Removing/Disabling SnapVUE

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I have searched and searched, but can't seem to find out if anyone has figured out a way to remove or disable SnapVUE completely.

I never use it, and I don't use the 3G modem so I don't need it at all.

It drains the battery and is annoying the hell out of me.

Is there any way to remove it, prevent it from starting or anything ?

-mortenft

Hmmm. I have always heard the other way.

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Originally Posted by MortenFT

I have searched and searched, but can't seem to find out if anyone has figured out a way to remove or disable SnapVUE completely.

I never use it, and I don't use the 3G modem so I don't need it at all.

It drains the battery and is annoying the hell out of me.

Is there any way to remove it, prevent it from starting or anything ?

-mortenft

I have always heard the other way of getting rid of Windows Vista and run more versatile SnapVue/Windows Mobile. You are the first one to ask kill SnapVue and 3G Modem. My sicere suggestion is get rid of Shift and buy a decent netbook or UMPC like Samsung Q1, ASUS R2H, RAON Everun etc. They all can run Vista and you can add broadband modem always, if you need one.
Thanks
Ram

In SnapVUE go to Settings > Power > Advanced
Here you can set the device to turn of if not used. Check both boxes and then set the wait time to 2 minutes. Then wait 2 minutes... SnapVUE will shutdown and will not come back unless you reset it in Vista.

Can be very weird knowing if you have turned Vista on after doing this though. A little jiggleing of the on/off slide button will do it. The SnapVUE button will return you to a blank SnapVUE (its blank because it is turned off) but will not return you to Vista - you'll have to jig with the on/off button.

Originally Posted by saiweb

My sicere suggestion is get rid of Shift and buy a decent netbook

If there was some way of selling my Shift for a decent price (compared to what I paid for it) then I would. However, selling it with $5-600 loss to buy a netbook doesn't make good economics too me. That is why I wanted to get rid of SnapVUE so it doesn't drain the battery, and I can actually use the damn thing as I intended, having it in my livingroom to do "quick surfing" etc.

Now, if I leave it unplugged for more than a few days, it is empty, and I have to plug it in and use it with the cable pluged in. then, the next time I want to use it again, I have unplugged it - and so the story goes.

A really expensive piece of sh*t is my oppinion

Originally Posted by King Reeky

In SnapVUE go to Settings > Power > Advanced
Here you can set the device to turn of if not used. Check both boxes and then set the wait time to 2 minutes. Then wait 2 minutes... SnapVUE will shutdown and will not come back unless you reset it in Vista.

I tried this. After 2 minutes the screen goes blank. Great I thouht - but I wanted to check - so I press the SnapVUE button and hey presto - it re-appears instantly - i.e. it's still sitting there draining my battery as far as I can gather...

Any ideas ?

Don't know why in my case the power options got screwy. From memory I had just liberated it (again, from a restored ROM) and installed some GPS software.
When it did disappear for me it was truely gone. No amount of button pushing would bring it back. So, I think that it is possible to turn the SnapVUE side off completely - just don't know how to replicate it. Sorry.

Had another thought - change your power settings while the Vista side is powered down.
*Correction* does not matter what the Vista side is doing. You need to ensure the SnapVUE side is in flight mode. I found that the 3G polling was keeping it alive. Can turn off SnapVUE at will now. So to recap, in SnapVUE 1. set the power options to turn of after 2 minutes. 2. Use connection manager to put the phone into flight mode. 3.Wait. SnapVUE will turn off and render the SnapVUE button useless. To switch to Vista use the on button.

if you don't want to have the snap viw, so why did you buy it from the begining????
The idea of Shift is to have two operating systems

Windows mobile + using it as 3G modem in Vista vies
and the Vista operating system (touch screen goodies)

My advice to you is to sell it and don't complaint

Originally Posted by MortenFT

I have searched and searched, but can't seem to find out if anyone has figured out a way to remove or disable SnapVUE completely.

I never use it, and I don't use the 3G modem so I don't need it at all.

It drains the battery and is annoying the hell out of me.

Is there any way to remove it, prevent it from starting or anything ?

-mortenft

it does not drain the battery... I have about 3 hours of use in Windows 7. I'm using snapvue only for call and gps... and I'm not sure that you will find any netbook being more interesting than the shift.

if you think that your snapvue drains the battery then try to make it the lightest as possible.. you can stop the display using pBar or psShutXP .. and sincerely, I don't see anything better than that.
the best in that, is that you can just switch to snapvue, without display and guess what... you can get about 4 hours of battery life for Win7 because snapvue save battery life...

I really don't understand comments like in this post !