Hello
i have a built in car hands free, in my case blue&me by fiat.
My system does not have A2DP profile...so i cannot route my GPS sound of the galaxy s3 to the hands free of the car.....
today i noticed that if i am receiving a call, gps indications are also routed to the hands free.
Maybe it is possible to create a program that:
- when GPS give a instruction then:
- call is simulated + answer button / signal is given to the hands free
- when gps instruction is ended then:
- simulated call is ended
anyone know if this can be the solution? is it possible to automate this?
i would imagine that tasker would be able to handle something like that quite easily- don't hold me to that though.
some other apps that might be useful:
- alsamixer (perhaps there's a device that can be switched on here?)
- sqlite editer (enabling that functionality may simply be a matter of finding the right DB file to tweak)
hope this helps
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Is there a good app that gives Turn-by-Turn Cycling Navigation on Android? I know that you can get directions on Google Maps but it doesn't provide Navigation like they do for driving, walking, & public transit. I've been googling all over the place trying to find an app that actually works and have not come across anything. Does anyone know of a good one?
If you're riding in the streets, just use any other carnav, right? Clearly sometimes depending upon the circumstances you'll have to be aware of road rules or safety and there are times one must do a P turn rather than a left turn, but you just assess that as you go along.
Curious how you're doing this... Headphones? (Hopefully not!) Handlebar mount?
As for if you're riding in bike paths, offroad, etc, there are apps out there which you can record a path and they can direct you on that path. I could do some searching, I know I saw at least one out there that'll direct you down a known route. Keep in mind that you'll be creating these routes yourself as they're typically intended as breadcrumbs.. ie: Getting back out of a hike or such.
A bit of googling and I found this: http://www.appbrain.com/app/bike-hub-cycle-journey-planner/com.bikehub.journeyplanner but some of the comments say it HAS to leave the screen on in order to keep working... Derp. And might be UK only, although they say they rely on OSM so it's very possible it works elsewhere. Yeah, seems to be, I keep getting "Destination too far away"... Aha, because it uses a "cyclestreets.net" as its routing engine, which is UK-only. Poo.
This one you can plan on the web and get turn by turn, but from what I'm reading it does not do online maps so you need to preload them? Might have to look into it some more.. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.trimble.outdoors.gpsapp.android
Thanks khaytsus for looking that up for me but unfortunately those apps are not what I'm looking for and I have tried them before making my post.
To be a bit more clear though, I am looking to keep my phone in my pocket or arm band, have only one speaker in my ear (like a bluetooth earpiece) to tell me the instructions for each turn and have the phone vibrate as well.
The closest I found was bike-hub but you are right that it is just UK because I was unable to map out any route when searching thru the app.
I would prefer to have it more GPS like so I don't have to map it out on the PC beforehand and do not want to really use the regular GPS apps because even walking directions (though they avoid going on highways) they do not follow bike trails (which may be quicker than following side roads).
If you can't find it or someone else then I can look more but I'm starting to think there is not one currently for the US market
I hope now that this is in Android Q&A that someone will find/develop this
I guess I'm the only one interested in this
Hello there,
I already talked a little bit about this topic in the general forum. The thread can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324219
I think that this would be an easy, straight forward task. The program should work like this:
1) Start the program
2) The function MI_SetStaticNav (inside gps.s5pc210.so) is executed and the static navigation mode is switched OFF
3) The function MI_GetStaticNav is executed to check if the new status is really "OFF"
4) Display the new status and exit the program
So, all which has to be done is to load the /system/lib/hw/gps.s5pc210.so file in the android program and execute the two functions.
Sadly, I have no clue of programming and therefore I would like to ask if some of you could help me by writing this little program. It would really be a great benefit for the GPS part of the SGS2, because with static navigation the GPS part is nearly unusable if you are walking (you can see this in the image I posted in the other thread).
So, I would be glad if someone could help me out of this.
Best regards and many thanks in advance,
Chris
Hi, I have developed a tool called GPS Control for SGS2. You can check it out on market. It does exactly what you need. However, the device needs reboot when changing SN settings. It requires root access and works only on I9100.
Hi all,
I recently acquired a Jetstream in the US (AT&T) to bring back to France.
