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I have searched and searched, but can't seem to find out if anyone has figured out a way to remove or disable SnapVUE completely.
I never use it, and I don't use the 3G modem so I don't need it at all.
It drains the battery and is annoying the hell out of me.
Is there any way to remove it, prevent it from starting or anything ?
-mortenft
Hmmm. I have always heard the other way.
MortenFT said:
I have searched and searched, but can't seem to find out if anyone has figured out a way to remove or disable SnapVUE completely.
I never use it, and I don't use the 3G modem so I don't need it at all.
It drains the battery and is annoying the hell out of me.
Is there any way to remove it, prevent it from starting or anything ?
-mortenft
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I have always heard the other way of getting rid of Windows Vista and run more versatile SnapVue/Windows Mobile. You are the first one to ask kill SnapVue and 3G Modem. My sicere suggestion is get rid of Shift and buy a decent netbook or UMPC like Samsung Q1, ASUS R2H, RAON Everun etc. They all can run Vista and you can add broadband modem always, if you need one.
Thanks
Ram
In SnapVUE go to Settings > Power > Advanced
Here you can set the device to turn of if not used. Check both boxes and then set the wait time to 2 minutes. Then wait 2 minutes... SnapVUE will shutdown and will not come back unless you reset it in Vista.
Can be very weird knowing if you have turned Vista on after doing this though. A little jiggleing of the on/off slide button will do it. The SnapVUE button will return you to a blank SnapVUE (its blank because it is turned off) but will not return you to Vista - you'll have to jig with the on/off button.
saiweb said:
My sicere suggestion is get rid of Shift and buy a decent netbook
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If there was some way of selling my Shift for a decent price (compared to what I paid for it) then I would. However, selling it with $5-600 loss to buy a netbook doesn't make good economics too me. That is why I wanted to get rid of SnapVUE so it doesn't drain the battery, and I can actually use the damn thing as I intended, having it in my livingroom to do "quick surfing" etc.
Now, if I leave it unplugged for more than a few days, it is empty, and I have to plug it in and use it with the cable pluged in. then, the next time I want to use it again, I have unplugged it - and so the story goes.
A really expensive piece of sh*t is my oppinion
King Reeky said:
In SnapVUE go to Settings > Power > Advanced
Here you can set the device to turn of if not used. Check both boxes and then set the wait time to 2 minutes. Then wait 2 minutes... SnapVUE will shutdown and will not come back unless you reset it in Vista.
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I tried this. After 2 minutes the screen goes blank. Great I thouht - but I wanted to check - so I press the SnapVUE button and hey presto - it re-appears instantly - i.e. it's still sitting there draining my battery as far as I can gather...
Any ideas ?
Don't know why in my case the power options got screwy. From memory I had just liberated it (again, from a restored ROM) and installed some GPS software.
When it did disappear for me it was truely gone. No amount of button pushing would bring it back. So, I think that it is possible to turn the SnapVUE side off completely - just don't know how to replicate it. Sorry.
Had another thought - change your power settings while the Vista side is powered down.
*Correction* does not matter what the Vista side is doing. You need to ensure the SnapVUE side is in flight mode. I found that the 3G polling was keeping it alive. Can turn off SnapVUE at will now. So to recap, in SnapVUE 1. set the power options to turn of after 2 minutes. 2. Use connection manager to put the phone into flight mode. 3.Wait. SnapVUE will turn off and render the SnapVUE button useless. To switch to Vista use the on button.
if you don't want to have the snap viw, so why did you buy it from the begining????
The idea of Shift is to have two operating systems
Windows mobile + using it as 3G modem in Vista vies
and the Vista operating system (touch screen goodies)
My advice to you is to sell it and don't complaint
MortenFT said:
I have searched and searched, but can't seem to find out if anyone has figured out a way to remove or disable SnapVUE completely.
I never use it, and I don't use the 3G modem so I don't need it at all.
It drains the battery and is annoying the hell out of me.
Is there any way to remove it, prevent it from starting or anything ?
-mortenft
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it does not drain the battery... I have about 3 hours of use in Windows 7. I'm using snapvue only for call and gps... and I'm not sure that you will find any netbook being more interesting than the shift.
if you think that your snapvue drains the battery then try to make it the lightest as possible.. you can stop the display using pBar or psShutXP .. and sincerely, I don't see anything better than that.
the best in that, is that you can just switch to snapvue, without display and guess what... you can get about 4 hours of battery life for Win7 because snapvue save battery life...
