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Hi,
I've loaded SmartGear 1.0.4 onto my Diamond after reading that it's on a few people's "must-have apps" lists. I'm not having the easiest time setting up controls: how do all of you have your Diamond set up for controls for this or any emulators? The "touchscreen" controls don't do anything no matter how I set them in the TS settings, and setting the controls to use the directional keys does not work well at all (the up,down,left,right of the Diamond is NOT conducive to video game play!) Every time I hit the left key it hits the home key.
Is there a way to get the Touchscreen controls to actually work as game controls?
Thanks!
PS: I'm open to suggestions for different emulators too if they work better on Diamond!!
Nevermind, figured it out.
how did you fix this, i had same problem with another emulator?
Please Please Please tell us how you got it to work.
I tried everything and it just doesn't work.
I'm using the (shouldbe) newest v1.0.4 of Smartgear.
I know that no one has been on this thread in forever, but, how did you get it to work period?!?! I have it running roms and everything but it won't recognize ANY buttons, not even hardware... how do you get this to work? Or can you suggest a different emulator? (i've tried pocketsnes and it doesn't work)
Crap, sorry guys, I honestly don't even remember at this point... I took Smartgear off my phone 3 or 4 days later after realizing that the Diamond just isn't the best device for video gaming (other than games that use the G-sensor) due to it's lack of hardware controls. I honestly couldn't tell you what I did since I don't even remember what it looks like anymore!
The only thing I can remember that I had to play with is the video resolution. Make sure yours is set to "Fit2Win*" (the one WITH the *, not the one without!!)
Hello all,
I recently started a course here at Purdue University on Mobile Software development (Windows Mobile).
I need some ideas for programs I should write. Please reply to this thread or PM me if you'd like.
I have experience with C#, VB, C++, and C, among other languages.
Thanks
Jason Flittner
how about a dedicated xda forum app?
How about a sports ticker. I'm still surprised there isn't one yet.
BTW, I think I saw a xda app when I was poking around the other night.
I'm trying to think of ideas but my minds drawing a blank...
Here's the XDApp
Gonna expose my nerdiness here, but you asked...
How about an app that accesses the D&D Insider online compendium of rules and data? Not sure what would be involved, but I'm betting that there's no API available, so it'll probably never happen.
OTOH, it would be nice to see a really high quality dice-rolling app that takes full advantage of the g-sensor and the hardware accelerated graphics...something that looks like dice inside a tumbler, you know? Maybe start with a really slick Yahtzee-style game, and build up to polyhedral dice for us game-geeks?
I'd be happy to provide you with some guidelines for building. I'm sure we could find you a suitably good graphics guy, too, if you're not up to that part (I could do that, in a pinch).
I want my phone to do this:
But until then, I would like to see an ap like Skype, but for mobile that will easily switch you from cellular network to VOIP.
I have two ideas:
#1 - I don't know if this is even possible, but an application that turns on WIFI and/or Bluetooth in a receive only mode briefly every few seconds and listens for user selected devices in range and then performs user selected actions.
The idea is that the it would use less power than leaving WIFI and/or Bluetooth on all the time, but when I get in range of my wifi router at home, it turn WIFI fully on and sync my phone. Or when I'm in range of the WiFi at work, it could turn my ringer to vibrate. Or when I get into the car, it detect my Bluetooth stero, connects to it, and opens the music player.
#2 - Probably simpler than #1, a program that turns WiFi and/or Bluetooth on automatically when the phone is plugged into a charger and then performs specific user defined actions, similar to idea #1.
I don't know if programs like this already exist, but I haven't found them.
Dylan
I like these ideas, please keep them coming. I am not sure what the requirements will be as far as our programming projects are concerned but from what I understand I have alot of freedom in project choices!
I am in another robotics programming class working with the iRobot Creates and I was thinking it would be really sweet to program something that could allow the 2 to interact in some way/shape/form!
I am also very excited about GPS technology I wouldn't mind programming something that would utilize the GPS or triangulation!
Thanks for the contributions all, please keep them coming!
~JFlitt
With all that programing skill you could create some pretty neat apps.
Ive always liked the windows desktop interface.
How about a windows xp-like launcher?
Complete with movable desktop icons, windows, etc.
I am aware that wisbar advance desktop allows you to do this, but alot of those skins are a hassle, and they are not very complete. Plus they dont exactly take advantage of any 3d graphic drivers..
But anyways back to the point, with a windows xp desktop like interface it would be easier to use the phone.
I would not have to stretch my thumb all the way to the top left of the phone.
