gingerbread
- HTC Desire Z battery tile: the SD card its launcher can't write
A battery tile with a CSV logger for my Android 2.3 launcher took one build. Finding a place the log could live took a day: the launcher owns the SD card.
- HTC Desire Z battery drain in milliamps, straight from sysfs
The battery icon on my HTC Desire Z said 100% all day. A kernel file, smem_text, had the number that moved: device draw in mA, readable without root.
- Terraria on the HTC Desire Z: a DRM loop and a dead edge
Terraria on an HTC Desire Z with Android 2.3: a license check that called itself, a signing key that broke installs, and an edge that never answers.
- A camera app for the HTC Desire Z, cut from 13,144 lines to 881
MeshCam for the HTC Desire Z on Android 2.3: an AOSP camera fork cut to 881 lines, a location the donor always saved as null, and a two-stage shutter key.