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[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Buji:
Its mostly smooth for me, occasionally it will hitch a little. The latest update seems a lot more stable, but I still get the occaisonal checkerboard which resolves in a few minutes. Also the location setting to use ' my location' seems to focus on the exact opposite side of the planet... somewhere just east of australia. (I'm in California)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] BorisDeviant:
First, thanks for this application, i followed from the beginning. I started using it on My Hero (yep, could handle it !) and now I would like to run it on My new Desire HD

So I recently bought Earthrot 2 and I have 2 issues :

1- when i wake up the phone from sleep mode, the wallpaper still displays but is frozen. My phone perfectly works, only the wallpaper is frozen. If I raise the wake up frequency in Setcpu to ~700-800 MhZ, the Earth will keep turning after wake up. But for battery reasons I dont want a so high frequency while in sleep mode. And I tried with Earthrot 1, it worked with any lower frequency.

2-whatever I do (wifi/data connection/with or without texture pack), the moon keeps displaying a missing texture. Please have a look at the enclosed screenshot. Here again with v1, the moon is displaying ok.

Thanks for your support. ;)

EDIT : to be more precise, when I select the live wallpaper, I have a "preview" of it and here the moon has the right texture. If I validate, the texture disappears...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] HydrogeneH2:
Has the developper abandonned his Earth live V2? I bought it knowing it was still far from perfect but under active development. I now find it's really too broken to be used (the first version, though less pretty works fine) and support has been dropped. :mad:

I would like Unixseb to tell us if he intends to carry on his work, or not. Knowing would be better than waiting in vain.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
hi all,

to correct the moon bug, just install the complete map pack or use the moon as a standalone map at least once.

And don't worry, i'm still working on it, but i'm facing lots of issues in my "real" job, plus my home pc had blown up (just the power block but that's enough to stop me working) , plus santa brang me a ps3 with gran turismo 5, but the work is not abandoned, just a little bit delayed ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jimking:
Please fix it!!!!

The only planet that work ok is earth static. With the other planets have only a white ball!!! Change options, download the pack NOTHING....

Fix this one and for all guys!!! :mad:

Is for Galaxy S not for a stupid phone....
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
That sounds like if you can't download the maps or dont have an external storage to store them.

Did you ran the map pack installer (installing from the market is not enough, you have to launch it once).

I have a samsung galaxy S and it works fine on it !
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] HydrogeneH2:
Thank you for the quick answer ! I'm glad to know you are still working on it and hope for a new version soon, with lots of bugfixes.

PS: the "real" work is now a semi valid excuse. As soon you ask for money for your product, it ceases to be just a hobby... Just look at the latest comments on Earthrot2 on the market, it's not good publicity for you.

Best regards,

Cyrille
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Buji:
I too was wondering if it had been abandoned, I loved it but it crashed too much and I had intermittent checkerboards on the live clouds. Good to hear you haven't walked away from it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] RJ_Hythloday:
The map pack is awesome and the best free app out there. It's working for me on 2.2 no problems on sense, a few bugs after I started using launcher pro. I did start running in foreground this morning. I used shootme unrooted for EVO to take the screen shots but cant post them till I have 8 posts.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] RJ_Hythloday:
and here's two
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] RJ_Hythloday:
and now three
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] RJ_Hythloday:
five minutes later, four
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] RJ_Hythloday:
this is five
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] RJ_Hythloday:
now six
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] RJ_Hythloday:
one more, says I can post links at eight
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] RJ_Hythloday:
It's working for me on 2.2 w/ a few bugs after launcher pro. I did start running earth in foreground this morning. I used shootme unrooted for EVO to take the screen shots. These are some of my favorites.

posting this one for the glitch, never had it before launcher pro

rotation is slower than ever before, sometimes the left side of the background is gone after wake and comes back after sliding the home screen.

again

some snow

supposed to show off the rotate, but I guess it caught it at a bad time

screen orientation being buggy

this shows off the LP home rotate
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jimking:
The solution was run the map pack installer! I thought it was automatic installation and was just another icon in the drawer..

