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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.
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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
Thanks to everyone who helped me out in my (now closed) "Any former iPhone users using a Nexus 4?" thread.
First, my impressions:
I am very, very lucky to have my Nexus 4 right now. I ordered it on Friday, December 7th and received it on Monday, December 10th. I had watched a lot of YouTube videos about the phone up until that point, but nothing really prepared me for how great this phone actually felt in my hand. I work for a major cell phone retailer, so I've felt all of the latest flagship phones from the top 4 carriers and nothing before has rivaled my in-hand experience with the iPhone. The Nexus 4 actually feels better. I love it.
The screen on this phone is remarkable. Everything is so crisp. In comparison, the Nexus 4 screen seems to outshine my iPhone 4s screen. It all seems to look like a movie to me. So fluid and well put together. I actually watched the Man of Steel trailer on both of my devices and it just felt and looked so much better on my Nexus 4.
So far, everything leads me to the Nexus 4 as my new primary phone, however it isn't without flaw to me. It's not necessarily the Nexus 4, more so the developers of certain applications for Android. I am a huge Twitter and Instagram user. I don't like using third-party applications for either. (i.e. TweetDeck, Plume, etc.) Both apps are so much better on my iOS device. There are certain things that make my experience in both apps enjoyable on my iPhone and frustrating on my Android. I'm not sure why the Android counterparts are missing some of the features that are key to my iOS experience, but it really bothers me. I won't say which features because I don't want to seem nitpicky and be dismissed as an "apple fanboy."
Now my questions:
1. How do I select which artist I want to be seen in the Google Music app on my phone? I realize that it is cloud based, but geez, I don't listen to Bow Wow or care to have him cluttering up my phone music app. I am lightweight OCD about the organization of my music. I don't mind being exposed to new things, but these artists are far from what I listen to. Is there anyway I can get rid of them?
2. Can I select a contact to use as my "me" profile on the Nexus? I've used the same contact for years on my iOS device. It has all of my business information, my email addresses, twitter accounts, and much more. I use it as a business card of sorts when I am out of them. Is there any way I can use that as "me" in my contacts now? The contact is still there, but it's asking me to create a profile. Can I somehow merge it?
3. How do I make my phone notify me of new tweets and other things that are happening in my phone other than an icon in the menu bar? I have yet to see my notification light flash and the only way that I know there is something new happening in my phone is to actually turn it on to see. My screen doesn't light up, there is no vibration, no light show or anything. I can't seem to figure out how to enable those notifications. They are VERY important to me. My clients often me via twitter and so do my friends.
Thank you so much for taking the time to help me out. I know that I can be (more than) a bit longwinded. I really appreciate this community.
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3. How do I make my phone notify me of new tweets and other things that are happening in my phone other than an icon in the menu bar? I have yet to see my notification light flash and the only way that I know there is something new happening in my phone is to actually turn it on to see. My screen doesn't light up, there is no vibration, no light show or anything. I can't seem to figure out how to enable those notifications. They are VERY important to me. My clients often me via twitter and so do my friends.
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Use Light Flow from the Play Store. You can configure not only the notification LED on the front of the phone but things like the pattern of vibration, the sound that is played for a notification, whether/how long/how often it repeats, etc. You can set all of those differently for each app's notifications. Very handy (and the author hangs out in the "Themes and Apps" sub-forum here).
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Use Light Flow from the Play Store. You can configure not only the notification LED on the front of the phone but things like the pattern of vibration, the sound that is played for a notification, whether/how long/how often it repeats, etc. You can set all of those differently for each app's notifications. Very handy (and the author hangs out in the "Themes and Apps" sub-forum here).
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Thank you!
I'm going to mess around with this today when I get a little down time. I already see that I will have the purchase the app because some of my main things are only supported in the full version. Doesn't bother me none. LOL, there are like 2 free apps in iOS. And there it is already, a notification light. Ah, I'm relieved.
