我的學習手記 A technical geek blog: December 2015

Sunday, December 27, 2015

Upgrade Himedia Q3 HKTV edition firmware to 1.0.9 (Mango TV edition) and also install Google Play Store

Upgrade Firmware

1. Go to http://bbs.himedia.cn/thread-182100-1-1.html

2. Click the link http://pan.baidu.com/s/1o6DW9Yi and enter the password "vie2"

3. Select the "Update_qulacore_Q3.zip"

4. Copy the "Update_qulacore_Q3.zip" to USB thumb drive and change the filename to “update.zip”

Before upgrade, the firmware is 1.0.6

5. Go to "System Upgrade"

6. Connect the USB thumb drive to the Himedia usb port and select "local upgrade"

7. Select "D"

8. Click "Yes"

9. The Himedia will reboot and upgrade the firmware, after the upgrade complete, you will the screen like the following:

10. The firmware is 1.0.9 after the upgrade

The application pre-load:

Install Google Play Store

1. Go to http://pan.baidu.com/s/1dDxStY5#path=%252FHimedia%252FHD600A%2520GOOGLE%2526DTS and download the "googlePlay.zip"

2. Copy the "googlePlay.zip" to USB thumb drive and change the filename to “update.zip”

3. Go to "System Upgrade"

4. Connect the USB thumb drive to the Himedia usb port and select "local upgrade"

5. Select "D"

6. Click "Yes"

7. The Himedia will reboot and upgrade the system, after the upgrade complete, when you go to application manager, you will the "play store" and "google setting":

8. After you enter your google account, you will able to use the play store to install apps now.

Reference:

http://www.hkepc.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=2168800&extra=&page=4

http://www.hkepc.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=2186576&extra=&page=1

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Elementary OS - Not enough free disk space (on disk '/boot') for Software Update

When you run Software Updater, you receive the following error:

You will find that even you follow the instruction to empty your trash and remove temporary package of fome installations using 'sudo apt-get clean' also cannot fix the problem.

It is because there are so many old kernel have been installed.

When you run "uname -r", you will see the running kernal version (3.19.0-39-generic) and then, run the "dpkg --get-selections|grep linux-image", you will find there are many different version kernel..

Solution:
Remove the old kernal files by using the following command:
sudo apt-get purge linux-image-x.xx.x-xx-generic linux-image-extra-x.xx.x-xx-generic

Re-run the above command until you leave the current running kernel like the following:

Then, reboot the machine.

After logon the machine again, run the software updater, it will able to update now.

Reference:
http://david50.pixnet.net/blog/post/38158207-%5B%E7%AD%86%E8%A8%98%5Dubuntu%E4%B8%AD%E6%B8%85%E9%99%A4-boot%E4%B8%AD%E4%B9%8B%E8%88%8A%E7%89%88kernel

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Open Live Writer 0.5.1.4 released - The label features back

The latest version of Open Live Writer

The label features back:

The Android 6.0 for Moto X (Gen 2) (XT1092) have been released in Hong Kong

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Upgrade PiPO W4 from Windows 10 (Build 10240) to Windows 10 TH2 (Build 10586) (1GB RAM, 16GB ROM)

Warning: Please backup all the data and setting before "upgrade" since this upgrade will format the whole drive and all data, setting and apps will done.

Just download the Windows 10 TH2 ISO and boot the W4 by using this new DVD or USB, and then select Windows 10 Home.

Since your device already activated before, no license key is required.

Then, just follow the installation to install the Windows.

After the installation complete, go to the Windows update to update to latest version

Update: You migh able to upgrade from Build 10240 to Build 10586 without format and reinstall the W4 since Microsoft release the patch to reduce the minimum local drive free size from 6GB to 2GB

微軟發佈Win10補丁：讓低容量設備「吃下」首個重大更新
http://www.hksilicon.com/kb/articles/967719

The latest verison Open Live Writer (OLW) (0.5.1.2) support Google Blogger OAuth 2.0 login now and also two factor authentication

Download: http://openlivewriter.org/

Reference:

http://www.hksilicon.com/articles/967822

Something about Open Live Writer:

http://www.kuailzq.com/list.asp?id=402

Alternative solution of using blogger:

http://www.wfublog.com/2015/12/windows-live-writer-wlw-blogger-log-in-alternative.html

http://www.blogfuntw.com/2015/12/blogger-wlw-login-fail/

Some bug workaround/fixing of Open Live Writer:

http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/12/fixing-open-live-writer-errors.html

