Get More Than 100 GB Storage for Any Android Device
The maximum you can put on your smartphone is probably 64GB of data. You can always use cloud services such as DropBox, Box, SkyDrive, and Picasa to store your stuff. However, accessing them can be a pain when you have to start up different apps for each of them.
Enters the SanDisk Memory Zone app. It’s a free download on the Play Store. From a single app, you have access to your internal memory and SD card memory, DropBox, Box, SkyDrive, Picasa, Google Docs, SygarSync, and even Facebook.
You can select one of your picture, video, or document in your device and move it online. Or, you can select one of your files online and move it to your device. You can also create a scheduled backup based on file types where you can back it up to the SD card, or to one of the online services. Cool, eh?
I love it!
Samsung Galaxy S i9000 Water Damage: Sleep On It!
My Galaxy S got wet when I was trying to put XtremeGuard screen protector on it. I left Galaxy S off for 8 hours but it seems that that was not enough for it to dry. The power button shorted, resulting in continuous rebooting. The Home button was also unresponsive.
So, I disassembled the phone completely and blew it with the hair dryer. Everything seems dry but the phone still rebooted repeatedly. Upon closer look, it seems that the power switch was still soggy. I pressed hard on the power switch flex until a minuscule drop of water came out. That repaired it.
However, the home button was still unresponsive. I tried in vain but I could not find a way to disassemble the flex cable to reach the home switch without removing the screen. I tried blow drying it but that did not work. I tried so hard until I gave up and planned to take it to the service center later.
For the time being, I installed ButtonRemapper so I can use the power button as the home button. But then, I realized I can’t find a proper power off apps. ButtonRemapper would have been good if the Galaxy S has a dedicated search button, but it didn’t. So, I installed Button Savior to use virtual buttons for the home button. These are not perfect solutions.
Fortunately, when I woke up the next morning, the home button was functioning.
The solution? Sleep on it, literally.
Yeah… I accidentally slept on my phone the whole night. That did it. Wow. Who would have guessed.
Sync Outlook with Android Through the Cloud
If you use an Android device as your PDA, you can sync your Outlook calendar events and appointments to your Android device. You can do this using software provided by your device maker or third party sync software, or you can sync through the cloud.
There are a few options for cloud-syncing your Outlook calendar with Android. The most obvious one is through Google Calendar with the Google Sync client. However, if Google Calendar is your main personal calendar, you may not want to mix your work calendar with your personal calendar. The Google Sync client also has a few nasty bugs and one of it is that it will not sync all your Outlook events to Google Calendar. The best non-Free option I have tried is gSyncit but obviously, it’s not free.
Enters Funambol. It’s free and it works! Follow these steps to start syncing.
- Search for Funambol in the Android Market and install it.
- Open Funambol in your Android device and sign up for free account.
- Using the browser on your PC, navigate to myFunambol and log in. You can see a Windows/Outlook sync client download on the right side of the myFunambol Portal page.
- Download the Windows client and install on your PC.
- Configure the Funambol to start automatically and sync your Outlook Calendar at a set interval. The lowest interval is 30 minutes but you can edit it elsewhere.
- When you have set it up, click Calendar in the Funambol Windows Sync Client.
- After the first sync is complete, you can close the Funambol window. You do not need the window to run all the time as Funambol uses the Scheduled Task of Windows to run the scheduled sync.
If you want to make exact changes to the sync schedule, use Windows Scheduled Task.
Funambol free account gives your 150Mb of storage — enough for your Calendar. If you want to also sync other stuffs like pictures, files, etc., upgrade to their other packages.
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