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how to shut screen without music stoping

hi wondering if you guys could help please. im trying to use windows media player with the screen turned off but when i play my music and then use the power button to turn the screen off my music stops. im using the power button because i have not got the key board on. thanks in advance

try a freeware called screenOff it's turn screen Off but all other things are still working

thanks works great

you could also just go into the buttons tab under options in media player and set a button for toggle screen right at the bottom

inspectorgadjet said:
you could also just go into the buttons tab under options in media player and set a button for toggle screen right at the bottom
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Exactly...most media players have this function built in. If yours doesn't give MortPlayer a try. It's nice and has this feature built in. I don't like the default theme with MortPlayer as it's ugly so I just installed the MyPod theme and it looks great.
Just download the app here
http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=download&entry=mp_program&action=list
You can get the skins from the zip archive here (go to the Old Skins link at the top)
http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=download&entry=mp_skins&action=list

hi Moh
if i use the power button to turn off the light when media player is running i find that the machine locks, requiring a reboot.
does anyone else have this problem? it has done it from day one.
to be frank i only use the ms media player because my sony bt headset slider buttons cannot control any of the other players that i have tried.

imaginarynumber said:
hi Moh
if i use the power button to turn off the light when media player is running i find that the machine locks, requiring a reboot.
does anyone else have this problem? it has done it from day one.
to be frank i only use the ms media player because my sony bt headset slider buttons cannot control any of the other players that i have tried.
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I have this issue also. Have to soft reset if I try to power off the device while a media player is running.

not had no problems with it failing to start up again once powerd off just use to turn me music off. not had that problem since i installed screenoff as above

just put the cover on the screen. I think that works

i have installed mortplayer 3.61-RC7 on my athena, but it updates my
screen to portrait mode when it starts...
this is normal ?
any chance to update the settings to forze landscape mode ?
thank's

Audio tweak

I just got my HTC Touch and I'm loving it. I used the built in Audio apps for the first time yesterday (Windows media,Audio Manager, and Music). They worked fine but all had the same quirk. When playing audio the backlight never turned off. I think that is acceptable for video, since you are of course looking at the screen, but for audio you should be able to turn the screen off to preserve power. Is there an option to do this or is it just an oversight.
I tried hitting the power button but it just put the phone in sleep mode and cut/paused the music. I settled for lowering the backlight to its minimum.

Try turning on the Backlight Timer. I think it's disabled by default.
I nornally have this timer enabled, but have the opposite problem that it would then turn off when using GPS navigation (iGuidance). So I now have it disabled.

Search and install a small program called psShutXP. It is quite a nice little program - one of the options it gives you is to shut off your backlight without putting your phone into sleep mode. You could also download GSPlayer, another multimedia program. It also gives you the option of turning off the backlight while music is playing (though you probably don't need to have another audio application installed).
Hope this helps!

You could also try S2P with S2U2. S2P is a very nice looking audio player that has coverflow type browsing. S2U2 is a nice looking screen lock app that will work with it and allows for the backlight to go off and still play music.

I haven't tried the apps listed above yet but mu backlight does go off after a while (as set in the backlight settings). It is the actual screen that doesn't turn off. In other words my screen dims after a set time of no user interaction, but the screen remains on. I'll also try psShutXP and maybe GSPlayer and I'll let you know that happens.
Thanks for the posts

Add the registry key (dword) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences
"UnattendedPlayback" and set to 1 and Windows Media will continue playing after you press the power button.

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Add the registry key (dword) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences
"UnattendedPlayback" and set to 1 and Windows Media will continue playing after you press the power button.
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You would think that it would be an option in media player. I installed psShutXP and it works good. I think that I'll pass on the reg tweak for now, but thanks (I don't feel like loading a reg editing prog.).

In Windows Media, you can set the center button to shut off the screen. Go to Menu - Options and scroll over to Buttons. Click on Toggle Screen and then the Assign button. I picked ENTER, which is the center of the dpad.
Don't know how this works in other programs, but seems (to me) like they should have a similar option.

The media Player option works great however the registry entry did nothing ( and yes I rebooted after the change) I have the Telus Touch P3050

Okay guys after hours and hours of searching and messing with my registry I found a SOLUTION for HTC Audio Manager to stay on after pressing the power button to turn off the screen/suspend........
It is sooooo simple I'm just shaking my head, no more using psshutxp or other screen toggles.
It keeps playing...yayyyyy
First open Reg editor and go to HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager\Config
Now create a new "DWord value" name it DisableSuspend and give it a value of 1
(You can also change the value of "enter suspend" to 0 but with my new key it should change it on reboot anyways)
This was done on a Sprint Touch

mond2 said:
I just got my HTC Touch and I'm loving it. I used the built in Audio apps for the first time yesterday (Windows media,Audio Manager, and Music). They worked fine but all had the same quirk. When playing audio the backlight never turned off. I think that is acceptable for video, since you are of course looking at the screen, but for audio you should be able to turn the screen off to preserve power. Is there an option to do this or is it just an oversight.
I tried hitting the power button but it just put the phone in sleep mode and cut/paused the music. I settled for lowering the backlight to its minimum.
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Both MortPlayer and Kinoma FreePlay are great music apps that will let you turn off the power. Mortplayer has a built in EQ. I used it and loved it for a long time till I plunked down the $30 for Kinoma Play, which freakin' rocks.

