[SOLVED] Logitech SetPoint Stuck Modifier on Keystroke Assignment
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, Microsoft, Operating System
I recently had a problem with some sticky modifier after pressing a button on my mouse with keystroke assignment (even predefined ones like Back and Forward). After some troubleshooting and backtracking, I found that the issue is having Synergy running. After I disabled Synergy, everything works normally. For those who don’t know what’s Synergy, “Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).” (quoted from http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/).
[SOLVED] App2SD Missing Apps after restore – nandroid-mobile.sh to /sd-ext shows Read-Only file system
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Android, Howto
On Friday, I finally pulled the trigger and moved to CM7 Nightly. That night, I also found wildmonks kernel for CM7 Nightly, so I run nandroid backup before installing the kernel. Everything seems good and peachy. I also really liked the new animation for screen on and off.
Today I received notification of a new nightly available. Since ROM Manager works best with ClockworkMod recovery, I flashed it and do a full backup. When I moved to the new nightly built #34, I found that Tasker crashes all the time. So, I restored to my backup from this morning. Alas, the restore procedure always got stuck at the “Dalvik-Cache”.
I tried to do wipe cache and dalvik-cache and restart. The CM7 loaded, but all my App2SD installed apps are missing. After probing here and there, I finally decided to switch back to Amon Ra recovery, adb into the system and perform the nandroid restore manually.
Everytime nandroid try to restore the sd-ext partition, it always shows that the tar unable to create directory because the partition is mounted as read only. After forcing an rw mount and the problem persists, I finally was about to give up. Then I was thinking if it’s possibly due to the ext4 filesystem. Finally I reformat the partition using ext2, upgraded to ext3 and perform the manual restore (using tar) and it works.
Finally I got my system back to the Friday midnight backup. I flashed my new kernel and got everything back working.
So, if you find yourself unable to restore ext partition when using App2SD and ext4, try to revert back to ext3.
[HOWTO] Locking Mac using the ⌘ (command) + L
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, Mac OSX, Operating System
- Download Spark
- File -> New Hotkey -> Applescript
- Click on shortcut and press ⌘ (command) + L
- Enter a name
- At the source section copy and paste the following code:
tell application "ScreenSaverEngine" to activate - Click Create
UPDATE: For OSX Lion you need to us the following code:
tell application "/System/Library/Frameworks/Screensaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app" to activate
[HOWTO] Unstuck between 3.1.3 and iOS4
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, iPhone, Operating System
I was trying to upgrade to custom iOS4 right after the release of Pwnagetool 4.01, but got stuck with error 1600 and 1604. Apple stopped signing 3.1.3 so, I can’t get back to 3.1.3 to get the phone unlocked. Basically the phone is stuck in restore mode. Here’s how i manage to get out of the restore mode and use 3.1.3.
- Download Blackra1n
- Run blackra1n. If you have ASL.DLL error, make sure you copy blackra1n.exe to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support - When the device reboot, pay attention to the screen. Once it get out of the restore mode, quickly unplug the data cable. If not, repeat again.
Once done, you may want to upgrade to iOS4 the right way