Moving ON with Android Phones

This is to thank my Dell Streak phone and remember how much it did for me.

Thank you so much my very special Phone, that I loved more than any other phone ever.  Even More than the iPhones I had, 3G, and 4GS.  This phone was so special to me, Because it gave me the opportunity to learn and fight everything Dell did not provide us and was able to discover Rom flashing, Android development.  CWM and how to root the phone, and a lot more any developer would want to learn and experiment with.
Even though Dell did not properly support this phone, they made a terrific hardware that was a unique at that time.

Now, it is time to move on and I got two new phones to work with, they are both Samsung phones.
The first which I think is a great phone that at this time it beats the Dell Streak, the Galaxy Note.
The second is the Infuse.  a very nice 4.5" display with 1.6 GHz and very powerful phone with 4G capabilities.

I already have them both one on ICS with the touch wiz that I think is great. that is why I did not move it to JB.

The other phone is running CyanogenMod JB 4.2.1, yes the latest release of JB.  Thanks to XDA-developers and how much work they put together in their spare time.

Ice Cream Sandwich for your Streak

After Dell dropping the support and discontinue the Dell Streak 5 and AT&T even realize that dell Streak is one of their phones!  Who would have thought to see ICS on their Dell Streak.  But thanks to all the developers in XDA, as usual, ICS is actually running on my Dell Streak and so many others too.
Check this link and you will discover the amazing work and efforts that XDA are putting to have an every day ICS ROM for Dell Streak.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1716568

Thanks Kibuuka, The Manii, _n0p_, and all others....

New Amazing Roms for your Streak,

Thanks to all the Developers in
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Dell_Streak_5/ROMs
We no longer depend on Dell for updates, funny, is not it!!!?
Thanks to DJ_Steve for all his efforts and Great work.
Thanks to Maxicet for all his efforts and great work too.
Finally Thanks to Tenorntex I am trying his latest ROM Longhorn 2.5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355878

I love this last ROM it is based on Android 3.7!
Who would ever think that the Dell Streak would be able to go that far.

Great thanks to all the Developers and I just wanted to let them all know, we really love them, no matter what, their work and effort are very appreciated... ;-)

We should take action towards this lack of support

The phone is not even a year old “for me” and it is already been discontinued.  Even though it is discontinued does not mean the company can walk away from it.  We bought it and paid a lot of money for it, “and we are still paying money under the two year contract”.  This should be considered a fraud to sell something to make a lot of money then turn the switch off and walk away with all that money.  Any looser can do that, we can buy an item off the Chinese market for a very little $$$ and go and sell it very fast and once we make our goal and get the $$$$$$$ we wanted, we discontinue it.  But, that phone was not from any $&%^#$ guy, it was from Dell and that is why we trusted that name and bought that phone.

go and search Google for streakdroid and read about DJ Steven to get some updates on your streak, I am so amazed with what he can do for us, never mind about the big names that are only interested in making money!

Syncing The Streak?

I like to have a spare sync cable available always for my phone, one in home and one in work.  So, did you see how much it costs to buy a Dell Streak Sync Cable? not any more, China just started to produce this cable and you can buy it now for few $s including shipping!
It is the exact same cable a little cheaper, but, it does the job :)
The one I bought was from Ebay, search for sync cable.

How to charge a dead Streak battery?

I left my Dell Streak overnight as usual next to me on the desk, in the morning it was dead. no sign of life!
I plugged it to the USB charger for few hours, nothing. now all it does that the buttons light goes on and the screen shows 0% ! on an empty battery sign.
So, I go to my Google and do some research and I find one of the comment says to plug it into the original Dell Charger!  When I did, 15 minutes and it is running and shows about 30% status of the battery.
So, what is going on?  what is the difference between my generic USB charger that I use everyday anyway to charge my streak phone with and the original Dell Charger?
I will have to do more research and testing, then we will find out!
For now if you got a dead Streak phone, use the original Dell USB charger.
If you have any comments or opinions, please, leave me some comments and let me know what you think.

GumStix Running Android Study

I am doing some reseach on running Android on Gumstix COM and collecting some information on this topic.  So, I am keeping here some of the links I found just to make my research and other people research easier.
rowboat:
http://code.google.com/p/rowboat/wiki/ConfigureAndBuild#Build_kernel

Rowboat Android:

http://wiki.gumstix.org/index.php?title=RowboatAndroid


more links to come...

