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Having had my XDA 2 now for a few weeks, and having finally worked out most of the kinks of the really inadequate bluetooth stack (by installing the widcomm stack) I am now moved to address my other annoyances: the very feature poor phone software.
I expected a very configurable phone, but was very disappointed with the microsoft dailer. The short list of features I find missing are:
No separate ring tones can be assigned to each contact. This could be very usefully, as you would know who is phoning without checking the screen.
No software to keep track of your calls or GPRS allowance. Even my old nokia from 3 years ago could do that.
No way to transfer a call from the handset to a headset. I know you can do it the other way around, why not this way too?
Very little status information on the dailer screen. Why is this,when most cell phone screens look like the status display on a jet?
Anyways, there is alot more, and people may want to add their annoyances. Im really wondering if there is any software that can replace the microsoft Dailer (like Pocketinformant replaces the pocket outlook).
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Surur
Took me a minute to know what you're talking about.
No, I hate the built-in dialer on the Pocket PC.
The author of mobidial (http://www.mobidial.com) told me there will be an XDA II version.. hopefully soon.
-arebelspy
hey,
just a few comments....
re: No separate ring tones can be assigned to each contact
- i beleive the o2 xda site has free software for download; one of which is called powercontacts. i believe it allows you to assign a ringtone to each contact. i tried it when i still had the xda1...never got it to work. so, i downloaded a trial version of ringtonex; it works like a charm and i'm able to assign individual ringtones to any contact i want. i immediately bought the software, i think it was for around 9usd. now that i'm using the xda2; the software still works great. for ringtones what i did was record the voice of my friends, officemates, my wife, and used those wav files for ringtones corresponding to their contacts. it also works in tandem with the photocontacts app in the xda2
re: No way to transfer a call from the handset to a headset
-the xda2 has bluetooth and i use it together with the bt200 headset. incoming and outgoing calls are automatically transferred to the headset.
2 cents worth.
cheers mate
robson
Transferring from phone to headset is a headset dependent thing. My HBH-65 allows me to transfer to phone and back to headset, but my Jabra wouldn't have.
Thx for the great pointers. I am definitely getting the RingtoneX app, and mobidail or something similar, when it comes out.
I just wish that developers would design more for handed use, not using a stylus, especially as bluetooth voicedailing does not work.
About transferring to a headset, I mean after you pick up a call with the XDA, transferring the call to a headset should be possible, but has not worked for me yet.
Another minor peeve, why is the sms option not on the dialler, but on the menu bar, and why is speaker phone also not on the front, but you have to press a key for it. There still needs to be alot of improvement. Hopefully independent programmers will kick in and fix all these deficiencies. It does make you wonder if the developers actually use their own devices or not...
Surur
Very little status information on the dailer screen. Why is this,when most cell phone screens look like the status display on a jet?
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i think it's because that most cell phones screens is their version of the today screen
i most surdenly would not wish such a confusing cluttet messy interface on my worst enemy
(yeah of cause not all cellphones are all that bad some many are)
I dont know. At least they should have the battery status on the screen, and the network logo would not be ammis either (currently its difficult to know when you have no reception, or just no reception)
Alot of the stuff thats currently in the task bar could also be bigger icons on the dailer, and it would also make it look less plain and just incomplete, as if its been thrown together at the last minute.
Surur
well not sure if it's much help but if you install some bar like advanced wisbar on your pda you'll have batt status in the bar both in today and the dialer
suppose this is a pre customised vs. free 3. party customising
some people like to set up their device with personal customising and some people want the place they buy it to handle that
in that way i suppose xda and other such devices are more like computers then std phones are
of cause if one get a xda with all the stuff in the preloaded provider rom they get more of that stuff you want
of cause thats not saying that they get enough
Ive been a user of Icbar for a long time, but as notifications is so important on a PPCPE device, and its not supported, I am not able to use it anymore. This is unfortuanate, as I enjoyed knowing what my battary status is all the time.
Surur
If you want to use your finger to dial contacts try Fingerclix by imaginet software. I used it on my Samsung I700 and now my I-Mate and it works just fine.
http://www.imaginet-software.com/index.aspx?p=fingerclix_en
This is brilliant. It would be even better if it could use the phone key insteadof loosing my contacts button. Any idea how to do htis.
