yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[OnePlus 12] psilocub:
I was approached and pricing was very cheap.

I watched the whole process in case I had to step in.

The person was professional and straight forward with the process, with no gimmicks.

Couldn't be happier with the experience and the results.

I initially tried the Official repair service, but i'm yet to get a shipping label and it's been 48 hours. Luckily, I can now cancel that request.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
Hi,

I've just finished work on an app for windows mobile that allows you to view the status of your friends on xbox live.

It's an actual app, rather than a web browser pretending to be an app, that shows an iPhone style list of all your friends gamertags. It allows you to see whos online, what game they are playing, what they are doing in that game, their gamer picture and gamer score.

Version 1.2.1.0

Features Added:

* Notification auto closes after 10 seconds

* Notifications have a button to take you to application for further details

* Application will notify you when a new version is available for download.

Bugs Fixed:

* Fixed memory leak

* Performance inprovement for scrolling

* Performance improvement to startup time

* Fixed problem with touch sensitivity on VGA devices

* Improved icon for VGA devices

* Minor tweeks

Version 1.2.0.0

This update adds an online notification system. Now when your friends come online you will get a Notification pop up to tell you whos just come online.

Features Added:

* Can run in background

* Auto refreshes GamerTags status, using configurable refresh interval

* Generates Windows Mobile Notifications when friends come online

* Notifications can be Enabled or Disabled

* Useability enhancements.

Version 1.0.1.2

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed startup bug, which occured on some devices

Fixed VGA QVGA display problem

Version 1.0.1.0

Features Added:

Trial mode added allowing users to test out the application.

The application requires .net 2.0, so if you are using anything thats older than windows mobile 6 you will need to download and install .net compact framework 2.0 or higher from Microsoft here

Attached is a screen shot. For more information or to download my app please go to my site: http://www.fehnerssoftware.co.uk
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nhvoltagenh:
finally a gamer has the need.. just like me

thanks bud.. downloading it right freakin now.

Edited

ohhh wait...

i would have to see it in action before i spent a dime.. sorry mate
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] djk1:
this would be really cool if i didnt have to buy. At least let me try it first, to see I its worth it. Funny the app store for the iphone have very good xbox friend apps all for free.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] galt:
I've been dying for someone to develop a true WinMo app for XBL friends list. I'm excited to try it, but do wish there was a demo. will there be game stats and messaging integration?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nuke1:
Well I would suspect iPhone owners paid for it, so why not cough up- if you want it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pndragon:
I'm going to have to agree with the "try before you buy" feeling going on here.

At least take a video showing how the app works on your own phone please.

Although this would be an awesome app, I have been looking for a program or script that sends me an sms whenever a specific friend is on XBox Live so I can join up, any one heard of something that does that?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
Hi all,

Thank you for the positive response :)

I've taken on board all your comments and aim to produce a limited feature trial version, which will allow you to try it out before committing to a purchase.

I will post back here when I have made the updates.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Shagzilla:
Iphone people got it for free Micosoft stepped in and made the company give the application for free
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nhvoltagenh:
ya i like that.. if you remember way back in the day the original xbox and orignal xbox live did that.. sent an sms, and IMed you on msn..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fr0st:
I like the idea of the app. But it doesn't seem to do enough for me to pay for it. I mean.. there are much more useful apps on this site(and others) for the ppc that are free.

I tip my hat to you sir. Nice looking app. You have inspired me to work on an open source version for myself.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
Version 1.0.1.0 - trial mode

Hi again,

I have now updated my site with version 1.0.1.0 of my xbox live friends status app.

Version 1.0.1.0, will run in a trial mode while un-registered, so you can try it out. It is limited to displaying two gamer tags.

Hopefully this will give you a feel for the app.

For more information or to download my app please go to my site: http://www.fehnerssoftware.co.uk/mygamertags.shtml
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] silvertorch:
Nice! I was waiting for something like this. Going to try it out.

Thank you!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nhvoltagenh:
not workin...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
I accidentally uploaded an early version which had a bug if you were using the app for the very first time.

The bug has since been fixed and a new version uploaded not long ago.

Are you able to try the latest version?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nhvoltagenh:
well my first dl was at 11pm cst.. also just re-dled same error
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
Hmm strange I know of a number of people now using this without issues.

