Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

Post by jfj » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 2:27 PM UTC

  com.carrotpop.www.smth         E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
        java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: requested provider gps doesn't exisit
        at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1429)
        at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1379)
        at android.location.ILocationManager$Stub$Proxy.requestLocationUpdates(ILocationManager.java:646)
        at android.location.LocationManager._requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:660)
        at android.location.LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:482)
        at com.ansca.corona.CoronaSensorManager$1.run(CoronaSensorManager.java:163)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Post by Thrymr » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 2:28 PM UTC

Stately wrote: post #48

atesti wrote: post #44

I wonder how this app works: Obviously it must transmit the highscore quickly enough before the phone shatters. I hope it opens and warms up a connection before you throw it. Maybe it can constantly transmit the height and falling time/speed up until the last second of life of the phone

If the app is indeed able to have a fairly accurate height value, it just needs the turning point height in order to calculate speed, duration of fall, and the (more or lees) exact time of impact. So it could transmit the value whenever it detects that the phone has stopped moving upwards.

Post by Someone » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 2:39 PM UTC

jschulenklopper wrote: post #38

ehmuidifici wrote: post #15

Well, looking at the "World top 10" high scores (on app), the top one has a record of 43.16m. I cannot imagine why someone would threw a cellphone to this far. I wonder if there is a way to "hack" the accelerometer...

In addition to " why someone would throw a phone that far"... that height of 43 m is impressive, since it (neglecting any force except gravity) requires an object to be thrown vertically at around 29 m/s to stay in the air for almost 9 seconds. 29 m/s is over 104 km/h... but throwing things upwards is not that easy. That top score should be the result of manipulating the sensors or the data sent to the server. [edit:…

Post by jeswin » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 2:52 PM UTC

jschulenklopper wrote: post #38

ehmuidifici wrote: post #15

Well, looking at the "World top 10" high scores (on app), the top one has a record of 43.16m. I cannot imagine why someone would threw a cellphone to this far. I wonder if there is a way to "hack" the accelerometer...

In addition to " why someone would throw a phone that far"... that height of 43 m is impressive, since it (neglecting any force except gravity) requires an object to be thrown vertically at around 29 m/s to stay in the air for almost 9 seconds. 29 m/s is over 104 km/h... but throwing things upwards is not that easy. That top score should be the result of manipulating the sensors or the data sent to the server. [edit:…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 2:56 PM UTC

protomyth wrote: post #27

dylangs1030 wrote: post #5

It really bothers me that Apple banned an app like this. Just allow people to be idiotic. There's even a disclaimer after all... As for the app itself, cool! I'm glad somebody had the audacity to ship something as outrageous as this. I don't think it will get much of a following, but I suppose if you really don't care about your phone or you're really confident in catching this could be a cool, reckless waste of 10 m…

Apple should ban this app. The amount of support it is going to eat up not to mention the headlines the tech press is going to write are not worth it. Selling an app that is basically designed to break the phone is just a really bad idea.