Klaxon 4.0 for Android

Klaxon for Android has gone through another rigorous update! This time, I integrated the new Desk Clock from Eclair (Nexus One) into the application. The result is the customizability of Klaxon that users have come to love, with a brand spanking new and polished UI.

For those of you curious how to get the Weather widget on your desk clock, Google “genie widget” for the third party application found on the Nexus One.

 

Klaxon and Screenshot – Android 1.5 Version

Quick update: I have made fixes to both Klaxon and Screenshot to support Android 1.5. However, I am still hearing reports from users that Klaxon does not work on Haykuro builds; the device goes into a reboot loop. Haykuro does not have a build based off the T-Mobile OTA update, so I can not provide support for his build- I believe he is using older/pre-release cupcake pieces in his current builds. Once he updates, I may look into the issue further.

I am currently running JF 1.5, and have no issues with either application. Unfortunately, I can not spend my time supporting every fork/tweaked version of Android (Haykuro, DudeOfLife, etc, etc). The only supported builds will be Retail and JF.

Klaxon for Android – Now a Paid Application on the Market

The new improved Klaxon is now available on the Market for a reasonable $1.99! There have been several bug fixes, as well as some new features:

• The compass is used to detect flip events. This allows vibration to be used for the alarm as well (it previously used to mess with the accelerometer, making it unusable).
• Alarms can now optionally vibrate.
• Alarms are now nameable.
• Snooze can now be disabled.
• Alarm will now turn off if the Home button is pressed.
• Click and hold an alarm on the main screen to delete it.

Android Klaxon Update

Added a couple new features this morning to the Android version of Klaxon:

• Customize your alarm volume.
• Implemented the new feature: increasing alarm volume.
• Fixed bug where snooze was sometimes not snoozing for the correct amount of time.

Grab it off the Market!

Klaxon - Samsung Light Sensor Update

Version 2.0.0.29

• Updated Klaxon to support Samsung's Light Sensor
• Fixed issue with device not waking up from sleep to sound alarm.

Here's the download!

Klaxon - An Accelerometer Enabled Alarm Clock for Android

 

This is the Android version of Klaxon, the popular Windows Mobile Alarm Clock. In addition to the standard features of the default Android Alarm Clock application, Klaxon has the following features:

• Flip your phone over to snooze it.
• Wake up to a song stored on your SD card.
• Customize your snooze time.
• Additional clock faces.

You can find Klaxon on the Android Market! And for those of you that can't access the market, you can download the Android version of Klaxon here.

Klaxon is now Open Source

As of late, I've found myself more and more disinterested with Klaxon. This is mostly because I'm working on some really cool projects at both home and at work, on both Windows Mobile and Android (nothing I can talk about yet). But feature requests keep coming in, and I simply don't have time to keep up with them anymore. So after much deliberation, I decided to just open source Klaxon.

If any developer wishes to pick up where I left off, please feel free to contact me. I'm willing to give a would be developer access to my source code repository and my blog to keep this project alive. :)

Full source code to Klaxon.

Looking for someone to design a new skin for Klaxon! (and more bug fixes)

Been really busy as of late with a new project, but not too busy to fix some more bugs in Klaxon.

Version 2.0.0.23

• Removed the upper right default "ok" button from the OpenFileDialog. This prevents users from hitting Ok and closing the dialog when no file has been selected.
• Reverted previous change to "dismiss" Windows alarms. This was causing issues on mine and other devices in that the Klaxon Alarm would never show up. In its place, Klaxon now prevents Windows Alarms from flashing, playing sound, or vibrating. The notification will still show up, but at least not it is completely benign.
• You can no longer hit the Off or Snooze buttons while the phone's screen is powered off.
• Klaxon will no longer start the OpenFileDialog in the Windows directory to prevent the device from hanging while all the files are listed.
• Fixed Daylight Savings Bug!

I'm also looking for someone to design a skin or two for Klaxon, as well as a new icon! Please contact me if you are interested!