I really don't understand comments like in this post !
Hello,
I have the same problem snapVue kill battery when is in suspended mode windows ! there are a way to exlude eprmanently ?
Thanks A lot
If you really want to get rid of SnapVue/WM side of your shift you may try to just disconnect it physically.
Take a look at Mike Channons Shift dismantling guide:
"10 Remove the 2 screws located
in the areas shown. They are
under the ribbon cable connecting
the hard drive to the motherboard.
Care is needed in this area. The
motherboard is in two sections,
one for the x86 side (intel
processor, GMA950 video, card
reader etc) and another for the
WM side.
The 2 parts are linked via a
connector that is secured by
those 2 screws. WHEN REASSEMBLING
CONNECTOR
MUST BE RE-ATTACHED
PROPERLY."
Take a look at this pic-
the connector is underneath your ssd.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/HTC-Shift-X9...Card-Reader-/331454463495?hash=item4d2c39be07
I never tried it, but maybe...
But to be honest- i don't think it is necessary.
The IOO ROM i actually use has some "turn off device after not in use for x minutes" functionality.
One enticement to keep snapvue is to install a legally-purchased TextMaker to an old Windows Mobile phone, then copy that softmaker directory over to snapvue.
The IOO ROM will provide just enough memory to run TextMaker, which essentially gives you a full-fledged word processor that will run for 17+ hours. Not bad if you're stuck in an airport, etc.
A direct .cab install is not possible (that I've found) since the installation demands double the space of the .cab file.
Jake
Hi Guys, hopefully someone can help me here it is driving me crazy - well, here is my issue.
Doesnt matter what PC I plug my HD into it doesnt get picked up, i looked in device manager and still nothing. Its like its not connected, but it shows on the phone that it is charging. And does charge.
Can someone please help?
Thanks!
Settings - Connection - USB to PC - uncheck 'enable advanced network functionality'
All that was there is ' Enable faster data synchronization '
No advanced network functionality. Im on Telstra NextG Network Australia with there crappy stock rom if that helps.
I'm looking at a stock Touch HD and you're right- they changed the name of the box. So uncheck 'enable faster data synchronization'.
I did but it is still not working.
I have also done a hard reset and restore to manufacturers default and still not working.
What kind of PC are you using? Is it XP? If so you need to download ActiveSync.
Using XP.. I have downloaded and installed Activesync. It used to be picked up on every pc and suddenly now it doesnt.
Opened Activesync ports in your firewall settings?
Yeah its all fine, its as though the PC doesnt even recognise it. Doesnt show up in Disk Management.
hi lucky
you're already the 3rd one with this problem.
if you plug-in the usb connector, is there a dialog popping up on your hd which let's you choose between synch or hd mode?
if not, welcome to the group of disapointed htc owners.
there is already a thread somewhere about this problem. i have exactly the same, but no one could help me until now.
at least i found a way to flash a rom. the usb connection was working for about 20 minutes. afterwards it broke down again...
try the following:
1. shut down hd
2. remove SD and Sim Card
3. plug in the usb cable
4. do a hard reset by holding vol up and vol down while you press the power button
5. confirm the hardware reset
6. when the hd is booting up again, it will do some kind of customization process. during this process active sync should come up on your pc. cancel the device setup in acive sync and wait until your hd is completely configured.
7. afterwards reconnect the usb cable and active sync should work for a while...
let me know if it helped. i'm still searching for a permanent solution for this problem...
Nope, didnt work at all.
Not even the choice to decide what I want to do pops up on the phone.
Do you think it could be a hardware fault?
I think it is a hardware fault because i did a SPL boot and instead of 'USB' showing in the white box "Serial" did.
It just seems wierd because it was working fine for 2 weeks and then it all the sudden stopped and I did no ROM flashing or anything.
Should I try reflashing my device through the SD card and see how I go from there?
did you try a different cable???
I have about 20 different USB -> mini USB and only about 2/3 of them work with phones !!!
Yeah ive tried all different cables, ive tried ones that work with my diamond but still dosent work with my hd.
luckyluke1137 said:
Hi Guys, hopefully someone can help me here it is driving me crazy - well, here is my issue.
