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[Connected Car] noten093:
Here is the wiki for Torque. Then you can customize the theme or add plugins.

Nice one: I own an Alpha Mio heartrate watch for my speed skating workouts. It works great on my Galaxy S4. It would be so safe if you could connect this one to the SCT and set heart rate zone allerts. If your heart rate becomes too low it can play a message. Please pull over and take a rest... Or play Jimmy Hendrix to wake you up on a long journey. Or..Pull over your most likely heaving an heart attack.. if its too high :rolleyes: It is the only watch now with build in sensor. It connects over Smart Bluetooth (BLE). I quess this one will not work on the SCT. Or...?
[Connected Car] donaldta:
I am not sure did you mean to link, Torque Wiki's Theme page?

Just about anything is possible if an Android developer backs it.
[Connected Car] RichieB:
I took a peek in the /data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases/external-xxxxxxxx.db and all my 35000 files are there, properly indexed (using ID3v2) Pretty strange that the SCT Music Player does not show this meta data. Unfortunately Neutron MP is not very stable (hangs and crashes a lot). PowerAmp 1.4 is a little better, but the media buttons on the dashboard for Next and Prev do not work. So I'm going to try the stock Gingerbread Media Player next. Does anyone know another decent music player that uses the system database?
[Connected Car] donaldta:
It is actually not strange at all. Something that you forget is that the SCT was never meant to be used outside of the Asteroid Market ecosystem. So, a lot of these quirks should be expected. As far as I know, the SCT Music Player gets its information from Grace Notes which catalogs the music content each time you plug in a card or drive into it; which allows songs to be called up via voice prompts.
[Connected Car] Gray1:
You can try n7player

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.n7mobile.nplayer

at least it understands wheel buttons (prev - next track) without any problems
[Connected Car] RichieB:
Thanks but "n7player no longer relies on Android Media Scanner and uses it's own media library". I'll try it though. Maybe I can find an old version that does use the android media library.
[Connected Car] gekkekoe123:
Bluetooth seems to be working. I could enable the service. I didn't have a device to test the pairing, but I think it should be ok
[Connected Car] gebla:
Try https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubblesoft.android.bubbleupnp&hl=nl. Using this you can also stream music from server at home to the SCT or play local stored music. It supports all tag types.

The developer worked with me to ensure that Volvo USB modem connection is supported. Buttons on the steering wheel are supported in the now playing screen.
[Connected Car] twcoolen:
My fix is also between 6-7 meters, SNR value between 30-40, 8-12 satellites connected.
[Connected Car] noten093:
Movie nice working setup SCT with ADWex and Torque

Here a new movie for you guys with my nice working setup.

Very much enjoying it! :laugh:

[YOUTUBE]UVz7o1pEsgA[/YOUTUBE]
[Connected Car] nrgetic:
Ok thanks, but that does not mean SPP is supported.
[Connected Car] gekkekoe123:
This morning my fix was also quite stable around 7m-8m.

You should try again in a city and/or with bad weather.
[Connected Car] donaldta:
:good: Nice work. It looks much better with the less cluttered gauges and it looks like you're using the SCT backgrounds with ADW making it appear to be a more cohesive UI.

This is true but I suspect that it does because noten093's Bluetooth OBD2 adapter works with the SCT. Here's the thing about ODB2 adapters in general, the physical OBD connector is connected to a microprocessor which translates the bus data into serial information. The datalink is then facilitated by another processor which usually handles either Serial to Bluetooth or Serial to USB connection. Since the Scantool OBDlink MX is a Bluetooth ODB2 Adapter, it has to use a serial over bluetooth protocol. While I am not sure if SCT's bluetooth stack conforms to the Serial Port Profile (SPP), I do know that the SCT's BT stack supports actual serial communication since his OBDlink MX adapter works with Torque on the SCT.
[Connected Car] Zakraket:
Noten93 mentioned he used https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.birdapi.android.dpi&hl=nl to enhance screen resolution in this video. I just tried it on my phone (just to see the efffect) and it won't boot anymore. Seems this is a high risk with this application (judging the comments).

Not a big prob for my phone, I'll just reinstall my custom ROM, but for SCT this app is a big risk! If it works, fine, if it doens't, your SCT will not boot anymore!