Download here.

Klaxon Polishing

Version 2.0.0.21

• Fixed out of memory crash bug that would happen when browsing a directory filled with many sound files.
• Changed the Klaxon icon to something nicer looking (seen above). This requires restart, Windows Mobile caches icons.
• The OpenFileDialog now shows the appropriate size folder icon for your phone's resolution.

Edit: Whoops, forgot to include the link to the download!

More Klaxon Cleanup in 2.0.0.19

Changes in the latest version:

• When integrating with Home Screen, Klaxon now cancels all Windows alarms upon firing an alarm.
• Turning off the screen when snoozing is now an option in settings.
• Klaxon will now ask for confirmation if you try to create or edit an alarm that is set as disabled. Some users were accidentally disabling the alarm and pressing OK, and the alarm would obviously not go off.

Klaxon - Accelerometer/G-Sensor Enabled Alarm Clock now supports the Samsung Omnia!

Samsung Omnia users will be pleased to hear that Klaxon now supports their accelerometer. That's the only change in 2.0.0.18. Click here for the Klaxon CAB setup file.

Klaxon Changes in 2.0.0.17

Adding skinning support introduced a lot of bugs, but I'm pretty confident I worked most of them all out now. I'll be releasing new sample skins for Klaxon soon.

The changes in 2.0.0.17 include:

Skinning support implemented, sample skins will be released soon.

Completely stripped out the old Klaxon UI design and added QVGA support for the new skinnable UI.

Fixed bugs related to the new feature that allows you to disable sensors while snoozed.

Download and extract the new TestSkin into \Program Files\Klaxon\TestSkin to create your own skins.

Klaxon += New Features

• Added options to disable each sensor action while snoozed. For example, if your Flip action snoozes your phone, and you don't want to let it resnooze while snoozing (by just picking up your phone in some cases), check this box!
• Added the ability to select a Windows Media Player playlist. You can find playlists in your \Playlists or \Internal Storage\Playlists folders. You can use Windows Media Player on your desktop to create and sync playlists.
• When you snooze your device, the screen is automatically turned off to save power.
• The default sound file is now \Windows\Alarm5.wav. It is not configurable in the UI yet, but you can configure it manually setting the \HKCU\Software\Klaxon\DefaultSoundFile value in the registry. (It does not exist by default, but Klaxon will use it if it is there.)

Download here.

And Another Klaxon Update

Updates and fixes:

• Implemented new skin for the actual Alarm form
• Possibly fixed bug where WAV files were not looping.
• Fixed bug where editing alarms that took place on the noon or midnight hours were bugged
• Implemented 24 hour mode (on the new UI only)
• Vibrations are now 150 and 300 ms instead of 500ms
• Windows Alarms are now schedule with no sound, so all the user may see is a notification (if Home Screen integration is enabled)
• Fixed bug where One Time alarms did not show up on the Home Screen

Download the Klaxon update here.

Klaxon 2.0

Oh man, I'm tired, so I'll make this quick.

New features:

• If you have a 480x640+ screen, you will see the new UI. It's pretty. Still have to skin the alarm form, but besides that, it is done.
• Possibly fixed bug where Klaxon would stay resident in memory.
• The number controls are now gesture based: you can flick them and they will scroll through their range quite rapidly!
• You can now preview the alarm using the play button. (Only available in the new UI)

To Do:

• Time localization (such as 24 hour mode).
• Volume control.
• Figure out a way to turn off the backlight, but also not allow the device to go into sleep mode when snoozing.
• Fix sound looping issue.

Thanks to expo7 from XDA-Developers for the UI design!

Download the new Klaxon here.

Bandwidth Problems Solved!

Thanks to a kind soul from XDA-Developers, I've been able to mirror my various downloads on their hosting service, for free! Thanks again to Rich from BlurryFox! Most of that bandwidth was eaten by Klaxon, so if that's what you are looking for, the download is available at the new mirror.

