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[Android Apps and Games] codryn:
Restore is not working and after restore is saying "backup completed" :| Using latest version from market downloaded 2 min ago and is pro version.

edit: after a call my touchscreen "died" when I was trying to touch hangup and I had to do a restart. Strange.
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
Theming guide on post #3 updated

Sorry it took so long guys! I think it's all there, but I'll recheck it.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] Andy3105:
I have a major issue between UCS and MIUI 2.4.2

Every time a call comes in the screen flips from the stock call screen and UCS until finally stopping on the stock screen.

Really annoying, any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] Andy3105:
Update to my post.......

I decided to turn off the swipe functions and the issue has stopped, not a major problem as I can simply press the back key to revert to the stock screen for dialpad functions but thought I'd give an update so if Lowveld feels it's worthwhile he can look at it for the next update.
[Android Apps and Games] User_99:
Thx for the new update!

Found something about translation:

"Your Contact" still in English when you made a preview of known and unknown contacts. The other is perfect ;)

BTW, "Your Contact" = "Ihr Kontakt" in German ;)
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
No problem mate. The update was just the your translation, and a wrong link for the restore finished (it was saying "backup finished" as some people had reported).

As I don't have anything new to add to UCS, there was no point on sitting on the translations for an undetermined time, hence the minor upgrade.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] Sick1:
Have the same issue in Miui Gingerbread 2.4.20 , I have to try that if disabling swipe gestures help :)
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
Thanks for the input guys. I still haven't managed the time to install MIUI and check out the issue. But your pointer are will definitely save me some time!

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] luddeblaesild:
Someone working on a Swedish translation?
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
Nope. Are you offering? :)

For now there's just German, Finnish and Portuguese. Any other language is welcome of course!

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] User_99:
Ok, fine.

The string for "Your Contact" is still missing in the strings.xml file, but that's not a problem. You will solve it at usual ;)

BTW, app works like a charme and all needed features are available, so it's time for fine tuning the German translation :p
[Android Apps and Games] Andy3105:
Another update.......

Incoming calls cause the problem behaviour but not outgoing calls.

Basically the screen flicks across between the stock call screen and UCS before the stock screen wins.
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
Thanks mate- So resuming:

- This happens only with swipe actions turned on

- It only happens on incoming calls

Can you try something for me? Go to swipe configurations and make sure none of the directios are configured for "Bring the default interface up". Then check if the problem persists. From your symptoms it seems that particular action is being triggered.

I'll have to install MIUI myself, but I doubt that I'll be able to do it before the weekend, as I currently need my phone on 24/7.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
New feature?

So,

For sometime I've been playing around with a new feature. It's not directly related in function to UCS, but I do use a lot of code from here, so it's not that hard to integrate.

Basically I will at some point release a new app that allows the user to setup hd photos and link Facebook profiles to contacts, and sync the phone contacts with them. Something like haxsync or syncmypix or whatever is called.

I will not make a free version of this, but I'm thinking on throwing it in with the Licensed features of UCS if you guys are interested.

Any thoughts?

Cheers

P.S. I actually got it working now, but have some finetuning and a lot of checking to do.
[Android Apps and Games] luddeblaesild:
Sure, just tell me what to do :)
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
Thanks mate!

All you have to do (or anyone else wanting to translate to their language) is translate the two files inside this zip:

View attachment ucs_strings.zip

The syntax is quite simple: do not translate the title of the strings, just the content. You'll understand what I mean just by looking at the files.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] gacha2:
This would meen that I'd have my UCS caller id photos as stock contact photos? That would be great, honestly, that's the only thing I miss from Your app (besides an ICS Holo-like theme, but that's not so important). Thanks You for Your work: Andy
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
Yes, that's exactly what I meant.

Cheers!

P.S. I will do more themes, but I need some free time. It's actually easier for me to code features than to do themes, as I am "artistically challenged".
[Android Apps and Games] User_99:
Very good idea. Currently I use a similar app for that, but if I can use only one app for both I will test ;)

BTW, new German language send per e-mail...
[Android Apps and Games] ju-on:
Why does not the call is answered, there is no lock screen :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] codryn:
I said in a earlier post that my touch screen "died" after rejecting a call with UCS but is not your apps fault but my current rom :)
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
Took you long enough to show up and ask...

Let me start by explaining to other users why I started the reply with that sentence:

- In the past 2 months, each time I update UCS, you refresh your 1 star review so it stays on top. Same Polish text, just to bump it. Every update. It became sort of a running joke for me. While that sort of behavior is dubious for anyone, it is particularly distasteful for a XDA registered member. You never asked, you just bashed. Again: every update. Furthermore, your review is in Polish, and the only thing I could actually understand from it with Google Translate is that it was related to "lock screen".

