please help an old timer with 2 easy questions
 

1. When I'm not in the car paired w/ my blutooth car kit, should I turn the bluetooth off on the phone? Whether on or off, my battery lasts long enough that I don't ever have to charge it during the day.

2. I recently upgraded from orig. sprint Rom 2.08 to the current version. I love the GPS. On the old version, I ran HTC X-Button 1.5. This new version has 2.0 built in. I know in 1.5 it would show me Comm Mgr running, but w/ 2.0, I have to do extra clicks to get to the task manager to see that it is running. Any way to "downgrade" without having to cook a rom? Maybe turn off via a reg hack and then install 1.5 and put in startup?

Thanks in advance,
Greg

Please help an old timer out with 2 easy questions
 

sorry for the dupe post in the wrong place.

Re: Please help an old timer out with 2 easy questions
 

well im not sure but ill do some homework for you and find out. it feels nice the youth helping the elders. I feel like a boyscout

Re: please help an old timer with 2 easy questions
 

@ 1 - if BT is off, your battery will last longer.

@ 2 - the only way to completely remove it would be to install a custom ROM. You can use other programs (like QuickMenu) to achieve the same tasks.

Re: Please help an old timer out with 2 easy questions
 

Don't know about 2, but as far as 1, if you're not charging the phone while on BT, you should already know it causes a drain on the battery. But its not going to hurt anything if you're not on a 4 hour drive.

Re: Please help an old timer out with 2 easy questions
 

I'm an old timer, but not old :-)

I decided to keep the BT on (on the phone). The extra battery drain (versus if I turned off BT for the 8 hrs I'm at work) isn't significant enough to hassle with it.

I have downloaded QuickMenu and will try it. I really don't want to mess w/ a cooked ROM (not that I'm too old and frail to attempt it). I just need an easy way to see if I left Comm Mgr running and I see it also prevents ActiveSync from running upon soft reset (or power off/on).

Do I need poutlook or anything else in the startup folder (besides VistaHide BatteryGuage)?