Nowadays is straight forward to install CyanogenMod, the Open Source firmware Android’s alternative, if you have a device that is officially supported. But if you have a device that is not officially suported you could face some issues that are not well documented. And if you use Linux, finding documentation could be a bit harder.… Read More: Cyanogenmod in a Samsung Galaxy S3 mini using Linux »
The Galaxy i7500 was the first android phone built by Samsung. I got this phone some while ago and I wanted to update to a more recent android version (the original firmware ships version 1.6), but unfortunately, Samsung doesn’t give any support nor updates. Thus, if you want to update the firmware, you can use… Read More: Updating the Samsung Galaxy i7500 using Linux »
The QBoxHD uses two bootloaders. The first-stage bootloader is read-only, it cannot be rewritten and it’s used basically for disaster recovery. The second-stage bootloader does the real job because it loads the kernel and the initramfs according to the environment variables that you can modify. With this configuration, the QBoxHD gives you the freedom to… Read More: The QBoxHD team releases the source code of U-Boot »