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... the road continues ...

I just created new (unofficial) Android Nougat releases for both Nexus 7 (2012) versions (Grouper and Tilapia). Latest security patches for Android (2024/12/05) are applied as well as some security patches for the kernel.

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Both Nexus 7 (2012) versions (Grouper and Tilapia) just received the latest (unofficial) Android Nougat version with latest security patches (2024/07/05) applied to it.

More information on XDA

As AndroidFileHost had many issues in the past (and still has ...) I decided to provide the ROM downloa...

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Both Nexus 7 (2012) versions (Grouper and Tilapia) just received the latest (unofficial) Android Nougat version with latest security patches (2024/03/05) applied to it.

More information on XDA

As AndroidFileHost had many issues in the past (and still has ...) I decided to provide the ROM downloa...

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Even after more then eleven years the journey continues ...

Both Nexus 7 (2012) versions (Grouper and Tilapia) just received the latest (unofficial) Android Nougat version with latest security patches (2023/12/05) applied to it.

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updated the java based version of my Android Backup and Restore Tools project.

Even still in a beta stage as it is not fully tested It's now possible to backup and restore

  • apks and their data
  • partition images
  • /data, /data/media and /data/mediadrm as tar files

I also udated the sour...

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I just posted a java based version of my Android Backup and Restore Tools project.

Doing a backup of Android devices is becoming more and more difficult. In former times on most devices it was at least possible to boot into a custom recovery and to create a Nandroid-backup file which could be...

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Even after more then eight years the journey continues ...

Both Nexus 7 (2012) versions (Grouper and Tilapia) just received the latest (unofficial) Android Nougat version with latest security patches (2020/09/05) applied to it.

More information on XDA

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Both Nexus 7 (2012) versions (Grouper and Tilapia) just received the latest (unofficial) Android Nougat version with latest security patches (2020/05/05) applied to it.

More information on XDA

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Both Nexus 7 (2012) versions (Grouper and Tilapia) just received the latest (unofficial) Android Nougat version with latest security patches (2020/03/05) applied to it.

More information on XDA

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I just uploaded my Lineage 14.1 build for Gohan (BQ Aquaris x5plus). Beside applying the latest security patches it contains my updated kernel built from the sources on GitHub

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Both Nexus 7 (2012) versions (Grouper and Tilapia) just received the latest (unofficial) Android Nougat version with latest security patches (2020/02/05) applied to it.

More information on XDA

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I just uploaded my Lineage 14.1 build for Gohan (BQ Aquaris x5plus). Beside applying the latest security patches it contains my updated kernel built from the sources on GitHub

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Even beeing almost 8 years old it's still not yet dead. Both Nexus 7 (2012) versions (Grouper and Tilapia) just received the latest (unofficial) Android Nougat version with latest security patches (2020/01/05) applied to it.

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Even beeing almost 7 years old it's not yet dead. Both Nexus 7 (2012) versions (Grouper and Tilapia) just received the latest (unofficial) Android Nougat version with latest security patches (2019/02/05) applied to it.

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Last night my Nexus 7 shut down automatically due to a battery draining app. This morning I found the device with a black screen and switched off. While connecting it to a charger I tried to start up the device but there was only a flickering screen. I tried to switch off completely the device while...

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New compilation of Android sources is based on jack, a server runing in the background compiling asynchronously the different projects and libraries needed for the overall Android system. Unfortunately by default the maximum memory settings for jack are not suffiction to compile the Android Java sou...

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Building Andoid AOSP 7.x for Grouper up to now I was using gcc 4.9 for building the kernel. The kernel was stable, working fine and I had no issues. But almost each time when I tried to integrate a new feature / or changed the configuration of the kernel starting the compiled kernel resulted in a...

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This is a post not directly related to Android, but to my NAS where I am storing all my personal files. I bought the Synology DS212+ some month ago and I am very happy with it. Having two 2TB hard disks build in, another external harddisk is connected via USB 3.0 for backup resons. This Harddisk I a...

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Today four years ago the first G1s were put to the market. Ok, my G1 is no longer in it's first configuration (Android 1.5 Cupcake) because I've upgraded to ADS_Magpie (Gingerbread 2.3.7), but I am still using and loving it ... ;-) More on the G1's history you can read on: T-Mobile G1 Celebrates ...

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Unfortunately Android 4.x+ devices cannot be mounted as a VFAT device any longer. While with 4.0 only the PTP mode is supported (which can be used to transfer photos only), on 4.1+ you can switch between PTP mode and MTP mode in the settings.

While Windows has an acceptable MTP support, on Linux s...

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Partition Name Partition Description by_name Size in Blocks Size in MB
mmcblk0p1 recovery SOS 12288 12
mmcblk0p2 boot LNX 8192 8
mmcblk0p3 system APP 665600 650
mmcblk0p4 cache CAC 453632 443
mmcblk0p5 misc MSC 512...

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You can debug your applications on your Android device not only over USB, but also over a TCP/IP (LAN / WLAN) connection. To enable tcp debugging you have to enter the following commands on your device:

setprop service.adb.tcp.port 5555
stop adbd
start adbd

To start debugging enter on your PC:

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