[APP][28/02/10]l3v5y ScreenSaver 0.04 - Windows Mobile Apps and Games

ScreenSaver is a simple application that runs in the background. When the device is plugged in (ActiveSync or mains) it pops to the foreground and displays the time (more to come). To hide it, swipe down the screen, to close it, swipe up the screen (note, if OS < 6.5, tap minimizes, there's not close as yet). It uses your device settings for time (IE, 24 hour/AMPM/whatever) so there's nothing to change.
Requirements:
WM6.5+ device (touchscreen only)
20kb storage, (up to) 200kb free RAM (on a WVGA device, so less on smaller resolutions) (up to) 2MB free RAM with wallpaper.
To do:
Add a nice start menu icon (anyone fancy making one?)
Add icons for notifications
Possibly make it a lockscreeny like thing (
Possibly add an image that gets slid down (rather than just hoping that will minimize it)
Any suggestions?
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Customisation:
Code:
Wallaper (REG_SZ, full path to image):
HKCU\Software\l3v5y\ScreenSaver\Wallpaper
Colours (REG_DWORD in COLORREF format (0x00bbggrr))
Notification text
HKCU\Software\l3v5y\ScreenSaver\Notifications
Date text
HKCU\Software\l3v5y\ScreenSaver\Date
Time text
HKCU\Software\l3v5y\ScreenSaver\Time
Slider colour
HKCU\Software\l3v5y\ScreenSaver\Slider
Fullscreen (REG_DWORD, 0 = disable, 1 = enable)
HKCU\Software\l3v5y\ApplicationFramework\l3v5yScreenSaver
Releases:
0.04
Now displays notifications about email, calls, SMS
Better handling of being in background
Now supports wallpapers
0.03
Non public release
0.02
Now displays a calendar as well as the clock
Adds a slider, and slidng animations
Stops doing stuff when not foreground window
0.01
First release, very basic ATM, just does a clock.
Download:
Linked in this post!

Reserved for me!

Nice idea mate. It would be nice to have a fully fledged "powered" screen like this. I'll keep an eye on this. It's always bugged me that screensavers aren't the norm on wm devices.

johncmolyneux said:
Nice idea mate. It would be nice to have a fully fledged "powered" screen like this. I'll keep an eye on this. It's always bugged me that screensavers aren't the norm on wm devices.
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What do you mean by "powered" in this case? Keeping the device on?
I've added a few things in the beta I'm working on, but will aim to make it all customisable so you can switch things off...
Date is now displayed (can be turned off)
Slider to slide down the screen to hide (can be turned off)
Basic support for email/text/stuff - it displays a few numbers in the top corner (can be turned off as well

To attempt to make this as lean as possible, I'm going to try and minimise the number of options there are...
Is a slider a good idea?
If yes, would it be best to have the clock slide with the slider, or be independent?
Should I support images, or just have block colour?
Where should the date go (if anywhere)? Attached to the time, at the top, where?
Where should notifications go?
If anyone vaguely interested in this can give me some feedback, I'll know what I'm aiming for!

l3v5y said:
Is a slider a good idea?
If yes, would it be best to have the clock slide with the slider, or be independent?
Should I support images, or just have block colour?
Where should the date go (if anywhere)? Attached to the time, at the top, where?
Where should notifications go?
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I think a slider's a good idea, but then again, I can't really think of a better way of doing it, so it may just be the easiest for me to agree to! I like the idea of the whole screen sliding down with the swipe of my thumb, clock and notifications included.
I'd personally like to have the ability to select a wallpaper, or a solid colour of my choice, but if you want to keep it lean then that may be overkill.
Again, this is a personal choice, but I like the idea of the date under the clock, in a small font.
I like notifications at the top, but again, that's just me.
Maybe you could come up with some clever way of defining the layout in an xml file so that people could edit it - position, font size etc.. (or any old text/ini file).
Heh - have I just turned your simple idea into a massive app? I'm just greedy mate
Incidentally, when I said "powered" earlier, I meant externally powered. This would be perfect for me as I have my phone plugged into my PC at work, and usually turn the screen off. It would be nice to have something dedicated to looking good in those circumstances.
Hope this gives you some ideas anyway

l3v5y said:
To attempt to make this as lean as possible, I'm going to try and minimise the number of options there are...
Is a slider a good idea?
If yes, would it be best to have the clock slide with the slider, or be independent?
Should I support images, or just have block colour?
Where should the date go (if anywhere)? Attached to the time, at the top, where?
Where should notifications go?
If anyone vaguely interested in this can give me some feedback, I'll know what I'm aiming for!
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I'd say just make the clock slide up or down.
I personally like the simple black background.
Date attached to the clock (maybe under it,small)
Notifications could be in a sort of HTC Home layout under the clock and date with their respective icons next to them.
Here is a crappy little mock up I pushed out with PS:
Keep up the great work,
dwizzy130

Hi,
You should look at the "Zune lock screen". You should fine good ideas about the unlock "slider"

maybe somthing like this (dockrunner from droid)

Updated!
It's now got a slider thing, and a pretty animation!
I'm now going to add email icons etc.
Anyone here any good with photoshop? Could do with a nicer icon, and three images for email, text and voicemail...

l3v5y said:
To attempt to make this as lean as possible, I'm going to try and minimise the number of options there are...
Is a slider a good idea?
If yes, would it be best to have the clock slide with the slider, or be independent?
Should I support images, or just have block colour?
Where should the date go (if anywhere)? Attached to the time, at the top, where?
Where should notifications go?
If anyone vaguely interested in this can give me some feedback, I'll know what I'm aiming for!
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got an idea to share
Is it possible to do so? As in when you slide the bar down, the clock will sort of follow from the back (the clock does not stay in the bar like the one in the video). Then you quickly slide the bar up (without unlocking the phone), the clock will have a momentum kind of effect then only it bounds back to the bar. (personally it looks kind of cool and fun to play )
Oh yea, 1 more thing, is it possible to add some animation, eg. after unlocking the phone the notification bar or maybe the clock and date will "fly out" to the edge and vice versa when the phone is lock. (kind of like iPhone style animation )
cheers~

Loving the app lv...simple, elegant, and practical. All thats needed is there and I think going with simplicity like chrisch showed with the Droid dock screen is perfect. One question though, what the HE** did you do to your HD2 screen I dont even have on and it hurt to see it. lol!
Oh, I dont see a slider or sliding animations in the 2nd release. Am I missing something? As well, I've noticed if I have the device powered off and plug in, then sometimes just the lockscreen will stay up. Does it work best when the lock isnt enabled?
edit** after further testing, it does work best if the device is already awake and unlocked. It doesnt activate when I have the device locked.

