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[REQ]ChompSMS-like IM client

I've looked around the marketplace pretty extensively and haven't seen any IM clients that even come close to being as beautiful and usable as chomp is for texting. I'd love to see a gchat app that uses the same glossy bubbles. (I haven't tried the paid ones... I've always been against paying for an IM client, especially in this case where the phone already has a decent one, I just want a nicer looking one.)

Hi AIM has a virtual keypad and has bubbled convos. Its not very stable but its the closet to what your asking for.

Hello IM, its 10 bucks

FuMMoD said:
Hello IM, its 10 bucks
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imo hello im is worth every penny, its my favorite im app thus far, i like how if in a conversation, you can swipe your finger from left to right (or visa versa) and change conversations

Did they ever fix the battery life issue with it though? I remember that app draining my battery extremely fast during beta.

Gimpeh said:
Did they ever fix the battery life issue with it though? I remember that app draining my battery extremely fast during beta.
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im using jf 1.42 and the full version of hello aim, and i have better battery life with hello aim than i do if im texting with chomp sms, i think beta was sending/recieving online status waaaay too much, and now its not, my batteyr doesnt suffer with the newest version of hello aim

Now only if palringo would stay connected like hello im. I miss beejive.

Pebble Smart Watch SDK APPS....

Now that the backers are getting there smart watches I was thinking there should be a thread were to get apps and the sdk available to other users.
I would love to see KIK Messenger working and more clock faces to choose from.

+1 for more watch faces.
Would it be possible to create an app that used a bluetooth headset as well to enable voice control w/ Google Now?

I can't read Hebrew the font used is not unicode. Does anybody have any idea how to change it?

KukurikU said:
I can't read Hebrew the font used is not unicode. Does anybody have any idea how to change it?
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It is not possible to read any other alphabet other than the latin for now (I have the same problem with greek). I saw an app today made by a chinese or korean user (not sure) that pushed a translated message to the watch. Of course it used some data trafic to translate it via internet but it is a very good idea. I was wondering if there could be an app that automatically changed the greek characters to latin ones, the way they appear on a computer keyboard and then push the text/e-mail to the watch. Sadly, I have no idea of programming. If anyone knows how to do it, please do!

RE: Pebble Smart Watch SDK APPS...
it is a very good idea!

idle0095 said:
Now that the backers are getting there smart watches I was thinking there should be a thread were to get apps and the sdk available to other users.
I would love to see KIK Messenger working and more clock faces to choose from.
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+1

How's the shipping situation on these looking? Like if I order one today what's the ETA?

The kickstarter backer watches didn't arrive in germany yet.
New orders will likely take some time

Hope it will get to the Netherlands soon....
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Mine is finally here. Amazing! I also have the Sony smartwatch. The Pebble is much better and easier to use. Pebble Notifier for Android is amazingly easy to use and all my wanted notification come to the watch now including Whatsapp and Chess Player.
Also loving the music remote function of the watch. Once selected it remains onscreen so changing a track can be done without looking at the watch.
I hope for the SDK more watch faces. I would like one with time, date and the current weather. I do hope that the coming apps for the watch works as the music remote app. I don't prefer a notificationcentre or something like that. The watch should remain simple.

i like this !!

@Ironic6925 checkout glance for pabble it has everyrhing you looking for plus sms, been running for a few weeks now, great app
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amorek13 said:
@Ironic6925 checkout glance for pabble it has everyrhing you looking for plus sms, been running for a few weeks now, great app
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brilliant app, thanks for the reference!
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+! for Glance. So far IMHO the best Pebble App

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+! for Glance. So far IMHO the best Pebble App
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Glance is nice but I prefer the Pebbler app on my android and the 91 Weather watch face. Great weather and info on the watch and seems to stay connected better than glance for me.

They sent me a free Pebble to play with. They have Plenty of Watchfaces at Pebble's Forums, you could check them out. +1 To the idea of having a thread seperate for all the Watchapps and Watchfaces.
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1- https://notesforpebble.com/ - This is a Notes App. You can Password protect all the notes. However, To save more than one note, you will need to buy it. A Nice App to Check out.
2- Google 'Keep for Pebble'. It needs a rooted Android, and it syncs All your google keep notes to your watch. An option if you don't want to pay for the one above but this one needs active bluetooth connection to view the notes while the first one does not require any bluetooth connection after installing.
And the Third and Final App(A Game Actually)- Koishiban! (Sukoban For Pebble). Check it out here (Still in Beta Stage so you will have to sugn up for testing on google+ which is free- http://forums.getpebble.com/discussion/6973/watch-app-android-beta-koishiban-sokoban-for-pebble-looking-for-beta-testers

Canvas is my favorite app, easy and powerful way to make custom watch faces. Right now my pebble displays the weather conditions & temperature with a dynamic icon as long as an animated row of missed calls, sms, & emails plus the battery percentage of my phone. oh yeah and the date&time
Canvas makes it super easy to do this.
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[Q] Facebook Home on One

....not available on april 12 apparently
I hope they will make it available soon, because i really like to give it a try
Funny is available on HTC one x and x+ but not a the newer handset
Will you be using it - if it becomes available ?

