Nov

8

Kiosk Browser Grows Up, Goes Pro

13 years ago, mid-November | 37 Comments


Over the last few days I’ve worked on a new release of Kiosk Browser what I’m calling the SE (Special Edition) for now. I am undecided as to how I’ll distribute and license this and at what cost. I know that some of you are using Android tablets that do not have the Google Market on them. It may be that distribution is just an apk download from my server. I’m not sure many of you would appreciate entering licenses for each kiosk tied to a specific device, so I favour the one off fee, install however many times you want approach. I’ve put a poll at the end of this post, you can vote for the one you like the most or provide alternatives in the comments.

Kiosk Browser SE includes some extra, more advanced features such as

Home Screen

You can make Kiosk Browser SE the device home screen so that when pressing the home screen, or back button the user ends up in Kiosk Browser and not the ‘desktop’. When the device is booted Kiosk Browser SE will automatically start.

Orientation Lock

Kiosk Browser SE can lock the screen in landscape or portrait mode.

Wake Lock

If you don’t want your kiosk to sleep you can force it to stay awake.

Options are,

off: The device will sleep as normal. This may result in loss of network connectivity and the lock screen may appear.

dim: Wake lock that ensures that the screen is on (but may be dimmed); the keyboard backlight will be allowed to go off.

full: Wake lock that ensures that the screen and keyboard are on at full brightness.*

*be aware of screen burn in and panel lifetime.

Idle Timeout

If there’s no input from the user you can jump back to the start url after a number of minutes you specify.

Capture Images

You can automatically capture images from the front camera and/or the screen when the user interacts with Kiosk Browser SE. You can have either image captured or both. If you have both each image filename is stamped with the same time. You can tag your kiosk files with a specific identity to help keep files unique. Useful if multiple kiosks are uploading to the same space.

Upload Images

Captured images can be FTP’d to a server, once complete they are removed from local storage to free up space. The target FTP path can also be specified.

Remote Load

Sometimes it may be useful to load a new configuration from a remote server. On boot Kiosk Browser SE will check for a local configuration file and then optionally a remote one. The local configuration file can be automatically deleted once loaded so can be used for initial provisioning. Settings are saved internally so after configuration updates the kiosk can operate without the presence of the configuration file on the remote server.

XML Configuration

Configuration is via XML, there is no preferences screen.

I’ll update this post with the status of Kiosk Browser SE as development progresses. I’ve set myself a target date for release, so far that’s looking good. Of course there’s still the documentation to do as well.

you can look to the Kiosk Browser SE pages for more detail on the Pro version

If you’re twitter minded you can follow Kiosk Browser for updates and news

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November 8, 2011 10:50

Jul

9

Kiosk Browser, is as its name suggests, a browser that acts like a kiosk.

You can limit the browser to a specific site or allow external sites to be loaded, optionally in the default standard browser. The browser has some additional features allowing the sending of Toast messages to the user from javascript, showing and hiding the title bar and launching applications on the device.

These special functions available from Javascript are demonstrated by the code below:

 
<input type="button" value="Show Preferences screen" onClick="Kiosk.showPreferences(); return false;" />
<input type="button" value="Show Platform Settings" onClick="Kiosk.platformSettings(); return false;" />
 
<input type="button" value="Clear cache, form data, history" onClick="Kiosk.clearCaches(); return false;" />
 
<input type="text" size=30 name=something>
<br>
<input type="button" value="Back" onClick="Kiosk.goBack(); return false;" />
<input type="button" value="Forward" onClick="Kiosk.goForward(); return false;" />
<input type="button" value="Reload" onClick="Kiosk.reload(); return false;" />
<input type="button" value="Stop" onClick="Kiosk.stop(); return false;" />
 
 
<input type="button" value="Disable Menus" onClick="Kiosk.disableMenus(); return false;" />
<input type="button" value="Enable Menus" onClick="Kiosk.enableMenus(); return false;" />
<input type="button" value="Disable Scaling" onClick="Kiosk.disableScaling(); return false;" />
<input type="button" value="Enable Scaling" onClick="Kiosk.enableScaling(); return false;" />
 
