OUT of my Comfort ZONE

Its been long time. Work Pressure getting high. And, my Desire S is getting Paranoid day by day.

So, I m going back to HTC Sense 3.6/ICS from my first Nandroid backup. I rooted my phone just 2 days before first anniversary, 28th Oct 2012

Some NANDROID md5 mismatches I come across and solutions

Place the nandroid backup folder in sdcard\clockworkmod\backup

Connect your android in debugging mode

Open cmd prompt and type 'adb shell'

Go to your nandroid backup folder 2012-09-27.07.41.50

   cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2012-09-27.07.41.50

rm nandroid.md5

Start Running Now with Android. Play VECTOR now...

A Great Game everyone should try. Parkour Running and Jumping around buildings. One of the exciting game I played on a phone.

A single core processor with atleast 768 MB RAM able to run it.

A New Beginning from the ashes of the past... 

A Great new Challenge begins today...

The Masterpiece Background Score from Usthad Hotel by Gopi Sunder

After long days of learning @ CodeAcademy,

I found Udacity and building my first Web App with Google App Engine - Python.

My first web app goes live on 16Feb13 @ http://gae-udacity-cop.appspot.com/

What's the use of 'Volatile' keyword in C? 

StackOverflow replies ... 

Volatile tells the compiler not to optimize anything that has to do with the volatile variable.

There is only one reason to use it: When you interface with hardware.

Let's say you have a little piece of hardware that is mapped into RAM somewhere and that has two addresses: a command port and a data port:

typedef struct { int command; int data; int isbusy; } MyHardwareGadget;

Now you want to send some command:

void SendCommand (MyHardwareGadget * gadget, int command, int data) { // wait while the gadget is busy: while (gadget->isbusy) { // do nothing here. } // set data first: gadget->data = data; // writing the command starts the action: gadget->command = command; }

Looks easy, but it can fail because the compiler is free to change the order in which data and commands are written. This would cause our little gadget to issue commands with the previous data-value. Also take a look at the wait while busy loop. That one will be optimized out. The compiler will try to be clever, read the value of isbusy just once and then go into an infinite loop. That's not what you want.

The way to get around this is to declare the pointer gadget as volatile. This way the compiler is forced to do what you wrote. It can't remove the memory assignments, it can't cache variales in registers and it can't change the order of assignments either:

This is the correct version:

Not given Up. Not Yet...

You can emulate SMS message to your Android Emulator from Telnet using following command.

    telnet localhost 5554

   > sms send +123456789 Hello, Here comes my SMS. 

5554 is the port number assigned to first instance of the emulator you launched.

Once the telnet is ON, you have access to more features. (do a 'help' ;)

Also, You can switch to DDMS Perspective from top right corner of your eclipse to access more features of your emulator.

More Info:

An emulator instance occupies a pair of adjacent ports:

         a console port and an adb port.

Get more from Sublime 2 with Package Control. And, manage features with it.

Open you Sublime 2, Press [Ctrl + ~] to open a Command window below.

Paste in following py code and press Enter.

import urllib2,os; pf='Package Control.sublime-package'; ipp=sublime.installed_packages_path(); os.makedirs(ipp) if not os.path.exists(ipp) else None; urllib2.install_opener(urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.ProxyHandler())); open(os.path.join(ipp,pf),'wb').write(urllib2.urlopen('http://sublime.wbond.net/'+pf.replace(' ','%20')).read()); print 'Please restart Sublime Text to finish installation'

Restart the application once you get the message.

Now, you can access Package Control from Windows > Preferences.

You can install Zen Coding and others from Install Packages option.

CONVERT RPM packages for installing it in Debian based Ubuntu...

Download and Install Alien app

   sudo apt-get install alien dpkg-dev debhelper build-essential

Convert RPM to DEB

  sudo alien packagename.rpm

Install DEB from DPKG, internal package management tool

My VAIO running Ubuntu 12.10, triple booting with Windows 7 and 8.

Feels like coming from Modern (ICS) style to Stone Age (Froyo GB);   From minimalistic sharp design to clunky rounded YUCK!!!...

 I need to dig deep on theming this OS. 

Restore USB Flash Disk Back to Full Capacity

Bring back your USB stick with multiple un-formattable partitions using Bootice.

Open BOOTICE with USB inserted and select the USB from the dropdown.

Click Parts Manage button below and select ReFormat USB disk.

Select USB-HDD Mode (Single Partition) from the next popup menu.

Format in FAT32 or FAT16.

Alas!!! USB back in Life... 

I am going for Ubuntu 12.10 in my VAIO. I found Linux Live(LiLi) USB Creator. You can have Linux live in USB, and use it to save persistent data.

Flashed JellyBean 4.2 based AOSP ROM (Flinny)

Awesome ROM, with lot of goodies. 

Android 4.2 Jellybean with sweet Daydreams, new great Chronus (CMbased) Clock Widget and Lockscreen widgets. Real Nice to have JB.

Most of the apps or features get turne while on call, like Torch and Bluetooth. The old sound issue(both microphone and speaker) popped  up, while on call. Restarting the phone bring it back to normal.