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[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] Gillion:
How would an ordinary user know that a case would cause an inaccuracy with your app ?

Perhaps you can tie the app in to a web based weather service as an auto correcting and validation reference.

Rather than have thay user calibrate the temp themself the app would compare the temp sensed by the device to the temp reported by //weather.com for that geographical area and make a fine adjustment or simply alert the user... thay there may be a slight offset.

Target versus actual versus reference site.

Humidity is a whole other matter

as body heat and perspiration (for those that carry the device in a pocket inna case) will affect most humidity sensors especially in tropical countries like mine.

Sent from my GT-I9500
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jsstp24n5:
Isn't this totally defeating the purpose of having an ambient thermometer and hygrometer built into a device?
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] Gillion:
Not at all...

Instruments need to be checked and validated against an acceptable reference from time to time.

For example meteorological equipment is routinely checked and certified to track performance and reliabilty.

Our your laptop clock checks itself . against a time server... or our gps can check itself against ntp servers... etc etc

Samsung just put the sensors in phone ... but they certainly didnt give us an app to use it... nor a way to verify the accuracy against user conditions...

Thats where you come in.

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[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] NEOAethyr:
OK that sounds good :), I'm glad then that I posted in this thread.

Actually I think letting the user adjusting the offset by batt temp is an awesome idea.

Seeing the battery temp though might be important though, I'de hate to ask for another thing but maybe an option to display it along the others, as an option, because once it's setup decently I don't really wanna see that on that particular app's screen all the time ;).

[MENTION=4273882]Gillion[/MENTION]

I never thought about cases when it came down to the temp sensor, the thermistor.

Shame kinda that the phone doesn't have a 2 pin hookup for that and cases having there own, the actual part is dirt cheap.

A battery temp offset thingy will help quite a bit I think, even with a case.

However it still won't be quite as accurate as without a case.

In the future maybe cases will have that in mind and have a small hole where that sensor is so it can get better readings.

I can only hope, since I haven't went out and gotten a case just yet :).

As for using an online check, that should be done manually, you could probably find a weather widget for that.

Adding that to the app would increase it's size, and the incontinence that it uses the network.

And besides, temps indoors are different then temps outdoors, quite a bit different.

I would use a widget ;).

And btw, is that ava or yours a char from gits:sac ? :)

Anyways looking forward to a new ver in a few days that would be awesome :).

Samsung's ver of the app was kinda goofy (S Health I think it was called), I had to close and re-open it to get it to update it's values lol, no good for real time checking, plus there's no offset to be set at all.

Plus it was dug down deep in there app, not right on the main screen.

The idea of it was cool, but having to buy a special weight scale and all that is not gonna happen lol.

Edit:

I just noticed after powering up my phone a min ago, no apps left running before I had shut down previously.

Checked with Android Task Manager Pro to see if the radioactivity counter app I just got was still running in the bg and saw that weather station was running.

I can't be absolutely sure at this point but it seems like this app is set to auto start when you boot the phone.

Is that true?, and why?, please change that, I don't have the widget going so I'm just wondering why it's auto starting it's self.

Anyways that's all I wanted to say :).
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jsstp24n5:
I understand what you are saying... however, I don't see the usefulness in calibrating the values against a station probably miles away and outdoors. It's more accurate and useful to calibrate the values based on a reference where the phone actually is (which you can already do in the the Preferences -> Troubleshooting).
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jsstp24n5:
There is a short service that runs on booting the phone that resets the alarm for the background readings (which are used for graphing). Also, the background readings run as a background service but not continuously (once the readings are taken the service kills itself). The actual background readings service shouldn't take more than a second... unless you are adjusting the pressure with gps elevation (then it can take up to a minute and a half depending on how long it takes the gps to get a fix). Background readings can be unchecked in Preferences (if you uncheck all of them no background service will run).

