"Droid Incredible Screen Repair" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: mobile

10/09/11 11:27 - ID#55274

Droid Incredible Screen Repair

(E:mike)'s phone broke last march or somewhere thereabouts right after he got it. The screen was totally shattered and he has used it with a piece of tape across it ever since, making it so difficult to read. For his birthday in August I ordered a new screen from China with the hopes of repairing it.

It was super smashed up.

Finally, tonight we had some time together and I repaired it.

The only real tricky part was removing the old glass which was glued down really well. Many of the videos I saw online involved lots of cracking and scraping but one guy mentioned heating the screen up with a hairdryer to soften the adhesive and it totally worked. It got super hot and just melted right out. It also left the adhesive in a sticky reusable state. The phone which costs $500 to replace according to verizon ended up only costing $20 for the new glass and $400 in shipping and my labor, saving (e:Mike) a full $80.

There is one tiny little spec of black I left under the screen but mike didn't want me to take more time, so he left it that way.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: hiking

10/09/11 12:05 - ID#55270

Hiking at Zoar

As we arrived there cops and news crews were in there way out because someone had died. Its a kind of ominous start to a climbing trip. The person had a heart attack kayaking.

The day was nice and warm. Next time we need to start earlier though. We did end up making it up to the top if the section we were trying to get to but once we were up three we didn't gave much tine yo hike around.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: orange tongue

10/08/11 08:43 - ID#55269

Neem Toothpaste

I am giving this a try. Brush with neem, scrape tongue with scraper, chew gum. Its seems less orange. Next step is accupuncture if this does not work.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: food

10/08/11 01:36 - ID#55266

Lloyd's Taco Truck

We took (e:hodown) to Lloyd's Taco truck on Friday. The line was like 15 minutes long. It was delicious as always especially the crunchy fish taco, although I was not a fan of the spicy brownie.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: food

10/08/11 11:23 - ID#55264

cookin poppin sushi

(e:hodown) brought the craziest Japanese candy sushi making kit. I was so fascinated by the way the salmon roe candy popped the same way real salmon roe pops in your mouth. The rice actually tasted like and was the consistency of rice. The only thing that could have improved it was fish flavoring. The instructions are actually quite elaborate.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: hiking

10/07/11 09:08 - ID#55263

Die or conquer

I am either going to die or conquer this tomorrow. I honestly don't care either way.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 10/07/11 09:08

Category: android

10/07/11 05:50 - ID#55262

At&t Attain/Samsung Galaxy s2 - Android Development on Fedora 15

I was excited to see that my new Samsung Galaxy S2 from AT&T works as good with the Android SDK (ADK) on eclipse as my Nexus One did. This tutorial is assuming you already have the ADK environment setup and are just changing phones like I did.

Step One is to enable debugging on the device under settings -> applications -> Development. Check the box that says USB debugging.

When you first plug the device into the computer and type: adb devices: at the command prompt, it will show up as a bunch of question marks, meaning that it won't work with the ADK.

In order to get it working you need to first get the usb device identifier. You can do this by typing lsusb into the fedora terminal application.

This will give you a list of usb devices plugged into the computer. You need to look for the one that matches your phone.

[paolo@svelt15 ~]$ lsusb

Bus 002 Device 006: ID 04e8:685e Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

Next step is to create a new udev rule for the device using your favorite text editor. You can use vi or nano.

sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

then add the following rule:
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="685e", MODE="0666"

Notice the produce and vendor ID come directly from the lsusb info above. You could use these instructions with other phones, in fact it worked perfect with my Nexus One when I was first developing on that.

After this is done you can either reboot or restart udev. Almost all of the instructions you find are for ubuntu but on fedora you restart udev rules with
sudo /sbin/start_udev Then just unplug and plugin the phone. It should now work with the ADK.

When you type: adb devices: You should now see the device listed instead of a bunch of question marks.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: pets

10/07/11 05:29 - ID#55261

Sulcata Baby Dreams

I wish so bad I lived in a place where we could just have a large tortoise farm and they could stay out side all year long.

I was reading the wikipedia article and they had this picture of the cutest baby sulcata named Isaac

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: people

10/07/11 02:36 - ID#55260

I don't care that Steve is dead

He is just a person. Get on with your lives everyone. People act as if technology died. Its not even a surprise death, he had been dying for a long time. I kind of like that he died because it proved you cannot buy health. Even with billions. Each of us is just a person, just an animal, and we all are mortal.

