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[Android Apps and Games] MRFERRARI23:
Best alarm app ever!!

Just want to start off by saying this app is bad ass!!! I really like the UI and what it's capable of doing!! It really impressed me tbh and it's def. going to be staying on my HTC EVO!!! I think it has a lot of potential and I'm sure with each passing day/update it will only get better and more feature rich etc!! I'm not big on alarm apps but this one has turned me into a user!! ;)

I do though have a few questions to ask If I may,

1) I presume this app. stays on and runs in the background, being so...is it good on battery life? I ask on behalf of myself and others b/c this is something crucial and by using this app I dont want to take a huge hit on my battery.

2) When setting the days one desires to use the alarm, can you make it able to set different wake up times for certain days? ex. I work 4 days a week, 3 out of those 4 I wake up at the same time but on the 4th day I have to wake up an hour earlier. follow?? That would helpful...

3) Can you make the app able to be moved to the SD card please?

Thanks so much for your time and this great app!!!! I will make sure to spread the word to each and every one of my friends using Android!!! Keep up the amazing work!!

BTW....When will the FULL version be released??
[Android Apps and Games] Ollie01:
I forgot to say as well that it is a great app, and to thank you for the work! I have played with it in the last 30 minutes and I love it.
[Android Apps and Games] Ollie01:
It does show the wrong recognized word on my GS.
[Android Apps and Games] lazyboy0172:
glad i finally got to play with the app :) I havent gotten a chance to wake up with it yet (obviously) but I have a suggestion which I think may help with the alarm/voice recognition problems...

I think it would be smart if the alarm went off for 15-20, or even 30 seconds (user customizable even?) and then muted completely to allow the voice recognition for a small amount of time (5-10 seconds?) before closing voice recognition and going back to the alarm full volume. This way the alarm can wake you up and if you want to stop or snooze it you can just deal with the alarm going off for a few seconds longer before it pauses and you have the opportunity to talk without getting up.

I'll test tomorrow since I don't have to get up for anything important to see how it works and test snooze and all that. It took me a minute to find a good alarm that wouldnt screw up voice recognition when it went to lower volume. Hopefully it works and hopefully you consider my idea! thanks for the wonderful app and forward thinking
[Android Apps and Games] legz:
Thanks for the compliment about the UI !

I tried to make something quite professionnal and that appeals to many people as possible.

I think we will develop the ability to put skin in the app.

You think it's a good idea?
[Android Apps and Games] ADNFX Mobile:
@cgcrute:

No worries!!! ;)

Some of the improvements that you said were already at work.

@Ollie01:

Yes, a simple word like "STOP" is not so difficult to understand. Moreover, the ringtone is lower at this moment...

You played with the app for 30 minutes non stop!!! What a success :p

I'm happy to hear such things :)

@chron12:

Ahhh it's good if voice recognition works great for you. Have you got some advices for other english users that are less lucky than you?

@MRFERRARI23:

Bad ass app'!!! :D:D:D

The UI is from the UI designer that has done a great work indeed :) ... and with time, it will improve with some great surprises :p

I'm really happy that you love this app :)

1/No services and no background updates. This app runs only when an alarm is ringing. So, there is no battery issues at all :)

2/I'm not sure to understand your request. Creating several alarms should respond to this. No?

3/I mustn't make the app "SD Card movable". That's Google engineers that told so: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/install-location.html#ShouldNot

"Your alarms registered with AlarmManager will be cancelled. You must manually re-register any alarms when external storage is remounted." and "If your application uses any of the features listed above, you should not allow your application to install on external storage.".

Sorry :o

And don't hesitate to spread the word about this app, and rate/comment it well ;) ... the FULL version will be available in less than 20 hours. It has already landed on French Android Market with success two hours ago :D.

@lazyboy0172:

For your suggestion, the app does a similar thing. Indeed, it rings loudly for 5 seconds and then it half reduces its sound because voice recognition is activated. The user can continuously hear the alarm and say the magic keyword :) ... it's the idea for now but it can change. But I will test your idea to see if it's better. And why not propose both? :D (but it will take time to developp).
[Android Apps and Games] theking52:
Few improvements requested

Nice app, have been playing around a bit with the alarm testing.

