Android ROM scene is cluster fuck of inhumane proportion; the complete lack of documentation, decent how-to, decent guides and the retarded works for me attitude the whole community has really amazes me. TWRP project is a good example of a really useful tool used by [millions] of people all over the world, one would assume that it has to be maintained in a professional way but this is as far from the reality as something can get. The official site lacks any kind of documentation, the only information one can find there are either completely useless or partial and incomplete (e.g. the how to build from source guide linked on TWRP faq page is a link to a XDA forum post saying absolutely nothing on how to build this shit). Not only that, but the site download page (one would hope that at least that part was taken care of…) is not up to date. For bacon (oneplus one), which is a really popular phone among modders, the latest version present in the download page of the official TWRP site is the buggy and completely useless twrp-2.8.7.0-bacon. To get the latest version (twrp-2.8.7.1-bacon) which supports file-system encryption on CM13 and correctly flash the baseband ROM one has to dig through a whole pile of shit on XDA and finally find a post where pajeet post a link where to download it: http://build.twrp.me/twrp/twrp-2.8.7.1-bacon.img The irony is that the link is from the TWRP official site even though it can’t be found anywhere on the bacon download page on the very same site. In case someone decide to delete the file I am rehosting it here: https://uwot.eu/misc/twrp-2.8.7.1-bacon.img …

In order to be able to mount a MTP device (in my case it is a Oneplus One) in thunar file manager the following packages are needed: simple-mtpfs libmtp fuse fuse-libs gvfs-mtp. After installing the previous listed packages restart the system. Once installed the device can me be mounted with simple-mtpfs _directory_, unmounted with fusermount -u _directory_ or mounted with thunar/gigolo/etc.

Two weeks ago while wasting time on the interwebs I found by accident a couple of OnePlus One invites. To be honest I wasn’t planning on buying a new phone since my previous Nexus 4 is still serving me well but seeing OPO price (299 € for the 64 GB one) and specs I said: well, fuck it. So far I like it very much, the bigger screen makes general usage more enjoyable and battery life is significantly better than Nexus 4, it lasts 2 days without many problems. I can’t really comment on Cyanogenmod OPO edition or whatever the stock ROM is called since I used it for just the bunch of minutes necessarily to enable USB debug, unlock the bootloader and install recovery and stock Cyanogenmod 11 snapshot M11. One thing I for sure don’t like is the unlock screen, stock Cyanogenmod one is way way better but that’s pretty much it, can’t say more. …