GT5 Tuner: A QuickTune and Setup Recorder for Android

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DigitalBaka
So fat it looks good and it is completely useable. Maybe doesn't look as pretty as it could or have optimum real estate usage but nothing really effects actually using it for what it does.
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Glad to hear it is working for you. The next release (due in a couple of days) should be a wee bit prettier!

DigitalBaka
If possible, I'd like to see a "help" link, either a button somewhere or a menu option that will take me to this thread and oppositelock's so I can easily read up on how all the settings work and the differences between the tune calculators.
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On the Help screen within the app there is a link to this thread. And there is a link to oppositelock's thread in the OP of this thread.

DigitalBaka
I can think of some other things layout-wise, but maybe those might be better served if I doodle sorting and send it your way. :D

Excellent job on this!
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By all means send me doodles! The layout (and sort order) for larger screens should be better in the new version but I've always been open to suggestions on this app.
 
Can't wait to see the new look.

If you need help with testing certain things than let me know. The app is downloading and running fine on an ATT Samsung Galaxy S2 (rooted).

I've only had the app force close once when switching from transmission tune back to main screen.

A quick startup tutorial would be very helpful for the final versions.
 
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Rudenut
So I seem to have expired. Is the expiration necessary? I cannot use it.
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Apologies for this - I was hoping to get the next version out before the end of January but development has taken a lot longer than expected.

I'll get a patched, non-expired version up today and then hope to have the latest version available in the next couple of weeks.

I put the expiry into the app partly to ensure users were on the latest versions. Guess this has backfired on me! :dunce:


Edit: Done. Please find version 0.80.2 available via the link in the OP.
 
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Fantastic. This is a great app. I have found it is a great starting point for most cars. There are a few that don't fit the mold, but for the most part it works.

Curious if the rpm at hp/torque and wheelbase/trackwidth would refine further. Maybe an option for those inclinedto hunt down such info.
 
Rudenut
Fantastic. This is a great app. I have found it is a great starting point for most cars. There are a few that don't fit the mold, but for the most part it works.

Curious if the rpm at hp/torque and wheelbase/trackwidth would refine further. Maybe an option for those inclinedto hunt down such info.
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Glad you like the app and find the Quick Tune useful - Kudos goes to oppositelock for the Quick Tune calculations.

One of the standards I've tried to stick to with the android app is to keep it simple. I doubt that many would use the full version of the gear calculator (I personally wouldn't) and so I've no plans to go down this route. Sorry to disappoint.
 
RDAardvark
Glad you like the app and find the Quick Tune useful - Kudos goes to oppositelock for the Quick Tune calculations.

One of the standards I've tried to stick to with the android app is to keep it simple. I doubt that many would use the full version of the gear calculator (I personally wouldn't) and so I've no plans to go down this route. Sorry to disappoint.
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Well just the same it is great. Being able to quickly reference my tunes and adjust accordingly means I can revert to previous settings if I make an error.
 
Hey Aardvark. The app crashes when you calculate a quick tune, press the back button and try to calculate another quick tune.

I'm not sure if this is a phone specific problem. Just wanted to notify you.
 
K24Boosted
Hey Aardvark. The app crashes when you calculate a quick tune, press the back button and try to calculate another quick tune.

I'm not sure if this is a phone specific problem. Just wanted to notify you.
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I can't replicate this!
Do you have the app set to default to a particular version of Quick Tune? If so, which version?
Are you tapping Quick Tune from the 'Tune' screen, generating a quicktune and then returning to the front 'Car' screen?
Can you let me know exactly what you do to rash the app please? I'm puzzled by this!
 
Default Quicktune is set to always ask. I just pinpointed the problem.

1) Load a car
2) Press next
3) Generate quicktune 2
4) Press back to go to Quicktune, transmission, misc screen
5) Generate quicktune 1
6) This causes app to crash.

You can do the same with loading quicktune 3 and going back to load quicktune 1. Seems to be a problem with reverting back to quicktune 1 after generating quicktune 2 or 3.
 
RDAardvark, thanks for this app. I had built an MS Access database to store all my tunes but this is so much easier for me when tuning a car. Just wanted to say thanks and to let you know that I have this working on the following three devices:

- Samsung Galaxy SII
- Creative ZiiO 10" tablet
- Hip Street 7" tablet

All 3 devices are running 2.2 or higher. I use it mostly on my tablets.

One question I do have is in regards to the QuickTunes. I probably missed it somewhere in the posts, but can you please explain the differences between the 3 options? I'm just not sure what they really mean.

Thanks again for this excellent app.
 
K24Boosted
Default Quicktune is set to always ask. I just pinpointed the problem.

1) Load a car
2) Press next
3) Generate quicktune 2
4) Press back to go to Quicktune, transmission, misc screen
5) Generate quicktune 1
6) This causes app to crash.

You can do the same with loading quicktune 3 and going back to load quicktune 1. Seems to be a problem with reverting back to quicktune 1 after generating quicktune 2 or 3.
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Thanks for this: Seems I've already fixed this in the version I'm developing! That's why I couldn't recreate it. I went back to the public version and was able to recreate it.

