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[General Accessories] thirru:
The build quality is pretty solid, I wouldn't say it's much different from the original PSX controller I had back in the day. The controller has as said an internal battery, two LEDs (one to show you the Bluetooth connectivity status and one for the charging status), a microUSB port for charging and an automatic standby mode (after around 2 minutes). The pad has an overall 10 buttons (14 if you include the D-PAD), and of course all shoulder buttons work individually. Only thing that's missing in my opinion would be two analog sticks and dual shock, but yeah it's the best I've seen so far around.

The controller is by no means massproduced, they are made by a local Chinese guy here who buys Vinyson (Chinese brand that produces all sorts of gamepads) USB PSX pads and then modifies them to make bluetooth workable. From what he told me, he only makes and sells a few dozen a week. He actually offered me to buy off the blueprints of him, but I don't think the demand would be there to actually mass produce it at the moment.

It works actually fairly easy, you just need to activate the Bluetooth button and select Phonejoy in the device menu of Bluez-IME, pair it with "1234" code and then select the "Phonejoy / Vinyson" driver in Bluez-IME, then select Bluez-IME instead of your usual keyboard IME and then all that's left there is to do is to set the buttons to whatever value you want them to be. Because of that option I've actually been able to make the gamepad work in all -oid emulators, psx4droid, FPSE, and even some Android games like Illusia, Zenonia 1 & 2 and others.

As long a game supports any sort of keyboard input the pad usually works which is pretty cool. The range was pretty good with my phone too, at least 6ft I reckon, though that would only really make sense with a phone connected to the TV OUT. Would be certainly cool once Bluez-IME supports two controllers.

Edit: Oh yeah for what it's worth, he actually sells them in the Vinyson packaging, and the pad came with a microUSB cable and a stand for the joypad (no idea what that's good for).
[General Accessories] gascomm:
would you have any contact details for the supplier or a distributor? been looking for one of these for a good wee. pm or reply - whichever you feel is more appropriate.
[General Accessories] rawfish:
Can you please hit me up with a contact too, thirru? Thanks!
[General Accessories] zarathustrax:
Oh, so he just uses a bluetooth module from a BT keyboard to make the controller bluetooth. I was looking into building myself a controller this way until I got ahold of a BGP100, which I was planning on using to also make my own modded bt gamepad (probably still will, but it's not as important to me now that I have an iControlpad on its way to me).

Still a pretty good deal for a custom made BT gamepad... it saves a lot of soldering work. You could probably sell some of these on ebay for a little profit.

I'd still be interested in getting one if I can scrounge up the money.... I'm interested in opening it up and seeing exactly how he did it.

Let me know when ever you'd have a chance to pick some more up to ship out, I'm sure I'll take one.
[General Accessories] thirru:
Sorry for the belated resonse guys, been a bit busy these days.

I'll try to set up an eBay page tonight. As said the guy only sells them locally in his shop here. Thing is the shipping costs are ridiculous from China (about $30-35 USD with UPS/DHL/FedEx) so I will buy like 10-15 pads and give them next weekend to my girlfriend to post them from Hong Kong then, where it should be around $10 with Hong Kong airmail.
[General Accessories] thirru:
Alright, I have put a page together on eBay with all the information etc. at http://is.gd/p0FAd0

Sorry for the long shipping, if demand is there I could buy next time a few more and then have a friend in HK handle the shipping that would cut it down to one week instead of two. Because of the eBay charges, shipping, etc it's all in all $45, outside of eBay I could make it probably make it work for $40 I guess. If someone is interested in that, feel free to PM me.
[General Accessories] zarathustrax:
EDIT: READ BELOW FOR UPDATE.

I don't mean to cut in to your sales, but I don't think you're trying to make a profit anyways. Just wanted to let everyone know I found a similar gamepad selling on ebay for about $25 after shipping. This one can also be used as a USB gamepad also. It's sold from Hong Kong. It should be able to be used just like this gamepad on android or winmo devices, as it's a bluetooth gamepad meant for computer, so it should be no problem with BT keyboard drivers or Game Pro drivers for android.

It says its on sale right now, so in 2 days the price will go up to over $50 after shipping.

