Hiya all,
Firstly: I hope this is the right forum for this post, if not - apologies.
I just installed my copy of Micorsoft Voice Command and I gotta say its worth every cent!
I just thought I'd post some thoughts and see what comments come back - maybe someone has tinkered with optimising this program or maybe some of the 'nice to haves' that I have identified so far are there and I'm just too thick to spot 'em
The first thing that struck me is that its hands free operation right? So why you gotta hit a button to activate it? Couldnt the mic just stay on permanently (draining the battery like mad of course) and have MSVC wake up on a keyword. like ...say 'computer' a-la-Captain Picard?
Next: how about keeping the mic open for a few seconds after each command to allow 'compound comands' where you kinda string a few together, like: 'open messages; new message; to <conact name>' maybe there is a way to do this that I am not aware of...?
I'd also love to be able to hook into weatherpanel and ask what the forecast for today/tomorrow is(yea, I know its right there on the today screen but what if my glasses arent handy or its monady and I'm trying to decide of I can bear to drag myself to work and I'd rather not even open my eyes if the decision is to stay in bed, eh??)
Thanks 4 reading - any comments appreciated.
M
Hi,
For Date and Time, MSVC does have commands.
However...I think what you suggested will be cool. Kinda my PDA phone becomes like those Star Trek comm devices.
If I could use it to open my garage...turn on lights in the house...start my morning cup of tea...that will be living in the future.
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NB
Hey there people, nice to see flood of very good roms for our BAs around the forum any beyond. However, some of them do have issues, such as SMS notifications (I try to deal with those using Smiley SMS), but very annoying in some issues is also the alarm clock, which sometimes simply fails to work, and that can be very annoying.
Therefore, does anyone can recommend some good alarm clock application which will work reliably on WM 6 (ROM 5.63.11).
Thanks
whats wrong with the wm06 built in alarm clock?
Try pTravelAlarm http://www.burroak.on.ca/pta.html
For me GS Alarm Clock is the best...and it's free
SPB time 2 its OK
I was lookin' 4 a good alarm for about 2weeks and then I've found its really good. you can choose whole mp3. Pocketalarm http://rapidshare.com/files/18010275/PocketAlarm.v2.16.rar.html
Thanks for good suggestions people, I really had a hard time, since for some stupid reason the built in alarm clock was highly unreliable - sometimes it works and sometimes it didn't even though everything was set correctly (which led to me being late for work and a bug in the ROM cannot be used as an excuse ). It could be because of the ROM I am using. I tried all of those you suggested and GS is really neat.
Thanks everyone for a lot of help.
alsaliho said:
Hey there people, nice to see flood of very good roms for our BAs around the forum any beyond. However, some of them do have issues, such as SMS notifications (I try to deal with those using Smiley SMS), but very annoying in some issues is also the alarm clock, which sometimes simply fails to work, and that can be very annoying.
Therefore, does anyone can recommend some good alarm clock application which will work reliably on WM 6 (ROM 5.63.11).
Thanks
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There is absolutely no problem with WM6 Alarm system.
I thoroughly checked it up and noticed following correct behavior:
1. System updates registries as soon as any alrm settings are changed
2. Notification queues are issued for the week replacing any other available for the week.
I am positive that system is working correctly.
What must have gone wrong with some of your devices that you must have taken system backup without clearing alarm settings totally and must have later on after hard reset, restored the backup. This would reinstall old queues as well new when you setup new alarms. You can get away with this issue by clearing all those notification queues still residing in the database.
If this works for you, make sure you always takeback with no alarms settings.
Thanks for the info, however, anytime I did new rom upgrade I did it without doing any backup, which means all settings were manually set after the upgrade - which means no backups to mess up the settings. Oh well, not a big deal anyway, as I said in my previous post that GS Alarm Clock, which I took later works perfectly.
Thanks anyway,
hi everyone!
is there a way to add custom sounds for the wm06 built n alarm clock?
and maybe for the reminders too?
if i move wav files to the windows folder, those file names show up in the sounds drop down menu, but wont play....
anyone?
regards,krz
Are you sure they are the correct wav files?
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Are you sure they are the correct wav files?
