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TV Guide app

Anything in the TV Guide realm that works on the Rhodium?
I have TV Guide Mobile made by Handmark but the interface is not finger friendly and the channel listing isn't exactly up to date. For example, not too long ago Comcast in the Bay area added Setanta Sports to their lineup, channel 300, but I cannot find that in the listing.
I can circumvent that by selecting DirecTV as the provider, but another limitation is that the app has realtime data downloads rather than a daily updated guide.

devis said:
Anything in the TV Guide realm that works on the Rhodium?
I have TV Guide Mobile made by Handmark but the interface is not finger friendly and the channel listing isn't exactly up to date. For example, not too long ago Comcast in the Bay area added Setanta Sports to their lineup, channel 300, but I cannot find that in the listing.
I can circumvent that by selecting DirecTV as the provider, but another limitation is that the app has realtime data downloads rather than a daily updated guide.
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I too would love this! I don't even care if it uses realtime data, although daily update would be better.
TV Guide Mobile is no longer available for download.

Here it is...
the initial setup screens are a little screwed up mostly due to the different resolution. But you'll figure it out. Everything is changeable in the setup menu later anyway.
But you'll see that the realtime data is a bit of a pain, not to mention really not finger friendly. The nice thing is that it works on regular and panoramic screen formats.

There is always Zap2It for US listings.
I use a Program called Sage TV at home for a whole house A/V distribution system and it has a webserver plugin that I can get my guide data from. It even allows me to schedule recordings to watch when I get home and when I used to record in MPEG2 SD I could even stream recordings and live tv from my house to my WinMo phone over 3G. Unfortunately I am now recording everything in H.264 and usually HD so it won't squeeze thru my limited upload bandwidth.
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devis said:
Here it is...
the initial setup screens are a little screwed up mostly due to the different resolution. But you'll figure it out. Everything is changeable in the setup menu later anyway.
But you'll see that the realtime data is a bit of a pain, not to mention really not finger friendly. The nice thing is that it works on regular and panoramic screen formats.
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Thanks!! Does it have digital channels? The one I had previously did not, which is why I stopped using it.

it seems to me that this is another one of thoes north american programs that dont work any where else...
...confirm my suspicions...!

what app would you find useful ?

Hey guys.
I'm now looking for a bachelor thesis and I was thinking about writing an android application.
Preferably one of which aren't millions out there and a more complex one (using GPS and stuff).
So I'm hoping you could help me. Do you have any tips ?

Cool idea! good luck with this.
Unfortunately i can't think of anything my phone can't already do

May be some thing like an android firewall, which pops up when an applications initially try to connect to internet asking if we want to allow or reject the connection and remember the choice.. You know.. Much like an OS firewall. Something like littlesnitch (MacOS)
I dunno if this is possible, but would be great.

How about a GUI for bluetooth..
See what's connected and easily transfer files to another device..

I would double request for interactive firewall
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Interactive firewall, that remembers your settings for each Application based on your GPS co-ordinates & the network you are connected to (Wifi, mobile and the IP range on the Wifi network - or options to that effect ) That's some advanced stuff to do!
Maybe build a complete network tool on top of the firewall? one that does subnet/CIDR calculating, pinging, MTR, tracerouting/pathping, SMTP/POP3 checker etc
I'd use it for sure!

Thanks for the ideas.
The BT GUI looks more interesting to me, but I see there's a bigger demand on the firewall.
Aren't there any similar firewall apps out there ?
I found Droid wall... Anyone tried it yet ?
On the other hand, I didn't find any BT app...
btw keep 'em comin'

grandioso said:
I found Droid wall... Anyone tried it yet ?
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Yup, i'm using it, but... Always after installing new app i keep forgeting to set up rules for it on Droid Wall So interactive firewall would be awesome.

