Sometimes your favorite Android app is one that is not available on the Play Store and hasn’t been updated in ages. You get your latest and greatest new phone/tablet, and now you are excited to install that one app not available on the Play Store. Suddenly you find out you cannot install it due to […]
Bricking My Android Phone And Bringing It Back To Life With The Power Of ADB Commands And TWRP
I was running an Android 7.1.1 custom rom, more specifically PureNexus (which is a great rom by the way), in my Nexus 5X and decided to upgrade to the latest build of PureNexus. So I did what every good person would do, I created a nandroid backup utilizing TWRP and I thought I was ready […]
Android Studio – Error While Loading Shared Libraries: libz.so.1
If you are running Android Studio in Linux Mint / Ubuntu 64bit and you just updated to the latest Android Studio version, you might get the following error: /home/esilva/IDEs/android-studio/sdk/build-tools/19.1.0/aapt: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
How To Delete a Module in Android Studio
Android Studio is a great tool, and way better design than Eclipse in my humble opinion, yet not every software is perfect and one of the things it falls short (and by that I mean user friendly) is when it comes to deleting a module within yout project. The folks over at JetBrains made this […]
Android Studio: Failed to complete Gradle execution. Supplied JAVA_HOME is not a valid folder
So I recently upgraded from Java 7 to Java 8, when I opened Android Studio, the below message popped up Failed to complete Gradle execution.Supplied JAVA_HOME is not a valid folder. You supplied /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle I was like, “what the heck!” since I already had changed my JAVA_HOME environment variable…
Root Your Nexus 5 Under Linux [Guide]
I am using Linux Mint for this guide, and unlike Windows, under Linux you do not have to install any additional drivers. If you are using Ubuntu or Fedora, you need to set up some things for ADB to work. You can follow my Ubuntu or my Fedora guide to set up ADB. With Linux […]
How to Calibrate the Phone’s Battery After Flashing a new ROM or Kernel
If you are like me, changing roms very often, you will find yourself calibrating your phone’s battery very often. I remember the first rom I flashed back when I had my Sprint Hero, battery life was terrible after flashing it, and since I was a n00b back then, I did not know that I had […]
How to set up ADB (Android Debug Bridge) in Mac OSX
I have seen many questions regarding the set up of ADB under Mac OSX, and when I got myself a MBP I had the same question. After some research, I was able to find that is not as complicated as I thought it would be; it’s actually less of a hassle than setting it up […]
How to Uninstall Sprint Apps from from Your Android Device
When I got my phone I didn’t like that it came loaded with useless apps from Sprint, like NFL, Nascar, SprintTV, I immediately wanted to remove them, but unfortunately they couldn’t be removed. What now? After some research, I found out that the only way to remove them is by rooting the phone and using […]
Setting Up ADB/USB Drivers for Android Devices in Linux (Ubuntu)
If you are like me and like developing in Linux, then you will find this guide useful. When I was setting up everything for my Android development, I ran into the problem that Linux was not recognizing my Android phone, and took me some time figuring out how to make Linux recognize my phone. Finally, […]