Thx
Surur
vetie said:
If you want to use your finger to dial contacts try Fingerclix by imaginet software. I used it on my Samsung I700 and now my I-Mate and it works just fine.
http://www.imaginet-software.com/index.aspx?p=fingerclix_en
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Thanks Vetie for posting the link also can somebody post the link for RingTonex. Man this is great stuff! 8)
Qman said:
Thanks Vetie for posting the link also can somebody post the link for RingTonex. Man this is great stuff! 8)
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http://www.mtux.com/info_ring.aspx
-arebelspy
Okay, I went against everything I know and bought the software untested. Boy do I regret it.
I have a Cingular 8125. I installed PocketZenPhone and instantly started having problems. The unit now plays the Activesync noise about every five minutes for no aparent reason.
Last night I went in to customize the settings for bed and my phone lost it's cell connection and couldn't place calls. I soft reset the unit and still no service. I reset PZP back to it's default settings, no service. I deleted PZP and still no service. It took a hard reset to restore my cell service. I just re-installed PZP and it's doing the same thing.
Whenever I go into Tools and try to scroll thru the different modes with the arrows, it pops up the "Save Changes" dialogue even though I didn't change anything. I click on "Cancel" and it goes back to the mode I was trying to change. I try to view and it goes to the "Save Changes" screen again. There's no way to view the other modes without saving changes that I haven't made.
I DO NOT recommend buying this software. The author should make a demo available to test on your unit.
Incidentally, the only other apps I had installed were Pocket Informant, Resco Utilities, Registry Wizard, SKtools, WiFiFoFum and Flexmail. None of the programs had been changed in days. The no service problem started after install PZP.
Anyone else with similar issues?
my phone started doing the constant active sync noise too and I could never figure out why. It still does long after uninstalling PZP. I wonder if theres a way to fix this without a hard reset. Maybe I'll just wait till I upgrade the rom, but I've been putting off upgrading because I wanted to wait for a new version that had a clock instead of a battery icon at the top.
I just downloaded the PZP beta 6 and I'm going to give that a try.
As for the ROM upgrades, I'm baffled. I've unlocked my phone and I have the ROM from this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=45295, I just don't know if I want to install it.
I just posted at the developers site and I'll see what he has to say.
Glad I'm not the only crazy one :wink:
WOW
after installing the pocketzenphone I had to Hard reset because it would not boot up anymore, thats really @#$% up, the good thing is I had a backup... but very upset because I kinda like the idea of this software. Oh Well, anybody else has/had this problem?
WOW PZP never did those things to my 8125. I have the orginal rom installed never changed anything like that. I did find that I has some phantom alerts and I could never figure out what the heck it was trying to alert on as it was not any messages or appointments, I tossed it up to just a crazy check that I could never find in the options. But after I went through and customized all the settings for each profile the way I liked it, the phantom alerts ended.
It never locked up my phone, although my phone does routinely loss signal and goes into search mode for about a 1-2 minutes randomly during the day and that I can't solve or blame on any one thing!!!!! It is the most annoying bug of the phone so far.
I ended up giving up on PZP, yes after I purchased it with no trial, and moved onto PhoneAlarm, skinnable and it worked and was easy to see why the hell it was alerting you and was easy to dimiss... So at $20 it was a bit steep but I like the functionality and it worked for the most part. It still does not play nice with the back light, but I think I figured out settings to minimize it turning off the back lighting vs setting it to a lower value.
No I doubt you are crazy, PZP seemed to be a good profile switcher and an alright repeating alarm notification. There are acknowledged problems with having it switch profiles based on calendar events, but I really don't use it for that so I did not try it out....
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I DO NOT recommend buying this software. The author should make a demo available to test on your unit.
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well, instead of complaining i'd suggest to conact PZP's author and submit it as a bug. it's always so easy to complain, isn't it..? but remember - not everything is perfect and if you'd like it to be perfect or almost-perfect - give a feedback to author. i'm sure he would like to make his application as best as he can, but without any feedback he won't do anything in that matter!
i'm using PZP without any problems, i really don't know why do you and others have such issues, but personally i think PZP is really good piece of software. there are few things which i don't like and i wrote it to author. he responded quite quickly, thanked for feedback and said that some new stuff is coming with new 6.0 version. however, whole case's bottomline is - FEEDBACK IS VERY IMPORTANT. always.
