Hi,
I've just finished an app for windows mobile specifically for skiers that allows you to view your average and top speed, as well as the distance covered for your last run. It also keeps track of your total distance traveled as well as your highest speed ever achieved.
All information is displayed on one easy to read screen. It has a "reset run" feature which allows you to clear your last run statistics ready to collect data for your next run, or to challenge your friend to beat your record.
Version 1.0.1.0
Features Added:
* Option to use Metric system(km, km/h, meters)
* Notification will now pop-up when an Update is available
Bugs Fixed:
* Fixed bug where app wouldn't shutdown correctly on first registration
* Fixed bug where some devices were unable to display altitude
* Minor tweeks
There is a feature limited trial verion which is restricted to viewing your average speed for a run, your current altitude and your direction of travel.
Attached is a screen shot. It runs in a trial mode until registered. To register I'm asking for a donation of £1.50 to help support ongoing development.
For more information or to download my app please go to my site: http://www.fehnerssoftware.co.uk
Awesome. I will definitely give this a try next time i'm on the mountain.
Logs said:
Awesome. I will definitely give this a try next time i'm on the mountain.
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If you do let me know what sort of speed you get up to 47mph is my pb so far.
Check your PM's
Is this app fast enough to keep up with a vehicle speed? It would be great for checking speed and heading in a car or motorcycle. You could change some wording and rename to something like MyAutoBuddy and release it as another app!
I'd love to have that for my phone
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Is this app fast enough to keep up with a vehicle speed? It would be great for checking speed and heading in a car or motorcycle. You could change some wording and rename to something like MyAutoBuddy and release it as another app!
I'd love to have that for my phone
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Yup It can keep track of vehicle speed easily, thats mostly how I tested the app out I've only actually been skiing with it once
For a vehicle what would you want to see? currently it shows average speed, top speed for run, top speed ever reached, distance that run, total distance over all runs, direction of travel, and altitude.
Allthough designed for skiing it can be used for running, cycling etc.
Compile Maps?
I went boarding last month and searched around for piste maps for my sat nav, but no joy.....
Think you could develop this to record the route taken and then view on google maps for example......?
If you got enough users to be able to upload data it wouldn't be long before you compiled piste routes and speed records etc......?
Just a thought......
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Think you could develop this to record the route taken and then view on google maps for example......?
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I can add the ability to log the gps data so that it can be viewed in google earth, google maps etc.
First post updated with change history
I have spent literally hours culling the different threads looking for what others have set their X1’s to. These threads are to improve performance in specific areas and people change them over and over using different benchmarks…..ARGGHHH!!!! It makes for tedious research!
So for me and other noobs can you you fellows please post the performance settings and contributing hardware in your X1 that you currently use and are happy with? If NOTHING else just fill out at least the cache settings you are using? I am not interested in benchmarks here PLEASE!!! My X1i scores lower on benchmarks now than it did with the old roms with loads of tweaks…but real world performance is spectacularly better now!
So if you want to really help out and post all your info, Please use a format kind of along the lines I will use.
(optional but appreciated)--Used mostly for--Business first and foremost (enterprise mail and data connection are enabled no matter what applications are other wise running). Then it is used for movies and music as it replaced my iPhone.
(optional but appreciated)--Ultimate Goal for Tweaks used—VIDEO PLAYBACK - I wanted movies and youtube to run perfectly smooth without dropping frames. AND do this while data connection and enterprise were in use.
---Device info:--
X1i w/ R2AA010 (GENERIC_UK)
8gig SD card (class 8)
--Programs in use to improve performance—
SDtuneup
Schaps advanced config
--Cache Settings—File system cache: Enabled
File system cache size: 8MB
File system filter cache: Disabled
Glyph cache: 32KB
(optional but appreciated)--Other Settings that MIGHT be helping--I have installed or moved all possible programs to the SD card
Also on the SD card is the default storage location for:
Image files
Audio files
Video files
Downloads
IE cache
IE cokies
IE history
Illumination is NOT enabled.
