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13 items tagged "cellphones"

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• August 01, 2010
• 14:00

  Update: Custom cellphone induction charging

   » ‎ hack-a-day

  Tags:  cellphones hacks  

  This is a custom back plate with induction charging circuitry that [Derek Hughes] build for his HTC HD2 cellphone. When we checked in with him last week he showed us how to add an inductive charger without voiding the warranty but it wasn’t very pretty because the stock back plate blocked the inductive field and [...]
• July 30, 2010
• 9:00

  Tethering the Samsung Vibrant without rooting

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  Tags:  cellphones hacks  

  If you’ve got a Samsung Vibrant and want to take advantage of that unlimted 3G account you can tether without rooting the phone. This method uses a USB cable to provide internet access to Windows XP and Windows 7 computers. Samsung’s own Kies software handles the tethering, as long as you have the magic number [...]
• July 29, 2010
• 10:00

  Super simple gaming controller for Android or iPhone

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  Tags:  cellphones hacks  

  If you’ve got an iPhone or Android device that you use with a Wii remote when gaming, this quick hack will give you the third hand you need to manage all of that hardware. [Syanni85] mounted his Android phone to a Wii wheel for just a few dollars in parts. He ran across the wheel [...]
• July 28, 2010
• 11:00

  WiFi on a Sprint Pixi

   » ‎ hack-a-day

  Tags:  cellphones hacks  

  The Sprint version of the Palm Pixi doesn’t have a WiFi option but the Verizon version (called the Palm Pixi Plus) does. The hardware is almost the same and [Gitit20] figured out how to do some hardware swapping to add WiFi. The radio board inside the phone is fairly easy to remove. Close inspection of [...]
• 8:11

  Inductive cellphone charging without voiding warranty

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  Tags:  cellphones hacks  

  [Derek Hughes] wanted to use inductive charging on his cellphone without voiding the warranty. He picked up a Pixi charging backplate meant for a Palm Pre and scavenged the coil and regulator circuitry from it. To make the electrical connection with his HTC HD2 he removed the mini-USB plug from a charging cable and connected it [...]
• July 24, 2010
• 9:57

  Adding mute to a Bluetooth headset

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  Tags:  cellphones hacks  

  [Jared] often needs to be on conference calls for work during his motorcycle commute. He’s got a bluetooth headset that cancels noise but it didn’t have a mute feature. He cracked open the speaker and microphone portion of the apparatus but there wasn’t enough room for a switch. The base unit which houses the noise [...]
• July 22, 2010
• 13:58

  Release the Kraken: Open source GSM cracking tool released.

   » ‎ hack-a-day

  Tags:  cellphones hacks  

  Open source GSM cracking software called “Kraken” has been released into the wild. You may recognize some of the information from back in December when we announced that they had cracked GSM encryption. Well, now you can participate as well. You’ll need a pretty beefy Linux machine and some patience. They say that an easier [...]
• July 11, 2010
• 6:39

  Adding speech recognition to your embedded platform.

   » ‎ hack-a-day

  Tags:  cellphones hacks  

  Last week, we posted a story about how to configure speech recognition at a beginner level. Several of the commenters expressed an interest in doing speech recognition for embedded devices. [Nickolay Shmyrev] volunteered to write some directions for those people. In this article, [Nickolay] will be taking you through the basics of setting up your [...]
• July 10, 2010
• 8:00

  Solar MintyBoost

   » ‎ hack-a-day

  Tags:  cellphones hacks  

  We first wrote about the MintyBoost back in 2006. Today, Adafruit has created a tutorial for making a solar powered MintyBoost. Using a MintyBoost, a solar panel, LiPo battery and a charger, they built on their Solar LiPoly tutorial. They fed the power tap output of the LiPoly charger into the battery input of the [...]
• June 21, 2010
• 12:00

  Inductive charging for the HTC Evo

   » ‎ hack-a-day

  Tags:  cellphones hacks  

  [Danny] added wireless charging to his HTC Evo. The hard work was already done for him by Palm, it was just a matter of adding that hardware to his phone. A Touchstone induction charging kit for the Palm Pre will cost you just over $40 for the base station and a replacement back cover. [Danny's] [...]
• June 08, 2010
• 10:00

  Nexus one as USB host

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  Tags:  cellphones hacks  

  [Sven Killig] Has managed to get his Nexus One into USB host mode. This allows him to plug in all kinds of peripherals such as web cams, keyboards, even a displaylink unit. This is fantastic as it really opens up the possibilities of this device. You can see that he now has an amazingly functional [...]
• April 29, 2010
• 9:00

  Chumby One becomes a 3g router

   » ‎ hack-a-day

  Tags:  cellphones hacks  

  [bunnie] has taken a few moments to show us how to turn our Chumby One into a 3g router. As it turns out, there is an easter egg that allows it to communicate with certain models of 3g dongles. There’s no GUI for this trick, so you’ll be doing most of your configuration via SSH. [...]
• March 29, 2010
• 15:12

  DTMF and SelCall signal generator

   » ‎ hack-a-day

  Tags:  cellphones hacks  

  [Rogal] wrote a cell phone application called ToneTool that generates audio tone sequences. It can be used to output DTMF and SelCall sequences which are used by telephone systems and radio-telecommunication hardware. The software is written in J2ME so if you have a cell phone that can run Java apps it will probably work for [...]