I'm pretty new to Android but I got the bootloader unlocked through htcdev.com, then managed to apply DoomLoRD's root and CWM recovery succesfully (excellent tutorial, BTW).
I now want to unlock the phone and reconfigure BT so I can use my regular BT headset (Nokia BH-109, supports HFP & HSP but no A2DP) following the instructions on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1418235, but that fails to work as the /system/build.prop file remains read-only.
Is there anything I've missed? Would that be because my Jetstream is still S-ON?
thanks in advance for any hint that gets me going!
François
Hi,
Welcome to the Jetstream community.
1st off, for you to be able to edit the /system/build.prop file, you need Root Explorer, navigate to the file, before opening it with the text editor, make sure to click on the R-W/R-R which you can find around the top left side of screen- it will basically change from read to write functionality in the system files. You will then be able to enable the options.
2nd, after following the steps, you will be able to get the phone app to show and you will be able to use MMI codes of the *123# sort perfectly. Coming to the call however, you will be able to make calls but no sound on either side of the calls. Still some bugs to be figured out and fixed. Some have got some clue about how to solve it - mentioned in the post with the instructions.
3rd, after following those instructions, you will be able to send and receive messages using a 3rd part app like GO SMS. Works perfectly well.
4th, the S-ON to S-OFF transition needs a lot of help from developers which is not happening as of yet. Hoping that someone will be able to really achieve this for us. It has been done for many other devices as well and we all here hope it will happen for the Jetstream too.
Hope it helps you and hope to have more people join the community of this wonderful device like you have just joined us and get this device moving soon.
-Kaialsh.
Hi Kaialsh,
thanks for taking the time to share your experience. I will look into Root Explorer for sure, even though I actually managed to answer my question when writing my original post got me thinking.
I'll write down what I found as it may be of help to others.
As I understood the problem was with the /system partition being mounted R/O I looked on the Market and found mount /system (rw/ro) and it seemed to work giving me a successful status, but the build.prop file remained R/O in vi, and Astro would not save it properly.
I then saw that DoomLoRD's custom kernel included R/W system partition and looking into that I found the adb remount command which did what I wanted, except it failed on my system.
Last bit was to boot the tablet into DoomLoRD's insecure kernel image (as I did before to root the Jetstream), then issue "adb remount", then edit build.prop and reboot again.
As you can see, it's not really straightforward and I wish I saw your post before all of this!
I did see the Audio problems with making calls and will be following the forum for a potential fix to this problem, but I have another issue right now...
Noise cancellation does not work at all and any attempt to make a VoIP call (SIP or Google Talk for instance) results in terrible echo at the other end of the line. The only way out is to use a headset and Bluetooth seems a reasonable choice.
Before the build.prop change, my Nokia headset (with HFP and HSP) would be detected and paired but would remain disconnected and no profile was listed (only options are to delete pairing or rename device). A set of Bluetooth headphones with A2DP support worked fine.
After the change, the device is paired and the headset profile listed as expected, but it still remains disconnected even though when I select it I get a "connected" popup. Of course, the headset will not give audio in any application, and the speaker works normally.
I'd be interested if someone around here has any hints into getting a regular cell phone Bluetooth headset to work with the Jetstream, as well as maybe a fix on the echo cancellation problem.
In any case, this forum is a goldmine
I too face the problem with google talk and sort-noise cancellation is bad. I however circumvented the problem by using a wired headset-no echo with that but the gain on audio was a bit low. I don't own a Bluetooth device myself to check and am kind of busy studying for exams go out and get myself one.
However, the basic problem seems to lie in the Mic settings and as mentioned in the section on enabling gsm calls, we need to check the codec files and anything related to Mic and htc audio libs. I did sit once checking for any potential files that contain details regarding this, but I was dumb enough not to note things down then and there so don't remember very well and haven't found the time to check it again. Will do so the earliest possible and share my findings. There was something about a particular file missing in the devices lost which seemed to be necessary for phone functionality.
Also, just out of curiosity, what is your main application with the Jetstream?
Sent from my HTC PG09410 using XDA
It's a shame I don't know enough about the platform to look into it myself, but I'm ready to try out any suggestion that comes forward!
