Dev idea - Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General

Dev idea - Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General

Just an idea, and very much from a functionality down, rather than architechture up perspective, but wouldn't it be cool to have an app that fired off task reminders based on your location (GSM/UMTS cell or GPS) rather than a time. That way you could get a reminder to 'pick up laundry' whenever you went to the high street or 'check you zipper' every time you left the loo!
I'm no developer so I'm not in a possition to do anythign about this but I though someone else might.

tintoy said:
Just an idea, and very much from a functionality down, rather than architechture up perspective, but wouldn't it be cool to have an app that fired off task reminders based on your location (GSM/UMTS cell or GPS) rather than a time. That way you could get a reminder to 'pick up laundry' whenever you went to the high street or 'check you zipper' every time you left the loo!
I'm no developer so I'm not in a possition to do anythign about this but I though someone else might.
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Hmm, interesting idea. There is already an app that changes phone profiles on certain locations (GSM cells). So, I guess it is not impossible.

I think it's called cell profiler. I though something that hooks in to the PIM a bit more would be cool, specially in these days of small UMTS cells and devices with GPS built in.

I love that idea. My ppc is like my second brain for that kind of stuff.

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Are these possible?

I am a prospective buyer of the Touch HD. The first thing I was wondering is if you can choose settings when you schedule a meeting. For example if you have an important meeting, you might want to switch off all incoming call and message alerts. Can it be set so that it does this automatically when the meeting starts?
Also, is there any sort of application that uses the GPS so that you can choose settings depending on location. For example you might want to make it so that your phone automatically goes on silent whenever you are in the office or, if you are a student, a lecture theatre, maybe even in your bedroom. Perhaps that is a little far fetched, but it would be cool.

There are certainly applications that do your first request.
I've not seen any that do the second based on GPS but I have seen them that check the cell station and decide on which is nearest.

mike_dangerous said:
I am a prospective buyer of the Touch HD. The first thing I was wondering is if you can choose settings when you schedule a meeting. For example if you have an important meeting, you might want to switch off all incoming call and message alerts. Can it be set so that it does this automatically when the meeting starts?
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If you have all your meetings setup on your phone's calendar, then you can use a prebuilt sound profile called "Automatic" which changes phone to "vibrate" automatically during your appointments.
Also, is there any sort of application that uses the GPS so that you can choose settings depending on location. For example you might want to make it so that your phone automatically goes on silent whenever you are in the office or, if you are a student, a lecture theatre, maybe even in your bedroom. Perhaps that is a little far fetched, but it would be cool.
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Wow ..... this would be cool, but also very big-brother-ish !! Have you seen a recent movie called "Eagle Eye" ?
Cheers !!

mike_dangerous said:
I am a prospective buyer of the Touch HD. The first thing I was wondering is if you can choose settings when you schedule a meeting. For example if you have an important meeting, you might want to switch off all incoming call and message alerts. Can it be set so that it does this automatically when the meeting starts?
Also, is there any sort of application that uses the GPS so that you can choose settings depending on location. For example you might want to make it so that your phone automatically goes on silent whenever you are in the office or, if you are a student, a lecture theatre, maybe even in your bedroom. Perhaps that is a little far fetched, but it would be cool.
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check the program "Phone Alarm Pro"... if I understood your request correctly, that should be able to do what you want (change profile depending on meeting status as well as location by network antennas and GPS as well)... The program is highly configurable, fully skinnable and there is a full functioinal 14-days trial available.
I haven't tried yet, but with the gps there maybe two problems:
1) the gps reception inside buildings may be poor or may not work at all
2) if gps receiver is switched on all the time, the battery may be empty really quickly...
regards jan

Wow that does look like the perfect program. Although I don't have a Touch HD and don't know anything about how something would work with its interface etc. Has anyone tried Phone Alarm Pro because it looks like something I might buy if/when I get an HD? It looks like it does exactly what I had in mind.
I see what you are saying about GPS, how accurate would the location from other methods be. It mentions cell brodcasts? It does say that is checks your location every 2 mins, it might power off the gps at other times and the regularity of this might be customisable, I don't know.

