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Sunday, December 31, 2023

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Asus Zenfone 2 (ASUS_Z00MD) and Android Fastboot

I originally rooted this phone 6 years ago. Two days ago, I booted into recovery mode and erased partitions, which ultimately caused the device to be stuck in Fastboot mode!!!. Oh no! I brickie phonie!!!

NOT! Here is how I got it back to working order.

  • Turned off device and removed SDcard
  • Plugged SDcard into PC
  • On PC visited cyanogenmod page at https://cyanogenmodroms.com/z00l/
  • Downloaded Cyanogenmod from https://cyanogenmodroms.com/link/cm-14-1-20161225-nightly-z00l-zip/
  • Copied the downloaded zip file to the SDcard
  • Put SDcard back into Asus Zenfone and turned on back into Fastboot
  • I already have Android Studio, so I have C:\Users\[USER]\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools
  • Opened Command shell as administrator and USB connected the Asus Zenfone to PC
  • In command shell "cd C:\Users\[USER]\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools"
  • Confirm USB connection to Asus Zenfone with "fastboot devices"
  • Downloaded TWRP from https://dl.twrp.me/Z00L/twrp-3.0.2-4-Z00L.img
  • Moved the IMG file to the /platform-tools folder and renamed to twrp.img
  • In command shell: "fastboot boot twrp.img"
  • From TWRP screen on phone, select [install] and navigate to the ZIP file on the SDcard
  • Voila. Now this phone has no Google Play Services and thus no Google Play, but I want that. I code and install my own apps.

    One can also root this device following this https://lineageosroms.com/Z00L/

    Thursday, December 14, 2023

    Raiders 42 Chargers 0 - Fanduel Odds

    Watching inside the Oracle Virtual Machine running Ubuntu. Go to https://reddit1.nflbite.com and then to https://buffstreams.app/. Need to click the link and close the resulting open tab several times before the browser settles on the desired stream.

    Sunday, December 10, 2023

    Oracle VM VirtualBox - Missing Dependencies Python Core / win32api

    First I verify that the Windows file system has these directories:

  • 1. C:\Python310
  • 2. C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python


  • Now quite frankly, I may have installed Python from the Microsoft Store and also from https://www.python.org/downloads/, but at this point, I do not want to spend time figuring out which is which and cleaning things up, so I opt to use the directory with the more recent date modified of 12/7/2023

    I also see that directory 2 has Python312 and so I will edit the Windows Environment Path variable for User and System by addding the following directories:

  • C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312
  • C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Scripts




  • Then I open a user level command prompt and run: pip install pywin32

    Thursday, December 7, 2023

    Verify USB 2.0 or 3.0?

    Get the Windows SDK here.
    Run and install only "Debugging Tools for Windows"
    Double click C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Debuggers\x64\usbview.exe