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My family owns a jewelry store and we had a recent break in. I was wondering if we add a line to our family plan with unlimited data if it would be possible to have a phone that would sit in the safe room and have a program constantly running that detects motion on the camera. If motion was detected it would call a phone number and maybe put the phone in the safe room on speaker so I could scream at them saying that the cops were on their way. Does such a program exist? Anyone willing to make one for a bounty of $150?
check out security/surveillance systems on ebay..
i bought one awhile back that had a motion detector and random other sensors..the brain was hooked up to a phone line and whenever motion was detected the alarm would sound and call your phone..pretty easy and would be alot better than trusting a winmo device as a webcam and adding a cell line..
you can also accomplish the same thing using cctv cameras or network cameras with appropriate software..both can be hooked up to a dvr to record and can even be viewed online from any computer, as long as the software supports it..
interesting, but i think we want to try to avoid hard lines as they can be cut. The cell phone provides battery, and best of all completely wireless data transfer.
well would you honestly want to depend on a winmo device to be constantly streaming data? i'd say not..especially in this circumstance..
with what you have in mind..here's the route I would go:
wireless (rf transmission) cctc camera..you can hide it or get a trick one (they make ones that will go into a light bulb socket so no power lines + wireless transmission)
get a dvr card for a comp (this will need to be in the store tho) and have the reciever go to the dvr card..some software will allow for motion sensor recording and the ability to view online..you can add alarms to some systems..
that would be cheap and effective..youll need some sort of hardlines tho whether its for power or for transmission..i guess there are also battery powered wireless cameras as an alternative but then you have short battery life..also, most good security systems have back up batterys built into the brain which would help in the event of a power outage for any reason..
i suppose your right, i actually dont need a data plan. all i need the phone to do is call when it detects motion i do not need to be able to view the camera remotely I just need it to call me if it detects motion.
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interesting, but i think we want to try to avoid hard lines as they can be cut. The cell phone provides battery, and best of all completely wireless data transfer.
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Any HALF DECENT Alarm system would have a BATTERY Back up and CELLULAR calling devices built in.... All the things you ask for in a standard alarm system that would surely cost you less a month to run and give you better security than a single little phone locked in a safe that probably wouldnt be able to dial out due to all the metal
if thats all your looking for than a very simple alarm system is all you need..the vary basics will have wireless motion detectors that transmit to the brain (with a backup batt) thats hooked up to a phone line..you dont even need a camera, just a motion sensor..if you wanted to record still, you could get a seperate wireless camera..
we have an ADT alarm system already, but the problem with big security systems is that burglars who know what they are doing know ways of getting around them. this idea would be merely a backup to ADT security system we have installed in the safe.
I have a request if someone could make such a program (or point me to one that already exists)
I "think" what I want is pretty simple (I hope)
all I want is a black on white or white on black (toggleable day/night automatically) landscape
so daytime would be MAX screen brightness white with black letters. night time would be minimum screen brightness black with white letters (all on its own use approximate night/day times or use light sensor if available)
I would like live lat and long coords and my speed and direction of travel. (from gps not compass)
large letters fill the screen.
No internet (phone won't even be active) and one last thing.
when external power applied turn on and stay on (auto load on boot if phone off) it should run as service and keep itself running restarting if its not running.
when external power is removed put phone to deepest sleep state.
So you have context here is why I wish for this.
I run a "dash cam" its fun I like camera's and I get some "neat stuff" every now and then.
I really like the new ones that embed lat long and speed right in the video with the time and date.
alas the prices goes from $74 to $125 for a nice high def unit to over $300 if you want that last feature ouch.
so I got to thinking. what if I placed a droid phone on my dash so the camera could "SEE" it (its 720p and the new one will be 1080p so it will be readable)
the trick is making it transparent in use. IE automatic.
turn on when I start the car turn off when I stop the car (engine off ie no power) to preserve battery. most droids screen off with no radio's active can go several days between charges)
any chance this is something that could be made pretty easily? or maybe already exists?
Has anyone obtained this apparently little-known watch?
I'm not sure it's made by UWatch, even though some places claim it is, and the model name follows their pattern.
But it has some interesting characteristics that blend the U8, U8 Pro and U10 together:
- it can act as a phone, with a SIM, but only through an additional (included) magnetic "SIM shell" that makes the watch a little thicker; without it, it's very thin, less than 9mm
- a detachable shell is also used for USB charging
- it has a compass like the U10, but maybe no barometer/altimeter like the U8 has, since a seller told me so, even though some specs listing suggest otherwise
- the screen is a whopping 320x320 resolution 1.56" IPS (the U8 is 128x128 TN and the U10 is 240x240)
- the battery is quite large, 360mAh, with a claimed life of 10 days (!)
