Goddchen ‘s Blog

Hey everybody,

i was experiencing a problem on my Milestone (Android 2.1). When i clicked on any Flurry Ad that led to a market://… link nothing happened. Instead there was an error in my Logcat saying “could not find a resolving intent on ad click”. On my friend’s Milestone it didn’t work either.

So i made a workaround: I hosted a PHP file on my webserver which just redirects to the market link. Because clicking ads that lead to webpages work perfectly fine…

So i created the following file called market_redirect.php on my webserver:

        $pname = $_GET['pname'];
        header('Location: market://search?q=pname:'.$pname);

Now everything works fine when users click on my house ads Now i set my destination url to http:///market_redirect.php?pname= .

Gr33tz Goddchen

Hey everybody,
i’m proud to announce that “Android Bash” now has more then 1000 downloads in the Android Market
It let’s you view quotes from various bash sources like iBash.de, German-Bash.de or Bash.org in the categories latest, best and random.

Gr33tz Goddchen

YEAY,
my first Android app hits 1000 downloads in the Android Market. “App Update Notifier” has won the race for this milestone.

Followed by “Android Bash” with ~900 downloads…

Thanks for using my apps!

Gr33tz Goddchen

Hey everybody,

i think many of you know the problem with android 2.x phones: they can’t connect to pptp vpn servers which have encryption enabled.

You get the error:

E/pppd ( 6070): unrecognized option ‘+mppe’

But since yesterday this problem is solved I had a similar idea for a while now but didn’t have the time to try it. As the error message states “pppd” is missing the +mppe feature. So, why not just compile it WITH the mppe feature and replace the original binary. And guess what: a guy “qvr” at Alldroid (http://alldroid.org/threads/15944-VPN-PPTP-modules-needed) just did exactly that. And now guess again: IT’S WORKING JUST FINE

Now i got vpn working at my university Thank you so much qvr!

Just go the alldroid posting and follow the link to his binaries. I just backed up the original files and replaced them with qvr’s. Everything with the Root-Explorer (of course, you need root to do that!).

Greets, Goddchen

Hey everybody,

today i read that google is introducing gesture search for american Android devices with Android 2.0 and higher. So i thought: why only for american phones?

A quick google search brought me to this xda-developers thread where “Firerat” posted the apk he got from the market.

Just download to your SD card and install as any other app. Works perfectly on my Milestone (Android 2.0.1)

Greets, Goddchen

Hey,

Motorola released a news regarding the update plans for Android 2.1 on the Motorola Droid, Milestone, Cliq and Dext.

Have a look here:

https://supportforums.motorola.com/community/manager/softwareupgrades

If this is correct we (European Milestone users) will get the update within the next six weeks. That would be really great!

Greets, Goddchen

Hey everyone,

according to  recent posts in this thread on android-hilfe.de the german update for the Milestone will be available at 13.01.2010.

This was assured by different support employees at the motorola hotline.

Anyway it’s not certain that it will be 2.0.1, it could also be 2.1 but i personally think that 2.0.1 is more likely. Also it was only spoken of the german update, but i think it will be the european wide release…

let’s hope…

Goddchen

Hey everyone…

Since i (like everyone else with a Milestone) am waiting for 2.0.1 to be released i did some analysis of the wifi traffic of the Milestone when it checks for an update.

Here is what i found out:

1: A DNS query packet: DNS    Standard query A motosb1fe.bitfone.com

2: The DNS response: DNS    Standard query response CNAME mvfe1.bitfone.com A 216.90.91.100

3: After that there is some HTTP traffic going on which seems to encapsulate SYNCML data

POST /mvpdm/dm HTTP/1.1

Accept: application/vnd.syncml.dm+wbxml

Accept-Language: en

Accept-Charset: utf-8

User-Agent: Mototorla Android Sync DM Client

Cache-Control: private

Content-Type: application/vnd.syncml.dm+wbxml

x-syncml-hmac: algorithm=MD5,username=”xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx”,mac=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Connection: Close

Content-Length: 508

Host: motosb1fe.bitfone.com:80

…j.-//SYNCML//DTD SyncML 1.2//ENmlq.1.2..r.DM/1.2..e.4C9C..[.1..nW.http://motosb1fe.bitfone.com:80/mvpdm/dm..V.Motorola…gW.IMEI:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx..V.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx…Z..L.20000……kFK.1..O.1201…`K.2..TgW../DevInfo/Mod…O.Milestone…TgW../DevInfo/Man…O.motorola…TgW../DevInfo/Lang…O.de_DE…TgW../DevInfo/DmV…O.1.2…TgW../DevInfo/DevId…O.IMEI:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx….FK.3..O.xxxx..TgW../DevDetail/Ext/SystemUpdate…Z..G.xml..S.org.openmobilealliance.dm.firmwareupdate.userrequest…..O……..

And the response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:12:48 GMT

Content-Length: 591

Content-Type: application/vnd.syncml.dm+wbxml

Connection: Close

…j.-//SYNCML//DTD SyncML 1.2//ENmlq.1.2..r.DM/1.2..e.4C9C..[.1..nW.IMEI:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx…gW.http://motosb1fe.bitfone.com:80/mvpdm/dm..V.Motorola…a.http://motosb1fe.bitfone.com:80/mvpdm/dm?sid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx..NZ..G.b64..S.syncml:auth-basic…..xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=…Z..L.xxxxx……kiK.1..\.1..L.0..J.SyncHdr..o.http://motosb1fe.bitfone.com:80/mvpdm/dm..h.IMEI:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx..IZ..G.b64..S.syncml:auth-MAC..xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx……O.401…iK.2..\.1..L.1..J.Alert..O.401…iK.3..\.1..L.2..J.Replace..O.401…iK.4..\.1..L.3..J.Alert..O.401……

So, it seems like the host is already active (anyways, ping is blocked). But unfortunately it sais that there is no update…

Looks like we just need to wait…. longer….

Motorola what are you doing? What’s taking so long? We don’t want a major upgrade with many cool new features. We just want the currently not working stuff to be fixed, like that auto-focus bug which is really really annoying. Fortunately it will only annoy us to the 6th of january since the 24,5 days are over then. And hopefully you will get 2.0.1 ready before the next 24,5 days are over!

Gr33ts Goddchen