AlaskaLinuxUser's Scratchpad

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

Error: forbidden warning!

Dun, dun, duhnnnn....

The forboding sound of the forbidden warning. The warning that was forbidden. Oh the horror!

Okay, so it really isn't that bad, but it sure sounds bad. I guess that's the point though. Let's take a look:

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/home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/Liquid5/kernel/samsung …

Porting Debian Linux to your cell phone part 3 of 3

If you are still with me, then you have already set up your phone to first boot Debian Linux, and then Linux will start Android in a chroot environment. Your phone is actually already running Debian Linux, just with Android being run and displayed on the screen. At any moment …

Porting Debian Linux to your cell phone part 2 of 3

If you are following along from the previous post: great! Good work. I'm glad that you are still with me! Today's changes are actually all you need to do to have a dual phone, where you start Linux first, and then Linux turns on Android. With this setup, you actually …

Porting Debian Linux to your cell phone part 1 of 3

First and formost, I would like to clear the air. This is not a set of instructions on how to put Linux on your phone, as you would do with apps like Linux Deploy. This is also not for the faint of heart. This is a step by step tutorial …

Follow up: Using your i927 as a Debian “Chatter” Phone

I have adapted some work that I did a while back on the Samsung Captivate Glide (i927), the official post, etc, can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/captivate-glide/general/samsung-captivate-glide-debian-chatter-t3233807

I also made a post about this earlier, which you can read here:

So, if you read the …

Using your i927 as a Debian “Chatter” Phone

I have adapted some work that I did a while back on the Samsung Captivate Glide (i927), the official post, etc, can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/captivate-glide/general/samsung-captivate-glide-debian-chatter-t3233807

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A Debian phone. Not run as a tack on, not emulated, not …

Gitkraken!

As I continue to be blessed in the work of compiling roms and kernels, I have had to take a few new steps for me. One of those steps was Github. I am not very Github savvy, and I really struggled with how to push/pull/commit, etc. In fact …

Fixing a problem with video recordings

For those of you who have downloaded the AOKP MM that God graciously allowed me to build, there was a problem with video recordings. It was recently brought to my attention on XDA that my build would take great camera stills, but if you tried to record video, it actually …

Error: File not found - The proper way to fix dynamic paths.

A while back I wrote an article about the problem with using static paths in compiling, which I concluded with this statement:

"Long story short, fix your dynamic paths if they have an error. If you use an absolute path, be sure you don't ever rename or move anything. Ever …