Today I finally received my Unihertz Titan 2 and the first thing I naturally do on a new Android phone is to root it, so I can install a system-wide adblocker (thank you, AdAway) and YouTube ReVanced (because I hate…
Some time ago I suddenly received to smartphones in my postbox - these phones were sent to me by a shop on Aliexpress. This was much to my surprise, because I did not order them and I was actually expecting…
I own a BlackBerry Q5 for a few months now, a device that is almost worthless. BlackBerry doesn't have a good reputation and is selling badly. Judging from that it's not surprising that Blackberry has almost ceased the development of…
Since the predecessor to this device - the ZTE Tureis - finally broke down, I had to get my act together and fix up all of my code I started back in 2014. It's finally done! You can get CyanogenMod…
My journey of Android ports continues! Until I can seriously start programming the core Android system I need a backup solution in order to be able to restore the flash memory of the device, in case anything goes wrong. ClockworkMod…
I've just started porting Clockworkmod and Cyanogenmod 10.2 onto the Vodafone Smart Chat, the successor of the ZTE Tureis. Only the kernel is booting up for now, but that feature alone was very difficult to accomplish. My first opinion of…
The original stock kernel of my ZTE Tureis has been wildly hacked together by the manufacturer somewhere between 2010 and 2011. In the following years many other developers made changes and enhancements on github.com. In the middle of 2013 I…
What’s the result of massive amounts of code and a few weeks development time? Android 4.3.1 / Cyanogenmod 10.2 for the ZTE Tureis!
First, some screenshots – more details are below of them:
UPDATE: Android 4.3.1/CM10.2 has been released! I am making progress on porting Cyanogenmod to my ZTE Tureis. I got Wi-Fi, 2G+ 3G, Touch, 3D Acceleration, Sound and probably GPS running (couldn't test it yet). But currently not all keys on…
I finally found out how to build a kernel and flash it using CWM. Here is a step by step guide that tells you how to do it. As a starting point, I assume the device is not rooted and…