My listened to music in August 2010

			Track			Time
	1		DJ Zinc - WILE OUT (FT MS DYNAMITE)			02:55
	2		KRS-One - WOLF!			03:12
	3		KRS-One - Never Afraid			02:19
	4		Zinc - Wile Out feat. Ms Dynamite - Radio Edit			02:53
	5		Magnetic Man - I Need Air			04:17
	6		Devlin - Brainwashed			03:24
	7		The Count & Sinden - Addicted To You (feat. Bashy)			02:57
	8		The Pretty Reckless - Make Me Wanna Die			03:35
	9		Kevin Lyttle - Turn Me On			02:55

Compiling your own kernel allows you to make amendments to the core of Android. It allows you to include abilities not normally present in the stock kernel such as overclocking and BFS.

Before we start compiling we are going to require the correct environment and tool set. Both tutorials suggest a Linux environment with the villainrom tutorial advising an x86 version over x64:

For this guide I will be using Ubuntu 10.04 x86. I have had problems building android related software on x86_64 builds of ubuntu.

Once you have your environment set we’re going to install the tools to allow us to build the kernel. Fire up your Terminal application and enter the following.

sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg sun-java5-jdk flex bison gperf libsdl-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev build-essential zip curl libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev

If you get a complaint that sun-java5-jdk is not available your running a modern version of Linux which runs version 6 this should be fine except if you want to compile an AOSP kernel. If that’s the case then add the following to your apt source repositories

<code>## Old repo added to obtain JDK 5
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse
</code>

We now need to download and extract the Android NDK.

Finally we’ll make a directory to store our kernel source in.

mkdir KernelSource
cd KernelSource

We need to get a copy of the kernel source, here the two tutorials differ villainrom opt to clone a github repository of the source:

git clone git://github.com/behnaam/HeRo-2.6.29-GoDmOdE.git

whilst Coralic opts to wget the files:

wget http://member.america.htc.com/download/RomCode/Source_and_Binaries/kernel_hero_0078c992.tar.bz2
tar xvjf kernel_hero_0078c992.tar.bz2
rm -rf kernel_hero_0078c992.tar.bz2

It’s up to you how you want to get the source and I’m sure there are other Git Hubs and Compressed files else where on the internet.

The Git Hub used is for the Hero and as such the .config file in the directory is for the Hero. If you’re not compiling for a Hero you can use the following instructions to extract your devices .config file using adb with your device connected to the PC:

adb pull /proc/config.gz .
gunzip config.gz
mv config .config

Make sure you place the .config in the root directory of your kernel source files.

We now set our environment variables ready to compile the kernel. These tell the make program what type of processor we’re using and what type of device it is:

export ARCH=arm
export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-eabi-

The final environment variable we need is the location of our toolchain (The NDK from earlier), this depends on where you downloaded and extracted the folder too on your system, also be aware that version numbers may have changed from when this article was published:

export PATH=$PATH:~/android-ndk-r4/build/prebuilt/linux-x86/arm-eabi-4.4.0/bin

We’re finally read to build the kernel, issue:

make

or

make -jx

where x is the number of processor cores.
The final kernel will be outputted to arch/arm/boot and will be called zImage.

That’s it you know have your own self compiled kernel for Android.

My listened to music in July 2010

			Track			Time
	1		Papa Roach - Between Angels And Insects			03:02
	2		Papa Roach - Last Resort			03:20
	3		Papa Roach - Time & Time Again			02:58
	4		Inna - Hot			03:37
	5		Kele - Rise			05:10
	6		David Guetta feat. Chris Willis, Fergie & LMFAO - Gettin' Over You			06:00
	7		Skepta - Rescue Me			03:14
	8		Kelis - Acapella			04:08
	9		David Guetta - Memories (feat. Kid Cudi)			05:18
	10		Train - Hey, Soul Sister			03:36
	11		Professor Green - Falling Down			03:52
	12		Example - Girl Can't Dance (Chase & Status Remix)			03:06
	13		dead prez - Hip Hop			03:45
	14		The Roots - How I Got Over (feat. Dice Raw)			03:36
	15		Shabba Ranks - Mr. Loverman			03:31
	16		Neverstore ft. Lazee - Hold on			05:03
	17		UB40 - Can't Help Falling In Love (2009 Digital Remaster)			03:27
	18		30 Seconds to Mars - Closer To The Edge			04:32

Before the 5th you had to be an Estonian resident, Only one domain was allowed per person, Domains were free, Companies could only have their company name.  From the 5th anyone was allowed unlimited domains and they were charging for a 1 year lease.

