[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] RajkumarGS:
CommMgr Pro 2.4 Bugs & Suggestions

Hi Raj.

Sorry for the delay as I am very concentrated (maybe too much) developing the virtual secretariat and I read your comments but I forgot to response you.

Here are my comments to your comments :)

Keep Cell history with details such as

1. Schedule name

2. from time & to time -> Each line shows when you enter, no ranges

3. Time in that schedule in hour:minute -> Good idea

4. Export to csv file. -> Good idea

It should survive soft reset. -> Alreay in my to-do list

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Last schedule date and time with duration (day,hour,minute)

display in today screen and report -> Could you explain it deeply?

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Alarm when we visit a profile after a preset time, alarm the event.

Eg: after a long time, I visit my home town. mobile starts playing a nostalgic music! It will also display details such as

1. period since we last visited the place.

2. details of all previous visits.

An option to attach any files to the event.

Later after a long period of time, when we visits a place, we can recall the previous visit's memories by checking the photos, voice recording, video clipping, notes, we took at that time. -> Good idea althought is a big development. We will discuss it in the forum later.

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Option to set an alarm based on Location I'D or tower name. Exact match or any part match.

This will help us to know when we reach a particular place, while we are traveling! -> It could be set up associating a profile for those cells and then playing a mp3 file on enter, isnt it?

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Rename 'Get' to 'Refresh' -> You re right

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Disable 'Wi-Fi' as done for '2G', if this facility is not available in my phone. -> Thanks. I thought Wife button was disabled if the feature isnt present. I will review it

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Display Tower name.

This will help us to know the location, where we were!

THIS IS THE ONLY ONE GREAT FEATURE THAT IS MOST USEFUL AND MISSED IN COMMMGRPRO 2.4. > Do you mean the address that some operator sends with channels?. The problem is this info isnt istandard and isnt provided by RIL(Radio Interface Layer) and most of the phone providers doesnt provide it).

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Open lastly opened settings tab on 'Settings' menu item click.

When user need to know his/her cell location history frequently, now it needs more stylus clicks. -> Good idea.

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Alert for low battery. Either vibrate or play a selected tone.

This will greatly help us to take much care and will try to find a way to recharge our mobile phone! This will prevent unexpected shutdown and our unavailability to our dears!

Send SMS/E-Mail to preset number(s) about this critical situation!

Imaginary Situation :- My wife calls me and informs me my mobile's critical battery level, so that I can do whatever to recharge it. Thus I am always available to any unexpected emergency calls!

this and many others will be covered when a new super feature is developed. This is:

Event + Conditions ->Actions.

Event: INcomming call, incomming SMS, Cell change, Battery level changes, the PDA wakes up. There can be hundred of events.

Contitions: Combination of OR/AND clauses: Battery under 10% AND Phone off, Phone ON AND Profile=Home,, etc, etc.

Actions: Activate a profile would the most common but there could be otthers (sens a SMS, mail, call a person, play a song)

This is a like a Rules machine. CMP currently is a subset of this machine. All your ideas and many other could be applied when the machine is ready

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Incoming Traffic & Outgoing Traffic for each connection.

Report by date & connection.

Alert when Traffic exceeds preset limit

->Already in the todo list

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Situation :- I forgot where I kept my mobile. May be I forgot it in office table, or in home itself. Even if it is somewhere in home itself, I can't trace it by a ring to that missed phone from any other phone, because it is still in silent mode that was set, while I was at office!

Solution :- Send a pre-defined SMS to that missed phone,

1. that will force the phone to exit the silent mode and

2. will play an alarm

3. flashes light

4. vibrates

5. send an SMS back to the phone from the phone tracking SMS was sent!

6. EMEI Number

Details sent back are

a. Current location (Tower name (Place name) or Cell/LAC I'D or schedule name.

b. Last dialed/received/missed call

Note :- 3rd & 4th action will be executed considering the battery status.

This can be used to trace the phone even on theft (if the phone is ON)

User have options to select whichever actions to execute, in the phone tracking SMS. Thus user can just trigger his phone to send a hidden SMS with those details that will help to track the phone, without the knowledge of the thief.

