AlaskaLinuxUser's Scratchpad

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

3 hours and a menu button later.....

So there I was (at least that is how all the best stories start), face to face with a gold cased lollipop screen thinking, "Where is the menu button?" I digress, this story needs some background.

I am married to the most wonderful, kind, caring, beautiful woman on the planet …

Error: recovery.img is too large!

Since I was having a spot of trouble with the SlimRoms 6.0 rom, I decided to give AOKP 6.0 a quick and dirty try. After syncing the source and adding the vendor/device trees, I gave it a whirl. Here was the first failure output to my terminal …

ERROR: A build property cannot exceed 91 bytes

While compiling Dirty Unicorns 6.0.1 for the Samsung Galaxy S4 T-Mobile variant (JFLTETMO SGH-M919) I ran into an interesting error, as you can see below.

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target StaticLib: libhealthd.qcom (/home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/dirtyunicorns_m-caf/out/target/product/jfltetmo/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libhealthd.qcom_intermediates/libhealthd.qcom.a …

Going "Gapps-less" on my Android phone.

In a previous post (https://alaskalinuxuser3.ddns.net/2016/05/30/aptoide-a-good-google-alternative/) I wrote about an alternative to Google Services/Google PlayStore, at the end of which, I came to this conclusion:

"With a fairly polished web GUI and app GUI interface, Aptoide is a really good alternative for the …

Compile SlimRoms 6.0 for the Samsung Galaxy S4 T-mobile variant (JFLTETMO SGH-M919)

The continuing saga of compiling SlimRoms 6.0 for the T-mobile Samsung Galaxy S4....

To God be the glory! Today there was some good progress! As you can see, the rom compiled, as usual:

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/home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/projects/phones/compile/slimroms6/out/target/product/jfltetmo/slim_jfltetmo-ota-a37a47bb2a.zip
done.
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Adding stlport to my SlimRoms 6 build

One of the problems that I have pulled from the logcat of my SlimRoms 6.0.1 build for the Samsung Galaxy S4, T-Mobile (JFLTETMO, SGH-M919) ( https://alaskalinuxuser3.ddns.net/2016/05/24/pulling-a-logcat/ ) was this error:

05-24 20:40:15.036 228 228 E libEGL : load_driver(/vendor/lib/egl …

AndFTP and JuiceSSH

I would like to start off by stating the obvious. I am not an app expert. I am not an SSH expert. I am a simple guy who just needs simple, functional tools. In this case, both of these tools were well crafted by their designers, and have become indispensable …

Aptoide: A good Google alternative?

There are many great reasons to use Google apps on your Android phone. Not the least of which is that Google made Android, and thus have really great insights on how to implement it. However, some of the things that make it so great also can give cause for alarm …