Entries tagged as androidRelated tags austria fail finance fun german internet language machine learning phone public transport anti-spam career gentoo google hardware antenna automobile ballooning cw debian education event gnu-linux comic migration photography software time lapse video flickr rant review samsung social web history kernel programming bluetooth diy electronics www guitar movies private tabletThursday, October 21. 2010Why I rooted my phone![]() This is just a note for myself what hacks I applied to my phone to make it more usable to me. This is to reproduce these settings once I flash the full Android 2.2 “FroYo” image onto my Motorola Milestone:
* Achieved by TimeTurn’s OpenRecovery for Milestone And while we’re at it: Of course the Android system has got some flaws, but I think the situation’s similar to desktop environments: The on-board software is able to provide some basic things, but it’s up to third party developers to provide apps with full functionality, especially when I think of features regarding contacts (e.g. edit groups and birthdays, share via Bluetooth or SMS), calendar (e.g. search) or e-mail (e.g. search). Further apps I have installed are on this always almost complete and up-to-date list—HTH: Continue reading "Why I rooted my phone" Monday, June 14. 2010VOR-/ÖBB-Fahrpläne mit Android abrufen, II![]() Zu meinem Initialposting zu diesem Thema gibt es nun ein Update: Die SCOTTY mobil-Version für (Non-Android) Motorola-Handys, scottymobil_mot.zip, lässt sich nun via NetMite.com konvertieren und auf Android-Smartphones via J2ME Runner (aus dem Market) betreiben. Ob auch die anderen Versionen laufen, war ich zu faul auszuprobieren; vermutlich funktioniert es nun einfach dank eines aktualisieren J2ME Runners. Die Applikation scheint jedenfalls vollständig zu funktionieren. Leider wird damit den ÖBB der Druck genommen, doch noch eine offizielle Version für Android zur Verfügung zu stellen. Friday, April 16. 2010VOR-/ÖBB-Fahrpläne mit Android abrufen![]() Ich bin unlängst von einem Symbian-Handy auf ein Android umgestiegen und wollte die Applikation SCOTTY mobil von den ÖBB dort weiterbenutzen, um bequem aktuelle Zugverbindungen bzw. -verspätungen abrufen zu können, jedoch: Es gibt diese App nicht für Android, und auch nicht auf absehbare Zeit. Daher liste ich hier einmal die Möglichkeiten auf, die bleiben. Eins vorweg: Sie sind allesamt höchst unbefriedigend.
Tuesday, February 23. 2010SCOTTY mobil (vorerst) nicht für Android![]() From: me From: me From: ÖBB Tja, das ist Schade. Auf welche Weise sich dennoch – wenn auch nur in unbefriedigendem Ausmaß – die Fahrpläne von VOR/ÖBB/Wiener Linien auf Android-Handys abrufen lassen, erzähle ich in einem separaten Artikel. Tuesday, February 2. 2010Syncing Symbian to Google: SOLVED![]() I found out how to get all my calendar entries into Google: Sync the events into a single iCalendar file using OpenSync’s Sunbird calendar plugin and import this into your Google calendar. In Sunbird I exported an empty calendar into a local iCalendar file and used this as a starting point; a plain empty file was not enough. Unfortunately, there is a known annoying bug preventing entries that are older than one month from getting pushed to your Android smartphone—only noted as a “small” bug by Google, though. You’ll have to re-save those entries in the web calendar to update their modification time and have them synced to your phone. This, however, won’t work by updating their LAST-MODIFIED time stamps in the iCalendar file prior to the import. Sunday, December 20. 2009Android smartphone coming up![]() Or: A review of the Nokia N73The history of my cell phones had its preliminary end in January 2007, almost three years ago, when I got my Nokia N73, a Symbian S60 based device. I was quite satisfied with it, and it was quite robust as well. I could sync contacts, calendar and tasks with Evolution via Bluetooth and SyncML by the help of OpenSync. I regularly used the e-mail client with IMAP/TLS and SMTP/TLS. The built-in browser did its job, despite its bugs. I bought a license for the LCG Jukebox app to be able to play Ogg Vorbis files. The cell’s camera was OK, though not very fast to launch; a quick sneaky snap was almost impossible. Features that I never tried were video calls or Push-To-Talk. After a while I used it more and more extensively for internet access. It was my morning newspaper on the train during the week and at the breakfast table on the weekends. I had to cope with websites that didn’t provide a “microbrowser” friendly http://m.whatever.com/ version. I used a dedicated app to access timetables of the local public transport system. I used the non-GPS(!) based geolocation capabilities of Google Maps. I used the IM client Fring and bought a license for the Identi.ca/Twitter/Facebook/Google Reader client Gravity. Because of the browser’s bugs I installed Opera Mini. But I had severe memory problems, I couldn’t run no two of them at once—so quite the behavior of the Crapple diePhone. Also, there was always a different and minimalistic browser launching from a text or from Gravity. A cumbersome copy & paste of a URL into the “real” browser killed Gravity. I had to fav tweets or dents to look at URLs on the PC at a later time; I could thus hardly dare to retweet them from the cell. As it was a branded device, there were apparently never any software updates available, although it definitely had its flaws. It took me 2½ years to finally notice that I should have faked its device ID so that I could’ve updated it as if it were unbranded. But after those three years I decided that it was just too late to mess around with it, as I thought it’s time for something that comes up to my needs. Coming up: Android
Yeah, Google is a data leech. I know. But what should I do? Buy the you-know-what instead? Btw, this will be my second Motorola device after my StarTAC 75 from 1998.
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