 
 
<input type="submit" value="Android app interface" onClick="Kiosk.showToast('Hello Android!'); return false;" >
 
<input type="button" value="Fullscreen" onClick="Kiosk.hideTitlebar(); return false;" >
<input type="button" value="With title" onClick="Kiosk.showTitlebar(); return false;" >
<input type="button" value="Restart" onClick="Kiosk.endApp(); return false;" >
<input type="button" value="Launch" onClick="Kiosk.launch('fm.last.android','fm.last.android.LastFm'); return false;" >
<input type="button" value="Launch 2" onClick="Kiosk.launch('fm.last.android-1','fm.last.android-1.activity.Profile_RadioTab'); return false;" >
 
 
<a href=http://www.google.co.uk>External</a>

UPDATE: 04-November-2011: Added more javascript interfaces and preferences… (sorry about the 2 updates in one go) Second update allows for zoom to be set from 1 to 200

UPDATE: 29-October-2011: Rearranged some of the options to make preferences a little less messy.

Added an optional “Page Loading” message, this blocks screen access until the page has completely loaded so be aware that it may just sit there forever if your network drops out. The good news is the addition of the labs section may help here.

Also added a ‘Labs’ preference section where experimental stuff can go. Currently there’s one active preference in there called “Network Connect”. What this does is run the kiosk application when the network goes up or down. What this means is that you can have the kiosk automatically run when the device boots (and gets unlocked). Feedback on how useful it is would be useful 😀

Seems I’ve managed to mess up the comments section :/

Some simple documentation is available here

There’s also some information on the next iteration of Kiosk Browser



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July 9, 2011 15:14

May

20

John Smiths have a lot to answer for there I can tell you.

It’s been a busy few weeks at work while Selection of widgetswe launch our revamped online shop and how did I go about relaxing? I did more development work at home. Since we’ve moved into our house I haven’t really had a lot of time to do much development, more tiling grouting and renovating than anything else. This last week though, as we started to get on top of things, I took some time to put together a widget for Android. I’ve been collecting, storing and graphing data from various sensors around the house for some time now and while the graphs are pretty they aren’t really a quick or efficient way of reading the status at a glance.

Step forward the widget. Each widget requests XML data from the server and presents it on the widget, this allows an infinite number of widget variations since the only change is the data received. In other words, if it’s in the database it can be served. The widget itself has a number of coloured backgrounds which the server data can trigger if and it’s also capable of playing an alarm sound if required. I still need to fix this because the alarm sound triggers on each update and there’s currently no way to tell the widget to be quiet.

Update: Fixed this, tapping the widget will silence it until the next alarm trigger ie once the state returns to normal and then alarms once again.

Incidentally, since I only have a self signed certificate on my server but still wanted encrypted access I had to extend the DefaultHttpClient. By default Android will just refuse to connect to a server if the certificate isn’t signed by one of the ‘trusted’ certificate authorities – it wont tell you that it refused, it’ll just silently fail. You’d only ever really know if you’d connected to your device via adb and done a logcat. You can get round this by adding a keystore to your application, which is good enough for testing or personal applications.

If you want to do this you need to make sure you have the Bouncy Castle cryptography jar in your CLASSPATH. The first thing you’ll need is a copy of the certificate which I hope you’ve generated and installed on your server. If you need to get a remote server certificate you can use the following command (all one line).

echo | openssl s_client -connect your.server.goes.here:443 2>&1 |  
sed -ne '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p' > mycert.pem

Replace the “your.server.goes.here” with your server, obviously. Once you’ve done that export the CLASSPATH to the Bouncy Castle jar you downloaded replacing the path I’ve used with the location you downloaded it to:

export CLASSPATH=bcprov-jdk16-146.jar

You can now use the following script, note that the keystore name is appkeystore.bks as on line 3

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#!/bin/bash
 
CERTSTORE=appkeystore.bks
 
if [ -a $CERTSTORE ]; then
    rm $CERTSTORE || exit 1
fi
 
keytool \
      -import \
      -v \
      -trustcacerts \
      -alias 0 \
      -file <(openssl x509 -in mycert.pem) \
      -keystore $CERTSTORE \
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      -provider org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider \
      -providerpath /usr/share/java/bcprov.jar \
      -storepass MyPaSsWoRd

Replacing the MyPaSsWoRd on line 19 with a password of your choosing, you’ll need it later too. If you run the script you should get some output like this, obviously with your server information – remember to answer yes to the “Trust this certificate” prompt.

