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There are a lot of fine webcam (with video!) apps in the Market. But I found none which can be used with just a phone without any computer or wifi connection and placed in your car, weekend home, garage, ... to upload pictures to a server in defined refresh times. So I built this app. It is not finished but good enough for a lot of things.
For easy setup with a nice user interface have a look at sensr.net - they offer camera webspace and the ftp setup with MobileWebCam is very easy. For even more possibilities like gallery-hosting, hardware motion detection and housing have a look at opensmartcam.com ... they even sell or rent complete cameras based on MobileWebCam.
Edit: The app can now also automaticilly email the pics, upload to ftp or simply store them on sdcard. Also a manual mode is new for when you are running around taking pictures to be uploaded to your website/email account on the go with one simple tap.
Dropbox usage also possible now!
Invisible Background mode available now to save power or hide the cam. Autofocus can now be used in and the camera can be remote-controlled by sending SMS commands to your phone.
I will use this with an old phone with broken touch input (but luckily a dpad) and a simple free sim card wich has 30MB data traffic free/month (don't know if providers in other countries offer something like that). So I can have about 20 picture refreshes a day at a location with no WIFI or 3G (and of course no cable/dsl/...). FOR FREE! In the App activity times can be set so no black night views. No WIFI needed, just power to keep the phone running (I wonder how long it will last .
Also I use this with my main phone to quickly show my wife the kids playing on the playground, watch the garden when I am working inside and stuff like that. For this use case an email notification can be sent containing a link for her to view on her phone or pc at work.
Should run on Android 1.5 up (what causes the camera options to be very few and landscape mode only). So you can buy a somewhat broken phone on ebay (speakers not needed, display doesn't have to work well, ...) and have one of the easiest and cheapest webcam setups possible (I think ...
For your personal website webcam you need a php capable server somewhere where the picture can be refreshed. There you have to place the two files (mobilewebcam.php and index.html) attached to this post. Since version 1.3 you can also sent the pictures to an email account or simply store them on sdcard. From version 1.6 on ftp upload is also possible.
This also can be combined with my WebLiveWallpaper App easily and your webcam is then visible on your homescreen background all day.
I have uploaded my webserver files for a simple gallery and timelapse video on a google code project: please let me know if you can improve it!
Most of the sourcecode can now be found at http://code.google.com/p/mobilewebcam-android/ ... so if you need special stuff simply add it yourself and publish your changes! Please help me fix all the bugs and send me a notice if you repaired or improved something. There is so much crappy hacked code in there ...
MobileWebCam
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dngames.mobilewebcam
How to build a housing for your phone with MobileWebCam:
http://www.instructables.com/id/GSM-Android-phone-as-HD-outdoor-webcam/
Edit: version 3.09: Log from inside the app for logs from Android 4.3 on ... (new log permission required for older devices)
Edit: version 3.01-04: Focus mode selection, changed some internals, several crash fixes, zoom autofocus
Edit: version 2.9983: ftp upload for low bandwith/large pictures improved (set filename only after upload finished, skip upload if still busy with last), night time camera settings can be configured in camera screen by toggling to night configuration and then changing camera parameters, show last error in preview screen
Edit: version 2.996: Added some support for Samsung Galaxy Camera (1, 2, NX)
Edit: version 2.990: I restructured a lot internally - now multiple threads for work and upload - hopefully not totally broken! Also waits for gps now, shows more motion detection info, some repairs from reports (config.txt, crash on devices without wifi?, higher default cam delay, ...)
Edit: version 2.98: imprint picture scaling, all transparent colors can be set, sdcard delete old pictures, a little work on gps stuff
Edit: version 2.97: night auto stuff again, sdcard file broadcast to mediascanner, transparent colors can be set, camera deadlock for event trigger photo burst fix
Edit: version 2.96: night auto disable fix, sdcard path, imprint stamp picture downloadable from URL
Edit: version 2.95: night setup, camera open wait time for phone that otherwise produce overexposed pictures in the background modes
Edit: version 2.93: default exposure back to 50 (fix for darker pictures), front cam flip/rotate, possibility for trigger pause time, dropbox batch upload
Edit: version 2.92: fixed crash, made camera effect setting (zoom, exposure, white balance, color effect, scene mode) more interactive, fixed mirrored pictures
Edit: version 2.87: picture burst mode after trigger, moved broadcast receiver mode to event triggers, added event notification to email, added more camera settings (scene modes, color effects), timestamped httppost filename for opensmartcam
Edit: version 2.86: color stuff, alignment, ftp ending fix, background mode switch fix
Edit: version 2.85: shutdown, imprints, galaxy S camera error 0 fix, email trigger
Edit: version 2.82: ftp batch mode, small fixes
Edit: version 2.81: some new config crash fixes fixed, log, backup/restore, keep ftp connection + log frequency
Edit: version 2.76: more webinterface, config help, fullscreen preview option, fix for crash on large screen devices (sorry, I do not own one)
Edit: version 2.73: custom font and typeface added to imprint settings, crash fix for opensmartcam reg error
Edit: version 2.7: Welcome screen, remote control website (see config.zip), 2.71 fixes the original size picture upload if not enough memory
Edit: version 2.64: Nexus 7 frontcam only devices work now
Edit: version 2.63: dropbox authentication method changed to web
Edit: version 2.61: flashlight toggle 2.62 Actionbar for Android > 3.0
Edit: version 2.52: custom picture sizes (+fix from 2.51)
Edit: version 2.37: started to experiment with photo effects like instagram
Edit: version 2.36: webserver (wifi only) now also streams mjpeg, ...