Doesnt matter what PC I plug my HD into it doesnt get picked up, i looked in device manager and still nothing. Its like its not connected, but it shows on the phone that it is charging. And does charge.
Can someone please help?
Thanks!
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Are you getting anything popping up in device manager when you plug it in, in other words does the list refresh like it has detected a new hardware device or is it completely silent? I have seen it a couple of times where a device gets stuck as being recognized as something else. If the list does scroll (responds to the HD being plugged in) do a screen shot of everything in DM then plug the HD in and compare the lists to see if it is showing up as something else. If so, delete the device then unplug and plug in the HD again and have it reinstall the driver.
Good luck,
Gordo
I did what you said Gordo, and it doesnt show up inDevice Manager. Its as though its not even plugged in but for some reason it still recharges off the USB.
I guess about the only other thing I can think of is to plug it in on another PC and see if that computer tries to load a driver. If it does then it is something strange with your computer. If it doesn't then there is something bad with the USB port on the HD (maybe).
Gordo
Yeah I tried that but still nothing, im sending it back to Telstra, since its within 14 days of me getting it I get a whole brand new one!
thanks for your help guys
Active-sync , Data-connect Screen has disappeared when I plug in the phone. I have been trying to search on the forums for something related to this but I cant find anything. I just need to switch back to active-sync so I can flash a new ROM. Thanks for the help
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Active-sync , Data-connect Screen has disappeared when I plug in the phone. I have been trying to search on the forums for something related to this but I cant find anything. I just need to switch back to active-sync so I can flash a new ROM. Thanks for the help
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Hi syphen.
First, I would just try unplugging it and plugging it back in, if you haven't done that already. Every now and then the option doesn't appear for me until I do that.
If that doesn't work, go to your settings tab and pick "other" (down near the bottom of the list, you may have to scroll to get to it), and then "USB to PC", you'll then see the checkbox that turns that option on/off.
Sweet that worked thanks very much
I updated my phone (HD2 T-mobile) via internet website and when I finished the updating process, the phone did not work at all.
I tried more than once to switch it on, but it didn't respond. I took the battery out and put it in again, but nothing happened.
When I connect the phone with the charger, the charger light doesn't become on.
It seems that the phone is dead!!!. What do you suggest to solve this problem? If you think it is a hardware problem, what is the name of this hardware
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I updated my phone (HD2 T-mobile) via internet website and when I finished the updating process, the phone did not work at all.
I tried more than once to switch it on, but it didn't respond. I took the battery out and put it in again, but nothing happened.
When I connect the phone with the charger, the charger light doesn't become on.
It seems that the phone is dead!!!. What do you suggest to solve this problem? If you think it is a hardware problem, what is the name of this hardware
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Take a look at the battery pins. If thy look Okay and even then you can't power on your device, contact HTC service.
abusaaad said:
I updated my phone (HD2 T-mobile) via internet website and when I finished the updating process, the phone did not work at all.
I tried more than once to switch it on, but it didn't respond. I took the battery out and put it in again, but nothing happened.
When I connect the phone with the charger, the charger light doesn't become on.
It seems that the phone is dead!!!. What do you suggest to solve this problem? If you think it is a hardware problem, what is the name of this hardware
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Like Kurt already said, look at battery pins, but also clean battery contacts (wipe them clean with a clean, soft cloth)! Meanwhile take your SD card out in insert into PC. I do not know which ROM you have on your phone, but extract the RUU.....exe file to your desktop. There will then be a file called Custom_RUUsigned.nbh. Rename that to leoimg.nbh and copy to the root of your SD card. Reinsert SD Card into device and reinsert the battery. Try first if device will switch on. If not, take battery out again for 10-15 mins and reinsert, then press and hold vol down key and then press shortly the on/off button. If this works, you will enter bootloader screen and the ROM will be automatically installed into your device. Alas this also means that you lost all off your data on the device (hope you have a recent backup!). If this also doesn't work, try another battery. If that also does not work, send in for repair.
good luck and regards, Kuzibri
It's rather remarkable: you're HD2 died - as you state it - and you do not react to a possible solution for this problem! Or was the reply of Kurt enough to send it to HTC service? I had this problem numerous of times amd was able to revive it also all these times with the procedure I suggested to you.
