Hello to you all,
For those interested, here is my PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) history. For those not interested skip to thank you.
I've been using a PDA for many years. My first one was a Psion Organizer II. I think I bought it in 1986. The display only had 2 lines of 16 characters. The Psion Series 3 was the first you could call a palm top computer. I was a great fan of Psion until they went out of the consumer business.
All those years I have used it itensively. On the Psion I used to write all sorts of small programs in OPL (Organiser Programming Language). I developed one application, which I call my portable timeclock. I use it for billing purposes.
When I had to change brand and maybe operating system, I wanted a combined device, PDA and phone in one. At that time the choice was limited. I choose for the Palm, a Treo 180g. I ordered it in March 2002. Big mistake. The Palm was many steps backward compared to the Psion. No multitasking, no development environment on the handheld, very few applications that came standard with the PDA and those that did were so basic,... I don't understand at all why the Palm is so successful. The hardware was weak too. Little after the warranty period came to an end, it broke down. The price of the reparation was almost as high as a new one. (Un)fortunately. I decided to look for better.
That's when I bought my Qtek on March the 6th, 2004. I felt like coming home. It had it all except for the development environment on the device itself. But on the other hand it was better than the Psion to. It had a colour screen, a built-in phone, better compatibility with the Windows environment. One minus, ActivesSync, which wasn't much of a backup or synchronising utility.
Another problem was that I didn't find much about it on the world wide web. It took me a while to find all the names it had and recently I discovered your site and buzzdev.net. Great.
Thank you all for making so much valuable information generally available,
Willem
So, I don't even know if this is the best way to do this but here goes.
As a designer I usually don't mess with hacking my phone into pieces (that's usually what happens) but upon the release of JF1.5 I decided appstosd and overclocker were worth the challenge. (I've since become quite the proficient rooter and am now running JACHero2.6.3)
Anyway, I was so impressed with AppsToSD that I wanted to donate an icon for marcusmaximus. He never responded to my email so I'm throwing the icon out to the community to do what will.
With the new Hero releases, a2sd is already built in so this may become a moot piece of art.
Enjoy nevertheless.
B
Note: These icons were made with Adobe Illustrator CS3. About an hour of work.
I like this icon better, anything would've been better than the original, lol.
Very nice I like it too
Not bad. I was going to make an icon for it but you beat me to it.
By all means, pop one out. Although, I don't think the developer is receptive. Based on the latest release of JACHeroski, the best practice is to have the process internal anyway. No need for an icon when the "app" is now an internal process.
I'll still offer it up to the community for other "data-to-sd" functions. Backup apps, or what not. Who knows.
Awesome website by the way N3xt2N0N3. Love the flash Wall you've got going on there.
I'm a person has always been intrigued by the cool tech side of society, (and also the filthy rich side as well, I mean who couldn't be). As my ventures over the years to be the individual to "hit it big", I have finally discovered an idea which will most definitly propell myself and whoever decides to join in on the full proof system of awesomness, to the very f#@king top of financial gain. I would love to obtain all of the benefits myself, seeing as I'm the one who came up with this whole package of pure genius, but as I have absolutely no experience in application development that would be utterly insane. I'm already finely polished in the areas of management, craft creations, and marketing. I just need someone to polish of the IT side of things. All I need is just one chance. One person who is willing to give their time. One individual who has as much of a burning desire for success as I do. I would list in detail what my needs are, but I wouldn't want random people stopping by and trying to rip-off my idea. This project that I'm requesting assisstance on is on 25% of the venture, the other 75% of the venture is already "bagged & tagged" through my long journey of hard work and dedication. I've thought I could jump start my walk down the path of learning android development, but tis a very daunting task. If anyone is willing to lend a helping hand, just drop a.line below or a PM.
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Check that thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2349036
I'm a new Note 4 user, and generally like the phone. Like anything complex, though, there are a handful of things that I'd prefer to be different. I'll spare everyone from my litany of pet peeves, and just get to the question:
QUESTION: What is the best way to send feedback to Samsung regarding new features / fixes / etc. for the Note 4?
