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[App Idea] Wallpaper switcher based on time of day.

Just had an idea.. (although this app may already exist)
What about an app that you can set to change your wallpaper to different images based on different times of the day? So for instance you could have something like:
8am - 5pm picture of the sun
5pm - 12am picture of b00bz
12am - 8am picture of the moon
haha. hope you get what i mean... if i wasnt a complete retard at anything with code i'd make one myself..
so, what do you good sirs think?

You can do all of that with Locale.

l_0_s said:
You can do all of that with Locale.
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ha so true. thanks man. never used this app before its fly

Yeah, it's pretty cool.
I have it shutting down all sound and vibration at night so my phone doesn't bug me in my sleep.

theres an app called world tour that does this too. It changes the wallpaper depending on what time of the day it is in the location you chose.
For instance if you chose new york, your background would be of new york city in the morning -> afternoon-> sunset and night time. it's pretty cool!

I want something like this.... but add the weather.... Make the background the time of day and also switch the weather.... Any Ideas?

You'd probably have to build that one.
Or you might be able to build a plugin for Locale that adds weather as an option.

DAKIDD236 said:
theres an app called world tour that does this too. It changes the wallpaper depending on what time of the day it is in the location you chose.
For instance if you chose new york, your background would be of new york city in the morning -> afternoon-> sunset and night time. it's pretty cool!
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This would be a good application .... if you could find a webcam for your area that fits the guidlines.....

[ROM][22/07]- Wild Ginger – Gingerbread 2.3.4 AOSP – [DISCONTINUED]

This ROM is DISCONTINUED
I am sorry to say I don't find the time to further develop this ROM, if anyone wants to continue this ROM please do so. Just pm me and it's fine. Thanks for using this ROM and for your feedback. Maybe in the future I will begin a new ROM project. For now I am only developping a ROM Download Manager for the desktop, keep an eye on the portal .
Go check it out for screenshots and download :
http://h4oxer.wordpress.com/category/wild-ginger/

i`ll give a chance this evening ... looks nice

I have been using this ROM for the last hour or so. I did a backup, clean wipe and fresh flash. I have let the new ROM settle and have done a manual reeboot also.
I am a humble end-user and not a dev but thought that I would give a breakdown of some of my first impressions and observations.
I like the boot annimation alot, I also like the lock screen. Both look clean.
I like the orange font used in the status bar and the pull down menu although the "Wild Ginger" wording in the drop down menu is very blury and looks ugly.
The window transistions are smooth as you like but don't feel snappy quick.
I think the new honeycomb launcher is a nice touch but doesn't seem as intuative as the regular launchers such as ADW; maybe it's because I'm not used to honeycomb yet.
My main gripe about the Honeycomb launcher is that it force closes ALL the time. I have been trying to remove the Google search bar widget that is pre-loaded on screen after first boot and it is impossible (and the widgets aren't even locked to desktop). Also I can't ADD any additional widgets - you can select a widget to add but nothing happens!
From the main screen, waiting for the menu to appear takes about 5seconds which is an age. The "Personalise Honeycomb" menu doesn't fit the whole screen and you can see thick band of the desktop down the right of the screen which is ugly.Once in the preferences menu it isn't at all clear what you are meant to do... You can see the "Apply Settings" button but it took me tapping about the rest of the screen to finally make the actual preferance choices appear.
I have tested inbound and outbound calls and wifi both work as standard. The music player has nice interface, camera works and stock browser is fine. I don't like the dark blue highlight that appears when you press on an app icon it looks clumsy.
The numbers 1,2 and 3 are almost cut in half in the dialer and the green phone "call" icon doesn't seem to fit in it's area neatly.
I like H4oxer's work on this ROM and I hope it continues to get better but with these quite apparent bugs I will respectfully wait for an update before I continue to use this ROM.
Good Work tho!

so ...
good review above .... absolutelly uselless to say more ... 100% same opinions as you EDD ! keep going h4oxer !!!

