really great

Cobra2 said:
Hay [email protected]$
True like u said, i've tried it 2, but it do not respond to every fingertouch, if u can figur a way for an app that will respond 2 every touch even the small ones (where u don'nt need 2 hold for a sek before it regonise and verb.).. that will be really great
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So far I have planned some steps on ways to do it through the registry but it is not perfect. I am not an expert programmer but I can give it a shot, but it might take a while since I am not as great as the experts here in XDA.
But I'll do what I can. If I do find a solution I will post it here, but any help to make this project possible would be great.

I would be happy if my phone would just vibrate on keyboard input.

I am running this older vibro cab. Works very well however...
The vibration lasts aslong as your finger has contact on the screen. It would be better if it just gave a quick blip of vibro each touch maybe?
When you slide a cube etc it virbos the whole movement.
MM

MaxMotus said:
I am running this older vibro cab. Works very well however...
The vibration lasts aslong as your finger has contact on the screen. It would be better if it just gave a quick blip of vibro each touch maybe?
When you slide a cube etc it virbos the whole movement.
MM
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Do you happen to have the CAB with you? Maybe I can find a way to change the effect this program does when you press the screen and lower the vibration feed back.
If I can do that then I can maybe create some registry settings to make the same effect but just replacing the sound that is emulated when you tap the screen. That way you can disable it or enable it when you want it. ( In case you need to save battery or something )

The length of the vibration should be shorter, other than that it's a really good tool.

wow i must be stupid. i just posted a thread about this yesterday. anyway, it'd be cool if we could figure out a way to just incorporate it into the registry, probly wouldn't use as much battary and stuff then.

This has been done already on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=354890&page=2. On the second page, Kpyto posted a download link for it. I haven't tested it yet though so I can't tell you how well it works.

hows this coming along?

I tried the VOA program mentioned above, but i don't really like it - it's simply annoying by vibrating all the time when scrolling trough lists, or attempting to bring up a tap-and-hold context menu. Not to mention additional battery drain caused by the motor running for such long periods of time.
For me, much better screen tap confirmation is a very short vibra pulse - i often use Vibrate(50) as a confirmation in my mortscripts. That's only 50 milliseconds, but it' enough to be clearly felt, and since the motor is powered only for such short time, it causes almost no additional battery drain. I'd really love to see an application creating such confirmation instead of the screen tap sound.
I'd just like it to have customizable vibration time - since the minimal time needed to make vibration even noticeable can probably vary from device to device, and play nice with fTouchFlo - since both capture touchscreen events there are probably possible conflicts.
Good luck with the development. I hope you'll be able to realize this great idea

mr_deimos said:
I tried the VOA program mentioned above, but i don't really like it - it's simply annoying by vibrating all the time when scrolling trough lists, or attempting to bring up a tap-and-hold context menu. Not to mention additional battery drain caused by the motor running for such long periods of time.
For me, much better screen tap confirmation is a very short vibra pulse - i often use Vibrate(50) as a confirmation in my mortscripts. That's only 50 milliseconds, but it' enough to be clearly felt, and since the motor is powered only for such short time, it causes almost no additional battery drain. I'd really love to see an application creating such confirmation instead of the screen tap sound.
I'd just like it to have customizable vibration time - since the minimal time needed to make vibration even noticeable can probably vary from device to device, and play nice with fTouchFlo - since both capture touchscreen events there are probably possible conflicts.
Good luck with the development. I hope you'll be able to realize this great idea
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Lets hope some one makes this. isn't there anyone on these forums with great programing skills?

[FUN APP]Fake BSOD

A nice fake Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) for your HTC. It's vga, and its useful to use in situations when you don't wan't to use your mobile phone.
This is just another fun app. To exit, just tap the lower part of the screen.

Funny!
It looks great!

no thanks, I don't like testing fate

ajd6c8 said:
no thanks, I don't like testing fate
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....i tried it ....and i already used it whit a frind of mine

I'm planning to release a QVGA version soon...

