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Hamster powered phone charger

Charge your Nokia N8 with hamster energy? Why not! If all this seems incredible, wait until you know that the marketing campaign for the highly anticipated Nokia N8 is starting to get serious and the video in question could to be a sort of viral jokes about an elusive accessory that charges the phone through the hamster running in the wheel. The charger was designed by Peter Ash and the hamster is named Elvis.

Hexapod robot controlled by Android OS and iPhone

This video is a blatant example of having too many high-end toys but we love it anyway. Robert Stephenson is controlling a rather awesome-looking hexapod via a Bluetooth connection to his HTC Hero. The app allows on-screen selections to decide which portion of the robot will move as a result of accelerometer data from the handheld. The only thing we saw that was missing is a camera feed to the phone. But this hack doesn’t stop there. The Hero can be used to host a WiFi network while still connected to the hexapod. The second half of the video shows an iPod Touch connecting via WiFi and controlling the bot. Now head on over to the laser cutter to start that hexapod build, and finish up by getting elbow-deep into some Android development.

Via hackaday.com

Androidome – Monome for Android

Androidome is a portmanteau of Android + monome, android being the popular operating system for mobile phones, and the monome being a minimalist instrument/controller/interface/toy. Like the monome, the app itself doesn’t actually do a whole lot out of the box, it simply provides an interface for sending and receiving data to and from your computer.

What do I need to run it?

• Android powered phone running Android 2.1 or higher.
• A host computer (Mac/PC) capable of at least running Max/MSP 5 runtime
• Both of the above to be on the same wireless network.

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Anastasia advance end-key for HTC HD2

This work is based on the latest creation from Johcos work, who create a replacement advance EndKey for HTC HD2. This time he have done it in the traditional HTC Style! But if you missed the Anastasia style on it just take a look here

Integrated Themes are: Carbon, Leather, Green and WhiteBlue Abstract

Changelog v4.5 24/07/2010

-Added support for themes.
-Themes are in zip format and only the files needed are extracted (less space).
-When changing theme all previously used brn files are deleted.
-Pressing on the top left corner will bring up the changing theme process.
-Pressing on the top right corner will bring up the configuration options.
-Added setup.dll which will run the process to apply your theme when installing and will delete all brn files from your windows folder when uninstalling.
-Customization dialogs are replaced with choices menus.
-8 different choices of customization between (Boot-louder, Lock device, WiFi, Comm manager,Vibration and phone)
-4 themes in the cab (Carbon, Leather, Green and With Blue )
-On request choice between Grey, Blue, Red and Black buttons.
-Also the coice between Black and Blue pres button!
-Integrated shortcut to EndKey in start menu

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SICC – Sense Icon Cache Clearer

This free app  deletes the HTC Sense icon cache and then gives you the option of restarting your phone.

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Amigalux – light meter app for Windows Mobile

We have often seen apps use the mic and accelerometer for apps but there are very few that use the light sensor. Apparently that is exactly what this developer was thinking and he created an Windows Mobile app that does just that. Amigalux is an app meant for WVGA devices that has a light sensor. The app should automatically detects the screen orientation of the device and adjust accordingly.

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B&W % circular battery icon for HTC HD2 taskbar

Even though the icons have been retouched, on anything but a black taskbar, artifacts may be noticed. As the original icons had some sort of shadow effect.

How-to:

1. Install ‘SdkCerts.CAB’ first (if you don’t already have it installed) and then soft reset.
2. Then install the ‘% Circular Battery Mod.CAB’ to device memory and then soft reset. CAB is uninstallable.
3. The CAB works on ROM 1.66.

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Save battery life by turning off 3G when your device screen is off

So here is a little Android app that enables the 2G only setting automatically when the phone is asleep to save battery. It’s not polished at this point, just trying out the features and come up with more to add.

How it works:

• You can get 2G coverage in all the places that you have 3G coverage
• 3G uses more battery power than 2G
• You don’t “need” 3G data when your screen is off
• Turning off 3G data when your screen is off should save you battery life

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iGO8 true pitch to zoom for HTC HD2

This is only first alpha version of applying pitch to zoom for iGO8.

installing
1. Import attached reg file to phones registry and reboot
2. Save attached HD2-iGO8-Multitouch-Landscape.exe or HD2-iGO8-Multitouch-Portrait.exe (depend on your iGO screen orintation) file on phone. Run it. Second run unloads program from memory. When tool is running try to zoom in iGO8 using multitouch. (possible you need to disable Zoomer VirtualDesktop for igo)
3. Report please is it work and how good it’s works
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HTC EVO 4G Unrevoked root

In this video we will take a look at the new “Unrevoked” tool for rooting your HTC Sense loaded Android device. Unrevoked promises a solution to making root easy and painless. By simply downloading the program, the user can connect their device to their computer via USB, and Unrevoked does the rest.

