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Logmein Remote Control "Ignition for Android"

I've been waiting for this app and am not disappointed. What a great way to remote control your desktop. All you need is this client on your Evo and a free account at logmein.com. Total no brainer setup. The App is in the market as of today. Very cool.

This is by far the most underwhelming product logmein has come up with. I was a beta tester and I can tell you I would recommend waiting on this to mature (or not buy it at all).
This app force closes, has a memory leak, sometimes will randomly log me out of my pc, and my personal favorite - restarts my phone at will.
I have tried it with
- stock rom
- rooted rom
- diff evo
- new sd card (for giggles)
- on wifi
- on 3g
To ask 30 bucks for this is absolutely crazy. It's a pitty really. I would almost think about it if it was reliable.

Yeah, seriously, this is one of the worst product ever and definitely the worst ever from LogMeIn.
Everything that fr0st said + the app doesn't even let you use your finger as the mouse. Rather, you have to drag the screen around to your static mouse position... W.T.F!
The web interface for LogMeIn is WAY better than this app AND it's free. $30? Again, W.T.F are these guys smoking...?

I've been satisfied with PhoneMyPC since I got my first Android device.

This was the reply from logmein.
We did make changes after the beta ended. If you purchase the finished product and are still having issues, you can call in to our support team at 1-800-993-1790 to get assistance with resolving them.
I hope this helps. Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.
Wendy Merrifield | Sr. Support Representative
· ·· LogMeIn, Inc.
www.LogMeIn.com | [email protected]
p. +1-800.993.1790
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Ah, no. Not giving you 30 bucks to call tech support.

I used the beta too and found it difficult to navigate the pc with the static mouse. The 30 dollar price tag is WAY too much for an app in my opinion. Unless it does something amazing.
HTC evo

for those with the technical knowledge and ability, Wyse has a VERY nice RDC/VNC client available. (basically, configure your home pc to accept rdc connections and configure your router to allow the traffic through and viola...direct RDP connection...no logmeinscrewyou needed.)
http://www.wyse.com/products/software/pocketcloud/android/index.asp

fr0st said:
This is by far the most underwhelming product logmein has come up with. I was a beta tester and I can tell you I would recommend waiting on this to mature (or not buy it at all).
This app force closes, has a memory leak, sometimes will randomly log me out of my pc, and my personal favorite - restarts my phone at will.
I have tried it with
- stock rom
- rooted rom
- diff evo
- new sd card (for giggles)
- on wifi
- on 3g
To ask 30 bucks for this is absolutely crazy. It's a pitty really. I would almost think about it if it was reliable.
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All those issues pretty much stink. I've been using it for a couple days pretty hard and have not had a single issue....yet. I'm using a rooted 1.47 and have used it on wifi, 3g and 4g without a problem. The screen movement under the mouse takes a little getting used to but I kind of like it now. I'm new to android and have not tried any of the other remote apps but it sounds like I need may to, to get some perspective. For now it is the only way I can run my company scheduling program on my Evo.

What about a remote control software for mac?
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I haven't had any force closes with lmi for android and I've been using it for over a month. To be able to remote into the more than 100 pcs that I support, from my EVO, is a huge time saver. Worth the money to me.
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Its actually a known issue.
http://community.logmein.com/t5/User-to-User-Support/android-force-close/m-p/40391
I am just saying I would not recommend it. If it works for you thats awesome. I support clients all over the US and logmein would be a great benefit to me. However even when you contact tech support the tell you "its a new app, give it time". So I am waiting for it to improve.
Also. Please provide the rom your using a point of reference. I would like to do some additional testing.

Whooaa 30 bucks for that program? Hmm maybe a penny is what its worth.
*This was posted from my Evo 4G*

Second the request for a Mac option. So far, LogMeIn is the only one i know of that supports Mac, but if there's another way, I'd love to know!

DraginMagik said:
for those with the technical knowledge and ability, Wyse has a VERY nice RDC/VNC client available. (basically, configure your home pc to accept rdc connections and configure your router to allow the traffic through and viola...direct RDP connection...no logmeinscrewyou needed.)
http://www.wyse.com/products/software/pocketcloud/android/index.asp
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Wow! This is awesome! Thanks a bunch. So much better + free.

OK, well Wyse looks very cool and I configured it and all, but just get a Could not connect to server message...

mmm...
i use it to connect to both work and personal systems...in local network and through firewalls...both RDP and VNC...to a few flavors of Windows and one flavor of linux. aside from not being on a 22" wide screen it works quite well.
the only thing i can think of off the top of my head would be this....
on the username line - did you enter it like "mydomain\myaccount" or "MyComputerName\MyAccount" or simply "MyAccount".
also, you may want to try connecting via IP address...to eliminate DNS issues.