--Performance and Pros for these settings—Overall performance is snappy as hell. Landscape to portrait change is instant as are menu pop ups. Panels are deployed 2seconds after the panel button is pressed and panels are fully functional 4seconds after selection.
--Possible problems or cons noticed for these settings—Maximum battery time is about 10 hours now with 6-7 hrs of actual use on a charge being normal.
(optional but appreciated)--What two tweaks gave the most improvement?—
Upgraded Fimware was number one as this improved everything my phone does. And even though I have read that is doesn’t matter….easily the single best tweak I made to my X1 was the Class 8 speed, 8gig, SD card. This made the most difference to my video playback (of properly converted movies). The intial run of IE or anything sucks while the X1 rights the folder for it on the SD card but after that performance is golden. All of my programs run perfectly from it where with my class 4 sand and class 6 Kingston cards caused lags and lock ups.
(optional but appreciated)--Any BAD setting or software Tweak for YOUR X1?--Enabling "filter system cache" ALWAYS made my X1 slower over time and eventually reduced stability. I HATED the random, little, 'effing freezes that I constantly got. I unloaded, relaoded, deleated and hard reset over and over until I found leaving this cache and just using my X1 resulted in the fastest and stable real world X1...at least in my case.
(optional but appreciated)--Other useful info to achieve performance goal—
DVD Catalyst 3 has finally given me the video play back results I wanted. Nice and smoooooth!
Catalyst Settings.
Ipod Touch (HQ) high quality
Video 500kps normal and 700kps for show off movies
25fps
128kps on sound
720 x 526 resoloution
(optional but appreciated)--Any stupid or ghetto mods, software, etc. you did to improve your X1—
I removed the plastic battery label and put a small amount of heat sink compound between the metal of the battery and the metal X1 battery cover. The result is that at first my X1 would hit 110F degrees when watching YouTube “HD” videos while receiving emails. But now the temp NEVER EVER gets above 95F degrees…..So it is ghetto but it works. BUT the phone feels warmer in your hand of course. HA!
(BTW: I did cut out the battery info portion of the label and put it back on the battery)
Your settings look fine. You don't need to use SDtuneup, as it won't work on the R2AA.
I know MY settings are fine! At least for video playback.
For a lack of a better way to put it, I want to start a database of settings.
For example, if I wanted to set up my X1 to run Excel better or optimize 3D gaming I could see what others have used to achieve this already.
And Sd tuneup made a difference according to sk benchmark......but I am sure those results might be suspect.
I'm looking for a true indication of FPS for my device. Standalone benchmark apps are nice, but only report marks gained from within their own processes, which in most cases there is little overhead and are written to be as streamlined as possible.
Does anyone know of a benchmark or any other type of app, that continuously displays a frames per second value in the top notification bar while you're running everyday apps?
I'm in a discussion with an iPhone user who mentions that regardless of the running app, the screen runs at a constant 60fps, but I find this to be a bit of a stretch.
I'd be curious to know what the average running FPS is while just normally using this Android device.
A FPS monitor isn't going to tell you much when most applications really don't update the screen more than once or twice in a second. Sure, it'd tell you if the phone's refreshing properly when you're scrolling, switching screens, etc, but the metric is pretty much useless outside of games or the standalone benchmarks you mention.
You can certainly get a 'constant 60fps' if the display update layer and the application layer are disconnected from eachother - basically if an app can only draw 10 frames per second, you'll still only see 10 changes per second, all the while the phone can happily tell you that it's updating the screen at 60fps. This is more akin to refresh rate than frame rate.
A better metric would be a process that takes low-priority and updates a counter at some set interval. If it falls behind, you know things are running slowly (ie. it can't get a CPU slot to update).
So yeah, the FPS indicator you're looking for wouldn't do much but tell you your refresh rate, which really doesn't change.
Ahh, good points. I hadn't thought it through that way.
Hi at all,
I am using a CarCamOne but would like to replace it with my android phone, as the quality is far better.
However, I don't know, if there is a suitable app: I need an app which captures what the camera sees (i.e. the street and the cars) while driving. It does not need to show it, but can run in the background, so that I can use GPS navigation at the same time.
