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Android – New Year, New Fork?

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 28, 2016 by RGDecember 28, 2016

Now that Cyanogenmod has summarily shut down, there is a planned new forked version, at http://lineageos.org/ Remains to be seen whether this will flourish, and whether it will survive any potential legal shenanigans, but at least it shows one of the core benefits of Open-Source code..! Robert Gadsdon.   December 27, 2016. … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Opinion | Tagged android, arm, cyanogenmod, fork, future potential, lineage os | Leave a reply

Android: The Browser/Flash Saga Continues..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 17, 2013 by RGOctober 17, 2013

I now have my replacement Hudl 7in tablet, and have been trying out the various options for working browsers – with Flash support. On my phone, I found that Chrome worked well, but this tablet always gets the ‘full’ website, rather than the ‘mobile’ version, and so Flash doesn’t work, any more.    Even implicitly typing in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Hacks, Opinion, Performance | Tagged android, custom user agent, dolphin, flash support, hudl, mobile website version, success, tablet | Leave a reply

Android: Hudl, and an Exercise in Customer Satisfaction?

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 10, 2013 by RGOctober 10, 2013

I ordered a Tesco Hudl online as soon as they were available, and got mine delivered 24 hours later – which was faster than expected. It is an excellent device – especially at that price point – but mine turned out to be one with a defective display (grey areas were heavily red-pixellated).. I returned the device to … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Opinion | Tagged android, customer satisfaction, defective, delay, hudl, replacement, tablet, tesco | Leave a reply

Firefox – Excellent on Linux, Fails on Android.?

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 9, 2013 by RGOctober 9, 2013

Opinion: I started out with Linux in 1997, and at that time Mosaic was looking a bit old-hat, and Netscape Navigator was the app that had the most use (along with GIMP).     After moving – over the years – to Mozilla, and later to Firebird (quickly rebranded to Firefox), this has always been my browser of choice. … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Fedora, Opinion, Performance | Tagged android, chrome, crash, firefox, flash plugin, html5, problems | Leave a reply

GK802 – New Quad-Core Armv7 Device.. DOA..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on July 31, 2013 by RGOctober 8, 2013

Well… This was supposed to be an article on Linux on the Zealz GK802…   Sadly, that is not going to happen. The device I received in July 2013 died after only 20 minutes, and after a tortuous exchange of emails I managed to get a replacement sent, after I returned the faulty one.   This took (literally) months, … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, GK802, Hacks, Linux / ARM, Opinion | Tagged android, arm, armv7, doa, failed again, gk802, hdmi, linux, replaced, unit failed | Leave a reply

Android VM – with VMware

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on November 19, 2012 by RGNovember 19, 2012

Now that I have several Android devices – having just taken delivery of an ‘inexpensive’ 7in tablet – I decided it would be interesting to run the OS in a VMware virtual machine.. You can get a ‘VirtualBox’ Android 4 image at http://androvm.org/blog/download/  and then convert it to a VMware VM, by opening the xxxx.ova file using … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Crash and Burn.., Hacks, VMware | Tagged android, import, success, virtual machine, virtualbox, vmware | Leave a reply

Taking a Swype..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 18, 2012 by RGOctober 18, 2012

I had been happy to use Swype on my old Samsung Galaxy ‘droid phone, but it was – sadly – not available on my new HTC One V.. Now, that has changed..    Swype (Beta) is now out, and I have installed it, and it works just fine.. http://beta.swype.com/ I have found that Swype is a bit … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, HTC, Opinion | Tagged android, beta, htc one v, ouija board, phone, swype, text input | Leave a reply

Linux and Android – Not Talking to Each Other?

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 2, 2012 by RGOctober 2, 2012

I had been frustrated for years with the dire support for connecting mobile phones (cellphones..) on Linux.    Bluetooth support to phones was patchy, to say the least, and has been completely re-written for KDE, but still has very limited functionality..    I can (just about) connect to my Samsung Android phone, but can only transfer files to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Linux, Opinion | Tagged android, calendar, cloud, google, linux, marketing hype, phone, problems, sync | Leave a reply

APC – The Perils of Old Code..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on September 20, 2012 by RGSeptember 20, 2012

The availability of additional kernel code – and functionality – is good news, but the APC kernel version is still a relative antique..   2.6.32.9 is over 2 years old, now, and the latest ‘mainstream’ Linux kernel is 3.5.4, and 3.6 will soon be released…    Assuming the focus is still on Android, then an update to Android 4.1 … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, APC, kernel, Linux / ARM, Opinion | Tagged 2.6.32.9, android, apc, old kernel, out-of-date | Leave a reply

APC – Surprisingly Pain-free Progress..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 9, 2012 by RGAugust 9, 2012

My goal is to have a ‘standard’ flavour of Linux (in my case – Fedora) running on the APC, and one of the major pre-requisites was to have the system boot from the micro-SD card, instead of the internal ‘flash memory’..    Looking at all the U-Boot parameters, I had expected this to be a real pain, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, APC, Crash and Burn.., Hacks, kernel, Linux / ARM, Opinion, Performance | Tagged android, apc, boot, linux/arm, micro-sd, success | Leave a reply

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