[Q] turning off screen during mp3 playback

How do i do this? i cant assign a button for it, i tried searching but those threads were recommending something called pocket shield, but isnt there a way to use the windows media player toggle screen function?
thanks

Use CorePlayer or Pocket Music...they both have features to switch off the screen.

Using Windows Media player you simply power off with the switch on top and the player continues.

take a look here for Windows Media and Core: http://www.ppcmobility.com/forums/showthread.php?t=603

Possible that there's a setting I wasn't aware of in WMP but - I found that when I used WMP for music and hit the sleep button at the top, the music stopped playing - although when I use the music player tab in the TouchFlo3D, it carries on uninterrupted when hitting the sleep button

i dont like the HTC media player, its much easier to search using windows media player.
i used to assign a key to toggle screen when i had my touch dual, but on the HD i cant assign any keys.
any help? if possible i dont want to download a third party media player.
at the moment im just letting the screen turn itself off, but doing so risks my pocket touching the screen and doing stuff

My 2 cents
well I use TF3D for my music needs (it's enough for me) and my solution to turning the screen off (without headphones in, since with them it's not an issue) is with Gyrator which I have set to turn the screen off when I turn the HD upside down.

Just switch off the screen with your power button. It works regardless of whether you're using Coreplayer or native TF3D music player or FM radio. But the wired headset must be plug in for it to work.
An additional tip:
Since the screen is blanked out, how do you change volume and switch channel/song?
My way of doing this is to install AEBplus, and make single press of volume buttons Up and Down arrow key, and double press (you can use long press too, if you so prefer) as volume up and down. In this way, you need not get out of blank screen in order to skip or repeat songs, or to change channel.

Is there anyway of doing this via the htc player from the today screen?
I like the convenience of playing music from this screen. Just need the display to switch off.
Prefer not to install another player then have to search for it to play a bit of music.

Screen off while listening media player

I want to turn off the screen while listening to the media player on the speaker. Normally this can be fixed by configuring a hardware button.
Open up Windows Media Player on your Pocket PC
Tap Menu > Options > tap the right arrow to toggle over to the Buttons tab
Tap the Buttons tab and scroll down the page to the end until you see the "Toggle Screen" option. Tap it to highlight it, then tap the Assign button and then press the button you 'll press to toggle the screen on or off.
Tap OK at the top of the screen and you're done.
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However, I can not find a button which works. Has anyone an idea to fix this?

yep me too
yep, i have this problem too. like to go to sleep listening to the player but then the light stays on the whole time!

any update

A work around
I have had the same problem. My solution is to use AE button plus.
I've assigned Volume up key as follows. 1 click - up arrow, 2 click - page up and long click - volume up.
(Similar for down volume)
Next in media player I assigned up volume key to toggle screen.
Now when I 1x click volume up the screen toggles, but if I long click I get volume bar which then allows volume keys to work as normal ie Single clicks up/down volume.

alternatively if you're just listening to music you could install nitrogen player. which is far better than the standard media player (imo)
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-nitrogen-player.html
just press the 'power' icon and the screen will switch off and the audio continue to play.

tracksuit said:
alternatively if you're just listening to music you could install nitrogen player. which is far better than the standard media player (imo)
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-nitrogen-player.html
just press the 'power' icon and the screen will switch off and the audio continue to play.
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Pocket music is also good

Nitrogen! It's superb. And, the volume buttons still work with the screen off (although the latest build links its own volume to the system volume which causes problems - I use v1.0 which leaves system volume separate).

You can use PowerOptions to turn off the screen while listening to music, see here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544475

Trick
Hi,
This is a trick that works with the Touch.
1. play some music with the Headphones jacked in
2. with the headphones still in, turn off the screen
3. pull out your headphones and the mediaplayer will use the built in speaker, even though the screen is OFF.
try it and report the results
no warranty, since it works with my Touch, but I don´t know, it may work with the Diamond II.

Didn´t work
Uhmmmm!!
I got my Diamond 2 last weekend and I tried this without success.
Sorry guys

core player blank acreen

hi,
i have a question about the core player using the blank screen function as a hotkey. everytime pressing the hotkey for blank screen while the player is playing music with the screen turned off... so far so good but when i press the hotkey again the the coreplayer closes but the music is still playing. so i have to open the core player again to change the music or to turn it off. now my question: is it possible that i press the hotkey button (while the player is playing music with the screen turned off) and i come back to the coreplayer screen instead closing the program?
regards
zooyorke

does nobody have an idea?