I went to their web site and found various technical/customer support options, but I'm looking for something more focused for enhancement requests. TIA.
I wouldn't waste the time, they are to concerned with jamming their sub par software and applications into their devices just to have their branding and signature on everything you see or interact with to concern them selves with anyone's logical or rational suggestions. Just look how Samsung operates in total perspective, they make TVs and monitors, that's their bread and butter, its where the majority of their most profitable pattens reside. To put this into the most transparent terms possible, they sell more TVs each year than there are phone subscribers with access to their devices in the entire global cellular phone market.
However for some reason to prove to them selves or whoever it is they think they are impressing or competing with, they chose to build garbage on top of googles already 1st class, free operating system and interface, they waste millions of dollars doing so and for some odd reason continue to think that they will one day create a better user experience than Google the company whos bread and butter is development and let's not forgot the company who designs every operating system for every phone they sell.
Until Samsung learns to stop wanting so much counterproductive attention on their products and realizes they would make more money hand over fist buy just selling their products as is with free standard android OS, they will continue to just shovel crap onto their mechanically awesome products rendering them to nothing but bright HD displays running ads that say how stupid they are.
In my personal opinion Samsung just looks stupid next to every other electronics company. And Google needs to grow a pair and say no android OS if you modify a single thing on it. I can't be the only person who sees this flawed business model am I? When's the last time you used an HP, Dell, or Gateway computer that had System modifications of any kind on Windows? You can go out on the limb and applaud HTC for their modifications because they are cell phone company that's all they do, but for Samsung a company that specializes in displays and makes no mobile hardware of their own worth noting, they somehow get the green light on damaging Android OS with their cut rate software, and continue to make the end user of their products disappointed. The worlds gone mad.
Whoa!
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I can't say I entirely agree nor disagree with the long post above. I don't hate Samsung, nor am a fanboy of theirs. I just needed a large phone with a stylus, and my previous phone, while large and I LOVED it, didn't have a stylus which was highly needed. All I'm going to say is this:
Most of the time, a large corporation who sells many different devices within a market (ie, phones) wouldn't care about a single consumer's opinion. You are but a single-celled organization to them. They know you're there, but you aren't big enough to see as an individual. In addition, what changes you'd like to see or need- or whatever- most likely won't be what these corporations think their consumer market wants and will buy.
So in other words, if you send them feedback, all you'll get in response is a prewritten thank you letter saying (in summary), "Thanks, we appreciate the feedback and will keep it mind," (but wont).
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So, it sounds like Samsung doesn't have an email address, web form, forum, etc. for enhancement requests?
On the parallel topic of big evil companies, and with respect to the folks who have offered their opinions on that subject so far, my experience has been quite the opposite - I find that most successful companies do care what their users think about their products. I work in the software industry, and the products I use most on a day-to-day basis invariably offer some sort of channel for sending feedback to the developer. Every app on the Google Play store has a "Send email" link at the bottom of it's page - in addition to many companies monitoring and responding to written feedback in the ratings section. QuickBooks has a "Send Feedback Online" option under the help menu - and even offers different options for sending comments onenhancements, bugs, and doc. A large software company that I used to work for recently implemented a suggestions forum where users can vote on enhancements, actively prioritizes work on new releases based on this feedback, and publicizes the heck out of the results in conferences, doc, and webinars. Every year I see literally thousands of people give standing ovations at one of their conferences because the developer added better Excel integration, or trimmed two clicks from a common workflow. Perhaps the best example is Atlassian, whose products many in these forums no doubt use. They are laser-focused on the people who use their tools - developers - and have been extremely successful at growing into small and large companies alike by inspiring grass roots adoption.
The list goes on. From what I've seen, companies who listen to their users do well as a result.
That said, not every company is as open to feedback as the ones in the examples above. I've found it difficult to provide feedback to Microsoft, for instance, without being part of a beta program. That said, they have robust forums that are well-attended by their internal staff. I can't say for sure, but I have to assume that the most common squeaky wheels get at least I little grease in future releases.