Thanks guys I really appreciate your feedback ! Will work on it!

h4oxer said:
My Gingerbread AOSP ROM is finally ready , had a lot of exams and vacation and stuff.
Go check it out for screenshots and download :
http://h4oxer.wordpress.com/category/wild-ginger/
Enjoy and let me now what you guys think.
Cheers,
H4oxer
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Very cool. Did you manage to get video recording working?

xdbg said:
Very cool. Did you manage to get video recording working?
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from his blog - "Used the froyo libcamera.so library to use the camera app, capturing video still gives force closes."
I guess not

No it doesn't work..still looking into that...has something to do with gpu that we don't have!
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App Premium

tried to flash but no luck stuck at splash screen,did wipe,factory reset,dalvik...how long was first boot for you guys?

You'll have to wait 5-10 minutes... leave it for 10 minutes on first boot..

why I cant see any progres in progres bar in recovery,says instaling update ...
(now no progres of writing files) and afther just 10-15 sec instal complete,is this normal? usualy can see progres and takes a bit longer

Yes it's normal, I didn't payed attention at the progressbar while writing the updater file , but it works don't worry. It installs fast because it had not much apps on board. Just the essential.

10min past stil on my splash screen.no boot animatio yet

luxandroid said:
10min past stil on my splash screen.no boot animatio yet
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Wierd. This ROM is working fine for me. Did you wipe /data and /cache?

yes did everything...dont know simple not booting,stucked on splash screen not even bootanimation

OK....first impressions are good. Startup in less than 4 minutes. Looking good. Everything is working out of the box, no force closing or similar problems. Nice themes, Market app is interesting
LCD density set to 115 and dialpad and everything else looks good
need to be done
- icons in status bar - phone signal at least
- trackpad wakeup
- sound on lock/unlock
- 6x5 icons is too much... 4x5 would be better in my opinion
- Home screen - same as above
- when LCD density changed no way to add widgets or apps to home screen
all in all very good rom, but need a little bit of fixing
cheeers

rikee said:
OK....first impressions are good. Startup in less than 4 minutes. Looking good. Everything is working out of the box, no force closing or similar problems. Nice themes, Market app is interesting
LCD density set to 115 and dialpad and everything else looks good
need to be done
- icons in status bar - phone signal at least
- trackpad wakeup
- sound on lock/unlock
- 6x5 icons is too much... 4x5 would be better in my opinion
- Home screen - same as above
- when LCD density changed no way to add widgets or apps to home screen
all in all very good rom, but need a little bit of fixing
cheeers
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Totally agree with u.
I hope that in next version it will have trackpad & volumes wakeup to ... protect our Wildfires' poor Power Buttons

Nobody is interested in this rom?

thuanngotau said:
Nobody is interested in this rom?
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Yes... I am very interested. I tryed it and found a few big bugs. I'm waiting for an updated version and I will use it again!
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA Premium App

Me too ! I'm looking forward for more changes
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[APP] JotPad -[U]- 7/Dec/2011

JotPad v1.1
Hi guys, I'm posting my app here, and I'd like you guys to let me know what you think about it, and what should be improved. Just post in this thread and I'll be notified and get back to you.
Here's a short description (so you don't get bored), for the full description just visit the app page.
Have you ever need a pen and paper to help illustrate your ideas during a conversation but couldn't find any? Someone is asking you for directions and you really want to do a sketch to help the explanation? Look no further, the JotPad app is what you need, use it to jot down anything you need!
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Some of the features are Live Tile and multitouch support, as well as various colors and image backgrounds and shake to clear.
Download Link: http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=dd496842-8119-4420-9bc6-1d39a58a6b87

I like it
How about allowing multiple drawings and saving items: inside the app, or as a JPEG, or share by e-mail.
Rated 5 stars

Oh thank god! I have been searching for a draw/note app that support zoom, and here we have it; have a thanks mate!

z_rudy said:
I like it
How about allowing multiple drawings and saving items: inside the app, or as a JPEG, or share by e-mail.
Rated 5 stars
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Thanks mate! Yeah, I have the same ideas as well, but hadn't considered the share by e-mail option before, thanks for the suggestion!
fiinix said:
Oh thank god! I have been searching for a draw/note app that support zoom, and here we have it; have a thanks mate!
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Thank you for your support, I'll have more stuff added when I have the time (doing this on my free time). If you feel like the app is missing something just let me know and I'll try to implement it.

