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Augsburg Choir Celebrates Its Nordic Roots Through European Tour
The Augsburg College Choir will present their "Bon Voyage" Concert on Friday, May 22 at 7:30 pm at the Ted Mann Concert Hall, 2128 4th Street South, Minneapolis. The choir will perform their 1998 European Tour Concert before venturing on a two-week tour of Germany, Sweden and Norway. Tickets: $12/8 students and seniors. Box office: 624-2345.
The world-renowned Augsburg Choir brings together the musical traditions of North and South America and Europe in the repertoire for their 1998 northern European concert tour. Conducted by Peter Hendrickson, the sixty-voice choir will perform a variety of sacred and secular works, including American spirituals, South American folk music, and choral classics by Benjamin Britten, Johannes Brahms, and J.S. Bach. The concert will also include a selection of "music from the North;" works by Norwegian composer Egil Hovland, Norwegian-American composer Leland B. Sateren, and a Nordic trilogy of music from Germany, Sweden, and Norway, specially arranged by Hendrickson for the choir's tour, and reflecting the northern European heritage of Augsburg College's founders.
Augsburg College was founded in 1869 by Norwegian immigrants and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the College's mission is to nurture future leaders in service to the world. Augsburg's Scandinavian connections extend from the heritage of its founders to the College's ongoing role as one of the sponsors and hosts of the annual Peace Prize forum, held in cooperation with the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. In 1995, King Harald V of Norway visited Augsburg College and was presented with the Augsburg Medal by the Board of Regents. Augsburg is home to the Nordic Center, founded in 1983 by leaders from Minnesota's business, educational, professional, and ethnic communities to provide a continuing forum for exchange of information and ideas with Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
The Choir upholds Augsburg College's history of choral excellence dating back to the early part of this century. Members are chosen through competitive auditions, and the group has been praised for its versatility and musicality. The Choir performs frequently in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and around the United States. Their Advent Vespers services are attended by more than 10,000 people each year and heard by many thousands more on public radio broadcasts.
European tour highlights will include concerts in Leipzig and Rostock, Germany; Jönköping and Dala-Jörna, Sweden; and Kristiansand, Sandefjord, Ål, Bergen, and Tysvaer, Norway. The Augsburg Choir is being joined by percussionist and Augsburg colleague, Dr. Robert Stacke, who will accompany the group on marimba, trap set, and various hand percussion instruments.
Dr. Peter Hendrickson, Conductor of the Augsburg Choir, a graduate of Augsburg College, is Director of Choral Activities at Augsburg. A frequent guest conductor at festivals, Dr. Hendrickson serves as Artistic Director of the American Choir Festival in Leipzig, Germany. Hendrickson's conducting activities also include serving as Music Director for the Warland Symphonic Chorus, which performed with guest conductors such as Roger Norrington, Edo de Waart, and David Zinman. In addition to his conducting career, Hendrickson performs frequently on organ and harpsichord with the Minnesota Orchestra, and has been heard on US radio broadcasts with groups including the Empire Brass, the Dale Warland Singers, and James Sewell Ballet.
For more information, contact Carley Miller at 330-1279.


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It's interesting the conversations you overhear, out of context, that resonate with you. It happened for me at camp this weekend in Grand Canyon at the Desert View Campground.
Desert View is a first-come-first-served no-reservations campground on the extreme eastern end of the park. It sees a lot of last-minute campers that couldn't make reservations at the main campground near Grand Canyon Village, so it's quite the motley crew when it fills up. We had everything from drunk Canadian party boys to German families to nomadic guitar playing hippies. We also had a small herd of urban hipsters who were seemingly lost, because they sure didn't seem to be happy about this whole "camping" thing.
One morning two of the hipsters had broken from the purposefully-uninterested, apathetic herd and were conversing in the typical condescending fashion. Clearly, one of the two was not satisfied with sitting around camp practicing cool indifference and honing his snarky, sarcastic wit. He struggled to explain his ambitions to his friend.
