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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
I'll admit... I've been waiting for this game for months even before it's English translation was announced. Having them suddenly announce that it'd be released today had me F5'ing the **** out of their page :p

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I like old-school style RPGs; but playing games I've already played before via emulators is kinda depressing. I do like that KEMCO's mixing in just that right balance of old and new school so that their RPGs don't have those archaic old-school RPG issues, but also don't kill that ever-so-mysterious *charm* that era's RPGs had. Judging by the scores of their previous RPG releases (Symphony of Eternity, Eve of the Genesis, Alphadia and Grinsia) the known name behind games such as Dragon View and Shadowgate still got it!... and so far, this is even better than their last Xperia PLAY RPGs!

I hate to remove Galaxy Hero from my website's featured game spot, but Aeon Avenger's in town!

Google Play Link: AEON AVENGER

Official Website: Aeon Avenger Official Website
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] CrimsonKnight13:
I can always count on you to find kickass JRPGs that just appeared on Google Play. Much thanks.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ozzmanj1:
I have been keeping an eye out for this game since I saw the original and that it was being translated in to English. Thank you..... awesome find my friend. :D

Bought it.......
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Logseman:
What makes this one special? I admit Kemco have stepped up their game considerably, even releasing a video opening for such an old relearn as Eve of the Genesis... The tune is catchy too. However, I feel they're a bit too conservative with their games, and I really hope they release a killer app because they really try hard.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Miles Wolf:
No Logseman, this game is not conservative, this game looks OLD, and as I said in another Kemco game's thread, looks like it has been made with RPG maker.

Even 2D RPG games for PSX looked far more advanced than this.

We are in the year 2012, but seems that Kemco doesn't know it.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ozzmanj1:
Yeah it looks a little old, but looks are not everything. I for one am glad the Kemco is making these RPGs and not only that makiung them compatible with our devices....so Kemco..... THANK YOU!!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Logseman:
I was actually asking about gameplay. 2D graphics ate not an issue for me if they're well bundled with a good story. That's where I don't want them to be conservative.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Ditto.

BTW, this is far above the league of anything made in RPGmaker... I don't even understand what form of dementia would make him bring that up again seeing as the entire notion got trampled over last time he tried that. KEMCO's RPGs are thricefold the depth of anything that could be created in RPGmaker, the resolution is much higher, and the graphical detail is much higher... meaning the only thing they really have in common is that they're 2D.

I'm starting to wonder if it's just a common troll trend to call all non-SQEnix 2D RPGs "RPGmaker lookin crap".
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ozzmanj1:
Myself and most ohers dont care for trolls, but still point being Kemco is awesome for making these games available to the masses, and I do hope they bring there other Japanese rpg games to the masses as well..... people can troll all they want, People will enjoy it or not. For me....I will be enjoying it.... and for those that enjoy it show your support by buying the game, because ultimately its about revenue and if people buy the game and Kemco sees there is profit and interest we will continue to see good things come from it.
[G Tablet Accessories] smoes:
Has anyone tried to mod this case so that the USB port could be used. I was maybe thinking about cutting the tab and trying to make it like the top fold only a little longer. I'm just check if anyone has done this already to make my process go a little smoother
[HTC Rezound] tekhna:
So is this a problem with the Rezound, or the program? I went for a short 20 mile ride today, and Map My Ride showed it to be 28 miles. It's a 20 mile loop by my cycling computer and by google maps, and this is hardly a small margin of error. I've generally had good luck with the GPS but this is a little extreme.
[HTC Rezound] voxigenboy:
well, one time just using the standard gps, i punched in an address & it showed it to be in the middle of a lake on the screen... õ_Ô
[HTC Rezound] Khayos:
Solar flares interfering maybe. No, seriously they're high at the moment.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
Rezound GPS is not very good with any of the sports tracking apps. Someone posted a thread where clearing agps cache helped but it didn't work for me. I still use my incredible for logging my runs. I haven't tried any of the ics roms but I'm hoping they address the problem.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1500516

