http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Installing_iDroid_(Linux)

That link is actually for a Linux, so I uses VirtualBox and a Linux (Ubuntu) image file. From there I followed most part of the guide.

However I’ll post my observation (on 2G):

• It’s running way too sluggish
• Call sometimes doesn’t work (stuck at the calling, but not really dialing)
• Phone becomes really warm and battery drain is too much
• There’s not enough button
• Overall condition is not really usable for daily use

Couple notes:

• If Wifi connects but browser not going anywhere, try the DNS fix
• All “adb” type commands require the download of SDK
• If Virtual Box can’t connect to the iPhone when doing the ‘./oibc’ portion, you may need to shut down and restart your virtual machine (including the Virtual Box itself)
• Going to Apple’s recovery mode (for upgraders) from the openiboot would require you to hold the “Menu” button after choosing the iPhone mode

Post comments for questions and help on how to install iDroid.

As it turns out, Outlook doesn’t support SSLv3. I had been using Thunderbird for the longest time without any problem, but since I had to test Outlook 2007 for business purposes.

To fix the issue, I changed my Courier IMAP setting from:
TLS_PROTOCOL=SSL3
to
TLS_PROTOCOL=SSL23

Fix:
Run outlook with the /cleanviews switch. (For x64 Vista I run the following command: “c:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice12OUTLOOK.EXE /cleanviews”)

1. Choose an MP3 file and trim it to 30 seconds or less – I use Audacity (download link) to do it
2. Import that MP3 into iTunes
3. Goto iTunes -> Preferences (for Mac) or Edit -> Preferences (for PC)
4. Navigate to Advanced -> Importing tab and set the “Import Using:” to AAC
5. Find the trimmed MP3 file inside iTunes, right click and choose “Convert Selection to AAC”
6. Right click the AAC version of the file and choose “Get Info”
7. Note the path to the file as indicated by the “Where” section under the “Summary” tab
8. Navigate to the location of the file and copy it to desktop
9. Change the extension of the copied file to “.m4r”
10. Open the files in iTunes and it should be automatically inserted under Ringtones category, which then can be transferred to iPhone

NOTE: I have tried to use “SoundConverter” and set the file type to be m4a. This actually doesn’t work. When I did it that way, the file will be uploaded but won’t be able to be played. It might have something to do with the file size generated by “SoundConverter” being too large.

SMS Notification is slightly more complicated than the Ringtones counterpart. SMS notification actually can’t be added, only modified. I also recommend shorter file for SMS notification. Here are the steps I take:

1. Trim MP3 files using Audacity (usually SMS notification should be shorter, roughly 3-4 seconds should be good)
2. Import the MP3 file to iTunes
3. Change the iTunes import to AIFF (Follow the ringtones guide to change importing mode in iTunes)
4. Find the AIFF file and copy to desktop
5. Change the extension to “.caf”
6. SFTP to the iPhone using Cyberduck (Mac) or WinSCP (Windows) or any other SFTP software
7. Navigate to the following directory: “/System/Library/Audio/UISounds”
8. Change one of the “sms-received<x>.caf” file to “sms-received_<x>.caf” where <x> is an integer from 1 to 6 that is least preferrable
   For example: Rename “sms-received6.caf” to “sms-received_6.caf” to replace the Electronic with custom sound
   File name mapping to notification name:
   sms-received1.caf -> Tri-tone
   sms-received2.caf -> Chime.caf
   sms-received3.caf -> Glass
   sms-received4.caf -> Horn
   sms-received5.caf -> Bell
   sms-received6.caf -> Electronic
9. Upload the file on the desktop using the old name of that was changed
   For example: if “sms-received_6.caf” is changed to “sms-received_6.caf”, upload the file using the name “sms-received6.caf”
10. Choose in iPhone the replaced tone
    For example: if you replaced sms-received6.caf, then you should choose Electronic

UPDATE: Ringtone should be set to 30 seconds. Another way to trim the music is to use iTunes’ ‘start time’ & ‘stop time’ field. This field is accessible by right clicking the song then choosing Get Info -> Options. After performing that, you export the file as AAC then rename it.

UPDATE: As one commenter mentioned, the SMS Notification hack only works on jailbroken iPhone

“The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed”

Instead of deleting his profile and recreating it as proposed by most people, I just try to rejoin it to the domain. It works! Step by Step instruction is available after the jump.

I’m not very familiar with Vista’s layout, so it may be a little bit longer than what needs to be done.

