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Hi guys!
I know there is a way to create a Chrome extension which, when clicked, launches an app on the phone that vibrates the phone and plays a sound file at the loudest volume, so I can find it. Like Chrome to phone but with a different purpose.
This would be a great app for those times when you need to go but just can't find your phone even though you know it is somewhere in the home. With just the press of a button you could hear (or feel, if it's very close to you) where it is! No need to use another phone to call yours or run around the apartment getting all tired and angry!
Personally I would have used it like eight times since I came up with the idea, but I don't know Android programming or HTML (for the extension) so I can't create it myself.
where's my droid
and a couple of other apps already do this. They take a sms message and crank up the volume.
arw01 said:
and a couple of other apps already do this. They take a sms message and crank up the volume.
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That's great for some people (with unlimited SMS), but unfortunately I haven't got unlimited SMS (nor do I always have access to a second phone. If I did though I would probably call my phone instead as this request is for finding the phone when you know it is somewhere near but don't have the patience to run around and search for it)
The app I want doesn't use SMS messages for launching the app but the Cloud-to-device service introduced with Android 2.2 and at the moment only available to a small but growing number of devices.
I use the Chrome to phone app & ext (code dot google dot com/p/chrometophone) on my Nexus and although it doesn't work every time when it does work it feels like magic!
I thought it would feel as much if not even more like magic if you could use this new service to find your phone with ease. I don't need it to have all the (for some) great features like showing where the phone is on a Google map or wiping important data if it's lost, I've got other apps for that.
I want this app to be as simple as it possibly can be, again like Chrome to phone:
Setting up: Download, Register phone, Be logged into Google account, done!
Use: Be logged into Google account, click extension button, wait a sec, phone rings, done!
Now does anyone here know how to create this app or where to request it to increase the chances of it getting past the idea stage and into something usable? It would surely make my day!
I found this awesome Media server today. Don't know if it has been posted here so i thought i would share with everyone. Supports Android as well as other platforms and is super easy to setup. Check it out!!
http://www.subsonic.org
nice find. Good idea to consolidate all my music to one server and play them on my phone
I skimmed through the forums a bit and it seems like some users are working on a Video streaming add on. I would love to have something like that implemented into an already great piece of software.
darn it, the android client app is only usable for 30 days before you have to donate.
Please note that most of the apps are made by third-party developers, and are not maintained by the Subsonic project. Some apps are commercial, while some are available for free.
Also note that after a 30-day trial period you need a license key to use the apps. You get a license key by giving a donation to the Subsonic project. The license never expires and is valid for all current and future apps. By donating you also get other benefits; see info box on the right.
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cant find a free android app using their API anywhere
I think $12 is a small price to pay considering all of the available features. Sucks that its not totally free but for people that have a very colorful and vast music collection like myself could benefit from this especially while traveling.
britoso said:
darn it, the android client app is only usable for 30 days before you have to donate.
cant find a free android app using their API anywhere
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I do agree $12 is pretty high considering the server itself is open source therefore the $12 is only for the android app. I'd say $5 would be a better fit for the app as it would draw more downloads.
I suppose it takes someone familiar with marketing and business to understand how best to leverage your product with pricing. Not everyone needs a media streamer, therefore the cost of $12 vs other apps that people use a lot more (generally in the $5 range) makes it not worth it. If your product is not in high demand you charge less to catch the people who wouldn't necessarily need it but don't mind spending the lower amount for something "cool to have".
Just my $0.02
An alternative would be OrbLive, but it's $9.99 in the market, so not a whole lot cheaper. The PC server is free. Haven't tried it but navigating/playing your media through the web browser is free, so there's a chance you could avoid getting the android app and use the browser instead.
It'll let you serve music, video, photos and documents ... seems to work fairly well.
I actually found Subsonic a few months ago while looking for a way to stream my music via a browser on a PC. Then I found they had an Android app. One of the big selling points for me was that you can create different users based on whether you're using Wifi or 3G/EDGE. Lowering the bitrate minimizes stuttering over a slow connection. Also, when songs are playing in the queue, the rest of the queue is saved for smooth playback.
I've tried Orb & other similar apps and I found that Subsonic was much more versatile. I tend to listen more to music that I've recently added to my library and Subsonic gives options to listen to recently added, random, highest rated, recently played or most played songs. Only thing it's missing right now is an option to shuffle playback.
The $12 is well worth it. I use this app more then anything, and I use it everyday. Never tried any of the other apps, as I tried subsonic first and have no complaints about the server or the client apps.
