WMP. turn off the screen, not buttons. how?
 

While playing music in windows media player, i assigned a button to "Toggle Screen" function which effectively turns off the screen but keeps buttons alive so i can skip/seek/pause/etc... but the problems is that after about 1 minute, hardware buttons get disabled as well (but music keeps playing), which is quite frustrating when you expect buttons to work but they dont anymore.

i'm assuming its because in my power settings i set it to "Turn off device if not used for 1 minute".... But the confusing part is that i've used to have same settings on my PPC-6800/Titan/Mogul and the hardware buttons stayed on forever after i turned off the screen using WMP's "Toggle Screen" function.

is there an excpetion list somewhere that would turn my device off in 1 minute if not used UNLESS there is "WMP/wmplayer.exe" process running? or maybe there is an different solution that would produce the desired result?

PS: i'm running Sprint's stock rom.


Thanks!

Re: WMP. turn off the screen, not buttons. how?
 

check your start/settings/system "Key Lock" and check..."do not lock buttons"...when device is "off"

This might be your problem.

Re: WMP. turn off the screen, not buttons. how?
 

i actually thought of doing that, but i do want buttons to lock when device is "off"...

on my old ppc6800, it locks buttons when device is off, but when i initiate WMP's "Toggle Screen", it locks all buttons except those which were specifically assigned to wmp control functions, and keeps it that way until i "Toggle Screen" back on... it seemed as if on my touch pro there is some other function that overrides wmp's "toggle screen" and completely disables ALL buttons (xcept power buttton of course) ~40 seconds after "toggle screen" is initiated.

Re: WMP. turn off the screen, not buttons. how?
 

Here is what I do. Once music or streaming audio is playing, I hit the "home" button. Then I hit the power button. Music keeps playing.