2 things I would HIGHLY recommend to improve this app are:

1. After creating the first alarm, let the clock remember the settings and use those as default for the other alarms. For example, make it so that we dont have to choose all the settings again i.e. city, check all the boxes, etc.

2. Make more voices available, the robot voice is going to get a bit... weird.

Other than that, awesome app! Most likely will buy the full version and if the above 2 are implemented, for sure will buy it!

One more thing, what is the default news source? And can we change it so it reads news from other sources?
[Android Apps and Games] CyBeRmEw:
Crying

I can't found the app in the market :S

Maybe because i'm yet with Android 1.6? It needs 2.1 or 2.2 ... ?

(i'm gonna kill Sony Ericsson) :S

I want this app!! :'(
[Android Apps and Games] theking52:
app says it recommends 2.1 strongly. so i guess 1.6 is way too far back? lol
[Android Apps and Games] elabsinned:
Was able to install on my SE X10 Mini Pro (rooted with market enabler). Loving it so far, great job!
[Android Apps and Games] The_Law2:
This app is pretty cool! I would prefer if just the temp was spoken without the silly jokes. But it is pretty amazing stuff.

Sent from my rooted Incredible using the XDA app
[Android Apps and Games] rjrgmc28:
Just installed the lite version this morning and after testing it out a few times, it looks good! Will try it out for real tomorrow morning.

Would be handy though to select the news headlines (like World News,Australian news etc) for the text to speech component. Otherwise, great job!
[Android Apps and Games] ADNFX Mobile:
@theking52:

Yeah, I see what you want. What do you think of that?: for the first alarm clock, in the dock bar (Save, Cancel, Remove), adding a button "Save by default" that will save the settings as default clock for next alarms created. :)

I'm adding that to the todo list.

For the other voices, I don't know yet how to make that since I use google tts engine. :o

The source of the news is google ... the next version will bring the possibility to add your own news feed ! ;);)

@CyBeRmEw:

Some french users told us the same thing about X10 and WakeVoice. But others can see the app. As far as I know, there are issues with market and this phone ... some application don't appear for some users :confused:

@theking52:

Yeah we strongly recommend 2.1 but 1.6 enable some (or all) the features. It depends of various criterias. But with 2.1, all works good.

@elabsinned:

Ah that's great! Thanks :)

@The_Law2:

A french user told us the same thing this morning. We'll implement for the next version a "serious" and a "humouristic" mode ;)

@rjrgmc28:

Yep, your own news source will be available in next version :D
[Android Apps and Games] showerhead88:
Can you make this app not copy-protected? I wanna put it on my SD card. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] mad_vtak:
I havnt played with this yet and i already know i want a full version. Beta Test?

anyways i finally got my hands on it, playing with it now, i will be sending what i think about this soon.

Edit: Is there a twitter i can be following for this?
[Android Apps and Games] theking52:
Save as default sounds good but too bad the voice is difficult to change. Bought three full version just now though... Keep it updated! ;) bu
[Android Apps and Games] MRFERRARI23:
It doesn't seem that the full version is in the marketplace yet, not at least for me... I live in the United States. maybe it's not in the U.S yet idk lol but great app none the less... I have the light version!!! are there major differences between lite and full?
[Android Apps and Games] kdma:
very good app waiting for celsius temperature and the ability to record own words to stop/snooze and also the possibility for choosing another news feed
[Android Apps and Games] TazmanX:
I had the same problem :)
[Android Apps and Games] ipawd1:
can you post the .apk because I'm in the US (States) and its simply NOT showing up in the market.
[Android Apps and Games] theking52:
search for wakevoice in the app and you'll find both... and there is an option for using celsius, it was in the lite, and its in the full.
[Android Apps and Games] ADNFX Mobile:
@showerhead88:

It's really not a good idea to put this app on SD Card. As I said before, Google engineers warned us about alarms on SD Card. There will be issues by doing that :(

@mad_vtak:

Waiting for your feedback ;)

The FULL version will be released in any minute now. I'll announce it here. As for the twitter, it's in my signature : @ADNFXMOBILE ;)

@theking52:

For the voice, a XDA user said to me to look into an other tts engine. I'll check this out. Thanks to your trust by taking the full version :) ... I hope we'll make this app more amazing with future updates!

