Personal Site with my Resume and Personal Projects and Other things

TweetWell,

Verizon has been giving me the run around on my signal issues on ALL my devices both 3G and 4G devices. This includes signal issues inside my house as well as outside. So, after 20-30 calls, they want to send me a network extender. So, I’m thinking to myself this is cool. So, again, turns out, its a signal extender that uses your internet connection to place calls. Basically, The device turns into a MINI tower which you can connect ANY VZW device up to within 50 or so feet, then, it will place the call over VOIP (Over your INET).

Now, With the above said. How in the world does this fix any issue? I can get any SIP device / Magic jack and other setups, and make free calls from my house. oh, and to add to that, When you place calls over this device (It comes out of your airtime minutes)

I have some pics of the unboxing.

http://minus.com/mbcxKFUkza/

Conclusion: If this item was not FREE and I actually paid 249.99 + shipping. I would have flipped out on the phone and had been sent to a hospital. $249 dollar device to for SIP. When they cost < $30 USD.

Normal Verizon / Carrier Setup (I made this in omnigraffle)

This is how the Network Extender works (quite stupid if you ask me)

TweetWell,
This site/blog or whatever you want to call it has been up for quite some time. And, I have collected download stat’s for all to see.

FILENAME | MD5 | NUM_OF_DOWNLOADS

0203_strat.zip                  ec1e4990eaf0dfb558b40df10769cb1b    89

tf101_ics_root.tar.gz      61e31adf2bdfc9e924f7cbb1c1a6e671      282

resume.doc                         30e0b13ec00e7d492a53e3f37a07154c 65

Rhcp-403-404libs.zip     4b47107736e12973ea6f3e110d2e0b1f   50

update-cm-9-03062012-NIGHTLY-Touchpad-signed.zip 41199d316f79a26c9a5ae298fe37bf0c  87

full_toro-ota-eng.rhcp-032912.zip  353e5baac73a1bab38b1600fc711c70b              101

Quite impressive I’d say. Out of everyone using my servers and work. There has been a total of $25 dollars sent. To those who have send in some donations, Thank you.

Thats all for now. Have a happy easter

TweetSo, I have been playing around with a iphone4 lately, Yes, i said it, An iphone4

The default gmail.app for it was horrible and I wanted to use the stock mail.app. So, after some searching around and digging, I found out that gmail allows you to add an account as an (exchange server) – WOW

A) Contact Sync

B) Calendar Sync

C) Push Email

So, I did this on the iphone, And boom. I had all my contacts/cals/emails all pushed to my inbox instant. So, When i switched back to an android device, I took this another step further. I’m not sure if everyone has noticed, When google De-syncs from your device (Data icon is not blue) your email/gtalk stops. I was getting sick of this. So, I figured let me try this on my android. and guess what? It worked! I have exchange setup for both my gmail accounts. Now, You will ask HOW? Well, the how is quite simple.

Open up the mail.app on android, Add an account. type in your full gmail username/full gmail password -> Click on manual setup -> Choose exchange

Domain -> your full gmail address

Password -> Your gmail password

Server -> m.google.com

After all and all is done. You will get the prompt about sync. Finish that, and boom you now have exchange gmail setup!

TweetHey Guys and Gals,

This is a 100% stock AOSP rom built from google source. No hacks, no mods , no nothing added. 100% pure aosp.

It has been tested on irc.andirc.net #gnexus by drew

Download: LINK

Source: It’s on google’s servers. No mods were made.

If you like my work feel free to help out with hosting and buy me a juice perhaps.

TweetWell, This has been hell and back. And, I hope my rants and words here might help someone out there.

How this all started out:

I have been running Ubuntu 11.10 as my desktop for quite some time now. I had a buddy that was trying to build a hackintosh and since I am part of the osx86 community, I decided to help him out. Well, during this process, I had turned my ubuntu box into a OSX machine. With that being said. I do android development and IOS development. So, I was stuck between OSX / Linux / Varios versions of linux and osx / Other OS’s. So, I had a macbook 2011 I7 laptop which i turned into my desktop using the guide i posted above.

