Getting your GT-S5360 back on feet hassle free....

Owning a Galaxy-y since last year and the initial impression was good compared to the price it was tagged with. So far so good till few weeks back when it started behaving like possessed:

Prologue:

 It would freeze suddenly, not taking any input, click any icon it will not start; press call button it would not call or try to write message nothing written and many more. Leave it for a while and then all the actions which  you did at the time of freeze getting dequeue one by one and it would appear a ghost operating the phone. 

The best part was when I am trying to make a call and the call is not setting up and I am swiping my finger again and again on the name until the call is made. Best part happens when the call is put down, the moment the call is disconnected new call is automatically set-up and all the queued calls come one after another and now I have to end the call as many a times I had pressed call button during the hang state. Great isn't it .....

One perfect solution Desi style, battery out and int but the problem will repeat moments later.

So this weekend I decided to fix this and after several trial and error I have finally managed to get my phone back on its feet but at the loss of my address book. This small guide would help you to do the same without any loss: I would hope so..

Problem Statement: 

GT-S5360 showing problem erratic movement and hang, key-queuing

Temptation: 

Upgrade with latest firmware 

Down side:

Can upgrade with latest firmware but problem can persist. If you have latest firmware you "cannot reinstall firmware using skies". So you can be tempted to use non-stock(unofficial) binary from internet and flash using Odin. This is not advisable for one the binary may not be clear and two it may lead to your warranty void apart from other problem like phone not working etc which may lead to more waste of time.

Solution:

Following is a step wise solution to a near perfect recovery without any loss assuming you are at latest version of firmware.

Step 1: First of all download a sms backup utility from Google play and backup you sms on external memory or PC because Kies does not do sms/mms backup. Most are free so it wont be an issue.

Step 2:  Download Kies connect your phone a make a backup restore point for your phone on PC.

Step 3: If phone is not having the latest version of firmware, get the latest version and upgrade your phone.

Step 4: Disconnect phone, even if the phone appear to work well following the steps below is recommended 

Step 5: In your phone goto Setting-> Accounts and sync-> Manage account and remove your Samsung account if you have created one. It will ask for your password after which the account will be removed.

Step 6: Goto Setting->Privacy Setting and under personal data press factory reset.

Step 7 This will reset phone and remove all your account and additional settings, because you have already backed up this should not be problem, your phone will now have factory state.

Step 8: After above steps you need to add you Google and Samsung account again, after which you can connect to Kies restore backup, install same SMS backup and restore you messages and disconnect your phone from PC

Step 9: If there is no H/W failure your phone should be up and running as it was when you had purchased your dolly.

Do leave comment if you find any problem

or 

would like to add something to above article.

Cheers!!

Vim and Sed

A tutorial on things that you could do with sed on vim.

1. Search and replace pattern

• Replace one pattern in a given line

Take the cursor to the desired line, press ESC and then colon sign and fire the following command

:s/OLD/NEW

• Replace all pattern in a given line

Take the cursor to the desired line, press ESC and then colon sign and fire the following command

:s/OLD/NEW/g

• Replace all pattern withn a given range of lines

Press ESC, colon sign, give range of line and then sed command. LINE_START is start line while LINE_END is end line between which all occurances of OLD will be replaced by NEW

:LINE_START,LINE_END s/OLD/NEW/g

• Replace all pattern in the file

Press ESC, colon, line range and then sed commnad. 1,$ indicated first line and last line of the file

:1,$ s/OLD/NEW/g

Babbar Sheeeerrrr

Woh to Mashooq hia har bat pe roothenge jigar;

Tum na ghabra ke kahin unse khafa ho jana

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Kyun tu acha lagta he waqt mila tu sochain gaye
Tujh main kia kia dekha he waqt mila tu sochain gaye

Abhi tu uljhe raastay ki gird pari he ankhoon main
Kiss raastay pe jana he waqt mila tu sochain gaye

Abhi tu gham-e-shiddat se khushk hue hain ansoo bhi
Kiss ki yaad main roona he waqt mila tu sochain gaye

