Product Page Android 2.x-Phones Notification service using OpenWatch, Tasker and PHP Setup Tasker Setup Server Put the following file onto a webserver capable of running PHP scripts (notify.php): Usage Under Linux, you can send a notification like this:
After an upgrade to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, all Samba shares were missing symlinks, esp. symlinks to directories outside the share. To enable these again, add the following lines into the [global] section of your /etc/samba/smb.conf: Then restart smbd and you should see the symlinks again.
There are various secret menus hidden in the Android OS. Here are some of them (thanks to askvg.com): Code Description *#*#checkin#*#* Forces the system to check for updated apps or a pending system update (found that one here first) *#*#info#*#* Shows various informations about GSM network, CDMA, WLAN, battery, etc.; also allows you to change… Read More: Android Secret Menus »
To let Windows Mobile find ringtones on the SD card, they have to be in a special folder. For Windows Mobile 6.5 this is \Storage Card\My Documents\Ringtones – or \Speicherkarte\My Documents\Ruftöne on a German system.
Aptoide is like a package manager for Android. It retrieves lists of programs from different repositories and lets you install, update or uninstall these programs. Here are some repositories to use (mostly from forum.xda-developers.com): You might try to download this file aptoide.myapp from your Android phone (with Aptoide installed!) which should auto-add all repositories:
If you installed Windows XP after Windows 7, you’re left with the XP-MBR on your drive and thus only XP is booting. If you happen to have hardware, which produces the Code 5 error upon trying to boot from the Win7-DVD, you can do the following to restore the Win7-MBR from within XP:
To add custom sounds to your Android phone, create the following folders on your SD-card: Now you can put your MP3 sound files into these folders and they will appear upon the tone selection dialogs. (You may have to wait a while until they appear, maybe even have to reboot the phone.) On older Android… Read More: Custom Ringtones, Alarms, Notification tones in Android »
Android 2.2 (Codename: Frozen Yoghurt) brings a new feature which allows moving apps to the SD card. Unfortunately this only works for apps which bring a flag to allow this, i.e. not for the current versions. To enable this globally, activate USB debugging and plug the phone to your computer. Make sure, you have the… Read More: Enable moving any app to SD card (FroYo) »
To manually update the firmware, put the new firmware named as update.zip onto the root directory of the microSD card. Then do this: (found at androidspin.com)