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Annoying Device Lock

Hi All,
I have a VPA Compact II (Cingular 8125) and am synchonizing this with the Exchange Server of my company.
My company have set a policy that the device is locked after 15 minutes.
My problem here is that I am using a navigation software and during my ride the device igets locked every 15 minutes. Very annoying.
Anybody knows a solution for this?
Is there a way to keep alive the device?
Thanks

Ooops.
SOrry found the solution already.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=47912&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
Sorry again

Must.....get......feedback.....
rogierh,
Let me know how it works. I've received zero feedback on this. I'm curious if people are using it, but just not posting feedback or if its too damn complicated and I need to refine my directions.
Justin

Hi,
I just installed and configured it as you discribed.
Unfortunately my device still gets locked up after 15 minutes (from the policy).
Till the 15 minutes are over the device is kept alive. Normally the backlight would die after 2 minutes, it now stays switched on.
Any idea?
I used the short methode of step 3.
Thanks a lot for your help.

Couple of questions first....
1) What gps software are you using?
2) When you open SKScheMa, does it say "WATCH ON" in the lower right corner?
Justin

Using TomTom.
Yes its ON

I think its a wizard or WM5 problem as it happens with me when listening to MP3s too
Sucks having a 15min lock policy, as i just set a 1hr timeout for mine and its enough to stp it irritating you much.
Is there anyway you can just "Forget" the policy or are you unable to.

Try these files...
Delete the old sksc and sksw file and try these files.
If they work, I'll post them to the original thread (which you posted in your second post). Place these files as described in steps 2 & 3. Sorry for the headache.
Let me know if this works.
Justin

Hmmm sorry to say, still the same.
It keeps the device alive till the 15 minutes policy comes in.
Might this be some other kind of trigger?

Some new files....
rogierh,
Sorry for the headaches. What I'd like to try next is have you try a new set of files. The ones you tried yesterday was supposed to prevent the device from locking by simulating the pressing of the "home" key. I'm wondering if this key doesn't work on your Wizard (I'm using a Universal). These new files will now simulate the pressing of the "enter" button. (Just so you know, when I tested this program on my JasJar/Universal, I did find that using certain "simulated" keys would not work. So maybe the "home" key doesn't work on your Wizard.).
Now this will not be the end solution. When you press the enter key when TomTom is running, it will bring up the main menu. When you press the enter button a second time, it returns you to the navigation screen. I want to test to see if SKScheMa is running properly. If it is, when you launch TomTom and don't touch anything, you should be able to see the screen cycle between the main menu and the navigation screen every 58 seconds.
Let me know if you see this behavior.
Thanks
Justin

Hi,
First of all thanks a lot that you are helping out here.
It doesn't seem to work. The screen does NOT change to the menu and back.
One comment, because I have a German device (unfortunately) , the program is in German as well. But that should not be a problem with the script I think.
You mention in your guide do click to ok button on the right top side. This closes the program and I do not find it running when looking under the started programs in settings. Is this correct?
I also tried not clicking ok, but this does not change anything.
Just trying to think with you. Is the ENTER key the same code as on your device?
BR Rogier

German.....
Thanks for the info on German. My guess is that the application name may be different (i.e. it's not TomTom Navigator but rather a German title). There's a relatively easy way to check.
First open TomTom.
Next, press the 'contacts' button.
From there, you should see the Windows Start Menu. Go to Windows Start -> Settings -> System -> Memory -> Running Programs.
There should be a list of the applications running. Do you see "TomTom Navigator" or something else?
Thanks
Justin
P.S. I think the code will work on non-english versions, but only the developer can really answer that.

The Name of TomTom Navigator is the same.
Also the SKSchema Program is in German of course :-(
Is there an other option in SKSchema I can test to see if this is working at all?
(I am waiting on a new english ROM from our IT department.)

You can experiment and create some "watch" functions/programs. I recommend that you use the program to create some test cases. Here's a link to their instructions on how to create watch programs (and scripts too):
http://s-k-tools.com/skschema/skschema.0409.htm
For example, when I learned how this program work, I created "test cases" in the watch section of the program. Some things you may want to try:
When a program is running (make it easy by using Contacts, Calendar, etc), play a sound.
Once you've created this "watch" script, SKScheMa will "watch" for the program to be launched and when I sees that it has been launched, it will continuously play a sound while the program is running.
Once you've sucessfully completed the sound test, you just start customizing it to your needs. For example, the next test may be to simulate pressing a key when the application is running. The simulation of pressing a key should prevent your device from locking. Using this test, you can see if your device still "locks" after 15 minutes.
Justin
P.S. I'm sorry you're having so much difficulty. If I can help you further (not that I've really helped you thus far), please let me know.

