Hi All,
I'm looking to find out if T Mobile can provide at least as good signal quality as my existing Orange network.
However when i'm driving constantly looking at the tiny icon on the top of the screen is'nt really practical.
So,
What i'm looking for is some kind of small application that can run fullscreen or almost that enlarges the signal bars so I can see the strength at a glance.
Cheers in advance for any help
Shaun
Try a custom phonealarm skin.
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Hi
Thanks, but the display is too small.
What i'm looking for is something I can run or put as a tab inside SBSH Pocketbreeze, that shows a nice BIG monitor or percentage even.
Just so at a quick glance the signal strength is close if not full screen on the display not the tiny thing stuck in the taskbar along the top
Hudson Phonedashboard will give you a percentage (but not in big writing). I don't think it is officially WM5 compatible but I've definately had it on my Exec and it didn't cause any problems.
http://www.hudsonmobile.com/products/phodash/
Shaunfarris: clearly the strength meter in my skin is tiny, but it's a custom meter - you can make yours 320 pixels high if you wish. It's quite easy, and PhoneAlarm comes highly recommended.
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there's a program called nicetrack that will show u signal strenght full screen although not in percentage it will graph where the signal is stronger and tell you which tower ur connected to.
I've seen all of these signal-battery indicators, but I personally prefer something that resembles the good old one found in the nokia cells (like the series 40 ones 8) ) this beacause I have a pretty empty Today screen ..
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I've seen a lot of stuff for the PPC like this in the screenshot below:
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I really really want to have black "flat" bars in my HTC S710, please tell me there is a way to have it without needing to flash a new custom rom...
Thanks in advance.
I'm not sure where I got this, but here is the theme in the screenshot...
Well, follow this http://mobile-sg.com/software/?p=TdySchemeChanger&platform=ppc
You will be able to choose between flat black bar vs. others.
you can have bars of any color. The problem I noticed with the black tsk is that the older programs use the softkey space for their layout. for example (pocket alarm) which was not made for wm6 has context and sip instead of softkeys. they get blocked out by the black bars and you can not see the text or buttons.
With ThemeGenCE you can make a similar tsk, and can also fix that old one to show the old style softkey bar.
Simple Flat Black scheme
Simple Flat Black scheme
Flat Black bars - Black Background
simply copy to \windows folder and select in today settings
owziee said:
I've seen a lot of stuff for the PPC like this in the screenshot below:
I really really want to have black "flat" bars in my HTC S710, please tell me there is a way to have it without needing to flash a new custom rom...
Thanks in advance.
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Maybe I misunderstood, but you did say for wm standard? All those ppc versions won't work for standard devices. Here's a cab to install a blacksoftkeys.scheme.xml into your settings folder. It will look like screenshot below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=398571
Does anyone know if the lumen sensor on the Diamond is accurate enough to make a good light meter application for use in photography?
I would assume no, but I certantly dont know for sure.
found this one it wil be possible http://www.clickapps.com/moreinfo.htm?pid=18788§ion=
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Does anyone know if the lumen sensor on the Diamond is accurate enough to make a good light meter application for use in Try this one
Waterlevel
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I'll have a play and see - I've got WaterLevel installed which gives an indication of brightness on the sensor, and I've got a Sekonic lightmeter which i can use to compare the two.
I suspect that the TD's meter is nowhere near accurate enough over the whole spectrum...
Let us know the results, would be interesting.
The water level light meter is what inspired me to ask. It seems fairly consistent, but have no real way to see if it's accurate.
If it is a light meter application that also included stuff like DOF calculators etc... would be slick.
I bought the one that WvanWaas had linked. It workes great on my Onmia i910 thanks guys
Light Meter Accuracy for Diamond
There is an app - Water Level - that I use that is reasonably accurate at measuring lumens, but very directional using the small front camera - but it works well enough for OHSE evaluations. Whether its good enough for photographic use I don't know - and then you still have to develop the translation from lumens to ISO's f-stops etc
I am writing one.
The app is called Light Meter, Vesion 1.01a is currently available on the market.
I have the verizon xv6800 and the battery status only show 3 bars when the charge is full. is there a way to make it show four, so when the battery life decreases it show me a more accurate amount of battery left?
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I have the verizon xv6800 and the battery status only show 3 bars when the charge is full. is there a way to make it show four, so when the battery life decreases it show me a more accurate amount of battery left?
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I don't know how to fix that, but personally I use Batti (http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-batti-v2-1.html) to monitor my battery. It's a small (3pixels by default) gradient bar on the top of your screen which indicates battery strength. When clicked it brings up a dialog to show you the actual percentage of battery remaining. Hope this helps
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I don't know how to fix that, but personally I use Batti (http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-batti-v2-1.html) to monitor my battery. It's a small (3pixels by default) gradient bar on the top of your screen which indicates battery strength. When clicked it brings up a dialog to show you the actual percentage of battery remaining. Hope this helps
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thanks im gonna have to try this out
SPB Pocket Plus has a great battery status indicator that appears at the top of the screen, its definitely worth a mention.
It appears as a small bar across the top of the display. Either solid color gradiant from green to red, or into many bars.
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if you dont like the green to yellow batterystatus, i changed the settings in the cab for a blue to red.
well i updated my phone to the official 6.1 rom and the battery bar now shows 4 bars and the battery life if so much better on the phone now. thanks for the help i really appreciate it
I'm running HTC HD2 with the latest radio
In my house I seem to get bad reception.
My HD2 often shows flaky reception often jumping between no signal and 2 bars when I leave it next to the window. I've tried many different radio versions but non seem great.
It's annoying when I get a message from people saying "I couldn't get through to you!".
I get pretty much the same thing with my HTC Touch Pro 2!
Anyway I found an old Nokia 5210 and I put my sim card in it. I noticed that my signal is far more steady. It hangs around 2-3 bars and never shows no signal.
I can actually now keep my phone next to my computer rather than next to the window.
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My question is what are your experiences with different phones & reception?
It's a subject that isn't very well covered anywhere on the internet and I solidly believe that various phone models/brands will give better signal than others.
Many of you don't worry much about signal because your area has good coverage. But there are people like myself who live and work in not so well covered places that often struggle with reception.
My HTC HD2 has the exact same problem considering the signal strength. I have a spare Sony Ericsson W910 where I get far more better signal strength when listening to radio.
BTW my radio version is 2.15.50.14.....I have no idea why this is happening....
Thanks.
Is it possible to get the mobile signal strength on GT 7.7
I had try lots of ways but can't successful.
What you mean "get"? To get it as a function in your own app's code or just you want to see it?
Turn off WiFi and you'll see strength bars in notification popup (on the place where you usually see WiFi signal bars).
There are plenty of apps like this one that display signal info:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cellsignaltester.moby
You can also get that in the About page of the device settings. What exactly are you after?
nooooo, use this one instead, this Widget is better
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.staircase3.opensignal
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nooooo, use this one instead, this Widget is better
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It's all the same data obtained from the phone. A widget tends to suck battery and performance so that's why I recommended a simpler app. Since there are a ton of them, it's really incumbent on the end user to decide what they like.
All of that apps doesn't work on SGS2/Tab7.7 (Exynos-based chipsets).
No, they work (run), but unable to show correct signal level due to a "bug" in modem FW. They always show +85dbm. So the only way to see correct signal strength is the system signal meter in statusbar.
Any way to update the modem driver to fix the Bug ?
frank8080 said:
Any way to update the modem driver to fix the Bug ?
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Don't think so. Samsung does not care about it - still not fixed even on SGS2, which is already on the market for a long time. Maybe it will be fixed with ICS release, nobody knows.