SlimRoms has always fascinated me. It is particularly, well, slim. Cutting things down to the bare-bones of what you really need, and then using alternate tool-chains to build a faster, more compact system. That is what SlimRoms is all about.
As a fan of SlimRoms, I looked and looked, and …
So while I was waiting for my homemade SlimRoms to compile, I used my time to put together this boot animation.
Download link:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/yrommhqq68j5dy2/slimrom.zip
It's very, well, slim. Kind of keeps with the overall tone of Slimroms, I think.
I used gimp to …
This morning, when I came back to my computer, I was greeted with some very good news:
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running: java -Xmx2048m -jar /home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/cm13/out/host/linux-x86/framework/signapk.jar -w build/target/product/security/testkey.x509.pem build/target/product/security/testkey.pk8 /tmp …
In the continuing adventures of attempting to compile CyanogenMod 13 for the Samsung Galaxy S4 T-Mobile (JFLTETMO SGH-M919), on my second build attempt, I have run into another road-block. Yesterday I had an error due to a command not found, but today we have a new error:
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Import includes …
So I have been attempting to compile CM13 for my Samsung Galaxy S4 T-Mobile (JFLTETMO SGH-M919) phone. The first thing I did was read the entire guide here:
https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Build_for_jfltetmo
Which looked very helpful and promissing. I followed the instructions to a proverbial "T". I even …
Boot animations are the logo, picture, or movie that plays as your Android phone boots up.
Here is a simple boot animation that I made for OmniRom. It has an old school 1985 feel to it.
It is 1080x1920 resolution.
Be sure to rename it bootanimation.zip and put it …
NOTE: THE FONT CHOICES IN YOUR BROWSER MAY NOT PRESENT THE ASCII TEXT PROPERLY. IF YOU COPY AND PASTE THE ASCII TEXT TO NOTEPAD, MOUSEPAD, OR GEDIT, THEY WILL SHOW UP PROPERLY. THESE ASCII GRAPHICS WILL LOOK RIGHT ON YOUR PHONE IF ADDED TO YOUR UPDATER-SCRIPT.
I've noticed that most …
As you can see from the posts below, it was a standard Friday event to post a new JWM theme. Fewer and fewer people are using JWM, and so no new regular postings will be made of JWM files. However, the JWM files listed below are still available, if you …
To be honest, it doesn't sound like something that should be very complicated, but it is. These days, with pulseaudio, you can usually have your sound system set up for you right out of the box. When you are using Linux that is expanded on your Android phone however, things …
In my journey to better understand communication via sound over a medium such as a cell phone, there are many parts to the overall project. Today I wanted to find a viable way to test if the connection was active and properly transmitting and receiving, before I actually set up …