Using TTN5 with Hard Buttons to Switch to Music Player

[Pessable]

I have been happily using TTN5 on my Ipaq2210 for some time. Recently, however, I forgot to take my charger on holiday and consequently the Ipaq ran completely out of battery power.

No problem, I thought, I've done regular backups. However, I was unable to restore any of my backups without the device hanging at startup (a bit of Googling suggests this is a known issue related to TTN). Anyway I went about rebuilding my Ipaq, reinstalled all my apps (luckily all my data was on CF or in Outlook) including TTN5 (although I made sure I dowloaded the latest version) and my favoured music player (Mortplayer).

However, since my rebuild a couple of things have changed, one positive, one negative. Previously I always had to manually select my Clip-on BT GPS Receiver, but now its automatically detected without my intervention. On the downside now though, I can't use the hard buttons on the Ipaq to switch to Mortplayer although I can go the other way - it's as if TTN5 is not detecting an interrupt because if I exit TTN5 the hard button command is then executed. If I play an MP3 and then switch to TTN5 it will continue playing fine until the end of the track/podcast and then stop, until I exit TTN5 at which point it continues onto the next track.

Anyone have any ideas on how to cure this. Are the two changes related?

Many thanks,

Pessable

[BodgerBaz]

My understanding was that TTN used pretty-well 100% of the power when it was running so I'm surprised you were able to use 'anything' else while it was running, never mind an mp3 player.

I've used my TTN on a PDA for hundreds of miles and have only ever seen the screensaver kick in three times!!!

[Starfish]

I have the exact same problem with my Axim X50V.

It used to be fine with Mortplayer / TTN3, but since I "upgraded" to get better map support, I can't use my MP3 player as effectively.

If I run up TTN5, then hit my hardware button, it will launch Mortplayer and I can fully interact with Mortplayer with the navigation still going on in the background (voice directions continue). When I hit my hardware button to switch back to TTN5, I get full TTN5 functionality with the MP3s still playing fine in the background.

However, if I press my hardware button to switch back to Mortplayer, to change playlists for example, nothing happens. Sometimes I get an error about insufficient memory. When I exit TTN5 I often get some wild screen switching and other activity which suggests the button presses have been queued up, waiting to execute.

Just while typing this I had an idea, tried it and it kind of works, but is messy. Here's what I did:

1. I have one hardware button assigned to TTN5, one to Mortplayer and one to "Today" screen.

2. From TTN5, I can press the Mortplayer button to launch the player, set up the playlist etc I want, then press the TTN5 button to go back to navigation.

3. If I want to bring up the MP3 player, I press the Today button, then from the Today screen I press the Mortplayer button

4. To go back to TTN5, I just press the TTN5 button.

It's not very elegant, but it does work. Please post if anyone has a solution with less button presses!

Martin

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