mike_dangerous said:
Wow that does look like the perfect program. Although I don't have a Touch HD and don't know anything about how something would work with its interface etc. Has anyone tried Phone Alarm Pro because it looks like something I might buy if/when I get an HD? It looks like it does exactly what I had in mind.
I see what you are saying about GPS, how accurate would the location from other methods be. It mentions cell brodcasts? It does say that is checks your location every 2 mins, it might power off the gps at other times and the regularity of this might be customisable, I don't know.
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It is a very good applicatin wih not much battery drain, a guy posted in this forum maybe 3 days ago how smart he configured Alarm pro so he had a least over 60% battery power after 30 hours without charging...
Here is the thread: Wow....

What new apps would you like to see next?

List a few apps you would love to see created for wm devices. Here are some I would like to see (if not already available.)
1. App that changes spoken word into text
2. App to change voice (pitch, tone, etc) as you speak into your device
3. Spoken language converter for communication between two different languages
4. Radar to detect movement within a specified radius
5. calorie calculator - input what your eating throughout the day and it provides the # of calories for each item and gives a total
6. Car alarm interface - lock/unlock your car using your device
7. Battery maximizer - automatically cuts power to anything not being used/ auto restores when used and figures best output needed for operation
8. reserve 911 power - allows 5-7 mins of talk if 911 is dialed on a dead battery
9. Background noise reducer
10. flashing flare - signal for emergency or to get attention of others in dark places like clubs or movies. (choice of colors)

Some of those apps are a little too futuristic, like Spoken language converter, Car alarm interface (even if it would be able to make, it would probably be illegal?), though some others I think wouldn't be too hard to make for the developers here.
I dont have any specific request, I'd just love to see a game/app with nice graphics for once Most apps gui are kinda lame, even though the function is superb. Like if someone could do a remake of DiamondBeer and make it more realistic like the iPhone one (yeah I know, I'm jealous of all the apps iPhone has). Why dont developers and designers go together when they're creating stuff? Everything would be so much better with some teamwork
Tough I have an game/useless app idea. Kinda like a voodoo-doll using physics and the accelerometer. Like you toss a figure around by shaking your device and the figure gets more and more damaged..

Pomegranate NS08
http://www.pomegranatephone.com/

I agree some apps are a bit on the futuristic side but it's fun to dream.
Here are some in the games category please excuse me if it already exists:
1. Bowling - bowl is lauching by finger swipe (faster the swipt the faster the roll)
2. Dodgeball - control your character with your finger (see through image of your charter like oldschool punch out) and avoid the balls being thrown by other character. You can place the face of anyone in your pictures on the attacking/target character. Catch balls with a correctly timed tap.

Am I the only one that wants to see someone rewrite the text messaging side of the diamond?
Its crap.
Its not intuitive, its not finger friendly it doesn't look good and its slow.
And is it just me but when I try to look through past messages they seem t be in the wrong places. Like messages I've recieved aren't in the inbox. Messages I've sent aren't in the sent box!

Oh god, I can't stop laughing at that Pomegranatephone. Haha, awesome, would be cool if it actually was possible to make one of those.

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Pomegranate NS08
http://www.pomegranatephone.com/
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I love the shaving part!

i think the bowling idea mentioned above is a great idea.
would love to have it.
using G-sensor to curve the ball could be interesting

concerning the "flashing flare", I made my very first WinMo app with your idea... So, please be kind ^^
Hope you'll like it
I'll add some features, like the morse code mode or the possibility to save the settings
Edit : translation corrected

Noone likes my sadistic voodoo-app?
Oh I just remembered what I want pretty bad now. a working landscape mode in tf3d.