(This beats having my camera flash go off when things happen in my phone!)
Everyone should be getting their phone in the next few days. I am coming from iOS so I am not 100% sure about all of androids apps and features. I have spent a lot of time in the last month learning as much as I could about switching over but I would like to get some opinions from everyone. I hope this will also help any other novice users get the most out of the note 3.
1. Are you going to use a launcher .. if so which one? why?
2. What apps will make using the note more enjoyable/easier?
3. What apps can I wow people with a demo of?
4. Any other general app recommendations?
5. What general settings should I initially use? or disable?
6. Anything I missed for a first time android user?
1) NEXT Launcher 3D
2) NEXT Launcher 3D
3) NEXT Launcher 3D's "Swing with Scroll" feature
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Everyone should be getting their phone in the next few days. I am coming from iOS so I am not 100% sure about all of androids apps and features. I have spent a lot of time in the last month learning as much as I could about switching over but I would like to get some opinions from everyone. I hope this will also help any other novice users get the most out of the note 3.
1. Are you going to use a launcher .. if so which one? why?
2. What apps will make using the note more enjoyable/easier?
3. What apps can I wow people with a demo of?
4. Any other general app recommendations?
5. What general settings should I initially use? or disable?
6. Anything I missed for a first time android user?
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Welcome aboard! Here's the first thing you'll have to deal with: Size. The Note 3 (I have a Note 2) will seem huge and you may get buyer's remorse. Most of us do. It wears off in a couple of days, though and then you'll wonder how you dealt with such a small phone.
1. I use Apex launcher. Why do I use a launcher? Because I like to change the number of rows/columns from the standard setting. I also like to eliminate the Google search bar. And, I like using gestures to go to apps. I use swipe-up for Google Now and swipe-down for notification shade. Why do I use Apex instead of others? No particular reason but it seemed to have the most available features for a free version at the time. I have since paid for it.
2, There are a bazillion apps. But, coming from the iPhone I would first experiment with keyboard replacements. Why? Because you can and the iphone users can't. Try Swype or Swiftkey. Swiftkey is amazing at guessing what your next word will be. Most of all, get used to swiping instead of typing. Once you get good at it it's MUCH faster than typing. Then show that off to your iPhone buddies and say, "Take that!"
3. If you really want to dazzle people with your new phone find a high def YouTube video (the Vevo ones are good). Playing a beautiful video on a large screen has some really powerful WOW! factor.
4. Some apps I use a lot:
Color Note - A great note and checklist app that syncs via the cloud.
Chrome Beta
Flixter for getting movie times and watching trailers
Gas Buddy to find cheap gasoline
Amazon App store. A free app every day. You have to side load it, it's not in the Play Store.
Droid of the Day - A new app suggestion every day
Timely - One of the most beautiful alarm clock apps. It also syncs with all your devices
The usual apps: Netflix, Pandora, Watch ESPN, HBO Go, Dropbox, et al.
5. I turn off Auto display brightness. I leave my Note 2 at full brightness all the time. The battery can handle this just fine.
I leave GPS, Wifi, and NFC on all the time.
Make sure you setup Google+ to automatically upload your photos
6. Don't go too crazy downloading apps. You may find your battery suddenly draining too fast. If you don't like or use an app delete it immediately so it won't eat battery.
Good luck and have fun.
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1. Are you going to use a launcher .. if so which one? why?
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Nova Prime because it is better than TW in every way.
Ok I will answer some of my own questions from using the device the last 10 or so hours I hope this helps someone else. Please add suggestions because I am still getting used to everything.
1. Nova launcher seems to be easier to use because it takes all ur tw settings and imports them. It makes it easy to switch between the two. I like the tw weather widget better though
2. -I still need to find a good email client that syncs the few accounts that I have together. I haven't looked into this yet.
-Equalizer is a really good app to put more bass or customize the sound of your music.
-Adblock plus is really nice to have while browsing the internet .. I always hated that I couldn't use it on the iphone.
