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[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Sallala:
Volume while device locked

I always protect my PDA with the password lock screen. IfI receive a call, phone stays in locked mode. And there is a really annoying thing with Smartskey: if you like to adjust the volume you must to enter password on the touch screen while you in a call !!!

Today - after years - while I upgrade my Wizard with a rom that doesn't contain Smartskey default, I realized, that this is not a Windows Mobile bug but a Smartskey thing. :-)

I suggest to introduce a new setup entry in the next release: VOLUMEONLOCKSCREENS=1.

Things not simple because we have:

1. a nice new lock screen

2. a nice new password screen,

3. and the old password screen <-- I use this, because I think device locking is useless if you setup a password.

VOLUMEONLOCKSCREENS=1 must to effect on all three screen.

Otherwise Smartskey are a great app, pageup/pagedown for the volume sliders is a great idea/useful function!

Thank you very much!

(Sorry for bad english!)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] SmaRkieS:
Good day,

Is there a chance to remap the camera button, coz my camera hardware button is not working and its wobling, its hard to solder it again.

I can't capture a picture without the camera button.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] kingpongg:
I completely agree. Keep it light weight and simple.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] brightcell:
First, many thanks to Water for this app !!

I noticed that since I installed this app, ActiveSync always shows in the running programs, even if I don't sync it to my PC.

FYI, I didn't add it to the exception list and even if I close AS ... it shows again few seconds later.

Any idea?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] lewcamino:
I can say that activesync runs on a regular basis for me. I have it sync with exchange when ever new items arrive. So I see activesync all the time. I think the only way to stop it is to set activesync to update manualy.

Later; Lew
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] brightcell:
It's not exactly what I meant.

Even if I go to Settings/Memory/All running programs and close them all, as soon as I use the smartkeys app. Active Sync runs again!

I just got my MDA and I have no app. installed except Smartkeys...

I don't think it's really a problem but I just wanted to ask Water about it.

Thanks
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] capitan:
When I go to my contacts list, I can use the volume button to scroll upward by the page, but when I scroll down with it, it only goes by individual contact. Does anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] PseudoReal:
this has nothing to do with this app.

you need to create a server on the wizard for AS. afterwards you change the settings for synching to manually and then you delete the server again.

From now on AS will start when YOU start it, not when it wants to start
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Silentz:
I think that happpens anyway. I know that on my first day of owning a Wizard i was annoyed to find ActiveSync launching itself again and again, even when it was sat in my pocket, not connected to anything.

I guess it just likes running AS.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] templar:
Just found this app.... Excellent... just what was needed for the wizard!

I wonder if the developer has given any thought to the following? In WM 2003 if you are in the phone app and you DPad up it gives your call history and Dpad down is the speed dial list. I personally cannot understand why they left this out in WM5? It makes one handed dialing even quicker. If this could be added it would be great! Either way.. great app!

greg
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] hdcl:
This is happening repeatedly now. Whenever the phone wakes up and performs an active sync (manual or automatically scheduled), the smarkskey process gets killed and my softkeys stop working until I manually relaunch the smartskey application.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] JNGold:
As posted about I love this little app, it has transformed my K-JAM! :)

Now, I came to think, what if I want to use an app like small menu for my start menu? Is there a way to customize the ini file so that a left-button hold press will activate a "small menu" type program instead of the windows default?

If not, no big deal.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
Hi, I don't want to make another keymapper, actually, you can try a program called smallmenu that add windows like menu on the start menu, that should work with smartskey.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
I didn't found this problem yet, but I will check it.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
The volume key work okay in my kjam's contact....

I don't think it is the problem of smartskey, wm5 always automatically popup activesync. Trust me, I didn't do any nasty thing :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] JNGold:
Just to let you know, I was using smallmenu and it doesn't work with smartskey. The keypress brings up the original windows startmenu.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] JonnoB:
I have the same reported problem. the process is gone and have to re-run it.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] lewcamino:
I know I was just sayign to keep it light. However I agree with Greg on this one. Perhaps if you are going to make the volume scroll a "smart scroll" that only scrolls in certain programs, you could also make the directional keys go to call history and speed dial in phone. Like it did in WM2003.

I would also liek to say that if you need any help with this app I would be more than willing to help out. Just say the word and I will pick it up and start learning. I learn fast, plus I do some other programing/scripting =)

Later; Lew
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] brightcell:
Thanks for clarifying this :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] lpasq:
water,

i agree here. you are a hero for contributing your time to create this fix for us wizard owners and hope that all these and future wishes from users don't turn your simple/light/freindly start-ok/close app into a project.

if so, please keep a "lite version" available that is just start-ok/close. other than wishing you happy thoughts, that is my only request!!!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] hdcl:
It happened to me 4 times yesterday and once this morning.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] vbulkin:
wake up bug bites again?

