[Q]Alarm application turns on smartphone? - XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps

I am noob in smartphones.
I installed GingerDX in XPERIA X8 ;-)
I can not find an alarm application that turns on the mobile!!
For years i' ve set the alarm, turn off the phone and went to bed.
In the morning the phone turned on and alarmed.
Is there any application that can do that?
Thanks in advanced.

Smartphones are not able to do that because their system (in this case "Android") is like a real system of a computer. I don't think computers do that, do they? There is nothing that can make your phone boot up to ring the alarm.
Instead of shutting down your phone, why don't you turn on airplane mode instead? It's almost like turning off the phone.

That's bad. I hope somewhere in the future this change. And, by the way, there is any app that can auto turn off the app?
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Chris95X8 said:
Smartphones are not able to do that because their system (in this case "Android") is like a real system of a computer. I don't think computers do that, do they? There is nothing that can make your phone boot up to ring the alarm.
Instead of shutting down your phone, why don't you turn on airplane mode instead? It's almost like turning off the phone.
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Crap!
Well your idea for airplane mode is not bad, although is not the same with the off-situation.
Thanks anyway.
P.S: Ρε φίλε πατριώτης είσαι; Άμα είναι γιατί μιλάμε αγγλικά ;-)

Chris95X8 said:
Smartphones are not able to do that because their system (in this case "Android") is like a real system of a computer. I don't think computers do that, do they? There is nothing that can make your phone boot up to ring the alarm.
Instead of shutting down your phone, why don't you turn on airplane mode instead? It's almost like turning off the phone.
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Actually they do that, just a little yes in the BIOS and it works well, about an Android phone doing that, i think its possible, haven't had the need for it yet, but just for testing purposes will see few things and report back

Chris95X8 said:
Smartphones are not able to do that because their system (in this case "Android") is like a real system of a computer. I don't think computers do that, do they? There is nothing that can make your phone boot up to ring the alarm.
Instead of shutting down your phone, why don't you turn on airplane mode instead? It's almost like turning off the phone.
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Computers can do this so easy!

Really? They can? Oh, then I'm sorry about the misinformation, but still, Android can't boot to ring the alarm.

My smartphone wakes up automatically!
I'am apologize to bring this old topic on top, but I've also search on the internet which android smartphone would wake up when completly off for an alarm and there is not much information, so i wanted to put my experiences.
Because I didn't find any Information about that on the Internet, i've try myself in a Shop with demo phone. Results, the HTC One series and ALCATEL One Touch Series DOES wake up when turned off. Samsung phones had bad on that point. Of course i didn't try every smartphones...
I've bought an ALCATEL One Touch Mini 6012X... Alarm wake up the phone (maybe into a special mode just for alarm but looks very similar). There is also an option to turn off and turn ON the phone every day at a specific time.
So i hope, poeple would understand that smartphone could automatically wake up...
Bye

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Silent Mode Turning Phone Over