"I don't know, man…it's just not what I want to do."
"Well, what is it then?"
"I…I want to…to go for a walk…go somewhere. You know…meet random people, see random things. Maybe do something slightly unsafe…"
I have never heard anyone struggle so much to explain their need for ADVENTURE. In his struggle to verbalize his inexplicable desire to do something exciting he inadvertently delivered what I believe is the best definition of "Adventure" I've ever heard. I really hope this guy got the adventure he was after, but sadly his tribe probably snarked him into submission.
But his plea for adventure got me thinking about my own trip. How did our little trip to the Grand Canyon measure up to these requirements? Would he have approved of our own little adventure?
…Go for a walk…go somewhere…
Broken foot or not, we did hike. It wasn't far and it wasn't difficult, but we hiked. Even with a full campground and a tourist packed National Park we found and hiked trails that had few, if any, other people on them. We found places along the South Rim with epic views and quiet solitude.
…Meet random people…
Most notably, we made the acquaintance of local photographer, and ex-Grateful-Dead-chasing-hippie Jeff Franklin. As we sat at Shoshone Point waiting for sunset, Jeff made his way out to the point and chatted us up for the next couple hours. He was an interesting guy with a lot of stories to tell. He lives in the area and his wife works for Grand Canyon Village so he spends his time biking and hiking the area exploring and taking pictures. We talked about The Park, conservation, history, nature, and he offered some tips and insight for exploring some of the more remote regions of the Canyon.
…See random things…
Among seeing tourists dangling from the edges of the canyon, posing with dangerous wildlife and wearing some of the most inappropriate and outrageous clothing you'd expect to see at a National Park…I'd say it got pretty random. But nothing takes the cake for randomness like Bedrock City. It's the one place where if I were to show you the pictures, out of context and without the story, most people would react with a big fat WTF! In the 1970s when The Flinstones was still a very popular cartoon and Hanna-Barbara was the king of Saturday mornings this place made perfect sense. Now though, it qualifies as a VERY random roadside oddity.
…Do something slightly unsafe…
Admittedly, this is my favorite part of any adventure. This one is pretty subjective because what I consider "unsafe" and what others consider "unsafe" can vary by a wide margin. With my busted foot, I wasn't in a position to push the boundaries too much. But I imagine our hipster buddy would potentially break into a cold sweat and get wobbly in the knees standing too close to the 400+ foot drop offs at some of the Canyon edges. We saw plenty of tourists who's own fear of heights kept them well behind the guardrails.
I guess, all in all, when I look back on the trip through the thick-rimmed retro glasses of Mr. Skinny Jeans I think we satisfied his criteria for fun and adventure. Standards differ and there are varying levels of adventure, but the basics are all here…go somewhere new, see random stuff, meet random people and do something that scares you…even if just a little bit.
If you have a story about seeing random stuff, meeting random people or doing something that scares you…share it with me in the comments! I love those kinds of stories!

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As Jennifer Quist was revising her second novel for publication, she had a couple of other things on her mind.
During that three-month window in 2014, the author and journalist was also preparing to move her family back to the Edmonton area after eight years down south in Lacombe. Then there was the fact that her husband was frequently out of town for work. Plus, Quist has five sons, each of whom still needed to be shipped off to school each morning and ushered back home each afternoon.
Revising her novel, then, became largely a late-night pursuit. But that constant daytime juggling act actually ended up fuelling Quist's writing.
"Those are really good conditions for me to write in," she says from her home in St. Albert. "For some reason that tension is creatively fruitful for me."
Quist wrote the first draft of that novel, the just-released Sistering (Linda Leith Publishing), at the same time as her 2013 debut, the beautiful and slightly unnerving Love Letters of the Angel of Death. At first, Quist says, there wasn't much industry interest in her black comedy about five tight-knit Edmonton sisters and one newly dead mother-in-law. But when her publisher mentioned it was looking for titles to fill out its 2015 lineup, Quist decided she was willing to put in the hours to tinker with the voice and perspective until it felt just right.
