My-Symbian & My-Maemo

[Kebabrov]

Alright chaps,

Heres a project i've been working on for a while. basically it detects your location based upon cells and bluetooth devices, and then you can do events based on location and time

you can also get it to save your location, which gives you a history of where you have been. it also tags each photo/movie you take with the location it was taken, so you can view your photos by location

recently, i've hacked in an active standby screen for use on a 6630. its very hacky, but works well enough and shows the current area and next 3 calendar entries for the week. Dont enable this on a 6680/n70 if you have the real active standby enabled... i'm guessing the result won't be very pretty.

It stores the databases on the root of your MMC card. if you decide to uninstall it, you can just delete the two .dat files it makes.

It autostarts using ezboot and uses some code from the ContextPhone project (http://mikie.iki.fi/symbian/). Its been tested mostly on a 6630, but should also work on a 6680 and N70. Also, use it entirely at your own risk. It shouldnt break your phone but if it does, its your fault

if you have any questions/comments, post them in this thread. enjoy

[My-Symbian]

[rulirahm]

No screenshots?

[Kebabrov]

rulirahm wrote:

No screenshots?

4 screenshots

http://www.aspm52.dsl.pipex.com/1.jpg
http://www.aspm52.dsl.pipex.com/2.jpg
http://www.aspm52.dsl.pipex.com/3.jpg
http://www.aspm52.dsl.pipex.com/4.jpg

[alb3530]

I've tried MiniGPS and it has a very cool feature: you can distribute cells in groups, and create events whenever you go in/out the group.You can also write a text to be displayed as a note when a event happens.The best of all is the text is a global note: it displays the text you wrote, it doesn't matter what application is running in foreground.In my area, only 3 cells has EDGE support, i could use the application as a EDGE indicator when i tried it, since it's the only that displays a global text.Does your application feature such thing?I think you could implement a global cell indicator to be always showed.It would be very cool.Also if user renamed a cell, its name would be showed instead the number.

Note i didn't tested your application yet.But will try it as soon as i can.Thanks

PS.: for the screenshots, it's probably a very nice application

[My-Symbian]

[Kebabrov]

yep. it does all of those:)
you can set a reminder for when u enter a cell/group/see a bluetooth device, which pops up a dialog showing you the reminder

its definately worth playin around with.

[LordDante]

Hi there,

Just started using your app on my 6630 and I must say Im very impressed! Its packed full of really useful features, one of the best for me is the ability to log cell/bluetooth detections, so I can easily look back on cells Ive moved through and bluetooth devices that have been found on the way.

Also worthy of special note is the active standby for 6630, something Ive never seen done before by any other app. However I would like to suggest some possible improvements and fixes for a future release:

a) The active standby doesnt work too well with apps that use the standby screen for anything, an example being Smart Settings, the menu on that gets cut off at the top by your active standby.

b) It would be especially great if the user could choose what and how items get displayed on the active standby. For example would be cool to be able to see what track is being played in the music player (such as the player included in 6630 music edition), or in something like OggPlay, if its at all possible. Also displaying info about free ram and storage capacity, or the number of unread messages in the inbox etc. Basically a fully customisable active standby would be absolutely fantastic, and in fact would beat even the S60v3 active standby!

Thats it for the time being, if I think of anything else, I will post it here. Thanks for creating such a wonderful and free app!

[Kebabrov]

I'm glad you like it

Unfortunately, i dont think its worth writing a customisable active standby app for 6630s. After all, they are only one phone... and a very old phone nowadays. If anyone fancies writing one, the code is basically this: http://mikie.iki.fi/symbian/ (look for Drawing on top of Phone screen).

The active standby was added as an after-thought cos i previously owned an N80, but it was a whore to program for and the battery life stank. I know the active standby is buggy, but it works well enough for me.

Its a shame that nokia are cretins and dont allow developers to add stuff to active standby.

[arizkohli]

Kebabrov, everything sounds cool and I'm going to give this shot soon.

I'm particularly interested in your AS screen implementation. Is it just a simple draw on top of everything else? What's the problem with battery for this? Is it the constant redraws? I'm working on a project and evaluating overriding the AS screen too. But I won't waste my time if it kills the battery or has some fundamental limitations.

No plans to port to 3rd ed yet? I've just got an N91-2 and would love to try your app on that.

[Kebabrov]

its the same as the implementation from the http://mikie.iki.fi/symbian/ link. It only draws on top of the 'Phone' application. Unfortunately it doesnt bother checking if the 'Phone' application is actually in standby mode (as opposed to a menu being open, or adding a new contact via the phone application (thus the 'hacky' status)).

It doesnt redraw every second. it only redraws when the current app changes (and then only if the current app is the Phone app). Battery life is fine.

I did have a nokia N80, but the 3rd edition capabilities rubbish really got on my tits. at the time it was impossible (i think) to get the Cell ID without having an ACS certificate (even with a dev certificate). I think this has been relaxed recently so you can now get a dev cert to run your app on only one phone, but if an app were to ever be released it would need to be signed by symbian. Those 3rd edition phones deserve the 'defective by design' label to be attached to them... whats the point of a smartphone if it cant do anything?

I've now gone back to my trusty 6630 (and thus the need for the active standby hack).

[arizkohli]

PlatSec is a pain initially but once you get accustomed it's not too bad.

The AS implementation I'm looking for is more sophisticated to this may not work; I'll give it a shot sometime soon and if it goes well I'll release the source.

I like the 6630 too but with the new N-Series it feels primitive.

[exosyphen]

Looks interesting ... I always forgot to turn of my phone at night ... and get called

[VJ]

Just found this thread and thought the software could be interesting.

The main program however doesn't run on my Nokia 6260 (it launches, but the screen never changes).


Jörg