[CHT-APP][2-Dec-2010]CHTScheduler 2.15 - Sense/CHT-Profile-Management
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Development: MichelDiamond
Interface CHT Development: Co0kieMonster
Support of Development: JohnCMolyneux, Tumys,Santod040, CLHatch
Add App Development: JMHL, VJ555
Special Support of Development: Antoniomestretta,BHS Interceptor, Bonito77,Dunc001mike2nl,ric69,saugbear
Graphics: Santod040, me
Conceptional support & tests: CHTS-Team:
angusc,BHS Interceptor, Bonito77,CLHatch,conantroutman,Dark Ninja,Dunc001,Homer-S,joe_coolish,m0bmentality,
mike2nl, Neo84,NLS,osiedacz,p34cdc2,p50kombi,paspa85,pudman ,ric69,
santod040,saugbaer,Shahab2500,stathis95194,Symondo ,Tumys
Not to forget: Conceptional support & tests: CHT-Beta-Team
Further helping hands: CHT-Development-Feedback-Team
Read "About"-Box of CHTS, which great people help for this project
NEW VERSION 2.15 of 02-Dec-10 (changelogs see in last parts of this posting)
Please read the introducing postings and also the manual.
Therefore that much things depends on your ROM - it's needed, that you attach your ROM-Version, Device-Name and Manila-Version to
your issue-description, otherwise your issue-report must be ignored. Also please describe any problem as exact as possible.
Inventory:
Post #2: FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions
Post #3: Additional Downloads: Languages+Manuals
Post #4: Graphical AddOn's - CHTS-Icon-Sets
Post #5: Weather Wallpapers 9-/44pics
Post #6: For WIDGET-/Theme-Creators & ROM-Cooks (with Whitepaper)
Post #7: some Screenshots
Post #8: former Changelogs
new Quicklinks & Toggles for CHT - additional cab CHTS_Links_215.cab
This is next FINAL Release with new features!
(that doesn't mean that there is no more issue, so as always said for the apps in xda: Use it on your own responsibility!
*Download CHTS 2.15 FINAL*
*Download CHT QUICKLINKS 0215 AddOn*
*Download QUICK MANUAL for CHTS*
*Download Manual for CHTS as zipped pdf-File*
*Screenshots from CHTS 2.15+2.10*
Do you eat every day only cutlets? Even if it's your favorite food? No?
So why do you have the same Sense theme every hour of every day? You don't? You change it often?
Then you are aware of the effort needed to change a theme, or to change a clock or style, or to revert back to the former one.
You know, that you forget which .cab files you installed. You know how sometimes they interfere with other .cab's.
And you know that your Sense is sometimes messed up, and needs a full reinstallation.
If you install CHT (Co0kie’s Home Tab), are you reluctant to install the skinning .cab's for Sense again because of these problems?
And do your system settings not really suit the new installation? And do you need different views and WinMo-Settings at work, at home, in the car, in your spare time, or at night - but there is a lot of manual maintenance needed to do this, and so you make it
all-for-one, not optimal, but without too much effort?
Perhaps CHTS is the solution for you...
Key features:
- Intuitive as possible: CHTS does much in the code, but the UI to configure is made as simple as possible, to get fast into the How-To... for the rest: RTFM
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Manual for CHTS as zipped .PDF <-
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new QUICK Manual for CHTS <-
- For all: There is
NO permanently running app in background - and that's the biggest difference to the most Scheduler apps - so battery drain almost impossible.. only if you really configure something wrong... ok... I don't know an app, which schedules a complete Layout, Sense-Settings, WinMo-Settings and all the rest in one app...
- Profiling your Sense
- Layout saving of your Home Tab
-- all positions/size/items
-- Quicklink outfit
-- Widgets
-- Sense Themes (all Theme creators: read Whitepaper, how to easy add your theme to be saved & scheduled)
-- so: one time .cab installing and then saving - and no more reinstalling this Design-cab needed.
- Assigning Layouts to different profiles!