That's when Love Letters was announced as one of 142 titles longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, which comes with a 100,000 euro payday. And that's also about the time Quist won an Alberta Lieutenant Governor's Emerging Artist Award. Taken together, she felt more confident in her abilities than ever.
"It felt like a validation," Quist says.
Sistering has five siblings at its core, and the narration cycles between them, shining a light on their respective insecurities, passions and bumpy marriages from multiple angles. The women share just about everything with one another — except for a mother-in-law. For whatever reason, only one sister, Suzanne, has one. And in a sibling relationship like theirs, where privacy is hard to come by, even that simple fact becomes something to cling to.
"The mother-in-law is a portal for going in and out of the sisterhood as (Suzanne) needs to," Quist says, "to preserve her own sense of identity and control of her life. The mother-in-law herself doesn't know anything about it, and doesn't do anything to facilitate this. But the sisters are so alike and so tied together that she's one of the few things that this character feels is a concrete way to step away."
Like her first book, Quist's sophomore novel is very concerned with the invisible tripwires that spring up amidst even the most intimate of families.
Oh, and also death. There's more death, too.
"Death is the universal tragedy," Quist agrees. "If everything else in your life went perfectly — which it won't — you're still going to get out of here through death. I think that's why I come back to it.
"No matter how happy your marriage is, or your family, there's going to be a separation. The fact that that happens to people who love being together makes it tragic and poignant in a different way than for people who are suffering through each other as they live."
That's why Quist isn't a fan of the famous lines that open Anna Karenina: you know, the thing about a family's unhappiness being the thing that makes it special.
"I don't believe that at all," she says. "I think that every family is a freak show. Some of them run smoothly, and everyone's happy and loves each other, but there's still drama and complication." Quist doesn't think novelists need extreme material, like alcoholism or incest, to make those dynamics work on the page. "You don't have to hate each other for it to be interesting."
With five combative but loving sisters — not to mention their spouses, their children and even a thinly bearded video-game clerk or two — sharing the spotlight, there are no shortage of personalities to bounce their feelings off of. Every twist in the plot gets refracted through five minds, five sets of eyes, and five hearts.
"When you shrink a family, I think you make a book more lonely," Quist says. "You make it harder to deal with intimacy when there are fewer people to relate to."
Of course, there's another reason Quist may have chosen five as the number of siblings for the novel. She grew up as part of a house of five daughters, and now, as mentioned earlier, she has five sons of her own, all of which still live at home. Five suited her story, as it seems to suit her life.
"I didn't look up on a chart what my lucky number is or anything," Quist says. "I guess I don't have to."
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Jennifer Quist launches Sistering at Audreys Books (10702 Jasper Ave.) on Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. Admission is free.


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I want to share two items with you. Individually they are they are the sort of things we hardly give much thought. Together they are important symbols of the value that ACRL brings to its members, and a valuable reminder of the impact ACRL has on academic librarians. What makes it all possible is the ACRL membership, and the support it provides for beneficial ACRL initiatives.
When I attended ACRL's fall strategic planning meeting (SPOS) I found an envelope waiting for me on the table in our meeting room. Then I noticed the same envelope at every seat. Someone had written a letter to every member of the ACRL Board of Directors, not a form letter mind you, but a letter addressed individually to each member. That clearly took some time and effort. That usually happens when someone is either incredibly angry or incredibly joyful. Fortunately, it was the latter.
The letter was written by Charlotte King of San Diego. She was writing to express her sincere gratitude for being selected as a 2012 Spectrum Scholar. Charlotte is pursuing her Masters in Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. She aspires to become an academic librarian. Charlotte told us that the scholarship will help her to afford her educational expenses, but what she also appreciated was the access to the mentoring support offered through the program. I really liked how Charlotte ended her letter: "This opportunity is a brilliant start to my library journey." Thanks to the support received from ACRL members, it's sure to be a long and successful journey.
