Hello everyone,
Got a general question about android tablets.
1) Generally do the tablets have a dedicated wifi module that could be removed or is it built on to the board?
2) if it varies according to model is there anyway that I could tell without taking it apart?
Thanks!
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Hi guys, first of all I'm new at developing android app. I'd be happy and glad to have as many suggestions and advices from all of the amateurs or professionals here.
I'm currently planning to make a simple radio frequency transmitter, the one you usually find inside a car remote, and connect it to any android phone by the 35mm jack and link that to an app that I have to make as well. It's for me to have a control over my household appliances that requires radio frequency to be controlled.
What I'm asking is that how do the app link to the hardware. I'm familiar with programming language, but I think to connect it to a hardware is the challenge. How should I write a code that sends signal to that particular hardware I made ?
I know it's more to the hardware side to be concerned, but how do you guys think?
Hi all, new poster here.
Up until recently I wasn't very much interested in acquiring a smartphone. As I'm rather curious, I finally decided to make that technological leap.
Having read about inherent insecurity of such devices, wanted to know what can be done to make them more... ehm, "safe".
Going for android, there seem to be lots of ways hardening the system, but what about baseband RTOS? As I understand, no amount of security
can stop it from controling phone's funcionality. Cryptophone seems to deploy a hardware based firewall on older Samsung phones where
CPU and baseband don't share direct memory, what are the possibilities of doing the same with SOC that shares it? XEN?
Second point - SIM security. Having read Nohl's research on its vulnerability, is it possible to code TurboSIM to reject OTA updates?
If there is no way of separating baseband from CPU, how practical can one be by combining battery powered mifi dongle in one pocket,
and airplane-mode enabled smartphone in the other? Any recommendations?
For starters, I'm considering Moto G - what can I do in order to secure it?
Should I go for newely presented Blackphone instead? Is it all just hype or a real deal?
Perhaps I should wait for Neo900? Quote from their website: "Neo900 won't share system RAM with the modem and system CPU will always have
full control over the microphone signal sent to the modem. You can think of it as a USB dongle connected to the PC, with you in full control
over the drivers, with a virtual LED to show any modem activity."
Apologies for somewhat lenghty post. All help is much appreciated.
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I have here a phone I am planning on using as my pilot project into android development and need some help determining some things.
I know that as a beginner this is not going to be easy but I hope working my way through this will enable me to learn a lot in the process. I recently got hold of a Samsung clone powered by a Mediatek mt6572 processor. I chose this because 1) the phone is cheap 2) I view Mediatek processors as virtually "un-brickable" and 3) it will be challenging if not impossible. The problem I am facing now is that I got it used with a broken screen and digitizer. Having replaced both I am now faced with my first challenge getting the kernel to properly support the replacements.
The touchpad is not recognized at all (or at least it doesn't respond) and the image on the screen seems to be inverted along the y axis. I am in the process of gathering information and would like to know is there anyway to discern the relevant driver for the touchpad while only knowing the controller IC?
I have been searching online trying to find a product that it was used in but so far the only thing I have been able to find is the datasheet.
tl;dr; I need help finding the driver that would support the controller IC for the touch-pad on my phone. The IC is made by Chipone and is in the INC830x series. INC8305M to be exact.
Thanks for your help.
Hello, I am planning to buy an Android TV box soon, but I want to wait for the Amlogic S912 to come out, I plan to use it for 4k and think more graphical power can't hurt. I figure it will come with Android tv 6.0. Now here is where it gets tricky, I have read that sideloading was removed in Android 6.0.
If this is true, I haven't seen a whole lot of coverage on that, it's big news to me.
I'm wondering, if there is another way of doing the equivalent of sideloading on Android 6.0 and what are the pitfalls I should avoid when purchasing one of these boxes? I really want to be able to install stock android tv, I don't want the prepackaged software that comes with these cheap china boxes (my price range).
Is there a rule to follow for ensuring maximum compatibility with most of the android tv apps out of the box. I don't know if there's some cpu features that aren't included with certain chips, and if that's why the app compatibility issue happens. That'd just be my guess, but I don't know why there are app compatibility issues. This issue more than anything would really help in solving my dilemma.
If you are experienced in this I would really appreciate the advice. Search terms to look up would be very helpful.
Edit: I just found the Questions and Answers forum. Can a mod please move this there? Sorry for posting in the wrong section.
Hi all,
I'm looking to purchase and install a relatively capable second hand Android phone (Samsung S5 for example) running a custom ROM such as LineageOS along with an external HDMI+USB touchscreen in a car for use as an in-car gauge display.
However I haven't been able to find much information on how well Android supports third party external touch screen devices other than forum posts from early years such as 2012 and unsolved threads with little information that are a little more recent.
I know a lot of these devices are simply plug and play with Windows without the need to source specific drivers from the manufacturer, but I'm unsure if they're as simple when it comes to Android, a few of them seem to claim they're compatible but I haven't been able to find much proof.
Any and all information would be appreciated.
PS I'm aware there are Android head units available, however I'm looking for something that still has the features of a phone such as GPS and mobile data and third party ROM support.