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 it was. However, it was pointed out to me that you can now download new themes and even make your …

While helping a friend of mine throw out some old junk, I came across a PCMCIA WiFi card. To be more precise, it was a Cisco Systems, Aironet 350 Series. Having several older laptops without built in WiFi, I thought that this was a truly great find!

The card was …

Every time that I make a kernel adjustment, I have to zip the boot image into a zip file with several other files to make a flash-able zip for my phone. While this is not tremendously laborious, every time I make a kernel adjustment I am also compiling 4 different …

In my continuing effort to learn about kernel modification, I was blessed to be able to add a new I/O scheduler to my kernel. To be honest, the ArcTeam kernel that I started with was already well equiped in the I/O scheduler department, but as this is a …

To be honest, this little Remix Mini is the funnest little computer I have ever used! Small enough to fit in my shirt pocket, yet hooked up to a full sized keyboard, mouse, and a 35" TV. You just can't ask for more than that! Not to mention it was …

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 for building Marshmallow and earlier, libcopybit seems to now have a problem in Nougat. Let's take a look:

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While I don't have one yet, I have decided that I will be getting one of these Galaxy Note Edge phones. They are a couple years old, and the price on them is going down significantly. In the meantime, I noticed that there were not very many custom roms available …

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:

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[ 1% 73/5641] Ensure Jack server is installed and started
Jack server already installed in "/home/alaskalinuxuser/.jack-server"
Launching Jack server java -XX …

Testers requested for AOKP 6.0.1 on the Note Edge, T-Mobile variant.

Hi, I have built several roms for other phones, both personally, and shared here on my website, or on XDA.

The Note Edge N915T is getting pretty cheap to buy off of Swappa, Ebay, and Amazon, and …

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 want to compile AOSP 7.0, but can't because all of our old device trees have cflags set. Without warning …