So, After getting that done. I wiped off OSX on my desktop. We started with Debian 6 and XEN. It was a very hard install and networking was a nightmare to even get working. Finally, after about a day of messing around and help from a friend. We got networking working and the first VM up ( Ubuntu 11.10 ) , So, The first thing i tested was a build of Android. Well, To my suer surprise we found out that it took over 3hrs! to build. XEN obviously doesn’t like building large code and just craps out. I allowed people to try to config it and change it and it just was the same. I even tested on a super machine with 1K USD harddrives and it was still slow/dead.

So, I put out a tweet to all my followers for advice. Someone came back to me with setting up a very low-end version of Ubuntu and running virtual box. Now, This method was ALOT faster then xen. But, Still we had a major pitfall. As soon as you fired up a second VM. Slower then XEN (I already knew this but, was just making the person happy). So, This was dead. Also the build time for android on it was around 2hrs

Lastly, Another friend, Suggested we try ESXI server. I said ok LAST CHANCE. so, we have been playing around with it for a few days now. and its AMAZING. I have ubuntu 11.0 / 10.04 and I will be adding more to it. It supports winxp/7/8 and OSX. The compile of android took around ~50 minutes. Which is amazing time!

More to follow and screenshots.

Thanks for reading!

TweetEveryone is going nuts and ranting about the locked boot-loaders, but, I have a fear they have no idea what it even means. So, I am going to write this out.

Misnomers:

• Locked boot loader (OMG I CANT DO ANYTHING)
• Locked Boot Loader (OMG I CANT GET ROOT)
• Locked Boot Loader (OMG I CANT RUN A CUSTOM KERNEL)
• Locked Boot Loader (OMG NO AOSP ROM!)
• More to come (Comments are welcome to add more)

Now to clear up those misnomers:

• With a locked boot loader you can do pretty much anything. You can have custom recovery / You can have a custom rom / You can update radios and you can pretty much do anything any other phone can do.
• Yes, You can get root. and perm root. Unless you flash a new OTA (which takes away root) Lucky we have a tool on market called OTA ROOT KEEPER (By supercurio) – Learn this and use it.
• The custom kernel is sometimes true. But, It does not stop you from your normal doing’ing. You can still over-clock and undervolt and anything else you may want to do. You just load modules. Now, on some motoroloa phones we are seeing kexec come up. Kexec allows you to spawn your own CUSTOM kernel thus defeating the bootloader. So, YAY You can now run a custom (This is working so far on the Droid Razr and I believe it’s being worked on with the bionic.)
• You can have AOSP on the phones. It’s like ANY other phone. It just needs support. You guys are all in luck. The people over at http://www.droidhive.com/ are writing AOSP/CM9/AOKP roms for all the current Motorola phones. The people include dhacker29, DroidTh3ory , Hashcode0f.
• If you have any other questions that you cannot do with a locked boot-loader, Feel free to add a comment and I will try to debunk it.

Some useful links:

What is Kexec?

Droidhive

Thanks for reading and your comments are welcome

TweetSo, Apple.com tells you that your max memory is 8GB? Well, they are lying to you

With some help from my friends over at osx86.hu and some digging around, I have upgraded my macbook to 16G of ram. And its 100% stable.

If you are interested, Here is a few ram links which I know work:

corsair’s

G-skill

Hope this helps someone.

TweetSo,

I wanted to have OSX + Linux on my laptop. I’ll be getting 16G of ram soon for it. So, its time to hook up some linux love so i can dev while im out and about. Is this easy? Well, I thought so!

Things you need:

1. Real macbook (Mine is a 2011 Macbook pro 17″ 8,1 model)
2. Ubuntu install dvd (For mac) – This can be found on the normal ubuntu mirrors the file name has a -MAC in it.
3. TIME
4. Refit – Bootloader

Steps to get it installed:

• You can try to use DiskUtility to shrink your FS down. Personally, I used Gpartd because the other was giving me issues. I used 150G
• After that, You need to install Refit. Once you got that installed. Now, You can pop in your linux dvd/cd.
• Create an EXT4 / and a swap (Yes, You need swap for hibernation)
• Let it install ALONE SIDE OF YOUR MAC (or you will loose OSX) – Do not blame me if you cant read
• Let it install and get a coffee or a beer or whatever you like to drink (Personally i made a nice juice with my juicer)
• Reboot and select linux and let it boot. For your trackpad to work you may need to reboot again (I had to)
• Now, Once you got it up and running you need this GUIDE
• Follow all the steps on the guide and pretty much everything will work.

