Well I finally bit the bullet and installed CM7 on my ZTE Blade (Orange San Francisco) as well as upgrading from the Gen1 radio to Gen2. The install all went quite well using the TPT image-and-upgrade method. Disappointingly my downloaded apps didn’t all reinstall automatically, so spent a while on the Market re-sending them to the phone. Also the paid-for LauncherPro+ didn’t automatically unlock itself, however ROMManager did. I forgot to backup my SMS’s, but I found that you can unzip your nandroid backup’s data.

The last few days I’ve been using my Kindle 3G for internet access and was shocked at just how many adverts you have on websites these days. As I use Adblock+ with the Element Hiding Helper for Firefox 4, along with the EasyList and Fanboy filters, I hardly ever see adverts, in fact I thought graphical ads were dead by now lol! It’s Dad’s 65th birthday today as well as the royal wedding.

I decided to have another go at compiling CM7, this time using Fedora 13 on real hardware rather than an virtualised Ubuntu 10.10, which also means adb/udev is already working from when I rooted the ZTE Blades. I downloaded and installed the Oracle/Sun JDK 6u24 (which includes the JRE). Setting up “alternatives” to point to the Oracle JDK instead of OpenJDK/GCJ doesn’t work 100% as at least javadoc, appletviewer and javah have to be manually symlinked:

I’ve setup Eclipse and the Android SDK as I fancied tinkering with CM7 and maybe write an App or two. Hello World Tutorial SDK installation ADT Plugin for Eclipse Below is a screenshot of a 2.3.3 Gingerbread “AVD” running in the emulator, with my “Hello World!” icon: ¬img I tried to compile the Cyanogenmod 7 ROM and kernel for the emulator using these instructions on the wiki, however after downloading a few gigs worth of Git repo’s, and a few hours crunching away, it wouldn’t compile.

I thought I’d try LibreOffice 3.3.2 for Linux after having read that Oracle have effectively dumped OpenOffice back on the community after having failed to monetize it, but succeeding in losing all the developers and community support. Nowhere in the installation instructions does it say if you don’t uninstall OpenOffice first, you’ll end up with no file associations! After finding that LibO doesn’t actually fix the only thing I hate about OO.