-The adapt sound settings helped make my headphones sound a little better. I use an aux in on my car so it kind of sucks that they don't have profiles for different sources.
3. -Next Launcher is really nice to show people but I don't know if I could use it everyday and its 3x the price of other launchers.
-Real Racing 3 is a nice demo game but good old angry birds star wars 2 probably looks the best and it has a note 3 achievement
-slow mo camera is really nice but anything less than 1/2 speed and the image starts to look very grainy .. 4k really has a wow factor even on the 1080p screen.
4. Sketchbook for Galaxy is a lot of fun to draw in with the s-pen.
5. -I followed this guide for disabling some of the bloatware: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2478448
-I also disabled most of the air hover features because they are nice for demoing the device to someone but I probably won't use them. Plus I wear glasses and it doesn't seem to detect my eyes very well.
-People are reporting poor wifi and one of the settings suggested is to turn off network auto connect.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2472779 .. I experienced the problem but reset my router and it seems fine now.. not sure if its a software glitch or what.
6. -Here is a useful guide on how to transfer your contacts : http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/transfer-iphone-contact-to-android/
-The only thing I am missing from iOS are the nice lock screen notifications. If anyone has a suggestion please let me know
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Everyone should be getting their phone in the next few days. I am coming from iOS so I am not 100% sure about all of androids apps and features. I have spent a lot of time in the last month learning as much as I could about switching over but I would like to get some opinions from everyone. I hope this will also help any other novice users get the most out of the note 3.
1. Are you going to use a launcher .. if so which one? why?
2. What apps will make using the note more enjoyable/easier?
3. What apps can I wow people with a demo of?
4. Any other general app recommendations?
5. What general settings should I initially use? or disable?
6. Anything I missed for a first time android user?
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1. I have been using Nova for a while on my Galaxy Nexus, and use it on my N3 now too. It's not too bloated, allows custom number of icons per row/column, gestures, and resize all widgets. I used to use Apex, and that was really good too, but I switched a while ago to Nova because there was some feature Apex didn't have, though honestly I don't remember what now, and they may very well have added it.
2. SketchBook Mobile by Autodesk (makers of AutoCAD and Inventor, among many other engineering-oriented programs) is kind of cool, it's a sketch program that you can do a lot with, and works well with the stylus. Not the most useful app, per se, but a fun "proof of concept" if you will, and it's free. I believe there's more options than the built in equivalent, though I haven't used either a ton yet.
3. Any high def media will look awesome. Show them Netflix streaming, or as someone else said, HD Youtube, or any other HD video. Even pictures taken with the camera look great, simply because of the huge high res screen. Pictures taken with the phone probably would look even better on the screen than ones taken with another phone with a better camera but worse screen, because it's still small enough to cover up minor imperfections, but big and crisp enough to really look amazing.
4. For a music player, I like PowerAmp. It's got a really good equalizer, and a ton of settings to play with. Honestly, I'm not a big fan of the interface, but it's not awful. You can also customize the widget as much as you want, in terms of colors, fonts, transparency, buttons, size, what's displayed, etc.
I also use UberSync for Facebook, which lets you use sync HD pictures from facebook as contact photos. You can also import birthdays into your calendar, if you want, and some other info from people's profiles. You can choose what resolution to use, how often to sync, and only use wi-fi if you want.
5. I turned off all of the Smart features and that kind of thing. I don't want to control my phone with my eyes or hand gestures, I want to use it with my hands or S Pen. Of course that's fully a matter of preference. Also I noticed that the setting to alert you if you walk away without putting the S Pen back in is disabled by default, so I enabled that. I still worry I'm going to lose it sometime, but that's just because I'm forgetful.
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-Adblock plus is really nice to have while browsing the internet .. I always hated that I couldn't use it on the iphone.
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How are you using Adblock without root??
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How are you using Adblock without root??