Problems:

You may have an issue with refit and you may not. You need to reboot at least twice for it to show up. If you dont see it. Do not panic. I have the fix

Open a Terminal. And do the following:

[CODE]

remove rEFItBlesser in /libary/Startup Items/
Restart computer or shut down and open
Open Terminal
type:

cd /efi/refit

./enable.sh

fill in your (computer login) password….

sudo reboot

[CODE]

Then you will have fully working OSX + Linux install on your macbook!

This took me almost 4hrs to figure out due to the refit problems! I may have a fix for refit soon

Please support me with my work and I will be posting fixes and all kinds of neat stuff.

Special thanks to Dr_Drache  from irc.andirc.net #gnexus for the help with some things. and this wonderful guide i posted.

Thanks for reading. Comments are always Welcome.

TweetHello all,

So, I prefer a more stock’ish rom than most people. So, I have put together something fairly simple.

This rom consists of the following:

1. 4.0.3 AOSP Google Source
2. CM9 T9 Dialer (Thanks CM)
3. Facebook Sync Fix (Thanks Romanbb)
4. Toggles for wifi/LTE/rotation and few others
5. Lockscreen Battery percent
6. 1% Battery mod

This is a work in progress. I honestly dont plan to stop working on this as I can see from the 4.0.4 leak that things might get better.

The source can be found on my GitHub: Github Link

4.0.3 ROM with 4.0.4 PROP files (from leak) – LINK

If you find this helpful and it has made your phone better for you and you appricate my hard work, And, Would like to help me out with hosting and keeping this alive and continuing my dev work. Please feel free to donate to me.

TweetSo, I guess you all figured I would write something about this at some point. I’ve had some talks with various un-named people and have come to the following consolations.

• That these public forums such as XDA / Rootzwiki and other places we all post to, are truely not public and free to post your work at all. I guess we have all known these places lurk with trolls, But, what has given me a new lookout, is that moderators which are supposed to be on your side are now starting to dis-credit a developers work and also, personally attack them because “they can” and when you try to fight back either one of two things happen. A) You get the thread deleted. B) You get banned. Personally, I don’t believe that you should be marked/trolled or what-ever you want to call it on a public forum by “moderators”. If users want to do this, By all means but, Allow the other to fight back or post his comments and not have a moderator remove it or send you a ban notification.
• Second Note, They all seem to say, ‘donation begging’ , Well, For someone such as myself and I know many others out there. We survive on donations. Its SOME fun in the early stages but as time goes on and you learn how things are it becomes more work then fun. And, the whole FREE thing. Why are these forums posting ad’s? and other things that make them money? and having donation drives? What makes them better then us?!
• Totally un-related thought, This comment is NOT meant to bash goo-inside.me or cyanogenmod in any way. Want to say this up-front. Now, with that being said. Both parties have setup donation pools and have publicly asked on twitter / G+ / Tech Blogs and other places. I have even saw today by some random dev “Lets all stop taking donations until goo-inside.me get’s what they want” Again, What makes them better then any of US? I thought begging was a “NO NO”, This whole community makes me MAD and makes me wonder why I am even in it.

Background about me: I only got into android a few years ago when i landed back in the USA. I was living in the Philippines for over 4 years and android was not popular nor known at all. So, when I came back to the USA, I had no job and almost nothing at first due to some issues back there. So, I saw “Simple Mobile” offering $60 unlimited everything. And was told if you got an android, You could have email/web and pretty much anything you wanted. I found this very cool. So, I got my first Mytouch3G. From there, I saw it was slow and out-dated and then moved onto a Samsung Vibrant and THIS is where i learned about XDA and other places. Because the phone itself was horrible and slow and had issues. And, I paid over $600 dollars for it. I am glad that I came into the community back then. I met some nice people and made a nice little group of friends and I think back then this community was very very different. I almost wish things would go back to the way they were. But, Who am i? I can only make wishes.

Final Conclusion: I think people should stop posting to public forums and stop posting their work to places where people will dis-credit them and not really embrase their work.  UNTIL, These places realize they need US more then we need THEM.

Hope you had fun reading this. I should have more words to come. as, this is where I will posting all my thoughts and work for now on. Please do share the pare with others.

Cheers!