 
Owner: EMAILADDRESS=info@ automated.it, CN=www.automated.it, OU=Tech, O=Automated IT, L=Eye, ST=Suffolk, C=GB
Issuer: EMAILADDRESS=info@ automated.it, CN=www.automated.it, OU=Tech, O=Automated IT, L=Eye, ST=Suffolk, C=GB
Serial number: 4dce9c74
Valid from: Sat May 14 16:15:00 BST 2011 until: Sun May 13 16:15:00 BST 2012
Certificate fingerprints:
	 MD5:  32:0F:33:0C:42:8D:FF:78:90:46:31:7A:4F:D3:33:23
	 SHA1: BD:A8:B8:21:B1:48:C3:53:BB:01:22:65:9E:00:6E:14:7B:DE:4E:F6
	 Signature algorithm name: SHA1withRSA
	 Version: 1
Trust this certificate? [no]:yes
Certificate was added to keystore
[Storing appkeystore.bks]

Create a directory called “raw” in your project’s ‘res‘ folder and copy the appkeystore.bks file to it.

In your Android application or widget you can now create a new class for the following code which will extend the original DefaultHttpClient class. You’ll want to change the package name on line 1 to match your application.

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package your.package.name.here
 
import android.content.Context;
import org.apache.http.conn.ClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.PlainSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.Scheme;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.SchemeRegistry;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.SingleClientConnManager;
 
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.security.KeyStore;
 
public class myHttpClient extends DefaultHttpClient {
 
  final Context context;
  public String UserAgent="Android dataWidget (ScaredyCat 0014150511-0.1b) [http://blog.automated.it]";
 
  public myHttpClient(Context context) {
    this.context = context;
  }
 
  @Override protected ClientConnectionManager createClientConnectionManager() {
    SchemeRegistry registry = new SchemeRegistry();
    registry.register(
        new Scheme("http", PlainSocketFactory.getSocketFactory(), 80));
    registry.register(new Scheme("https", newSslSocketFactory(), 443));
    return new SingleClientConnManager(getParams(), registry);
  }
 
  private SSLSocketFactory newSslSocketFactory() {
    try {
      KeyStore trusted = KeyStore.getInstance("BKS");
      InputStream in = context.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.appkeystore);
      try {
        trusted.load(in, "MyPaSsWoRd".toCharArray());
      } finally {
        in.close();
      }
      return new SSLSocketFactory(trusted);
    } catch (Exception e) {
      throw new AssertionError(e);
    }
  }
}

Note that the password used in the script earlier should match the one on line 37– use your own different password in production for security purposes. You can now use the class as required in your application, for example:

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myHttpClient httpclient = new myHttpClient(context);
 
httpclient.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(new AuthScope(host, port), new UsernamePasswordCredentials(username,password));
BasicHttpContext localcontext = new BasicHttpContext();
BasicScheme basicAuth = new BasicScheme();
localcontext.setAttribute("preemptive-auth", basicAuth);
 
httpclient.addRequestInterceptor(preemptiveAuth, 0);
 
HttpHost targetHost = new HttpHost(host, port, scheme); 
 
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(url);
httpget.setHeader("User-Agent", httpclient.UserAgent );

Once I’d got the SSL connection I could get the application to download a list of sensors from the database, this only happens the first time the first widget is added to the home screen. I need to sort a way of allowing the user to delete the list if more sensors are added. At the moment clearing the data for the widget application works but it erases the widget settings too.