Hum ne uss ko likha tha kuch milne ki tadbeer karoo
Uss ne likh kar bheja he waqt mila tu sochain gaye

Abhi tu zinda rahne ka ik bahana he tu bhi
Kiss ki khatir marna he waqt mila tu sochain gaye

Yaa tu apne dill ki mano yaa phir dunya waloon ki
Mashwara uss ka acha he waqt mila tu sochain gaye

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KION TU ACHA LAGTA HAI, WAQT MILA TO SOCHENGE

TUJH MEI KIA KIA DEKHA HAI WAQT MILA TO SOCHENGE

SARA SHEHER SHANASAI KA, DAWEDAR TO HAI LEKIN

KON HAMARA APNA HAI, WAQT MILA TO SOCHENGE

HUM NE USKO LIKHA THA, KUCH MILNE KI TADBEER KARO

US NE LIKH KER BHEJA HAI, WAQT MILA TO SOCHENGE

MOSAM KHUSHBU BAAD-E-SABA CHAND SHAFAQ AUR TARON MEI

KON TUMHARE JAISA HAI ,WAQT MILA TO SOCHENGE

YA TO APNE DIL KI MANO, YA PHIR DUNIA WALON KI

MASHWARA USKA ACHA HAI WAQT,WAQT MILA TO SOCHENGE

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Are you a hypocrite

Well....

how do you define a hypocrite, as per the dictionary

A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

The definition seems so broad that it seems there is a part of it in all of us, but the question that I ask is, Is it all that bad?

We can say loads of stuffs in favor of the above question, but I will give my argument, why I do not think such a person is always an evil.

We do all sorts of evil things in daily life, hurt people, abuse people, do things which are considered as unethical immoral in any culture, civilization and religion. Yet we proud ourselves by saying, I am what I am and not what you or so to speak the society wants me to be. It is good to some extent because at least one would know what to expect from him. But then think it this way you are actually creating examples for people that this also a way of life and being bad in not that bad, Its just about what you want. They thus suck docile people into there act, and make a bigger pool of the type.

So my point is you can be bad, but boosting your evil in public is worse.

Point is if you think your act is good and it will spread good in the society be as straight forward as you can, be as vocal as you can. But if it is otherwise, keep you bad acts private to you, at-least do not spread the virus to others. In that scenario I feel being a hypocrite is not that bad, if you can not change you evil ways at least do not show it in public.

This might draw criticism that I am supporting the idea of doing bad things in private and being a good face in public. But the point is it can check the spread of evil to some extent.

Hope I am able to convey

Haleem for all the novices like me :)

Ingredients:

• Meat 1/2 kg (mutton/beef) - 1/2 Kg
• Jao (Barley whole) - 100 grms
• Wheat - Gehun (whole grain) - 100 grms
• Rice 200 grms
• Chana dal (split chickpeas) 200grms
• Garam Masala ( Dal chini, badi elaiche, zera, golki and dhania ) accordingly
• Green Chillies
• Adrak
• Lahson
• Nimboo (For serving)
• Dhania patta (For Serving)

Part 1: for those who hate to wait hours for haleem :)

• Jao and gehun in equal proportion, wash it put it in a cooker water atleast 5-10 times amount of jao+gehun.
• Add to it, onion (sliced is better others works as well)
• Add lahsan, adrak, garam masala (powder or peaces ur choice)
• Namak and chillies ( green is suggested, red works as well)
• cook it with lid closed for atleas 30-40 minutes.
• Remove the lid add some water and start stirring.
• If you have not used garam masala powder then hand pick and remove (badi elaiche and dal chini)
• Make a paste of it by stirring continuosly for hours or be intelligent and use a mixer grinder.
• What ever you use make sure u end up with a tick paste and are not able to see any thing solid or granular.

