Thursday, April 21, 2016

Graphics Card for Desert

I have some old AGP Graphics cards that have failed and I wanted to try baking them to try and make them work again. I'm either going to get them to work, or take them apart and see what I can save. It probably won't be a lot, but it'll be fun to do. And that's what this is really all about, right?

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Rooting a Broken Android Phone

I love the Nexus 4. It was an exceptional phone for its time. I had mine for 3 years before upgrading to the Nexus 6P, but it is still a great phone. Sure it wasn't without its flaws, but what phone is? I got my hands on a Nexus 4 with a broken screen. Like, really broken screen. It was bad. Only the top quarter of the screen was touch sensitive. The crack had gone all the way through. The only way to control it would be to root it so that we could use a mouse with it. But how do you do that with a phone that only has a quarter of its screen usable (so we can't unlock it with the pattern) and USB Debugging Off? I guess the real question here is "is it possible?" We're about to find out.