1. Click on the Start and right click on Computers
2. Go to Advance System Settings (on the bottom left)
3. Go to the Computer Name tab
4. Click on Network ID
5. Re-join to Domain (it will ask you if you want to use the profile for the same computer and say yes)
6. Restart the computer

1. Open a ‘Command Prompt’ window by going to Start -> Run then type ‘cmd’ then press enter
2. Type

   ntsd -c qd taskmgr

   in the command prompt

After that, a new ‘Task Manager’ will popup and you should be able to modify the settings.

Here’s what I do in the beginning:

1. Upgrade Iphone to firmware 1.1.3
2. Run the ZiPhone software with -j -u -a -b flags enabled to activate, jailbreak, unloack and downgrade bootloader

That’s all that’s needed to activate, unlock, jailbreak, and downgrade the bootloader of my brand new iPhone (1.1.2 OOTB). This will also install the Installer application. The Installer applications allows the ease of downloading/installing of software from the software repositories.

First order of business there are a couple of software that needs to be installed to lay the groundwork for other hacks. To install these software, tap on Installer -> Install -> All Packages and tap on the following packages:

1. BSD Subsystem
2. openSSH
3. Communicty Sources

After installing these software, I proceed to install SummerBoard and Customize for audio/visual customization. There are, however, some snags/problems with the 1.1.3 firmware. Some SummerBoard themes installs in the old folder and I need to use a patched version of Customize specifically for 1.1.3 firmware. I started by adding a new repository for the patched Customize.

1. Tap on Installer -> Sources
2. Tap on Edit -> Add
3. Type “http://www.touchrepo.com/repo.xml” (without quotes) then click OK

Repeat the same thing, but this time for the following repository: “http://sleepers.net/iphonerepo”. After adding those repositories, I installed both Customize and Summerboard. Up next is fixing the path for SummerBoard. Themes for SummerBoard need to go to /var/mobile/Library/SummerBoard/Themes, but Installer puts the non-updated themes under /var/root/Library/SummerBoard/Themes. There are two solutions to this problem. First, you can move them manually every time after installing non-updated themes, or move everything for the first time and create a symlink. The latter requires some unix command line knowledge.

First open up the BossPref Application and make sure that SSH is turned on, then use a Terminal (on Mac/Linux) or Putty (on Windows) to connect to the iPhone. For Terminal users, start from line 1, Putty users starts from line 2

1. ssh root@IP.IP.IP.IP
   NOTE: Replace IP.IP.IP.IP with the IP address of your iPhone
2. cd /var/root/Library/SummerBoard/Themes/
3. mv * /var/mobile/Library/SummerBoard/Themes/
4. cd ..
5. rmdir Themes
6. ln -s /var/mobile/Library/SummerBoard/Themes Themes
7. exit

Now that both SummerBoard and Customize has been completely installed, you can install their themes from the Installer application. Stay tuned for the next post on uploading custom ringtones and SMS notification for iPhone 1.1.3

UPDATE:I forget to define what each terms means. Activation is to allow the iPhone to use the GSM service. Jailbreak is to allow the phone to add 3rd party applications. Unlock is to allow it to use any other SIM card other than what the phone is locked to (i.e. AT&T in the US). Downgrading the bootloader helps to prevent future upgrade breaking the unlock and helps to stabilize the phone when using a foreign SIM card.

UPDATE: Some SummerBoard themes also doesn’t install with the correct permission level. You should use Terminal or Putty and run the following command “chmod -R 755 /var/mobile/Library/SummerBoard/Themes”

As a start, put in the CD, choose the CD installer from rEFIt then follow the instructions below:

1. Proceed with the installation regularly until the HDD partitioning portion
2. Choose to install on /dev/sda3 and format as “reiserfs” with mount point “/”
3. After disk is formated, go to shell by pressing “Ctrl+Alt+F2″
4. Run the following commands:

   mkdir /mnt/ubuntu
   mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/ubuntu
   dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/ubuntu/swap bs=1024 count=2097152
   swapon /mnt/ubuntu/swap

5. When asked for screen resolution, only press spacebar on 1440×900 or lower
6. Continue until GRUB installation fails. Ignore the failure and install LILO when prompted.
7. Installation should complete and you should be able to boot into Ubuntu, without X Windows.
8. Login the run the following commands:

   sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r) linux-kernel-headers
   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

   NOTE: If you don’t know your kernel version number, run the command

   echo $(uname -r)

9. Reboot then run the following commands:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
   sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
   sudo depmod -a
   sudo aticonfig --initial
   sudo aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
   /etc/init.d/gdm restart

10. If you don’t hear a login sound, it means your speaker might not be enabled

Troubleshooting

1. Some warning popup because there is no swap partition / swapon doesn’t work
   Ignore it and it will work just fine
2. There are no sound coming from speaker, but sound is coming from the headphone jack
   run the command

   alsamixer

   from the terminal and un-mute the speaker. This is done by using the arrow keys to reach the Speakers and press M.

