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[Android Apps and Games] Marc.:
I've the same bug as dtrieb... Since the update I don't see it anymore, but I'll say it when its back...

I lost a lot of bluetooth devices names when I updated... Only the ones I found today are in the list... Is the file with names wiped? You can see all devices with time found and that stuff, but all names are gone :( Maybe you can look into this?

And the buttons on the lower part of the screen, ( I can see 5 of them ), the button of the found devices is too white ( I have a live background) the other ones are a bit invisible ( They are great ), but this one is tottaly white...

The rest is good :) The layout is much better now also :)

And can you still send me all the strings that are on the info screen? I need to fix some things...

( And in dutch translation, Recoverry should be Recovery )
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
@Dtrieb:

If it means 'Suche nach Geräten abgeschlossen', then the device discovery is finished. Normally it should automatically start a new device discovery after that. If this is not the case, then there seems to be a bug, which I have not the control over, because this is system related. However this bug does not occur on my device. I tested it myself, let it do 15 minutes. Also with screen off. There still was the discovery running. So, maybe this can also be device related.

If you are using a custom ROM, that also can cause this bug.

I'm thinking about the integration of the statistics into the game. Thank you !

@Marc:

Which bug do you mean ? Can you clarify that ?

That what you describe is a normal behaviour of the game in the current versions.

The game does not write the names to the database, but gets the names of the devices from the cache of the Bluetooth Adapter. If the cache does get cleared, all names are away.

Yes, of course this is not handled good currently, but it was the best solution for now. In later versions this will get an improvement.

EDIT: Marc, I already send them to you. You didn't receive them ?

Greetings !

PS: Yesterday were heaps of installs from the Play Store, which is the new record of installs for this game. (37 installs, that were not uninstalled yesterday.)
[Android Apps and Games] Marc.:
The bug Dtrieb said... You also replied in this post to it xD But I don't see it anymore in this release :)

And have you seen the button where you go to the names of BT devices? Its white and not transperant ( like the other ones. )

I did recieve them a few minutes ago :S

I hope you can save the names as soon as possible, because thats funny to read them! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
So the bug is 'fixed' for you ? Mysterious...

Yep, the icon must be improved...

It's very hard to make those icons, if there are no templates for exactly those icons. Sorry about this.
[Android Apps and Games] sthomas38:
Will update French tomorow :).
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Hi everyone!

I thinks the thread gets through the whole translation big and bigger.

So i made a google spreadsheet: here

So everyone can post the translate in this.

Hope it is okay for you Maksl5 ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
Edit: Bad post.
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Hi ...

I get a new Smartphone. Now i want reload my old points ... I write my uid and password I the textbox but it didn't work.

Help :mad:
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Thx for your help ... :) :thumbup:
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
@Dtrieb: No problem ;)

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I want to get a list of features and improvements, you would like to see in the game.

So please feel free to get in and share your idea !

Here is a short list of things that will make it into at least version 1.6. (Some might come earlier)

I'm relying on you. :) Please come in with some ideas. :)

Ps: In less minutes starts the "sale" of the support version of SMBD! 50% cheaper, so now you have the possibility to support the game development with a smaller payment. The sale lasts only until Friday!

Greetings!!
[Android Apps and Games] bleros:
good work thanks u
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Next idea:

Make groups , clans or teams to search together. Or a list per country.
[Android Apps and Games] Fr!fti:
I support that idea!
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
What about a Avatar pic?
[Android Apps and Games] Fr!fti:
Is there happeing something for changes or updates at near future?
[Android Apps and Games] hybrid2102:
Hi!

I Love this game!

I have a big problem... I successfully made a backup of my previous score (on v1.3). When I restore on v1.5.2 everything goes ok, but on first new discovery the app force closes! I tried many times but...

Fresh installation: no problems!

Fresh installation + Restore: force close on first discovery!

I don't want to miss my score (16K!)... Any solution guys?

@Mark: should I provide the new italian translation directly in to the spreadsheet?

