Yearly Archives: 2010

Samsung Galaxy S i9000 and Android 2.1 – enable file copy over USB as mass storage mode on OSX and Linux

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Samsung Galaxy S i9000 (Android 2.1) comes with Samsing Kies Windows software which is supposed to be used for copying files between your computer and the phone.

Naturally, this Windows software 1) is not very good 2) works on Windows only.

However, you can still mount  the device as normal USB mass storage. Just set Settings -> Applications -> Development -> Allow USB debugging checkbox on and replug the USB cable. Then open the notifications menu (pull down the top bar on the home screen). Now there is new option USB Connected. Choose it and then choose Mount.

You should be able to access both the phone internal storage and microSD memory card in Finder / Nautilus.

I created directory /media/mp3 where I copied few music files from my computer. I was able to achieve 5 MB/s transfer rate from my Asus Eee 1005HA PC when writing files to phone internal memory. The phone music player was able to pick up them fine.

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Synchonizing calendar and contacts from Nokia N900 to Samsung i9000 Galaxy S Android

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Here are instructions for advanced users how to migrate their life to N900 for new Android mobile phones.

1. Copy contacts

  • Register at ScheduleWorld (7 days free trial)
  • Install Dropbear SSH on N900 (makes typing less painful)
  • Install syncevolution (tested with command line version) on N900
  • Create syncevolution templates using syncevolution -c scheduleworld (work over SSH from desktop computer using)
  • Change username and password in ~/.config/syncevolution/scheduleworld/config.php (use nano shell based text editor)
  • Change sync to cliet to server one way in ~/.config/syncevolution/scheduleworld/addressbook/config.php and ~/.config/syncevolution/scheduleworld/calendar/config.php
  • Run syncevolution: syncevolution scheduleworld
  • Check that scheduleworld.com received your data using web browser
  • Install Funambol app on Android device from Android Market
  • Run it. Use credentials: user = numeric scheduleworld.com username, password = given in scheduleworld.com registration email, server url = http://sync.scheduleworld.com/funambol/ds
  • Alternative 2: export contacs in scheduleworld.com and import .vcf to fresh gmail account
  • Alternative 3: there exist apps to read .vcf files from SD card – Scheduleworld can export these files.

    2. Copy calendar

    Note: Android 2.1 owners might need to reset their device to factory settings as 2.1 supports synchronizing calendar only from the Google account used to active the device. You need to be able to import calendar entries to Google/Gmail account you initially used to active the device / Android market. Android 2.1 devices do not support syncing calendar from multiple accounts (even if they are Google’s)

    • (Register a dummy gmail.com account)
    • Go to scheduleworld.com. From Tools menu choose Export -> Events and Task
    • Download iCal (.ics) file locally
    • Go to gmail.com account
    • Open calendar
    • Go to Settings -> Calendars -> Import Calendar
    • Upload .ics file
    • Now when device syncs with Google Calendar it will receive the calendar entries

    I succesfully 600 phone numbers and 60 calendar entries.

    3. Back up SMS

    If you want to back up SMS messages from the device just copy SQLite database over SCP. You can later convert SQLite entries to any format using sqlite command line tool.

    scp user@192.168.1.146:/home/user/.rtcom-eventlogger/el.db .

    That’s all folks!

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    domgen – Creating HTML with Javascript without DOM API

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    Tired of using Javascript DOM API for generating HTML dynamically? Meet domgen. domgen is a tool for easy dynamic content generation via Javascript. It generates DOM elements from dictionary specification similar to HTML and eliminates the need for cumbersome DOM Javascript API.

    domgen uses a simple specification to generate the HTML. In some cases it’s more reliable to use DOM API to generate HTML instead of using innerHTML. We have had problems especially with iPhone when using innerHTML. See for example http://pastebin.com/LLk3J0iH or google “iPhone innerHTML” for more info. In fact, innerHTML is not even part of the HTML standard even though it exists on every browser.

    So if you want to add dynamic HTML properly, you should use the Javascript DOM API. Consider the following short HTML where the contents inside body had to be generated:

    <body>
    <div id="mydiv">my div</div>
</body>

    Using Javascript DOM API:

    // Get the body tag
var body = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];
// Create 'div' element
var mydiv = document.createElement("div");
mydiv.setAttribute("id", "mydiv");
mydiv.innerText = "my div";
// Attach the div to body
body.appendChild(mydiv);

    And using domgen:

    var spec = [
    'div',
    {
        id : 'mydiv',
        _innerText : 'my div'
    }
];
domgen.generate( domgen.get("body")[0], spec);
// or with jQuery
domgen.generate( $("body")[0], spec);

    To me, domgen seems a lot easier to read and work with. Get code and more examples here: https://bitbucket.org/mfabrik/domgen

    Plone 4 released – the best open source CMS of 2010?

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    The long awaited version 4 of enterprise grade Plone CMS has been released.

    Vote Plone 4 release news on reddit.

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