[mrking]

Originally Posted by AxelE

You may try to download the new version (0.30.0) with the opportunity to select "Show kB" in the preferences. So you might relax your eyes The max/s is shown in bytes, though, all the time. Using GPRS as me, it makes more sense.

http://www.ehnert.net/MiniMoni/MiniMoni.zip

There is second option added for the fonts to use, which still has no real function

When i download it is still version 0.26.3

[AxelE]

Mike, just tried it myself and got the new one. Probably cleaning the cache of your browser?

AxelE

[mrking]

Originally Posted by AxelE

Mike, just tried it myself and got the new one. Probably cleaning the cache of your browser?

AxelE

Very nice. Thank you.

[AxelE]

Mike, fine. I recomment to close the program before installing the new version. Otherwise the BB will boot.

AxelE

[bjchantry]

Wirelessly posted (Vodacom 8700V: BlackBerry8800/4.2.1 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/168 UP.Link/6.3.1.12.0)

Originally Posted by rivviepop

sweet! I have no real need to monitor my data usage but I love me some geeky tools that...well, let me be nerdy.

Here's a JAD file for those (like me) who need OTA installs:

MiniMoni.jad

MIDlet-Name: Mini Monitor Application
MIDlet-Vendor: LexaSoft
MIDlet-Version: 0.26.3
MIDlet-Description: Small monitoring application for traffic parameters
MIDlet-Jar-Size: 0
RIM-COD-URL-1: MiniMoni.cod
RIM-COD-Size-1: 48404
RIM-COD-Module-Dependencies: net_rim_cldc,net_rim_os
MicroEdition-Configuration: CLDC-1.1
MicroEdition-Profile: MIDP-2.0
Manifest-Version: 1.0

What am I missing, I need it OTA as well, how do I install as I see no link? Thanks.

[rivviepop]

Originally Posted by AxelE

Difficult for me to say ... As I'm using a device without Wifi and for that have a JDE 4.2 installed no information is there about Wifi traffic. But I'll have a look on the 4.3 JDE later on, though, it would mean to maintain two different versions - what I honestly would not like to ... But I agree, if the Wifi is included the measurement stops to make sense.

I was a bit more scientific about it and indeed, Wifi traffic is not being counted. I used the Traffic Watch feature and recorded an EDGE session of data to the BlackBerry homepage, but the same steps with Wifi enabled (either mode, T-Mobile proxy or Direct) resulted in 0 bytes recorded (cache cleared between tests, of course). This is confirmed by the graphic displaying graph lines for EDGE and no display of anything during Wifi.

Maybe there's a different network API hook you can use in SDK 4.2? The BB 8820 is an "older" device with Wifi which I would assume is SDK 4.2 in nature, but not being a BB coder I am just guessing here...

[rivviepop]

Originally Posted by bjchantry

What am I missing, I need it OTA as well, how do I install as I see no link? Thanks.

You must host the OTA files yourself until Axel decides he wishes to host it. You can read more at a blog entry of mine (it's also somewhere here on BBF if you search):

configuring apache for mobile browsing « rivviepop phantom

Here's a new JAD for 0.30.0

MiniMoni.jad

MIDlet-Name: Mini Monitor Application
MIDlet-Vendor: LexaSoft
MIDlet-Version: 0.30.0
MIDlet-Description: Small monitoring application for traffic parameters
MIDlet-Jar-Size: 0
RIM-COD-URL-1: MiniMoni.cod
RIM-COD-Size-1: 49488
RIM-COD-Module-Dependencies: net_rim_cldc,net_rim_os
MicroEdition-Configuration: CLDC-1.1
MicroEdition-Profile: MIDP-2.0
Manifest-Version: 1.0

[AxelE]

That are really good news.

So obviously the traffic watch was the first time of real use

I had a look in the 4.3 API yesterday evening end did not find any changes to the part of the API I use. The same for the different 4.2 versions.

Currently working on the font, what is time consuming as I have to take into account everywhere in the code. Secondly I try to find a solution to handle the "billing period problem" ...

Regards AxelE

Originally Posted by rivviepop

I was a bit more scientific about it and indeed, Wifi traffic is not being counted. I used the Traffic Watch feature and recorded an EDGE session of data to the BlackBerry homepage, but the same steps with Wifi enabled (either mode, T-Mobile proxy or Direct) resulted in 0 bytes recorded (cache cleared between tests, of course). This is confirmed by the graphic displaying graph lines for EDGE and no display of anything during Wifi.

Maybe there's a different network API hook you can use in SDK 4.2? The BB 8820 is an "older" device with Wifi which I would assume is SDK 4.2 in nature, but not being a BB coder I am just guessing here...

