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[Sable] gfinockio:
Howdy,

Just wondering how many other people here have problems updating their GPS info using HP's iPAQ GPS QK Position program?

I either get a message that the "GPS data has downloaded successfully", or that the file is expired. Only maybe once in 500 tries do I actually get updated info.

Do we know where this data is stored or collected from? Could we add it in manually? Is there an alternative program to update the co-ordinate information?

It's very frustrating to have to wait 12 minutes for my GPS to lock on (or time-out in the case of Google Maps) because this application is broken.
[Sable] melafau:
GPS just sux...

Every cooked version as well as the 91x ROM's from HP have never had the GPS work fast for me. I often time end up at my destination before the GPS has figured out where I am.

However, I have noticed that the GPS chip is very sensitive to interference. Just having it sit on my lap while I'm driving and trying to get a GPS signal will usually make it NOT be able to lock. I have to set it on the dash in order for it to get a signal with any speed what-so-ever.

Don't know of anyone elses experience but I know my GPS blows the big one.
[Sable] mafijas:
Works good. I use a Wi-Fi connection.

Never seen a problem like you described in your post.
[Sable] nelsonw:
Works Great

Hi, i don't know what the problem is... Works great for me. With the car stopped takes less than a minute to fix. On the move less tan 3 mins. Normally don't need GPS to drive 3 mins, lol. Im very satisfied.
[Sable] AlexMagik:
GPS on my iPaq never worked for me...

iphone got faster lock and works just fine, iPaq simply never lock... never...

so i simply gave up on the gps of the ipaq 914
[Sable] gfinockio:
The issue with with the accelerator program. When I can finally get valid data, a GPS lock takes about a minute. But when I can't get the update to work, it takes 8-12 minutes, if it locks at all.

What I'm looking for is confirmation that people don't have a problem updating with the GPS QK program.
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
Tomorrow (August 1st) marks the first day that applications submitted and made available on the Market will be eligible for consideration for the ADC2. Maybe this will open the floodgate for a bunch of quality apps as developers release early in order to build up hype for their product. Or conversely, perhaps apps will slowly trickle out, peaking before the submission deadline as developers feverishly fine-tune away and deny their competitors the ability to copy their ideas. Regardless, it's going to be an interesting three to four months for Android users.
[G1 Apps and Games] alritewhadeva:
Cool, anyone on xda planning to enter? :D
[G1 Apps and Games] bakachu:
I have a Mind Mapping application I'm going to be entering..

It's been a bit of race to get it ready in the couple of months since the compo was announced, but almost there!
[G1 Apps and Games] alritewhadeva:
Good luck! Excuse my retardedness but what's ah mind mapping?
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
Mind mapping is a mental exercise/organizational aid using a freeform visual tree. Its often used as a prewriting aid to help organize and group individual ideas/points before drafting essays, reports, the like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map
[G1 Apps and Games] alritewhadeva:
mm...Interesting. Would be good to file reports and for school :)
[G1 Apps and Games] sputnik99:
that sounds interesting. I wonder how you will manage to handle the small screen for a readable mind map. Good luck!
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
No idea if the timing was for ADC2 qualification or not, but Shapewriter has finally released their shapewriting IME for Android. Unfortunately, its ringing in at a pretty crazy $20.

http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.shapewriter.android.softkeyboard

Youtube demo of shapewriter prototype:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOyGp25sSg
[G1 Apps and Games] uberingram:
I was waiting for this but I was not waiting for a $20 cell phone app. Christ.
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
The shapewriter apk can be downloaded from their site as well.

http://www.shapewriter.com/apk

Two things of note:

1) They are using an unlock key system, so this version will only allow a 30 day demonstration. Makes me wonder if the Market version operates similarly (or is even the same app) given that generally apps submitted to the market that use unlocking keys generally have a free download for the app proper and a premium dummy download that just contains the unlocking key.

