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Make, Enable Phone calls on Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G P7500

Galaxy Tab 2 can do phone calls, and several people use this 7″ device as a Phone. It looks ridiculous, but it is selling well especially in Asian markets.

Now with a hack, you can Make and receive calls using Galaxy TAB 10.1 3G version. Of course you need to be rooted in order to do this and would need an earpiece for Phone calling.

How to Make Phone calls from Galaxy TAB 10.1 3G P7500

Prerequisites:

• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G [GT-P7500].
• You Must have Unlocked Recovery Mode. For Flashing .zip
• Any ROM based on Stock ICS 4.0.4 OR Jellybean CyanogenMod10 Or ICS CyanogenMod9 OR AOKP OR Stock ICS 4.0.4 Deodex OR Odex.

Supported ROMs

If you’re not on one of the supported ROMs listed above, try any of these ROMs:

• [Deodexed]Stock ICS rom XXLQ8 & Stock ICS rom XWLP5 - Get it Here
• [Official] Stock ICS rom XXLQ8 & Stock ICS rom XWLP5.
• [ROM][ICS] JellyBeanRom ICS - Get it Here
• [ROM][JB][CM10] Android 4.1.1 – CM10 Preview - Get it Here
• [ROM][GT-P7500] CyanogenMod 9 Nightlies Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G (P4) - Get it Here

Step 1. Reboot to Recovery Mode, Create a nandroid backup (just to be sure)
Step 2. Install File CWM_I9103XXLQ3_Modem.zip from here.

Step 3. Install File Voice Call Enable. this file varies by your ROM:

Download the Voice Call Enable Zip from here corresponding to each of the following ROMs

• [Stock] ICS 4.0.4 ROM Build 1.zip
• [CM10] JB 4.1.1 ROM Build 1.zip
• [CM9] ICS 4.0.4 ROM Build 1.zip
• [AOKP] ICS 4.0.4 ROM Build 1.zip

Step 4. Wipe Cache & Dalvik Cache.

Step 5. Reboot the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and yp=ou would now have a Phone app to make voice calls from the cell network.

Have fun making calls from Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G

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Root, Unlock, Install, Run Apps On Nexus Q

The Google’s sphere from the space, Nexus Q, has been unlocked and Hacked to run apps of your choice. This social music streamer is the one of its kind device that goes beyond simple boxee or TiVo like devices by letting you integrate fully with other Android devices.

NExus Q is not just an unusual STB, its the most unusual Android device we’ve ever seen. It’s round, there’s no touch screen. But as Google hinted in the Google IO, this device is open to hacks, and thanks to hackers at XDA forums, the NExus Q has been hacked to Run Apps.

Warning: As of now, it’s a highly irregular process, which involves using ADB to install the applications and Terminal commands to run them. The interface of the applications is still a little tricky, but there has been some success with the monkeyrunner tool found in android-sdk/tools/. There is also some talk about using a Bluetooth Input Device Emulator. Eccentricity aside, the device has a pretty decent start to its development.

For the unlock and root method, go to the unlock thread. For the application installation discussion and implementation, check out the application thread.

How to Hack, Unlock, Root Nexus Q

Step 1. Enable USB debugging on the Q. You can enable USB debugging on Nexus Q by running the nexus Q app on another device, pairing with the Q, and then going to advanced and enabling USB debugging.

Phase I: Unlock, Root

This step is very similar to any Nexus device.

To unlock your device
1. cd to platform-tools
2. Reboot to the bootloader – adb reboot bootloader
3. Unlock your device* (with fastboot tool type):

fastboot oem unlock

*You will have to accept and erase all the user data on the Nexus Q.
*You must run this as sudo in Linux

For further Rooting and Unlocking steps, follow XDA guide.

Step 2. Once paired and enabled, You can install apps by running following lines on a computer which has ADB (android SDK tools) installed.

adb install path/to/app.apk

Step 3. Running apps

adb shell

am start package.name/.Activity name

am start com.android.settings/.Settings.