Then I came across an article that I would imagine received limited readership. Published in a state library journal, Virginia Libraries, the article "Learning the Language of Information Literacy: Takeaways From ACRL's Immersion Program" was a random discovery for me. I know thousands of librarians have attended various Immersion Programs and I am sure past attendees have written about the program, but rarely have I come across such an eloquent expression of the value of Immersion and how it can serve as a practice-changing revelation for those who participate.
The authors, Rebecca K. Miller of Virginia Tech and Jonathan R. Paulo of James Madison University, each share their reflections on attending the 2011 Immersion Program in Seattle. It's clear that for both Miller and Paulo, what they experienced not only added to their knowledge of instruction and assessment methods, but also instilled new skills and enthusiasm for library research instruction. As Paulo writes "I am a better librarian, and most importantly, I am a better educator." Miller also experienced some profound changes in her post-Immersion practice and writes [that] "I can feel a difference in the levels of engagement in my classes, and I actually enjoy teaching a little bit more."
When you've been in the profession as long as I have you may get jaded at times. You may forget what inspired your passion for academic librarianship. These two discoveries are the exact type of stimulus that renews my spirit and energizes my commitment to academic librarianship. Here was concrete evidence of how my support for ACRL makes a difference in the lives of prospective and developing colleagues. It is a way I can help the next generation to have a great career experience, like the one I have enjoyed for many years.
For more seasoned academic librarians like myself, being an ACRL member and supporting its initiatives make it easy to be a Giveback Generation Librarian. Newer-to-the-career academic librarians will discover many ways to get engaged with ACRL.
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I hope they will understand that member associations like ACRL exist to enable those of us who are dedicated to academic librarianship to accomplish amazing things as a collective that we could not possibly achieve as individuals. I hope this post will provide inspiration for how the work of this Association does make a difference. It happens at the individual level when folks like King, Miller and Paulo have career changing experiences. It happens at the collective level when ACRL advocates for open access, creates initiatives for demonstrating library value or provides opportunities for publishing and presenting. We sometimes lose sight of these things. That is when the small acts remind us of the big impact of ACRL.


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WASHINGTON -- After countless new rules designed to make Wall Street safer, it's come to this: Another securities firm has collapsed from risky, poorly disclosed bets.
Not enough, in other words, has changed since the U.S. financial system nearly toppled three years ago.
The bankruptcy filing last week by MF Global Holdings Ltd. didn't freeze lending and panic investors around the world, as Lehman Brothers' did in 2008. But the rapid fall of the firm run by former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine shows risky behavior persists, despite a vast regulatory overhaul.
As lenders abandon Italy this week and stocks plummet on fear that defaults in Europe are all but inevitable, those new rules are about to be put to the test. One question no one can answer: Is the financial system, with its expanding web of connections that even experts can't trace, any safer?
"People are making the same dumb bets," says investor Michael Lewitt of Harch Capital, who calls Washington's new rules inadequate.
MF Global's collapse suggests that:
-- Financial companies are making risky bets with borrowed money and hiding them off their balance sheets. In MF Global's case, scant disclosure made it harder for people to see the danger until it was too late.
-- Those bets are being made with their own money, but threatening customers and trading partners. Dodd-Frank, the Wall Street overhaul passed last year, focused on big, complex financial companies whose failure could topple other firms. The law bans these "systemically important" companies from making such bets with their own money, called proprietary trading. But it does little about smaller financial firms like MF Global.
-- Many financial companies operate without coordinated oversight by regulators. MF Global was watched over by several regulators. But no one was in charge of coordinating them. Financial companies, aside from the biggest, face the same patchwork oversight that failed to stop risky bets before the financial crisis.
The bust of MF Global itself is not an indictment of the new rules. Dodd-Frank wasn't designed to prevent all financial failures. In fact, some failures can be healthy if they discourage investors from taking on excessive risk.
But MF Global's collapse brought heavy costs. It caused millions in losses for investors. It threw commodity markets into disarray. And it left customers confused and angry because $593 million of their money is missing.