.Net foundation - Windows Live Writer (WLW) become Open Live Writer (OLW) and it is Open source now.

https://www.dotnetfoundation.org/blog/open-live-writer

Some features have been removed from OLW

https://www.thurrott.com/dev/62890/as-promised-microsoft-open-sources-live-writer

How to save password in OLW

http://pulipuli.blogspot.hk/2015/12/open-live-writerblogger.html

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Android 6.0.1 on Nexus 9 released via OTA in HK

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Install LibreOffice 5 on Elementary OS

1. Go to www.libreffice.org to download the LibreOffice for Linux (deb)

2. Go to the download folder to unzip the .tar.gz file which is you just download

3. Open a terminal windows and change directory to DEBS subfolder which is inside the folder you just create from the unzip package.

4. Run command sudo dpkg -i *deb

5. Done

6. Go to “Applications” and enter LibreOffice, then you will see those LibreOffice component (e.g. Writer, calc……)

Reference:

https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/830472-elementary-os-freya-is-this-the-next-big-linux-distro

Geary - Yahoo profile seems to be not work, if you need to change to 465, need to use "other mail" setting to configure Yahoo mail

When using Geary to add a new email account, there are present email service (profile) – Yahoo! Mail.

It seems that this profile did not work well with yahoo.com.hk email, some login error and cannot send email out.

After change to use “Other” service and enter those IMAP server and SMTP Server information, the Geary work well with yahoo.com.hk email.

Reference:

內送電子信箱 (IMAP) 伺服器 - 需要 SSL

伺服器：imap.mail.yahoo.com

連接埠：993

需要 SSL：是

寄件電子信箱 (SMTP) 伺服器 - 需要 SSL

伺服器：smtp.mail.yahoo.com

連接埠：465 或 587

需要 SSL：是

需要驗證：是

登入資訊 - 需要驗證

電子信箱：您的完整電子信箱 (name@domain.com)。

密碼：您帳號的密碼。

https://hk.help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN4075.html

Running Skype on Elementary OS

Very simple, just go to www.skype.com and select Skype for Linux, download “Ubuntu 12.04)

Then, go to download folder and double click the .deb

Then, you will able to use Skype on Elementary OS.

Reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYBMyjT_aXE

Gmail and Elementary OS - Geary email application

When you try to use Geary to connect to your Gmail, you will receive a error “Unable to validate: – Username o password incorrect” – even you need a correct username and password.

When you login your Gmail via browser, you will receive a email said access denied due to "lesser security application" try to access your email….

Solution:

1. Create an application-specific password for login via Geary.

2. Use a Google chrome to access Gmail.

Reference:

Regarding Linux (Elementary OS) and Geary email application
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/6Hkd6jqtHtc

Elementary OS

A fast and open replacement for Windows and OS X - https://elementary.io/

You did not need many Linux skill to use this OS. The best of the best Linux desktop OS which is I seen. And also, you will able to use this OS to do most of your daily work such as browsing, email, IM, word processing and so on….

There are some steps of the installation:

Step 1: Boot from the installation DVD and you will see there are two options:

“Try elementary” and “Install elementary”

Step 2: Connect to network (It can be wireless and wired)

I use wired network to do the setup.

The first impression of me this OS is support WPA2-Enterprise (PEAP-MSCHAPv2) on wireless. (I setup it after I install the OS)

Step 3: Select “Download updates while installing” (Optional)

Step 4: My installation type is “Erase disk and install elementary” since it is old machine without any data need to keep.

(Please make a full backup of your machine if you want to keep any data or OS)

Step 5: Select Keyboard layout

Step 6: Enter your name, computer name, password… then installation start and wait for it complete.

When the installation complete, there are few software suggest to install.

First of all, go to check any update of the OS.

Step 1: Go to Application (the upper left-hand corner), then select “All settings”, click “Check for updates”

When you open the built-in browser “Midori” to access a website there are some component missing, it will pop up and guide you to install. (Very easy)

And also secure, it will required you to enter password for the installation.

The first software I would like to recommend you to install on this OS is “Google Chrome” already the built-in browser is very good, but if you need flash and also using many web service (Google apps, Microsoft outlook.com, onedrive….), you better using Chrome.

Just go to download package for (Debian/Ubuntu)