-- switch them to whatever profile which suits to your current wishes. At work you need Tasks and other quicklinks in front? no problem. In spare time your music player and a totally different outfit? it needs 10 seconds to change it
-- Combine it with all the other following key features
- Power mode adjustable
-- full configurable power modes, how your Porfile should be changed
-- Smooth power on, backlight off, full power, wake up from suspend and revert to it automatically
-- Configurable Timeouted message box to ask you in automatic mode, if you want to switch Profile now or later
-- suppress Message Box for switch to GoodNite or out of GoodNite
-- Vibration feedback adjustable for different actions, so that you always know, when CHTS is doing something
-- Sound enabling if device is in suspend
-- Security mechanism, e.g. like: Automatic postpone of Switch while you're in Call or device is locked
- Wallpaper scheduling integrated in CHT, special made for non-noticeable-battery drain even if you choose very short times
-- initial wallpapers for each profile
-- scheduling seperately for each kind of wallpaper
-- weather wallpaper: Wallpaper depends on the current weather. In 9-pics or 44-pics-mode
-- Mix all this modes like you want: Initial for Landscape, Weather for Lockscreen, Scheduling for WidePortrait and AllTabs... no problem
- Sense scheduling for each profile
-- update times for Weather, stocks
-- update times for new state Quicklinks of CHT
-- Proximity and more
- Data Scheduling
-- switch on/off/let-it-like-it-is for BT, Wifi, GPRS, Radio, Network, Flightmode, Phone
-- Special "Network" switch: Turn off your phone like in Flightmode, but no need for a PIN!!!
-- No Data! So you can diable GPRS for all apps inside a profile
-- Roaming detection and define actions for it, e.g. asking, switching Network on/off, No Data
-- Idle Timeout configurable on your needs in a profile
-- special useful features, e.g. like switching off GPRS, if you activate Wifi manually
- Backlight&Power Scheduling
-- Set Backlight for each profile different. This saves much Energy!
-- Set timeouts, when display shall go off
-- Set timeouts, when device shall be suspended
-- not only the boring timeouts of Sense - now much better values between
-- special settings...
- System Scheduling
-- Define Sound profile - normal, vibrate, muted (as expected)
-- independent setable System and Phone volume
-- adjusting InCall-Volume suitable to your needs in a profile
-- own ringtone
-- special settings, e.g. phone volume down if pickup,...
- Executing up to 3 apps
-- easy to configure
-- computing .exe out of a .lnk to faster settings
-- executed after Sense Restart, if you changed the Layout in this profile.
NEW!!! QUICK MANUALManual!!! also MANUAL as .pdf-File - redesigned by CLHatch!
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Click on pic to download the quick manual or/and manual - now you can easier take it with you on your phone
And now the best:
[All this profiles can be set, like you want! So if you only need the wallpaper and data settings in one Profile and you use another app for something else - than just do it. If you only switch Layouts - also possible.
And this can be scheduled in
3 Modes:
1. Manually mode: You have all in your hand. You can see in CHT which profile is active. switch it by Quicklinks or CHTSwitchGui
2. Timeouted mode: You are in a meeting - then you can define a timeout by setting the timeout time or by Date&time and define, to
which mode or profile should CHTS turn afterwards
3. Automatically mode: An easy, intuitive way, you can define your personal rhythm of your day - no need to be think about overlapping times - for each day seperately and fingerfriendly configurable. Please read chapter 4 in manual to learn more.
In CHT you can see the active profile, next scheduled switch and mode and all necessary informations, e.g. like the next wallpaper switch time by little state icons and/or the new resizeable quicklinks of CHT v2
new different styles of App, Quicklinks (all now skinable!) - look in Post #3 here for them
Some more short internal informations:
- no always running app, CHTS only is active, if it is needed because of your interaction or your scheduling settings
- Developed in much different part-Apps in C and C#. The UI-things are in C# with the help of great SenseSDK of ebhoelzer, the control apps are written in C, so they react fast and with a very low footprint
Installation hints:
- Install at the best to main storage
- If you have no CHTS installed: Nothing to consider, just install to Main Storage and start CHTScheduler-Main-App.
- If you have CHTS installed/cooked in: Switch CHTS to manually mode.Also look, that no Wallpaper change is coming the next minute.
If despite the installation can't delete former CHTS, you can ignore it and go on with installation. If it can really be installed (mostly on cooked in ROMs), simply switch off Sense and do a Soft-Reset, then install again and igonore uninstall warning. Seldom, but the same recommendation as you are used from CHT.
To use the CHTS-Quicklinks and -toggles, e.g. for Wallpapers, Forelayer, Backlight, System-Settings - just also apply chts_links...cab - please start CHTScheduler one time before applying them to CHT quicklinks, that they are initialized.
Important:
Please save your Layout as "extended" before and after Installation, so that you have a new Fallback.
It's direct accessable by Menu of CHTS now.
There are so much news in CHTS and so much new Widgets - so it's better to save and use the new Profiles and Layouts.
Changelog 2.15:
At first: ALL KNOWN ISSUES FIXED!
GENERAL (Highlights) :
- NEW CHT-Quicklinks, e.g. for Backlight, System-Toggles, Direct-Change of Profile or Mode,.. Details see above in changelog
- PROFILES CAN BE NOW MADE INVISIBLE, SO YOU SEE ONLY THE ONE, YOU NEED
- New Profiles - now up to 21. Added "WakeMeUp", "AfterNoon" and also Special1-9 - all of course renameable and possible to make it invisible.