from my ADR6425LVW using XDA
[HTC Rezound] derek4484:
The GPS on the Rezound sucks! I came from the Samsung Galaxy S and it had its GPS problems as well but it got better and better as time went along. Hopefully this will happen again. But I can be in my back yard and when I start Maps it locks right away and says 5meter accuracy, yet it shows me 100-150 feet away from where I really am. So its basically worthless. While driving it shows me driving through buildings and people's yards all the while saying its got a 5 meter accuracy lock.
[HTC Rezound] tekhna:
Part of the problem may actually be solar flairs, but it does seem to be a larger issue of the Rezound doing fine-grained tracking. Here's my supposed ride yesterday--I was riding like a drunk sailor, apparently!
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
This problem has definitely been happening since before the current solar activity
[HTC Rezound] racerx2oo3:
Hmm. That's odd, GPS on my stock Rezound locks on quickly and is rock solid. I use Google Nav all the time and it works like a charm.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
Google Nav doesn't have a problem for me either, but all the sport tracking apps (map my run, Run Keeper, endomondo, etc.), have problems.

Edit: Here are some threads about this problem

http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-htc-rezound/151969-gps-tracking-issue-bug-glitch.html

http://androidforums.com/htc-rezound/505477-rezound-gps-sucks.html

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/htc-rezound-help/194000-gps-accuracy-issues.html
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
Just tried an ics rom based off the latest leak, same problem :(
[HTC Rezound] Serinety:
I will have to try this.. I've never had a gps problem on HTC phones. On my Samsung charge.. if the wind was blowing you couodnt get a lock.. my buddies Samsung captivate can't get a lock unless he's holding still in clear view of the sky. If he's driving.. it won't lock at all.

Every HTC phone I have used locks in seconds.. every time, all the time and always accurate.

And you guys realize that if for whatever reason the GPS connot find.you, its going to triangulate off ccell towers, which is never accurate.
[HTC Rezound] Serinety:
The current solar activity has been present since before the rezound was released.. we are in the middle of an 11 year cycle of solar hyperactivity.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
Please do try, then I think you'll see what the problem is.

Edit:

For clarification, this is the solar activity being referred too - http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/08/solar-storms-causing-few-problems-on-earth/

I just noticed that in GB and ICS, it seems to be having the problems start up around the same time (a little more than a minute after the screen goes off, it always seems to start out right though). I'm wondering if it has to do with the phone going to sleep or the apps not being able to prevent the phone from sleeping. I'm going to see if the problem happens if I set the phone to never sleep.
[HTC Rezound] tekhna:
The phone was in airplane mode because there's no signal out where I was riding. Wasn't triangulating.

I think it's probably the uptick of solar flares, or there's a problem with how the Rezound tracks w/GPS. Or both.
[HTC Rezound] krelvinaz:
Note that aGPS (the a is the assist part) uses the network to provide the assist to the GPS to get a lock. If you turn Airplane mode on, you are turning off part of the ability of the Assist in getting the lock faster. So you can be making the use of the GPS much less accurate as it takes longer for the GPS to get a lock.

Once the GPS gets the lock, it doesn't need the assist again, but some apps don't keep using the GPS steadily, and need to reacquire the lock over and over.

Example, if you are using Gmaps, you will notice that the GPS satellite image will show in the top of the notification area while you are using the app. But when you move away from Gmaps, the symbol disappears. That is because it stopped accessing the GPS.

If you don't see the GPS satellite in the notification area, the GPS chip is not currently being accessed and it is is using next to no power during that time.

Not being familiar with the app mentioned in the OP, you would need to check that the GPS is being used continually.

