| Dec.02 | Need to try to calibrate the battery on the Xperia phone by following these steps. |
| Dec.03 | Installed MindMeister and Ping & DNS. |
| Dec.03 | Trying to get my phone to be able to connect to my PC (instead of other way around). Have not had success with the Edimax USB wireless adapter. Am trying to try Ad Hoc again, although last time was likely when I was running CyanogenMod, so even though my phone is rooted, I’ll need to find the right changes to be able to connect to an Ad Hoc network. Will try things documented here. |
| Dec.04 | Ad Hoc seems to have worked with the following settings in /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf:
network={
ssid=”jimrin”
mode=1
frequency=2412
key_mgmt=NONE
priority=50
}
but it appears that the file is updated by Android though so resetting the information may be required for each connection. Also, this requires my wireless adapter on the PC to have a fixed static address, which needs to be changed back to DHCP when I want to connect to a normal wifi network. It is disappointing that I haven’t been able to get the Edimax USB wireless adapter to work yet. I also turned my firewall off while testing this. I’ll need to see if it made a difference or not. |
| Dec.05 | Installed Qando. Updated Adobe Reader, Pocket, Speedtest, Google+, Google Voice. |
| Dec.06 | The Edimax EW-7811Un seems to be working as an Access Point now, but doesn’t seem to work reliably. I’ll have to play around with it some more. If it is unreliable, I wonder if I have a defective one, or if this is as good as it gets with these. |
| Dec.07 | Updated Lookout Security. Uninstalled Opera Mini. |
| Dec.09 | Updated Waze, Titanium Backup, SleepBot, Shiprack Package Tracker, Shazam, Screen Off and Lock, Root Explorer, Pocket, Mini Info Classic, Life360 Family Locator, LED Light, Handy Scanner Free, GPS Status and Toolbox, aCar |
| Dec.09 | Sometimes still having problems connecting to the PC. Need to make sure everything is set up properly:
- PC has Internet connection
- The firewall has been disabled
- Network adapter which has Internet connection is set up for sharing
- Internet sharing is set up to be shared with the specific wifi adapter connecting to the phone
- The specific wifi adapter should be set up with a fixed IP address and DNS servers
- In case of ad hoc, the wpa_suppliant.conf must be set up to be able to connect to an ad hoc network
- The specific network on the phone should be set up with a fixed IP address which corresponds to the fixed IP address of the wifi adapter. Somewhere along the line, 192.168.100.x is being set up on the wifi adapter
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| Dec.09 | Installed Data Traffic Monitor, Network Monitor Mini, OS Monitor, and Android Status. |
| Dec.10 | Installed utter! and Dragon Go. Discussion about utter! can be found here. Uninstalled Data Traffic Monitor, Network Monitor Mini, OS Monitor, and Android Status. |
| Dec.13 | Somehow I accidentally booted into “safe mode” on my phone and then when I booted up normally, the widgets I had set up in Lightning Launcher were not working anymore, so I had to set them up again. |
| Dec.13 | Also, I had noticed earlier that sometimes my bluetooth headset does not connect properly to my phone. That is, it shows it is connected, but the audio still comes through the phone instead of the headset. I found that when I went to the bluetooth headset profile and disabled and re-enabled the “Phone audio” profile, it was working again. |
| Dec.15 | Installed Google Drive. Uninstalled utter! |
| Dec.16 | Updated Any.do, Google Calendar. Had to uninstall Amazon appstore and reinstall to make room for updating these apps. Uninstalled Timescape, Play on Device. |
| Dec.17 | Installed Max Magnifier. As documented here, it is the best magnifying app I looked at so far. However, it causes a FC on my Xperia Mini when I use the slide bar (or pinch to zoom) to adjust the zoom. Anyway, I can still use it as long as I select the desired zoom and don’t do a gradual change to the zoom. Anyway, uninstalled as I don’t need it now. Same developer has an interesting app called Tool Box (free). I wanted to try some of the functions, but I am having storage problems. sigh. Based on these storage problems, looks like I should reflash a new ROM. I’ve been wanting to do this, but I prefer to be able to do it on my own terms, not because I have to. |
| Dec.20 | Decided to redo the screen protector but it seems the one which was currently on there had a sticky back, so removing it made it unusable. I put on a new one from ScreenGuard which is not sticky. |
| Dec.25 | To load a custom ROM, I had to ensure the bootloader was unlocked by following instructions on this page. In general, first following instructions from here. |
