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Samsung Galaxy S2… + root + desbloquear

By pcabido in android 4 Comments Tags: , , , ,

Passado cerca de um mês resolvi finalmente postar sobre a minha nova aquisição, o Samsung Galaxy S2 (I9100).

É de longe o melhor telemóvel que já tive. É pena não ter um teclado físico (e parece que há uma versão prestes a sair com teclado físico) mas até ver ainda não senti saudades do meu ex-telemóvel, o Motorola Milestone. Para quem não conhecer fica aqui o link para as specs no GSMArena.

Ao início pensei que ia notar e estranhar o bicho no bolso devido ao tamanho mas tive a agradável surpresa de notar menos que o Milestone por causa do peso. Este é ultra leve e o ecrã vale mesmo a pena.

Indo ao que interessa… além dos specs uma duas das razões porque comprei o telemóvel foram a facilidade em rootar e mudar a recovery rom para posteriores actualizações de roms e o facto de ser possível encontrar o código de desbloqueio do telemóvel. Assim comprei-o sem problemas na TMN.

Rootar
O processo é muito simples, basta flashar o CF-Root com o Odin. No meu caso tive que actualizar o firmware para o KE7 primeiro e depois segui os passos do tópico [CF-Root v4.1] KE2/7/8, KF1/2/3/4, KG1/2/3/6 – su+bb+CWM4 do xda-developers forum.

Desbloquear
Deixo aqui o link também para o tópico do xda-developers em que é discutido e explicado o processo para descobrir o unlock code e o unfreeze code, GT-I9100 Free SIM Unlock via nv_data.bin by Odia.
No entanto nem é preciso ter trabalho pois existe uma app no market para fazer isto chamada SGS2 SIM unlock code finder.

Android: anMoney & SetCPU

By pcabido in android No Comments Tags: , , ,

I installed anMoney several weeks ago but I only tried it out this week. It’s a must have app if you want to track your bank accounts and your spending. It has loads of options, most of them I haven’t even tried but it does what I want, it tracks my money and spending nicely! I recommend it.

anMoney

If you have overclocked your Android phone you might consider using SetCPU (seriously, you should!).
I had a frightening experience this past night/morning. When I woke up my Motorola Milestone was dead! It wouldn’t boot up and when I went to sleep I remember seeing the battery status at ~60%. Apparently there was a huge battery drain during the night and the battery was completely empty. I had to charge it for about 20/30 minutes before it would boot up again. My theory is that some app with a bug entered a loop and drained my battery and as I have my milestone overcloked to 1000MHz (thanks to mirage! :) ) this resulted in a strange behavior and huge battery drain.
SetCPU has some cool features and profiles that you can setup. After this experience I added one that scales the CPU to 500MHz when the screen is off. If you have your Android phone overcloked this app is a must have!
The market version is paid (1,99) but you can get it here for free (SetCPU xda-developers thread).

SetCPU

DroidSeries 0.1.4 released

By pcabido in android, droidseries, EN 1 Comment Tags: , , , ,

Yesterday I released DroidSeries 0.1.4.

In this version I fixed some annoying issues and answered some feature requests. My main objective for this version and probably for the next one is to fix bugs and improve DroidSeries stability in order to have a fully working app before implementing new features. That being said, keep those bug reports coming and if possible the steps to replicate them. Logcat dumps are also very appreciated!

All the bug reports and suggestions can be made here.

Version 0.1.4 (ChangeLog)

  • Added the feature (context menu option) “Seasons up to here are seen” that lets you mark all seasons up to the selected one as seen (Specials stay untouched)
  • Added the feature (context menu option) “Mark all episodes as unseen” that lets you mark all episodes of the selected season as unseen
  • Fixed the laggy season list when TV shows have lots of seasons
  • Fixed some bugs and refactored the code in the main class (the TV shows list class/activity). This reduced the lag in the TV shows list
  • Fixed a bug that was crashing the app when adding a TV show and the xml stream was null
  • Fixed some more typo errors
  • Fixed the Internet connectivity check
  • Code refactoring

I also want to thank Steven Scott and Francisco Franco Garea for their support! Thank you very much!

Download DroidSeries 0.1.4

DroidSeries 0.1.4 QRCode

DroidSeries 0.1.0

By pcabido in android, droidseries, EN No Comments Tags: , , , , ,

It’s here! I just made the first public release of DroidSeries version 0.1.0.

I created a Google Code page for the app: http://code.google.com/p/droidseries/

All the necessary information plus the apk file, DroidSeries-0.1.0.apk is available there.

DroidSeries 0.1.0

If you find a bug let me know! This is the first public release and nobody besides me has tested the app so it probably has some bugs, so sorry in advance and keep those bug reports coming! Suggestions that help improve the app are also welcome and appreciated!

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