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FlipTris(tetris clone work in progress)(WVGA ONLY)

I have been working on this for around 3 week and i finally have a version that i think is read for a public beta. I am only supply in the exe at the moment as its beta. If you download i expect some information back...including..
1. What bugs do you, whats wrong with game.
2. What you think about the game.
3. What you like/dislike about the game.
4. What you would change.
5. What you would liked added.
hope everyone likes it!
4/11/10 Update
Ok tomorrow i plan to post an update(to version .4mayb.5)
im not really sure whats in the version below but i think this is what ive added.
1. Shadow
2. Instant Drop
3. Tap to rotate
4. Levels based off score(will be based of lines removed later on)
5. Speed increase by level
6. Game now can be minimized! woho.
7. Minimize, exit,about,restart items added to menu.
8. Optimized speed(still more to be done)
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Blocks arent rotating when clicking them.

phatride4ever said:
Blocks arent rotating when clicking them.
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not meant to , scroll up to rotate the block .
tap to rotate will be in next version(already added).

One other thing. What are the #s that appear when you drag the block?

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One other thing. What are the #s that appear when you drag the block?
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Gametime(time for block should drop)
Actualtime(actual time its taking)
Maptime(time to draw map)
Scoretime(time to draw score)

Update first OP with new info.

Good stuff juger, by the looks of the screenshot you might need to pratice your own game a little more When is your next tester going to be up?

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Good stuff juger, by the looks of the screenshot you might need to pratice your own game a little more When is your next tester going to be up?
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Well alot has been added even since that screen shot. Idk when ill release the next beta because i am pondering if i should leave this app free, sell it, or make it donationware. But i expect to release at least 1 more beta b4 ive decided on the above. When i do release a new beta it will be in the apps sub forum as the app will be moving from the dev end to the finishing end.
Current to-do list.
Speed optimization
Gfx stuff make it prettier(also will help speed)
Add Splash Menu
Add high score saving and current game saving
add buttons to enable disable control features
add sound/music
and after that...dats it project finished(i "may" add support for vga phones...mayb...)

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Add high score saving and current game saving
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Will this give the option of viewing online (as well as offline) high score tables? That would make it more competetive and obviously more popular in return

One vote for freeware

Really lovely game - thanks!
It's lovely and works great. My only non positive comment would be that the numbers on the white background are a bit distracting.

Great Game, Thanks, almost finished.

ricarp said:
Great Game, Thanks, almost finished.
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Yep , also the released version is pretty outdate. Progress has been slow as of late tho, school & work are taking up almost all my time. But I am still working .

It's working well mate. I like tetris on a touch screen - never thought about that before.
It obviously needs tarting up, and a menu and stuff like that, but so far so good! Just keep going - you're definitely heading in the right direction.
Just one thing I would ask....
The numbers that come up at the side of the screen, I understand that you may want to see that for debugging or ask people about it if there are any issues, but could you just make it only show if there's a particular command-line parameter (say, "debug" for example)? It's very distracting.
The only issue I had with it was moving something from near the edge to the actual edge of the screen. It took a few goes and nearly ruined my game

sure i can do that very easilly.
when u say edge to actual edge is this on the same side? or from say leftside to the right side?
if its the same side keep in mind that the movement isnt based of pressing over the moving tiles. you can press anywhere o the screen and slide left/right to move.
elaborate more and i will go over the algarithm some more to see if i can fix it.
right now im sidetracked working on a splash menu, but one im done ill look into it

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sure i can do that very easilly.
when u say edge to actual edge is this on the same side? or from say leftside to the right side?
if its the same side keep in mind that the movement isnt based of pressing over the moving tiles. you can press anywhere o the screen and slide left/right to move.
elaborate more and i will go over the algarithm some more to see if i can fix it.
right now im sidetracked working on a splash menu, but one im done ill look into it
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I get it now. I thought I had to click on the piece to move it, but it works a lot better if I don't. That makes sense - thanks mate

Take a look at the way Adam did his controls for the game Gemdrops (http://www.adamdawes.com/windowsmobile/winmob_gemdrops.html) - I think the controls would work well for your game as well.
(You can also stay full screen & just make hidden zones to click on)

First Shots of WP7 Multitasking

Here are the first shots from the WP7 Keynote in MWC 2011
You can access this menu by pressing and holding the back key and no doubt this will be apart of the 2011 Mango update. expected 'Later this year'
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Hope you like what's planned for the future though because personally I cannot wait!