The package/activity names can be determined by running the app on another android device, plugging it into a computer, and running the monitor tool in terminal and looking at the hierarchy viewer.
e.g. for NetFlix

am start com.netflix.mediaclient/.UIWebViewActivity

AngryBirds:
am start com.rovio.angrybirds/com.rovio.ka3d.App

The package/activity names can be determined by running the app on another android device, plugging it into a computer, and running the monitor tool in terminal and looking at the hierarchy viewer.

Step 4. XY coordinates for touch/drag events can be given to the device by using the monkeyrunner tool (documentation can be found on the android developers website). For a brief overview:
start monkeyrunner (located in android-sdk/tools/)
from com.android.monkeyrunner import MonkeyRunner, MonkeyDevice
device = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection()
device.touch(x, y, MonkeyDevice.DOWN_AND_UP)
device.drag((startX,startY), (endX, endY), 1, 10)
device.press(‘KEYCODE_BACK’, MonkeyDevice.DOWN_AND_UP)

Enjoy hacked apps on your Nexus Q.

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Enable Virtual buttons on Android ICS

You can Enable Virtual buttons on Any Android Ice Cream Sandwich ROM (Android 4.0.x), with a simple trick.

You must follow the instructions below very carefully in order to get Virtual buttons on ICS.

Step 1: Use any: ES File explorer or Root explorer to copy system > framework > framework-res.apk to PC.

Step 2: Keep a backup of the original APK  & Decompile the copied APK using APK Tool. APK Tool 1.4.3 would work fine.

Step 3: Open /res/values/bools.xml using a text editor, find config_showNavigationBar and set its value to true.

Step 4: (Optional) Optionally you can turn off backlight for your hardware capacitive buttons. To do this, edit arrays.xml. Search for config_autoBrightnessButtonBacklightValues and set all item values to ’0′ (i.e.zero).

Step 5: To avoid keyboard overlapping problem, you need to adjust the dimensions for the virtual buttons.Open dimens.xml, find navigation_bar_height and edit its value to something which suits you best. 37.0dip should be good.

Step 6: Compile the APK using aapt. Copy the modified APK back to system > framework.

You should now have enabled onscreen Virtual soft button for back, home and multitasking. Capacitive buttons will be disabled for some users, for others, they would continue to work.

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Multi-Boot Android ROMs

We all tend to be so much excited by different android ROMs that we often crave for different ROMs and often have to wipe our phones to tryout another favorite ROM. Now you can not just Dual boot your favorite ROMs, but you can Multiboot android roms without having trouble of any sort.

BootManager lets you install multiple ROMs on Android phone. It lets you install up to five ROMs on your phone; four on your SD card and one which is currently in use. Of course, you would need a rooted android phone for that.

Boot Manager is the first Android Multi-Booter Application! The application installs up to four ROMs to your sdcard and you can keep one on your phone as well to allow you to boot up to five ROMs and switch between them with just a reboot. This is the must have application for any flashaholic and will finally allow you to keep up with those nightly builds we have all come to love or just boot your favorite ROMs from your favorite developers. The application is great for developers as well since you now have 5 slots for testing ROMs.

Warning: Consider taking a (nandroid) backup before you do any changes to your phone. You may then download the ROMs to your SD-card that you want to install.

As of today, BootManager is only officially supported on Motorola Droid and the following HTC smartphones: Droid Incredible, Thunderbolt, Vision, EVO 4G, Inspire 4G, Desire and Desire HD, support for more coming soon.

Market link [$2.99]

How to Unpack, Repack APK Files

Occasionally you may reverse engineer android apk files and then repack them with minor tweaks/hacks employed.

Its quiet easy to learn how to unpack/repack .apk files fast. TO get started all you needs is a Winrar (or equivalent) and file Formatter, which is created by despotovski. This app gives you a simple GUI to make all the changes you want.