Got it all sorted out, thanks. Awesome program. WAY better than LogMeIn. Hopefully their price is reasonable when it leaves beta.

Nagrom Nniuq said:
Got it all sorted out, thanks. Awesome program. WAY better than LogMeIn. Hopefully their price is reasonable when it leaves beta.
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Just out of curiosity, what fixed it? It didnt work for me at first, then i set up a desktop password and it worked. My only issue with it is that you log into the computer as another user and cannot use it as to start music and have it played through the home computer.

dcmtnbkr said:
Just out of curiosity, what fixed it? It didnt work for me at first, then i set up a desktop password and it worked. My only issue with it is that you log into the computer as another user and cannot use it as to start music and have it played through the home computer.
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The Windows Operating System requires a password be used on accounts that allow a RDC session (just a baseline level of security).
not sure about your last sentence.
- my assumption is that you are remoting into your desktop...double clicking on MediaPlayer...and not hearing anything on your EVO....i would expect that behavior.
- if you wish to stream audio from your home pc then you'll need an application designed to that.
- if you meant that you basically wanted to be able to scare your girlfriend by remoting in and turning on winamp with some deathmetal...you should be able to do that, but i have not tested it.
and yes, i pray they provide pleasant pricing for the product.

I just logged in using 3G instead of WiFi (so off the network) and it worked fine.

get gameloft games on your captivate For dummies

For all the newbs that want a straight answer on gameloft games for you captivate, here it is.
after searching and searching on here to figure out how to get 3rd party apps (in paticular gameloft games) without root, i figured it out!!
anyways as you know at&t is not supported on gamelofts website, just t mobile verison and sprint. so what do you do.
1. well first get the captivate usb drivers installed on you computer from samsungs website
2.then i guess you have to install microsoft NET.framework4 to computer,
3.then install the sideload wonder machine to computer, (search wonder machine on this forum, they wont let me post link sorry), unzip it
4. now off to gameloft.com, select what ever android game you want, when it asks for carrier (i selected verison) you can probably do any, when it asks for make pick samsung of course and model ( i did vibrant) again i imagine you can pick any, vibrant worked for me. pay the people. they'll send you a sms with link. if your phone is rooted maybe this would work, dunno. anyways forward it to a email address and open it on your computer, click link and SAVE it IN the wonder machine folder (like in the second folder where all the icons are)
5. enable usb debugging on phone in applications- development before youplug in phone to computer
6. plug phone in computer, pull the status bar down on phone click whatever the usb thing says connect or something, then MOUNT the sd
7. open wonder machine folder, open the andriod central swm icon, run of course, choose the file (gameloft or whatever), click ok then the go button, it should take a few seconds and then say success. shut off usb debugging and it should be on your phone and work
im currently playing modern combat sandstorm on my phone now and lovin it, took me forever to figure out how to get it but thanks to this forum and the wonder machine my search is over. now if i can just get better battery life and take off the at&t apps i'll be stoked
hope this helps someone, all the information was from this forum but no one really gave straight clear answers. so now if your new to andriods like me you wont have to dig so much to find this answer. this was really easy to do

Good tip. At least it gives us a way to get them for now. I wonder why AT&T isnt supported though?

smeltn said:
Good tip. At least it gives us a way to get them for now. I wonder why AT&T isnt supported though?
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Because AT&T is locking down their phones to third party installers.

Does anybody else have a problem with Gangstar where multi touch seems to be locked/broken. This is on an SGS phone btw.

When i select the Captiate as my model, I only get 2 games that show up under "All Ganes." Does this sound correct? <on the gameloft website that is>

SWINGR said:
When i select the Captiate as my model, I only get 2 games that show up under "All Ganes." Does this sound correct? <on the gameloft website that is>
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The OP said that you can't use AT&T as your provider. Use T-mobile and select the Vibrant as your model and you should get a lot more games.

That's alot of steps. If you don't have side loading enabled already then you should. All you need to do is go under the vibrant games. Buy one. It texts your phone and then you download from the text. Done!
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you can always use marketenabler, set it to t-mobile and then purchase to your hearts content

I have all the try before you buy games that they offer for the Vibrant. They run smoothly on the captivate.
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cajuncartfan said:
The OP said that you can't use AT&T as your provider. Use T-mobile and select the Vibrant as your model and you should get a lot more games.
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DUH!!! I just skipped to step 1, didnt see that part. Thanks.

