• Edit - I just realized that in my posts for having "fixed" many of the issues with the AOKP 5.0.2 build, that I only drafted, and didn't actually post what I did to fix them. So I thought I better toss this in, even though it is out of …

There are many great reasons to use Google apps on your Android phone. Not the least of which is that Google made Android, and thus have really great insights on how to implement it. However, some of the things that make it so great also can give cause for alarm …

Yet another Real World Example (RWE)! I know it has been a while since I have posted one of these, but it is better late than never, right?

The situation: An undisclosed party needed a way to log into their Linux computer from anywhere. Particularly from their home computer, or …

So after making those changes shown in my previous posts, I recompiled AOKP5 for my S4. It still built successfully, so then the fixes must have been appropriate. After downloading it to my phone, I took the time to do a full test run, and here were the results:

System …

I have never been accused of being the sharpest tool in the shed, but boy, have I been missing the biggest, most obvious way of figuring out my 6.0 problems. In fact, I am embarrassed. However, I hope that by posting it here, I will accomplish two things:

1. Prove …

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 is, so I've been doing some research. One of the things that seems ambiguous to me, is which version …

Success!

Let's take a look:

[CODE]
Finding vertex sequence...
Removing backward edges...
0/0 dependencies (0.00%) were violated; 0 source blocks removed.
Reticulating splines...
using prebuilt boot.img from IMAGES...
boot size (6305792) is 60.14% of limit (10485760)
running: openssl pkcs8 -in build/target/product/security/testkey.pk8 …

Just like we saw the other day, compiling is not always a simple task. At least, not for a simpleton like myself. A knowledgeable or intelligent person would simply go through everything and set everything up proper prior to the first run. I do try to do that, but evidently …

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: openssl pkcs8 -in build/target/product/security/testkey.pk8 -inform DER -nocrypt
running: java -Xmx2048m -jar /home/alaskalinuxuser …

Just another simple SlimRoms boot animation. I use Gimp to make each frame, and then zip them together like so:

\$ zip -r -0 ./SlimHD.zip ./part0
\$ zip -r -0 ./SlimHD.zip ./part1
\$ zip -r -0 ./SlimHD.zip ./desc.txt

Where -r means recursive, and -0 means no compression.

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