Needed: Simple call timer supporting incremental minute counting - Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps

Hello,
I can't find anything usable and simple enough. Basically I want to achieve the following:
I have a monthly plan where I pay 20 Euro and get 100 minutes to use (all networks, all daytimes etc.). O2 charges / calculates incrementally, i.e. basing on the 60/10 "taktung" (they "charge" you for the first started minute and then for every 10 seconds).
Now, how can I track how many minutes I've used so far / how many are left?
The timer could either reset once a month or I could reset it manually.
The regular call timer doesn't work - it sums up the total time, but if you made four 15s long calls the call timer will show 1 minute, but your operator will charge you for 4 minutes.
I've also tried the LCMinutes, but it seems way too complicated. Any other suggestions?

try batterystatus now known as homescreen plusplus basic:
http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_batterystatus_xda_neo_wm5_def_im_cs.htm
you get an sms counter, too.

Something like this?
I've divided the minutes into ticks, since you pay per 10 seconds there are 6 ticks in a minute.
Each time you click "sim.call" 6 ticks are entered and every 10 seconds another tick is added.
please note i've changed the 10 seconds to 5 so you don't have to wait that long.
When you click Sim end the ticks are added to the rest and calculated
Also the program doesn't do anything, think of it as a proof of concept

tuem said:
Hello,
I have a monthly plan where I pay 20 Euro and get 100 minutes to use (all networks, all daytimes etc.).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm using smaato cost (http://www.smaato.com/cost.php) that does all that and more but not free though (displays an ad when running it)...

thanks guys, i will try these things out.

And... what do you think?

gaslan said:
I'm using smaato cost (http://www.smaato.com/cost.php) that does all that and more but not free though (displays an ad when running it)...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Gaslan, you can send me yours files of profiles (are in the smaato dir of your phone), my smaato was not creating these files...
Thank you,
Thal

Related

Search bill program for MDAc2

Hi,
I search a program which show me my actual bill during the month, and reset them to 0 when the month finished. It should be possible to make difference between peak time and weekend. I searched like crazy but was not able to find....
Does anyone now some tool like this?
Thx for help
That is difficult one. Don't think there are currently. There is a software called, Phone Dashboard or something like that, does allow you to configure for free and paid phone number. Not sure about peak non peak weekend. Anyway, I gave it a try few months ago, it doesn't seems to work on WM5.
The best I've got is DKToday, which just show you how many minutes you did this month and reset it each month (of the day that is given by you).
Let me know if you've found better
PhoneAlarm can count your minutes too. Even more precisely - you can choose Peak/OffPeak free minutes and many many more settings in config but then, you cant really see how many minutes you have left. Weird, so I use Phone dashboard too. Dont use PhoneDashboard 1.0 - causes hard reset.

Current call time alarm

Hi guys
Is there a program out there that will sound an audible alert (or vibration) once a current call reaches a set number of minutes?
My current phone plan allows me 10 free minutes per call to a nominated number (with no flagfall!) so in order to make maximum use of this, whenever I call my nominated number, I have to hang up before the 10 minutes are up and then call again.
Is there anything that will keep track of how long the current call has gone for and do a notification once it reaches a set number of seconds/minutes? That way, I will never go over the 10 minutes and enjoy free calls =)
Thanks in adv!
kunz said:
Hi guys
Is there a program out there that will sound an audible alert (or vibration) once a current call reaches a set number of minutes?
My current phone plan allows me 10 free minutes per call to a nominated number (with no flagfall!) so in order to make maximum use of this, whenever I call my nominated number, I have to hang up before the 10 minutes are up and then call again.
Is there anything that will keep track of how long the current call has gone for and do a notification once it reaches a set number of seconds/minutes? That way, I will never go over the 10 minutes and enjoy free calls =)
Thanks in adv!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah! Im on the same plan. That sort of program would be really cul! Any ideas anyone???
1234 said:
Yeah! Im on the same plan. That sort of program would be really cul! Any ideas anyone???
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hey champ,
this does the job: http://www.mycnknow.com/Phonesharp.htm quite well!
off topic......that paln sound good! details please...eg. network/plan
cheers guys aussie aussie aussie...!
I have a similar plan to the one mentioned above, my question is...
....anyone out there actually using this software? It'd be great to hear an opinion from an actual user before actually buying it.
..I'd be running it on a softbank X01HT running black 3.5 so I'm guessing compatibility wouldn't be an issue
thanks in advance!