What device are you using? Are you running this on a windows mobile phone?

Any chance you could scroll down on the details screen for the error so I can see the full call stack?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nhvoltagenh:
htc touch pro
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
Thanks for that.

It seems the way I get the devices unique serial number is not working for your device. I have an idea of how to get this working on your device.

I'll get working on it :)

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
I've put up a new level on my site which should fix the crashes on startup some people were experiencing.

Please let me know if it you experience any problems.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nhvoltagenh:
ok...

i did get this one to install and run...

however i have an issue.

you have it set to simply look up gamertags.. which is cool... however, I, like thousands of others, have set up my profile so that only friends can see if the person is online.

so genericly putting in gamercards wont work for me as i wont really know who is online..

unless the app can see its ME looking..

for example... I put in my gamertag.. and it said i was offline... but i wasnt, however if your not on my friends list.. i appear offline.

and i dont remember if it did or not, but i dont think it said what game they where playing.. again if you do fix it so i can see my friends online, if i cant see what game they are involved in.. its no good as well.

i gave you alot of negative, which is ****ty of me..

so i do want to say from what i can see it looks awesome.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
What sort of thing were you thinking for game stats. I have a lot of data available such as the last couple of games played, gamer score for those games, achievements etc. What would you want to see?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
Thanks, and thanks... Constructive criticism is always welcome :)

Your main issue is a tough one as the APIs I'm using only allow for querying xbox live, and don't allow me to use your xbox live id and password to authenticate you. Therefore as you say if you hide your gamertag info from anyone not one your friends list then my app can't see it, including what game your playing. If a profile is viewable by all, which is the default, my app will be able to show everything.

I will see if there is a way of me providing your xbox live logon details so that I get the friends view of your profile.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] majorassface:
Hey Alex,

I tried your app again last night with the new version and I finally got it to load. Looks great and I will most likely be purchasing it. Thanks for your quick e-mail replies and turnaround on the fixes. Keep up the great work!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
Great!

let me know if you have any feature requests. I have an idea what I will add next but I'm open to suggestions.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
My plan for the next release is to add the ability to view the last couple of games played by someone on your friends list, and a summary of number of achievments and gamerscore achieved on those games.

Does this sound of use?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] galt:
That would be great. Game stats, last time online, etc. A link to the Xbox Live web page where one can send a buddy an in game message would be nice. Also the trial version displayed the friends list really funky on my Athena, PM me your eamail addy and I'll send a screen shot.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
PM sent with email address.

I think the game stats and your idea of the link to xbox live will be what I work on next.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cirial:
Just saw this thread so I decided to try the demo out on my Hermes.

Install when painless. After waiting 30 seconds since I have the trial, I saw a blank screen.

Maybe give a small into popup stating there are no gamertags linked and to click Add to add yours.

I added my gamertag, clicked Save and then program sits there. There wasnt a refresh button to pull the xbox live info over my 3G connection. I had to restat the program. Maybe after the saves, have it prompt to restart itself for changes to take effect?

This happened once more just now (where I cant refresh anything. Upon clicking the icon in Programs, it initiates the connect on first click. If then I need to wait 30 seconds (or if I have to do something and leave the phone on the Registration screen) and my data connection isnt available, the Mygamertags just tells me that I'm offline. So I have to restart the program. Probably not a problem with the "Registered" version, but I definitely think you should include a way to refresh inside the program.

Just trying to help out a bit with more polish. Trying to get a list of my friends to load by inputing my email/pass would be even more amazing.

Edit: you should change your title too, to note the release date and the fact this is a functioning app!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] AslamJahan:
GamerTag Pics

Hi

great app, but is there anyway the app could be used to save the gamertag pics too your phone? That way I can use my friends Gamertag pics for their contact pictures!

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _fm:
yea man,. you have the same question with me !!,.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] AslamJahan:
If it can be implemented I would buy it no questions asked. Hell I would even make an extra donation;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nhvoltagenh:
hey bud, please dont forget me, as i am still very interested in this.

if we get passed my issue.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
It already does this :). If you edit your contact and browse for a pic go to /Program Files/GamerTags/Image. The app saves the pics as the name of the gamer tag.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
@cirial

Thanks for all the feedback, I'm going to work through your list as I think you have some good ideas for usability.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pndragon:
Great work and thank you for implementing the features that have been requested so quickly...especially a trial mode.