Check it out: http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Bluetooth-W...t=Video_Games_Accessories&hash=item20b8411850

EDIT: On closer look at the listing, I think it's just be a regular Six-Axis BT gamepad meant for the PS3... they have it listed as for a PC though, and don't even mention the playstation. I know regular BT Six-Axis gamepads can be used with the PC with special drivers, but they can't be used with android phones. Unless this is some modified version, which I doubt, the listing was misleading. Sorry to get anyones hopes up... good thing I went back and paid closer attention to the pictures. Sorry everyone.
[General Accessories] thirru:
Yeah I was about to say. I had first tried buying one of the local Playstation Bluetooth gamepads for PC here, but I wasn't able to pair it with my phone unfortunately. Would be sweet though if somebody comes eventually up with a hack that allows Android users to use PS3 gamepads...

The PSX style Bluetooth gamepads of mine have sold out for now unfortunately. I talked to the guy who makes them two days ago and he said he will need at least two weeks to make the next batch, but this time I asked him to make 30, which should hopefully be finished by the first week of May.
[General Accessories] zarathustrax:
This has got me thinking.... I wonder if it would be worthwhile to try to produce my own bluetooth gamepads to sell?

If you don't mind, next time you talk to the guy, see if you can get a bunch of the bluetooth modules that he uses and if you can get a good price on them. If I can find a good source for the bluetooth modules for cheap, I could probably produce custom-made bluetooth controllers for relatively cheap. Maybe make one or 2 different premade models, and then I could also do custom made ones for people, where they send me whatever controller they want me to make into a bluetooth one.

I desperately need an income right now, so I've been trying to think up ideas for side business to help makes ends meet. This might be something that may interest a lot of people if I can get it done cheap enough.

If you wouldn't mind seeing if it would be possible to buy a bunch of the bluetooth modules that this guy uses in his controllers, I'd appreciate it. Even if you can get a few of them, that would be cool. The main reason I wanted to buy one of these controllers was to open it up to use the bluetooth module in my own custom controller.

To anyone who reads this, let me know your opinion...Does this idea sound like something people would be interested in? Any ideas or suggestions?

If I could get the bluetooth modules for $10/each or less, and get the gamepads I use for $10/each or less, I should be able to make them and charge $30 or less, plus shipping.
[General Accessories] thirru:
Sorry, I had been busy these days with some work I had to take care of. He only told me he's buying them on the electronic market in his city of Chongqing in western China. He wouldn't tell me obviously which ones he is using, as he wants to stay in business. Wouldn't any sort of module work though?

Anyway, shipment of the gamepads had been slow, and they only arrived yesterday. I tried and tested them, and they seem to be all working fine. I only managed to post them today from Hong Kong. I've got to ask him to use a faster courier next time though. Anyway as said he's working on thirty more pads, and he's finished ten so far and hopefully in a week's time he'll be finished with the other twenty. I also managed to find a FedEx reseller who can ship the pads within 24-48 hours for 25 USD. So that might be a better way for next time...
[General Accessories] zarathustrax:
Yeah, any bluetooth keyboard module would work, but I was just wondering if this guy would be willing to sell a bunch of the modules for a decent price. The cheapest I can get bluetooth keyboards are for around $16-$18, and I'd have to deal with taking them apart and all that. If I can find someplace to get just the bluetooth modules for a reasonable price($10 or less each), it might be worthwhile to try to do this.

It was just an idea. Did you ask him if he would sell a bunch of the BT modules? I doubt I would cut into any of his business considering he's all the way in china and there's not many people making BT gamepads, and he could make some extra money selling the BT modules marking them up if he has a good connection for them.

I'm just trying to buy around 10 or so right now... nothing huge. If not, no big deal. With all these other manufacturers now releasing bluetooth gamepads suddenly, I don't know if it would even be worthwhile to try making my own. A year ago, it would have definitely been worth it, as there was no other BT gamepads on the market.

