com.s33me If You Want Some
Nothing fancy, just a personal log with a built in search function so I can recall what is easily forgotten.
Thursday, February 26, 2026
ND-105X GPS Dongle Attached to Surface Pro 7 Windows 11 Tablet
Thursday, January 8, 2026
Thought I Bricked a XT2041-4 Moto G
Power 2020 Mobile Phone ...
... Until I downloaded the Motorola Mobile USB drivers, reboot into fastboot by holding down power and volume down buttons, opened a command window in the folder C:\Users\[my user name]\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools and typed "fastboot -w" followed by "fastboot continue".
I can't find a TWRP recovery image for this model. Do I dare install https://en-us.support.motorola.com/app/softwarefix? No not worth the hidden ware. I have other rooted devices.
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
BusyBox v1.37 Error When booting Kali Linux
[0.308533] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PR01._CPC due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20210730/psparse-529)
[0.308564] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PR00._CPC], AE_NOT_FOUND (20210730/psargs-330)
[0.308569] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PR02._CPC due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20210730/psparse-529)
[0.308602] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PR00._CPC], AE_NOT_FOUND (20210730/psargs-330)
[0.308607] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PR03._CPC due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20210730/psparse-529)
BusyBox v1.30.1 (ubuntu 1:1:30.1-7ubuntu3) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands.
(initramfs)
Type "exit"
Type "fsck /dev/sd8 -y"
Friday, December 26, 2025
Dragon OS Live USB
...The answer is yes. The peristence option on Rufus creates a device called "casper-rw", which allowed me to create a small text folder in Noble note and save it under the "live" user. It is still there after shutdown and reboot from live USB".
Friday, December 12, 2025
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Format Raw USB drive
Tried Windows Properties GUI through right click on drive and got an error message: " unable to format Raw "
Open/run commmand terminal as administrator.
diskpartlist disk
select disk [disk #]
create partition primary
format fs=exFAT
...wait
assign letter=e
I am doing this to create a bootable USB drive.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Moto G Power Rooting Adventure Continues...
Now the phone is unlocked with ./fastboot oem unlock



