Just a quick note to let everyone know that version 2.1 of Network Dashboard has passed certification and has been published to the Windows Phone Marketplace. It usually takes about 24 hours from this point until it’s available to everyone.

For more information on what’s included in this update, see this post.

Network Dashboard version 2.1 has been submitted for certification testing for the Windows® Phone Marketplace. If everything goes according to plan, it should be available in the marketplace in a few days.

Version 2.1 brings the following changes:

• NOTE: To properly support multiple locales, we have changed how reminder times are stored. This may have caused your reminders to become disabled. Please check your settings.
• NEW: Added new language support. This release contains English, French, Italian and Spanish. You will need to launch Network Dashboard to make any pinned tiles update their language.
• NEW: Added a new Live Tile style called “Text” … it is a scaled down live tile with the status in the upper right corner in text.
• NEW: Added an “Other Tiles” settings option to give users the ability to change the Bluetooth and Airplane Mode tile styles.
• NEW: Added a toggle to the live tiles pivot item in the settings screen to allow users to configure whether the background sync task runs or not.
• FIXED: If the background agent was disabled Network Dashboard would not start properly.
• FIXED: Network Dashboard was not properly reading in the current setting of Live Tile style, so if the user accessed the setting screen it would not show the current setting properly.

I’m currently seeking volunteers to help translate Network Dashboard into other languages. It’s a fairly small app, so there’s only about 45 phrases that need to be translated. I’ve had offers for German and Italian translations already and have sent the template off to them, so I will hopefully have those translations soon. Anyone interested in translating Network Dashboard into another language, please contact me at groberts@purity.net.

I’m happy to announce that Network Dashboard 2.0 has been released and is available now in the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Network Dashboard 2.0 brings the following changes:

• Network Dashboard has changed from being a free app to a paid app with a free trial. The free trial contains all the features of previous versions, so is essentially the same as the previous free version. The trial never expires and does not contain nag screens. The paid version includes new features not included in the previous free releases. My understanding is that anyone who downloaded the free version will get the full, paid version when they upgrade. If that’s the case, please accept it with my thanks for being an early adopter!
• NEW: Added the ability to select between three different live tile styles. Additional live tile styles will likely be added in future versions. Ideas are welcome. (Paid Only)
• NEW: Added optional reminders for Wi-Fi and Mobile Data. If the specified service is turned off at the time the reminder is set for Network Dashboard will remind you to turn it back on. (Paid Only)
• NEW: Added a background task to periodically keep the Live Tile status in sync.
• FIXED: A bug that would cause the Live Tile to not be updated if it was previously pinned before turning on the Live Tile option without removing and repinning.

Network Dashboard – More Information

That’s a question I’ve heard quite a few times over the last couple of days. I figured I’d write up a quick post to let everyone know what happened and what’s going on.

First, Network Dashboard has been hidden from the Marketplace for the time being.  I submitted a version 1.2 update to the Marketplace for certification a few days ago. After doing so, I realized there was a fairly major bug in the configuration of some of the new features that it brought. I opened a support ticket with Microsoft, hoping to have them “reject” the submission so I could fix the bug and resubmit. Unfortunately, they don’t have the ability to stop a submission once it’s been put in, which meant that the version 1.2 (bug and all) made it through certification (which is interesting in and of itself … why didn’t the tester catch the bug? It causes a full application crash).

Rather than have a bunch of people with Network Dashboard breaking on them, I hid the application from the Marketplace. I’ve submitted version 2.0 for certification and am just waiting on it to complete testing. This will hopefully happen in the next day or two. I’ll post here once it’s available!