All,
I sure I read somewhere that when the phone is turned over it can be set-up to go into automatice silent mode, like the Samsung Omnia does.
Great for meetings and at night.
Is this the case? And if so how do you set it.
Max
Anyone got any ideas on this? If not please just say no.
Max
According to the manual you can just press the volume down key (side of the phone) to mute the ringer.
I didn't have to set anything, it works pretty well and has been working out of the box, I just flip it over and it works.
xdaman85 said:
I didn't have to set anything, it works pretty well and has been working out of the box, I just flip it over and it works.
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Im pretty sure you have installed a 3rd party app? Ive turned my phone over and nothing happens?
xdaman85 said:
I didn't have to set anything, it works pretty well and has been working out of the box, I just flip it over and it works.
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OH RLY?
xdaman85 said:
I didn't have to set anything, it works pretty well and has been working out of the box, I just flip it over and it works.
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Do you have the white hero or the gray (orange network one). I got the white one, so wondering if this is a feature of the rom.
Would be really nice to have this, someone said third party app. is there one out there. If not maybe this will become a pet project.
Max
The only thing i have recognized is, that when you get a call and turn the phone over, ringtone is muted.
I didn't try it, if it works out of the box.
But i saw a program on the market for free.
Called FlipSleep.. maybe you can do this with this program.
I haven't try it
ps...
there is also a paid app
called Turn silent or the app Turn Around
and i saw Toggle silent on the market
and Off the Hook
these are free apps
thespeed said:
I didn't try it, if it works out of the box.
But i saw a program on the market for free.
Called FlipSleep.. maybe you can do this with this program.
I haven't try it
ps...
there is also a paid app
called Turn silent or the app Turn Around
and i saw Toggle silent on the market
and Off the Hook
these are free apps
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Cheers Mate I take a look at them, happy to pay a small fee for this feature.
Max
Hi i`ve just tried my phone by flipping it over when someone calls and it 100% does silence it. I have no 3rd party apps to do this either..
My bad.
I tried flipping the phone BEFORE someone called. It turns out that when you flip it when someone calls you it goes silent out of the box. This is not the best solution but its somewhat useful.
But thats how it should work
Just press and hold the down volume key to silence it to put it in vibrate only.
superkayser said:
The only thing i have recognized is, that when you get a call and turn the phone over, ringtone is muted.
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Sorry, that's what I meant, when I'm getting a call, I simply flip it over and it goes silent, it doesn't remain silent, it simply just puts that particular call on silent.
Why don't you just push and hold the on/off (off hook) button a short time and then choose "Silent mode" ?

Screen timeout issue

Hi,
I have looked with the search, but nothing even close comes up....
(prove me wrong, I'll be happy to find the solution)
Basically, my lock screen and my today screens have stopped shutting down after the preset time?
I have tried changing the time but nothing, I sit watching the screen like some sort of muppet, mentally counting down a minute or 30 seconds to see if it will shut down but nothing.
Not a problem over the bank holiday weekend as the phone also gets a decent rest, but come Tuesday when all hell lets loose I will need all the battery I can have, and a screen that stays on 24/7 isn't going to help!
Ta.
try phone reboot! i had that problem when i had an application running in background which did not allow auto-screen-off
felikz said:
try phone reboot! i had that problem when i had an application running in background which did not allow auto-screen-off
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What was the application? Not had the issue as yet but if it happens it would be nice to know what to look out for.
felikz said:
try phone reboot! i had that problem when i had an application running in background which did not allow auto-screen-off
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Hi,
I know i should RTFM , but how do you reboot? and it this like like a hard reset/ soft reste for a Winmo phone? And will it delete anything?
Sorry to be a noobie.
i just meant to shutdown the phone and then turn it on ;-)
if you have the problem resulting of a background app which deactivates screen-off, this will solve it

[Q] Device Freezing / Dying?

Has anyone experienced their phone freezing/locking up? I'm not talking about lagging/freezing applications, but the whole phone actually locking up.
My phone seems to be freezing up about twice a week and has been for the last 3 weeks. Each time it has been when the device was in my pocket or on charge at night (and subsequently the alarm does not go off).
When the device is frozen like this, it has no indications of even having power.The power button will not turn the phone off, on, or wake the device. Plugging the phone into power doesn't even turn the orange/green charging lights on, nor play the tone for when power is connected.
I physically have to remove the battery for a few seconds from the phone and re-insert before the phone will start up. I have even performed a hard reset on this device.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? I'm thinking that it might be a hardware fault, or at a really wild guess maybe the HTC Attentive App.
I'm having no problems with crashing or freezing!
I have actually found the device to be very stable, a lot nicer cleaner and stable than my previous device (Sony Ericsson Xperia X10).
Had exactly that problem a couple of times already. The only solution is to pull the battery out.
Still - better than an iPhone crash which requires you to plug it back into the PC before it will work again.
I had a similar situation:
I was making an international call (card service), when finished i heared the card IVR prompt if i need to make another call. I wanted to hang up but the screen was black adn dead. power button did not bring into life and i was keep on hearing the active call. had to take the battery out to kill this situation.
typically windows behaviour
Thought I had narrowed this down to the HTC attentive app, but alas the phone froze again this morning after hitting snooze 3 or 4 times. Oddly enough, the power button would turn the screen on and off, but the lock screen wouldn't show, nor could anything be moved or controlled on the screen (live tiles were still animated though). Battery pull again.
Yeah, typical windows behavior. No where near as bad as Windows Mobile which I came from though
I have the same issue. Can be in the middle of a call or anything. Had it reboot once while on charge too. Did you just remove the attentive app? Would it be worth trying a Hard Reset if that wipes the device. If so how easy is it to put your old Apps back on. Or do I need to write a list and search manually.
I did a hard reset and just didn't install the app again.
"When you buy or download apps from the Zune PC client, those apps are automatically redownloaded to the phone when you reset the device and login with your Windows Live ID again. When you download apps from the phone itself, you have to go to the Marketplace again to manually find and redownload the apps you want."
http://www.winsupersite.com/paul/mailbag/101023.asp#9