[AxelE]

rivviepop

seems we wrote in parallel

For the OTA I already made a test and had a problem afterwards with my BB that causes me to delete all application data. But it might have been a problem with my JAD file.

I can use your JAD and put it together with the COD on the webserver.

Will do this in the upcoming days

AxelE

[AxelE]

Hi all,

for everybody who might need an OTA:

http://www.ehnert.net/MiniMoni/MiniMoni.jad

I've not tested that. Please let me know if it works.

AxelE

[John Clark]

Just loaded this. Nice app! It seems to me that WiFi data would be nice to have but as a separate logging. I'd want to be able to keep track of the billable data vs. the free data.

A Kudos goes out to AxelE for this app. As was stated above, the Rogers folks will be very happy with you! It'll be nice for travelling overseas, as well.

Well done! Nice UI, as well.

[AxelE]

Hi John,

Thanks for the kudos Glad to receive so much acknowledgement for my "Hello world" application

For the WLAN... Right now I haven't found an API access to this information. Moreover: I have no opportunity to test it as I'm using a device without it... But I've put it beside on my to do list other proposals

Originally Posted by John Clark

Just loaded this. Nice app! It seems to me that WiFi data would be nice to have but as a separate logging. I'd want to be able to keep track of the billable data vs. the free data.

[John Clark]

I tried the OTA link and it brings me to the download page ok. I already had it loaded so I didn't download again. Looks good, though.

[John Clark]

I posted the OTA link in your first post....Hope that's ok.

Also, I just rebooted and the device counter reset to 0. Is there a way to keep continuity with this?

I really don't need to keep track of my data but this app is intriguing to me. I like it.

[AxelE]

The daily and monthly totals are saved every hour in the flash. As well as the current counter status from the API. If the device is booted the totals are still there and will be used for further calculations. As the API counters are reset to 0 on boot the traffic cumulated between the last writing of the data and the moment of boot is lost. This could be avoided by two measures: Writing more often (there is a menu point "Update now", which could be used to trigger the writing), or closing the application before reboot. Because on close of the application the data is written to the flash in any case.

Hope I expressed myself understandable ...

AxelE

Originally Posted by John Clark

What happens to the data if the device is rebooted? Is the logging data saved in the app as well as on the SD card? I guess what I'm asking is will there be continuity in the data recorded for the month if the device is rebooted?

Also, I tried the OTA link and it brings me to the download page ok. I already had it loaded so I didn't download again. Looks good, though.

[John Clark]

Excellent! So, the most that would be lost is one hour of data counting if an "update now" or "close" is not performed. Is this written to the SD card or is it written to device memory. My other thought is how much device memory will this app use (for recording, etc.) over the course of a month? BB's have been notorious for losing memory over the course of several days and can usually be attributed to 3rd party apps.

[AxelE]

Thanks for that.

Reseting the counter does'nt really harm as I explained in my previous post. If you take care closing the application right before booting you will loose no information. If not, the most you may loose is the traffic of the last hour.

So, the counter are 0. But the number on top of page should not be 0. Of course only, if between installing the apps and rebooting was a timeframe of more then one hour

BTW: I don't need to keep the track on my data volume either But for this application seemed to be a real need and so it was a good exercise for my first Java program.

Originally Posted by John Clark

I posted the OTA link in your first post....Hope that's ok.

Also, I just rebooted and the device counter reset to 0. Is there a way to keep continuity with this?

I really don't need to keep track of my data but this app is intriguing to me. I like it.

[John Clark]

Thanks. That worked great. I did an "update now" and then rebooted. The app showed the same data count on top as before the reboot.

Again, nicely done application. Will be interesting to use it for a month and see just how much data I do use.

[AxelE]

We better should IM... You are completaly right, the max you can use is one hour.

The information is stored in the device memory. Only if you use the function to write the logbook on SD information will be written on SD. I did not use SD for the all the data as not all devices have SD.

We can estimate to have less then 1 k for preferences and less the 1 k for the counters to be stored. This two parts are not increasing over the time. The only part that might increase is the logbook storing a record of lets say 50 bytes per day. Right now I have no purging established, but the idea is to later on delete all logbook records older then 60 days.

AxelE

Originally Posted by John Clark

Excellent! So, the most that would be lost is one hour of data counting if an "update now" or "close" is not performed. Is this written to the SD card or is it written to device memory. My other thought is how much device memory will this app use (for recording, etc.) over the course of a month? BB's have been notorious for losing memory over the course of several days and can usually be attributed to 3rd party apps.

[AxelE]

Fine to see, that it works as designed

Originally Posted by John Clark

Thanks. That worked great. I did an "update now" and then rebooted. The app showed the same data count on top as before the reboot.

Again, nicely done application. Will be interesting to use it for a month and see just how much data I do use.