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I'm using Firefox with the adblock plugin and its working great. Firefox now flies on this phone.:good:
I know someone brought up this bug before, and someone else also offered a temporary fix for it. I just wanna keep this issue alive since the MAIN reason why I spent 500 plus clams for this tablet was for the S-Note note taking application. Reason: I have a year of weekly meeting notes I accumulated using my Note 2, and want to keep them, and keep adding to them.
The issue: The auto-brightness feature is flawed when entering a s-note. Not entering the app itself, but actually going into a past s-note that was previously written. The tablet would become at full brightness.
The temp fix: Before you enter S-Note, turn off auto-brightness from the pull down notification menu. Put the tablet in 40% brightness, then enter S-Note.
I don't want to sound like I'm hating on Samsung. I love my Note 10.1 2014 edition. I just wish this top-of-the-shelf tablet, that supposed to be better than iPad, had this issue fixed prior to selling the tablets.
Try Lecture Notes, I gave up on S note
Auto brightness is useless. Don't use it.
Have you tried "Note Anytime"??
It even syncs notes between devices....
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lawalty said:
I know someone brought up this bug before, and someone else also offered a temporary fix for it. I just wanna keep this issue alive since the MAIN reason why I spent 500 plus clams for this tablet was for the S-Note note taking application. Reason: I have a year of weekly meeting notes I accumulated using my Note 2, and want to keep them, and keep adding to them.
The issue: The auto-brightness feature is flawed when entering a s-note. Not entering the app itself, but actually going into a past s-note that was previously written. The tablet would become at full brightness.
The temp fix: Before you enter S-Note, turn off auto-brightness from the pull down notification menu. Put the tablet in 40% brightness, then enter S-Note.
I don't want to sound like I'm hating on Samsung. I love my Note 10.1 2014 edition. I just wish this top-of-the-shelf tablet, that supposed to be better than iPad, had this issue fixed prior to selling the tablets.
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I also bought this tablet just for using S-Note, the bug is unfortunate
Search for "Lux" in the play store (sorry, I can't link it since my account is new) - this application gives brightness detection and control.
I turned off the native brightness detection (the Lux program seems to work better anyways)
Now, my S-note detects brightness properly.
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I also bought this tablet just for using S-Note, the bug is unfortunate
Search for "Lux" in the play store (sorry, I can't link it since my account is new) - this application gives brightness detection and control.
I turned off the native brightness detection (the Lux program seems to work better anyways)
Now, my S-note detects brightness properly.
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Yeah Lux Brightness control works great, just disable the native brightness control. You might need to tweak the Lux brightness values initially but is very easy and once set it works fine.
Got the phone today, and after setting everything up I did some google cardboard viewing. Not sure if it was bad settings from the QRcode of that particular cardboard, but I kept getting double vision.
After searching on google I came across a post on oneplus one forums, on the oneplus.net website, and scanning that QRcode fixed it for me.
Link is: forums.oneplus.net/threads/fix-oneplus-one-google-cardboard-no-more-double-images
Thanks for sharing. What do you mean double images?
The way google cardboard (and all other aftermarket vr headsets) works, is by splitting your screen in half and then rounding each half into circular shapes to appear like you have full view.
Unfortunately each screen is a different width. Our eyes are at different distances apart and the glass in the headsets are all at different fields of view. This means that if you have the wrong setup, then the vr apps can place the images on the phone too far apart, too close together, or at the wrong angle (circular shape) to match your eyes and headset glass. So, for example, if the two images are too far apart or close together, your eyes can't twist enough and your brain can't combine the images into one. Think of it like crossing your eyes while still seeing distant objects as one. So thus you get double vision.
The provided qr code is nice to have. But depending on your headset, may not work. The best option is to use the link to the vr setup utility and use a computer to adjust the view until you have perfect vision with no eye strain (muscle tension)
Has anyone tried disabling NFC and using a Daydream as Cardboard?
I tried with a cheap eBay vr glasses and it works just fine. No problem at all