Configuring CSipSimple SIP client on Galaxy SL for Nymgo

Here is the configuration to be done. These is carefully written to cover most of the points and a hastle free experience when you do the setup. You can refer to nymgo.com site, they have given some basic info, it would serve as reference.

First when adding account, you need to select the Basic Wizard.

Menu Key -> Accounts  -> Add Account  -> Generic Wizards -> Basic

• Account Name: Nymgo
• User: Nymgo User Name
• Server: ata.nymgo.com (no need to give port number even though we knows its 80, it would be taken care by wizard, and if you give, it seems to be not working for me)
• Password: Nymgo Password.

You are almost done !! 

Next thing is that, we should be using UDP for communication, so 

Menu Key (Left Soft Key in Galaxy S) -> Settings -> Network

Do the following settings -> UDP port number set as 5060

Stun should be on -> set it to stun.nymgo.com:80

Set Networks for All outgoing calls.

Settings -> Media

* You need to disable all codecs except below ones

   G729 8Khz (Wideband)

   G729 HKhz (Narrowband)

* Use Samsung Galaxy Hack [ checked ]

* Micro / Speaker amplification can be used if audio is very low, I have used mirco to 5 and audio as it is.

Settings -> Call options

Caller id -> Set to your own number, if you have used caller id feature in Nymgo.

Settings -> Filters 

These can be used when you have enabled the Android integration, and can be used to make sure all numbers starting with +91 (India) can be made to go through phone dialer and International calls through Nymgo, I have enabled it, but its optional, let me know if you have any questions here.

Once the configuration is done, dial 111 from your SIP dialer and wait for Nymgo test service, and you would be able to test if you configuration is working fine, if you could hear your own voice back after recording, then you are ready to use nymgo, feel free to drop your comments and queries, I would be glad to help you.

Some of the useful info when working with ADB on phone

For remounting the system partition as RW on Galaxy SL, (need to be super user)

# mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

For mounting back to RO

# mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Basic ADB commands

# adb push <local_path> <remote_path>

# adb pull <remote_path> <local_path>

# adb install <path_to_apk>

If you have not installed the cp command may not work, the work around would be 

# cat [source_file] > [destination_file]

The command binaries would be located at this location, /system/bin/ And if you had installed busybox, in /system/xbin/ then first the above path is looked for command, and later the below path.

The /system partition has limited memory, so if you try installing too many applications here, then you may run out of space, and its a better idea to delete many of the unwanted bloat applications from there. I have deleted the following apps and they do not be of much use for me. May be if its not useful for you, you can delete them as well. And you can also delete any other apps which are of no use for you.

1. Samsung Apps [They are meant for Bada, and of no use in Android! wonder why its added here!]
2. BuddiesNow.apk/odex
3. thinkdroid.apk/odex [ThinkFree Office - I have installed Polaris Office instead of this, which is much better]
4. Day.apk/odex
5. DualClock.apk/odex
6. SamsungWidget_Calenderclock.apk/odex
7. SamsungWidget_Feedandupdate.apk/odex
8. SamsungWidget_stockclock.apk/odex
9. SamsungWidget_Weatherclock.apk/odex

All the best, and keep a backup of the file before altering or deleting any file inside /system partition, so that you can restore if something goes wrong, and I am not responsible for any thing if at all it goes wrong :)
Some useful tips and tricks about galaxy S/SL can be found here, its quite long, but when free go through.

Install Polaris Office of Galaxy S2 on Galaxy SL i9003

Polaris office is one of the office suite for mobile, similar to the many available for mobile phones. Galaxy SL comes with think free office, which is also good, but formatting, editing are much better in Polaris office. 

You need to have root for installing this application, as it needs to be installed in system folders. I have referred to this post of xda for installation and also downloaded from the link provided there.

Here is the procedure to follow to install the same

1. Extract the files from compressed file

2. Copy apk from app to /system/app

3. Copy files from lib folder to /system/lib

You may have to free some space in /system folder as that partition is of limited size, and you may need to delete unwanted applications and may be you can delete the think free application.