Make it pop up after a timer expires...adjustable time limit, pls.

+1
+1 on the time limit

Haha Nice!
Thanks for the app!

lol awsumness...
cheers!

gguruusa said:
Make it pop up after a timer expires...adjustable time limit, pls.
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that will be great

<irony>
What ever for ?
It is already running M$ Windoze
</irony>

Maybe creating a Red Ring of Death with the lower part LEDs.
If only the leds had red color, we could emulate the 360.
Greets.

it's really very funny. I can use it when somebody want to borrow my mobile.

It will be really fun to have a bsod screen lock app

Sergio PC said:
Maybe creating a Red Ring of Death with the lower part LEDs.
If only the leds had red color, we could emulate the 360.
Greets.
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nice idea but diamond doesnt have red leds

haha lol this isgood app!!!
i love it

Biggest use for this is to trick people into thinking they caused it... when you lend someone your phone etc... so +1 to the timer feature.

I like this app very much and can't wait for the one with the timer feature.
Also, I noticed a couple mistakes:
first line: "A error has occured..." should probably be changed to "A problem has been detected ..." as in normal BSoDs. Everyone starts reading from there and this is very noticeable. In the last paragraph, the phrase "If this problem continue" reads "If problems continue" in real BSODs. And, furthermore, to make it more PDA-like something should be done with the suggestion to press F8. Have you ever seen an F8 button on a PDA? I haven't.
But anyway, the app is a lot of fun, can't wait for the next release =)

So, basically, here's my idea what the text should be like
A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your device.
KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your device. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Check to make sure that any new software is properly installed. If this is a new installation, ask your software manufacturer for any Windows updates you might need.
If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your device and press right softkey and Volume Up key simultaneously to run Safe Mode.
Technical Information:
here goes the technical information from the original version.
I also suggest changing the stop message (originally "driver_irql_not_less_or_equal") since it is usually caused by new hardware which is not typical for pocket PCs

suggestions
1. timerrr!!!
2. the customizable message through a .txt-file
anyway, nice app, go on!!!

[IDEA] touch friendly brightness app SetBrightness - screenshot included

Fellow developers
As many here, I have welcomed the new era of touch friendly apps and GUIs. In the plethora of great applications that we can all find here, I feel there's a need for one more (most likely for many more, but this post focuses on only one )
Basically in everyday use, I have always had a problem with quick brightness change. The urge for that usually strikes in the least convinient moments e.g. during a car drive when the sun starts shining straight into my screen and there's no time for little tete-a-tete with good 'ol stylus, or cycling the level of brightness. None of the existing solutions seem to be perfect.
Therefore I think there's a hole to fill in by an application that I imagine, could work on very similar basis to MarcLandis's - SetVolume.
Please have a look at the concept screenshot attached.
I believe it's pretty self explanatory.
Just few words of comments:
- two separate battery & external brightness tabs (though they can be on a single screen as well),
- advanced button - is a link to system brightness panel,
- power button - is a link to the system power panel,
- +/- increase/decrease brightness level.
Optional features could include:
- skin support,
- cooperation with current apps such as S2U2,
- linking to hardware/software buttons,
- ... I'm sure you can think of some other things as well.
I understand, that due to different implementation of brightness panels/reg keys by different manufacturers this app can be a challenge. But I'm sure that's not impossible also and can be solved by different configuration profiles, or other solutions that I'm prolly not aware of.
Unfortunately being 'code deblitated' I cannot write this app myself. However, on my side I can offer full support in the graphics department and help to prepare the needed elements for different screen resolutions.
Your comments are most welcome, and hopefully someone can stand up for the challenge
regards
efbiaye

Its already done in WKTASK - the best task manager for WM.
I suggest you change its normal setup to do a Launch when you hold the close X button down (easily done with a finger).
This then brings up a customized menu that can have the brightness, volume you are looking for.

this is exactly what I want to do as my next project!
I hope you will help me with graphics.
Stay in touch, please.

