For those interested, I have just posted a video tutorial series on XDA for building Android Oreo, Nougat, Marshmallow, and Lollipop on 5 different phones, the emulator, and 5 different […]
Building Android Oreo, error: ADDITIONAL_DEFAULT_PROPERTIES must not be set
So, round one of building Android Oreo. Specifically giving an early try for SlimRoms and OmniRom, both of which have started an Oreo build system. Obviously, anything at this stage […]
LG G4 on SlimRoms: delete the pin key in TWRP!
In my last post, I told the epic adventure of figuring out how to get into recovery mode so I could fix my unbooting phone. I had performed a backup […]
SlimRoms 7.1.2 on the H811 LG G4!
Praise God! My SlimRoms Nougat ROM for the LG G4 H811 is finally working! It’s always fun to try building for a new device, but this one was particularly interesting, […]
SlimRoms Nougat on the Samsung Galaxy S4!
To God be the glory, my Slim7 Nougat project finally works! This is a very slimmed down version of Android Nougat, almost a “vanilla” experience with a few tasteful perks! […]
How to manually update your custom rom source code with security updates
For those of you who compile your own custom roms directly using AOSP source, the latest security updates are always added in as soon as they occure. For those of […]
Compile SlimRoms 6.0 for the Samsung Galaxy S4 T-mobile variant (JFLTETMO SGH-M919)
The continuing saga of compiling SlimRoms 6.0 for the T-mobile Samsung Galaxy S4…. To God be the glory! Today there was some good progress! As you can see, the rom […]
Adding stlport to my SlimRoms 6 build
One of the problems that I have pulled from the logcat of my SlimRoms 6.0.1 build for the Samsung Galaxy S4, T-Mobile (JFLTETMO, SGH-M919) ( https://alaskalinuxuser3.ddns.net/2016/05/24/pulling-a-logcat/ ) was this error: […]
Compiling SlimRoms 6.0 for the Samsung Galaxy S4, T-Mobile (JFLTETMO SGH-M919)
I’ve noticed a pattern. Other than CM13, all of my 6.0+ roms compile successfully (eventually) but fail to actually run on the device. I am really not sure why this […]
Compile SlimRoms 6.0 for the Samsung Galaxy S4 T-mobile variant (JFLTETMO SGH-M919)
By all acounts it was a happy sight to see the below in my terminal: [CODE] using prebuilt boot.img from BOOTABLE_IMAGES… boot size (6862848) is 65.45% of limit (10485760) running: […]