Hi Everyone,
I've been recently thinking a lot about multi touch and where it stands on Android. I know with some roms we're starting to get multi touch browsers although to me this... "apple's way" is pointless.
I'd rather press Zoom in or Zoom out or double tap on a section than use 2 fingers and drag them apart or "pinch". I fail to see how this is making things easier to do infact in my opinion it's making them more complicated.
Anyway, I thought I'd start this topic as a sort of "brainstorm" where we can all pitch in ideas and ways as to how multi touch can help or improve phone functions. Who knows maybe one of the many talented developers on here will adopt an idea and put it to work.
So far I've come up with:
- Multi touch Answer
When someone calls, you're presented with the incoming call screen. It would be a nice feature to be able to answer or reject using multitouch. This idea is incredibly simple, tap the screen with 1 finger to answer a call. Tap the screen with 2 fingers to reject a call. May not be that beneficial to android as it has a call and call reject button however on windows mobile devices it would be a nice addition.
brummiesteven said:
Hi Everyone,
I've been recently thinking a lot about multi touch and where it stands on Android. I know with some roms we're starting to get multi touch browsers although to me this... "apple's way" is pointless.
I'd rather press Zoom in or Zoom out or double tap on a section than use 2 fingers and drag them apart or "pinch". I fail to see how this is making things easier to do infact in my opinion it's making them more complicated.
Anyway, I thought I'd start this topic as a sort of "brainstorm" where we can all pitch in ideas and ways as to how multi touch can help or improve phone functions. Who knows maybe one of the many talented developers on here will adopt an idea and put it to work.
So far I've come up with:
- Multi touch Answer
When someone calls, you're presented with the incoming call screen. It would be a nice feature to be able to answer or reject using multitouch. This idea is incredibly simple, tap the screen with 1 finger to answer a call. Tap the screen with 2 fingers to reject a call. May not be that beneficial to android as it has a call and call reject button however on windows mobile devices it would be a nice addition.
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well multitouch actually lets you choose your zoom in and out level. i.e. sometimes i just want to zoom in a little further on the hero rom i am running. or zoom out a little. multitouch is very useful.. letting me choose how i want to see things. in both emails and browser.
and i dont think the calling idea is good. some people may pull out their phones from the pocket or purse and touch the screen and accidently answer a call..or reject.
I saw an article on Engadget that was preceeded by this image:
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The center image gives an idea of multitouch controls for an emulator.
Mulitouch on googlemaps would be sooooooo cooooool.
I would like to have multi touch for image browsing/zooming the way the iPhone does. Having it for emulators like the one mentioned above would be sweet too.
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I know this is a bit of an odd question, but is there a way to have two different today screens on the Tilt, one for when the keyboard is closed and one for when its open?
I want this because i dont like having to scroll down on the little scroll bar to access the programs below when the key board is open.
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is there a program or a setting that could do this?
And to refrain from posting 2 threads, is there a way to schedule your phones ring volume? like every week day from Time A to time B its vibrate and the rest its not?
I think the answer is yes, and yes.
I'm pretty sure the phone uses different pic files when changing resolution upon opening the Tilt. I don't know of a program to set it but I bet there is one. I'm surprised no one has helped on that yet. Hang in there.
There are several programs to set the phone volume at a schedule. This is called a "phone profile". PocketZen Phone and SPB Phone Suite are two examples.
Try a search, see my sig fo link. Good luck.
If you use Resco Picture Viewer and set one picture as a wallpaper when on portrait mode, and then another when you're on landscape mode, you'll get two different wallpapers.
If anyone knows of another method I would like to know aswell.
Cheers
Ok pizzaguy wants 2 diferant screens on slide open and closed. Not only change the wallpaper (background). Well pizzaguy I hope someone can help u because then they would also be helping me.... I want the same thing. Later dude.....
I think the only solution is Wisbar Advance Desktop.
That can create a page for portrait and one for landscape.
There is a program from a company called Netwasp, Thememaker M, that allows you to make WM6 themes with a portrait and landscape Graphic that are different. I'm using it to make themes for my Tilt, and it works great
pizzaguy said:
And to refrain from posting 2 threads, is there a way to schedule your phones ring volume? like every week day from Time A to time B its vibrate and the rest its not?
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I use PhoneWeaver from http://www.SBSH.net for this, and love it. I have it set up to be on vibrate during normal business hours, quite after I put my daughter down to bed, silent at night while I'm sleeping, and loud rest of the time. Everything can be completely scheduled based on time/days. You can also set up different alerts for Phone/Mail/SMS/etc. based on these profiles as well. The only issues that I have come across is that it doesn't turn Wifi off correctly, but I think there is a work-around for this.
This might sound like a stupid question but, have any of u guys been able to send touch tones on your wing. I mean like not through the keypad, but like a no. from the contacts list. Almost every phone has this feature. I just thought i would discover it after some days. 5 months now and zilch. Please tell me i must be overlooking some little thing.