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....not available on april 12 apparently
I hope they will make it available soon, because i really like to give it a try
Funny is available on HTC one x and x+ but not a the newer handset
Will you be using it - if it becomes available ?
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Facebook is pretty annoying as it is even before it takes over your phone.... however my wife would love it!

Facebook ant-social media for people with no life or middle aged people trying to re-live their youthful past, and at the same time every government agency on earth are mining you data.
can't stand the place and i hope Home is flop.

Um no thanks. I use Facebook regularly. But I don't want to Have to see it unless I choose.
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Who wants more facebook in their life? I already can't stand the page I have.
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On androidcentral they posted this:
"Right now the official list of phones that'll support Facebook Home at launch is as follows: HTC One, HTC One X, HTC One X+, Galaxy S3, Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note II, and of course the HTC First."
androidcentral.com/facebook-home-coming-ice-cream-sandwich-and-jelly-bean-only

HTC One and SG4 are noted as FUTURE release ( i understand from internal sources that most likely beginning of June )
also the App wont be available outside US on 12th....

I think this app or launcher will only kill your battery life. I deinstalled fb app, cuz of to many wakelocks.
When i go via browser it also faster, so i dont need this ****.

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I think this app or launcher will only kill your battery life. I deinstalled fb app, cuz of to many wakelocks.
When i go via browser it also faster, so i dont need this ****.
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+1 I'd rather prefer blinkfeed over facebook. At least I get to have alot more choice with it. And I maybe a facebook user but I don't want it being shove in my face everytime I open my phone lol!

doesnt hurt to try out facebook home? maybe thats the solution to the horrid facebook app!

Why hope it will be a flop? I definately won't be using it, but I'm pretty sure there's a (big) market for it.
Just probably not for most users on this forum, but there are other users out there

tim2london said:
....not available on april 12 apparently
I hope they will make it available soon, because i really like to give it a try
Funny is available on HTC one x and x+ but not a the newer handset
Will you be using it - if it becomes available ?
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I, personally, will be trying it out. I don't think there is any harm in giving it a go, if it's fluid and fast I don't see the problem. The only thing I can say in regards to it not being released on the One, is possibly HTC's secrecy over the device. I highly doubt HTC would want to risk a full-device leak, though we had plenty during development probably just doesn't support 1080P, as it's not on the DNA either.
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I think this app or launcher will only kill your battery life. I deinstalled fb app, cuz of to many wakelocks.
When i go via browser it also faster, so i dont need this ****.
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Facebook have teamed up with Qualcomm to optimize and make the launcher much more power efficient. It should use minimum RAM and minimum battery when operating on a Qualcomm device, which is the HTC One .
Stop hating people, you have a choice weather you get it or not. This is Android, not iOS.

@jaaystott I totally agree with you
I dont understand whats with this hate of FB apps: ok i get you dont use FB, you dont like being ''spied'' by the FBI etc but i am talking about a new development here
is hybrid between an app and a OS..it could bring improvements or not, thats to find out
also im pretty sure 90% of the one's yelling they dont use fb or will download, will at a point download it and try it....lets face it, and stop being so precious
There has been a lot of work involved in developing this hybrid and the fact that they choose HTC to deploy it, should mean we will get the best of it
of course no one is forcing you to use it or try it, but dont make everyone who is curios or wants to try it - feel like they are somewhat weird

I am very interested to try to lockscreen, because lockscreens on android are horrible. yes there are so many themes and cool looking ones.. but functionality wise, they alls suck! why iOS shows all notifications from all apps i choose and then i can just open the ones i like. on android its a mixed experience. some apps shows. some dont.. (gmail doesnt for example). Facebook seems to solved this problem by merging all notification on their homescreen and make it more useful.

