Month: January 2013

Part 1: Rooting First of all, you can root any android device, back it up, flash it, etc. The trick to rooting unknown devices is reverse engineer thinking applied to the problem, as in without opening the device, you can infer that one of the usb ports and the sd slots must be for debugging…

http://forums.androidcentral.com/hacking/2676-how-setting-up-android-adb-shell-programming-envrionment-using-ubuntu-windows.html http://developer.android.com/tools/workflow/index.html http://dl.google.com/android/adt/adt-bundle-windows-x86_64.zip http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/hacking/18588-adb-basics-windows-only.html http://www.jetbrains.com/idea http://madteam.co/news/2011/10/how-to-use-clockworkmodecwm-recovery-manager-a-complete-guide/ http://yanzicjustnubie.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/linux-installer-easy-way-to-install-debianubuntu-on-android/ http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=3293&c=motorola_droid_razr_maxx_xt912_motorola_spyder_max

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/26036-linux-commands-android.html https://github.com/jackpal/Android-Terminal-Emulator/wiki/Android-Shell-Command-Reference http://developer.android.com/tools/projects/projects-cmdline.html http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/android/devguide/guide/developing/tools/android_adb_commandsummary.html

Assuming you have a rooted android device with su and busybox installed, botbrew counts too, read the following and play with the command line. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-busybox/ http://mohamed-athimni.blogspot.com/search/label/BusyBox http://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/busybox http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2005-July/049156.html http://madteam.co/news/2011/10/busybox-on-android-few-lines-explaining-the-magic-of-this-single-file/ In the follow up we will write android shell commands using busybox to perform tasks and achieve goals not possible from the basic android toolbox.…

The most popular brand of embedded systems for the E46 series BMWs is the Dynavin. They make a WinCE 6 and an Android 2.3 version. The WinCE 5 version is discontinued, and the WinCE6 version comes with or without android on a separate partition. I’ve put together a complete Dynavin support library, with multiple versions…

Developing a rom and apps for the TCC8902 ARM automotive evaluation board (The WinCEN WinCE 6/Android 2.3 Dynavin Clone) in my BMW 330xi (E46) It currently runs WinCE 6 as the master OS and can use NAVI real button and MENU>GPS virtual button to switch views to a virtual Android 2.3 device on the same chip…