Edit: version 2.3: integrated simple webserver (wifi only), added gps location to make interesting moving cameras, ...
Edit: version 2.2: two different background modes (depends on device, no advanced features working in hidden mode but less power)
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this, check the XDA portal some time this weekend, wrote up this app for the front page
Hey miha:
Though you'd need to tweak this to create random directories or accounts or whatever, I've got a pretty heavy duty Linux server with a fat pipe I'd be willing to let you tie your program into so people don't have to have their own server. Think it over, let me know.
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Hey miha:
Though you'd need to tweak this to create random directories or accounts or whatever, I've got a pretty heavy duty Linux server with a fat pipe I'd be willing to let you tie your program into so people don't have to have their own server. Think it over, let me know.
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Sounds great! Thank you! I already thought about using my little webspace and allow only one refresh a day or so to enable people to try the app but that will be so much better! I will think about the identification/account - may be best the server creates them and my app just asks for a new user - and come back to you when I have got a little more time to put that into the app.
Is there a how to.. i can't get this to work correctly.. i always got "something went wrong"
EDIT: Works.. just my firewall was disabling the connection.
You just brought mine Milestone with no screen(lucily i can control the phone via adb/screencast) back from the closet and in my courtyard! Will test it well
Works pretty well. Got it set up in about 15 minutes on an old G1 and my TDRevolution VPS.
Status Error Copying every time..
am I missing something? permissions?
I am running latest apache and PHP and firewall is allowing connections to port 80
testing on local network
whats wrong?
For those who are having issues, make sure that the web server (Apache) has write permissions to the folder that this is in.
rh387 said:
For those who are having issues, make sure that the web server (Apache) has write permissions to the folder that this is in.
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that did it
chowned html dir and all good now
works great, both the android part and the server part.
What might be great:
-resolution selection - when Im no wifi it could potentially upload higher resolution
-it should be possible to turn off those popus regarding uploaded picture
Very nice App, just a small thought:
Your php script does not check for any attribute other than if there is a filename on the uploaded file.
So everyone who knows the URL to your "mobilewebcam.php" can upload anything to your server which is a major security flaw.
Just think about those nifty little php-shells to get complete control of it and steal stuff like databases, not to mention illegal stuff fileshared via your server...
All you need for this is a (really) simple html-file with a file-upload form in it which targets your "mobilewebcam.php" file.
Your script should have some filesize-limit and allow no other file formats than *.jpg (also not something like x.jpg.php).
Regards, sceada
PS: Please excuse my mistakes, english isn't my native language
some design thoughts
I had an idea similar to this, just haven't had time to start developing anything... here were some of my design thoughts:
--motion detection to webcam device
--audio detection to webcam device
--accessible via android app (not just a php webpage)
--add notifications to android app for motion/audio detection events
--support for multiple webcam devices
The server requirement seems ok - it allows for a single point of integration for both clients and webcam devices. It could also provide a way around firewalls if the server could be deployed to a public ip.
Thank you for your comments! Will try to answer all in one post:
MuF123 said:
-resolution selection - when Im no wifi it could potentially upload higher resolution
-it should be possible to turn off those popus regarding uploaded picture
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Resolution selection will be added next, yes. May be at first only a checkbox for small/large because I can do that quickly (my time for this app is soo limited - I want to make the other one fine first).
The popups already do not show up when refreshing very fast but yes, a checkbox for that is done faster than typing this so I will add it
sceada said:
Your php script does not check for any attribute other than if there is a filename on the uploaded file.
So everyone who knows the URL to your "mobilewebcam.php" can upload anything to your server which is a major security flaw.
PS: Please excuse my mistakes, english isn't my native language
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Yes I know! You are totally right! That is why I put these "please understand first" texts in the market description. But supplying a more complicated php file will only make understanding of it more difficult. I added a comment to the market desciption now. My php file is only the very basic needed code to get it running. Do you want to make me a better/safer one? I can then link to it in the description! English isn't for me also
actapon said:
--motion detection to webcam device
--audio detection to webcam device
--accessible via android app (not just a php webpage)
--add notifications to android app for motion/audio detection events
--support for multiple webcam devices
The server requirement seems ok - it allows for a single point of integration for both clients and webcam devices. It could also provide a way around firewalls if the server could be deployed to a public ip.