I really want to try it, and like the idea, although, in the downloadable version, it will block android notifications (sms, email, apps), which i personally think is a stupid idea, so in order to get it at any realistically usable level, we'd need a port of the first's rom.
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/facebook-home-download-ignores-androids-notifications/

Blinkfeed surely is enough. It's bad enough on there
'Just ate a curry yum yum'
Or watch this it's hillarious type crap
Facebook jog on. We got the point. Gets more invasive with age man
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Facebook ant-social media for people with no life or middle aged people trying to re-live their youthful past, and at the same time every government agency on earth are mining you data.
can't stand the place and i hope Home is flop.
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Well said

I had fb a long time and after some time I tested fb via browser. This app is still slow in comparison.
gesendet vom Galaxy S

Umm, i may give it ago, but i actually like my Sense 5 and Blinkfeed too much. . . ill try but thats it. . .

me too

[Q] Camera 'EXTREMELY' poor! + Crappy Mail + Other queries

1. Got the HTC One from AT&T yesterday. Though I don't take too many pics with my phone, but i still wanted a phone which could take atleast half decent pics. And with HTC One, I'm terribly disappointed with the pics. My old iPhone 4 had much much muchhh better picture quality than One!
I'm surprised how this camera is compared to Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5 when iPhone 4 takes better pics than this!
I donno if I'm missing some setting, as of now I'm using the cam with all default settings (Scene mode-Normal, etc).
2. Coming from an iPhone, another most important "loss in quality" feature is mail/gmail app! I'm shocked to see how ultra crappy gmail app is on android! I can't believe that Google was not able to build a half decent mail app for android.
I was trying the Mail app of HTC and when I configured my mail as Gmail, it din't send me the push notifications. When I tried to configure as Microsoft Exchange, it kept giving me some "Please try again later" error. Also, the mails were only displaying text and no images (despite selecting 'Maximum Size' in receive mail settings), kinda reminded me of my 10 year old Sony Ericsson phone which used to display mails without any images.
3. Why can't i take pics using volume keys?!
After almost 2 days of usage, these are some of the MAJOR quirks and I hope can be solved.

I actually looked at your two other posts on XDA and I don't *think* you're trolling. I think you just don't like how some of your first few pictures came out. And some other stuff. You know, coming from iOS to Android is going to take some adjustment generally- instead of rushing to XDA to post a thread about 'I'm overwhelmed with how much this sucks' maybe just take one thing at a time.
Anyway, as for the camera, a) be specific with what you don't like [ie maybe it's just you] and b) did you check software version [ie maybe it's just the software]. Everyone seems to think the camera got better with version 1.29 . If you've already got that, not sure what to tell you. If everything's functioning as intended and you still hate it, return it. Life is too short to hate your phone.

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1. Got the HTC One from AT&T yesterday. Though I don't take too many pics with my phone, but i still wanted a phone which could take atleast half decent pics. And with HTC One, I'm terribly disappointed with the pics. My old iPhone 4 had much much muchhh better picture quality than One!
I'm surprised how this camera is compared to Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5 when iPhone 4 takes better pics than this!
I donno if I'm missing some setting, as of now I'm using the cam with all default settings (Scene mode-Normal, etc).
2. Coming from an iPhone, another most important "loss in quality" feature is mail/gmail app! I'm shocked to see how ultra crappy gmail app is on android! I can't believe that Google was not able to build a half decent mail app for android.
I was trying the Mail app of HTC and when I configured my mail as Gmail, it din't send me the push notifications. When I tried to configure as Microsoft Exchange, it kept giving me some "Please try again later" error. Also, the mails were only displaying text and no images (despite selecting 'Maximum Size' in receive mail settings), kinda reminded me of my 10 year old Sony Ericsson phone which used to display mails without any images.
3. Why can't i take pics using volume keys?!
After almost 2 days of usage, these are some of the MAJOR quirks and I hope can be solved.
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You can download the gmail app from the play store if you don't like the built in htc mail app...

I find that the HTC mail app out classes the mail app for iOS by a long shot. I hated the mail app. On iOS. I never liked the Gmail app on either platform though.
Also you have to be joking about the iPhone 4 having better picture quality. I've done many test shots between the two and the iPhone 4 produces so much noise it's insane, sucks in low light, and even didn't get as much detail as say photos. Don't know how you are even getting remotely close results with the iPhone 4.
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Look you have a steep learning curve to go! Not all the best apps are loaded on the phone. There are tons of camera apps to make contrast better and brightness. Best to question how to improve your phone experience. Not complaints! Android is about your freedom of choices not the most user friendly experience.

Same post at Android Central.....?!?!?

