I use my 614c as a Wifi-walkman using GSPlayer layer as a streaming audio player. This works well, however the battery life is very short because the phone never turns off the backlight but rather only dims it down. GSPlayer has a turn off display option which turns off the LCD but not the backlight. I suspect that this feature works correctly on other PDAs turning off the backlight but on 614c it just dims down.
Has anybody successfully been able to turn the backlight off while the phone is active? There is the "standby" mode where it turns off the backlight but that means that the phone just sleeps and it looses its wifi connection. You can't use this mode while listening to MP3s.
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I use my 614c as a Wifi-walkman using GSPlayer layer as a streaming audio player. This works well, however the battery life is very short because the phone never turns off the backlight but rather only dims it down. GSPlayer has a turn off display option which turns off the LCD but not the backlight. I suspect that this feature works correctly on other PDAs turning off the backlight but on 614c it just dims down.
Has anybody successfully been able to turn the backlight off while the phone is active? There is the "standby" mode where it turns off the backlight but that means that the phone just sleeps and it looses its wifi connection. You can't use this mode while listening to MP3s.
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May be you can try Slide 2 Play and use this trick :
The behaviour of S2P can be altered by changing the following registry values stored at \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\A_C\S2P\
- OffLCD - the no. of timeout seconds that S2P will turn off the screen when using battery; default is 25.
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albertorrent said:
May be you can try Slide 2 Play and use this trick :
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Does Slide 2 Play support steaming audio? I couldn't find anything about that in the specs.
sorry It doesn't play in streaming I didn't read all your message
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how do you turn the display to off, completely???
use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=469435
right corner below => settings => toggle screen...
happy usin'
OMG!!! In the words of borat: I KISS YOU !
you might know this already mendel but perhaps would help others, you can press the action button or the enter key to toggle screen as well. Schweeet
nope
didn't knew that one
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Is it possible for the wizard to continue playing music when in standby? or the best we can do is have the screen backgroung light timeout? Thanks
As I wrote in my review of the Wizard on TuxTops.com, it is unfortunate that there is no "hardware" lock button. There are two options you can have, but none is as good as a hardware lock slider would have been:
1. Use GSPlayer which has a "Turn Display OFF" menu option. However, the buttons are NOT locked during that time and so you can press stuff by mistake.
2. Use the built-in locking mechanism in the Today screen, which kicks in after a while. However, even on the smallest pressing of the screen or buttons, the screen will come up again (buttons will be locked, but still the screen will be ON again).
There used to be a very nice software called "ClearLock", that would turn off the screen and lock all the buttons on a PDA. Unfortunately, this doesn't work with the Wizard because Clearlock requires to press simultaneously the first and fourth button of the PDA to come back to life. And the Wizard does not use the traditional 4-button PDA layout, so after you get into lock mode with this utility, you can never bring back up your phone, until you soft-reset.
I use device lock...
choose the option to blank the screen...set it to a hardware button and your sorted
I listen to my MP3's with the device locked and the screen turned off
I use MortPlayer.
From homepage:
Screen saver (switch off display after some time or on button press) with optional button lock
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i tried using tcpmp and mortplayer... i find that the equalizer in tcpmp is higher quality compared to mortplayer.
i used to use pocketmusic as well, but i find it very slow on the wizard when using high quality eq. so i used tcpmp instead.
all support turning off the screen except that tcpmp is only able to turn off the screen with a click of button (if assigned).
vmirage said:
i tried using tcpmp and mortplayer... i find that the equalizer in tcpmp is higher quality compared to mortplayer.
i used to use pocketmusic as well, but i find it very slow on the wizard when using high quality eq. so i used tcpmp instead.
all support turning off the screen except that tcpmp is only able to turn off the screen with a click of button (if assigned).
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Did you guys know that you can put the device in standby mode and still play music? You can do it if you are using AD2DP. Yes, kiddies, it is possible.
Eugenia said:
1. Use GSPlayer which has a "Turn Display OFF" menu option. However, the buttons are NOT locked during that time and so you can press stuff by mistake.
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I don't understand why this doesn't work on Wizard, while on Magician auto display off deactivate hardware buttons and touch screen as I expected :-(
When i had my Wizard (k-jam) i would use TCPMP to play music through my Bluetake iPhono Mini Bluetooth Headphones. When i pressed the power button to enter standby mode the music would continue to play.
Now i have my nice new JasJam, i try to do the same however as soon as i press the power button it seems to enter a deep standby mode and the music stops.
