Scheduled work

• Verifying on more phone models
• Response time
   

Bluetooth Remote Control 4.0 RC1

• Response time improvements for the more button in phone client 4.0
• Error: Phone could not reconnect on some new Toshiba Bluetooth stack versions.
• Error: WinAMP could not be launched using the phone client 4.0
• Minor not critical bug corrections

  (We are still not happy with the response time for the Itune script in client 4.0. This will be addressed in the next version)

Bluetooth Remote Control 4.0 RC1 Beta

      A new phone client has been developed with a new user interface. The client is based on the
      open source UI implementation FireME. Beside from having a great look and feel it has a much
      better support of touch based phones.

      BRC 4.0 is compatible with the phone client 3.0 and both the client 3.0 and 4.0 is included in the 
      release.

      4.0 Phone client improvements:

• New graphical UI engine
• Theme support
• Landscape mode
• Menu pop-up improving support for touch phones
• Itunes artwork
• ....

Bluetooth Remote Control 4.0 - Phone Client RC1

      A new phone client has been developed with a new user interface. The client is based on the
      open source UI implementation FireME. Beside from having a great look and feel it supports touch
      based phones.

      The new phone client is backwards compatible with Bluetooth Remote Control 3.0 This release
      only covers the phone client and you need to have the BRC 3.0 installed before using it.

    (The FireME library has been modifed slightly and is available here according to the licence)
 

Bluetooth Remote Control 3.0 RC1

• The mouse problem should finally be solved. Please help us to verify that it is not only solved on our own phones.
• Response time for the PowerPoint script is improved
• The transport layer between the phone and pc is rewritten to both gain performance as well as stability. The old optimization mode is thus obsolete and removed.
• The WMP script now releases the WMP player when it is closed
• Various minor issues

Bluetooth Remote Control 2.0 RC9

• Internal restructuring of Bluetooth Remote Control to allow future improvements. This version do not add any features compared with the RC8 version.

Bluetooth Remote Control 2.0 RC8

• Support for Windows Vista
• The Media Player is rewritten and adds the following improvements over the old one.
  • Open Java Script allowing others to modify it
  • Browse play lists
  • Browse artists
  • Set shuffle and repeat
  • Full graphical information about artist, track, track time and more...
  • Support Media Player versions 9,10 and 11
  • And more...
• Mouse mode improvements to improve stability
  • The instability is caused by the large amount of data that is sent to the phone. A new user setting is implemented that allow the user to set how large the desktop is on the phone. Default is 50% and this reduce the data traffic
  • Stability optimization has been improved and with this enabled we cannot recreate the instability problems. This is now set to default on.
  •  How the phone receives byte is improved. With this some earlier phones that we did not support will be supported e.g. Nokia 6600
• The BlueSoleil stack is now automatically detected. And how to set the correct COM port is step-by-step described in the help file.
• ERROR: WinAMP search did not find all matches. The artist is also included and on a match the corresponding song is displayed.

Bluetooth Remote Control 2.0 RC7

• Improved support for the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack. The stack is automatically detected and the right COM port is set. So no configuration is needed on PC! The only configuration needed is to set the phone in "COM port" connect method.

Bluetooth Remote Control 2.0 RC6

• Improved stability when connecting from phone for the Widcomm stack
• File Browser added
• Improvements in mouse mode. A few user have reported problems with Nokia phones and the mouse controller has been redesigned with this in mind.

Bluetooth Remote Control 2.0 RC5

• Possible to connect from PC (Widcomm/Broadcom, Microsoft Bluetooth stacks)
• Automatically reconnect from PC in presentation mode
• Events added
  • Lock PC when phone is out of range
  • Start screen saver when phone is out of range
  • Pause Itune saver when phone is out of range
  • Pause WinAMP when phone is out of range
• Added graphical objects to WinAMP script play, pause, stop, repeat and shuffle
• System volume is now showing the right sound level when launced
• Help file redesigned
• VB and Java script file redesigned to better reflect Java script
• Usability improvements
• ERROR - Fragmented packets from phone could cause the "Waiting for PC" error.

Bluetooth Remote Control 2.0 RC4

• Repeat keys in keymaps. This is a very big improvement that allows the user to hold down keys and still e.g. increase/ decrease volume. All keymaps have been updated to reflect this.
• Mouse mode has been completely redesigned.
  • Zoom in/out from phone.
  • Enter text in phone and set it on pc.
  • Simple editing on pc from phone with carriage return, clear key and space.
  • Performance and usability improvements.
• Presentation mode stopping the computer from going into standby, hibernate and screensaver when holding presentations.
• Authenticate the Bluetooth phone - Denying un-trusted remote phones access to the PC.
• ERROR- BRC 2.0 RC3 could not close down properly in COM mode. The consequence for the user was several instances up and running which in some cases caused the connect to stop working.
• ERROR - OK button in system volume did not work.
• Verifying on more phone models
  • SonyEricsson P990, M600i, K800i, K610i, W700i
  • Nokia E60

Bluetooth Remote Control 2.0 RC3

• The COM port version and the native one has been merged into one common version. This means that the latest version of Bluetooth Remote Control now supports all Bluetooth PC solutions on the market.
  The entire COM port functionality has been rewritten and the old limitation of only supporting COM1-16 has been removed.

Bluetooth Remote Control 2.0 RC2

• The new media script did contain a severe bug causing it to crash on some computers. We are still working on a fix for this problem but in the meantime this version is released. It contains all improvements in 2.0 except the new Media Player Script. Instead the old one is used with extended support for shuffle and repeat.