Thanks! ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Pgrenier:
Trouble installing

Hey. I love this wall paper so far even though I can't get it to work. I tried installing it and it does install but I get the white globes on everything but the realtime earth. Here I get the earth and it says "loading". other wise I tried looking at the SD card to delete the earthrot folder but I can't seem to find it. I'm using a program called ES file explorer and I can't seem to find anything for this wall paper. I have no idea how to install it to the SD card instead of the phone memory and that may be the problem. Also when I reboot the phone it changes the wall paper to one of the stock live wall papers.

I would love some help on this. I really dig this wall paper.

I'm running an HTC incredible with 2.2 on it.

thanks

-Phil
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] denniskarlsson:
Hi

Can you please use the Android/data/ folder to store the application settings!?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ciaphuas:
very nice man...keep it up!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] 3Shirts:
The real time earth is not loading for me. I just have the black and white 'loading' map. I've left it for ages with good HSDPA signal and also tried a reboot but no luck.

All the others work really nicely though
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MACkjam:
It looks awesome bro. Does it need a data connection all the time or just once off? How much data is downloaded?

Thanks!!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
well data connction is needed only once the first time you use a map to fetch it, or to refresh the realtime map at fixed intervals. if you ran the map pack installer, all maps are already installed to you sdcard and so if you don't use the realtime map, you'll never use your data connection.

each realtime update is round 150ko and all maps take approx 10mb of space (so if you download them all)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MACkjam:
Thanks again for the info. Great Live Wallpaper btw!!! Just another question. There is an option to choose own background from gallery. When I do this, it just shows a white screen. Does it need to be of a particular size or format eg bmp, png jpg etc? Is there also a way that you can adjust the title of planets' font size? I find the font size just a tad too big for my screen setup.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
you should use the cropper, some devices prefer square textures, so choose the 512x512 version first.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] e30ernest:
I read somewhere here that plans to encode the day/night shadows into the app instead of using the real-time earth+clouds version to simulate night and day were underway. Is this what the "Static Lightmap" does? Or does that do something else?

Also I've been having trouble with some maps either not displaying or just a white globe displaying since I installed the map pack (yes I ran it). I deleted the folder in the SD card and I'm trying again.

Great work on the wallpaper and I look forward to seeing your updates!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] floydlloyd:
Progress report - Beautiful Planet We Live on Nice App to show it off

Hello from Vancouver Canada,

FYI I put this onto my Nexus S i9020 Stock 3.24 Ginger, on top of Netarchy 1.37 BFS kernel (fresh and new and lovely) OC'd to 1200

At risk of this just being more text on a hard-drive somewhere I will say ...

Very nicely done. I have not had time to see it through all the functions/phases and whatnot but Very Nice. I am glad someone cared about this type of thing !

After 24 hours of running all seems well

.

Early on I did have an oddball issue where a warning flashed to make sure my launcher was compatible with scrolling widget ... blah blah blah ... it let me know that ADW Launcher IS but I have always been on Launcher Pro.

Anyhow ... Launcher Pro FC'd ... Yep Un-Huh it did ! Came back up ... and no issues since. I sent the report to Fede at Launcher Pro in case he sees something in there.

I am a long time user of X-planet on Windows and Mac and combined with Rainmeter I am absolutely hooked at using the Earth with clouds as desktop. I havent looked at any of the planets etc in years !! I'm actually able to be generically accurate about rain/cloud/sun here in Vancouver. Probably 65-80% accurate LOL As good as the ever so sexy Weather Girl.

So, sharing the fact that it seems to run well on this Nexus S. Hope that is comforting to you :-) and maybe helpful knowledge.

