Bluetooth Apps - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello
I am new to this forum so will probably ask some rather stupid questions, for this I apologise in advance.
I am a final year product design student looking for some help with the development of an app for my exhibition stand. I am looking for some one to make an app which will be able to communicate with a bluetooth device. The app will be used on a smart phone to notify the user when the first device gives a signal. I will have all the visuals sorted out. I know this description is pretty vague but do not want to explain my entire project on this forum for reasons of confidentiality.
I will be exhibiting my work at two large shows this summer in Edinburgh and London with over 10,000 and 20,000 visitors expected respectively meaning great promotional opportunities for any one who helps me out.
Thank you
Gregor

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New XDA?

I read in this month's issue of Stuff magazine that a new version of the XDA will be released later this year.
Browsing on internet I found only one link that showed a picture of a xda with a blue back panel and could as well be the original model.
Has anyone heard about this and maybe know where to find more info on this (if O2 will support them for instance) and some specs and maybe photo's?
Thanx
There will be a new version of the XDA but it's not certain yet which company/ies will be releasing it. I heard some rumours about bluetooth, more memory and a faster processor, I haven't heard anything on SDIO support yet.
Bluetooth would be great, WiFi would be fantastic. Maybe even GPS and a 56K color screen (for the freaks among us to watch movies)?
Anyone know the mail adress/website of HTC who makes them? Have some requests of my own....
Hope someone will post here as soon as they find out more..
If it has the newer Xscale CPU it's very likely it will support SDIO. The SD controller is build-in the CPU and all Xscale CPU's support SDIO.
Chiani
Ok, first off, getting your electronics info from "Stuff" magazine is like getting steak grilling tips from PETA. Plus all magazines like that are typically posted about two months after they are written, making them pretty useless for new developments.
Secondly, predicting a new XDA is like predicting that the sun will come up tomorrow, that winter will come in a few months, or that the curry I ate today will sting my ass tomorrow. It's obviously going to happen.
It's worthless until they say "on this date a new XDA with these features will be available." And when they can do that, you'll already have read it here two months earlier.
pc pro
i have a pc pro subscription. They had a review of the new iPaq with pocketPc 2k3. they went on to mention that all the pocket devices will be getting the update. including XDA.
Tomorrow never comes? But we old get older, and hopefully wiser...
Martin
Right Carlos...
One of the main reasons for a forum is for guys like me to wonder about stuff. Ask questions to other users with the same interest. Sometimes intelligent questions and some times less intelligent, but always within the region of interest of other forum readers. If you feel a threat is dumb, don't read it and especially don't reply on it. No need for smart-ass remarks here, we just want to chat about stuff we like.
I had a question, couldn't find it in the forum so I asked. Big Deal.
is like getting steak grilling tips from PETA
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LOL!
Anyway, PPC2K3 will appear on the XDA: Maybe not today; maybe not tomorrow; but soon and for the rest of your life.
::Bonkers eyes that revolve around three times per second because of copious amonts of beer:: Oh, not allowed that emoticon yet?
No need for smart-ass remarks here, we just want to chat about stuff we like.
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Sorry, I wasn't laughing AT you, but WITH you... I posted what I did because many people don't realize just how that publishing process goes--it's very lengthy and full of PR assholes. Those "what's new in electronics" columns are one of my pet peeves. And I'm a gruff asshole by nature anyway, so it came out worse than intended.
Hehe, no harm done. At least you were true about Stuff Magazine and most of it's other companions.
So.... When is the new model comming out?
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Playboy says next week...
..... it will have more intellectual articles about geopolitical situation? :wink:
in this article
Taiwanese ODM High Tech Computer (HTC) Corp will ship an updated PPC 2003/ARM4 version of its Falcon (aka Spaceneedle, Wallaby) PPC Phone Edition design, as sold by AT&T, mm02 and T-Mobile, before the end of June.
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and yesterday being the end of june, they seem to have missed the deadline... : [
This may be of interest..
I spoke to T Mobile UK about when the MDA was going to be introduced. They said that it was originally going to be introduced in March but now has been put back to the end of this year (because of techical difficulties?).
I wonder if they are planning to introduce the new unit.
Primed
New XDA details
This s the response I received from Carrier Devices regarding the New Qtek (XDA):
"There are plans for a new Qtek device, however I can't give out any official information. It won't be available until the end of the year, but will have Built in Bluetooth, SDIO and be tri-band"
please refer to topic http://xda-developers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1500 for further information about the XDA II
I guess I got my initial question answered, so as far as I'm concerned, this topic is now out-of-date
thanx for all the replies!
New XDA gets a mention at the register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/31500.html
As usaul no details about it though
WiFi
The article on the register hints at WiFi.
Saying that users can seamlessly jump from hot spot to gprs...
Bet it will all cost a small fortune though!!
Martin
Who cares Martin! Us suckers will still buy it, it's only money!
revival
If somebody has the time...
Bring back the wishlist for XDA II and make it a sticky.
Bring on SDIO and the bluetooth!!!!

