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[General Topics] munzab:
Hi all

i got myself one of these nice machines, apart from the battery life, i quite like it.

however, everytime i touch any buttons, it turns on. is there anyway to only select it to turn on when pressing power button?i cant find anything in the settings tabs (im running wm6.5 by the way)

thanks for the help, any program or registry setting that does that, id be willing to try!

also, does anyone know where the backlight.exe (or if it is under any other name) is situated?i want to make a shortcut to it on the home screen, but cant find the file in the windows directory!
[General Topics] gin:
I've been looking for it too... :p

Open the battery-settings.

And choose the upper option.
[General Topics] gin:
...by the way, how did you upgrade to wm6.5?

I'm still running 6.1
[General Topics] Monty Burns:
http://eten-users.eu/index.php?showtopic=18653

6.5 F900
[HTC Vox] drsskale:
Hello All,

I am missing the default feeds in the infofeed rss reader, since I did a hard reset of the phone, can some kind soul out there export the default feeds in the opml format and post a link to that file or post that file to drsskale at yahoo . com ? I would be very grateful for the same. Thanks and regards,

Sachin Kale, India
[HTC Vox] drsskale:
If you dont have s710 pls post opml file of any htc rss reader, probably the same feeds will be there. Thanks in advance..
[HTC Vox] frauhottelmann:
Why don't you add a Channel and use the search function it has!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] hawkeyexp:
Hi Guys,

there is a new wm6.5-build in the development tree http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=544445 with buildnumber 23022. i have some problems to build the xip section for the erivus-kitchen. can anybody help me or has anybody portet it and can upload it ?

best regards

hawkeyexp
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] ND4SPD:
I've ported but it is crazy buggy. I've now ported buid 23024 and am trying that now.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] adwinp:
Yes it is.

Completely messed up hard buttons.

cprog fails to open...

>Edit<

This issue is fixed in the 23024 cprog.

Also, DON'T use the new GAC; it's corrupt.

Best use the 23017 GAC. Especially Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status, else some apps won't work (for example, CommManager, G-Trigger)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] sardroid:
Can u uploading this build 23024 for Diamond after tests?Regards
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spikegotti:
is this housing http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260453968402&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:US:1123 a FURTHER rip-off in quality as the OEM found here http://cgi.ebay.com/OEM-SONY-ERICSS...ries?hash=item2ea6dd8d1e&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

i want to buy a new housing but i don't wanna buy one with less quality than the original :confused:

what are your thoughts on the pics there?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bill_viper:
Judging by the pics both fascias seem identical. Although don't know why this big pricing difference. Maybe the first auction is for a replica housing? Don't have large pics as the second auction so we can tell for sure.

Also, at CNN http://cnn.cn/shop/sonyericsson-xperia-c-28_638.html the housings are pricey. For me go for the second auction or buy from CNN, you will be 100% sure that the housing is the OEM.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] figurine:
yeah i was looking at the $24.00 on ebay too... someone should buy it and tell me how it is ;)
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spikegotti:
i think im gonna let this pass and sell my x1 as it is, im thinking of leaning towards the touch diamond 2 :( i will miss my keyboard but what the heck
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fliptil:
Yo!

I ordered the $24.00 last week... When I receive the housing parts, I will take pictures and spread the message....

Fingers crossed......
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkhalf520:
Damn the cracks....Its a pity to sacrifice a gd device just now that some gd new things are coming....senseUI....Leo...sure it'll come for d2 too.....but no KeyBoard there.....I have ur very same problem...but I'll try the case !! :(
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fliptil:
Received the housings yesterday.

They're certainly not OEM (maybe the backcover is, the rest not). The outside looks quite nice finished, the set is quite complete (with some tools for the fitting). From the two sets I ordered, one has a large gluestain on the top part of the housing (below the LCD). This gluestain damaged the paint. So I decided to start transferring the phone in the other housing.

After dissecting the phone I started with the assembly of the screen part. The speaker fitted not quite nice, so took some feddling to get mounted. At last it fitted (the print on top of the speaker fitted just). Closing the top part of the housing was a mess. The snap-locks didn't snap (partly) and on one side the housing did not flush fit. The (original) screws did not fit in the thread bushings.... With some fiddling I sort of managed to fit them. Then on with the bottom part. The new chrome buttons do not fit in the new chrome housing part.......

This is were I give up for yesterday. I think I'm going to rebuild the old housing en give up on the new one....

So.....

Decide for yourself if it's worth the trouble.... The housing looks quit neat (not as good as OEM though) but the fitment process is quite troublesome. Delivery was fast and the package is complete (including self-adhesive rubber for screen and speaker fitment). I will get in touch with the guy from Ebay with my findings.... Maybe I'm doing something wrong....

