Getting a shell on Galaxy SII

First enable the USB debugging in (under Gingerbread, ICS or later may differ)

> Settings > Application > Development >

Then create this if using OpenSuSE (not required for Ubuntu 12.04)


# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/53-android.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", MODE="0666"

note the vendor id is the one from Samsung (see http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html#VendorIds).

Now under OpenSuSE 11.x restart udev

# /etc/init.d/boot.udev restart

then plug the usb cable in the phone and as regular user you should see the device now

~/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools> adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached 
304D19AFD0235C8E device

and start the sehll

~/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools> adb -d shell

$ pwd

/

Middle Road Lodge

Hello

today I am adding a new feature to this blog: bookings overview for rooms in the Middle Road Lodge! You can see it on the right pane of this blog.

If you read this you probably know what this is about, else you don't need to know :-)

So, for those who are in the know, I hope you find it useful to plan/request a suitable lodging. Red events indicate bookings for the double guestroom, orange for the single one. You can click on any booking to see further details (press the escape key to undo), and also check out on the top right arrow: there is a drop down menu from which you can select separate calendar/booking for the two different available rooms, e.g. double (red) and single (orange).

I will keep these calendars updated from now on.

The Lodge Keeper

Setting up Android development environment

So here are my notes on the subject (using a Linux platfrom).

First install the JDK from Oracle (I had to remove previous rpm from SUN RIP to achieve this):

# rpm -e jdk-1.6.0_30-fcs.i586

# rpm -ivh jdk-6u30-linux-i586.rpm

and make it default system wide:

# update-alternatives --config java

There are 2 alternatives which provide `java'.

  Selection    Alternative

-----------------------------------------------

          1    /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/java

*+        2    /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java

Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 1

Using '/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/java' to provide 'java'.

$ java -version

java version "1.6.0_26"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)

Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 20.1-b02, mixed mode)

Then install the current Android SDK, so that it ends up in  ~/android-sdk-linux and launch it with

$ ./android-sdk-linux/tools/android

Then check on all boxes from the API 14 (ICS) bundle and Tools folder, it will download a bunch of stuff.

Then from the Tools -> Manage AVD menu create a virtual device.

Now we need the Eclipse IDE, I downloaded eclipse-java-indigo-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz, just extract it to suitable location and run

$ ./eclipse/eclipse

then install the Google ADT plugin as per official docs.

Adding Amazon wishlist

So I have found instructions on how to add a widget to this blog which displays my Amazon wish-list. The reference site to create the Javascript snippet is

https://widgets.amazon.de/Amazon-Wishlist-Widget/

once you have that, go to the blog layout and add a widget (type html/javascript) to the desired position. Enter the snippet in the browser pop-up window. Done.