Yes, one more thing off my check list.
A few more and I'm sold.

Wow, that whole cards thing is so webos

adesonic said:
Wow, that whole cards thing is so webos
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Or Symbian .

Peew971 said:
Or Symbian .
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so it begins lol

Gotta wonder why they keep going that way instead of an "Exposé"-like approach. I mean, in webOS since the "cards" could be interacted with. Here it just feels like a waste of screen real estate...
I guess it's because they want to make individual task previews as large as possible when there are there many tasks to choose from.

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Gotta wonder why they keep going that way instead of an "Exposé"-like approach. I mean, in webOS since the "cards" could be interacted with. Here it just feels like a waste of screen real estate...
I guess it's because they want to make individual task previews as large as possible when there are there many tasks to choose from.
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Just be happy it'll be there and doing what it's meant to do.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't sheesh.

I personally don't like this. wp7 is hassle free right now, the last thing on earth I want is yet another "task manager" or having to close apps to make sure they're not eating memory or battery or...
WTF why on earth... this is why winmo was a failure MS.
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Maybe I'm not understanding it right, and it wouldn't be keeping apps open, just keeping your spot open in where you were with the app.

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I personally don't like this. wp7 is hassle free right now, the last thing on earth I want is yet another "task manager" or having to close apps to make sure they're not eating memory or battery or...
WTF why on earth... this is why winmo was a failure MS.
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Maybe I'm not understanding it right, and it wouldn't be keeping apps open, just keeping your spot open in where you were with the app.
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I don't think they have gone into enough detail of how it works. It could be like iOS or it could be like Android. We'll probably have to wait til MIX to see.

Honestly Figured MS would implement a task switching feature like this. Either similar to Cards in WebOS or the 6 previous you see in Android when you hold down the home button

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Just be happy it'll be there and doing what it's meant to do.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't sheesh.
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Huh? I'm just discussing the way it's implemented. I'm not criticizing it.

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Here are the first shots from the WP7 Keynote in MWC 2011
You can access this menu by pressing and holding the back key and no doubt this will be apart of the 2011 Mango update. expected 'Later this year'
Hope you like what's planned for the future though because personally I cannot wait!
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Wooo-Hoooo! A real multitasking! Out-friggin-standing! I'm so excited I'm as giddy as a school girl...hehe
This MT is every bit as good as the WebOS MT.

Hopefully we can manually "turn on" apps we want to keep running in the background.
Optimistic me believes MS recognizes the issues of task managers in WinMo and Android and has some sort of fix worked out.

This is wonderful and im sure will be improved upon
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Is it really multitasking? I saw a video on youtube and lost my erection a little bit.
First he talked about how "fast" it was to switch back to a game and showed a demo. Click back button, do stuff go back to the game and it is paused. Click continue and it starts immediately.
Then he showed off how to display the list of multiple apps by holding the back button and scrolling through them.
Then he mentions even 3rd party music applications will be allowed to play music even after the user switches screens "like Microsoft's music player".