Hey everyone. I've got a quick thought I wanted to run by you guys. It has to do with PIM applications and task managment. "wow, that's boring." you say? Well hold on a sec because I have a point here. Ever since I got my first palm back in high school one thing has bothered me. The separation of appointments and tasks! It's always either or, never both. Drives me frickin nuts and I can't understand why palm and microsoft (the two os makers I've always used), and for that matter makers of other PIM apps can't get there heads around this! All I want is a piece of software that will only show me my TASKS for a specific day. I want to be able to set a recurring task as well. Here's an example. I have to take out the trash every friday morning. I want to set the task to friday morning and set a reminder for thursday evening. I put the task down to occur every friday and remind me every thursday night just in case I might be home to do it. (my garbage scheduel logice isn't on trial here so focus) Okay, so I get reminded thurday night but I'm not home, so i set it to re-remind me friday morning. Friday morning comes, it beeps and wakes me up, and i take out the garbage! Then I select that task and hit complete. It disappears and doesn't bother me again for a whole week. I'd like there to be a day view where it just shows me my tasks for one specific day/the week/or the whole month. I tried to set a recurring task in wm task and it just keeps adding a new to my current list every time i hit complete! I don't want the dern thing to show up till the day it's due! Otherwise it gets confusing! Wm doesn't have a day feature either! Pisses me off that a company with so much money and influence can't do this! Oh, and have it show up on the today screen. There are some recurring tasks that I shouldn't have to put as an appointment on my calendar! Maybe I'm being too picky, but I don't really think that's the case. If anyone knows of any apps that can do the above (and also not look like crap, just a request, not a necessity) I'd really appreciate it. Otherwise I'll have to learn how to make my own. Ty guys. End rant.

TodayAgenda
search for TodayAgenda. i use it with 2nd Today and I think it will accomplish an agenda view of your appointments with tasks showing on the day they are due. lots of options for customization.

While we're ranting about PIM, can anyone reccomend a good To Do list program? I want something that is nice to look at and easy to use with my finger.

Try TodayAgenda as a today plug-in. As noted above lots of options, including the ability to combine or separate appts and tasks. But for real PIM management, you want ThumbCal. I am a big Tasks guy and this apps handle them better than any other PIM app I have ever tried. Simple, but effective. Very finger friendly and it looks good too.

I don't know if thats what I'm looking for - I'm mainly just wanting a prettier tasks app, but thanks for the reccomendation

Have u tried Pocket Informant? Not as finger-friendly as Thumbcal, but defintely more powerful. And it has GTD and Franklin Covey task management implementation.

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Have u tried Pocket Informant? Not as finger-friendly as Thumbcal, but defintely more powerful. And it has GTD and Franklin Covey task management implementation.
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that's what i'm trying right now. A little confusing, but pretty amazing.

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Have u tried Pocket Informant? Not as finger-friendly as Thumbcal, but defintely more powerful. And it has GTD and Franklin Covey task management implementation.
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It's thumb terrible.
The New Appt Date / Time picking is embarrassing.

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It's thumb terrible.
The New Appt Date / Time picking is embarrassing.
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Have u tried version 9.10? I think it is quite thumb-friendly on my not-so-big thumb

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It's thumb terrible.
The New Appt Date / Time picking is embarrassing.
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Works well with my index finger. I'm not great at thumbing stuff, anyway.

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Have u tried version 9.10? I think it is quite thumb-friendly on my not-so-big thumb
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Yes. It is terrible.