Quite possibly the most newbesque question ever to be asked.

After relatively recently obtaining an XDA with ready installed ROM (from a friend) i've enjoyed every bit of the time we've spent together...isn't it a wonderful toy, if i may use such a derogatory term for such a wonderful piece of hardware.
However, there is one niggling problem i've been having, there seems to be some problem with my brain, that renders me unable to locate an option which lets me show the names of my contacts on a recieved text message. All i get are the numbers, and, not having an immense short term memory means i have to trawl through my phonebook matching the number.
The only time i have found it to work is with an American number of a friend which i updated from my SIM.
Any help please, i will be forever in your debt...
Disclaimer: Only to a certain extent.
I'm sorry, i've just read the sticky's and managed to solve the problem. Please don't think bad of me
Feel free to close or delete this thread.
wouldnt calss the XDA as a toy more of a peice of kit.
you can class nokia 3650 and 6600 as toys as their features aint up to par with that of the xda sereis :roll:

Paid WP7 blogging position available at htcsource.com

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Seeking Android Developer

Hello All,
This past summer, I formed a focus group consisting of university students from various technology disciplines. Together, we conducted an analysis on what businesses and individuals need in order to get started with NFC. Our findings developed our first hypothesis. The team then put its findings into motion by creating a business model canvas, cloud based product and conducting many interviews with potential users.
The technology start-up community here in Helsinki has a keen bias toward learning and adopting “The Lean Start-up” methodology for building successful products. Indeed, I find myself supporting many of the principles and ideas that Eric Ries proposes. Currently, my project is in stealth mode. Nonetheless, I have been actively building product concepts and things are gaining momentum.
If it's anything to gauge things by, just last night me and my buddies were counting how many NFC cards we already have in our wallets. NFC is really moving rapidly here in Finland. In my case, I had 3. One was for the "K" chain of stores, a monthly bus card and the last one was for the gym.
Right now, I'm looking for a person that knows how to code Android. I need a small app built and it probably can be done in about 8 hours or so, depending upon the persons level of expertise. Here's what the app needs to be able to do.
Nutshell version:
1. When the app is launched it automatically logs into the users account and knows who you are.
2. When the users touches a NFC tag the UID is read and sent to the backend via https.
3. Our backend server takes the UID and provisions it accordingly.
4. Once provisioned, confirmation is sent to the app which instructs the user to touch the tag again in order to write it.
Right now we are just concerned with building the minimal viable product as regards this app.
The next step will be to tie everything we already have together with the app and beta testing it through pilot projects we have lined up.
The purpose of this thread is to find out from others where I can find someone skilled enough to help me with building this app. I thought I could do it myself using tools like "appinventor" from MIT but that didn't work for me.
Anyway, if you are interested in learning more please drop me a note.
Thank you for your interest,
Suomalainen
I'm not saying it is overly complicated but, it will take more than 8 hours to get this thing to a working product. Not only is there the task of setting up the back-end of the app but also the layout of it. You then have to consider how it will talk to the server as any thing other than a basic webview, which completely defeats the point and purpose of a stand-alone app, requires use of web services which will require the setup and integration of said service.
Point is, it's much more complicated and involved than you seem to understand. Good luck with your project but you might take some time researching what it is you're wanting so as to better comprehend the time and effort involved.
Actually it's not that bad as you think. The web service is up and running. Now I need an app to get the UID from the tag and send it over to the web service so it can be provisioned. Once that's done on the back end the back end then sends a confirmation to the app to write the tag.
Does this help you?
Suomalainen said:
Actually it's not that bad as you think. The web service is up and running. Now I need an app to get the UID from the tag and send it over to the web service so it can be provisioned. Once that's done on the back end the back end then sends a confirmation to the app to write the tag.
Does this help you?
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Well, if you've gone that far the only other question I have is, why not finish it out? If all you wish to do is read an NFC tag and pull then send its UID to the web service, you should be able to do so at this point. The android tutorials cover basic NFC use which is what you are trying to accomplish.
There may be some confusion?
I thought in the opening intro I wrote that I explained trying to build it with MIT appinventor?
You wrote "I thought I could do it myself using tools like "appinventor" from MIT but that didn't work for me.". So it sounds like you hadn't made much progress and/or thought about not using appinventor. Are you still trying to do this using appinventor or do you want to build a native Android application?
I would like to have a Native Android App. I'm not a coder but wanted to take on the challenge using the Appinventor tool but found it would not work for me. Now, I'm just looking for a person that knows they can code the app and can get it to do what we need it to do.
Are you looking to pay a developer for this work? if so, I could probably take a look.
@ wseemann, Thanks for the offer! Right now the team that I have put together has been formed by folks interested in NFC. Each person contributes to the team a unique piece of his/her expertise toward our end goals and vision... The obvious hope being to get this "startup" off the ground...
Suomalainen said:
@ wseemann, Thanks for the offer! Right now the team that I have put together has been formed by folks interested in NFC. Each person contributes to the team a unique piece of his/her expertise toward our end goals and vision... The obvious hope being to get this "startup" off the ground...
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Ok, good luck.
Thanks! Please also feel free to pass along the word to your friends and others you feel may be interested. Feel free to message me as well.
Thanks again!

