How to fix the Galaxy S10 / Android 9 “Pie” phones from putting alarm apps to sleep.

Every once in a while, there are some files that I want kept in sync between my Android-based phone and one of my Linux (or Mac, or any Unix, or maybe Windows too, but I use Linux…) boxes. Yeah, I can copy them over manually via USB or even something …

As of this morning, my Motorola Droid was still running rooted 2.0.1 (build ESD56, baseband C_01.3E.01P) with SPRecovery 0.99.2b. Well yesterday I for the random deletion of all SMS bug again, and I decided it’s time to upgrade. I never upgraded to 2 …

My Droid is still running 2.0.1 rooted, with SPS Recovery, just as it was the week the 2.0.1 update was pushed out OTA - I’d already rooted it, disabled OTA updates, and performed a simple procedure to update and keep root.

My one complaint is that …

Here’s the current list of the apps that are running on my Droid and seem interesting (I’m still running 2.0.1, build ESD56). This is an update to my earlier post, My Android Apps, so I left out everything that was already in that post.

This list …

My Motorola Droid (purchased on November 10^th, 2009, 4 days after the release) is still running Android 2.0.1. I guess this is somewhat out of laziness - I love the Incredible and its new (and more refined) Android version and UI, but my phone is rooted. I’m …

Update 2010-08-15 - I’ve also added some new apps to an updated post.

The past 48 hours has been very eventful in my Android world. Thanks to the instructions on rootyourdroid.info (hey, it’s an expensive phone and locked hardware - I’m not fooling around the way I would …

So, I updated my Droid to Android 2.0.1 today. I’ll be honest that it didn’t work the way I’d hoped. When I woke up this morning (December 10^th 2009) I had an alert dialog on screen telling me that an update was ready. It …

If you’ve used Google search from an Android device to search for a business, you’ve probably noticed the two interesting “buttons” to the right of the search listing - “Get Directions” and a button for the phone number. It turns out, these are pretty easy to implement.

The “Get …

Gizmodo - The Real Reason the Droid’s Camera Fixed Itself.

Well, it’s definitely good news to know that the problem with the camera on my beautiful new Droid is only a software issue. However it’s not too reassuring to know that Google (or could it have been Motorola …