hey i found HTC Sense Tasks on here, its exactly what im looking for
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6850838#post6850838

rant on!
I also am flabbergasted at the neglected, non-existent development of PIM apps! Hardly a week goes by i don't curse Palm for not continuing their Treo. Of all the silly apps created for every useless purpose under the sun, ALL I want is a phone that makes great phone calls, and an excellent contact/calendar/task system that goes everywhere i do.
What I want and can't find anywhere is an EFFICIENT, immediate way to plug info without poking through 10 different screens. All day long i receive phonecalls from clients and need to plug them into a calendar spot.
First off, I want the list of days appts on the front screen, with a few small buttons to scroll a day ahead or behind, or to the week or month view. Then, my ideal would be that while talking with someone I could touch that day, or preferably hour spot and an insert menu would pop up with the name and phone number of the person I'm currently talking to (assuming it's already entered in my contact list [or better, pull it off of detailed caller id]), with a default set to the day and hour I just pressed but which i could directly modify. And then where there can modifyable (with defaults) for category, company, and maybe a handful of user definable fields. Like whether I need to meet with that person at that time, or to call, or something else at that time. Where a swipe or button will bring up all the address/phone fields, and another swipe or button to see past meetings and past phonecalls.
A nice feature on an old Agendus, was the ability to link contacts - so that I could link a father as parent to a child, or husband to someone else, or to a referral source. That would be great.
But also essential is that after a phone call i could press on the number (i think styli are great) and pop it directly into a calendar, rather than just into "new contacts". Or if the name is registered, to pop it directly into the calendar. I'd also like the opposite - to be in the calendar, press and hold for menu then pop a screen for contacts and drop a contact name into the date.
Alot of the features were in Agendus, but they gave up about a year ago, there's been no winmo updates in eons, but they are great with promises of someday and maybe. They used to be excellent, I'm really sorry for what ever happened to them.
I'd buy a phone strictly for an excellent, super-efficient calendar/contact system. Super-efficient (not having to bounce through numerous separate screens) and flexible - user definable. Please, please, is this too much to ask. I love having internet, sms, email, games, but numero uno desire after a clear phone is having the calendar that's ALWAYS visible whenever i pull it out of my pocket. I'm happy to punch buttons for any of the rest, even for phone use, but i want it to be a PDA first! PLEASE!!!!

Repetitive Strain Injuries Apps

Desperately searching for a App (before it's to late) that works like RSI-guard or RSI-shield for PC, but have not found anything! Would buy this app even if expensive!
I think this app would spread and be a hit success, because more people are using their mobile phone for all kinds of things, and repetive strain injuries are common.
At the basics it would be a App with the following usage
at custom interval it locks the device from usage (ex. 4 minutes every 10 minute). Only you can do is call and answer call.
it provides short, medium, and long breaks.
A more advanced app would have the following options
warn before a pause is aproaching so you can finish what you currently are doing
when a pause, it provides animation of useful exercises
after x hours of device usage, it warns and suggest "lock until tomorrow"
For me, i became kind of addicted to my device, now kind of permanent RSI damage to my hand/arm.

Hey,
sounds interesting. I got rsi from playing guitar,
and you're right that would be a nice app.
I'll see if I can put something together.
Greets
Edit: After a bit of googleing I'm not sure if this is possible.
Seems like the lockscreen is not really accessible (for obvious security reasons).
So the device would just tell you to stop and dont lock,
at least that would be something i guess?

sounds good
some kind of pop-up that re-pops to front if pausetime is not out would be enough!

Alright. Ill give it a try tomorrow.
Greets

You can try to "program it" with Tasker...

Heya,
alright, I got a small prototype going on. It will still take a few days for me to finish this, university keeps me a bit busy.
I may have also found a way to enable device locking from dialogs and notifications, it's just 2.2. [Froyo] only,
if you own such a device and are interested I may look further into that. (Almost forgot they introduced that API)
See Device Administration API.
Just to give a small update.
So long,
Alex

i bought tasker, useful program. managed to get it to show a popup at different interval, what i wonder is, is it possible to make it lock the device for a number of minutes, i mean lock from any input (not show the lockscreen), or repopup the popup windows instantly as you close it

how is it going with the program?
(tasker was more than i needed, and drained battery on my device)

After only two days of using. This is what I hate.