When playing music i now have to remember to lock it everytime i put it in the belt holder or my pocket to stop opening applications and as the backlight keeps turning on it chews through the battery life.
So does anyone know of a way to keep music playing while in standby? Is this a hardware limitation of the Hermes?
Cheers
I am running the Imate Telstra (AUS) 1.3.1 ROM
Puckster said:
So does anyone know of a way to keep music playing while in standby?
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I use mortplayer, this is one of it's many features
Thanks pof, i'll give it a go.
I'm still curious why this worked with TCPMP / WMP on a rom with same AKU (2.3) on Wizard but will not work on the Hermes. Sometimes i think HTC must be half asleep when looking at certain aspects of new devices..
Never had a wizard, but the BlueAngel had the same problem as the Hermes has...
wmp and spbpocketplus have this feature
if you assign a button to this in wmp, you can use 'screen toggle' and it both turns off the display and locks buttons except the dpad. I use this daily to play music. played for 5 hours today and down to 90%.
(i was on gprs at the time)
spbpocketplus also has a screen toggle function that you could use. it does exactly the same thing.
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if you assign a button to this in wmp, you can use 'screen toggle' and it both turns off the display and locks buttons except the dpad. I use this daily to play music. played for 5 hours today and down to 90%.
(i was on gprs at the time)
spbpocketplus also has a screen toggle function that you could use. it does exactly the same thing.
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Thanks, i didnt even think about the Pocket+ screen toggle feature (i guess i was hoping for a reg hack). I tried the Pocket+ feature and it actually locks all buttons except power so this should sort me out.
wwwes said:
if you assign a button to this in wmp, you can use 'screen toggle' and it both turns off the display and locks buttons except the dpad. I use this daily to play music. played for 5 hours today and down to 90%.
(i was on gprs at the time)
spbpocketplus also has a screen toggle function that you could use. it does exactly the same thing.
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I tried to assigned a button going through the WMP's options>buttons>toggle screen, but it did not let me. Do I have to install the spbpocketplus to accomplish this?
I had the SX66 before and now moved to the Cingular 8525. My SX66 was able to go to the standby mode while playing th WMP by turning the power switch off. The screen got dimmed and all the button except the power button became disable. I don't exactly remember why mine could, but mine had the latest ROM and etc. It was a nice function and I miss it...........
Guys its one thing after another!
This thing is in urgent need of a Rom Update!
The back light doesnt turn off after the specified time! Not completely anyway.
What happens is that it just dims out to a very low backlight and still stays on!
The same thing happens even when its connected to activesync on the pc!
Anyone else experience this?
Thanks in advance for any help anybody can provide.
Dead Cell.
I think that is normal behavior. If you need your backlight off while the device is still running, I think there are 3rd party apps that can take care of that. The only time I want that option is when listening to music, and TCPMP can map a button to toggle the screen off.
If your phone is connewcted to PC then it's powered and stays on low light setting when not used. But if you disconnect it from power/pc, after a specified time, the screen turns off. At least on mine. However, when listening to music the screen never turns off.
mihaig said:
If your phone is connewcted to PC then it's powered and stays on low light setting when not used. But if you disconnect it from power/pc, after a specified time, the screen turns off. At least on mine. However, when listening to music the screen never turns off.
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My Prophet backlight used to go completely off while the device could actually be on, pressing the D-pad could bring the screen backlight on again. It was still possible to see that the screen was on by holding it up to a bright light.
When unplugged from the power supply, my observation has been that the Trinity back-light doesn't go completely off, it changes from normal brightness to very very dim, but not off. It goes completely off when the device goes into standby.
I use Mortplayer for listening to music, which has a feature that turns the screen off, not just the back-light, which saves a lot of battery power.
mihaig said:
If your phone is connewcted to PC then it's powered and stays on low light setting when not used. But if you disconnect it from power/pc, after a specified time, the screen turns off. At least on mine. However, when listening to music the screen never turns off.
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Not neccessarily... It has a setting on the Battery option where you can select the amount of time after which the back light goes off both on battery power and external power.
Anyway mine stays on even when its not connected to the PC ie, external power.
It just goes dim after the specified amount of time and stays like that untill the device goes off.
Thanks.
When you say 'goes off' do you mean 'enters standby'? When not connected my p3600 dims the backlight after 30 seconds. Two minutes later it enters standby (that's the time I set it up from settings). However it only enters standby if I don't listen to music.
