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collected: own shiny kernel on the tolino shine
The (patched) kernel used in the Tolino Shine was made available (by accident) a few weeks ago. I mirrored the archive here: md5 size/mb file 90e78f2f7fdfffe460c85651cae431a3 109 kernel.tar.gz Extract...
View Articlecollected: shiny ADB and root – the f*c**@! (:=easy) way
I AM SO STUPID. I was looking for a way to exploit that little thingy by using some buffer overflow or some other coding mumbo jumbo… the hard way. And there is a script that writes the whole recovery...
View Articlefree your packets
I was about to write a technical article on how to use an OpenVPN tunnel (provided by Cyberghost) over a wireless access point running OpenWRT – just for myself and some paranoid reasons (thank you...
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collected: shiny new update keys for 1.2.4
some background on how the update works On startup the shine checks the external sdcard for some special files. If there is a file named update.zip, the system starts with /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 mounted...
View ArticleOpenWrt Barrier Breaker metarouter instance on MikroTik RB-2011
THE PATCH PUBLISHED IN THIS ARTICLE IS NOT COMPLETE. AT LEAST THE VIRTUAL MACHINE WILL CRASH SPORADICALLY UPON RECEIVING NETWORK PACKETS USING THE VIRTUAL INTERFACES. I WIIL TRY TO FIX THIS ASAP. While...
View ArticleMS SQL generated XML – cleanup and sanitize
All recent versions of MS SQL are able to generate the XML representation of a SQL query result on the fly: >select * from dbo.foo id foo 1 dead 2 beef >select * from dbo.foo for XML RAW,...
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ESP8266 GPIO output performance
While building an extreme feedback device utilizing the ESP8266 and a bunch of WS2812B LEDs I missed some detailed information about the GPIO output performance of the ESP8266. This was a more general...
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Nokia N95 – broken display and OVI won’t connect…
Suddenly the display of an old Nokia N95 stopped working. On power on the phone vibrated – but nothing more. Sliding the display up and down created some scratchy sounds – a good indication for a...
View ArticleTolino Shine – update 1.9.0 with adbd and testkeys
Update 1.9.0 does not contain any whipe/recover images – so reworking was quite easy. The reworked update contains: adbd enabled su testkeys (so the next update can also be reworked and installed)...
View Articleenable adb connection for Ulefone Power phone on Linux
As I wasn’t able to find this in a single spot in the net… (maybe my google-foo is rusty) enable adb on the phone and set USB mode to PTP add a rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules:...
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