Ok...so I did this a week or so ago and it worked perfectly, but now I can't get it to work. Once I email the link to myself I get the message, "Sorry, this game is not available for your phone." I put t-mobile as carrier and vibrant for phone...is there something I'm not doing

Are you doing step 4 on your computer.you can't do it on your phone.you have to use wonder machine to get it on to your phone
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yes, I'm doing it on my computer

You should just open the link on your computer save it in wonder machine folder and follow the rest of the steps to install
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Unless they changed something to were you can't so it anymore I don't know,i haven't done this in a while, plus now I have side loading enabled so this makes or a lot easier.if your rooted enable side loading (get 3rd party apps) by following instructions on the how to wiki, then when you get the sms with link you can open it right from your phone
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I believe Gameloft made it that the games need to be downloaded via a phone browser, it looks like it checks to see what device you're downloading from and if you use a computer to grab the link, it denies you with an 'Unknown' device.

I am having the same experience. You can no longer tell it that you have a Vibrant and download the games to your computer or the Captivate. Now we need a way to have the browser tell the server that we have Vibrants...anyone know how to do that???
On a side note, can someone post the apk of all the trials??? That shouldn't be against any rules or laws since they are free to begin with.
Also, if you purchase the games, will it then allow you to download them to your computer? If the trials are as good as they seem, I'll definitely be purchasing some of them!

Got it
Just changing your user agent string seems to work. I installed the "user agent switcher" add-in for Firefox, then created a new user agent using a string copied from the i9000's entry in deviceatlas.com. I used the one for Android 2.1, en-us:
Code:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; GT-I9000 Build/ECLAIR) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17
Then you can just download the APK to your computer and sideload it via your preferred method whether that's ADB, wonder machine, copy to sideload-enabled phone, whatever.

Is there a work-around if regular SMS doesn't work on your phone? I use Google Voice for SMS but Gameloft won't send the link to a GV number.

alfpope said:
Just changing your user agent string seems to work. I installed the "user agent switcher" add-in for Firefox, then created a new user agent using a string copied from the i9000's entry in deviceatlas.com. I used the one for Android 2.1, en-us:
Code:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; GT-I9000 Build/ECLAIR) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17
Then you can just download the APK to your computer and sideload it via your preferred method whether that's ADB, wonder machine, copy to sideload-enabled phone, whatever.
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GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!!! This user agent works on Dolphin HD browser as well!! will buy another game in a few days to completly make sure it works (rooted with sideload enabled) but it looks the extact same as when done on my laptop with firefox and that worked for when I bought spiderman.

[PETITON] Dropbox App for HP Touchpad

Vote here -- let Dropbox know you want an HP Touchpad version!
Vote for a Dropbox App for the HP Touchpad! (You can vote 6 times)
I'm using Box.net now ONLY because they have a nice webOS app. But honestly, I don't like that company. Maybe it's their filesize upload cap, maybe their seemingly available features that ask you go upgrade, maybe that the 'x' in their logo is totally off balance from the "b" and "o".. both in width and the thickness of the stems. Maybe I'm missing something.
so anyway,
I love dropbox, and the dropboxify app is too expensive and not optimized for the touchpad. Vote away!

Don't trust dropbox anymore
I deleted all my files and cancelled my dropbox account in June when their lack of security infrastructure basically allowed access to ANY ACCOUNT WITH ANY PASSWORD. The vulnerability was limited to a four hour period before they "discovered" the bug and patched it, but the damage (IMO) was already done.
Google the words "dropbox security lapse" and you will get over 10,000 results. Read just a few of the articles linked and you will see that they did not do a very good job of testing their system. If all you are storing is photos of your dog and kids, no biggie. However, they touted their service as secure and suitable for business and that was not the case.
Ok, so they patched THAT bug. The next one may be not so easily fixed and why take chances.
The old saying goes "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on ME."

nunjabusiness said:
I deleted all my files and cancelled my dropbox account in June when their lack of security infrastructure basically allowed access to ANY ACCOUNT WITH ANY PASSWORD. The vulnerability was limited to a four hour period before they "discovered" the bug and patched it, but the damage (IMO) was already done.
Google the words "dropbox security lapse" and you will get over 10,000 results. Read just a few of the articles linked and you will see that they did not do a very good job of testing their system. If all you are storing is photos of your dog and kids, no biggie. However, they touted their service as secure and suitable for business and that was not the case.
Ok, so they patched THAT bug. The next one may be not so easily fixed and why take chances.
The old saying goes "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on ME."
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Its good some of us actually encrypt sensitive data before sharing them to the cloud i guess

Security issues aside, it was brought to my attention, if u use quick office, you can add your dropbox, box.net, or google docs accounts to access all of your files within. Very useful if you haven't tried.
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Actually just add your dropbox account under settings/accounts. It's built into the os, no need for an app. All your apps will have access to your dropbox
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By the time they developed an app there will already be a port for android.
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gabezermeno said:
By the time they developed an app there will already be a port for android.
SENT FROM MY DINC2 RUNNING CM7 overclocked to 1.6ghz
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And hopefully by then there will be dual boot
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xtort1417 said:
Actually just add your dropbox account under settings/accounts. It's built into the os, no need for an app. All your apps will have access to your dropbox
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That's great! How do you access your Dropbox data once you have done that?
Anyone got Password Safe running on Touchpad?

spawnywhippet said:
That's great! How do you access your Dropbox data once you have done that?
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In quick office, for example, you'd just go to the top left, then preferences, and make sure the dropbox account is in there. If you've already added the account, it should be.
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Drop Box, how is this a solution??