Will post some pictures tomorrow or something....
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkhalf520:
thnx ur comments were of gr8 benefit to me.....will be gladly w8ing for the pics :D !
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkhalf520:
thnx, ur comment were of gr8 benefit to me.....will be gladly w8ing for the pics :D !
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spikegotti:
thnx dude, im waiting on mine to be delivered, :(
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wallie-s:
looking forward for more reactions...

@Fliptil

From a scale from 0-10, how hard was it to do?

Before starting myself, I want to know if i'm capable of doing this.

To be honest, I know how to fix stuff, but don't know if I can do this trick..

Thanks for sharing anyway
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joghurt2:
Does anybody know, where i can buy a non branded battery cover for my sliver x1?

It is branded with T-Mobile, but i would like to have it blank or non-branded.

An original one is 25 € in ebay Germany. That's too much. So a cheap one would be fine.

Thanks in advice for all tips!

Best regards

Jog
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spikegotti:
ebay dude, i purchased one 2 weeks ago for about 10 GBP

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170363212269
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fliptil:
Some pictures.... try if it works....
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nick.Unltd:
Hmm i've dropped my poor x1 on the concrete sidewalk as i got out of my car.

Amazingly it must be good quality because there are a only a couple of scratches on the front and some damage on the rubber around where the

stylus is, but otherwise everything works and is functional.

What this experience did, was got me lookin for spare parts in case I'd

ever need them. As a result I ordered from the same person on eBay 2 days ago

and I just now found this post. Needless to say, I'm damn scared that I've

wasted the money. You tried to fit the black parts on a silver X1, and mine is black,

so I'm crossing my fingers that for some unknown odd fantastical reason, it fits better on the black version. Also may ask whether your model is an x1i or x1a?

I'm guessing b/c its silver its an x1i but u can nvr be to sure. As for me, mine is

a black x1a. I'll post back if i have any updates.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fliptil:
Hi Nick.

I've got a X1i, as you had already guessed.... The mixing of the parts is also a bit of a risk.... The chrome middle part (original) has suffered some damages during my disassembly actions to start with... And has developed some new cracks in the use as a hybrid. Maybe I've overtightened some screws, or maybe the bottom part does not fit well enough so it develops to much tension I don't know...

I've decided to use the X1 till it dies, and to buy something else (no slide keyboard) a little bit more sturdy when it does. I am not going to do any repairwork on it. The design is simply flawed, I have had it repaired at SE once, when it came back it was broken again within two months. These stories can be found al over the internet, so I am not going to repair it again (just to get it broken again). I am not careful enough for a phone like this (however, my colleague also has a X1 that's broken and he is very careful...) I guess.

Just my two cents.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nick.Unltd:
thanks fliptil I'll keep those things in mind.

Before i dropped my x1 for the first time. There was some kind of defect in the silver middle part. At first it was a slight crack so i thought nothing of it, until a piece fell right out of it. Until now i've never needed to go through the process

of getting something fixed and was my experience painful. I got mine through a carrier (Rogers) so I called them on the phone. I was on hold forever, and when I finally got through they told me I had to go to a rogers store to have someone

personally take a look at it.

I got to the store, got on their phone, and was on hold for 20 minutes. When I got through they told me they would connect me to a specific department.

Another 20 minute wait.

I got through and then gave the phone to a rogers employee there. He confirmed that it should be a defect as there were no signs of dropping it and then HE waited 20 minutes while the guy on the line called sony.

I waited all that time to find out that I cannot get it replaced through my carrier but had to go through sony themselves.

I looked up some stories of experiences with SE's services and found that most (if not all) of the time they replace your x1 with a refurbished one, and I wasn't about to trade a perfectly brand new one with a minor ding in it, for

one that could be potentially scratched up and badly treated.

Now that I've dropped it though I fear that whether the defect gets worse or not I cannot get Sony's warranty on it. However, after what you've just told me I don't think I want to. Here's to hoping that i won't have to do x1

surgery anytime soon...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] FazeOwl:
i tried to reset (shut it down and tried to turn it back on) the phone (tmobile mytouch) and its now just stuck on the android screen... :(
[General Accessories] atreyu75:
Hi,

I have a Qtek 2020 with WM6.1 (Athers Rom :)) and after loosing my original headphone I've bought one from the net, wich I believe is from Qtek s200, it has two control boxes, one for volume and another one with a single button for anwsering calls. The problem is that the button doesn't work on my PPC. The volume works, the mic works, but the button doesn't do nothing.

Is there any kind of driver or software that alows me to give life to it?

Thanx
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dayzee:
Sometimes you are away from a charger and want to conserve what you have left, or are trying to run a resource heavy app without glitches (satnav) or trying to get a big update/download faster.

I thought we could post tips that either help with speed of the device or with saving battery - particularly if you know of apps or settings that slow the running down or eat battery.

