Month: July 2009

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ADP1 and cupcake 1.5 – no rooot!!!!

So I received my replacement ADP1 at the start of the week, all is good.

Having installed the fabulous app connectbot I had a poke around in the internal file structure on the ADP1 and tried to become root by using su. It says that that UID can not run su!!!! I thought that the ADP1 was rooted out of the box, short answer, it is, till you upgrade it to 1.5, then it isn’t.

This is a little annoying but I’ll live with it. What I need doing can hopefully be done using the adb tool supplied with the android SDK. The uni I go to has wifi but uses EAP and TKIP which I can not see in the setting available in the WI-FI GUI, as a result I need to hand code the wpa_supplicant.conf file and with luck i’ll get on-line.

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MV Agusta update 1

The other day I picked up the parts from the powder coters that have been coated in Flame Red. Parts include the Frame, triple clamps, upper and lower, chain guard, stand and several other bits and bobs. The guy that did it for me did a fabulous job, the finish is as good as any paint job I have seen, very smooth deep gloss. So now the majority of colour bits are done but I still need to have the tank painted and the rear tail light holder painted.

Have disasembled the wheels and have sourced some new stainless steel spokes which was not a cheap exercise. I have noticed that one of the wheels is painted silver, the other plain aluminium. Should be fun trying to get the paint off the aluminium given it’s not on the out walls of the rim, just the inside bit where the spokes come through. Should take hours – great! I think I’ll get Dad to polish them up including the huge drums so it will be pretty.

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Replacement ADP1 received

Great couple of days, rebuilt modem works and now, today, I received my replacement ADP1. Another night of updating and loading of my favourite apps.

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Modem fixed

Oh the trials and tribulations of fixing ones own electronics.

Having purchased $10 worth on new capacitors from RS components yesterday, today i finally was able to remove the old ones and put the new one in.

The tricky bit was removing the solder from the holes where the old capacitors were. Unfortunatley my lack of experience resulted in one of the hole fill with solder and my iron could not melt it all again to be able to suck it out with a solder sucker. In the end I resorted to a 0.6mm fine drill and a steady hand to drill the solder from the hole on about 5 holes in the end.

It would appear its worked well with good up and down speeds. Amazing.

I’ll see how it goes tonight, I’m worried I will wake to a molten plastic mess.

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Modem problem

If anyone has noticed, I’ve had dramas with my connection over the last week or so. My trusty old Speedtouch 536 finally died. I opened it up and the capacitors have all bulged or leaked or both.

I was lucky enough to borrow a modem off a friend, unfortunately I didn’t read the manual when I plugged it in and some of the settings were wrong resulting in it dropping off all the time. Fixed it last night, nice and stable now.

I’m looking at getting a Cisco modem and using the 536 as a backup (after I replace the capacitors).

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Trixbox

I’ve started messing with trixbox. Its really interesting that such a prebuilt distro exists. It makes it easy for someone to set up there own asterisk server come PBX. I’m looking at using one but need to harden it to ensure I don’t get hacked by someone and tey rip me off. Seems to be a few good tips around on how to harden these boxes so I may soon be running trixbox for all my Voice requirements.

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ADP1 faulty keyboard – back its goes

Well, actually back to Brightstar it goes.

After a week with me I can stand this fault no longer. The number 7 key is faulty, it doesn’t have the click that all the rest of the keys have and its actually difficult to get any output from pressing the key.

I figured I paid good $$$ for the thing, I may as well have it in 100% working condition so I got an RMA from Brightstar and sent it back today. Perhaps this is a false economy and I should consider the purchase a sunk cost and forget about spending more on it but I just can’t.

I miss it already…..

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Android Developer Phone 1 – Its arrived

After tracking its progress from the USA to me here in Perth (via Germany, Dubai and Asia) I finally got the phone yesterday at work.

Enabled 3G with my mobile provider and off I went. Sweet machine but I’m worried about data usage on this thing. My provider charges by the MB, I’ll see how it goes for a couple of days then find out the damage. If its worth it I will change to another provider perhaps with a Data package that gives you say 500MB for a fixed amount.

Up till midnight last nigh flashing it with new firmware and radio stack so it is now running Cupcake (1.5).

Might have a play with the ROM’s flying around on the XDA Developers site I see. They look cool.

Have to get the follow apps I think at this stage..
wpTOgo
ConnectBot
Sipdroid

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Android Dev phone on the way…..

I splashed out and ordered one of the G1 dev phones from the USA. Its on its way here as I write this, currently on a plan I recon on its way to me. Can’t wait.

Exchange rate is better than it was the last time I considered one of these.