In terms of the battery temp adjustment idea: I was thinking about the implementation more because I don't want it to just be a gimmick and it may have to be a two step calibration process at two different reported battery temps and ambient temp sensor values. It will take time to figure out a good way of implementing this and the first release of the feature will be experimental...
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] Gillion:
I see your point.

Lets say the user is inside their office. It's 23 degrees inside but 30 outside

The weather station would cause complexity right there.

Thing is average users may not figure things like this out.

Sent from my GT-I9500
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] NEOAethyr:
Under the *#0228# BatteryStatus service menu there are 2 diff temp readings.

1 under current value, and the other under avg value.

The one under avg value is less accurate, no dec places, and it's obviously rounded off or something.

Not sure if that's what you meant when you spoke of 2 diff batt temp sensors.

Could be though.

Issue with these things, even on the pc, is the dupes.

Some are read via ports, others via smbus.

And if there's duplicates in both i/o addy's then one is likely gonna be a round off value, or sometimes they are just offset a bit (bios code sometimes does that and applies an offset to be used in software that doesn't read those sensors directly).

But then again, maybe there is 2 diff thermistors for the battery, one inside the battery, and one in the phone behind the battery or something.

Smbus code I never did figure out myself.

I only know x86 asm code for the most part, I haven't gotten to the point where I'm ready to mess with asm on arm, it's a different animal all together.

I have found that fasm supports outputting to arm baised linux/unix/posix elf format.

But I've messed with plenty of apps in windows that have to do with sensors.

On my board I've got the ability to plug in 3 extra thermistors, once in a great while I'll plug one in to test temps externally.

I need to get myself an IR temp meter for that type of stuff though.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] Chetski:
Great little app you got here, thank you. Can you add "inch WC " or "in H2O" to the baro pressure choices. Also, I can't enter a negative temperature offset in fahrenheit to compensate for my oven (Desktop PC) under my desk.;) :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jsstp24n5:
You can enter a negative Celsius though. So take your difference in Fahrenheit and multiply by .555555. It was a choice by me to leave some Preferences that you enter as the units of the raw sensor values since that is more accurate (also simpler to program). I'll probably work on allowing you to enter in your unit of choice when I have more time.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] aljo00:
Great app.

Tnx.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] Chetski:
the kepad on my Galaxy S4 refuses to do the - digit. C or F. Still a great app.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] dacbeth:
I cannot get a minus out of my keyboard. It shows .- but only gives me a decimal. Therefore can't enter a correction value?
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jsstp24n5:
Put the cursor to the beginning of the number and press the .- button twice (or maybe you can also long press)
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jsstp24n5:
See post above
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] dacbeth:
Thanks, that worked, double tap.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jisharka:
Great Application.. Some suggestions

Hi,

This is really a great application and I was looking for one like this. I have two suggestions,

1, Can you include % in the Humidity units. Because mostly Humidity is represented in %.

2, If possible kindly add a "Nice Widget" for home screen.

Thanks for your efforts..
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] Gillion:
It already has nice customizable widgets.

What do you mwan % in the humidity units ?

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[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] ajshaikhd:
Widgets disappear

I have 3 widgets on the home screen (temp, hum, baro). They constantly disappear and I have to add them again!

Please help.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jsstp24n5:
Strange issue.

I suggest uninstalling the app, clearing the dalvik-cache (skip this step if you have no idea what I'm talking about and aren't rooted), rebooting the phone, and reinstalling. Hope that helps...
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] Tanis64:
Where is the App installed?

If it is on SD then this is normal behavior for Apps with Widgets

Regards
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jsstp24n5:
The app shouldn't install to the SD card unless the user somehow forced it there. I've disabled that option in the program from the first version.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] david832:
Translating to spanish 50% on the go, once finish ill check it, finished for tomorrow, is kinda late right now :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] coolraghav:
Great weather app and been promoted at its best!

http://s4tips.com/reviews/your-galaxy-s4-is-your-latest-weather-station/
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] cool_sid007:
Battery Usage

Hey guys!!

