I'm searching for an application bar, or task bar (like icbar, wisbar, gigabar, ...) that can show running tasks in the title bar and that is able to show also antenna icon (the one who indicates the GSM network field).
Is there someone who can suggest me such an application?
Rudy
heh me too i uninstalled wisbar because it removed my gsm signal field
taskbar application
Hi,
Magicbutton (you can download from http://www.trancreative.com/) and/or PocketNav (http://download.com.com/3000-2178-10171351.html) are perfect.
yes, but magic button can show only one task bar at a time (usual pocket pc task bar or magic button task bar). When in magic button taskbar you can't see even the time icon and you always have to switch between the two bars.
I don't know pocket nav but I've heard that it cannot show running programs directly in the title bar, isn't it?
rudy
I use magicbutton, and I consider it one piece of art to be freeware ... let's remember that this is a pocket pc environment and not normal XP one. it has limited screen, RAM, CPU speed, ... etc.
the more fatures will be on one screen will make it inconvenient at the end ... maybe you should wait to have XDA III with WM2005
ok, apart of interesting XDA III ... is out there an application able to do what I said?
any experience?
jeanlucve said:
I'm searching for an application bar, or task bar (like icbar, wisbar, gigabar, ...) that can show running tasks in the title bar and that is able to show also antenna icon (the one who indicates the GSM network field).
Is there someone who can suggest me such an application?
Rudy
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Did you find anything?
You might want to check out GigaTask. This is not as powerful as Gigabar but does not hide the sig strength.
Or there is a new beta (v1.9) of Gigabar - have not tried it yet.
www.gigabar.com/beta
gigabar beta doesn't provide the feature to show network signal icon.
personally I don't like gigatask; btw there are many task managers of that type but nobody is able to show running tasks on task bar (or application bar, or navigation bar as mommy microsoft calls).
Rudy
I think that wisbar advance Phone edition would do what you want (and not only you).
I hope that it will be realesed soon.
You can find the forum on www.lakeridgesoftware.com
jeanlucve... why you don't like GigaTask?
It seems nice to me. Did you have any problems with it?
Thanks,
Uros
Did try using WisBar Advance but does not work properly on my xdaII.
darkdragoon said:
Did try using WisBar Advance but does not work properly on my xdaII.
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Is there a Phone Edition? I couldn't find mention of it. I tried WizBar Advance and it blocked the SMS/missed call notification icon and also locked up my XDA II every now and then.
Sorry Urosh my mistake, re read your post and you mention it is in the forum section
GigaBar beta
jeanlucve said:
gigabar beta doesn't provide the feature to show network signal icon.
personally I don't like gigatask; btw there are many task managers of that type but nobody is able to show running tasks on task bar (or application bar, or navigation bar as mommy microsoft calls).
Rudy
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I, too, really like GigaBar...except for the above noted blocking of the phone icons.
Gene hinted in one message on his Gigabar forum that he might be able to fix this...maybe some encouragement from all of us as to how important this would be as a feature...
I also tried GigaTask which does allow display of the phone icons...but then does not show battery strength, which I really miss.
Released: 26-June-2011
CHTSLoco 1.10 - integrated in CHTS 2.30
And as far I know: The first App, which works indoors by a personal, private database of Cell- & WiFi-Combination. No GPS or Internet-Connection needed. For GSM & CDMA.
LocoReminder (new!) : Set a reminder text, if you are in a Location, where you need it.
I'm crazy but you like it... Loca Loca Loca... no... Loco... CHTSLoco
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An ADD-ON for CHT (integrated in CHTS) - final Release 1.05 - well tested by CHTS Beta group
Also big Thanx to ebhoelzner for his great Sense SDK
Changelog Loco 1.10 (integrated in CHTS 2.30) :
- LocoReminder! You can add Reminders according to the Location. You will find it in left softkey menu of Loco: You can add any Message to any Location. If you reach this Location, you will be reminded by Loco. This is nice, only some examples:
... you go to supermarket later and want to be reminded to buy Bananas
... you must be reminded to do something in work, while you are anywhere else, so just write it there... next time at work, you will be reminded by Loco
.... or in the other way, if you have something to do at Home or so.
You will be reminded by Sense Message Box or by Notification Bubble (which you know from e.g. Appointments or missed SMS) - so as long as you don't close it, you can access this message by tapping on system tray. Also you can get a vibration for extra reminding.