Bluetooth Remote Control 2.0

• The Media Player Script is rewritten and adds the following improvements over the old one.
  • Open Java Script allowing others to modify it
  • Browse playlists
  • Browse artists
  • Set shuffle and repeat
  • Full graphical information about artist, track, track time and more...
  • And more...
• Improved Power Point script inspired by forum member Christophers COM version
  • Improved browsing for presentations
  • It is now possible to set a max time for a presentation. The phone will then vibrate when the time expires.
  • Plus other minor improvements
• UI improvements
  • UI objects for shuffle, repeat and mute
• ERROR: The keymap F10 button was linked to F0
• ERROR: PC with .NET 2.0 support could not start BRC
• ERROR: When dragging a profile to the same location it did disappear
• ERROR: Some phones did display a white display when trying to access applications e.g. iTune
• And more...

29 January 2006

• New user interface on the phone! All applications uses full screen with dedicated soft keys. Varies graphical objects have been introduces for a more attractive look.
  • Power point shows the next slide picture together with browsable slide notes and presentation time.
  • Itune and WinAMP script have a graphical object showing the time
  • Itune has buttons icons reflecting if the song is playing, pausing or stopped
  • All songs that do not fit the screen scrolls
  • And more...
•  The desktop image is now automatically updated in mouse mode. This means that the user can track what happens on the PC screen on the phone without interacting with the phone.
• The phone icon has been changed to better support Nokia series 60 phones.

8 January 2006

• Bluetooth Remote Control PC program could not be launched if the user was not the administrator on the machine. The program did crash with an error message because it was not possible to get access to the setting file.

7 January 2006

• If the program do not detect the Micorsoft or Widcomm Bluetooth solution! The user is asked to download
  a new version of the program that supports the Bluetooth solution via COM port. This version which is the 28 December 2005 one can also be downloaded here!

5 January 2006

• Native support for Widomm Bluetooth stack. No user configuration is now required for both the Microsoft and Widcomm Bluetooth solutions. True plug and play experience!
• The famous "Waiting for PC..." bug is corrected.
• Full support for Unicode character via UTF-8. So Bluetooth Remote Control supports all languages.
• Power Point notes can now be scrolled!
• Added button to the application library where additional keymaps and scripts are found.

28 December 2005

• Some phones have had problems displaying a lot of items in lists. This is now addressed with a max items number together with next... and previous... when applicable.
• Help file for scripts and keymaps layout.

21 December 2005

• Support for the Nokia N70. Some strange behaviors in the N70 were addressed!

18 December 2005

• New functionality to the Itune script! Shuffle on/off, rank tracks, repeat track or library, add to play list, random track plus a new UI
• Text modifiers allowing a better control of the phone
• Disconnect from PC
• Severe error in WinAMP script stopping the track time to be displayed correctly
• RealPlayer, BSplayer and VLC Media Player key maps improvements
• When the phone search for Bluetooth devices only found computers will be displayed. The gain is a faster search/connect time!

11 December 2005

• Automatically launch at login is now fully supported.
• Itune bug in menu for a few SonyEricsson phone.
• Phone could crash if the desktop image was to big.
• Layout for help texts improved.

13 November 2005

• The user response time has been optimized and greatly improved. This means that all actions on the phone has a faster response time and thus better user experience. Try the mouse desktop and be amazed!
• The phone detects when it loses the connectoin with the PC due to "Out of range" much faster. A reconnect bug has also been removed in this area"
• Verified on Nokia 6230i

6 November 2005

• The phone user interface is improved and is now transparent to the current theme. So Bluetooth Remote Control have the same look and feel as the rest of the phone.
• Several improvements to the power point script. The presentation time is now displayed and it is also possible to jump directly to any slide.
• Search/Reconnect bug has been removed.
• Plus other error corrections.
• Verified on Sony Ercisson W800 and W550

9 August 2005

• A bug in keymaps causing the application to crash on some computers has been removed.
  The setup file is a beta version with release date 2005-07-04.

6 Juni 2005

• Added native support for Microsoft XP SP2 Bluetooth stack. Many customers have had problem with this Bluetooth solution and the setup is now much easier. With this stack the performance is also improved.
•  It is now possible to launch the application in the background when the computer starts.
• Verified on Sony Ericsson 750i

24 April 2005

• Added import/export of keymaps and scripts
• Removed a bug causing UIQ phones to crash at startup. This bug was introduced 17 April

17 April 2005

• It is now possible to zoom out from the desktop when controlling the mouse (user setting)

15 April 2005

• Displaying images in full phone screen size (user setting)
• Startup image added on phone client

6 April 2005

• Improved Power Point support for UIQ phones
• Full WinAMP user interface support
• Possible to see computer desktop in the phone when controlling the mouse
• Possible to reduce number of colors in images to improve reponse time and performance

24 March 2005

• Added support for UIQ phones by verifying with the Sony Ericsson P910i

21 March 2005

• Added stability mode! This mode is required by some phones due to poor Bluetooth implementation by phone manufactures

20 March 2005

• Verifying with Nokia Series 60 6260. Some general stability issues were addressed.
• Now supports black and white pictures

16 March 2005

• The phone client now detects if the phone is supported and displays an error message if not
• Added instruction on how to write VB scripts for Bluetooth Remote Control
• The OK button is available in all phone UI window
• Corrected a couple of bugs

13 March 2005

• Minor UI changes

7 March 2005

• Added the following keymaps:
  WinAMP
  XingDVD Player
  ATI DVD Player
  Real Player

6 March 2005

• Removed a bug in the installation packet installing the incorrect .NET framework version on some computers

3 March 2005

• Removed bug on 6230 using the OK button
• New phone icon as well as connect icon on PC
• Minor UI improvement on phone

27 February 2005

• Added support for the .NET framework in the installation file.
• Added screenshots for Nokia 6600.

23 February 2005

• Bluetooth Remote Control 1.0 Beta is released.

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