I am keen to understand what is the impact on battery life if i keep running this app or refreshing the widget say every 30 mins. I am a fan of live temperature but i dont want to put it up if it will use my precious battery. Expecting responses from people already using it.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] ivolino:
Temperature is not working with Galaxy S4 Active

Temperature and humidity is not working with Galaxy S4 Active.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] Mjdgard:
What offsets did you choose? I would like to learn how off your sensor readings are.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] gRRosminet:
hi

nice work

it would be nice if you can add some features like :

-widget update at screen on

-try to imagine a correlation between internal temperature and external temperature to make a correction : when device is on, it's temperature rise up (your hands are hot and processor too) and the sensor is perturbed as it is mis located :( I know it's a hardware layout problem, but maybe something can be done about that
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jsstp24n5:
Version 2 is finally done and has been released. Because it is a completely new code architecture, it will require an uninstall and reboot. It has many new requested features and other new stuff, etc. See the OP for details.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] JcK1:
Great app, works like a charm!

Here's finnish translation.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jsstp24n5:
Thank you! I'll work on getting this in the next release along with updates to the other translations...
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] rufmao:
Here is an update to the portuguese translation.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jsstp24n5:
Thank you. I will put it in next update
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] mcsephoenix:
I am having the same issue on my S4 Active...
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jossilint:
As i understand those sensors are not supported by Active.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] david916:
Great app, really! I bought the PRO version to thank the good work already done.

I am very interested in Barometric Altimeter function, and I am trying to understand how this one is working, and how to get the more accurate value....But i am not really clear with the Sea Level Pressure, and its usage....compare to the GPS Altitude values.

I explain:

I went to various weather forecast websites, and was able to find SLP for my area...(1018mb at that time)

I key this 1018 mb in the settings of your app...but Resulting Altitude shown are different by 50 meters (or even more)

Barometric Altitude reported as 213m (which is the real altitude of my place...)

GPS altitude reported as 261m...which is definitively wrong!

Hard to believe that GPS (bad) accuray can be the only reason for this 50m delta...

Also, is there any way to get this SLP values updated automatically by the app...(GPS could help to locate my area, and get a live value of SLP...from a national weather forecast service...)...so the barometric altitude is corrected automatically?

thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jsstp24n5:
GPS Altitude is not relative to the mean sea level but to the WGS 84 Geoid (this is true for any GPS device):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System

Since at the moment the app doesn't use the internet, I would treat the Barometric Altitude as the Pressure Altitude (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_altitude) and leave the SLP at 1013.25 mb or whatever the mean SLP over the year is at your location. Keep in mind that both altitude readings are inherently not designed to show the real Geometric altitude.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] albireox:
Very nice and useful app, but at least on the Note3, it seems to cause some battery drain, even if the data is updated once every 1.5 hours. On the S4 it was ok.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] devilsdouble:
Any app which uses the internal sensors will consume little juice. This is a nice app, but I'm kinda liking the Sensor indicator now.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] ivom1965:
save data to dropbox

Hello,

I found your app very cool! Is it possible send automatically the background readings data to dropbox at regular time interval?

Thank's for very good job

:cowboy:
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] muiacir:
I use the widget of that

But when i am in a weather with 2 degree below zero(celius) it takes to many times that it shows the temp.why?
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] Ledanur:
Loving the app.

Was wondering what are you working on these days, what goodies should we expect?

Material design? Qnh support? Moon widget?

Hope everything's well, and keep up with the good work :)
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] groblerpaul:
Sync to google drive

Is there a way I can sync the data to google drive. Maybe as a csv file?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] scott.hart.bti:
So everyone knows that situation we are in with our kernel.... At the moment, its DECENT, but it is extremely outdated. Although it is enough to keep things working at the moment, who knows what may happen with future OS releases... We have had no official support since the days of gingerbread. Myself and a handful of other developers have been making changes/additions when needed and to the best of our abilities, but with such an outdated kernel, it is getting harder and harder to make necessary changes to work with the existing source.

