[26 feb2011] Phono in the top 100 Appbrain hot apk

Appbrain hot 100

After nearly one year from the first release of Phono I discover it is in the top 100 hot apps of today.....

Thanks to everybody support our work!!

Phono 1.4d Update (fix 1.4c fc)

This release include:

• 4x1 widget (with 3 styles)
• 2x1 & 1x1 new style (Aqva)
• Minor bugs fixed

New logos and country codes

• Hungary
• Montenegro
• Poland
• Serbia
• Sweden
• Slovakia

Please follow these instructions

New installation: always open the activity before install the widget

Update: open the activity after installation and remove the old widget and replace them with new ones (you don't need to remove completly the apk, only the widget)

Thanks

Ps Happy Birthday to Mat738!! ;-)

A little preview of the next release

This is just a small graphic preview of the next release, obviously there will be new country codes and functionality.

Notification issue [know bug solved]

Thank's to Roberto and Tomek, we discovered a bug in the notification system.
The problem was that the notification of roaming remained active despite the choice of "No notification" in preference.
The problem has been resolved and will be included in the next release.

Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.

How Phono measures the signal strenght

Here some details, how phono calculates the signal percentage:

To determine the signal strength dBm is used, Android provides also ASU, which determine the speed at which the phone is able to update its position with the nearby antennas.
Phono uses an algorithm that tasform the asu in decibels to determine the actual signal strength on a linear scale. The bars in the statusbar instead take a range from -112dBm (low) to -60dBm (signal good) and for example when you above -87dBm it shows full, even if it should not. So the graph in the status bar is really approximate.
To further verify what I'm saying you can use: -> Menu -> Settings -> Phone info -> Network (second item) -> Signal strength (second item)
You'll find the specified dBm and ASU, compare them with those of Phono and see which are the same (but do not change location while doing it).

Finally to say the signal quality is a provider / net problem and not an issue of phono!

Hope this makes the situation a little bit clear to the users. ;) If not, feel free to contact us.

PS
If you got 180% signal strength, please Read here:Galaxy s2 2.3.3 issue

Move to sd

For peoples asked to move Phono to sd:

Direct from android dev documentation

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Applications That Should NOT Install on External Storage

When the user enables USB mass storage to share files with their computer (or otherwise unmounts or removes the external storage), any application installed on the external storage and currently running is killed. The system effectively becomes unaware of the application until mass storage is disabled and the external storage is remounted on the device. Besides killing the application and making it unavailable to the user, this can break some types of applications in a more serious way. In order for your application to consistently behave as expected, you should not allow your application to be installed on the external storage if it uses any of the following features, due to the cited consequences when the external storage is unmounted:
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App Widgets
Your App Widget will be removed from the home screen. When external storage is remounted, your App Widget will not be available for the user to select until the system resets the home application (usually not until a system reboot).

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Like developer we think to give to the user a stable application! That's the main reason we do not raccoment to move Phono on sd.


@alessandro
You give us one star cause we don't allow to move Phono on sd, before to be so categorical you could write us a mail and ask the reason about our decision.....or to read the documentation......

Phono 1.4b Update

This minor update include:
Android 2.3 compatible
Verizon issue fixed
EVDO_B support
Deleted country from minimalist style 2x1