Update i9003 with Galaxy S-II Dock Icons

Bored of the same dock bar at the home screen, and you think the Galaxy S-II one looks much better. Its not difficult to update it to that. All that you need it root permissions.

I could not get this full information in one place on net, so if you are reading my blog you are lucky to have all the information in one place. You do not need to install a custom TouchWiz, you can modify what you have right now. I am running TouchWiz 4.0 for your information. (Galaxy SL - Gingerbread 2.3.4 XXKPH) 

First have copy Contact.apk, Email.apk, Mms.apk and TouchWiz30Launcher.apk & DialerTabActivity from system/app to PC, then Open it with any tools such as Winrar or 7Zip, do not extract.

check the icons in the path - res/drawable-hdbi.

-Contakt.apk: ic_launcher_contacts.png

-DialerTabActivity - ic_launcher_phone.png

-Mms.apk: ic_launcher_smsmms.png

-Email.apk: icon.png

-TouchWiz30Launcher.apk: mainmenu_icon_application.png and mainmenu_icon_home.png.

Replace all these icons with new Icons and drag and drop into the 7Zip explorer.

Copy the .apk fils back to system/app and restart the launcher or the phone.

It should look something like this, after you have updated everything that is mentioned here.

That goes with many stock apps. I hope its useful.

The Samsung Galaxy S-II icons can be downloaded from here.

http://www.multiupload.com/M37PRRW18J. More info can be found here

Customize Icon Tiles for Galaxy SL i9003

As I had mentioned in the previous post about the TouchWiz 4.0, the icon backdrops/tiles are not set as it should be. I mean to say, even though in the apk, all of the tiles have been named as to which icon it should be applied, they are not been applied to them. My belief is that it must be because of the mismatch of the binary and the TouchWiz 4.0 apk, but I am not sure. I need some expert to comment here.

I have referred to this post, and worked my way, it was mean for touchwiz 3.0 for getting rid of the icon tiles by replacing them with transparent ones. I have followed the same procedure and replaced the unwanted tiles with the one I want to have.

All you need to have is a rooted phone, because for replacing touch wiz files you need to have root permissions. You also need to have ADB and Tool like Winrar or 7Zip. I use 7zip.

First take out the TouchWiz30Laucnher.apk file located in the '/system/app' folder and put on your desktop or somewhere. Use the below command. 

adb pull /system/app/TouchWiz30Launcher.apk <local_path>

Now you can open this apk file in 7Zip, do not extract, but replace the tiles you want by directly dragging and dropping in to the 7Zip window. The tiles would be located at '/res/drawable-hdpi-v4/' or similar folder, use your common sense, they would start with something like 'mainmenu or homescreen' and end with '_bg.png'

Once you are done replace this apk with the original apk present in the '/system/app/' folder. remember to keep a copy in case if you have done something wrong.

In the windows command prompt, use adb push to push the apk into SD Card.

> adb push <local_path>\TouchWiz30Launcher.apk /sdcard/
> adb shell
$ su
# mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# mv /system/app/TouchWiz30Launcher.apk /system/app/TouchWiz30Launcher.apk.bak
# cp /sdcard/TouchWiz30Launcher.apk /system/app/TouchWiz30Launcher.apk
# chmod 744 TouchWiz30Launcher.apk
# mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# exit
$ exit
> exit

What I have done here its, first pushed the apk to sdcard, opened the adb shell, logged in as root, mounted the system partition as read/write, renamed the original file to keep a backup and then copied the new file from sd card to the original file's path, them changed the permissions as needed, and remounted the file system as read only and then exited.

I will update a screen shot, to show that all of market applications which use to use some crap icon tiles now use the system icon tiles and the UI looks pretty good, and I feel its much much better than before. Only problem is that the way it chooses background is still random, and every time you restart the icon tiles would change. :)