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HTC Tattoo running Android 2.2.1

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:52:23 +0000

Yesterday I had some time to kill so I decided to look around for an android upgrade for my HTC Tattoo. HTC only provides (and supports) android 1.6 for the Tattoo, which feels a bit outdated. I like to run a little more up to date OS

So after some help from google I found a guid on the unlockr. Following that guide and then using the SPQRom 0.7 is basically all there is to it.

The downside of this upgrade is that the FM and camera are no longer working. The FM is a sad thing (but hey I still have my rockbox-enabled-ipod) but the camera is something I can live with, since well it made crappy pictures anyway!

But other than some things not working I am very pleased with android 2.2.1 it runs smooth and after installing all the apps (and some new onces) my phone feels up to date again!

Calltrack

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:43:27 +0000

Yesterday I stumbled upon CallTrack. Calltrack is an android program than monitors your calls (incoming, outgoing and missed calls) and adds them as events to one of your google calendars.

I have been looking for a program that can do this for some time now and I have to say it works like a charm. It does not show up in the android market for me but installing it directly from asterdroidmobile did the trick, and so far it has been running for > 24 hour without any problems.

You can export your call history so that you do not just start logging from when you installed the program.

So if you like to keep track of yourself and want to know who you called when. Give it a try!

Developing for Android on AMD64

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:40:03 +0000

The last couple of days I have done some coding for Android. All my resentment towards java is coming back but getting some cool mobile app requires sacrifices! But I do not want to write about java today.

The problem I encountered when installing the Android SDK is that the some of the programs won’t run on non-multilib AMD64 installations. This is really annoying since I do not want to have 32bit libraries on my system (it is matter of principals!). But linux to the rescue! A simple multilib chroot allows me to compile and deploy my android apps!

Mounting (with bind) the source directory allows me to code in my normal env while compiling in the chroot. Which is not a big thing for me since I code in VIM but for IDE users this might be an advantage!

So for all native AMD64 users there is hope! But it would be better for the Android devs to fix the binaries!

New phone

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:28:09 +0000

Since my old phone was sometimes shutting down without me telling it to shutdown or an empty battery forcing it to shutdown, I decided to get myself a new phone: the HTC Tattoo.

One of the things I missed on my Nokia N73 was the ability to sync pproperly with my linux enviroment, the tattoo runs android and syncs perfectly with google, wich in turn syncs nicely with other things. Of course the downside is that it syncs with google, but for now that is necessary evil.

So far I am pretty impressed, mobile e-mail, Facebook, flogging etc. All work like a charm. Even Eduroam, the WiFi used at the university works out of the box! That is not even the case on my laptop!

This message was of course written on my tattoo.