It should be possible to specify a certain path in which the same video gets overwritten everytime I drive. Let's say I drive on January, 1st, so it save 010111.avi, then when I drive next time, it deletes this file and creates one of the specific date, so that I always have the latest drive on my sd card.
This whole thing is meant to be able to prove what happened when an accident has occured.
(I would also accept such a program for Windows Mobile, if there is none for Android.)
Thank you very much!
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Want this, too.
I'm driving a lot. German motorways are fast, idiots all around risk is high. There were certan situations in the past where an app like this would be very helpful for evidence.
Would be great if it will work automatically when car mode is detected by snapping the device in the car mount near the window.
I try to but can't remember ... I'm sure that I have seen similar feature in another camera app ... but sorry, memory has gone.
PS: would create finest youtube stuff, too
PPS: maybe something from here: http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/car video recorder "car accident recorder" or "video loop" ?
I tried "video loop" test app with 5 seconds restriction.
In car mode app the cam stood still and stuck.
When trying the programm as a normal application it creates files without file extension (like .mp4 or whatelse). Wondering why it's available in the market.
At myvideoloop.com there is a remark, that the android version is still under development. So, still searching.
Search the market for AutoGuard Blackbox. I haven't tried it, but it sounds like what you are looking for.
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Thanks!
Seems to be pretty well with several options like limit by video size or limit by minutes and so on. Also video quality can be changed in several way.
When linked to the carmode-app it works in my private couch potato mode. Will test it soon while driving the next days.
Some features will work in the paid app only, but the free app should be enough for testing purpose. $1.89 / €1,39 if you wanna have all features. Cheap if it works.
( Can't imaging to use the collision detector. I will recognize an accident by myself - exploding cars are very loud. )
@lamajstro, sorry, for hijacking your thread. Hope it will help you, too.
Thank you all.
Stepsch, no problem at all. Could you please give a feedback to that program after having tested it? That would be great!
Thank you!
I humbly suggest my free app: DailyRoads Voyager. You can search for it on the Android Market. More info here: http://www.dailyroads.com/voyager.php
Video Road (http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-androidlab-videoroad-qnEmF.aspx) also seems to have decent reviews...
I tested AutoGuard Blackbox for only few km until now.
It was working from a link in the car app as expected. I used the original shipped micro USB cable with a car charger, so the phone switched immediately to car mode. The app does what it says with standard settings. It feels a little bit ... how should I say ... cumbersome or sluggish. But this could be caused by my individual phone setup.
DailyRoads Voyager: installed only, but not tested in car so far. When using at home it feels a lil bit more lightweigt, fluently than AutoGuard.
Would be great to send the videos to an hoster of your choice. Until now it can be sent to Daily Roads Website. To be honest - I am lil bit to paranoid to send it over there, I also try not to use most social hubs.
Will take a look at Video Road too.
Testing those stuff creates lots of workload, as there are so much settings available for video quality and lots more. Won't be easy to get comparable results.
So, now I am with DailyRoads Voyager, which works well in the background.
Issues: GPS position is often incorrect and km/h is always zero or much to slow.
An additional running navi app was a little bit too much for the i9000, both app slightly stuck from time to time.
Glad to hear you made the wise choice
The GPS position and speed values depend on what the GPS sensor relays back to the apps. I don't do any calculations for speed, except the conversion from m/s (what Android provides) to km/h or mph.
I've noticed that the speed readings become more accurate when the number of visible satellites increases. In the next version of the app (1.6) I show the number of satellites, and filter out speed readings obtained with 4 or less satellites.
Beta versions of v.1.6 are currently in tests, and I expect to release it to the Android Market in about a week. Will post here when this happens.
Good news! Thx a lot! Looking forward your ping.
Speed is not so important while driving. Also the position is not sooo critical. But maybe it will be helpful in case of accident as evidence, when the videos have time stamp, defined position and correct speed - when one crashes in a gasoline truck.
