HTC Dream – T-Mobile G1

New favorite ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566676

Google Navigation Update: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583683

Steps to install this:
1. Latest Cyanogen
2. Download the ROM and Navigation Update to your SDCard
3. Reboot into recovery
4. Wipe hand-held
5. Wipe Ext Partitions
6. Apply the update
7. Sync with Google
8. Download an app (Kids Paint, Spell Dial, it doesn’t matter whatever you like)
9. Reboot into recovery
10. Apply the navigation_update.zip

Now enjoy the OS like I do

Alternate download for files:

Dwang’s ROM
Navigation Update

Motorola Cliq

Written By: Adam Su

The Motorola Cliq will be released to T-Mobile in just over two weeks. What is it? Simple, it is Motorola’s Android phone that “fuses” social networking with a mobile phone. I can see many people that would have a use for this device, heck I really would like the caller-id portion for myself. What’s so special about it? Simple when a caller calls you it displays their picture, phone number, and social networking sites (i.e. facebook, twitter, etc..) latest update. So if J. Doe calls me from 212-555-1212 and their last update was “Just won the lottery!” I’m definitely going to answer the phone! More information on the phone can be found directly from

T-Mobile Launch Website: http://www.t-mobile.com/promotions/GenericRegular.aspx?PAsset=Pro_Pro_MotoCliqLaunch&wt.ac=0349HOM04

If you would like to see the UI for it hop on over to: http://tmosim.grid.motoapi.com/

Just got word on Android 1.6

Written By: Adam Su

I just got word on Android 1.6 (aka Donut), it’ll be available from HTC: http://developer.htc.com/adp.html

Format SD Card to support Apps2SD and Linux-Swap

Direct copy and paste from XDA-Developers Forums: Original Thread Here

To format card SD card with linux-swap WARNING!!! this will reformat you entire SD card!!

You can use the recovery console and parted to format SDcards with 1.31 folks, no more going through hassles you have the tools on you G1!…here is an example of how to do this in recovery console using parted. DO NOT USE MORE THAN 32MB SWAP!!!

Example for 8GB card (this example plays it safe and will leave a small amount leftover regardless of the 8GB card)

Reboot and enter recovery
Enter console
#parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
#print (to verfiy we know what size card we are dealing with, the details should be straight forward)
rm 1
rm 2
mkpartfs primary fat32 0 7200
mkpartfs primary ext2 7200 7700
mkpartfs primary linux-swap 7700 7732

#print (to verify we have the 3 partitions)

Example for my 4GB card

#parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
#print (to verfiy we know what size card we are dealing with, the details should be straight forward)
rm 1
rm 2
mkpartfs primary fat32 0 3420
mkpartfs primary ext2 3420 3932
mkpartfs primary linux-swap 3932-3964

Example for a 2GB card playing it safe

#parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
#print (to verfiy we know what size card we are dealing with, the details should be straight forward)
rm 1
rm 2
mkpartfs primary fat32 0 1200
mkpartfs primary ext2 1200 1700
mkpartfs primary linux-swap 1700-1732

“End?” you need to place the last value for the linux swap eg.3964 for my 4GB card

#print (to verify we have the 3 partitions)

Next we need to “quit” parted and upgrade our ext2 partition to ext3

#upgrade_fs

Swap value is set to 30 currently, you can change this by modifying the “echo” value for swappiness in the a2sd.sh script

For a longer more detailed parted tutorial read thisthis

Wipe your Ext2/3/4 Partition

From the shell execute the following commands:

# mount -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd
# cd /system/sd
# rm -rf /system/sd/*
# reboot recovery

That’s all.

Move Applications to Memory Card

This is little write-up assumes two things:

1. Your Android device has Busybox installed. (You have either Haykuro 5.01+ or JesusFreke ROM) 
2. You have the Android SDK installed on your computer and your environment includes the path to your Android SDK.

Now this was written for an HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1); however, I assume this can also be used for other Andoird based devices.

