Hacking W800i…

Posted on January 9, 2008
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I decided to play around with my W800i and hack it’s features as I want. I used the Far Manager with SEFP (Sony Ericsson Flash Plugin) to access the phone configuration. Here are the stuff I did with my phone. (Use at your own risk)

Remove Camera Sound
I wasn’t able to find the configuration file for the camera sound; so I simply deleted the audio files that’s used by the camera and got it done.

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/FS/tpa/preset/system/sound/cameraburst.3gp
/FS/tpa/preset/system/sound/cameraburst.mid
/FS/tpa/preset/system/sound/camerafocus.3gp
/FS/tpa/preset/system/sound/camerashutter.3gp
/FS/tpa/preset/system/sound/cameratimer.mid

Remove SMS Limit
Edit the SMS storage configuration file “/ifs/settings/messaging/pref_store.txt” and change “/smsdata” to “/tpa”.

Removing Operator Name
Ooops I didn’t like the big Dilog GSM hiding part of my Wallpaper, I got rid of it by editing the /FS/tpa/system/layout/layout.xml file.

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<object name="StatusIndication">
<settings>
<sett name="RowHeight" value="0"/>
<sett name="TopOffset" value="0"/>
<sett name="TitleHeight" value="0"/>
<sett name="TitleTopOffset" value="0"/>
<sett name="TitleMode" value="4"/> <!-- change "1" to "4" -->
<sett name="OverlayStyle" value="2"/> <!-- change "0" to "2" -->
<sett name="YPos" value="18"/>
<sett name="Height" value="176"/>
</settings>
</object>

Download all file from ftp server recursively

Posted on January 7, 2008
Filed Under Linux | Leave a Comment

I moved http://www.sri-lankan.net to DreamHost last month and wanted to download all the files from my old hosting provider. I found the ncftpget command so useful. Here is how…

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$ ncftpget -T -R -v -u "ramesh" sri-lankan.net ./sri /www

HSQL changes not getting saved

Posted on January 6, 2008
Filed Under Java | Leave a Comment

I had my time with the interns yesterday when they complained that the changes they made are not getting saved to the HSQL database. I spend an hour trying to find out why, at last I found out that in HSQL you need to send a SHUTDOWN command to save the changes in a clean way…

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Statement st = conn.createStatement();
 
// db writes out to files and performs clean shuts down
st.execute("SHUTDOWN");
conn.close();
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