I recently purchased a second device to install Sailfish OS on. The documentation recommends installing the latest compatible Android baseband version - which essentially means re-flashing Android - before installing SFOS. Olf's excellent guide goes into more detail here, esp. for my XA2 Ultra (H321...

Prequel Before this I had regular LineageOS installed on the same device. But after an unwelcome manual upgrade from 15.1 to 16 - I had to install from scratch, there's no upgrade procedure - it broke down after another nightly update that would have required additional steps (but the updater app di...

Why I've Had Enough Of Android Before I even start, let me clarify one thing: LineageOS is Android, too. Every custom ROM that is based on AOSP is Android, too. For a long time I was trying to make my Android smartphone safer, better, less bloated, more useful... and always struggled with the lack...

This article concentrates on setting up a calendar server on an already running nginx server and importing existing content into the newly created empty calendar / address book, ready for syncing across devices. Initial situation I rely a lot on my digital calendar, but currently it resides on my un...

One day I ran my phone's battery down all the way to 0%, until it switched itself off. When I rebooted, of my hundreds of contacts only about a dozen were left (those stored on the SIM card I suspect). Of course my last backup was way too old, and I don't have any online accounts either. Ouch. But s...

This is an older (kitkat) device which I wanted to factory-reset before selling it, but alas, it wouldn't boot anymore after that. This didn't surprise me because I'd made a lot of changes to it, on a system level. Actually, it did still boot, but got stuck loading the UI, hence half-bricked. This i...

This is not a complete step-by-step HowTo. You will have to look at each of the linked articles and make your own choices depending on your device, android version and so on. Last year I got myself a used Acer Liquid E700. It's a nice phone, big enough, and very powerful for its price. A cruci...

I'm not the one to promote android apps usually, but here is a nice one that does exactly what I desire, and follows some sort of Unix philosophy. Internet Radio - audio streaming - works nicely on all my GNU/Linux computers: get a playlist or create a playlist from one or two streaming links save ...