Here is an interesting useful application that I got after I asked a question on android developers group. I had almost started developing this application that would backup the SMS messages on the device to the GMail account.
Essentially the application is called SMS Backup, one can search this application with this string in android market. Once downloaded and installed you need to setup your google account in the application and make sure that google account is IMAP enabled.
After this simple setup, your SMS messages would be backed up to the GMail account under a label SMS. This also can be changed from the application settings.
Currently it seems that the restore functionality is missing. I would have liked to have that functionality as well.
I would still recommend this application to everybody.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
My Tracks: Application Review
Finally an application that I was long looking for. I used to use sportstrack application on my N95 to log my GPS tracks and use the logging data for photo tagging. There did not seem to be any equivalent application on the Android.
The application My Tracks solves these problems, one can start the application and it will log all the GPS information. I find the application simple. At the end of the track recording the application would upload the track to google maps and google docs. One can use the data for any purpose after that.
The application also provides option to log statistics while the upload of the track and one has access to this data also on the google. The application can run in background and in limited use that I have done with it, did not seem to overburden the battery.
The application has features of exporting maps via KML files or GPX files which comes handy since I use gpicsync for photo synchronization. The only strange things is that these options are buried under "Share with friends" option. I can live with that.
I would recommend this application to pretty much everybody.
The application My Tracks solves these problems, one can start the application and it will log all the GPS information. I find the application simple. At the end of the track recording the application would upload the track to google maps and google docs. One can use the data for any purpose after that.
The application also provides option to log statistics while the upload of the track and one has access to this data also on the google. The application can run in background and in limited use that I have done with it, did not seem to overburden the battery.
The application has features of exporting maps via KML files or GPX files which comes handy since I use gpicsync for photo synchronization. The only strange things is that these options are buried under "Share with friends" option. I can live with that.
I would recommend this application to pretty much everybody.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
RC33 equivalent upgrade for ADP1
T-mobile in US has just pushed RC33 upgrade for G1 devices, now the RC33 equivalent upgrade for ADP1 has been made available. One can download from following places.
http://andblogs.net/downloads/signed-holiday_devphone-ota-130444-debug.55489994.zip
https://android.clients.google.com/updates/signed-holiday_devphone-ota-130444-debug.55489994.zip
The installation procedure is very simple, download the zip file above to your desktop. Then connect your ADP1 to your PC and mount its SD card as a removable drive on your PC. To do this, just connect the phone using the USB cable and then click on the "USB connected" notification, from there you can click on the mount button to mount the SD card to PC.
Now the phone's SD card is visible on your PC. After that copy the above ZIP file to the SD card and rename it to update.zip.
Now disconnect the phone from PC and shutdown by pressing the power button. Once shutdown completely, press home and power button simultaneously. Keep home key pressed when you release power button. You will see a triangle with a exclaimation sign on the screen. Press Alt-L and you will see a text menu.
Now press Alt-S to apply the update to the phone. You will see following messages.
On pressing Home+Back the phone displays
If you encounter an error with following text in it
Then you need to download a nocheck image which can be downloaded from below location.
http://andblogs.net/downloads/signed-holiday_nochecks_devphone-ota-130444-debug.55489994.zip
After that you may see the image of an integrated circuit with an arrow and then the phone with power up with the familiar android logo. Once the phone powers up, you are upgraded to the RC33 equivalent version. To verify the upgrade, go to settings, About Phone and check the build number, it will show holiday_devphone-userdebug 1.1 UNLOCKED 130444 test-keys. Another sign of the fact that the phone is updated is a new menu item called System updates in the About phone menu.
So, go ahead, upgrade and have fun. I have just done this and I will post if I see any thing significant or intereating.
http://andblogs.net/downloads/signed-holiday_devphone-ota-130444-debug.55489994.zip
https://android.clients.google.com/updates/signed-holiday_devphone-ota-130444-debug.55489994.zip
The installation procedure is very simple, download the zip file above to your desktop. Then connect your ADP1 to your PC and mount its SD card as a removable drive on your PC. To do this, just connect the phone using the USB cable and then click on the "USB connected" notification, from there you can click on the mount button to mount the SD card to PC.
Now the phone's SD card is visible on your PC. After that copy the above ZIP file to the SD card and rename it to update.zip.
Now disconnect the phone from PC and shutdown by pressing the power button. Once shutdown completely, press home and power button simultaneously. Keep home key pressed when you release power button. You will see a triangle with a exclaimation sign on the screen. Press Alt-L and you will see a text menu.
Now press Alt-S to apply the update to the phone. You will see following messages.
Installing from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
Formatting BOOT...
Extracting radio image...
Formatting SYSTEM...
Copying files...
Writing BOOT:...
Installation complete.
Press Home+Back to reboot
On pressing Home+Back the phone displays
Writing Radio image...
If you encounter an error with following text in it
assert getprop(”ro.bootloader”) == “0.95.0000″
Then you need to download a nocheck image which can be downloaded from below location.
http://andblogs.net/downloads/signed-holiday_nochecks_devphone-ota-130444-debug.55489994.zip
After that you may see the image of an integrated circuit with an arrow and then the phone with power up with the familiar android logo. Once the phone powers up, you are upgraded to the RC33 equivalent version. To verify the upgrade, go to settings, About Phone and check the build number, it will show holiday_devphone-userdebug 1.1 UNLOCKED 130444 test-keys. Another sign of the fact that the phone is updated is a new menu item called System updates in the About phone menu.
So, go ahead, upgrade and have fun. I have just done this and I will post if I see any thing significant or intereating.
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