Maybe one of you wizards (;) ) can fix this, but I thought I'd just post this
[Connected Car] noten093:
This morning I changed the resolution to 200dpi with LCD modder which is perfect now as you can see on my latest movie. But It had a long reboot and restarted about 8 times. I thought I bricked it into a boot loop. But finally it came back up. Why would it act like that? Now, when I boot, the boot seems longer but it will boot without reboot. I know the default DPI is 240.

I heard from a Dutch Volvo forum member he bricked his phone testing it.

Is there a possibility to unbrick it?
[Connected Car] Zakraket:
Yes, that was me :) and I see the risk was already discussed. I think it's an app to stay away from regarding SCT for the moment?

hmm...phone won't boot even after flashing the ROM again :( ****, why did I do this
[Connected Car] noten093:
I don't know if it is important to know but I changed the bluetooth settings to dual phone.
[Connected Car] donaldta:
If you read carefully, I recommend to use the LCD Density to test the resolution prior to setting it permanently with LCD Density Modder Pro. Otherwise, you'll end up in a bootloop if the GPU cannot get into that resolution.

If you're using LCD Density those are soft resets while it tries to get into the correct resolution. If you used the "save and reboot" option (which changes the build.prop) from LCD Density Modder Pro then that's just not an officially supported DPI so it took a few soft-resets to get it to stick.

To fix the problem you would need to use adb to change the "ro.sf.lcd_density=" line in build.prop with an acceptable value. However, I highly recommend to avoid this symptom altogether by using the temporary method before using the permanent one. Especially, since the SCT doesn't seem to be a readily accessible USB connection to access the ADB. And I don't know of the SCT has a recovery mode like the Parrot Asteroid devices.
[Connected Car] noten093:
So do you think I should change it back to 240? Or is the current setting of 200dpi fine? Will it give problems in the future?

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What is you phone type?

I have read on a forum that when you install a third party launcher you can avoid the brick (no use for you now)
[Connected Car] Zakraket:
Huawei G615

Well...I picked up this app because noten93 posted it on the Volvo-forum, not here, that was without any comments or extra info. If I had seen it on this forum on the pages before (and your comments) I would not have tried it.

No offence to anyone but myself of course! I should not have tried it blindly... :(:rolleyes:
[Connected Car] noten093:
Removed all links on that forum.

I guess you should boot it in recovery mode and connect it to Odin. Then push a fresh rom on it. Is this CWM installable on your phone?

BTW: I described how it worked on my SCT. Not on another device. Sorry..:(
[Connected Car] donaldta:
You should be fine. As long as it finishes booting. The problem is setting it to a resolution outside the range of that GPU is able to support and unable to initialize that causes bootloops in this case.

It actually would be more prudent to add the warning about making changes to the build.prop file, since any unsuspecting tech unsavvy person can use Google. As I said early on in this thread ANY in appropriate values to it can cause your device to go into a bootloop. That's why I was adamant that people don't use WIndows editors to change build.prop for the "ro.parrot.install-all=true" since it can corrupt the file with using hidden ^M characters that Windows loves so much. The same goes with setting an out of bound value for "ro.sf.lcd_density=" with an Android app, like LCD Density Modder Pro.
[Connected Car] noten093:
To be safe I removed all LCD d.m. references
[Connected Car] Zakraket:
This procedure's supposed to fix after this program:

- get build.prop from Rom-zip

- boot phone in recovery

- push build.prop "adb push build.prop /system"

- chmod 775 through recovery (twrp)

But I need a little guidance. I know it's offtopic, Im sorry, it's my fault. :crying: don't know how to connect my phone to adb, and don't know how to chmod the file after pushing it

and custom recovery is in Chinese ;) http://www.sorexblog.altervista.org/recovery.php

edit: isn't a ROM-flash supposed to overwrite the systemfolder?
[Connected Car] donaldta:
Well, I have no problem in trying to help (although I'm probably not the best person) but not in this thread. Maybe [Q] [HELP NEEDED] Bricked Huawei G615/honor 2 would be a more appropriate thread?
[Connected Car] Zakraket:
That wasn't helpfull, but thanx ;) .. I know I'm a noob. Normally I'm very carefull with ROMs, apps (I hardly use any apps anyway), and I really did not expect this from a "simple" marketapp anyone can just install. Just not payed attention once, won't happen again. Anyway, will try elsewhere
[Connected Car] donaldta:
I think there's something lost in translation. I am not calling you a noob. I meant that we should discuss your issue in a different thread. From the video, I meant to emphasize @0:40 "...or at least find a kinda sorta similar thread and post it there" because it is not appropriate topic for this thread.
[Connected Car] Zakraket:
check :) I know, I was being a bit sarcastic. I already had posted in the G615 topic.