What I hate about Samsung Galaxy SIII
Add to the list if you can.
-Social Networking: Phone has no built-in social networking app. You soon find yourself jumping in the market from one app to the other. Modern phones now combine the social networking experience and offer social networking hubs that combine all of your contacts from several social networks and email services in one single place.
-Text Messaging: Unlike most stock text messaging apps, there seems to be no built-in support for delivery reporting. So instead of a small icon on the corner of the text messages you send that display the status of the message (Delivered, pending, or failed) you get an annoying notification in the status bar along with the default notification ringtone whenever a message is successfully delivered.
-Task Management: There is no preinstalled stock app for managing running services. You would have to scroll through the android setting menu in order to be able to kill any task you need to. Motorola photon, for example, offers this really intuitive automatic task killer that kills user defined apps 2 minutes after screen timeout. You won't find that in any of the task killer apps in the android market.
-Stock Dialer: Stock dialer is anything but smart. Whenever you dial a part of a name or a part of a number you only get one entry to chooser or you will have to scroll down through a huge list. The order of the entries in the list is even strange. It does not show the most frequently contacted entries at the top of the list rather the closest match to what you have entered.
-TouchWiz: While the ICS has lowered the stupidity of the TouchWiz Interface (better way to add widgets than before and support for resizing and scrollable widgets), Samsung decided to change nothing else about the TouchWiz interface which is quiet strange because it does need a lot of fixes.
-WIFI: WIFI signal was much worse than all of the other phones I had in the house. And one time the WIFI got disconnected suddenly for no reason. It only happenned once but it's a bad indication never the less.
-GPS: Samsung claims that the support for GLONASS will help get better accuracy on the location results. I used gps test on two phones (GSIII and Xperia X10) both with a GPS cold start and it took the GSIII 30 seconds more time to get my location with an accuracy of 2 meters less than the Xperia.
-Hardware: Same annoying layout of the back and menu button. Despite the fact that google has given a default layout of the back, home, and menu buttons, certain manufacturers still insist on reversing the order of those buttons.
-Stock browser: Very poor support for flash. I played a video on CNN website using the latest version of Flash and the video streaming was not consistent most of the time.
-Camera: Yes. The camera is cool but only because it's a copy of HTC one X's camera. Still not a good camera for shooting in low light.
Well. That's about it. So if you're still looking for a feature-free quad-core ICS phone, you will want to buy SGSiii.

Sell it and stop wasting our time .
jje

Who paid you to post this ?

CyanogenMod 9 fixes many of the software complaints you listed.
I can't stand TouchWiz. AOSP-like ROM's on the SGS3 is perfect for me. Hopefully you feel the same.

