Due to me having some time and my old OnePlus One Smartphone, I decided to have a look and find (stock) Android alternatives – something that exists without that rather enclosed Google-Environment. I mean, there surely has to be some guys trying to, right? A quick google search showed some old Android 5 ROMs, Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish […]
Tag: android
Skip the Google Setup Wizard
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 shell settings put […]
Huawei P10 lite – About virgins and kids
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 helps on such […]
Huawei P10 lite – Poking around
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 partitions. One of […]
Huawei P10 lite – Not quite my taste
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 less a modification […]
Return to Stock – Nexus 5x
It’s not a secret that I was running Cyanogenmod on my Nexus 5X, but I have to admit, it’s time to revert to stock due to various random issues which are getting me mad. So here’s a small howto to do so. First of all, get the Factory Images for Nexus Devices from Google, available at https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images and the […]