This is great!

nizzon said:
This is great!
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Yeah but notice he isn't actually going into anything else. He keeps saying "yadda yadda do whatever I want, then just press back! It's so easy!"
What he's not showing is that now the cache will have the phone "app", the sms app, and maybe something else in its memory. It won't know that you want to go back to the game. So you'll be cycling through stuff before getting back to it.
But you can probably just skip that with a long-press back button

Erm, what? Did you miss the middle part where he jumps between 2 games and e-mail by holding "back"? Or am I not getting your point?

sounds like fast app switching form what he is saying... no idea how it works but its perfect for me as long as apps which require a connection can just stay connected and updated like an IM app for example. It would be **** if you have to sign in again

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Erm, what? Did you miss the middle part where he jumps between 2 games and e-mail by holding "back"? Or am I not getting your point?
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No, that was me not watching the whole thing. Open mouth, insert foot.

WP7 Annoying Call Menu

Hi guys
Who else thinks that planning of making calls in WP7,
is very annoying to click a button (marked in red picture) to open a menu specially Speaker
What do you think?
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For over 3 months this never annoyed me honestly.

Hasn't annoyed me yet either but i just got my phone this week. I was thinking of a better way they could have done it but all of my ideas have pluses and minus just the same so guess we got what we got.

No issues here... has worked fine for those time when I need to speaker phone it or use the keypad.

not annoying. it's a minimal design, so why have those options always display if you don't always need them?

Not happening here

I don't use speaker as much so it's no biggie, nor do I often use the keypad during a call, though I do sometimes. But overall it isn't THAT annoying, just a little.

I use the speaker about 50% if the time and I whole heartedly 100% agree with the OP. Its a pain to have to hit that little button every time
it doesn't ruin the whole experience for me, but it is pretty annoying.

<3 hTc
If I want something from the menu, it's not too much hassle to have to click, and what's even better is that thanks to hTc's Attentive Phone app if i want the speakerphone, i just put the phone face down on a surface and the speaker automatically activates. Simples.

what the hell do the poll options mean lol

DatDereX1 said:
what the hell do the poll options mean lol
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i haven't a clue either

doministry said:
For over 3 months this never annoyed me honestly.
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Agree. I think that's actually a pretty good design, however I find it clunky. The buttons should be at the bottom, and I do think some obvious functionality like speaker phone should not require you to click twice. That's just my opinion.
TBQH, I much prefer the Galaxy S (Vibrant) dialer interface. It makes more sense.
But there isn't much wrong with this...
There is a point where you can take minimalist so far that it actually starts to impede on usability. This is one of those cases, IMO.

No problems for me either. I actually dig it because it allows you to tap the screen and perform tasks in the background. Alternatively, it allows you to look at whatever screen you were looking at before the call was made or received. e.g. you went into a specific profile under People, you're still able to see their contact info such as email if you were to email something to that person.
Even if those soft keys were available immediately when the call became active you'd still have to do some kind of multi-step process to accomplish some other task you wanted to do on your phone.
Frankly, I'd rather have the information I was looking at prior to when the call came or when I initiated the call, still immediately available to me. All in all seems pretty efficient to me for viewing information.

ScottSUmmers said:
No problems for me either. I actually dig it because it allows you to tap the screen and perform tasks in the background. Alternatively, it allows you to look at whatever screen you were looking at before the call was made or received. e.g. you went into a specific profile under People, you're still able to see their contact info such as email if you were to email something to that person.
Even if those soft keys were available immediately when the call became active you'd still have to do some kind of multi-step process to accomplish some other task you wanted to do on your phone.
Frankly, I'd rather have the information I was looking at prior to when the call came or when I initiated the call, still immediately available to me. All in all seems pretty efficient to me for viewing information.
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The dialer app multi tasks. There no excuse for hiding 4 options under a button - none whatsoever. You can simply home out of it and look at the entire page, or even use your data connection unless you're unfortunate and have a CDMA phone...

aquadextrous said:
If I want something from the menu, it's not too much hassle to have to click, and what's even better is that thanks to hTc's Attentive Phone app if i want the speakerphone, i just put the phone face down on a surface and the speaker automatically activates. Simples.
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Yes but what happens IF the phone is "face down" in pocket?

