Download DroidIndia.ttf If you are comfortable with ADB, copy & paste following commands on shell / cmd adb shell "mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system" adb shell "cp /system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf /sdcard/" adb push DroidIndia.ttf /system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf adb shell "chmod 777 /system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf" Otherwise, you can use file explorer to copy DroidIndia.ttf to /system/fonts 1) copy /system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf to /sdcard/ #backup [...]
Full Story »Offline google maps, on your android!
Well its not a new news, but yes google map client for android has a ability to cache the area of 10 miles radius from the point we select. So now no matter where you plan to go, you don’t have to worry about network coverage. All you will have to do is pre-cache the [...]
Full Story »Battery Calibration -Android
If you can’t resist yourself flashing your phone with diff ROMs, this is one of the best app to calibrate battery. XDA Developer says… Calibration needs to be done after flashing a new ROM, but you can calibrate any time you think your battery is miscalibrated. This program does it by removing the batterystats.bin system [...]
Full Story »Froyo Officially Released for Samsung Galaxy 3 -India
Update 09/08/2011 Another update for India users, I5801DDJP6. Update 24/06/2011 Few days back (don’t know exact date), Samsung released I5801DDJP4 for India users. Update 17/04/2011 I5801DDJP2 released refer to flash using odin I have saved this firmware, may be this can help someone who is facing error while upgrading using kies. Samsung has officially released [...]
Full Story »Increase SD Card reading speed – Android
If you are not getting enough speed from your existing SD CARD, you can try following tweaks before buying high speed cards. Even high speed may not give you enough read performance due to lower reading cache. xda developer has pointed to easy solution to increase sd card reading speed by increase reading cache. You [...]
Full Story »Howto Backup Angry Birds RIO Score / Data
If you have not yet installed Angry Birds Rio, install it from Android Market. Taking backup of score is same as Angry Birds, except for the location. First of all you need to root your phone. Install connectbot or any other application to get shell access. run following command as su to take backup cat [...]
Full Story »Change Android Boot Animation
Like Many other Android lovers do you hate default boot animation & wish to change it? I personally never liked my Galaxy 3 displaying default samsung animation & was looking for a better replacement. Few days back this is what I exactly found on xdadevelopers forum Preview Cyan Preview blue Preview green You can download [...]
Full Story »Android -access internet from computer via USB | Reverse USB Tether
Eversince my wife delivered a baby boy, I have stopped using wifi at home to avoid any possible affect on my boy. Until then I was able to sync my phone & access internet through wifi. Now I had to find alternative. Since Android supports pc internet/ USB tether, I tried to configure it for [...]
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