I have an old Samung phone to be used as a toy. After restoring back to factory image and power on, I was stuck at the activate service screen. Unfortunately, the four corner magic touch did not work. So I did quite a bit of digging and this is what worked on my Samsung Continuum: Press emergency call button, then at the dialer, press * # 8 3 7 8 6 6 3 3 , press the Home key From the home screen, tap phone icon, Dial * # 2 2 7 4 5 9 2 7 Enter SPC code: ______ displays tap in white box to show virtual keyboard, enter 6 digit code (default: 000000), tap OK Select “Hidden menu Enable”, tap OK From...

With standalone broadcast receiver AndroidManifest.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifes... Java code: package com.android.networkreceiver; import... Register listener inside Activity programmatically AndroidManifest.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifes... Java code: package com.android.networklistener; import... Register/unregister broadcast receiver in onResume / onPause works because the connectivity change broadcast is sticky . I intentionally used two registerReceiver calls in onResume to demonstrate this - onReceive will be called once for each registration.

This is an Android app that dumps any binarized xml file as plain text - to the sdcard on the device or emulator. build.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project... AndroidManifest.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <man... res/layout/main.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Lin... res/values/strings.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <res... src/com/android/xmltool/DumpXml.java package com.android.xmltool; import java.ut... Screenshot Pre-built APK can be downloaded from: http://code.google.com/p/android-binxml-dump/

Activity test: AndroidManifest.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifes... Test code: package com.example.android.test; import co... Notes: Methods setUp and tearDown are called repetitively for each test method. If you override them, you must call the corresponding super methods for the tests to work. Self-instrumentation test (the target package is the test package itself): AndroidManifest.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifes... Test code: package com.android.test; import android.ut...

This is a list of built-in Android permission values: Permission Description Since API Level android.permission.ACCESS_CHECKIN_PROPERTIES Allows read/write access to the "properties" table in the checkin database, to change values that get uploaded. 1 android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION Allows an application to access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, WiFi) location 1 android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION Allows an application to access fine (e.g., GPS) location 1 android.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION_EXTRA_COMMANDS Allows an application to access extra location provider commands 1 android.permission.ACCESS_MOCK_LOCATION Allows an application to create mock location providers for testing 1 android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE Allows applications to access information about networks 1 android.permission.ACCESS_SURFACE_FLINGER Allows an application to use SurfaceFlinger's low level features 1 android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks 1 android.permission.ACCOUNT_MANAGER Allows applications to call into AccountAuthenticators. Only the system can get this permission. 5 android.permission.AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS...

Running " adb shell procrank ": root@android:/ # procrank ... Column Name Meaning VSS Virtual Set Size: how much virtual memory associated with process RSS Resident Set Size: how much physical pages allocated for the process. Pages shared between processes are counted multiple times PSS Proportional Set Size. Take the RSS number but evenly distribute shared pages among the sharing processes. For example, if three processes are sharing 3MB, each process gets 1MB in PSS. USS Also known as Private Dirty, which is basically the amount of RAM inside the process that can not be paged to disk (it is not backed by the same data on disk), and is not shared with any other processes. Reference: How to discover memory usage of my application...

This exception occurs when trying to get a private key: PrivateKey privateKey = (PrivateKey) keyStore.getK... Stack trace: Exception in thread "main" java.security.Unrecover... which was caused by giving a wrong private key password. The solution is to correct the key password in your code, or change the password in the keystore to match that in your code: keytool -keypasswd -alias mykey -keypass oldpasswo...

To convert a private key from PEM to DER: openssl pkey –in privateKey.pem –inform PEM –out p... To convert a private key from DER to PEM: openssl pkey –in privateKey.der –inform DER –out p...

This works for JDK1.6 and later. Export the key to a PKCS#12 store, using -importkeystore ! keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore ~/.keystore \... Use openssl to convert the key to PEM (which produces a des3 encrypted key): openssl pkcs12 -in androidplatform.p12 -out androi... If you don't want DES encryption: openssl pkcs12 -in androidplatform.p12 -out androi... Convert both private key and cert to PEM: openssl pkcs12 -in androidplatform.p12 -out androi...

This is an odd-ball content provider in that it doesn't provide database records, but provides a resource as a stream. It can be used to provide media files or XML resources. Start the project with: tools/android create project --package com.android... Create assets directory and add an XML file ( assets/demo.xml ): <? xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <people... Edit the layout ( res/layout/main.xml ): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearL... Edit src/com/android/cptest/Dummy.java : package com.android.cptest; import java.io.... Add content provider ( src/com/android/cptest/XmlResource.java ): package com.android.cptest; import java.io.... Update AndroidManifest.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifes... Add this section to the end of build.xml : <target name="-package-resources"> <ech... Build and install: ant install Screenshot: Remove the Dummy activity ( AndroidManifest.xml ): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifes... Create a new project for...