I've been doing some work with Samsung, putting the Galaxy Tab through its paces.
I've just been asked to dream up my ideal Galaxy Tab application! I've got a million and one ideas, but wondering what you guys thought?
I have the ear of some pretty senior people at Samsung, who knows, one of these ideas could become a reality one day!
So what will it be? An integrated Email and Text messaging system? A battery life managing piece of software? What would YOU like from Samsung/Google?
I also got to meet the CEO of Google for this task. More about that here: bilal-mobiler.blogspot.com/
Phone as standard on US Tabs.
Jyveafk said:
Phone as standard on US Tabs.
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+1 that would be bomb
Ditto: phone as standard part of US Galaxy Tab.
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i want to be able to use my Galaxy Tab as a datalogger/basic tuner for the custom ECU running the engine in my car. (i would actually pay a dev 'decent' money to make something like this, needs to communicate with a BT RS-232 serial adapter, and the software can probably be ported from the OpenSource Linux program)
but in the realm of things that more than ~50 people will use... (thousands if it worked on any android device)
a VNC client with a small section of the screen dedicated to a trackpad with left and right click buttons and the ability to customize a small handful of keyboard buttons that are always available would be nice...
Jyveafk said:
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+1
Also app to compose music, like the ipad has.
Since the phone on the US Tabs was obviously determined by the carriers, and thus out of Google or Samsung's control, I'd like to see the Daily Briefing become customizable. The ability to add my own news source(s), the ability to remove the stock section, ect...
coolairG1 said:
+1
Also app to compose music, like the ipad has.
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Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hiukg5A1Qvk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlfnStW5V1s&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-KjlofNSuE&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Something to start you off.
crazy talk said:
a VNC client with a small section of the screen dedicated to a trackpad with left and right click buttons and the ability to customize a small handful of keyboard buttons that are always available would be nice...
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AndroidVNC?
or GMote?
raqball said:
Since the phone on the US Tabs was obviously determined by the carriers, and thus out of Google or Samsung's control, I'd like to see the Daily Briefing become customizable. The ability to add my own news source(s), the ability to remove the stock section, ect...
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And change the colour of that ugly ass application. It comes in different horrible shades based on who your carrier is. I'd actually consider using it if it weren't some neon abortion.
Galaxy Tab said:
I have the ear of some pretty senior people at Samsung, who knows, one of these ideas could become a reality one day!
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I've got a couple of suggestions for apps for the senior people at Samsung.
#1 How about an Android Market app for Galaxy Tabs sold in Dubai. Or a massive warning on the box that it doesn't come with Android Market, despite the press release for Galaxy Tab not indicating that Android Market is market specific and the Samsung UAE website showing photos of the Android Market icon on the Galaxy Tab:
http://www.samsung.com/ae/flash/p2main/low/main_KV_low_01.jpg
http://www.samsung.com/ae/system/consumer/product/2010/10/24/gt_p1000cwaxsg/5_01.jpg
#2 How about an augmented reality system. Kind of like that one described on the Samsung UAE website at http://www.samsung.com/ae/consumer/...XSG/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail&tab=feature, but that can't be installed because it the requires Android Market app.
Those would be two ideal apps for Galaxy Tab.
Phone as standard on the us version is a must.
Agree that the Daily Briefing app is cool. Very cool actually... being able to customize it would be nice.
Have we mentioned the phone thing? ... 30 day return policies sure are nice.
I'd like a nice app for google books, specifically the 'my library' part. There are a number of good book manager apps in the market, but none of them sync or integrate with google books. Then there's one or two apps that do sync with google books, but they don't have the other functionality I'm looking for.
What it needs to do is:
Sync with Google Books, not just the full book list, but individual shelves, please.
ISBN/ISSN search, from keyboard or barcode scan (maybe even integrate google goggles to recognize the cover)
Maybe a cover search.
Text search inside books (can just pipe the results from google books)
If it has a nice UI, even better, but that's not the top priority IMHO.
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AndroidVNC?
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PocketCloud
Galaxy Tab said:
I've been doing some work with Samsung, putting the Galaxy Tab through its paces.
I've just been asked to dream up my ideal Galaxy Tab application! I've got a million and one ideas, but wondering what you guys thought?
I have the ear of some pretty senior people at Samsung, who knows, one of these ideas could become a reality one day!
So what will it be? An integrated Email and Text messaging system? A battery life managing piece of software? What would YOU like from Samsung/Google?
I also got to meet the CEO of Google for this task. More about that here: bilal-mobiler.blogspot.com/
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I have only one request.... as others have said... please let us use it as a phone.
Have them post some anonymous post with a simple method that allows us to do that.
Otherwise, I am not keeping it.
A podcast player that knows to jump to the next chapter inside a podcast, and diplay each chapter info or image. Like the iTunes on iPad.
