Updated: How To FAST Switch Between Line 1 and Line 2

[Guest looeee]

open line1-line2_switcher.ZIP

put the shortcut in your startmenu

create a Speed Dial to it

easily switch between line 1 and line 2

UPDATE:

Open L1L2.zip

put the xml file in the Windows folder

copy the shortcut to your startmenu

create a Speed Dial to it

It switches lines in a fraction of the time

----If you reboot the phone, you will have to recopy the xml file, so keep it somewhere handy on your phone

looeee

line1-line2_switcher.ZIP

L1L2.zip

[Guest LarsDK]

What is the use of switching between the two lines?

[Guest Gorskar]

If you have say, talk 60 on line 1 and everyday 50 on line 2, then you would want to switch from line 1 to line 2 to call someone after 7pm, to give an example.

The easier it is to do this the better!

[Guest James]

sweet, cheers mate

[Guest rossy]

Cheers I have been waiting for somethink like this for a while. Do you think there is any way to actually change the line automatically, instead of just going to the call options menu.

Cheers,

Rossy

[Guest fozzie]

Cheers too, nice work. 8)

Do you think there is any way to actually change the line automatically, instead of just going to the call options menu.

I'm sure there must be a way to do this ?! One thing that has always puzzled me is how on the Nokias, you could switch Lines quickly just by pressing and holding the # key - there didn't seem to be any communication with the Network. And yet with the SPV, it first queries the Network and then sends something back to the Network after the Line is selected. Why the difference?!?!

[Guest looeee]

Fozzie

the reason why it takes so long is that it has to ask O for ALL of the things in the CallOptions control panel

if you try the updated version, you'll see that if we're only doing the lines then it is much quicker

looeee

[Guest fozzie]

You're a star looeee. This is excellent and gonna save me loads of time :) Now all we need is a little piece of code that will automatically run on startup to copy the .xml back into the windows directory :o

Cheers mate.

[Guest amo]

Works perfectly :) Many thanks

[Guest looeee]

Now all we need is a little piece of code that will automatically run on startup to copy the .xml back into the windows directory

Actually, I'm trying to implement something like the idea suggested in

this topic.

looeee

[Guest nickcornaglia]

Seems that the new Orange Update allows you to switch between lines by holding the # key. I don't know if higher versions of Qtek or Smart OS ROMs do the same.

[Guest Eleventh]

the new Qtek does. just hold # for a while and it will change from line 1 to 2 automatiacally.

[Guest looeee]

Now all we need is a little piece of code that will automatically run on startup to copy the .xml back into the windows directory  

Well I managed something along those lines.

I have never written any C++ before

I couldn't figure out how to read INI files (anyone??? ) or the registry

If you put this app in your startup folder and your l1l2.cpl.xml in storage card then it'll get copied at startup (after a 15 second delay while the storage card gets initialised)

BRING ON THE 1.6 UPDATE

looeee

copyCPL.zip

copyCPLsource.zip

[Guest fozzie]

Perfect looeee. It works a treat.

Thanks very much for this :)

[Guest Hagakure]

Nice One I have been half heartedly toying with putting this into a home screen now I don't have to bother.

Its five time faster!! :)

thanks again

[Guest mathew.jones]

Sorry to be Nieave,

Am I understanding that unless I install the files I am not able to switch to line two quickly, nightmare, I can a post has said the new version will allow this??? Sorry to come in half way:-)

[Guest looeee]

Mathew, a little clarification

Normally you switch between your two lines like this:

Programs->Settings->Telephony->Call Options->WAIT 10 SECONDS->Switch Lines->WAIT 10 SECONDS

this is a pain

What I originally posted was line1-line2_switcher.ZIP a shortcut to Call Options which sped the process up to be:

SpeedDial->Call Options->WAIT 10 SECONDS->Switch Lines->WAIT 10 SECONDS

this was an improvement

I then found the reason why we had to wait 10 seconds going to that control panel. There are loads of other things that the control panel has to "Downloaded from the Network".

I created a cut-down control panel l1l2.xml.cpl posted in L1L2.zip that only contains the "Current outgoing line" page and a shortcut to it. If you create a speeddial to the shortcut then the process of switching lines becomes:

SpeedDial->WAIT 2 SECONDS->Switch Lines->WAIT 2 SECONDS

this was a further improvement. However I could only get control panels to open if they were in the Windows folder, which gets wiped every time you switch off your phone. You had to remember to copy the l1l2.xml.cpl file into your windows folder each time you rebooted.

My final refinement was to post copyCPL.zip a program which you could put in your IPSMWindowsstartup folder which automatically copies l1l2.xml.cpl from Storage Card to Windows when you reboot your phone.

forum members encece and Eleventh pointed out that all of this will become redundant with the release of newer ROMs where all you need to do is to hold down the # key.

hope that clears it up

looeee

[Guest fozzie]

And it all works perfectly :) This ranks alongside spacemonkey's start menu speedup app as the biggest enhancements to the SPVs useability.

[Guest mathew.jones]

Sorry to be a little bit behind.

There are two things mentioned in this posting.

1st a apps which will get it to change to line to. Excelent I can get that to work but then someone mentions a update that alows you to use the # like the Nokias, Where do I get the update from and how do I install this.

As for the Start menu, which would be good if I cant get the update Im just lost. Sorry SPV newby

[Guest mathew.jones]

OPS sorry must remember to clear my Cache before posting Once again sorry and thank I will try this out.

[Guest mathew.jones]

Amazing, I have nearly got there but just one thing, I have evently worked this out going back and forth your postings but I can not work out how to creat a shortcut to this file?

[Guest fozzie]

There's a shortcut in the L1L2.zip file. Just put that wherever you want on your Start Menu (IPSMWindowsStart Menu). Then, highlight it it from your Start Menu and press Menu and then Create Speed Dial. That then gives you single key access to the Line Switcher App :)

Hope this helps.

(It is only the L1L2.zip archive that you need, The other zip file was the original switcher which had all the Network settings on the page. The L1L2 switcher just has the Line settings.)

[Guest nickmartlew]

Line1 and Line2 switcher is standard in SPV firmware v1.55 and onwards, soon to be released by Orange, so don't put too much development effort into this.

Cheers, Nick.

Cheers I have been waiting for somethink like this for a while. Do you think there is any way to actually change the line automatically, instead of just going to the call options menu.

Cheers,

Rossy

[Guest MoRFLeZ]

Line1 and Line2 switcher is standard in SPV firmware v1.55 and onwards, soon to be released by Orange, so don't put too much development effort into this.

Cheers, Nick.

Well if you read the thread, you'll realize that everybody knows that already! And that he probably wont do anymore on this! Untill the update comes .. it's nice to have it handy though...

[Guest Expat]

OK, all you smart people out there, how about the same thing but it lets me switch call forward on and off from a speed0dial - pretty please ;-)