Oh and you could possibly utilize the touch pros capacitive touch panel for controlling the mouse.
You could also get google android working with more functionality. I am aware that there is work being done on it, but someone with so much programing knowledge could really speed up the project.(Im android crazy)
Or, if all that is too much to complete in limited time, then how about an application that will allow multi touch using the touch panel?
And also, resistive touch screens are supposedly multi touch capable.
I hope i gave you enough ideas.
Good luck.
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ye s a facebook like app
But would love to see a app recreate the zoombar
on my tp
VOIP
Hi,
I have an idea and it is possible.
how about having an app on your phone to configure your SIP provider settings in it ( 5 different proxy ) and then when you want to dial a number, you can right click on it and chose " voip dial ".
Skype already gives you a the menu for skype calls when u right click on your contact .
if you can add a menu to TF3D settings->communication->VOIP and we can add 5 different proxy in it and we can activate more than one proxy at the same time in order to RECEIVE AND DIAL voip calls from our phone it would be awesome since microsoft is not allowing this kind of apps on marketplace .
Tnx
Thunder
a good "made for raphael" nes or snes emulator would be great since all the other ones out there are out dated and seem to work grat on old phones but are horribly laggy on the touch pro...wierd... the only good one ive found is a jap build of nester (nesterj4u) built for an hp phone or pda im not sure but the keyboard slides out to the right so landscape mode is upside down when i want to use the keyboard >_<
a good streaming media app thats a bit easyer to use than the one that comes with the phone would be great with some tv links on it like surfthechannel or tvdome would be great.
a youporn app to copliment the youtube app would be awsome
hmmm a good compass that simply points north (true or magnetic) with degrees would be awsome for when i drop mine on the roof trying to point my sat.
a simple freeware level would also be awsome since ive only found trialware levels so far
an hourglass would be a fun pointless app for when i get bored of pouring digital beer.
a goofy clip art picture editor could be fun just to mess with. maybe with some fish eye lens and carnival mirror opptions would be fun.
a free streaming radio app would be cool too....
sorry for the long list cant sleep ... figured the more ideas the better
ps. im not sure if any of these already exist havent checked lately so if anyone know if they do feal free to point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated
ok, I'm gonna try to have this make sense, but no guarantees. how about a simple titanium plugin framework? something that **doesn't** use mortscript? as mscript is good for certain things, it's not for others. this way there is an easier way for developers to make new plugins for it without having to use a slow scripting language. does that make any sense?
How about a talking GPS
I was out on my mountain bike today. I have a Garmin unit on the handle bars for navigation and listening to music from my Touch Pro in my pocket.
I was riding a fast downhill section through the some trees when I realized I was taking my eyes off the trail to make sure I was still on course.
I've used this http://www.basicgps.co.uk/ for Geocaching but it can only take you to one waypoint at a time. You can't use it to follow a route.
How about making an application which can steer you along a route using voice commands.
(Tomtom and others can only do this on roads, not off-road)
mixture of gps and accelerometer
well can u create an app the tells u ur speed while u are travelling like there is one app which does it in i phone it uses motion sensing and gps there are apis for both you can code it in c# with .net fw 3.5 and if u require help i am available i too know c# .
sound control
What about an app. that would control all of the sound feature such as the ear speaker,speaker phone speaker,and possibily microphone independitly,like bass,trebl,vol. That way a person could tailor the phone to sound the way they want it to sound when they are talking on it or whatever.
Just a thought.
Programing Ideas
A project that I have been toying with is a "Now" button for the calendar. Those of us in consulting need a simple and quick way to insert the current time in the Start Time and End Time field, which ever is selected. I've not been successful so far.
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How about that app the iPhone has where you can transfer contacts by putting the phones next to each other and shaking it to transfer or sliding it across to the other phone.
All for now will think of more
*edit* Forget this its kind of pointless when we can send contacts via sms/IR beam
How about the ability to use our Fuze's as remote controls like you could with PDA's, open your garage door, turn on your 360 or TV, forgot to turn your laptop off, send it a signal to shut down from anywhere
There're some cool applications on Android. One application changes the ringtone based on GPS location. It sets ringtone to loud at home, lower the volume in office and automatically sets the phone to vibration when you are in a theater.
Another application is about setting alarm based on location. You can set an alarm about buying some stuff in a store, next time when you pass by the store, alarm goes off.
Sorry for the title, I didn't think of anything better
My question is if you could somehow use the trackball as a mouse in the Browser (You know, controlling a cursor on the screen) instead of jumping between the links..?
