Telnet is lame so we will have a look at setting up dropbear as sshd on Android. This how-to will show you how to install configure and run dropbear as sshd and how to connect with a ssh client.

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Well I've decided to get a little bit more systematic on testing and documenting my results. This page will get an update as soon as I test a new kernel. I'm running a HTC Pro RAPH110 (Vodafone branding) with ROM 1.90.162.5 GER and radio 1.02.25.19.

The Kernels I run are from phhusson (great work). You can get them from here: http://glemsom.anapnea.net/android/htc-msm-android/. Make sure to visit the support site and give some feedback: http://pjottrr.no-ip.org:81/redmine/projects/show/androidphh

Apps I'm running besides the standard ones are:

• k9-mail
• locale
• Weather widget
• Calendar widget

Update: I've moved my test results to the belonging forum here

Well, I've spent some time with the update of 2009-11-22 testing WIFI. For that part everything is really fine but I found Android quite unresponsive and got a lot of messages telling me that this or that application was not responding. That's past now thanks the kernel update of 2009-11-29 21:25.

The installation of the kernel is quite simple:

• download the tar.gz file and unzip it to the root of the SD card (on RAPH)
• edit startup.txt to point to the fresh zImage (zImage.20091129_212534 instead of zImage)

My observations after a few minutes of using:

• far more responsive than the older kernel
• incoming calls do not hang my phone

I'm looking forward testing the battery life as part of the announcements of that kernel were that the overheating had dissapered, sign of fixed powersaving options.

More to come….

After having read my mail from IMAP I noticed that the mails I had deleted were still in the folder on my desktop client (Thunderbird). Now that's strange but obviously noting new if I refer to this bug. Impressive to see a bug in a core application open since 2008!

So I followed the recommendations in multiple forums and installed K9.

And now I'm happy again:

• no more undeleted mails
• mark as read works like a charm

Well that's a five stars from my at Android Market for K9…

There is a new version out since 22. november. I just installed it and tested a little.

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