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ozymandias
20th February 2005, 04:55 PM
Here's the scenario.

I have my blueangel in my pocket.
It's off and the button lock is engaged so that it wont turn itself on accidentally. There's nothing I hate more than when it switches itself on in my pocket and goes berserk with random screen input.

My bluetooth headset is connected.
(I'm not even gonna start on how appaling the blue tooth on the blue angel is !!!!!, but that aside.....)
The phone rings and I press the answer buton on my headset to answer it.
The damn phone is now on in my pocket and the screen is active and receiving input during the call. Quite apart from anything else, there is a great big red END CALL button on the screen just waiting to be touched.

Assuming the call survives any problems, at the end of the call I have to get the phone out of my pocket to turn it off again because it wont turn itself off unless the activity timeout occurs which is not going to happen if the screen is being brused by anything in my pocket.

Is there some configuration or tool or utility or something that can detect when the phone is in handfree mode and disable screen input unless a certain button is pressed (like the green phone buton) and then switch the phone off again when the call is terminated ?

BoSJo
20th February 2005, 08:38 PM
http://www.trancreative.com/nicestart.aspx

Have a look at this.

Im using it, and its the one that does the job best of them all out there, well in my opinion anyway

cchris
21st February 2005, 05:16 PM
I had an alu one... no problem!

ozymandias
21st February 2005, 05:39 PM
OK. I got NiceStart and had a play with it.
I think I have got it configured to work OK now.

Seems to solve most of the issues I raised.
I can't believe I had to get extra software to do that though.
I mean, it's not as if any of those probelms are either unforseeable or hard to solve.
It makes you wonder if the people who design these devices ever actually use them for real for any length of time.

BoSJo
21st February 2005, 07:46 PM
The worst thing about it, is that i can buy a 1$ phone with a locking thats even better than this.
People have been screaming about this since the birth of WM, but M$ dont seem to be hearing this.

I have set Start->Settings->System->Button Lock-> Lock all ........power Button

Set a 4 digit password in NiceStart and mapped it to the 4 action buttons right under the screen.

Works great, but the screen will from time to time light up (M$ thing that it must do) to check the battery status. This cant be stopped in any way.