Android phone filetransfer over Wifi

Hey!

I don't like to plug my phone to my computer for filetransfer purposes, if you don't like, too, this post is for you :)

We can access our phone's SD card over Wifi, with the SwiFTP application. We can conclude that this program makes an FTP server from our phone :)

It's a free app, you can download it from market. I have been using it since I've got my phone.

After the installation, we are on the setup screen, we can set every things for the FTP server :)

So:

• Username: The username for the FTP server
• Password: The password for the FTP server
• Port number: The default port number is 2121, you can modify it if you want.
• Stay within folder (e.g /sdcard): the FTP server's root directory, you shouldn't modify it.
• Accept connections from wifi: The phone is accessible over wifi
• Accept connections from net proxy: If you want to access your phone from an "outside network"
• Keep phone awake (full CPU speed): This option prevents phone from sleep, and CPU is on maximum clock signal.

After the set-up, press Save. :) It drops back to the main screen, and after pressing start, the FTP server is working, there's an icon on the notification bar. You can access your new server from TotalCommander etc. The phone shows on the Wifi URL section the ftp://<yourphonesip>:port string.  You can copy, paste, move, etc :)

Peace :)

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My new computer-configuration

Hello!

Sorry for being late, me telling as my english teacher taught :D

This post is about my new computer configuration. I am a school-leaver and there is a custom in Hungary, the close and distand relatives give presents to the school-leaver. I got some money, so I could build my new configuration.

Except the computer case and ODD, all the things are new. Here's my config:

• Asus P7H55-M SI Motherboard (LGA1156 socket)
• Intel Core i3-540 processor, 3.06 GHz
• 3x1GB Kingston DDR3 RAM
• WD CaviarGreen 500GB Winchester
• ASUS HD5670 1GB GDDR5 Video card
• Corsair CX430 430W Power supply

In Hungary, these stuff cost 79000 HUF (~258 British pound, ~294 EUR ~ 412USD). All the games run fast, there is no lag, but when I started every game, I turned the resolution to the maximum and the graphical details to extra/max.

If you want a rather good computer, I can offer these parts :) My old machine is also in good hands..my brother got it :)

Peace! :)

PS: If you want to upgrade the machine, it's possible. You can buy stronger CPU, plus RAM, or stronger ATI or nVidia card. But you must upgrade the power supply, then.

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Just a sitrep

Heyho!

I couldn't update my blog because I learned a lot to my final exam, and this week I'll do it. After the F.E I'll post new things.

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An own development - Debian 'n' Ubuntu on Spica

Hellooooo :-)

I made a mod for Android 2.1 Eclair and Cyanogenmod 8.3. The original idea is from Saurik(who is the father of Cydia) and Empas from samdroid.net.

You can run Debian on 2.1 Eclair and ubuntu with no GUI, and you can run Ubuntu with LXDE on Cyanogenmod.

Check this out for Android 2.1 stuff, and for Cyanogenmod go here.

PS: If you don't execute "exit" (without quotes) to shutdown Ubuntu (on CM), you will experience problems. Ubuntu won't boot up next time.
The solution is, edit the bootubuntu.sh, search for "export loopdev=/dev/block/loop3" line and replace loop3 with loop4.

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YONIP Kernel

Respect!

Well, now, the most discussed thread on samdroid.net forum is Banjo's kernel, called YONIP kernel. It's for Cyanogenmod 8.3 and Spicagenmod, I'll show you how this kernel improve your phone.

NOTE: Banjo said this kernel is NOT WORKING ON ALL PHONES, BUT YOU CAN TRY IT ON YOURS.

• This kernel is an overclocked kernel, which means if you apply this kernel, your phone's processor's clock will run on 1GHz.
• It can provide better battery life.
• In Banjo's opinion the touchscreen will be sensitive.
• It makes your phone faster.

Tom3q wrote the framebuffer driver for Spica, that's why you can choose from 2 color depth, 16BPP and 24BPP.

• 16BPP: I think it's the standard color depth, you can make screenshot if you are in 16BPP
• 24BPP: Prettier colors, but you can't make screenshots.