Download Formatter | Mirror

How to unpack .apk files:
1. Open Formatter

2. Click the “Choose File” button and choose your apk file. Then, in the first text box, enter “.rar” (without quotes). After that, enter your desired name for your .rar archive and click the big “Rename!” button

3. Go to the folder where your .apk file was. You should see a .rar archive, named by the name you entered in Formatter. Extract it with your archive manager

How to repack .apk files:
1. Compress the extracted files in a .rar archive (compress them normally like any other archive)
2. Open Formatter
3. Choose the .rar archive you made a minute ago
4. Set the format to .apk
5. Set the name to whatever you want
6. Click the big “Rename!” button

How to Overclock Samsung Galaxy S2 1.5Ghz 1.8Ghz 2Ghz

World’s fastest gets even faster: Samsung galaxy S2 has now been overclocked from 1.2Ghz to 1.5ghz & even 2Ghz woot!

The overclock comes from the developers of SetCPU who  has now managed to take the SGS2 to a whooping 1.504 GHz,and yielding Quadrant benchmark scores of over 4000. Truth be told, he was actually take it all the way up to unstable 2 GHz and quasi unstable 1.8 GHz. The only problems at these frequencies is that we use high voltages that heat up the processor and phone too much, beyond safe limits.

Note from developer:

I have successfully overclocked the new Samsung Galaxy S II to 1.504GHz. This speed is enough to allow it to achieve really high benchmark scores like over 4000 points in Quadrant! 1.5GHz is a 25% overclock and makes this fast phone even faster and snappier in day to day usage.

I haven’t gone crazy on the voltages – 1.504GHz is stable at 1375mV on my device. Depending on your device, there may be even more headroom. I’ve gotten speeds of up to 2GHz to boot with instability (my unstable 1.8GHz Linpack run is currently in the Linpack top 10), but at very high voltages and temperatures. Leave it up to other developers to give you higher/more dangerous frequencies and voltages. If you stress the CPU a ton the phone will become hot to touch

How to Overclock Samsung Galaxy S2

1. Use odin3 and the USB drivers for Windows, details here.

2. Grab the kernel. It is a tar file for odin with the overclocked kernel and a initramfs with proper modules for the kernel:http://setcpu.com/files/galaxysii_oc_v1.tar
3. Reboot the phone into download mode using ADB:
adb reboot download
4. Flash the kernel using odin3 by placing the tar file in the PDA section and pressing “Start.”
5. The phone will reboot automatically.
6. Use SuperOneClick to root your phone if you haven’t already. ADB should have root access with this kernel so it’ll just work.
7. Grab SetCPU and try 1.504GHz.
Source code (with relevant commit for the overclock. I also enabled the interactive governor in the config): https://github.com/coolbho3k/galaxysii_oc

Install Google Talk Video, Audio on Android Gingerbread phone

Google talk audio, Video chat was made available as a part of android 2.3.4 Gingerbread update to Nexus S users, the same apk is now hacked to be installed on any Rooted Android phone/Tablet with minor tricks.

How to install Google Talk Video, Audio on Any Android Phone, Tablet

Pre-requisites:

• Root your Android Phone/ Tablet (Guide) with any Gingerbread custom ROM 2.3.3. We recommend Cyanogenmod 7
• Android SDK (with adb tools)
• Download Google Talk with AV

1. Unzip the downloaded Google talk zip file and connect your phone/tablet to PC/mac.

2. Run the following commands using the adb:

adb remount
adb shell mv /system/app/Talk.apk /system/app/Talk.apk1
adb uninstall com.google.android.talk
adb push libtalk_jni.so /system/lib/
adb push Talk2.apk /system/app

3. That’s all, you should now have Google Talk with video installed, try it out and have fun.

If there is a problem, you can uninstall it by:

adb remount
adb uninstall com.google.android.talk
adb shell mv /system/app/Talk.apk1 /system/app/Talk.apk

Troubleshooting: If it doesn’t work, uninstall it and flash this zip on CM7. For other ROMs flash this zip instead. Make sure you take backups first.

Tested, Works on Cyanogenmod 7.

via xda

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