I know these are quite obvious but I'll list some anyway to get us started

Turn these off for extra speed and batt :

Wireless General

GPS (you can leave location by network on for most stuff like weather apps)

Wifi - turning it off while you're out and about saves lots o batt. I also keep network notification off completely unless I'm in a new location looking for a wifi fix.

Bluetooth - set for off and undiscoverable

Mobile network - Set it to 2G for a big boost in battery life (and I've found, if the 3G is rubbish - I know, obvious, but I recently spent 20 mins moaning of no signal at all to send a tx at a gig, then realised I could flick to 2G and was away!!)

Data Sync

Google - You can turn of Auto sync and just sync manually when you choose

Background Data - Turning this off gives a huge battery boost, but gmail won't arrive in real time, so if you're expecting important mail don't turn it off.

On the sync option, if you know contacts and calendar are not changing that often you can uncheck these and sync manually every now and then

Apps that use Data Sync

Weather - check how often the app refreshes and set it to a longer time - some weather apps are by default set to refresh every 30 mins and this might not be needed most of the time.

Twitter and Facebook widgets and apps - again check the refresh periods, also notifications will Use batt more than no notifications.

Same probably applies for Exchange Sync but I don't use it.

Sound/Display - these things will save batt when you need it.

I think having Ring AND vibe will be more batt intensive, so maybe knock off the vibrate when you want to save battery

Keep Brightness low and lower screen timeout.

Turn off Auto rotation and animations and Notification Flash

Turning keypad tones off etc will save a bit too. It all adds up.

Turning Off TouchFLO

When running CoPilot, it helps to turn off wifi and some have reported that if you can toggle the Sense UI to the ordinary Android 3 screen home this helps too (Tho I've personally not had problems) To turn off Sense UI or Touchflo 7Screen home, you need to first go to settings-applications-manage applications and look for TouchFLO then clear defaults. After this, when you go to home, you'll be offered a choice of home or TouchFlo. To toggle back to Touchflo, press the home button again. To return it to default, just check the Use by default for this action, and then make your choice.

Post anything you've found to help or hinder speed, or to drain or boost battery life

Ta Dayzee xx
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mansn:
Is there a widget to switch from 3G to 2G?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rhedgehog:
no, that is not a setting that can be done on a widget. all the ones that are around and claim to do it just jump you straight into mobile settings so you can toggle it yourself in two clicks instead of four....
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dayzee:
But there is the Mobile Network one - HTC built in - when that is turned off, you can still get calls, and send txts. I use this toggle to do that - also can you not set a shortcut to do 3g to 2g only using bettercut? I'm sure you can, because you have that option in settings and bettercut can make a shortcut to any settings toggle.

Dayzee

Edit - Bettercut doesn't work with Hero :( Well, certainly not for creating and adding a shortcut to a system setting - will let the devs know...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Jones:
Is it my imagination or does having the people widget on a home screen makes the device a little sluggish?

Is anyone else using touchdown? Not sure if that is slowing my device down and using battery a lot too?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ewans:
Toggle Settings is a good app for controlling Daisys suggestions above, taskiller or Advanced Task Manager are essential for closing unwanted apps.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dayzee:
Couple of notes about apps that close stuff down like Taskiller and Task Manager - they can slow your fone down immediately after an end all, as the apps that need to run like TouchFlo have to restart - which they do, all by themselves - but it makes the fone prone to laggyness and force closing if you try to open stuff straight after.

If you get one that allows exclusions (I know advanced Task Manager does but dunno on others) then exclude TouchFLO and you'll get less proba after close all.

Also there were reports that one of the Taskiller apps messed with the long press home functions. Not sure on this tho...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ce:
With Taskkiller you also have the option to exclude programs. It also has a widget you can tap to close all (except the ignored programs) The free version only allows two apps to be ignored. Exclude TouchFlo is a good suggestion.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kilathaar:
Try TaskPanel, it's free and doesn't seem to have any restrictions in its exclude list. You can also add a memory threshold when TaskPanel should automatically kill applications (configured through a separate list). And finally, it registers itself as an ongoing task and starts up automatically. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schauol1:
TaskPanel ist great... :-) Thanks for that Tip. Have it running in the Background and now it Kills processes that are not in my Exclude List everytime the RAM goes below 50Meg.

My Hero is now (almost) Lag-Free. :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhericurls:
Full charge at 7am and at 5pm, battery still at 94%.

How?

Turn off background data.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicelad_uk:
Background data? As in what? Mobile network?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Jones:
Surely that disables all the sync services etc which is really what the phone is all about!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
Also the Market won't work unless background data is enabled... It will save battery but a said, many services won't work unless you update manually.