But...In the meantime I was able to fix it, my phone is alive again (but of course I lost my settings, that's no problem)

Using these steps I found somewhere: Enter CWM, Wipe Data and Cache, Go to mounts & storage -> format \system, Go to advanced -> wipe dalvik cache, Flash any custom rom you want, but pay attention to the baseband!

Sorry to be so offtopic, back to SCT
[Connected Car] donaldta:
You have to watch out for any app that requires "root" access because potentially it can gain access to your entire phone.

:good: Great, I am glad you got it sorted.
[Connected Car] gekkekoe123:
Did anyone manage to fix the incorrect time zones?
[Connected Car] donaldta:
There's nothing to fix. Apparently, it gets its time information from the vehicle's clock. Besides, computers are supposed to work in UTC timezone; the offset timezone based on location is "human" thing.
[Connected Car] jaanusj:
Nice, please share which versions of maps, voice and market you use?
[Connected Car] RichieB:
Thanks, the BubbleUPNP player seems nice. It also has some audio stuttering, like all players I have tried so far. Maybe it is my setup, not the players fault.

Interesting, the buttons do not work in the app on my SCT. I see there is an BubbleUPNP thread , I'll try my luck there.
[Connected Car] noten093:
Hello Johnnie

Were can I get the right flitsmeister.apk?

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Did anyone think about having the lock screen function for when you send your car away for maintenance?

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Pfew...good job
[Connected Car] bluesbroeder:
Very nice,

Which weather app do use and is it updating?
[Connected Car] noten093:
Very good widget app indeed here

It is updating. It didnt find my gps location so I set a fixed location. But maybe I just have to try it more.
[Connected Car] gebla:
I am using google navigation (with voice instructions) but cannot find the option to switch the 3D view off. I prefer to use a 2D view instead, does anyone know where to find the switch?
[Connected Car] noten093:
Just tap the compass when in Navigation mode...
[Connected Car] noten093:
Carcam with SCT

Next thing is, I would to connect a backview cam to my SCT. Would be great if I could record it in Android while driving. Would be even nicer if I could record the analog video input from the video-in app from Parrot.
[Connected Car] noten093:
How to make a shortcut to ACU home launcher and other

I installed this app

Quick Shortcut Maker

You can select services or apps. The app will then make the shortcut in e.g. ADW launcher. Now you can choose ACU Home launcher or the Parrot Mediaplayer. It works great.

Still have to make a list with all my app versions
[Connected Car] donaldta:
Yeah, that'll work maybe even easier than letting Tasker do it. However, for those that want to keep ACU Home as their default launcher, they can use Tasker App Factory to create apps within the App Drawer which will launch other apps via intent. That's how Quick Shortcut Maker does it, it gets the list of intents from the system and creates shortcuts from the available registered intents. I guess its easier than typing out the intents as I've instructed earlier.

Incidentally, the shortcut it creates is limited to ADW launcher, it can be used with any Android launcher that supports shortcuts on the desktop.
[Connected Car] noten093:
Donaldta, I installed an app called Lock Screen . I am reluctant to activate the lock by clicking the shortcut. I don't know the Parrot security settings. What will happen. Will I be able to access the system and unlock it? How to launch the security settings from terminal and set a pin?

Could it be: adb shell am start -a android.settings.ACTION_SECURITY_SETTINGS. No, not working.
[Connected Car] nrgetic:
That makes sense. Thanks
[Connected Car] Zakraket:
Isn't there an option in the security-section of SCT itself to lock the unit with a pin?
[Connected Car] donaldta:
I don't know either.