Thanks,
I don't really understand the question.
shaell said:
This might sound like a stupid question but, have any of u guys been able to send touch tones on your wing. I mean like not through the keypad, but like a no. from the contacts list. Almost every phone has this feature. I just thought i would discover it after some days. 5 months now and zilch. Please tell me i must be overlooking some little thing.
Thanks,
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You mean like being able to press and hold the number 2 and have it dial your girlfriend type of thing? If that's the case and you're using the HTCTouch pad, just press down while you're in the pad.
duprade said:
I don't really understand the question.
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I am sorry for being so unclear. I usually use calling cards to call my home country. In order to do that i have to dial a access number, a pin number and then the long distance phone number. I had an older Nokia 6019i. In that phone
i use to have my dads phone number stored as....
xxx(calling card pin)xxx(long distance number).
I mean all those numbers i use to store in the number field of the phone book entry. Then i just use to call the access number. Select call options from the Nokia call menu. Then select "send touch tones". Search for the phone number as you would do in any phonebook. Select the number and press send. It would send all those numbers as tones.. as if i was dialing them...but much much faster.
Hope that clears it up or messes up the question even further
I found this in a quick search. May it can help you.
http://krishnakumar.com/Main/Extra/CCDialerV20/CCDialerV20.htm
This new version, which is in BETA, works on Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. It is resolution aware, so it will work fine on QVGA and Landscape screens.
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Here's another one called Sunnysoft Calling Card
http://sunnysoft.com/software.php?idarticle=265#screenshots
Seems to be a little nicer than the other one.
Hey duprade,
Thanks for all the info man. Will try both of them. Its a pity that such a feature which is natively available on lower end devices, is not there on a WM device. But thanks again, those applications will definitely fit my purpose.
Does anyone have a lead on a SIP that will do straight up old-school style text messaging? All I'm looking for is a SIP that kinda looks like:
123
456
789
*0#
All I want is to be able to hit a button, it will hold on the letter for just a moment so you can press again, or move to the next digit. No predictive t9, no having to hit superfluous buttons to actually input the word. Just real old school texting. Even a way to do this via customizing an existing SIP would suffice.
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Does anyone have a lead on a SIP that will do straight up old-school style text messaging? All I'm looking for is a SIP that kinda looks like:
123
456
789
*0#
All I want is to be able to hit a button, it will hold on the letter for just a moment so you can press again, or move to the next digit. No predictive t9, no having to hit superfluous buttons to actually input the word. Just real old school texting. Even a way to do this via customizing an existing SIP would suffice.
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and u would want this on the wing because???
Easy - one handed texting and text input when the situation calls for it. I mean, why does M$ put in a SIP on our devices to begin with? Not like we don't have that full blown keyboard under there. I want something that I can use on the fly that doesn't require manual dexterity or practice to get use to.
There's one floating around somewhere...I had it on my Wing before I flashed the 6.1 on it...gotta see if I can find it again...it also did T9 as well..I got a email from Handango that there is a program that has two letters a key like the Pearl, or Shadow and you can text that way....costs money though
how about the touch keypad and keyboard ?
I use TouchPAL by cootek or something like that for one handed texting, and I have found it to be quite useful.
They were giving it away for free on their site .. and then they offer a pro version which has predictive text... I dunno if they are still doing that.
duprade said:
I use TouchPAL by cootek or something like that for one handed texting, and I have found it to be quite useful.
They were giving it away for free on their site .. and then they offer a pro version which has predictive text... I dunno if they are still doing that.
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Yeah, they still offer it. It looks nice, I think I may have to install it.
http://www.cootek.com/download.aspx
Yea the TouchPal is what I was talking about..thanks for letting me know about the free version..gonna have to download it once I get home!!
JLine05 said:
Yeah, they still offer it. It looks nice, I think I may have to install it.
http://www.cootek.com/download.aspx
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I tried this out; not terrible. Not exactly what I'm looking for, but not terrible. Still just want an old school dumb phone way to text on the touch screen, but this will do for now.
How about the HTC Dual Keypad ?
you can get it from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=342351&highlight=HTC+Dual+Keypad
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Yea! That's the one I had
GiZZy said:
How about the HTC Dual Keypad ?
you can get it from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=342351&highlight=HTC+Dual+Keypad
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This looks exactly like what I've been wanting! Just downloaded, I'll edit in a while once it gets loaded and played around with.
Hi guys,
found this great lock application in the web so though of sharing this to the community
This is a unique lock application created by Prompt Mobile Center for Omnia i8000/Omnia 2, featuring colorful butterfly, humming bird and funny yellow man which moves according to the movement of your device. (G-sensor)
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Inspired by the nature, this lockscreen application features a colorful background.
The device sensor senses the movement of the device and changes the background and the butterfly/humming bird motion accordingly.
