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i don't know much about writing apps for android or else i would work on this, but when i had winmo there was an app called galarm that allowed the user to set an alarm and rather than just a regular alarm that allows you to just hit snooze you have tho either solve a number of math problems(user sets number to solve) or complete a maze(could drag ball or tilt phone) i really liked this because i can snooze a regular alarm in my sleep but this was a whole lot harder to snooze. the math problems where difficult(using mult, divide, add, subtract) and the mazes where rediculus too. please someone let me know if you could make this app, i would be willing to buy it off the market when finished, but i would prefer not to since the original was free.
i never used this but i want this now. i would gladly pay for an app that does what you described
BSDADON said:
i never used this but i want this now. i would gladly pay for an app that does what you described
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This does sound sweet. Maybe not super difficult, but like (3+12)÷5=
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This does sound sweet. Maybe not super difficult, but like (3+12)÷5=
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i can't believe none of you used this before, the math problems were multiple choice so if you suck at math you could guess, but one morning i got mad cause it wanted to know what 45*97 was or some wierd combo like that. certainly made sure i woke up in the morning
ask the Dev :
http://forum.ageye.de/viewforum.php?f=3
doubt that he'd build an Android version from scratch without a device, but might be worth asking.
one of the probs with the Android Market so far is that a lot of devs are just copying the apps made by XDA dev people for WinMo (which are free or donation apps) and selling them on the Droid Market. We need more XDA Devs to get Droid phones, it was more fun seeing apps developing on here over months, before they go on sale or whatever.
Yeah, this is exactly what I suggested on the "Suggest App Idea" thread. I'd be in for a few bucks, even if it was a donation version (with free version).
Yeah, i loved Galarm on my last device... I miss it very much.
I would love to see it on Android but I wouldn't pay for it, since i CAN'T. My G1 dosn't show any paid app to me to buy...
Sry for the bad english
*push*
some would say im already dead but no - im sleeping.
i urgently need an alarm app which features all galarm pros: puzzles to snooze and disable the alarm.
does any1 know such an app?
METZGERR said:
*push*
some would say im already dead but no - im sleeping.
i urgently need an alarm app which features all galarm pros: puzzles to snooze and disable the alarm.
does any1 know such an app?
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This one just does math problems but it works great for me and I used to sleep through three alarms.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-av-mac-jiiw.aspx
"Alarmed" does maths questions and anagrams.. There's a free lite version as well.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-heychinaski-alarmed-qzwB.aspx
You might want to check Alarming Alarm Clock its $0.99 in the market and I love it. You can choose between math or a puzzle. Alarmed Alarm Clock is really nice too. If you only need one alarm the free version is great.
i tried klaxon [paid version] which is quite good besides the option to enable puzzles or maths to disable the alarm.
however the snooze function seems not to work: snooze is set to 5 minutes but the alarm only rings on more time 5 ~15 minutes after i hit the snooze button... however snooze is essential for me so my question is:
is there any app, paid or free, which has a working snooze function AND a hard-to-disbale alarm (so you cant easily turn it off while still asleep, like pressing a big button instead of going into menus and ask to quit)?
I have a payed version of Galarm and Gprofile but since I left winmo behind, I can't use them, android version would be mostly welcome.
I love g-alarm and rely on it daily. i currently use winmo, but have a evo4g on order. a g-alarm app is the first app i'm looking to have for android. i wish there was an android version available. i bought the latest version for winmo and never looked back.
Alarmed
you can disable the volume buttons for snooze, Ramped alarm volume, and it works every time i set it..
Try Alarm Clock Plus, it does exactly what you described, its free, and has varying levels of difficulty for the math problems.
Alarm clock plus ftw....****er wakes me up everytime lol
all this apps are nice, but totally far from G-Alarm !
i've got my Desire HD 2 days ago, but actually i can't find nothing that have the same
G-Alarm option
mainly:
1) Random MP3 Player
2) FaceDown to snooze
3) Calculator to turn it off.
Gentle Alarm, actually is the best, it have Random MP3 Player, but you have to create a playlist, 'cause you can't simply select the mp3 from you sdcard
the good things of this application is the profile, so the phone can switch in ariplane mode during the night and switch on after the ring.
still looking for more
Sorry for bumping sort of old thread, but I thought I'd inform people about this http colon //www dot ageye.de/index.php?s=news&id=9. First beta of G-Alarm for Android was released on December 23rd, 2010. Yey for ageye! =)
(Not allowed to post proper links yet.)
