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Few very simple questions

Hi, I am new to the forum and new to the phone, and have to say that I really like both.
I got the phone used so I think there are things that were set up that I want to change, but other than that it works great.
I do however have a question..
How do I have the keyboard not pop up by itself when I click in a text field?

to retain the keyboard, but not to have it popup in a text field...just start typing with the regular pull out keyboard. the next time you go to a text field, the keyboard will not popup automatically. (I think that's how they explain it in the phone manual).
otherwise, if you don't like the keyboard, there's a program called nullkeyboard that you can install and select, so that the keyboard just won't popup anymore.
here's the info. I've never used it personally, but i've seen it mentioned a few times on the board.
http://personales.ya.com/beemer/nullkeyboard.htm

nullkeyboard works. it's basically a keyboard which has a graphic so small, it's invisible - if i remember correctly

Awesome. So it remembers what you used last, basically.
Perfect answer.
Oh, now, I do not have internet service setup, probably not going to for a while.... how can I keep the phone from looking for it? It keeps waking it up from power saving.
And it asks me to sign in to a service I dont have
Any help would be great. You have already helped so much.

177media said:
Awesome. So it remembers what you used last, basically.
Perfect answer.
Oh, now, I do not have internet service setup, probably not going to for a while.... how can I keep the phone from looking for it? It keeps waking it up from power saving.
And it asks me to sign in to a service I dont have
Any help would be great. You have already helped so much.
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if you don't internet, you can go to settings --> connections, open up connections, then on the bottom click on advanced. from there click on select networks and put both on "My Work Network."
I can't guarantee that it works, but in my experience i haven't had any issues with trying to connect to the internet when i didn't want to (didn't want to pay for service with my service provider, t-mobile). it does however let you to connect to the internet if you turn on wifi or you are connected through active sync.

Thank you, that was perfect !

sms Issue

When sending an sms I no longer get the contacts name appear as I type it into the To field. I have to go into contacts, press the persons name, then press send sms.
Anyone know what I have done and how I can rectify it please?

I have noticed that I have to now enter the 1st 3 characters before a name suggestion appears. Before it was only 1 character. It also brings the same name up twice, when it was only once before...

kirkie said:
When sending an sms I no longer get the contacts name appear as I type it into the To field. I have to go into contacts, press the persons name, then press send sms.
Anyone know what I have done and how I can rectify it please?
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Same problem here, I don't know why it disappeared out of the sudden.
EDIT: I played a little bit around and I figured out that you have to type a blank after the name (even if the name is not completed), then you get some proposals at the bottom line. But that's a different user interface, I wonder where the old one is gone?

foo said:
Same problem here, I don't know why it disappeared out of the sudden.
EDIT: I played a little bit around and I figured out that you have to type a blank after the name (even if the name is not completed), then you get some proposals at the bottom line. But that's a different user interface, I wonder where the old one is gone?
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It works if you type the 1st 3 characters and name suggestions appear. I'm sure name suggestions use to apear when only entering the 1st character before...

In my case even if the first 3 characters are entered no more suggestions will pop up. Maybe the behavior changes depending on the amount of contact stored. I don't know how many contacts I have but I guess it's something between 100 and 200.

foo said:
In my case even if the first 3 characters are entered no more suggestions will pop up. Maybe the behavior changes depending on the amount of contact stored. I don't know how many contacts I have but I guess it's something between 100 and 200.
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I have around 150 contacts and it worked OK before, but have no idea why it has changed now...

I have sorted this now. What I had done is changed the settings in the word completion from 1 letter to 3...

Too Many Pattern Attempts. Phone is locked. Can't login with email either.

im running The RC33 version of JFv1.41.
somehow the "too many pattern attempts" popped up and now its asking me to login with my username and password. ive tried my username by itself. i tried [email protected] (which i originally used to register the phone) and i tried [email protected] (which i saw suggested in another post) and none of these work. anyone have any ideas? it just says "too many pattern attempts invalid username or password". i cant log back in.xi can still receive calls but cant get back to the home screen. im running The RC33 version of JFv1.41.