It is not unusual for stand alone GPS trackers (non-phone types) to have glitches in their tracking as you travel, depending on the speed and access to the sky for the GPS signals. Devices like Garmin compensate for that by keeping you on the road, even if the temp position places you a distance from the road so you don't notice it much there. But if you are just tracking position (no locking to a road), you will end up with jutting points that can be a distance from where you were at the time.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
A nice thought, but all these app should be pulling accurate gps even if the app doesn't have the foreground and they should prevent the phone from sleeping.
[HTC Rezound] Serinety:
So I tested the app, 'Myrun' And I found your problem. when the app is in the background, it does not update at the same rate as it does when it is in the foreground.

On my attachment, the green dot is where I started, I went out, up the road, and turned around. The screen was on this entire time, notice how accurate it tracked me. It even has me on the correct sides of the road..

at the Yellow dot, I turned the screen off, notice how it jumps from point to point , making it very inaccurate. If I had to guess, I would assume that the app either A, does not utilize the GPS radio while the phone is 'off', or, it polls it less frequently. Either way, this is not a fault of the phone, as you can navigate with the screen off accurately with google nav/maps. So the phone is capable of allowing apps to use GPS data even in an 'off' state.

I would contact the App developer and see if they can fix it. In the mean time, make sure your phone is charged 100% and set the screen to never time out, and turn the brightness all the way down and you'll get accurate tracking with those apps.

Personally, my phone is set to never turn off, and my bike has a phone mount with a charger that gets power off my front wheel hub.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
So all the tracking apps have the same problem and only with the rezound but it's not the rezound?
[HTC Rezound] Serinety:
I can test it on my DINC of you want, I have it laying around here somewhere.. give me a bit and ill run the same route using it instead

unless you want it to be the rezound and not the app :)
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
I know for a fact the incredible doesn't have a problem, because that's how I've been tracking my runs.

You should still test it though.

I wish it wasn't a problem, I love everything about this phone except for the fact that I can't use it for my running program.
[HTC Rezound] Serinety:
just charging it now, its been in a drawer for a few months.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
The screen is going to look terrible after the rezound :)
[HTC Rezound] tekhna:
I'm going to try MyTracks on my bike ride home from this coffee shop--I know MyTracks allows you to choose the time/distance interval. I'm going to set it at the very lowest for both.
[HTC Rezound] Serinety:
hah, actually when i turned it on, i was impressed. then again, I still have amoled screen, so the colors were really sharp. It was painfully slow compared to the rezound however! I used to thin that thing was fast? lol

so anyway,

you are 100% right, worked flawlessly with the screen off and app in the background.

so now im thinking its got to be some power saving 'feature' built into the rezound, or sense, or something. It would be interesting to try it on an AOSP rom.

I went through the power features but I did not see anything that would 'sleep' the GPS when the screen off, though I think that is what is exactly what is happening.

Now I am really interested into knowing why this is happening. I am going to bet money that its totally software related and it probably has something to do with sense 3.5 + as the dinc is still on sense 3 and android 2.1.

we will get to the bottom of this!

Later I will try installing a sense 3.5 rom on the dinc and see what happens. hell I dont even know if they are still deving for that phone or not
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
I think your spot on about the power saving, I think htc thought that they would help people who had apps causing battery problems or something.
[HTC Rezound] tekhna:
Well MyTracks seems to work better, but still a bit of wonkiness.
[HTC Rezound] Serinety:
my thoughts exactly
[HTC Rezound] tekhna:
Are you saying that it's inaccurate because the GPS turns off when the screen turns off? If so then none of my maps I've posted would show anything--the screen is off the whole time. Or are you saying it's set up to have the GPS take a position much less often with the screen off?
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
Possibly Both, even though the GPS lock icon is there, its not really locked. If I set the app to the background and then go back in, it acts like its just triangulation and not GPS. After a few seconds, it locks for real.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
Here are screen shots showing this. Started app, got lock, set app to background, GPS icon still shows lock, go back into app, and for a moment, it apps its not a GPS lock but a triangulation.

