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”
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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”
Sony Ericsson LiveView hacking!
I bought one of those wee Sony LiveView devices during the holidays. They sound quite cool in theory, but the connection to them seems to be rather flakey for some reason. Supposedly there is a firmware update for the device itself due out in January to fix this. However, in the meantime, I want toContinue reading “Sony Ericsson LiveView hacking!”
jrename 0.2
Hi, just created a new release (0.2) of jrename, available here. This has a couple of user submitted patches, one to fix a NullPointerException when processing interfaces, and one to fix method/field renaming.
redbus: annoyance with small screen devices
I just found out earlier today that redbus wasn’t showing up on certain devices, specifically "small screen" phones. Since I had originally targetted android SDK 1.5, and support for small screen devices appeared after that, by default they wouldn’t show up in the market for them! The docs on the specifics are here. Basically whatContinue reading “redbus: annoyance with small screen devices”
KIF 0.5
Finally got some time to update this a bit: Get timed events working – freefall and z-life should now work properly. Add about page. Sort out licensing. It is available from here. If you’ve already rooted+installed my developer keys, all you need to do is unzip it onto your kindle over USB. If you’re installingContinue reading “KIF 0.5”
Mangle 0.2
Hi, just updated Mangle to 0.2. I’ve fixed several bugs: Page back now moves one page only. You can use shift+page navigation buttons to change chapters. Workaround for another framework bug which caused the spinny progress thing to disappear when you run mangle. Auto-resize images on orientation change. It is available from here. If you’veContinue reading “Mangle 0.2”
Mangle – a better manga reader for the kindle
As a slight break from KIF, I decided to fix another annoyance with my kindle: the built in manga reader. Note: Mangle 0.2 is now available. I was really quite impressed that it natively supported CBZ files (thanks to whoever on the dev team sneaked that in! 😉 However, it does seem a bit buggy:Continue reading “Mangle – a better manga reader for the kindle”
KIF 0.4
This relase has a lot of bugfixes. There are a couple of new major features though: Thanks to testing from charliefx on the mobiread forums, it now works properly on the Kindle DX (needed workarounds for what appear to be DX platform bugs). Now supports zblorb/zbl files. It is available from here. If you’ve alreadyContinue reading “KIF 0.4”
KIF 0.3
A few more fixes and tweaks completed… New shiny things: Lots of display model fixes – curses is working even better. Added command history (use UP and DOWN on 5-button control) – decided it was essential after testing on the bus this morning 🙂 What’s missing still? If you type RESTART into curses, it forgetsContinue reading “KIF 0.3”
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