Right! Let's move into the topic directly. First of all I must tell you that LOTS AND LOTS have happened to me since I had last blogged on 'Common yet my own 2012'.
I had my excursion in January. Earlier it had a synonym: 'education tour'.
Now, it was actually a fun tour with my friends. We all went to an amusement park, Rose Valley Amusement Park in Barasat. The bus journey was HORRIBLE! The roof was really low and dancing in such a cramped space was almost impossible. However, we managed to somehow start up a song in the bus' defective audio system and had a fun time. When we reached the spot, we were taken to a spot for having breakfast. That was truly delicious. Inside the amusement park we got free tickets for awesome rides! Actually, we were about to ride most of them for the first time, because most of us hadn't rode on such thrilling rides before...at least that was the case for me. There was a rotating wheel with sitting arrangements for two each. That was truly thrilling. I went on with a friend of mine and before it started to move in full speed, we were petrified! We didn't know what it would be like, whether we become nausea-tic or would feel scared. It would all be solved within minutes...that's all we knew. But when the thing started, and we got accustomed to it, we started to enjoy it in full swing! Apart from that, the other ride we had was on frogs...we would sit on a frog and it would jump and move at the same time! I almost got knocked out of my sit! There were 4 other rides but they weren't as thrilling as those. Inside a scary house, we were the ones who were actually scaring the others...:D Overall, the rides were good, and so was the delicious lunch! But, while we were returning it was not fun at all...:'( There was no audio system, no one to dance, and everyone was sleepy. This was certainly not the best tour for us. The one in 9th standard had been much more enjoyable.
After that, January was somewhat exciting because I learnt to play Fifa 13...the game. I now support a football club (at last)...in fact I support two clubs. FC Barcelona and Manchester City. That apart, I also modified the blog a bit (as you can see). Apart from these two new improvements, the latest thing I learnt about desktops is that they can be heavily modified using a software called 'Rainmeter', which is going viral in our school nowadays. My current desktop is quite awesome. I have started using Google Drive, a free cloud storage service giving the user 5GB of storage! There I have uploaded some screenshots of my desktop.
Right...now for the main NEWS that I want to share with you. It's about my ebook reader. You know that my Sony Reader PRS T1 runs on the Android OS 2.2 'Gingerbread'. Well, you must also be knowing, if you are an android user or programmer or have interest in computers, that Android devices can be hacked, or in the best term - rooted. It's kind of unlocking the full capacities of the device. My ebook reader has no Android capabilities. Only certain apps like the browser or the notes app, or the audio app can be used. Others have been stripped down by Sony. Well, they can be run but only on by rooting and unlocking a third home screen that allows me to run the Android goodies from Google. I did do that in the month of February. I rooted my device.
Now I knew what consequences I would have to face if the rooting would not work. My device had a chance of becoming a brick...yes, it would no other function other than a brick. That's called a bricked android device. But I read the stats and found that the cases of bricking are extremely rare. Thus I took the chance. And oh yes! My warranty would become void. I didn't mind that because anyway, the warranty would not work outside the USA. Thus, I downloaded a rooting package by rupor and rooted it. My main target was actually to enable ad-hoc WiFi connection capabilities. Oh! And I also learnt how to make my laptop a WiFi hotspot using the broadband connection that I already have. Anyway, that was my main interest. All was going well. I added quite a number of apps from Google to my device. But, I wanted the WiFi. For that, I would have to write a small amount of code in an ADB and use it for the Sony Reader. That bricked my device. For weeks, I had no option but to continue searching the internet on how to fix it. Well actually what had happened was that the Reader would not connect to the computer, and it could not detect it's own internal memory! The case was hopeless. However I had a friend in my school who was a real expert in the field of Android rooting and flashing devices to fix them. He fixed it within one half of a day!!!! And that too really easily! Now I can again read my books for free and have learnt that before knowing adequately on something as advanced as Android, and getting ample amount of experience, I should never experiment with anything...:P Anyway, now my annual exams are going on, and I have two more theory test left and three practicals.
