'Sniper!' Testing Places Full! Completely Full So Dont Even Ask!

[Guest mini_man]

Sniper

Ever wanted to send anonymous text messages? Ever been on a bus and seen a cute girl sitting in the corner and wished you had her number? Ever been in shop with annoying children playing ringtones and wish you could think of a subtle way to tell them stop it? Ever been in a classroom, office or a pub with your mates and wish you could scare, shock or make them laugh somehow?

Well now you can! Sniper is an amazing application that is simple and very useful to use. Currently in its beta stages Sniper has a very initiative menu system that will make it easier for you to make the correct decision.

Created by Ifor Evans it will run on any Windows Mobile Device! Including Smartphone

Sniper_Viewing_Message.wmv

sending_message.wmv

inbox.wmv

[Guest leethacker]

Wow, thats HOT! Got PM. But I think a public Beta would be much better for the quality of the app. ;)

Edited May 23, 2006 by leethacker

[Guest mini_man]

please remember guys please sign up even if you have an Windows Mobile device AND! a non smartphone with bluetooth!

thanks

Sam and Ifor

[Guest leethacker]

please remember guys please sign up even if you have an Windows Mobile device AND! a non smartphone with bluetooth!

thanks

Sam and Ifor

Okay, in this case you can also add a Motorola V3, L7, V635, a T68i and K700i from SonyEricsson to my list. *ggg* Edited May 23, 2006 by leethacker

[Guest franztristan]

i would gladly give this app a [email protected]

my device o2 xphoneII

windows mobile smartphone 2003se

Edited May 24, 2006 by franztristan

[Guest guidud]

Would be happy to test it with my spvc600. Does the reiciver must have your program installed and running to ?

[Guest riyazhyder]

Hi,

I'd love to have this tested.. my details are

Riyaz Mohiyuddeen

SPV C500 Unlocked logged on to Airtel India

Windows 03 SE ROM Version 4.2.1.4

Bluetooth devises

1.Samsung D500

2.Laptop compaq wide screen

[Guest iforevans]

Hi,

No the receiver doesn't HAVE to have Sniper on it. Hence you can send messages to other types of SmartPhones like Nokias.

However, Sniper has a built in "Inbox" for txt messages received over BlueTooth so for receiving on MS mobiles it's much prettier ;-)

...Ifor

[Guest leethacker]

Can't wait for the Beta-test to start... ;)

[Guest shanedean]

I've added my name too ;)

Wasn't there something similar to this a while back......? A BT messaging/bothering thing?

[Guest mini_man]

Ok! thanks for the applicants so far its been great to know people actually want this app.

Lets talk numbers!

In the Windows Mobile Device to Windows Mobile Device Group we are full!

In the Windows Mobile Device to Non Windows Mobile Device Group we are full!

So Stop Requesting To Be In The Test Program!!

Anyway so Im now going to name each tester and the group they are in.

In the Windows Mobile Device to Windows Mobile Device Group we have.

james

M1DUL

Sky_Lab

jameshpg

Newchurch

Conan_troutman

Jcjdoss

Tech

janp92

The Ape

In the Windows Mobile Device to Non Windows Mobile Device Group we have.

leethacker

Sporkguy

rowmiyo

lukeap69

chelttown

badboy4life

riyazhyder

shanedean

thug_playah

dexter_roos

All of you will be notified within the next 3 hours about testing and the next beta version if you have signed in late!

Thanks for your support but we still need to fill up these few remaining places!

Thanks Sam and Ifor

[Guest leethacker]

Hey cool. I hope I can get the first beta today because tomorrow I have a family meeting where I meets lots of persons with lots of different phones. The perfect situation for testing Sniper in a real-world situation. ;)

Edited May 24, 2006 by leethacker

[Guest mini_man]

Ok the first beta cab has been sent out! please post if you do not recieve it.

Thanks Sam and Ifor

[Guest leethacker]

Haha, okay, lets start with the first bugreport:

1) There is no notification telling me that I am currently receiving a file.

2) File transfer will interrupt somewhere in the middle when I try to send huge files via bluetooth to the storage card. I assume that somehow the file is cached in the main memory and after that transferred to external storage in this beta. This is a pretty bad approach, because as it is now if I have only 512KB free on my phone I can only receive files with a maximum of 512KB, even if I have gigabytes of free room on my storage card.

Okay, that are my first impressions.

Oh, and i guess its written in .Net Compact Framework, right? (because of the long startup time), right?

[Guest iforevans]

Haha, okay, lets start with the first bugreport:

1) There is no notification telling me that I am currently receiving a file.

2) File transfer will interrupt somewhere in the middle when I try to send huge files via bluetooth to the storage card. I assume that somehow the file is cached in the main memory and after that transferred to external storage in this beta. This is a pretty bad approach, because as it is now if I have only 512KB free on my phone I can only receive files with a maximum of 512KB, even if I have gigabytes of free room on my storage card.

Okay, that are my first impressions.

Oh, and i guess its written in .Net Compact Framework, right? (because of the long startup time), right?

Hmm ... Sniper will not start receiving a file without you having agreed to the transfer. Are you saying you didn't get a confirmation popup? What device was this on?

The issue with large transfers I am aware of, and am working on a resolution :-)

have yyou tried the txt messaging side of things yet?

...Ifor

[Guest leethacker]

Hmm ... Sniper will not start receiving a file without you having agreed to the transfer. Are you saying you didn't get a confirmation popup? What device was this on?