N8ter said:
The dialer app multi tasks. There no excuse for hiding 4 options under a button - none whatsoever. You can simply home out of it and look at the entire page, or even use your data connection unless you're unfortunate and have a CDMA phone...
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So you'd rather have the dial pad hidden instead? Or is everything going to be placed out in the forefront? There's only so much screen space, though I guess it could work. I'm looking at the Galaxy S and it looks ugly as ****. Screw that mess, I'd rather have the stuff I was looking at available for viewing in the background then a damn num pad.

N8ter said:
The dialer app multi tasks. There no excuse for hiding 4 options under a button - none whatsoever. You can simply home out of it and look at the entire page, or even use your data connection unless you're unfortunate and have a CDMA phone...
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It's not shown by default for the same reason battery and signal aren't shown on the start screen. Much cleaner look without the buttons showing. No need to always have them showing.

General Android 13 with OneUI 5.0 out in the EU

France, Italy and UK confirmed so far, no update for me though.

installing right now - T-Mobile, Czech republic

Just installed in sPain. Feels way snappier

Update done, Portuguese TPH version. Since its new ONE UI and new Android, its important to do a factory reset?

jamespmi said:
Just installed in sPain. Feels way snappier
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Did you do a factory Reset? If not, did you find any bug related to non reset?

joaobarroso said:
Did you do a factory Reset? If not, did you find any bug related to non reset?
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Just updated. After 4h in use not a single problem

Everething ok after update, Athens Greece .
I didn't factory reset

OneUI 5 is very, very smooth and snappy.

OneUI 5 now online in the Philippines

Call settings keep crashing
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M4jQ said:
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Had the same issue but with Settings app
You need to wipe cache and repair apps by plugging in the phone into PC, then turn off phone and hold launch button + volume up, fixed issues for me!

Thronius said:
Had the same issue but with Settings app
You need to wipe cache and repair apps by plugging in the phone into PC, then turn off phone and hold launch button + volume up, fixed issues for me!
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didn't work for me

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Call settings keep crashing View attachment 5774253
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adb shell pm install-existing com.google.android.tts

JanBoyGamer23 said:
adb shell pm install-existing com.google.android.tts
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thank you!

The fp recognition works much worse than on the A12

M4jQ said:
The fp recognition works much worse than on the A12
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Interesting!! I have the completely opposite experience, fingerprint reader much more reliable now.

robogo1982 said:
Interesting!! I have the completely opposite experience, fingerprint reader much more reliable now.
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for me it is very annoying - previously I used to enter my password once a week and now it happens to me several times a day because the failure to recognize my fingerprint several times forces me to use a password (and I have a long one)

I have no problems with fingerprint recognition. But since I updated 4 days ago, the fingerprint reader didn't "light up" on turned off screen several times already.
I also experienced very heavy battery drain the day after I installed the update - 35% over night, then ~15%/hour during short geocaching hike. But rebooting the phone fixed that.
Other than that, I don't really see any difference in speed/performance - I feel it's identically great as it was before.
Oh and the new "pocket detection" screen with swipe up is really annoying and difficult to unlock.

Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone else lost the ability to use the cellular band selection hidden network setting - under the Call Settings menu? I'm not able to access it in Android 13. It says the app is no longer installed.
This is the menu: com.samsung.android.app.telephonyui.hiddennetworksetting.MainActivity

Update went smoothly for me, no hiccups or crashing problems after it.
Biggest problem I've had so far, like jenda.69 mentioned, is the new accidental touch protection screen, not sure why Samsung felt the need to change something when it was already working well. I could not for the life of me unlock the screen.
Other than that, I'd say everything else is pretty good. Mini stutters from OneUI 4 are fixed, like the ones that happened often in the quick settings menu. Personally I prefer the animations from OneUI 4 but I don't have a problem with the new ones either. The new clock font options are pretty slick as well.
Lastly some nitpicks; The default animated call screen is gone which is a very minor thing but I did like that gradient animation a lot and how it changed according to contact pictures. New one is pretty dull. Samsung didn't make use of the new Android 13 media player either which is kinda disappointing but I don't have too big a problem with that.
Overall a decent update. 9/10 has a little something for everyone

General New update firmware

Update v3.18 just dropped via ota, up from v3.12. Happy updating!