@MRFERRARI23:

It was released this morning for Canada and Switzerland. The last countries in any minute :)

The difference between LITE and FULL is only that the first one is "number of use limitated".

@kdma:

Some XDA testers have already telling us about celsius possibility in English. So, we made it available ;) ... on the home (where there is the alarms list), click on your phone menu button and then "Settings". Then, click on "Temperature unit" ;)

Own voice recognition words and news feed are coming soon .... (the second one will arrive sooner)

@TazmanX:

I haven't seen that you answered ... thanks :cool:

@ipawd1:

What's your phone model? And what Android Version? Is it a Xperia X10?

@theking52:

Thanks also for your answer :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] ipawd1:
Motorola Droid Running Froyo 2.2 Rooted. If you want you can dm me. I'll dm you first though, just reply.
[Android Apps and Games] mad_vtak:
First test will be tomorrow for work. Im excited to try this :P
[Android Apps and Games] EntropikOne:
so is this application not in the US market yet? :( I can't locate it
[Android Apps and Games] theking52:
another suggestion

it is in the US market, or atleast... for me it is (canada).

I have another suggestion for the app, i'm not a dev and know next to nothing about programming so I dont know if this is difficult or not BUT... what about this:

have the alarm sync with the calendar on the phone to read (text-to-speech) any events in the calendar as part of the wakeup greeting.

Like, "Hope you had a nice night [name], dont forget you have these [calendar] events scheduled for today" or ... anything along those lines. that would be awesome. I got this idea cause I had an exam this morning so i deleted the normal greeting and made it tell me that i have an exam.. anyway, that would be awesome if that could be worked into this.
[Android Apps and Games] Morbie:
Why does my ringtone's volume jump down when the voice recognition window pops up? Defeats the purpose of waking up by the ringingtone as i can't hear it anymore.

Or is it an HTC Desire thing? Running Leedroid 2.2 rom..
[Android Apps and Games] mistabusta:
I do this already with the app Tasker. I'm gonna see how to work WakeVoice into the mix now too!
[Android Apps and Games] ADNFX Mobile:
@ipawd1:

Sorry, I don't understand the "dm" term :o

@mad_vtak:

I hope that it will work :)

@EntropikOne:

The app is in US market. What is your phone model? And Os version?

@theking52:

Indeed it was already in France, Switzerland and Canada.

The agenda is in the todo-list since the beginning of the app ... howether, it won't be implemented before some time ... :o

@Morbie:

No, you're right. In this version, I hard-coded the volume with and without voice recognition. In the next one, it will be customizable by user. ;)

EDIT:

Let me know your feedback then ;)

Good news to all, WakeVoice is now released in FULL version in all countries that can access paid apps (and even the other ones if you use market enabler I was told :rolleyes:).

Lite :

Full :

English website : http://wakevoice.adnfxmobile.com/en/#all (still in construction and with "Reviews" section in French :()
[Android Apps and Games] MRFERRARI23:
When you say "The difference between LITE and FULL is only that the first one is "number of use limitated" What exactly do you mean by limited?? As in after a few times the LITE version wont work anymore???
[Android Apps and Games] ADNFX Mobile:
It's correct. All the features are available in the LITE version but only for 10 ringing clocks. Some people in France have told me to rename it "Trial" today and I've done that in the app name on the market (also in the description I wrote TRIAL instead of LITE). It seems like people are misunderstanding but I've told this since the beginning (and the application shows it at two different times at the first launch :)).
[Android Apps and Games] Lacessit:
*****

Nicely done, I downloaded the lite yesterday and used it this morning. Very cool.

The only downside I see is the volume reducing when the voice recognition starts. Since I'm a heavy sleeper (through a train wreck) I disabled the voice recognition in favor of hitting the button. Reading off the weather is very nice and I do appreciate the humor.

I'd second the motion to have it read your calendar if possible, and look forward to the other updates you're looking into.

Regards,
[Android Apps and Games] mad_vtak:
Just gonna go a head and buy the full version...
[Android Apps and Games] dfine1966:
I just read through the whole thread, 18 pages worth. This application sounds interesting. I won't be able to try it until tomorrow because my phone is dead and charging right now. First my phone is the Sprint HTC EVO 4G with stock Froyo, version 2.2. I live in the United States in Connecticut.

