Fixed a Samsung Galaxy S by replacing the OS with CyanogenMod

Several of my friends have a Samsung Galaxy S. It’s an Anrdoid based smartphone that is still pretty decent. But the phone keeps acting up. Calls stop working sporadically, strange glitches appear, and in general, your trust in the device erodes. One reason for this may be the additional software that Samsung has built into its phone. So when one of the phones was no longer usable, I took a risk and replaced the OS with something else, in the hope that the hardware is ok, and only the software is causing problems. It took quite a bit of work to get it all done, as no instructions online were complete. Here’s a walkthrough: Read the rest of this entry »

Diigo for Android released

Since the Android platform did not have Diigo support built-in, I wrote DiigoDroid, a small free application to do that some days ago. Diigo is a social bookmarking service. If you don’t use Diigo, you don’t need DiigoDroid. But if Delicious isn’t providing you with enough features, Diigo may be a good replacement (it can even clone any links you make to your Delicious account).

You can find the app by searching for DiigoDroid or Diigo in the Android Market. It’s also listed in Androlib.

After installing the app, you can go ahead and click on its icon in the application list. This will launch a browser to the Diigo website, where you’ll need to log in. You should of course create a Diigo account if you don’t already have that. Let the browser remember your password, so you don’t need to type it in all the time.

To actually use DiigoDroid, just browse the web as you normally would. When you find a page that you’d like to bookmark, press the Menu button, select Share page and from the list that comes up, select Diigo. This will launch DiigoDroid, which will figure out the title of the page you were on, and then direct your browser to Diigo’s mobile link posting page, where you can add tags and a description if you like. After you submit the link, you’ll be returned to the original page. It’s that simple.