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Re: [Announce] I am here - Request GPS position and more with SMS

Simply one word: amazing!
Works fine for me. The N900 sends by email and by sms his current location. The photos were totally black, but we know that the quality from the front camera isn´t quite good.

Re: [Announce] I am here - Request GPS position and more with SMS

Also someone may want to send only SMS not email, because getting Internet up may be a problem and allowing smtp-server may be unknown if there is new SIM-card or WLAN-connection. Or it should just be able to tell phone to ignore failed attempts.

Re: [Announce] I am here - Request GPS position and more with SMS

Could you please add another option?
It should monitor the motion sensor and the charging status and after a threshold of movement or time without charging the phone should start to play an alarm sound as loud as it can.
This could be handy if you are travelling and you have to leave your phone unattended for a while (but near by) and someone wants to steal it or check out information on the phone.

Re: [Announce] I am here - Request GPS position and more with SMS

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- make sending SMS and mail seperate options. e.g. i want to set it up to send mails but not SMS. I haven't configured a number so now i see a message popping up saying "SMS has failed to be delivered to " or similar.

On the way, will come later tonight

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- explain better what is the password and when the user sets it.

This will be added also later tonight

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- make an option to use a different email provider.

I don't want to take responsibility for someone cracking the password to your e-mail :D For know I have selected the best e-.mail provider in my country with the most often visited page( we have 40 million people ) should be fast enough even with 1000 e-mails sent at the same time. I am using more than 40 character password and is hardcoded in the code. I have implemented my own e-mail client, that is specifically adjusted to that certain e-mail provider. This e-mail account is created only for use of the application, I will never use it for any other purpose. I don't have any info of how many and what messages are being send.

One more thing. Implementing e-mail client supporting different kinds of protocol is fairly complicated. I prefer to keep it simple and working :D

Re: [Announce] I am here - Request GPS position and more with SMS

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Originally Posted by DaSilva (Post 614765)

My intention was to increase the possiblity of finding the phone back, but maybe I can implement someday another app, that would prevent it from being stolen or lost :)

Re: [Announce] I am here - Request GPS position and more with SMS

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Originally Posted by zimon (Post 614756)

It tries to send an e-mail, if it does not succeed in specified time, it won't try anymore.

If you don't check any of the options in "mail" configuration window, you will not get any e-mails

Re: [Announce] I am here - Request GPS position and more with SMS

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Originally Posted by rachol (Post 614608)

I am afraid I cannot do that, it will not be accepted by testers :D Every installed application from repositories must have the option of uninstalling it... and my goal is to have it in repositories, so everyone can use it, even not experienced user, that have no idea how to instal gstreamer-tools themselves.

But..., I have a version (not published yet for above reasons), that does not show itself in "Uninstall" part of application manager and does not allow you to remove it with dpkg :D I will upload this version later to the garage, tonight or tomorrow night

yep, i was sure about it :rolleyes:
so...can you prompt a password request when user try to unistall it?

Re: [Announce] I am here - Request GPS position and more with SMS

Yes, that would be an option, I will try to get it before tomorrow morning:)

The problem is, that it starts to get complicated, text messages for:
-config,
-uninstall,
-start reporting
-stop reporting

and optional:
-start only sms,
-start only mail,

Well, not so bad maybe:) Remember to store "passwords" somewhere else than your phone:P

Re: [Announce] I am here - Request GPS position and more with SMS

i've found i little bug. when runnig config(after sms) it doesn't show "next" button but "finish" button instead!

Re: [Announce] I am here - Request GPS position and more with SMS

Thanks, I am implementing the fix now