How To Tell Your Android To NOT Index Certain Files

Anyone of you ever encountered situation where your android phone index ALL your media files inside your SD card and display it in your gallery and music player? For example some images and sounds that may be used by installed application but you don't want it to appear in your gallery/music player and you don't want to delete it either coz it sure will messed up you application. So, how do you do in situation like this? I'll show you how to overcome this after this break.

Heads Up: Samsung Galaxy 5 GT-I5500 Will Get Froyo Update

Great news for those who own Samsung Galaxy 5..such as me(hehe).























Samsung has released source code for Android 2.2(froyo) at HERE. So, we can expect it will be available for us to upgrade end of February of middle of March. ::wink2::












At last, after waiting for merely 2 months, froyo is coming. By the way, if you want to try unofficial Froyo for Galaxy 5, you can go to samfirmware. The firmware and instruction is there.

I did try the Froyo but, after 2 days, I revert back to 2.1(Eclair) because the unofficial Froyo have bug in it(a lots of it) such as compass heading is completely wrong(resulting arrow is gps apps will upside down), side key for volume not functioning during keylock(in eclair can..to lower music volume) or during phone call, battery cant hold longer and etc2.

So, if you still want to try the Froyo(or can't wait anymore), go to samfirmware site I mentioned before. Bear in mind though that, flashing the phone ROM is dangerous and may(hopefully not) bricked your device. Proceed with caution. :)

Build Your Own Android Application

Halu halu halu!!

Pekabar pembaca2 sekalian? Sihat tak korang rini? Harap2 sihat la sentiasa..aku ok je cambese..assignment mula dah nak berlambak dan berbungkus. Petang tadi ada karnival sukan kat uni. Meriah la jugak even hujan lebat sekejap tadi. Actually, frust jugak la tak dapat provide gambar2 menarik sebab aku tak bawak camera gi event tu tadi. :(

So..untuk entry kali ni aku nak menghebahkan la pasal Appinventor dari Google. Appinventor ni adalah seperti berikut:

"application provided by that allows anyone
to create software applications for the Android OS"

See? Feature yang agak menarik disediakan oleh Google. Android OS adalah operating system dari Google berdasarkan Linux. Cara tradisional programmer nak buat software biasanya dorang wat pakai coding bagai.

Tapi dengan Google App Inventor korang boleh buat software korang sendiri secara drag n drop gitu. Aku dah cuba dah buat 2 tutorial and my conclusion is this is supposed the way to create application..so easy..seriusly. Mula2 buat interface then setting aturcara program korang. Thats it!

Ni antara screen cap App Inventor:






















-buat interface dulu-























-then wat aturcara dalam block editor-

Jadi, kepada sapa2 yang ada Android phone ni try la. Kelebihannya adalah korang boleh connect phone terus ke PC. Masa korang edit2 tu nanti korang akan nampak application tu running real-time kat phone korang. Serius cool. Takyah compile lagi dah boleh tengok running application. Pastu, kalau2 korang dapat buat application gempak2 manala taw le letak dalam app market. Leh jual dan dapat untung..ngee~~

So, apa tunggu lagi. Jom explore App Inventor

Gone Android now..

Hello readers.

It's been quite some time I dont update anything in me blog. Bcoz dont have any idea or been busy with my study.

Anyway, as topic, now I'm officially migrate from Symbian OS to Android OS. Just bought Galaxy 5 as starting point and I quite like it. Feels comfortable in my hand even though it's quite small but that's ok. Just need some time to adapt.

Plus, even Facebook co-founder also gone Android this must be a good progress for Android OS to expand it territory since iOS(Apple) I think is already saturated.

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Experience

So, my experience after using it for err...3 days. Like I said, it's quite interesting. I've been using Symbian OS for almost 5 years and now suddenly changing Android. Culture shock O.o

What I like most is the number of application you can direct download from Android Market. More than 100000 application you can choose. Try all you want till your phone out of memory. The market got free apps as well as paid apps too.

#1: Problem:- Can't log in to Android Market
The first time I want to login to Android Market, I get an error message something like;

"There is a temporary error or your sin card is not provisioned for data services"

So, I googled and stumble upon this website: Android Forum where a forummer suggest to do hard-reset phone(*2767*3855#) and it works. :)
More G5 Secret Code

#2: Software
There's a couple application I've tried and more to come. Below I think is the must-have-apps

ChompSMS - replace default messaging software. More intuative
Astro File Manager - file manager of course
Advanced Task Killer - task manager
Dolphing Browser - replace default Android browser. Support tabbed browsing
eBuddy - instant messenger
Abduction - interesting game. Uses accelerometer in-built.

Sources: 1 / 2

That's a little bit about my migration to Android. Will dig more what Android has to offer.