Posts tagged Android

BetterBatteryStats gives Gingerbread the so useful battery statistics (especially wakelocks) that were enabled by Spare Part under Froyo. I have just released the first public version 0.3.1.

Some may have notices that trying to access “Battery History” in SpareParts on Gingerbread Force Closes. The reason is detailed here.

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We all know Unity has a special way to manage menus. I installed Eclipse (motodev studio) on my Ubuntu 11.04 today to find out that my menu was not showing. This happens to Eclipse and all SWT based apps (read more).

The workaround is to export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 before starting the app so I added that to my motodevstudio.sh.

In combination with dropbear or QuickSSH rsync allows you to back up your android. Here's how to.

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A little while ago I discovered QuickSSHD, an sshd for Android that comes as an App. The main benefit it is comes as an App and does not require root. QuickSSHD is based on Dropbear (I wrote about it a while ago) and I plan to use it for backing up my Mobile. But first things first: the first step in setting up an sshd is to avoid using password-logon and use pub/priv keys instead. We will go through the step of setting this up. For forther reference and a deeper understanding you may want to read more about this here.

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