It is quick accessible also by a new Quicklink.
... I think it's easy to understand... you will see
- Timed Switch now combinable with Location! In each profile, where you can define the times, you can now add up to 3 valid locations, where this switch shall occur. If you are not in one of the Locations at the time it shall switch - the time switch will be ignored. IF you come then a bit later to this Location, then CHTS will recognize this and will do this time switch later, when you really need it.
One example, for what this is nice: You define a usual time for work and only then you want Work4Me as PRofile. But you defined a Location "Work" as only allowed Location for Work4Me. So if you have free and you don't go to work, CHTS won't change to Work4Me. And if you come later to work, the time switch will be done then, if you arrive at work
Easy to configure and understand... but much possibilities
- New Manual for Loco - best practises. Informations how to configure Loco easily: *Manual for CHTSLoco - best practises for configuration (zipped)*
- Sense SDK 2.50 integrated. Thanx to ebhoelzner for this update. The UI of CHTS/SwitchGui/Loco works smoother and much fixes. There are some other little new issues with this new SDK, but there is always found a workaround, so you will "feel" the improvement
- Loco Locations can now be named in each Language! Reworked the whole database of Loco, so that this is possible now. Therefore this database is not compatible with 2.20, it is needed to reassign the Locations to Profiles in CHTS.
- New Quicklink:Loco Reminder. For the full list of all Quicklinks look to Post #3: -->to List of all Quicklinks & Toggles<--
- much fixes and internal improvements. Too much to list all the single things.
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Changelog 1.00 summary:
- Please look into CHTS-Thread for more informations: CHTS with CHTSLoco-Downloads in Post #1
- Now responsible for CHTS-Profile-Switching
- Now very exact also indoors! Without GPS and without Internet connection.
- XCell-Concept to use additional services for exact localization
- Build personally for you a private WiFi-List, so that you know, where you are (uses also WiFi-Strenght for more exact positioning)
- much more settings-features, but also still easy to use
- CDMA-support by using MachCell
- MachCell also possible to use for GSM
- Renaming of Location possible now
- much more... you will see
Please read below the explainations for XCell & WiFi
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Please read the prejudices before installing!
Also read Hints here and the FAQs in CHTS if you have any problem!
CHTSLoca is an easy-to-use-App, which can detect your Location because of GSM-CellTowers & WiFi-Access-Points and display them as CHT-Icon and is also responsible then for switching Profiles because of current Location in CHTS.
Prejudices:
--> CHT v2 final (Link: Cookie's Home Tab v2)
--> CHTScheduler 2.16 or above (Link: CHTScheduler)
(in CHTScheduler-Thread is also to find the downloads for CHTSLoco and the new Freelink)
--> GPSMod / MachCell-Service: (Link: Mod Driver GPSMod / MachCell)
Now for GSM and CDMA-Devices! For CDMA you MUST use MachCell, for GSM you CAN use it
MachCell is provided free here at xda-delevelopers by Mach2003. IT's a great mod - for much much other useful things - so even if you use "Original Loco Methods" instead of MachCell - I can only recommend to use this great piece of software. The GPS is fixed, Compass is working better - and much more.
Loco supports all versions 3.20 and above (so also the both final Releases 3.20 and 3.40 of GPSMod)
Installation:
Therefore that Loco 1.05 is integrated in CHTS 2.25-cab:
Installation instructions in CHTS-thread: CHTS with CHTSLoco-Downloads in Post #1
For Configuration of MachCell - please look in Post #2 of CHTS-Thread:
*CHTS/Loco-Configuration & FAQs*
Hints (important!) :
- Please use ONLY the sign a-z,A-Z,0-9 for Location Names, NO SPACES and no special signs (e.g. like "-", "!",...)
- If you had 0.85 xmas-beta installed: There it wasn't checked by Loco, so import could fail or CHTS-Saving. Please use Rename-Feature and rename the Location to an allowed name
- If you have any issues or you think, that Loco is running very often - please start the Logging of Loco in Settings. Look how often a file is created (each new file means, that Loco runs short. It's an application written in C, so very battery-/performance-friendly, but nevertheless it shouldn't run each minute)
- If Loco is quite slow in updating your Location (GSM), then please compare "original Loco method" and "GSM MachCell", what's running better for your location, device,...
