hello everyone. I currently have my motorola droid 3 right now, but soon to be switching over to a different carrier. I need some idea's for what I can do to my droid 3. One of the things I do is computer repair and networking. I want to gear it up for that. Any suggestions?
Remote Desktop with Teamviewer, install any Arm based linux on it so you can do Virtual Machines on it, make it into a Portable Media Player, portable laptop to load up any Android software on it....... That is what I would do to a Droid 3. I really miss the slider type cell phones. <3 Hardware QWERTY keyboards.
Would it be possible to take an old android phone and use it as a torrenting machine, if it were to be attached to external storage somehow? Not sure how feasible this would be, just a thought.
If you want to use your phone to help you with your work why not just use your new phone? It would save you having to carry two phones around.
Some of the apps that I use for network stuff are: wifi analyzer, fing (does port scans and the like, kind of like nmap) and connectbot (for SSH). I'm sure there are plenty of decent remote desktop and VNC clients aswell if you need stuff like that.
But like I said I'd use your new phone for stuff like that and use the old phone for something else.
If you use XBMC you can use the phone as a remote control (using yatse). Other than that I don't really know, I usually give mine away.
Yeah you could. Not sure there's a way to connect an external hard drive to a phone without wifi though. So you'd have to use some kind of network storage at which point it would probably just be easier to run your torrent client on that.
I'm not sure of the storage size of the device, but what would be the best route in your opinion to go about starting this project?
most phones do usb hosting so with an adapter one could plug in a usb hdd or flash drive
It would be fairly straight forward, there are plenty of torrent clinets for android, so you'd just install one of them and set up your storage. If the phone is rooted then you should be able to find an app which can mount a network share, otherwise you would need to find a torrent client that can save to a network share rather than local storage. Android has no problem accessing network storage but if you can mount it then it will make it much easier to work with.
If it is possible to connect a USB hard drive to the phone like prince vultan says then you could try that. but the problem then may be that you won't be able to power the phone.
If you want a low power torrent downloader then a better option would probably setting up a router with a custom firmware like dd-wrt or openwrt and installing a torrent client on that. If the router has USB ports you can plug you external hard drive to it, download torrents on to it and share it over the network.
Really? That's kind of awesome. I always just assumed phones could only be connected to a host device not be the host.
Where I would be using it they tend to throttle anything that is not work related, that being said, I would likely only be using it for small files at any given time anyway, bigger ones I can see there may be a storage issue. That being said, I believe it is some variation of a first edition android and will look into rooting it and setting up a client, but it will be my first time doing such and likely will run into some issues
You don't need to root it to install a torrent client, just download one from the app store. If you want to use local storage then that's all you need to do. You will only need to root it if you want to mount network storage.
Use it as a universal remote for the living room. You could set it up as a fancy alarm clock. Use it for testing new roms for Android so you don't have to worry about bricking your main phone.