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Motion and audio detection would be possible (not too difficulty I think) from preview picture and mic but at the moment I really do not have enough time for that - I would love to!
Remote control also is a feature I would like (I would personally use it for my weekend home cam!) but I didn't come up with an easy way to communicate with the phone.
An Android app to access the webcam IS there: it's my other app (ignoring the old games) WebLiveWallpaper which also contains an App to view stuff like a picture frame and may even get a widget for this later.
The php server posted picture is the only way to make it work on many mobile providers because as far as I know there is no way for the phone to get an easily public accessible ip. Also it is the easiest way to make you webcam visible for more than a mobile bandwidth limited number of viewers.
Thank you for reading,
Michael
Edit: updated apk with larger image size and no messages is in first post
can i use it as streaming ?? please say yes awesome work
Edi: if not streaming then some software that will refresh the jpg every 5 sec or so
Edit2: it tunrs out the script is hanging on the loading part i dont know whats wrong but it isnt reloading as its supposed to be maybe a server issue ?
tarekkkkk said:
can i use it as streaming ?? please say yes awesome work
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Unfortunately I have to say no. Only very fast refresh if you set the refresh time to 0 and your device and server are fast enough to handle all the picture uploads.
I am not sure real streaming could be done with simple php. Maybe MJPG? But then a "constant" connection between server and app would be required which is somehow against the whole idea of this APP to be a lowcost/lowbandwidth mobile solution.
For real streaming I recommend IP Webcam and others from the market (but they will not work with most mobile providers as far as I know).
Edit: Future ideas ... It would be possible with to generate an mjpg with the server php and make it available to the watchers with a time delay - so then you have some kind of from time to time (switch to next mjpg) broken streaming (and require a lot of server power/bandwidth) with the image uploads of a camera like my app. Just an idea I will not implement - at least not now - but someone else could. One part is already done here!
thanks man i hope you add a streaming app that would be epic awesomeness
i tried to set it to 0 but lol its taking pictures but not uploading because the app is meant to take pic and then it will be uploaded it because its 0 sec it cant handle the capture and upload at the same time it needs sync
i will try this app..thank you
everything works fine. I have the ownership of the folder too. it did uploaded the picture
BUT I cant view the picture from both index.html or when I double clicked the pic file. it says I dont have the permission to view this pic but when I check the owner it was me. that is so strange.
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it says I dont have the permission to view this pic but when I check the owner it was me. that is so strange.
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Is it possible that you also have to give it everyone view rights to be able to view it in the browser not just yours which the browser doesn't use/know? Or did I get the problem wrong?
What is the exact error message/code?
An incredible web application that allows to take the control of you mobile phone from Wifi/Internet/Usb connection, simply using your web browser and accessing a website. You will have several apps to access different services on your Android device. The software is under development and this is a beta version, so please send me an email for every bug you found, or if you want other features.
Applications:
- Sms: You can send your sms via web interface, just like from your phone. Autocomplete, mass-messages, and other features.
- Contacts: You can see the contacts present on your phone, adding or deleting phone numbers and emails.
- Call Handler: When your phone starts to ring you will see it on your Web Desktop, and you can decide to answer (With speakerphone or headset of your phone), refuse the call or silence the ringer. You can also call a contact using the apposite icon or a phone number.
- Camera: You can see the camera of your phone (this function now works alson on Internet Explorer)
- Remote View: You can see the screen of your device and eventually take screenshot. Needs root permissions.
- Sensors: You can see the values of the sensors of your phone. You will find a compass that shows the orientation of your phone and a Google Maps showing the position based on Network or GPS.
- Clipboard: You can see and set the clipboard of your phone absolutely in real time.
More features are coming, so please stay tuned and give me five stars for this project, if you like.
Please do not use Internet Explorer 9 because of some javascript issues.
Market link
No links?
No links?? No references??
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No links?? No references??
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Search the market. I only played with it for a few minutes, but it seems to offer more features than some other similar apps out there.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.MarcelloAlbano.LazyDroidServer
If anyone needs...
I'm going to try and test, thanks!
Very sorry... i'm a new user on xda so i cannot post link until i reach 8 posts .... so thanks for posting ... i'm still doing betatesting but i've other features ready to implement...
Remote view is upside down for me on Dell Streak with StreakDroid. Other than that, it's golden.
yes... on some device frame buffer is rotated of 180 degree... but i've already provided the fix for this on my dev version... i think i will release the update in this week!
Thanks for you reporting!
How do you use this? I've tried connecting to the ip address shown when i run the app.
Is IE needed for remote view to work?
It's all skewed on Firefox 4
skymera said:
Is IE needed for remote view to work?