So upon reading this I signed up to Zone.ee one of the only Estonian domain registrars that had an English translation of their page and services. On the 5th I started my bid for the domain name mcgh.ee which is obviously my surname. I put in the request for the domain which happened to be available and so ordered it.

This is were things got complicated, having paid £16.50 I was told that I required an administrative contact in Estonia. So even though foreign people could now register a domain you still had to know an Estonian. This is where I am ever greatful to fallos from xda-developers.com who after a few messages agreed to be my representetive in Estonia. I then had to write a Power of Attorney/Mandate saying that I gave fallos the permission to register the domain on my behalf, I reworderd this PDF to relate to domain registration rather than accounts. After receiving my mandate fallos had to sign for the domain either by scanning his Estonian national ID card or attending the Zone.ee offices and signing for it there.

After all this had been accomplished the domain is now mine and I’m free to do what I want with it (apart from I would need fallos to resign if I wanted to change the name servers so I’ve used a zone file to point the domain at my servers)

Puzzle 1 (Walk in Darkness):

Upon seeing the image I recognized that this was braille a quick Google Image search provided me with the braille alphabet and I set about converting the text.

Puzzle 2 (Reflect your Path):

Again I was presented with braille and so I converted it and attempted to use the words I’d discovered. This failed and after being told I was not authorized I had another go at it. The clue was in the title as I had been told at the start, looking at the words on paper I realised they spelt a different word backwards trying this at my next login attempt took me to puzzle three.

Puzzle 3 (Jumble the Turmoil):

Again I got braille and so again I converted it, this gave me two normal words and just on the off chance I tried them again this failed. Wikipedia the second link on my Google search gave me the meaning of the word jumble:

Jumble is a word puzzle with a clue, a drawing illustrating the clue, and a set of words, each of which is “jumbled” by permuting its letters to make an anagram. 

The first link of my Google search sent me to a Scrambled Word Solver mixing a few of the permutations resulted in the correct username and password and I was on to the next one.

Puzzle 4 (Communications Opposed):

This one had me stumped, I tried flipping and reversing the characters shown to give me meaningful answers and yet nothing was working. Then a colleague took a look and within five minutes he had the answer. The characters being represented in the image where the dots that I couldn’t see, so using the dots in the image as spaces I redid the braille and then converted it giving me the correct username and password.

Puzzle 5 (Substantiate and Tally):

This puzzle brakes from the norm and displays a list of numbers. I hadn’t a clue and so put the string of numbers into Google. I came across two pages that helped me get the answer, the first explained a different method of displaying braille, the second is a worksheet where words are broken down into their numbers. I used Internet Explorers search function to find the corresponding numbers I required which resulted in the final username and password.

I enjoyed the puzzles and hopefully haven’t given away to much that you’ll still enjoy them.