I don't know Samsung very well, which is why I'm asking about feedback options. It would seem odd to me that they don't have some way for users to weigh in on their Android implementation. Collectively, we buy new phones too frequently and switch vendors too easily for them not to care what we think. I like my Samsung phone, but not because it's a Samsung - it just has the features that I want. They obviously do their research into what's likely to sell. I'm hoping that there's some channel where they're actively soliciting input for improvements.
Like spexwood said, I'm not going to waste my time sending a letter to the president of Samsung and get some generic form letter in return. I know that that doesn't work. I also don't expect that Samsung will care about my suggestions, per se, even if they do have some feedback form. But, I'm sure I'm not the only one who misses text messages because the [email protected]#$ing notification beep doesn't fire when a thread is already on the screen (for example), so if mine is one of 10K voices complaining of the same thing, it would behoove them to listen - or maybe next time I'll switch to that nice LG G3 that I almost bought instead of this Note 4.
Anyway, I'm still interested in practical options for sending OS-related feedback to Samsung. Otherwise, I can just rant about stuff xda-developers and hope that someone at Samsung is watching.
Please excuse me for quoting myself, but I stand corrected:
mcmannion said:
[Samsung] obviously do their research into what's likely to sell.
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I just read an article on the S6 that says that it neither has a replaceable battery nor an SD card slot? When I went phone shopping last month, these were the only two requirements I had. I looked at phones from different manufacturers, with different OS, in different price ranges... the battery and card were the only thing they all had in common.
Maybe Samsung is right and I'm wrong on this one. People seem to flock to the iPhone because it has metal and glass on the outside, even with it's hardwired battery, fixed (and expensive) storage, small screen, lack of widgets, etc. If the S6 sells better than the S5 then... then... well I'll just be a monkey's uncle.
BTW, "premium" has gained the cherished center spot on my bull$hit bingo board. The only premium I see is the extra money you'll pay for a metal phone - which will probably be covered by a rubber case, anyway. I'll take a plastic phone with a swappable battery any day.
mcmannion said:
Please excuse me for quoting myself, but I stand corrected:
I just read an article on the S6 that says that it neither has a replaceable battery nor an SD card slot? When I went phone shopping last month, these were the only two requirements I had. I looked at phones from different manufacturers, with different OS, in different price ranges... the battery and card were the only thing they all had in common.
Maybe Samsung is right and I'm wrong on this one. People seem to flock to the iPhone because it has metal and glass on the outside, even with it's hardwired battery, fixed (and expensive) storage, small screen, lack of widgets, etc. If the S6 sells better than the S5 then... then... well I'll just be a monkey's uncle.
BTW, "premium" has gained the cherished center spot on my bull$hit bingo board. The only premium I see is the extra money you'll pay for a metal phone - which will probably be covered by a rubber case, anyway. I'll take a plastic phone with a swappable battery any day.
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I almost waited for the S6, then saw the final specs on it, yep not gonna happen no water Resistance no dust resistance and by the way the metal case most likely will have the same issue with scratches that the bezel on the note 4 has. not to mention an octocore 64bit processor that is hobbled at 32bit.
I still might go check it out once my local AT&T store gets them in stock. just to see
Hi Everyone,
New to the forums but I have definitely browsed here before a lot of good things going on here.
To get to why I decided to post here: I am a professional web designer that has always inspired to make apps. I have thought of a ton of ideas in the past, acted on a few tried to have them developed only to fail because of the communication barrier when trying to work with freelancers. I would like to find an inspiring app developer who would like to work with me on some projects. I have one project that is ready to be made like yesterday so work would need to be commenced right away.
It may be such a thing where we could trade services back and forth web design for app design etc. OR Pay per project OR Profit share. Details tbd
A little bit more about me I have a degree in web design with another 2 years spent studying unaccredited courses. I know all about design and color usability etc etc. A lot of the same skills that it takes to develop apps. With me being in web design I come across clients who I could make apps so continued work would be expected.
If this sounds of interest to you respond get a hold of me or reply here.
Thanks!
Kyle