Now, if I want to switch the radio channel, it's necessary to pull SGS out, switch it on, unlock the screen, open FMradio and press "next" button. It's not very comfortable, really.
I'm sure it can be very useful to switch channels with hardware keys (double volume butt press or headset button press).
Track change with headset button works on some media players (such as PowerAMP)
Is it possible to implement it for FMradio app?
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Hello,
Is there any way to allow music to keep playing in Windows Media Player after I press power button?
Greg
the easiest way is, u install a custom wm6 rom, so itook this way and its works
greetz lessew
lessew said:
the easiest way is, u install a custom wm6 rom, so itook this way and its works
greetz lessew
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I dit. I cooked my own ROM but in previous ROM this feature was working somehow (pressing power button did not stop music playing) but in my ROM it does.
you can also just click the windows key, click on the "today" icon, go to the today screen and then just lock the window. let the screen turn off by itself.
thats what i do. i've never been able to hit the power key.
i use pocket player. you can assign a button to turn the screen off. unfortunately the program isnt free.. unless you know where to look.
get TCPMP,the core media player and assign a hot key to turn off the screen.its in the options.
If you use pbar (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=284952&highlight=pbar), you can use the blue icon at the bottom of app to turn the screen off and save the battery sucked up by display.
I use this when listening to WMP or TCPMP and works fine.
For some reason, the link did not paste correctly for pbar. Here goes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=284952&highlight=pbar
Until you figure it out. You can always set a hotkey from Media Player (menu/options/buttons). Then assign a key to Toggle Screen (I use Hold Up). Click on 'Toggle Screen', press Assign button, press key you want to assign to that function. If you hold the up button from the direction pad for a second it should take.
This is what I do (I'm using NBD v9.2 BTW): Play a song, wait until it finished the first song, click power button. Works everytime. If you press it too early you're gonna cut your music off along with your screen. The key word is wait.
Display Switch
Or you could use the program called display switch. it turns off the screen only and you can assign this to a button on your wizard. that's what I do
Is there any way to do this because say if im listening to a song and i want to change it i always gotta turn on the screen in order to do so when i really dont need to.
any help would be greatly appreciated
Plug in your headphones
that doesnt work - it makes no differnece to the buttons
There's a way to modify that radio button on the stock headphone piece to do one command. It can be stop, forward, back, or whatever.
Can you please be more specific on how to change track using the button on the headset? also having the problem where screen turns on everytime I change track. GSplayer has this feature, but I prefer WMP
i dont use the original headphones - there must be a reg edit or something to allow the use of buttons with the screen off?
comeradealexi said:
Is there any way to do this because say if im listening to a song and i want to change it i always gotta turn on the screen in order to do so when i really dont need to.
any help would be greatly appreciated
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the easiest thing you can do is change the button config within WMP.
- Open WMP
- Go to view the player (not the library) by either playing a song or by hitting OK
- Hit Menu > Options > Buttons
- Scroll all the way down and select "Toggle Screen"
Now this is where you have to decide what button you want to use to turn the screen on and off, personally, I picked the center button (the optical joystick button) as my on and off screen, which is currently the Play/Pause button. For these instructions, I will use that button as the example.
- Hit the "Assing" button and hit the middle (optical joystick) button.
- Hit OK
Now you can turn the screen on/off (by hitting that button) while still being able to increase/decrease the player's volume, change tracks back or forward, and if you do a long press then you can fast forward or rewind the track.
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Hope this helps
solarleox said:
the easiest thing you can do is change the button config within WMP.
- Open WMP
- Go to view the player (not the library) by either playing a song or by hitting OK
- Hit Menu > Options > Buttons
- Scroll all the way down and select "Toggle Screen"
Now this is where you have to decide what button you want to use to turn the screen on and off, personally, I picked the center button (the optical joystick button) as my on and off screen, which is currently the Play/Pause button. For these instructions, I will use that button as the example.
