With 6277 stars, Android Issue 82 had its status changed to Obsolete. This was part of a sweep that closed a large number of "popular" issues, which was covered by both HN and Reddit.
Comments Continue »I have completed my dissertation at MIT. Taking just a short break, then heading over to Google to work on Chromium.
CommentsYay! dythr advanced to the next round of Knight News Challenge. We've got to work on the full proposals, which are due soon!
CommentsVersion 0.6.7 is available. Barnacle 0.6.7 should work on HTC Evo and, with some extra work, on Aria and Liberty (and possibly Desire) as well. For Aria/Liberty you will need to download new firmware for your wifi driver.
Comments Continue »If you currently have root access on your Motorola Droid but are running a vanilla (not custom) ROM, you need to take precautions when applying an OTA update. By default an OTA update will remove your root access. Some phones are rather easy to re-root (for instance, Nexus One), but in some cases the OTA update patches up the security holes exploited to gain root access.
Comments Continue »Version 0.6.6 is a minor update that should fix Barnacle on Milestone and a couple other phones. It also cleans up the log a little bit.
Comments Continue »Many users have issues connecting iPad to Barnacle's ad-hoc network. Here's some light as to why iPads are having difficulties when iPods and iPhones are doing fine.
Comments Continue »Version 0.6.5 is hopefully the last of the December series of updates (starting at 0.6 through 0.6.4 so far).
Comments Continue »Back to my "favorite" Android Issue 82. It seems Android engineers prefer Wi-Fi Direct over ad-hoc as illustrated by this thread.
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