He no worries, I will have a look this weekend.
Many thanks.
Rogier

Unlocked device and updated to english ROM (finally).
Will test again.

simulating the pressing of the "enter" button now seems to work. COOL.
Will test with the other file now.
:-D

Ooooooo YES!!!!!
I am a Happy Man. This works now.
Seems the German Version of the Utility does not liked the script or so.
On an Englisch ROM all seems to work fine.
Thanks a lot for your help.
Rogier

Congrats....
I'm glad it worked out. I can't help but wonder....why does the language make a difference. I'm not a programmer so I guess I'll never know.
BTW, you can use SKTools to keep other programs open too. Let's say you want to keep your device alive while surfing the internet. You can develop a similar script for Pocket Internet Explorer/Opera/NetFront. I use it to keep alive TomTom and iGuidance. Take care. Justin

Thanks a lot for the tip.

iPhone GUI upgrade free!

Here is the blurb I just found....
http://rychlicki.net/en/2007/04/01/174/
and here is the free download link...
http://rychlicki.net/inne/res_ppc-custom.icons.zip
Some of the buttons didn't work until I edited the .ini file enclosed but otherwise looks cool and works nice esp the lock/unlock slide thing.
UPDATE INFO:
Click this link for a VERY cool rewrite of this application;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1219757#post1219757
Nice work!!!!!!!

great find! i was hoping this would show up when i first saw the video. I got it loaded and it's pretty nice to work with. One question so far....where is the comm manager located on the 8525. Im trying to find the path so i can link the settings button to it but i cannot find it. Thanks!
Edit: This is a little bigger issue for me, my clock on the device it self it correct but in the iphone launcher app it is 4 hours ahead. How and hell do i fix this? Any help is appreciated

bodypilot said:
Some of the buttons didn't work until I edited the .ini file enclosed but otherwise looks cool and works nice esp the lock/unlock slide thing.
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How did you edit the .ini file?

^^^ Same question here.
I have no issue updating. I just don't know what to do.
I downloaded and will run the file. I will take a closer look.
PS: WICKED FIND! I was starting to think that it was lost to us.

pasil.pt said:
How did you edit the .ini file?
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Connected the phone via activesync and copied the file to my pc. Then I can edit with notepad by right click - open with etc. If that's not working for you drag the file and drop it onto a notepad icon

bodypilot said:
Connected the phone via activesync and copied the file to my pc. Then I can edit with notepad by right click - open with etc. If that's not working for you drag the file and drop it onto a notepad icon
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Here is what the config.ini file contains as default....
[Button Config]
text=\Windows\tmail.exe
calendar=\Windows\calendar.exe
photos=\Windows\pimg.exe
camera=\Windows\camera.exe
calculator=\Windows\calc.exe
stocks=\Program Files\TCPMP\\player.exe
maps=\Program Files\GoogleMaps\Googlemaps.exe
weather=\Program Files\Skype for Pocket PC\Skype.exe
notes=\Windows\notes.exe
clock=\Windows\clock.exe
settings=\Windows\wirelessmanager.exe
phone=\Windows\cprog.exe
mail=\Windows\tmail.exe
web=\Windows\iexplore.exe
ipod=\Program Files\Starbrite\ppod\ppod.exe

Great find!
Has anyone tried this on WM6? I'm planning to try it in a few days, so if there's no feedback, I'll let you guys know if it works.

wavesound said:
Great find!
Has anyone tried this on WM6? I'm planning to try it in a few days, so if there's no feedback, I'll let you guys know if it works.
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yes, it works on wm6 and even 2003se

i have some problem with the clock i see only 0 0 in my main screen and when i tap it to lock the screen i see nothing ....maybe it'a beacuse i have hebrow installed in my pocketpc what should i do?
and another quick qustion can i make the screen automticly lock it self after a few min that i didn't used it?
great job!!!!!

That's the same for me, "0 0" instead of the time on the clock, but the locking works when tapping on it... any idea?
I got the french Orange "Swiss" last rom...
Very good job indeed, congratulations!

james341 said:
...can i make the screen automticly lock it self after a few min that i didn't used it?
great job!!!!!
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I do not know how to do that, but I managed to map hardware button to slide.exe. To do that you have to create a link to it (for example to programs folder). Then you can map this link via Settings >> Buttons. Only issue I am having is that the time is lagging two hours on Slider screen.

bodypilot said:
Connected the phone via activesync and copied the file to my pc. Then I can edit with notepad by right click - open with etc. If that's not working for you drag the file and drop it onto a notepad icon
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Many thanks. I will try

Any ideas yet on how to get the time in the the launcher program to sync with the phone itself? Mine is still running 4 hours ahead.

CAB File
Hi,
Here is a CAB for automated install/uninstall.
Regards,
Taguapire
EDITED: --------------------------------------------------------------------
NEW INFO: Go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=301517&page=4#31 for the new file.

