AlaskaLinuxUser's Scratchpad

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. - Proverbs 16:3

Fixing a fake Nintendo controller

Kids and cats and fake original Nintendo controllers don't mix.

Well, at least that's my experience.

Not much to write on this one, but the kids are rough on the controllers. I can't blame them for that, it is hard not to jump to the right and drag the whole …

Godot3 with GLES 2.0 on Old Hardware

One of my side hobbies is learning how to make video games in Godot. I was going through a great tutorial, but I got sidetracked due to the usual life circumstances. Now I have a little more free time again, and I want to get back into learning Godot. One …

Modded Arduino-TNC finally sends the first email!

After many hours of fiddling with my modded Arduino-TNC and my HTX-212, I finally got it to transmit a test email from my cell phone using WoAD.

I adjusted the HTX to "high" for transmit, half volume output, squelch full counter clockwise (off), turned of "T" and "T-Squelch".

I used …

tnc1-python-config

While trying to troubleshoot my Winlink packet connections with my home-brewed, slightly modified Arduino-TNC, I found that mobilinkd has made a GUI tool in python that allows you to adjust the settings. The only problem was following the instructions to install it!

First, you can download this great tool here …

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 building LineageOS 19.1, because that is the version that matches the OTA update that I pulled and extracted with …

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 create a LineageOS tree for it. Here I use my OTA zip which I downloaded (cf1f7c3fa1596c87f045cee1508823c98667fa06.zip) :

\$ pip3 install …

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 update for your Android phone. This zip file will have a lot of very useful information and files in it …