GPS enabled for htc touch

I recently spent some time updating an unlocker i made for the htc vogue aka touch. The new unlocker i made now makes it possible to use GPS on any brand of CDMA touch, Sprint, verizon, telus, etc. Link to a nice write up below:

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=24925

For my non ppc phone readers:
I went to a leadership conference today. There were about 2 hours of good speakers today and more to come tomorrow and sunday. I think this puts me close to the half way point of my month with no days off so we'll see how the rest goes.

Unlocking that GPS was fun, and i think having the eclipse running will be enough to keep me sane.

YAY! Eclipse again!

So the ignition wasn't working, but it turns out it was just a fuse that blew. This model has a known issue so if it does blow a few more times i'm going to have to send it it for a replacement, but at least i know what it was now. I might take the car out for a spin tonight to test it out more. Super happy about this!

Also a little happy bout some phone stuff, but thats kinda boring to most so i'll spare you. The weekend at guard was ok, actually went faster than i expected. I guess i'm about 25% through my month of 0 days off.

Good weekend

Well i never got paged all week so that was awesome. On top of that i didn't have to go into work today until 2pm. The best part of the weekend was Saturday until about 3pm though. I managed to get my Eclipse running finally! Put the starter in friday night, then charged the battery over night. Since it was warm saturday it started right up after a little work and running out the fuel from the lines. After that i took it for a little spin and showed it to a friend. All went well.

The friend brought over a mini motocross bike. I never rode one before so the little 125cc was enough to have some fun, but small enough that if it got away i could just stand up. Definitely a good time and my yard was ok for a bit of a run with it. Did a little bit of accidental wheelies or going into neighbors yard, but overall not too bad for first time, no big spills or blood or anything.

Later I decided the eclipse needed some more time on the streets so i went out some more. Found another friend to give a ride to, drove around a while. Went under a bridge with the wastegate wide open. Good times. Then it was time to take him back home. Got off the highway and stopped at another light. Third in line with three behind me the tach jumps around a bit and car dies. No chance of restarting but it does crank. After a bit of troubleshooting and friends stopping by it turned out it was time for a tow from AAA. its home now, but it seems the ignition box i bought last year might be fried since it doesn't seem to be sparking (Wrench stuff: Coil on plug is a little harder to check, but the timing light which worked before doesn't show any flashes indicating inducted current while cranking).

haven't gotten to the car yet, but yesterday I hooked up a friend with an AT&T tilt unlocked to work with their t-mobile plan. Today i pulled the railing off the back porch so i have more room for the Grill i got yesterday too.

Lot more happening this weekend to write about than there has been for a while. Guess i liked the warmer weather!

Apparently I only blog when on call now

Well i am on call, but today was pretty cool because i got an AT&T Tilt to play with. Its not for me, but i'm setting it up. I'm currently unlocking it to use on a different carrier and loading it with a new ROM. Check out my nice assortment of PPCs (and the on call phone).

On Call, PC, and phone stuff

Well so far this week of on call has been interesting. Got a call on wednesday that our main system was down so i had to log in and get it running again. That was kind of fun since i tried something new to speed up the process and it worked. Normally a few people log in to do the process, but i did the repair faster and by myself by adding 1 line to a script basically.

Got another call today which was kind of odd, but seems to be working now. Hopefully this is it cuz i'd like to have Easter be somewhat normal.

On a side note my pc USB ports all stopped working a few days ago and i found the solution to that today. Digging through the registry for driver entries yay. Windows can be a pain, but it is still the main os i use so i'm glad to have USB back.

The usb ports broke while i was trying to troubleshoot a windows mobile phone (htc Titan, sprint mogul) That phone is still not working, but i'm much closer to a workaround for that and USB coming back should help speed up that process.

Warm day!

Today was awesome, at least for a while. It was almost 60 degrees outside so I washed the miata and bro did the same. Then we went for a convertible drive. Not super far and had coats for later, but still worth it. It's great to get a little taste of spring during a winter, but i still love snow. Now the ground is all mushy.