The new version will be released in the next week and brings the option to use car sets as well as improved user interfaces on small and large screen devices.
 
F1Racer68
RDAardvark, thanks for this app. I had built an MS Access database to store all my tunes but this is so much easier for me when tuning a car. Just wanted to say thanks and to let you know that I have this working on the following three devices:

- Samsung Galaxy SII
- Creative ZiiO 10" tablet
- Hip Street 7" tablet

All 3 devices are running 2.2 or higher. I use it mostly on my tablets.

One question I do have is in regards to the QuickTunes. I probably missed it somewhere in the posts, but can you please explain the differences between the 3 options? I'm just not sure what they really mean.

Thanks again for this excellent app.
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Thanks for the feedback. You'll be glad to know that the next release of the app will have improved screen layouts on your large tablet. What's interesting here is that you have a 7" tablet. I've not optimised the app yet for this size of screen so when I do release the next version I'd be very interested to hear how it behaves on your Hip Street tablet.

Regarding your question about the QuickTunes, the formulae behind these buttons were written by oppositelock. Version 1 uses the calculations from his first spreadsheet and this version didn't generate front toe. The second version made more use of the front weight distribution and the third and latest version is able to generate downforce settings.

It's a matter of personal preference which version you use and you may find one suits your driving style better than the others. Or works better with a particular type of car. One user has even found that using version 1 and settings the suspension level to 1 and the balance fine tune to 10 will give good drifting tunes!

The key is to experiment - Try mixing and matching suspension settings from one version with ride height and brake balance from another. It may be disastrous or it may be wonderful!
 
Version 0.81.0 is now available

*** Important: As before, before installing this new version, please ensure you export your car database and backup your tune database

Summary of changes:
  1. Added: The ability to use 'car sets' - Groups of cars contained in a file on your SD card (see notes below)
  2. Added: Help button to Transmission and Gear calculator screens, with text on how to setup gears
  3. Added: 4WD transmission type to allow for missing transmission type in RabbidMaggot's car data.
  4. Added: Extra check to ensure we have a valid value for the number of gears a car has.
  5. Added: Alternative Brake Balance formulae can now be used in QuickTune V3.
  6. Added: 'Create new Car Set' button on save a car setup dialog,
  7. Added: If transmission or drivetrain are invalid when car is loaded, show a dialog box to this effect.
  8. Change: Updated general help dialog
  9. Change: Raised upper limits for gear ratios on the Transmission screen.
  10. Change: Max aero now 150/200 to allow for the stupid X2010
  11. Change: About screen
  12. Change: Revised check for a valid car setup - Would disable quick tune for the X2010 and other such cars.
  13. Change: Check Tune file for problems every five uses of the app.
  14. Change: Added further checks to look for invalid Tune names
  15. Change: Rewrote most dialogs so they will adapt better to different screen sizes
  16. Change: Minor formatting revisions to the help text
  17. Change: Amended 'tune' and 'parts' screen to address issue with HVGA screens.
  18. Change: Major additions and revisions to the screen layouts for large screens (tablets).
  19. Fix: After visiting the Transmission calculator screen, pressing Help on Transmission screen would crash the app.
  20. Fix: Don't allow filenames to be blank
  21. Fix: On large screen devices, the parameters on the Tune screen were not in order.
  22. Fix: App would crash when Quicktune V1 was selected straight after being on V2 or V3 screens.
  23. Fix: Added further checks to look for invalid Tune names

Some of you who follow oppositelock's Quick Tune spreadsheet thread will have noticed that RabbidMaggot has very generously shared over 500 Quick Tune spreadsheets with the GTPlanet community. With his permission I have extracted all the car data from these spreadsheets and extended my GT5Tuner app to allow this data to be used. Now, having over 500 cars in your car database would be unmanageable and also make the app incedibly slow. To actually make use of this data I have split the data up into sets. A 'Set' is simply a file containing cars of a particular grouping. I have created three types of car sets for you to try: By Manufacturer, By Year and by Type. These are by no means complete but they do give you access to over 500 cars.

In the download folder you will find a sub folder called 'Car Sets'. In here you will find three zip files. Simply download one, two or all three of these and unzip them to the 'GT5Tuner' folder on the SDCard of your phone. At first I would recommend only downloading one of these. Each of these zip files contains several car 'sets', e.g. The 'By Manufacturer' zip file contains individual sets for manufacturers like Ferrari and Toyota and then groups other manufacturers by their initial letter.

To unzip the files you will need to have an app installed that can handle zip files. Have a look in Android Market where there are plenty of free apps to do this.

Once you have installed the new version of the app, open it and go to the 'Load Car' option. You will now see an option asking you to select a Car Set. Tap on this and select one of the car sets. The 'Built-in' car set will contain all the cars you previously had stored in the app. When you select a car set, you can then tap on the second selector which will allow you select which car to load. Only the cars in the particular car set are listed here.

You can also save a car to a car set and delete a car from a car set. In the save option, there is a button which will allow you to create a car set of your own.

If you have unwanted cars sets, simply delete the file from the GT5Tuner folder on the SDCard of your device. Likewise, if you want to back up your Car Sets, simply copy them from the GT5Tuner folder to a safe location.

