A personal log of kernel patches, custom ROM maintenance, server automation, and abstract strategy game engineering.
I just published another improvement of my backup and restore tools project Android Backup and Restore Tools Some user reported issues when restoring the backup files to the device. It was found out that for restoring the runtime was still shut down so that on new Android Devices (Android 14+) the...
I just published another improvement of my backup and restore tools project Android Backup and Restore Tools Some users notced issues and so I decided to have another look at the tool and to invest a bit more on stability and cleanup. No new functionality was added, but it should be more stable in...
Another update for my Mediapad M5 (SHT-W09) as today the new security fixes for lineageOS were release, so I updated the build with the Android security patches up to 20261005.
If you are interested in installing you find the packages needed on my download area
Installation is quite easy, but a...
External USB-C IR blaster dongles are an easy way to control legacy AV equipment and appliances from modern phones, but they come with an annoying penalty: Android keeps the 5V VBUS rail energized continuously in Host mode, generating 15–40 mA of silent parasitic battery drain all day long.
To fix this, I built a lightweight vendor daemon and loopback socket bridge for custom LineageOS builds that supplies USB power strictly on-demand when transmitting IR codes.
I just updated the rom images for Grouper and Tilapia with the security patched up to 20260927
You can find the links to the downloads on XDA and the sources on my github repository
You can also download directly from my download area by selecting the rom image you need. The "mg" files ar...