Here are some links to the Android Development

link to some tutorial:
http://www.vogella.de/articles/Android/article.html
Link to Network Example:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-android-networking/

The Developer's Guide:
http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html

Hello World:
http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html

other:

How about Rooting Dell Streak with Froyo 2.2

I read a lot of blogs on the internet about Rooting your Android.  But, it was hard to find something specific to Dell Streak and with Froyo 2.2 untill I found this

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833953
This blog states that z4root will work on Dell Streak running Froyo 2.2 and a lot of feed back is there.  the problem you can not find it on Android market!  so here is the link to download it.
http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-hacks/13259-z4root-download-links-get-your-root-here.html

I will be testing this soon, yes, I will put some feedback to what goes on... :)

So, It did not work for me.  it locks the phone and the phone start acting weard.  So I have to restart it.
By the way, I got the unlock my phone, just by calling AT&T and asking to give me the unlock code because I will need to used overseas.  Got the code from AT&T by email few days later and it worked first time.

Update my Streak to Froyo, Yes!

Wow, I just did it!!!  I upraded my Streak Android 1.6 to Android Froyo 2.2.  What a difference!  not even related!  Then I am doing an official upgrade from Dell, by going to this link  http://mobileupdate.dell.com/PackageProductionLocations/Streak_318_12821_00.pkg and downloading the package for the upgrade... I will see what happens in a little bit :)
I have to tell you it was so simple, and worth all the reading and researching...
I am so happy that I did it!!!!

Actually, it looks like it is done already, and back on waiting for me to login...  See Ya!

I am still thinking about this Streak

Should I send it back?  I really do not like to be cheated!

I bought this phone from AT&T and Dell knowing that they will be updating the OS to Froyo and I been a victim to a lot of false advertisements before, but now I have to option to tell them NO, NO, NO.

Well, I like the hardware very much, I also like Android and think it has a great future in mobile phones and smart devices.  knowing all that and that the update to Froyo is possible I think I will keep the phone.  I am so excited to work on Android development, and by the way, here is a link to install Java JDK 1.5 on Ubuntu 10.04 and later http://steve-on-sakai.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-install-sun-java-15-on-ubuntu.html

We will see what happens, I just need to find more information on the Froyo update.

Did the update from AT&T get delayed again

That is not real!  would they delay the update again?  After their customer support confirmed the update is being done on the phone? Wow that is too much.
There must be a Law or legal action to hold companies like AT&T from false advertisement that makes them take all the money while we get stuck with un-finished product / work like Andriod 1.6
This is not fare!!!!

http://androidcommunity.com/att-dell-streak-froyo-reportedly-delayed-again-a-couple-of-more-weeks-at-least-20110114/

A discussion I heared about forcing your Streak to Froyo 2.2

So what is it or what does it do QDLTool?
I read that you can update your Streak to Froyo 2.2 by following that procedure, does it do any changes to your phone?  does this mean that dell support will be effected?
I am not sure!  http://streakdroid.com/?page_id=92  this is the link to that site, I am not sure how many did try it or if anyone can leave more comments.

Links to Dell Streak Android update to 2.2

So, I been researching all the internet all day!
I found the following links that confirm that the update to Froyo 2.2 is being done today and untill the end of the week!  I actually talked to a Dell rep. @800-308-3355 and she confirmed the update.

Dell™ Streak Upgraded Features in Android 2.2

Links to Information on the Dell Streak OS Upgrade

AT&T Dell Streak Receives Android 2.2 FroYo Update

AT&T how does this work?

AT&T thinks that my Dell Streak that I bought and was locked to work only with AT&T is a netbook not a phone!! So I spent a long time on the phone trying to convince the operator that Dell Streak is an Android Smart Phone! To put back my unlimited data plan in my account.

Me: Now, is there an update to my phone?
AT&T: what update??!!!
Me: The Android Update to Froyo 2.2?
AT&T: Not sure, do not have any information on this!

Skype Does not support my Device!!! Why

I used Skype a lot with my iPhone, it did not do everything I needed but, it worked good.  So, Try to add it to my Streak, I got this message, "Sorry, Skype mobile is not available for your phone, switch to one of Verizon's best-selling BlackBerry and Android 3G smartphones"
WHY, WHY, WHY???  is not Dell Streak a Smart Android phone too??? What is the deal here?
Android is based on Linux and I have Skype on my Ubuntu working great!!!

Android Dell Streak with AT&T

Got my Android Dell Streak on January 7th, 2011 as my birthday gift for my self :)
I have been researching the Android phones for a long time after I got fed up with iPhone crap! "you cannot do this and you cannot do that...".  but, was it worth the change?  Is AT&T the main show stopper?
Well, I heard and read that Dell should come up with Android update to Froyo 2.2 for the Streak but it has been delayed few times.  Recently the unlocked phones got the update and AT&T phones did not.  Who is holding that update?