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bl4h said:
I DO NOT recommend buying this software. The author should make a demo available to test on your unit.
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well, instead of complaining i'd suggest to conact PZP's author and submit it as a bug. it's always so easy to complain, isn't it..? but remember - not everything is perfect and if you'd like it to be perfect or almost-perfect - give a feedback to author. i'm sure he would like to make his application as best as he can, but without any feedback he won't do anything in that matter!
i'm using PZP without any problems, i really don't know why do you and others have such issues, but personally i think PZP is really good piece of software. there are few things which i don't like and i wrote it to author. he responded quite quickly, thanked for feedback and said that some new stuff is coming with new 6.0 version. however, whole case's bottomline is - FEEDBACK IS VERY IMPORTANT. always.
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I agree with eva_d:
1. No major problems for me on a TMO-USA MDA. I am using the Version 6 Beta 10.
2. I find it very useful. There are a few minor issues, but...
3. The developer of PZP is very responsive. Visit http://zendrui.free.fr/PZPForum/ and leave a message... and/or check out the newest beta to see if your problems aree already solved!
well, instead of complaining i'd suggest to conact PZP's author and submit it as a bug. it's always so easy to complain, isn't it..? but remember - not everything is perfect and if you'd like it to be perfect or almost-perfect - give a feedback to author. i'm sure he would like to make his application as best as he can, but without any feedback he won't do anything in that
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What the h*** are you talking about??? The guy bought, I repeat BOUGHT, as in spent money, the software and he is entitled to complaining as much as he wants if the product he purchased didn't deliver what was promissed. Yes, he should contact the developer and ask for a solution/ refund, but complaining and letting other potential buyers know about the issues is exactly the type of stuff that puts pressure on the companies to work hard to deliver good products and be responsible for their mistakes when they start selling a deffective product. I too had problems with PZP, but since I was using a trial, I simply uninstalled it. Great concept, not reliable AT ALL.
Man, am I tired of J.A.'s that act as if they were a superior form of life that's burdened with the task of teaching lesser beings moral values and forum rules. Gimme a break!
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What the h*** are you talking about??? The guy bought, I repeat BOUGHT, as in spent money, the software and he is entitled to complaining as much as he wants if the product he purchased didn't deliver what was promissed. Yes, he should contact the developer and ask for a solution/ refund, but complaining and letting other potential buyers know about the issues is exactly the type of stuff that puts pressure on the companies to work hard to deliver good products and be responsible for their mistakes when they start selling a deffective product. I too had problems with PZP, but since I was using a trial, I simply uninstalled it. Great concept, not reliable AT ALL.
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this is EXACTLY what i mean! i can understand complains, it's totally acceptable, but don't forget that developers want hear these complains as well - in some reasonable way of course - to make their products better. but if you just give a **** and nothing else, don't expect anything more...
well, instead of complaining i'd suggest to conact PZP's author and submit it as a bug. it's always so easy to complain, isn't it..?
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I think I have every right to complain. I did contact the author and he had me upgrade to version 6. I did and it seems to have alleviated all of my problems.
Thanks eva_d and malencar for the backup! I didn't mean to come off as totally slamming the programmer, but if I can keep other people from having to waste their money, great.
So after a month of issues with my Wing locking up anytime I try to use the keyboard, it apparently is an issue with the stock ROM. So here's what I'm looking for and cannot find ANYWHERE (yes, I've searched and asked before in another thread and got no where).
I want a calendar option where I can have multiple calendars on the phone. At work, I have 3 schedules/calendars I look at and would like one for personal use. My problems with the phone started when I tried to use the calendar for the first time and it only has been worse since. I'd like to correct that and give me the option to keep updated with multiple schedules.
I also do not want to give up MS Excel/PowerPoint/Word. I use the Wifi quite a bit, well did before I couldn't type anything without freezing, so I can't lose that or MMS/SMS texts. I need all the basic stuff but wouldn't mind trying out the slide to unlock or the cube as everyone says. My buddy has the Touch and the cube is kinda cool but it's not a must. Games, I'll take as many as I can get! I've tried using emulators for SNES games (Punchout rules!) and it just never worked right. I'm a solitaire junkie (84 seconds, beat that!) but wouldn't mind others like freecell, tetris, bowling, Hold'Em or whatever would be good "sitting on the john" time killers.