			Track			Time
	1		B.O.B. - Nothin' On You (Ft. Bruno Mars)			04:29
	2		Professor Green - Just Be Good To Green			03:31
	3		B.O.B. - Airplanes Part 2 (ft. Eminem And Hayley Williams of Paramore)			05:19
	4		Train - Hey, Soul Sister			03:36
	5		Professor Green - I Need You Tonight			04:19
	6		Justin Bieber ft. Ludacris - Baby			03:31
	7		Roll Deep - Good Times (Promo Radio Edit)			02:54
	8		Usher ft Will.I.Am - OMG (Vocal Up)			04:29
	9		Chiddy Bang - The Opposite Of Adults (KIDS)			03:12
	10		Plan B - She Said			03:29
	11		B.O.B. - Bet I (ft. T.I. And Playboy Tre)			04:16
	12		Tinie Tempah Ft. Labrinth - Frisky (Fuck Me) (South Rakkas Crew Remix)			04:55
	13		Tinie Tempah Ft. Labrinth - Frisky (Album Version)			04:55
	14		Travie McCoy - Billionaire (feat. Bruno Mars)			03:30
	15		Flo Rida and David Guetta - Club Can't Handle Me			03:52
	16		Big Boi - Shutterbug Ft. Cutty (Produced By Scott Storch Co-Produced By Big Boi)			03:35
	17		Big Boi - Daddy Fat Sax (Produced By Mr. DJ)			02:37
	18		Big Boi - Fo Yo Sorrows Ft. George Clinton, Too Short And Sam Chris (Produced By Organized Noize)			03:42

Originally I used flavors.me this gives you a single web page to display your information. It is a really nice service, upon signing up you are given a flavors.me URL which you can customize the backgrounds and fonts to, you are then presented with a list of services that you may have signed up for: Twitter, Last.FM, Tumbler, WordPress, Friendfeed, Flickr, Foursquare e.t.c. After authorizing flavors.me to grab your data your pretty much done. The nice thing about flavors.me is that when a user comes to your page they don’t leave it to view your social data as flavors.me displays it inline as part of your page.

I’ve now moved on to use my Gravatar personnal profile page as the homepage for RobertMcGhee.co.uk. This very similar to flavors.me allows you to link your profile to the myriad of social networks out there. The difference between it and flavors.me is the layout, it is a profile page rather than an aggregator and so comes across more like a business card I guess which I really like. It doesn’t display your status updates and such in-line rather it links you to your user pages but I can deal with that.

If you have suggestions for any other homepage replacements please leave them in the comments below

Before starting you will need an Unlocked SPL for your device to allow us to ammend the MAC Address.

You’ll also need the AndroidSDK and fastboot/adb drivers installed.

1.) Open up a new command window.

2.) Type:

cd \

3.) Type:

cd AndroidSDK\tools

4.) Boot your HTC Hero into Fastboot

5.) Type:

fastboot oem rebootRUU

6.) After your phone restarts, type:

fastboot oem emapiWlanMac

You’ll get something like:

... INFONotice: This MAC address takes effect only
when your platfor
INFOm is EEPRON-less configuration. Please use (emapiTest)  to v
INFOerify it !
INFO0x00000000
INFO0x000000DE
INFO0x000000AD
INFO0x000000BE
INFO0x000000EF
INFO0x00000000
INFO-eMapiWlanMacCommand, status = 1
OKAY [  0.025s]
finished. total time: 0.026s

Make a note of your MAC Address (the last two characters of each line- this MAC address would be 00: DE:AD:BE:EF:00, for example).

7.) Now, type this command to set the new MAC Address that you want (MAC Address should use spaces instead of ‘:’):

fastboot oem emapiWlanMac 00 01 02 03 04 05

That would make the MAC Address 00:01:02:03:04:05.

8.) Done! Type this to reboot:

fastboot oem boot

And there you have it, you can now spoof your MAC to allow you onto a network or protect yourself from a Vendor specific deauth packet.

Browse on over to http://cronos.robmcghee.com to see the releases I have currently, more will be added shortly and all new ROMs will be uploaded upon release.

So to push the bootanimation you will need AndroidSDK.

Download the bootscreen you desire to use and place it where adb.exe is located usually in the tools folder of your androidsdk for me C:\AndroidSDK\tools\

Make sure you have USB Debugging enabled on your phone which you should or you wouldn’t get SU permission, and open up command prompt(xp users:start>run>cmd.exe, vista/w7 users: start>and type ‘cmd’ in the search bar) in cmd type:

Code:

cd\
cd C:\AndroidSDK\tools\   (or where ever your AndroidSDK is located but the \tools\ should be the same
adb remount
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local

now the animations should be good to go =D

ThunderRoad wrote:One question:

Is possible to do it with root explorer instead of ADB ??? Simply copy to the directory…..

Regards