App that locks turning off phone

Anybody knows about an app that can do the job? Made a search and found wavesecure, but old and not compatible with latest wp.
Cheers
Sorry, can you be more precise about what you mean? If you're looking for an app which prevents the phone from being turned off; that's not possible. If you're looking for one that prevents the screen from turning off (phone entering standby mode), that's easy but the app has to keep running in the foreground to do it, so it just wastes battery. If you're looking for an app to allow you to disable the screen lock timeout, that is actually possible although it requires high privileges (interop-unlock).
rikirix said:
Anybody knows about an app that can do the job? Made a search and found wavesecure, but old and not compatible with latest wp.
Cheers
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Googling for "wavesecure" only brought me to the McAffee website. It's an app to remotely lock and wipe your phone. If that's what you're looking for, look no further. Windows Phone has this feature built in, just log in to https://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/my and select to lock, ring or erase your phone if you lost it or it got stolen.
Sorry, maybe i was not clear. Looking for an app that prevents the phone to be turned off. Say you want to turn off the phone and to proceed you need to insert a pin number. I am looking for such kind of app just to have some more time in case the phone is stolen. Of course somebody can even take off the sim without turning off the phone......but might be not so "instinctive" as turning it off.
... or remove the battery, or hold the power button for ten seconds to hard-shutdown, or...
I mean, I'd help you if I knew of something, but it's pretty pointless.
yeah... at the end seems to be quite useless....
Thanx guys for answers.
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Vibrate