HD2 nags id love to get fixed

guys here is a list of little nags that i have, i have tried everything to try and fix them, flashed every radio and rom with no success, and tried changing every setting on the phone. id be so grateful to get any of these fixed.
1) latest version of Swype (v2.0) with skin crashes frequently, i am able to use the keyboard but no text is entered, to solve this i must switch back to the full keyboard and then back to Swype
2) opera says a download is completed, when the file is launched it is for example 300kbs and will not launch, when i download the same file again the file is downloaded and is for example 8mb, the file then opens. Double click to zoom also doesn't work for me on certain websites, for example BBC
3) there is NO solution to this, i have looked high and low for this, my internet connection disconnects very frequently, i have tried every single option to no avail, the internet disconnects very frequently if HSDPA is enabled (supported by my payment plan) and fairly often if disabled. put simply, this makes internet browsing a royal pain in the backside
4) after reading so many good things about the battery life of the phone i convinced myself it must have been a bad battery. bought a second official one - not cheap, even worse. 15 minutes of web use with all data services disabled in a strong reception area will drain roughly 20% of the battery, have tried all sorts of power management cabs and tweaks. ive drained the battery and charged it fully going on 8 times now.
5) a calendar appointment is created which lasts the whole day (a birthday), no reminder is set, so i dont appreciate it when i get reminded at 12o'clock at night when im sleeping
6) the weather is set to download every 3 hours, so why does it download every 20 mins?
im not complaining guys, honestly this is the best phone ive ever had and i recomment it to everyone, but some of the issues i have truly are annoying. id greatly appreciate ANY help in regards to any of the issues above
thanks
1 - i had trouble with the latest swype (the pale grey one? silvery coloured?) i went back to the dark one, it was unuseable (cant seem to find out how to bring up its version number, , the cab just says swype.cab, , , heh. So i'd say try get an earlier version, Mine works lovely.
2 - move the opera cache to the sd card, and clean it now n again. I have a lot of that kind of trouble with podcasts from bbc, 15 meg or so, , seems to help with the cache on sd.
3 - dont really know about the network details. sorry.
4 - i DO know that if you live on teh edge of the decent signal area, your phone jumping between 3g/hsdpa and edge/gprs will eat your battery. find comm manager and switch off the 3g button (if you have one) when you dont need fast access, can vastly improve battery, and email and other syncs dont need 3g most of teh time, only browsing.
5 - thats probably outlook adding the default "the day before" reminder, (or maybe the htc one works the same as the outlook one) either way, you have to manuall edit the appointment to set the reminder to no reminder.
6 - it will download if you linger on the weather tab for a second or so when swiping. Gives the impression that it is always updating.
Hope some of them at least help!
sam
thanks for the fast reply, not the first time too
1) ok ill uninstall swype and install the older one, hope this gets fixed as i prefer this layout
2) thanks - i have moved the opera cache to the sd card
3) my operator is tmobile uk, HSDPA is supported and so is 3g, i have unlimited data plan, the connection will drop after a couple mins, normally less, if HSDPA is disabled, the connection is slower but more stable, but in the end, the connection will drop
4) ive disabled HSDPA because atm its unusable, i do indeed have that 3g button and is always off, my connection is always on G, still 20% battery loss after 15 mins surfing
5) i mentioned that i set it to no reminder, what do you mean?
6) that makes sense - thanks
if you have any ideas how to solve number 3 id really appreciate it
I had the same issue with Virgin UK (uses Tmobile as you are aware) I flashed to 1.66 rom and my problems went away - battery life as much better also, hope it helps
thanks for your reply
i have also flashed to official 1.66 rom, the problem didnt change at all
i even tried different radios with this rom
any other ideas?
thanks
backup before you do the swype change, if you use a lock password, i believe some version of swype can affect that? (i dont use one so i wouldn't know, there are threads on it)
about outlook and the reminder thing, i'm not really sure of the details, but i've been syncing the same set of contacts and calendar with outlook for probably 6 or 7 years, and several times ive come across a situation where you set up an app, or event or something, and set no reminder, and it goes off at midnight the day before - the setting is actually 'one day' and the day starts at midnight, d'oh.
How it comes to be that it doesn't get saved i haven't pinned down, but it generally seems to be after a hard reset/complete wipe and resync. It often (not always) also creates duplicate birthday reminders.
This has happened to me from office 2000 right through to 2k7, and on different phone OS's, and different sync programs but it doesnt happen all the time.
(bit non specific, sorry)
it sounds to me like an outlook related problem, but i dont use outlook at all to sync anything to my phone
i still dont have a clue why i cant double click to zoom on certain websites, bbc is the one i look at the most its very annoying
Yea i hate the no double click on bbc site . Must be something about how its constructed i guess. , , cuts coming next year, it'l fall appart....
cgrec92 said:
4) after reading so many good things about the battery life of the phone i convinced myself it must have been a bad battery. bought a second official one - not cheap, even worse. 15 minutes of web use with all data services disabled in a strong reception area will drain roughly 20% of the battery, have tried all sorts of power management cabs and tweaks. ive drained the battery and charged it fully going on 8 times now.
thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Your battery should not behave like this and you should stop draining and charging the battery because you will ruin it and I suspect that you may have already done damage.
The batteries need a good few weeks of use to reach their max usable capacity and to achieve this charge it as often as you can for as long as you can. Nothing more, nothing less. No draining, cycling, conditioning of any sort. Just use it and keep it on charge.
I have mine on charge always at home and in the car and I have never got below 40% during the day and I'm a heavy user of the internet.
I have two backup power packs and have needed them only once when I was away for two days and couldn't easily charge.
thanks for your reply, i will do this for the battery, ill report back if it helps
thanks
anyone have a clue?
thanks in advance
cgrec92 said:
guys here is a list of little nags that i have, i have tried everything to try and fix them, flashed every radio and rom with no success, and tried changing every setting on the phone. id be so grateful to get any of these fixed.
1) latest version of Swype (v2.0) with skin crashes frequently, i am able to use the keyboard but no text is entered, to solve this i must switch back to the full keyboard and then back to Swype
2) opera says a download is completed, when the file is launched it is for example 300kbs and will not launch, when i download the same file again the file is downloaded and is for example 8mb, the file then opens. Double click to zoom also doesn't work for me on certain websites, for example BBC
3) there is NO solution to this, i have looked high and low for this, my internet connection disconnects very frequently, i have tried every single option to no avail, the internet disconnects very frequently if HSDPA is enabled (supported by my payment plan) and fairly often if disabled. put simply, this makes internet browsing a royal pain in the backside
4) after reading so many good things about the battery life of the phone i convinced myself it must have been a bad battery. bought a second official one - not cheap, even worse. 15 minutes of web use with all data services disabled in a strong reception area will drain roughly 20% of the battery, have tried all sorts of power management cabs and tweaks. ive drained the battery and charged it fully going on 8 times now.
5) a calendar appointment is created which lasts the whole day (a birthday), no reminder is set, so i dont appreciate it when i get reminded at 12o'clock at night when im sleeping
6) the weather is set to download every 3 hours, so why does it download every 20 mins?
im not complaining guys, honestly this is the best phone ive ever had and i recomment it to everyone, but some of the issues i have truly are annoying. id greatly appreciate ANY help in regards to any of the issues above
thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I experience the same problem (frequent loss of internet connection). I then shut down data connection and immediately re-enable it to turn it back on. This works, but it's annoying and a definite let-down for any smartphone, especially our powerful HD2.
I can't believe nobody has a solution for this. Apparently not even HTC does.
Anyone???
im glad im not alone, there are many many people with the same issues, whoever finds a fix is a saint!
My battery seems fine since i dropped a radio version and can now lost 3+ days with a lot of use and everything downloading automatic.
there are only two things that annoy me, slow/ lag when texting on the keypad and finally the random ghost typing
could you mention what operator youre using and where youre located?
perhaps your radio would be suitable for mine too
Make sure your birthday reminders are set to "none" and not "0 minutes".
I had this problem with birthdays also. They seemed to revert back to 0 mins when i flashed my phone and re-synced my contacts wo had to go through them and set from 0 min to none. Pain in the neck but better than being woken up at midnight!
cgrec92 said:
im glad im not alone, there are many many people with the same issues, whoever finds a fix is a saint!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I contacted the HTC customer service via their website and this is the reply I got from them:
This could be a driver conflict and we recommend to try a hard reset on it make sure that you back up all your data before the reset. If the problem still going on after this then contact us in this line +44 8458900079 and we will send your device to be repaired.
Does this make any sense? It almost seems to good to be true. My phone is fresh out of the box, been using it for about two weeks now with a standard 1.66 ROM. The data disconnect problem has been there since day one. I kinda feel like they recommend a hard reset no matter what the problem is
Anyway, I've read about other people having the same problem as cgrec92 and I but... is this an universal problem or are there lost of users out there who have no data connection problem?
that's really useful information thanks for posting that ill definitely keep in mind that i can send it off to get repaired, although keep in mind most people who have done this say nothing changes, from all I've read, tmobile customers are the most affected, i have done hard resets before but they em nothing, I'm going to try mtty to completely format the phone, maybe its something left over from the tmobile stock rom? anyways ill try that and report back
By the way: I'm on 3 network in Denmark.
i have used mtty and flashed artemis 5.0 with radio 2.06 as the rom recommends
have had some connection dropouts still although less common
what i have found though is that in connection setup, right click and click on update database, equip the new settings
not minimizing opera seems to keep the internet from dropping out too

