• ./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.

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….

There’s plenty of info out there about replacing the boot logo and what the files do. Here’s how to get it up and running through:

1. Download the pirate boot animation zip file to your system
2. Remount the system partition read-write: adb shell mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
3. Push the file across to your device: adb push pirate_bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip

That’s it, reboot and enjoy! If you want to poke around and change it, it should be pretty easy. There’s a writeup of what the contents of the bootanimation.zip are, which is very useful. Supposedly, also, the zip needs to be uncompressed to work. But that just means setting compression level to 0 when you run zip. This is the command I use on my OS X machine: zip -0 pirate_bootanimation.zip desc.txt part0/boot_00003.png”. That should make it easy to swap in any other picture to customize.

The application interface itself is pretty simple. When it first loads up you won’t have any interpreters besides shell. If you go into the View menu, select interpreters, and then select Add from the menu under there you can add other interpreters. The interpreters generally come with example scripts, which will show up in the main list view once they’re loaded:

There’s a preferences screen, which covers mostly visual options:

If you long press on a script you have an option to edit it:

The editor that comes up is just a simple but effective textbox, so at least you can edit scripts in place on the device:

And then you can run a script, in this place displaying a toast message over the keyboard when I run the hello world program:

In the menu area there’s even an option to export the set of data to CSV so you can suck it into a spreadsheet or use it to drive some of your own tools. Would be great actually if there was an option to record a list of running processes along with the battery status info, so that it could attempt to spot which processes are sucking up the most resource.

Then I ran across this description of replacing the recovery partition, which explains that part of the boot process is writing the recovery.img from /system/recovery.img. That explains a lot! That page also describes how to replace the /system/recovery.img so that you keep your new recovery image after each boot. Ahh, now I have my full set of menu options whenever I hit recovery.