It will only be worth it for me if I can stream all my zunepass songs. which I really doubt is the case.
I'm not sure you have to pay 12$, in the help page in the app it says "the suggested donation is 20 euros but you can give any amount you like". So I guess you can donate 5$ if you want to.
Anyway, this donation system is better than orblive's one since I can pay through paypal (I can't use my credit card with google checkout), and the app seems way better than orblive from what I saw.
Still waiting for SqueezeCommander to be able to act as a squeezebox client though, since I already have squeezebox server running on my PC, I'd like to avoid running several music servers if I can.
BlueScreenJunky said:
Still waiting for SqueezeCommander to be able to act as a squeezebox client though, since I already have squeezebox server running on my PC, I'd like to avoid running several music servers if I can.
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I feel your pain but we'll see at the rate SqueezeCommander is being updated. For the time being, running both streaming services hasn't put much of a strain on my server with 2GB RAM.
this seems like it would be an incredible app but I cant get it to work.
Found this: Five
http://code.google.com/p/five/
No binaries on both code.google and github though...
britoso said:
Found this: Five
http://code.google.com/p/five/
No binaries on both code.google and github though...
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Looks pretty Beta still. Not as polished as Subsonic but def a free alternative. The lowest donation amount for subsonic is $12.97 (10 BP) and is def worth it. I have had zero problems streaming music over 3g even on Tmobiles crappy network. Also, i love how subsonic uses very low resources considering it run as a service. Been looking for something like this for sooooooooooo long.
is there an optware alternative similar to this. I would like to stream music from my buffalo NAS to my nexus if it's possible.
I think i've set this up correctly, except I'm unsure how to connect to this computer (Part of a lan). So for example, from outside of a network how do you connect to 192.168.1.1:8080? I've forwarded the ports etc but don't know what the address should be.
Has anyone compared this side by side with Orb? I have Orb and while it does the job, the interface blows and it's buggier than ANY software I paid $9.99 ever should be. Sigh.
stibbs said:
I think i've set this up correctly, except I'm unsure how to connect to this computer (Part of a lan). So for example, from outside of a network how do you connect to 192.168.1.1:8080? I've forwarded the ports etc but don't know what the address should be.
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If you are connecting from within a lan/router, get your ip address from http://www.whatismyip.com/ and then add the port to that number.
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If you are connecting from within a lan/router, get your ip address from http://www.whatismyip.com/ and then add the port to that number.
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Correct but, make sure when your connecting you add the /music to the end of your url for example. hXXp://yourip:8080/music
There's been similar App requests before but mine is a little different.
I want my phone to seemlessly with one app (ideally):
- Tether my phone's 3g with my tablet
- Allow me to browse my phones files with my tablet:
- See photos in the gallery off my phone- Listen to music files on my phone's SD card on my tablet- Be able to make phone calls off my tablet through my phone including contacts integration- Have documents written on my phone or tablet be saved on both, so if I only have my phone on me I still have all my important documents/homework with me.
I could go on and on, but I think this tight integration with smartphone and tablet is the future, especially with the Transformer since its more of workhorse and the phone is more of a personal organizer.
I want my phone to seemlessly with one app (ideally):
- Tether my phone's 3g with my tablet
Enable Wifi Tethering on your phone. Easy.
- See photos in the gallery off my phone
Easy, make sure you sync/upload all your camera pictures to Picasa Web Albums (All Google account come with it) And it'll show up on the Transformer in the stock Gallery app. You can use a program like Pixelpipe to auto upload every picture you take on your phone to upload to Picasa. Or you can do it yourself, check mark all your photos, share, select Picasa.
- Listen to music files on my phone's SD card on my tablet
Why store music to your sd card? Get Amazon Cloud Drive (Free 2 gigs, buy an album and you get 20gigs free), upload your music to Cloud Drive, and use the Amazon MP3 app to listen to your music! Or, run AudioGalaxy on your computer, point it to your mp3 folder, and use AudioGalaxy to listen to your computer's music on your tablet/phone.
- Be able to make phone calls off my tablet through my phone including contacts integration
Contacts integration is already done with Google Contacts, auto syncs as long as your Google account is logged in. Making phone calls on your tablet? Seriously? Just grab your phone. This is sorry, but a stupid request
- Have documents written on my phone or tablet be saved on both, so if I only have my phone on me I still have all my important documents/homework with me.
