Argh! Phone keeps activating in my pocket!

miamicanes · #1 (**permalink**) 01-10-2009, 03:03 PM

I've always had an occasional problem with my Touch self-activating in my pocket... but the problem seems to have gotten a thousand times worse since I upgraded to 6.1 a couple of months ago.

The specific problem seems to be that incoming calls "wake up" the Touch, activate its touchscreen, and leave it on & active after the call gets missed (the vibrator just doesn't seem to be powerful enough to feel through the back pocket of loose jeans). I remember that on my PPC-6700, there was a poorly-documented rule that turning off the phone's UI via the top power button from the 'today' screen would ensure that the digitizer would remain inactive, and the display would turn off after missing the call, unless you explicitly pressed the red or green hardkey while ringing (or turned the display back on with the top power button). From what I remember, the Touch's WM6.0 firmware more or less respected the same tradition, but 6.1 seems to completely disregard it.

Is there ANY way to forcibly make the Touch with 6.1 act in a similar fashion? IE, if I press the top power button to turn it "off", ensure that NOTHING besides a hardkey during an incoming call can answer a call, and nothing besides a hardkey can turn it back "on" again? Right now, I'm at the 'crisis' stage, with my phone rapidly becoming intolerable. Bluetooth and the ringers get insidiously changed almost daily (phone activates in pocket due to unnoticed incoming call or sms, perceived presses on screen from 'today' screen trigger config apps, with the Bad Things you'd expect to happen, happening). I went for almost a day with the ringer silenced and bluetooth turned off before I noticed (my home phone pairs & treats it like a second line... no bluetooth = no ringing home phone, silent ringer = no idea I was even missing calls).

**darren.wlsn1** · #2 (**permalink**) 01-10-2009, 03:26 PM

why not just use s2u2? http://www.ac-s2.com/

miamicanes · #3 (**permalink**) 01-10-2009, 05:48 PM

Cool, that seems to have solved the worst of my problems

Is there any way to effectively kill the touchscreen dead while the phone is ringing for an incoming call? Maybe a registry hack to tell WM6.1 itself, "suppress display the onscreen softkeys for "answer" and "ignore" during incoming calls", but go ahead, activate the digitizer, and display the "call status" screen IF (and ONLY IF) the call is answered by pressing the green hardkey?

Likewise, I remember that there was a program I installed on my 6700 aeons ago that made the red hardkey's behavior more sensible (to me). Basically, pressing it when a call was not in progress would always return you to the 'today' screen. Unfortunately, I forgot what it was called, and I've never been able to find it since buying my Touch last year.