3. If rEFIt suddenly becomes disabled and not working, boot into OS X and reinstalls it

Extra Step to Enhance Linux-Macbook Pro

This section will discuss issues like GLX on MBP, Wireless drivers, etc, to make Linux on MBP experience seems more natural.

Installing Wifi Driver

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install build-essential
3. sudo apt-get install module-assistant
4. m-a prepare
5. sudo apt-get install subversion
6. svn checkout http://svn.madwifi.org/trunk madwifi
7. cd madwifi
8. make clean
9. make
10. sudo make install
11. sudo modprobe ath_pci

Enabling Fn F-Key Combo

• Run from terminal:

  sudo apt-get install pommed

• To enforce using hardware key only with Fn key combination, modify /etc/pommed.conf from fnmode = 1 to fnmode = 2
• Restart pommed by running the command:

  /etc/init.d/pommed restart

Fix Suspend Issue

• Open /etc/default/acpi-support using text editor then set: POST_VIDEO=false

Fix iSight Issue

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sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo
sudo mv /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/ubuntu/media/usbvideo/uvcvideo.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/ubuntu/media/usbvideo/uvcvideo.ko.original
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libusb-0.1-4 libusb-dev linux-headers-$(uname -r)
wget http://files.i-nz.net/projects/linux-kernel/isight/uvcvideo-isight.tar.gz
tar -xzvf uvcvideo-isight.tar.gz
cd against-revision-100
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe uvcvideo

Enable XGL

1. sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl

2. sudo echo 'Xgl :1 -fullscreen -ac -accel xv:pbuffer -accel glx:pbuffer &
   DISPLAY=:1
   cookie="$(xauth -i nextract - :0 | cut -d ' ' -f 9)"
   xauth -i add :1 . "$cookie"
   exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session' > /usr/bin/startxgl

3. sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/startxgl

4. sudo echo '[Desktop Entry]
   Encoding=UTF-8
   Name=Xgl
   Comment=Start an Xgl Session
   Exec=/usr/bin/startxgl
   Icon=
   Type=Application' > /usr/share/xsessions/xgl.desktop

Two Finger Scroll Touchpad and More
This is my current xorg.conf setting for my touchpad. Sensitivity is set to medium and two finger scroll is working. Right click is emulated by using three-fingers-tap

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver          "synaptics"
Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
Option          "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
Option          "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
Option "LeftEdge" "150"
Option "RightEdge" "1070"
Option "TopEdge" "100"
Option "BottomEdge" "310"
Option "FingerLow" "17"
Option "FingerHigh" "22"
Option "MaxTapTime" "120"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "MaxDoubleTapTime" "180"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "0"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "TapButton3" "3"
Option "LockedDrags" "off"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
Option "MinSpeed" "1.10"
Option "MaxSpeed" "1.30"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.08"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

Installing Compiz-Fusion

• Add the following repositories:

  deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty eyecandy-amd64
  deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty eyecandy-amd64

• Add the following key:

  sudo wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/DD800CD9.gpg  -O- | sudo apt-key add -

• Run the following at terminal:

  sudo apt-get install compiz compiz-gnome compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra libcompizconfig-backend-gconf beryl-manager

• Run the command:

  beryl-manager

• Right click the “diamond” icon on the system tray and set “Rendering Path” to “Copy”
• Test Compiz-Fusion by running the following command:

  compiz --replace&

• If everything is good, you can remove beryl-manager by issuing the command

  sudo apt-get --purge remove beryl-manager

• And once everything is perfect, you can add the following entries to System -> Preferences -> Sessions
  Name: Compiz Fusion
Command: compiz --replace -c emerald
  and
  Name: Emerald
Command: emerald --replace

Caps Lock Light and Num Lock Key Failuer
Run the command:

sudo apt-get remove mouseemu

Sources:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacBookProFeisty

http://allostalk.com/showthread.php?p=2787472

More info will be provided if there are comments with problems.