For years there was only the BGP100 gamepad available if you wanted a bluetooth one, and that has been discontinued for like 5 years. And no other manufacturer releases any bluetooth gamepads all this time, but now, suddenly, there's like 4 or 5 companies all releasing bluetooth gamepads all in the same year.
[General Accessories] thirru:
Nah, he won't budge. Maybe if you sent me the name of a module I could go and look around for you.
[General Accessories] zarathustrax:
I'm not sure of the manufacturers... I'll look into that. There's a bunch of cheap bluetooth keyboard that come out of china... I'm not sure if one manufacturer makes most of the modules and sells to different manufacturers of keyboards. Any bluetooth board from any small bluetooth keyboard would work. You can get the small keyboards as cheap as $15 ea retail, so I figure if you find the right company or place, you should be able to get just the bluetooth boards from them for $5-$10 if you buy a bunch.

I don't know, don't worry about going out of your way or anything, but keep your eyes open for any really cheap bluetooth keyboards or modules from them. I'll probably buy a keyboard or 2 and see how easily I can make a custom bluetooth keyboard... see if it's something that might be worth my efforts.

I just got my iControlPads in the mail today.... they are very nice. Very sturdy and well-built. You should look into it if you game a lot. I know they are pretty expensive... at least twice the price of the gamepads you're getting... but the features it has and the versatility with upgradeable firmware and multiple bluetooth profiles, and ability to charge devices off it's battery while using it... I think makes it well worth it foranyone who games a decent amount. What I read about the parts used and build quality, and now that I actually am holding one... It's very sturdy and I bet it could easily last 10 or more years, with exception of internal battery and rubber membrane, both of which you should be able to get from manufacturer and replace when needed.

Oh, yeah, I wanted to ask... is that you in the android controller thread at fpsece.net forums talking about these PSX controllers? I've been trying to get more people aware of the iControlPad there so that schtruck adds support for them in FPSe. It's my favorite PSX emulator, and I hope he adds full support so the analog controls on the iControlPad will work properly. That's another really cool thing about those gamepads... I've never seen analog controls like that... there really nice... it would be great to use them properly with psx games. The analog controls can be used to control mouse arrow on computers, too, which is pretty cool.
[General Accessories] reachkavi:
how can we get the bluetooth gamepad?

Hello thirru

i have a HTC HD2 windows mobile and i am interested to buy this bluetooth gamepad, is there anyway i can get it? if yes then for how much?

thanks
[General Accessories] thirru:
That's great news zarathustrax, does it work with all the emulators so far? How is the feeling in your hand when you haven't attached it to your HD2? To be honest I've rarely seen a gamepad break. I still have plenty of SNES and NES controllers somewhere in my closet that i used for years and that are probably still fully functionable. But yeah I'm happy for you that your icontrolpad finally arrived and that it's of great build quality.

Anyway, I have been looking for some bluetooth modules and keyboards. And they vary in price between 7-12 USD. The cheapest one is 7, but it's really just the module without any pins.

The one with pins is 9 USD

And the cheapest mini bluetooth keyboard I found is about 12 USD.

Oh and yeah I am also the guy who posted at the FPSE forum.
[General Accessories] thirru:
Reachkavi, I should have new ones in about a weeks time. I'll let you know when they arrive and then I'll make an ebay buy it now page again. They are $30 plus $15 (standard) or $25 for FedEX express shipping.
[General Accessories] reachkavi:
yup, thirru

thanks, i will wait for your reposne, and yes whichever way is cheapest for shipping, use that to send me.
[General Accessories] thirru:
Hey all,

For all those that are still interested in getting one of these. There had been some trouble in finding the right material for making the gamepads but last Thursday 20 new ones had finally been finished and they are on the way to my home now. They probably should arrive at my place on Monday or Tuesday next week.