As of right now, this will be a two man project... Myself and rwaterspf1. Those of you who are not familiar with rwaterspf1, that is the member that recently donated his infuse to me. I got to talking with him and it turns out that he is not a stranger around kernel development in other areas. I am currently talking with a couple other people and may get some assistance from them as well.

We will be attempting to add support for the infuse4g into the Aries kernel. - Which is a updated and supported kernel

This is DAY ONE, and nothing has been done yet. This is the very beginning and for those of you that are not familiar with kernel development, there is alot that goes into it, so do NOT expect this to be completed with a day or two. This will be an ONGOING development thread.

As a disclaimer, I want to make sure that everyone is aware that this may NOT work at all and may just be a huge fail. We will try our best and from the looks of it, I think its definitely something we can figure out.

This is a

WORK IN PROGRESS,

and we ask that you all support us even in the event of failure.

Progress can be found -> HERE

Efforts as of 4/28/2013

* MTD partition table and file system files added into kernel

* Touchscreen drivers copied over

* Added video driver files and edited existing files

* Edited modem files for infuse compatibilities

* Infuse edits added to sec_jack file for compatibility

You can find rwaterspf1's profile from HERE

There will be numerous benefits if we are able to do this... And hell... who knows.... it may even fix up the 720p recording issue in doing this... No promises though.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] wingcook:
I'm willing to try. And I'm last to throw rocks as long as great effort is given. And seeing your roms, don't think you have any other mindset.:D
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Asphyxiation:
definitely looking forward to this, man ! thank you for all your hard work on this phone . without you and others, this phone would be pretty lame . so thank you .
[Samsung Infuse 4G] tavito05:
Your a hero scott !

Even though now I am not with the infuse anymore. Everyday I come back to thank you because you kept the infuse going all along the ride. Thank you scott. Your an inspiration and hopefully someday we will all chip in and buy you a new phone ! :thumbup::)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] skyliner33v:
You are awesome for attempting this. Thank you. If you need my help in anyway, just let me know.

And btw, i got the new beanstalk boot animation started. But its still a ways to go. And no, the forecast doesn't call for tacos.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] InsaneDDay69:
If anyone here can pull this off, its you Scott. You have been an instrumental part of EVERY great thing we have for our Infuse, as noted by your mention in 99.9% of the custom ROMs. You have my support regardless of its success :thumbup:

Sent from my Carbon-ized Infuse
[Samsung Infuse 4G] scott.hart.bti:
:laugh::laugh::laugh:
[Samsung Infuse 4G] deathblade:
Looking forward to seeing how this goes keep in mind I'm here and willing to test beta or other wise, you should Omw from past experience with me testing your builds I'm thorough and can troubleshoot most things on my own (after installing and mildly with code) and you should know how to reach me
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Prometh1216:
Always a happy tester here
[Samsung Infuse 4G] scott.hart.bti:
There will definitely be testers needed in the up coming days here... At the moment we literally just started and are working on moving over the infuse specific files we will need to add into the aries kernel tree for our device. Hope to have this booting within a couple days...

PS... Thank you for the donation Alexis .... Its funny how you mentioned about the energy drinks because more then likely thats exactly where itll go... :)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] InsaneDDay69:
I'll be happy to test if needed

Sent from my Carbon-ized Infuse
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Asphyxiation:
indeed . if you need a tester, i am happy to help out .
[Samsung Infuse 4G] bufordjustice:
I'll help testing as well.

BTW, you should call it KernelAngus. :)

Edit: Just wanted to make sure I said thanks again for your dedication, effort and generosity.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Connor Baker:
Scott, as always I am way open for testing. I'm still running the Beanstalk build with the kernel modifications and WiFi drivers you let me test. Best. Build. Ever.