I have a few questions to ask the OP(original poster)

1. Will WakeVoice work in landscape mode or just portrait? If it doesn't work yet in landscape, could you add it in future releases. The EVO has a kickstand so it stands up on the nightstand in landscape.

2. What versions of Android does it work on, 2.1, 2.2?

3. Are you going to add features like waking up to different programs like, Pandora, Slacker, music player, Sirius Satellite Radio Application, Doggcatcher podcast player, instead of just the alarm?

If I think of other questions I will let you know. I am going to download the trial version tomorrow and test it out with the EVO 4G with Stock 2.2(Froyo). I will let you know what I think and if there are any problems with the program. Of course, I will let you know what I like about the application also.

I can't wait to try it out.
[Android Apps and Games] MRFERRARI23:
Ok so after the 10 time of use the trial version will no longer work and you'll have to buy the full version right?? cool... app is def. very cool and interesting!! Like I've said, I NEVER use alarm apps but now I am going to lol and tomorrow will be the first test! :D
[Android Apps and Games] dfine1966:
To the OP,

I am not sure if you can correct this, but the time is only in military time, i.e 13:00, instead of 1:00 PM. I am in the United States and we usually use AM or PM. Can you add a setting for 12 hour or 24 hour.

I am using a Sprint EVO 4G with 2.2(FROYO) stock version.

I am testing the Trial Version of WakeVoice.
[Android Apps and Games] Ollie01:
I also see that as soon as the voice recognition pops up, the alarm volume is getting very low, and it stays low. On the trial version I used, the volume did increase between the "voice recognition sequences".

This is a real issue, if the alarm volume is getting low and stays low without the user having to do anything, the user will never be waken up.

(I am using the paid version).
[Android Apps and Games] MRFERRARI23:
I think I noticed that as well... just before my phone rang and my volume was low and I didn't lower it bc usually I use my phone on vibrate. So I guess this morning it lowered itself when the alarm went off. Is this what you mean as well??
[Android Apps and Games] Ollie01:
Well,

If I remember correctly, here is how the trial version worked

1/ The alarm is at full volume

2/ When the voice recognition is active, the volume is lowered.

3/ If the voice recognition did not work for some reasons, it will stop for a few seconds. As soon as it stopped, the alarm volume went back to max

4/ When voice recognition started again, the volume will go down, etc...

What I see with the full version is that the volume goes down the first time the voice recognition is triggered, but then, it never goes up when the voice recognition stops for some time.
[Android Apps and Games] legz:
@Lacessit, @MRFERRARI23, @Ollie01:

Thanks for your messages.

Indeed, volume reducing when the voice recognition starts, for technical reasons. And if voice recognition do not find any expected word, the alarm volume goes up. It works exactly like Ollie01 said:

But, in theory, there is no difference between TRIAL and FULL version.

We're working on this drawback. ;)

@Lacessit:

About the calendar, it's already in our "to do list" but our priority is to fix all bugs. :)

@mad_vtak:

We wait for your feedback :)

@dfine1966:

Thank you for your interest and all your remarks :)

1. WakeVoice works in portrait mode only. Landscape mode is planned but our priority for now is to fix all bugs.

2. The app can run on 1.5 but it's not sure that you can enjoy voice recognition or text to speech features. As for 1.6, it seems to work good but we recommend 2.1+.

3. Same that landscape mode, waking up to different programs is planned but we want to fix bugs before.

4. About the setting for 12 hour or 24 hour, we keep it in mind for future improvements.
[Android Apps and Games] ejackson:
Can't change ringtone

Droid X (rooted) - I can not change the ringtone, the app freezes when I choose ringtone. It brings up the window with all the ringtones, but will not allow me to change it. After several seconds it asks if I would like to force close app, then tries to send an email to developer, but it won't let me choose an option for mail program.

Using WakeVoice version 1 (paid version)

Any help is appreciated, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] ADNFX Mobile:
Hi all,

Sorry for this late reply.

I've begun to implement the next WakeVoice release. It will land on Market in a few days we hope. The alarm itself is re-designed from scratch (and so are the features like voice recognition or news). We received a lot of reports from some US phones that don't work as well as french phones (or even other US phones). Among them, Evo4G (speech synthesis don't speak), HTC Aria / Samsung Vibrant (due to the use of internal storage as external storage), Droid/Droid 2/Droid X (and maybe Droid Eris and Droid Incredible). Furthermore, phones that are still in 1.5 have an issue due to an error of mine (forgot to remove a call to speech synthesis ... the one that tells "retry" when voice recognition hasn't found a corresponding match with keywords).

