General Questions about Q shortcut/features

[craigslist]

I just got my Q from sprint and I love it. But there are still a few things I found lacking compared to my 3-year-old nokia. Can some1 let me know if those are doable in Q?

Complaints ;)
1) Automatic keypad lock. If you don't press a key and not in a call for so long, it automatically locks your keypad
2) record a call by pressing a button
3) set up a phone card for calling international #s. I know you can insert the full phone card # in the contacts, but if your card # expires, you'd have to update all contacts. Is there a way to insert a phone card # and just "long press" a contact and it will dial the contact with the phone card?
4) this really anonies me, the text msg/email program keeps opening itself in the background, even after I killed it, it will reappear in the running program list after awhile. This has the effect of lighting up the screen every minute or so, and I think that's why my battery is drained in 12 hours.
5) Assigning a voice-dial to a contact (by saying it in your own voice once), instead of relying on the voice recongnition software which is terrible with foreign names.

Questions
4) I heard windows live search and google map can make use of the internal GPS, however, I've never been able to get it work. Any hints?

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by craigslist

1) Automatic keypad lock. If you don't press a key and not in a call for so long, it automatically locks your keypad

I believe there's a program to do automatic keyboard locking, but it's not standard.

However, you can do automatic device locking if you set a password on your device. Go to the Security settings applet and choose Device Lock. You can select a time interval to wait before the device locks.

Originally Posted by craigslist

2) record a call by pressing a button

No. Again, there may be third-party software to do this, but I'm not sure if it works on the Smartphone platform.

Originally Posted by craigslist

3) set up a phone card for calling international #s. I know you can insert the full phone card # in the contacts, but if your card # expires, you'd have to update all contacts. Is there a way to insert a phone card # and just "long press" a contact and it will dial the contact with the phone card?

Not that I know of. I've see a registry entry that allows changing your location, so you could theoretically set it to dial things like "9" or "1", but I don't know if that works.

Originally Posted by craigslist

4) this really anonies me, the text msg/email program keeps opening itself in the background, even after I killed it, it will reappear in the running program list after awhile. This has the effect of lighting up the screen every minute or so, and I think that's why my battery is drained in 12 hours.

Stop killing it. If you've configured E-mail to check automatically, it's supposed to be running.

I never kill E-mail and have it check my account every 30 minutes. I generally get a full day's use out of it (although I don't tend to make many calls).

Originally Posted by craigslist

5) Assigning a voice-dial to a contact (by saying it in your own voice once), instead of relying on the voice recongnition software which is terrible with foreign names.

As far as I know, there's no way to add voice tags to contacts. (I can't even get the Voice Recognition program to recognize when I say "Yes", even though it's pretty good with names.)

Originally Posted by craigslist

4) I heard windows live search and google map can make use of the internal GPS, however, I've never been able to get it work. Any hints?

That's not true. You need an external GPS receiver; the one inside the Q is only an aGPS receiver.

Steve

[rudeboy]

Originally Posted by craigslist

I just got my Q from sprint and I love it. But there are still a few things I found lacking compared to my 3-year-old nokia. Can some1 let me know if those are doable in Q?

Complaints ;)
1) Automatic keypad lock. If you don't press a key and not in a call for so long, it automatically locks your keypad

check here for Automatic Keylock..