Android on my HTC HD2#

Next attempt: Gingerbread#

Resources#

Customizations#

QuickSSHD#

Purchased/Installed QuickSSHD, very handy.
Connect via USB tehtering, set a password, and you ssh into your phone (run busybox /bin/sh) to get a neat shell.
Or better, add file ~/.profile, which is executed by the ash shell, and put busybox /bin/sh in it.

Favorite apps#

  • astro (explorer)
  • gmail
  • Friend Stream
  • QuickSSHD (in combination with USB Tethering on my Linux laptop)

Potentials :

  • Secure EAS
  • PhoneUsage
  • Exchange Touchdown

Challenges#

Stability#

I still get regularly hangs, depending on what you do.

  • after disabling "Background Data"
  • after installing MySettings app and enabling 3G (uninstalled it again)
  • phone hangs when you leave it alone for half an hour (sometimes)

I upgraded to Radio_Leo_2.15.50.14, see if that helps.
Well, that does help, but still I had a hang again this afternoon.

Battery drain#

While running WM, I can run the phone 2 or 3 days with one battery charge. Running Android I can hardly run just one day :-( . Today I measured a bit more accurately, I can run 10 hours with a full battery, that's really excessive, not acceptable.

EAS logon with DigtCert (fixed)#

Connecting to the enterprise EAS (Exchange ActiveSync) requires you to logon with a digital certificate. At the moment I don't see a way to do that (only userid/password logon).

Probably Secure EAS can do the job.

Also see http://wiki.rabobank.nl, search for Android

This has been fixed by installing Exchange Touchdown from nitrodesk :-), I started with the free 30-day trial version. If everything remains a bit stable, I might purchase the full version.