Not sure what exactly is happening, but GPS is not accurate if the application doesnt have the focus.
[HTC Rezound] tekhna:
Yeah, I see what you mean there, and I've seen that plenty just with plain old Google Maps. But if I start MapMyRide or MyTracks, and turn the screen off, it records, and kinda accurately. I think if it were triangulating all the time with the screen off then I'd there would be absolutely no reliability to the track--it would be totally all over the place, instead of a little off.

Edit-Although maybe I'm wrong. My 20 mile ride did show as a nearly 30 mile ride, which is a full 50% off.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
I'm not too sure, but it definitely appears to be related to the app having or not having the focus.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
Tried moving app to system, doesn't seem any different.
[HTC Rezound] Serinety:
I found a temp fix. Download an app called "Keep my GPS Alive", it will keep the GPS on while the screen is off. I just tested this on the same route I did this morning, totally with the screen off, and it tracked me just fine.

you can start it before the run, stop it afterwords, or, have it on all the time. its a nifty little app.

try it out and see what you think.

It should work until we figure out how to fix it without the app
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
Nice! Will be trying this!
[HTC Rezound] nrfitchett4:
I think the gps is just a little jumpy. I noticed sitting on the can with maps open, it would jump a few feet maybe every 30 seconds. Its still accurate, had me in my house.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kaukovuo.android.trackerbooster

Another app that seems to be specifically for the problem being discussed. I couldn't get keep my GPS on to work on the ics Rom I'm on.
[HTC Rezound] WasabiWa83:
I didn't take the time to read this entire thread because I suck, so if this has already been said, feel free to ignore it. I use Endomondo Pro for all of my mountain bike rides. Where I ride there is absolutely zero cell reception, but I get amazing accuracy with my GPS on that app. I would suggest using that one since it works so well.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
Dam. Same problem with tracker booster too. I may ruu back to gb and see what happens stock with keep my GPS alive.

Do you leave your screen on when using endomondo?
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
Ruu back to latest stock gb ruu. GPS 'boosters' now appear to work! This us awesome!

Testes with endomondo pro, for me it has the same problem but GPS keep alive/tracker booster fix the problem.

I think I can finally retire my Inc now. :)
[HTC Rezound] tekhna:
So it's an ICS issue?
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
I don't think so. I started playing with the gps driver file and probably borked something. GB and ICS behave the same from what I can tell.

Since the GPS boosters are working now though, I'm probably not going to change anything.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
Okay, sorry to report, the booster appears to only have worked one time (maybe it was a fluke that it worked). :(

However, after reading lots of stuff, this appears to be common problem with several handsets and not specifically the rezound. Google "gps with screen off android" or "keep gps on screen off android" and you'll see it's pretty common.

The work around for me at least, is to use Google Navigation (need the blue arrow in the status bar) and turn off the voice in the menu. Navigation doesn't seem to let the GPS power down or sleep or whatever. I want to test more, but that seems best for me and it didn't matter I used other apps, turned the screen off or anything, the apps tracked great.
[HTC Rezound] rsage:
Thanks, great to know, trying this on my next hike.

Went hiking today with the family, short 3.3mi hike around a lake at a state park. I'm running the latest ICS leak, using My Tracks with the Keep My GPS Alive app. I can confirm that it didn't help matters at all. Hike was approx. 2 hours (lots of stops with the 4-yr old). Good news is the battery held up pretty well with the screen off. Bad news is that My Tracks had us all over the place, including a short jaunt into the middle of the lake, lots of backtracks that we never did, etc. The track looks like someone blindfolded a toddler with a crayon and a piece of paper and let him go crazy. My Tracks also reported that we did 11 miles in 1.25 hours, where we actually did ~3.5 miles in 2 hours. My Tracks also said that our elevation varied by about 2,000 feet during our hike. Um... no...