That being said, when a call comes in, the phone is unlocked. It it wasn't, the lockscreen would cover UCS, and you would have your default interface only. I don't know if that was your question/issue, but if it isn't, feel free to elaborate and ask again.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] ju-on:
I'm sorry, but I always had two errors

1) If the screen is on everything run smooth well. If the screen is off (deep sleep), when the phone is ringing the screen remains off and I need to push home button to see (and answer) the caller

2) missed call - no screen lock

now

1) ok

2) bad

...and, negative opinions the more the developing

на здоровье ;)

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Stock Official ICS Firmwares I9100XWLPD (4.0.3)
[Android Apps and Games] ben_pyett:
+1

Bloody great idea! replace those rubbish blocky Google contact cr@p! Sooner the better! It can't come soon enough! :D
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
Ok then. I'll have a beta version here in the next few days. As I said, I have it working, synced all my contacts with no issue, but I still want to do some testing.

There are some issues with integrating with UCS though. Namely the pictures aspect ratio. I think everything that uses the stock photos expects them to have a square aspect ratio, whereas UCS photos have the phone screen aspect ratio.

On the standalone app I worked around it by having the cropper be square. On UCS I may have to crop the images automatically before adding them to the phone. But these are details.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] User_99:
Not an error. Here the same, but that's a problem of the ROM not UCS. All works fine here as expected on my GB Custom ROM.

About picture size.

Here for me it's not a problem because I have one set in 480x800 px (UCS) and the second one is 512x512px (stock dialer). So maybe we can have for the new feature different pictures sources defined to catch both features? Cropping is not a good idea, IMO.
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
The problem here would be having to define all contact pictures 2 times, one for UCS call screens, another for the stock dialer. Sounds boring just thinking on it, and it would also make UCS a lot more confusing, in my opinion. This is a non-issue on the standalone app, but it has a usability impact on UCS.

Cropping is not that bad most of the times. It is already "sort of" done on the Facebook synced pictures (I know you don't use it), due to the non-standard size of them. For UCS pictures, it would mean the bottom 320 pixels would go away, and that could cause issues depending on how you cropped them for UCS in the first place.

I can also provide a setting to not crop the UCS pictures and use them "as is", but the dialer and other apps will almost for sure display black bars on the sides for padding of the picture to the container.

Always open to suggestions!

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] ben_pyett:
It might be my fault....BUT....

It appears that UCS auto updates from market reset my swipe gestures so that they're all unset? I think that this has happened twice now.

spent a while swiping randomly and missed a call today before I worked this out?
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
That happens only when updating from a older version to a version that as configurable swipe actions (sorry, I don't remember the version numbers).

Remember when swipes were hardcoded, and you either turned them on or off? When I made it configurable with those nice drop-down lists of actions, the previous configuration was not valid (from a programming point of view, they stopped being boolean and are now strings).

So unless you upgraded twice (maybe from a nandroid backup?) to a recent version, I can't imagine how that would happen. May be wrong though.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] User_99:
I think I know what you mean and it depends which kind of pictures you use in UCS. In my case I use most of them where you can see the head/face of my contacts. If you crop these pictures you will cut the face and that looks not good.

"No cropping"-feature is in my option not really good...

Also I use such kind of UCS pictures: (Where will this be cropped?)
[Android Apps and Games] polaco19:
If you need help with the spanish (Latin America) traslation, let me know ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Andy3105:
Oh yeah!

By the way swipes were all defaulted to no action and swipe functions turned off.
[Android Apps and Games] darklord20k:
I have to re-install license for each update @@ can you fix it?

and can you make a feature that don't resize the stock img contact?
[Android Apps and Games] User_99:
No problem at all with licence. Current version do not modify stock contacts picture.
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
Fair warning

Ok guys,

After countless complaints that the free version is too limited, and users cannot check the full capabilities of UCS, I will change the behavior of the free version to something I didn't want to at first.

Next version will have all features unlocked, but a limit to the number of contacts you can personalize. I know many people won't like this new approach, but I do get a lot of complaints about this.

So, when you see an update to version V5.0.0, do not update if you don't agree with this.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] jsmccabe78:
Geez...people are never satisfied.
[Android Apps and Games] Sir-MessAlot:
Wouldn't be a time limitation for the paid features better for those who want to use UCS free version only? So you won't get complaints from those people who are satisfied with the free version?

I'm just thinking about that possibility...
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
There are no perfect solutions. Bottom line, people want everything for free, and I certainly understand that. No matter what I do, there will always by dissatisfaction from a subset of users. Even if I decided to really give all away for free, I would get complaints from the users who already have bought it.

Before releasing UCS, I thought about what I wanted and not, and acted accordingly. I prefer to have a fully working subset of functionalities and pay for extras. I think UCS was (and is) the fisrt app of the type that didn't put any limitation on the number of contacts. Apparently this was not enough...

