Hello,
In the past I am sure that my display screen went off after a certain time during a phone call (saving on battery life). I have noticed recently that the screen stays on the whole time, regardless of call length. I have looked through all the settings I can think off, and can't seem to find one relevant to auto screen shut off during a call.
I have installed Pocket Bluetooth Tools and PocketZenPhone (previously I was using Myhonerofiles).
Is there a setting I am missing, or some software that I can use to have an auto screen shut off during a call.
Many thanks for any help.
The screen will not turn off if Bluetooth headset is being used.
Normally, the screen will not turn off if there is any serial port activity (like while connected through activesync)
Are you sure that in Settings/Backlight/Bttey Power: the "Turn Off Backlight" option is selected?, it should be selected to turn the device screen off after 30 seconds or so.
I use a car kit running on bluetooth, and the screen goes off after 30 seconds!
I've set both the power and the back light to go off after 1 minute. There is not normally a problem and the screen powers off ok, unless I'm on a call (with or without a bluetooth headset).
There is an option in JGUI Phone Profiles that does this.
If you no longer have it installed then you won't get that effect.
When I uninstalled Phone Profiles I missed the screen off option so much I reistalled it just for that.
Effan said:
The screen will not turn off if Bluetooth headset is being used.
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mine does.
Effan said:
The screen will not turn off if Bluetooth headset is being used.
Normally, the screen will not turn off if there is any serial port activity (like while connected through activesync)
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So does mine.
After installing Pocket Bluetooth Tools (PBT), my screen won't turn off while on call. If I do turn it off during a conversation, my bluetooth headset cuts out while the other person is still on the phone and won't be able to recover it until I hang up.
If I have the timer working for the PBT, then my autoshut off will work, but that's after I change the timer from 60 seconds to 10 seconds in the registry. If I disable the timer, the autoshut off will work. So if you don't want to play around with the registry, then I suggest leaving PBT timer on.
But either way, if the timer is on or off, during a call, it won't turn off automatically with PBT installed. I like PBT because I was able to quickly connect to my headset faster than the built-in MS Bluetooth Stack.
I guess its a case of balancing the use of Pocket Bluetooth tools with the power saving function of having an auto screen cut off during a call. I'm not sure what is more important to me just now.
I am reluctant to return to My Phone Profiles. I am really enjoying the latest version of PocketZenPhone. I think I will make a request to have autoscreen included in a future version. Who knows, I might get lucky!
Swiftcorp said:
I guess its a case of balancing the use of Pocket Bluetooth tools with the power saving function of having an auto screen cut off during a call. I'm not sure what is more important to me just now.
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IF you have Pocket Bluetooth installed, then while on call, it will not automatically turned off. But if you turned it off manually, while on call, it will cut out from the bluetooth headset and I find no way to get it back yet.
I know you've seen that before, but how do i get rid of it ? It comes up, without ascing it, when i make a call, it's on the screen, when i want to turn bluetooth on, it's on the screen, and i don't want it, how do i move it ?
THX
i dont know, i've got that a couple of times before when i tried turning my BT on.. what i did was turn flight mode on then off and it fixes it. i got that message maybe 3 times and i havent got it in a while now.
Hi there
My guess is that you are using a small proggy to turn on/off the flightmode, right? Well, that program does indeed turn off the BT part, but it doesn't always turn it back on again! Try using another switcher, or use the built in flightmode functionality instead.
I can't for the life of me work out how to do it, the best I can manage is sending it to sleep, but its still ready to receive calls. I suppose I couls put it in flight mode then put it to sleep, but it would be easier if I could just turn it off by pressing a button without having to pull the battery
Basically you can't switch the PDA side completely off.
You can switch the phone off with Wireless Manager or Use the Flight Mode Link. Thats the same as powering off your Mobile Phone at night etc.
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I suppose I couls put it in flight mode then put it to sleep, but it would be easier if I could just turn it off by pressing a button without having to pull the battery
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Flight Mode IS the way of turning it off. However you could also use something like Pocket Zen Phone (search xda-dev) which adds 'profiles' to the phone/device - you can then turn the phone on/off (plus plenty of other operations) by just tapping an icon on the screen.
Hi all,
In recent weeks my bluetooth is turning off when it isn't being used. I only use it for hands free in the car and up until a few weeks ago it always stayed 'On' however now, once disconnected from the car radio, it turns off again.
If I turn it back on away from the car it will go to 'Off' shortly after turning it 'On'.
It's a touch annoying as it means I have to get in the car, turn the engine/radio on, unlock the phone, set bluetooth to 'On' every time I drive and want the phone on hands free.
When connected to the car radio, the bluetooth stays on without problem, so I am not entirely sure what is going on.
I have tried turning battery saver off, restarting the phone etc. but nothing has changed this behaviour.
Has anyone got any suggestions on what I can try next, I'm a bit stuck!
Thanks
Hi, I'm having an annoying problem with the hands free mode, in that it doesn't turn off automatically when it looses connection. It turns on S-Voice and enables hands free mode just fine when it establishes a connection to my car Bluetooth but I have to manually turn it off every time.
Surely if it can turn on automatically it can turn off that way too no?
Can't seem to find any help on the matter, every question I can find is either about how to stop hands free mode working at all or to make it turn on automatically, but nothing about turning it off.