JJEgan said:
Sell it and stop wasting our time .
jje
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+1.....that's why they have display models in phone shops, so you can have a feel for the phone before you buy it. You've obviously missed this point....sell your phone if you don't like it and stop cluttering up the S3 forums with pathetic ****e like this....reported to moderator for encouraging flaming! Absolutely ridiculous!!
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You might want to do more research on task management in Android, particularly on ICS. You'll note Motorola has removed that task manager app from their ICS updates. You'll also note you can remove applications by swiping them away from the multitasking menu, and that there's a task manager available from within that menu.
Additionally, the S III's camera is demonstrably better than that of the HTC One X, which - naturally for HTC - uses a lot of compression. HTC's camera app itself is, I found, better than Samsung's, but it's the end results that matter.
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Manar Aleryani said:
What I hate about Samsung Galaxy SIII
Add to the list if you can.
-Social Networking: Phone has no built-in social networking app. You soon find yourself jumping in the market from one app to the other. Modern phones now combine the social networking experience and offer social networking hubs that combine all of your contacts from several social networks and email services in one single place.
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So you can go to the market and download the same app that other phones have built in and get the same functionality and feature set, only those people who dont use social media will not be annoyed by having an app they cannot remove running constantly without rooting
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-Text Messaging: Unlike most stock text messaging apps, there seems to be no built-in support for delivery reporting. So instead of a small icon on the corner of the text messages you send that display the status of the message (Delivered, pending, or failed) you get an annoying notification in the status bar along with the default notification ringtone whenever a message is successfully delivered.
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The stock messaging app is ugly and poor. Swapped it out for the AOSP (Blacked out version) as soon as I could
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-Task Management: There is no preinstalled stock app for managing running services. You would have to scroll through the android setting menu in order to be able to kill any task you need to. Motorola photon, for example, offers this really intuitive automatic task killer that kills user defined apps 2 minutes after screen timeout. You won't find that in any of the task killer apps in the android market.
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Long-press home shows recent applications. At the bottom of the screen is a huge "Task manager" button. Needless to say, you only need to kill applications that are frozen. You do not need any task killer from the market. You also do not need to kill apps after 2 minutes. They will sit in RAM using no battery. If Android feels RAM needs to be cleared, it will use its pre-defined "Out-Of-Memory" values and kill tasks according to a task status based rule set. Read about RAM in my signature.
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-Stock Dialer: Stock dialer is anything but smart. Whenever you dial a part of a name or a part of a number you only get one entry to chooser or you will have to scroll down through a huge list. The order of the entries in the list is even strange. It does not show the most frequently contacted entries at the top of the list rather the closest match to what you have entered.
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Not had any issues myself. Although to be fair, I usually pick contacts to dial from contacts. As I have done since the 1990's
Manar Aleryani said:
-TouchWiz: While the ICS has lowered the stupidity of the TouchWiz Interface (better way to add widgets than before and support for resizing and scrollable widgets), Samsung decided to change nothing else about the TouchWiz interface which is quiet strange because it does need a lot of fixes.
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Touchwiz is awful. Sense is awful. 3rd party launchers have always been my preference
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-WIFI: WIFI signal was much worse than all of the other phones I had in the house. And one time the WIFI got disconnected suddenly for no reason. It only happenned once but it's a bad indication never the less.
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No worse than my HTC Desire
Manar Aleryani said:
-GPS: Samsung claims that the support for GLONASS will help get better accuracy on the location results. I used gps test on two phones (GSIII and Xperia X10) both with a GPS cold start and it took the GSIII 30 seconds more time to get my location with an accuracy of 2 meters less than the Xperia.
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Unable to comment. Not really used. Quoting to show I am not conveniently missing things
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-Hardware: Same annoying layout of the back and menu button. Despite the fact that google has given a default layout of the back, home, and menu buttons, certain manufacturers still insist on reversing the order of those buttons.
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Yep, same layout I've had on my android devices. Missed the extra buttons on the desire but after a couple of days I found it quite intuitive. Back button is fine where it is for me. Where its always been as far as I am concerned.
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-Stock browser: Very poor support for flash. I played a video on CNN website using the latest version of Flash and the video streaming was not consistent most of the time.
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Again I cant comment. All I can say is the browser annoyed me in several ways and I had to swap it out almost immidiately.
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-Camera: Yes. The camera is cool but only because it's a copy of HTC one X's camera. Still not a good camera for shooting in low light.
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Not convinced any of them are.
Manar Aleryani said:
Well. That's about it. So if you're still looking for a feature-free quad-core ICS phone, you will want to buy SGSiii.
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Erm.. Feature free? Thats a bit of a joke. The SGS3 packs in more technology than ANYTHING on the android market. Lots of cool stuff that the competition simply hasn't got. You're pretty aggresive about the SGS3.