Cheers

P.S. For me the "time limit" is even worst. It either works and I buy it, or not. The "full demo with time limit" always seemed to me like getting someone hooked on drugs, you know, giving it away for free until you "can't live without it", and then collect.
[Android Apps and Games] saftschubse:
That's the way the world goes round... ;)
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
Not mine... :)

What do you guys think of a new "whitish" look to UCS interface? I like it:
[Android Apps and Games] User_99:
No problem with "limits" I've already paid for UCS :p

And there are always "complaints" - also when it's free...

Nice on some ROMS, not on mine - like the dark shine ;)

How about a switch for black or white skin?
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
SPECIALLY when it's free, trust me on this.

As for theme switching, I've been banging my head with it for 2 hours. Seems the only way is changing on the fly on a per-activity basis, I can't make it work application wide (and haven't tried the activity based method yet).

I'm trying to integrate the phone syncing for you guys to try out.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] User_99:
You will find a solution ;)
[Android Apps and Games] darklord20k:
I don't mean app modify stock contact pic, I mean ttat when you don't want to use the default picture, you want to dislay your friend picture in your contact, but it is small resized and resized (make it very ugly)
[Android Apps and Games] zohan99:
The free version was more than enough for me but after trying at least 4 other full screen caller apps, yours blew them all out of the water, no contest. I agree that not everyone can purchase from different countries and the price is a tad higher than other alternatives, but I am extremely happy with the continuous updates and improvements and especially from the feedback from the dev. Keep up the good work my man, waiting for version 5.0!:thumbup:
[Android Apps and Games] User_99:
Yep, but thats how UCS works. Like it...Why should I use this application when I only want to show my original pictures that perfectly work/show in stock phone application?
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
V5.0.0 Beta 1 is out - Phone Syncing

Ok guys,

Here is first shot at V5.0.0

Changelog:

- MAJOR: Free version now has everything unlocked except for using existing phone contact pictures. But Free version can now only personalize up to 6 contacts. This approach was asked by user feedback.

- NEW: You can now sync your internal phone contacts to use your UCS defined HD pictures, so you can use them on other apps. Checkout the new "Phone Sync" menu!

- New Light themed interface

- Code optimizations​

Regarding the phone syncing, for now I include the option to crop or not the photos to square aspect ratio. It's the best I could think off without making it ridiculously complicated. But I'm always open to suggestions.

Also, I recommend backing up your contact database with titanium just i case. It all went well for me, but you never know with these first approaches...

Download:

desworks.de/android/UCS/UltimateCallScreen5b1.apk

Let me know what you think of it!

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] ben_pyett:
Just my five pence worth (or more like a pound):

I personally preferred the dark theme, as, I'm getting used to aokp, I know amazing how times change -been off Endy for about a fortnight now, so I'm used to the darkness, is there no chance of providing both or at last an option to change the application theme in the settings?

Really Loving the sync'd contact picture functionality, you should certainly only put that in the paid version - tested it multiple times, both cropped and not and works perfectly.

Again personally prefer the non cropped pictures, even though you get banners/borders - tiny negative comment - being a little ocd, don't like how the backup and sync in progress indicators are different, one pops up a spinner and gives notification on completion, the other simply shows it's progressing by being depressed, consistency to the look and feel would be better.

How about another tiny enhancement request:

On the screen where you set and enlarge the contact picture, you should draws a box on top of the screen that shows which portion of the picture will be shown (if cropping is enabled) so that we can determine and influence the shape and size of the cropped picture that will sync'd

Keep up the great work.....:D

Edit

Is there any chance you could perhaps enable some way for me to delete one of the duplicate contacts that I have in UCS (he isn't duplicated in my Google contacts), it's my best friend and as a result of the double his pictures don't work properly?

Swyped from my DesireS
[Android Apps and Games] User_99:
Will test beta and thx for your efforts and ideas! ;)

Sorry mate, black design is much much better. It looks really not good on my Galaxy Note. Also it breaks the default app design on GB or ICS ROMS. Think it could fit on MIUI ROMs...

@Sync'd contact picture functionality

Is there a chance to have a preview function? In my case 3/4 of my "hardly" created contact pictures do not really looking good because they were cut off (you see only half of the face or only the end of head) crpooing is also - in my case - not a possibilty. How about a manual "cropping"-function, so we can define what we want to see?

Suggestions

@Translation

I think it would be a good idea if we can have always the latest strings.xml in OP. So we can easily translate the app. No need to send e-mails...

@square - non-square pictures (maybe available in a folder)

How about a "bulk" picture function?