kwill said:
Loving the app lv...simple, elegant, and practical. All thats needed is there and I think going with simplicity like chrisch showed with the Droid dock screen is perfect. One question though, what the HE** did you do to your HD2 screen I dont even have on and it hurt to see it. lol!
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Have a read here...
http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=11279
ouch!!!

hsmcd said:
Have a read here...
http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=11279
ouch!!!
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DAAAMMMNNNN!! Only words to express it

I like the idea of keeping it simple. For more functions there are plenty of lockscreens.
Just 2 things that could be improved in my opinion:
1. Make the clock bigger and and let there be more contrast between font and background( When you look at th screen in a too big angle you can only see a gray bar on a black screen, but no time)
2. Option to turn the screen off after a few minutes
One more thing:
On my Blackstone there is no problem because under the screen is no edge, but especially on some older models it could be difficult to reach the bottom with the slider. You just have to make it minimize when the bottom slider is touching the bottom of the screen so it should be really easy to implement it but it will save you from some complains .
edit:
Just now I noticed that I miss another thing that you normally want to know when you charge your phone: Battery
Since this app starts when the device is charging it should definitely contain a battery indicator where you can see hom many % battery you have.

I think keeping the screen simple is a good idea. Just keep displaying a bar with time and date, email+text messages+missed call counters as well as an alert symbol, if there is a notification from calender or clock. A good idea will be to keep this "bar of information" moving at random locations on the screen.
Keeping the screen black is specially a great idea for phones like Omnia II with AMOLED screens as these phones shut down all the pixels that are to be rendered pure black and that saves a lot of power. For regular LCD's this is not the case though.

l3v5ys
Dear l3v5ys,
first thanks alot, i have my own suggestion...
i think if we make the screen save more graphical that would be awesome. and more prodcutive or informative.
and i guess the screen saver should iformative about the battery ???
how to make the screen saver work when you plug in the device, because it works for me just when i click in the icon in the start menu, that mean every time i should do that ? ? ?

brilliant app...minimalistic approach keep it up..

@ goldenhero:
You just have to start the program once and after you have done that it will automatically launch when you plug the usb in.
I guess an autostart option wouldn't be a bad idea.

Bug
Device : omnia i900
when you plug the device , first time it took, 3-4 secound for the screenSaver to appear, and once you slide the clock to unlock, and plug again it dose not work again alone, i should relunch the relaunche the program, any i deas...
thanks for the program and the idea .....
honestly i like the slide clock to unlock it is nice but can we improve the touch in this small app ? .....

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(29 September 2009) iContact 0.95 - WM6.5 Start Menu Avatar Edition