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well... at least, i am sure, that they are WAV files and i can play them back in TCMP!
are there certain specifications, that wav files have to meet in order to be used as an alarm clock sound...? (eg.: max. file size, mono/stero, quality,...) ??
is it confirmed,that this should actually work that way (meaning to copy a wav file into windows folder for alarmclock use) ??
answers appreciated!
regards,krz
EDITED TO SAY: okay, it seems, that size, etc. does matter! i just got one working (redalert.wav)
anyone knows the excact secifications for working wav files...? is it just the size? or maybe the length of the file too?
Sound control
The problem i always had with the BA is the fact that the alarm would not go off if the phone is on silent. Which i keep my phone on most of the time, So when i forget to turn it on at night... I get get to yell "Oh Crap, Look at the time" to my wife.
Is there a program that will make sure the alarm goes off even if the sound is silent,
or is there a program that will change the sound at certian times, like at 6am turn sound on, at 9am turn sound off, then at 6pm turn sound on again?
Thanks
Again,
I must advise SPB Time, I do realise it isn't a free app but it's to my opinion the best, define as much alarms as you want, select mp3's or anything, it puts your volume to maximum if you choose so, or play ascending... and my favorite, upon alarm your comploete screen blanks and you have 2 huge buttons snooze and dismiss which you can't miss even with only 1 eye open... ;-)
The best is PocketAlarm. Try it u wont regret it. Link is on the first page. u can choose mp3 files not only wav.
I have just started using SPB Time... its a great program. You can set up as many alarms as you need, have them go off on certain days of the week. Everything is customizable, the repeats, the time it plays, length of snooze.
When the alarm goes off, there are nice large dismiss and snooze buttons.
nobody is talking about program size and memory usage on device, two criterias, which are very important for such a program....
which one is the smallest and lightest?
interessted,
krz
The cab for SPB Time is approx 4.42mb. Memory usage is not really a problem because the program doesn't need to be running for the alarms to work.
Pocket Alarm can not be used if you lock your phone it seems. Phone first has to be unlocked, which is not the case with e.g. ptravelalarm.
Alarm Clock Lite is free
For PPC and SP
CT Alarmclock is free to, only for SP
SpoonAlarm is free too. For all devices also 240*240 screens
Hi,
I have a small challenge for coders. Nothing complicated I think I was in the situation: walking to the train station running out of time a bit and I want to know what time is it. But pulling out PDA, switching display on a then these actions backwards I get an idea. What about to do a small application that would be running in background(can't be seen in f.e. WkTask... I think you know what I mean) And when I shake the phone it will literally tell me the time. So this is the basic idea. I think It would be also good to add a tab in setting, where you can set the sensitivity(power) of shaking needed. I know it would need some library with these sound, but If you are able able to deliver me the program and how the sound files should be named, I will make my own sound files. So if anyone is able to do this a would do it please email me on [email protected] so we can negotiate on the sound files and other things. Thanks a lot
Vasquez
I seem to recall a program called Vasquez Talk To Me - which was a talking clock program. If memory serves there was a program shortcut that spoke the time out loud (and did nothing else) - so that could be mapped using some other app. to run when the phone is shaken etc.. I'm sure a quick "google" for Vasquez Talk To Me will help you out!
G alarm has a talking clock component that is a separite install, I think ?.... check there website, free to download I think, though obviously u need G alarm, not sure weather this is just talking alarm or clock...?
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G alarm has a talking clock component that is a separite install, I think ?.... check there website, free to download I think, though obviously u need G alarm, not sure weather this is just talking alarm or clock...?
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G-Alarms is only talking the time during an alarm. So it can´t be used for this request.
thanks guys... going to look on it
What I am looking for is something I can fill in with all the medications that need to be taken during the course of a 24hr period and have the system prompt me with a pop-up at the appropriate time to do just that. It would also be nice if it could keep track of the quantity of each medication and remind me to re-order in sufficient time.
Spent ages searching online for some software and while I have found this OnTimeRx, it is not pretty and personally is lacking a function or two, not to mention it is very Americanised.
The missing functions for me are:
The reminder function for re-order is hard coded at 5 days, need this to be editable.
It is incapable of coping with the situation where you take one of a tablet at breakfast and then two of the same tablet at tea time. It will allow you to take 2 tablets, twice a day and set a reminder for each but not differing quantities.
Generally not finger friendly.
