IS it possible to turn off the screen while listening to music for extended battery time?

If you press and hold the Power button that will turn off your Backlight. If you want to completely turn off the screen all I know is that the Pocket Music Bundle from Pocket Mind does that. I do not use WMP so I do not know if that program has the feature.

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wmp will let you do it..i believe that all you have to do is assign a button to the full screen toggle or something like that..someone correct me if i am wrong.

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I just checked and WMP can do that also. Go to options and then button assignments then go all the way to the bottom and select screen toggle and put a button to it and you are set.

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Betaplayer also does this. It's a free program and uses less battery life than WMP. I was listening to MP3s this afternoon, for 51 minutes. My battery life dropped from 72% to 67% with the screen turned OFF and my earphones in. Not bad eh? (X50v)

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yea, even for watching videos it seems betaplayer uses less power than wmp

   

http://www.handango.com/PlatformProd...rch=screen+off

screen off does this too

I know WMP on the x50v does it but has anybody gotten it to work? I can't assign any other buttons other than the D-Pad. And that is already used for volume up down and next/prevous track. Every time I try to assign a button to the screen toggle it won't assign it.

how do i shut down the screen with beta player?

It's a bug with WMP. Unfortunately there's no workaround besides using another player.

GSPlayer2 has a screen-off option (and a sleep timer), as well as EQ settings and it'll stream MP3s (and OGG) over a network. Oh, and Shoutcast as well.

I've been using this for a couple of weeks and have to say it's excellent.

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And freeware, too

Mark.

In BetaPlayer go to Options>Settings>Select Page>Hot Keys and then 2nd from the bottom is an option called "Screen On/Off" and you click assign, and then map it to a hardware button.

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I use Toggle.exe it's free. I assign it to a button and press it when listening to MP3.

http://www.pocketpcsoft.net/php/free...hp?type=screen

I use a program called double launcher that lets me assign more than one pgrm to a key.

http://pdacentral.com/pocket/preview/280206.html

I use WMP and assigned the action button to screen off toggle. Thats the button in the center of the D-pad. So left and right on d-pad deal with songs forward and backward, up and down d-pad is for volume.

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