Hi,
The neXus research group at Microsoft Research is recruiting for a study on how people use their smartphones to manage communication availability. We are interested in the relationship between the user’s contexts and actions on their smartphone for negotiating their availability for communication. Participants must currently use the Android phone (version 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich or above) as their primary phone for communication. Participation will include completing a pre-study survey; installing an Android app and running it for a 14-day period; responding to a daily journal email; and answering a post-study survey. The Android app will passively log data from a number of sensors (e.g., location, mobility status, ringer and screen status) when receiving or responding to notifications around communication apps (e.g., texting, email, video chat). No contents of the communication and no personally identifiable information will be persistently stored, as all identities will be mapped to unique id numbers. Selected participants will also participate in a recorded interview sharing their experience in their communication activity during the period.
Gratuity:
A total of $75 gift card gratuity is possible for participation involving the pre- and post-survey, running the app for 14-days and responding to the daily journal email prompts.
An additional $25 gift card gratuity is provided for participation in the post-study interview.
Requirements:
You must be 18 years or older
You must be in a full-time (at least 30 hours per week) occupation or graduate study program
You must use an Android smartphone with version 4.0 or above (Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean) as your primary phone.
You must use your primary phone for communication (e.g., making calls, sending texts) on a daily basis.
You must live in North America.
You must fully participate in the study by generating log data every day and sending in daily email journals (please consider if you have any travel or other activities in the next few weeks that would interfere with your normal daily activities).
If you're interested, please reply to me
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I can only hope that posting this here doesn't somehow ruin it down the road, but everyone here has a Gmail account corresponding with their devices, and most likely WebStorage (if you use it) as well, so I've been thinking for a while that this "exploit" may be possible: AND IT IS!
Is everyone familiar with a feature of Gmail and Google's infinite wisdom that allows you to make any number of "fake" accounts that tie in to your actual, single account? Of course most use it to register for and subsequently filter out Spam.
However, it's Google's servers which account for this ability, and so the (and really most/all) WebStorage app will accept any dotted (and dashed? don't remember what all you can do) form of your Gmail account name as a new account. So although it will be 8GB segments you could have any number of them with organized info distributed per "account."
I believe this could most likely also be done with an OG Transformer to activate* the one year of "unlimited" storage, and you could upload massive amounts of info in a relatively short amount of time across a few "accounts" and have just about any of your stuff up. I don't have an OG so someone will need to check it out.
*EDIT:
Let me also state I only did this to begin with because ASUS or whoever manages WebStorage said they couldn't update my initial account to correspond to my ownership of the Prime. They told me to do this.
Code:
ASUS bundles of ASUS Webstorage could only be activated within new accounts. Therefore, you won't be able to expand your subscription of current existing account, but you're definitely welcome to register a new ASUS WebStorage user ID to retrieve your term of Transformer.
Please follow the steps below to access complementary ASUS WebStorage Service:
1. Logout from current ASUS WebStorage ID.
2. Register a new account from Mycloud
Between my personal and business contacts, I have a very, very large number of contacts (thousands). I also share calendars with business partners, so I have a very large number of events.
I have been looking for a very simple app that will impose a "quiet time" blocking all notifications and calls EXCEPT for a specific whitelist of callers -- and this is the important part: organized using a Google Contacts group. In particular there are a few family members and a few others (like my office's alarm monitoring company) from whom I would like to receive calls at any time of the day or night, and all else should be blocked.
I have found a few apps that work using custom hand-managed lists, and so far they haven't worked very well. I have found a few very complicated apps that do all sorts of scheduling and event-handling and so on, and as a side-effect they can sort of do this, but I don't want to spend time learning and (effectively) programming (and maintaining) a general-purpose event manager.
Does such an app exist?
FWIW, I'm on a Galaxy S3 running SlimBean (currently based on Android 4.2, soon to be 4.3).
Thanks in advance.
1st things 1st - My device: Verizon S4 Root/Safestrap/Eclipse/Titanium Pro
Is there a way to not allow this to be done without uninstalling the TweetCaster app? I checked in the app's settings and I don't see any way to stop or not allow updates. I do have Google Play's settings at "Do not auto-update apps" - would this be sufficient? Or may Twitter go behind everyone's back and do this independently through their app and bypass Google Play? I do not want Twitter to be able to identify what apps I have or otherwise have access to my S4 to "target ads" to me.
Please note I Do Not have the Twitter app, I have TweetCaster (if it's different than the Twitter app? I don't know?) I heard facebook was doing this same BS & people deleted the app (I Do Not use FB) and am looking for a way to not allow Twitter to do this (if there is a way to). Thanks (I don't believe the last line below)
>>From Wired.com, Nov 26th<<
Twitter Plans to Peek at Your Apps to Serve You Targeted Ads
Twitter will soon identify the other apps on your phone in an effort to personalize your experience on its service—i.e. serve you targeted ads.
The company discusses the move on its website, and according to the news site Re/code, this sort of tracking will begin with a new version of its iPhone app, set to roll out on Wednesday. A new Android version that works in much the same way will roll out over the next week.
