The reasoning is simple they don’t want you to background the app?: Pressing the back button asks the user “Logout from MXit” with the options “no” and “logout” neither were what I wanted to do.

Fear not Android users there is a work around. Pressing the home button will background the activity and return you to your home screen.

Mxit please fix your back button. Thanks

J2mepolish provides different licenses depending on how you use the product now while this can be looked on in a bad light but I quite like the fact that it is open-source as well as long as you your self release the code under the same license should you wish to release under a different license there are other payed options available.

The build framework is licensed under GPL no matter how you use it.

I have found that the build proccess can be pretty slow and time consuming I have also found that with out obsfication it by default includes ALL classes in the framework include the GUI/Utils. While you don’t make use of them you aren’t violating the license it does increase the application size. There are a few tweeks that one can make to their own personal setup to improve this.

Firstly tmpfs and mounting your /build and /dist directory into memory (For debugging only I wouldn’t mount a full build) You would have to replace the standard build clean target since the standard user shouldn’t have permissions to delete/create tmpfs
Standard:

<delete dir=\"dist\" />

Changed

<delete includeemptydirs=\"true\">
<fileset dir=\"dist\" includes=\"**/*\" defaultexcludes=\"false\"/>
</delete>

Secondly the since the build proccess includes all the J2mepolish source files by default you should be able to just set polish.client.source to a empty directory but it contains a reference Locale which also contains references to other files(Which are not 100% needed unless you actually use the Utilities provided by J2mepolish)

So a simple fix is create a folder structure with /path/to/directory/de/enough/polish/util/Local.java and place this Local.java in there.

In the build file or one of the config files set

polish.client.source=/path/to/directory

and you should be all set. I noticed huge build time improvements but I don’t currently make sure of the GUI/Utils.

Hope this helps make you more productive. If you have any other tweaks I would love to hear them.

How to get there; Settings -> Wireless Controls -> Mobile Networks -> Access Point Names -> (Select One or create one via Menu->Add APN)
Correct APN settings:
Vodacom:
Name: Vodacom Internet
APN: Internet
Proxy: Leave blank
Port: Leave blank
UserName: Leave Blank
MMSC: Leave Blank
MMS Proxy: 196.6.128.13 (I had it as mmsc.vodacom4me.co.za but this doens’t work)
MMS Port: 8080
MMC: 655
MNC: 01
APN Type: Leave Blank

MTN(I haven’t tested these but they should work):
Name: Internet
APN: Internet
Proxy: Leave blank
Port: Leave blank
UserName: Leave Blank
MMSC: Leave Blank
MMS Proxy: 196.11.240.241
MMS Port: 8080
MMC: 655
MNC: 01
APN Type: Leave Blank

Hope this at least helps some one.

From what I have seen this might be the most user appealing of all the Android HTC phones. It just seems more slick.

I read this from engadgetmobile. I had a good chuckle at their linked video

The reason I say “have heard” is I refuse to use/try it until they release the Linux based version. I mean the product wont even run on their own Solaris OS way to go on marketing your own products.

The windows version has been out for more ages. I have logged a bug request on their site, I didn’t get a reply not that I was actually expecting to get one.

Under the Requirements section “Windows” are you kidding me, The guys that have been pushing and that revolutionized cross platform development.

For now at least my beliefs hold strong and I wont touch their shiny new toy until they release a Linux version. </EndRant>

Luckily Android is open-source and some one modified the pre-installed alarm to create Alarming!.

This new-and-improved alarm functionality allows for a “Captcha on Dismiss” this sounds kinda scary but really it is amazing! Often I will press the dismiss button instead of snooze and over sleep this makes it much harder by having to press random buttons on the screen to deactivate the alarm. See the image one their home page.

I am very pleased that the code is available as well as deb’s for my ubuntu machine. When running the deb it was presented with
MXit libPurple Plugin
MXit libPurple Plugin
(Converted from a rpm package by alien version 8.72.)