Hello
I know that thread is quite old and GAlarm is still under development but I'd like to recommend You my version of alarm clock. It's first version so it still lacks some functions available in other alarms, but expect more updates soon .
When it comes to math problem it has three levels: tasks might be "complex" but the result is not too big number. Beside math problem You can solve "citation problem".
You can find application on Android Market: Caynax Alarm Clock.
I love the Galaxy Gear. I love the native apps on the watch. However, while a few of the add-on apps are good, I am disappointed some of the others are poor.
I recognize some of the physical design shortcomings of the Gear, but accept the product as it is. In my mind, the watch is not a sport watch, it is a little computer on my wrist. I accept that I need to take reasonable precautions to guard it from water exposure, cold shock and physical impact (caution with glass bezel).
The native apps are fabulous. They are what I consider essential in making the device a truly smart watch (swatch). Overall, it allows me to interact with the smart phone (sphone) upon urgent events: answering phone calls, reading text messages, notification on email, controlling media player while walking, monitoring distance and pace while running. The native watch faces are even good: review of weather or accessing any three apps. Of course, the camera is a huge bonus - not essential, but it truly makes the Gear a distinctive swatch. The inclusion of a speaker for phone calls is an outstanding feature, again this is handy when receiving a call while walking.
The issue I want to make in this thread is my experience with the add-on apps. A few of the apps are excellent and add value to the overall swatch experience (eg: Runtastic). However, some other apps are poorly coded, or outright fail to install or work. It astonishes me that some apps fail to work, given that Samsung has vetted this library of restrictive apps. As I understand it (read elsewhere), Samsung had exclusively invited developers to code apps for the Gear. I presume Samsung would also test these apps prior to including them in the download library. Well, I now suspect they may not have.
I am also disappointed at how slowly apps are being added into the library. I appreciate that the user base for Gear is small and thus revenue opportunities are assuredly small. However, any developer that introduces apps for the library could develop early expertise, etc. However, reality shows that third party apps are few and sometimes even disfunctional.
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Four apps in particular work very well and add value to the swatch experience:
RUNTASTIC
- Shows running performance (pace, distance, etc) on watch
EVERNOTE
- Read notes, checklist etc on watch when shopping etc.
- Upload camera photos to user account for later use.
POCKET
- Play audio reading of previously saved internet articles.
ZDCLOCK
- Set alarms, etc.
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I tried with frustration and disappointment a few other apps.
MyFitnessPal
- This works, but it forces a very lengthy synchronization with sphone and internet on each access.
- The delay caused by syncing is so frustrating that I uninstalled it, and refuse to use it.
RunKeeper
- This works, but it displaces far less performance data than Runtastic.
- Because of its inadequacy, I uninstalled it.
QuickSpeedometer
- This app fails to install. This failed on numerous attempts.
Mini Gallery
- This app fails to install. This failed on numerous attempts.
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I've got mini gallery installed on my 'swatch' and it's never failed yet.
Works well and runs without fault.
Although I have mini gallery installed and it works (sort of), I have over 400 images on my 64 gig card and mini gallery is so ridiculously slow to load (even after the first time) it is virtually unuseable.
My favorite add on is watch styler it totally makes this watch worthwhile to me. I can make my own face, how awesome is that! Got one with the same wallpaper as my phone got my white and red jumpman (Jordan logo) got my Rolex background and I'm just getting started.
Man I love this watch.
Carried by a Raven
watch styler is one of the apps that I consider useless LOL.
Not only is the hour hand always off on a custom face, it freezes up constantly and kills battery life.
My main annoyance with a specific app is miniSquare. It boggles my mind that this app has been broken since day one with no removal or developer communication. Literally no one can use the app, as it only brings up a Korean error.
As a big fourquare user, I really really want this app to work.
Aside from that, I'm still on the negative side as far as my feelings on the marketplace go. Hopefully that changes in the future.
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I've got mini gallery installed on my 'swatch' and it's never failed yet.
Works well and runs without fault.
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OK, taking your lead, I made another attempt to install Mini Gallery. Nope, it failed to install yet again. Or maybe not? So what happened is that it finally appeared to install and appeared on the Gear. However it seemed to freeze on the watch. After waiting for a couple of minutes I rebooted the Gear and uninstalled it.