I love it too! so cool, clever and clear= best handwriting app by faaaaaaaaar!
shake to clear screen I rate your thread and your app on market place with
ps. can you set the pen active as default by start?

mirolg said:
I love it too! so cool, clever and clear= best handwriting app by faaaaaaaaar!
shake to clear screen I rate your thread and your app on market place with
ps. can you set the pen active as default by start?
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Thanks!!
About setting the pen active as default on start, I will look into that. But I'll explain my rationale of why I did it that way. When you swap between apps the guidelines for app developers say that the app should preserve all of it's environment, so if you were erasing lines on my app, and then you went for some facebook browsing and then came back to my app you should still be in erasing mode since that is what you were doing when you left.
I suppose I could set the pen as active when you start the app and retain the drawing/erasing mode when just multi tasking?
EDIT: I just noticed you have a tablet with Windows 8. :-O Cool stuff, how does Windows 8 work on that? I've only used it on a regular laptop. What about the battery life, does it last long?

Good. I will have a try. It sounds nice.

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Good. I will have a try. It sounds nice.
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Thanks, let me know what you think after you gave it a good try.

A simple but useful app~
very gd!

Hi works great in app, the live tile is a little wonky though, text gets cut off and moved up a lot of the time, ie if you write one word on a angle it puts it top left and cut off, or if you write 4 words underneath each other, can only see the bottom 2 the others have moved up (there is space below so room on the tile to display) other than that love it.

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Hi works great in app, the live tile is a little wonky though, text gets cut off and moved up a lot of the time, ie if you write one word on a angle it puts it top left and cut off, or if you write 4 words underneath each other, can only see the bottom 2 the others have moved up (there is space below so room on the tile to display) other than that love it.
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I know what you mean, I've made it like that because of the following problem. The drawing page is rectangular but the live tile is perfectly square. How do you fit something that's rectangular (to fit the 15:9 screen of the phone) into something that's square (the live tile is obviously 1:1)? I had 2 options, either distort the rectangular drawing to fit, or to crop a square from the centre of the drawing. I used the latter, I cropped a square from the centre. That's why the live tile is missing the top and bottom of the drawing.
One last option would be making the pages square so all of the drawing can fit on the tile, but I thought it would look weird and wouldn't fit the phone's screen. But if you do have an idea on how this should work by all means let me know ok? Thank you very much for your comment!

[App] Tile World Clock, Now Supports Wide Tile, more customizations available

Since the keyboard disappearing issue has been resolved with the new ROM, it may be a good time to share the Tile World Clock Tool.
Features:
1. Pin the clock for any timezone you choose to your desktop
2. Clock will be updated every minute.
3. 8 different clock types to choose from.
4. Dynamic updated tile according to your theme.
Disclaimer: The clock on the tile may not be correct for various reasons. Please use the system clock for important times.
1. When background updating is working, the clock may delay for 1 minute.
2. When backgrond updating is not working for various reasions, for example, battery saving mode. The clock on the tile will stop.
2012.01.11: Update to 2.2. Minor update. The clock will be slightly more accurate (Delay within 5 seconds in my test)
2012.01.31: Update to 2.3. Supporting Wide Tile as requested. Require InterOp Unlock. This version may not be very stable at this moment. Is this the first Home Brew that supports dynamic wide tile?
Help Needed: Is there any good code who can save PNG file with low footprint and high quality?
2012.02.29: Found a really memory efficient PNG encoder. Now it is time to continue my development.
2012.03.14: Update to 2.5. More customization options available. You can even choose a picture from your library as background.
2012.03.22: Added a slightly updated new 2.5 XAP. Changed a few background images. Fixed a bug so that two line style Time/Date is correctly displayed at center.

