From: pathawks.com

2008-12-15 08:05 am (UTC)

Useless? Useless?

I don't know, man. Using a real keyboard on a mobile devices sounds like a winner to me! From: vxjasonxv

2008-12-15 02:11 pm (UTC)

Phone<->Computer integration is one of my most sought after features for phones. When my phone is at my desk, let me use it via my computer. It'll prevent a lot of cluster.... mini-keyboard designs.



My phone is sitting literally inches away from my hands, but why can't I just call up it's applications (bluetooth signaling?) and start typing away on my fully fledged laptop keyboard that I'm so used too?



Of course, my phone isn't the G1, so I'm at the whim of the Apple Overlords, unlike you.



And it just happened now, I just picked up and replied to an SMS taking way too long to type it out.



I can go so much further than this, but I'll stick to the topic and say that phones need to do what you did, natively. From: grumbeld

2008-12-15 10:54 pm (UTC)

I wish I understood what you said. From: mart

2008-12-16 01:02 am (UTC)

Next step: VNC server! From: mart

2008-12-16 01:07 am (UTC)

Alternative next step: Jabber-to-SMS-via-phone gateway. From: awwaiid

2008-12-17 02:20 pm (UTC)

OpenMoko? I'm still sad that the openmoko doesn't get more press. If it got the attention that android has (from a company like Google) then it would surely be doing a bit better by now. Even still... Yes, x11vnc runs fantastically, as does xvncviewer.



And you can drop Android on it without having to jailbreak anything :) From: supersat

2009-01-21 01:30 am (UTC)

Do you have problems enabling/disabling wifi with Debian unioned in to the root filesystem? Is so, any solutions? I haven't had a chance to poke at it too much, so I was wondering if you have had a chance to run into and fix this problem. From: malilazila

2009-06-01 07:31 am (UTC)

It is my new toy I'm about to have fun with Android phone too. It's on the way to me. I'll post what I do with it when the time comes. From: (Anonymous)

2009-07-28 09:54 pm (UTC)

/dev/input/event2 vs. event3 Thanks a lot, this is awesome!



On my device (ADP 1 running CyanogenMod v3.6.8.1, which is based on Android 1.5r3), the /dev/input directory didn't exist inside of the Debian directory hierarchy (which I put at /system/sd), and also the right device turned out to be event3 (13,67) instead of event2 (13, 66), so outside the Debian chroot I did



mkdir /system/sd/mnt

mkdir /system/sd/mnt/dev

busybox mount --bind /dev /system/sd/mnt/dev



in addition to the other binds, and I changed the relevant line in that script from



my $keyboard = "/dev/input/event2";



to



my $keyboard = "/mnt/dev/input/event3";



and changed



system("mknod", $filename, "c", 13, 66) and die "mknod failed.";

to

system("mknod", $filename, "c", 13, 67) and die "mknod failed.";



I'm not suggesting that you change the script, I just wanted to note this here so that others could find it. Thanks again!

From: (Anonymous)

2009-09-08 02:18 pm (UTC)

Bluetooth keyboard? I want to use a bluetooth keyboard for data entry into my Android.



If I install Debian on it will I be able to use a bluetooth keyboard? From: (Anonymous)

2010-01-13 07:38 pm (UTC)

Inject keys I wrote my own solution, which uses uinput. It also works on android phones without hardware keyboards, and also supports special keys.



http://www.math.bme.hu/~morap/RemoteInput/