Mobile
Android G1 Battery Calibration
I mentioned a few days ago I had a G1 phone in there I mentioned the battery life was shocking . nabil2199 mentioned a battery calibration link it really does work.
That article wasn’t the most clear in the world of what you need to do to calibrate your battery.
1) Let it discharge completely(Even when it says it is dead carry on discharging, mine ran on 0% power for a good few hours)
2) Charge it fully while it is off.
3) Let it discharge completely again.
4) Charge it fully.
It seems silly but it does work, My battery life has improved so much since doing this silly thing.
Nokia’s Music Store Fail
I heard last night on the Tv that Nokia is going to be releasing their Music store at first I thought maybe this would be great for South Africa since the majority of our population do not have smart phones such as the iphone….
They claim to launch on the 24th but if their current site is any thing to go on I as well as many others will be highly disappointed.
Major issues.
1) Going to the site on a mobile (Nokia 6300) gives a content type of wml (text/vnd.wap.wml) on a phone that clearly supports xhtml mobile profile.
2) Their site isn’t even in wml it is xhtml served with a content type of xml FAIL! on most of the phones
3) They site is missing the correct xml decleration.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> This is normally an issue with IE6 since it doesn’t understand xml…. but wait I thought this was a mobile site?
4) Mobile profile <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">
should be used instead of <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
5) Use of javascript on a phone that clearly doesn’t support it, way to go to save data use age. <script type="text/javascript" src="js/getElementsByClassName.js"></script>
6) IE specific css <!--[if lt IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/ie6.css" /><![endif]--> Is this a website NO!
Oddly enough the UK version is more mobile compliant then the international one with minor errors like the xml header (point 1 and 2) other wise pretty nice site.
I am pretty sure there are more basic errors and maybe I will bother to check it out again and update this post but for now I have other important stuff to get done.
I have An droid
I have been using/testing out the G1, based on google’s android coming from a hard core Nokia user it has been an very pleasant experience.
So far I must say I am enjoying it. The Google integration is flawless (What else did you expect). When loading the sim for the first time it asks you for a Google account a few seconds after authentication all your contacts calendar and emails are all synced down to the phone. The contact sync feature to me was the greatest since my old phone had gone to mobile heaven.
Their UI is by far one of the easiest to use and most intuitive. I have only tried out the Apple’s Iphone but so far the fact this phone as a qwerty keyboard makes it easier to use. This does take some getting used to I still feel I type faster on the standard 9 key mobile keypad then this smaller qwerty one.
Hopefully in the next while I will be able to check out their SDK and put together some sort of app. For now I guess I will have to just live with a super cool phone.
Word of note the the synchronization can kinda kill your battery life but all of this is easily turned off or configured to happen at a less frequent interval.
Latest Cellphone Identity Scam
Summary
They phone you with the premise that you have won something but they require you to validate you are owner of the mobile by means of giving them the last dialed number. This is the exact same way that the networks validate you for a sim swap. Once doing they they claim to have lost “their” mobile provide “their” last dialed number and get hold of you a copy of your sim that sends/receives as if it was you.
This loop hole has been in the networks for some time. I wonder why it has taken scammers so long to make use of it….
Although this isn’t limited to banking it could spread over to your subscription services but there is little to no gain from subscribing your number to a R5.00 per week service when they are now fitting the bill.
The same process could be applied to sms electricity purchases the only difference is that the coupon you get back is linked to your pre-paid meter box in your home so the fraudster would not be able to make use of it. Funny that Eskom is more secure then the cellphone networks…
Something to note that this scam only really affects pre-paid users since if you are on a contract they require physical proof you are in fact the owner of the sim card by means of ID or drivers license.
I hope that no one I know is affected by this type of scam and they have the common sense not to believe claims made fraudsters.