I switched this off when in France so I didn't eat up my roaming data bundle.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coolchedder:
Ive also noticed this also with the people widget after i removed it as well as the Clock # 8 it severely reduced the lagginess of my Hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gibarian:
Hi Dayzee & co.,

If you're looking for a good way to save battery power without having to turn wifi on and off manually, check out "Y5 battery saver"

Y5 - Battery Saver is an AndroidTM application which saves your battery by turning the Wifi off in locations where you have never been connected before. The application turns Wifi back on when you are back to known location. It will remember the locations automatically. All you have to do is turn the Wifi on and connect to the known Wifi network for the first time

Really cool, and works like a charm. Ok, you need to have your GPS turned on, but at least that one is useful everywhere you are (except inside buildings, fair enough)... whereas wifi isn't. Furthermore, wifi uses up more battery than GPS.

Concerning Advanced Task Killer (awesome!), you might want to check out this thread if you're sick of having to restart your phone each time you have to sync. In a few words: always put HTC sync in the Ignore list of the program. Unchecking it won't do.

Cheers!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
Stop using Peep (set it all to manual update), remove the widget and start using Twidroid.

As well as a huge reduction in battery draw, you'll find your Hero is far more responsive than is ever was before.

The last few days my Hero has not been sluggish and the battery life has increased dramatically. Set to 30 mins update just like Peep was.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rangbaz:
Speed and battery boosting Tips

turning off allmost every things,then what reson to have a smart phone and spend 600$ for the device better, turn off your hero and keep in the pocket and turn it back on to use...keep in pocket with power off till next use.this is not the sulution .turning off everythings ........rether go with motorola razer v3.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
I still don't see the point of using task managers and killing tasks. I just let the OS manage everything for me.

My Hero run very well indeed since I worked out that Peep was a real battery and resource hog.

I've just been for a 4 mile walk and used My Tracks to track the walk, Twidroid, Browser hot linked from tweets in Twidroid, answered a phone call and responded to a number of texts.

Looked at My Tracks a number of times to see what it was doing and to look at the satellite map. I like to point out things on the phone screen to the kids that they can see in real life - geeky but they think its cool.

Kept checking on how fast we were walking etc...

So screen was active quite a bit.

All over the space of 1hr 15mins with the GPS running all the time.

Hero never lagged once, battery used was around 10% (at a guess, maybe 12%).

Overall very impressed.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lcw622:
I think the very begining says it all...

"Sometimes you are away from a charger and want to conserve what you have left, or are trying to run a resource heavy app without glitches (satnav) or trying to get a big update/download faster.

I thought we could post tips that either help with speed of the device or with saving battery - particularly if you know of apps or settings that slow the running down or eat battery."
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayjay:
I don't even use twitter, so I neved had peep enabled in the first place. It's weird that some people report that there is no lag if they just let the phone take care of cleanup. I have to believe it, but I can't see it on my phone.

As soon as I have more stuff active, my phone starts lagging a lot... Don't know what it is that makes the "magic cutoff" free memory amount 40 megs, but there it is.

Nothing would make me happier than having a perfectly lagfree phone that I never need to kill tasks on, but that's sadly not the case now. What I described earlier works... for me :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayjay:
People are paying even more for an iPhone, aren't they?

And it's not really much of a drawback to turn off your browser when you aren't browsing, is it?

The whole idea with my post is to push using the Hero a bit (not all the way) towards using an iPhone. Close (kill) the stuff you aren't using right now. The iPhone forces you to do so, but on the Hero you have a choice, what to keep running and what not to. And by all means, keep EVERYTHING running if you want to, but don't come crying to me if the phone lags.

Remember the time, back when Windows XP was popular, when you could diagnose a slow computer just by watching how many icons were in the system tray next to the clock? This is pretty much the same thing. In the days it was considered stupid to have too many apps running on WinXP in the system tray, if you weren't actually using them. Why would it be any less stupid to have stuff you don't need running on the Hero?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Branwen:
Internet.

One thought, turn off wi-fi when on mobile, and mobile off when on wi-fi.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonzpda:
it's a phone, you want calls to come in don't you?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicelad_uk:
When he says turn mobile off, this doesn't turn it into airplane mode. It just turns off the mobile data.
[HTC Vox] cardynal:
Hi there...First of all, I would like tothank you for the great work you are doing here...About my problem...I have a SPV E650 (orange), and few days ago it stopped working properly...it starts and hangs up..the left softkey appears to be continuously pressed...yesterday I noticed the key mapping is totally wrong....when I press one button, it keeps pressing another and another....I flashed the rom, but nothing...any of you guys experienced something like this??? Thank you!!
[General Questions and Answers] Erikpro2:
About 2 months ago i bought the htc tp2. Synchronizing my calender with outlook never worked. Tried al the tips @ tricks (even re-installed outlook). Today again tried to get this problem fixed... but with no succes.

When i start ActiveSync on my tp, synchronising starts, but after a few moments it stops, and i get the message 'waiting for the network'. The supportcode is 0x80072EFF.

Any ideas here? I would be delighted to get this working