There are two apps I want that don't exist. One is dead simple - a timed SMS sender. How often have I thought "must text Mum about X" at past her bedtime, then forgot to send it come the morning. It would be well handy to be able to specify a send time for a message.
Other is location-aware to-do/reminder. Most "Remind Me" apps work on times - either set times or countdowns. That's not how I roll. I want reminding when I get somewhere, not at a time.
"Remind me of $message when I get [home|work]"
Where $home = joining wireless network "HomeNet" and $work = joining wireless network "Worknet"
You could also do notifications on leaving those networks - "When I leave work, remind me to pick up milk/eggs"
There are GPS versions of these, but I'm not leaving my GPS on all day just for one thing. Wifi is accurate enough for me (although you could build in GPS as well, for added accuracy if want/needed by the user)
Hand-written notes (a la Staesj) is good too. As is speech-to-text notes.

Those are all good ideas. I'd use all of 'em. Lol
Good luck mate!

johnnytruant - that is a BRILLIANT idea !!
Already contacted my professor.
If he won't agree with it, I think I'll stick with the firewall (if no one has a better idea).

johnnytruant said:
There are two apps I want that don't exist. One is dead simple - a timed SMS sender. How often have I thought "must text Mum about X" at past her bedtime, then forgot to send it come the morning. It would be well handy to be able to specify a send time for a message.
Other is location-aware to-do/reminder. Most "Remind Me" apps work on times - either set times or countdowns. That's not how I roll. I want reminding when I get somewhere, not at a time.
"Remind me of $message when I get [home|work]"
Where $home = joining wireless network "HomeNet" and $work = joining wireless network "Worknet"
You could also do notifications on leaving those networks - "When I leave work, remind me to pick up milk/eggs"
There are GPS versions of these, but I'm not leaving my GPS on all day just for one thing. Wifi is accurate enough for me (although you could build in GPS as well, for added accuracy if want/needed by the user)
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These are pretty much all already covered by Tasker...

Ah. I didn't know about Tasker.
Still, an easy-to-use, single-purpose location-aware reminder/notes app is probably more useful to more people - plenty of non-techie types, who would likely be scared of Tasker - would definitely find such a thing useful.

So I finally got this app as my bc thesis.
Get ready for the best organizer ever
There's gonna be a usual calendar, plus location based reminders, plus friend location based reminders, notes (usual/voice, with/without notification) and alarms (with shake/flip/cover/voice-to-snooze), web-sync, and much more

Personally the main thing I've been dying for is SAMBA shares from my phone, but without having to root. If this was possible (or at least easy to do) I'm sure it would have been done by now, though.
Otherwise I think a facebook video uploader would be nice. I can't share more than 1 at a time with the onboard apps and have never found anything better, so I end up using Qik and sharing them to facebook from there.
Another idea (which has already been done, poorly) is to use your phone as a mouse/keyboard. I am not sure how many apps there are for this, but the last one I used (I forget the name) was pretty terrible. It's handy for HTPCs. The app itself wasn't the big problem, it was the Windows server program. It would take focus randomly, freeze, and there was no good way to hide it other than minimizing it.

grandioso said:
Hey guys.
I'm now looking for a bachelor thesis and I was thinking about writing an android application.
Preferably one of which aren't millions out there and a more complex one (using GPS and stuff).
So I'm hoping you could help me. Do you have any tips ?
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No gps, but a video player (with flv support) that works on azure would be very useful to many people

grandioso said:
So I finally got this app as my bc thesis.
Get ready for the best organizer ever
There's gonna be a usual calendar, plus location based reminders, plus friend location based reminders, notes (usual/voice, with/without notification) and alarms (with shake/flip/cover/voice-to-snooze), web-sync, and much more
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sounds great

what's the best music player ?

rewen said:
Personally the main thing I've been dying for is SAMBA shares from my phone, but without having to root. If this was possible (or at least easy to do) I'm sure it would have been done by now, though.
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estrong file manager can access pc samba shares no problem...not sure if thats what your wanting to do though...

kazzaz said:
what's the best music player ?
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I quite like Cubed.