Even if you fail to enter the pattern correctly a few times, the lock should only be temporary. Although it sounds like you got permanently locked out, if I understand correctly... If it still doesn't take the username either, I'd just say reflash your phone with the update.zip

usually it says wait 30 seconds and i can try the unlock pattern again. this is the first time its asked for my email address and password again. it happened last night so i waited until this morning and its still asking for my email address and password and wont login. i guess i'll try reflashing the phone. thanks. will report back.

gmail.com and reset ur pass

i can login to gmail.com with my existing password. i dont think i want to mess with trying to reset my pass.

well its not like the world would end...resetting ur pass is real easy.

This happened to me once before. It had slipped out of its case and ended up being flopped around my backpack. Apparently some things in my backpack attempted to unlock my phone. It gave me the gmail login screen like the OP and wouldn't accept my pass. I ended up pulling the battery, and waiting a few minutes before inserting it again. Worked just fine when I put the battery back in. Of course, neither myself, or the T-mobile rep I called knew what may have caused it.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485988
to disable pattern lock

derekb77 said:
im running The RC33 version of JFv1.41.
somehow the "too many pattern attempts" popped up and now its asking me to login with my username and password. ive tried my username by itself. i tried [email protected] (which i originally used to register the phone) and i tried [email protected] (which i saw suggested in another post) and none of these work. anyone have any ideas? it just says "too many pattern attempts invalid username or password". i cant log back in.xi can still receive calls but cant get back to the home screen. im running The RC33 version of JFv1.41.
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this happend to me whenmy kid did this. in my cas, my e-mail is all capitals and it wasnt working the way exact way i spelled my email. just type in your e-mail all lower case letters, even if there are capitals. i did this and it worked. lemmie know if it works for you.

AbsoluteDesignz said:
well its not like the world would end...resetting ur pass is real easy.
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ok changing my password didnt work.

13chris13 said:
this happend to me whenmy kid did this. in my cas, my e-mail is all capitals and it wasnt working the way exact way i spelled my email. just type in your e-mail all lower case letters, even if there are capitals. i did this and it worked. lemmie know if it works for you.
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this didnt work either. my username is all lower case.

Phromik said:
Even if you fail to enter the pattern correctly a few times, the lock should only be temporary. Although it sounds like you got permanently locked out, if I understand correctly... If it still doesn't take the username either, I'd just say reflash your phone with the update.zip
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i reflashed the device after i did a nandroid backup and was able to login with my normal [email protected] account info. the thing is it was set back to factory defaults so all my info was missing (apps, setting, etc.). so that rules out an issue with my gmail account. i tried restoring the nandroid backup that i created before the wipe and reflash but the restore still contains the locked state of the phone and asks for username and pass. looks like my last option would be to try the suggestion posted by haykuro here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485988 otherwise i'll have to just start from scratch with the new flash.

Just shut the phone off ............ press and hold the home button, then press the power button until the phone vibrate, keep holding the home button untill you see yellow text on the screen, now open the keyboard and press alt and W at the same time. wait about 30sec then press the home and back button at the same time .... and there it is no more password

Jamaican said:
Just shut the phone off ............ press and hold the home button, then press the power button until the phone vibrate, keep holding the home button untill you see yellow text on the screen, now open the keyboard and press alt and W at the same time. wait about 30sec then press the home and back button at the same time .... and there it is no more password
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right. that works but like i said that puts everything at default and i have no apps and all my settings are gone etc.