Keep up the good work, much appreciated,

floydlloyd

Vancouver Canada

P.S. Boy is it hard to get up to 10 TEN posts so I can join in on a couple threads here. I consider myself a decent researcher so find that I rarely have a question that gives me the opportunity to post without being redundant. This is post number 1 ONE LMAO ...

Hope I am not too long winded for ya ;-)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] CenzozneC:
Love this wallpaper. Great job. One problem i'm having is that the globe stops spinning randomly. I have to restart the phone for it to begin spinning again.

Stock Thunderbolt no root.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] floydlloyd:
Chiming in here with nexus s netarchy 1.37 kernel stock 2.34 ginger ROM Rooted

Really only day 2 for me with this gr8 wallpaper. Posted earlier that it was pretty much flawless. Noticing today that switching out of other apps sometimes leaves me at a blank desktop ... no earth or stars the black background Is there though. Seems to return to the globe after varying "short" amounts of time.

This may have been discussed earlier but if the "blankness" is due to a non refresh of the "online" cloud map or something ... is there a mechanism in place to just automatically draw a cached version till the online version updates? If not... should there be?

I tried running it in foreground mode and it seemed somewhat less prone to that behavior but still does it occasionally. To ask the obvious ... did you try it in foreground mode? If so did you see any negative impact on phone performance?

Could be tricks of the mind here but "thought" seemed to be registering processor activity more often and slightly higher than I recall prior to? Foreground" mode.

You ??
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] floydlloyd:
Sorry to quote myself ! But realized this was a direct question for unixdeb.

I'm sorry if I missed the answer somewhere in the thread but not really sure if I understood earlier chatter about this
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] CenzozneC:
I tried out the foreground ability and not only does it still stop spinning but it also crashes now. Once I unchecked the foreground box it went back to randomly stopping spinning but not crashing.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] floydlloyd:
Hopefully we will hear from the "Almighty Creator" :D regarding your issue and my question from coupla posts ago about caching of the image and rendering oddness.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] daaabs:
Hi Unixseb, I love the wallpaper, but is there any chance you could include an option to make the moon orbit more slowly? I like the earth to rotate slowly (seems more realistic) but every few seconds the moon will come whizzing past and it ruins the effect.

Also, it would be nice if we could pick a second rotational axis outside of the centre of the the earth so the globe would also zoom in and out slightly as we flick through the homescreens.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] floydlloyd:
must reset static viewpoint on reboot of phone This normal?

Hi unixseb

Still using this wallpaper. Everyone who sees it loves it.

I always want the Earth / clouds view to be statically set to a view of Vancouver Canada.

I go into settings put it to be free rotation, rotate it to where I want it, then turn off rotation. This is good as long as the phone stays running. My view remains centered over Vancouver.

BUT, upon reboot of the phone I must go through this setup process again.

Am I missing something?

If this is normal behavior I am requesting that the "static" view I speak of be made an option ... please ;-)

Otherwise, as I've said before, LOVE your work on this it is very nice to see our planet this way when seeing the phone

floydlloyd

Vancouver

Canada
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
hi, yes, it's the way it work :( i'll see if i can make the rotation persistent uppon reboot,

but in the V2 (which is not free and not yet stable :(( ) there's an option the stay focus on your location based on gps location :) i'll publish a debugged version of V2 in early october and the feature you want is in it ;)

anyway, i'll check for a way to implement this in V1, just for you ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] daaabs:
Hi Unixseb, I'm not sure if you missed my post (on the previous page) so here it is again :-)

......................................................................

"Hi Unixseb, I love the wallpaper, but is there any chance you could include an option to make the moon orbit more slowly? I like the earth to rotate slowly (seems more realistic) but every few seconds the moon will come whizzing past and it ruins the effect.

Also, it would be nice if we could pick a second rotational axis outside of the centre of the the earth so the globe would also zoom in and out slightly as we flick through the homescreens."
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
oups, sorry, i've missed your post,

well, i'm still looking for a way to compute the exact position of the moon regarding to the current date and time, that's what i want to acheive regarding the moon.