September 29, 2009: New version! 0.95
A new edition of iContact is ready for download, v0.95, which fixes a few bugs, and also adds a couple features, most notably for those who have WM6.5, and choose to "create shortcut" for a contact, your buddy's picture will now show up in your start menu, in high resolution!
Here's the full list of improvements:
[+] Added "Remove Shortcut" button to details screen if appropriate
[+] Added "createshortcut" and "removeshortcut" to language file
[+] Added contact shortcut icons to start menu shortcuts for Windows Mobile 6.5
[+] Added ability for hardware "*" key to favorite/defavorite a contact
[#] Fixed outgoing calls to numbers with no name displaying [null]
[#] Hid SIP button being displayed by iContactAE
I've worked really hard in my nights and weekends to bring you these new updates. If you like them, please consider a donation via my web site. As a thank you, I will give donors access to beta versions of iContact.
Please see my website for more details.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GPL'ed Source code is available at my site: http://supware.net/iContact
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Everybody be sure to thank larna for the original source.
Download here
looks realy good
May I use it in my roms?
it's simple and fast
gullum said:
May I use it in my roms?
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Sure! Let me know if you need any help.
0.7 look weird... 0.6 got a ABC bar on the right side below got all the letter A,B,C,D,E,F,G but 0.7 no more.. i like that menu... click on G it will go to G..
but 0.7 don't have...
supbro said:
Sure! Let me know if you need any help.
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thank you very much for you work
Quick feedback:
1. Voice mail icon doesn't work on my tmobile wing (open touch v4 black lite rom)
2. Call history is buggy - sometimes it can't scroll, and some of the lines are wider than others. However this is a very good and welcoming idea. Also could use smaller fonts for dates - the word "yesterday" is too big and won't fit in the screen.
3. Edit: just found out indeed I can scroll the right side of the screen, kinda like what is used in pocketcm. Good job!
All in all this is going to the right direction, just a few bugs. Definitely keeping up the good work!
delete..problem solved.
ov2rey said:
0.7 look weird... 0.6 got a ABC bar on the right side below got all the letter A,B,C,D,E,F,G but 0.7 no more.. i like that menu... click on G it will go to G..
but 0.7 don't have...
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You can touch on the right-hand side of the screen, and use that like a scroll bar. That even saves one click! I debated showing a light gray "ABCD..." down the side of the screen, but I like it better without it.
i wish u add a option Exit.or a icon for exit..
always have to press top right to go back to today screen then have to press close.. for icontact..
supbro said:
You can touch on the right-hand side of the screen, and use that like a scroll bar. That even saves one click! I debated showing a light gray "ABCD..." down the side of the screen, but I like it better without it.
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So there is no option to go directly to a letter? you can only scroll? I agree, that without the ability to be able to go directly to a letter, i just cant upgrade to this beautiful version. otherwise i would be scrolling forever to get to the bottom of my 250+ contacts. let us know if you decide to add it back in, or an option.
great work though otherwise
wearefree said:
Quick feedback:
1. Voice mail icon doesn't work on my tmobile wing (open touch v4 black lite rom)
2. Call history is buggy - sometimes it can't scroll, and some of the lines are wider than others. However this is a very good and welcoming idea. Also could use smaller fonts for dates - the word "yesterday" is too big and won't fit in the screen.
3. The initial letter selection is gone. Initially I though it's the keypad but the keypad brings me the phone pad. I have lots of contacts so scrolling without initial letter selection can be painful.
All in all this is going to the right direction, just a few bugs. Definitely keeping up the good work!
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1. What registry entries do you have under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Vmail ? It's strange that it's not working... it looks for HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Vmail\PhoneNumber1, then HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Vmail\UserProvidedNumber1, then as a last resort looks up your own phone number.
2. It's working flawlessly for me... I'll see if I can get it to break. Can you post or send me the names & numbers of the entries that aren't being displayed properly? I can shrink the font too, just forgot about that.
3. You can use the (invisible) scroll-bar. I found this was easier than the using the popup keyboard.
killi said:
So there is no option to go directly to a letter?
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You can click half-way down the screen on the right side, to go 1/2 way through your contact list... to get all the way to the bottom, click the right-hand side of the screen, just above the icon bar. Just like the iPhone
ok ill give that a shot. if this is doable by finger/thumb, then that wont be that bad at all. the beauty of the 0.6 was it didnt require a stylus and was super fast to get a call made.
supbro said:
1. What registry entries do you have under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Vmail ? It's strange that it's not working... it looks for HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Vmail\PhoneNumber1, then HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Vmail\UserProvidedNumber1, then as a last resort looks up your own phone number.
2. It's working flawlessly for me... I'll see if I can get it to break. Can you post or send me the names & numbers of the entries that aren't being displayed properly? I can shrink the font too, just forgot about that.
3. You can use the (invisible) scroll-bar. I found this was easier than the using the popup keyboard.
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1. Under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Vmail I have two entries: PhoneNumber1 and PhoneNumber2, both empty. I guess this is the reason the voice mail icon isn't dialing anything because there is no number to dial...
2. The names are short names (less than 10 letters, such as xxxx xxx, or xxxxxx xxxx, or xxxx xxxx, sorry I can't post the detail), and the numbers are standard 10 digit numbers in US (1-###-###-####). The thing is some entries having the same name and number have different line width, and if I navigate away to contact then come back sometimes it displays totally normal.
3. Sorry I kinda jumped into conclusion before I mess with it more, now I found out the scroll-bar and it's very sweet! I have also changed my previous post.
One more thing, could you also make this change theme based on time (like being white during the day and dark during the night) and auto close when making phone call/text message? Kinda like what is presented here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=383109&page=15
post #144
killi said:
ok ill give that a shot. if this is doable by finger/thumb, then that wont be that bad at all. the beauty of the 0.6 was it didnt require a stylus and was super fast to get a call made.
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If it's not wide enough, I could put the scroll bar width in settings.ini. Let me know.
supbro said:
I would like to announce what I have been working on for the last month or so, since I found larna's open-source iContact... A NEW version of iContact! I've added the following features:
Added skin and color scheme support
Made app "full screen" with titlebar matching A_C's S2P and S2U2
Added call log
Added quick scroll-to support
Tied favorites to built-in categories
Added .cab installer for easy uninstall
Fixed icon to a proper transparent one
Source code is available at my site: http://supware.net/iContact
Everybody be sure to thank larna. Thanks A_C, for help with the registry.
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This is a very nice app. and it runs smooth on my t-mobile shadow smartphone. but since its not a touch screen i am limited to the contact list and pressing the left dpad button to get out of the contacts info.
Is there anyway to program the keys.
dpad up works, moves up the list
dpad down works, moves down the list
the center button in the middle of my scroll wheel already acts as a finger press so thats fine but
left dpad to move the bottom menu to the left (Recents, Favorites)
Right dpad to move the bottom menu to the right (keypad, voicemail)
right softkey(#2) to open any menu that you may have in the program
left softkey(#1) to open any menu you have in the program
also my phone has a back button. when in your program it doesnt funcion at all.
also my home button does not function at all.
like i said this is a smartphone i installed this on, and if this was changed it would work on all phones running wm
ok i tested it. it is not very user friendly for finger thumb quick dialing. Even if you widen the scroll bar part, after you touch a scroll area, it almost always opens up a contact in that new letter area before you get to look for your target. but as it is, the scroll bar hidden area is only reachable consistently by stylus. great app for stylus driven contact searches if you fix somehow the autoselect after scroll bar tap. ill have to stick with 0.6 (using the night/day 0.6 by uiskibum)
i really like the icons and screen selections though. keep up the good work.
Great work on this update. Works great on my mogul. Just one thing, on long email addresses the .com is truncated and the word "E-mail" is added to the end when it goes to a new email message. Otherwise great work looks really clean.
GOOD JOB!!!!
Thanks for the update. I like this...but do miss the ABC screen.
Thanks for sharing your works.
Nice Job!
I think it's just a matter of breaking old habits (ABC), but the scroll is nice! Thanks for continuing development!

Jaxbot's Windows Phone 7 Theme - 5/8/10: version 1.15 released!

