Since I was having a spot of trouble with the SlimRoms 6.0 rom, I decided to give AOKP 6.0 a quick and dirty try. After syncing the source and adding the vendor/device trees, I gave it a whirl. Here was the first failure output to my terminal …

While compiling Dirty Unicorns 6.0.1 for the Samsung Galaxy S4 T-Mobile variant (JFLTETMO SGH-M919) I ran into an interesting error, as you can see below.

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target StaticLib: libhealthd.qcom (/home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/dirtyunicorns_m-caf/out/target/product/jfltetmo/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libhealthd.qcom_intermediates/libhealthd.qcom.a …

In a previous post (https://alaskalinuxuser3.ddns.net/2016/05/30/aptoide-a-good-google-alternative/) I wrote about an alternative to Google Services/Google PlayStore, at the end of which, I came to this conclusion:

"With a fairly polished web GUI and app GUI interface, Aptoide is a really good alternative for the …

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 compiled, as usual:

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/home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/slimroms6/out/target/product/jfltetmo/slim_jfltetmo-ota-a37a47bb2a.zip
done.
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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:

05-24 20:40:15.036 228 228 E libEGL : load_driver(/vendor/lib/egl …

I would like to start off by stating the obvious. I am not an app expert. I am not an SSH expert. I am a simple guy who just needs simple, functional tools. In this case, both of these tools were well crafted by their designers, and have become indispensable …

• 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 …