I was under the impression that debs were easier to create then rpm’s? Also why are they making rpm’s as their primary packaging and trying to convert to deb’s also I find it odd that they have had more downloads for the deb platform

• MXit Pidgin Plugin v1.1.1 – Fedora 8/Red Hat (.rpm) (92.3 KiB, 364 hits)
• MXit Pidgin Plugin v1.1.1 – Debian/Ubuntu (.deb) (91.1 KiB, 387 hits)
• MXit libPurple Plugin v1.1.1 – Source Code (.tgz) (64.6 KiB, 446 hits)

Then again why are all those users downloading the source code? Is it because they don’t provide a 64bit arch package? Is it because they are removing the mxit promotional image at startup?

Who knows but I don’t really like to see my debs being created by Alien where there is a perfectly great Launchpad ppa’s Mxit.

Background:
Each Text Message (sms) comes from either a Short Code or a Long code or an users mobile number.

• User mobile numbers: currently 10digits long. Starting with (+27|0)(78).
• Short codes are 5digits long and start with 3 or 4. No international code since they are only valid in the current country.
• Long Codes are 10+digits with the international dialing code +27

First step when receiving unsolicited bulk messaging, is to try contact the party that it is being sent on behalf of. If you have an X account and are receiving messaging or you should simply be able to reply to the sms (either the short-code or long code) with stop | un-subscribe | remove, generally most systems should accept the stop.

Should this not work, visit Smscode but this only applies to sms’s that come from a short-code. There is a form on the site that allows you to see which wasp the short code is registered to. Once you have that information it is easiest to contact the wasp directly. They are governed by a strict code of conduct so should their actions not follow the CoC they stand a change of receiving a huge fine or having them selfs removed as a registered wasp.

The last resort is to lodge a complaint with waspa. This should generally only be used as a last resort should you be unable to contact the wasp or the 3rd party.

My Experience with waspa.
Last week was the final straw. I got another spam sms from X an under18′s event co-coordinator party planer type effort. I have no idea how I got on their list but their website didn’t provide a means to contact/un-subscribe. It originated from a Long code so I was unable to use Smscode to determine the wasp that the message was sent by. I logged a complaint on the waspa website on Friday 30th of April. I almost instantly cc’ed on the email to their support team containing all the relevant information. Later that day I got an email saying that one of waspa’s representatives was looking into this and I should receive an update with in 5 working days….

This afternoon(Friday 1st May, public holiday) I got a call from SmsPortal the wasp who actually sent the spam. He was extremely polite and assured me they had removed my number from X’s list and I should not receive any further contact from them.

Something else to note these methods are also valid for subscription services as well. Also note the un-subscribe sms needs to be on the cheapest possible short code since they can vary from R1.00 all the way up to R30.00. They take subscription services way more seriously then just standard bulk messaging.

Only time will tell but the quick response time and the guy really didn’t seem like first line support makes me feel as if this issue is now closed. I hope this will help any one else that relieves mobile spam. At least you know there is a relatively easy way of stopping it.

Nokia has a large(55.07%) share of the mobile’s with in South Africa in fact they have the largest, Yes I know this is only from people downloading applications but most of these users will be tech savvy enough to be able to use a mobile music store.

Back to the problem at hand. With this huge potential market Nokia’s za version of the store is even worse then worldwide and uk at least even with their bugs they allow any browser(mobile/web) to view their site and is mostly usable.

Firstly viewing the site from firefox. “Unsupported Device”

Nokia Music Store does not currently support your device. Further information about Nokia Music Store and compatible devices can be found at the Nseries web site.
You can access the Nokia Music Store from a PC using Internet Explorer

So that is what I did using Useragnet Switcher set to N85 one of the required Nseries I get redirected to an error page

An error has occurred – we apologise for the inconvenience.
If you are using a mobile device please try reloading the Nokia Music Store
If you are using a PC with Internet Explorer click here to try the main Nokia Music site
If the problem persists, then click here and tell us which page you were trying to view

Nokia are you trying to get users to use your product? The Uk version is complaining about slow sales? Maybe their product just doesn’t work good enough.

Their profits seems to be falling quite drastically is laying off staff an attempt to fix this?

I must say from the pics of the HTC-Magic it looks like it has quiet a aesthetic improvement on the G1 although I think my black version looks much better.