A few weeks ago I started working on a port of CyanogenMod 9 (Android 4.0) for the Galaxy Tab 7 Plus (GT-P6200). It took quite a while to get the device tree up and running, and then when I finally got it to boot, the touch screen was a pain in the ass to use. […]
I decided to start making Heimdall firmware packages for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. I’ll keep this XDA Developers thread updated as I find, test, and upload new firmwares for this device. Flashing firmware packages using Heimdall Flashing a firmware using Heimdall involves rebooting your device into “Download mode” (also sometimes call “Odin” mode, […]
USB debugging is enabled by default on the Kindle Fire but it’s not obvious how to connect to it. Because I’ll never get the thirty minutes I of my life I wasted figuring it out back, I’ve decided to write about it with the hope that it helps some other poor sucker. The short story […]
A few months ago I bought a new Lenovo ThinkPad T420. I love it because it’s fast, the hardware has great support by open-source drivers, and the price was right. Having a powerful laptop is nice, but when you just want something to sit in the corner humming away on compile or transcoding jobs, you […]
The source code for Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” was released last week, and Google’s build instructions list Ubuntu 10.04 as the only officially “supported” configuration for building AOSP on Linux. As of this writing Ubuntu 10.04 is a year and a half old, so lots of people have moved on to newer versions, some […]