Upgrading the Galaxy Note to Jelly Bean

I received an SMS from AT&T today telling me that I could upgrade to JB using KIES. Enough acronyms for you?

Rebooting into Windows so that I could launch Kies....
Starting Kies, it detected that it was out of date and updated.
Afterwards, plugging in the phone, it detected the firmware was out of date and tried to update.
That's where things got redundant.  I got in an infinite loop that kept stopping at:

Now, don't get me wrong. My first thought was maybe I was down to 100MB internal storage again. I do tend to install a couple hundred apps.

But, now according to the file manager:

So what's going on?

After a few attempts, I went to Settings | Storage | Unmount SD Card

After that Kies was able to upgrade the device.

Reverse USB Tethering

I decided to give reverse usb tethering a shot. I don't know which devices easily support this, but I assume you have to be root. In my particular case, I was using an ICS device.  These steps could easily screw up your existing cell routing - so make sure your willing to risk it.

Step 0: Make sure the device is booted and connected via USB

Step 1: Enable tethering on the device side

• Go to Settings
• Under the Wireless & Networks, click on More
• Click on Tethering & portable hotspot
• Enable USB Tethering

Step 2: Get the IP Address of the device

malachi@onyx:~$ adb shell
root@android:/ # netcfg
lo       UP                                   127.0.0.1/8   0x00000049 00:00:00:00:00:00
dummy0   DOWN                                   0.0.0.0/0   0x00000082 62:bc:02:e1:d5:ea
rmnet0   DOWN                                   0.0.0.0/0   0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
rmnet1   DOWN                                   0.0.0.0/0   0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
rmnet2   DOWN                                   0.0.0.0/0   0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
rmnet3   DOWN                                   0.0.0.0/0   0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
rmnet4   DOWN                                   0.0.0.0/0   0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
rmnet5   DOWN                                   0.0.0.0/0   0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
rmnet6   DOWN                                   0.0.0.0/0   0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
rmnet7   DOWN                                   0.0.0.0/0   0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
sit0     DOWN                                   0.0.0.0/0   0x00000080 00:00:00:00:00:00
rndis0   UP                              192.168.42.129/24  0x00001043 da:02:11:22:14:af

Step 3: Get the matching IP Address of the workstation

malachi@onyx:~$ ifconfig -a usb0
usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr e2:31:b5:d7:f3:7b 
          inet addr:192.168.42.74  Bcast:192.168.42.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::e031:b5ff:fed7:f37b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1990 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1188 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:181334 (181.3 KB)  TX bytes:657452 (657.4 KB)

Step 4: Ping the device from the workstation

malachi@onyx:~$ ping 192.168.42.129
PING 192.168.42.129 (192.168.42.129) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.42.129: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=1.01 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.42.129: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.605 ms

Step 5: Ping the workstation from the device

root@android:/ # ping 192.168.42.74
PING 192.168.42.74 (192.168.42.74) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.42.74: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.427 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.42.74: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.397 ms

Step 6: Add workstation as the default gateway for the device

root@android:/ # route add default gw 192.168.42.74 dev rndis0

Step 7: Get a list of DNS servers from the workstation

malachi@onyx:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 172.29.224.11
nameserver 8.8.8.8

Step 8: Add them to the device

root@android:/ # setprop net.dns1 172.29.224.11
root@android:/ # setprop net.dns2 8.8.8.8

Step 9: Setup forwarding from usb0 to eth1 on the workstation
[ most people probably use eth0. Just use ifconfig to check which one is active]

malachi@onyx:~$ sudo su - root
[sudo] password for malachi:
root@onyx:~# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
root@onyx:~# exit

malachi@onyx:~$ sudo iptables --flush -t nat
malachi@onyx:~$ sudo iptables --table nat --append POSTROUTING --out-interface eth1 -j MASQUERADE
malachi@onyx:~$ sudo iptables --append FORWARD --in-interface usb0 -j ACCEPT

Step 10: ping google ;)

malachi@onyx:~$ adb shell
root@android:/ # ping google.com
PING google.com (74.125.127.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=11.8 ms
64 bytes from pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=11.9 ms

And finally, check things like the Browser...

Phone ID and Other Useful Tidbits

Let's start with a basic project:

F:\work> mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://kallisti.eoti.org:8081/content/repositories/snapshots/archetype-catalog.xml

2: http://kallisti.eoti.org:8081/content/repositories/snapshots/archetype-catalog.xml -> galatea-archetype (null)
groupId: org.eoti.android.phone
artifactId: PhoneIDTest
version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
package: org.eoti.android.phone

F:\work> cd PhoneIDTest
F:\work\PhoneIDTest> mvn clean install

Add this to your AndroidManifest.xml:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE"/>

Add this convenience method to your PhoneIDTestActivity:

    private void showMessage(String msg)
    {
        Toast.makeText(this, msg, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

Insert this into the end of your onCreate method:

        TelephonyManager mgr = (TelephonyManager)getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
        switch(mgr.getPhoneType())
        {
            case TelephonyManager.PHONE_TYPE_CDMA:
                showMessage("CDMA");
                break;
            case TelephonyManager.PHONE_TYPE_GSM:
                showMessage("GSM");
                break;
            case TelephonyManager.PHONE_TYPE_NONE:
                showMessage("NONE");
                break;
            default:
                showMessage("Unknown phone type");
        }

        showMessage("Device ID: " + mgr.getDeviceId());
        showMessage("Version: " + mgr.getDeviceSoftwareVersion());
        showMessage("Number: " + mgr.getLine1Number());
        showMessage("Country: " + mgr.getNetworkOperatorName());
        showMessage("Sim Serial#: " + mgr.getSimSerialNumber());
        showMessage("Subscriber ID: " + mgr.getSubscriberId());
        showMessage("Operator: " + mgr.getSimOperatorName());
       

Redeploy (mvn clean install) and run the app.

Android Dev Phone 1 -and- AT&T/Cingular

Yesterday after work, I got home to find a FedEx package containing my new Android Dev Phone 1.  I went down to the Cingular office to get my account switched over.

We ended up pulling the SIM from the iPhone and putting it into the ADP1(what acronymn should I be using?). He changed my account from the iPhone plan to the PDA plan ($10 more/mo).  I forgot at first that I have to hit MENU during setup to configure it for AT&T -- so once it failed, I did that...

I have 4 different set of APN settings, and the rep didn't know wha the correct settings were. Everything worked except for MMS and I spent all night trying to get the MMS working.  Finally, this morning I called customer service.

So ignoring for a moment that a previous tech support rep (myself) forgot to try rebooting after changing the settings -- there was actually something that had to be done on their end.  Specifically, they were unable to change the IMEI on my account and it kept insisting I had an iPhone. Their tech support department was fairly sure their side would prevent MMS as long as it thought I had an iPhone (even though the account block for MMS was removed).

Finally, they had to manually remove the iPhone from the account and then enter my IMEI separately.  It showed up as 'ubertracker' and they removed that so that it showed as 'unknown'.  Reboot again and it started working....

In case anyone is looking for the settings:

Name: AT&T/Cingular
APN: wap.cingular
Proxy:
Port:
Username: wap.cingulargprs.com
Password: CINGULAR1
Server:
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS Proxy: wireless.cingular.com
MMS Port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
APN Type:
** THEN SAVE AND REBOOT **