Now, after reading your note, I see what might have happened. It was busy scanning my s-phone's thousands of photos stored on my extSDcard. Well then, demanding such a long wait time makes it unusable for me.
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This app is by the same developer, Symphony Teleca. I tried installing this again, and this time it did load. This makes me think that Samsung's app server might instead be sending a link to the developer's server for downloading. Is this possible? I have only had previous difficulty download the two apps from the same developer.
The app does work. Good. However, I notice something irregular. Only when this app is run on the Gear, its duplicate app appears on the Note-3's notification window as an actively running task. That is because this app needs to poll the s-phone's GPS for data updates, so I presume the developer launches a GPS server service on the s-phone, while on the s-watch is a client service. Later when I stop and quit the app on the Gear, its server app remains active on the Note-3. I must then resort to killing the task on the Note-3 to recover system resources.
I have a suspicion that this might be the fault of Samsung's SDK library and not that of a developer's sloopy program techniques. Regardless, good programming practice, SDK, and libraries should never leave a thread active after the main program has terminated.
On the contrary my boy Watson.
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Now, after reading your note, I see what might have happened. It was busy scanning my s-phone's thousands of photos stored on my extSDcard. Well then, demanding such a long wait time makes it unusable for me.
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Exactly.
The gallery probably works fine if you don't have a ton of images on your MicroSD card, but I just realized I have over 800 images in just one of multiple folders on my 64 gig card.
Hey guys,
I'm looking at getting a G2N in the next few days (if I can find a shop that has them in stock!)
I just have a couple of questions...
1. Does it show WhatsApp messages? I tried YouTube but the ones that talk about WhatsApp is in German.
2. Does it show the weather forecast?
3. How accurate is the S Voice on it?
I'm using a Galaxy Note 2 (DN3 RC2 on 4.4.2).
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I don't use whatsapp messenger so I can't answer the first question, but I do use it to receive Facebook, espn, and other notifications. I'm site if you choose to see those it will display them. It also has a ten day forecast. And as far as s voice I think it's pretty spot on, I've been using it for a week and only once have I had to re-say what I meant. I have it paired with an s5 to for what it's worth
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Hey guys, I'm looking at getting a G2N in the next few days (if I can find a shop that has them in stock!) //
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1. Does it show WhatsApp messages?
I don't use WhatsApp, but *all* the apps that I have used with the watch DO show notifications clearly.
(GoogleNow, Business Calendar, Feedly, a couple of others/ etc.)
2. Does it show the weather forecast?
Yes, it even has a watch face with time and a weather logo that show the temperature and a current weather
symbol (clouds, clear, rainy). If you push the logo, you get a scrolling weather forecast in more detail (for several
days). It works well -but the fastest/most current updates in settings is hourly (I'd like 15 minutes!). I also use WeatherBug
and it pushed weather to the watch --turned it off since I was getting multiple weather more or less the same times!
3. How accurate is the S Voice on it?
- S Voice does work, and I use it to respond to text messages. (So, if you get a text message on your watch -you can read the whole thing, and there is a menu to reply (settings: either 3-4 stock "canned" messages, or using a "free form" reply with S Voice. I used S Voice, but to do so you need to a) be in a reasonably quiet location (outdoors on a windy street does not work well, riding in a car with the window open and music playing does not work well...etc.).
- Secondly, I found I needed to think through the reply completely in advance and then say it slowly. Whenever I tried to create and speak and pause and continue to speak, S voice just caught a portion of the reply and offered "here is your reply shall I send it"? (no no no! delete!). However, when I knew exactly what I wanted to say, and said it slowly but clearly, S voice did well. I would NOT recommend it for LONG message replies on the watch, (Send several short replies -that works!) However, S Voice does not seem to be as good at dictation as Google's voice keyboard, or Swype/Dragon's voice type. It is pretty good at searches.
We are very close to Android Wear devices being released. Are you prepared to possibly feel remorse after dropping money on one of these and then just a few months later, new devices will be out that may eclipse them in function and app ecosystem? I bought and kept my Neo with the knowledge that its a stopgap for a few months and I'll most probably ditch it for Android Wear this summer. There's still a lot of missing functionality that the older Gears and even Pebble watches can do that need to be caught up because Samsung decided to ditch the old platform for Tizen. So it's pretty much like a gen 1 device again instead of building on the existing ecosystem from the original Gear, which means waiting on features, apps and stability/bug fixes.
