Posts Tagged ‘Android’

Writing wp-posts directly from my phone!

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

After reading a former class-mates blog, I found the application wpToGo, which I can use to write blog-posts directly from my phone.

Now I just need to get better at hitting the right keys, when I write on the phone!

Just received my new HTC Hero with Android!

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

I finally got myself together and bought a HTC Hero with Android. A really wonderfull mobile OS, but HTC has already filled it up with lame applications that cannot be removed by default!

As an example I really dont like their “Mail” application – I prefer the Gmail-application.

After “rooting” my phone (giving myself root-access), I also found out, that by default the filesystem where HTC applications (and all other applications) are placed is a read-only filesystem. I first tried the standard “mount -o remount,rw /system” – but with no luck.

I had to do this instead: “mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system”. The I did a “rm /system/app/Mail.apk” and the Mail-application was finally gone!

Programming-wise I already programmed my first application – an application to send SMS. There is already an awesome application in the phone – I just wanted to see how hard it was to do it. Compared to the OpenMoko with PHP, the Java framework in Android is a lot harder and a lot more heavy to work with.

More notes will be posted later.