Comments on: Compatibility Research

By: djkgd

djkgd — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:23:05 +0000

how do you get to the whisper feature on the iPhone? I’m looking for it but I can find it help me pleeeeeease!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:28:03 +0000

1: When you try to start an app that uses the camera (such as Burp, Quest, Collage), does the app start and run fine? What happens when you try to use the camera in those apps? Do you get a blank screen? Does it crash? Something else?

It acts as if there is a camera, and the camera snap thing happens (it goes in to the middle and comes back out on a black screen)

2: Elmo and Panic both use the vibration feature of the iPhone. Do the apps still seem to work, generally, on the iPod Touch? For instance, when you tickle Elmo, he’s supposed to laugh and vibrate. Do you still hear the laugh, at least?

They obviously don’t vibrate, although if you have headphones in, they will have sound, i thought elmo was just a picture to start with

3: Whisper uses the iPhone microphone to record. I assume Whisper still runs for you? What happens when you try to record? Do you get any errors? Crashes? Or does it just act like it is recording and go about its business?

It thinks it’s recording but it doesn’t, occasionally mine did crash but not a major crash. You can also listen to other peoples “whispers”

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:43:55 +0000

Agree with other itouch owners.

By: mmoroca

mmoroca — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:29:07 +0000

First of all, thanks! Now your answer:

1.- Runs fine (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmoroca/1996644666/in/set-72157602725937060/).
2.- it doesnt vibrate as expected, everything else is ok…
3.- just act like it is recording.

By: D4V3

D4V3 — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:36:44 +0000

Yup, it all works on the iPod Touch, but it just isn’t possible to make pictures without a camera, record without a mic or vibrate without a vibrating engine Have you seen the ripoff of your level? it’s in the installer now, called iLevel! lame!

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:15:06 +0000

Thanks guys! You’ve been most enlightening!

By: jbr

jbr — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:14:14 +0000

All itouch apps work perfectly, the non touch features just pretend to work. Basically, I confirm what everyone else says. I still like whisper, even if I can’t record.

By: Mr Magoo

Mr Magoo — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:57:26 +0000

All work just fine as Bliks said above,
with my iTouch (1.1.1 and 1.1.2)

Thanks again for thinking about us forgotten
iTouch owners.

Mr Magoo

By: Bliks

Bliks — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:20:14 +0000

hey Sean,

I have a touch and have enjoyed the novelty of you apps

As for the ones with iPhone only features, the apps work exactly as they should, just without the vibrations and for the camera it just shows a black screen… if you try to take a pic it says something like, your hardware doesnt support this feature or nothing at all will happen.

Keep up the great work!

Cory

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:09:40 +0000

@Jemand: lol - yeah.. turns out the way the vibration works is you turn it on and the code has to explicitly turn it off. It didn’t occur to me that the OS wouldn’t “clean up” when the app was exited while vibrating… The simple fix is to just cause the phone to vibrate again either with Panic, Elmo, or anything else and when that code goes to shut off the motor, the phone stops vibrating.

Obviously the Panic/Elmo apps should check for this case and try to shut the motor off as the app exits - but I didn’t think to even try that at the time…