Nice
Very nice find! Like many other my only problem is with the slide unlock the time is off by 5 hours and the date is 1 day ahead. If anyone finds away to fix this please post, thanks I will continue to play around with it and see what i can come up with..........

tried it on wm6 slvw version and get "installation of iphone slider for wm5.cab was unsuccessful. the installation file is not intended for this device.

ceelo2007 said:
Very nice find! Like many other my only problem is with the slide unlock the time is off by 5 hours and the date is 1 day ahead. If anyone finds away to fix this please post, thanks I will continue to play around with it and see what i can come up with..........
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Just a guess - I don't have the application installed and haven't had that program but your phone has to clock settings Home -> Visting. Maybe your phone is accidentally set to Visiting clock and the home clock is off by a bit and the applications are pulling the time from the Home clock? It's a shot in the dark guess but worth a shot!

Well
chymmylt said:
Just a guess - I don't have the application installed and haven't had that program but your phone has to clock settings Home -> Visting. Maybe your phone is accidentally set to Visiting clock and the home clock is off by a bit and the applications are pulling the time from the Home clock? It's a shot in the dark guess but worth a shot!
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Thanks for the reply that was actually the first thing that i checked when i noticed the problem

Clock Off
Best guess I can give is that the time isn't being adjusted for time zone. Mine is 5 hours ahead and I am in US Central time zone (GMT -6) so it is close to Greenwich mean time.
I would try to fix this myself since the source is provided but I need a developers kit and a compiler...
Edited:
Actually if I remember correctly (big IF) daylight savings time is a US thing so with DST right now that would put the offset right at GMT.

anybody figure out how to fix the timing issue

Sprint HC Touch Wakes up by itself

Anyone have the same situation where the phone is in sleep mode it wakes up by its own without pressing any buttons?

evilution79 said:
Anyone have the same situation where the phone is in sleep mode it wakes up by its own without pressing any buttons?
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Yes mine does this all the time...I use S2U2 though so it turns it back off within a few secs

EliteXen said:
Yes mine does this all the time...I use S2U2 though so it turns it back off within a few secs
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Mine does that also, but it doesn't bother me that much. What is s2u2? If that can stop it I might try to check it out just for the sake of not having it do it when I don't want it to.
Edit: NM I found out what is was "Slide 2 Unlock".

It can be really annoying... I would like to know what causes it as well.
For sometime I was missing calls, texts, emails, etc. when the phone was asleep. You ever get that?

alpha_omega said:
Mine does that also, but it doesn't bother me that much. What is s2u2? If that can stop it I might try to check it out just for the sake of not having it do it when I don't want it to.
Edit: NM I found out what is was "Slide 2 Unlock".
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Here is the cab file:

dharvey4651 said:
Here is the cab file:
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You should consider linking to A_C's thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353008&highlight=s2u2) instead of just giving out the cab so A_C can get credit for his excellent work and whoever decides to use it knows where to go to ask questions and get the lastest version.

S2U2 latest version is .97... It works flawlessly (on my Sprint HTC Touch/Vogue). He fixed a lot of problems in the earlier versions...

Oops, correction... .98

EliteXen said:
You should consider linking to A_C's thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353008&highlight=s2u2) instead of just giving out the cab so A_C can get credit for his excellent work and whoever decides to use it knows where to go to ask questions and get the lastest version.
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That was actually my original intention but I was short on time and had the cab file on hand so I just uploaded it. I didn't have time to search for the thread or I would have linked to it as well as uploading the cab.

dharvey4651 said:
That was actually my original intention but I was short on time and had the cab file on hand so I just uploaded it. I didn't have time to search for the thread or I would have linked to it as well as uploading the cab.
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No prob, sorry if I sounded a little rude.

Screen comes on whenever reception changes from 1x to Evdo to Roaming etc.
Problem is if you didn't lock and it's in your pocket it starts running all kinds of stuff.

S2u2
will that work on WM6 even though the one i have says wm6

bobaka said:
Screen comes on whenever reception changes from 1x to Evdo to Roaming etc.
Problem is if you didn't lock and it's in your pocket it starts running all kinds of stuff.
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Is there a way you can stop that from happening other then S2US?

I've noticed this as well, but it only seems to happen if I leave Opera Mobile running in the background.

S2U2 is pretty awesome
i like it alot

Same problem. Fairly annoying. I have a phone holder that clips onto my air vent in my car. At night it just lights up for no reason. I might have to give s2u2 another shot. Last version i tried was buggy.
.eric

im pretty sure its a lot of different things that cause it to awake.. going from evdo to 1x, checking your email because you prolly scheduled it to do so every hour or what-have-you, it could be updating the weather as well.. really the reason the phone is waking up from sleep mode is data based.