Edit: For the new version, see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8512590#post8512590
Hello
Welcome to my thread for my Windows Phone 7 Theme. The ultimate goal of this theme is to have a fully featured Windows Phone 7 theme that allows many similar functions as the real device.
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To use it, install the cab file below, then click on the icon in the start menu.
To exit, long-tap on the right side of the screen.
Settings is also listed in the long-tap menu.
To lock the device, click on the top of the screen, near the clock.
Current version: 1.15:
Performance greatly increased, lockscreen password, etc.
"Treats"
The real WP7 contains something called "Treats". These are little, fairly useless, but cool features.
Some of the ones included in this theme:
Text icon changes depending on amount of messages. First it is a smile, then a frown, and finally a gasping face.
Bing search background changes depending on the day's image.
Upcoming features
Pictures hub
Office hub
Games hub
Integration with Steam
Appointments tile
Smoother interface
Known issues:
Facebook does not stay logged in
...More later
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEYzUhnmRFk
Download: http://windowsphonehacker.com/wp7s.php
See website for full details and screenshots: http://windowsphonehacker.com/wp7s.php
People Hub
- Allows seeing contacts on homescreen
-Favorites list
-List of contacts. Tapping on a blue letter brings up a letter list.
-List of latest friends facebook status
Text tile
-Displays number of new messages
-Changes emoticon based on number of messages
Outlook tile
-Displays number of new mail messages
Phone tile
-Displays number of missed calls
Pictures tile
-Displays pictures, fading in and out new ones
-Takes you to default album viewer
Search
-Displays latest Bing background
-Searches Bing with custom keyboard
See website for full details: http://windowsphonehacker.com/wp7s.php
nice
is it only for WVGA screen?
chriscsh said:
nice
is it only for WVGA screen?
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VGA/WVGA. It also works (in theory) on QVGA, but it may not run well due to older devices being slower.
Looks and runs nicely on my Blackstone, have noticed a few things though:
- the blue squares shake a lot if you press and hold the screen...not sure if it's intentional but personally I feel the 'vibration' effect isn't too nice to look at.
- when scrolling on the apps screen some program names get broken. For example: 'FreeUpRam' becomes 'FreeUP' and 'pTravelAlarm' becomes 'pTravelAl'. The scrolling motion is also a bit jumpy.
- could not find a way of returning from bing search to the main screen without exiting the app and reloading it.
- pictures tab does not see images on the SD card in \Storage Card\My Documents or \Storage Card\DCIM (it would be nice if it could be set in the settings to look at 2 paths - storage and phone)
- none of my music is listed (also stored on storage card).
VERY nice start though! I'll be watching this one!
...also for some reason your website just comes up grey on my PC in IE8.
sweet, why not put it on your diamond2?
what are your thoughts on changing the faded black background to pitch black?? I am guessing you're trying to make it look like what's shown in the microsoft demos on that prototype device...? That's probably due to the display on that device though and i'm going to take a wild guess and say MS will make it black like on the zune hd when it's done. Or maybe you have a different reason for it?
cool
Jaxbot said:
Hello
I have released the BETA version of my Windows Phone 7 Series Theme, and am looking for some feedback
To use it, install the cab file below, then click on the icon in the start menu.
To exit, long-tap on the right side of the screen.
Settings is also listed in the long-tap menu.
To lock the device, click on the top of the screen, near the clock.
Current features:
People hub with recent, all contacts, and a list of contacts Facebook status updates.
Bing search with background changing depending on Bing picture of day.
Live tiles (Javascript based, set a URL in the settings to your own)
Program launcher
Lock screen
Upcoming features:
More hubs (give me ideas!)
Better animations
More social network integration
(Ideas?)
Known issues:
Facebook does not stay logged in
Facebook lags when viewing What's New
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEYzUhnmRFk
Download: http://windowsphonehacker.jaxbot.com/files/wp7s_beta.CAB
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going to go try it out its going to look good
wm7
keep gettin a error when i launch the app
are you using windows form control/user control to display items? You can't get any smoother animation with windows form controls, because everytimes the control Location changes, it repaints itself regardless and as you can see it is very resource consuming. You gotta paint individual control for better performance.
But overall, it's looking pretty nice
I trie on my ELF P3450 and runs fine but a little bit slower, understand that, older device...
Very nice app... any chance to edit menu ( the right side)???
ohhh...and tell the trick to unlock screen i spend about 2 min to find out...looool
Feedback
I tried this on opal (201mhz processor) qvga screen.
I can tell one thing its just awesome on my device i didnt expected it to be so smoothe (iam comparing this with the preview version) its much smoother just one thing on home screen while scrolling the tiles move with hands thats absolutely smoothe but for some time it leaves a trace of the tile say 1 or 2 seconds if u fix that u can officially say its compatible with qvga.
I expect more pages, more likelyness to original wp7
Hey Jaxbot,
It's getting better - the only that has disappointed me with this build (as opposed to the one I've tested for you) is the animations seem to have got slower rather than faster - especially for the people hub.
I see you have fixed some bugs - some still remain but I will not double report those.
A new one, it's nice to see you've added the contact surname, however, it is now shown underneath the next person's first name (i.e. you've not given it enough space/padding).
The same goes for the program list (the second part of the program name is cut off). good to see it's actually working now - though still not scrollable.
The live tiles still take a long time to animate out/in.
More to come...
Casey
Update: In qvga device there is no tile for images.
Plus this homescreen needs kinetic scrolling its a must coz scrolling between the left and right pages is excellent the animation is perfect but scrolling down is little hard so i am saying kinetic scrolling please add in next version.
very nice start.
theres alot of shaking around on the icons, and arent any smooth transitions. btu seeing as this is version 1, im sure that you will refine it in the coming weeks
i look forward to the more refined version. good work and thanks for the download!
很漂亮,qvga也可以用,但是提出几个问题:
1. 使用过程中,容易造成崩溃死机。
2. 上下左右滑动,速度很慢。
3. 不支持中文路径。
4. 程序图标不显示。
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This app is awfull
I'm running it on my HP614C, WM6.5 with a 520Mhz processor.
It's stille pretty slow, but it surely is an improvement over the alpha release!
Keep it coming
welki1979 said:
- when scrolling on the apps screen some program names get broken. For example: 'FreeUpRam' becomes 'FreeUP' and 'pTravelAlarm' becomes 'pTravelAl'. The scrolling motion is also a bit jumpy.
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My guess is they are taking up more room than available, which means the auto-font size is broken. I'll look into it.
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- could not find a way of returning from bing search to the main screen without exiting the app and reloading it.
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The hardware arrow button on my device works for that, but I'll add a software button for people who don't have one.
welki1979 said:
- pictures tab does not see images on the SD card in \Storage Card\My Documents or \Storage Card\DCIM (it would be nice if it could be set in the settings to look at 2 paths - storage and phone)
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I'll look into it, currently it only allows one picture path.
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- none of my music is listed (also stored on storage card).
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Haven't gotten around to a music+video hub yet, but it's coming.
welki1979 said:
...also for some reason your website just comes up grey on my PC in IE8.
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Uh oh. I'll look into that.
Casey_boy said:
A new one, it's nice to see you've added the contact surname, however, it is now shown underneath the next person's first name (i.e. you've not given it enough space/padding).
The same goes for the program list (the second part of the program name is cut off). good to see it's actually working now - though still not scrollable.
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Interesting, and yes I noticed that. The problem is that most testing was on the Device Emulator at QVGA resolution, so the fonts worked perfectly on low res. I'll play with the numbers at get that fixed.
About the speed being lower, I'm confused by that, as not much was added (just fixes from the list you sent me). By chance do you have anything running in the background?
Otherwise, I'm still working on speeding up the animations, expect some changes soon
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很漂亮,qvga也可以用,但是提出几个问题:
1. 使用过程中,容易造成崩溃死机。
2. 上下左右滑动,速度很慢。
3. 不支持中文路径。
4. 程序图标不显示。
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I'm under the impression this is an English-only forum, but I'll answer your concerns as best I can.
1robably takes too much memory.
2:Obviously, since it's QVGA, it runs slow. (since the device is older)
3:I don't know what to say, because .NET CF handles all that.
4robably due to #3.

