my two cents on life – including taxes and duties…
When playing around with android phones it may happen that the setup wizard crashes and refuses to work. Not nice per se and quite annoying as it prevents us from testing and developing. As I always forget how to get around that issue, here’s how it’s done: adb shell settings put global setup_wizard_has_run 1 adb…
I’m running BareOS Backup on my network to backup all the data I want a crash to survive. Not a big deal honestly, but there’s one thing that really bugged me: My FreeNAS wasn’t running the Storage Daemon. My old way of mounting an NFS storage was more or less pure laziness which I had…
Tuesday github hailed me telling me that my password might have been in some logfile and it needs to be changed – two days later, same thing on Twitter. Both cases aren’t really to be taken too easy – and both companies did it well: transparent. I don’t want to say that it’s a good…
There’s a proverb in the German language, which could be roughly translated as ‘like the virgin got the baby’, which describes the process of getting something quite unexpectedly. And so we’re standing here, hosting the community forums that grew around the ‘Code of Honor’ as the former administrator couldn’t do it anymore. Sure, my experience…
As I had spent quite some time with Android and ROMs it was time to poke around in the thing called ‘stock rom’ – that stuff that Huawei gives to us, the end user. And that’s where it gets really interesting: The first notable thing is that Huawei employs two recovery systems on two separate…
Once again there were new devices for customers at A1. So I took a cheap P10 lite, because it made a solid impression at first sight – without looking at XDA. And that’s how things started getting messy. But let’s start at the beginning: The device comes with the EMUI UI, which is more or…