- the CPU is a newer MTK2502C, though I'm not sure it runs Mediatek's Linkit like some other newer watches (there is no hint that you can install apps)
- of course, there are the usual stopwatch, step counter, sleep monitor, and so on
It is around €55, but it can only be obtained from China, I found no European reseller.
If anyone has it (or has found detailed reviews):
- does it run Linkit? Can Linkit apps be installed (through, for instance, the MediaTek SmartDevice app)?
- does it have motion gestures (for instance, does it turn on when you rotate your wrist towards you)?
- is the battery life up to promises?
- is the software solid or buggy?
- any other highlights?
I ordered one of these after I tried and was pleasantly surpised with an u8 clone(...).
There very basic if you compare them with say samsung gear s2 which runs Android and is over 330€ up here. I would rather use the word "robust". With sandby time of nearly 10 days! Thats standby offcours.
The u8 and u11 seem to use the same Nucleus os.
And though the u11 is better in every aspect it still lacks a animated and interactive notification system that Android smartwatches have.
Nonetheless one can do more with Nucleus devices then meets the eye. Its just not an open os where you can just install apps on the fly. Android devices seem to need more power especialy xburst which runs a fair amount higher in clock.
But Nucleus is also more capable then the current roms used on these smart watches.
I have yet to recieve the u11, but from what I have read it will suffice my needs for the moment.
Though I have to be honest that I do not like the U8's battery life at all. It's just ridiculously short when bluetooth is on all the time. The u11 does come with bt4.0 and the battery is bigger but it also has a faster cpu, uses gsm(if activated) and has a bigger(IPS)and higher res screen. Time will tell what the inpact is on battery life. Not much info is on the net right now.
Anyway, its a nice watch with an original design(..) an better build then the u8. Using metal alloy opossed to plastic for the case, better strap, tweaked interface with two themes, nicer clock faces etc.. and I realy like the modular design to keep the watch slim.
Hopefully someone will tweak and customize some U11 roms here at xda
Found this review(in spanish)
Does anyone have the u11 rom ? I corrupted something on mine by installing an app. Now it's stuck on the clock. Touchscreen works... it still connects to my paired phone but I can't navigate the menus.
Can't help you. I still have to recieve it but
what do you mean with you installed an app?
Benwayqb said:
Does anyone have the u11 rom ? I corrupted something on mine by installing an app. Now it's stuck on the clock. Touchscreen works... it still connects to my paired phone but I can't navigate the menus.
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Can't help you. I still have to recieve it but
what do you mean with you installed an app?
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Long story short, many notifications did not work. Facebook, Messenger, Gmail to name a few.
I tried different apps on my Galaxy S6 and ended up with a totally incompatible app that tried to install something on the watch and corrupted something.
Thats interresting. Maybe add what app so we dont make
the same mistake again.
Did you try to reset the watch?
I mean reset not restart. There should be small hole
( the one thats not the mic) which you can use to reset the
device by puching a needle gently in there. Just make sure
its not the mic!
Mediatek Smartdevice should work.. ?
It's actually Mediatek Smart Device that messed up my watch.
I didn't find a reset button. Disconnected the battery and reconnected it with still the same result. I left the battery disconnected and I'll try gain in a few days.
I dont think removing the battery will reset the device. Flash ram isn't power dependant.
Maybe the manual can tell where or if there is an reset button?
There is no reset button. I did reset the ram via the Flashtool and I still can't access the menus. The clock did revert back to the default one.
I will need somebody to make a backup of his u11 firmware and post it !
Got mine today. Sadly I ordered Black and gotten a Gray color item. :-/ (don't buy at banggood, they will send random color when there stocks are low) Not to happy.
Anyways.
First impression is good. Metal case, in my case, Gray silver..
Battery wasn' t charged so I could not test it right away
but after a small charge it booted, silently, into clock mode.
The screen is nice at 320p. Clockface is analog which I switched
to digital for no specific reasson. Theres two faces of each, all just fine.
Two themes for menu. Menu is nicely organized with features that
matter easy to access. Much better then the U8 if I may compare.
Notification system is also much better. with a preview of the
sms or other notification that arrives. Longer notifs are clear and cripst to
read on the 320p screen. Which pops on when an notif arrives or when you lift your arm in the right direction. Very usable indeed though shaking would be better.
Every app is nicely tweaked. And the added compass works fine.
Very nice watch and very slim. Obviously adding the gsm module will add a few milimeters. Still have to test this though.
If I get around a pc I will upload the rom for those who want it or just incase. But lets see for an update first.
Misses:
A notif has an menu when swiping from the right. When a large email arrives and you want to access the menu(open, delete, block) the watch may freez.
You dont really need the menu that badly but when it locks, just press the side button for approx. 12 sec. and reboot. No biggy but unfortinute. edit; A long press on an item in the list also pop's upp the menu which works fine.