Part 2

• Take Chana dal in quantity equal to sum of jao and gehun.
• Add same quantity of rice
• Water 5-8 time the combined volume of chana dal and rice.
• Add salt, mirch, haldi and put in cooker for atleast 30 min.
• Take the gas out and use mixer grinder to make paste out of it or else if you are strong enough keep stirring
• The mixture till u are able to make a paste out of it.
• Again The final solution should not have any granuality or solid part should be thick and viscous

Part 3

• Take water in a utensil ( For 1 kg meat water should be atleast 2 ltrs)
• Add dalchini, badi elaichi, zeera, golki, dhania, tez patta
• Boil it and then add meat to it
• Add namak, mirch, haldi, and leave it to cook.
• Keep stirring time to time so that it does not stick to the bottom.
• When become soft, take out meat and remove bones from it.
• Put boneless meat back in the utensil and then put the complete solution in pressure cooker.
• cook for atleast 30-40 min. Take out meat and mash completly with spoon aur hand if you are heat proof ;)
• Now put mashed meat back in utensil.

Final product

• Now all the three portions are ready and now its time to make the final solution.
• Mix all the three solutions in a utelnsil
• Heat it and keep stirring (10-15 min) till the solutin is uniform and viscous.

Now the good news is that Haleem is ready to be served.

Serving

• Normally used as a starter but can be used as main course as we do :)
• Serve in a bowl, top up with sliced dhania, hari mirch, sliced adrak and lemon .

Special thanks to beenish siddiqui for her valuable inputs

PS: All valuable inputs will be most obliged with

The day it rained

aaj to googly ho gai.....
As it is said..... "khaya peeya kuch nahi glass toda barah ana"
There was similar story for me this day. Holy month of ramadhan and I had already missed last juma prayer.

Well for clarification, there was no tragedy that day it just slipped out of my mind, and just when I was preparing to go on roof for dhuhr prayer, a frnd who himself did not go to prayer for reasons best known to him remind me about friday. And by that time it was too late for anything .. even my FZ would have falied to reach there on time .... Just kidding I love my bike .. bottom line :P

Today.... well as expected I had this thing carved into my mind, today is friday and it being alvida ... I took extra precaution of starting 20 min early just to make sure nothing wrong happens this time. But destiny had better plans for me or to say worse plan.
It was gloomy and dark so chances of rain could not have been overruled, still I zoomed with my FZ towards mosque with my friend as pillion (the same guy who remind me last friday).

I will take this opertunity to describe the scene here .. it was just wonderfully toooooo good had it been some other day.
On the road stretch 100 mts ahead of us it was dry and just beyond that it was raining heavily near the mosque. People were approaching the barrier and returning towards the dry side. We took courage and crossed the barrier and were drenched as expected. We were prepared for that, but what we were not prepared for was to see jamat on the verge of ending salat.
My first reaction was that my clock is stunned and giving wrong time. Already wet tip to toe, we parked beside a dhaba. Still cursing myself that I can not come on time even once a week, I asked a fellow brother if it was early and we got confirmation for it.
They started half an hr behind normal time, I am not sure if it was announced in advance or they did this expecting the lash of the rain. Whatever was the reason, I am disappointed and sad that I missed alvida juma.
I am sitting in office (in ac) dripping with water and writing this blog .... have a meeting at 5 pm hope I am in a situation to attend it...
already started shivering .... hope I can withstand it :)

cigarette in my hand - gary lawyer

I remember the time I had my first smoke
try it just once friends gently proposed
friends told me yes light a ciggi for a start
you would like the fire in the pretty girls heart
with cigarette in my hand I felt like man 2

My hero look so right with the cig on his lips
could I go wrong if i follow his tips
on the job I learned .....
cigarette had a place in every work day too
cigarette started evey hr of my day
could not get out of habit no way
with cigarette in my hand I felt like man 2

When moments were a little lonesome
cigarette and I happy to sing
cigarette slowly became my cruch
my energy and stamina are lost very much
until one day i couldn't stand on my feet
smoke made me feel real dead piece
then I realized I had payed a price
with cigarette in my hand I was a dead man