Because I love the IR blaster and mic, I kept my Neo in the chance that devs can come through and fix/add the software/apps to address my problems with it. I don't know if an Android Wear device will come out that has the IR blaster, so I'm keeping the Neo for now. Even though the WatchOn app sucks right now, because it's very limited in what devices it can control.
You must be willing to gamble on whether those apps/software features will ever come around, because those of us who buy Samsung devices regularly, know that if you don't buy one of their devices that have decent developer support, you're kind of screwed due to their penchant to release so many new devices and subsequently forget about supporting their last-gen products with updates. We'll see if the decision to go Tizen will help or hurt this product. So far the app store is pretty thin and I expected there would be a bounty of awesome apps by now since one of the advantages of Tizen promoted was that it's so easy to develop on this platform compared to android. Given that, the only reason for the lack of apps I would think is lack of developer interest.
Is it possible? There are some information about tasker on pocket cast website but i didnt understand it. Basicly what i want is, when alarm starts to ring, instead of boring alarm sound, i want pocket cast to play most recently (auto) downloaded podcast.
P. S.: i use timely as alarm app.
P. S. S: no root
Lorrid13 said:
Is it possible? There are some information about tasker on pocket cast website but i didnt understand it. Basicly what i want is, when alarm starts to ring, instead of boring alarm sound, i want pocket cast to play most recently (auto) downloaded podcast.
P. S.: i use timely as alarm app.
P. S. S: no root
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I don't think Timely has Tasker integration, unfortunately, meaning you can't directly create a context based on when the Alarm fires.
One thing you could do is, when you go to sleep, create a dynamic time context for Tasker based on whenever the next alarm is supposed to go off. Then in the task, you disable alarm volume and start Pocket Casts instead.
Well, i can use another alarm(even stock) but my main problem is, i can't get pocket cast to play recently downloaded podcast.
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Well, i can use another alarm(even stock) but my main problem is, i can't get pocket cast to play recently downloaded podcast.
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You can use intents to broadcast the play option with PocketCasts, as described here: http://www.shiftyjelly.com/support/pocketcasts#63
This reddit thread might also help you: https://www.reddit.com/r/TaskerFiles/comments/30hhon/intents_pocket_casts/
thanks for your help. it seems you can't really do much with pocket cast atm :/
Gentle Alarm integrates with Tasker, so you could set a profile that hits play on PocketCasts using the intents above when the main alarm goes off in Gentle Alarm. There is no way that I know of though to select which podcast you want to start besides the one already queued up, unfortunately. Even being able to select playlists would allow you to create an alarm clock playlist, but it can't be done as is.
Thanks for the suggestion, i have never heard about gentle alarm, i will definitely give it a go.
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Thanks for the suggestion, i have never heard about gentle alarm, i will definitely give it a go.
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Never really liked Gentle alarm, other alarm apps with tasker integration that I know of in case you want to try other alternatives are AlarmPad and Turbo Alarm
There is an app called AutoShare that has intents for pocket casts for basic functions, or use another called Auto Input to tap on a specific podcast. Neither require root
Thanks, i will check them out too.
Hey Peeps,
Just published a new app that I've worked on here and there.
It came out of a need. One of my best friends was traveling overseas and she needed someone to call as she wasn't feeling comfortable where she was. The problem was, my phone is always on silent so I missed her calls and messages... oops
That leads me to what Silent Exception does, it's sole purpose is to play a notification/ringtone while your phone is on silent &/or DND. It's obviously not for every notification, just ones that fall into a set criteria using the rules you created.
It only has 3 requirements for it to function:
Phone MUST be on silent/DND, otherwise your normal tones will play... Obviously
There must be a notification for it to function. Some phone apps (*cough*Samsung*cough*) don't do this, try Google's if in doubt
Common sense
If you'd like to give it a crack, download it from the Play Store here
I don't expect everyone to just jump at a paid app, so I've made a 72 hour trial, can grab on the Play Store here
There is also a free forever version, although it is limited as naturally I would prefer you support my efforts it's available here
Since it's dealing with notifications and I care about privacy, it doesn't have internet access. So no Ads, no IAPs no tracking what so ever
Hope you guys enjoy.
Minooch
Just pushed update 1.2.1 to the play store.
Change log is:
Settings page had UI adjustments
Help buttons have been added to add/edit rule pages
Reworked how the app handles playing sounds. Should work better overall
Minooch