I've seen that Opera Mini is implementing it, so it has to be possible. And now that Froyo is out with Flash, it's hard for even a guy like me - who's pretty accurate otherwise when it comes to touchscreen - to hit the "Play", "Pause" and so on..
Btw Opera Mini doesn't have flash support yet, I think, otherwise this wouldn't be a problem
Thanks,
Anders
I'm for this too. My crappy blackberry has an optical sensor which is used for a mouse Cursor in the browser. Honestly it works pretty well. I was flying through several webpages.
I know how the webpages can be difficult to navigate via small buttons and text, so it would at least provide us with an alternate method of navigating.
The Cursor on the Blackberry, is usually always hidden until moved, which is then displayed for a period until hiding again. It is also restricted to the viewable page, so you aren't accidentally all over the place.
I also thought I read about some source files found for a cursor in the android source files... like they aren't being used or something.
Bump for an awesome idea +1
Hello every one,
I just acquired a Nokia 920 yesterday. So far the handset is about the finest thing I have ever held, It just begs to be used when its in your hand. All is not perfect though, I have some questions. Any recommendations for solutions are greatly appreciated.
I started using PDA's in the early 90's, my first smart phone was a Blackberry, I switch to Android when they dropped the ball. I am of the opinion that the win8 ecosystem is the future for enterprise and productivity. Basically I expect a lot from a smart phone, I expect it to be a top notch PDA, a phone, and a good device for killing time.
1) How do you turn off the haptic feedback on the three hard buttons? I can't overstate how much I hate haptic feedback, this has me on the edge of returning the phone. I want to throw the phone across the room every time I feel it.
2) How do I turn off the touch points on the keyboard? I find having a little flag pop up with the letter I just pressed is annoying. Better yet, where can I get a decent keyboard? The installed keyboard is as bad as the iPhone one - crap. I can span 13 keys on a piano, I want my keyboard to span the screen, I want it to have alternate symbols accessible by long pressing, and it would be cool if it was skinnable, though the built in skin is nice for me. I tried the market place and all I could find was foreign alphabet keyboards.
3) Color coded emails. I did figure out how to merge both my calendars and my email accounts to a single tile. It would be nice to have some kind of color coding for the inbox so I don't have to open the email to see what account it is from.
4) recommend a good calendar. The default one only shows events for the same day. It would be nice to have the live tile show upcoming events in the future. The app must be able to let me make appointments as well. Did not find anything nice in the store.
5) A decent music player. As near as I can tell, Nokia music is just MS music re-skinned. When I hit the music tile, I want to see what I am currently listening too with buttons to skip/pause/etc. and a link to my library to change artists. Nokia Music is pure bloat, I have to navigate past market place stuff, then navigate around to find a pause button. Pretty much sucks to use. The mixer is buried inside the setting menu, so when I change music styles, I have to navigate down through the settings to change the mixer, then navigate back around to the music player. This whole set-up is about as crappy as anything I have ever seen. To make matters worse, the mixer is not pin able. I would love to have something comparable to PowerAmp.
Thanks in advance. I've used XDA for years, and always found my answers buried somewhere in these forums.
P.S. anyone who can get the sexy Samsung voice ported over to Nokia Drive deserves a special prize
joshua43214 said:
Hello every one,
1) How do you turn off the haptic feedback on the three hard buttons? I can't overstate how much I hate haptic feedback, this has me on the edge of returning the phone. I want to throw the phone across the room every time I feel it.
2) How do I turn off the touch points on the keyboard? I find having a little flag pop up with the letter I just pressed is annoying. Better yet, where can I get a decent keyboard? The installed keyboard is as bad as the iPhone one - crap. I can span 13 keys on a piano, I want my keyboard to span the screen, I want it to have alternate symbols accessible by long pressing, and it would be cool if it was skinnable, though the built in skin is nice for me. I tried the market place and all I could find was foreign alphabet keyboards.
3) Color coded emails. I did figure out how to merge both my calendars and my email accounts to a single tile. It would be nice to have some kind of color coding for the inbox so I don't have to open the email to see what account it is from.
4) recommend a good calendar. The default one only shows events for the same day. It would be nice to have the live tile show upcoming events in the future. The app must be able to let me make appointments as well. Did not find anything nice in the store.
5) A decent music player. As near as I can tell, Nokia music is just MS music re-skinned. When I hit the music tile, I want to see what I am currently listening too with buttons to skip/pause/etc. and a link to my library to change artists. Nokia Music is pure bloat, I have to navigate past market place stuff, then navigate around to find a pause button. Pretty much sucks to use. The mixer is buried inside the setting menu, so when I change music styles, I have to navigate down through the settings to change the mixer, then navigate back around to the music player. This whole set-up is about as crappy as anything I have ever seen. To make matters worse, the mixer is not pin able. I would love to have something comparable to PowerAmp.