For me it took around 5-6 (sometimes around 10) minutes to update the tile, with background tasks running. Nothing can be done i guess.
But an awesome app, nonetheless.
Thanks

Very Nice App. I had no issues in time update with background update turned on. We also did a video review on wpxbox http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBoreopVpuk
I will suggest you to give user option to how often they want to which can be anything between one minute to 30 minutes.
A bit more but you can think of combining reminders with each tile so it triggers them in that time zone.

Thanks.....Good application works properly on my Omnia 7

wpxbox said:
Very Nice App. I had no issues in time update with background update turned on. We also did a video review on wpxbox http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBoreopVpuk
I will suggest you to give user option to how often they want to which can be anything between one minute to 30 minutes.
A bit more but you can think of combining reminders with each tile so it triggers them in that time zone.
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Thanks for the review.
Is there anyone interested in a clock that can delay upto 30 minutes?
As for the reminder, I think counting down and time ellapsed/stop watch could be good ideas.

could you make this app luks more offficial? Obiviously you used the wired font fron the default OS tile font, it need tweaks

xyhchina said:
could you make this app luks more offficial? Obiviously you used the wired font fron the default OS tile font, it need tweaks
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That's good suggestions that I should take. Unfortunately, I am not so good at UI designing. If you have more specific suggestions, pleaes let me know.

Delay till 30 minutes can be only suitable for one set of time, When I get to sleep. Saves Battery. Please do correct me if I am wrong.

If you could make the tile look the the HTC sense flip clock this would get a gazillion downloads especially if it does update properly every minute
Sent from my PI39100 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

wpxbox said:
Delay till 30 minutes can be only suitable for one set of time, When I get to sleep. Saves Battery. Please do correct me if I am wrong.
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In my app, this won't happen. I mentioned this in response to your suggestion to allow user to select how frequent they could update the clock.

Aaron McCarthy said:
If you could make the tile look the the HTC sense flip clock this would get a gazillion downloads especially if it does update properly every minute
Sent from my PI39100 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
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The clock images can change but no animation is possible. But my intention is to match the tile format since art is not my specialty. If anybody interested in making it more beautiful, please let me know.

Clock Name bug
I discovered a bug when entering a Clock Name that uses a space such as "New York". After using a space I am unable to enter any more characters - the keys no longer worked. But, I could get around this by exiting the app and starting it again and continuing the "York" part of the clock name.
Other people that only include cities without a space in the name would not encounter this bug.
So far, a good & practical app otherwise as I have only used it for 20 mins.
Well done!

Another cool app after the office/pdf uploader. I really like it !
Could you allow to add a custom background (.jpg) image for the live tile ?
Greetz
contable

devassist said:
I discovered a bug when entering a Clock Name that uses a space such as "New York". After using a space I am unable to enter any more characters - the keys no longer worked. But, I could get around this by exiting the app and starting it again and continuing the "York" part of the clock name.
Other people that only include cities without a space in the name would not encounter this bug.
So far, a good & practical app otherwise as I have only used it for 20 mins.
Well done!
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Can't find any code in this page that will lead to this behavior. And the same issue did not appear in my test. However, your symptom looks very similiar to the keyboard disappearing bug of Mango. You may want to upgrade to 8107 or disable background task to verify.

contable said:
Another cool app after the office/pdf uploader. I really like it !
Could you allow to add a custom background (.jpg) image for the live tile ?
Greetz
contable
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Any specifics for this request? Select a picture from the phone library? If so, that will involve quite a bit of image resizing work.

Thunder_ said:
Can't find any code in this page that will lead to this behavior. And the same issue did not appear in my test. However, your symptom looks very similiar to the keyboard disappearing bug of Mango. You may want to upgrade to 8107 or disable background task to verify.
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Yes, you are right. It was a problem at my end. Thanks!

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Disclaimer: The clock on the tile may not be correct for various reasons. Please use the system clock for important times.
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Actually this problem happen on my mozart with mango 8107 rom. The time just stop at battery save on and close screen. Sometimes need repin clock tile then work again. Hope next version fix that issue.
anyway , this is awesome project. Thank you!

eric1204 said:
Actually this problem happen on my mozart with mango 8107 rom. The time just stop at battery save on and close screen. Sometimes need repin clock tile then work again. Hope next version fix that issue.
anyway , this is awesome project. Thank you!
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This is a limitation of WP7. I have no idea how to fix it at this moment.