I really should have more to write about, but oh well.

random entry

Just thought about how i haven't updated in a while. I guess i need to go do some more interesting stuff so i have more to write about. I've been good, and things are going on, but just not too much that i can think of for the blog (and any readers i have hehe)

Gotta get truck inspected this month still i guess i've been putting that off, didn't want to send it away during the weather, but looks like theres more to come and i still need to do it in a week or so.

Miata was fun in the snow last night, hopefully more tonight to play in as well.

Work's good....i guess there's more to talk about there, but more for a call or visit or even email than for a post =)

Last week

So i guess this week getting back to work must have thrown me off a bit cuz i intended to write about my trip to NH.

I did end up going to the team o'neil rally school (www.teamoneil.com) and it was incredible. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was well worth the money. Unfortunately to continue honing my new skills requires even more money in the form of a rally car =) Don't have one yet, but definitely interested.

At the school we started out in FWD jettas and the roads were pretty icy. I was totally amazed at how backwards the concept of FWD on ice is compared to RWD, but also amazed at how well it worked once you get the hang of it. I did some nice left foot braking amd made it turn in when i thought i'd hit stuff which was fun. Then the fun part was pendulum turns. It seems backwards as you line up on the inside of the turn, slide the opposite direction and then flip it back to get the car the way you want. My first few tries all went pretty well so i was psyched. Then when we switched cars it didn't work so well, but i def still had the idea cuz it worked on the rest of the cars i was in.

After FWD we did some AWD little different and much faster cuz lets face it, ice doesn't have much traction. I liked these audis and the one suby quite a bit. Then last day had a little RWD, but it was so icy that day that it was more just countersteering than driving so i only drove it a little. Highlight reel for me would have included when i launched the suby up ontop of the snow bank. Some said it looked like it was going to flip, but in fact we just backed it down and drove it again, didn't hurt a thing. Definitely a combination of more confidence and worsening conditions on the test road. By the time we went on real trails through the woods i was pretty good at not letting something like that happen.

Feel free to ask about it anytime, but i might talk a while =)

guess where

Well i'm not in PA today so if you read the last post you can probly tell i'm really excited!

Short post

Phone works now!

Got an email about a huge discount on a rally school in new hampshire that i have been thinking about for a while. Trouble is it's for next week. Hmmmmmmm.....

Snowboarding and phone issues

Well today was fun, i went snowboarding this evening with some of the people from work. It was my 3rd time and i haven't gone for like 2-3 years, but i don't think i have any bruises. I am definitely sore and used muscles that i haven't used for a while, but it was good overall. I was just impressed i could still turn without catching an edge and falling every time. Thought i would have lost that after a few years and barely learning it in the first place, but it came back. Not gonna say i didn't fall by any means, but it was decent enough where i didn't get really hurt and i had a good time. In fact i even gingerly went down a double black diamond. I'm sure i'll be pretty sore come friday when i play street hockey though!

In other news my phone isn't working there was a VERY unusual issue where my account and phone were set up like they should be. When calling my phone though it didn't work and calling out didnt either. then they did some resetting type stuff on the tower and tried calling again. My phone still didn't ring, but a woman answered! It turns out they gave her my number which was still on my acct in good standing as a temporary number, but til then neither of us were able to get calls on it. so far they ported hers away, but my phone isn't working, i'll give them another call here shortly and hopefully that will resolve it though.

Jury Duty

Yesterday and today i actually sat on a jury rather than just the assembly room chairs. It was interesting and a fairly clear case. The deliberation is interesting though to see the dynamic of the 12 people involved in the jury. Everyone focuses on different parts or questions different things etc. Fortunately, we were able to agree on a verdict in a reasonable time, but not all necessarily for the same reasons. I go back tomorrow, not sure if i'll sit on anymore, but i think the experience so far was one of the better ones.

Imax Legend

Guess what I saw this weekend? Wow you figured it out from the title huh? Yep I am Legend at an IMAX theater. It was ok, nothing incredible that everyone has to see though. I went with some friends though and we visited a bit afterwards so that made it worthwhile.

I also played a game of street hockey again finally. First time being very active for a while (lazy over the holidays). Cold air doesn't get along with my lungs too well when sprinting. I wasn't too bad though and our team won which was fun. Mostly cuz the kids that were super into winning were on the other team.

