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Nougat 7.1.1 (crDroid) on my LG G3

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I became a custom ROM fan with my Galaxy S2 and CyanogenMod years ago...and loved it so much that I consulted CM forums when it came time to upgrade to a new phone. I wanted to get a model that was well supported by the CM community, and settled on and LG G3. I had no trouble running CM 12.1 on it for a year or two...granted there were a few non-functioning features (wireless charging, NFC) but that didn't bother me immensely. At some point I started getting an error message...'Unfortunately Photos has stopped working', or something to that effect. This error began after transfering a photo to the phone from a portable HD through USB OTG. That error, and a second bug that caused my camera to hang, and delay about 3 seconds between pressing the photo buttton and actually capturing the image, made me seek out a new ROM. I watched a great vid from Max Lee  at LGG3root.com, found the crDroid distro for my D855, and combined it with Open GAPPS Pico package as suggested. A...

LG G3 for CyanogenMod

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I had to ask myself if I was a bit crazy to mess with a perfectly good, brand new (1 year old model) smartphone, shipped to me with Android 5.0 Lollipop...why mess around and install a custom ROM? I have been using a Samsung Galaxy SII i9100 for a few years now, running CM (11-20140916-snapshot-M10-i9100 most recently). While this was a great phone, and still is infact! I have been 'forced' to upgrade to a device with 4G. What's so great about CyanogenMod...Privacy. Not only do you get the latest Android releases, despite manufacturers not sending updates...you get Privacy Gaurd. This is the main reason that I choose to run CM over stock android. I was able to root, get SU, and flash TWPG and CM in a few hours, including my stupid mistake... I followed the following guides: https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_d855 http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/general/guide-root-lg-firmwares-kitkat-lollipop-t3056951 Which led me to download: https://pl...

Car mode in android

I recently started having issues with 'car mode'. The phone will seemingly randomly switch to this mode, which shows a big clock floating on a black screen, and a little steering wheel in the notification bar. It makes all calls go to speaker phone, and activates 'talk back' services. After reading a number of forums I concluded that this error is caused by a faulty mini USB port in the phone. There is apparently some sort of short circuit that makes the phone think it is in a car dock. The solution which seems to have worked fairly well was to clean the USB port with a toothbrush, and compressed air. I also disassembled the phone to tighten the two screws holding the USB board in place. Thanks to this video , my backup plan is to order a replacement USB board for a few bucks, making sure to carefully match revision and batch numbers with my original.

Resurrecting Galaxy s2 gt-i9100

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Before yesterday, I was out playing Ingress , and my external battery wasn't working for some reason. My phone died... and when I got home, I plugged it in. When I tried to turn it back on (while charging) I entered a bootloop ('dead battery boot loop'). I tried some quick fixes pursued in various forums to no avail, and soon found myself in CWM recovery mode doing a factory reset. It seems to have been a blessing in disguise...I managed to get CM11.2 working with gapps for android 4.4 kitkat. (Upgrade from my previous version CM10.2…android 4.2). Rescued my two factor authentication, and restored my (practically empty) btc wallet . I love the new privacy manager that allows fine grained control over every app's permissions! Don't want hangouts reading your SMS's?... that's possible now! Another great feature now available allowed you to trigger profile changes based on WiFi connectivity... So for example when you're home, you can disable t...

Samsung Galaxy SII with Cyanogenmod: 'Storage Space Low'

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On my Galaxy SII I've been getting warnings about 'storage space low'. After trying to work through cleaning up apps, removing photos and movies, I wasn't making much headway. In system settings 'storage' there appears to be a large part of the internal memory free...but it is not recognised as free.  I am using Cyanogenmod, and found a forum post about a log file accumulation that eats memory in this way. I followed these instructions with Terminal Emulator: 1. Get superuser access:   su - (and allow access when prompted). 2. Change current directory: (I had to search for the directory...which turned out to be something like /data/logs)   cd /var/log 3. (optional) You can see how much space (in KB) is being used by log files with this command:   du -k . 4. (optional) If you want to see the names of the log files:   ls 5. Delete log files with   rm *.log 6. End superuser session:   exit 7. End terminal se...