- Languages updated, in .cab already included: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hungarish, Bavarian, Dutch, Traditional chinese.
- For more Languages look into Post #3
If you want to translate to your language - just use *the language_default.txt as template*
- Forelayer switching - also for semi-transparent weather graphics!
- CHTMaster-Controlling app is now direct connected to CHT and chtstate while reapplying Profile/Layout
- CHTSettings now can be saved & restored!!! New option in left Menu
- Added save of the Weather graphics (as CHTTheme_...) - so you can also save Weather skins like Atmosfere for a Layout/Profile
- new System-Audio setting: RINGTONE - now your profiles sounds different
- Great Quicklink-/Toggle-Graphics by santod040 - EYE-Candy on all light/dark/colored backgrounds! Great work - thanx Santod!!!
MUCH MORE CHANGES, IMPROVEMENTS - you will see & feel them...
- NEW CHT-Quicklinks & Toggles:
- CHTS Basic Links:
These are the 4 well-known Links of "CHTScheduler"-category. Anyway I have them here, because here they are named now also by language-file of CHTS. So in next CHT-version they can be left out.
- CHTS toggles:
-- Wifi on Standby
-- Network
-- No Data
-- Proximity on Log
-- chtstate logging
-- -- Auto-Backlight toggle (switches on and off)
- CHTS Profile Jumps
Direct Links to all Profiles -> SaveMyDay-NoData
- CHTS Special Profile Jumps
Direct Links to all "Special"-Profiles 1-9
- CHTS Additional Links:
-- Automatic Mode
-- Semi-Auto-Mode
-- Manually Mode
-- Forelayer visibility (shows or hides Forelayer - you will have fun )
-- New Forelayer
-- New Home Wall
-- New Lock Wall
-- New Today Wall (remark: All "walls" won't change the normal timeout - and they only work of course, if you schedule this wall in this profile)
-- Auto Backlight (switches automatic Backlight on)
-- Backlight --
-- Backlight ++
-- Backlight low
-- Backlight medium
-- Backlight high
- POWER & BACKLIGHT-SETTINGS:
-- automatic backlight via Lightsensor (Lightsensor is NOT proximity sensor ), it's anyway the usual Sense behaviour that it's on
-- backlight (10-100%, recommend 20-40%)
-- backlight on AC
-- Backlight off after xx sec/min (and not the ugly Sense steps, now you can choose 20,30,40 seconds
-- Backlight off on AC after xx sec/min
-- Suspend Device after xx sec/min/hour (please look, if too short times interferes Layout switching)
-- Suspend Device on AC after xx sec/min/hrs
-- Backlight Hardware Keys timeout (works not on all devices, ROM-/Device-dependency)
-- Checkbox in Backlight-settings -you can also only set the timeouts without changing the Backlight. (Could be also good e.g. for Lumos )
-- And also Quicklinks for them, like already mentioned.
NEW SETTINGS / MENU:
- New Power Mode "Regular Powering" while changing Layout/Profile. This mode is not compareable with the others. It's a new method, which only prevents in 2 very nice ways the device to be powered: It runs in a half-powered mode, but with Backlight on and uses special WinMo6-Event to keep it alive, that it doesn't stuck while unattended Layout change. Please try it all and tell me, what you see. In our massive test, it was to see, that this mode should also work good for ROMs with stranger Power settings
- Reworked "Full Power Mode" - it uses not only Full Power, it also uses the same Event now to work more reliable for it. But the device is full-powered, too.
- "Regular Power" only for MessageBoxes also as new option.
- In Menu "Layout saving" - now also saving can be for HomeTab or the whole Theme ("Standard" and "Extended")
- new Settings-Options "Folders"
WALLPAPER SWITCHING:
- Initial Forelayer Switching
- Scheduled Forelayer switching
- Weather Wallpapers also for Forelayers
- TODAY Wallpaper switching improved
- Wallpaperr changing also more reliable, also if you change Layout and you set "Ignore Wallpapers" the Forelayer in Layout will not only
ignored - it will also removed. So if you haven't set in this new Profile a Forelayer initial/scheduling/weather, then it's away.
- Random algorithm extended for Wallpaper scheduling. Almost no more repetitions possible... "almost" means: If you have 1 wall only in this
directory... then it will be repeated
- Switch option: Change in Lock without Layout
And this could be a very beloved feature. Indifferent if you have a Layout or not assigned to your Profile - it will switch also if locked -
but only the profile.
Later then - if you unlock - it will switch the whole Profile together with Layout.Also I use a very special powering for it (also depends from "very smooth", "smooth", "regular" and "full") - but in a hidden mode if
locked. So in the most power modes without Backlight (for the experts: unattended mode with some device-specific "D0"'s )
- Switch option: Profile Change Delay Rate
This can be a Value between 1 and 40. Default is 10.