Task manager: press and hold home button. Running tasks pop up, with a one click link to task manager. Hard? I think not .
Social media: Flipboard is preinstalled on mine. Doesn't yours work?
Had my SGS3 for less than a day, and while there are some annoyances, not these ones.
I suspect sir, you may be trolling just a bit ;-)
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i believe you
Manar Aleryani said:
What I hate about Samsung Galaxy SIII
Add to the list if you can.
-Social Networking: Phone has no built-in social networking app. You soon find yourself jumping in the market from one app to the other. Modern phones now combine the social networking experience and offer social networking hubs that combine all of your contacts from several social networks and email services in one single place.
-Text Messaging: Unlike most stock text messaging apps, there seems to be no built-in support for delivery reporting. So instead of a small icon on the corner of the text messages you send that display the status of the message (Delivered, pending, or failed) you get an annoying notification in the status bar along with the default notification ringtone whenever a message is successfully delivered.
-Task Management: There is no preinstalled stock app for managing running services. You would have to scroll through the android setting menu in order to be able to kill any task you need to. Motorola photon, for example, offers this really intuitive automatic task killer that kills user defined apps 2 minutes after screen timeout. You won't find that in any of the task killer apps in the android market.
-Stock Dialer: Stock dialer is anything but smart. Whenever you dial a part of a name or a part of a number you only get one entry to chooser or you will have to scroll down through a huge list. The order of the entries in the list is even strange. It does not show the most frequently contacted entries at the top of the list rather the closest match to what you have entered.
-TouchWiz: While the ICS has lowered the stupidity of the TouchWiz Interface (better way to add widgets than before and support for resizing and scrollable widgets), Samsung decided to change nothing else about the TouchWiz interface which is quiet strange because it does need a lot of fixes.
-WIFI: WIFI signal was much worse than all of the other phones I had in the house. And one time the WIFI got disconnected suddenly for no reason. It only happenned once but it's a bad indication never the less.
-GPS: Samsung claims that the support for GLONASS will help get better accuracy on the location results. I used gps test on two phones (GSIII and Xperia X10) both with a GPS cold start and it took the GSIII 30 seconds more time to get my location with an accuracy of 2 meters less than the Xperia.
-Hardware: Same annoying layout of the back and menu button. Despite the fact that google has given a default layout of the back, home, and menu buttons, certain manufacturers still insist on reversing the order of those buttons.
-Stock browser: Very poor support for flash. I played a video on CNN website using the latest version of Flash and the video streaming was not consistent most of the time.
-Camera: Yes. The camera is cool but only because it's a copy of HTC one X's camera. Still not a good camera for shooting in low light.
Well. That's about it. So if you're still looking for a feature-free quad-core ICS phone, you will want to buy SGSiii.
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hello.
i must say that i have my phone also for a very little amount of time.
the things you say are real.But thats the beauty of it.
you could allways improve your phone here in xda.
ruianast

Umm. I get GPS locks in under the second from a cold start. I've never had a phone do it that fast before. Either your phone is faulty or you live in a lead house.
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So you hate everything about the phone... why didn't you try it out before purchasing? Could have saved yourself from all this whining...
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Everything has been covered so far by others with the result: get the apps you want and customize the heck out of your phone.
Well nearly everthing except this:
GPS: Samsung claims that the support for GLONASS will help get better accuracy on the location results. I used gps test on two phones (GSIII and Xperia X10) both with a GPS cold start and it took the GSIII 30 seconds more time to get my location with an accuracy of 2 meters less than the Xperia.
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There are multiple methods for starting satellite navigation. (GPS is not really correct since GPS is the US-version of satellite navigation which does not include the russion GLONASS. I'll however restrict myself to the GPS system in the post to keep things simple)
When your phone has internet connection it will use A-GPS supl-Servers which calculate the phone's accurate position from the raw data it sends.
Based on that information and the also downloaded satellite trajectory prediction it gets a predetermined location. Using that information it can then continue on it's own. Usually this takes less than 3-5 seconds depending on your view.
Without active supl-servers, the phone can download or use a cached version of the satellite trajectory prediction and calculate it with it's own chip from scratch. That usually takes anything from 2 seconds to a minute depending on your view and signal stability.
If neither is available, the GPS receiver has to download the satellite prediction data from the satellites themselves. Each satellite transmits the whole prediction data within ~10 minutes in a cycle. The more satelllites your phone "sees" and actively uses, the faster the download.
As soon as it has the data, it will use it. In total it can take anything from a few seconds to several minutes before a first fix is determined.
It's noteworthy that the prediction data is afaik kept across reboots, so you'll have to disable any network connections (even disconnect from your carrier) use special apps to remove the data, reboot the phone and try again.
Usually a cold-start with active data connection gives you a fix within 5 seconds, without active within 30.
Accuracy as determined by the phone is just an educated guess based on a simple formula. It's rather easy to change it so it displays 0.001 meters....
It's technically impossible to get a less-than 5meter accurate fix with such a GPS receiver, usually you are between 10 and 15 meters. Now tell me, which is more accurate; a max-12 satellite algorithm or a max-24 satellite algorithm?