Application that will power device OFF and ON using schedule

Is there application that will power device OFF and ON using scheduled times.
Let's say 10PM OFF 5AM back ON ?
Can't find anything like that for WM6
Thanks

scheduled reset
maybe this one is useful ? But i think you'll have to enter your pin when the phone has done the softreset....
cheers
edit....
ooops....sorry, you want to start some hours later (should have read more exactly...), this app isn't that you're searching for. this one will reboot immediately

Thanks for trying
My Nortel phone 8 years ago was able to do that but I can't find any software with this feature

If the goal is to avoid any phone call between those hours, then you can use phoneAlarm or PhoneWeaver or something else which can switch profile at specified time. So at 10pm switch to "night" profile and 5am switch to normal profile.

lifeisfun said:
Is there application that will power device OFF and ON using scheduled times.
Let's say 10PM OFF 5AM back ON ?
Can't find anything like that for WM6
Thanks
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It is not a big deal to shut down the phone on schedule, but to bring it back on is *I believe* impossible. It is like shutting down your pc. Once shutdown there is no software running on it. Therefore, even if you had a software that is supposed to turn on the phone, it wouldn't be working once the phone is turned off.

Try diZ
www.connectivetools.com/sleepwell.html >Connective Tools - SleepWell It was ment f0r smartphone but m0st Probely w0rk f0r ppc and itz free

for "phone" only, you might like to try "PhoneTimer" shared in this forum.
for "power", try "addin timer3" instead.
both apps are "free"

There must be part of the phone that is powered when off. ( bios)
The time is still correct when you turn it back on .... no ?

iiiox said:
for "phone" only, you might like to try "PhoneTimer" shared in this forum.
for "power", try "addin timer3" instead.
both apps are "free"
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Can you give me hint where to find details about addintimer ?
All links found in Google are Chinese
Thanks

defcomg said:
www.connectivetools.com/sleepwell.html >Connective Tools - SleepWell It was ment f0r smartphone but m0st Probely w0rk f0r ppc and itz free
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Tested sleepwell on Titan
It installed without error but it doesn't work

PTRadioschedule
lifeisfun said:
Tested sleepwell on Titan
It installed without error but it doesn't work
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To turn off/on flightmode, i am using PTRadioSchedule - working very fine with my Kaiser

lifeisfun said:
Can you give me hint where to find details about addintimer ?
All links found in Google are Chinese
Thanks
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You can find the detail about AddinTimer English version at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2159351#post2159351

psShutXP will power off at specified time, and I believe there is an app posted somewhere with an auto run tool, which you may be able to use to do this. Either way, your not going to have it power on by itself.

tried many things but all of the "power off" applications are only switching my hp614c to standby mode. but i'm looking for the app/script that should switch device off completely, as i would hold power button down for a few secs. I want to schedule such turnoff for every night. I had this feature in siemens m65 a few years ago why cant I do it with wm6 pc?

Thread will be moved to Q&A section.

How to keep wifi on ????

Hello everyone,
I just got my Hd2 few days ago and there is olny two things pissing me off with that phone.
1st is the wifi, that is disconnecting shortly after the screen goes black(battery saving i suppose). I listen to the internet radio over wifi and it stops after screen goes black. Is there any way to keep it on all the time?????
Second thing is the divx support. I have a divx 0.93 program on it bot i doesnt have all the codecs in it. What is the best divx player out there?
Many thanks in advance folks

wifi during standby can be enabled with BSB Tweaks. its a modding tool with many features.
for playing vids i would say best is CorePlayer....
DN41

thanks for replying i found many interesting options in bsb, includimg one responsible to keep wifi on in standby. i switch it on, phone asks for reboot, turns on ans that option is switched off again. Same story with startup animation, it never switches it off. ??????? is there reason why that may not work?

Its because that registry entry reverts to default whenever you reset the device.
With a reg editor go to HKLM - comm - bcmsddhd1 - parms
In that folder there should be an entry called htckeepwifionwhenunattended
change the value to 1 and your sorted.
Hope that helps.

Or use this CAB - this is the same thing like conantroutman advice you, but packed to installer.

FRANQ_23_PL said:
Or use this CAB - this is the same thing like conantroutman advice you, but packed to installer.
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Thanks franq thats very handy, does the cab need to be used after a reset or does it keep the setting permanently?

Forget about that weird cab, god knows what it does.
BSBTweaks wifi during standby option indeed doesn't work.
Better to use WifiNoStandby, install once, and that's it. No need to do anything again.
For divx; CorePlayer is the best option out there.

Dude hello!... This cab IT IS THE SAME like WiFiNoStandby. You think what a profit for me or anybody is posting suspicious stuff? Wake up dude and start think more like you talkin a bull ****s.

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