• Get the Vendor id by typing:
  

  lsusb 

  The line we are looking for is:
  Bus 003 Device 026: ID 1949:0006 Lab126
• Add the vendor id (1949) to /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules as per normal

  SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="1949", MODE="0666"
  

  Usually a device would work here but it wasnt happening with the fire …
• The solution is as per this link: StackOverflow
  You also need to add the vendor id to ~/.android/adb_usb.ini (you need to check the file doesn’t exist first).
  

  echo "0x1949" >>~/.android/adb_usb.ini
  echo "0x0006" >>~/.android/adb_usb.ini
  

• Then we restart the ADB server and the device should be shown:

  adb kill-server
  adb start-server
  adb devices
  

<winkey>+<alt>+<right click>.

Anyways, just though I’d add that, as I said, everywhere else says its <alt>+<right click>. Possibly the key binding was in use and it selected another.

On an Android note, if you are on Ubuntu 11.04  and having issues with eclipse (mouse not working!!) then do an upgrade to 11.10. All is good here.

]]> http://sentinelweb.co.uk/gnome-3-gnome-panel-altright-click-not-working/feed/ 1 http://sentinelweb.co.uk/o2-testing-4g-network/ http://sentinelweb.co.uk/o2-testing-4g-network/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:29:32 +0000 admin http://sentinelweb.co.uk/?p=668 In November O2 is switching on the UK capital’s first 4G mobile network, giving some users a glimpse into what the future may hold, with superfast mobile broadband.

With 22m users, O2 is the UK’s second largest mobile phone network, but this city trial will run initially with around a thousand people, businesses and venue owners, who will be kitted out with the latest 4G equipment and given access to the UK’s largest urban 4G network.

The trial will give 1000 Londoners the chance to use the fastest mobile broadband they’ve ever seen, capable of powering 20 high definition internet televisions from a table in Starbucks.

Some highlights for me were:

Mobile apps dragons den (day1): Nerad Marovac (DN Capital) and Frederic Court (Advent Ventures) represent angel investors and helped explain their investment strategies. It was interesting to see their perspective. Some like to go for early stage startups ( when they have have input on the product) and others go for growth stage (where the product is proven and the company needs to expand)

App longevity: This was a panel discussion on factors surrounding an apps lifetime. There was a lot of concensus that utility apps would be longer lived, but probably wont attract the sales levels in a short that games do. As well as strategies for keeping people interested (e.g. regular updates, the need for UX).

And of course:

Re-enabling the cloud: My presentation about considerations when choosing a cloud provider, mainly:

• Make a decision early on the data you want to keep as storing it forever just leads to increasing costs.
• Be careful of lock-in to a cloud API. Platform as a service (PAAS) providers (e.g. Azure, App-engine) generally have customised APIs, that will likely need significant recoding of you want to move. Though this is likely a function of their limited age and more are building support for standard APIs
• Here are the slides PPT, ODP

Here are some notes I made in Vectoroid for anyone interested (they are a bit unstructured): Day 1 Day 2&3

The conference has a great line-up speakers, and no doubt will be very informative. Hope to see you there. Bit of a shame about the overlap with DroidCon, but hey its mobile week (http://londonmobileweek.com/), so there bound to be some crossover with other events. Perhaps it should have been “mobile month”.

A small app and widget to help you not to forget to turn off slient mode

• Controls vibrate mode
• Control notification display free

A complete podcast manager for Android with many distinctive features. MyPod has had over 120k downloads on the android market.

• Auto update & download of podcasts
• Extensive feeds catalogue
• Podcasts management on desktop
• Dual players
• Integrated browser for downloading from websites
• Much more…

We all know that while being highly functional – there are some edges to smooth out in the MyPOD UI. Credit goes to these bloggers for taking the time to look at the functionality and give it a fair review.