This 3D background also changes according to the time of the day. By simply tilting the device back, the screen shows missed calls, messages, or mail information received while it was locked. When the user touches the screen, the bird flies to the touched point. Touching the screen long enough unlocks the device.
S’Skin Lock Application has a setting menu to set locking time and screen backlight.
Whereas, this little funny “Yellow Man” character will move according to the movement of the device. “Yellow Man” walks, falls and hits the wall as the device moves. (i like this the most)
Check out S'skin lock in action:
Video preview
the developer's site:
http://mobile.prompt.co.kr/sskin/sskin.asp
So here's the downloads:
S'Skin HummingBird v1: http://www.mediafire.com/?nmmxbqmykjk
S'Skin HummingBird2 v1: http://www.mediafire.com/?2hmdihyymyw
S'Skin YellowMan v1 : http://www.mediafire.com/?konneamtl2o
S'Skin Butterfly v1: http://www.mediafire.com/?honyyzi2mmy
Cheers~
(not sure if this works on other WVGA device. If anyone ever tried it please give your feedback. Thanks in advence)
Edited: Seems like not working in WVGA HTC device. Wish there's any expert who can port it to HTC device.
Looks very nice.
The only thing missing is "lock when incoming call" but first I will test it.
Touch HD
It doesn't seem to work on the Touch HD
I'm missing a shortcut in program files. If i go to the prohram folder I can start the settings. The lock screen isn't started.
You are using fluid and a swf file, nice
thats what i get as well
Doesn't work on the Touch Pro 2 When I lock it just shows the Windows Mobile lockscreen.
Anyone know how to get this working please?
Hi, dosen't work in HD2, may need change in reg something.
i think this aplication dosent work because the new lockscreen of WM, if change for old style maybe works...
um...not working in diamond 2 either
Doesnt work on diamond running 6.5
Damn looks cool.
Working Skin, Not Application
This appears to be a samsung add on. The LOCK application that comes with the samsung phone previewed is different. Now....If we can only dump the lock app from the samsung, this app would be lovely..... any volunteers??
xavier1022 said:
This appears to be a samsung add on. The LOCK application that comes with the samsung phone previewed is different. Now....If we can only dump the lock app from the samsung, this app would be lovely..... any volunteers??
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Yes i like this concept. Though it's a lock screen for omnia i8000/omnia 2, it would be nice to see this in our HTC
port for htc devices
yes i agree someone needs to port this to htc devices
T_T
would be glad if someone really ports this! wanna use it on my TD2!
Wow. Beautifullllll...someone port this PLEASE!!!
Can't wait!
the strange looking man figure looks funny lol..
would love to get it for my TP2.. anybody ? muchos gracias
It's awesome. Thanks for sharing. See whether it can works on my Samsung i908.
We'd love to have it ported for HTC Diamond/TP running WM6.5
seaman123 said:
It's awesome. Thanks for sharing. See whether it can works on my Samsung i908.
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i tried ,.. the resolution not same with omnia i900... sad!
Samsung galaxy s and android together is a nonsense
Subject volume
now if i want to lower the ring tone down when i am in office it works simple and easy
but what stupid it is my sms ring is still like a loudspeaker, i have to manually go inside setting and do the volume control. completely nonsense.
after office i put my phone on high but i usually forget to go inside tweak things and do the sms volume up and high ( i missed so many imp text)
and in silent mode if i try to play some game it will have music to start with because the media volume is again different level needs another correction there...
such small things which are very imp and even after 4yrs of android no luck....
come on if i want to link a contact i want to type and search a name and do it quick rather i scroll all the names.
Samsung Android what nonsense... CAN SOME ONE HELP ME & THEM UNDERSTAND
and there are so many such things... to much to type may be someday later .....
such a trivial thing
install this and it will fix your problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8123906&postcount=39
more cool stuff at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765081
thanks this sounds worth it.............
but this being a widget i am sure it will use continuous ram.
You could also try an app called Quick Profiles - works well and you can create your own custom profiles as you see fit.
Oh thanks ......i like the audio widget but i must give this a try since the audio widget makes my slow phone run even slower......
i read it some where samsung galaxy s was the fastest phone...... why is the ram/rom part always been used more then 70 %..........
nitin.04 said:
Oh thanks ......i like the audio widget but i must give this a try since the audio widget makes my slow phone run even slower......
i read it some where samsung galaxy s was the fastest phone...... why is the ram/rom part always been used more then 70 %..........
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you make no sense
i run all these and even more without any slow / lag
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all my 7 screen are full of widgets
wow you have a very interesting screen and looks you are pretty tech savvy.... nice
I am driven by tech and speed i hate slow and sloppy things...... i mean this is a wonderful phone better then all my previous phones I phone 3g, E72, bold 9700 .......
but the truth is it is still not perfect it lacks so many details and at times the response is so very slow.
I am waiting desperately for FROYO ...........