Hi guys,
just searched (forum and google) for a sleep timer for our HD and couldn't find a suitable solution. I am used to go to sleep while listening to music or audio books and am looking for a simple timer that will run in the background and after pre-defined period of time will force the HD to stand-by (not shutdown completely), thus shutting down the playback. The reason I don't want to use all kinds of media players with built-in sleep timer function (for example Kai's MP3 Sleep Timer and many more) is simple: I am totally satisfied with the function of TF3D's music player and don't want to have more players than neccessary (already using very good Core player for movies, but unfortunately, no sleep timer with it).
So, finally getting to my question: do you know about a software (application, utility) that works as a simple sleep timer? Not combined with (for me) unnecessary media player.. Or, and now I'm speaking to the "able ones", are you able to write such an application for our PPCs? I have no clue if it's doable at all and don't want to sound like a know-it-all, because I don't know very much about programming, but it shouldn't be that difficult, should it?
Thanks for all reactions.
Dushan
Any help appreciated...
try ptravelalarm.
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Will give it a try.
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Hi,
First of all, happy new year to everyone.
I am/was using AlarmToday as an alarm clock with Mp3 support.
But I noticed that this application does not work as expected and also has a lot of problems.
Now I am in the search of a simpler alarm application with mp3 support.
In fact, all I need is to be able to define daily or weekly alarms which would play an mp3 at a given time.
It should also support repeating alarms.
Can you please advise ?
Thanks.
no one requires such app ?
I'd thought that there would be a bunch of apps. But I couldn't find...
guys,
please...
I need advice.
I am very surprised that nobody is interested in this kind of application.
PocketAlarm is very useful, you can just look through your whole fon for mp3 or anything like that,
cheerz
is it this one ?
http://pocketalarm.iit-bsuir.com/indexen.htm
I have used Pocket Alarm before. While I choose not to use it as it crashed the device a few times, when it was working, I enjoyed it very much.
The default Windows Mobile 6 alarms are terrible.
Best of luck,
Cliff
I'm using GENTIMER 2.0 from Rivia software. It plays mp3, wav and wma alarms and is a very simple setup and interface, plus it has some skins. The best feature for me though is the "press and hold to SNOOZE"! Hope this helps.
Here is the link: http://rivia.net/Gentimer.aspx
thanks for yopur replies.
I'll try them
Try Mortplayer. It has a very good alarm feature and it even turns the volume of the phone tpo predefined level even if the phone is in silent or vibrate mode.
thanks;
I will try that as well.
I think SPB Time also has an alarm clock that can play mp3 and other sound files.
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/time/
Hello,
do you know an application that enables the mobile phone in the
Sleep mode after a certain time?
For example, the MP3 player should disable after an hour.
Its a good function if you like to hear music for sleep and after the time the mp3 player stops the music.
Do you know any app for this one? I have the cupcake 1.5 (as root) on my mobile.
Thanks for your help.
Best Regards,
Stefan
Hi there!
I've a huge problem with the music player on the hd2. It stops after EVERY song. I alsways have to turn on the phone and manually hit play or next to play the next sond. That's quite annoying!
It doesn't matter if I select an album, a playlist or whatver. Even if I turn on repeat-mode, the sond is only played once.
Anyone else have this problem? Is there a solution?
I noticed the same thing, and I already updated to 1.48...
There's a partial solution anyway: if you don't press the power off button to activate the stand by mode, but instead if you let stand by mode to activate by itself, it works correctly.
Tyrion84 said:
I noticed the same thing, and I already updated to 1.48...
There's a partial solution anyway: if you don't press the power off button to activate the stand by mode, but instead if you let stand by mode to activate by itself, it works correctly.
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I've had the same thing happen when I let standby mode activate itself, also have an issue where the MP3s stutter, small 1 second breaks in the music.
Few people use the embedded mp3 player coz it's bad and very slow, especially when you have a massive library.
You should try another player: Kinoma (freeplay is free), CorePlayer, Nitrogen (free), etc...
err, starting an extra application for that doesn't sound very attractive to me. Actually I like the fact that this is integrated into sense.
Regarding the speed: I've ~10 GB of music. The HTC player handles them very well
After i read this, i tested it on my device.
The first time the player stopes after the first track,
but if you press play again and you come to the end, then it switch to the next track without a problem and play it.
regards
I have the repeat button on and it doesnt' stop!! And the built in mp3 player is better than WMP because it actually shows chinese characters properly for me... And the interface looks nice...
I noticed the music player in htc sense only looks at the music folder on the storage card, is there any way to add more folders of music or must I insert all my music there and it will automatically be "synced" every time a new song/folder of songs is added?
On mine, the HTC music player looks for all audio files on both the storage card and the phone itself (anywhere in 'My Documents'). It even picks up ring tones I've added and the 'sample' music on the phone. So, I'm not sure if this is a setting of some kind, but mine seems to do what you want, and your's seems to do what I want.
same as you
I have the exactly same problem my friend nd it's irritating. For now, the only solution I have is the use of bluethoot earphones where I can skip the music on it, but as soon as I put classic earphones it does the same problem. I'm gonna try another player I think. it's a pity because HTC player is starting to become gorgeous
track order
Has anyone noticed track order problems. I've started a thread on this. It's really doing my head in.
