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finally got time to record him again. 天天两岁就差两个星期了。好快。

1year4month16days already.

At previous post, I connect my gtablet to usb port of Omnia2 and surf internet. So, if you forget your usb cable, you might want to share Omnia2′s 3G via bluetooth (I hope it use less power than wifi sharing).

Here are the steps:

1. Open WM6′s Start->Internet Sharing, select ‘Bluetooth PAN’ PC Connection, and Connect.
2. Get your WM6 device’s bluetooth MAC address using whatever method (Omnia2 can get from bluetooth device info), and suppose it is e8:e5:e6:49:xx:xx
3. Open terminal emulator on gtablet
4. #su
5. #pand -c e8:e5:e6:49:xx:xx (gtablet and WM6 device will prompt you to pair them together, if you didn’t do that)
6. #ifconfig bnep0 192.168.0.47
7. #route add default gw 192.168.0.1 dev bnep0
8. #setprop net.dns1 192.168.0.1

There are lots of article introducing:

But that are not what I need. I have:

1. a viewsonic gtablet without 3G, running android 2.3.3
2. an Omnia 2 with 3G data plan, running Windows Mobile 6 (WM6)

So, what I want to do is to share the data plan on the the Omnia2. A simple way to do it is to buy WMWifiRouter and install on the Omnia2, if you can accept the speed it drains battery.

Now, the only way for me is to share internet connection of the Omnia2 via USB port, i.e., connect a USB cable between the gtablet and Omnia2, and surf on the gtablet using 3G of Omnia2. Here are the steps:

1. Open WM6′s Start->Settings->General Settings->USB Connection, check ‘ActiveSync’ radio button.
2. Open WM6′s Start->Internet Sharing, select USB PC Connection, and Connect.
3. Connect the Omnia2 via a USB cable to gtablet
4. Open terminal emulator on Android, and ‘root’ (#su)
5. #ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.47
6. #route add default gw 192.168.0.1 dev eth0
7. #setprop net.dns1 192.168.0.1

Now, your gtablet is connected to the internet and you could surf anywhere via 3G network. You could follow another article to do reverse tethering to WM6 via bluetooth PAN.

Yesterday I googled “Omnia 2 android” and was surprised to find Omnia2 supports android 2.2 Froyo, just from several days ago. If you have decent size SD card (larger than 2G), to install Froyo is straightforward, look here. The install will not affect your windows mobile.

However, I have only a old free 1G SD card from GPS software. So, I made minor changes to the installer. To use it (suppose you unzip froyo_beta1_1024.zip to /froyo):
1. cd ~
2. zcat /froyo/o2beta/sd.cpio.gz |cpio -idmv
3. replace init with the attached version
4. ./mkcpio.sh
5. cp sd.cpio.gz /froyo/o2beta/
6. connect phone at Linux, (at phone setting, set usb connection using mass storage->storage card, instead of activesync)
7. use fdisk and mkfs.ext4 to make an ext4 partition covering whole sd card

then, you could install froyo with usual way.

After boot to Froyo, it complains there is no SD card. To bypass this, I go back to windows mobile and mount the sd card with Linux, and modify init.rc at its root, to mount internal storage to /mnt/sdcard.

BTW: I do not know how long time the sd card can last, as during the install, I always meet file system errors, and sometimes, met erros like: “request_suspend_state: wakeup” during reboot. I tried several times util successfully install Froyo.

The baby just recovered from roseola/fever today, and isn’t as active as before. He likes to try anything he can sit on: stool, ball, milk-tin, power socket; now, is the door magnet.

Visited universal studio yesterday, a wonderful place.

But, unlucky, my wife lost the lens cap; 1 hour later, the 17-55 lens got dropped, and UV glass is broken, the UV ring is dented.
By quicky googling, I found guys spent hours to DIY remove the dented UV.

So, I gave up the chance to do it myself, instead, it’s sent to canon service centre today. They helped me to remove the dented UV in 15mins, even gave me a free lens cap.

Huh, the service is great, thanks.