Not sure i'll implement this in v1 :(
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ksaedi:
Partner with Lookout Mobile Security to Monetize Earth Live Wallpaper

Hi Unixseb,

My name is Kia and I am managing the partnership program at Lookout, a highly rated Android app with 10+ million Android Market downloads. I’m a big fan of Earth Live Wallpaper, as your app makes it easy to find and share wallpapers. We’ve found that users who download apps like yours are more interested in mobile security products like Lookout than the average consumer.

I want to propose working with you to help you increase user trust while at the same time generating additional revenue. I’m currently working with many similar developers to promote Lookout through house ads, custom ads, in a 'Featured Apps' section, or as an icon in their app. Some of our affiliates earn over $1,000 a month in additional revenue, many without taking away from existing ad space.

If you are interested, please email me at kia.saedi@mylookout.com, as it would be my pleasure to answer any questions you make have/send you more information.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Best,

Kia
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ddwoid:
I've just bought V2 (twice maybe, but that's ok :) )... Probably will still use V1 until V2 is a little more solid on tablets, but I'm looking forward to V2 as you refine it over time...

Today I noticed the dynamic weather and day/night status doesn't seem to be updating. I'm guessing my office network connection is blocking it, but I wanted to double check to make sure there isn't a web based weather/date/time server problem. Can you point to the location you get this data from or verify it is up and running?

Btw, V1 looks awesome on a 10.1" tab. I'm sure V2 will too when it's fully stable.

Thanks for all your work!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] nickpope61:
earth liive wallpaper

The Earth live wallpaper,works a dream on the galaxcy tab 10.1

But rotation speed for the moon would be a good thing to add in the setting's

I give this app a 10/10 keep up the work :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] NanoNoodle:
Looks like a gun pointing at your battery! Nice wallpaper anyways!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] guille31794:
Thank you!

Enviado desde mi Nexus One usando Tapatalk
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] iakughan:
beautiful livewallpaper!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pbarrett:
Rendering issues?

I love this wallpaper and have used it for years, first on my Evo 4G and now on my Evo 4G LTE.

My favorite is the realtime Earth with moon.

I started seeing some rendering issues with the free version (Earth was mostly pink), so I bought the paid version 2.

Now with it, I often see the Earth rendered with a black and white checkboard, or sometimes an Earth bitmap but only in shades of grey.

It always looks right in the Preview. "Apply" is usually disabled so I back all the way out after making settings.

Any idea what would cause the problem?

-- Thanks.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Stupendousman2012:
Suggestion

Planets from Super Mario Galaxy wold be fun, if it can be done.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pbarrett:
It looks like this is mostly related to the real-time clouds, maybe when it can't get an update.

That's a shame, because it's a really cool feature, but at least I can still use it with that turned off.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] FalconEye90:
i love this live wallpaper is there any update
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
finally out and avalaible on the market !!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seb.SLWP2b
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Theericgames:
Thanks

Thank you very much, I'll pending: D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] chopsui:
Excellent app!

One slight request. It would be nice if the globe would move slightly when you slide to differnt home screens so that you can see the sides of the globe when it has been enlarged to be bigger than a single home screen.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] StOTTO:
the updates are superb, however, it's causing a FC each time after i've updated. please fix!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] denimjunkie82:
I love this wallpaper.

1 suggestion for + cool points-

Have the background stars move OPPOSITE direction of the homescreens, while at the same time have the globe rotate in the same direction as homescreens when touched (overriding the auto-rotation) (no acceleration like current setup).

I think this would give an awesome illusion of the homescreens actually being in space, and rotating along the globe's axis and seeing the background adjust as if this was so. It would be kind of a matrix-like affect when the camera circles around Neo.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] StOTTO:
it's working again! *relieved*
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Konklone:
This is my favorite live wallpaper, no question. Since you seem energized and responsive to suggestions, here are a few:

* Allow for a gentler or customizable spin upon flipping from screen to screen. I just disable it because it's so extreme, but it'd be nice to have it spin a little bit.

