My Journey towards J2ME

Well, I've got fed up with the same daily tasks... Coding..Reviews..Rework..Deadlines.
Wanted to do some thing new apart from this. Wandering around in week end, i garbbed a
touchscreen phone in a mobile store. After playing around withit thought of developping
some apps. This opened up a new world of life to me. "J2me".

So I started reading about J2me. First 2 weeks just grasped some articles and stuffs for dummies.
Then sniffed few intermediate example codes. After getting confidence on the basics..then i started wondering what to develop. After brief search, i was able to find out that not many Java J2me player apps are available in the market now. Started work immediately on looking for the tutorials on media api's. Got hold of half completed c-tunes from google code site. Within week of research i was able to figure out that developing j2me mp3 player was not possible for nubes like me. I left my first dream of developing Java mp3 player.

The second option that i had was to develop an SMS app with more feature then it comes in default phone applications.
I would want frequently buzzing contacts.. Msg list.. Able to tap emotion characters in single touch :-) .. word completion.. and offcourse a big keypad for typing .
With these in mind.. started looking out if any source code in net..Fortunately found a front end application which covers part of them in one of the forums.
Well enough for today.. I shall post out further details about this in my next care.

Dec-26:

 Vacation season started :-) Happy times... now.  3 weeks back was searching for example codes to regarding drawing the in text vertical path i.e y-axis.  Fortunately found a link where some great person had posted the GUI of SMS editor written in J2me.   

I immediatly downloaded  the code and ran on netbeans to check whether it compiles... Hurray it compiled and was able to see the output screen in emulator phone. But the output of the keyboard screen did not fit in the mobile screen.

Now i decided to build on top of this open source gui code. next 3 weeks i did a code walk through of in my leasure times.  Also grabbed book with title J2ME IN A NUTSELL (A desktop quick reference) from my office library.

Tweaking around with the code, I made the output fit into the 240x320 screen. The GUI was written very well. Thanks to Mr X(Name not known) who has made it opensource.

----+-- Break needed========== I'am lazy.. Closing :-)

Motorola back again with deadly Driod..!

Good to hear the news that moto is again back on its rail track with few good smartphones.
What ever it is any one should agree the the style icon is always Motorola. None other
company is able to beat it in its mobile design style.

Moto Driod sales closing to 1 million handsets just in US, its just a begining.
Also the similar tyre of Moto Driod i.e Motorola Milestone is also making
good begining in UK and Europe.

Driod/Milestone phone is again a distinct. Its the slimest qwerty slider phone in high tyre models in the world available till date. Motorola is the one who shows the world of slimness to other phone manufacturers through Razr series.

Lets hope motorola will give us still more stylish iconic handsets to us like it did ealier as Razr.

Finally back again with L9

Well.. I was using Motorola-E398 which is very good phone when modded.
After 3 years of usage, I felt the essence of changing to new Moto model.
I've selected L9 as it has all the features superior to E398 .. and much
more wanted "FM" with 2 MP camera..
I will be posting the experience of L9 shortly..

Essential softwares for modding

This post list out some of the basic softwares needed for modding.
This is maily for noobs..

Installing Games...!

Post Games midlets links and the procedure about installing the games
to motorola phones.

SEEM modding tips

I've posted some of the collection of seems related to Motorola phones below.

You need to have some seem editing Knowledge before modding the seems.
Google through some sites for the tutorial.
See this site www.motomodders.net for the tutorial.

SMS forwarding

SEEM-Name : 0032
OFFET : 79 ( Decimal)
Turn on Bit-1(0) starting from Bit-1 Binary View( xxxx xx1x )
to disable sending phone number while forwarding the SMS.

Motorola Mobile Modders links

Friends, If you have come accross good Moto modding sites, Please do update here
in this Blog...

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Motorola mobile phone information
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This site is a good E398 site.
http://mirror.softcox.com
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This site is a good E398 site.( Its my favorite site).
Contains Java corlets, monster packs. This site is dedicated
to E398 related suffs.
http://www.e398mod.com/
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This link should have been the favourite site for all Moto
modders. Priceless information.
http://www.motomodders.net
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This is a site which have all head and tails about the Moto phones.
Do visit this site. This is site is worth to visit.
http://www.motox.info/
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I'am not sure about this site, This is a newly emerging forum.
Worth to remember it.
http://www.motohell.com/
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This is meaga storage of information about all phones.
No words to describe. Vist and see the knowledge base.
www.howardforums.com
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Friends, If you have come accross good Moto modding sites, Please do update here
in this Blog...
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This is new site which has good set of modding tips,tools and tutors

www.modmymoto.com

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Also dont forget to search for the softwares/flash files in the public file sharing sites like

rapidshare, megaupload, 4shared, mediafire

You will definitely find most the required tools.

-Sriki