2) It is not a true Android 1.5 integrated IME. Rather, when you want to type using Shapewriter, you pull down the window shade and press a persistent notification that pops up a Shapewriter dialog. It's cumbersome and seems dated. Of course it's entirely possible that the Market version is updated to use the true IME framework.

Bonus) This app asks for the following permissions:

- Full network access

- Location (coarse and fine)

- Phone calls (read phone state)

- System tools (modify global system settings)

- Services that cost you money (send sms)

- Your personal data (read contact info)

- System tools (install shortcuts)

- Hardware controls (control vibrator)

Kinda overboard for a keyboard imo...

Edit: From the Market description "Enable this system-wide input method from Settings -> Locale & text." it would appear that the Market version is a true framework IME.
[G1 Apps and Games] uberingram:
I double checked HTC's Touch Input and they only have Phone Calls, System Tools, Google Accounts and Hardware Controls. Weird and definitely overboard for an IME.
[G1 Apps and Games] kusotare:
the key thing that i like about the second round is that it requires the apps to be available on the market. there were so many promising apps from adc1 that never made it to the market (presumably because the devs behind them didnt win anything, so they gave up). this will be interesting to watch.
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.shapewriter.android

Looks like the earlier pricing was a mistake. Now at $3.95. Still on the pricey side but tolerable now.

Edit: Interesting, apparently I was wrong. Shapewriter released two separate apps. The $4 app is a notepad (package com.shapewriter.android) with shapewriter built in. The actual shapewriter IME (package com.shapewriter.android.softkeyboard) itself is still $20. Doh. I guess they really don't want people using this technology.
[G1 Apps and Games] uberingram:
With a price like that, no joke.
[G1 Apps and Games] cedricberger:
Should not be eligible for ADC2 since it was already submitted to ADC1.
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
hm was it? looks like you may be right.
[S740, S743 General] jomtones:
My missus has real bad eyesight - I've managed to enlarge most of the fonts on this device for her so far but I'm still stuck on the homescreen font - does anyone know how I can change / enlarge it?
[Palm Treo Pro] e2daric:
As y'all know, the inbox default soft keys are "Delete" and "Menu".

How would I change "Delete" to "New", and then have it bring up a new, blank SMS? Is this possible?
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] footboydog:
I have just uploaded the Pro version of my Reader Widget to the Market. Features not in the free version:

-Small, medium and large sizes

-Large shows headlines on five second intervals

-Choose tag, site and time text

-Add more than 1 widget and configure them independently

-Tap for list of tag and feed unread counts; Greed, refresh and settings buttons

-Manual refresh (instead of refreshing periodically).

Search for "reader widget" in the Market and it should come up.

For more see the info page on my site.

I just got my Hero today so I tested the widgets with it and they work!
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
I have just uploaded the Pro version of my Reader Widget to the Market. Features not in the free version:

-Small, medium and large sizes

-Large shows headlines on five second intervals

-Choose tag, site and time text

-Add more than 1 widget and configure them independently

-Tap for list of tag and feed unread counts; Greed, refresh and settings buttons

-For Greed (full) v1.1.9 users, option to tap on feed name to view in Greed

-Manual refresh (instead of refreshing periodically).

Search for "reader widget" in the Market and it should come up.

For more see the info page on my site.

Feedback welcome.

Small:

Medium:

Large:

Pop-up list:
[G1 Apps and Games] DesignDawg:
Great update! I requested some of these features a while back. Unfortunately, I am going to have to refund, but I want to share why: I am using google apps to host my domain's email and stuff. So the google account associated with my phone is not a @gmail.com account at all. It's my domain. Android seamlessly allows this, and it's great. Some of the apps in Android that traditionally reqire a @gmail account, such as YouTube and market simply ask you for your @gmail credentials when you sign on the first time. Unfortunately, there is no reader account support with google apps hosted domains, so reader requires my @gmail.com account. If your app would allow me to specify my gmail address, it would work, and be exactly what I have wanted since day 1 of getting the phone. I'll keep an eye out and hope this was helpful, in case you didn't know about this feature and the need/way to implement support for it.