Thanks in advance. I've used XDA for years, and always found my answers buried somewhere in these forums.
P.S. anyone who can get the sexy Samsung voice ported over to Nokia Drive deserves a special prize
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1) I have not yet seen a Nokia 920 yet, but in Samsung Omnia W/Samsung Flash, you can go to Settings->Extra Settings and remove it from there, check if you have a similar setting, you can request Nokia to add such a setting as its possible in Samsung and should be possible in Nokia too. If they get similar requests they may add it soon
2) AFAIK you cannot install another keyboard, but long pressing many keys you can have alternate symbols coming up. Did you try long pressing some keys? You can change the language of they keyboards via settings.
3) Dont merge the emails and have 2 separate very small tiles instead. Should solve your problem.
4) & 5) not sure yet. But since the SDK is updated with calender access soon you should get many apps with calender.
my question
does the lumia 920 or any win phone 8 device have FM radio??? if it doesnt, is it supported in win phone 8??
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1) I have not yet seen a Nokia 920 yet, but in Samsung Omnia W/Samsung Flash, you can go to Settings->Extra Settings and remove it from there, check if you have a similar setting, you can request Nokia to add such a setting as its possible in Samsung and should be possible in Nokia too. If they get similar requests they may add it soon
2) AFAIK you cannot install another keyboard, but long pressing many keys you can have alternate symbols coming up. Did you try long pressing some keys? You can change the language of they keyboards via settings.
3) Dont merge the emails and have 2 separate very small tiles instead. Should solve your problem.
4) & 5) not sure yet. But since the SDK is updated with calender access soon you should get many apps with calender.
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Thanks for the reply
Only thing in the Nokia extra settings is phone info, no actual settings at all.
Long pressing gives some alternate letter forms like hats, or umlauts. It does not work on all the letters, and you don't know what the long press gives you until you try it. Stuff like beta is on the lower case s, not the upper case. Like I said its a crap keyboard
I actually use 5 email accounts, though only 3 feed my calendar. Thanks for the suggestion though.
All devices support it as far as I know, but the software didn't made it to RTM. It will be in a upcoming update.
It's widely heralded as one of the best and most responsive keyboards ever...
- There is no built-in option to turn off haptic feedback on those keys. Manufacturer needs to develop an app (with interop level or higher access) to disable it, Microsoft needs to update the OS to add such an option, or someone has to hack the thing to turn it off. Considering that the first two probably won't happen in a timely fashion, and that WP8 has yet to be "hacked", don't expect this to change anytime soon.
- Keyboard cannot be changed. As someone mentioned, its actually heralded as one of the best keyboards on the market, and I agree. Once you get used to it, its a joy to use and is tons better than anything on Android, and as good as, if not better than the iOS keyboard. Seeing as how you said this is your first time in Windows Phone land, it may take some time for you to adjust to it, but it really is a wonderful keyboard. I do understand that it isn't for everyone, and unfortunately there is no way to change it if you happen to hate it. You also cannot disable the letter flags that appear on the screen when you tap on the keyboard.
- No color-coding for a combined inbox... yet. Not sure if this is something they are considering, and I don't think I've ever read someone suggesting it, but it makes sense, and I'd love to see this happen.
- Considering developers only really just got Calendar access with the WP8 SDK, I doubt there will be anything useful in the Store just yet. This a brand new platform that just launched, so its gonna take some time for people to figure out what they can or cannot do, and then put it on the Store for us to use.
- Xbox Music or Nokia Music will be as decent as it gets currently. Apps are able to pull from your media collection (like Nokia Music does), but I have not seen anything mind-blowing yet. I'm more than happy with Xbox Music, as it fulfills all my needs. I don't watch videos aside from stuff on YouTube though, so while I don't care for video codec support, I can understand not having total codec flexibility like you can on more open platforms or on apps like VLC.
It really sounds like that you, coming from Android, are expecting a lot more than Windows Phone 7/8 was designed to do. Windows Phone 8 can do a lot, but this OS was built from the ground up to be rather different than your typical PDA operating system. You will not get the same kind of flexibility on Windows Phone 8 that you would with Android.
For comparison:
- Windows Phone 7/8 is more like iOS. Relatively stable/reliable, curated store, locked down, relatively consistent.
- Android is more like old Windows Mobile. Infinitely more customizable and flexible, open market, relatively nonrestrictive, not very consistent, not completely reliable/stable.