It's all skewed on Firefox 4
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I dont think so. I tried everything on Chrome and it works fine. Did you change the setting from 16-bit to 32-bit? If not, do it
Ie9 and FireFox 4 they doesn't work... they have some issues with css but i hope to fix it very soon... i have an update ready far this week
I read on the comments that someone lose connection when the screen locks. This is a setting of the phone in Wi-fi settings. You have to disable from advanced settings. I'm preparing a faq for this .
Thanks to all for your comments.
The double sms on some phones is going to be fixed (already fixed... just wait the update )
Thanks to all for your feedback.
I've already prepared other web app like a web terminal (yeah... entirely written with a my native library... first experiment ) and a file manager that are ready, but before release i wanna just fix some bug , and make the damned camera working -.-'.
If you think other web app can be useful simply tell me ... i will see what i can do...
I'm still working to make the interface compatible with IE9 and Firefox 4... just give me some time...
Update just released!!!
- Double sms sent (rarely) fixed
- Remote View can be rotated now (some phone need this)
- Call a contact with country code prefix will now work
- Still Speed enhancement
- Another Camera fix (i'm doing some test, but i need your feedback, i've no more 3 phone for testing)
- Added Faq
- Minor Bugfixes (as always
Thanks for all your feedback, they are very useful for me.
I've other web apps ready, but first i want to fix all bugs i can find, so please help me
CloudsITA said:
Update just released!!!
- Double sms sent (rarely) fixed
- Remote View can be rotated now (some phone need this)
- Call a contact with country code prefix will now work
- Still Speed enhancement
- Another Camera fix (i'm doing some test, but i need your feedback, i've no more 3 phone for testing)
- Added Faq
- Minor Bugfixes (as always
Thanks for all your feedback, they are very useful for me.
I've other web apps ready, but first i want to fix all bugs i can find, so please help me
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Awesome update. Works like a dream now. I have a feature request though. In remote view, it would be cool to open apps using your mouse. Like for example, you click on Market and the market app opens. And you can scroll through the market and install apps without even having to physically touch your phone. I dont know if it's possible but it sure would be cool
I've already done this... but i've removed because it was too slow... uhm... maybe i can do something with silverlight or java... maybe a java applet...
I forgot to say that both camera and remote view can be used with a driver as a normal Windows Image Acquisition Device... so you can use skype or what you want... you need a driver that you can get here http://dl.filekicker.com/send/file/226163-6E45/IPCameraDS.exe, and this is the homepage http://www.webcamxp.com/home.aspx It's free for personal use.
For Camera you have to set http://<YOUR_IP_ADDRESS>:<YOUR_PORT>/Services/Camera/GetStream
For Remote View you have to set http://<YOUR_IP_ADDRESS>:<YOUR_PORT>/Services/RemoteControl/GetStream
To use this feature you have to disable authentication...
I've relased another update after a day full of work!
- Remote view improvements. Automatic recognition of settings. Now works on all phones.
- Web interface now works with Internet Explorer 9, but is slower and does not support Mjpeg stream (IE doesn't support). Use Chrome if you want full functionally.
- Sms dynamic loading fixed
Contact me for everything!
Can you add a computer notification (ie pop up, sound etc) for the usb connection when you recieve a text or notifications on your phone? Also, answer calls on your phone? Haha just some thoughts.
Hope you make the SMS more streamline. Ajax updates ... display photo ... etc.
Anyway you have intentions to add a File Explorer so we can transfer files into our phone from your web interface?
I'm just working on the File Manager...
Can you explain better what you are saying about sms?
______OVERVI3W_____
Now you see all calls, bookmarks, internet history, text messages and contacts through your web browser. Track down and Lock down your phone remotely and many many other features. Geo-fencing capabilities now added!
PLEASE, IF YOU LIKE THIS SOFTWARE THEN RATE IT OR ADD COMMENTS TO THE ANDROID MARKET. IT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL.
INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE
** MAKE SURE YOU REBOOT AFTER INSTALL **
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD V1.50 DIRECTLY FROM HERE:
http://goo.gl/prtJf
PLEASE UNINSTALL THE OLDER VERSIONS BEFORE INSTALLING NEWER VERSIONS
If posting back any issues, please include your phone model, android version, phone carrier and ROM (if not stock)
****** CHANGE LOG ********
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V1.50- November 20th, 2012
* The issues with the block lists have been fixed up. You can add a block for any number 4 digits or greater and it will be found if the transmission ends with those four digits. Example: if your block is 4567 then the phone number 555-123-4567 would be found. so would 34567,234567,123457,...,5551234567
* The GPS module has been rewritten and is MUCH more efficient and accurate at the same time.
* Geo-fencing has been added so now you can define regions on a map and set rules to alert you as to if the phone entered or left those regions during stated days and times.
Keep in mind that this feature is still beta. Try to give extra ~30 feet extra room just to be sure you don't get false positives. This will do a check on every GPS check-in time to see if you have entered or left defined areas. So accuracy is only going to be as accurate as check-in time periods. In general I recommend people don't ever alter the default 15 minutes however.
