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I started this thread simply beacuse I like writing software... it's what I do, and side projects keep me sharp and up to date.
Users, if you have any wishware, post the details here. Pretty much anything can be done.... but we want to do things that are free to develop, and LEGAL.
My goal is to start writing some tools, source code supplied free, that will be fun and useful.
If anyone wants to start a little HoFo software development community, feel free to join in. If you can write software in any capacity,beginner or not, feel free to offer your help in developing the tools. We can all learn from each other , have some fun, and create some neat projects.
The rules are:
- It must be legal
- No fees will be charged, no donations solicited. If you want money, forget it.
- If the mods have any objections, the project is off (since the main commuincation center will/should be HoFo)
I would also need assistant project managers to donate some time.
Looks great. As I said in the other thread, we can probably merge some of your and my code and continue to evolve the program (if you are OK with that.)
One thing we can do is automate it a little more to require less user interaction, and fully integrate it into MS Outlook and other packages as well.
There are ways we can integrate the calendar as well, even having the phone sync with outlook when the phone is connected to a PC.
I have some ideas, but I find the general user community comes up with better ideas than developers most times.
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Can you do a camera java app program for the i730?
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One of the most useful and widely needed Java apps for all Falcon phones is something along the lines of MOT's Notepad that was available for Condors. Notepad was useful, although a bit quirky. Any number of new features could be added now--color support, a file structure, ability to download "docs" (notes) from the phone, customized menus, etc. --BAM
Originally posted by bitslap47 Looks great. As I said in the other thread, we can probably merge some of your and my code and continue to evolve the program (if you are OK with that.)
One thing we can do is automate it a little more to require less user interaction, and fully integrate it into MS Outlook and other packages as well.
There are ways we can integrate the calendar as well, even having the phone sync with outlook when the phone is connected to a PC.
I have some ideas, but I find the general user community comes up with better ideas than developers most times.
Sounds good. :-) How would you do the calendar items? Would you have to write code to read/write directly from/to the SIM card? Do you know how to write that code? The other thing I'd like to do is have a menu option that would allow a one-click automation of exporting the Outlook Contacts to the on-line addressbook. Exporting the data to a CSV is easy enough, but I don't know how to do the upload.
It could also be an option to run that process with every synchronization. And there could be an option to only upload the contacts that will be included with the phone sync, or to upload all contacts, since those contacts won't necessarily overload the phone's capacity.
Another thing one of my friends is looking for is a way to download to his computer his own recordings. Voice recordings he's made or phone calls that he's recorded. He has need to do a lot of recording right now, and he'd like for his phone to not run out of memory.
That's a great idea.... I had long forgotten about that application.
xgagexx,
I also like the idea of the camera application... Hadji and I can look into the SDK for the i730 and see what we can do.... if someone would donate some source from one of the other camera apps, we could just port it to the i730... but haven't I seen an i730 camera app out there already?
Hadji,
The voice note sync, another good idea as well.
I have a few ideas for the calendar.... It may require the development of a Java helper application that is run on the phone before the sync starts.... as far as I know, calendar information is stored in the phone memory, not the SIM.
In general, one way to get around the motorola proprietary protocols is to create a Java app that accesses the serial port for the modem/PC interface. Once we have a serial comm open, we can do ANYTHING the SDK can do. We could make our own custom serial comm messages for each SDK function as well as our own. For example, to add a calendar item send a structure of messages such as;
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I have 2 camera apps for the i730 but they were test version. I will post them right now hold on please.
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Okay here are 2 apps. 1 is the original camera app for the i730 and the 2nd one is the updated version. Please do the best you can on them to make a new version of the i730 camera app. Thank you.
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Are you able to write Java applications on J2ME? If not it's a good time to learn
Sounds like 3 projects to work on so far!
Unfortunately, I don't know Java. :-( If I learn, it would be a long process. I'm sort of a weekend coder, and VB is about the only thing I know. While it would be great to learn Java, I don't know that I have the time to focus on it.
Also, I picked up another idea for the sync program. As you've likely read, I use one of the user-defined fields in Outlook to flag whether or not a contact should be included in the sync. And I've recently added an Inclusion report so people can easily see which contacts are included and which are not.
I want to replace the inclusion report with an interactive selection process. So people can see, on-line, who is included, who is not, and make changes en masse. Include All, Exclude All, Select multiple names, and such.
Funny, I just wanted a simply sync program, and now I'm thinking "Ooh, I can do this too!" or "Hey, I can add that!" I've created a monster. o.O
Originally posted by hadji Another thing one of my friends is looking for is a way to download to his computer his own recordings. Voice recordings he's made or phone calls that he's recorded. He has need to do a lot of recording right now, and he'd like for his phone to not run out of memory.
A program like Pk2Man or Pktools (or whatever they are called) for iDEN would be nice. Hopefully, it could remove the NEXTEL from the phone like these programs do!!!!!
04-29-2005, 20:43
As I said in the other thread, we can probably merge some of your and my code and continue to evolve the program (if you are OK with that.)
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