Klaxon Bug Fixes - New Release

Spent some time fixing Klaxon bugs today:

• Fixed bug where Klaxon immediately closes because it thinks it was shook when the alarm starts (bug in HTC G-Sensor being initialized). I haven't experienced this myself, but I think that is what is happening from the indication in the various logs I received.
• Fixed bug where disabling an alarm does not actually disable it.
• Made Home Screen integration optional: The "My Windows Alarm is firing with Klaxon" bug/issue is tricky. This is happening because I tried to integrate Klaxon alarm with the HTC home screen. I am enabling the Windows in the registry to achieve this, but since this goes around Windows, the alarm never actually gets scheduled and should not fire; but apparently for some people it is. To get integration working properly, do the following:
• Disable all Windows alarms.
• Start Klaxon, and turn on the new setting to enable Home Screen integration.
• DO NOT USE WINDOWS ALARMS ANYMORE! DO NOT EVEN LOOK AT THEM! OPENING THAT FORM WILL CAUSE WINDOWS ALARMS TO RESCHEDULE THEMSELVES! Using Windows alarms while trying to use Klaxon integration is what is causing the problem. If you must use Windows alarm with Klaxon, I would turn home screen integration off.
• Klaxon now restores your original volume after the alarm is shut off.
• Clicking the alarm now opens the Edit form.

Click here for the updated version of Klaxon.

Another Klaxon Release

As promised, I implemented more bug fixes and features for this release. Download Klaxon here.

• The light sensor will only turn off your alarm if the phone is face up. This fixes the issue where the alarm gets shut off if the phones if flipped face down to snooze.
• If the phone is snoozing, a sensor can not be used to turn the alarm off. The off button must be manually pressed. This is a precaution to ensure the phone doesn't get erroneously turned off.
• The shake off function is implemented differently now: if at any point, the phone is subject to 20 G's of force, it will turn off. Previously, it was using an orientation change count. The G measurement method is much more reliable.
• As a silent confirmation, the phone will vibrate once if you put it into Snooze mode. It will Vibrate twice if you turned it off.
• All the sensor actions are configurable: you can now manually configure what you want the alarm to do when you shake it, flip it, or turn on the light.
• Implemented some of the UI clean up changes. This includes bigger Vista style check boxes and radio buttons.
• Implemented an About box which gives you information about your Klaxon version and the author.
• Fixed a bug where the registry entries were not being deleted properly when an alarm was deleted.
• Fixed a bug where the device would go to sleep after a Snooze and not wake up to alarm the user.
• Fixed a bug where the Delay setting was not being saved after editing it.

New Klaxon Release

This new version addresses has the following improvements and fixes:

• Fixed the bug where the alarm would not immediately fire if the device is in "Sleep" mode.
• Fixed a bug where the screen would not light up when the alarm fired.
• Introduced a new Audio Delay feature. Klaxon will now try to wake the user using only the back light for the designated time period. If the user does not snooze or turn off the Klaxon, the alarm will then go off.
• AppToDate support.
• Implemented the Light Sensor shut off: When the alarm starts, Klaxon samples the ambient light. If the light ever increases beyond a certain range from that ambient light, Klaxon will shut off the alarm automatically.

Klaxon: Windows Mobile G-Sensor and Light Sensor Enabled Alarm Clock

I mentioned a post ago that I was working on this. Well it's getting close to completion, and wanted to provide people something to give some feedback on. Right now the finishing touches are in the artwork. Beyond the first screen, the buttons and artwork are really ugly!

You can download Klaxon here.

Using Klaxon is pretty straightforward; it's more or less like the standard Clocks and Alarms application.

G-Sensor Instructions:

• Flip your phone over to snooze.
• Shake your phone to turn the alarm off.

Not yet implemented:

• Artwork (I need to create pretty images to use for buttons)
• Turn off the alarm if the light comes on in the room (using the Light Sensor!)
• Turn on the phone light for 15 seconds, so you have a chance to turn off the alarm before it goes off.