The vibrator is somewhat to loud. It makes more noice then the alarm sound(in low volume). Sadly no way of turning it down. Turn it off at the cinema or you'll get popcorned!
No Calc! This is a smartwatch, right?
Screen could be a little less bright in the dark. Although a amoled would have been great its a nice ips screen. But a lower setting would be nice.
So did you find a way to make a copy of the firmware?
Thanks
No I have not. I dont have an pc availible. I did try
it on my W10 tablet but W10 isnt beeing very likable.
Can you share the program you used, with drivers, then
I will give it an other try. Also did you use the cable that
came in the box to flash the watch?
My table did not recognize the device. Could be the OTG,
the cable or just plain old W10
I used the cable provided. But I had to use an older laptop running Windows XP. Wouldn't work on my W10 laptop.
I am currently in a moving phaze, so I dont think I can help you right now.
All my stuff is tight up.
Maybe a virtual machine with xp on a w10 tablet/pc will work...
If somebody else can jump in here? I see what I can do here. No promises though.
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I used the cable provided. But I had to use an older laptop running Windows XP. Wouldn't work on my W10 laptop.
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have you found an issue ?
Benwayqb said:
Does anyone have the u11 rom ? I corrupted something on mine by installing an app. Now it's stuck on the clock. Touchscreen works... it still connects to my paired phone but I can't navigate the menus.
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It seems i have a same issue, only clock menu. depending on chosen clock I can access to call and message fonctions.
Best regards
Ok, so i have my Galaxy S5 tmobile that ive been playing with recently. awhile ago i tried to replace the rear facing camera, and the loudspeaker. unfortunatly when removing the screen, the digitizer was damaged. oled was working great. i would just use a bt mouse to navigate. well last night i pulled the phone apart to compare the amoled connection to that of a S7. just to see if i could throw the S5 screen onto my broken S7 to attempt to setup screen mirroring to my tv and be able to use it with a keyboard and mouse for general streaming.
I left the screws out of the midframe assembly of the S5 and it fell off the table after being reasembled. (love when the pets get into my workshop)
anyway, it was just enough to crack the very corner of the OLED and now there is no functionality to the screen.
ive been thinking about trying something that i just havent seen before, and cant find any information on at all.
There has got to be a way to take the ribbon cable from the S5 screen with the connector and splice/solder into some kind of digital video output. also the audio to the loudspeaker adjusted to low-line and connected alongside the digital video to make a single digital A/V output.
Basically i want to have my BT keyboard and mouse and be able to have it outputting video to either a Moniter, tv, wireless adapter of some sort. i would leave the OS pretty much the same minus alot of needless software at that point, and be able to turn essentially any tv with HDMI or digital video in, into an android smart tv..
i have arduino uno kits and Abillion cables of all sorts.
if anyone has any insght to the format of video coming from the OLED connector, or a pinout , any information that would help me get the ball rolling on this. i would be extremely grateful.
"_Gears Always turning, on your voy-age to droid-age_"
Don't like MHL adapters for some reason?
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Don't like MHL adapters for some reason?
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They are nice and all. But that would mean I would have to spend money on something to make it work... Also mhl adapters take their own power supply at 5.0v, which means it would have to be plugged in somewhere during its use. Which I had planned on just using a couple 8000 mAh lithium batteries wired in parallel to power the phone at 3.7v. Getting me somewhere between 6 to 8 days of heavy usage before a recharge. And would make it much more portable.. Maybe even construct a small enclosure with a fan out of one of my CCTV cameras. Even if I had to convert the video and audio signals using a microprocessor, I wouldn't have to spend a dime doing the entire project if it works the way Im imagining it too. One of my main objectives with this project is to use parts from old equipment that I already have.
This is more about doing something creative and new with old Galaxy phones that have no other practical use.
Yes I could order an android box off amazon for less than 20$ and do what everyone else did to stream...
Yes I could order an mhl cable and set it up that way....
Yes I could put a new display assembly on it and use it for dev....
But if everyone thought like that, android wouldn't have existed in the first place.
Hi everyone,
I hope you can help with this problem.
I replaced my Moto G4 Plus battery last night and plugged it into the original Motorola charger (different USB cable). The white LED at the bottom of the phone blinks but the screen just flashes between a white lightening bolt icon, a black screen and the blue screen with the red Moto logo (the screen you get as if it is going to boot).
If I hold the power and volume down buttons together, I can get to the fastboot menu, which says "battery OK (charging)" in green letters, but choosing power down doesn't seem to work, and choosing recovery menu doesn't do anything either. At the bottom of the screen, it says "connect usb data cable" but I don't know what that means.
I've tried leaving it on the fastboot menu but eventually, after a few minutes, the phone screen just starts flashing as before.
I've tried plugging the phone into my laptop to charge instead and it just has the blinking white light without anything on the screen (screen is just black) but I can't get to the fastboot menu or anything. I left it plugged into my laptop overnight and this morning, it seemed to be on the cycle of flashing screens but went back to just a black screen with white blinking LED.