What I intend to use the tablet for is remote desktop/VNC access to remote systems through ssh tunnels and voice/video conferencing, but at the moment I'm still in the discovery stages.
François
Cool. Welcome aboard once again.
Sent from my HTC PG09410 using XDA
Hey XDA forum,
I've recently rooted my HTC Desire S phone and installed this version of Carbon on it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2500130
so that I now have Android version 4.3.2 installed. However, I noticed I didn't have the normal Voice Recorder app present on my phone and since one of my primary uses of my mobile phones is that I want to record my voice for music ideas, I need a voice recorder.
So I started looking around on the Google Play Store for the Voice Recorder app that normally comes built-in with your phone. For some reason, it's not present. Anyway, downloading other voice recording software like
RecForgeII or Audio Evolution Mobile Studio (DEMO version in my case), I found out my microphone now has terrible noise being throughput in total silence. Additionally, whenever I speak, the audio level is insanely high and there's distortion and clipping coming in even from a meter away.
So I assume the microphone gain has been set to a too high level.
I figure I need to go into Android Engineer Mode and adjust the microphone settings. After doing a search on the net, I found out I could access the Android Engineer Mode by dialing
*#*#3424#*#*
Now, as soon as I type the closing *, the whole code disappears. However, no HTC Test menu is opened.
How do I access the menu?
Is there another way to adjust microphone gain?
Have others had similar problems after rooting and installing custom ROMs?
Thanks for your help,
Shrooblord
Additionally, I just made a call with my girlfriend and she let me know that in calling, my microphone shows the same behaviour: I sounded distorted and loud and we could only talk normally when I put my phone a meter away from my mouth and used headphones to listen.
I could really use your android expertise on this one, folks.
Work-around
I've ended up not doing this through the Engineer Mode nor with the installation of Carbon.
To fix this, I decided to move away from Clockwork Recovery Mod in favour of TWRP so that I could install Cyanogenmod 12 on my HTC Desire S. After a series of unfortunate events including bricking and successively un-bricking my phone (that took a long time to figure out haha), I've completely installed and personalised my new Android device (it really feels like it's a whole new phone - it's just in an old shell ) and am now running smoothly on Android version 5.1. It also automatically seems to have fixed my mic problem (which I hoped it would). Yay!
But I couldn't have done it if it weren't for this forum and many other resources like this out there on the web. My advice to you when hacking your phone to root it or to install a custom ROM or to fix microphone issues is to look around and not give up searching. It took me a grand total of what I estimate is around 40-50 hours from knowing nothing about custom ROMs and rooting and the like to getting a decent understanding of what steps to perform, how to perform them and more importantly, why. So keep looking. The answer's out there!
And if you can't figure it out today, go to bed and look at it tomorrow. I can tell you, there's nothing quite like approaching a problem with a head full of fresh ideas after a good night's rest.
Good luck out there.
If you've got problems, I'll do my best to keep an eye out on this thread and see if I can help you out.
Shrooblord
So I've looked around for something to suit my needs but haven't come across any great, non-clunky solutions. We recently purchased a Public Address System at my job but they had to cut the professional message scheduler out of the project due to cost (they wanted about $3500 for said device). It's currently set up so we can broadcast manually but I was looking for something more hands off and realized we have an old tablet lying around that we never use and thought I could re-purpose that for this task through the AUX input port. I haven't tested it yet but my current plan is to use the Alarm Clock Xtreme app from the play store to play the mp3 files on a schedule since it is both reliable and has an auto dismiss function. I'm thinking I can set up the mp3 files as the ringtones and go from there. I'm 99% sure this will work but I'm curious if there is anything else out there that may work a little better.
I was wondering if anyone knew of an android program designed for this function. Ideally I would love something that provides a clean interface to complete this task. The icing on the cake would be the function I wanted the most from the professional scheduler and that was the ability to phone in a message and set it to play remotely. Possibly some way that I could email an mp3 file to it or something? I doubt this exists but figured it was worth asking. Any help is greatly appreciated and I apologize in advance if I missed a thread that already addressed this issue. Thanks in advance and I look forward to your responses.