Next i get to go to jury duty this week, hope that goes well.

"January post"

Well here it is, first post of the new year. I've been on call this week at work and had guard this weekend. Also, in that time went to a friends on friday night til about midnight. So not too much sleep as usual. On call wasn't too bad at work though and guard drill is still interesting since i've become an LT. Still learning all i can as quick as possible and having no clue what i'm really supposed to be doing though. Just like the ohter 4 of us =).

Around Christmas my brother got me a 1 yr xbox live membership and we haven't really been able to get it up and running until today. After all the hassles though i'm not even that excited and i went on today for about 10 minutes. Oh well, i'm sure it'll get used somehow.

Oh yeah i really gotta get to work on my eclipse too, i haven't even started any kind of troubleshooting, but it wasn't starting for me last i tried.

Happy New Year!!

New Years Eve

Yep I did post again before the new year. Since my last post the biggest news is that Xbox live has been VERY annoying. Won't go into too much more detail but it's even more than just the connection issues that are bothering everyone when their system messed up. I suppose it should be an excuse to not sit infront of a game system, but somehow it's had the opposite effect by making me try to get it to work.

It snowed last night which is great I love winter weather! I definitely missed it when I was in tx. When i looked out of my window last night it made me smile.

Merry Christmas!

Yeah i know i'm a little late on that, but i hope everyone had a great one! I enjoyed the time visiting with family and friends Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Even watched a Christmas special that carefully avoids mentioning Jesus so it could be on prime time TV.

I'll probly write again around new years, but incase i miss it: Happy New Year!

YAY!!!!

Today was a great day!

I got home yesterday after a long drive back from training in texas. It was about 1400 miles, but since there was weather I decided it was best to drive straight through instead of getting stuck in the middle. Well since I made it here i must not have been the worst decision, but 21hrs is a lot to drive straight especially when you were only plannin on about 9 since I had to have the graduation ceremony earlier in the day.

Today was great because after yesterday i was able to get to bed at a fairly regular time and I made it up in time for church with no issues. Then went out to lunch and visited other people afterwards. I'm just happy to be back where there is actually winter weather in december. I didn't really enjoy the inch of ice to scrape off the windshield itself, but the trees do look pretty (at least the ones still standing).

Looks like I gotta start my Christmas shopping tomorrow, we'll see how that goes since I didn't do anything for it yet and don't even know what anyone wants since I've been gone.

Last week here!!!

I start heading hom friday! i can't wait! We have a neat exercize this week that simulates some of the things we will be doing when we get back to our bases so it should be fairly interesting. some days might be long, but at least we won't stare at powerpoint all day long. also it might be a little challenging. The best part though is the leaving. I'm definitely ready to head home. I still have done no shopping for Christmas and i hope to have some time when i get home because i definitely want to do a bunch of that, but there is seriously just about nothing in this area.

Well thats really about it....oh yeah i might have joined one of the online sites for networking that i said i'd never join.

Thanksgiving is coming!

I am going to AZ for thanksgiving this year which will be a first for me. I'm looking forward to it for the change as well as for getting away for a while. I was more bored this weekend at wichita falls than i have been any other weekend. And that is even with the xbox with halo 3 and live.

Hopefully i will be eating good food and have some more to write about by the time i get back. mmmmm fooooooood.

Three Day weekend

I was thinking of going down to Houston this three day weekend, but those plans kind of fell through. I also had something i had to do for the base on Friday night. So instead of sitting around being bored all weekend i got myself an Xbox 360 and Halo3. I was able to play my brother on it as well since he was borrowing a consol from a friend. Xbox Live is kind of like a big conference call that way and we got to play video games too.

On Saturday i went to Dallas to hit the mall for a little while too. It was the Galleria mall which is very ritzy and didn't really have anything I wanted (expensive clothes and jewelry aren't really at the top of my must have list). The way back from dallas i recieved my first Speeding Warning ever!

By that i mean it was the first time i was pulled over and didn't have' to pay money, not that i never had a ticket. I pulled the military card bigtime and it worked for me. Must be something about Texas =)

Sunday i did a bit of running, but nothing else too exciting for the weekend. More Xbox live and going out for food i guess, but that's about it.