Posts tagged samsung

Installing Firefox Mobile on a Samsung Captivate

Aug 27th

Posted by Lead Hacker in Applications

2 comments

Mozilla just released a mobile version of Firefox for Android devices. Unfortunately they haven’t directly published the link to the apk. If you follow the download link from a desktop system it takes you to the desktop installer. From a device it takes you to the apk, but I’m on a Samsung Captivate I haven’t rooted yet, so I can’t install from the browser. Instead I downloaded through the browser, sucked the file out using ADB, and the installed that way:

  • ./adb pull /sdcard/download/fennec.apk ~/fennec.apk
  • ./adb install ~/fennec.apk

Dear Mozilla, great idea directing folks to the right download automatically, but please take this case into consideration. Lots of folks on AT&T devices who can’t install directly. Or, alternatively, AT&T could stop being idiots. Slim chance of that though.

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Samsung Captivate Tethering for OS X

Aug 17th

Posted by Lead Hacker in Tips

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When I plugged my Samsung Captivate into my OS X machine I was surprised to see a network connection dialog pop up on my laptop and what looked like a tethering app pop up on the device. Given that AT&T tries to kill off tethering in every way possible with the iPhone, I figured it wouldn’t be on with my Captivate either. Or at least not easy to get working. No problem though. I just needed to figure out which set of settings to put in the network connection dialogs in OS X.

In the main network settings screen under System Preferences:

  • leave telephone number blank
  • use ‘WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM’ for Account Name
  • use ‘CINGULAR1′ for Password

Then click the advanced button and setup:

  • Vendor generic
  • Model GPRS (GSM/3G)
  • APN is ‘wap.cingular’
  • CID set to 1

After that starting up a network session with my Captivate attached over USB yielded a pretty quick network connection! Now if only they could fix these GPS issues….

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