Decided to launch a separate photography blog to display some of my better photos. Nothing too serious, just some amateur playing around fun. Check out http://ryukentphotography.blogspot.com/
Archive for January, 2012
Ice cream sandwich (ICS) runs very well on the original Galaxy S and in my opinion actually works better than the stock Gingerbread firmware. No official release is available but slick non-official ones are working fine.
First, make sure your phone is rooted. I’m not going to go into how to do this as it will depend on what version you are running. There are loads of guides out there on how to do it.
Step 1. Install Rom Manager from the market. This will allow you to flash clockwork recovery. It is the first item on the list.
Step 2. Download the latest version of Onecosmic’s ICS Port Android 4. This can be found here. If you don’t have the standard international version of the Galaxy S, download a version for your phone. This guide is for the i9000 (normal international version). Note that release notes for the ROM can be found here.
Step 3. Copy the file (zip) onto your phone. I recommend that you put it in the root directory.
Step 4. Back up anything important on your phone. It will be wiped.
Step 5. Restart your phone in recovery mode. Do this by first turning it off, then holding volume up, the home button and the power button until it turns on and goes into a menu (clockwork recovery that you flashed earlier in step 1.
Step 6. When in recovery mode, navigate the menus using the volume buttons and select the options using the power or home button. Select wipe data/factory reset.
Step 7. When you have returned to the menu after the reset, select flash ZIP and then select from the location you saved the ZIP. This will take a little while and the phone will reset. After 4-5 mins it will reboot with ICS installed and probably run a lot faster than it did before.
HAPPY DAYS!
I can’t understand why Samsung claimed it wouldn’t work on a Galaxy S…. I think they realised TouchWiz wouldn’t but who needs TouchWiz. This version is just perfect!
To flash your phone back to stock, if you have problems, please follow the following link here.
So, the new site is up. The address is now www.ryukent.com. The old co.uk site will eventually be decommissioned. Please let me know what you think of the new look.
Transferring my WordPress site from one host to another was easy. Finally I got annoyed with the poor performance of my previous host and decided it was time for a change. This also gave me the opportunity to switch from a .co.uk domain to a .com which I’ve been meaning to do for a while.
The following steps should help you easily move hosting companies. Note that I’ve changed the address as well. If you want to keep the same address, you need to ship the site address steps and also remember to update the DNS settings for your domain, which will depend on who you’ve registered your domain with.
Step 1 – Backup
Backup!!! You should be backing up regularly anyway. Remember, for WordPress sites, there are two types of backup that you need to do. Database and content files! You can easily backup your database by using a plugin called WordPress Database Backup. This will allow you to download the file, and set up weekly email backups. The database stores all your posts and settings but not images and files. The images and files need to be downloaded separately. Use an FTP client (like filezilla) to connect to your website server (or similar web based software provided by your host. Download everything in the “wp-content\” directory. While you are there, you should also download “wp-config.php” from the root directory of your website as this will store all your settings.
Step 2 – Set up WordPress on your new host
Once you have purchased your new hosting package, together with any domain you might want, you need to install WordPress on that system. This can be done in a number of ways, but the easiest it to just purchase a WordPress hosting package that has it set up automatically. Otherwise, you will need to follow the guide on WordPress.com but as you already have a WordPress site, I’m going to assume you already have done this before. Once the new hosting package is up and running, you’ll need to create a mySQL database as well to host the database. Your host company should be able to help you with this.
Step 3 – Customise your config file
Open the wp-config.php that you downloaded, set DB_NAME to the name of your new database. Set the username and password to the new username and password for this new database. Save the file and upload it over the top of the existing file on your new server. Note that you may want to save a copy of the existing file in case it has any predefined settings (like the database name) that you want to keep.
Step 4 – Change references in your database
The backed up database that you downloaded will be saved as an SQL text file (and maybe compressed needing you to decompress it first). Open it in a text editor (not notepad which can’t handle the new lines – use wordpad instead) and if you have changed your domain, use search and replace to replace all references to your old domain with your new one. Save the file. Now open PHPmyAdmin on your new server, open your newly created database and import the newly updated database SQL file. This should set up your database.
Step 5 – Restoring your images and plugins
Images, plugins and themes etc. will need to be restored too. You downloaded them from your old server in the wp-content directory. Now you need up upload them to your new server.
Step 6 – Log back into your new site
Your site should now be up and running on your new domain. If you updated config file properly and it can find the database which you correctly uploaded your SQL file to, all should be running smoothly. Your username and password for the site should be the same as before because they are stored in the database. You can now check the plugins are working properly and sit back with a cold beer.