Android Widget for showing your pre-pay balance.

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#431004 25-Jan-2011 13:20

you can its in the app manager under settings, but my release note did say that an upgrade may require a reboot - i changed some class names and it seems an android system is not happy about that in upgrading a widget.. I couldnt not rename the classes though as i had not named them nicely to begin with..

Phone: Google Nexus 1 , stock Gingerbread 2.3.4 Self Rooted.

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#431008 25-Jan-2011 13:30

Sorry, didn't read the release notes - my fault, I just saw updates in the Market and just hit Update All.

A reboot of the phone makes the widget work again.

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#431021 25-Jan-2011 13:44

it took me a day to figure out why my code changes crashed on update, problem was my phone has a habit of rebootiing itself occasionally so that made things worse by hiding the problem..

Its a pain, I wont be re-naming the important classes again - its one of those learning moments..

Phone: Google Nexus 1 , stock Gingerbread 2.3.4 Self Rooted.

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#431131 25-Jan-2011 18:50

Seems to have updated OK for me. I haven't rebooted, but I did delete and replace the widget on the home screen.

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#431143 25-Jan-2011 19:12

n4: Seems to have updated OK for me. I haven't rebooted, but I did delete and replace the widget on the home screen.

that may do it, really unsure how android is keeping things around..

Earlier I made the widget "steal" all the other widgets on my android emulator, that was interesting.. I had my account balance widget drawn on the power control and some other widget..

Phone: Google Nexus 1 , stock Gingerbread 2.3.4 Self Rooted.

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#431145 25-Jan-2011 19:22

wintersm:
n4: Seems to have updated OK for me. I haven't rebooted, but I did delete and replace the widget on the home screen.

that may do it, really unsure how android is keeping things around..

Earlier I made the widget "steal" all the other widgets on my android emulator, that was interesting.. I had my account balance widget drawn on the power control and some other widget..

OK may have spoken too soon, just got a Force Close. Looks like a reboot is required after all :-)

Samsung Note20 Ultra, on 2degrees

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#431790 27-Jan-2011 12:57

Sometimes the widget just crashes and asks to Force Close. I've found that removing the widget and adding it again doesn't help. But instead of rebooting the phone, removing the widget, going into Manage Applications and hitting Force Stop then re-adding the widget fixes it. Hate how my IDEOS takes like 5 mins to reboot.

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#431875 27-Jan-2011 15:54

I have hoped my last change fixed it, but for me it craps out after the phone is left overnight - the android system is dropping something so when I go to refresh it hits a null pointer..

I am braining over this, my code in that area is basically similar to the power widget, so that has me puzzled, also, it takes a long time to get the phone in that state to debug.. I will have to upload a debug into my phone tonight and look tomorrow morning and see what its doing...

Its to do with updating the widget controls..

I am onto- it, i am really peeved that something that should be simple and solid dies overnight..

Phone: Google Nexus 1 , stock Gingerbread 2.3.4 Self Rooted.

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#431876 27-Jan-2011 15:58

wintersm:
i am really peeved that something that should be simple and solid dies overnight..

Welcome, you must be new here. :-D

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slippers

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#431945 27-Jan-2011 20:51

Can you make a version that just pulls the USSD data and does nothing else?
The Android SDK might not support USSD directly but it does support AT.

AT+CUSD=1,"*100*1#"

Iv noticed that Android doesn't like #100#1# or *100#1# it only responds properly with *100*1#

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#431958 27-Jan-2011 21:17

slippers: it only responds properly with *100*1#

That is the only correct invocation, technically. Some handsets are less strict though.

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#432061 28-Jan-2011 08:24

slippers: Can you make a version that just pulls the USSD data and does nothing else?
The Android SDK might not support USSD directly but it does support AT.

AT+CUSD=1,"*100*1#"

Iv noticed that Android doesn't like #100#1# or *100#1# it only responds properly with *100*1#

I think the problem is retrieving the response. I haven't tried it yet, but from what I've read the only way to get it is by searching logs.

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#432065 28-Jan-2011 08:40

Ok, I made a fix yesterday and left my phone overnight like usual, this morning I did an update and it worked fine!!! no crash. This version is uploaded as 0.9.9, let me know how you go.. If there is any more problems with updates after periods of the phone being "sleep" let me know what launcher you are using, I am using zeam.

I will defiantly not be doing any work on USSD, there is no official supported SDK, I could look in the source code of android and find what its doing, but i suspect any mobile provider will not be happy about that service being hit regularly.

Now, stats from the android market 103 total downloads, 84 active installs..

:)

Phone: Google Nexus 1 , stock Gingerbread 2.3.4 Self Rooted.

minigopher17

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#432224 28-Jan-2011 14:35

So far, so good! My phone's been sleeping, in and out of wifi, and the widget hasn't crashed!

Yay! Well done.

BTW, I'm using the standard default launcher.

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#433370 31-Jan-2011 20:13

i think i have found a bug on gingerbread.

Im using CM 7.0 #21 on a desire HD

When i load this widget up it says " you must be using a 2degrees sim"

Im using a 2degrees pay monthly sim with a ported 021 number./

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