I took a little time and created a little website with all the information regarding the gamepad at http://phonejoy.weebly.com .
[General Accessories] xaboren:
Still can't belive i finally found a controller that actually works with my desire and sense ;) If been looking for so long and just found Bluez IME today (which btw. alreaddy made my day), but then to hear that somebody is finally making bluetooth controller that works with it :D. So happy right now.
[General Accessories] bilsmaks:
i want one of these bad! does anyone else have any sources that have them? or does anyone know if a usb wired controller would work (i have a usb ps2 style gamepad that i use for computer stuff from time to time), if you have the samsung usb adapter?
[General Accessories] Elementix:
Sixaxis working

Just in case you guys missed it, PS3 sixaxis and dualshock controllers are now working on most android devices. Check it out:

http://www.dancingpixelstudios.com/sixaxiscontroller/about.html
[General Accessories] tiuk:
I like the idea of a ps3 controller, but it seems they run about $50 which imo is too much considering how cheap wii remotes/classic controllers are. None of the third party ps3 controllers I've seen are bluetooth, either usb or rf dongle. I haven't looked too hard, though.
[General Accessories] farmerjonbmx:
OID emulators no longer on marketplace :(

This controller is awesome on my Galaxy S Captivate

but............. I had to re set my phone and lost all the OID emulators.

and the Marketplace no longer carries them.

does anyone know of any other good emulators for nes, snes and genesis games that work well with this controller.
[General Accessories] BenKranged:
The same emulators you had before are still out there just not in google's market.

Snes9x EX is on still on the market for snes.

Nesoid, gensoid and the others you will have to google search for because we don't post apks here on xda.

May I also recommend FPSE for PS1 (60 fps in most games) and N64oid for N64 (poor performance in most games but still interesting to try)
[General Accessories] CamelToeJoe:
What a great idea!
[General Accessories] ff7fan4eva:
Got to agree about the sixaxis app, really cool using a ps3 controller for emu's. What i dont understand is how a ps1 game can run at 60fps but snes and genisis games struggle?
[General Accessories] akbisw:
n64oid works perfect for Mytouch 4g oc'ed on Smash Bros
[General Accessories] ssjacex4:
sounds nice i might have to get one of these
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smy1220:
I accidently deleted my Phone.apk on my Captivate. I tried using the stock Phone.apk from the SDK but that does not work.

Version 2.2

Build FROYO.UCKB1

If anyone can provide or link that would be awesome.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Download cognition, pull phone from rom package. Use root explorer or abd to drop in system/app. Reboot. Should do it
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smy1220:
Yea!!! About phone has a Baseband again!!!!! Thanks, didn't even think doing it that way

!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elsaghir:
Deleted Phone.apk from my Dell streak

I had done the same thing, deleted phone.apk, settings.apk, and contact.apk.

I found a new update on the internet that has ICS look and feel so I deleted the apks my self trying to copy the new ones. That was it. the phone did not stop crashing FC and I could not do anything no matter what I do. Finally I had to do a full factory reset and everything was fine.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asderz:
Hi! :) How I make a full wipe on my desire hd?

Whit this step I do this?

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

advanced

wipe dalvik cache

wipe battery stats

install rom
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xtrema:
You need Full Wipe 1.3 available from the developer section.

Drop the zip file to your sd card, reboot to recovery and run the zip from there.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asderz:
Yeah I use it but when I flash the rom and reboot I have the same "desktop", sms, program used before full wipe... why?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xtrema:
Check in your Setting, about phone, software infromation.

The kernel and software number should be different.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asderz:
Yeah is different, I've a revolution HD 3.3 installed
[Droid X General] doronster195:
[Q] SBF: "Device is waiting for other devices to complete flashing." 0% Help?

Currently SBF-ing my droid X. I've SBF-ed before without any trouble (yesterday in fact), but today its hanging on: "Device is waiting for other devices to complete flashing." 0%

How do I get out of this without damaging my phone?

What do I need to do to be able to SBF again?
[Droid X General] doronster195:
SOLUTION: Disconnect phone from USB. Restart RSD Lite. Reflash. Worked.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] combat goofwing:
Is there any way of having this ,I want my daughters to be able to use it but I want to set some content control etc

LEEDROID GINGERBREAD

DESIRE HD using XDA PREMIUM
[Eee Pad Transformer General] niallmal:
I dont think Android is designed with multiple accounts in mind. You can have multipe google accounts but not multiple "master" accounts.

You can understand this not being implemented for mobile phones as they are more personal than tablets. I would hope that google look at implementing it at some stage.

