May 2, 2011

Flashing LT15a generic rom on Xperia Arc purchased from Rogers Canada

Since my Xperia Arc purchased from Rogers Canada was carrier-locked, I was not able to unlock bootloader by the method offered by Sony Ericsson.
Determined to get rid of the Rogers logo which appears when turning the device on, I used the method kindly offered by XDA gurus at the URL below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13339585
*** As a reminder, do this at your own decision and risk should you decide to do it.

Upon completion of flashing the generic LT15a rom, the Rogers logo was successfully eliminated, along with the Rogers bloatwares.
I believe the method above only allows Xperia roms to be installed on Xperia devices, which means that other roms, for example, vanilla Gingerbread 2.3.3 or HTC roms cannot be flashed on Xperia devices.
In other words, the bootloader remains locked on Xperia Arc.

Then, I used Gingerbreak V1.20 to root the device afterwards.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1044765
Cheers!

Apr 17, 2011

HP b30 Financial Calculator

A big improvement over its predecessor, HP 10bII.
Design became aesthetically pleasing.  Face place is slanted for easier key pressing.  Keys click better.
Now let's see if my brain also clicks better,,, probably not.


A pole in Tokyo

A photo of an electric pole on an ally in Tokyo, Japan.  While many mega cities in the world have the wires underground, Tokyo has its nerve disclosed.  I get a sense of cyber-ness by looking at a bold disclosure of wires connected to clean slate buildings. 

A building with graffiti

New York,,. No, this is Vancouver.  Just a snap shot of some building in Vancouver which brought back my now-a-vague memory of New York.