Testers wanted for PeerDeviceNet -sharing thru wifi, wifi direct and mobile hotspot

!!! updated 12/28/2012: add code to detect and use mobile hotspot to enable sharing among devices !!!
I'd like to invite people to participate an open testing session for app "PeerDeviceNet - sharing thru WiFi and WiFi-Direct".
It runs on android 2.2 and above. It is free at google play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xconns.free.peerdevicenet
I have done tests using Nexus 7, Samsung Tab 2.0, Kindle fire(1gen), Galaxy Vibrant. I'd like more complete coverage of devices and vendors.
It supports 4 kinds of device-device connections:
1. for devices at the same wifi net: start PeerDeviceNet at devices simultaneously will allow them find and connect to each other automatically.
2. for devices which are all wifi direct enabled: from system preferences, you can setup wifi direct group connection; PeerDeviceNet will pick up this group info and connect devices in group automatically.
3. if only one device is wifi direct enabled: you can use PeerDeviceNet to create a softwareAP/hotspot at this device (PeerDeviceNet->Connection settings->Create wifi direct hotspot), other wifi devices can use generated ssid and passphrase to connect.
4. for devices with mobile hotspot, you can use mobile hotspot to connect devices and enable sharing.
It extends android's "share/send" feature to allow sharing of the following data:
1. photos/videos (single or multiple) (gallery), audios(astro, solid-browser, or other browsers)
2. web pages (browsers)
3. contact info(Contacts)
4. pdf, word docs (astro or other file managers)
5. apps (google play)
I'll highly appreciate it if you can spend some time installing the app and try out some of the above scenarios. If you encounter Force Closure, please post your device info, android version, or ROM info.
Thanks!

This works fantastically between all of my devices, ranging from Ginger Bread, Honey Comb, and Jelly Bean.
WiFi hotspot also works very well.
This really is a handy app, something like this should definitely be implemented into base Android. Sharing files between devices that have NFC is a breeze, but legacy devices can be troublesome. This is an excellent solution for both worlds.

downloading
looks good

Installed and gave it a test drive.
Works perfectly on our Galaxy S III, Galaxy S II, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Xperia X8, Packard Bell Liberty Tab G100 and Wildfire S - after adding the devices manually. For some unknown reason they don't see each other, though the local LAN has no restrictions put into place.

Hi, I´ve been testing this between SGN2 N7100 (Stock Rooted) and MyTouch 4g Slide (CM9.1 R8) and it works great (no FC etc.)
I have several questions though:
a) I´d like to buy you a beer. There is a paid version but that one is far behind the free one in updates...
b) chat works great (as long as I have signal. but within a flat its mostly great). Will there be an implementation into the full version?
c) if I buy the full version, will you be updating it?
Thanks! Keep it up!
EDIT: seems to me that your app fights with anyconnect VPN (even if that one is running in background I get FC from anyconnect and superuser permissions asked all time... I´ll look into the behavior a bit closer if I find some time) else everything works good.
EDIT: after reinstall of anyconnect it works flawlessly. Keep it up!

File Expert by Geek Software Technology
I have been using File Expert to do similar things... perhaps I don't understand this program's full benefits or potential. FE also connects via bluetooth and runs both a web and FTP server.

It would be nice if you implement an option to close the app...

Option to close the app.
paul1508 said:
It would be nice if you implement an option to close the app...
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Agree with that. It's quite painful to close an app by going into settings instead of hitting some button from the home interface.