Thunder_ said:
Any specifics for this request? Select a picture from the phone library? If so, that will involve quite a bit of image resizing work.
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Selecting a picture from the picture hub only allows to use .jpg files.
I would prefer to choose a picture from the isolated storage of your app so it´s possible to use .jpg or .png files. The files can be copied easyly to the isolated storage with Windows Phone Power Tools. Just a suggestion...
Anyway it´s great. I have tested it over the night and the tile didn´t stop to work.
The difference to the system time is max. 1 minute....

contable said:
Selecting a picture from the picture hub only allows to use .jpg files.
I would prefer to choose a picture from the isolated storage of your app so it´s possible to use .jpg or .png files. The files can be copied easyly to the isolated storage with Windows Phone Power Tools. Just a suggestion...
Anyway it´s great. I have tested it over the night and the tile didn´t stop to work.
The difference to the system time is max. 1 minute....
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Understand your point. Don't think this a common request but I will try when I got time.
As for the time difference, my application currently runs every 60 seconds. That's where the difference comes from. But I recently found a way to reduce the difference to, let's say, five seconds. I upload the new verion when I complete it.

Samsung has removed the ability to disable the brightness slider...

Samsung has really started to annoy me in the past few iterations of their Galaxy Note series, and this is really starting to get a bit ridiculous...
They have now removed the ability to disable the brightness slider on the Note 4.
Between the ridiculously large Quick Toggles (which I would remove if possible), and the completely useless S-Finder & Quick Connect shortcuts, plus the now non-removable brightness slider, 50% of the notification area is completely unusable.
I can't post pictures or outside links yet, but feel free to check out my post on Google+. (Luke Saladyga)

Rooting can solve this problem.

Oh really?... care to point out a way?
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Rooting can solve this problem.
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Actually, no, currently it can't... unless you'd like to expand on your statement with a link.
If you take a look at the screenshots, you'll see that the new Quick Toggle bar integrates the Brightness slider into it. So no, the Xposed or previous ways to remove it, not to mention the simple menu item are no longer relevant. There is not a single TW based ROM that I've seen that has removed the Quick Toggles, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
And NOTE 3 ROM's aren't useful at this point obviously...

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Actually, no, currently it can't... unless you'd like to expand on your statement with a link.
If you take a look at the screenshots, you'll see that the new Quick Toggle bar integrates the Brightness slider into it. So no, the Xposed or previous ways to remove it, not to mention the simple menu item are no longer relevant. There is not a single TW based ROM that I've seen that has removed the Quick Toggles, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
And NOTE 3 ROM's aren't useful at this point obviously...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-xposed-g-touchwiz-t2755920

Thanks... I'll see if it works and post back.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-xposed-g-touchwiz-t2755920
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I love being proven incorrect! I'll install it on my Note 4 and see how it goes.
Thanks for the link.:good:

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Samsung has really started to annoy me in the past few iterations of their Galaxy Note series, and this is really starting to get a bit ridiculous...
They have now removed the ability to disable the brightness slider on the Note 4.
Between the ridiculously large Quick Toggles (which I would remove if possible), and the completely useless S-Finder & Quick Connect shortcuts, plus the now non-removable brightness slider, 50% of the notification area is completely unusable.
I can't post pictures or outside links yet, but feel free to check out my post on Google+. (Luke Saladyga)
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You have to be joking right!!???

+1
You're on XDA....ROM ROM ROM. Do you really plan on staying on stock TW?
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You have to be joking right!!???
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Of course not, but it's still annoying until ROMs and updated Xposed modules are in.

akula34 said:
I love being proven incorrect! I'll install it on my Note 4 and see how it goes.
Thanks for the link.:good:
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This didn't work for me but wanam was updated to get rid of s finder and quick connect. I still haven't found anything to remove the brightness slider though.

AllianceRom on the S5 was a touchwiz ROM that had the ability to remove the quick toggles. It also had about 2553523 other options....I hope we get it on our GN4.