* The "discreet communications" option didn't make it into this release because of time constraints, but will be available in the next release. Time-estimates will be posted when available.
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OLDER REVISIONS HAVE BEEN REMOVED TO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW ONES...
<< Reserved for future use >>
Preety powerful stuff man, count me in.
Sounds like a great app. Can't wait to see beta working and out.
jzero88 said:
Preety powerful stuff man, count me in.
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wonderful, just send an email request to the address on post 1
The first batch should be going out later tonight
Windows Mobile tester, subscribed. Email sent.
This sounds like a GREAT application!
I have a question though... Does your app NEED to have GPS enabled to track down your phone? If it does, what happens if you don't have GPS enabled? Is there a way to enable GPS remotely through the web interface?
Also, does it track the content of the sms messages? Or only the phone number?
Thanks in advance! I'm loving the features on your app already but just wish for a few questions to be answered
The app does not require GPS to be enabled. If no GPS is found, it will triangulate from cell towers. This method is not as accurate however.
I currently do not have a remote "enable gps" command, but I will look into that. It does sound like a great feature to add.
Email sent. Looking forward to a reply.
If people haven't received there downloads yet, check your spam folder.
I've been sending them out via BCC, that way everyone is not getting everyone else's email addresses.
The subject line will be "OVERVI3W - ALPHA TESTING"
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The app does not require GPS to be enabled. If no GPS is found, it will triangulate from cell towers. This method is not as accurate however.
I currently do not have a remote "enable gps" command, but I will look into that. It does sound like a great feature to add.
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Thanks chetstriker! This is the one thing that I feel that the other (2) apps I've tried have been missing. I won't name the apps since this is your thread and all but if you DO find a way to enable gps remotely, I think that you'd be ahead of your competition. Best of luck with your app
On the Atrix it force closes when selecting the enable button after entering my password, i tried several times.
On the Captivate (no sim) I was able to enable admin. I then went to the unfairwair website and "locate" showed the phones exact location. I also tried the "turn on ringer" and was given the responce "false" twice.
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On the Atrix it force closes when selecting the enable button after entering my password, i tried several times.
On the Captivate (no sim) I was able to enable admin. I then went to the unfairwair website and "locate" showed the phones exact location. I also tried the "turn on ringer" and was given the responce "false" twice.
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Thanks for the feedback, I'll have to take a deeper look at what could cause the Attrix to FC. For the Captivate however, It's normal to see "False" on the transaction tab. All commands have a completed status of False until the command has actually launched on the phone. This could take up to 5 minutes.
You would also have to refresh the web page to see the change of status.
<< important note >>>
The "goodies" tab (the one with all the controls.) runs great on all browsers EXCEPT IE7+
typically if you press commands such as "Lock Phone", "Send Message", "Wipe Phone", etc. they should pop-up commands to ask you for more information or confirmation. Internet Explorer version 7+ has javascript alert command and others disabled by default (unlike every other browser.)
You'll have to use any other browser to use these commands, until I re-write that part.
Just sent an email, looking forward to trying out your application!
poor minds
If you think you want to know..you don't. This can only ruin your lives.
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If you think you want to know..you don't. This can only ruin your lives.
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What is this referring to?
Anyway, I've been testing for 3 straight hours and no bugs found so far. Just reporting in.
Mail sent.
Good job mate!
Hi everyone. Im one of the developers of SwitchMe, and app that allows multiple secure logins into separate installations of android on a single device. The pr is after the break.
I really need a few people to check into some issues people on the Transformer have been experiencing. There are some warnings involved:
- testers must perform a full nandroid backup before using the app, it is not our responsibility if you start getting boot loops
- if you report results or bugs, please use the "Write to us" function in the app whenever possible, and always describe the issue in the header of the logs you send
- if you post here, be sure to include your device type and rom
- if you have apps installed on sd, be sure to mention that as well
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SwitchMe is a unique application for root users that allows you to log in and out of multiple installations of Android just as you would on a desktop computer.
The technology behind SwitchMe saves all of your applications and data, protects it and stores it as a file in memory. You can then log out of an
account and log into a fresh installation of Android or another account with its own unique content.
You may create as many profiles as the memory is capable of holding. Some of these may require very little free memory because they contain few apps,
others will be larger as they contain many applications and lots of cache and data.
Why is this functionality useful?
Privacy - the most obvious benefit is that you can securely share one device among multiple users, which gives you privacy and peace of mind.
Testing - if you are a developer, you can use profiles as clean sandboxes to test your applications and their interaction with the system.
Gaming – with multiple installations of Android on a single device, you can now play online MMOs as different characters.
Speed - the games your kids play slow down your tablet, but with SwitchMe you can easily create profiles without games or instant messengers.
Battery life - when the battery is low but there are important emails or documents to edit later, switch to a profile which only contains these essentials.