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xexes said:
I have only one request.... as others have said... please let us use it as a phone.
Have them post some anonymous post with a simple method that allows us to do that.
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I don't think it's that simple - at least not for CDMA devices.
I can only see that the carriers who have decided that this Tab can't be used as a phone, and have forced Samsung into this. Quite why they've decided this, I've no idea, but since I suppose that they feel that since the iPad can't have voice, the Tab doesn't need it either.
I suppose Samsung could release a network unlocked GSM Tab which supports both TMo and AT&T frequencies, but if they do this they may alienate the carriers who then won't carry Samsungs smartphone range, which let's face facts, is the bread and butter of their mobile business.
What you really need to be doing is boycotting the Tab in the US until the carriers see sense and allow you to use them as a phone.
We may pay more for our Tabs without a contract over here in the UK, but at least they are fully functional!
Regards,
Dave
brendand said:
#1 How about an Android Market app for Galaxy Tabs sold in Dubai. Or a massive warning on the box that it doesn't come with Android Market, despite the press release for Galaxy Tab not indicating that Android Market is market specific and the Samsung UAE website showing photos of the Android Market icon on the Galaxy Tab:
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FWIW, I don't think that its Samsungs fault that there is no Android Market in Middle-Eastern Tabs - it seems that this is the case for all Android devices (see here).
I know that's about as useful to you as a chocolate teapot, and I fully agree that there should be at least some obvious warning that there is no Market on the device.
Regards,
Dave
For those who can phone...
1. Voice recognition
What really is missing from my perspective is voice recognition since we need an ear phone to speak.
It makes no sense to have to take out the phone from the pocket to place a call.
We should be able to perform this from the ear phone.
2. Task manager
It makes me crazy no to be able to go to an application from the default task manager. We can only kill apps.
3. Google maps and Contact Manager should be integrated
4. Calendar tab should appear in Phone application and integrated with Contacts Manager.
Since I am using that device for professional purpose I am more interested in real life application than in Asphalt game.
foxmeister said:
I don't think it's that simple - at least not for CDMA devices.
I can only see that the carriers who have decided that this Tab can't be used as a phone, and have forced Samsung into this. Quite why they've decided this, I've no idea, but since I suppose that they feel that since the iPad can't have voice, the Tab doesn't need it either.
I suppose Samsung could release a network unlocked GSM Tab which supports both TMo and AT&T frequencies, but if they do this they may alienate the carriers who then won't carry Samsungs smartphone range, which let's face facts, is the bread and butter of their mobile business.
What you really need to be doing is boycotting the Tab in the US until the carriers see sense and allow you to use them as a phone.
We may pay more for our Tabs without a contract over here in the UK, but at least they are fully functional!
Regards,
Dave
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No offense Dave, but I'm talking about US GSM phones and really don't want a lecture about what I should or should not be doing.
I am quite aware that UK/Euro phones are fully functional.
The guy asked for suggestions ... I gave him one.
Hi,
I made a port of multi-window from note10.1 using some files and apps from the Galaxy Tab 2 forum to my note5.3 and just want to share some idea. My thread is here where you can see some screenshots taken from my note5.3. I have feeling that samsung is working on a possible multiwindow interface for 7.x tablets not just the 10.+ ones and the key could just be some multiwindow files from system/etc/permissions and perhaps swap some files from note10.1 to the Galaxy Tab 2. I dont have a tablet so I cant test my idea but wanted to share hoping someone might make good use of it.
xperiacle said:
Hi,
I made a port of multi-window from note10.1 using some files and apps from the Galaxy Tab 2 forum to my note5.3 and just want to share some idea. My thread is here where you can see some screenshots taken from my note5.3. I have feeling that samsung is working on a possible multiwindow interface for 7.x tablets not just the 10.+ ones and the key could just be some multiwindow files from system/etc/permissions and perhaps swap some files from note10.1 to the Galaxy Tab 2. I dont have a tablet so I cant test my idea but wanted to share hoping someone might make good use of it.
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This is an outstanding idea good sir, do you say this is working on your Note? I have the galaxy tab 2.0 7" I love the idea you have, would expand on the excellent jelly bean video player (resizable window) and would be an indispensible addition to android in general I believe.
Could it work on any large screen droid?
JaxzTReaper said:
This is an outstanding idea good sir, do you say this is working on your Note? I have the galaxy tab 2.0 7" I love the idea you have, would expand on the excellent jelly bean video player (resizable window) and would be an indispensible addition to android in general I believe.
Could it work on any large screen droid?
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I do not have a Galaxy Tablet so I can't test and explore if it would work on the your tablet but I believe porting the right files from Note10.1 or Note1 or Note2 would enable multiwindows on your device. It is definely working in my Note1 and if you visit my thread you can see some screenshots of what I am talking about. I think this is exclusive to samsung made phones and tablets only.
