Move to Blogger: www.mattidroid.com

In the last couple of days, i did move my site to google blogger: www.mattidroid.com. The RSS feed now is @ feeds.feedburner.com/mattidroid

Do not expect any news here anymore. I would be glad, if you follow me to the new URL.

Matthias

Google Navigation on G1 in Germany

To get Google Navigation going outside of the US, in my case in Germany, just follow the XDA Developer Threat for the solution. Here a quit summary. When down downloading the files, first cleanup your current Google Maps installation:

ADB

adb remount
adb shell find /system /data -name \*google\*maps.apk\* -o -name Maps.apk -delete
adb uninstall com.google.android.apps.maps

Shell

mount -o remount,rw /system
find /system /data -name \*google\*maps.apk\* -o -name Maps.apk -delete
pm uninstall com.google.android.apps.maps

Now install the new file:

adb install -r maps3.3.1-brut-root-3.apk OR
adb install -r maps3.3.1-brut-no-root-3.apk

There are known limitations:

• No street name at the top
• No arrow indicating next turn direction
• Voice guidance is delayed, if at all present

I can live with that. Thats it… At least it work for me.

10MB MemPatch (Boot Image) for G1

After reading about it for months now on XDA, I did the install procedure as described there in the thread:

1) Download the right patch for your system !!! I decided for the CFS build.
2) Get into fastboot mode on your G1.
3) From computer, check if fastboot recognizes your device: fastboot devices
4) Check if  your G1 can handle the patch: fastboot boot <filename patch> and fastboot reboot
5)  If ok, make it permanent: fastboot flash boot <filename patch> and fastboot reboot
6) Check via adb or from shell with the free command, my output now here:

# free
total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       107068       105292         1776            0         5548
Swap:       124992        32336        92656
Total:       232060       137628        94432
#

If you want to install the mem hack on the go from the terminal directly on your G1 use following syntax from local shell:

flash_image boot /sdcard/bootmem.img

Conclusion: Install is easy and the G1 feels somehow faster and more responsive.  So far I did not found any reason not to install the patch.

Update: Cyanogen just released 4.2.9.1 and during the update process the memory hacks gets overwritten. You need to download and apply the patch again, just make sure you grab the one according to your cyanogen release. There is a version for 4.9.2 already availabel @ XDA. I already installed the configuration and everything runs happy and smooth.