Mind sharing the changelog? Thanks!

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Mind sharing the changelog? Thanks!
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It was something like 320mb in size
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Will wait for the European version. I hope some of the addressed problems have been fixed. Anyone updated and can share some exprfoence?

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Will wait for the European version. I hope some of the addressed problems have been fixed. Anyone updated and can share some exprfoence?
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What's different about the Europe version?

lawtq said:
What's different about the Europe version?
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Dunno if there’s an actual difference since i cannot compare to others however the version number differs as in Eu the files are numbered from 4 instead of 3

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Dunno if there’s an actual difference since i cannot compare to others however the version number differs as in Eu the files are numbered from 4 instead of 3
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Yes I noticed this. I'm comparing if there's a difference now lol
What problems were noticed on v4.12?

lawtq said:
Yes I noticed this. I'm comparing if there's a difference now lol
What problems were noticed on v4.12?
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To me
Afterparty launchers didn’t carry some gestures from the original launcher (swipe apps and accidental touch)
Some mistakes in some translations and some margins in some buttons
Kill all apps button in the show all apps screen didn’t work properly
Audio problems with some dongle dacs (though don’t think it will be addressed)
Security patch from November (i mean… not a biggie but still its nice to be updated)
Notifications not showing up from time to time
Don’t know if anyone else experienced this but sometimes the brightness “flickers” or dims up and down in low light condition, don’t know if anyone else addressed that
That’s all i remember as of now

Security Patch is January 1, 2023
Performance seems fine so far. Didn't have any issues before.

lawtq said:
Yes I noticed this. I'm comparing if there's a difference now lol
What problems were noticed on v4.12?
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Bypass charging dont work. Still drain the battery like normal usage

??
I have not recieved ???

Alextakatu said:
To me
Afterparty launchers didn’t carry some gestures from the original launcher (swipe apps and accidental touch)
Some mistakes in some translations and some margins in some buttons
Kill all apps button in the show all apps screen didn’t work properly
Audio problems with some dongle dacs (though don’t think it will be addressed)
Security patch from November (i mean… not a biggie but still its nice to be updated)
Notifications not showing up from time to time
Don’t know if anyone else experienced this but sometimes the brightness “flickers” or dims up and down in low light condition, don’t know if anyone else addressed that
That’s all i remember as of now
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The brightness flicker is really annoying in the morning/evening when it's really noticeable... hopefully that's been fixed

I think they will fix something with the update since they pulled it out yesterday and hasn't been available as of yet

with this google security update can you still disable all googles services?
as far as i know this maybe the only phone you can degoogle without rooting

Just got OTA update:
EU V4.18 326,9MB

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Just got OTA update:
EU V4.18 326,9MB
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So what do you think is the phone better after the update?

The full install package fixed a ton of things for me, including sound drivers,issue with dts, some colors in the notification menu and the screen brightness problem at night

lawtq said:
Update v3.18 just dropped via ota, up from v3.12. Happy updating!
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The bypass charging now works??

v3.18 has added cronic trojans to my phone with whatsapp.net tracking amazon-adsystem app.adjust.net.in moatads.com piano.io applovin.com
this is a phone that has been setup stock, monitored cronicly since it has been turned on and had mx player installed to show off its amoled screen
can someone point me to where i can reflash v3.12 global? this is not cool .this occured first restart after the update, i cannot replicate after a normal restart, severity seems to be low
FIX: boot into recovery press wipe data. press optimize upgrade data

Wtf? This was 3.18 ota update?