[APP][26-Oct-2010]SpeedoPhone 1.31 - a GPS speedometer for WM with a WP7-like UI

Being aware of your own speed can always come in handy, whether you want to avoid breaking limits, to verify your vehicle’s performance, your own, or just out of plain curiosity.
So here comes my latest creation, SpeedoPhone updated to the release 1.31.
If you have a WM device with GPS and you want to keep your speed under control, SpeedoPhone is what you need. You can use it when you’re on foot, in your car, on a train, on a plane, on boat or wherever you like.
The app has a Windows Phone 7 look, nice, user friendly and pleasing to the eye; as for the possibilities and information it has to offer, here's what we've got.
The first steps are the same as always: download the cab from the link at the bottom of the page, install it on your device, open it and you’ll get to the home page.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
It's simple and intuitive. The app will automatically get the GPS running upon loading, but it's possible to switch it on and off manually with the GPS button. Once the phone has found and fixed enough satellites to work with, the START button will be enabled. Click on it to start your record.
I hope you'll find this app useful and that you'll enjoy working with it. It's available for free, but, as usual, if you'd like to say thanks a coffee would be nice.
in Euros
in Dollars
For a detailed description go to the second post.
It's available in Italian, English and French.
Click on the image below to go to the download page
​
Thanks to Albator V for the French translation
Donations. Thanks to:
C.D. 2$
Ross202 5$
DarkAngel 2$
Description
The first data available on the screen is the instantaneous speed, with Km/h as default measure unit. You can change it to miles per hour (Mph) or knots (Kn) by tapping on it.
The app will also give you information on the distance you've covered, the average speed you’ve kept, the highest speed you’ve reached, how much time has passed, and - if you select the cost-per-kilometer option - how much it is so far.
Select the
button to keep alive the device, so not to let it go on stand by and have it automatically disable the GPS. The
button, on the other hand, will activate the full screen option that further on we'll examine more in detail.
Let’s now see the option menu instead, accessible via the
button.
From there, it's possible set a series of controls to keep your speed under check. By specifying a maximum value for the instantaneous and/or average speed, exceeding that limit will cause the speed indicator to turn red and a sound signal to go off. If you'd like the app to work as a kind of taximeter, or if you want to know how much your travel is costing you, you can set a cost per kilometer. You can also specify how precise you want the instantaneous speed to be: an integer, a one- or a two-figure decimal. When the fullscreen mode is on we are also shown a series of buttons, showing different speeds, to switch quickly between the limits more common to us. And, last but not least, you can have the app record a log with the data of your travel. The app will remember our favorite settings also on each following use.
Here, the menu where it's possible to select which limits to show on the fullscreen mode.
Once we’ve got back to the home page, clicking the
button will take us to a screen with more specific information, this time relative to the GPS signal. That means that we will be able to see how many satellites the device is able to detect, how many it has fixed, what is the current dilution of precision of the GPS, our altitude, latitude and longitude.
Let's now see aspect and functions of the Landscape mode, activated by rotating the device.
The home page is fairly close to the one we've already seen, except for the slightly different layout of the buttons. Tap on
to activate the full-screen (also available in Portrait): since there are times when a lot of information is too much, and rather than being a help it just hinders us, on here you will only see the instantaneous speed, displayed as an integer and with a much bigger font, so to be clear and immediate.
We'll find the Keep Alive button on there as well; as for the unit of measure, again, if you want to change it you only need to tap on it. In order to be aware if the device is working or not, if the GPS signal is strong enough to work with you'll see the
icon appear on screen. And, at the bottom, the buttons to switch between preset limits.
With the 1.2 release some improvements have been made to the HUD mode. Accessible via the
button, it will show a mirrored version of the regular display. Why that? Try and put your device on the dashboard, you'll get to see your speed projected on the windshield.
Changelog
v1.31
* now possible to switch off the warning beep
* added trip-start time to the log
* added about page
v1.3
* fixed landscape bug on some devices
* fixed bug that didn't let the maximum speed get updated while in fullscreen
* added sound signal when exceeding the speed limit
* now displays the duration of the trip on the home page
* added the option to create a log file of the trip
* possibility to increase and decrease the values also by tapping and holdin on + and -
* fixed minor bugs
v1.2
* new option to switch quickly between pre-set speed limits, via onscreen buttons
* completely rewritten the code for both fullscreen and HUD mode; now the HUD uses much less RAM than before
* bigger font in fullscreen mode
* numbers rotated also of 180 degrees in the HUD mode (now you can have your phone with the bottom facing you)
* fixed the bug that didn't let the phone store the last settings, is entered from the keyboard
* some code optimizations
* fixed minor bugs
v1.11
* fixed minor bugs.
v1.1
* added the HUD option (mirrored numbers) when in fullscreen mode.
* increased slightly the dimension of the font on the pages with info and settings.
v1.0
* Initial release
Thanks for sharing!
HUD
Hi,
could you implement (in fullscreen mode) the "HUD" mode? that means informations are displayed "mirrored", and then you can put device on dashboard of a car - under windshield. Then all is displayed at glass - looks terrific
It would be great improvement.
Thanks
D.
Thanks fro sharing. Nice work. Ill buy you a coffee.
That is looking amazing savrix85. Simple in use. Well i will check can i change the icon more to CHT and possible white and black GTX. I will publish the first screenshots here...
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What not so nice is, i can' t change the graphics.
Only the lamp on/off png.
Is there the posibillity in the future?
great
Thanks for your time and effort, looks nice
davidm2 said:
Hi,
could you implement (in fullscreen mode) the "HUD" mode? that means informations are displayed "mirrored", and then you can put device on dashboard of a car - under windshield. Then all is displayed at glass - looks terrific
It would be great improvement.
Thanks
D.
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Yes, I'm working on it
cjd198383 said:
Thanks fro sharing. Nice work. Ill buy you a coffee.
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Thanks mate
mike2nl said:
That is looking amazing savrix85. Simple in use. Well i will check can i change the icon more to CHT and possible white and black GTX. I will publish the first screenshots here...
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What not so nice is, i can' t change the graphics.
Only the lamp on/off png.
Is there the posibillity in the future?
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Hi mike2nl, I would like to make the app skinnable, but it's not a priority. Now I'm working on the HUD
option, but the skinnig is in the plans
mrjazz said:
Thanks for your time and effort, looks nice
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Thanks
nice app
the ui is simple and clean just how i love it.
just tested it on a walk outside. worked pretty good after it took some seconds to find the sattelites
Really fantastic application!
Out of all the other similar applications that I've tried, this one actually works, and works great at it.
I have some suggestions, if it's not a problem:
I would like to see a logging feature to keep records.
What I'd also like is if it showed the "trip" start/end times and a total duration from when you tap on "start" and when you tap "stop" which could also be included in the log.
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Hi savrix85,
i have tested the app yesterday on my way at home and today in the morning on way to the office. Cool..to say it in one word. Simply to use and the right information. The app does what you have say.
Future request:
- possibillty to mirror the view to put the phone on the dash board in the car
- please remove the mondomobile.altervista.org from main to settings -> about screen. Because now it looks no longer clean and nice. I understand that you wil show the author, but every coder do this in about. Only an idea
- +1 for this from Max_Terrible
I would like to see a logging feature to keep records.
What I'd also like is if it showed the "trip" start/end times and a total duration from when you tap on "start" and when you tap "stop" which could also be included in the log.
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Your app is one of the simplest and cleanest apps i have seen here on XDA. No schnick-schnack only clean. The balck and white contrast is very good for our old eyes . I will use the version i have downloaded yesterday, because it is clean on main and it is working. Thanks for sharing this fine app.
Really, nice App. Like someone else said, it actually works!!!
As an older user with, sadly, poorer eyesight, it would be nice to be able to make the font even bigger. Another thought would be the ability to set multiple speed points with the colour changing at the different points, eg the various speed limits 50kph, 60kph, 80kph, 100kph etc.
Once again, thanks for a useful app. Works well on my HD2
I've released SpeedoPhone 1.1. You can see the changelog in the third post.
Now the app is also available at the XDA Market.
Future request:
1. possibillty to mirror the view to put the phone on the dash board in the car
2. please remove the mondomobile.altervista.org from main to settings -> about screen. Because now it looks no longer clean and nice. I understand that you wil show the author, but every coder do this in about. Only an idea
3. +1 for this from Max_Terrible: "I would like to see a logging feature to keep records. What I'd also like is if it showed the "trip" start/end times and a total duration from when you tap on "start" and when you tap "stop" which could also be included in the log."
4. Ross202 "make the font even bigger"
5. Ross202 "set multiple speed points with the colour changing at the different points"
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1. DONE! It's in the 1.1 release.
2. Yeah, that was temporary to begin with. I have some ideas for the "about" section, in fact... but it's one of those things that gets postponed as long as there are features I have more fun working on
3. added to the to do list!
4. I've increased slightly the dimension of the font on the pages with info and settings, but I couldn't do more than that.
5. I'd prefer not to implement that one, but a feature that I'd like to work on is the possibility to set quickly a set of standard speed limits (50kph, 60kph, etc) just by tapping on a button.
Hi, first of all, many thanks for this cool app.
Ii notice this glitch and bad translation on the last release (see capture)...
And now some request :
-add altitude to dashboard and fullscreen
-add button to settings to open your homepage (with default browser not IE with the donate button)
-Improve the HUD quality button
-are you interresting by french translation ?
don't download the 1.1 version. I'll fix it this afternoon when I'm at home
is 1.1 available in english? looks cool
Albator V said:
Hi, first of all, many thanks for this cool app.
Ii notice this glitch and bad translation on the last release (see capture)...
And now some request :
-add altitude to dashboard and fullscreen
-add button to settings to open your homepage (with default browser not IE with the donate button)
-Improve the HUD quality button
-are you interresting by french translation ?
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Bugs fixed in the 1.11 release, thanks for reporting them.
now your request:
-I've to say no to this cause I would leave the fullscreen as clean as possible and in the dashboard, in non-wide devices, there's no more space to add info.
-I've used IE cause using the default browser, Opera in my case, gives me an error when it tries to open the link. If I'll find the right solution, I'll make it.
-what do you mean? the HUD button shows "blurred" or simply you don't like it?
-yes, I'm interested. I'll PM you for this
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I've released the 1.11. It fixes the bugs mentioned by Albator and some minor others
Problem with the new HUD mode.I have always a big 0,not center, km/h missing... Miss something ?
And for button quality, i like it but but it's glow (up, down, right, left) around circle.
I've made a little mistake in the HUD code, now it should be ok
In the HUD mode the mirrored speed is aligned to the left cause you can see it aligned to the right in your windshield. It's not centered cause I had to do that with images to combine to show the mirrored speed. When I'll find a more elegant way to do that, I believe it will be centered.
Km/h misses cause I didn't want to mirror it.
If you download it again, the glow around the circle shouldn't be there any longer