THANK YOU!
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Yes put it in the spreadsheet. It was my idea and maksl5 like it.
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
@hybrid2102: This could be of the huge version jump, the database has to do. An option for you can be, that you install all following versions step by step.

So 1.3 -> 1.4 -> 1.5 -> 1.5.2.

When this does not work, I can look, what I can do with the backup, you uploaded. Please inform me about this on pm.

@Fr!ti:

The bug should now be eliminated. I just done a testdiscovery today and after 13 found devices in 30 minutes, the discovery was running as at the start. Maybe I'll provide a testing version to a bounded selection of people, like you.

And yes I'm working on it, but not as fast as I wanted to do, because of exams and so on...

Read the twitter acc. There I write everything, that is done with the game.

Greetings !
[Android Apps and Games] Marc.:
Thanks,

I would also would like to try it... I have usually more than 50 devices in 60 minutes, but due the bug I have 5...
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Me too :D
[Android Apps and Games] hybrid2102:
Thank You

This is a BIG thank you post for the creator of Scan Most Bluetooth Devices, Maksl5!

I was 2nd in Ranking using SMBD v1.3 with ~16k of devices... But something, jumping to v1.5.2 corrupted my data... No working restore!

But he helped me a lot, retrieving my data and fixing my bug!

Now I have my 16k devices back!

Thank you Maksl5!

:D
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Hi all.

I'm coming back with some news and announcements.

For the first, I want to tell you, that I successfully configured the GIT Version Control System. You don't know, what this is ? No problem. It doesn't affect you in any way, I just wanted to tell. GIT is a system, which allows the developer(s) of a specific project to work together, by committing changes of the code and describe the changes. Then GIT lets you control this changes, reverting them and so on. It allows you to have a much better code handling.

In my case I will use it to determinate and to understand, for what a specific code stands for and if it is buggy, I can for example revert to a previous version of this code, who worked better.

With GIT I can manage the code much more better.

As second, I want to let you know that I want to introduce a new testing team, that tests the functionality and finds bugs, before the official release of the specific version. With this I want to make sure, that the game does work on another really different devices. The testing team optimally should insist of 5 people. The conditions to become a member of the testing team are listed below.

If you are fitting to these conditions I'd like you to apply and write me (either PM or e-mail) a short introduction of yourself and things, you can do well. If you don't accomplish 1 or 2 conditions, you can try it even so.

I want to bring this game up to a professional stage, so I thank you all, who are helping and supporting me with this dream, thank you very much !

The third point I want to bring out is that in the last weeks I was a little bit lazy with the programming. So theres nothing really new, you would have expected.

The only news are, that I think I could fix the bug with the discovery, but I'm not sure about this. (here helps the testing team) The icon for the Found Devices screen fits now perfectly to the others. Furthermore the found devices are listed with the newest first and also the names of the devices get saved permanently now.

I tried something with a new preference screen, but this was no success. I think this will get a new try later. In the next weeks I will try to code the complete huge authentification system I planned so much long time.

Unfortunately I had no ideas about new achievements. Some ideas are very appreciated !

For now this was all I had to say, I think. Oh well, of course updates of translations are appreciated all the time ! :D

Have a nice day, Greetings !
[Android Apps and Games] Bunglechunk:
I'd like to also thank Maksl5 for helping me restore my data! :D

During a rather painful upgrade to ICS the backup tool I was using decided an epic fail was in order and I lost everything (luckily contacts are stored elsewhere)!

So a massive thank you to you Maksl5 for getting my 2025 devices and 44th placed ranking back - not quite as impressive as hybrid2102's scores, but I'll be hot on his trail soon enough... :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] Marc.:
As Maksl5 is helping people with getting back their high scores...

Can I get my score of 4280 devices back? I had it on my HTC Desire (The name is 'Marc - NL - HTC DESIRE' ) Then I'll have nearly more than 3000 devices more! Please! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
As I said earlier, in your case there is simply no way to recover your previous score. For hybrid and Bunglechunk it was possible to recover their score, because they made a backup through the game (which was not possible until version 1.5) and only had problems to recover it through the game. So the database for the score was never left. But in your case the complete database is no more existent. Neither on your phone nor on the backup server. It's just not possible. You can take my words, that I would do all things to get a specific score back (Thinking of hybrid. Recover a corrupted database manually is not that easy, as you may think of it.), but like I said before, unfortunately is not possible.