derekb77 said:
i reflashed the device after i did a nandroid backup and was able to login with my normal [email protected] account info. the thing is it was set back to factory defaults so all my info was missing (apps, setting, etc.). so that rules out an issue with my gmail account. i tried restoring the nandroid backup that i created before the wipe and reflash but the restore still contains the locked state of the phone and asks for username and pass. looks like my last option would be to try the suggestion posted by haykuro here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485988 otherwise i'll have to just start from scratch with the new flash.
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cant use this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485988 because phone is locked and dont have access to switch it to USB debugging as step 3 asks for "Step 3. Plug your G1 into your computer (via usb). (Settings -> Application -> Development -> USB Debugging, must be enabled [it is enabled by default in JesusFreke releases i think])" i assume debugging is turned off because when i try adb i get "device not found." i guess im going to have to start fresh and re-install everything. i still have the "locked" image i can restore and try to unlock if anyone has more suggestions. the weird thing is that it doesnt seem like its trying to connect to google servers when i enter my username and password. i hit "sign in" and it doesnt seem to do anything. really really really weird.

haha this once happened to me because i was typing user or [email protected] but i never tryed [email protected] (well i did eventualy) but damn i was bugging out LOL!

Freedomcaller said:
haha this once happened to me because i was typing user or [email protected] but i never tryed [email protected] (well i did eventualy) but damn i was bugging out LOL!
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i tried username, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]..... and nothing.

I think you should check your apn settings. I am sure that, they are wrong. Are you sure that you have 3g connection established before trying to unlock your phone? At the beggining i have locked my phone like yours, and i was trying a few times to unlock it, before understand that my 3g connection wasn't established. I have to delete ALL APN settings and the reAdd the only one that i need. You can try this too.
I hope this will unlock your phone.

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I think you should check your apn settings. I am sure that, they are wrong. Are you sure that you have 3g connection established before trying to unlock your phone? At the beggining i have locked my phone like yours, and i was trying a few times to unlock it, before understand that my 3g connection wasn't established. I have to delete ALL APN settings and the reAdd the only one that i need. You can try this too.
I hope this will unlock your phone.
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how do i change the APN settings if the phone is locked?

Amount of time you have been screwing with it you could have reset it by now and had all your apps, customizations back long ago. I think thats your best bet..

Too many pattern attempts. (Solved!)

This is the second time I've had this issue so i thought i'd post it.
Basically what happened was my phone was in my pocket and it locked itself out. I had pattern lock enabled so i was getting "Too many pattern attempts. please login" No matter how i put my information in username (by itself), [email protected], [email protected] it wouldn't authenticate me. The first time it happened to me i posted the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485903
No matter what i did i was not able to get in so i just reflashed the phone. After a reflash the authentication worked fine. At that time I was using one of JFs ROMS so i figured that may have been the issue. Recently the problem happened again. This time i was using one of Cyanogens ROMS. This time instead of flashing the phone i followed haykuro's thread to defeat pattern lock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485988
once i did those adb commands and rebooted the phone it asked to authenticate again but this time it worked! After it authenticates it will ask you for a new unlock pattern. And you're all set! hopefully it works for you. This is a really annoying problem and im surprised more people aren't having it.

Figured it out without hard reset!!! htc hero " too many pattern attempts"
I figured out a way to get past the screen lock "too many attempts" problem without doing a hard reset on my phone.
I called my Phone (from my Skype account so I could get to the notifications pull down. (couldn't get to home screen or setting from the call) But, I could pull down my notifications. I had a "new email" notification so I clicked on it so that my gmail would open. I then opened an email that had a URL link in it and I clicked on the link. This then opened my browser, which tried to open the link but, it couldn't because, I was still on my Skype call. This prompted the browser to give me an error message that had a Settings button. I clicked on the settings button and was able to turn on my wi-fi and connect to my home network ( I couldn't get to any other settings). At this point I pulled down my notifications again and clicked on the sign in failure notification and this time my phone was able to authenticate my gmail password, through the wi-fi connection.
FYI, I had to go to gmail and change my password as I'd forgotten it. If you don't remember your password you'll have to go through the gmail, I forgot my password/reset process.
If you have email notifications turned off, I think you can send a URL link through with a text message but, I've never done that. Maybe someone else can chime in on how to do that. It's probably pretty simple.
Lemme know if this works for you.