These of course are only suggestions - there are plenty of other uses for the functionality SwitchMe offers.
Market link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=fahrbot.apps.switchme
The Lite version allows the creation of two profiles, enough to test on.
Screens:
Any issues to report or is everything working flawlessly as usual?
SwitchMe 1.2 has been rolled out and now includes a lockscreen replacement:
1.2
Added lock screen for logging in and out
More stable Fast switch implementation
Reworked UI colors
Now, its very important that we get some feedback on how this big new feature works, so please read up on it in the help and post your thoughts!
1.2.2 - HOTFIX 2
Reworked widget on qHD+ displays
Fixed widget text on HC and ICS
Fast switch improved on older devices
Anything at all? How is the lockscreen working?
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Anything at all? How is the lockscreen working?
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Do you have to buy the key to enable the lockscreen?
Yes, all security settings are available in the paid version. I guess im only asking for the opinions of those who bought the app...
the app takes way too switch back to an admin account (about 30 mins)
and randomly switches and soft-boots on any account
also is there any way to buy other than the android market
I have got it setup with 3 accounts, myself and my two kids. Works like a charm. Got the lockscreen enabled and there is a small disapointment. When booting the device it first shows the regular lockscreen, long enough to enter the system, and then the switchme lockscreen kicks in.
What i would realy love would be pictures with the account switch, both for lockscreen and widget.
The fast switching option scared me a bit. The display just goes black for a while, de pending on profile size. Is it in any way possible to get something going on the screen just to keep me a ease.
Regardless of the above i still find this one of the apps that make the difference......
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If you want to avoid the lock screen time after reboot, enable the key guard as well and it will be shown above the key guard!
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Will look into that. What else would be very usefull is if it would be possible to, even when creating a new profile, the switchme app would be injected. I wouldn't like to get stuck on a clean profile and no wifi around to install switchme.
Ofcourse i copied the apk to my microsd so i can always install it but then it is not licensed in tje new profile.
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The already copies itself...
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Its threre.
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1.4.3.7
Fixed device specific switch screen crashes and issues
Fixed UI bug in switch screen preferences
If anyohe had problems with superuser before, this should fix them. Please let me know if that is the case, its important we get some feedback here!
1.5.3.0
Enabled full support for MIPS and x86 architectures
Many root daemon code fixes and optimizations implemented
Everything ok with the latest build?
Any issues to report?
Anything to report?
With the release of NFC Task Launcher 4.1 I'm consolidating the threads into one application thread.
Market Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jwsoft.nfcactionlauncher
Put an NFC tag in your car, home, office and bedroom and automatically change settings, and launch apps by touching a tag. NFC Task Launcher supports all tags now with a fixed ID, writeable and read-only tags. A cloud service is used to store payloads that are too large to fit on a tag or don't fit on a tag. This way anyone who scans your tag will see the same actions performed (including you if you mistakenly clear app data or get a new device).
5/1/2013 - 6.0
- New Tablet layout for 7" tablets in landscape and 10" tablets and slight UI tweaks for phone layout.
- Task processing and execution should now be much quicker in most instances and less prone to closing
- Added Chinese localization (Simplified and Traditional)
- SMS now shows the number in the list of actions after adding
- Support for time and date (%t and %d) place holders added to Text to Speech, Tweets, Emails and SMS messages
- Notification light settings updated to respect Samsung specific device settings
- Tweaked lock screen controls to try to offer a more consistent experience. A root plugin will follow in the near future for full control of lock screen settings.
- URLs opened in the background now support users[email protected] format for passing in login credentials
4/10/2013 - 5.0.1
- Free tags has been removed for now. We've run through our stock of free tags quicker than anticipated!
- Notification and Ringer Sound actions should now set the previous
ringtone on failure
- TTS worker will now set the volume up termporarilly if it is
silenced and then back down to the current level when completed
- Continued tweaking of Wifi triggers for better detection of connect/disconnect
- Fixes for setting Brightness on LG devices and some inconsistent behaviors
- All translations can now use WEP, WPA, WPA2 and Open configurations. (64 bit WEP)
- Fixes for reported crashes
- Fix for crash when generating message from setting an alarm
- When adding Close App to a tag a notification is now shown alerting users that root access is needed in most instances
- Support for killing multiple PIDs based on package ownership
4/4/2013 - 5.0
- Start/Stop Drive Agent
- Changes to free tags (posting to social media is now optional)
- Placeholder support for Twitter tweets (%t for time and %d for date). This will be expanded to other text fields as well soon (TTS, Email, SMS, etc).
- 1x1 Widgets. Pick your task, icon and background for 1x1 widgets (also works with switch tasks).
- SIP calling
- Start and Stop Media Playback as separate features
- The NFC restriction has been removed and WiFi / Bluetooth triggers are now available on non NFC devices.
- Importing a tag with no actions should now prompt you to create a task and take you directly into that flow
- Free tags no longer require a tweet. You can fill out the form from the app itself and optionally post to Twitter / Google+ (although we appreciate it if you do!)