I was very busy these latest days by replying to all mails. A lot of these are still waiting a response from me :(

LegZ (UI designer) is also here to reply to all your questions.

@ejackson:

Thanks for your issue report. I must say that it's an odd bug. Moreover, without error log it's not easy to find what's causing this. However, I won't let you down. I think that I've got a little idea of what's going on. I'll contact you by mail :)
[Android Apps and Games] mad_vtak:
Trial died out, low on funds to afford the less than 2 dollar app, :( my review will have to come later..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdawg0024:
So I have installed the Stock OTA 2.2.. that has root access. I have wireless tether for root users 2.0.5 pre 6 it starts up fine however no devices can see it. I was wondering if anyone has gotten this to work on 2.2 with the stock Rom.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timothydonohue:
i'm not positive, but i have heard both yes and no, and i'm not sure what the difference in setups is between those that have good luck and bad.

i know that cm6 can enable hotspot access (3G) with no problems. perhaps the devs putting out the sense 2.2 can manage to port it over to sense.
[EVO 4G General] fyyzer:
Apparently HTC has release 3.0.5387 of their somewhat crappy Sync application for the HTC Wildfire. In my hopes of finding a better sync application for Outlook I tried to run it with my Evo. Unfortunately when I tried to sync just the calendar and contacts it said there wasn't enough memory (even though I had 5 gigs showing available in their graph). So I limited it to just the calendar items and it did sync but it created a ton of duplicates and other issues (good thing I made a back up of my Outlook pst file beforehand).

So just a word of warning these two don't play nice together right now (not that they advertised that) and probably best to wait until HTC gets around to updating it for the Evo specifically.
[EVO 4G General] xlrdxrevengex:
i have the latested OTA and SYNC and have no problems
[EVO 4G General] fyyzer:
I tried it again after uninstalling the old Sync software/driver, rebooting, reinstalling new driver/sync and it's still complaining about not having enough memory to sync my People. Not a big deal, I'll just revert to the old one for now. I'm using the latest OTA 2.2 rooted rom as well.
[EVO 4G General] xlrdxrevengex:
move some of your appliacations over to your sd card that is one of the new features with froyo. as well look for an app called historyEraser and delete all your history on your phone to create some room
[EVO 4G General] FDDT:
I could get it work by using version 3.0.5372. Uploaded 2 playlists from iTunes, some pictures and all worked perfectly (Just give a time for Sync to detect your Evo)
[EVO 4G General] gtkansan:
Works GREAT for me. Syncs documents, bookmarks, music from zune (through windows media player), etc. Loving it.

mirror for the download can be found at:

http://www.mediafire.com/?4619q5oatwquf96http://www.mediafire.com/?4619q5oatwquf96
[EVO 4G General] rjmjr69:
Thanks for the mirror
[XPERIA X10 General] lildic:
hello friends.please help me.when i play music or video it was stuck and play a weird sound i already update and restore my phone but it doesnt fix

sorry for post it again plz help me
[XPERIA X10 General] lildic:
bump) someone plz help me :(
[XPERIA X10 General] lildic:
bump bump bump bump
[XPERIA X10 General] kmaximax:
BUMPING AND REBUMPING THE THREAD WILL GET IT IGNORED! :mad:

you need to provide more information!

STOCK PLAYER or other application! (the one that comes with it or an app)

have you tried an application to play both just incase its the music or video thats at fault here!

Do the tracks or videos that come pre installed work!?

you dont state what type of music you are trying to play either!? MP3/MP4 what!?

you dont state what video your trying either 3GP or MP4 or what the specs of the video is what bitrate what aspect what size/dimensions etc etc!

with very little info provided the rebumping will get you no where!:mad:
[XPERIA X10 General] jas0607:
You couldn't have just continued to update the other thread that you already made about this issue?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thejondude:
would something like this work for the EVO?

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=688562&page=1

well i cant add a link yet so copy paste
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thejondude:
couldnt you get the stock OTA update adn get it into a zip and rename it PASSIMG.zip ?????