Hope you can understand this.

Greetings !

PS: For now we have the first tester. Looking forward. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Marc.:
Maksl5, what do you prefer? The translations in the google spreadsheet thing? Or via PM?
[Android Apps and Games] hybrid2102:
I inserted the latest Italian translation in Google Documents.
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Hi all,

I wanted to inform you, that I opened a bugtracker system for SMBD ! (Thanks Dtrieb for this idea !)

So please, if you think there is something wrong, there is a bug, or whatelse, take the time to report this issue here -> http://maks.mph-p.de/blue/bug/

This would be very nice !!!

Development progress goes and goes. This day, I delivered the first test version for the testing team, and also here, thank you very much for your time !

I will give more specific information in the next days.

Please take the time ! Thank you !
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
Swedish translatio

Hi!

I sent a Swedish translation like 3 months ago. What's happening?
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Hi NRK77,

Your translation is already included in the next oncoming version ! (Like you can read in the first posts language list.)

The version is getting huge improvements, many changes and new features, so it takes very much time to write all the features. I think I can imagine a release of this version in the middle of July. Maybe to not let you all waiting too much, I will release a minor version soon.

But look forward to this version, because it's getting more social. ;)

With this version I will also make the complete rewrite for this version, which is, in my opinion overdue. I think this all will bring a nice shape to build on.

I will inform you about further development progress !

Stay tuned and thank you ! =)
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
Oh, sorry! I missed that. I thought you had forgotten about it. Will send you a PM with the new string translated.

Sounds good with the new release(s)!
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
At last to be ready to release version 1.5.5, there are even less strings to translate for the translators. It would be nice, if you could take the time, so, that they'll be in 1.5.5. Thanks !

<!-- New Strings 03.06.2012 -->
<string name="str_Settings_SendErrorReport_title">Send Error Reports</string>
<string name="str_Settings_SendErrorReport_summary">Helping me fixing bugs with sending anonymous error reports.</string>

<!-- New Strings 11.07.2012 -->
<string name="str_Main_LastFoundDevice">Last device found:</string>

Also I wanted to say once again, that I will release the version, if the testteam (the complete testteam) gives its OK. So please if you think this version is ready, send me your ok. It's important.

Thanks ! Looking forward to the biggest bug fix version ever !
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Sorry for doublepost,

but there's some new to all Gingerbread friends out there.

I decided to give you the same possibilities of using the Android Action Bar as ICS and Honeycomb users. To make this happen I'm using the Android Support Library and, very important, the ActionBarSherlock library. Together this 2 libraries giving users of older Android versions the chance to discover the possibilities of the new Android versions.

You didn't get what that means ? Simple. The game will no more differ extremely between Gingerbread and ICS.

Here a hope screenshot for you:

Of course this is not the final way the game will look on Gingerbread. I will get the absolute equal look of ICS and also with it's functions.

This also has at least a minor advantage for ICS users. In this way, I don't have to write things especially for Gingerbread, so there's more time I can take for bug research or new feature integration. It's an advantage for all. Hope you are happy about that.

See you later with release 1.5.5 !

Greetings !
[Android Apps and Games] analyst783:
UID 0?

Installed the free version from the market (v1.5.2). When I run it, the ranking shows "not available (error 2.1)". Under settings, it shows a uid of 0. It does seem to find devices, but something's broken here.