Hi,
I noticed the same proble, I never the used the original Rom coming with the Trinity cos I bought it last Sat and I installed the DOPOD test rom with GPS support straight away.
With my TYTN when I'm on a call after a while (a minute) the screen togles, however with the TRINITY the screen stays on (brightness goes away) but still there (no togle).
Can somebody with a non-gps dopod rom confirm that they do not suffer this behaviour?
thanks,
Elsral
My Trinity is still original (Dutch). When in the backlight settings, I slide the indicator all the way to the left, the backlight still is on (very low, but it is still on).
A colleague of mine has a Hermes; when he does the same thing, his backlight is off completely.
Also, before the P3600, I owned an Ipaq 5550 which also was able to switch backlight off completely.
Hope this is corrected in a future ROM update...
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Hi,
I noticed the same proble, I never the used the original Rom coming with the Trinity cos I bought it last Sat and I installed the DOPOD test rom with GPS support straight away.
With my TYTN when I'm on a call after a while (a minute) the screen togles, however with the TRINITY the screen stays on (brightness goes away) but still there (no togle).
Can somebody with a non-gps dopod rom confirm that they do not suffer this behaviour?
thanks,
Elsral
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German Trinity Original ROM here. The device switches the screen completely off after the amount of time I have selected. It is the same behaviour that I know from my other pocket computers and it seems completely ok. Something wrong with the Dopod ROM?
Hi,
I found this program that allows you to turn off the backlight without having the phone in a sleep mode (called switch display). I am trying to link this program to audio manager so that when I listen to music the screen can be turned off but I can still use the audio commands easily. (My phone would not turn off because I use the exception on the S2U program for audio manager)
If it is not possible, maybe there is a way to use some registry tweak where instead of having the backlight being "off" through the phone program, it can be done by the switch display program. That way we can set it to turn off screen after let's say 1 min.
Any suggestions?
Anybody? Suggestion?
i use HTC's audio manager without S2U2, and when i listen to music it doesn't go into sleep mode but the lights go out... it's a default..
How is it set? I can't find any settings to do that. And my light never goes off (black) just dim.
Not sure if it is phone dependent. I have a tmobile wing with touch it 2.3 ROM on it.
go to power/screen settings and set everything you want over there. if it doesn't consider the exact thing you want i'm sorry..
Yeah not working, it dims it but it does not turn off the screen completely.
Use psShutXP and choose turn off display.
caribbean_spur said:
Hi,
I found this program that allows you to turn off the backlight without having the phone in a sleep mode (called switch display). I am trying to link this program to audio manager so that when I listen to music the screen can be turned off but I can still use the audio commands easily. (My phone would not turn off because I use the exception on the S2U program for audio manager)
If it is not possible, maybe there is a way to use some registry tweak where instead of having the backlight being "off" through the phone program, it can be done by the switch display program. That way we can set it to turn off screen after let's say 1 min.
Any suggestions?
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what verison of htc audio manager do you have. new version allow you to press the power button and still play music
irus said:
what verison of htc audio manager do you have. new version allow you to press the power button and still play music
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I can press the power button, but then I have to push it again if I want to do simple things like increase volume or change songs. With just the display off I can do this tasks easily.
Use psShutXP and choose turn off display
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I am using it but I was tring to use it so that it could start automatically when using audio manager. I figured out I could maybe just map switch display to a button. Thaat's the best I can do
Personally I use WMP with VC, I love it! Very easy, but some people think I'm crazy when they hear me yelling NEXT into a headset.
I'm using elfin running WM 6.1. The prob is that when i play a song in the audio manager and try to switch of the phone's display, the song stops playing. I used to do this in 6.0 and unfortunately this is not working in 6.1!(just to save power) Any thoughts on this?
bumpp... in no one's mind..?!!
Well... when the display goes off, the phone goes into a kind of "standby" mode, all in a effort to conserve battery power... even the wireless is turned off =)
dgcarter said:
Well... when the display goes off, the phone goes into a kind of "standby" mode, all in a effort to conserve battery power... even the wireless is turned off =)
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the reason why i posted this doubt is that, when i was using 6.0, the audio used to play even when the backlight is off.. now this is not happening in 6.1..
Yes, audio usually stops playing when the screen is off, its normal.
Some programs like coreplayer allow you to go the menu and press on the key that says, Turn off backlight, which will allow the music to continue to play.
If you use the Onyx ROMS, press and hold the power button and click on backlight.