- I anyway recommend MachCell/GPS - if you use it for Loco or not - it is an awesome App, which you will see also for all other Applications, which have Location Awareness, e.g. like GoogleMaps, Compass, Route Planner,...
Usage:
General things about Cell Towers:
You see numbers "262-51217-337125693" (country-area-cell)
the first 3 digits is the country code. Please look in testing, if your country is recognized correct. Here's the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_network_code please look in column "MCC"
So if you e.g. see "220-..." it's Serbia, if "234-..." it's UK, if "262-..." it's Germany and so on
The second and thirds are country- and provider-specific. So the other things you see in the table, are not as easy too see - but also not important to know. Only important: if you are at the same place... you see the same cell tower(s)
General about integration in CHT:
You have already since CHT v2 this feature inside (I made it so already a longer time before, it was released then with CHT v2 by Co0kie)
So no additional battery drain in Lookup mode. Cell Towers doesn't need an GPS- or Internet-Connection to get this numbers.
They are not as exact as GPS - but to identify an area of 100-500 metres inside a town they are mostly good enough You will see.
The Icon, which shows the current location, is a simple new Quicklink/Freelink, which is automatically updated by location change.
Add the current tower to a location
Just tab on the top-level Panel of CHTSLoco (Location, where you see a "?"). You can choose a new name - or later add this location to an existing name
Bulk-Add of Towers in an Area
You will see, especially in town, that you have much more towers. So if you are working at office, it can be also 5-15 cells, which are seen. So it's good to switch to "record mode" (2nd-top-Panel "current mode")
In Record mode CHTSLoco looks always for new cells and saves it to this Panel.
E.g. if you are at work, just switch it on, exit CHTSLoco, and after a time (whenever) - switch it on and you see all recorded Cells. Then add them to the Location Name, and CHTSLoco will know in future, when you are at work.
Editing a location
You can (like in Pic above) add informations to a Location, which you have defined.
But most important: You can add here the representing picture of the location.
CHTSLoco comes with some great icons already - which are made by Bonito77.
(For Skinners: All png-Icons simply must have the prefix "chtsloco_" and are located in /windows. Names after the prefix is free)
Modes: off - lookup - record
off is simple: CHT is adviced by CHTSLoco not to recognize the cells
lookup: Here Loco waits, if CHT discovers a new cell and then it looks for your definitions and updates according your settings the quick-/freelink.
In Settings you can also define a value of timeout for Lookup - but it's only a minimum-timeout. The real timeout is defined by interaction of CHT & CHTSLoco, but it will be always somewhen after the minimum timeout.
Record mode: Here Loco overtakes the control from CHT to update the cell and updates definitely latest after this given timeout to record the current cell.
New Screenshots from Final 1.0x (click to upsize image) :
New for CHTSLoco 1.0x - the "personal-indoor-accuracy" :
You have now also the option to use "Wifi in XCell" - and this combination is the unique in Loco.
It's not difficult to understand - only "XCell" and "WiFi" must be explained:
XCell
This is the new trick to achieve it: You know from xmas-beta, that Loco can discover the cells, but sometimes the cells are not exact enough. e.g. if you are at friends in your home-town or neighbour r favorite places and so on.
Yes - neighbour... Loco is now as exact - if you do it intelligent... Loco can also make a difference between your Living room, sleeping room and kitchen (I only would assign a different profile to the rooms... otherwise your handy should never go to sleeping before you sleep )
So a XCell can be defined - simply in the Location or in the Current-Location-Menu.
And Loco knows, that it has to use another method, to identify the location than only the Cell.
WiFi (personal private Location recognition)
Yeah... WiFi is the second method now. The trick here is: It works indoors, and Loco is able to switch it on for 10 seconds to look for the Access Points and switch it off. All the same as like the cell - but you don't see the numbers like cells - you see the WiFi-Names.
Now you will say: Wifi-Names are not unique... right But internal Loco also uses the "Mac"-Adress of this AP... and this number is worldwide unique
So now you know, why a database is very difficult - because Wifi changes to often... so Google StreetView would have always to update their informations and the database is huge... but not for personal use... because Loco doesn't use an Internet--Service.. but it's internal your own database - because you only need to add the Wifi-AP's (AP=Access Point), which you need.
