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Android: How To. This is just a collection of useful information and tricks that I used during the time I was developing on the android ADP1. In some cases the information might be a little old and new and easier ways to do the same things might be available. Please let me know if you find something like this so that, I can update this document. This is not original work and neither do I claim so. This is just a collection of references that you may find useful. This is in no way a definitive guide and there is much more information out there. Thanks Aman Nijhawan Index Part 1: Activating your android ADP 1 without the sim card……………………………………2 Part 2: Installing the Developing Environment…………………………………..……………………3 Part 3: Part 3: Updating your Android phone to the latest Firmware………………………4 Part 4: APIs and links to code reference and sample code for accessing onboard Hardware…………………………………………………………………………….6 Part 5: Scripting on Android…………………………………………………………………………………….7 Part 6: Compiling and Installing Linux Binaries for Android…………………………………… 9 Part 1: Activating your android ADP 1 without the sim card 1. Plug your Android Dev Phone into your computer via USB if you are using windows 64 bit as your OS you will need additional instructions about the driver*. 2. Get into the Phones OS... Open up a terminal and type: adb -d shell 3. Now, change to the Phones settings database directory, type: cd /data/data/viders.settings/databases/ 4. Give yourself admin permissions by typing: su 5. Now, you are going to use sqlite to alter the phone setting database, and turn provisioning on, so type: sqlite3 settings.db 6. Use this SQL command to alt