- Hit the "Assing" button and hit the middle (optical joystick) button.
- Hit OK
Now you can turn the screen on/off (by hitting that button) while still being able to increase/decrease the player's volume, change tracks back or forward, and if you do a long press then you can fast forward or rewind the track.
Hope this is what you were looking for...
Hope this helps
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awesome - thanks mate!
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
Hi,
I was wondering if the touch HD can be adjusted so that the volume buttons can be used during music playback (with screen truned off)to change tracks up or down depending on which button is pressed for some seconds?
You know like it does with the volume(where screen is off yet buttons functionality is available)
itll save time having to take the phone out of your pocket everytime...
I personally use AEButton Plus. With this program you can reassign all buttons with new Commands.
The config is:
Volume Up
One Press - Up (Last Title)
Double Press - Volume Up
Volume Down
One Press - Down (Next Title)
Double Press - Volume Down
Download http://ae.inc.ru/aebplus.php
greetz Floh
yh i think thats pretty close to what I was thinking, ill download and try it now
Thanks
ilhaq said:
Hi,
I was wondering if the touch HD can be adjusted so that the volume buttons can be used during music playback (with screen truned off)to change tracks up or down depending on which button is pressed for some seconds?
You know like it does with the volume(where screen is off yet buttons functionality is available)
itll save time having to take the phone out of your pocket everytime...
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Try the Core Player. It has this feature built-in that you can assign any function to any button. Also some ROMs are tweaked to skip tracks with volume buttons when screen is off (like Laurentius26's V4) with HTC Sense's player.
im not that keen on downloading unofficial roms anymore but ill give core player a try
Thanks
I'm looking for a way to pause and resume media without interacting with the touchscreen. I don't care if it also wakes the screen, and I'm willing to remap a volume button to menu, camera, or whatever if necessary, though I would prefer just mapping it to a long-press, or better yet to the power button so that all media controls would be accessible without opening my case.
Are there any options?
Well, I have one less-than-ideal method:
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1. install Media Keys app to add media controls to my shortcuts menu
2. use keysmod/NookKey Editor to map Menu to Vol- (I'd rather keep Vol-)
3. map play/pause to Menu longpress in CM Input settings
4. disable lock screen (I'd rather keep security)
5. use Power to wake the device, then longpress Vol- (now Menu)
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Now, I'm already using the "Volume button music controls" setting which maps next/previous skip buttons to Vol+/- longpress when the screen is off. Does anyone conversant with ADB know a way I could swap in play/pause for previous on the Vol- key?
It would be ideal if I could map that behavior to the Home button; all it does now is wake the screen, which Power duplicates, but I suspect the framework is already in place for the Volume buttons, and it might be as simple as swapping one line of code for another.
I'm trying to submit more versatile "Volume button music controls" as a feature request for CM7, too, but if anyone has a more immediate solution I can implement myself, I'd like to give it a try.
A minor elaboration on the method above: keysmod lets me set the Vol- button (now Menu) as wake-on-press, so I can click it once to wake, then long-press to play/pause. Oddly enough, the long-press doesn't work if I left Google Music Beta (or probably any media player) on-screen when the NC went to sleep. I haven't tested extensively, but it's possible other apps would block the long-press behavior, too. So, for it to work reliably, you want to return to your homescreen before putting the NC to sleep.
Also, if nothing is playing, the long-press will start the default Music app. If another media player (including Google Music Beta) is playing, it will pause and resume that app.
I've poked my head into the CM7 code, but don't have so much as a toehold on tracking down and replacing the relevant bit of code to swap play/pause for previous track in the Volume button music controls setting. If any higher-level nerds than myself can offer a clue, it would be much appreciated.
ETA: My workaround is basically serviceable for using the NC as a PMP or bedside player, particularly for audiobooks where play/pause is going to be considerably more important than Vol-. If you're anxious that keysmod may affect Vol+/- functions in the CM7 boot menu or CMW, I can confirm that no, as expected, it does not.