1. Launch the Terminal or Command Prompt
2. In the terminal or command prompt type:

• adb shell
• df -h (This will show you a list of partitions available to the device)

At this point you will see something like this:

 

# busybox df -h

Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on

tmpfs                    48.4M         0     48.4M   0% /dev

tmpfs                     4.0M      8.0k      4.0M   0% /sqlite_stmt_journals

/dev/block/mtdblock3     67.5M     64.0M      3.5M  95% /system

/dev/block/mtdblock5     74.8M     34.1M     40.7M  46% /data

/dev/block/mtdblock4     67.5M      1.4M     66.1M   2% /cache

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2    552.5M    432.0k    524.3M   0% /system/sd

/dev/block//vold/179:1

                          6.8G     42.5M      6.8G   1% /sdcard

 

That’s all. If you need additional help the wonderful folks at xda-developers can assist you. Additionally, a more in-depth version of this is available here.

HTC Sapphire ROM ported for HTC Dream

Written By: Adam Su

With all the talk of G2 and the ROM update known as “Cupcake” being circulated around the internet, one online user has decided to make it happen haykuro So how does one acquire this update?

If you’re already running a rooted Dream (T-Mobile G1) then proceed to download one of the updates located on the Sapphire Dream Port Google Code Site rename it to update.zip and copy to your memory card. Restart your phone holding the Power and Home buttons. When you see a Caution logo or a JF splash screen press Alt-W (this will wipe your phone) and the Alt-S (to apply the update). That’s all.

Now if you’re not running a rooted version of the Dream then you’ll need to do that. The instructions can be found somewhere here.

Install FingerPrint Reader in Ubuntu

So I wanted to start using the finger print reader on my IBM Thinkpad T43p; however, was unable to due to lack of driver support. Nevertheless, Google showed me options form other sources on how to get this to work. Now the only problem was that some of the files didn’t exactly exist where they should be. So I went ahead and said, “Why not just change the script and host the files for all to enjoy.” Well doing that… and now I’m back to square one… Ubuntu doesn’t play well.

Well if you’d like to change up the script please do so, and make it work. So it’ll be as easy as launching terminal and typing:sudo bash fingerprint.sh
and it will install the fingerprint reader.

So all you need to do right now is download this file titled fingerprint.sh and run it from terminal with the above command. Now granted it breaks at configuration because the script was written for Fedor/RedHat systems… but I’m sure you can manage past that.

Regain Root on Your T-Mobile G1 or HTC Dream

So you update to RC30 on your T-Mobile G1 or RC8 on your HTC Dream? Sad isn’t it? Well fear not! There’s a solution. Thanks to a certain somebody who put up the DREAMIMG.nbh file which will allow us to regain our root privileges and carry on to flash custom roms. So let’s get started…

1. Format your flash card as FAT32
2. Copy over only the DREAMIMG.nbh file over only
3. Hold the Camera and Power button to enter what is called “Bootloader mode”
4. Press the power button when it tells you one time to begin the update

Now in order to transfer this to make it so you have root access do the following:

1. Download the recovery.img to your flash card
2. Download the HardSPL to your flash card
3. Restart your phone
4. Once it has booted back to normal type “telnetd” (without the quotes) – This will start the telnet daemon so you can do the next step
5. Download from the Android Marketplace a telnet application and establish a connection the address: localhost
6. Once successfully connected (you’ll see a #) enter the following commands:
   • mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
   • cd sdcard
   • flash_image recovery recovery.img
   • cat recovery.img > /system/recovery.img
7. Lastly reboot the phone into recovery mode (power on the phone while holding down the home+power buttons)
8. At the Triangle-Exclamation mark screen press Alt+L on the keyboard
9. And then press Alt+S on the keyboard to apply the HardSPL update
10. Once this is done, you can now freely flash whatever ROM you’d like

Now I’d highly recommend you use of JesusFreaks ROMs from xda-developers

I personally am using the latest ADP titled ADP1. Now of course if you want to use this, you’ll need to use fastboot. But now that’s another whole write up which I’ll get to soon.

HP OfficeJet J6400 and Mac OS X

Have you recently purchased an HP OfficeJet J6400 series and were disappointed when you tried installing it via System Preferences? Were you sad like me when you found out that you needed to use the CD and install all the other software that came with the printer?

Good news! You don’t need to! It turns out that if you install the following 3 packages you will be able to add the J6400 series printer via System Preferences:

1. HP IP Printing support.mpkg
2. HP Officejet Printer drivers.mpkg
3. HP Officejet Printer PPD files-10.5.mpkg

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