Now a public company, Twitter is exploring many different ways to boost its revenue, and one method is through better targeted ads. The company already has some personal information about those using its service—what they type into their Twitter profiles and the tweets they post—but now, it wants more. “To help build a more personal Twitter experience for you, we are collecting and occasionally updating the list of apps installed on your mobile device so we can deliver tailored content that you might be interested in,” the company says.
In this way, it’s following the lead of Facebook and Google and so many others that seek to target ads. The difference is that Twitter doesn’t have access to nearly as much personal data as Facebook, which inherently encourages users to provide information about themselves, or Google, which operates a wide range of services atop its own mobile OS. So Twitter is reaching out into other parts of the phone, something that is easy to do. The Apple/Google mobile OSes provide ready access to information like this & many apps take advantage of this—some going much further than others.
Twitter says it will point users to its new data policy, via an in-app notification, before it starts collecting any personal information. But the new update is opt-out, which means that in order for the company to stop gathering data on your account, you must explicitly turn this data collection off. But few users are likely to do so.
Source
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/twitter-targeted-ads/?mbid=social_twitter
Lane W. said:
1st things 1st - My device: Verizon S4 Root/Safestrap/Eclipse/Titanium Pro
Is there a way to not allow this to be done without uninstalling the TweetCaster app? I checked in the app's settings and I don't see any way to stop or not allow updates. I do have Google Play's settings at "Do not auto-update apps" - would this be sufficient? Or may Twitter go behind everyone's back and do this independently through their app and bypass Google Play? I do not want Twitter to be able to identify what apps I have or otherwise have access to my S4 to "target ads" to me.
Please note I Do Not have the Twitter app, I have TweetCaster (if it's different than the Twitter app? I don't know?) I heard facebook was doing this same BS & people deleted the app (I Do Not use FB) and am looking for a way to not allow Twitter to do this (if there is a way to). Thanks (I don't believe the last line below)
>>From Wired.com, Nov 26th<<
Twitter Plans to Peek at Your Apps to Serve You Targeted Ads
Twitter will soon identify the other apps on your phone in an effort to personalize your experience on its service—i.e. serve you targeted ads.
The company discusses the move on its website, and according to the news site Re/code, this sort of tracking will begin with a new version of its iPhone app, set to roll out on Wednesday. A new Android version that works in much the same way will roll out over the next week.
Now a public company, Twitter is exploring many different ways to boost its revenue, and one method is through better targeted ads. The company already has some personal information about those using its service—what they type into their Twitter profiles and the tweets they post—but now, it wants more. “To help build a more personal Twitter experience for you, we are collecting and occasionally updating the list of apps installed on your mobile device so we can deliver tailored content that you might be interested in,” the company says.
In this way, it’s following the lead of Facebook and Google and so many others that seek to target ads. The difference is that Twitter doesn’t have access to nearly as much personal data as Facebook, which inherently encourages users to provide information about themselves, or Google, which operates a wide range of services atop its own mobile OS. So Twitter is reaching out into other parts of the phone, something that is easy to do. The Apple/Google mobile OSes provide ready access to information like this & many apps take advantage of this—some going much further than others.
Twitter says it will point users to its new data policy, via an in-app notification, before it starts collecting any personal information. But the new update is opt-out, which means that in order for the company to stop gathering data on your account, you must explicitly turn this data collection off. But few users are likely to do so.
Source
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/twitter-targeted-ads/?mbid=social_twitter
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I think Tweetcaster is a third party application just like Falcon doesn't have anything to do with the default twitter app. .Or you can just see if that option is listed their within the Tweetcaster application to opt out of it.
I have a web based quoting system my sales team uses and the database has 70,000 rows in the quotes table, each one a different quote. I'm using Android's SyncAdapter classes to make it so the application synchronizes with the remote database when a connection becomes available but will use the local NoSQL database when getting pricing. Now one of the sales guys might want to go back and look at quote number 50231 from a few years ago when in a remote area without service so I'm wondering if there are any issues with synchronizing all 70,000 rows from this table to the local database on the phone or if there's a different accepted way of doing this.
The entire database is 1 gibibyte in size and contains all customers, quotes, pricing and a bill of materials for each job. I'm just trying to find best practice here.
Hello, I've been a long-term occasional user of xda for troubleshooting and general resource, but this is my first time ever posting.
Background to my question: I enjoy travelling by bicycle (bike touring, bikepacking, etc.). While in foreign countries, I'll often get a simple cellular plan, which usually includes free sms but limited to no data. While travelling by bicycle, knowing the weather forecast can be pretty beneficial.
Not being a developer, I have come ask if the following idea possible.
App idea:
-A friend or family member who does have regular access to data and/or wifi has the server app installed on their device. The app is given permission to read text messages.
-I, the traveller, can send syntaxed sms messages to the friend or family member with the server app. The message will include the location that I want a weather forecast for and perhaps other parameters (hourly, 36 hour, 3 day, 7 day, etc.)
-The server device receives the sms. The app checks if it's from a registered phone number, checks for syntax, performs query for weather forecast for requested location, then modifies the forecast to send in a reply sms.
-I get my requested weather forecast without having to use my own data
Any complications that could come up?
There many groups of people that could benefit from this sort of app, not just those travelling by bicycle. Some people who travel or venture in rural/backcountry areas use a SPOT or InReach device. Some of these devices are capable of sms transmission via satellite, depending on the subscription.
Thanks!