Write MP3s for old car stereos - ( 2002 to 2010 Cars )

Recently I bought a 2005 Toyota Corolla manual car and it has nice classic car stereo which only support for Digital Audio Compact Discs ( Knows as Audio CD's ) and MP3 discs.

So I burned a mp3 disk with windows media player as a data cd but my car player seems to be not reading it.  When I investigate this windows media player in windows 10 is creating folders automatically based on song's title, artist or language etc. 

There are two ways you can create supported mp3 disc for  old car audios.

1. Create data disc with windows explorer - drag files in to empty disc and burn.
2. Even though 1st one is a good solution but I would recommend using Power ISO as a burner tool. which is almost a free software and working really well is recent windows versions.

https://www.poweriso.com/download.php

Using GeoTag when taking photos through apps you developing - Apache Cordova

If your app need to tag photos with the location you need enable this feature from Cordova's config xml. Some android devices are tagging the photos with the location even if you havent enable this feature from the app. But for iOS it is compulsory to add this line to cordova configuration file to tag photos with the location.

reference. Cordova Documentation
https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/reference/cordova-plugin-camera/

Package downloading problems - Apache Cordova Tools Visual Studio 2015 - "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\ApacheCordovaTools\packages\vs-tac"

Previous blog post.

https://guntucomputerhacks.blogspot.com.au/2018/04/current-package-installation-is.html



Hi According to bellow post I had to repair vs-tac package in my Cordova Tools for Visual Studio 2015.

But when visual studio was trying to download the package by itself it's giving connection error when connecting npm severs.

You'll see something like this.

request to http://registry.npmjs.org/optimist failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:8888


So now lets see the solution.

Solution 1

1. Add C:\Windows\System32 to user's environment variable under "path"  collection.
2. Restart your computer.
3. Uninstall Node JS and install the latest stable version of Node JS.'
4. Go to Tools --> Options --> Tools for Apache Cordova --> Cordova Tools --> Clear Cordova Cache and try to build your project.


If you are able to build your project and deploy the you'll be ok. But if you still getting  following errors then proceed to solution 2.

Error 1 - Current package installation is corrupted. Will cleanup and do a fresh installation. 
Error 2 -  Request to http://registry.npmjs.org/optimist failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:8888

Solution 2

1. Open command prompt as administrator.
2. Enter following command. This is to install package manually.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>npm install -g "C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 14.0\COMMON7\IDE\EXTENSIONS\APACHECORDOVATOOLS\packages\vs-tac"


If you are successful that means your visual studio 2015 has some problems. You may try run visual studio as Administrator or Repair your visual studio. If you see following error that means you have some problems with NPM network configuration settings or you are not connected to internet.

* Please check your firewall settings before proceed.

Lets follow bellow steps to fix any configuration issues in NPM.

1.  Open C:\Users\\.npmrc file and remove highlighted line if you have proxy.

2. Check the registry URL as well.  Also you can use command line to reset these URLs 

3.  Try running command in step 2. 

Hope this helps.

Current package installation is corrupted. Will cleanup and do a fresh installation. ( Apache Cordova Tools for Visual Studio 2015 )

Cause - According to my research of the issue. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I had well working apache cordova project with Visual Studio 2015 and it worked without any issue for years. Recently I installed Visual Studio 2017 and did some research of creating a cordova project in higher version. I did not have any issue until I installed Visual Studio 2017 Update pack released on 4th of April 2018. After installing the update pack I had following error message whenever I'm trying to build the project. Even if I create a brand new project I had the same issue.

Current package installation is corrupted. Will cleanup and do a fresh installation. 

So the visual studio tried to repair the tools for cordova. If its successfully did that you will not have any issue. But in my case I had so many updated tools  and Visual Studio 2015 kept giving errors while downloading new npm packages. Specially following package.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\ApacheCordovaTools\packages\vs-tac  

I have put the solution in different blog post as these are two separate problems.

Click on following link.

https://guntucomputerhacks.blogspot.com.au/2018/04/package-downloading-problems-apache.html

Cordova platform add android gives the error: “Error: The provided path is not an Android project.”

This is happening when you missing some files in your android platform folder in your cordova project. 

Same thing can happen with the windows projects as well.

Visual Studio or Cordova engine has the capability  of  creating platform directories even if you delete them. But in this case the folder was there and it had some files in it. So the best solutions for this issue is trying one of these steps.

• Clean your project. ( Visual Studio )
• Rebuild your project ( Visual Studio )
• Delete platform directory that you have the issue and build the project.  

Samsung smart hub terms and conditions downloading frozen

Hi All

We recently requested a service from for our Samsung HDTV from Samsung Australia due to a backlight problem. But when we power on the tv and trying to setup smart hub screen was frozen at level 3 'Downloading Terms and Conditions' .

So the fix was simple.

1. Power off and on the TV.
2. Go to menu.
3. Go to support.
4. Go to self diagnostics.
5. Find factory reset.
6. Reset the TV to factory settings. ( 0000 is the default pin if you haven't change it already ).


Thanks! 

Error MSB3073 The command "node "prebuild-81.js"" exited with code 1

This happens when you trying to build your cordova project without all required files. In my project I had delete the index.html file accidentally. So I have two tips to fix this problem.

1. Check for all required files of your cordova project.
2. Remove read-only attribute from your project folder.