Now ARM the chip designer have withdrawn from working with Huawei

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48363772
The media love to fuel the fire. Calm down and wait this out, all will be back to normal soon enough.
Calm your tits guys. Your p30 pro wont be effected with any of these issues. Stay calm and zoom on.
Yea exactly, calm down everyone. I think everything will be back to normal soon, Huawei is too big to die IMO
And China waiting it out until they feel the need to reply back by crippling Apple and Snapdragon via TSMC.
seems like samsung will be good during all this?
This has nothing to do with the P30 Pro anyway... You already have the chip in your phone. They're not going to retrospectively come and hoof the chip out of your phone lol
Boah really, every news about Huawei is a value to write a new topic here?
Its a developer forum, not a news feed. To much people joining xda without knowledge what xda is.
If anybody wants to read news about huawei he can read his own newsfeed.
Its anoying to see every day a new thread which supplier has stopped working with huawei.
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Boah really, every news about Huawei is a value to write a new topic here?
Its a developer forum, not a news feed. To much people joining xda without knowledge what xda is.
If anybody wants to read news about huawei he can read his own newsfeed.
Its anoying to see every day a new thread which supplier has stopped working with huawei.
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Guides, News, & Discussion...... What a weird place to see news and discussion threads.
Flash-User said:
Boah really, every news about Huawei is a value to write a new topic here?
Its a developer forum, not a news feed. To much people joining xda without knowledge what xda is.
If anybody wants to read news about huawei he can read his own newsfeed.
Its anoying to see every day a new thread which supplier has stopped working with huawei.
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All information allows people to make fully informed decisions, including people who may be thinking of developing for a specific platform.
Arguing that some news shouldn't be reported because it doesn't suit your agenda has a name, it's called censorship.
This news is relevant and important as it shows what impact the tangerine buffoon can have on devices that people spend large amounts of money on.
He's come out and stated today that Huawei could be included in a Trade Deal, as if it wasn't obvious weeks ago that he was just trying to use them as leverage to put pressure on the Chinese.
Don't shoot the messenger for delivering the message, be grateful that someone can be bothered to make sure you know anything that may be relevant to your purchasing decisions, that can save YOUR money.
pinsb said:
All information allows people to make fully informed decisions, including people who may be thinking of developing for a specific platform.
Arguing that some news shouldn't be reported because it doesn't suit your agenda has a name, it's called censorship.
This news is relevant and important as it shows what impact the tangerine buffoon can have on devices that people spend large amounts of money on.
He's come out and stated today that Huawei could be included in a Trade Deal, as if it wasn't obvious weeks ago that he was just trying to use them as leverage to put pressure on the Chinese.
Don't shoot the messenger for delivering the message, be grateful that someone can be bothered to make sure you know anything that may be relevant to your purchasing decisions, that can save YOUR money.
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No I suspect what he means is the ban has nothing to do with the P30 which is what this section of XDA is for.

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