SPUG or Singapore Palm Users Group had been going to a slow decline for the past few years. It was down for the last few months of December 2016. Today in January 2017, it has finally given up. As…
CyanogenMod is dead
Yes, CyanogenMod is dead. Cyanogen, a failing company, is pulling the plug on CyanogenMod. The open source project for the last 3 years has been taken over by the commercial entity Cyanogen or Cyngn. This was a company setup by…
Playing Pokemon Go and root
Pokemon Go the new location based game is now the in thing. To defeat GPS spoofers, it uses Google SafetyNet check to catch phones with root. That means if it fail the checks, no Pikachu for you. The first…
Android Nougat is here
Google announced the new version of Android 7 is called Nougat on 22 August 2016. Code named, New York Cheesecake, it features per file encryption, multi windows, better Doze and better VR performance. Nougat has a new API for graphics called…
Cyanogen downsizing
News report came on 23 July that Cyanogen is downsizing. The OS team has been let go.
ADB backup and restore
I saw an article on Reddit about how ADB backup can be used in migration. So I thought I checked it out. The command is adb backup -f <filename> -full I ran and kept a copy just for fun. A…
Uncle Sultan
I cannot stop laughing when I saw this on Reddit. Words in bold are mine. We haven’t been abandoned, but we’re clearly the oldest kid in the family from an earlier marriage. Our mom still loves us, but she has…
Windows Drivers
Recently my computer got nuked because of harddisk encryption. The upside to this is a ‘new’ computer. So new that I have to reinstall my Android drivers. When I connected my phone, I accidentally chose the wrong Windows driver.…
Android in 2016
What I want for Android in 2016. Google to issue a permanent fix to the nearly two year old bug. Mobile Radio Active. This has been around since the Lollipop Preview. Android Lollipop and Marshmallow launch has came and gone.…
Google Play Services
The general rule of thumb with Google Play Services is to remove as many permissions as possible.