Managing Your Android Phone Using AirDroid

AirDroid is a fast, free app that lets you wirelessly manage & control your Android device from a web browser Over-The-Air. It can also send messages, browse / download / upload files, preview photos, import or export ringtones, music and some other stuff. The main reason i'm using this app is to transfer file from my phone to my laptop and vice versa. Since bluetooth file transfer under Ubuntu 10.11 is broken this is the next best thing.

Root Samsung Galaxy Y (GT-S5360)

Just rooted my Samsung Galaxy Y using this instruction from XDA-Developer. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1317540&page=2

copy update.zip file to your sdcard's root directory then boot into recovery mode (hold power, volume up, home button together) then chooses apply update.zip from sdcard

Reboot your phone, voila... its rooted now

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Attached Files

update.zip - (2.16 MB, 16777 views)

Running Globe's Unlimail and eBuddy's Mobile Instant Messenger on a Non Supported Phone

I use this method whenever i want to try some Java MIDP applications on my old LG KU250 mobile phone. A brief description of Unlimail is that its a push email application made by Emoze for Globe Telecom and it runs on Symbian and Java MIDP capable phones. It can access multiple email such as GMail, Yahoo! Mail and MSN among other things.

First off we will need Mozilla Firefox and 2 Firefox addon namely WML Browser to simulate WAP browsing and User Agent Switcher.  To download the Unlimail application you will need to use a user agent that is close to your phone. In my case i'm using a 3 year old LG KU250 which they say is not supported so i choose to use a Nokia 3120 user agent. Once your user agent is set you can now go to the WAP site and download the application to your computer. When finish downloading from the WAP site you can now download it to your phone whether by cable, bluetooth or via card reader and install it and hopefully it will run.


With this method you can also download eBuddy's Mobile Instant Messenger. Proceed to eBuddy's mobile webpage get.ebuddy.com choose you phone model or for a non supported phone the closes to your model. I choose LG KU380 since my KU250 is not supported. Download the eBuddy application, install it and your done.

How to Send SMS Text Messages Through Gmail

Gmail has SMS messaging via chat available since last year but it's only limited to US phones only. There is another way to send SMS in gmail by using a web service called Chikka.com. Using Chikka you  can send free text to mobile subscribers in the following countries: United States, Philippines, Guam, India, Hong Kong (Smart 1528 only), United Kingdom, Spain, Indonesia (XLcom only), Saipan and Italy.

Now let's get started.


First off you will need to login to your Gmail account, once you have login start by clicking on "Contacts" then add new contacts. On the name field enter the name of the person you would like to text and on the email field you should enter the following detail using this format Country code + CellphoneNumber + @chikkatalk.com. example: 639068888888@chikkatalk.com. Click save and your done.

An added bonus if you added your Gmail/Googletalk account to Meebo.com you will now be able to send Text messsages using Meebo and that also goes for Pidgin(the multi-platform IM client) too.

Opera Mini 5 beta

Opera Mini my favorite mobile browser for my java compatible phone has just release a beta version of Opera Mini 5.

Top new features

Tabbed browsing - Browse several Web sites at the same time. Jump easily from one to another.

Password manager - Log on to your e-mail, social network and other sites with just one click.

Touch & Keypad - The interface optimizes the display for both touchscreen and keypad phone

Speed dial - Your favorite sites are just one click away.



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