Outguessing the machine

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Month: April 2012

  • Solved: Can’t connect to high (>10) Windows COM ports / cleaning out unused COM ports

    Problem: Windows, and many Windows apps that use serial (COM) ports, have various problems accessing “high” numbered COM ports. I cannot find an authoritative or quantatative definition of “high” (and it may depend on your app), but I have seen apps start failing after COM8, COM9, COM15… anything in the 20s is asking for trouble.…

  • Solved: SL4A force close when calling recognizeSpeech

    Problem: SL4A crashes upon the first call to recognizeSpeech() : com.googlecode.android_scripting stopped unexpectedly (Force Close). The corresponding Android log via adb shell #logcat: D/AndroidRuntime( 2785): Shutting down VM W/dalvikvm( 2785): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4 0018560) I/ActivityManager( 1429): Starting: Intent { act=android.speech.action.RECOGNIZE _SPEECH } from pid 2785 E/AndroidRuntime( 2785): FATAL EXCEPTION: main E/AndroidRuntime(…