Tech Help

HTC Incredible s/2 Ice cream sandwich OTA

2012-06-01T03:36:00.000-07:00

Well its that time folks...Its reported in XDA that Vivo ICS with sense3.6 is out in the wild (Still in China Though)..Lets hold on till devs get some sense 4 for us..But in meantime if you want to have a look here is the link for downloads..

http://115.com/file/anc5srsx

And of course the link to my favorite dev...

forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1685014&page=2

C# next step In Android?

2012-05-06T10:46:00.000-07:00

We live in a strange world..Here is some proof.

According to people at Xamarian the have build a way to port java apps on to C# .So can we expect Google to ditch Java and go for faster C#?Nah at the moment.But at least it can be looked as an alternative to Oracle's Java with all those patent battles..

If you haven't heard of Xamarian they are the good people who developed Mono the open-source .net platform.

In the words of Miguel (Xamarian Bloger)

"Mono for Android is doing great, and we are starting to think again about improving our own product’s performance on Android. What if we could swap out Java with faster C# and get rid of various Dalvik limitations in the process? Could we create an Android phone completely free of Java, and free of the limitations of the Dalvik VM?

We decided it was crazy enough to try. So we started a small skunkworks project with the goal of doing a machine translation of Android from Java to C#. We called this project XobotOS."

Verified non fake Micro SD

2011-08-09T17:53:00.000-07:00

Got my Micro SDHC today.So to verify the claims I put it on the test.

.And what do you know..It passed..Here is the screen shot.So I found my good guy on ebay memory section. Thank you F&L super store for selling quality products.As said earlier get 5% discount from there online store.

How to Tell Fake Micro SD /Flash Drives.

2011-07-30T12:56:00.000-07:00

Its a known secret that E bay is full of fake memory sellers.And how do I know..I bought one....The one below...

.But got saved by good works of few nice people...(http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/)They had a software (link to original German software transleted by google)that detects fake flash/Memory.I sent the results to the seller he refunded...

This is to thank them and to save all of you out there hunting for a bargain on e bay.

Or you can download it from soft pedia (Softpedia H2testw)

Now to the best ..I saved it for last. :) .Want to buy a test passed memory?? On ebay???

With no place to buy class10 32gb in my country, I had no choice but e bay...So after a long day finally found one.They even post screen shot of the test results!!!+ 5 year warranty...Absolutely wow..enough with the talk..Here we go...Its a USA seller called F&L Superstore.Happy shopping..

Edit..Some more good news.I was contacted by the seller and we have a discount code.... If you buy from www.flsuperstore.com use FLORDER as code and get 5% discount..

flsuperstore storefront
F&L Super store32GB Class 10 micro sd page

Ubuntu How to: hibernation confirmation message(message before hibernate)

2009-05-10T06:08:00.000-07:00

1. Open gconf-editor. Go to Apps->gnome-power-manager->lock
uncheck hibernate. This will inhibit powermanager to lock your screen right after you click the hibernate button.

2.made a copy of /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-hibernate-linux as /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-hibernate-linuxa

3.Edited /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-hibernate-linux as

#!/bin/sh
getXuser() {
user=`finger| grep -m1 ":$displaynum " | awk '{print $1}'`
if [ x"$user" = x"" ]; then
user=`finger| grep -m1 ":$displaynum" | awk '{print $1}'`
fi
if [ x"$user" != x"" ]; then
userhome=`getent passwd $user | cut -d: -f6`
export XAUTHORITY=$userhome/.Xauthority
else
export XAUTHORITY=""
fi
}

for x in /tmp/.X11-unix/*; do
displaynum=`echo $x | sed s#/tmp/.X11-unix/X##`
getXuser;
if [ x"$XAUTHORITY" != x"" ]; then
export DISPLAY=":$displaynum"
pid=`pgrep -u "MY USERNAME" gnome-screensav`
DBUS=`grep -z DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS /proc/$pid/environ | sed -e 's/DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=//'`
###HERE RUN ANY PROGRAM WHICH WILL DISPLAY YOUR MESSAGE ###

(
echo "0" ; sleep 1
echo "# 10 Sec to Hibernate" ;
echo "10" ; sleep 1
echo "# 9 Sec to Hibernate" ;
echo "20" ; sleep 1
echo "# 8 Sec to Hibernate" ;
echo "30" ; sleep 1
echo "# 7 Sec to Hibernate" ;
echo "40" ; sleep 1
echo "# 6 Sec to Hibernate" ;
echo "50" ; sleep 1
echo "# 5 Sec to Hibernate" ;
echo "60" ; sleep 1
echo "# 4 Sec to Hibernate" ;
echo "70" ; sleep 1
echo "# 3 Sec to Hibernate" ;
echo "80" ; sleep 1
echo "# 2 Sec to Hibernate" ;
echo "90" ; sleep 1
echo "# 1 Sec to Hibernate" ;
echo "100" ; sleep 1
) |
zenity --progress \
--title="Hibernate" \
--auto-close \

if [ "$?" = 0 ] ; then
sh /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-hibernate-linuxa & sudo -u "MY USERNAME" gnome-screensaver-command --lock

fi

fi
done

I hope this would help anyone faces the same trouble as me.You have to replace "MY USERNAME" to your current login user name.This will give a 10sec countdown to hibernate before it does with the option of cancel button.It also locks the screen when it resumes from hibernate..

USB ADSL modem in linux..(conexant and more...)

2009-01-10T05:17:00.000-08:00

Thanks to these nice people it is really easy now.I used it and it works really well..
Im a newbee to Linux and it was a nightmare when I tried to get connected to internet through my access runner ADSL modem.I tried everything..Even things at sourceforge.net.& at the end I found this.. UbuDSL – configure your USB ADSL modem and connection easier than ever!

So here's the link.Have fun linux users..

http://www.ubudsl.com/en/start.php

Prefetch in windows XP

2008-05-02T22:01:00.000-07:00

If your PC takes long time to load here's a trick to reduce that time...

XP uses prefetch to load Ur most run servises,porg..s to during Ur start up whether u want it or not ..u can disable it by this method...

start menu
run
type regedit(starting registry editor)
go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher
Values you can choose from include:
0: Disable
1: Application Launch Prefetch-applications eg word ,exel to be prefetched at boot time
2: Boot Prefetch-booting files to be prefetched 3: Prefetch everything
re boot
If want to clear some space go to \WINDOWS\Prefetch(in windows dir) and del all the items prefetched early..(u might want to change folder settings to show hidden files and system files.)

How to change drive letters....C:\D:\ etc

2008-05-02T10:48:00.000-07:00

If u want to change drive letter yet got stuck under conventional method
(Control panel->admin tools-> computer management-> storage-> disk management-> right click on partition ->change drive letter....) because windows won't let you do so
Here's how to,

start menu
run
type regedit(starting registry editor)
go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
find the drive you want to change the letter
right click on that (eg:\DosDevices\F:)
select rename
change name to what you want(eg:\DosDevices\F: as \DosDevices\D: if D: is what you want to assign)
there cant be two drives in same name as you know so you will have to change rest as needed
restart the machine

Be careful when u change because it might cause some programmes not to run..

if needed you can run a programme like Power Quests Drive mapper to correct this problem