Connor Baker
[Samsung Infuse 4G] eZdubzitmk4:
I'm here to help
[Samsung Infuse 4G] scott.hart.bti:
Thanks for all the support. Ill keep everyone in mind. Also, I reached out to one of the Cyanogenmod developers for some advice and he gave me some assistance as for what will be needed... Feeling pretty confident, but like i said... definitely not going to be a quick job.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] MerkTheMedia:
Scott I've said it before but I'll say it again you are awesome! If anyone can pull this off it's you. I'm willing to beta test like all the others. Thanks a million for making my phone amazing.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] toxicpaulution:
Scott if you need me just send me a message I am more than willing to help :3
[Samsung Infuse 4G] k-semler:
I'm willing to test the kernel.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] PoXFreak:
720p, MHL and proper Bluetooth drivers would make this device capable of becoming official, but how old can the device be and still be capable of all new releases?

Always in to help and do what I can to try and get things working right. Scott is the man on the infuse as of late, but we can't forget who started all this...

Good luck guys!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] pabearsman:
Scott,

Been running your builds since I first rooted my Infuse. I appreciate all of your efforts! Count me in as a tester if needed.

Thanks.

Frank
[Samsung Infuse 4G] phazeonphoenix:
You know it doesn't matter if the Infuse attained cm official status or not. Thanks to devoted developers like Scott and the myriads of others they've given this device a new life and saved me from wanting to upgrade for at least two years. I also have complete confidence that once I do upgrade I can flash one of the many strong and stable roms hosted here and hand it to anyone and the would have an almost awesome android phone that still pales many of the others.

I'm happy you're going to give this a try. I've wondered why no one had produced a flash able alt kernel yet. If I remember correctly our current kernel wasn't much more than a series of hacks to get it to boot jelly bean.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] bufordjustice:
Scared to ask, but since 720p video was brought up...

Could this potentially fix the low volume issue too?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Prometh1216:
Good question ..... If the will revamp the audio drivers ....

---------- Post added at 05:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:10 PM ----------

Think Samsung needs to be renamed to Scott.hart industries
[Samsung Infuse 4G] scott.hart.bti:
Its possible... We use the exact audio files on the device end.... So i think we should be able to use their audio drivers kernel end, might just be a matter of making a few changes to our board files..

Status Update: We havent really gotten started with to much yet... So far its a process to see what is needed and how involved this will be. I also reached out to two kernel devs that recently did the same thing with another similar device... One of them is currently looking at the kernel diffs and will get back to me to see if he can help out or not... I have high hopes as of right now. As soon as we get rolling, we will paste a link to our github to track the progress

Scott.hart industries... i feel that would pay more then my ****ty job i currently have.. :)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] scott.hart.bti:
So this may be a few days later then i originally planned for... Basically our kernel and the aries kernel uses very similar files and the same structures.. So... I pretty much have to go through most of the driver files and pull out the infuse proprietary lines and port them over to the aries files by using an if - endif statement... Needless to say... This is a major ***** and extremely time consuming...

EDIT:

Here is the progress thus far... Kernel will be hosted on rwaterspf's github https://github.com/rwaterspf1/android_kernel_samsung_aries

Builders: You may not want to try to build anything yet... We havent even setup the defconfig file for the infuse yet, so it would be pointless to try until that is done... Also, Ive been working kind of backwards and have not made any board edits yet

Come on... Lets get some chatter in here... If this thread falls off the grid, Im not going to be to excited about continuing work on it...

Progress thus far:

* MTD partition table and file system files added into kernel

* Touchscreen drivers copied over

* Added video driver files and edited existing files

* Edited modem files for infuse compatibilities

* Infuse edits added to sec_jack file for compatibility

Still a **** ton to go...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] eZdubzitmk4:
Great work bro.

Don't burn yourself out tho. Take your time man.