Can anyone here help me? The main thing is the calendars which I cannot find with searching for almost an hour at work today. haha!
oh yeah, and if something could overclock it for faster speeds, I'd be happy unless the new ROM is fast enough. The weather feature would be really nice as well. Any other cool features I should know about??
At the moment I'm using TTran's open touch biggy 4.0. I was using itje's touch it 2.3 before, and liked it alot, but that phone broke and when I got the new one I wanted to try something new. Pretty much everything you need is included in it, and it runs very fast and smooth. I highly recommend it.
So with that, I can have multiple schedules? Is it possible to relabel them?
Am I looking for something that just isn't made or does no one understand what it is I'm looking for? I'm trying to get this to work for my work but I need multiple schedules.
It doesn't exist that I know off... unfortunately, ActiveSync and pocket outlook will not allow multiple mailboxes/addressbooks/CALENDARs. I wish it did... but it doesn't. At least there isn't any way that I'm aware off.
Ugh! someone should get to modding! I bet enough people would use it to justify the time. Plus, I'll throw in $20. haha
screw it. I'm going to flash the Open Touch 4.0 Biggy in a day or two when I have time. My only question is, do I download the file to the computer and put it as it is on the Wing or do I unzip it then put the "MyFirstROM" folder on the wing? It just says d/l it then open. Open on which machine? Also, I did a backup of my contacts to the card but if I flash it, will reloading from the software give me all my contacts back? What do i need to do so I don't lose a TON of contacts?
I am assuming you haven't used Hard-SPL yet? You have more to do than just flash a ROM
I've read on here you don't have to Hard-SPL to go with a new rom unless it calls for it and the Open Touch 4.0 supposedly doesn't need it. Am I wrong?
I had the stock tmobile rom, and I updated to Open Touch 3.0 without Hard-SPL and mine runs fine. I think for other roms, you may have to, but usually the rom will specify it.
I have made a program for my girlfriend wizard so she can talk with skype using the earpiece instead of the loudspeaker...
It might be useful for others too, use it at your own risk, I do not take responsibilities for any damage made by this program...
It also may work with other phones, it is a matter of trying... of course again, at your own risk.
It is very simple, just run the program before a skype call and then bring it up and press "ok" to close.
If someone knows tha if skype broadcast some sort of message while making a call, please send the information to me so I can make a auto-switching program ;-)
Do not let the program running because you can really mess things around, but nothing serious... just annoying.
standalone exe file, do not sell it!!! it is free!!
Thanks.
Check the new program, at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=469223
Thanks man, I don't need it at the moment, but it is great idea.
this is a fix that a lot of ppl have been waiting for but unfortunately it doesn't work on my tytn 2. is there any way that you can make a universal switch or one for the tytn 2?
can someone use this fix to auto-switch when wm6 voip call is comming in?
This is brilliant, brilliant!!!!
I suggest you repost this as VOIP: Audio redirection to earpierce and hopefully the mods can make this a sticky. This is a problem that has baffled many for long.
I've tested with both Express Talk and WM6 VOIP. However WM6 VOIP has got an issue on my phone where the volume is low with lots of noise. However in both cases,the app redirected the audio to the earpiece. Express talk is crystal clear through the earpiece and is what I'll be using for VOIP calls.
Would you care to elaborate on what issues we can expect if we leave the application running for long?
one small problem is after running this .exe, i am unable to key lock my device. so as i speak over the earpiece of skype i have the tendancy to press buttons (eg. hangup) with my face.
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Would you care to elaborate on what issues we can expect if we leave the application running for long?
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pmugabi:
you wont hear your phone ring at all if you leave the device running. all the sounds and notifications that come through the loudspeaker will all now come through the earpiece!
would vibrate still work?
To answer my own question, I tested it and it does! (Well I tested it on my Tilt and it worked)
My own problem now is finding a ROM that works with Skype and Troca2. The one I have now will not use the mic on the phone (whether troca2 is running or not). Either way I am making progress towards my Skype only wizard!