The issue with large transfers I am aware of, and am working on a resolution :-)

have yyou tried the txt messaging side of things yet?

...Ifor

No, havent tried text messages yet as I am pretty busy today. I will do that tomorrow. And, no, I dont get a confirmation popup on my phone. It just receives the file without asking me and asks me if it should be received when the transfer is already done. ;-) I am on a i-Mate SP5 with latest AKU2 ROM here and I send the files from my PC (with MS Bluetooth stack).

[Guest M1DUL]

[1) On My Orange SPV M5000 PPC WM5 When I sent a Test message to it from my Orange SPV C500 WM2003Se I can not Delete the message it comes up saying Unexpected Exception occured in Delete Message Reason:-IO Exception

2) When I click onto the Hide bit I can not get the Sniper back up and running I have to restart both the Devices to get the program to come back on.

Okay, that are my first impressions.

[Guest mini_man]

hey there thanks for picking up on that as well, we were seeing if it was just certain phones or many!

We are aware of this problem and are near completion on a fix for this.

A new version will be distributed shortly.

Enjoy the testing.

Sam

[Guest leethacker]

Okay, feature request:

Just talked with my friends about the app and some of them told me that a in-built bluejacking solution would be great. That means: You select a picture or a textmessage, press "Bluejack" and then the phone sends this picture or message to all other bluetooth enabled devices in range, and that every 30 seconds (or more or less / should be user defineable). Haha, stuff for the kiddies ;) , but cool in some way I have to admit. I imagine walking through some crowd with this function running, and all phones around me start beeping and ringing. *lol*

And a request directly from me: Please add all the functions in the first post. That is:

Edited May 24, 2006 by leethacker

[Guest iforevans]

Okay, feature request:

Just talked with my friends about the app and some of them told me that a in-built bluejacking solution would be great. That means: You select a picture or a textmessage, press "Bluejack" and then the phone sends this picture or message to all other bluetooth enabled devices in range, and that every 30 seconds (or more or less / should be user defineable). Haha, stuff for the kiddies ;) , but cool in some way I have to admit. I imagine walking through some crowd with this function running, and all phones around me start beeping and ringing. *lol*

And a request directly from me: Please add all the functions in the first post. That is:

[Guest leethacker]

OK ... AutoAccept is going to be a setting, file type to different folders ... Ok ... but there can't be a folder for EVERY filetype ... there are thousands ;-)

Auto swtich on before Send? I LIKE it! it will be incorporated ...

Set up pairing? What for? What extra does that get you? Am I missing something?

...Ifor

I always thought that autoaccept between two bluetooth devices only works if they are paired. Thats why I wrote about the pairing. When I am wrong there is really no need for pairing.

About filetypes/folders: I want it that it is possible that I can set that (for example):

all pictures (*.jpg, *gif, *.bmp, ...) automaticly go to folder xy

all videos (*.avi, *.3gp, ...) automaticly go to folder ab

all sounds automaticly go to folder cd

rest goes to folder ef

I hope you now understand what I mean. Just have a look at what non-smartphones do with different file types. Then you know what I mean. ;)

Edited May 24, 2006 by leethacker

[Guest chelttown]

I have a bug to report, althought it isn't with the program.

The virus scanner on my hotmail account tells me there is a virus in all the attachments you have sent me, which means I cannot test the program ;) . Please can try to fix the problem or do I need to give you another email address.

Thank you for accepting me for the beta testing,

Chris

Edited May 24, 2006 by chelttown

[Guest mini_man]

I always thought that autoaccept between two bluetooth devices only works if they are paired. Thats why I wrote about the pairing. When I am wrong there is really no need for pairing.

About filetypes/folders: I want it that it is possible that I can set that (for example):

all pictures (*.jpg, *gif, *.bmp, ...) automaticly go to folder xy

all videos (*.avi, *.3gp, ...) automaticly go to folder ab

all sounds automaticly go to folder cd

rest goes to folder ef

I hope you now understand what I mean. Just have a look at what non-smartphones do with different file types. Then you know what I mean.

Yes I have already suggested this but in the way that, some common file types will be put onto a list with custom destinations and then customizable file types and browseable destinations.

[Guest iforevans]

Ok a few points.

For some reason, Hotmail and hotmail alone seems to think there is a virus in the CAB. There isn't. I tried zipping it up but apparently that doesn't help. If anyone is having the same problem let me know and provide an alternative address I can send to.

File types to specified folders with additional user specifiable folders for specified types. Yep, I like the idea.

A radar showing devices and their approximate distances from the user .... hmmm let me investigate how much info I can get from the BlueTooth Radio and get back to u all.

There will be a new Beta at the end of tommorow.

...Ifor

[Guest Laser_iCE]

Hey Ifor, very cool idea for an application indeed :) In regards to the radar, you might want to check out WiFiFoFum, it might help you out and possibly give you some ideas... Also, this is kind of "out there", but is it possible to, once paired with a device, to act like... I dunno, but possibly have some sort of control over the other phone? Clearly different phones would have different capabilities, but I mean possibly having audio come out of the speaker or something...

But yeah, I think the idea that someone mentioned about setting off all the phones around you would be hilarious... Even if what you are sending is corrupt or something so that nothing comes up on the screen, but just listening to a group of phones beeping and ringing would turn more than enough heads!

Also, if you need/want another tester, my mate at work has a JAMin, so whenever I'm at work, I could test it with him :) Let me know if you're interested...

Laser_iCE