If Kurt's reaction, which is of course right and logical, was enough to send it to repair, I really do not mind that and understand it, but it would be nice to get a response from you about what you did with your device, certainly when someone spends time and energy to try to solve your problem. Might also be possible that you're just away/not around and not available to answer. In this case, just forget this message or see it as not send.
regards, Kuzibri
So I've been having this odd issue I've been dragging for a while now since I think it's a lost cause, but maybe someone can help me here.
Way back when Nougat was rolling out I waited for several months but my device (XT1575 - not rooted or unlocked) wouldn't get the update notification.
So I looked in here and there were several easy guides to apply the OTA update via recovery manually, so I did so and it worked just fine.
After a couple of days, I noticed an odd thing where I didn't get notifications immediately and my wifi connection was like not on all the time if the screen was off... the second I turn on the screen, notifications start popping up so much that it's a clear sign some of them were just not getting received. (I don't have any power saver mode/app enabled and my 2nd phone works on the same wifi and is working fine).
Also, when I tried connecting the phone to my PC, it wouldn't recognize it anymore... quick-charge and USB-OTG are also not working at all (flash drives with a light will just blink once when inserted and then just stop working).
I took the phone apart, the USB connector looks brand new and is very sturdy, no broken solder points, dust or dirt anywhere.
I also used a multimeter to check and all contact points in the USB port have a good continuity connection to their contact points on the board.
Any ideas? I would love to unlock it and try to solve the wifi connection thing with a new/fresh ROM, but with no USB, I'm stuck :/
CyberMageIL said:
So I've been having this odd issue I've been dragging for a while now since I think it's a lost cause, but maybe someone can help me here.
Way back when Nougat was rolling out I waited for several months but my device (XT1575 - not rooted or unlocked) wouldn't get the update notification.
So I looked in here and there were several easy guides to apply the OTA update via recovery manually, so I did so and it worked just fine.
After a couple of days, I noticed an odd thing where I didn't get notifications immediately and my wifi connection was like not on all the time if the screen was off... the second I turn on the screen, notifications start popping up so much that it's a clear sign some of them were just not getting received. (I don't have any power saver mode/app enabled and my 2nd phone works on the same wifi and is working fine).
Also, when I tried connecting the phone to my PC, it wouldn't recognize it anymore... quick-charge and USB-OTG are also not working at all (flash drives with a light will just blink once when inserted and then just stop working).
I took the phone apart, the USB connector looks brand new and is very sturdy, no broken solder points, dust or dirt anywhere.
I also used a multimeter to check and all contact points in the USB port have a good continuity connection to their contact points on the board.
Any ideas? I would love to unlock it and try to solve the wifi connection thing with a new/fresh ROM, but with no USB, I'm stuck :/
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You said your flash drives were't working right? Then it's probably the motherboard on your computer or it's missing the correct drivers. Try testing the phone on another computer you can go to a local library if you can't use someone else's computer. Also go into your notification settings and make sure do not disturb is off and look at "when device is locked" and make sure it's set to show all notification content.
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You said your flash drives weren't working right? Then it's probably the motherboard on your computer or it's missing the correct drivers. Try testing the phone on another computer you can go to a local library if you can't use someone else's computer. Also, go into your notification settings and make sure do not disturb is off and look at "when the device is locked" and make sure it's set to show all notification content.
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I said the flash drives weren't working with USB-OTG (with the phone), not the PC... the flash drives are A-OK on the PC.
The Motorola drivers are the latest from Motorola and they manage to detect my Moto G2 without any issues.
I also checked the Moto X on two other PCs... neither the phone nor the PCs are detecting anything as being connected, apart for the phone getting a charge.
In the notification settings, in "On the lock screen" it's set to "Show all notification content".
One more thing I researched is the USB port pins... apparently, for the phone to detect a regular wall charger the DATA+ and DATA- pins are supposed to be shorted (connected together) via the charger.... if it's connected to a PC/smart device the pins are not supposed to be shorted.
I checked with several chargers and with all of them the phone displays (in the battery menu) that it's "Charging over USB" (PC) when it should have displayed "Charging on AC"... meaning that it doesn't even detect the short that the DATA pins are supposed to have.