Next time I'm trying Endomondo with the Google Nav trick. Hopefully it will work on ICS as well as it does on GB.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
Sorry to get your hopes up, but this is def a bigger bug and Navigation doesn't fix it either.

http://code.google.com/p/android/is...ary Stars&groupby=&sort=&id=11028#makechanges

Comments 27 and 28 explain the behavior I saw: if the phone is charging, everything will work with screen off... which is what it's like in a car (Which is when I did some testing).

There's some good lists of phones with and with out the problem. I have to think it's a manufacturer/kernel thing.
[HTC Rezound] tekhna:
I wonder if this is a problem Tasker could fix, if we weren't stuck without AOSP. Tasker can muck with the GPS in CMx, can't w/Sense based ROMS.
[HTC Rezound] Edvard_Greig:
I've been using AlpineReplay for when I snowboard and it seems to generally be accurate. I leave the screen off and turn off mobile data, bluetooth and wifi to conserve battery (and obviously gps and cell on), and at the end of the day it seems to reasonably accurately reflect the day. (I can see my route on Google Earth etc, and speeds, distances etc seem to be about right). I'm using Scott's Clean ICS Rom
[HTC Rezound] rsage:
Thanks for the info. That is... disheartening...
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
http://community.htc.com/na/htc-forums/android/f/176/t/15663.aspx

Opened a thread on HTC for this.
[HTC Rezound] rsage:
Just commented on the HTC thread. It would be great if everyone could do the same, hopefully this will get fixed.
[HTC Rezound] pkopalek:
I must advise to avoid Drinking and Riding!

I also replied to the thread, to help.
[HTC Rezound] rsage:
Hmmm... confused now more than ever... tonight I tried a walk/hike with track booster + cardio trainer, and it was pretty much spot-on. Not a big fan of cardio trainer, going to test something else tomorrow. No idea why this was more successful than previous attempts. As usual, I had mobile data and wifi off, gps on.

Edit: By "spot-on" I mean no crazy erratic tracks that show me going way off course and zig-zagging and looping around. It pretty much had me on the correct side of the road and did pretty well when I went off-road.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
Hmmm. I'll give that combo a try then and see if it works for me too.
[HTC Rezound] rsage:
The more I test this problem the stranger it gets. Today I tested one of the "Map My" apps, I forget if it was Map My Walk or Map My Hike. First test I walked a route in a straight line with a couple 90 degree turns - using Tracker Booster with screen off. No crazy zig zags or loops like I saw with My Tracks, but nothing close to accurate. My recorded track was all over the place, sometimes up to 100 ft or more off, it had me going off course and walking through buildings on the other side of the street. For my second test, I used the Map My app alone, no Tracker Booster, and left the screen on. The results were nearly identical to the first test. This was in an area with a wide open view of the sky, no obstructions, and I never lost GPS lock. I inadvertently deleted one of my tracks, I'll try to redo tomorrow and post screenshots.

I'm starting to think the Rezound GPS is best suited for driving navigation and apps that need general location detection (Yelp, etc.). It seems like if you're going slower than driving speed, the GPS has serious accuracy issues. I remember reading a couple threads about this before purchasing the Rezound.

Unless... maybe it is somewhat app-specific. I don't know enough about Android's location API to say, but I'm wondering if some apps poll the GPS more frequently than others. I'll have to go back and retry my Cardio Trainer test which seemed to produce better results.

As a last resort, I'm going to go back to my Navibe bluetooth GPS puck and pair it with the Rezound, bypassing the built-in GPS altogether for anything other than Google Maps. Ugh...
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
I really hope htc comes back with a good response on their forum. This bug sucks big time. I'm traing for my first marathon and really don't want to carry 2 phones, but I'm starting to get pretty far from home on my long run.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
it does seem like there maybe some velocity aspect of this is well. traveling at 20 miles per hour, it seems track fine.
[HTC Rezound] k_flan:
I think I figured out how to get that agps trick to work, as soon as I have some time ill post screenshots of what I did.

gps test did not have the setting to disable automatically updating agps data. Gps Status does have the setting.