So îve been doing a bit of research and i was wondering if there was anyway to add a transreceiver instead of the normal IR Led to our phones.Its just a rought idea for now,but i will be dissabling my s4 soon so i can have a beter look at how to IR Module is connected on to the phone.My problem would then be the software issue,whether or not we can actually get the transreceiver to work on our phone.(Learning Function).
Any thoughts on the whole idea?:]
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Hi all,
Apologies in advance if this is in the wrong place. I've tried using the IR port as a universal remote and found (just like everyon else oddly enough) that it only works from about a meter away and if it's angled exactly right. When I get my XDA back from the shop (cracked LCD €200 - ouch !) I'm going to try putting in an LED from a cheap IR RC car. I was also thinking of taking off the red plastic cover and putting in some kind of parabolic mirrory thingy. Just wondering if anyone has any tips or has tried something similar and had any success/failures ? Is it likely that the IR port will still work for transmitting to laptops etc ?
I THINK U NEED TO AMPLIFY THE IR'S SIGNAL, JUST REPLACEING THE BULB PROBABLY WONT HAVE ANY AFFECT
Sounds like an awful lot of trouble to turn an expensive pda in to a universal remote. :roll:
i seen on sum sites b4, that u can make, or buy :roll: an external IR booster...it works really well...but i dunno if Id want sum clunky lookin thing sittin on the corner of my PDA :lol:
So there *is* a remote software, that works on XDA (regardless of the range) ... which one is it? Did anyone try it yet on the XDA II? Yesterday I tried 6 of them but wasn't able to get my TV to react. It *is* in the list of delivered device-configs ... I even kneed in front of the TV as near as 10cm ... and learning made the XDA freeze in two cases, with a third prog I got the message, that no IR was detected ...
hm ...
TV remote controls usually drives the LED's at 10-20 times the rated current through a 1/5th duty cycle bursts. The XDA2 was not designed to be able to do this.
LED's from similar bins usually have the same luminous flux rating, but the angle at which it transmits is changed by adjusting the position in the plastic housing. Moral of the story: No free lunch when it gets to LEDs.
Good luck with changing the emitter anyway. Can you recall if the XDA uses a HP IRDA module or a discrete circuit?
about extenders for the ir
http://www.pdawin.com/irtranceiver.html
http://www.homeautomationnet.com/Shopping/remote-control-accessories.asp
http://www.smarthome.com/8220A.html
My question is if there any way to make the ir [infra red] port bigger distance , the ir on tytn need to be so closer to the "item" for work , i want to control it from far away .
Any way?
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no one know?
I would like to test it. Which software are you using?
Thanks
Im not using anything , i request for somthing like that .
Unfortunatley the IR on the hermes is very low power, this is an issue that anyone who has tried Noviremote or any other IR control software has found out. As far as I know this is a limitation of the hardware in the device.
Cant to give him more power?
There has been talk of possible hardware mods in the past
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355223
Not sure that its actually ever been done though.
Thanks markafreeman, i'll give it a try.
Hi all,
I'm getting an HTC Magic (I don't have it yet), but it comes with the 3 mp camera, wich I really don't like. The thing is, the camera is easy to replace according to the service manual, and the kernel source brings the possibility to choose between the 3.1 and the 5 mp camera, so I'm trying to find one on the internet to replace the original when it comes. Does anybody know of some place where I could find spare parts for it? (some service center or chinese manufacturer who has spares)
The silly question is also related to the camera, but differently. The question is, does the magic has the typical leds on the front indicating network /bluetooth/wifi/ gps status? (those lights that light orange when charging, flash on green when there's network coverage and stuff). I'd really want to get it some kind of led flash for the camera...
Regards!
www.cnn.cn is one ive used for some parts of htc diamond, i have had no trouble with this website.
it doesnt have any parts for the magic though, but that could be just a matter of time.
but is it really possible to replace the cameramodules? thats really interesting.
Thanks! I'll keep an eye on the following weeks, maybe I'm lucky and they get stock soon
BTW, the camera module can be detached from the assembly by disconnecting a simple connector. I assume the 5mp camera is of the exact type to make it easier to assembly both variants at htc. Then it's a matter of entering or a boot parameter to the kernel, or simply hack the kernel so it always use the 5mp one .
About the flash, I think I might use the trackball led, if it's easy to access and I get room for the wires in there (everything is pretty tight and I don't want to screw too much with the phone just yet -it's less than a week old after all-)
Regards!
I'm not a Developer, but reading some information (i.e. http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/LEDSensor ) I thought that if the leds of our phone (I'm thinking about the G1, 'cause I have it ) is connected to a pin that can be input and output at the same time, we may use it as a Light Sensor! But we need some dev that gives sw support for it...
And then, we may tell Android that the behaviour of the Light Sensor has to invert when we answer a call, and then we have a Proximity Sensor!
If someone could implement this, the devices that doesn't have a Light or Proximity Sensor could have something like it! And we just need a led!
It's just an Idea, but I think it could be awesome. What do you think about that?
[EDIT] we may need to see how long a led takes to shut himself down, and use the data to tell the system to change the backlight... using GPIO controls? [/EDIT]
yeah, thats not bad of an idea. I came from windows mobile and devs made an app for this exact purpose. maybe someone can do it for android as well.
I talked to a person that develops for embedded systems and I he said it would be difficult... He had no good result... But I don't think we're lost, if you say that it's really possible, maybe we can do it
haha i know its possible because it has been done and works on the Touch HD (my prev device) which coincidentally has the same hardware as the Hero. Its a definite possiblity, just that I don't know anything about writing programs for Hero. But my guess is that root access would be a must since you're modifying the usage of the light sensor
Then we just need devs!
Try asking the Dev that made the Leds flash for Sdcard activity, it looks really cool when you use it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=690914
Ace42 said:
Try asking the Dev that made the Leds flash for Sdcard activity, it looks really cool when you use it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=690914
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But it's not the same thing, I may ask but now we need to use the led to capture light, not to send it...
Hey everyone,
I seem to have a problem with my NFC It's not working AT ALL. I tried it with multiple NFC products such as my speaker and using android pay methods. None of them worked at all. If my NFC is fried and needs replacing and would I have take the phone apart just to get to the NFC to replace it?
I really don't know what's wrong with it. The phone says its connected and ready to go but it STILL doesn't work? Anyone got any suggestions. Sorry to be a a pain.
I use the NFC on my N6P for golfing. I had trouble finding the "sweet spot" and the mfg of the tags I use referenced a Reddit discussion. Apparently, the sweet spot is up near the camera bulge because the NFC won't work through the metal back of the case. You might give that a try.