Just bought Yaka from Payway using my VISA card

Another one of those services that leaves you saying "Thank God for Technology".
It's 8:00 PM and am still stuck in office, and the people at home call saying Yaka is finished and they are in total darkness. My quick solution has always been to buy using Airtel or Mobile Money, but this time both my Airtel and MTN mobile money accounts were zero.

So the lazy techie hits google to see if these payway guys have actually added a web payment gateway and the good news is they actually have already integrate web payment. They are using PesaPal API as their payment gateway ...... oops sorry am going into so much details, am sure you landed on this page because you were looking for the same service. so here you go:

1. Access this page using your computer or phone: PAYWAY WEB KIOSK

Payway Web kiosk

2. Fill in the details; Name, Email, Billing Address, Phone Number ..... etc
3. Enter you visa/mastercard details
4. Hit pay 

Buy yaka using VISA

5. Receive the YAKA token in your email or click the "update status" page

6. Have fun

Generate QRC and Barcodes online ready for printing to your products

A friend of mine asked me if i can print for him barcodes to stick to his farm products which he will be selling in supermarkets around Kampala and was willing to pay be about 50 dollars for this work.
But it turns out, i can actually do this for free, apart from the cost of printing on sticker paper and transport and thanks to this online tool.
There are so many i landed on before choosing to work with this but i don't like the other tools; some put watermarks in the barcode, some insert their website names, others insert the word Demo, but this is super clean. Thanks to "Online Barcode Generator"

iPad mini - Network carrier successfully registered but always in searching mode

Problem:

My client gave me her new iPad mini to setup her email, i opted for Airtel Uganda 3G service so i bought they normal SIM and cut it to a nano SIM because these devices use nano SIMs.
I went ahead and setup the cellular data and APN settings.

I was able to latch on to Airtel Uganda network but i observed one weird issue; on the top left corner of the display, the iPad was showing "searching Airtel" and would not lock to 3G and there were not network bars. whenever i would check under "Settings > Carrier" it was set to Automatic and registered on Airtel. And whenever you would try a manual search, it would fail!

what baffled me most is that the browsing was working thou terribly slow and sometimes the pages would not load! email failed totally.
first i suspected the SIM card and i tried using other SIM cards but the results were the same.

iPad Mini

Solved:

I did a Software Update from the default iOS version to iOS 8.1.3

I hooked up the device to a Wi-Fi network and downloaded the latest iOS software and installed it.
Go to "General > Software Update"
I observed one important thing during the upgrade, you have to keep the device connected to Wi-Fi even after completing the download because the software is verified before it's successfully installed on the device.

Another important point was; make sure the date & time is correct otherwise the software verification might fail.

After the update was successful, the device was able to display network bars and the "searching" disappeared, and 3G was displayed next to the network carrier " ..... Airtel 3G"

if this article was useful to you, please leave a comment below. cheers.

Move android apps from phone internal memory to SD card without rooting your device - Alcatel one touch 918

Before i share my experience, here are the details of the phone i was dealing with although this trick can pretty much work on most android devices.

Alcatel one touch 918

firmware version 2.3.6

baseband version 6573

kernel version 2.6.35.7

build number: Gingerbread

Please refer to this "How to manual? by bongizmo" it's the same manual i followed to work on my device and i appreciate bongizmo for taking the time to document this stuff, all am going to do is share my personal experience when i worked on the Alcatel one touch 918.

Alcatel one touch 918

This particular phone has a small internal memory (about 160MB and i think that's why it's cheap!!!) and is loaded with so many useless inbuilt Apps some of which i never use, and the annoying part is that i couldn't even uninstall these inbuilt Apps to free up some space.

so the challenge was, i couldn't move apps to the SD or later alone uninstall them from the device without rooting it. so i hit Google for answers and most of them where recommending to root the device and install a default Android OS to the phone (another way of getting ride of the useless Alcatel inbuilt Apps.), until i landed on bongizmo's article of how i can actually just move some Apps to the SD without necessarily rooting my device.

(Please read bongizmo's article before proceeding, here am going to just share my personally experience)

1. Things you will need; Laptop/PC, Internet, USB cable, Your Phone + SD card

2. Download Google's Android Stand-alone SDK Tools and follow their steps to successfully install it and launch it on your computer.

3.  You will also need the Google USB Driver to be able to connect your device to the PC in debug mode. But for my particular case, the Google USB driver didn't work for me, i had to search and install the Alcatel Android ADB Interface driver.

Alcatel Android ADB Interface driver

4. Connect the phone using USB cable and do not enable USB storage mode. 

Go to Settings -> Applications -> Development and enable USB debugging.

5. Go to the command prompt on your computer.

6. Change directory to the Android SDK folder - Under the Platform-tools (make sure the Android SDK Platform-tools package was also installed).

Android SDK Platform-tools

Mine was installed under: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools and this directory contains the "adb" executable file.

C:\>cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>

7. Run the following command to list the connected devices:

C:\Program Files(x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb devices

List of devices attached

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>

Mine returned an empty list and i realized i had a problem with my device USB drivers so i updated my device USB driver, see my driver details below:

Alcatel Android ADB Interface

8. Once the drive updated successfully, running the command is step 7 gives:

C:\Program Files(x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb devices

List of devices attached

0123456789ABCDEF        device

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>

9. Next you start the adb shell

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb shell

$

10. It's time to change the default Android install location to option 2 ( i.e the SD card)

$ pm setInstallLocation 2

pm setInstallLocation 2

$

11. Exit

$ exit

exit

12. Now on your phone go to:

 Settings->Applications->Manage Applications.

13. Tap the App you wish to move to the SD card, for me only WhatsApp and Google Play Services where able to be moved to SD which pretty much solved my space issue because the main problem was updating WhatsApp.

14. I hope this was helpful, leave a comment if you have any questions and i will be happy to help.