I also experience lost button handlers after wakeup.

Is everyone with this symptom using storage card? My theory is the exe craps out on trying to load ini file while sd card is not yet accessible. Lifesaver applet though. water, can you optionally search windows dir for the INI file?

I also join the petition for adding up/down function in the dialer.

thx
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] JonnoB:
Re: wake up bug bites again?

I am running the program from storage card. This is a good clue and I will try it from another location to see if this is the culprit.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] hdcl:
I am running it from the SD card as well and suspect it is a wakeup issue with the card. I will reinstall to main memory to see if that fixes things. The question I have is why is the exe querying the card once it is launched? When the device goes to suspend, does the exe get unloaded by the OS and needs to be reloaded and when the card is "missing" due to delayed power on, it fails?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
I guess it is not relate the location of the files, and the ini file is read only when the program is started so should not have problem. but I guess the problem is that when I close other programs, some program hold my program and make my program cannot receive other message, I will check it and improve the function to close program.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
Oh, sorry. I will try to make it work with smallmenu.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] JNGold:
That would be great! Just to let you know, smartkey does work with Chris McKay's new Wisbar Adv Lite. It must be the way the task manager activates the windows menu that makes the difference between smallmenu and WA2Lite.

Let us know if you can get it to work with smallmenu.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
0.4 is out, with new features:

VOLUMEONPHONE=1	(0 or 1)

Set VOLUMEONPHONE=1 if you want to set volume using volume key in phone app (DEFAULT 1). Use with VOLKEY. If VOLKEY is set, the volume key will be used as PageUp/PageDown buttons. If VOLUMEONPHONE is set, when the topmost application is the phone, the volume buttons will be used as change volume again so that you can change the volume easily during the phone call.

STARTMENUMETHOD=0	(0 or 1)

SmartSKey Provides two methods to popup start menu. If this parameter is set to 0, it will simulate a start key key press. If it is set to 1, it will simulate a mouse event to tap the windows menu icon. The second method is used when: 1. you have remapped the start key for other purpose. 2. You have remapped the start icon to other launcher, if you use the second method, it will call the launcher instead of the default start menu.

REMOVEDUPSDDAEMON=0	(0 or 1)

Only for HTC Wizard. The function is originally not related to SmartSkey. The HTC Wizard contains a program called sddaemon that is the voice command program for wizard. It contains a bug that it will automatically create one more notification for each reboot. It will make the program slower and slower after a number of reboot and overflow the notification system. To set this to 1 will automatically remove the duplicated notification event. If you are a user of Wizard, it is suggested to set it to 1. The flag is harmless for other machines.

OMAPCLOCK=240	(any number)

The function is for PDA with OMAP CPU only. Please use this function only you know what you are doing.

Thanks for intruders to make the wonderful OMAP overclock program; the program can be downloaded here:

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=40284

The program work flawlessly in my Wizard, but the clock speed will be reset after wakeup. To set this parameter to a clock speed that you want, SmartSKey will automatically create the necessary notification event so that the clock speed will be correctly after the wake up of the PDA/phone. The event will be deleted when SmartSKey is closed. For your reference, I have set the CPU clock to 240 without problem for a whole week.

It is suggested to read the readme inside the package for the settings.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] JNGold:
I am unable to get the startmenumethod to work with smallmenu. No matter what value I set the STARTMENUMETHOD to the original start menu is displayed.

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[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Nemolacuna:
page up/down doesn't work with Opera mobile beta

It is a beta after all so who knows why it doesn't work, but it's a way better browser.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
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I checked and no problem, my ini file:

[MAIN]

LSKEY=1

RSKEY=1

VOLKEY=1

CLOSEAPP=1

STARTONREBOOT=1

VOLUMEONPHONE=1

;OMAPCLOCK=240

REMOVEDUPSDDAEMON=1

STARTMENUMETHOD=1

remember to have small menu running already.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] JNGold:
Nope. I have tried everything, including trying to move the order of the startup processes via sktools and memmaid. I attemped to move startmenu before the smartskey.exe. Neither app will allow me to do this.

I even tried setting a 5 second delay in smallmenu startup options.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] lewcamino:
water... you have some nice ideas here =) I like the over clock option. There were a lot of people wanting an ALWAYS overclocked mode, nice addin.

I don't OC mine all the time so I probably wont use that. However for anyone who is going to use that, can you tell me what Directory OmapClock.exe needs to be in?