When you type things like this, I wonder about your sanity or even your ability to read. Because, I've explained this quite clearly multiple times on how to find intents and how to execute them via the command line. However, you seem to constantly misuse the Activity Manager commands because that is nothing like I've explained it.
[Connected Car] noten093:
No settings are very very limited

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I am quite deranged I am afraid. I have no clue about programming. Just picking up some stuff here. A lot of things still dont say much to me.
[Connected Car] donaldta:
:laugh: The funny thing is that this has nothing to do with programming. Nothing at all. And most of it can be copied and pasted, if you want to customize it then you just need to understand the bits of the puzzle. So, let me break it down.

"adb shell" (

a

ndroid

d

ebug

b

ridge shell) brings up the shell prompt from the connected Android device.

"pm list packages" ("

p

ackage

m

anager" list pakages) this instructs package manager to list all the registered packages on the android device.

"|" pipe symbol. It is used to redirect the output of the last command into the command that is listed after it.

"grep -i settings" grep is a command that allows us to filter the output based on the keyword. In this case the keyword is "settings" and "-i" allows us ignore case, which allows us get output like Settings and settings.

"dumpsys package com.android.settings" dumpsys is a command that will

dump

all the information about the

sys

tem. However, by itself it outputs a lot of information. So, we specify "package" and "com.android.settings" to focus on which part of the output we want to see.

"awk '/filter/ {print $2}' is a command which allows us to filter on particular keyboards, coincidently we are filtering for the word "filter" because it so happens to appear as the third word in the line we are actually looking for, "4062e7a8 com.android.settings/.SecuritySettings filter 4062ea90" specifying {print $2} means that we only want to see the second "column" which is "com.android.settings/.SecuritySettings"

"sort" is a command that will sort the output alphabetically and "uniq" is a command that will remove the duplicates, if we don't use these together then you will see many duplicate intents.

"am start -n com.android.settings/.SecuritySettings" - "am" stands for

a

ctivity

m

anager and we are instructing it to "start" an i

n

tent (-n) from the package name "com.android.settings" that is called ".SecuritySettings"

Compare that to what you provided, "adb shell am start -a com.android.settings/.ACTION_SECURITY_SETTINGS". It seems like you're close but you have to be very careful of the syntax because you can't just blindly hit keys on the keyboard and expect it to work.
[Connected Car] noten093:
Maybe you are right. There is also the fact that I have a busy company and young kids. So most I read or try is between apointments and while waiting in front of school picking up the kids. A nice destraction and thanks to your input very educating.
[Connected Car] vandijks:
I always use this page to grab the latest .apks from the Google App Store:

apps [dot] evozi [dot] com/apk-downloader/

Sorry, can't posts links yet.

Just point the link of the App in the Google Play store and download. This is how I got Flitsmeister and other, mostly larger, apps.

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FYI Apparently Flitsmeister has just been given an update yesterday.
[Connected Car] noten093:
Thanks for the apk downloader. I will try it tonight.
[Connected Car] noten093:
Versions of apps

Maps 6.14.4

Youtube 2.5.16

Play store 4.4.21
[Connected Car] noten093:
Donaldta...Got it working using your well described application manager command. Still the settings options are limited compared to other systems. I set a pin to be sure it was set correct. Then used the lock shortcut app I downloaded before.

It locked but I can unlock with the pin. So now when the car goes to the dealer for maintenance, I can set tasker to lock it on boot.

This morning the SCT did a 10 minute soft reset cycle again.:rolleyes: When it finished I decided to set the screen back to the standard 240dpi. I am going to try the 220dpi setting with the temporary solution. Maybe this compatibility is better.
[Connected Car] RichieB:
This apk downloader also works for apps you paid for: http://codekiem.com/2012/02/24/apk-downloader/
[Connected Car] noten093:
It works. But still no Love to load working, very strange. I should do the catlog things but for now no time for that.
[Connected Car] RichieB:
The current Love To Load app (release date december 5, 2013) does not seem to be compatible with SCT (or so Google Play says). I installed the apk posted in this thread, but it crashes. I still have to debug this, but it is low on my to-do list.
[Connected Car] noten093:
Race plugin for Torque on SCT

Here another movie I made this morning "driving" to work. Made me very happy.....:D

[youtube]GOHldN-HWxk[/youtube]
[Connected Car] donaldta:
:good: Finally! You don't know how frustrating it is trying to teach someone that only seems half interested in learning. Now that you can get the hang of how to properly find and start an application through activity manager, perhaps you can take the time in troubleshooting with logcat to see why those other apps don't work for you. (Or at least upload the results, so maybe someone can figure out the problem.)

