Here is a backup of the stock firmware for the CAT S42G super partition. It is gzipped to compress it from 8 GB down to 1.4 GB. I took this […]
CAT S42G LineageOS 19 build errors
From my previous posts, you can see that I am enjoying the journey of trying to build a custom ROM for the CAT S42G cell phone. In particular, I am […]
Using aospdtgen to create a device tree
Last post we looked at extracting/downloading your OTA zip from your phone. Now, if you have your OTA zip you can use dumpyara to extract it, and then aospdtgen to […]
How to extract an OTA package
One of the many tools in the toolbox of the Android phone developer is that of downloading OTAs. An OTA is an Over The Air zip file that contains an […]
Adding external SD card to TWRP build for CAT S42G/H
When trying to use my CAT S42G TWRP build to back up my phone, I realized that I forgot to add lines in the file system tab for the sdcard, […]
JustChess – Add quit dialog for back button presses.
One of the issues on the issue tracker for my app JustChess is a comment about back button behavior. Technically, their problem is that if they press the back button […]
JustChess 2.3 – Fixing a castle.
Well, rather fixing castling, I suppose. There were quite a few problems with castling in my JustChess engine. In fact, it was so bad, I probably should have removed the […]
Justchess 2.2 – Fix “problème en fin de partie”
In case you didn’t catch that, don’t feel bad, I didn’t either. It is French for “Endgame problem”. The rest of the issue on the tracker went like this: “Quand […]
JustChess 2.1 is out with en passant bug fixes!
I haven’t worked on the JustChess app in about 5 years. However, I was recently made aware that there was a custom ROM, named DivestOS, which suggested my old app […]
CAT S42G TWRP Custom Recovery
There was no custom recovery (TWRP) built for my new phone, the CAT S42G, so I decided to build one. To God be the glory, it even works! Since I […]