When I’m at home I want to connect to a local server for the information for the widgets and when I’m out and about (using a 3G connection) I want to connect to an external server. I implemented the ability to automatically switch when my phone connected to my WiFi access point. One final thing I did was to add the ability to long press on a text field and then select ‘Save as default‘ allowing things like servers, Wifi MAC address, username and password to be saved as the defaults for all widgets.

First run, download sensorsSelection of widgetsWidget settingsSave as default

 



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May 20, 2011 21:10

May

22

Extra Cupcake, Still No Latitude

15 years ago, at the end of May | Leave a Comment

After getting Android Cupcake about a month ago and running it happily, this morning I was notified of another update that was a security fix. I have been unable to find anything that mentions what the fix was for, I guess it’s a little early for that information to be floating around. I’ve got my log from the G1 and will be taking a look to see if there’s anything interesting there.

Shame that this fix didn’t include making Latitude available for UK users – Google seems to be coming up with excuses that don’t really wash for that. Considering Latitude is available to pretty much every other smart phone out there and that it’s even on the G2.

If you want to get a copy of the update, you can download it direct from Google’s servers

Update:
I’ve extracted the update and here’s a list of the contents, the largest patch is in Maps (at 291KB) and the second largest is in framework.odex (at 271KB), then “MediaUploader” which is likely to be the YouTube and Picasa uploading service (at 166KB).

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total 3496
drwxr-xr-x  6 andypowell  staff   204B 23 May 11:24 META-INF
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   141K 20 May 10:03 applypatch
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   1.6M 20 May 10:03 boot.img
drwxr-xr-x  4 andypowell  staff   136B 23 May 11:25 patch
drwxr-xr-x  3 andypowell  staff   102B 23 May 11:24 system
 
./META-INF:
total 56
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   1.7K 20 Aug  2008 CERT.RSA
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff    12K 20 Aug  2008 CERT.SF
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff    12K 20 Aug  2008 MANIFEST.MF
drwxr-xr-x  3 andypowell  staff   102B 23 May 11:24 com
 
./META-INF/com:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 andypowell  staff   102B 23 May 11:24 google
 
./META-INF/com/google:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 andypowell  staff   102B 23 May 11:24 android
 
./META-INF/com/google/android:
total 96
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff    47K 20 May 10:03 update-script
 
./patch:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  9 andypowell  staff   306B 23 May 11:25 system
 
./patch/system:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  93 andypowell  staff   3.1K 23 May 11:24 app
drwxr-xr-x   3 andypowell  staff   102B 23 May 11:24 bin
-rwxr-xr-x   1 andypowell  staff   236B 20 May 10:03 build.prop.p
drwxr-xr-x   6 andypowell  staff   204B 23 May 11:26 etc
drwxr-xr-x  37 andypowell  staff   1.2K 23 May 11:24 framework
drwxr-xr-x   5 andypowell  staff   170B 23 May 11:25 lib
 