Nice job, again. Oh, and I am going to try the VOL scroll now that it does Volume in the phone app. I figure you went through all that trouble, the least I can do is try it on for size eh?

Later; Lew

p.s. That offer to help still stands. :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
I guess... no space is allowed before and after = in ini file... I will improve this later.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] brightcell:
Boosting Volume?

Hey Water,

It probably doesn't have anything to do with your app., which btw is amazing :-), but do you think that it is possible to make the volume louder (while using the phone app) ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
The program must be in the same folder of smartskey.exe. for trapping the navigation buttons, I think it should be done, but it is different from volume key. I think the best method is to write an extension to the phone app like smartdialing. But I am still looking for how to do it.

and for OC, my suggestion is not OC too much, firstly I have tried 264, no problem. but after one hour of mp3, the phone show something wrong already. it should be the heat problem. in my case, 240 give a good result for better response and usable skype.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
Re: Boosting Volume?

you want the stereo speaker, the phone speaker or the mic louder? the volume of the stereo speaker and the phone speaker can be set separately, and actually you can set the gain of the phone in the registry.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] brightcell:
Re: Boosting Volume?

I would love to gain on the phone speaker. I found the volume not loud enough during calls on busy streets.

If it can be done in the registry, could you tell me where?

Thanks in advance!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Zathras:
Great app!

Is there any way of getting the volume up/down key mapped to the D-pad up/down instead of a page-up/page-down?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
Re: Boosting Volume?

I haven't try but \HKLM\SOFTWARE\HTC contains AUDIOGAIN and VOICESETTING, you can try to set it in different value.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] cyberguest:
awesome

this is a ****ing light nice program that fixes big usability issues.

great work...

however, i think things like omapclock should be a different program.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] brightcell:
Re: Boosting Volume?

Thanks a lot, I am going to try.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] lpasq:
dumb question: if not running overclock, what setting for OMAPCLOCK=264?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mackie99:
I must be blind because I do not see a link in the first post for this program.

Can someone give me a clue?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] brightcell:
Click on "Download" (lower right side at the end of the post)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mackie99:
Thanks, I didn't realise you had to register to download.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] lewcamino:
Ok Water... I know a lot of peeps ask for stuff but I have an idea. Its simple. Can you add another feture to the prgram and INI to do this;

Button1 is the top left button and button2 is the top right button.

Button1 = Messaging (default on 8125 WIZARD)

Button2 = Internet Explore (default on 8125 WIZARD)

EnableButton1Hold=1 ;0=no effect 1=exec setting below (Default 1)
Button1Hold="\program files\WHATEVERPROGUWANT"
OR
Button1Hold="\windows\start menu\WHATEVERLINKUWANT"

AND

EnableButton2Hold=1 ;0=no effect 1=exec setting below (Default 1)
Button2Hold="\program files\WHATEVERPROGUWANT"
OR
Button2Hold="\windows\start menu\WHATEVERLINKUWANT"

That would jsut give us all 2 more hardware buttons to work with. Plus I like the cimple INI setup for your app over a menu/option based setup of soem other apps that do this particular feature.

I know you have a lot of people tugging at you to do stuff but I just thought I would ask.

Later; Lew
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] brightcell:
Re: Boosting Volume?

I tried different values but it didn't really make the volume louder.

About Smarkeys, I like the option of page up/down using the Volume Key but in PIE, using up/down on the D-Pad for up/down page and right/left for link by link would be even better.

Is that possible?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
comment out this line or set the value to 0 will disable this function.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
understand your need, but I will put this in lower priority because u can do it in other button mapper :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] lewcamino:
Fair enough. I look forward to your next release and the ideas to come.

Later; Lew
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] FarSeide:
This is an awesome program. Thanks Water !!!

One request if I may... Is there a way to assign the "Answer" soft key to a differnt hard button such as messaging key ? The reason why I ask is because I always seem to answer the phone unwillingly when I take the phone out of the holster. This happens even with my phone being locked.

So would it be possible to have "Answer" key assigned to Messaging so that when I receive a call, I would have to press some other button on the phone that doesnt rub against the holster.

I hope Im making sense.

Thanks and great program by the way.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] topcaser:
hi,

i have installed every version up to now and have problems to use the latest one: The ini file is deleted every time i invoke smartskey!? Again and again i have copied the ini file to the folder where the exe is (firstly i have disabled smartskey). But the result is reproducable- the ini is deleted.

I wanted to use some other features like OMAP overclocking support, but this also not works.

Furthermore no link is automatically generated in the autostart folder as described in the Manual.