Very frequent data upload, please help

Hello,
I got a Samsung Galaxy SII I-9100, stock rom, no modification, and no rom update since I bought it.
Since this week-end, I see very frequent data uploads (green up arrow lights up, and network mode changes from 3G to H+). It happens every few seconds/minutes and stays for several seconds or minutes.
Because of that, my phone battery lasts less than a day instead of 2 full days and nights, and it probably also eats my data plans.
I uninstalled all the applications I downloaded, restarted the phone many times, disabled background data and auto-sync, with no success.
I've installed Radioopt Traffic Monitor, I can see the data being uploaded (around 50 KB in 6 hours), but according to the app, it's not send by any application.
The only work around is to long press the power button and disable "Data network mode". But still, I would like to use data and auto-sync without killing the battery (as I was doing before).
Any idea? I heard it might be related to the network itself. I'm on Vodafone Ireland. Might it be anything I installed?
Thanks for your help.
All your apps any apps .
Apps are set to download/update 24 hours a day .
Check each app and turn off its data connection or use an app like Quick Settings to turn mobile data on/off ,
jje
In my opinion 50kb in 6 hours aint high at all..
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk
Hey,
I've found the answer, it might help somebody else in the same case:
I'm on a prepay contract and I had no credit, so I guess the phone was trying to connect to the APN, and the connection was refused, and it was doing this in a loop. After topping up, the problem disappeared.
Cheers
Same problem with my SGS2 but my phone is not sending 50 KB in 6 hours...but rather 200 MB in 5 hours !
I'm not on a prepaid contract, though.
here is a screenshot of the process sending all those data, if anybody can help me...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1148369

Pyle PLDNANDVR695 car stereo questions

Hi,
I just bought and had this unit installed (and of course, Amazon stopped carrying it a few days later).
I had what might be unanswerable questions.
I went into the settings and set the time to "not" 24 hour clock (I.E. 8:35pm) and the date as 10/7/2018.
At the top of the home screen I see 8:35 (pm) but the large clock on the home screen always says 20 35 not 8 35 (there's no : in between ?!)
And the date always come up 2018/10/7.
Small issues, but annoying. I'm not able to get a Hotspot service with my cell provider (Straight Talk), but I am thinking of switching to a verizon unlimited, and hotspot plan so I can use the rest of my stereos features.
Thanks,
Don
realReconScout said:
Hi,
I just bought and had this unit installed (and of course, Amazon stopped carrying it a few days later).
I had what might be unanswerable questions.
I went into the settings and set the time to "not" 24 hour clock (I.E. 8:35pm) and the date as 10/7/2018.
At the top of the home screen I see 8:35 (pm) but the large clock on the home screen always says 20 35 not 8 35 (there's no : in between ?!)
And the date always come up 2018/10/7.
Small issues, but annoying. I'm not able to get a Hotspot service with my cell provider (Straight Talk), but I am thinking of switching to a verizon unlimited, and hotspot plan so I can use the rest of my stereos features.
Thanks,
Don
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I also cannot find a way to set a basic home screen (like the clock on the left, in 12 hr mode, and the MP3 song on the right). Instead of a lame animated wave pattern, a bt phone screen with numbers and phonebook, or the app screen.

Categories

Resources