Thanks,

Ricky Turner
[G1 Apps and Games] facelessuser:
good feed widgets, but the large version force closes.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
OK I'll see if I can add that in a later version.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
Yes, I've had a couple of emails about this. I will issue an update soon that should fix it.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
I have uploaded version 1.1 to the market. It should fix that issue.

Also new in 1.1 is tighter integration with Greed. If you have the full version of Greed installed, on the second configuration screen you have the option to choose what happens when you tap on a feed. If you select the Greed option then you can view a feed in it just by tapping on the feed name in the pop-up list. If you don't have Greed (full) then I highly recommend it. Its a very nice Google Reader client with handy syncing for offline reading.
[G1 Apps and Games] DesignDawg:
That would be awesome. In fact, I think I'll just keep it installed so it'll be easier to keep an eye out for updates (even though it's not useful at the moment in my situation).

Thanks!

Ricky
[G1 Apps and Games] Gimpeh:
What is keeping me from using is that it takes forever to refresh. In fact at the beginning it didn't refresh at all. It seems to be working now although I am gonna wait till more features are added. There is one feature in particular that I would like implemented. If you are familier with Honchengs RSS widgets, whenever you tap the widget a window opens up and you can scroll down through the articles and see summarys. That feature alone would make this widget perfect. Thank you for your consideration.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
Are you using the large widget? That will take longer to refresh than the others as its downloading more from the Google Reader API. One thing that is slowing it down is https. I could add an option to use http only but it would obviously be less secure. The free version used http at first and it was definitely faster then.

As for adding headlines to the pop-up list, I looking into it but I don't think its possible to have more then two levels in an expandable list using the standard Android ExpandableListView. It could pop-up a second list of headlines I spose or have the large widget show a giant list of all the headlines. What do you think?
[G1 Apps and Games] Adam17:
Screenshots? Also, any chance of different color schemes? I have a very defined color scheme on my phone, and if I can't get a color to match I just won't put it on the screen. Kinda hard with a widget, where a normal app I can just keep it in the drawer.
[G1 Apps and Games] Gimpeh:
A giant list is fine. I think Honcheng has it perfect though.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
Just tried the Honcheng BBC News widget. Very nice. I think the large widget could load up a list like that when clicking on the headline. I'll add it to my (ever growing) to do list.
[G1 Apps and Games] Gimpeh:
Thanks! Your prompt responses are awesome! Alot of devs don't even bother.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
I have added some screenshots to the first post. I want to do a Hero themed version or make it skinnable somehow but its lower priority than the functionality updates I have planned.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
Thanks. My responses might be prompt but getting app updates out might take me a little longer!

It's good to get immediate feedback and ideas from the forums and market. It's very different to the dev I do in my day job!
[G1 Apps and Games] Gimpeh:
It's been about a week. Any updates in the pipeline?
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
I'll add the headline list in an update this week as well as some more minor changes. I might put in an option to limit the number of headlines downloaded for speedier updates too. After that I'll get started on the manual login option.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
V1.2 is up on the market. Here's the changelog:

-Headline list pops-up when tapping the headline section of the large widget. Tapping on a headline in the list spawns a browser window for that story.

-Both last refresh and unread item times shown on medium and large widgets. This means people won't have to choose between them on these widgets.

-Slightly enlarged tag list button on large widget to make it easier to tap on.

-"People you follow" tag now in list.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
I uploaded version 1.3 to the market. It contains a small bug fix whereby the headline list would sometimes force close on launch.
[G1 Apps and Games] Gimpeh:
Nice update although my widget is always stuck at loading. It never quite refreshes or pulls the articles.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
How many unread items do you have?

Have you tried it over Wi-fi?