Graffiti for Android

For those of you that have been using mobile devices for quite some time, this should be a treat! Graffiti, the text-input method for Palm OS devices, is now available for Android! Graffiti was improved and today the symbols closely mimic “real” letters. Combine that with the power of modern processors and slap it into the Android OS and you’ve got not only a cool retro-throwback, but a very fast, and very functional way to input text — and it’s now finger-friendly!

Graffiti is available for free download in the Android marketplace.

Run Android 2.2 Froyo on your HTC HD2 – video guide

Here’s the how to guide for HD2:

1. Download the files (torrent link)
2. Extract the files to your storage card
3. Run CLRCAD.exe to get the audio to work
4. Run Haret.exe and wait three minutes
5. To get back to Windows Mobile, soft reset

For more information, check out the thread here.

How-to install Ubuntu on your Nexus One or any other Android device

Cyanogen is working on getting CyanogenMod ROM to run on the EVO 4G right now. On the surface, that’s just cool, but dig a bit deeper and you realize a couple things: the EVO has an HDMI-out port on it (meaning you can hook it up to your TV or computer monitor, complete with sound), AND he’s working on getting HID (Human Interface Devices) working over Bluetooth.

How-to format the internal memory on your HTC Diamond

This program already exists for XPERIA X1, HTC HD2, Touch Pro2  and it’s tested and works. So here is the task29 program for your HTC Diamond (GSM version).

We do not take any responsibility for any damage done to your device. Use it at your own risk, and only after you have HSPL already installed on your device!

Do not know what a HSPL is, check here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=415191

Now we can MTTY our HTC Diamond devices without having the need of MTTY and its drivers.

What is TASK29 and MTT:

When you flash a rom, you are copying files onto the internal memory but if you repeatadly flash different roms, sometimes files from older version stays behind as when you flash a rom, you just copy and sometimes overwrite files without deleting the older ones. Hence at times these older files may create bugs or instability, hardrest do not always fix it, so we use MTTY for full memory format. But the thing is, MTTY is and can be hard to use for new users, so here is a tool to do this operation:

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Download and unzip.
2. Run then ROMUpdateUtility.exe and wait for it to finish.
3. Device will reboot but will neva go past the bootscreen coz there is no OS to boot.
4. Take out the battery and then flash a rom using mSD card or by taking device into bootloader and using customRUU to load ur favorite RO.

DOWNLOAD:
http://rs604.rapidshare.com/files/40…k29-diamond.7z

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Msm7kCpuSpeed – Overclock tool for HTC Touch Pro, Diamond, Touch Pro2, Touch HD and more

After LeoCpuSpeed to overclock the HD2, there is a program for overclocking the MSM7k SoC on the Raphael, with success. The same processor is present on the Diamond, Rhodium and the Topaz, so it should work on all of these devices. You’ve been able to underclock to 57MHz and overclock up to 710MHz, using small 19.2MHz steps. It can clock even further, but it depends on the quality of the processor in your device where the limit for you lies.

Supported devices
- Raphael (HTC Touch Pro)
- Diamond (unconfirmed)
- Rhodium (HTC Touch Pro2)
- Topaz (HTC Diamond2)
- Blackstone (HTC Touch HD)
- Whitestone

Features
- The CPU speed is calculated from the actual clock registers, not via some dll or shady method.
- CPU speed is updated every 250ms
- A small dot blinks on each update so that you can see if your device hangs or not.
- Under- or overclock by moving the slider

Notes on overclocking
1) AT YOUR OWN RISK
2) Only works while connected to AC power
3) The “604MHz” OC frequency is a special one. Only with this frequency set, you can remove AC power without having a lockup. So: after you overclock and want to remove your USB cable, set it to 604MHz first! You’ll see it go back to the default 528MHz a second after you remove the cable. That’s something the device does, not from the app.
4) Overclocking while on battery gives insta-hang.
5) “Apply at boot” is disabled as under- or overclock would hang at boot.

When using TCPMP to benchmark the overclock, be aware that this tool overclocks the CPU, not the GPU.

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HTC HD2 3D driver patch 2.50 (beta version)

The original driver didn’t work well on some Snapdragon devices (the LG Expo, for example), and on some ROMs also didn’t work very well, according to some. The new one works on the programs, games, and devices I have tested it on so far, namely OGLCubes, Electopia, GLBenchmark, Manila/TF3D/Sense(/whatever), on a stock (NLD) HTC HD2.

How to test it?

First of all, test if all your apps and games still work. If an app/game does not start at all anymore, go into CF3DConf and set the application’s driver to “Original”. That should let it start again.

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Free Skype calls over 3 UK for Android phones

Here is the apk for 3UK Skype app, this is ment to be free for 3UK users only!

It’s the offical Skype app for 3UK’s HTC Hero that’s on the marketplace, they only support the Hero but it seems to run on most Android devices (runs perfectly on HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1.

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