Remember, I've given instruction in Post #508 on how to extract the necessary information in order to troubleshoot it. I'm willing to help you but you have to meet me halfway in providing the necessary information which involves taking the time to understand what you're doing.
[Connected Car] noten093:
Try teaching my kids piano, math, for a change. Let's see who is worse off...

Yes I will. But I have so limited time. It is impossible to do while driving.
[Connected Car] donaldta:
:good: Excellent troubleshooting! :highfive:

Perhaps you can figure out the problem for Flitznav since you seem to also have the same issue, or upload its logcat output then we can finally take a look at the symptoms behind the force close for [MENTION=1307020]noten093[/MENTION].
[Connected Car] RichieB:
Flitsnav works fine for me (always has). I even was able to start Love To Load today (after a reinstall). I don't know why, because the same apk kept crashing when I tried it before. I never did a logcat of it though.
[Connected Car] noten093:
starting VMlite VNCserver with bat file

Ok Donaldta... I figured out something myself that works

I want to start the VMlite VNCserver remotely when my car is charging. I made startvncserver.bat

adb connect 192.168.178.xx
adb shell "am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.vmlite.vncserver/.MainActivity"
adb shell "/data/data/com.vmlite.vncserver/files/vmlitevncserver"
pauze

How can you open ports in the SCT? I saw that a lot of them are closed.
[Connected Car] RichieB:
What ports do you mean? TCP ports? USB ports?
[Connected Car] gebla:
I connected a 500gb usb hdd to the sct. When I check tmp/udev/dev/.mnt the .mnt is not available. I checked and es explorer is set to display hidden files (another hidden file in that folder is displayed).

Does the hdd require specific format like fat or ntfs?
[Connected Car] RichieB:
Yes, only fat32 is supported. If anyone has an ext4 kernel module, I'd love to try it.
[Connected Car] donaldta:
Pretty cool. Though you don't need to use "am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.vmlite.vncserver/.MainActivity" it can be shorten to just "am start -n com.vmlite.vncserver/.MainActivity" which does the same thing, bring up the VMlite app on the SCT's screen. However, you can even forgo that if all you want to do is access your SCT remotely through VMlite. Activating the app is moot point since there is nobody there to physically push the "start" button.

If you want to connect to vmliteserver from a remote connection that has adb access then just change your script to:

adb connect 192.168.178.10
adb shell "su -c /data/data/com.vmlite.vncserver/files/vmlitevncserver"

TCP ports will appear closed unless there is an application or service actively listening for connection.
[Connected Car] RichieB:
TCP ports are opened to provide services on the network. What services do you want to use over TCP?

I see a lot of messages about Bluetooth but nothing about lovetoload. You should only paste the part about lovetoload.
[Connected Car] donaldta:
Of the Windows file systems, you should format the drive as FAT32 to get the most out of it with the Parrot Asteroid Smart. If for some reason, your Windows version won't format large drives as FAT32 then try this one, Fat32Formatter.

Unsorted Block Image File System (UBIFS) isn't very common. He'd have to use the "mkfs.ubifs" command from a Linux system to format it. Besides most of that mount command is meant to remount an already mounted drive as read-write.

Technically, the vfat driver supports FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32.
[Connected Car] noten093:
I like to use Synology DS file to access my home NAS but the ports seem blocked. Also the FTP server on SCT does not work with standard ports. I have to set it to 3721

Can it be my 4G data provider that blocks most of the ports? The strange thing is that with the my phone which has the same 4G subscription, I have no problem
[Connected Car] RichieB:
In this scenario the Synology DS client on your SCT will connect to the NAS in you LAN. Of course this will only work on wifi (unless your NAS can be reached from the public internet as well). Since SCT initiates the TCP connection, there is no need to "open ports" on SCT. If it doesn't work, troubleshoot on your NAS using tcpdump and wireshark.

I'm not sure about Android, but on unix in general TCP ports below 1024 require root privileges. So if the app was written for non-rooted devices it can only use ports 1024 and up.

Absolutely. But why would you want to run a NAS tool and FTP server over 4G?

Is this an Android phone? With the exact same apps? Is your phone rooted?