Multi window for the Tab 2 would be awesome. Are there new news for it?
can the same files be run on p3100 rooted 404 official ?
Okay nice I can try this in my tab but you need to tall me what to do?? Secondly will the cwm flash file will work on tab 2??
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Nice 1!
Hello. I have written an app that helps to improve the accuracy of the S-Pen. It works only on Note phones because Samsung has compiled some S-Pen device driver interfaces out of the tablet ROMs. It is not clear why they did this. I have asked Samsung but gotten no replies. I have confirmed that parts of the kernel code is commented out in the open source kernel code (and you can see that some of the interface files found on phones do not exist on the tablets). It seems that the tablets suffer from the same issues related to the S-Pen as do the phones and I have many people asking me to make my app work on their tablets. I cannot do so with the stock ROMs because of the missing interface files.
So I am wondering if there any non-stock ROMs in which the S-Pen is more fully supported. The missing files are located on my phone in /sys/class/sec/sec_epen/ and the two files I need are called epen_hand and epen_rotation. If anyone knows of any ROMs for the S-Pen equipped tablets that provide these interface files, I would appreciate knowing and may be able to direct some folks to using them.
Thanks
tab 7.7 did not come with s-pen... but Note 8.0 did come with one.
edan1979 said:
tab 7.7 did not come with s-pen... but Note 8.0 did come with one.
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Oops. Sorry about being so ignorant. I thought they all did. Please ignore!
All the 7.7 needs is an S-Pen like stylus (ex. The Atmel Maxstylus MXT100) to be complete now that JB is finally out. I don't know why Atmel has not released this stylus. Our tab has their hardware thaat would allow the pen to work. They even demoed it on a 10.1 tab. You can find the video on their website. :banghead:
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Hello. I have written an app that helps to improve the accuracy of the S-Pen. It works only on Note phones because Samsung has compiled some S-Pen device driver interfaces out of the tablet ROMs. It is not clear why they did this. I have asked Samsung but gotten no replies. I have confirmed that parts of the kernel code is commented out in the open source kernel code (and you can see that some of the interface files found on phones do not exist on the tablets). It seems that the tablets suffer from the same issues related to the S-Pen as do the phones and I have many people asking me to make my app work on their tablets. I cannot do so with the stock ROMs because of the missing interface files.
So I am wondering if there any non-stock ROMs in which the S-Pen is more fully supported. The missing files are located on my phone in /sys/class/sec/sec_epen/ and the two files I need are called epen_hand and epen_rotation. If anyone knows of any ROMs for the S-Pen equipped tablets that provide these interface files, I would appreciate knowing and may be able to direct some folks to using them.
Thanks
I think you're in the wrong section..? This is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 section, we don't have support for S Pen.
NocturnalDroid said:
I think you're in the wrong section..? This is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 section, we don't have support for S Pen.
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Oops! Sorry about that. I know that some Galaxy tablets have the S-Pen. Thought this was one. Please ignore!
Haha, that's perfectly okay. I wish we had support! Capactive styli are so annoying to use, and the digitizer on this is in need of some serious fine tuning.
Hey guys. I have a few Samsung Galaxy tablets including a couple of older Tab 4 7". As a software engineer, I'm interested in not only rooting these devices, but learning the whole process since my experience is more on the server side and I want to know more about the Mobile space. Could anyone recommend good resources for this study and would a Tab 4 serve as a good guinea pig?
thinkbui said:
Hey guys. I have a few Samsung Galaxy tablets including a couple of older Tab 4 7". As a software engineer, I'm interested in not only rooting these devices, but learning the whole process since my experience is more on the server side and I want to know more about the Mobile space. Could anyone recommend good resources for this study and would a Tab 4 serve as a good guinea pig?
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Have you found any other websites that are helpful, thimkbui??
I would be counted in . New to this whole thing kind but I'd like to do the same thing that my tabet does to other devices.
Juzzzinlbs said:
Have you found any other websites that are helpful, thimkbui??
I would be counted in . New to this whole thing kind but I'd like to do the same thing that my tabet does to other devices.
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The only thing I've been able to come up with is specific to Samsung and only a maybe, that being calling Samsung's 800 number. I'm guessing that they get requests like this all the time for developers and I haven't tried calling myself yet, so hopefully it's a procedure that would help learning of the architecture of a device and not some magic pill like the autoroot scripts out there.
thinkbui said:
The only thing I've been able to come up with is specific to Samsung and only a maybe, that being calling Samsung's 800 number. I'm guessing that they get requests like this all the time for developers and I haven't tried calling myself yet, so hopefully it's a procedure that would help learning of the architecture of a device and not some magic pill like the autoroot scripts out there.
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I tried calling the 800 about my tablet cuz when I got it, it had the OS completely wiped and I had no idea what to do so I posted .