Enterproid seem to be making an app for this very purpose though. Not sure when it will be released.

http://www.enterproid.com/features.html
[Eee Pad Transformer General] deecee52:
I was wondering if there was a way to use a combination of hidden apps and a password/locked homescreen. Basically you could have one. I'd like to have one homescreen with all my mail and calendar widgets, but be able to keep it out general homescreen rotation. Other homescreens would be set up that were relatively childproof.

Has anyone heard of a locking homescreens independently?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] wilbur-force:
Regina 3d launcher has something like this. Works fine on gingerbread but I haven't tried it on honeycomb.

Had similar problems with my kids and their android phones and never really found a suitable solution. :(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] deecee52:
Still looking. I've tried to DL Regina, but haven't had much luck. The launcher installed, but only showed up with froyo launcher switcher. It only works in portrait mode, which isn't very nice on my Adam. Also, it's no longer available on the market, although the other pieces of the suite are.

I wish someone would take this on in some of the popular tablet launchers. hint, hint....
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] BotulinumXP:
Hi guys, I'm currently using HTC HD2, and I've just updated tytung's NAND NexusHD2-Gingerbread V2.5 to the newest 2.6.

However, I always have the wrong GPS altitude readings from both GPS Status app and IGO My way 8.4.2.139242.

In front of my home in Bangkok, the altitude from both programs shows 42496 km 706 m :eek: instead of the correct readings of 5 m from my friend's Winmo device.

It might be worth to mention that this problem was also presented in pongster's NAND HyperDroidGBX v.10 to v.12

However, the lat, long readings seem to be correct. I have no issue with my IGO navigation and Google Maps current location.

I tried to search this forum for any similar issues but only found the small offset like 50 meters. Therefore, i'm asking you guys for help to solve it. It'll be greatly appreciated. :)

Below are the pics from both programs.
[Defy Android Development] Chillimonster:
Thnaks for this - i'll have a play with it later today :)
[Defy Android Development] Antszej:
It works with Barebones 1.4... when im recording it seems little bit choppy, but playing it in MoboPlayer is good (smooth, maybe not 30 fps but its good!).

Thank you!
[Defy Android Development] derbestimmer:
great! since Barebones 1.4 is based on CEE 3.4.2-155-002 Deblur, we can add it to the compatibility list.

yes, the recording view seems choppy on my system too, but the resulting video is quite smooth (~23-24fps).
[Defy Android Development] Antszej:
http://www.multiupload.com/APEW3UPMI0

Here is the sample.
[Defy Android Development] insestito:
juuu:(:(:(

I want this for green lens...
[Defy Android Development] derbestimmer:
sorry. i believe that 720p recording isn't impossible for green lense models. but i do believe that this patch based on hancocks mod will do the trick only for red lens defys. because it isn't just the color of the lens but a totally different sensor. perhaps someone figures out a mod for green lenses too.
[Defy Android Development] Antszej:
But official Froyo is near, just wait, it should have 720p recording for EVERYONE.
[Defy Android Development] sunoldman:
I compare it to xd1 ROM files, and find the different files are,

720p_mp4venc_sn.dll64P

libOMX.TI.720P.Encoder.so

libOMX.TI.JPEG.Encoder.so

libOMX.TI.mp4.splt.Encoder.so

libOMX.TI.Video.encoder.so

Hope it can reduce the update size.
[Defy Android Development] derbestimmer:
what leads you to this assumption?
[Defy Android Development] derbestimmer:
feel free to modify the package everyone... my work is done :D
[Defy Android Development] ToTTenTranz:
Worked like a charm for me, thanks!
[Defy Android Development] derbestimmer:
u r welcome
[Defy Android Development] viper.:
Yep it works here too but i cant see much difference between WVGA and this 720p..its almost the same. Is there any app on market that has continuous autofocus while recording video(like barcode scanner) ?
[Defy Android Development] insestito:
I'll create this patch for the green lens?
[Defy Android Development] derbestimmer:
is this a statement or a question? :p
[Defy Android Development] insestito:
Question for you or any Dev, sorry...

Google translator is very bad... :p
[Defy Android Development] derbestimmer:
i don't think i will be any helpfull, cause i'm no dev. i just took the work of a dev and ported it to another rom. sorry. perhaps someone else is able to do it.