Yet another cell phone updated from Android to a custom Rom. In this case I upgraded a Samsung Captivate Glide i927 from Android 4.0.4 to PacMan Rom KK-RC3 which is equivalent to Android 4.4.4 (hence the KK for Kit-Kat). Originally, this phone started out as an …

This happened a while back, but I really can't stress enough how great a program TCPdump is. A great way to show it is to include it in a real world example where I actually used it at work.

This was yet another simple problem that had to be addressed …

Every Friday you will see a new JWM theme posted here, including the .jwmrc file and a screenshot, so check back here on Fridays for the new theme. You can readily find the background images off of the internet. Be sure to check that the font file is a font …

In my continued efforts to utilize minimodem to transmit data via sound over a medium (such as a radio or cell phone) has yielded some great results. I have been able to transmit an image (a gif file of several signal flags) as an actual image rather than as a …

In my free time I have been involved in a little side project involving sound, data, and communications. The end goal is to transmit data wirelessly via a cellular phone by using audio during a phone call. I know, quite a mouthful and a pretty interesting project. My "theory to …

Every Friday you will see a new JWM theme posted here, including the .jwmrc file and a screenshot, so check back here on Fridays for the new theme. You can readily find the background images off of the internet. Be sure to check that the font file is a font …

Yesterday I attempted to put MIUI on the Milestone X my buddy gave me to play with. Unfortunately it didn't work, and I spent a lot of time yesterday "fixing" it back to a useful state. Well, since MIUI didn't work that didn't mean nothing ever would, so I decided …

I'd like to start this post by stating the facts: it didn't work. Actually, it just about bricked the phone. So most of this post, however, is about how I resuscitated the phone back to life by flashing it, again.

So, my buddy gave me his old Motorola Milestone X …

So I decided that I would join the CyanogenMod rush and install it on my cell phone, a Motorola Flipside MB508. The installation was really tedious, but only because of the locked boot loader that Motorola put on. Of all the Android devices I have used or abused, I have …

Every Friday you will see a new JWM theme posted here, including the .jwmrc file and a screenshot, so check back here on Fridays for the new theme. You can readily find the background images off of the internet. Be sure to check that the font file is a font …