Now some examples:
If you want to use Wifi not everywhere, only in the Cells, where you have 2 or more different locations, which are of interest for you: Define each cell of this Location(s) as XCell. Also add the Cells to the most probable Location.
And run Loco in "Wifi only for XCells"-Mode.
Loco will now look for the Cells - and if it is an XCell, it will use Wifi, to look where you are.
If you want to make a difference of Friends or Neighbours: Just add the strongest AP's of your friend/neighbour to Loco. And your personal AP to your "Home" - and yeah: Loco could also see both, if you are at your neighbour - but Loco uses an internal Rating-System because of the Signal-Strengths of all visible AP's and will choose the correct Location. You mustn't do anything for it - Loco is quite intelligent.
If you want to make a difference between Kitchen/Living Room and so on...:
DON'T ADD your personal Wifi-AP to any Location. Add the strongest AP's of your neighbours in each Room. And if you have enough nice neighbours with AP's, Loco is able to detect in which Room you are
*great default Loco-Icons by Bonito77
Hints
- CHTSLoco autosaves your settings for each weekday. So you have 7 files always for restore. The have the names of your weekday in your language. If you re-install CHTSLoco (or after a flash), then Loco recognizes this and saves the lates auto-saved-file with suffix "_before_reinstall".
Nevertheless you should sometimes save manually your settings by menu.
- CHTSLoco won't change immediately to a new Location. It observes user activity and also Cell Tower stability and switches then.
- CHTSLoco is only the UI (User Interface) - the scanning App is written in C and is located also in windows. It only runs in interaction with CHT
- In Settings you can define a bit more things, e.g. how the Record-mode should look for new towers or if Loco should also sleep if you sleep (GoodNite-Profile of CHTS active)
- In Settings it's also defineable, if recorded cells should be removed from record list after adding and if you also want to record already known cells. Then you see in brackets the known recorded locations - so you can trace your way from e.g. work to home or so.
- If you have a provider with a "homezone", so that if you are inside this, you can phone for free or can be called via another static number, this also depends of the cell towers... so if you configure it for home, your Homezone-Icon is back now in Sense
- Your Language is setted in CHTS! CHTSLoco has a partially own language-file, but it also uses the language of CHTS. So e.g. you are from Germany, you need "language_german.txt" as well as "languageloco_german.txt" - both must have the same name after the underscore, if you start translating Loco.
As usual: I don't overtake any responsibility for any harm to your software or hardware - chtsloco is provided as it is. I wouldn't know, what can happen, but almost each developer writes this sentence in any way
Download-Links (all .cab's are located in CHTS-Thread) :
(please read installation instructions above)
CHTS with CHTSLoco-Downloads in Post #1
*Download CHTS 2.30 (Loco 1.10 integrated) *
(Link to CHTSLoco-Thread: CHTSLoco)
*Download CHT QUICKLINKS 0230*[/SIZE]
*Manual for CHTSLoco - best practises for configuration (zipped)*[/SIZE]
Have Fun
Micha
Languages / Translations:
click on language name for jumping to the thread with download
from Post #1:
- Your Language is setted in CHTS! CHTSLoco has a partially own language-file, but it also uses the language of CHTS. So e.g. you are from Germany, you need "language_german.txt" as well as "languageloco_german.txt" - both must have the same name after the underscore, if you start translating Loco.
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Here you find the Languageloco-Default-File attached, which can be translated in your Language. Simple attach it then to your post in this thread here. It will then be linked here.
>languageloco_default.txt (1.05)<
*Dutch language for Loco* by kurt-willems
*French language for Loco* by ric69
*German language for Loco* (already inside .cab of Loco!) by saugbaer & Bontito77
*Italian language for Loco* by bbonzz
*Russian language for Loco* by vadim_bogaiskov
*Spanish language for Loco* by BHS Interceptor (and csmc)
Links to other Icon-Packs:
click on graphics for jumping to the thread with download
"Silver Loco" by saugbaer:
"Dusk" by bbonzz:
"Anastasia" by jsmccabe78:
"original CHT" by Ric69:
"FGT" by ForgetfulGuru (Link leads directly to Thread with CHTS & CHTSLoco-Icons) :
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Another great application from Micha!!! And i cannot even imagine how many new opportunities Loco opens for CHTS...The best Christmas present!
Well done Micha
Where ?
