Comments on: UPM 1.0 for Android

By: Adrian Smith

Adrian Smith — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:46:02 +0000

Without direct access to your phone it's very difficult to say. Have you tried rebooting your phone?

By: Jarrod Konz

Jarrod Konz — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:05:57 +0000

I get a message of Sorry The application UPM (processcom.u17od.upm)has stopped unexpectedly. please try again “Force Close” on my htc android. I am unable to access my passwords when i retry i get the same message. can you help

By: Adrian Smith

Adrian Smith — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:29:34 +0000

Hi George,

Your data is not gone. This is a known problem. Try restarting your
phone.If it's still not working recreate the shortcut to upm.

There's a full explaination on the blog post explaining the problem.

Let me know how you get on.

Adrian

By: George

George — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:34:34 +0000

I had the UPM app loaded on my HTC droid. Just today I was notified by you that there was an update to UPM. Which I updated successfully according to the droid. BUT now when I try to access the UPM program it says that “the linked program is no longer installed on your phone”. Is all my data wiped out? What do I do now?

By: Adrian Smith

Adrian Smith — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:13:26 +0000

No problem Alain.

First of all make sure you have Java installed. You didn't mention what distribution of Linux you're using. If you're running Ubuntu these instructions are pretty good, http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-java-runtime-....

Next you'll need to install the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files. These provide the JRE with full strength encryption. They're not included by default due to US export/import restrictions. For Java 6 they can be downloaded from this page, http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp (the last download link near the bottom of the page). The downloaded zip will contain a few files, the most important being local_policy.jar and US_export_policy.jar. These two files need to replace two with the same name located in your JRE's installation directory. This directory can be a bit tricky to locate on some Linux distros. On Ubuntu it will be something like /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre. The files you want to replace are in the directory /lib/security.

You're now ready to run UPM. You can do this one of two ways. You can right click the file upm.jar and select "Open with Sun Java6 Runtime" or you can start a command shell, go to the directory containing upm.jar and enter 'java -jar upm.jar'.

By: Alain Mouette

Alain Mouette — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:35:17 +0000

Could you help some user that is a non java programmer? The Linux version has a bunch of .jar files, How do I start it?

By: Adrian Smith

Adrian Smith — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:15:42 +0000

Let me know how it goes. I've only been able to test on the Emulator and HTC Hero so I'd be interested to know how it performs on other Android devices.

By: 3dBloke

3dBloke — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:01:39 +0000

Hi Adrian. I'll be giving UPM a try on my Nexus One. I like the fact that it is cross-platform. Cheers.

By: Adrian Smith

Adrian Smith — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:23:05 +0000

Sounds like a good idea David. I'll see what I can do.

By: davidreedernst

davidreedernst — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:48:55 +0000

Thanks very much for the explanation. Maybe I should be clear: my hope is that it would ask for my password more often. Maybe one easy feature to add would be a “log out” type of function, so that when you knew you were done with whatever you were looking at, you could be sure that the next time the program ran it would require the password. Just an idea, thanks again for the application and your willingness to engage with your users!