./patch/system/app:
total 1896
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   324B 20 May 10:02 AlarmClock.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   262B 20 May 10:02 AlarmClock.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   582B 20 May 10:02 Browser.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   312B 20 May 10:02 Browser.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   156B 20 May 10:02 BugReport.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   266B 20 May 10:02 BugReport.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   223B 20 May 10:02 Calculator.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   266B 20 May 10:02 Calculator.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   402B 20 May 10:02 Calendar.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   262B 20 May 10:03 Calendar.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   205B 20 May 10:03 CalendarProvider.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   263B 20 May 10:03 CalendarProvider.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   566B 20 May 10:03 Camera.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   268B 20 May 10:03 Camera.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff    11K 20 May 10:03 Contacts.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   260B 20 May 10:03 Contacts.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   174B 20 May 10:03 DownloadProvider.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   263B 20 May 10:03 DownloadProvider.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   165B 20 May 10:03 DrmProvider.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   257B 20 May 10:03 DrmProvider.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   455B 20 May 10:03 Email.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   270B 20 May 10:03 Email.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   1.6K 20 May 10:03 FieldTest.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   631B 20 May 10:03 Gmail.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   267B 20 May 10:03 Gmail.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   176B 20 May 10:03 GmailProvider.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   263B 20 May 10:03 GmailProvider.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   191B 20 May 10:03 GoogleApps.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   264B 20 May 10:03 GoogleApps.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   170B 20 May 10:03 GoogleContactsProvider.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   264B 20 May 10:03 GoogleContactsProvider.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   162B 20 May 10:03 GooglePartnerSetup.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   261B 20 May 10:03 GooglePartnerSetup.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   174B 20 May 10:03 GoogleSearch.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   258B 20 May 10:03 GoogleSearch.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   172B 20 May 10:03 GoogleSettingsProvider.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   266B 20 May 10:03 GoogleSettingsProvider.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   206B 20 May 10:03 GoogleSubscribedFeedsProvider.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   265B 20 May 10:03 GoogleSubscribedFeedsProvider.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   154B 20 May 10:03 HTMLViewer.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   258B 20 May 10:03 HTMLViewer.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   208B 20 May 10:03 ImProvider.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   263B 20 May 10:03 ImProvider.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   443B 20 May 10:03 LatinIME.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   264B 20 May 10:03 LatinIME.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff    37K 20 May 10:03 Launcher.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   3.3K 20 May 10:03 Launcher.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   290K 20 May 10:03 Maps.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   180B 20 May 10:03 MediaProvider.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   264B 20 May 10:03 MediaProvider.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   165K 20 May 10:03 MediaUploader.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   459B 20 May 10:03 Mms.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   263B 20 May 10:03 Mms.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   7.6K 20 May 10:03 Music.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   265B 20 May 10:03 Music.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   155B 20 May 10:03 NetworkLocation.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   1.9K 20 May 10:03 NetworkLocation.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   198B 20 May 10:03 PackageInstaller.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   264B 20 May 10:03 PackageInstaller.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff    29K 20 May 10:03 Phone.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff    23K 20 May 10:03 Phone.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff    23K 20 May 10:03 Settings.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   266B 20 May 10:03 Settings.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   168B 20 May 10:03 SettingsProvider.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   262B 20 May 10:03 SettingsProvider.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff    18K 20 May 10:03 SetupWizard.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   264B 20 May 10:03 SetupWizard.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   215B 20 May 10:03 SoundRecorder.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   261B 20 May 10:03 SoundRecorder.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   206B 20 May 10:03 Stk.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   262B 20 May 10:03 Stk.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   212B 20 May 10:03 Street.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   265B 20 May 10:03 Street.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   195B 20 May 10:03 SystemUpdater.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   263B 20 May 10:03 SystemUpdater.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   450B 20 May 10:03 Talk.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   265B 20 May 10:03 Talk.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   170B 20 May 10:03 TelephonyProvider.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   263B 20 May 10:03 TelephonyProvider.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   155B 20 May 10:03 UserDictionaryProvider.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   252B 20 May 10:03 UserDictionaryProvider.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   421B 20 May 10:03 Vending.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   269B 20 May 10:03 Vending.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   174B 20 May 10:03 Webnwalk.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   255B 20 May 10:03 Webnwalk.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   359B 20 May 10:03 YouTube.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   264B 20 May 10:03 YouTube.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   155B 20 May 10:03 checkin.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   264B 20 May 10:03 checkin.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   196B 20 May 10:03 gtalkservice.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   261B 20 May 10:03 gtalkservice.odex.p
 
./patch/system/bin:
total 8
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   160B 20 May 10:03 debuggerd.p
 
./patch/system/etc:
total 96
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff    42K 20 May 10:03 NOTICE.html.gz.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   153B 20 May 10:03 contributors.html.p
drwxr-xr-x  3 andypowell  staff   102B 23 May 11:24 security
 
./patch/system/etc/security:
total 8
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 andypowell  staff   175B 20 May 10:03 otacerts.zip.p
 
