Until recently, I was completely oblivious to the fact that you can change the way TWRP looks. Actually, to be quite honest, I thought that it looked great the way […]
Insert an explicit cast to silence issue…
In the continuing saga of compiling AOSP 7 for the Samsung Galaxy S4, T-Mobile variant (SGH-M919, JFLTETMO) I ran into an interesting problem. While this used to be a non-issue […]
Compiling: Problems with Jack
Sometimes, Jack just doesn’t want to play. Here is the error I got while trying to compile AOSP 7.0 for the Samsung SGH-M919, T-Mobile S4: [CODE] [ 1% 73/5641] Ensure […]
Device configurations are no longer allowed to change the global flags… error bailing…
Sometimes Android does stuff that is probably a good idea, but is really annoying to the compiler. By compiler, I mean guys or gals like you and I who really […]
How to put TWRP and Custom Roms on the Samsung Galaxy S4
I have been getting quite a few requests on XDA from members who need to know how to put TWRP and custom roms on their Samsung Galaxy S4. So, I […]
How to manually update your custom rom source code with security updates
For those of you who compile your own custom roms directly using AOSP source, the latest security updates are always added in as soon as they occure. For those of […]
Overclocking the GPU on a Samsung Galaxy S4
We talked about overclocking the CPU of the S4 (SGH-M919) before, but today I wanted to point out some great work by Faux123 that showed me exactly what to do […]
Overclocking the CPU on a Samsung Galaxy S4
I have been trying to follow every guide out there to overclock my Samsung Galaxy S4 (SGH-M919), and until now I have had absolutely no luck! It wasn’t until I […]
Adding pre-built apps to your build
One of the big things that always comes up is that of adding pre-built apps to your build. Make is so dynamic that you could add these in just about […]
Using a fallback branch to overcome poor choice of repository branch names
I know that we have looked at fallback branches before, but this really is worth looking at again. Last time, we saw an instance where there was not a branch […]