I've had a Galaxy Tab S7+ with the official keyboard cover, and now a Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra with it's new keyboar cover. The new tablet and keyboard cover are great, but like the old one, it suffers some critical flaws that make it difficult to use in a serious context and I'd love to see someone who knows more about the Android input system weigh in on it.
Why is right-click such a hard thing to get right on this device? It seems like Samsung have hobbled the trackpad for two-finger pressed for right-click, it's so very inconsistent for where it works and where it doesn't.
If I plug a USB mouse directly into the device, problem solved, no longer do I suffer right-click not working where it should.
Problem:
I have a hosted version of Visual Studio Code I use to do remote development work, it runs in a docker in on a server in my garage. Cool. But with the Samsung settings for two-finger clicks set to "open-context menu", the trackpad fails to register right-clicks in hosted VSC, why? If I use a regular mouse, it works just fine. If I do alonger press on items with the trackpad, it does right-clicks just fine, but that'd slow and awful. Just trying it now, there's even single-click events that don't work with the trackpad that do work with a USB mouse. Bizarre.
Exact same problem withr Microsoft's RDP application. USB mouse works as expected, trackpad? Nope. It almost seems like the trackpad input is been treated as finger input rather than android cursor input for some reason.
My other pet peeve about the trackpad, for both the S7 and S8 is that if you start typing on the keyboard, the trackpad gets fully disabled, and there is a delay for it to become usable again. So you're forever typing something, then poking away at the trackpad for it to come back alive again, very annoying. The trackpad automatic disabling behaviour is not configurable either, none of this is and it keeps the device just one step away from being truely great in my opinion.
Does anyone have any way to solve this issues? Am I going to have to root my device to use some sort of app to override the input coming from the keyboard cover?
Have you tried tapping with 2 fingers on the touchpad? Alot of touchpads has tap with 1 finger does left click and tapping with 2 fingers does right click. Instead of clicking down the right side of track pad.
Jake.S said:
Have you tried tapping with 2 fingers on the touchpad? Alot of touchpads has tap with 1 finger does left click and tapping with 2 fingers does right click. Instead of clicking down the right side of track pad.
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Yes I have. The right-click on the touchpad function only works in some places. If a use two finger taps on the touch pad on the home screen, it'll bring up a context menu, where as the same two finger tap in visual studio code web or in remote desktop just does left click actions and doesn't bring up a right click menu. Whereas, if I use a USB mouse, right click works in ALL those scenarios, it's very strange.
I have added a video demonstration to show the issue.
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I have added a video demonstration to show the issue.
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What app do you use for remote thing? Could be a issue with app you use to remote control visual studio code. You could try Remote Desktop app from microsoft instead and see if right click works better.
Update: Maybe not. Tried it now and right click does not even work at all in the Remote Desktop app from Microsoft. Weird, but i would like to still know app you use. That brings up visual studio code like that up only with nothing else.
Update #2: Nvm after closer look at video it does show bar on bottom and i could see you are remote controlling on windows xp device right?
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What app do you use for remote thing? Could be a issue with app you use to remote control visual studio code. You could try Remote Desktop app from microsoft instead and see if right click works better.
Update: Maybe not. Tried it now and right click does not even work at all in the Remote Desktop app from Microsoft. Weird, but i would like to still know app you use. That brings up visual studio code like that up only with nothing else.
Update #2: Nvm after closer look at video it does show bar on bottom and i could see you are remote controlling on windows xp device right?
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So, Visual Studio Code in the video is literally just running through the web browser (you can save specific web sites so they show up on your home screen and run without the need for an address bar, like I did with this). So Chrome or Kiwi Browser, what ever, same issue. For remote desktop stuff (not shown) I use Microsoft RDP or Parsec, both exhibit issues ONLY with the trackpad (or any bluetooth trackpad I connect, the Apple Magic Trackpad for example). The issue goes away when I use a USB mouse.
Samsung need to fix their trash-tier trackpad software so real human beings can use it, and it behaves like a mouse.
Before this I had an Apple iPad Pro, with the fancy keyboard cover that has a mouse trackpad. It did all this stuff just fine.
EDIT: I just realised why you thought I was using Windows XP. The bottom bar of visual studio code just happens to have the same colour scheme as the old start bar from Windows XP, that's funny! That's actually the information bar for Visual Studio Code, like build status, etc.
Hello, I have same issue when using my Samsung S8 Ultra as second monitor for my windows notebook. If I try to right click on official samsung keyboard it does not work, while I can type and left click without any issue. Any Idea? Of course also two finger tap does not work.