| Dec.26 | Couldn’t get “Serenity” to load, so instead, installed Jelly Bean (CyanogenMod 10). Trying to follow why I can’t install Serenity on this thread. Panorama cameria is not working on this version. After Google Apps and apps below, 197 MB Free. So far, installedAny.DOAmazon AppstoreCalendarCallFilterCardioTrainerColorful AlarmFrameMe Unfortunately doesn’t work under JBGMailGoogle+life.contactsLightning LauncherMapsOne More Clock FreeQuadrant StandardRain AlarmScreebl ProSimple Calendar WidgetSleepBotThe Weather ChannelTitanium BackupTuneWikiYahoo Weather |
| Dec.26 | Ran Quadrant Standard Edition: 1589 (total), 3114 (CPU), 1168 (Memory), 642 (IO), 971 (2D), 2052 (3D). |
| Dec.26 | Other apps to install:GasBuddyMorpho Self CameraaCarAdobe Flash Player#Adobe ReaderAedictFlightTrackFoxFiGmail Notifier (It didn’t work under ICS, but maybe JB?)Google Japanese InputGPS StatusHandy ScannerIP Cam Viewer Lite (FC on JB but updated version works)LBE Privacy GuardLEAP Wifi FreeLED LightLife360Linda Application ManagerLink2SDLookout SecurityMindMeisterMiniInfo ClassicMX PlayerNeoReaderPageOnce TravelPDANetPhotoAFPocketRoot ExplorerScreen Off and LockShazamShiprackShutdownSkypeSmart ConnectSpeed TestSound Sleep (MT)SwipePadTalking TomTheEyeTranslateUnified RemoteUPnPlayVoiceWazeWP NotificationsXBMC RemoteXperia Gallery Installed Xperia T Gallery but doesn’t support Picasa |
| Dec.26 | Updated Any.DO, GasBuddy, IP Cam Viewer Lite, Swipe Pad. For some reason, IP Cam Viewer Lite doesn’t seem to be able to receive feed from front door camera from outside the home network. |
| Dec.27 | Unfortunately my favorite alarm app Colorful Alarm does not allow me to pick my own alarm sound under CM10. I opted to buy Electric Dawn which is similar in concept but does not have quite all the same features I have in Colorful Alarm. |
| Dec.28 | Got tired of Gallery not showing my pics from Picasaweb. I found “this link”http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-galaxy-nexus-rooting-roms-hacks/220830-jelly-bean-4-2-camera.html to load a new Gallery and it works! Unfortunately, my camera stopped working. I found this link for a Jellybean camera but it didn’t fix the problem. Seems like I should abandon this for a while to see if a CM10 stable version will fix this problem. In the meantime, I found a very nice gallery app (SemcAlbum.apk) ported from Sony Xperia T which shows your pics on a map or globe. |
| Dec.28 | Google Now which is standard as part of Google Search as of Android 4.1 (Jellybean) is pretty cool. I only have upgraded to Jelleybean on my phone through alpha version of CyanogenMod for my phone Sony Xperia Mini. My Toshiba tablet was recently upgraded, too, and through it, I found out that Google Now can support looking through Amazon Kindle, Amazon MP3, Chrome, Hotmail, MX Player, My Tracks, Outlook, Google Play Books and Movies, Quickoffice, Rdio, Translate, and Yelp, in addition to Apps, Browser, and People. There could be others as well. |
| Dec.28 | Discovered the problem to one of my annoyances with CM10. My favorite alarm app Colorful Alarm stopped working. It turns out the CM10 install did not include a default app for mp3 files, so whenever I picked my own mp3 file for the alarm sound, Colorful Alarm would return a “not supported file” error message. In the meantime, I downloaded a paid app Electric Dawn which has similar functionality, but Colorful Alarm suits my needs better. I provided suggestions to Electric Dawn though. |
| Dec.28 | I’m still getting “insufficient storage available” when trying to install apps. Seems to happen when I have less than 50MB free on my phone’s memory. Uninstalled FrameMe and updated Link2SD. Installed SkyDrive. |
| Dec.29 | Unfortunately while using navigation, it rebooted. Fortunately Google Now provided an easy way to re-initiate navigation. |
| Dec.31 | Installed Ship-rack. Uninstalled Electric Dawn, Album. Installed Swype Beta. |
| Dec.08 | I noticed the AverMedia QuickPlay video adapter I was using is missing a pin in the VGA plug. Not sure if it is related, but doesn’t seem to work anymore. The SCART adapter is also slightly bent at the bottom, but it can still be plugged into a TV. |
| Dec.18 | Tried to use fax capability on the Tablet PC, but it didn’t work. Received “fax server information cannot be retrieved”. |
| Dec.18 | Installed HelloFax as a Chrome app. However, you can only get 5 pages free with HelloFax. |
| Dec.20 | The fan on the Sony VAIO VPC-J113FX/B all in one desktop from two years ago is driving me crazy. I don’t normally use this computer but when I am in the room, the noise from the fan annoys me. Perhaps the level of the noise is not as bad as other desktops, but it’s a whirring noise so it’s not consistent in its noise level. I saw some suggestions to alter the fan settings in the BIOS but there are no fan settings, but I found Sony updated the BIOShere. Unfortunately, this BIOS does not allow any configuration of the fan. I’ll just have to see if it really decreases the sound of the fan or not.
