hi

Unfortunately I have no plans to sell Dindy through alternative
channels other than the app market. Not too long ago Google announced
that it will be possible to pay on the market with PayPal, so I hope
that will work for you.

I’m glad to hear the market issue was resolved.

As for Tasker – I’ve already talked to one of Tasker’s developers. He was very helpful and after some back and forth we found where the incompatibility between Tasker and Dindy was. Eventually that developer said that the next Tasker update should work with Dindy. I’m expecting the update myself to test it.

Thanks for reporting this to me,
Amit

Thanks a lot for your great support and given solution. It was a workaround until I resolved the issue with Dindy not being available on the market: a hard reset (which I just did when I got the issue) did show up Diny again.

Now I do have an other question: Tasker-compatible. Tasker is a locale-like application with more options and a bit cheaper. At the website they state that locale plugins are compatible and should work.

It does see the locale plugin dindy, including the warning about Stopping Dindy in default mode, but it doesn’t actually active dindy or de-active dindy. You can run a test on the task but with dindy it does not seem to work. I know it is not really Dindy-related but maybe you can have a look and try to resolve it?

The 14-days trial of Tasker can be downloaded at tasker.dinglisch.net.

Thanks in advance,
Dennis

Thank you very much for bringing this issue with Dindy not being visible on the market to my attention. You are the second Dindy user to report this.

Unfortunately, I have no idea why the app doesn’t appear on the market app on your phone. All I can do is write to Google about it, hoping that they would do something to resolve this. If you look at previous complaints about apps not appearing on the market (like this one: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7591 ) Google’s response was “The Android team is generally not able to help with problems with specific devices. Please contact your carrier or device’s manufacturer for assistance.”

Thanks again,
Amit
(I also sent you a more extended response by email)

A couple of months ago I bought this application on the market and I was always very happy with it. However, after the official update of the Motorola Milestone of last weekend (well, since then I noticed it, not sure if it is the cause), I am not able to find the Dindy application on the Markt anymore. I tried manual searches as well as the QR-barcode link but both give no results.

As I am a daily user of this application please tell me how I can get it back again. My phone is fully unbranded, EU VERSION with latest update (ending with. 36).

With kind regards,
Dennis van de Sande

Thank you very much for the kind words. I’m glad to hear you’re happy with Dindy and I hope you continue to find it useful.

As for your comments:
1. Your idea to disable a profile after a specific time is already being worked on after a friend of mine suggested it. However, I can’t say when this feature will be available. It may take a while.

2. I’m sorry about the misunderstanding regarding the “non-mobile caller” option. Since non-mobile callers are assumed to not be able to get text messages, indeed Dindy will always behave the same for them, regardless of how many times they call. You only get the option to decide what Dindy will do when a non-mobile caller calls. This is the short answer.

The long answer is that the “non-mobile caller” option was the last option added to Dindy profiles (about a month ago). Before that there was only the “unknown caller” option. Some Dindy users requested a distinction to be made between known numbers (such as work and other landlines) and unknown numbers (that are not in the contacts list). For example, let’s say you want to go to sleep and allow anyone you know to wake you up but silence any other number. So Dindy will behave differently for the three type of numbers:
a. Known mobile callers will get the text message and will be able to call again to make the ringer go off
b. Known non-mobile callers will cause the phone to ring the first time they call (provided that you set the “non-mobile caller” option to “second call”)
c. Unknown callers will leave the ringer silent regardless of how many times they call (provided that you set the “unknown caller” option to
“first call”)

Thanks again for your feedback. I really appreciate it.

1) Could you have a per-profile setting after which the active profile ends? I understand some people want specific dates and times, but how about simply “once activated, disable after 60 minutes” where 60 minutes is configurable. That way I can set it and forget it.

2) Maybe I don’t understand the non-mobile thing, but I can’t get non-mobile calls to undo the ringer. If I call from my office phone (labeled “work” on my Android) the ringer never turns back on. My assumption was that on a known non-mobile phone, it would behave the same but just not send the text. So if someone called me twice from a non-mobile phone, it would audibly ring on the second call.

In any case, thanks for the app. Great job!

The irony is that I’m located in Israel, where you still can’t buy apps either. So while I can distribute an app, I can’t see my own app on the market – just like yourself.

I hope that soon you will be able to get paid apps on the market and purchase Dindy.