I do have a question regarding the trial mode though, why the long delay when running the app in trial mode. I understand restricting trial users to 1 or 2 gamertags or even the delay timer, but both? Really? Seems a bit over the top.

I don't want to be a nag or anything, and I do appreciate your contribution - however I'd like to emphasize a point that someone else made earlier in that there are countless apps that have been made available for free on this site by other developers. While I do appreciate your capatilistic venture and fully support you getting paid for your hard work, I think its fair to point out that there is something to be said about developing a community that will support you when you are willing to support them. What I'm getting at here is that, IMHO, you might best serve yourself and everyone else as well by removing the time limited feature there on one version all together, call it your free version. Its functionality and amount of friends are limited, but you aren't nagged or turned off by other limiting factors like a count down delay. While you could, at the same time, offer your for pay version with its full functionality, as well as a trial mode where all the features are in tact but you also have the countdown timer.

I'm just saying, if you provide some useful tool for free, and then offer a much more robust version at a pay price, the community is that much more willing to go one step up because they get to see the value that they got out of your product.

No, the price you are listing the app won't break the bank, but that's not really what's at stake here right? Its the people that will follow from app 1 to app 2 and so on.

My 2 cents.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] AslamJahan:
Thanks for this. I jsut brought it:D Well chuffed:D However if the picture quality could be higher and if the location of the saved pictures was actually where the program was originally saved it would be even better;)

When do I recieve my registation code? And are updates free?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zmob123:
Very nice app, would like to see it free though, I wouldn't mind sending a dontation. Its not expensive just principal, just my opinion
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
Updates are free.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
Just to update this thread.

The next release of MyGamerTags will have a notification system to tell you when your friends come online. Therefore the next release probably wont have the detailed game info that I previously mentioned.

This change in decision was due to a large number of requests for the notification feature.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fb401:
Ahh, i wanted to make something like this but I don't know the first thing about WM programming.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jug6ernaut:
Any word on when this feature will be implemented? No rush just curious :D.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
I think it will probably be about 2 weeks.. although thats just a guess :) but I have a good idea of what to do.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jug6ernaut:
Sounds good, now i know ur busy but i just though of (what i think is) a good idea. I was in TF3D and i was going though the call history tab...and was thinking about how similar the layout is to ur program(a list with touch scrolling, i know that really vague...).

& i though of how cool it would be if ur program could have a TF3D tab....idk that would be awesome imo. Just and idea tho :) lol.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] FatBoyExtraordinaire:
It says it works with 2.0, but when I go to install this, it says "requires a newer version of net framework" but I am already using 2.0. Anybody know why that is?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
When I tested it on a WM6 VGA emulator I changed the target platform to WM6 which changed my target .net to 3.5, which I didn't think it would do. I have changed it back to target .net 2.0 and uploaded a new build.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] FatBoyExtraordinaire:
Oh, ok. Thanks very much.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jug6ernaut:
question: does this app update like every 5mins? or only when the program starts?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
The current version only updates when it starts. However in the next release it will auto refresh at an interval you can specify and will be able to run in the background and generate notifications if you wish as people come online.

ps. Thanks for your suggestions you sent me via email. You have some really good ideas which I'm looking into.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RubberDucky451:
Looks good,

Maybe you could add a function so that it allows you to see more info on the player when you select him. IE: recent games and full body avatar.

Anyways, it looks great :] Can't wait for the next release.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
That is a planned addition but wont be in the next release.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jug6ernaut:
oo ok i thought so just wasn't positive. & great, this next release is looking better and better.

& no problem lol, im just really lovin this app and all its potential. Ive been waiting for something like this for a long time lol.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jug6ernaut:
Any update on progress?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
I've solved all the major technical problems now and have a test version running.... Hopefully not too much longer before the next release is ready!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azdesign:
Thanks!

Hey,

Just wanted to pass on the "thank you" for working on a project like this. It seemed like MS was going to come out with some XBOX-windows mobile software three years ago, but it never surfaced. And there has been very little focus on this type of software. I did come across another program called "Inside XBOX" which uses the Zumobi platform on the pocket pc, but its a memory hog and a nest full of buggy operation.

