7 years ago, a buddy of mine left a review at a local mobile phone repair shop in Germany. He wasn’t quite happy, so he gave 3 out of 5 stars. That’s it. No angry text, no nothing. Just 3 out of 5 stars. A few days ago, 7 years after he left that rating,… Read More: How To Delete Bad Google Maps Reviews »
Google introduced its location tracking service Latitude in February 2009. A year later, in March 2010, I bought my first Android phone: the Google Nexus One. A few days later I’ve enable Google Latitude on it and my first checkin was on 31 March 2010 at 16:20:48 CEST. And apart from when I was without… Read More: Tracing My Steps – Logging Where I’ve Been »
Here are some Android apps and games I’ve found interesting or which were recommended somewhere for various purposes. And which I didn’t had the time/need to try them yet. Apps Games Specials / Miscellaneous
Methods Android supports changing the display resolution in 2 different ways. wm density This method works without root and changes the density of the window manager. You can call this command only from the adb shell. The syntax is: E.g. the Nexus 9 has a real display density of 288ppi, so you would run: To… Read More: Display density on Android »
Preparation You need tcpdump for Android (I used it from the “Shark for Root” app) and Netcat for Windows (I used Ncat from Nmap for Windows). Setup Capturing Open 3 shells. Run these commands: 1st shell: 2nd shell: 3rd shell:
If you text with someone over Tango, you might not know his/her phone number, because he got yours first and started the conversation. But if you are on a rooted Android, that’s no problem. Head to /data/data/com.sgiggle.production/files and find the file call_log.dat. Take a look at it – it should look similar to this: The… Read More: Tango Messenger »
Rooting means installing a su binary onto the device, which provides a way to become the root (=Superuser, “su”) user on the Android system. root has access to everything and thus you can do really nasty things with it. Preparation Unlock bootloader If not already done, unlock your bootloader. su binary There are currently two… Read More: Becoming root on Android »
On Jelly Bean, using FX with root, I noticed duplicate files in /data/app-asec/, e.g.: It looks like one is obsolete and consuming almost 60MB. So I deleted the older ones of the duplicates and also renamed all files to have the suffix -1. After a reboot, some apps were not working. The launcher showed a… Read More: Duplicate files in /data/app-asec/ on Android »
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 »