Anyone up for the challenge or able to suggest something else?
Hi Deedee
Isn't it something that calendar can handle, with recurrence functions and notifications. As for order reminder, after you have calculated once how many pills or whatever you need in a month or week, you can also set a recurrence and reminder.
Correct me if I'm wrong or missed something.
Anyhow, good health and good luck
Thanks for the concern over my health.
While it is something that could be managed by careful manipulation of calendar, reminders and recurrence, the solution being sought is something that would have all the medical details in one place. Ideally something that can also manage emergency contact details as well.
I'm trying to design a homescreen that's fairly compact and functional. Rather than displaying the actual events that will be occuring, I want to try and get my widget to tell me how many events are occuring today and tomorrow ie:
x events today, y events tomorrow.
However, I can't seem to find any method of possibly achieving this. Is it possible to get Zooper to count events between now and say, midnight?
I've searched around and i couldn't find anything (or I'm just bad at searching). Any help would be much appreciated!
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I'm trying to design a homescreen that's fairly compact and functional. Rather than displaying the actual events that will be occuring, I want to try and get my widget to tell me how many events are occuring today and tomorrow ie:
x events today, y events tomorrow.
However, I can't seem to find any method of possibly achieving this. Is it possible to get Zooper to count events between now and say, midnight?
I've searched around and i couldn't find anything (or I'm just bad at searching). Any help would be much appreciated!
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As far as the exact syntax, I'd have to think on/test it, but logic-wise I might have a solution and from it you can hack through the syntax to make it work.
Firstly, Zooper can't count or support arrays or loops, etc. So, you'd have to find a way to get each event to equal a "(1)" and then add them all together.
The easiest way to do this would be with Tasker and then send over a single variable to Zooper, but Tasker's native Calendar app integration is somewhat hit or miss depending on device and Android version, etc.
So, how can we do this in Zooper? Well as I was typing this I tried testing a few different way and realized each time you perform a mathematical operation in Zooper the result is a display result and not a new number you can then add or subtract from something else.
Maybe someone has a solution though. Would be interested to see how it can be done without Tasker.
It seems the following would work for counting today's remaining events. All-day events may mess it up. The basic idea is to test if event n is today and event n+1 is not today. It would look like this
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$#CnSyyyyMMdd#<=#DyyyyMMdd#&&#Cn+1SyyyyMMdd#>#DyyyyMMdd#?n+1$
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Or,
$#C0SyyyyMMdd#>#DyyyyMMdd#?0$
$#C0SyyyyMMdd#<=#DyyyyMMdd#&&#C1SyyyyMMdd#>#DyyyyMMdd#?1$
$#C1SyyyyMMdd#<=#DyyyyMMdd#&&#C2SyyyyMMdd#>#DyyyyMMdd#?2$
$#C2SyyyyMMdd#<=#DyyyyMMdd#&&#C3SyyyyMMdd#>#DyyyyMMdd#?3$
$#C3SyyyyMMdd#<=#DyyyyMMdd#&&#C4SyyyyMMdd#>#DyyyyMMdd#?4$
$#C4SyyyyMMdd#<=#DyyyyMMdd#?5+$
You can expand it up if you want, but all this has to be on one line. You can probably shorten it with yy instead of yyyy. Now as far as tomorrow's events, good luck.
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I came up with a similar solution for todays events as ewcrider (also should be one line in Zooper):
$#C0SddMMyy#=#DddMMyy#&&#C1SddMMyy#!=#DddMMyy#?1$ $#C1SddMMyy#=#DddMMyy#&&#C2SddMMyy#!=#DddMMyy#?2$
$#C2SddMMyy#=#DddMMyy#&&#C3SddMMyy#!=#DddMMyy#?3$
$#C3SddMMyy#=#DddMMyy#&&#C4SddMMyy#!=#DddMMyy#?4$
$#C4SddMMyy#=#DddMMyy#&&#C5SddMMyy#!=#DddMMyy#?5$
The difficulty is that the event number order changes so that the first upcoming event will always be C0, second C1 etc.
So for instance if you create the first event tomorrow it will be C0 but if you then create a event for today this will become C0 and the event for tomorrow will become C1.
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This solution worked for me, as a simple cut and paste. Very crafty!!
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Why does every thread you posted in say "wrong thread" now?