Iam using a QTEK9100. May anyone help me?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] kingbear2:
Water,

Is there any way to get the pageup/pagedown (volume slider key) to work the same in Pocket Outlook when viewing an e-mail? It's really annoying right now that it jumps from one link to another like it used to in pocket IE before I installed your tweak, and it would be really nice if it could do the pageup and down in an e-mail.

Thanks
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
The page up/down works on pocket IE and pocket outlook. I use it to read email and web page every day.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
Make sure that the ini file is in unicode code. Are you modifying the one inside the zip file or you create a new one by yourself?

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
It is not possible even I override the answer button, because during a phone call, the answer dialog popup and it will override the button again locally.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] orfe:
hello, I would like to change the ini file to change to disable the scroll down button (volume button) and to start the application on reboot. But I don't know how to change the ini file. I can't open it on my wizard.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
Please edit in your PC, you can open it using notepad.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] hdcl:
Moving the program to main memory has fixed all the issues with the program getting killed on resume from standby. Must be something going on with my SD card when the system is asleep.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] vbulkin:
same here.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] JEWUWA:
Hi

I Have a big Problem to uninstall smartskey. Forst I had Version 0.3 on SD-Card. Then I tried 0.4 in MainRAM.

I deleted every smartskey.exe, I deleted every ini, every folder after closing smartskey.

But now after every turning my Wizard on there is an error (two errors) that windows cant find smartskey. The first in the folder wehere I had v.03 and the second error where i had v0.4

What must I do to uninstall everything correct? There is no link in startup anymore???

Is there anymore in the registry??

I would like to install after this Version 0.4 without any errors.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] talkingbollox:
This is working great except that when I screen toggle and bring the device back into use the CPU defaults back to 180MHz. I have set the speed at 252 in the ini file.

This is wierd as I see that smartskey.lnk is in the windows/startup folder and a wakeup event points to this shortcut. :?:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] wizzzard:
I think I may have discovered a bug. I am successfully using volume slider to scroll and both softkeys to launch startmenu and close app. I am using TCMP and MortPlayer to play media files. I have mapped the volume slider in both programs to alter audio/system volume. All works correctly but after exiting both programs the scrolling with volume slider is not working. A soft reset restores scrolling. I am not sure if it is a bug with this program or it is the fault of TCMP and MortPlayer not releasing the volume slidercleanly. The volume slider neither alters system volume or scrolling until after a soft reset.

Al
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] faria:
were is download link for this app?!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] chybinj:
talkingbollox - I too am seeing the speed go back to 180 even though I have the INI options set and see the same thing in the notification queue.

l also noticed that it seems that using the stylus to click the "X" is not honoring the exception list. Holding down the right Soft-Key will hide those apps in the list, but clicking the X will close them.

Using the Cingular 8125 and the program is great BTW!

Regards - John
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] milton129:
Great program, Water.

Would very much appreciate if you could also add a VOLUMEONTODAY option so the volume slider controls volume when in the Today screen; useful for quickly putting the PPC in silent/vibrate mode, and I generally have no need to page up/page down in the Today screen.

I notice that the remapping of the volume slider for page up/page down doesn't work with MortButtons, though it seems to work with my other apps.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] derkie:
:D - This is just a great App!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
remove shortcuts to smartskey in /windows/startup.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
Yes, I also find this sometime, seems the OS won't send wakeup event to my program if you on and off the phone in a short period. I will check how to fix this.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
It is not a bug. Actually there is two method to override the volume key, one is locally, one is globally. For normal application, they should use the local method because it will restore when the program quit or when it in background. For the programs like TCPMP and MortPlayer, it use global method because they want user can use the volume to change the volume of its program even the program is in background. Unluckily, the global method cannot restore to previous state. To fix it, you can run smartskey twice to remap the buttons.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
Yes, I don't handle the X button yet.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] water:
Okay, but actually you can hold the "Connection Manager" to toggle between vibrate mode and sound mode easily.

water
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] bennish:
problem i find with that is that you can't easily use it for silent. holding comm manager to toggle mute/unmute would be a lot more useful.

Fantastic program water, especially inclusion of omapclocl - now we can use it without memmaid!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] MikeK:
Does anyone know if it's possible to assign the red phone button (hang up button) as the power button to wake up the phone. I'd like that to be the only button that wakes it up.

Awsome application Water. This is just about the only reason I'm keeping this phone. :D

Mike
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] pufftissue:
I was experiencing this too. The problem is that the smartkey.ini file as it is downloaded has the OMAPCLOCK and a few other functions commented out with a ";" prior to it. This means the compiler or whatever ignores it. Remove the semicolons in front of the line and it works now!