PhoneSwitch Deluxe 1.3.1 Released

[phil12210]

Hey Everyone,

Not long after the unanounced release of PhoneSwitch Deluxe 1.3 is the release of PhoneSwitch Deluxe 1.3.1. Because not much was said about 1.3 I will go in to detail about what is new with both new versions. First off, version 1.3 stores it's information completely differently from the 1.2.X series. This change should speed up operation as well as make my life much easier when it comes to adding new options as well as changing old ones. With this change, however, you will be required to either delete your old version of PhoneSwitch when upgrading or install 1.3.1 (or higher) to automatically set all of your preferences back to default. Another change that PhoneSwitch Deluxe 1.3.X has seen is the way it handles looking up if a caller exists to determine whether or not to prompt you to add a new contact. The 1.2.X series used a rather slow and rather clunky system of determining this information. On devices with a lot of contacts this would cause the device to hang while it searched your contacts. The new system calls the contacts app directly and lets it handle the dirty work. Version 1.3.1 now offers the option to purchase a registration code directly from your device. By clicking the "Purchase Code" button on the registration screen you will now be taken to MobiHand's mobile shopping cart (which is integrated directly in to BoraWare.com) where your PhoneSwitch deluxe will already be in the cart and your HotSync ID will already be entered. You then simply check out on their secure HTTPS mobile site and you are set to go. Finally, the last new addition to the PhoneSwitch 1.3.X series is the new developer API. Many users have addressed the need to have other programs interact with PhoneSwitch so that those programs (or PhoneSwitch) operate correctly. This new API will allow developers to manually enable/disable PhoneSwitch, manually launch the last or second to last program, and a control a few other things. There will be a complete guide on how to access this API posted on in the PhoneSwitch Deluxe section of BoraWare.com soon.

Feel free to give me feedback on how this new version treats you.  I've been using 1.3.X for quite some time now and it's been very solid.

- Phil -

[Alli]

Sounds great, Phil! Thanks for keeping this one up.

[carrel]

I've been using 1.3.1 since it came out.  It is mostly working great.  But I am noticing one problem that did not exist in 1.2.  Whenever I dial with VoiceDial, it returns to the built-in phone app when the call is done.  I use TAKEphONE as my normal dialer and I never use the built-in phone app.  Also I have the built-in phone app in my exclude list along with VoiceDial.  In 1.2 after using VoiceDial to make a call, at the end of the call I would get returned to the app running before I ran VoiceDial.  But now it is always the phone app.

Dave

[phil12210]

Dave,

I will look in to this problem.  Shimon and I are working on getting PhoneSwith and TAKEphONE to play along better.  I'll see about getting your voice dial problem fixed in this release too.

[carrel]

Nice.  TAKEphONE and PhoneSwitch working together...  Mmmmmm.

Let me know if I can help track down this bug.

Dave

[phil12210]

Nice.  TAKEphONE and PhoneSwitch working together...  Mmmmmm.

Yep, the capture feature already works right.  It works beautifully... dial from a memo, return to the memo.

Let me know if I can help track down this bug.

Sure thing.  PhoneSwitch Deluxe 1.3.X uses an entirely different sub structure which may have some problems with the exception list.  I'll throw you 1.3.2 when it's ready.

- Phil -
BoraWare

[phil12210]

Dave,

Could you send me an email so I can send you 1.3.2 before I release it.  I'd like to make sure the VoiceDial exclude is working properly.  If it is I will release 1.3.2 to everyone else when Shimon of ShSh releases the next version of TAKEphONE that works with it.

- Phil -