[Samsung Captivate Glide] hazard1nc:
I know we all often forget that some people might only have a data connection from their phone and possibly no wifi or 4g access.. this sometimes becomes a hassle when downloading a project, even a remotely small project, can be tedious and as such, often fails as an install due to data redundency issues.

*** note: all apk files generate a md5, Google made this possible so that you would not get a failed installation of say a 4.5gb file that you only have 15 min to install and demo (time usually starts after install and upon first run...).

This said, there is a way to check that check sum if your really paranoid... but its not important if you don't really care... here is a link anyway, if it reallt means that much to you...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6462837/how-to-find-the-md5-fingerprint-of-my-android-app

But not all things have a generated checksum, most of us testers know that and would hate to brick our devices strictly because of a download error..

With that said, it would be nice of you could include with the downloads your offering, an MD5 and/or sha1 check sum.

:-:-:-:-:-:{ Tools for usage }:-:-:-:-:-:

You see its very simple to offer an md5, sha1, base64, etc... and this is a very proper way to publish it with your download:

Link to SSL google

Md5:

1d5920f4b44b27a802bd77c4f0536f5a

Sha1:

a9702bfaee969cd73b70febbcbc6918f7cac830a

(Hash values are just encoded string of Google.com)

------- Howto -------

To get this sum if your on your phone, for just a few examples:

-----:{[ ES File Manager ]}:-----

Go to the file your working on or uploading, long press on the project, scroll down to "properties", press the "show check sum" button, check one or both check boxes, and press calculate.

Once the check sum has been generated, use the save button and you now have a upload ready file.

-----:{[ File Expert ]}:-----

In file expert, go to your project and... long press on the project, go to details and it will generate an md5sum, this however is not savible.

This file manager has gone down hill since the newest update as of 10-06-2012 and I would recommend staying away from it until they work out all the bugs..

Next is...

-----:{[ ASTRO file manager ]}:-----

This is as simple as going to your project and long pressing, on the toolbar that popped up on the bottom menu screen, press the 3-dots on the far right of the bottom menu screen, and click properties and it will show you a md5sum but like file expert, no way to save it directly...

Other apps:

Checksum MD5 & SHA1

Google Play

Free

Checksum checker

Google Play

Free

Or you too can use the search feature in Google play to locate the tool of your choice. I prefer "hash droid" for its many hashes as well as "es file explorer".

**** We don't all use phones for everything like you hazard1nc...

Well I have thought of that too, if your developing on the computer this is far faster and much easier to do right there!

Windows 32/64-bit:

http://www.implbits.com/HashTab.aspx

Hashtab - my personal windows favorite

Linux:

Command line tools are best ;)

'Md5sum /some/file'

Without the quotes,This will print the md5 of a file.

***note:

Devs - if your using another OS other than windows and do not know how to generate a check sum for it your seriously a developer?

That's all I have for this document. I hope that it is helpful and that maybe it may be used by all, as this is pretty important when your downloading on slow internet and not able to get super fast oc23 backbone connection or 4g lte or the likes of..

---- TESTERS ----

If your really that hard up for internet, I'm sure I can assist you in the construction of a wifi antenna and point you in the right direction for similar tutorials so you can find a open wifi to leech from much easier..

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