Update: Grrr… Not really impressed with this update. I’ve adjusted the power settings so the hard drive turns off after 8 minutes. I don’t know if it was related to the BIOS update or just the fact I am putting the hard drive to sleep after 8 minutes, but this quiets the computer’s fan. |
| Dec.21 | On the MediaPC, I added the capability to automatically create a subtitle file from the closed caption text by using CC Extractor and setting the “Post Download Command” to ’”C:\Program Files\CCExtractor\ccextractorwin.exe” -2 -out=srt “mpeg”’. There are supposed to be percent signs before and after mpeg but within the double quotes, but the text processing of 43T have filtered them out. Most likely, it will also work without the mpeg parameter as the “Post Download Command” is supposed to automatically amend the mpeg filename if no parameters are specified. |
| Dec.21 | I’ve set up MediaPC to be the IVSMagic server again, but I’ve had to start it as an application instead of as a service. |
| Dec.21 | Had problems sending a show from MediaPC. It kept saying that the show was not found even after a refresh. Turns out the problem is related to the time offset needing to be resynched with the computer and ReplayTV. |
| Dec.23 | One of the plugins for XBMC stopped working. It seems one solution is to upgrade XBMC (not the plugin). Also, I upgraded to SplashTop Streamer 2. There seems to be a lag at least from my older computers. I’ll need to see if there’s anything which can improve the lag. I also may try TeamViewer. Currently use LogMeIn for most of my desktop monitoring/controlling functionality, though. SplashTop Streamer does not work with fullscreen mode of XBMC. However, TeamViewer does. TeamViewer seemed to also work with video but froze. Not sure if that was just a freak problem or it really doesn’t support video well. TeamViewer doesn’t seem to support audio though while SplashTop Streamer does. Actually, spoke too soon. TeamViewer also does not seem to work well with XBMC fullscreen mode. |
| Dec.24 | I was able to create subtitle files from closed caption recording for all videos in a directory using the following command: M:\ReplayTV\Local_Guide>for %i in (x.mpg) do “C:\Program Files\CCExtractor\ccextractorwin.exe” -2 -out=srt “%i”, where there is a percent sign before each occurrence before the letter i and an asterisk prior to ”.mpeg” rather than the letter x. The same can be done by using two consecutive percent signs in the batch file instead of a single percent sign. |
| Dec.13 | Phone from Republic Wireless is supposed to arrive today. |
| Dec.14 | In order to have voice mail handled by Google voice, I had to dial *28(GV number) to forward voicemail to Google voice. Unfortunately, call filtering/screening doesn’t seem to be working. Have posted a question on their forum. Changed her ringtone to “Hangout” which is at least a rather pleasant tone. Update: Can have the same effect as Call Filter by using Android contact option to direct call immediately to voice mail and set up a Spam contact with all spam phone #s added to that contact. |
| Dec.14 | Installed ADW Launcher. Default launcher had a limitation that only apps could be in the dock bar, not shortcuts, folders, etc. |
| Dec.15 | Phone internal memory down to 18MB. I uninstalled the update to Facebook and saved 24MB. I also uninstalled the updates to Google Music, Google Books, and Google Movies. |
| Dec.15 | By the way, I have noticed that periodically, the phone goes into silent mode automatically. I don’t know if it is due to the silent phone widget or not. |
| Dec.16 | I used Android Screen Capture to capture the home screen on my mom’s phone and posted here. At first it didn’t seem to work but I had two Android sdk’s installed on my computer under Program Files: one under Android and one under android-sdk-windows. Seems like the one under Android was more recent, so I pointed Android Screen Capture there and everything started to work. |
| Dec.20 | Installed a screen protector with a product by ScreenGuard. Installed 32GB SD card. The back plate is plastic but the phone is supposed to be waterproof. To remove the back plate, unlock at bottom, then pry from bottom. Putting back the back plate is the opposite. For reference: battery HF5X. |
| Dec.25 | Used instructions from here to root the phone. First, though, turned phone on, then used adb devices to ensure adb can find the device. Then adb remount to have access to the device. Remount didn’t work, but turns out I don’t need to do it anyway. Phone is now rooted. |
| Dec.31 | Installed Link2SD. Moved Amazon Appstore, Skype, and Swype Beta to SD card. Uninstalled and reinstalled Maps, Google+ so they could be moved to the SD card. Installed CallFilter which seems to work now, but I already have an alternate solution described above. |
