LolliRock'n, Day Two
Just a quick note for old, lazy DOS'ers like myself who may be pulling their hair out wondering why they're getting no error messages but, instead of success, are getting the bloody green Android, splattered on his back and with red Alert triangle spilling out.
DOS'ers don't retype in CMD, we Fn3, right? Especially when typing a long Windows path, hitting function#3 retypes the last entry, correctly. What I did wrong & maybe someone else will do was to not notice that instructions #1 and #2 below are different NOT JUST IN FILENAME, but also in the instruction before the file name. I Fn3'd and changed boot.img to system.img, several times, and got the locked-up computer with the road-kill, bleeding green 'droid every time. I re-downloaded the files and even tried a new USB>microUSB cord but no joy. Then I noticed the word "boot" before boot.img changed to "system" before system.img, re-ran the instructions CORRECTED and all is swell!
Instructions (copied from post):
1) fastboot flash boot boot.img
2) fastboot flash system system.img
3) fastboot -w
On Day Two with LolliRock & I'm loving it! It's pretty hard to tell the difference between this and Google's factory-original Lollipop. If I had to name a difference it would be how drama-free this o.s. is, compared to any stock version this new.
The following are a couple of observations that other newbies may be interested in:
Of course Google's stock browser Chrome (still) doesn't do Flash so I loaded Puffin to watch my local TV news station's live feed and for MeTV's great oldies. Puffin worked well with the local news channel but the MeTV shows were a little jerky & sound wasn't synchronized well. The problem was probably at MeTV's server but, to be sure, I installed Dolphin and tried watching on it.
Dolphin is a no-go on the LolliRock'd Nexus Player. It put the Nexus in portrait mode and, as I couldn't find a setting to force landscape mode, I downloaded a widget to do it. Then, when I tried Dolphin again, it crashed, no warning.
FlashFox browser also crashes immediately but, unlike Dolphin, FlashFox does give an excuse. An info screen advises that FlashFox doesn't currently run on Intel's processors.
As noted in earlier posts, LolliRock v.1.5 doesn't itself have functionality to eliminate the over scan built into TVs back in the days when screens were cathode ray tubes. That dinosaur tech, as it aged, shrunk the images displayed on it. Over scan was the industry's remedy for image shrinkage. Sixty years later the reason for over scan, CRT displays, no longer exist but the "cure" continues, for some reason. Some new LCD TVs can fix over scan with a visit to settings, mine couldn't. But a free download, "UI Tuner" by Bassel Bakr, fixes it.
"UI Tuner" works flawlessly, in my experience, but it is a little short on instructions. So, here are mine: download it, open it, change over scan from "0,0,0,0" to "32,16,32,16". Then drop down and check the box beside, "Set on boot..." That's it!
LolliRock is TERRIFIC! Three thumbs up!