Keep your documents on Google Docs. Download the Google Docs app on your phone/tablet and you can have it on both.
Or better yet, Get DropBox also free. works on phone/tablet/pc/mac/everything. Modify one, and it comes across EVERYWHERE.
I could go on and on, but I think this tight integration with smartphone and tablet is the future, especially with the Transformer since its more of workhorse and the phone is more of a personal organizer.
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All the stuff you want to do is already doable and easy to do. Most important thing is moving away from local storage to cloud storage, that's the future and we're seeing already with Amazon/Google/DropBox.
What I'd like is to be able to control the tablet with my phone. Especially now that I have Plex, as being able to link my tablet to the tv and stream video with plex but sit on the sofa with my phone as a remote would be awesome.
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What I'd like is to be able to control the tablet with my phone. Especially now that I have Pled, as being able to link my tablet to the tv and stream video with plex but sit on the sofa with my phone as a remote would be awesome.
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This would be a very useful function...
What I'd like is an application to send/receive SMS/MMS from my tablet through my phone.
YES, I have Google Voice, but using that sends from your GV number. I'd actually like the sending and receiving to be done by my Droid X, but have a client application on the tablet that can interface with the SMS client on my phone.
FrayAdjacent said:
What I'd like is an application to send/receive SMS/MMS from my tablet through my phone.
YES, I have Google Voice, but using that sends from your GV number. I'd actually like the sending and receiving to be done by my Droid X, but have a client application on the tablet that can interface with the SMS client on my phone.
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Port your number to Google Voice. I did, love it. Also no contract line with T-Mobile.
I suggest that you might have more luck posting this request in the general Android apps forum here.
You might also give an indication of how much you'd be prepared to pay for such an application!
Regards,
Dave
nxt said:
Port your number to Google Voice. I did, love it. Also no contract line with T-Mobile.
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Those of us not in the US have issues with that though :-(
It should be easy for Google to do though, as they could route all SMS as data to a phone on your Google account, then send it as SMS from there using the phone's regular contract.
An SMS app for the tablet that meant I could recieve texts on it and reply whilst keeping the phone in sync with what's being sent and received would easily be worth a fiver. And that's Stirling, too
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All the stuff you want to do is already doable and easy to do. Most important thing is moving away from local storage to cloud storage, that's the future and we're seeing already with Amazon/Google/DropBox.
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The thing with your suggestions is that its a ton of different apps and lots of hoops to jump through.
I want one. single. app.
nxt said:
Port your number to Google Voice. I did, love it. Also no contract line with T-Mobile.
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That only circumvents the problem partially... then if I want everyone who has my (current) cell number to txt me directly to my phone (I can't hear the notifications I set in GV on my DX worth a crap!), I'd need to give them another number.
I think a client/server type thing that would let me interact remotely with the SMS app on my phone would be ideal.
FrayAdjacent said:
I think a client/server type thing that would let me interact remotely with the SMS app on my phone would be ideal.
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Try this out.
I think what the OP wants is definitely coming. But, read all of the posts by the OP on the thread I posted for the Sync SMS app and you will see some of the difficulties placed on the devs for such a project. Add in the large number of device manufacturers(custom software implementation b/c they refuse to use vanilla android)/different hardware (DroidX for example doesn't support infrastructure Wifi - only ad hoc) and types of connectivity (BT/WiFi/Cellular/USB) and it will become a very complicated project. I'm not saying it won't be done... I think it will be done. But, it is just a little ways farther off from happening. It'll take awhile for the software devs to work out the kinks and with Android/Honeycomb constantly evolving/constant hardware changes.... It makes this a daunting project for a single dev/small group.
Also, when it does come battery drain (constant polling for change in data) and data usage (carriers moving to tiered data plans) issues will have to be addressed. Many of the push API's are being figured out by devs so that will decrease the polling - but, data usage is only going to go up. I only had my TF for one day and I was having to watch my data over 3G because I knew if I continued to use it without worrying about getting onto Wifi I would go over my 2GB cap.....
The Sync SMS app dev has some good ideas and has been hard at work. I suggest reading his posts to better understand the difficulties.
@OP - it'll come with a little patience. In the meanwhile you can do what the second post suggested and use multiple solutions.
a good friend of mine was showing me an ios app called "pandora downloader":
http://forum.iphone-developers.com/...der-remove-limits-pandora-download-music.html
and I was wondering if there was anything like it for android?
