Dun, dun, duhnnnn…. The forboding sound of the forbidden warning. The warning that was forbidden. Oh the horror! Okay, so it really isn’t that bad, but it sure sounds bad. […]
Fixing a problem with video recordings
For those of you who have downloaded the AOKP MM that God graciously allowed me to build, there was a problem with video recordings. It was recently brought to my […]
Error: File not found – The proper way to fix dynamic paths.
A while back I wrote an article about the problem with using static paths in compiling, which I concluded with this statement: “Long story short, fix your dynamic paths if […]
Error: Exited sync due to fetch errors
Error: Exited sync due to fetch errors [CODE] $ repo sync ………EDITED FOR SPACE……… Fetching project SlimRoms/android_external_qrngd error: Cannot fetch UBERTC/arm-eabi-5.2 Fetching project platform/external/chromium_org/third_party/libphonenumber/src/phonenumbers Fetching projects: 86% (419/487) Fetching project […]
Setting up your compile environment for OmniRom 6.0.1
I’ve talked about how to compile Android variants before, and for the most part, it works the same no matter what variant you build. One caveat to that, however, is […]
Error: File not found – The problem with using absolute paths.
While attemtping to add the Lionheart governor to my previously built kernel, I ran into an interesting problem: [CODE] firmware/audience-es325-fw-eur.bin.gen.S: Assembler messages: firmware/audience-es325-fw-eur.bin.gen.S:5: Error: file not found: /home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/cm13/kernel/samsung/jf/firmware/audience-es325-fw-eur.bin make[3]: *** […]
Error: ‘memcmp’ was not declared in this scope!
Here is a problem that I occasionally come across while compiling. Since it is so common for me to see this, I would like to re-iterate an earlier post I […]
When LiquidSmooth gets rough!
Among the many roms that I am currently working on, one of them is Liquid-Marshmallow (LiquidSmooth 6.0.1) for the Samsung Galaxy S4, T-Mobile variant (SGH-M919, JFLTETMO). There are a couple […]
Stop: Recovery theme is not valid!
While compiling OmniRom 6.0.1 for the Samsung Galaxy S4, T-Mobile variant (JFLTETMO, SGH-M919), I ran into this problem, which halted the compiling process: [CODE] bootable/recovery/gui/Android.mk:127: **************************************************************************** bootable/recovery/gui/Android.mk:128: * TW_THEME is […]
RWE: Step by step instructions for building AOKP 6.0 for the T-Mobile variant of the Samsung Galaxy S4
I have noticed that the build instructions on the AOKP website are a bit outdated. They date back to JellyBean. I would like to encourage other users to build more […]