Installing offline keys on mobile phones

Key to Nature offers many keys that can be downloaded as a 7-zip file and installed on a mobile device to be used while not connected to the Internet (offline). The instructions how to install mobile keys on your phone or PDA depend on the kind of phone you have. Below you find instructions for various brands or operating systems:

1 Smartphones or PDAs using Windows Mobile

1.1 Windows Mobile 6.x

TODO

1.2 Windows Mobile 7.x

TODO

2 Smartphones or PDAs using Maemo

(Examples: Nokia N810, N900)

TODO

3 Smartphones using Symbian OS

Produced for example by Nokia, Samsung, SonyEricsson

TODO

4 Smartphones using Android

Android is a Linux-based Open Source system for Smartphones developed by Google and various Smartphone companies including HTC, Motorola, Samsung, SonyEricsson, T-Mobile G1, Archos (… add yours).

4.1 Android 1.5 to 2.0

As of June 2010, the current version of Android is 2.2, but many phones are still sold with these older versions. Instructions:

1. Download the 7-zip-file to your computer
2. Unpack the 7-zip-file to a folder on your computer(e. g. using 7-zip)
   • It is advisable to use a concise folder name like “key” and make sure that the file “index.html” is directly inside this folder rather than in deeper folders
3. Connect the Android device to the PC via USB cable (USB driver may have to be installed)
   • Pull down the notifications from the status bar on the top of the home screen
   • Touch “USB connected - Select to copy files to/from your computer”
   • Touch the button Mount to make the SD Card available through USB
   • On the PC, copy the folder containing the unzipped mobile key to the SD Card.
   • Disconnect USB (or unmount the SD Card)
4. Activate your favourite browser (e.g. Opera Mobile) and browse to the local file directory and open index.html

   Opera Mobile

   • Type in an address like “file://sdcard/key/index.html” to open the key directly or use “file://sdcard/” and browse from there to the downloaded directory of the key and open index.html. Once you opened a local web page, add a bookmark by touching the settings icon > Bokkmarks and save/manage your bookmarks there. It might be possible to use also web archive files (*.mht) saved from browsers Opera or Internet Explorer (untested)

   Default Android browser (Android v1.5, source: [1])

   • Activate the browser, click the menu button, touch “Go”, type in the address:
     content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/key/index.html
     • (write an angry letter to Google that they require such a long string to type, rather than file://…)
     • Adding a bookmark using Menu > Bookmarks > Add bookmark… will not work, http:// is added always in front of it.
     • (write a letter to Google …)
     • However, the link is correctly recorded in the browser history. In the history entry, touch the “star icon” to add a bookmark without “http://” in front. (the “Add shortcut to Home” doesn't work either)

Special notes on Android 1.5 on the Samsung Galaxy Smartphones

The Galaxy smartphones have an internal and (optionally) an external SD Card. The instructions above work with the internal SD Card. If you are unsure, which of the two mounted USB-Drives shown to you is which: the internal will most likely contain the photo folder “DCIM”. For the external SD card, the address is: content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/sd/key/index.html

4.2 Android 2.1 or later

Use the instructions for Android 1.5ff, but:

• instead of content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard Android 2.1 and later should support file:///sdcard/DCIM/100MEDIA/path/to/my/key/folder/index.html

5 iPhone

The iPhone does not allow sufficient access to the internal or external memory to run the normal “browser-based” keys. Only specially programmed iPhone applications can be loaded.