Pulse News Reader App

Not sure if you guys use it, but Pulse is a great app for the NC. I used it on my Evo, and it was one of the apps I was looking forward to using on my NC.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/pulse-news-reader/com.alphonso.pulse
not affiliated with developer, just thought its an awesome and useful android app and wanted to share.
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
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"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Its a great app on the Evo, but still not "tabletized" for larger screens.. Hopefully the widgets are also improved as well for larger screens.
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Its a great app on the Evo, but still not "tabletized" for larger screens.. Hopefully the widgets are also improved as well for larger screens.
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I thought the same at first, but I actually like it more on the NC now than my Evo. I can now view more articles at once!
I agree .. it's good on the phone, great on the NC ...
It would be nice if they added a size option to scale up the articles in the app and on widgets.. The functionality of the app is hands down top class, but not quite tablet friendly (try adding a widget, you'll see).
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It would be nice if they added a size option to scale up the articles in the app and on widgets.. The functionality of the app is hands down top class, but not quite tablet friendly (try adding a widget, you'll see).
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I thought the widgets were lame on the Evo too, not just the NC. I dont like that it only shows a 4x1 and feeds from 1 source.
And if there is a flash video on pulse, you can open it using skyfire. I tried it on two videos and it works great.
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And if there is a flash video on pulse, you can open it using skyfire. I tried it on two videos and it works great.
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I had trouble viewing flash videos before, thanks for the tip.
Pulse is the best RSS reader I've found on the nook so far, best part is that it syncs to google reader.
After playing with a LCD density changer app, upping the size of the desktop loses some sharpness but pulse and icons become easier to read and use... Give it a go if you want bigger buttons etc...
My Taptu does much the same thing, you might or might not prefer the interface on that. I like being able to drag to the left to update sources in Pulse, but otherwise they're both good in their own way.
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After playing with a LCD density changer app, upping the size of the desktop loses some sharpness but pulse and icons become easier to read and use... Give it a go if you want bigger buttons etc...
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Doesnt LCD Density changer mess up the bottom task bar?
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Doesnt LCD Density changer mess up the bottom task bar?
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LCD Density Changer can mess up the bottom task bar, 180 to 200 dpi seems to be about the maximum, after that the notification on the left and the quick change settings on the right, get pushed off screen. I don't know if those settings are optimal for Pulse though, I was checking thread for good news feed readers and saw your question. I haven't tried pulse yet.
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Doesnt LCD Density changer mess up the bottom task bar?
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Okay, I installed Pulse on my NC at a density of 220. On first impression it seems to fit the screen perfectly. The bottom task bar button that seems a little off at a 220 density, is the left one. The button goes off the edge, but can be pressed. I hope this helps, I've only been at this for 2-3 days and am still climbing the sharpest part of the NC learning curve.
unable to delete resource
Is that only me or anyone else have problem deleting the resources? When touching on the red X in the manage resources nothing happens. I can add new resources fine.
pramalin said:
Is that only me or anyone else have problem deleting the resources? When touching on the red X in the manage resources nothing happens. I can add new resources fine.
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I have noticed this on a number of applications, including Pulse... The edges of the NC are a little "touchy" and do not always recognize the tap very well. The same thing happens for me on Pulse trying to tap the two buttons at the top of the screen. If you notice on the B&N proprietary settings screen, the buttons they place at the top corner is much bigger (i.e. and comes down farther) and I never have a problem clicking on it. Of course, it could be that I have sausage fingers...but I don't have this problem on my Droid. Keep trying and eventually it will recognize the press...
I have started using Pulse, and I am addicted to it. It's a great app, and I hope it's updated to have a bit more functionality for tablets.
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After playing with a LCD density changer app, upping the size of the desktop loses some sharpness but pulse and icons become easier to read and use... Give it a go if you want bigger buttons etc...
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Thanks so much for pointing me towards LCD density I could tell that Pulse was a nice program without it but with it I can actually read the damn thing. Also, Markets easer to view now, the keyboard is easer and zeams icons are not so tiny anymore. That one program did so much. Highly recommend it to anyone looking to use Pulse, or really anything ells on there new NC
So far Pulse is one of the best RSS Readers I've tried so far, but there are two major gripes I have with it.
1. No "Mark all as read" option for sources.
2. Displays only a set amount of articles per feed. If I have more unread, they won't load.
** PS, If these things are possible (and I just can't find them), then please let me know.**
Pulse update today.... Better widgets and a "tablet" setting for larger windows and text... Wooo!!
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Pulse update today.... Better widgets and a "tablet" setting for larger windows and text... Wooo!!
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Yep, reading in the app looks awesome now, no more teeny tiny fonts in the boxes.
However I agree, Pulse only offers X amount of recent stories, no way I know of to request more. So you gotta look frequently I suppose.
But it's great to read.. I still find the "back" functionality in it a bit weird sometimes.. Sometimes it brings up the list of current feed stories, sometimes it goes back to the main page with all feeds, other times it goes straight back to home (usually when I hit back twice when it's only wanting it once). Ah well.

