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?
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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.
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Firstly, a big thanks to everyone for all their help. As a relatively, well, simple user this forum has been great.
Something else I was wondering was that on my old pda it was possible to listen to music with the screen off (to save battery). It seems on the Atom this is possible as when I put it in standby mode the radio remains on, however when I try this using Media Player or TCPMP the music stops.
I have noticed that music does continue if I turn the backlight off, however as this does not seems to completly turn (the screen or the backlight) off, the battery is still used more than in standby mode ..... any ideas ?
It's possible that the radio is just independant hardware, like the phone (eg on the magician you can switch the phone to standby and still remain in a call).
But TCPMP etc are running software, so I think the best you'll get is screen off for those apps. There are certain power saving features you could implement, but screenoff is probably best for saving juice.
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Hmmm ... seem to of missed the obvious with my own question. TCPMP comes with the option to assign "Screen Off" to a hotkey within the settings menu. With this done I can turn the screen off completely, keep the music (and phone) running and save precious battery life.
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?
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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...........
Can I make it so when I stream something coming from windows media play I can turn off the screen and just listen, and the backlight is off. It stays on while it streams my xm radio. Kinda like when you in a phone call and after a minute or so the screen goes blank, but you can keep talking.
Press the power button and the screen turns off, ace..
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Press the power button and the screen turns off, ace..
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Which also shuts down windows media player or the xm satellite streamer, ace. Unless this is only a default setting that can be changed, the original poster needs another solution.
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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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...
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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
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didn't knew that one
hey so todays the first day i used the td2 as a music player. i already had the power and screen savings to make teh screen automatically shut off after 1 minute of inactivity. but i had music playing from teh tf3d and after about an hour, my battery was almost depleted because the screendidnt turn of the whole time. is it just my device? or is there a setting for this?
Go check settings > personal > power/battery and see what the settings for the screen are there.
backlight off after 10s, turn off screen after 1 min, and autobacklight check, thats about all taht there is in power settings
it is just a standard behavior.
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it is just a standard behavior.
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No it is not, I've checked on my phone and the screen turns off in both WMP and TF3D2 music player (music does not stop when screen goes off either) so I don't know what you're talking about. BUT, when I press the powerbutton manually so the screen goes off, the music stops.
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No it is not, I've checked on my phone and the screen turns off in both WMP and TF3D2 music player (music does not stop when screen goes off either) so I don't know what you're talking about. BUT, when I press the powerbutton manually so the screen goes off, the music stops.
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If your listening with headphones, then even on pressing poer button manually doesn't stops the music...but if hearing through phone speaker, then it stops....this is true for TF3D2 music player atleast...
ArtieQ said:
No it is not, I've checked on my phone and the screen turns off in both WMP and TF3D2 music player (music does not stop when screen goes off either) so I don't know what you're talking about. BUT, when I press the powerbutton manually so the screen goes off, the music stops.
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My D2 turns backlight off (it is OK, music continues to play) and later - device (display is completely off, music stops), even when I uncheck "turn off display/device" in power settings ...
How can I enable normal music playing ?
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How can I enable normal music playing ?
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Download some other media player like Nitrogen or Coreplayer where you can set the option to keep play music even if device is in sleep mode or w/e.