Friday, April 23, 2010

Found Moto backflip development tools?

They seem to be located in /system/bin.You can play with them through adb after activating a shell (./adb shell).Not sure what they can do or how most of them work but its something i just thought i would share.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Backflip Certs?

I found some intresting files tonight on the backflip wich i think might contain the certs needed for flashing a costom ROM.The files are located in /system/etc/security.Heres the list.
cacerts.bks
manfcerts.zip
attcacerts.zip
otacerts.zip
Ill provide a download link later for anyone intrested in checking them out.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

My top favorite apps for the Backflip

1)Panda Home-Android market
2)Dolphin Browser-Android Market
3)TetherBot-Found on a previous post
4)Scanner Buddy-Android Market
5)Any Cut-Android Market
6)ASTRO-Android Market
7)Terminal Emulater-Android Market
8)Spare Parts-Android Market
9)AppBrain Market Sync-Android Market
10)Advanced Task Killer(Free)-Android Market
11)Google Voice Search-http://rapidshare.com/files/336208156/VoiceSearchWithKeyboard.apk (Through ADB)

Thats all i will name for now will be back with more later.

Best free "semi-tether" app found so far

The application i am referring to is TetherBot.It can be found here: http://graha.ms/androidproxy/

Download and install through ADB,then follow the steps provided by the developers web site.I have had nothing but success with this application and the phone does not seem to heat up at all even after streaming hours of video from YouTube.Just thought i should put that out there.

Friday, April 16, 2010

extracting APK files from the backflip(for installation on other android devices)

1)Download this file: http://www.mediafire.com/?u1j22i5aeey
2)Install through ADB ((./)ADB install Development.apk)
3)While still plugged in with ADB running launch application
4)Within the application navigate to "Package Browser"
5)Locate application you wish to extract and click on it
6)Under source will be the path and the name of the APK file
7)In ADB issue command((./)adb pull /system/app/(name).apk /where/it/will/save/to)
8)All done the APK file should be in whatever directory you sent it to

Enable ADB for the Backflip on linux

The first thing to do is download android sdk from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html and extract it to wherever you want then log in as root and create a new plain text document in
Code:
/etc/udev/rules.d
and name it
Code:
51-android.rules
In the text document type:

Code:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb",SYSFS{idVendor}=="22b8",MODE="0666"
and save it to that directory.Then open Terminal and execute
Code:
chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
Restart the computer and go to the adb directory and execute
Code:
./adb devices
If the device ID shows instead of the question marks you should be ready to execute any adb commands.ENJOY!

(Dont forget to enable USB debugging on you're phone!)

(This is a copy of my post on www.backflipforums.com)