Michael's musings

Fri, 06 Nov 2009

Fido Dollars suck

Dear Fido:

Please cease telling me about my fido dollars. (I've received two emails in the last 24 hours)

Your fido dollars have no value. Not only are they not going to keep me as a customer --- I prefer to have an unlocked phone, and I'll pay for it.

In fact, your recent change to prevent me from spending my credits on whatever I want means that I will look for alternate GSM providers as soon as they appear.

I'd gladly trade my 284 fido dollars for a bluetooth headset, (now required in Ontario), and I tried to do so a year ago. You changed your rules without any real notice last March.

But, it's hard to pick the right headset when you can not see it. And I can not redeem through your stores. and your web site was totally useless.

No, I do not think Fido Cares about me. I think Fido is busy humping Ted Roger's leg.

dumping list of active services

From the shell of your rooted android phone run:

# dumpsys activity.services
Currently running services:
  activity.services
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DUMP OF SERVICE activity.services:
Services in Current Activity Manager State:
  Active services:
  * ServiceRecord{43a3dca0 com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME}
    intent={act=android.view.InputMethod cmp=com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME}
    packageName=com.android.inputmethod.latin
    processName=com.android.inputmethod.latin
    permission=android.permission.BIND_INPUT_METHOD
    baseDir=/system/app/LatinIME.apk/system/app/LatinIME.apk dataDir=/data/data/com.android.inputmethod.latin
    app=ProcessRecord{43a3e670 660:com.android.inputmethod.latin/10002}
    isForeground=false lastActivity=-296633
    startRequested=false startId=0 executeNesting=0 executingStart=-296565 crashCount=0
    totalRestartCount=0 restartCount=0 restartDelay=0 restartTime=-296633 nextRestartTime=-329523
    * IntentBindRecord{43a3e110}:
      intent={act=android.view.InputMethod cmp=com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME}
      binder=android.os.BinderProxy@4392a698
      requested=true received=true hasBound=true doRebind=false
      * Client AppBindRecord{43a3e288 ProcessRecord{439c0190 572:system/1000}}
        Per-process Connections:
          ConnectionRecord{43a3e400 com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME:@43a3da60}
    All Connections:
      ConnectionRecord{43a3e400 com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME:@43a3da60}

  Connection bindings to services:
  * ConnectionRecord{43a3e400 com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME:@43a3da60}
    binding=AppBindRecord{43a3e288 com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME:system}
    conn=android.app.ActivityThread$PackageInfo$ServiceDispatcher$InnerConnection@43a3da60 flags=0x1

If you run it without any arguments, you get a big huge dump of all sorts of interesting things. I do not yet know how to get it to give me a list of just the services that have registered themselves, or are actively running.