Dear bsw11,
I'm of course familiar with your app, which btw. is really great, however it exceeds the simple functionality of just a brightness app that I was looking for.
My point was, to have such app literally 1 click away (either hardware/software button). Currently I had created a direct shortcut to my Windows brightness panel, the problem is - that it isn't finger friendy at all - you have to pinpoint the slider, which is next to impossible if you're driving a car, or even in public transport where everything is shaking.

Maybe MVBklight... which is a today plugin also

francarl said:
this is exactly what I want to do as my next project!
I hope you will help me with graphics.
Stay in touch, please.
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Glad to heear that francarl of course I'm ready to help.

Hi..In the last few days i wrote an application like this.. if you want to try.. all feedback are welcome..
Only VGA/WVGA HTC for now..

mylostblog said:
Hi..In the last few days i wrote an application like this.. if you want to try.. all feedback are welcome..
Only VGA/WVGA HTC for now..
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Unfortunately I don't have VGA HTC device to test :/

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Unfortunately I don't have VGA HTC device to test :/
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this is an alpha.. QVGA WQVGA are now supported too..
For other brand i need more time.. i have to find the right dll to invoke

Can Mylight be themed like the concept? In the new rom I installed my volume adjustments look much like the concept it would be nice if the backlight adjustments matched. Is this something easy to do?

I installed mylight aaaaannnnnddd yeah it doesnt seem to actually do anything? Is this just a graphic demo of what it would look like? Cause as I push the yellow thing up and it fills it up it doesnt actually change the screen brightness.

Slide to unlock - But not S2U(2)

I'm looking for a slide-to-unlock solution for my X1. It should NOT come with any additional features (as S2U2 unfortunately does). I don't need to lock it for incoming calls, my phone software does this by itself. I only need an app which will lock the device on wakeup so I have to slide to unlock. Nothing more and nothing less. The best thing would be a Today-plugin.
One more question: If such a software does not exist, how hard would it be to create one? I am an experienced programmer in VB, JavaScript and PHP, so I don't think I would have to learn a lot. The question is just whether the process of locking/unlocking the phone and capturing the wakup-event etc. is actually easy to program. I don't want to write more than 50 lines of code for this and it has to work very well with that. Do you think this is possible?

Firefall! said:
I'm looking for a slide-to-unlock solution for my X1. It should NOT come with any additional features (as S2U2 unfortunately does). I don't need to lock it for incoming calls, my phone software does this by itself. I only need an app which will lock the device on wakeup so I have to slide to unlock. Nothing more and nothing less. The best thing would be a Today-plugin.
One more question: If such a software does not exist, how hard would it be to create one? I am an experienced programmer in VB, JavaScript and PHP, so I don't think I would have to learn a lot. The question is just whether the process of locking/unlocking the phone and capturing the wakup-event etc. is actually easy to program. I don't want to write more than 50 lines of code for this and it has to work very well with that. Do you think this is possible?
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As I don't know how screen slides are registered, I'm not 100% sure, but I can't imagine it'd need more than 100 lines.
Things you have to keep in mind that it has to be full-screen, always on top, locking hardware buttons as well etc.
If you manage to get this to work, I'd be very much obliged, as I'm looking for the exact same thing!
My advice: Make it semi-transparant and add an easy to modify image (png) that tells you to slide, which turns from red to green when you're set and then disappears.
I recommend making it fullscreen slide, the way lockmelite does, but then with the image added.