[WATCHFACE] HNFit 1.2 Pace/Stratos | Discontinued

HNFit
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HNFit is a new Watchface that was based on the Greatfit project of GreatAPO.
It has several new and unique features:
- Highly customizable.
For now: background colors, hour colors, minute colors.
- Built in pedometer, which based on the set height and the steps taken, calculates the distance traveled in KM.
I always felt a big limitation of my Pace only being able to see the distance traveled in sport mode. (today and total)
So in this new watchface I programmed a pedometer to give this information.
- One user customizable widget.
From Greatfit app the top right widget is user personalized.
- Information about current, maximum and minimum temperature of the current day on the watchface
- Battery bar, weekdar bar, distance goal bar.
- Many options
Devices:
Amazfit Pace and Stratos.
Known bugs:
The pedometer distance does not update while the screen is off/locked. When you unlock phone the distance will be recalculated..
To do:
- Add more items to be color customized.
- Fix locked screen not being updated.
- more...
Installation:
ADB install command: adb install -r HNFit_X.X.apk
Or
Use Apk Installer
No root required
Screenshots:
Download:
Download from attachment.
Credits:
GreatApo and everyone that contributed to the GreatFit project.
Also comments are welcome.
If you use and enjoy this watchface and want to support it's development, please consider making a donation.
installing...
Looks good, but any big differences i don't see in it. It's the same GreatFit watch face, just changed some places of widgets, added more options like to change minute colour and ect, but if say honest it's looks like updated GreatApo watch faces version. Nothing special i don't see here. You could to change design much more, from: icons, to visualizations and ect. If i'm not wrong you even did not changed style of clock at all
This text on top of this topic:"HNFit is a new a totally new Watchface that was based on the Greatfit project of GreatAPO." sounds very very weird, it's not totally new, it's just updated
By the way waht is mean down 17 hours degrees? I thought 25 mean weather temperature, so what is mean others degrees? I'm talking about 28/17C? First screenshot
xdauser2019 said:
Looks good, but any big differences i don't see in it. It's the same GreatFit watch face, just changed some places of widgets, added more options like to change minute colour and ect, but if say honest it's looks like updated GreatApo watch faces version. Nothing special i don't see here. You could to change design much more, from: icons, to visualizations and ect. If i'm not wrong you even did not changed style of clock at all
This text on top of this topic:"HNFit is a new a totally new Watchface that was based on the Greatfit project of GreatAPO." sounds very very weird, it's not totally new, it's just updated
By the way waht is mean down 17 hours degrees? I thought 25 mean weather temperature, so what is mean others degrees? I'm talking about 28/17C? First screenshot
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"It's the same GreatFit watchface"?!?!
Different style of the clock, different fonts, color customization, a completely different design.
New and different bars: with battery, weekday, distance.
The icons on the watchface are new, except the icons from the user widget.
The settings icons are from GreatFit, they work fine and for now I did not see the need to change them.
Also I programmed a new real Pedometer!! Instead of having a widget saying all day 0 KM, you now have a working pedometer showing an estimation of the distance walked.
I surely was prepared to some negative comments but this is too much!
I really don't know why I wasted my time sharing my work...
The only thing I think you're right about is the "totally new" part, it makes no sense and I already corrected it.
PS: about 28/17ºC it's on the first post "maximum and minimum temperature of the current day", also it's something new and different from GreatFit!
Maybe you should pay more attention and read before you post?
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"It's the same GreatFit watchface"?!?!
I surely was prepared to some negative comments but this is too much!
I really don't know why I wasted my time sharing my work...
The only thing I think you're right about is the "totally new" part, it makes no sense and I already corrected it.
PS: about 28/17ºC it's on the first post "maximum and minimum temperature of the current day"
Maybe you should pay more attention and read before you post?
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I don't think people are trying to slight your work, but if you could let others know how to use and operate and benefit from it, then people can appreciate. Such as, what do you mean by programming a new pedometer? You mean you have a start/stop button to control when to measure? What's the difference with using that than the built in pedometer which starts counting steps from 0:00 everyday, etc? It's difficult for people to appreciate when no clear instructions were given, and all they can see if a slightly revised watch face. Don't you agree?
Thanks for ur efforts
Is it possible to customize a widget so that it shows an output of another app?
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I don't think people are trying to slight your work, but if you could let others know how to use and operate and benefit from it, then people can appreciate. Such as, what do you mean by programming a new pedometer? You mean you have a start/stop button to control when to measure? What's the difference with using that than the built in pedometer which starts counting steps from 0:00 everyday, etc? It's difficult for people to appreciate when no clear instructions were given, and all they can see if a slightly revised watch face. Don't you agree?
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I agree.
But I also agree that I have described the function and people should READ AND try to TEST and understand things:
- Built in pedometer, which based on the set height and the steps taken, calculates the distance traveled in KM.
I always felt a big limitation of my Pace only being able to see the distance traveled in sport mode. (today and total)
So in this new watchface I programmed a pedometer to give this information.
Also you could install the watchface and try it before making these kind of comments.
There is a line between being critical or being rude. And you have no idea what this line is.
Thank you
Thanks for watchface! Phone battery widget shows incorrect data for me.
I'll try to clarify the built in pedometer part.
Me personally on the weekdays when I go to work I never start any activity and my distance widget would always say 0.0 KM walked. Even if I take 10.000 steps.
All default watchfaces of Pace/Stratus only have two types of distance, the today distance and the total distance of the sports activities in KM or in Miles.
The new feature in HNFit is a widget that estimates the distance walked (in KM or in Miles) based on the steps and the height of the person, like a physical pedometer
If it's still not understandable please tell me to try to clarify more.
