Droid support and thank you, beta users!

We released WaveSecure on Android Market in early September. At around the same time, Sprint launched the HTC Hero and we were flooded with bug reports and issues from Sprint Hero users. Since we are in Singapore and did not have access to the Sprint Hero (not even on roaming, since Sprint is a CDMA network and there are no CDMA networks here!), we asked users to help us identify these issues so that we can fix them. The same thing happened when the Droid was released.

Lots of people volunteered to help us test and verify our fixes. We chipped away at the issues and consistently released updates every 2 weeks for the past 3 months. As of the last update (v3.0.0.34), we had full Sprint Hero support except for the location tracking feature, mainly because Sprint and/or HTC had done some customizations on Android 1.5 that broke our location feature if GPS was not available.

Today, we are glad to announce that WaveSecure supports Android 2.0 (in addition to 1.5 and 1.6) and CDMA networks. This means that the Droid and the Sprint Hero (except location) and future phones released on Android 1.6 and 2.0 will be supported, unless the manufacturers decide to muck around a little too much and break something that we depend on!

This update has quite a few major fixes/enhancements, listed below:

1. Enhanced location tracking accuracy. Some of users faced some issues with location tracking, sometimes showing the current position in another country altogether! We now ride on the Android platform's location information service. Preliminary testing shows that this information is more accurate.
2. Hard reset proof. If WaveSecure is packaged as part of the ROM, it will connect to the server and you can continue to track the phone. More details coming in the next blog post.
3. Better and faster lock. Some users have complained that the lock screen can be circumvented sometimes. We have improved the locking mechanism and it should be harder to circumvent now.
4. SMS restore fixes. Large amounts of SMS could not be restored - this has been fixed.

Of course, without our beta users, this would not have been possible. We'd especially like to thank Eddie, Warren, Thorvald, Andy, Matt, Kashif, Ben, Topaz and Chris for their support.

Thank you and May the phone be with you!

WaveSecure update for Android - CPU sleep issue fixed!

We have published a major update to the Android Market that fixed an issue that has been bugging a lot of our users - WaveSecure keeps the CPU awake 100% of the time and does not let the phone sleep. Several users from MoDaCo forums and other enterprising users helped us figure out the cause and we are happy to announce that we have fixed it.

Below is a quick comparison of the partial wake usage (which was preventing the phone from sleeping) in the older version of WaveSecure and the newer version, using Spare Parts ,run on different phones simultaneously.


WaveSecure v3.0.0.31 - HTC Hero: All time partial wake usage



v3.0.0.34 - HTC Dream: All time partial wake usage



This update also includes other fixes such as:

1. Support for Sprint Hero (except location tracking). All our Sprint beta testers have been fantastic in helping us test and iron out the issues. Everything should work now, except for the location tracking feature - which we are trying to fix. However, if you have GPS turned on - location tracking will work for you. Of course, by the time we could get this to work the Verizon Droid came out and we are working on supporting that in the next update.

2. A couple of bugs were fixed for call log backup where the time wasn't showing up properly. If backed up from the HTC Hero, the number was showing up for missed calls.

3. Full support for MOTO Cliq (kind of irrelevant now that the Droid here) and HTC Tattoo

4. Improved number verification process during registration. The way number verification works is that it asks you to enter your phone number and then it sends an SMS to yourself. If you receive the SMS, the number is verified and you proceed with registration. We always assumed that it should not take you more than 1 minute to receive an SMS sent to yourself but man, were we proved wrong by the Sprint network! This was the root cause of Sprint users not being able to verify their phone numbers during registration. The timeout has now been increased to 3 minutes and a helpful countdown timer while waiting for the SMS.

Thanks to all the users who helped us test out our various fixes and being patient with us - we couldn't have done this without you!

Do head over to our official feedback forum to vote for and suggest new features/enhancements. May the Phone be With You!