Now I could be missing something really obvious here but I can't seem to stream an album off drop box?
I uploaded a few last night so went into the folders on my One S today and could see all the music. Only problem is I can only play one song at a time?? Where is the option to stream an album? If this isn't possible how can this be a solution to internal expandable storage??

Why not use Google Music?
Edit: Ah, guessing its not available in your country. Yeah that sucks then. This phone really needed 32GB onboard if they were going to remove the Micro SD.

Because I have dropbox and though it would work where I drop music in a file (which I own) and then I can play it from the devices its installed on. Which I can, but only one file at a time.

The best solution is Google music; even if it is not available in your country, it's not that hard to get it.
If you are bent on using Dropbox for your music, then try ES File Explorer. It has an option to browse online storage such as Box and Dropbox. You can then long press on each file and add it to the now playing play list. Not the elegant solution you are looking for, I know, but better than nothing.
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Damn cloud storage is taking over the world..
I would have liked more than 16GB in my One S (receiving tomo ) But il just have to live with it
I do however like dropbox i use it alot since i made an account.. I guess i could just download my albums on the go, If memory gets full, delete it and download something else..
But yeah, Its not a perfect solution, A damn SD card slot isnt very big, Surely theres room for it somewhere ? ive got a collection of SD cards, from 2gb to 32gb - Pretty much useless now

When they said it has ropbox integrated I assumed they meant it was actually integrated to function as storage and not just as an app.

Google are releasing there own cloud storage soon..
They'll take over the world soon...providing they kick Microsoft's ass. Apple is slowly losing the phone war. Still...the ipods are amazing. I'm still using a 5g video
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I've been using Subsonic to stream my music for a while and it works like a charm. It was really easy (for me) to setup but I've heard some people have a hard time with it. I would suggest checking it out, could solve your problem. Just be aware that the first month is free to stream and then its a one-time, $15 fee to license the server. Well worth it imo.
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp

As everyone says use Google Music.
If you cant get it, VPN to america and goto music.google.com and signup, then itll work in the UK there after.
Been using it on my old Samsung Nexus, and the One-S awesome app.

nyzrox said:
As everyone says use Google Music.
If you cant get it, VPN to america and goto music.google.com and signup, then itll work in the UK there after.
Been using it on my old Samsung Nexus, and the One-S awesome app.
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I decided to give google music a go, and I succesfully signed up for it and got it up and running fine via VPN from the netherlands. However, how do I install the app on my phone? play.google.com says it can't install the app cause of the country my phone is in...

I like Amazon Cloud (Music) better.....same as Google Music though

if you have an always on PC at home, there is nothing better than this.
shadow.8 said:
I've been using Subsonic to stream my music for a while and it works like a charm. It was really easy (for me) to setup but I've heard some people have a hard time with it. I would suggest checking it out, could solve your problem. Just be aware that the first month is free to stream and then its a one-time, $15 fee to license the server. Well worth it imo.
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
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QuintusDias said:
I decided to give google music a go, and I succesfully signed up for it and got it up and running fine via VPN from the netherlands. However, how do I install the app on my phone? play.google.com says it can't install the app cause of the country my phone is in...
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Market enabler
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Find the apk (not so difficult) and sideload it. Afterwards even the updates in Google Play Store will work (at least for me they do).
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Do you guys all have a data plan with endless hig speed.
In Germany i can only use 500MB on full speed (7200kbit/s) and after that i can only use download speed like 64kbit/s for the rest of the month... if i would use the dropbox as my music storage i would blow the 500 MB limit during the first week =D

HighRoIIer said:
Do you guys all have a data plan with endless hig speed.
In Germany i can only use 500MB on full speed (7200kbit/s) and after that i can only use download speed like 64kbit/s for the rest of the month... if i would use the dropbox as my music storage i would blow the 500 MB limit during the first week =D
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Sounds about right.... I love my unlimited data plan. A bit costly, but averaging 2+Gb /month it's worth it

a high data plan / unlimited is now becoming a must !! especially with all this cloud storage and the amount of apps that require internet.
its not soo bad for people who can use BT hotspots (me) or have wifi almost everywhere..
i reckon i could survive on a contract that only had unlimited internet and 0 mins and 0 texts lol
i could just use 3rd party apps to make calls and send texts via the internet... so its more important to have internet package than calls and texts lol
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