Must be an Noob, but I do not find the icon in quick links !?
again great work BIGTHX
as promised ... Silver Loco
p.s
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with thanks for your faithful cooperation.
update 25.04.2011 +chtslocoquicklink_locoreminder.png and more
Click here to find
ChefChaudart said:
Must be an Noob, but I do not find the icon in quick links !?
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freelink --->chts basic links
saugbaer said:
freelink --->chts basic links
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I must be blind I do not see it
thanks for sharing
ChefChaudart said:
I must be blind I do not see it
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installed new quicklinks-cab 216?
Yes I did, 2 times !
But I do not see anything ...
You don't see the links like in the screenshots?
Try to uninstall free links, soft reset, re-install, soft reset and check again
Edit: Stupid question. You do have CHTS 2.16 installed right???
I think I know what the problem is: if you had anastasia's icons (CHTS_2.15_AnastasiaSkin.cab) installed before installing CHTS_links_2.16, you will not see the icon with the house of the CHTSLoco under the Basic Links, you see an empty icon. At least thats what happened to me. But the empty icon still works anyway! and in the home screen the icon will show correctly, it only when you try to select it from the Basic Links screen.
BTW, here is a usefull feature that could come of this program when its used as a profile changer. The posibility to switch to a certain profile when under a country range of cell numbers, say all cell towers that start with 214 (Spain), that way when ever the phone is in that country, a certain profile could be loaded that can for example block data coonnections so as not to be charged for roaming. This is useful for example with carriers that use another carrier's cell towers and therefore always display roaming on the phone wether actually outside the country or not. This way you can have data activated in roaming for example for when you are in your country, but when you actually leave the country or are close to the border profile is switched to no data so you are not charged by a foreign carrier.
There IS a Santa Claus! Thanks Micha and have a great holiday, I know I will!
Micha,
Congrats on another fine release.
Now where is the built in Santa Tracker?? LOL J/K
What a great toy for all. Thanks for it my friend.
I look forward to its future uses.
Micha,
thank you for this gift to xmas. Then i have play time now, yes. Shocking cells all over here. Because the KPN network is very good. So the cell system switches more then once in short time
mike2nl said:
Micha,
thank you for this gift to xmas. Then i have play time now, yes. Shocking cells all over here. Because the KPN network is very good. So the cell system switches more then once in short time
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Then it will be very exact And with Record mode you can bulk update each location
@All: Thanx for the Thanx & Suggestions
Thanks, Michael. Just a quick question. is there (or are you planning) a way to add Loco icon to chts statusbar (where current mode and status are displayed, i mean) rather than to a quicklink?
He saugi very nice icons man.
Enjoy and a merry christmas and a happy new year to all.
hi guys
how i can see the net speed in notification bar?
in real time, display the current speed, like the battery status in the notification bar ????is there is any application do that?
thanks
There is apps that display those setting. But I used a lot of memory.
Try to search market, I've forgotten the name. Sorry
Accidentally sent from my Google Nexus S using XDA Premium
thanks melvinchng
i found application in the marked called "network speed" but it useless for me coz i have to pull down the notification bar every time i wanna check the speed
i'm seeking for a an app display the speed always in icon like battery status icon
Something like that would be overly resource intensive.
Battery charge level is only polled once every few minutes as it is something that isn't expected to change very quickly. But with something as variable as current network throughput, the polling rate would be insane and would be need to be constantly checked.
Search for "Network Speed" from the developer "PT" in the market.
Network Speed description:
"Shows the current upload and download speeds over wifi and/or the mobile network. Shows in the notification bar so it is always accessible from other apps."
try this...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wxLDEwNCwiY29tLnBvaGxhbmR0LnVwZG93bm1ldGVyIl0.
Network monitor mini uses an overlay
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.kfsoft.android.TrafficIndicator
Terry cool tool
Swyped on my blade
Hello,
the rom cMiui has a Networkspeed Monitor on the statusbar. I dont know how the dev managed this. But i would be so lucky, if anyone can tell me this. Isnt there any other mod doing this, without overlay or display speed by downpulling the bar?
Thanks and sorry for my english
Greatings .\\ario
Try Internet Speed Meter . It does just that
XDA Link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239071
Apart from Internet Speed Meter, there's also an Xposed Framework module called NetworkSpeedIndicator. This last one requires root and reboot the device after install or uninstall.