Fixes:
- Fixed Wifi Connect not working for tags using SSID only
- Further tweaks to Wifi connect / disconnect (this is still in progress)
- Fixed Russian translation so that disable works on actions
- Fixed a Samsung specific issue regarding Blocking mode
- Fixed an issue with Wifi Hotspot not resuming if Wifi had to be disabled before starting hotspot
- Fixed a potential crash in Free Tags
- Removed WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS request from GPS action
If you have any issues, questions or suggestions please let me know.
Here's a quick demo I made:
Thanks for the 4.1 update.
But I don't understand or find any setting about this new function:
We've also set up a cloud service to cache this payload for anyone else who taps this tag. They will perform a one time download of the payload and cache it on their device. This way you and anyone else can use any tag without worrying about the size or contents.
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lwclam said:
Thanks for the 4.1 update.
But I don't understand or find any setting about this new function:
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There's no setting.
Here's what happens now. Let's say you want to write a message that is 100 bytes, but your tag is read-only or you tag is only 48 bytes. Since the entire message can't be written (or anything written) the payload is mapped locally on your device and keyed on the ID. If we can write to the tag we'll write a small message to aid in filtering.
However this breaks anyone else using this tag as the commands aren't on the tag (boo). To get around this when you write these tags the payload is pushed out to a cloud service we set up that keys on the tag's ID (this happens in the background and transfers very little data, just the size of the payload).
Now, when you scan that tag you use the local mapping.
When anyone else scans this tag NFCTL will see that
1.) it has no data and
2.) their device doesn't have a local mapping for that and will query the server to see if there's a mapping present to use. If it does it will grab that, cache it locally and then execute those actions.
Now when either of you re-scan the tag you're using a cached version of the commands and there's no network transfer or query performed. This also prevents someone else from re-writing your locally mapped tag and changing your actions.
The other benefits this holds is that if you lose your app data all of your tags will still work (the payload will be pulled down on the first tap and cached) and I've leveraged this back end to make sharing tags easier if you want to send someone a tag you've created.
Let me know if that doesn't make sense
Nice idea, but could I suggest that - just for people's peace of mind in a paranoid world - you add an option to make a tag 'private' - i.e. it only gets stored on your own phone, not on the cloud.
There might be odd occasions where you only want something to happen on your own phone, rather than anyone who happens to scan the tag. <Quickly deletes http://www.horny-porny-porn.com from all my tags >
Andre
Would you be opposed to posting the SMS Plugin APK somewhere? Or for private downloading? I've been using it on my Galaxy Nexus and so far so good. I have a messaging app on my Nexus 7 and wanted to see if the SMS feature would work on it as well. However, the Play Store won't let a Nexus 7 download it.
I understand if there are limitations to the app where it can't be installed on a tablet device. Can't hurt to ask.
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Nice idea, but could I suggest that - just for people's peace of mind in a paranoid world - you add an option to make a tag 'private' - i.e. it only gets stored on your own phone, not on the cloud.
There might be odd occasions where you only want something to happen on your own phone, rather than anyone who happens to scan the tag. <Quickly deletes http://www.horny-porny-porn.com from all my tags >
Andre
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+1
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sola fide said:
Would you be opposed to posting the SMS Plugin APK somewhere? Or for private downloading? I've been using it on my Galaxy Nexus and so far so good. I have a messaging app on my Nexus 7 and wanted to see if the SMS feature would work on it as well. However, the Play Store won't let a Nexus 7 download it.
I understand if there are limitations to the app where it can't be installed on a tablet device. Can't hurt to ask.
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Send me a PM with your email and I'll send it over this weekend.
andrewilley said:
Nice idea, but could I suggest that - just for people's peace of mind in a paranoid world - you add an option to make a tag 'private' - i.e. it only gets stored on your own phone, not on the cloud.
There might be odd occasions where you only want something to happen on your own phone, rather than anyone who happens to scan the tag. <Quickly deletes http://www.horny-porny-porn.com from all my tags >
Andre
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Maybe Prior to this release all data was encoded on the tags themselves *always*. It still is if there is sufficient space. Portability between devices has been the model since day one. It's something we can discuss though.
Hey, I have programmed a tag to check in at foursquare but when I use it, it opens NFC task launcher instead of FS, why? If anyone uses it, it opens NFC, not the check-in.
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abejoker said:
Hey, I have programmed a tag to check in at foursquare but when I use it, it opens NFC task launcher instead of FS, why? If anyone uses it, it opens NFC, not the check-in.
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NFC Task Launcher uses Foursquare's API to check you in in the background (it will need to do a one time authorization).