./patch/system/framework:
total 1040
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   155B 20 May 10:03 am.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   257B 20 May 10:03 am.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   176B 20 May 10:03 android.awt.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   270B 20 May 10:03 android.awt.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   153B 20 May 10:03 android.policy.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   234B 20 May 10:03 android.policy.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   155B 20 May 10:03 android.test.runner.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   6.9K 20 May 10:03 android.test.runner.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   153B 20 May 10:03 com.android.im.plugin.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   264B 20 May 10:03 com.android.im.plugin.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   152B 20 May 10:03 com.google.android.gtalkservice.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   266B 20 May 10:03 com.google.android.gtalkservice.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   155B 20 May 10:03 com.google.android.maps.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   263B 20 May 10:03 com.google.android.maps.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   285B 20 May 10:03 core.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff    46K 20 May 10:03 core.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   155B 20 May 10:03 ext.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   211B 20 May 10:03 ext.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff    63K 20 May 10:03 framework-res.apk.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   153B 20 May 10:03 framework-tests.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   262B 20 May 10:03 framework-tests.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   168B 20 May 10:03 framework.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   270K 20 May 10:03 framework.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   153B 20 May 10:03 ime.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   252B 20 May 10:03 ime.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   153B 20 May 10:03 input.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   249B 20 May 10:03 input.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   153B 20 May 10:03 monkey.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   267B 20 May 10:03 monkey.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   153B 20 May 10:03 pm.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   263B 20 May 10:03 pm.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   153B 20 May 10:03 services.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   4.6K 20 May 10:03 services.odex.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   153B 20 May 10:03 svc.jar.p
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   255B 20 May 10:03 svc.odex.p
 
./patch/system/lib:
total 16
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   4.7K 20 May 10:03 libicudata.so.p
drwxr-xr-x  3 andypowell  staff   102B 23 May 11:24 modules
 
./patch/system/lib/modules:
total 8
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   618B 20 May 10:03 wlan.ko.p
 
./system:
total 3672
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andypowell  staff   1.8M 20 May 10:03 recovery.img

Cupcake CRB43



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May 22, 2009 9:12

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G1 Assault on battery

15 years ago, at the end of April | Leave a Comment

I know I’m late to the party but a few days ago I received a small package containing a T-Mobile G1 phone running Android. The first thing I did was go to unlock-now to get myself a SIM unlock code. After submitting my details and paying up the 17.50 EUR it was just a case of waiting for the email, about 3 hours in my case. The email details G1everything you need to know when unlocking, particularly useful is the info on setting up a new APN which you’ll need to do if you aren’t using T-Mobile as your carrier. My O2 PAYG SIM from my iPhone worked fine and soon the G1 was syncing happily with gmail. One of the things that struck me about the G1 was all the negative comment on it’s size and feel that I’d read in various blogs and reviews. Personally I couldn’t see and issue with either the thickness of the device or the the look and feel of it and I wasn’t alone in that. I really don’t see what all the ‘complaints’ were about.

One of the things I had heard though, that I can confirm, is the poor battery life. Without installing any extra software the only real control over the G1’s power management seems limited to turning off the GPS or WiFi. However, there is a ray of light. After installing Power Manager things improved immensely but it still wasn’t enough. The solution I settled on was to buy an extended, 2400mAh, battery which came with a replacement back. The battery is physically 2 or 3 times the thickness of the original, which is why you get a replacement and the end result is a device that’s about as thick as a NOKIA N95.

So why didn’t I wait for a G2? Simple really. The G1 has a wonderful physical keyboard. I really can’t stand on screen keyboards, perhaps I’m a minority.

Of course the other reason that I wont be getting a G2 is that Vodafone are capping both daily and monthly usage when you sign up – 15mb / day and 500mb a month. Perhaps everyone at Vodafone still uses a 6310? Maybe they just don’t like the G2 or Android. Who knows?

Update (Sunday 10th May) : G1 Running cupcake has been running for 3 days with the extended battery and no charging!



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