SKYPE and FRING on Sony Xperia X1
Have you managed to make this software automatic??
It may be a good idea if the software would work for FRING and SKYPE only without redirecting ALL the sounds.
Is it possible??
Best
Michael
I am having a issue with audio not coming out as mono on MP3 files will this work for that?
hello,
could you please make this run on WM2003 also ? i need this for my HTC magician.
thank you in advance...
MarceloFB said:
I have made a program for my girlfriend wizard so she can talk with skype using the earpiece instead of the loudspeaker...
It might be useful for others too, use it at your own risk, I do not take responsibilities for any damage made by this program...
It also may work with other phones, it is a matter of trying... of course again, at your own risk.
It is very simple, just run the program before a skype call and then bring it up and press "ok" to close.
If someone knows tha if skype broadcast some sort of message while making a call, please send the information to me so I can make a auto-switching program ;-)
Do not let the program running because you can really mess things around, but nothing serious... just annoying.
standalone exe file, do not sell it!!! it is free!!
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Thanks for your great share!!!!
Does it work on X1?
I think WM2003 is too old to run
Code ... maybe?
Hi MarceloFB,
This works great on my Xperia X1 (didn't try it with Skype, just my own VOIP app). ... Also have not tried it on my TytnII, don't even think I'm going to bother, since the TytnII hardware (as far as I know) won't support it.
I would, however, love to just put the API call into my own VOIP app instead of having the extra executable.
I have tried:
waveOutMessage( hWaveOut, /*MM_WOM_FORCESPEAKER*/WM_USER + 2, FALSE, 0 );
... as I thought that was the way to redirect the sound on devices where the hardware supports it, but that does not seem to work.
Would you maybe be willing to let me know what API calls you make in your app?
Regards
Hendrik
Hi ...
.... Nevermind ... got it working .... and on TytnII as well
Perfect
Works fine with Fring, Thanks, any idea why Skype 2.5 Beta crashes on Xperia when trying to make a call?
Works on Hermes
I've been testing express talk: http://www.nch.com.au/talk/index.html and your app reroutes the audio perfectly.
Where do I send beer? I would love a today plugin.
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Hi ...
.... Nevermind ... got it working .... and on TytnII as well
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Is it possible to guide us how you changed your API to make it automatic ?
I don't know why nobody continued this thread. It is a big problem for all of WM users .
I have WM 6.1 and still the same problem . Damn Microsoft cannot fix this issue ?
Take a look at the first post, I have made a new program with automatic switch, and need people to test it and give some feedback, I intend to make corrections as bugs appears.
Hello all, I am posting this because everyone here is complaning to each other that their SMS doesn't work and they are waiting for someone to do something about it. Well one problem, I just called HTC and they "had no clue that this was an issue with the phone". Well I know I cant be the only one to call but apparently they need more of us to contact them so every tech support person there knows exactly what is wrong with this phone.
Well thats where we all come in... CALL their Tech support at 866.449.8358 and let them know how bad the problem really is. There are enough of us here that we can get them off of their backsides and start figuring this problem out with a real fix.
Please take the 20 minuites it takes to let them know that we will not sit here and deal with our 500 dollar phone not working like it should.
i don't have that problem anymore, IF i use the normal keyboard, i DO HAVE it if i use swype. I have grown accustomed to it as swype is something that i installed thats not put in a stock UK ROM. Once i installed the stock WWE 1.66 rom the sms lag issue with the default keyboard was NO longer there.
I take it your not using swype?
Dan
No swype is even worse on mine. I know this isnt just mine and my girls phone. There are over three pages of seperate threds that state the same problem over and over and HTC acts like my call was the first time they heard about it!
nothing????? This is why it will never get fixed. Unless one of the people here decides to devote their whole week to writing a whole new program!
lag
I have european hd2, using on att edge . I had problems until i started deleting my messages regular. & also set to delete the deleted messages immediately, "recycle bin" I use swype, no problems. Might be just cause I'm not 3g? Don't know?
If they don't know it is because they don't talk within the company, cause I have contacted them several times. They just didn't want to admit the problem. So if not admitting to the problem = not knowing it exists - then yes, maybe they don't know...
HD2 works fine with small number of messages. you need to delete them from inbox and deleted items every few days.