I don't generally put music on my phone due to the small amount of space that I have, but it would be nice if i had the ability to download songs from pandora that I have cd's for at home once in a while (note: i'm not condoning piracy, and all songs that I'd be downloading, i'd make damn sure i have licence for before i did). I often find myself away from my cd collection for long periods of time and the thought of ripping it all and then trying to manage all that data is just plain daunting... i'd rather hear a track i know on pandora and click the download button.
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Serching too for long time ago
let me know if you find something
Anyone????
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Iphone gets all the good stuff.
http://www.cyberdevilz.net/f128/pandora-1-5-18-ad-free-android-15886.html
Your welcome...
ASMAteMe said:
http://www.cyberdevilz.net/f128/pandora-1-5-18-ad-free-android-15886.html
Your welcome...
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Already have that. we are looking for a downloader like the iphone has.
Why not google specifically
Anyone ever find a good substitute for this? I know you can google what you need but whats nice about pandora and my ipod is sometimes you get songs you have a hard time finding like some acoustic versions and stuff.
i to want something like or atleast a radio app that allows mw to save song to mp3
cpgeek said:
a good friend of mine was showing me an ios app called "pandora downloader":
http://forum.iphone-developers.com/...der-remove-limits-pandora-download-music.html
and I was wondering if there was anything like it for android?
I don't generally put music on my phone due to the small amount of space that I have, but it would be nice if i had the ability to download songs from pandora that I have cd's for at home once in a while (note: i'm not condoning piracy, and all songs that I'd be downloading, i'd make damn sure i have licence for before i did). I often find myself away from my cd collection for long periods of time and the thought of ripping it all and then trying to manage all that data is just plain daunting... i'd rather hear a track i know on pandora and click the download button.
any love?
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best ive got is the same way on the desktop.
download firefox (not beta).
open it and go to menu>tools>add ons
click the add on icon in the top right
search the add ons market for "download"
download and install the first add on.
from firefox, go to Pandora.com, it should request you to download the app.
press menu>request desktop site
wait for it to load and sign in
when you hear a song you want, click the "down" arrow on the bottom left
accept, and wait for the download to finish.
open your favorite file manager and navigate to firefoxes download path (more than likely sdcard/Downloads.
find the "blah,blah,blah,blah.null" file and rename it to "the song you are trying to download.mp3"
accept any warning/ prompt about changing the file extension.
enjoy your music!
If opening FF is a pain for you for pandora, you can do a few things to make it almost like an app. use some ingenuity!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2231342
Installed this on my ATT Galaxy Note 2 but says the device is not compatible!?!?! Whhhhhhhyyy? I had my hopes up and it was shot down by a nuclear missile.
Its in the works on the main thread were keeping track of what works and what doesn't, were adding new devices almost everyday.
I'd posted this in the [HELP THREAD], but it got snowed under by lots of rooting and unbricking questions, so I figured I'd try my luck here.
I work in IT support where we have to take photos of damaged machines and store them on the PC, to be sent out in an email later on. Right now I use Google Keep or Evernote to sync the images, but that can be slow, especially since there's poor phone reception indoors. We have a wifi network, but there's no internet access (long story, but it's an authentication issue with the network).
What I'd love to do, is to take a photo, open the share menu, hit "Share via LAN", pick my PC / Windows share from a predetermined list and have the photo copy over.
ES File Explorer has a share to LAN feature, but it wants to scan the whole network (~1500 machines), or says it's not connected,
Do you know of any apps out there that can let me effortlessly share files and photos to a machine on the LAN quickly? I'm thinking Tasker might be able to accomplish this using it's net features, but I haven't tried yet.
Did you ever get something here? This is insane that it's not a much more common issue. I have tried several times over the past year or so to find a solution but nothing. Trying again today...
BigBrosMo said:
Did you ever get something here? This is insane that it's not a much more common issue. I have tried several times over the past year or so to find a solution but nothing. Trying again today...
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Somewhat. The other week I discovered Pushbullet which has a pretty effortless sharing option -- you install the Chrome extension and the Android app (both free) and create a PB account. Then you just take the photo, share with Pushbullet and pick Chrome as the option. Give it a minute and then you get a popup on your computer with the URL to the file.
Other option was AirDroid which (I think) has a remote camera feature. That could be used to snap photos by using my device as a sort of webcam.
In the end, I grabbed a spare webcam off a colleague who wasn't using it and just used the Windows 8 Camera app to take my photos, but I've used PB a few times to quickly share photos without waiting for them to sync to Google