Note: There a few 4WD cars which RabbidMaggot hasn't recorded where the engine is. Also, for some cars, I was not able to extract the transmission information. If you load a car with either of these issues, you will be prompted to check them. If the drivetrain is left at 4WD, you will not be able to perform a QuickTune.

Please let me know how you get on. Your feedback, even if it is just "works on xxx phone", is important to me and lets me know that more than one person is using it!
 
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Works like a charm on both Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" and on small Samsung Xcover (S5690) with its 3.6" screen @320x480.. :D

Keep it up!!
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Oops: I found a bug already.
You cannot create a new car set from the save dialog: The app lies to you and appears to have created the set but it doesn't actually create it.

The actual problem lies in the length of the new car set name. I will limit this to 30 characters.

Another problem occurs if your car set only contains one car and you update this car. The car set will end up being deleted.

There are also problems with the OK button on some dialogs on some devices. If yours is affected, please let me know.
 
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RDAardvark
Oops: I found a bug already.
You cannot create a new car set from the save dialog: The app lies to you and appears to have created the set but it doesn't actually create it.

There are also problems with the OK button on some dialogs on some devices. If yours is affected, please let me know.
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Gday Steve
At first I thought I was immune to this as the set I created was sitting in the gt5 folder also.

But it bit me when I tried to overwrite the file with new settings ( i.e. Change no. of gears etc).

Will keep checking and let you know of anything.
 
EgoPanik
Hey,

Have just downloaded and confirmed it works fine on the HTC Legend.

Thanks for the app.
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Thanks for letting me know this.
It's good to know it works and that it is useful.
 
TweakMonster
Works on Archos Arnova 10 g2, but the screen ratio isnt correct (1024x600) still workable though.
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Thanks for letting me know. I think your tablet has what Android classes as a 'large' screen and the app doesn't deal with this properly yet. Bear with me though and I should have this corrected in the next major release.

There should be a bug fix release early next week.
 
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Thanks for the update, and I have to say THANKS FOR THE CAR SETS!!!!! That was a fantastic addition and I am sure it took a ton of work to compile all that data.

Just to confirm for you, I downloaded the files yesterday and installed them on all 3 devices previously mentioned (Creative ZiiO 10', Hip Street Nova 7" and Samsung Galaxy S II).

So far it seems to work perfectly on all 3 devices, although I have only just started playing with it. I have been able to perform all basic tasks with no issues, but have not yet created my own car seats, etc.

Thanks again for the app, the supporting files and all the hard work. This is a great app and very professional quality. Keep up the great work!!

👍👍
 
F1Racer68
👍👍

Thanks for the update, and I have to say THANKS FOR THE CAR SETS!!!!! That was a fantastic addition and I am sure it took a ton of work to compile all that data.

Just to confirm for you, I downloaded the files yesterday and installed them on all 3 devices previously mentioned (Creative ZiiO 10', Hip Street Nova 7" and Samsung Galaxy S II).

So far it seems to work perfectly on all 3 devices, although I have only just started playing with it. I have been able to perform all basic tasks with no issues, but have not yet created my own car seats, etc.

Thanks again for the app, the supporting files and all the hard work. This is a great app and very professional quality. Keep up the great work!!

👍👍
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Thank you for your feedback. It is appreciated and it's really good to know that you like the changes and that it works!

The car sets were created from over 500 QuickTune spreadsheets belonging to RabbidMaggot, so thanks must go to him for the data. I simply extracted the data (with permission!) and reformatted it for use with the app.
 
Version 0.81.22 is now available

Changes are as follows:
  • Change: Max length of a new set is 30 characters
  • Change: Revised the timing on some of the toasts.
  • Change: Layout revisions for Large screen format. (Work in progress)
  • Change: Tweaked/corrected layouts for x-large screen
  • Fix: Timing issue in QuickTune which would result in partial results being shown. (Reported by kebabs)
  • Fix: When overwriting a car setup, if it was the only car in the car set, the set would be deleted.
  • Fix: If a load car was cancelled, the app would remember which car set you last chose and make it the default
  • Fix: If you deleted a car, the car set you chose from would become the default.
 
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Good to see the new version's out Steve:tup:. Will be all over this one in preparation for some upcoming events I have my eye on.
 
kebabs
Good to see the new version's out Steve:tup:. Will be all over this one in preparation for some upcoming events I have my eye on.
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Thanks Dave. I'm sure you'll find a way to break it! :)
 
I've just noticed that Audi and Chevrolet were missing from the 'By Manufacturer' car sets.
These two files have now been added to the Car Sets download folder.
 
RDAardvark
I've just noticed that Audi and Chevrolet were missing from the 'By Manufacturer' car sets.
These two files have now been added to the Car Sets download folder.
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Dont know how I missed this when I tuned a corvette the other day. :lol: Missed the Audi side of things because there was audi's in the race .sets.
I've pretty much broken my hammer on this one so far Steve, I think you've broken me 👍 :lol:
 
Version 0.81.23 is now available

Fixes one bug where the app would crash if you tried to delete a car from the 'Built-in' set. Thanks for reporting this Dave.
 
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