Rooting HTC Incredible S With Android Ice Cream Sandwich

Filed under Cellphones, Gadgets, Hardware, howto, Tips by on January 12, 2012 at 11:40 am {no comments}

HTC Incredible S is a very good smart phone of HTC. HTC Incredible S by default comes with Android v2.2(Froyo) which is getting outdated. Today I got a chance to root HTC Incredible S with Android Ice Cream flavour.

Remember : Rooting will thereby end up your warranty. There are always chances of bricking your phone while rooting so always prefer to back up all your data before rooting.

Note: You phone’s battery must be at least 60% charged before following this rooting tutorial. This version of ICS is not a stable version which means that you might face some bugs. The things which are not expected to work properly are as follows

  • Proper UMS
  • Proper Hardware acceleration
  • WiFi Tethering
  • USB Tethering
  • Camera
  • Some Other Bugs

Step 1 Start up by downloading the Android v4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Package on your computer. Don’t rename the files in the package because once you do so, they won’t be recognized. Download the package from here.

Step 2 Connect your phone with the computer using the USB cable which everyone gets during the purchase.

Step 3 Now just copy the downloaded zip file to your phone and then safely remove the phone from computer.

Step 4 Now you need to enable USB debugging. You can do so by following this path Settings then Applications then Development and finally checking USB debugging.

Step 5 Now switch off your phone and restart it in recovery mode. To start it in recovery mode, hold and press volume down key and power button key. If you will follow the steps as mentioned, you will make it to the boot loader mode.

Step 6 Now tap the recovery option from the boot loaded mode.

Step 7 Now tap Clear Storage in order to remove all the cache data.Step 8 – Now select the install zip from SD Card option and then tap the Choose zip from SD Card option. Now select the Ice Cream Sandwich Package from the location where you saved it.

Step 9 It will take 15-20 minutes for HTC Incredible S to get rooted, wait till then and don’t stop the procedure in-between. After the procedure is complete tap “++++ Go Back ++++” and reboot system now.

Step 10 Once your phone gets rebooted, it will load up in ICS custom ROM. And if it doesn’t then you have to repeat the tutorial once again.

That’s it. Enjoy your new OS

Disable GUI Boot in Ubuntu 11.10

Filed under Basic, Gadgets, Hardware, howto, Linux, System, Tips, Ubuntu, Ubuntu by on January 12, 2012 at 9:15 am {3 comments}

Is it possible to disable GUI / X at boot time? So many Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop edition users are asking the same question. On my ubuntu machine I have done following steps to disable GUI boot in ubuntu 11.10 (more…)

Free Tool to Monitor Mobile Internet Usage in Android

Filed under Android, Cellphones, Gadgets, howto, Tips by on January 9, 2012 at 9:00 am {no comments}

One of my friend is using prepaid mobile connection. He don’t want to use postpaid connection because Internet connection is very cheap in prepaid. Now the problem is he wants to monitor Internet data usage of his phone.

As he is using smart phone powered with Android OS, it is very simple task.

To monitor the data usage on Android you can use 3G Watchdog

3G Watchdog data counter monitors your Mobile Internet (4G/3G/Edge/GPRS) data usage, shows a status icon (green/orange/red) in the notify bar and a detailed report page. Widget (2 sizes). And much more!
It only does data, and nothing else. This doesn’t generate fancy graphs. However, it does predict your usage pattern. You can see daily, weekly, or monthly history. You can even export your data from previous periods to be imported later for better prediction. You can also add or subtract usage daily, weekly, or monthly.
It will also give you a notification icon if you need to know you’re in the green, yellow, or red.

It will also disable your data to make sure you don’t go over, but you will need JuiceDefender or APNDroid installed.

This application is free for use. There is also a pro version with some more functions.

You can download the free version from here

Install Firefox 9 on Ubuntu

Filed under Basic, howto, Linux, Software, System, Tips, Ubuntu, Ubuntu by on January 7, 2012 at 3:17 pm {no comments}

Mozilla has released Firefox 9, which brings speed improvements and uses less memory than previous releases. In fact, this release effectively puts Firefox back on a level playing field with Google Chrome when it comes to speed.

If you’d like to try out Firefox 9, then follow following howto to intall Firefox 9 on Ubuntu

Step 1 Open a terminal, and run following command.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next

Step 2 Finally, run the commands below to update your system and install Firefox 9.0

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox

That’s it.

Factory Reset Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Filed under Android, Cellphones, Gadgets, howto, Tips by on January 7, 2012 at 2:36 pm {2 comments}

This tutorial is for factory resetting Samsung Galaxy Nexus before going forward with root and other subsequent awesomeness.

In this tutorial you will get full factory restore ODIN with radios (both LTE and CDMA), kernel and recovery. This will bring you back to the current unrooted 4.0.2 release of Android for the Galaxy Nexus.

Before going further please note
Flashing this will wipe ALL userdata and your sdcard partition! Make a backup and copy it off of your phone.
It will bring your device back to stock running Android 4.0.2 Build ICL53F with EK05 CDMA and EK02 LTE radios.
It will not relock the boot loader. You must relock your bootloader after flashing this ODIN to be 100% factory.

Files to download
File: VzW-SCHi515-FactoryODIN-ICL53F-4.0.2.7z
Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?cnqab1sg2b1u93p
md5 : b94776ca0102f8be02ccea90dcaaf271
Size: 158 MB

File: Odin3_v1.3.exe
Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?wks4lmg5hetq7pe
md5 : a93c47f0589153249f453375be7d8643
Size: 406 KB

Inside the 7zip file:

File: VzW-PDA-ODIN-I515EL03_ICL53F_signed.tar
md5 : 6ff33e5b0d6b2da1c13824e0d90e97d9

File: VzW-PHONE-ODIN-SCH-I515.EK02_LTE.tar
md5 : b8d16828a1b777e4938834cba9e8f601

Instructions:
Step 1 This assumes that you already have the Samsung driver installed, the phone is unplugged from the computer and turned off.
Step 2 Download the 7zip file and Odin3.
Step 3 Open Odin3
Step 4 Connect the phone to the computer
Step 5 Enter download mode (hold the vol down key and press power). Odin3 should now see the phone.
Step 6 In Odin3 click ‘PDA’ and select the PDA ODIN file from the archive
Step 7 In Odin3 click ‘PHONE’ and select the PHONE ODIN file from the archive
Step 8 Click Start. After it is completed the phone will reboot. The Odin3 screen should look following

Step 9 Now check the version.

For more details and updates please follow this thread @XDA-Forum

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