Banjo makes his kernels with 2 schedulers. CFS and BFS. Banjo recommends that you'd better to convert your phone's filesystems to ext2/ext4. I suggest system&cache to ext2, data to ext4.(BFS is not compatible with RFS, and with the conversion the phone reaches better results in I/O operations, BFS can be maybe unstable, but responsive and fast) //I wrote about BFS in a previous post

CFS: Completely Fair Scheduler, it's the mainline Linux scheduler, you can read an article about CFS in Wikipedia. CFS is stable, and provides better battery life.

If you want to install this kernel, first make a backup from your working configuration! Before applying kernel, make a Wipe Dalvik-cache. You have to remove all the tweaks(pixiebob tweaks, ckMod ssswitch etc.)

Golden rule: Nobody is responsible if you transform your phone into a brick!

You can see the download links @samdroid.

Have a nice day! :-)

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Sitrep about my phone.

Hi!

I thought I share my running configuration on my phone. Now, my phone's running Cyanogenmod 8.3, but I thought I migrate my phone's NAND flash storage to ext2/ext4 from Samsung's RFS filesystem, and try "Brain Fuck Scheduler "kernels.

The idea

The idea came from a hungarian developer called Xmister, he developed and shared the idea on samdroid.net forum. Thanks to him :-)

Why is it good?

Well, it can increase the I/O operation numbers, which you can see in Quadrant Standard Edition app.

Will it reduce my phone's flash's lifetime?

The answer is no. It didn't use much more the NAND than the RFS filesystem or YAFFS2. If I remember correctly, RFS is based on VFAT.

How to migrate, and what is BFS?

In standard Cyanogenmod 8.3 recovery you can convert your filesystems. I suggest system and cache to ext2, data to ext4. You won't lose any data, because the conversion method makes backup from your existing data. You need 350-400MB of free space on your SDcard. After the conversion you can delete the backup files. The whole conversion takes 5 minutes.

BFS: Brain Fuck Scheduler. A CPU scheduler, which was developed by an austral anesthesiologist, Con Kolivas. BFS is not compatible with RFS, that's why we converted the filesystems. The BFS-kernels make the phones very responsive and fast :-)

The samdroid.net kernel makers(Lukiqq, ch33kybutt(but he told me he no longer develop to our phones), Banjo,Xmister) made kernels with BFS, I use ckmod.004BFS(download it from here), it's very stable, makes the phone very fast, I recommend it. If you want to use Lukiqq's kernel, download it from here. I'll create a particular thread about Banjo's YONIP kernel a bit later.
There isn't any updates about Xmister's kernel, but you can also download his kernel from here.

Good luck good work :-)

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My Ubuntu desktop (Ubuntu 10.04)

Hello!

I thought I drop few lines about my PC's desktop. I used Ubuntu 10.04 with Linux Mint 10 desktop before, but now I'm using Ubuntu with Gnome-do dock, Conky, and I also use Compiz Fusion desktop effects.

The dock can be installed with sudo apt-get install gnome-do command.

My desktop   

Enabling Compiz Fusion is not so difficult. Open a terminal, and execute this command: sudo apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra fusion-icon emerald

I'm using this effects. You can set up this things in Compizconfig-Settings-Manager.

• Wobbly Windows
• Desktop Cube
• Rotate Cube
• Animation Add-ons
• 3D Windows
• Water effect
• Paint fire on screen
• Shift switcher

and the previously adjusted settings by compiz. You can customize each settings :-) You can set up every window-managing possiblities such as Open animation, close animation, minimize effect etc.
You can do this in Animations menu. Try it :-)

And the panel called Conky. Conky is an "Advanced System Monitoring Tool". It can display the system usage, hard disk usage, memory usage and there are much more possiblities as you or me can imagine.
You can install Conky with sudo apt-get install conky command. You will have to edit your own, or download and modify an other person's configuration. My configuration is SethConky, you can download it from here.
You will have to find a howto-file in the archive, it explains you how to set up your conky. :-)

Good luck, have a nice theming-time :-)

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