I've been googling for hours to try to find a solution but so far, haven't had any luck. I've tried using different chargers, different USB cables but still nothing.
I can't get the screen showing the battery percentage whatever I do.
So is the battery just dead - might the new battery be faulty?
As a potentially related issue - a few days ago, I took my phone to a local repair shop for the USB port to be replaced as I couldn't get the phone to charge at all. I collected the phone (which was now the dirtiest it had even been in it's life and had a small crack in the screen protector that had not been there previously) and it had been charged. When I dropped the phone off, I had mentioned I was concerned that the battery might be bulging but was told it was OK. After taking the phone home, the battery life remained poor so I googled whether it was possible to change the battery. After ordering a replacement battery and trying to fit it last night, I discovered that more than half of the screws holding the cover plate to the phone were missing, 2 of the remaining screws were the wrong type (philips instead of T3), the black cover was missing from the charging port/vibration motor, the copper tape was missing from the display connector and there was no longer any tape over the battery/battery connector wires.
Needless to say, I am not happy with the repair shop and at this point, I wish I had not bothered trying to fix my phone. All I wanted was to get it working again so I can use it to store my mp3s on and use it as a music player/emergency phone.
If anyone can offer some help, I'd be very grateful as I just don't know what to do now.
Go to the repair shop and get them to fix what they screwed up ie missing parts if you know they are responsible. Lean on them, at least get a refund.
Any battery swelling is a failure.
Stop beating a dead horse... at some point it's not worth throwing good money at it. Limited internal/expandable memory, ram and an LCD display all scream that it's upgrade time. Of course you could get the same model again as they are still available.
Just back from spending over 2 hours at the repair shop. They don't know where the missing parts are and will "ring round" to try to find them. If they can't find them, they'll try to order replacements but I'm not holding my breath.
I have upgraded my phone but since my Moto G4 Plus phone was previously working well, I wanted to change its use from my primary phone to be a music player and emergency phone. So getting it fixed was much cheaper than buying a large capacity mp3 player.
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Just back from spending over 2 hours at the repair shop. They don't know where the missing parts are and will "ring round" to try to find them. If they can't find them, they'll try to order replacements but I'm not holding my breath.
I have upgraded my phone but since my Moto G4 Plus phone was previously working well, I wanted to change its use from my primary phone to be a music player and emergency phone. So getting it fixed was much cheaper than buying a large capacity mp3 player.
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Can't find the DAC that the 3.5mm jack uses, is a high resolution 24 bit output?
The bluetooth on it lacks high resolution codecs support.
256gb max SD card support which is enough space for mp3's but .wav or higher resolution is better. It's a shame you were forced into this position but $hit happens. Been there, done that and it does suck. Very time consuming even if you throw money at it.
Weight your options for a best outcome. Stand alone Mp3 player? Forget that as there are many capable Androids that can fill the roll in the $100-200 price range even less with 24 bit DACs and bt LDAC, Apt X, Apt X HD and SSC codec support.
You got a lot of research to do... as you have a lot of options. Then you need to decide what's best from you and gives the best bang for the buck.
My solution which is near perfect for me and serves as a media server was the Note 10+, a 1tb of V30 rated SD card, Buds+ and Poweramp as the player. I had other considerations as it serves as my primary phone and is used for all my internet activities. It supersedes my laptop now.
Currently, I have a couple of old ipods but the memory on them is very small and I can't fit all my mp3s on them. I appreciate .wav files are better quality but I'm happy with my mp3s as they take up much less space!
Thanks for your suggestions on what to think about and for letting me know your setup.
I see what you're saying about my Moto G4 Plus and I don't doubt that most other people would be of the same opinion.
All I was trying to do was to give my beloved and well looked-after Moto a new life as a music player (which I need) and save some money into the bargain by investing a little in the project.
I'm really sad that it's now in the state it's in and am totally infuriated with the cowboys masquerading as a repair shop in my town. They failed to see that even if they give me a full refund, my phone is now missing parts that were all present and correct when I gave it to them in good faith to fix. Of course hindsight is a wonderful thing but I wish wish wish I hadn't crossed that threshold and trusted them.
Back to the problem at hand though - I've found other people's posts who seemed to have the same problem and I just think there surely must be a clever person out there who's fixed this or can explain what's going on.
Incidentally, I took the opportunity to ask the assistant in the repair shop about the battery - he took the phone to the corner of the room and plugged it into something that I couldn't see, then saidd the battery was ok. But after explaining what I ought to check (the battery connector) and then me opening the phone up myself to show him the connection (and point out the missing parts), he then said it could be a problem with the battery. So I took that to mean he hadn't a clue after all and given the poor service I had already had from them, it was as much as I expected.