That's it for now! Bye!
I had my excursion in January. Earlier it had a synonym: 'education tour'.
Now, it was actually a fun tour with my friends. We all went to an amusement park, Rose Valley Amusement Park in Barasat. The bus journey was HORRIBLE! The roof was really low and dancing in such a cramped space was almost impossible. However, we managed to somehow start up a song in the bus' defective audio system and had a fun time. When we reached the spot, we were taken to a spot for having breakfast. That was truly delicious. Inside the amusement park we got free tickets for awesome rides! Actually, we were about to ride most of them for the first time, because most of us hadn't rode on such thrilling rides before...at least that was the case for me. There was a rotating wheel with sitting arrangements for two each. That was truly thrilling. I went on with a friend of mine and before it started to move in full speed, we were petrified! We didn't know what it would be like, whether we become nausea-tic or would feel scared. It would all be solved within minutes...that's all we knew. But when the thing started, and we got accustomed to it, we started to enjoy it in full swing! Apart from that, the other ride we had was on frogs...we would sit on a frog and it would jump and move at the same time! I almost got knocked out of my sit! There were 4 other rides but they weren't as thrilling as those. Inside a scary house, we were the ones who were actually scaring the others...:D Overall, the rides were good, and so was the delicious lunch! But, while we were returning it was not fun at all...:'( There was no audio system, no one to dance, and everyone was sleepy. This was certainly not the best tour for us. The one in 9th standard had been much more enjoyable.
After that, January was somewhat exciting because I learnt to play Fifa 13...the game. I now support a football club (at last)...in fact I support two clubs. FC Barcelona and Manchester City. That apart, I also modified the blog a bit (as you can see). Apart from these two new improvements, the latest thing I learnt about desktops is that they can be heavily modified using a software called 'Rainmeter', which is going viral in our school nowadays. My current desktop is quite awesome. I have started using Google Drive, a free cloud storage service giving the user 5GB of storage! There I have uploaded some screenshots of my desktop.
Right...now for the main NEWS that I want to share with you. It's about my ebook reader. You know that my Sony Reader PRS T1 runs on the Android OS 2.2 'Gingerbread'. Well, you must also be knowing, if you are an android user or programmer or have interest in computers, that Android devices can be hacked, or in the best term - rooted. It's kind of unlocking the full capacities of the device. My ebook reader has no Android capabilities. Only certain apps like the browser or the notes app, or the audio app can be used. Others have been stripped down by Sony. Well, they can be run but only on by rooting and unlocking a third home screen that allows me to run the Android goodies from Google. I did do that in the month of February. I rooted my device.
Now I knew what consequences I would have to face if the rooting would not work. My device had a chance of becoming a brick...yes, it would no other function other than a brick. That's called a bricked android device. But I read the stats and found that the cases of bricking are extremely rare. Thus I took the chance. And oh yes! My warranty would become void. I didn't mind that because anyway, the warranty would not work outside the USA. Thus, I downloaded a rooting package by rupor and rooted it. My main target was actually to enable ad-hoc WiFi connection capabilities. Oh! And I also learnt how to make my laptop a WiFi hotspot using the broadband connection that I already have. Anyway, that was my main interest. All was going well. I added quite a number of apps from Google to my device. But, I wanted the WiFi. For that, I would have to write a small amount of code in an ADB and use it for the Sony Reader. That bricked my device. For weeks, I had no option but to continue searching the internet on how to fix it. Well actually what had happened was that the Reader would not connect to the computer, and it could not detect it's own internal memory! The case was hopeless. However I had a friend in my school who was a real expert in the field of Android rooting and flashing devices to fix them. He fixed it within one half of a day!!!! And that too really easily! Now I can again read my books for free and have learnt that before knowing adequately on something as advanced as Android, and getting ample amount of experience, I should never experiment with anything...:P Anyway, now my annual exams are going on, and I have two more theory test left and three practicals.
That's it for now! Bye!