It means: CHTS does the changes for a profile sequentially and this must be controlled. Because if CHTS would do that, in dev-language C would come all changes within 10ms... there would also a HD2 has no chance
So - if you e.g. set it to 20 - the timeouts between the single changes is double delayed and so longer. The settings will last longer to be applied. If you set it to 5, the change will be faster.
Now the recommendation:
Use a longer timeout, if your settings e.g. for Sound are applied to early or if your device isn't fast enough for normal speed. Also for Layout changing it's better to use a longer value (ok... on HD2 also the shorter time is working fine )
Use a shorter timeout, if you mostly only change your Profile without Layout. Or if you change often in locked mode. There are the suspend timeouts others - and so a profile switch can "hang", if it takes too long. So try in this case not only another powering, also try a short value here.
- And also here Quicklinks for the Wallpapers, which are scheduled with your profile.
SYSTEM SETTINGS:
- RINGTONE now chooseable (Folders are defined in settings - for .wav and .wma
- New options (HTC-only) in system-wide settings (volume&Phone) :
-- Quieter ring on pickup phone
-- Ringing louder if device is in pocket
-- Short vibrate, if device is connected for a call
-- Reduce noise in call (nice option if you have to much disturbing background-noise)
DATA SETTINGS:
- new Data Options for Bluetooth - now "Hidden" and "Visible" seperate options in Initial Data settings-- new Quicklinks and Toggles also changes according to your profile - so you can see, what you have setted
LAYOUT SAVING & RESTORING
- Direct Layout save by Menu
- Save of the Weather graphics - so you can also save Weather skins like Atmosfere for a Layout/Profile
- Faster & Improved Restore
FIXES:
- Bug, that for american-data-format the initial suggested Filename for Layout was not working
- Bug, that unallowed signs for dates were allowed for LAyout-Name
- SD-Card-Names also now can be only 3 letters long, therefore Chinese SD-Cards haven't worked
- Permanent Data Settings for Roaming/GPRSoffifWifi/WifiOnIFPowered now all working more universally
- Adapted opmode-show to CHT final-notification
- ... MUCH, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH MORE
Therefore just: No more Issues found while the hard test of great CHTS Beta Team - thanx for all, mates!
General Hints:
- Please also feedback (plz with Device Info) - if something is working good! So we can better compare some things with other issues. And like my parents teached me: A little Thank you for a present is a nice behaviour. So plz just write a line then in CHTS-thread, if something is working fine, too. You mustn't donate - sometimes to say "Thank you" is also as donation appreciated
Thanx in advance.
- If you have problems, please tell your ROM- & Manila-Version and also your timezone (12h or 24h)
- Please try the new sound settings and tell us, if they are working. Compare it with the Sense settings, sometimes the taskbar is not reliable enough
- Also please try the different power modes and tell us, which is the best for you and why. So we know, if something above is needed
Known Issues:
- The CHTScheduler and CHTS Basic choose possibilities seems to be double. But there's a difference - the new ones are direct translated in your chosen language.
The "old" CHTScheduler"-Quicklink-Menu will be out in next CHT version.
*a little forelayer example - design of Bonito77
So - all together I hope, you can save now your Layouts and can schedule them.
CHTS is configured in HomeTab-Layout-Saving by CHT and all the widgets! So if you get a new widget - CHTS is updated automatically!
No need to reinstall or install an update of CHTS for this case.
Only to remind: Please consider the release as first final and
you need for this beta versions CHT 2.0 (All Links to CHT and CHTEditor in my signature)
So - I hope you have fun with Switching All-In-One
Micha
*Download CHTS 2.15 FINAL*
*Download CHT QUICKLINKS 0215 AddOn*
*Download Manual for CHTS as zipped pdf-File*
Inventory:
Post #2: FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions
Post #3: Additional Downloads: Languages+Manuals
Post #4: Graphical AddOn's - CHTS-Icon-Sets
Post #5: Weather Wallpapers 9-/44pics
Post #6: For WIDGET-/Theme-Creators & ROM-Cooks (with Whitepaper)
Post #7: some Screenshots
Post #8: former Changelogs
Credits: Please read about box of CHTS!
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If you like my work:
This App is completely free and donations are not expected, but always appreciated. So if you want,
donate for work done
Be sure that you grab the CHTS Links 0215.CAB that goes with CHTS 2.15
This is what adds the extra quick links for forelayer switching, wallpaper switching, and backlight settings, etc,..
Attached Files:
CHTS_manual_002.PDF.zip 738.1 KB
CHTScheduler_2.15.CAB 1.95 MB
CHTS_Links_0215.CAB 11.8 KB