Maybe I gave him too much credit..
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what software version do you have? 1.29 was supposed to bring camera improvements

All such posts should always have accompanying pictures as proof ... generally when you switch from smaller to bigger phone, hands will shake during picture taking

Anybody actually use Evernote?

Anybody actually use Evernote?
There are free apps that do as good or better job such as Google Keep.
Does not even the Samsung bloatware package have a note taking app?
But there is the Gear App for Evernote, do you use it and Evernote?
Why?

I use evernote.. specially for the task on it. Helps me a lot to tick the task..
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Nope!! Never tried evernote before...
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I do. Handy for grocery checklist. Lol
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evernote, that over 100 mb (on windows) notepad with pictures and checklist? no thanks.
i'd rather use TickTick and bluetooth tethering to use it for my tasks..
normally i use keep on other devices, but i doubt keep will work on gear, as we have to use our gmail accounts.

Yep use it to sync S-Notes. Great to have Gear support for other notes and checklists

Evernote is fantastic.. Use it a lot for work.

I use Evernote everyday. Its an essential part of my workflow.
Im a photojournalist and have been using Evernote to take notes on all the assignments/photos I take for around 4 years and its just awesome.
The key is to make sure that you create many notebooks so that the content is well organized.
The only other app that I use is OneNote which is fantastic in a different way.
Evernote on the Gear is actually quite functional (but limiting at the same time)
Its really easy for me, when Im processing the photos I shot, to just take a peek at names in the Evernote Gear app.
Besides that, Evernote is also great when used in conjunction with the Chrome clip extension on desktop, or EverClip app on Android, to grab stuff you want to check out later from the web.
The only other app that I use regularly (and there is an app on Gear) is Pocket. I use Pocket because it gives me the ability of having my phone read me the story while I drive. Thanks to the Gear app you can access the particular story you sent to Pocket from your browser real easily.
Hope that gives you a little more info.

I use evernote constantly for everything. Very useful for deeply complex tasks which require note taking in order to close off. If you ever try to tackle something that seems overwhelming, try using something like evernote. Just break it into parts, brainstorm around those parts, and do excessive note taking. Review your notes frequently. It'll help your brain figure it out.
I'm sure Google Keep is just as good, I haven't really had a chance to use it.
Still, give evernote a chance! It's free! And monoculture sucks...

I was an original beta for Evernote. Frankly I subscribe to the premium and like the new two stage security authorization they just added. The S-Note integration is useful. Making lists that work on the watch is a bonus. It's utility comes from the simplicity of getting all kinds of information in and out of it quickly - you have to develop good tagging habits (and the premium OCR of scanned documents, PDF's etc. is worth the premium). Searching is quick and making notebooks and favorites are key. The power is the cross-platform sync (in my case - Note 3, macbook pro at home and HP AIO at the office).
Developing drawbacks are the usual... As the service becomes more popular the complementary, symbiotic products hype is becoming very pervasive. They added the "market" and though most of the products "could be useful" (like scanners, pens, elephant branded stuff), the constant "Announcement" alerts and product pitch emails are ANNOYING. Perhaps the suits have taken over and they don't get it or don't care. Perhaps I'm (40+ and) not in the key demographic anymore. Anyhow i's the only bad thing. Suits aside the engineers seem to keep trying to making the service better. I use it constantly all day to lookup stuff I need, both personal and business.

Yes I use Evernote,
I don't need the paid version.
The only thing it really misses is a dark/ inverted theme for at night.

I use it all the time since I bought a livescribe wifi (great for meetings and conferences. I wish I had this when I was in college). Love that it automatically sync with evernote and can pull up anytime to recall.

WRichieX said:
I use it all the time since I bought a livescribe wifi (great for meetings and conferences. I wish I had this when I was in college). Love that it automatically sync with evernote and can pull up anytime to recall.
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How is the livescribe? Can't get around to the idea of buying paper specifically for it ...
I just started using Evernote recently and I do agree it's pretty interesting; the gear part is pretty good for shopping lists .

j89 said:
How is the livescribe? Can't get around to the idea of buying paper specifically for it ...
I just started using Evernote recently and I do agree it's pretty interesting; the gear part is pretty good for shopping lists .
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Yea I was thinking the same thing but the paper isn't that much more expensive. Please, you can print out the paper as well. If you take a lot of notes, then it's definitely worth it. There's a new one that came out that connects through BT and connects to an iOS app. But an android is coming out soon. However, i like the idea of pulling the notes and recording from the cloud.