This is on a motorola DX running cyanogenmod 7. I'm rooted and have disabled my adblocking to try this out. Any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Error Code 2.1 means that the game verification failed, while connecting to the ranking server. This is very strange, because the verification string, that is calculated does fit with almost all other devices/roms. It could be due to your custom rom, that you use. But I'm not sure. Have you had any force closes or other unnormal things ?
[Android Apps and Games] analyst783:
No FCs. FWIW, I'm attaching a logcat of everything with 'smbd' from my run. I didn't see anything obvious.
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Thanks for the logcat. It seems, that the game is assuming you're running on Ice Cream Sandwich and therefore is setting some variables, who mess up the complete game procedure, because there some classes missing. And again, this is very strange ! :D

At the moment I don't know how I can fix this. But I'm also thinking that this problem could be a custom rom specific issue.
[Android Apps and Games] analyst783:
Well, if you've got (or make) a debug version or there's something I can check on my phone, let me know. Looks like a fun game!
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Well, after some brainstorming about how to get this freaky badly managed code from years rewritten, I just decided to let this project die.

Yes, die to get focused on the, I would it call SMBD v2. But no, it gets another name. Just simple as it is: Blue Hunter.

I just began to work on this. All will be better, I promise.

And now I'm going the way to open source.

The complete project is available on GitHub, including the currently nightly apk, for you guys, who are interested to see it growing. (It's inside the /bin folder)

And yeah, its state is very very very early. Nothing about Bluetooth is implemented right now, but a little pretaste of what the UI will look like.

I will working on it the complete next days. So you can be sure, that a new nightly will be available from hours to hours.

BUT ! The nightlies will be very unstable and come directly from my testing purposes ! Yes, I will offer that to you, what I wrote recently.

I hope you will stick close to this project, as it will be the more as worthy follower of SMBD !

If you want to get my ideas and features for this project, just tell me and I will tell you ! :)

We'll get it !

Greetings !
[Android Apps and Games] hybrid2102:
I agree.

The community will follow you!

For now.... good luck! ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Marc.:
One question about it, can we carry over our scores? I hope I don't have to start over again...

I hope this will be better than smbd.

Verstuurd van mijn Galaxy Nexus met Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Just in case you want to follow the new project. I opened a thread for it here.

Greetings ! :)
[Android Apps and Games] TheBlackSnyper:
Your not now, I'm now 1st with 295
[Android Apps and Games] Khoral:
Beaten by Jet Lag :'(
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
ATM I'm 3rd With 253 Devices. ^^

The program is only uploading the own Bluetooth address. Nothing else. All other is proceed at the mobile phone. I think a new version with scoreboard will be available at Thursday or Friday.

Sent from my HTC HD2
[Android Apps and Games] tattevajoo:
4th with 162 devices and counting.
[Android Apps and Games] Kev007:
Are are own MAC addresses uploaded as well? It's be cool if another user of this app discovered you (and you'd be notified of course!). It's be an awesome conversation starter!

Another interesting idea: see if you've pinged the same bluetooth devices as someone else - a cool way to test out the six degrees of separation theory.
[Android Apps and Games] Amro90:
I'm loving this. Found devices 49 and ranking 19.

+1 for some kind of a rankingboard, or at least something that shows how much more devices the person in front of you, and the person behind you has.
[Android Apps and Games] TheBlackSnyper:
Who is number 1: you just over took me at 610 , what city are you from?
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Today I have worked on the main layout to support more devices and on the new scoreboard layout. Tomorrow I will write the code for the scoreboard and I will program the new script on the server to get the scoreboard.

I also will fix some bugs.

Sent from my HTC HD2
[Android Apps and Games] TheBlackSnyper:
Great, can't wait. Using Bluetooth in games is genius. I have a few ideas now that can extra interactivity into games,. Great work
[Android Apps and Games] bongd:
"GOTTA SCAN 'EM ALL!!"

Sorry, I couldn't help... downloading and going to scan in the office here at work. Now I'm going to have OCD and scan for BT devices anytime I'm in a populated area. DAMN YOU!! lol :D
[Android Apps and Games] Khoral:
And you'll walk in trains between cars to catch a max of BT devices...

I think I might look a little scary staring at my phone like I do xD
[Android Apps and Games] ra100x:
is somewhere available ranking board? maybe list of scanned devices? or are you planning to do that, make some upgrades :)

btw. it is really interesting how many people have BT turned on, in 30 minutes I found over 120 devices (I only travelled by tram:))
[Android Apps and Games] DJFliX:
Yay! I'm first... Have been 2nd most of the time and when I woke up I was 5th... But I'm 1st again :3

And yeah, OCD'ing big time on this.