Indeed, the GPS info is not always important. But, video evidence is, as explained in this recent TV news: "Victim uses smartphone app to record hit-and-run"
http://www.wbir.com/news/article/156830/2/Victim-uses-smartphone-app-to-record-hit-and-run
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I humbly suggest my free app: DailyRoads Voyager. You can search for it on the Android Market. More info here: http://www.dailyroads.com/voyager.php
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Man, you have *no* idea how much this app is going to help me out! *EXACTLY* what I'm looking for, thank you.
Anyone want to recommend a windshield mount?
I dont need the full blown N1 mount from google/htc, and a lot of the cheaper ones on ebay look like they would do the trick, but the bigger question is, if the mount will end up in the frame of what DRV is recording?
One prob is: most cheap mountings that I saw until now are somehow not stable. They let the phone vibrate all the time and your eyes have to vibrate in same frequency when you want to watch the vids afterwards.
Important is a stable and short neck between windshield sucker and the device itsself.
Third party products or those universal mounting need mostly one hand more to connect the USB charger in the phone. A lil bit uncomfortable, but if this isn't a issue for you, you should take care that it can't vibrate so much only.
Brodit seems to have good reputation and has lot of matching parts.
It took more than I expected to finalize the beta tests, but now DailyRoads Voyager version 1.6 is on the Android Market. Added quite a number of features, and the full changelog is listed here: http://dailyroads.com/voyager/changelog
i tried DailyRoads Voyager v1.6 on my Desire HD. i'm sorry to inform you that i had no chance but uninstalled it within an hour.
with it on at the background for some minutes, my device automatically rebooted itself (knowing that it was a known issue in capturing GPS signal, i've turned off the option of using GPS signal in DailyRoads Voyager). i had to uninstalled it after auto-rebooting the third time.
Sorry for causing such problems The symptoms seem to indicate incompatibilities between video resolution/encoder/format. If you have Android 2.2 installed, it'd be best to select HQ (High Quality) in the app, and only try CQ (Custom Quality) settings if you know your device can handle those. The native camera app can also be used to manually determine what the camera is capable of.
Hi
I've tried DailyRoads on SGS 2.2.1 (JPY) with root/lagfix and i'm having strange problems with it ...
It looks like DailyRoads makes problem with cache of system or sth like that - after 1st time install and run, everything was great through about 5 mins until freeze and autoreset ... then i had all my apps settings erased (contacts, smooth calendar settings, gameloft games savegames etc.), icons/shortcuts layout set to default, menu sorted alphabeticaly and every app with account like facebook, twitter, google reader started to freeze so i've erased cache of DailyRoads and all of those freezing apps but it didn't work. I had to reinstall those apps to fix it, and configure them/other apps again ;/
Doing this i've also uninstalled DailyRoads, and since my SGS was quite well configured again i started to think to give it 2nd chance ;>
It's sad it happened again, but this time after about 10-15 mins of using DailyRoads, and it only erased cache setting of smooth calendar and extended controls so i've uninstalled DailyRoads again
I'm not 100% sure why it's happening but until today i didn't have any problems, and it happened twice while i was testing dailyroads ... maybe it's because of lagfix ?
Anyone having similar problems ?
Besides DailyRoads is gr8 and i'd even buy it if it wasn't free ... and causing such problems on my SGS
To pass the time I created this application, he may not have any good but it works!
The process is simple, I created a view that contains a number of layouts specifically*made.
The result is to obtain a scrollable vertical layout long at will and the purpose is to create the longest supportable by the device.
I have a preset standard lengths and the longest is the distance earth-moon (384400000m - 238 855.086 mi) but you can also set no limit until the crash and the maximum length was 7,708,463 km (4,789,816.84 mi )
I have not implemented the function to recreate the layout until just before the crash (to get a scrollable layout) but it's a simple thing to do, I can do it in a couple of minutes and upload the new application if someone is interested
I tested the function without limit only with the emulator because it took several hours but I would not stress too much the phone.
What do you think? I did an interesting thing, or is a WTF in itself?
If you want to give it a look this is the link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=free.tothemoon.rmk
Almost chrashed my phone
HAAAAAAX!!!