* When it's night on the real-time Earth map, it'd be nice if the lights are brighter. In other words, the lights on the night time Earth map are brighter than they are in the night *portions* of the real-time map, and so it's really boring when you're seeing mostly the night side of the real-time map.

* A plainer star background for the minimalists among us.

* denimjunkie82's suggestion above about creating the rotation effect is awesome

Also, I've been getting a ton of force closes all of a sudden, both with the version you put up earlier this weekend, and the one you put out this afternoon. Below is the relevant logcat output, and then the relevant section of /data/anr/traces.txt. Hope it helps.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] flak0:
Possible Enhancements

Dev,

First off your live wall paper is awesome. I thank you. Also thanks for incorporating rapidly the communities suggestions and making them a reality. I have some possible enhancements that I would pay for like a donate version if possible.

Thanks again for your hard work. I will donate to you $50.00 if these could be implemented and pay for a donate version.:D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] aron7awol:
First of all, amazing job. This wallpaper has rapidly grown from what I originally considered a neat eye candy idea into something I'm thinking about running as my primary wallpaper.

I like the following suggestions people have made:

1. Slower/customizable spin when touch rotation is enabled

2. Night portion of realtime map similar to city lights map

3. More realistic background (darker with only simple stars)

Thanks so much for everything you've done so far and anything you decide to do in the future to improve this.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Trebek:
Looks pretty awesome :D Would also love to see the moon, Mars, Saturn etc etc all doing their live wallpaper thing. The Sun with solar flares would look way cool too I think.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] unixseb:
Thanks all for your posts,

i've been busy this week end trying to fix that damn force close related to the asynchronous download of the realtime earth map.

so far i decided to remove it untill it is fully functionnal and don't make force close anymore. It will be added again soon.

I add your wishes to the roadmap; looks like i'll be busy with this app :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MontAlbert:
this is the best wallpaper i have found- the FCs i was experiencing above have been fixed in the latest update... seems to be working great now-

thanks.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jerbarton:
Wow... This has gone from its simple (yet still fantastic) beginnings to being one of my favorite things on my phone. It amazes everyone I show it to. I have a couple live wallpapers I bought that I'll probably never use again. :D I think it looks best with a black notification bar theme. If you decide to put up a donate version (with or without added features) I'd not hesitate to get it. Thanks for making my phone absolutely stunning to all see it!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] czm:
I've never really seen the point of live wallpapers, but this one has converted me. I have downloaded plenty, but usually get rid of them again very quickly - but this one is a keeper. Looks great, - to the point where I have de-cluttered my home screen to give it more room.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] aron7awol:
I'm clearing out room to show off the Earth as well. In fact that brings to mind another minor feature request. The ability to adjust the vertical position of the Earth on the screen. I'd like to nudge it up slightly to better line up between the top and bottom rows of icons on the home screen.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Amdathlonuk:
I think it would look even better if it spun on it's correct axis.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] resist:
Been watching this development from the begining...great work. Just curious though. Why no Saturn...that would be awesome.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Konklone:
Also, I'm just curious, but where do you get your planar maps from? What is involved in creating them? How easy would it be for the community to contribute custom maps to you?

I'm thinking: Death Star.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mr_skot:
Oooooo.... wouldn't it be cool if you could use a widget to go from a live wallpaper to an earth application, with the earth positioned in the same location, so the transition would be seamless between the two. It could then zoom into your position on the globe (after making a single orbit for effect) and show local weather, traffic, time, etc...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] aron7awol:
I'd imagine it's because implementing Saturn would require more than simply putting another texture on the already existing sphere. I do agree though it would look badass.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] leslieyp:
Cool !!! And Support !!!! :D:D