January 2011

Liveview PCB front

Hi, just posted an updated high res pic of the liveview PCB front: The illegible chip at the bottom middle has “E3030 Z312E” on it

Did a spot of redbus development this evening, one politeness fix, one bugfix and one really annoying thing. Politeness: silence the stop data update alarm. It’ll still warn you when updates are available, but it shouldn’t make a noise/vibrate/blink lights etc. Bugfix: Searching for locations from the map view now works again. Really annoying thing:Continue reading “redbus update”

Huffington post article on kindle hacking

See here.

Liveview case clips

To help people out, I’ve drawn the approximate size and location of the plastic retainer clips holding the liveview together in red on this image. I used a swiss army knife to lever it open blindly 🙂 The prongs of the clips are on the side with the display, locking into the plastic baseContinue reading “Liveview case clips”

Liveview teardown

OK, ok, I couldn’t resist any longer, I had to open the liveview up. Here are the pics (click for larger ones): Front view: Rear view: Front PCB closeup: Rear PCB closeup: It seems to be rather annoyingly common with this sort of thing to include extremely blurry photos which are no use toContinue reading “Liveview teardown”

Sony Ericsson LiveView hacking: complete

I’ve just checked in the final piece of the LiveView protocol. If you look here, you’ll find a complete re-implementation of the LiveView protocol in Python, allowing it to be completely controlled from a PC. It shouldn’t be hard to port this to Java and completely replace the Android LiveView application with something else entirelyContinue reading “Sony Ericsson LiveView hacking: complete”