Nice to know that I'm not the only one looking for it
So you would propose a transparent fullscreen app? I would prefer using the Windows-lock, but I think once it's in, the only way to unlock is through the standard procedure. Can anyone confirm this? What other ways are there to lock the touchscreen? Is there a way to keep a transparent windows always on top? And an easy function to lock the hw-keys? Would you just set up a sort of hook and don't pass the keypress event? Is there a way to ensure that the event will not be passed on to other apps such as AEButtons? I really need some serious information on this before I start reading tutorials and organizing compilers etc.

simple screen lock that works
I came across this app: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=419525
Works well, I had to set "on call unlolck" and switch of it's "slide to answer" function to prevent issues with my current ROM.
works a charm on my X1 using TouchIT 4.5 !
tried a few others out, but all had one or another issue. For more, search for "screen lock" in main forum search.
(edit) although free needs simple monthly renewal of registration keygen

Ctrl+A said:
I came across this app: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=419525
Works well, I had to set "on call unlolck" and switch of it's "slide to answer" function to prevent issues with my current ROM.
works a charm on my X1 using TouchIT 4.5 !
tried a few others out, but all had one or another issue. For more, search for "screen lock" in main forum search.
(edit) although free needs simple monthly renewal of registration keygen
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Yeah, first monthly registration sucks and I don't like the software. I've had it installed twice and I'm not satisfied (R2A ROM though). Performance is bad, many mismatches because of this. Application always comes in to protect, for example at boot - but it's completely useless because you can blast it away if you know enough to install it in the first place. deifnitely a no-go for me.

Firefall! said:
One more question: If such a software does not exist, how hard would it be to create one? I am an experienced programmer in VB, JavaScript and PHP, so I don't think I would have to learn a lot. The question is just whether the process of locking/unlocking the phone and capturing the wakup-event etc. is actually easy to program. I don't want to write more than 50 lines of code for this and it has to work very well with that. Do you think this is possible?
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I think it might be alot harder then you imagine. Programming in PHP is very, very easy. The best option is probably try to find one of the eary s2u2 cabs. Maybe A_C has some tips for you

For Dev... MSDN may have the answer
If you are looking for examples of how to program the slide yourself, there's a good sample on codeproject:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/IPhoneUI.aspx
It's written in C#.NET but if you can program VB.NET you should be able to read through and vaguely understand what's going on.
The sample is an iPhone clone UI, not just the slide-to-unlock bit and I think the sample is QVGA. Either way, its better than having to work it all out from scratch ;o)
I've been meaning to write something similar but unfortunately life isn't giving up the time at the moment. If I get around to it I'll post it on XDA for everyone else to enjoy!

Have you tried PocketShield?
http://www.pocketshield.net/download.htm
I liked it ..

fast rock said:
Have you tried PocketShield?
http://www.pocketshield.net/download.htm
I liked it ..
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Damn, this program is nice!
I always have problems with S2U2 because it's slow, often incoming calls messes the screen so I'm not able to answer and sometimes the color depth of the screen changes to approx. 5 colors after unlocking and only a softreset helps.
PocketShield seems to be cut to the essential: locking and unlocking.
I'll try it a bit more

fast rock said:
Have you tried PocketShield?
http://www.pocketshield.net/download.htm
I liked it ..
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Does it work well with X1 ?

It works very well ..

here's one that I REALLY like, nice and fast.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478606

ChE84 said:
Does it work well with X1 ?
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It does, but with not all of its features. PocketShield has 3 essential ways to unlock: light, slide and gestures.
X1 does not have a G-sensor, so gestures unlock won’t be available.
It does has a light sensor but apparently it is very difficult for 3rd apps to access it, so light unlock will neither be available.
Only “slide to unlock” will work. And due to this a special deal has been made for the Xperia community… You might be interested: http://www.pocketshield.net/Xperia

pckshd said:
It does, but with not all of its features. PocketShield has 3 essential ways to unlock: light, slide and gestures.
X1 does not have a G-sensor, so gestures unlock won’t be available.
It does has a light sensor but apparently it is very difficult for 3rd apps to access it, so light unlock will neither be available.
Only “slide to unlock” will work. And due to this a special deal has been made for the Xperia community… You might be interested: http://www.pocketshield.net/Xperia
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I'm gonna check this out! Sounds good... Thanks!