I was so surprised that google and motorola postponed the launch of their new android phone out of respect for Steve Jobs. His own company didn't even do the same thing with their own iPhone 4gs as he was dying. Now that's a commitment to capitalism that I think Steve would be proud of.

AllThingsD now reports that Samsung and Google did indeed cancel the event due to Jobs' death, feeling that the launch would be inappropriate given the mourning process still going on throughout the tech industry and the world.

The decision to postpone things was made late last night at the top levels of both companies, sources said, with Jobsâ€™ death being the reason. There are no delays with the product itself, sources insisted.

Deeper writes at 08:35:18 06/09/13 - Comment #69998: "you cannot buy health" : yes you can! First with a good dentist :-) Secondly it seems that most people give more importance to have than to be which is ridiculous and shadow many health issues when they could be easily dealt with! Third point : health has been so much mixed with money that many (if not all) corporations that officially are in war against disease, need it badly to survive, therefore research tend to focus on profitable long term diseases without solving the problems (stopping many levels of pollution and destructing behaviors), therefore the problems tend to get worse and we get more diseases so more profit for the "health" market (the health market is happy until sick employees are not well enough to run the machine and at that stage it may be too late to avoid some sort of mass casualties), and especially confusing messages, so many rich people don't seem to be able to get the correct mixture to be very healthy! It's interesting to note that the rich people are generally pro-system (because it worked well for them) therefore they are not in a good psychological position to be wary of it when it start to go awry.

metalpeter writes at 05:15:48 10/08/11 - Comment #65427: Oh ok that makes sense.....

paul writes at 12:55:43 10/08/11 - Comment #65422: That was the day he died. I am just tired of reading about it now.

metalpeter writes at 12:52:12 10/08/11 - Comment #65421: I'm a little confused as you wrote a bye Steve blog?

So Do you mean people are going overboard with like the isad pictures and stuff?

Guessing part of it is that often if you have Apple Stuff it is kinda like a Religion in that there is an almost better or cooler then you vibe....

tinypliny writes at 05:58:08 10/07/11 - Comment #65400: Pancreatic cancer is a dreadful thing to have. :(

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: bikes

10/07/11 12:58 - ID#55257

Bikeride with e:hodown and e:matthew

The weather was so nice for a bikeride. (E:tinypliny) let (e:hodown)'s borrow her bike so that we could take her down to the new waterfront. The sunset was amazing but sadly the clam stand was already boarded up.

metalpeter writes at 12:32:02 10/08/11 - Comment #65419: like the sunset shot.... That that closed up place would be a great spot for part of zombie movie just saying.....

lilho writes at 11:22:12 10/08/11 - Comment #65415: why does my sister always make that face when she gets her picture taken??????

jbeatty writes at 09:04:52 10/07/11 - Comment #65411: We had a really nice framed picture of that Hardie whiskey sign in our living room. I'm not sure who took the photograph, but I love it.

matthew writes at 09:42:26 10/07/11 - Comment #65390: I was happy to not be the only one wearing a helmet for once.

tinypliny writes at 08:35:32 10/07/11 - Comment #65388: And its so funny, my brother learnt biking on this bike! HAHAHA I had learnt that the shortest way for an adult to learn biking is to keep your feet off the pedals and learn to balance down a gentle slope without pedaling. He learnt biking in just a couple hours with this trick. That was payback for buying me the replacement for the CuSO4 bike.

tinypliny writes at 08:31:56 10/07/11 - Comment #65387: and wow, I realize now when I described the bike to you over gtalk, I said CuSO4 blue. That was the bike that got stolen. I somehow still have it in my head because I campaigned so much for it and filled out so many police forms. Isn't that odd? This bike is actually a deeper blue. Unbelievable.

I can see why that "brother" broke my porch window, entered, cut through ALL my bike locks and stole it! I still feel kind of bitter. I saved up to buy that bike. Though costlier, this one was a replacement from my brother (nagged on by mum).

tinypliny writes at 08:26:42 10/07/11 - Comment #65386: nICE PIcTureS! :)

I had no idea my bike looks so fancy. LOL its always a disaster when I ride it. I am struggling to make small hills and it feels like my hips could just come unjointed at any time. That seat is very uncomfortable. did (e:hodown) say something about it? Or is it just me?

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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