cjayl said:
I figured out a way to get past the screen lock "too many attempts" problem without doing a hard reset on my phone.
I called my Phone (from my Skype account so I could get to the notifications pull down. (couldn't get to home screen or setting from the call) But, I could pull down my notifications. I had a "new email" notification so I clicked on it so that my gmail would open. I then opened an email that had a URL link in it and I clicked on the link. This then opened my browser, which tried to open the link but, it couldn't because, I was still on my Skype call. This prompted the browser to give me an error message that had a Settings button. I clicked on the settings button and was able to turn on my wi-fi and connect to my home network ( I couldn't get to any other settings). At this point I pulled down my notifications again and clicked on the sign in failure notification and this time my phone was able to authenticate my gmail password, through the wi-fi connection.
FYI, I had to go to gmail and change my password as I'd forgotten it. If you don't remember your password you'll have to go through the gmail, I forgot my password/reset process.
If you have email notifications turned off, I think you can send a URL link through with a text message but, I've never done that. Maybe someone else can chime in on how to do that. It's probably pretty simple.
Lemme know if this works for you.
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Sounds like one hell of a flaw in the security to me. I actually hope that this gets fixed sometime in the near future.

I had this problem on a HTC Hero I could not run sqlite3 ont he command line for permissions so the second thread did not work for me. But did not want to flash my phone, this is how I solved it.
Take out the battery, OFF button does not work.
Take out the SD card.
Plugin the USB cable to the phone and turn the phone back on.
Download the Android SDK
untar to a new directory
run
./tools/adb -d shell
To get a shell open, you do not need to be root.
You should get a $ prompt, indicating you are not root
Make a call from another phone to the blocked phone and answer the call.
Then run the following command.
$ am start -a android.settings.SETTINGS -n com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings
This will bring the Settings window to the front so you can then disable the screen lock, thus proving that the screen lock facility not a security feature.
Screen lock is still useful so you don't make unintentional phone calls.

easier method
You can also enter your username, and in the password field just enter the string "null"

HTC People BUG

HTC People bug:
- When editing an existing contact, I am unable to open the pop-up menu on the phone numbers (actually, I am able to open the pop-up menu on the Mobile phone, but not on the Work or Home phone - didn't try the rest of them).
Do you have this as well?

did anyone else find this error?

sorry, don't understand the problem.care to elaborate on what you expect it to do and ill see if I can recreate it?

samsamuel said:
sorry, don't understand the problem.care to elaborate on what you expect it to do and ill see if I can recreate it?
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Right.
Go to any contact, and then click edit contact (using HTC People).
Tap and hold the mobile number text box. A context menu will pop-up, showsing options the following options: Undo, Cut, Copy, Past, Clear and Select All.
This sort of things, is normal to happen.
Now try doing the same for the last name text box. And for the e-mail text box.
It wil work as supposed to.
Now do it for the Work number, Home number or other text box numbers.

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ahhh I see it.the menu only comes up for the first entry in the email and telephone numbers sections.the screen flickers as though it knows it should be doing something, but the menu doesn't come up.
Definite bug, well spotted.

samsamuel said:
ahhh I see it.the menu only comes up for the first entry in the email and telephone numbers sections.the screen flickers as though it knows it should be doing something, but the menu doesn't come up.
Definite bug, well spotted.
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I've informed the customer support at HTC about this, but after a series of e-mails, I am affraid they won't announce anybody at the dev. dept. in Taiwan or whatever.
So, in case you get this too, what about posting the error (bug) to the Customer support as well? Maybe they'll put this little buggy where it belongs!

yea illpost a bug report when I get home.I wouldn't hold your breath for a fix tho....hehe