d4fseeker said:
Everything has been covered so far by others with the result: get the apps you want and customize the heck out of your phone.
Well nearly everthing except this:
There are multiple methods for starting satellite navigation. (GPS is not really correct since GPS is the US-version of satellite navigation which does not include the russion GLONASS. I'll however restrict myself to the GPS system in the post to keep things simple)
When your phone has internet connection it will use A-GPS supl-Servers which calculate the phone's accurate position from the raw data it sends.
Based on that information and the also downloaded satellite trajectory prediction it gets a predetermined location. Using that information it can then continue on it's own. Usually this takes less than 3-5 seconds depending on your view.
Without active supl-servers, the phone can download or use a cached version of the satellite trajectory prediction and calculate it with it's own chip from scratch. That usually takes anything from 2 seconds to a minute depending on your view and signal stability.
If neither is available, the GPS receiver has to download the satellite prediction data from the satellites themselves. Each satellite transmits the whole prediction data within ~10 minutes in a cycle. The more satelllites your phone "sees" and actively uses, the faster the download.
As soon as it has the data, it will use it. In total it can take anything from a few seconds to several minutes before a first fix is determined.
It's noteworthy that the prediction data is afaik kept across reboots, so you'll have to disable any network connections (even disconnect from your carrier) use special apps to remove the data, reboot the phone and try again.
Usually a cold-start with active data connection gives you a fix within 5 seconds, without active within 30.
Accuracy as determined by the phone is just an educated guess based on a simple formula. It's rather easy to change it so it displays 0.001 meters....
It's technically impossible to get a less-than 5meter accurate fix with such a GPS receiver, usually you are between 10 and 15 meters. Now tell me, which is more accurate; a max-12 satellite algorithm or a max-24 satellite algorithm?
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haha quoting 2 fast 2 furious I see XD. good series. can't wait for the next film!

usually people who buy the phone , using it less then a month is to criticise the phone haha nothing new , next please....

Sounds like an HTC fanboy to me lol
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He may not have even bought the Galaxy S III. He might have gotten the original Galaxy S or an old LG phone running LG's UI.
|Trolling with a smile|

-Social Networking: Don't care, less bloat is always good
-Text Messaging: Changed it to AOSP.
-Task Management: No task management? You need glasses.
-Stock Dialer: I enter a combination of numbers, press call, works as I expected it to.
-TouchWiz: It's ****. This has been common knowledge for years.
-WIFI: Stronger than my gnex and nexus s.
-GPS: Works fine, 5-10 seconds.
-Hardware: Don't care, they're only buttons.
-Stock browser: ****, don't like scrolling with it.
-Camera: Great. We must remember that its a phone, not a dslr.
-You: Complaining asshat.
That is all.
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I enjoyed reading threads like these. I really do. :good:

anyway real samsung user will too busy searching for improvement for S3 , not a stupid hate list with no solutions, guess is other brands supporter is idle free since their flagship phone is not out ,hence more hate list threads surfacing , hmmm find something else to do ..maybe go take a walk in the park or something

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