Testing now

Downloaded and tried it..
I have a GS3 that it seems to work on, and a Nook color (the original one) from like 2 years ago running CM7 that it just gives a black screen on. I can use the regular wifi connect from the Nook and connect to the hotspot from your PeerDeviceNet but there's no sharing of data back and forth, unfortunately. If the app worked on both I'm sure it'd be much better, but I don't suspect the older Nooks will be a big percentage of your users.

issues related to peer discovery
B.Jay said:
Installed and gave it a test drive.
Works perfectly on our Galaxy S III, Galaxy S II, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Xperia X8, Packard Bell Liberty Tab G100 and Wildfire S - after adding the devices manually. For some unknown reason they don't see each other, though the local LAN has no restrictions put into place.
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Thanks for your feedback. The failure to see peer devices in LAN could be related to one issue i fixed in the latest release; please give it a try.
Also PeerDeviceNet's "search and connect" is based on peer-peer "pairing": no one is acting as server and waiting for other clients. All participating peer devices must start search at same time or in same short time period so that they can find each other. If one peer finished its searching when a new peer starts searching, the new one cannot see the one just finished. It is for security reason.
Regards
Yigong
XCONNS LLC

a) I´d like to buy you a beer. There is a paid version but that one is far behind the free one in updates...
b) chat works great (as long as I have signal. but within a flat its mostly great). Will there be an implementation into the full version?
c) if I buy the full version, will you be updating it?
I am working on refactoring code and bug fixing for the full edition. Thanks for your feedback.
Regards
Yigong
XCONNS LLC

compare to file expert
eonix said:
I have been using File Expert to do similar things... perhaps I don't understand this program's full benefits or potential. FE also connects via bluetooth and runs both a web and FTP server.
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File expert is a powerful browser with many nice features. PeerDeviceNet is a totally different creature.
As a app, it plainly extends android native "sharing" protocol (send/send_multiple) to connected devices, to allow you share content from one device to another. (As a framework, it provides the components and runtime to support connected mobile apps). It has minimal GUI to support connecting devices and monitoring send/recv sessions. It has strong support for connecting multiple devices, run multiple concurrent send/recv sessions, and running in background.
So normally you will use your favorite apps to browse/view content, and when you want to share the content with another device, you hit "share" button and PeerDeviceNet will be there to help connect to other devices.
So you can use Astro file manager or Solid explorer with PeerDeviceNet to share files across devices similar to file expert.
Also PeerDeviceNet allows you share contact info, web links, or apps from google play to connected devices.
Regards
Yigong

how to close it
xbroadcaster1991 said:
Agree with that. It's quite painful to close an app by going into settings instead of hitting some button from the home interface.
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There is "shutdown" button for that : "Connection settings" -> "Shutdown". It will shut down all background services and clean up notifications.
Regards
Yigong

peerdevicenet said:
There is "shutdown" button for that : "Connection settings" -> "Shutdown". It will shut down all background services and clean up notifications.
Regards
Yigong
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Mmm, too many button presses to get there. It would be easier to have a "Shutdown" button in the notification shade. Otherwise well done! I tested sharing files between LG Optimus 3D (p920) and Xperia Mini (st15i) connected on the same LAN. Everything worked fine.

Can one add a function to "tether" a hotspot? but from wifi and not from 3g?
This would be really awsome.
Greets
Sent from my Xperia X10 using xda app-developers app

Yo so I got the full version. The lite is good but wanted to buy you a beer... Managed to transfer 4gb of data in few minutes between my and friends Samsung phone (unfortunately in 3 steps because of the data amount limit). Very useful, the chat also works good.
When will we see full version updated with chat and unlimited data transfer?
Thanks
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda premium

tether to wifi router
keenofhiphop said:
Can one add a function to "tether" a hotspot? but from wifi and not from 3g?
This would be really awsome.
Greets
Not sure this will really help. because when connecting to PeeerDeviceNet hotspot, we already use wifi connection, so why not just connect to external wifi router directly?
Regards
yigong
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unlimited capacity
Narhim said:
Yo so I got the full version. The lite is good but wanted to buy you a beer... Managed to transfer 4gb of data in few minutes between my and friends Samsung phone (unfortunately in 3 steps because of the data amount limit). Very useful, the chat also works good.
When will we see full version updated with chat and unlimited data transfer?
Thanks
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda premium
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Thanks for using PeerDeviceNet and offering beer. I am still working on the full edition. For now i removed the limit of transfer capacity. Please chek out the new release at google play. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xconns.free.peerdevicenet
Regards
Yigong

SonyVaio+Htc Salsa=possible?
While my sony laptop has wifi direct facility my htc salsa lacks one and just has traditional wifi and wifi hotspot facility...how do i connect bothe these devices for transferring the data to and fro?