Btw, people asking about the bg stuff, it already runs in the background as long as your bluetooth is on. I have had the program running the whole day and my battery is at 63%, so it DOES drain the battery a little.

One of the problems I noticed is that the program probably doesn't run multi threaded? When the MAC's are submitted the whole program doesn't respond. Also if you resume the program activity it will stall until it can communicate with the score server. The GUI won't load at all until the communication is finished. I propose a scanner thread, a comparison thread and a submission/rank-get-thread. This way the program will keep scanning when it is submitting MAC's. Right now if I scan in a crowded area the whole program stalls until all the toasts have been shown. I am very interested in this specific subject because I am working on a 'connector' for Facebook, Twitter, Google (Latitude, Buzz), ING (a dutch bank), T-Mobile NL, and the public transporting system in the area. A nice addition is bluetooth detection as an add-on to regular latitude friends. If a friend is at a very close range it's very probable that the distance between those two people is less than 10 meters. Both people should use the most accurate location of the two.

If you have suggestions/do's & don'ts for this kind of detection, please contact me. Also: Have you thought about putting this on the market?
[Android Apps and Games] Khoral:
+1 to all that DJFliX said :)
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
At the momten I'm writing on the code.

But at this moment it is not possible to get the Bluetooth name immediately after the device was found, because the function is getting the information from the cache and not from the remote bluetooth device. In the next versions I will try to avoid this anyway.

@DJFliX:

Yes you're right. Currently the program is running in a single thread. But also this will be different in future versions. Just give me time. ^^

But one thing ! The Scan is running all the time independet on the program, because it is a service, so don't worry that you probably get not all devices. You'll get them.

Now I will write the server script. ^^
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Version 1.1

Sorry for doublepost, but a new version is now available.

Now a Scoreboard is available, and the names will automatically updated to the database.

The layout of the Scoreboard will be improved in the next version. :)

Caution !!!

All People with no name in the database will be deleted after 4 weeks starting now !!!

Please contact me if there are problems !!!

Much fun ! :)
[Android Apps and Games] TheBlackSnyper:
Scans are not working in new version
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
That's strange. On my HD2 the scan works. And on other Devices, too, because in the scoreboard were changes of Devices with name. Try to restart your phone ? : /

If there are similar problems too, post it please.

Sent from my HTC HD2
[Android Apps and Games] johncj:
I can also scan with the new version.

HTC Desire
[Android Apps and Games] amish mcswegan:
widget for scan most Bluetooth devices.

Hi,

Any possibility of a widget for the home screen?

That would work a treat!

Amish McSwegan
[Android Apps and Games] TheBlackSnyper:
Thanks, I restarted my phone and now its works. I really should of known that. Watch out ill be coming up the ranks.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] radar5:
Loving the app. I just wish I still took the train to work.
[Android Apps and Games] Scorpio-cz:
Hi,

I want to try your game but I cannot install it on my HTC Tattoo.

My ROM is PuzzleROM v6 (1.6 Donut with HTC Sense)
[Android Apps and Games] johncj:
It seems to screw up my wireless connection when I have the app started. I'm connected to WIFI, and when I start the app, wifi goes down...
[Android Apps and Games] DJFliX:
Bluetooth and WiFi work on the same frequency. It is possible that IF your bluetooth 'device' and wifi 'device' are 'in' the same chip, or share the same antenna, your WiFi performance may be impacted by Bluetooth use. I noticed it when I was listening to Bluetooth streaming music on my phone. Every 10 seconds or so it would stop and continue. This was because of Androids WiFi scans. This was in Android 1.6 so I'm not sure if this is still an issue. If this is what youa re experiencing, there is no 'cure'. Just switch to bluetooth if you need it, and just keep WiFi on when you don't need BT.

@ OP: Are the ranking servers still up? I can;t seem to connect. I have already rebooted.