Archive for January, 2013

HowTo transfer files from Ubuntu 12.04 to your Huawei Smartphone

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

For some reasons, Google dropped the USB mass storage file transfer in Android 4.x in favor of MTP which makes it hard somewhat hard to transfer files to and fro an Android-based Smartphone if you don’t have a Windows of Mac OS X installation around. This move has not been very popular with a lot of users who use Linux, especially since Android is Linux based, too.

However, apart from ftp’ing ssh’ing files, there is an alternative: Darran Kartaschew brewed up his own simple digital file player called gMTP

On Ubuntu, it can be installed via sudo apt-get install gmtp

Afterwards, connect your Smartphone to the PC with whatever USB-cable that came with the phone and (on a Huawei Smartphone), change the USB setting to “HiSuite”. gMTP will ask if you want to mount the SD-card or the device itself and there you go. If you select the device, you can browse the complete Android installation. No rooting required.

gMTP’s GUI looks somewhat rough and transfer is not that fast but for the occasional transfer, it should be enough. It’s still much better than iTunes 11 😉

HTH

Custom-sized Pearl…

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

I wrote about Pearl before. This time, prepare for a custom-sized board! Originally I wanted to try a 25×25 board but even with an 8 core cpu und 16gb of RAM it takes forever to be created. So I settled for a 16×16 board.

After drawing all the obvious lines, it looked like this:

pearl_16x16_prep

And based on this very good preparation it took not even 10 minutes to finish the game:

pearl_16x16_finish

Back to programming and system engineering!