The http/https thing I mentioned before might be an illusion because I did some quick benchmarking and they seemed about the same.

I guess I could download a limited number of headlines in the first hit and then paginate through the rest somehow. I'll look into it.
[G1 Apps and Games] Gimpeh:
I have 800 unread. I've tried on wifi and I get the same results. Not sure whats up.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
It turns out I've been barking up the wrong tree. Downloading the XML from the Google Reader API isn't actually the slowest step. Parsing the XML is! I will look at optimising this code.

Headlines is the only XML processing the widget actually does. Retrieving unread counts, tag and subscriptions can all be done with JSON which is much faster to both download and (I think) process. Sadly the Google Reader API only has the XML option for getting headlines AFAIK.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
V1.4 is up on the market. Here's the changelog:

-Manual login option for users with Google Reader accounts separate from their Android account. Automatic login is still there for everyone else (and selected by default). For DesignDawg.

-Switching orientation now supported in configuration screens.

-XML parser changed from XML Pull to SAX which should improve speed of headline processing. This should help with your slow loading problem Gimpeh.

-Icon next to timestamp in small widget.

-Bug fix: Some headlines when clicked on in the list would not spawn a browser window.

-Bug fix: Untagged feeds not visible in tag list pop-up.

-Other efficiency improvements.

Let me know of any problems or ideas for new features.

Mark
[G1 Apps and Games] Gimpeh:
Took about 5 mins to load but its working now. Very nice! Is there anyway to show a little bit more of the article? Like more of a summary?
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
That's still quite a long time but at least it's under the 10 minute minimum refresh period! I setup a test account with about 800 unread items and it took a minute or 2 to update over 3G. I guess it depends a lot on the size of the articles too.

I could put the summary in somewhere. I'm downloading the whole article anyway (no filtering is possible with the API yet) so I might as well make use of it. I could turn the headline list into an expandable list with the summary under the headline.

I'm going to restart dev on the free version as there's some changes I've been meaning to add to it for a while. After that I'll get back to Pro.
[G1 Apps and Games] Gimpeh:
Ah, I'm stuck on edge so that explains it.
[G1 Apps and Games] Gimpeh:
Another idea could be that they automatically mark as read once you scroll through them.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
I think it would have to be a button/checkbox to mark as read to make sure things don't get marked by accident. Perhaps a config option could be added to specify an item gets marked as read when tapped on.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
V1.5 is up on the market. Here's the changelog:

-Friend's starred items support added. This is for when a friend has shared their starred items with you.

-Handling of no network connectivity improved.

-Rotation handling on configuration screens improved

-Blank headlines handled in large widget.

-Bug fix: Sometimes the large widget would Force close when updating. This was because the retrieval of headlines timed out. This is now handled properly.

-Bug fix: Timestamp default value for small widget added.

-Bug fix: adding two widgets in quick succession would sometimes cause the tags and feeds unread count to get zeroed.

I've been experimenting with the expandable list of headlines with summaries that Gimpeh suggested but it's not ready for release yet. It's a toss up between having a boring but robust plain text summary and a cool but buggy WebView with images and links.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
V1.6 is up. I hope you like the summaries in the headline list Gimpeh:

* New feature: headline list is now expandable to view article summaries. The summary is text only at present but this might change in the future. Tapping on the summary launches a new browser window for that article.

* Improved clean up on last widget deletion

* Bug fix: the loading message on the large widget was too brief.

* Bug fix: duplicate headlines in pop-up list.

* Bug fix: relaunching tag list after launching Greed from it no longer goes back to Greed. This is part of Android’s default activity behaviour and I found it confusing so put a stop to it.

* Bug fix: tag and headline lists now relaunch properly. Sometimes they wouldn’t launch, freezing the screen until the back button was pressed.
[G1 Apps and Games] xdaofficeuser111:
I am using the Pro version. But I find whenever I restart my phone, the large version just "blanked" and shows nothing. I have to rebuilt it everytime I restart / turn on my phone.