Out of curiosity, what method did you use to make the pedometer work when the screen is locked (slpt)? I have a custom watchface I customized/tweaked from GreatFit, and I have a very basic distance walked widget, but it doesn't work when the screen is locked yet. I was looking at the various posts in GreatFit and saw that there were several possible ways to handle it (decompile/edit service/apk, use time-based update [like world time], or use full slpt-refresh [like weather]), but wasn't sure which was the best method to go with.
Hello, thank you for your WF! A few remarks:
1. Does not work well on Verge (layout is broken) ;
2. Background color isn't background actually, but accent color (other graphics besides time/text);
3. It breaks if "seconds hand always on" is enabled, a restart is required to fix;
4. The user widget always show "BPM" while screen is locked, overwriting whatever info is there.
If I could make a suggestion, I think there are better looking fonts, maybe a LCD digital one.
Keep it up, and simply disregard some bad comments, there are jerks everywhere.
Regards.
lfom said:
Hello, thank you for your WF! A few remarks:
1. Does not work well on Verge (layout is broken) ;
2. Background color isn't background actually, but accent color (other graphics besides time/text);
3. It breaks if "seconds hand always on" is enabled, a restart is required to fix;
4. The user widget always show "BPM" while screen is locked, overwriting whatever info is there.
If I could make a suggestion, I think there are better looking fonts, maybe a LCD digital one.
Keep it up, and simply disregard some bad comments, there are jerks everywhere.
Regards.
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About your remarks:
1. This Watchface, as stated on the title, is only made/tested for Pace/Stratus.
I would like to make it also for verge, but I don't have one. And I can only debug on the physical watch.
2. Thank you, I had the feeling, I was wrong calling it background color. Accent is much more correct, I will fix this on the next version.
Also I've being thinking and I will add the possibility to change the real background color, to extend the user possibility to customize the watchface even more.
3. I don't know what "seconds hand always on" is... maybe a Verge only option?
4. This happens sometimes when changing lots of settings. When this happens could you reboot the watch and check if the "background text" disappears?
Thank you for your remarks.
darkvoid_66 said:
About your remarks:
1. This Watchface, as stated on the title, is only made/tested for Pace/Stratus.
I would like to make it also for verge, but I don't have one. And I can only debug on the physical watch.
2. Thank you, I had the feeling, I was wrong calling it background color. Accent is much more correct, I will fix this on the next version.
Also I've being thinking and I will add the possibility to change the real background color, to extend the user possibility to customize the watchface even more.
3. I don't know what "seconds hand always on" is... maybe a Verge only option?
4. This happens sometimes when changing lots of settings. When this happens could you reboot the watch and check if the "background text" disappears?
Thank you for your remarks.
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1. Fair enough, I just wanted to make it clear, there is always someone asking "this works on XXX"?
2. Great idea, an "inverted" option (black text on white bg) is very welcome!
3. No, I tested it on Pace, go to watch Settings -> General/Common -> Watchface;
4. Maybe, I will test again when you release a new version, possibly with a better looking font for time.
Regards
lfom said:
1. Fair enough, I just wanted to make it clear, there is always someone asking "this works on XXX"?
2. Great idea, an "inverted" option (black text on white bg) is very welcome!
3. No, I tested it on Pace, go to watch Settings -> General/Common -> Watchface;
4. Maybe, I will test again when you release a new version, possibly with a better looking font for time.
Regards
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Ok I'll work on it, maybe this weekend if I have time.
About number 4 I like the current font, but I could add multiple "selectable" fonts. It would be nice.
If you have any (free) font suggestion, please tell me.
darkvoid_66 said:
Ok I'll work on it, maybe this weekend if I have time.
About number 4 I like the current font, but I could add multiple "selectable" fonts. It would be nice.
If you have any (free) font suggestion, please tell me.
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https://www.whatfontis.com/DS-Digital.font
Regards
It’s great, I like a lot. Can you add this font too?
https://www.whatfontis.com/FF_Ghoul.font
It looks very good.
As for the function of changing the background, it would be good to change the background only of the part of the clock as in the images and the original prototype WF, it is more visual.
Thanks for sharing your work!
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It’s great, I like a lot. Can you add this font too?
https://www.whatfontis.com/FF_Ghoul.font
It looks very good.
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As for the function of changing the background, it would be good to change the background only of the part of the clock as in the images and the original prototype WF, it is more visual.
Thanks for sharing your work!
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That's good to hear.
I will try to include this font as well.
Including multiple fonts will be a little more complicated than I originally thought because each font has different sizes and you need to take this into account when placing the digits on the screen.
But I think it will be possible
If it is the same as WFZ, the numbers from the font are converted to PNG, then you just need to resize them. If you use the font directly, then there should be no problem...
darkvoid_66 said:
"It's the same GreatFit watchface"?!?!
Different style of the clock, different fonts, color customization, a completely different design.
New and different bars: with battery, weekday, distance.
The icons on the watchface are new, except the icons from the user widget.
The settings icons are from GreatFit, they work fine and for now I did not see the need to change them.
Also I programmed a new real Pedometer!! Instead of having a widget saying all day 0 KM, you now have a working pedometer showing an estimation of the distance walked.
I surely was prepared to some negative comments but this is too much!
I really don't know why I wasted my time sharing my work...
The only thing I think you're right about is the "totally new" part, it makes no sense and I already corrected it.
PS: about 28/17ºC it's on the first post "maximum and minimum temperature of the current day", also it's something new and different from GreatFit!
Maybe you should pay more attention and read before you post?
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Very good work! The main point of GreatFit project is exactly this, other devs been able to improve and create new watchfaces. Thank you very much for sharing your work and your code!
Users can go hard on you many times. Mind that from their point of view they are not aware of the code/work behind, but some do :fingers-crossed:. Try to be positive and keep up the good work :good:

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