Same track order problem here. Posted it to HTC-support, they have no solution. Every other player doesn't have this problem.
I have a bunch of radio channels that I love to use. Unfortunately my standard players (Pocket Music and Pocket Player) won't work. The HD2 turns off after a few minutes no matter what I set the power settings to. So I tried to stream with the built in Streaming Media Player, but couldn't get anywhere. The stations I use are OGG. what formats can this player play? Only the rather obscure RTSP from streaming media players?
Try TCPMP.
But isn't OGG a wave format?
No idea... But TCPMP doesn't work because it turns off after a few minutes, like all other third party players. But I have heard that Kinoma play doesn't do that. I may make an attempt with a trial version of that.
Yeah I've noticed this morning that it does stop playing if you turn off the screen. What works for me is to leave the screen on. It doesn't fall asleep while playing. Would that be an option for you?
Yeah, that would be an option. Just not a very good one, since it will eat the battery faster. I guess I may have to get myself an extra battery. Totally idiotic to have an error like that in such a great phone!
I don't think it's an error. I think it's some sort of timeout that the Sense player can handle (reset) but other players can't.
I have solved the problem! Turned out that it could be fixed by using the cab from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5353195 That keeps the WiFi connection alive even if the phone is suspended or whatever you want to call the "sort of sleeping" that happens when you're playing something. Now I stream until the battery dies!
Nice find!
But... isn't keeping Wifi on the whole time more energy consuming than leaving the screen on (dimmed) when playing music?
Regular music playback isn't affected of this problem. That will keep playing if you suspend. The problem is streaming, and at least for me streaming means WiFi. So it's actually a step down in power usage from having both the screen and the Wifi on to only the Wifi.
In that case you and I have different problems. My music (from the storagecard) stops playing after about 2 minutes but only if I use my bluetooth carkit to listen. If I play music on the HD2's speaker the music stops almost immediately after turning off the screen. I read that Mortplayer shouldn't have this issue.
It's probably the WiFi and the bluetooth connections that keep the HD2 alive for some minutes and after their timeout puts the phone to sleep.
There's probably a similar registry key hack that will fix that for you. I hope somebody finds it!
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I have a bunch of radio channels that I love to use. Unfortunately my standard players (Pocket Music and Pocket Player) won't work. The HD2 turns off after a few minutes no matter what I set the power settings to. So I tried to stream with the built in Streaming Media Player, but couldn't get anywhere. The stations I use are OGG. what formats can this player play? Only the rather obscure RTSP from streaming media players?
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Hi Mastiff, what app did you find best to use with streaming radio? Would be great if you could share some setting or xml file that contain radio stations list, so that I do not need to collect them from scratch (I live in Norway too..)
Actually I think I remember you from earlier! I use Windows Media Player, "Det enkleste er ofte det beste". Of course I use Pocket Music for anything else of music (video I watch in my home theater with a 2,5 meter wide screen, not on a cell phone!). As for my sttaions I simply use a reg file that puts the few stations I listen to (I'm a boring dude, I prefer news and facts, not music programs). Make this into a reg file and import it (P3 is there before I do actually listen to Pyro sometimes...):
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences\OpenUrlMRU]
"3"="http://straumr.nrk.no/nrk_radio_p3_m"
"2"="http://straumr.nrk.no/nrk_radio_alltid_nyheter_m"
"1"="http://straumr.nrk.no/nrk_radio_p2_m"
"0"="http://straumr.nrk.no/nrk_radio_p1_m"
Editing Registry... Thought some text or xml file with all settings could be kept... Anyway, I went to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences , but there is not OpenUrlMRU key there. Should I create new one? Not sure how to enter those HTTP references into registry...
No, you don't have to edit anything. The text is in the correct format to be imported, you copy from "REGEDIT" and down, with the last ". But you ned a program like Tascal RegEdit to import reg files. I didn't mention that because I'm so used to it. Sorry.
To my surprise I found out yesterday that turning off the screen while playing music over my bluetooth car stereo did not affect the music. It kept playing, while previously it stopped after a couple of minutes. I'm still using TCPMP.
And you haven't changed anything? I guess it's those HTC Gremlins again...or was that leprechauns?
Well I was forced to perform a hard reset a week ago, enabling myself to make a decent tweak list for my phone. As long as the HTC Langoliers stay away I'm OK with it . I'm still using a stock 1.66 Dutch rom.
Ok, so I just got started with Tasker and thought of a simple function I'd like it to automate for me. I'm having a hard time figuring this out so I'm turning to the XDA community. Basically, I'd like for it to be able to toggle the Media (A2DP) profile on my car's bluetooth connection for me. I want the profile to be off by default, but turned on when I launch media apps like music player, youtube, pandora, etc. The reason for this is that if I leave the media profile active but I'm listening to my iPod or XM, things like navigation or TiKl calls all get routed to the car, but on a different input than the one I'm listening to. So, I basically can't hear any of the sound from my phone unless I toggle the media profile off, but I need it to be on when I want to listen to music.
I looked through the settings of Tasker and did some googling, I can't seem to find any setting for Tasker to switch only the media profile of a bluetooth connection. But, I did read that Tasker can run a script. So, does anyone know how to write a script that would switch the media profile on and another script to switch it off? then I can just have Tasker execute the script under the right circumstances.
If there is another way to do what I want please tell me, thanks in advance for any help!