-> Interesting. Can fit in the Rules machine

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Customizing Today Screen display of CommMgr:-

1. Option to set whatever icons & information to display in Today screen.

This will hide unnecessary icons eg:- Wi-Fi & 2G/3G are not available in my phone.

2. Change font to more clear in Today Screen. Increase font size. Or make it customizable.

3. Show schedule icon in Today Screen, which can be decided by settings.

-> Already in my todo list

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BUG:- Even after we add 'Vibrate-OFF' as action, it not appears in action list!

-> I will review it

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BUG:- When you click on any action in the 'Profiles' tab in Settings, a popup appears. When we click on the Profiles tab, the popup goes behind!

Please do as you done for those popups from CMP main window icons.

-> I will review it

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BUG:- Only when current profile is selected in 'Profiles' tab, location refreshes.

I changed profile (Profile tab in Settings) to someother profile, and closed. But location didn't refreshed till changed that profile back to current profile.

-> I will review it

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BUG:- After modifying schedule, I click on close. Then again opened settings-profile, no data, or when I selected last modified profile, only one schedule shown 'default'

But fun is that, when I again closed and check it, last modified schedule is there and not lost!

-> I will review it

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BUG:- While working in Profile tab, (i think when changed profile in combo), scheduled actions executes which is a disturbance.

I suggest only when close setting, start applying scheduled actions

->It should behave as you say. I will review it

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I have the database of Cell/LAC I'D of places I frequently visits. I lost CommMgr data as accidently formatted my Pocket PC without backup it.

Later when tried to these data manually, there is no option to do it! Plz give a facility to it.

If there are many profiles, it is difficult to select it, whenever necessary from the list or combo. So when I plan to visit my favourite place, then only I need to save that place's tower information.

-> Did you try XML format

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As I said above, plz create a search facility to select profile (as profile name with it's icon, while assign a location Id to a profile from 'Cell History' in Settings

-> I dont understand. You can associate a cell to a profile from the cell history tab pressing the stilus and clicking on "Asign" or "Unasign"

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BUG :- Program restarted on many occasions while I was working on it. (May be due crash occurred) I can't figure-out most of occasions.

I am that most of time, this happened when I clicked on 'Hide'

-> Is your device a HTC device?

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FEATURE:- In SMS body, an option to insert current date & time will be great!

I have set action to the profile 'Office' to send an SMS to my father's mobile when I reaches there at morning & when I left to home from there at night. SMS may delay to be delivered to father's mobile. So he feels difficulty to know the exact time of the event.

Mostly I leave office very late and family will be waiting for me and forget to inform them about my late arrival! Now CommMgr will inform them, when I leave office, GREAT!!

If this feature is there, my mobile's SMS will be like "Raj has reached his office on 25/12/2008 9:30 AM"

> Expressions for SMS/Mails are being developed right now

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BUG:- At 6:00am, actions has to be executed. But except changing Theme, other actions executed. Theme remained the previous one, while ringtone, vibration etc changed.

Need to fix this OR check whether each action for current schedule was executed successfully, if not only execute that particular action.

-> There isnt a official api to change the theme so It tries to simulate the user clicks. It may not works in many devices. It was tested in some HTC devices

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Phone battery charge goes down faster before. I enabled to check location in 5 minutes. May be that! (Backlight flashes for half a second)

Any solution by check location without backlight flashing?

-> This is because you ve checked the option "Awake phone" to ensure the Cell is refreshed correctly. Some devices (latest HTC devices) doesnt refresh the cell info if the device doesnt awake completly so little flash cant be avoided if you dont uncheck the option "Awake"

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Theme has to change as action of a schedule that change at 6am. But only the wallpaper changed, while the title bar & bottom bar remained in the same colour of previous theme.

Note:- Screenshot attached

-> As I told before it doesnt work correctly for all the devices. I continue trying to increase compatibility

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FEATURE :- Copy all actions from one schedule to another.

There may be only slight difference between the actions to be executed in two schedules. This feature will save effort and time! > Already in my todo list

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FEATURE :- Copy all schedules & actions from one profile to another.

> Already in my todo list

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Again thank you very much for your comments. I appreciate it a lot and those kind of comments improve CMP :)

Regards

Dani

pd. Now I cant update the forum (travelling). Feel free to copy my response and update the forum thread with my response