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Android
Android is an operating system designed to run on mobile devices. The first Android-based consumer device is T-Mobile G1.
- Nexus 7
- Google Maps Navigation on G1
- How to root G1
- 4GB Class 6 MicroSD partitions
- One-line application reviews
Nexus 7
- Dead Pixel Test HD
- SSHelper
- ConnectBot
- ES File Explorer
- FolderSync
- Documents To Go
- Documents To Go Full Version Key
- Adobe Reader
Google Maps Navigation on G1
- Remove old Google Maps files:
adb remount
for i in \
/system/app \
/system/dalvik-cache \
/system/sd/app \
/system/sd/dalvik-cache \
/data/app \
/data/dalvik-cache \
; do
adb shell rm $i/*maps*
adb shell rm $i/*Maps*
done
- Modify /system/build.trout.prop's ro.build.fingerprint:
ro.build.fingerprint=verizon/voles/sholes/trout:1.6/DRC83/14721:user/ota-rel-keys,release-keys
- Reboot G1.
- Install Maps.apk:
adb remount
adb install Maps.apk
- Install SpeechSynthesis Data Installer by Android TextToSpeech from the Android Market.
- Reboot G1.
How to root G1
4GB Class 6 MicroSD partitions
Number | Start | End | Size | Type | File system | Flags | parted Command |
1 | 512B | 3449MB | 3449MB | primary | fat32 | lba | mkpartfs primary fat32 0 3449 |
2 | 3449MB | 3961MB | 512MB | primary | ext4 | | mkpartfs primary ext2 3449 3961 |
3 | 3961MB | 4025MB | 64.5MB | primary | linux-swap(v1) | | mkpartfs primary linux-swap 3961 4025 |
One-line application reviews
- Fiancisto 1.4.5: Open source, looks OK, budgeting, powerful filter, custom entries, location-aware, picture, account transfer.
- Daily Money 0.9.5: Open source, looks childish, no account summary, no budgeting.
- EasyMoney 1.6.3: Clean interface, accounts, budgeting, recurring
transactions, cleared/uncleared status, picture. $9.95.
- Expense Manager 1.1.1: Clean interface, accounts, account transfer, recurring transactions. No budgeting.
- Droid Wallet 1.5.2: Budgeting. No accounts.
- Easy Envelope Budget Aid 1.6.0.2: Requires a monthly plan for account summary. Budgeting.
- mooLa 2.7: No trial version!
- Spensa Lite 1.9.2: Account transfer, cleared/uncleared status, nice date selector, good summary of cleared/uncleared transactions. No budgeting.
- Loot 2.2.4: Ugly interface, no budgeting.
- gbaMoney 1.4.5t: No way to summarize by cleared/uncleared status. Budgeting.
- Searchify 1.1.4: Requires keyword for calendar search.
- Power Search 2.2.2: OK, calendar search. Not integrated into Google Search.
- Aurora Universal Search 1.5.8: Calendar search not working on Android 2.3.
- aContacts 1.2.2: Little heavy, search by any field.
- ePhonebook 1.5.2-beta: New contacts support grouping.
- Star Contact 2.0.5: Search by field (one field at a time), T9 keyboard not supporting Hangul.
- Contacts GroupU 1.5.3: Versatile group management.
- Phonebook 1.0.6: Too heavy!
- PocketSmart 1.2.4: Confusing and unintuitive interface.
- Loot 1.4.4: Similar to Tap Money Tracker. Tagging, repeat, transfer. Mainly for bank accounts. No memo/report.
- Personal Budget Droid 1.2.2: No income/expense tracking.
- MoneyManager 1.9.7: not great, not able to delete categories.
- Tap Money Tracker 1.1.18: Commercial, income/expense tracking, currency, transfer, multiple accounts, account balance, reports.
- Budgetroid 1.3.1: Not for income/expenses?
- Budgets 0.1: Only for budget tracking.
- CashLog 1.6.0: Ads, commercial, expense only in free version.
- Personal Ledger 1.1: PIN, only for lending/borrowing money?
- Money Counter 1.5: Ads, too simple.
- Meebo IM 18: Does not require a Meebo ID.
- eBuddy IM 1.2: Requires an eBuddy ID.
- ConnectBot 1.5.4: SSH client, has the "local" mode to access the shell environment of Android.
- Terminal Emulator 1.0: Does what it says, but not useful. Use the "local" mode in ConnectBot instead!
- RockOn Music Player 1.3.2: Not so useful interface, no ID3 tag editor.
- nswPlayer 1.2.4: Nice interface without an ID3 tag editor.
- mp3tagger 1.1.2: ID3 (v1 and v2) tag editor with a simple player.
- MixZing Music Player 1.1.4: Good, but no ID3 tag editor.
- Meridian Player Beta 12.1: Clean interface with an ID3 tag editor.
- aPlayer 1.0.0: No interface except the file browser.
- EStrongs File Explorer 0.9.8.3: Nice interface, remote directories.
- Quick Calendar 0.9.25: Searches Google Calendar!
- Shuffle 1.2.2: Nice GTD application! Sync with Google Calendar.
- Orienteer 1.1: Not working in the landscape mode. Ugly interface.
- Map Compass 1.11.06: So?
- Compass 1.0.8: OK.
- Analog Compass 0.9.0: Too slow...
- aCompass 1.0.0: Chineese developer? Too simple!
- Korean Hangul Keyboard 0.9.3: Standard arrangement, custom settings, software/hardware keyboard.
- Korean Input Keyboard 1.3: Added a dedicated button for the developer's site by sacrificing an English/Korean button. Ridiculous! Hardware keyboard support unpolished.
- Korean Soft Keyboard 1.5: Non-standard simplified keyboard. Too many key presses to type even a simple word.
- Note Everything 2.3.1: Text, voice, and paint note! Search by content, folder, timestamp displayed. Versatile! Its commercial version supports encryption too. Use this app with OI Notepad? Export Hangul to UTF-8, but cannot import either UTF-8 or EUC-KR.
- OI Notepad 1.1.1: Similar to AK Notepad. Multiple tags, search by title and tag. No timestamp display. Works with OI Safe, OI Convert, OI Voice Notes, and OI File Manager. UTF-8 Hangul Palm CSV import/export. Cannot import individual Hangul text files.
- AK Notepad 1.5.4: Clean interface and reminder, but search only by title! Deal breaker?!
- Kote Lite (Notepad) RS1.1.2: Location-aware note pad. Manual location setting. Any use for it?
- G-Notepad 1.3: Not finished? Save state not stored?
- Note Me 1.7.0: Tagging, search only by title! No tooltips for icons.
- Note Pad 1: Pretty basic, no search.