Is there some trick to solve it?
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
Thanks for buying it.

I can't seem to replicate that issue on either my G1 or Hero. It should fire up the service when the device boot has completed. What phone and ROM are you running? Any third party desktops running like dxtop?
[G1 Apps and Games] xdaofficeuser111:
CM 4.0.4. ^^
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
I run CM 3.6 on my G1 and as I said before that's OK. I can't support every ROM out there unfortunately. I try to test things on both my G1 and Hero though. If I get a chance I will try out CM 4.0.4.
[G1 Apps and Games] footboydog:
I uploaded version 2.0 to the market last week. Here's the changelog:

* Option to launch webview straight from each widget. This loads the Android Google Reader site in a large pop-up window with no login needed. If there is no network connection it falls back to the tag list.

* Option to launch Greed straight from the widget (if it’s installed).

* Pressing menu in webview, headline list or tag list windows brings up a menu to update the widget, launch Greed (if it’s installed) or change settings. The buttons in the tag list have been moved to this menu, freeing up space.

* No loading dialogue for tag list window.

* Bug fix: launching headline list when phone in landscape orientation caused a force close on Hero

* Bug fix: time text and icons in large widget cut off slightly on QVGA phones (e.g. HTC Tattoo).

Edit:

and here's what the webview looks like:
[General Topics] alphaditya:
Hi everyone,

Im facing a very unique and highly irritating problem on my phone. I own a HTC P3350 (Love) handset with a built-in WM6.0. It was working fine till yesterday. Suddenly since this morning whenever i switch on my cell or get a msg or miss call, the dialer screen comes on. (Its as if the green dialer button is stuck, i checked if thats d problem, but that isnt the case).

I even restored my registry and stuff from an old backup i had made. Even that didnt help.

Is it a hardware or software problem? What should I do about it?

All suggestions are welcome. Please help me.
[General Topics] orb3000:
Welcome to forums

Perhaps a hard reset could help

Good luck,
[General Topics] alphaditya:
@orb3000: i tried hard resetting too, twice actually. But the problem wasnt solved. Any more ideas??
[General Topics] alphaditya:
another thought crossed my mind. What if i assigned some other action to the dialer button and see if it still persists?? i can then rule out if its the hard button problem.. Think it'll work??
[General Topics] orb3000:
The best way to know is testing it!

And what happen if you remove your SIM card? problem persists?
[General Topics] alphaditya:
Ya it persists even if sim card is out. Im so frustrated that i'll start plucking my hairs in some time. If a msg is open when i switch it on, it starts dialing d no automatically. Its so damn problematic.

Will the company repair or do something about it? Its 8 months old..

Could it be a virus??
[General Topics] orb3000:
Sorry I dont know what else to recommend, but hopefully another more experienced member can give you better advice.

Be patient!!
[General Topics] alphaditya:
oh.. thanks all the same..
[General Topics] -PiLoT-:
can u do me a favour and try to boot the phone up wth the headphones plugged in???
[General Topics] alphaditya:
no that didnt work either,, :(
[General Topics] alphaditya:
i just hard reset my phone and i have removed the storage card from the slot. i have not restored from my backup nor have i synced yet. my phone is as good as new with no contacts or appointments. And now the problem has disappeared!! But that doesnt help coz at some point of time i'll have to restore my device which might bring back the problem.
[General Topics] -PiLoT-:
are you using the ones that came with phone and do they double up as handsfree

my line of thought as i had a kaiser with a headphone fault were the wires that made the button to call work were faulty

this meant that everytime the headphones wires were twisted a certain way the dialer kept popping up and dialling numbers

so thgere fore if ur handsfree was connected and then the phone came up without dialer this would mean that there is a hardware fault

my only suggestions now is to flash to a different rom

if the problem persisits then its a hardware fault and youll need to contact vendor or seller