Not sure if I'm the only one but the switch mode sometimes takes forever to complete the 3-5 specified actions upon activation. Just before the last update, the actions complete within 2 seconds or less but now, it can take up to a minute or more. Even Android prompts up to 2 times for whether to kill the non responding NFCTL and I had to select wait each time. Since the root access toast message appear just when the actions are executed, it suggests that the waiting time is just the application trying to figure out what are to be executed. My guess is that it might be that the caching/syncing/downloading is bugged and my phone is downloading the actions from server every time instead of just once. The server may also be overloaded or slow to respond so it takes forever to re-download the actions to be performed on every scan of the tag.
Switching action 1
- Enable desktop dock
- Disable vibration during ring
- Disable lock screen
Switching action 2
- Disable desktop dock
- Disable auto rotate
- Enable vibration during ring
- Enable lock screen
- Close applciation (Navigation)
On my old phone I had similar issues with another app and thought that because the toast messages were coming slow that it must be a problem with the app. I then decided to disable the toast messages and found that they were actually the source of the lag. It may be something to try with troubleshooting your issue.
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matthewchng said:
Not sure if I'm the only one but the switch mode sometimes takes forever to complete the 3-5 specified actions upon activation. Just before the last update, the actions complete within 2 seconds or less but now, it can take up to a minute or more. Even Android prompts up to 2 times for whether to kill the non responding NFCTL and I had to select wait each time. Since the root access toast message appear just when the actions are executed, it suggests that the waiting time is just the application trying to figure out what are to be executed. My guess is that it might be that the caching/syncing/downloading is bugged and my phone is downloading the actions from server every time instead of just once. The server may also be overloaded or slow to respond so it takes forever to re-download the actions to be performed on every scan of the tag.
Switching action 1
- Enable desktop dock
- Disable vibration during ring
- Disable lock screen
Switching action 2
- Disable desktop dock
- Disable auto rotate
- Enable vibration during ring
- Enable lock screen
- Close applciation (Navigation)
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It's not a query issue. If you wrote the tag and the entire message fits on the tag it's written to the tag. If it doesn't it's cached locally. There's no query. If you didn't write the tag and it's a tag that had to be pushed to the cloud you do a one time query and then cache the instruction set. Subsequent attempts to execute that tag use the cached payload. Unless you ended up with an unwritable database (in which case tags wouldn't save either when you created them) there's no reason it would re-query on every scan.
Enable debugging in the app, scan the tag and send me the generated log.
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It's not a query issue. If you wrote the tag and the entire message fits on the tag it's written to the tag. If it doesn't it's cached locally. There's no query. If you didn't write the tag and it's a tag that had to be pushed to the cloud you do a one time query and then cache the instruction set. Subsequent attempts to execute that tag use the cached payload. Unless you ended up with an unwritable database (in which case tags wouldn't save either when you created them) there's no reason it would re-query on every scan.
Enable debugging in the app, scan the tag and send me the generated log.
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I was using a read only tag. In any case, just did another test without even using a tag. Used the widget to switch between the 2 available modes. Put phone in Airplane mode but still get that long delay issue so that rules out server issues. The actions were executed successfully as long as I keep selecting "wait" when Android prompt to kill NFCTL multiple times. What can I do that can provide you with the info to track down the root of the problem?
matthewchng said:
I was using a read only tag. In any case, just did another test without even using a tag. Used the widget to switch between the 2 available modes. Put phone in Airplane mode but still get that long delay issue so that rules out server issues. The actions were executed successfully as long as I keep selecting "wait" when Android prompt to kill NFCTL multiple times. What can I do that can provide you with the info to track down the root of the problem?
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What device is this on? Enable debugging, scan the tag and send me the log.
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What device is this on? Enable debugging, scan the tag and send me the log.
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Attached. Just activated one action from the widget.
Version: 4.1.1
OS: 4.2
Galaxy Nexus
matthewchng said:
Attached. Just activated one action from the widget.
Version: 4.1.1
OS: 4.2
Galaxy Nexus
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ANR from running the root command for dock mode. It's taking 4+ seconds before returning and broadcasting. I'll pull it into a background task like other root operations.
PM me an email address and I can send a test build in a bit.
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ANR from running the root command for dock mode. It's taking 4+ seconds before returning and broadcasting. I'll pull it into a background task like other root operations.
PM me an email address and I can send a test build in a bit.
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That was 4 minutes. Not 4 seconds... 10:02pm started but finished at 10:06pm. Email to my username @gmail.com.
matthewchng said:
That was 4 minutes. Not 4 seconds... 10:02pm started but finished at 10:06pm. Email to my username @gmail.com.
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Reading is a key skill ANR's should pop after 5 seconds of an unresponsive UI thread.
Are you getting the prompt for root access?
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Reading is a key skill ANR's should pop after 5 seconds of an unresponsive UI thread.
Are you getting the prompt for root access?
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Already granted and saved before so no more prompt. But I do get the Android prompt asking if I want to kill an unresponsive process to which I just kept selecting wait. . Let me get a screen capture of the prompt.
The action will eventually be completed given enough time.