AlaskaLinuxUser's Scratchpad

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. - Proverbs 16:3

MechDome reaches out to open source app developers

MechDome, the new way to convert your Android application into an iOS app. While still somewhat in development, MechDome has been making great strides in the field of app converters. The best part is that MechDome doesn't use your app source code, it uses your completed Android apk file to …

libGDX music and sound fail....

While finishing my Android app developer course, I ran into this error during game development:

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--------- beginning of crash
06-09 13:01:19.410 30345-30366/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: GLThread 758
Process: com.alaskalinuxuser.criticalvelocity, PID: 30345
com.badlogic.gdx.utils.GdxRuntimeException: Error loading audio file: data/spblk.mp3
Note …

error: use of undeclared identifier 'LED_ADJUSTMENT_G'

After synching my source with AOKP for Nougat 7.1.2, I ran into this error when trying to build for the JFLTETMO:

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target thumb C: lights.MSM8960 \<= hardware/samsung/liblights/lights.c
hardware/samsung/liblights/lights.c:215:40: error: use of undeclared identifier 'LED_ADJUSTMENT_R'
int red = ((color …

LG G4 on SlimRoms: delete the pin key in TWRP!

In my last post, I told the epic adventure of figuring out how to get into recovery mode so I could fix my unbooting phone. I had performed a backup of SlimRoms before trying to flash OmniRom, and since I was back into TWRP, I restored my backup. Figuring all …

How to get to TWRP on a LG G4 with the hardware buttons....

This is something that should be easy. Really easy. However, it took me a while to find this on the web, and since it did, I'm posting it here too. On XDA, there is a thread about this, intermingled with numerous other threads that say different or sometimes erroneous information …

SlimRoms 7.1.2 on the H811 LG G4!

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Praise God! My SlimRoms Nougat ROM for the LG G4 H811 is finally working!

It's always fun to try building for a new device, but this one was particularly interesting, as it was my first non-Samsung build! Not to …

Fixing the blank developer settings on SlimRoms Nougat

After building SlimRoms Nougat for the H811 (LG G4 T-Mobile), I ran into an odd artifact: when you enabled and opened the developer settings, it would be blank, or crash. I had absolutely no idea why that would be, nor where to begin looking into a fix.

So, I hopped …

undeclared identifier 'POWER_HINT_LAUNCH_BOOST'

So, a new one for me. I'm building a rom for the H811, the T-Mobile variant of the LG G4. Currently building the tried and true AOKP 7.1.2 that I have used for my other phones, and I ran into an error:

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target thumb C: power.msm8992_32 …