I paid the euro and a half to get this software, as I see the value in it. I look forward to more updates/features etc.

Thanks for the hard work!

Az
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jug6ernaut:
Wooh! thats great news! Cant wait for the new release!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] antoniouslj:
Exactly. For a little over 2 dollars, this is way over the top when it comes to protecting your investment. I mean, after waiting the initial 60 secs when opening the software for the first time you still only get to "add" the gamertags so that NEXT time you open and wait the 60 secs AGAIN you can finally see the software in action. So in reality your making us wait 120 secs and limiting it to 2 entries.

Call me a jerk or whatever, but if you have to lock something down this bad when there's only 2 dollars at stake something is seriously wrong.

I'll buy when you take one or the other out of the trialware. Lose the timer or lose the 2 entry limit.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jug6ernaut:
Why would he give you more options on the trial? its a trial....if you don't like the limitations of the TRIAL then buy it....its like $2...seriously... don't whine.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
I've removed the registration screen until you have setup your GamerTag list, so now you wont have to wait 60 seconds just to enter a name and restart.

Apart from that change though I completely disagree with your post sorry. I think the trial is fine as it stands.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jug6ernaut:
woho! this just made my day/week/month lol. I couldn't get it to notify but then released i had the refresh interval to low...lol.

I have two ideas to add(not to diminish this release in the least).

1. make notification a true windows notification so it can be edited in the settings/today/system notifications

2. Add a link to your app in the notification window(if possible) so after you see someone is online you can quickly see what they or doing (or just simply add this info to the notification)

Otherwise great work! Thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
1, I'm going to look into how I can do this. It would be nice for instance to be able to set the notification to play the same sound as the xbox 360 achievments popup.

2, I was going to include details such as what they are playing, but as multiple people may have come online I didn't want to generate loads of notifications. However your idea of linking back to my app is a good one, and I'll look into it.

Thanks for all your suggestions
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] efjay:
Any other way to buy this apart from Google checkout? I personally dont want google storing my financial details along with all the other data they are storing.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
Sorry my checkout process is automated and only works with google checkout.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MyNarwhalBacon:
Thanks for this i hope someday we could send messages....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jug6ernaut:
Umm i dont believe it will ever be possible to send messages sadly. To do this we would need help from microsoft because we would need to have to log into there network to do so.

That would be so cool to have the achievement sound :D, think if it could use netframe to actually have the 360 animation for a new friend online...but to do this the refresh interval would need to be lower to account for individual people coming online in a realtime ish fashion. Whoow..ok back to earth lol.

Here to report that i have experience no issues at all...been running for about a day and a half now. The only small issue is that after being run for long durations (say 4-5+ hours at a time) the amount of ram consumed grows rather large...right now its taking up 24.6mbs or ram. exact duration of uptime for the app is unknown. To why this is happening...no idea :) otherwise working great.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
wow 24.6Mb ... thats a bug should be only 1 to 2 Mb depending on number of friends due to there gamertag pics.

Will look into whats happening. Thanks for letting me know.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dustinb17:
No Notifications

The primary reason I purchased this app was to be notified when my friends signed on. But no matter what I try I can't seem to get the notifications to work. Everything else seems to work great. I've tried closing it and also just letting it run in the background.

I'm using a Samsung SCH-i760, with Windows 6.1

Any help would be great. The app is great but it takes about 40 seconds to load and it's actually quicker for me to use a browser like opera to jump on to my live account and see what friends are online. The notifications is my primary purpose for purchasing the application.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jug6ernaut:
I believe you have to let the app run in the background, what is your refresh interval set to? the smallest it can be is 10mins, if it is lower(as i tried like 5 and it will not update)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afehn:
First thing would be to get the latest copy from www.fehnerssoftware.co.uk as I put up a minor bug fix 2 days ago, as there was a bug where if you pressed the settings button there would be no notification on the next update.

The app must be left running in the background if you want notifications. Have you checked that your not running out of memory and windows mobile has closed the app to free some memory up? set the refresh to 10 mins and see if its still running after more than 10 mins using the task manager.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jasonkruys:
Are there plans/any chance of adding apptodate support for this?