[Q] Unwanted Ad notifications

Hi all,
I keep getting ad notifications popping up. Sometimes they're links that take me to a web page then to the G Play store for "Candy crush saga", other times they're survey questions like "Do you want an iphone 5?". I've run a few apps that look for adware, and also long-pressed on one or two when I could, and both point me to the Network app, which looks to me like the Android-native network service (it has an icon that looks like 4 or 5 bars of increasing height, kinda like you'd see for a wifi service). Is this just something I get for buying a piece of Google hardware? Or, is there some way to stop this annoying behavior w/o having to put a whole new ROM on there?
Thanks.

I use to get these mid-video on the Funimation app — it was incredibly annoying. I finally got rid of it by rooting my devices (Nexus 7 and 4) and installing AdAway (system level adblocker) from the f-droid appstore. So, no special ROM, but rooting was needed.

tautges said:
Hi all,
I keep getting ad notifications popping up. Sometimes they're links that take me to a web page then to the G Play store for "Candy crush saga", other times they're survey questions like "Do you want an iphone 5?". I've run a few apps that look for adware, and also long-pressed on one or two when I could, and both point me to the Network app, which looks to me like the Android-native network service (it has an icon that looks like 4 or 5 bars of increasing height, kinda like you'd see for a wifi service). Is this just something I get for buying a piece of Google hardware? Or, is there some way to stop this annoying behavior w/o having to put a whole new ROM on there?
Thanks.
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You can also disable notifications from certain apps. I've never gotten ads from the native ROM, its something you installed. I believe they'd apepar to come from the Network app anyway, even if they didn't. Find out what apps you installed are ad related.

tautges said:
Hi all,
I keep getting ad notifications popping up. Sometimes they're links that take me to a web page then to the G Play store for "Candy crush saga", other times they're survey questions like "Do you want an iphone 5?". I've run a few apps that look for adware, and also long-pressed on one or two when I could, and both point me to the Network app, which looks to me like the Android-native network service (it has an icon that looks like 4 or 5 bars of increasing height, kinda like you'd see for a wifi service). Is this just something I get for buying a piece of Google hardware? Or, is there some way to stop this annoying behavior w/o having to put a whole new ROM on there?
Thanks.
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I would disable the Network app's notification permissions. If it is a system app, this really shouldn't impact its performance (unless you prize the "Open Wi-Fi networks" notification. Even then though, I'm a little concerned that you have a network app. Can you give us the full name of the app and tell us what buttons are available from App Info (e.g. Force stop, Uninstall, Uninstall updates, Disable, etc.)? I just checked through four or five of my devices, and I don't have a "Network" app on any of them (including on my Nexus 10).
I'm wondering if it's not just some incredibly shady app name.

[FREE] WiFi Hacker

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cinq.wifihacker
"Have you ever felt like hacking into an available WiFi Network? Now you can with the new free WiFi Hacker!!
It analyzes WiFi networks around you.
Any wireless network that has a security hole will be detected and you will be able to break into it & launch internet.
++++PLEASE READ before DOWNLOADING+++++++++
Free WiFi Hacker is a fake app and it can not hack and enter WiFi networks at all. It is a simulation process and can make all people around you believe it! It is used for fun and to meet your psychological satisfaction.
Just show others: My phone can hack any network!
Keep in mind that this application is for educational and fun purposes only. You cannot use it to hack any networks.
The program is meant to be used for pranks and jokes only. Enjoy this app and have fun!
This app uses banner ads and it adds an icon to your home screen. This allows, that this app remains to be available for free.
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