Means you define a pictures source with all contacts pictures in it (name of pics is corresponding / same with contacts name) and you can easily update all contact pictures with one click. Maybe with an information when contact name and pictures name do not correspond. With this feature I think it's very easy to modify the square (new sync'd contact picture functionality) - non-square (UCS HD pics) pictures with less steps. What do you think?
[Android Apps and Games] Sick1:
Can say that light theme looks great with MIUI rom :) . I send you email with few new Finnish translated strings.
[Android Apps and Games] pdppdp:
That's a great idea!

+1
[Android Apps and Games] User_99:
+1 :)
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
What about adding an option to build a dedicated picture list for the phone? You would have the option to import the pictures used by UCS as callscreen, or just build a specific set for the phone.

This would incorporate pretty much the standalone app I'm working on. It also has an option to clean up the pictures after syncing the phone as you don't need them anymore.

The square box indicator on the cropper would introduce some confusion, as people may think that what's inside the box is the final picture and it won't be (again, usability issues).

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] brainzasif:
hey bro how about adding an option to search and remove duplicate contacts :D?
[Android Apps and Games] DarK_AvATaR:
Don't know why, but I feel that now free version is too limited for me. I will buy the paid version when I get home because it really worth it as I said some weeks ago and I don't have my phone here. :D

Some versions ago the UCS was broken for me in any update, when the stock screen call was displayed instead the UCS, but it was fixed so fast. :D

Anyway, lowveld, I can translate it to Spanish for you if you wish. There are some complaints on Market that the app is not translated and they don't know how to use it. :rolleyes:

Regards.
[Android Apps and Games] User_99:
Lists for UCS and stock phone sounds interresting. Why not creating such a list with different sources? One for UCS and the for stock phone? If the picture name is equal with contact name - gotcha and with one click all is asigned. ;)

@square box indicator

I think not. On the current available config screen is enought space for a small hint what this indicator do. Maybe only available when you activate this feature for changing stock caller pictures before.

@white main screen

What's your final decision? If you will use the new style it's ok, but I have to stop at version 4.2.x. The white thing is nothing for me, sorry...
[Android Apps and Games] pdppdp:
Does anyone else has the problem that some contacts don't have phone numbers and no pictures are saved? I tried everything. Reinstall app, reinstall rom, change number. But still.

I also prefer the dark theme. How about giving the option to choose light or dark.
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
Already changed to black, as black, as most people seem to want it. I can compile an alternate white version and post it here for those interested.

As for the rest, let me think about it. The alternate source is interesting, but it could easily become messy. The pictures would have to be an exact match of the contacts names, and there we would have the problem of special characters on the file name... Internally I gave up on identifying the pictures by name because of this, it was one of the bugs on early backup/restore function...

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
Thanks for the offer man. I noticed that my next-country neighbors were a bit picky. But contrary to what many people think, Portuguese guys don't speak Spanish. If I tried to translate myself, it would be so bad that you guys would invade us again just as retaliation. :)

As for buying the app, thanks. Actuality, not wanting to sound pressuring, but those of you thinking on buying, consider doing it now, as I will probably rise the price a bit.

I know some already consider the app expensive, but looking at the features when I set the price comparing to now, and looking at what the "competition" is charging, and considering ill release the phone syncing as a separate app... well, I'm thinking about it.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] User_99:
Thx for black! White as alternative is great. Currently I use Samsung Stock GB next will be CM9. ;)

As you know I use an alternative app for replacing stock pictures in phone - unfortunately I've problems with my GB ROM so after a sync all goes back to low res pictures. In ICS it works like a charme. In that app the developer made a "matching" rule like "match partial names" or "starts with". So after selecting the picture source you get a list with corresponding names - picture names <> contact names - and with a check mark you can select and to have a match. So it takes for me seconds to apply 400 contacts. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] lowveld:
V5.0.0 Beta 3 - Dedicated Phone Syncing

Ok guys,

Here you go:

http://desworks.de/android/UCS/UltimateCallScreen5b3.apk

Added the dedicated contact list that I mentioned earlier, check the new option on the the phone syncing menu. Note that this is pretty close to the final version, the new feature is already locked to licensed users... Together with the contact number limit, it is the only limitation.

You can directly add HD pictures or Facebook friends. You have he option to autocrop the facebooks photos when they come in. You can clean up the pictures after syncing to not occupy space. All features are completelly independent of other UCS settings on this mode!

Anyway, give it a go and see what you think.

I still have to do some minor tweaks, and check that suggestion from user_99 about a external picture dir for importing, but if it turns out not feasible (at least for now), this is pretty much the feature set I had in mind for V5. (and I still have to make the wait periods consistent cross-application as Ben suggested).

Cheers

P.S. Don't ask about Beta 2...
[Android Apps and Games] User_99:
Nice, manual link and sync for phone pictures work. With this feature I can select my square pictures and it looks awesome. Unfortunately only till next sync, than old lowres pictures came back. I've the same problem with other app. Maybe it's a GB ROM problem...