VendorID for Karbonn Mobiles

Karbonn A27+ has the following (for connecting Android Mobile in Ubuntu systems)  rules file defined on /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666", GROUP="ashwanth"

For some unknown reason, when connected lsusb gives "High Tech Computer Corp."

PS: This is a self note. 

April 2011 - A Replay!

I just couldn't ask for more. What a month it has been! I'm suprised at the level of things I was able to do in just a matter of month. All credit goes my you people, readers of my blog. For all the things that I came up with you people were always there to give me feedback and keep me motivated. So, April 2011 isn't yet over. So am I.

This month saw the end of many beautiful things of my life.

1. GSoC 2011
2. VI Semester college life
3. End semester practical examinations.

I don't know how to put it, but I'm sort of happy still. I did a lot of things this month -

1. Got myself introduced to Elgg and its core.
2. Created a SPAM detection plugin for Elgg 1.8
3. Social semantic viewer was the start of this month's first facebook app
4. iBlue - Semantic Extractor Engine was re-written from ground up to improve its performance.
5. iBlue - Sentiment Analyzer, a simple implementation to test Bayesian filters using the Multi Domain Sentiment dataset
6. Social Heat - This baby was just born today early morning in my Labs.

Social Heat, is my new application in development since yesterday evening. What it is, how it works, and other details will be out soon. I just want to give one thing away now - If you belong to kind of people who thinks, Social Networking is all crap, and Facebook is $hit. This little piece of code compiled together will sure revoultionize your business.

Restored my Gear

Ha, A very gud and pleasant news after a long time. Feeling heaven in home, when my PC is back running after say almost 6 months (last working date - 19/09/2010) :)

Just wanted to share the word with all you people. I'll be resuming my iBlue and Blue Spider work very shortly. Watch this space for more info very soon.

- Ashwanth Kumar

I'm back!!

Hi ,actually it took me Long time to Come out of my Personal matters,Anyhow i'm Back.I Feel it is the right time to start our work and finish "Research Engine". Hope God will help us to give life to our dream...

- Saravanan @ Salaikumar

My New Project - After Effect of "The Social Network"

Inspired by the movie "The Social Network" (still 45 min to go as on writing of this blog entry), i thought of this idea. I don't know if such ideas exist already or not, if you know of any please do enlighten me. I would really like to use it.

Idea in Abstract:
An operating system, or a system application, that logs all user interactions with the system and learns the user's tastes' of life. It monitors everything starting from scanning the directory structure, analyzing the movies, songs, pictures etc. available in the system. Live with the user and learn along with him/her. An artificially intelligent OS or a program, that can assist user in all his actions, with the system. Sometimes can also be a PA to him.

In Detail:
I want to create an artificially intelligent program or OS, that assist the user in everything. Making the OS customizable on the fly (dynamically). It can get the job done instantly, with the help of few or no inputs at all. Yes, it can be scripted or commanded over the mic or message or chat or email, virtually any means of communication can be understood and decoded by the system, and the corresponding actions shall be executed.
- Also, it can suggest you online movies or news articles or etc. after reading (analyzing) your browser history, file access history, etc.
- Provide updates for your Anti virus programs,
- Tell you if there are any new mails, or your girl friend is online.
- Analyse your phonebook and tell you if there are duplicate contacts.
- Sync all your email accounts, and suggest frnds from FB.
- Suggests new albums for your iPod or MP3 player
- Well the list is endless..

Well, i do know there exists separate pgms for doing all this crapy things. It has become a part of our daily life. I just want to integrate all the frequently done jobs into a single piece of application. Bring them all under one roof, make it install as components, etc. Its like this, it can read the chat or email msg, to find out the tone of the other person, and suggests you the same. It can play background music, when it feels you're really pissed off.

I don't know the feasibility of this project or say boredom blog post. I just wanted to know, if such a thing exist already or if we're really in need of such an app.

Please feel free to post your comments on this issue.

- Ashwanth Kumar

"Unable to scan networks"

Hell Yeah! I've rooted by Android device successfully. Y on the earth do i've to do it?!

I had a problem with my WiFi! It gave me the "Unable to Scan networks" error message since yesterday evening, and i was fed up with it. While i was googling about the problem, when I was -motivated- forced to root my device ;)

After rooting the device (how to do it? Can be found all over the internet. Go to http://forum.xda-developers.com for more details), i'll skip this part and go to the solution WiFi problem directly.

Solutions: There're basically 2 solutions available

1. Simple, less effective - Soft Reset option. Go to Settings -> Privacy -> Reset to Factory Defaults. Phone is automatically rebooted and your WiFi problem is solved. Only thing, is that you loose all ur Apps, settings, etc. However, your SDCARD files are not deleted.
2. Bit complex - Requires rooted device. Delete the bcm_supp.conf file from /data/wifi and reboot your phone. It'll work again. U need to set up all your Wifi connections (with key again).
   Note: Backup the existing file just in case.

PS: I've tested the above procedure on my Samsung Galaxy 3 ( I5801), with success. Use this at your own risk. I can't be liable for any problems/loss that may arise to your phone, or your girl friend, or PC, or yourself, or any damn thing you'll charge me with!

Atlast Office Buddy - Alpha Version out!

At last, after 2 months of work. Completed the alpha version of Office Buddy project. All the changes are committed to the SVN. If you want to check out the code, please use branch/alpha as the trunk has still old data.

Project Link: http://code.google.com/p/officebuddy/

Its made open-source, under Apache License 2.0. If anyone is using this project, please drop me a mail or a confirmation, I'll add you to the list of usability. Also, if you find any bugs or usability problems, please report them in the issues tab.

Update: At last i gave a demo today. Everything was good, and the AO has proposed some new additions. Will patch accordingly, and let you know.

PS: This is update post.

?!@#$^& :'(

Just when i thought, I'm an inch from an innovation. Technology looked at me, and said: "Aaah! Thats old news". Let me brief you, what exactly happened.

My Topic: Universal Device

Description: Change a touchscreen with pop-out display device into practically any electronic device, using it APIs. Run different apps, on a virtualized manner (mobile virtualization).

So, I did some Googling to figure out, if such researches already exist. And guess what?! I ended up in the following two pages.

• Touch Screen with pop-out displays - (http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/researchers-create-morphable-touchscreen-with-pop-out-buttons-20090428/)
• Mobile Virtualization - (http://www.ok-labs.com/solutions/what-is-mobile-phone-virtualization) and (http://www.vmware.com/products/mobile/)

God! Do we've still any innovation left in this world?