This seems an overly obvious question. Does the watch have vibrate? I just got it two days ago, but no setting of vibrate anywhere seems to make it shake. I would think I'd have run across someone else saying something if it lacked the ability...
So, kinda wondering if mine is broken or if I totally missed that it isn't there.
Thanks
jd
jdommer said:
This seems an overly obvious question. Does the watch have vibrate? I just got it two days ago, but no setting of vibrate anywhere seems to make it shake. I would think I'd have run across someone else saying something if it lacked the ability...
So, kinda wondering if mine is broken or if I totally missed that it isn't there.
Thanks
jd
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Mine vibrated yesterday and now it wont vibrate. If you scroll down from the top on your home screen, click the icon in the top right corner, that should bring up your wifi, airplane mode, gps, battery, etc icons. If you scroll down to audio profiles, there is one called meeting that has a picture of a phone vibrating. That should make calls and messages vibrate your phone. You can also manually turn them on because if you go to settings/device/audio profile/settings for general where you can select vibrate plus ring, and if you scroll down there is an option for vibrate on touch. Even though I have both these settings checked, and they used to work, they are no longer working. I tried a factory reset, and that didn't fix it. Now, when I power on my watch, I get a message that says headphones disconnected. It seemed to stop working after I started getting this message, not sure if that is normal or if it has anything to do with it. I will let you know if I figure out a way to get mine vibrating again, but for now it looks like mine could be broken. Can anyone else chime in on this if this has happened to you?
flimmyflam said:
Mine vibrated yesterday and now it wont vibrate. If you scroll down from the top on your home screen, click the icon in the top right corner, that should bring up your wifi, airplane mode, gps, battery, etc icons. If you scroll down to audio profiles, there is one called meeting that has a picture of a phone vibrating. That should make calls and messages vibrate your phone. You can also manually turn them on because if you go to settings/device/audio profile/settings for general where you can select vibrate plus ring, and if you scroll down there is an option for vibrate on touch. Even though I have both these settings checked, and they used to work, they are no longer working. I tried a factory reset, and that didn't fix it. Now, when I power on my watch, I get a message that says headphones disconnected. It seemed to stop working after I started getting this message, not sure if that is normal or if it has anything to do with it. I will let you know if I figure out a way to get mine vibrating again, but for now it looks like mine could be broken. Can anyone else chime in on this if this has happened to you?
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I cannot get my vibrate to work again, if anyone has experienced this, please reply and let me know how to fix it, for now, i am giving up, and extremely disappointed
jdommer said:
This seems an overly obvious question. Does the watch have vibrate? I just got it two days ago, but no setting of vibrate anywhere seems to make it shake. I would think I'd have run across someone else saying something if it lacked the ability...
So, kinda wondering if mine is broken or if I totally missed that it isn't there.
Thanks
jd
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It does vibrate. But very few things use that function it seems. I was thinking about setting up a tasker script to vibrate on any notification.
mortis2600 said:
It does vibrate. But very few things use that function it seems. I was thinking about setting up a tasker script to vibrate on any notification.
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Anyone have any ideas on how to get mine vibrating again? I've done the backup and restore option, is that how you do a proper factory reset, or is there another way I can try to get this thing to start working again?
update: Just flashed 1900_20140120 firmware using the excellent guide on here, and still no vibrate
flimmyflam said:
Anyone have any ideas on how to get mine vibrating again? I've done the backup and restore option, is that how you do a proper factory reset, or is there another way I can try to get this thing to start working again?
update: Just flashed 1900_20140120 firmware using the excellent guide on here, and still no vibrate
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Mine started working. Not sure why; I tried to reset to factory and despite following the directions and watching Loki's video, i managed to lock the watch up. Popped the battery, put it back together, wiped the device. Now it vibrates and that is good. Just wish i knew what I had did that fixed it.
Thanks all!
Jd
Mine does not vibrate either, never did.
I tried with the stock firmware, Loki's firmware, stock with enhanced security... no luck...
Thoughts?
jdommer said:
Mine started working. Not sure why; I tried to reset to factory and despite following the directions and watching Loki's video, i managed to lock the watch up. Popped the battery, put it back together, wiped the device. Now it vibrates and that is good. Just wish i knew what I had did that fixed it.
Thanks all!
Jd
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stanelie said:
Mine does not vibrate either, never did.
I tried with the stock firmware, Loki's firmware, stock with enhanced security... no luck...
Thoughts?
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Mine started vibrating again. I went to take the battery out, but couldn't get the screws off, so I gave up, when I rebooted, all the sudden vibrate worked again. Not sure if it was powering it on and off a few times, or shaking it around, try taking the battery out and putting it back in if you can, if not, just try turning it off and then on and maybe lightly shaking it around
Well,
It looks like a bad electrical contact, I've downloaded an app called "vibrater" that does just what it says, and it won't start the vibrator until I lightly tap the watch on it's side while the app is turning the vibrator on.
But it does not stick. I guess I will have to return the watch to have it fixed...
Until tonight, I thought the TrueSmart just didn't have a vibrator...
Vibration doesnt work
Hey, just received my Omate Trusmart! (Kickstarter edition)
Overall I am extremely happy with the watch, but there are a couple of major problems:
1. The vibration doesn't work, I have tried rebooting, factory restore etc but nothing seems to work. Does anyone know a fix to this or is it a hardware problem?
2. My screen has very faint dark spots in the center. Looks like a manufacturing defect.
Is it possible to return the watch to get a replacement? I havent opened the back cover yet.
Thanks.

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