"The question for regulators is, 'How did this happen?'" says David Kotok, a money manager at Cumberland Advisors. "Could we have seen it coming?"
The answer: Yes -- but you had to look hard.
MF Global failed after buying billions of European government bonds on a hunch they were less risky than many investors assumed. The trouble wasn't so much the bet itself. It was how the firm disclosed it and financed it.
MF Global didn't recognize those bonds on its balance sheet for all to see. Instead, they were shunted "off-balance sheet," their presence noted deep in its financial statements. Some separate filings with regulators excluded them entirely.
This sleight-of-hand was possible thanks to an accounting maneuver used by Lehman to hide its debt before it failed: Instead of holding onto the bonds it had just bought, MF Global "sold" them to other companies in exchange for cash -- with the promise to buy them back later.
In effect, it was borrowing the cash but not calling it that since technically it came from a "sale." And because the bonds were off its books, MF Global didn't have to acknowledge the risk they posed.
Other firms have struck similar off-balance-sheet deals, but poor disclosure makes them difficult to track.
The lack of detail about financial companies' holdings can lead to panic selling. Fearing another MF Global, investors started dumping shares of broker Jefferies Group Inc. last month. The stock recovered after the company released details showing its bets were smaller and not funded by the same off-balance-sheet deals.
Janet Tavakoli, president of Tavakoli Structured Finance in Chicago, says the hidden debt at MF Global makes her wonder if regulators have learned anything from the financial crisis. She notes that American International Group Inc. used off-balance-sheet "swaps" to bet that U.S. homeowners would pay back their mortgages -- that is, until it collapsed and had to be bailed out by taxpayers.
"We've seen this movie before," says Tavakoli.
Under Dodd-Frank, large financial companies that played a big role in the financial crisis are subjected to new, stricter oversight. But that's not the case with smaller firms.
Christopher Whalen, managing director at Institutional Risk Analytics, notes that banks must file quarterly "call reports" listing a wide range of details about their risks -- but no such disclosure is required of smaller financial firms like MF Global.
"The problem is, they are still very opaque," Whalen says.
In the case of MF Global, it not only made "proprietary" bets banned at larger firms, it did so with gobs of borrowed money. One measure of that, its so-called leverage ratio, hit 31-to-1 in September, similar to Lehman's before it failed. Most big banks are closer to 10-to-1 now.
Of course, the risks taken by MF Global may prove more an exception than a rule. But Louise Purtle, an analyst at research firm CreditSights, is worried. She wrote in a report last week that, as regulators crack down on the largest financial companies, risk could be building in the "shadow banking system" -- the thousands of hedge funds, small brokers, money managers and other non-bank financial firms out of the spotlight.
A recent Federal Reserve report estimated the assets of the "shadow banking system" at $16 trillion last year, up from $5 trillion or so in 1995.
The failure of MF Global highlights another problem: The more regulators watching over a company, the less likely it will be watched closely.
The Securities and Exchange Commission oversaw the firm's stock and bond trading but left day-to-day monitoring to a private group, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Bets on the future prices of oil and other commodities, called futures, were watched over by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). But that regulator also deferred to private organizations such as CME Group Inc., which operates exchanges where futures trade. The Federal Reserve allowed MF Global to join an elite group of "primary dealers" helping Washington sell new U.S. Treasury bonds. But instead of checking for itself if the company was taking undue risks, the central bank relied on the SEC and the CFTC.
"Who was in charge?" says Michael Robinson, a former spokesman at the SEC, now at public relations firm Levick Strategic Communications. "Everyone says, 'I thought it was the other guy.'"
One of the private groups, FINRA, recognized problems at MF Global this summer and forced it to hold more capital against its European bets. It also alerted other regulators to the risk.
But the others do not appear to have responded until later when the company was sliding toward bankruptcy and its cash was drying up. If regulators had acted sooner, many believe, they could have safeguarded customer funds and prevented the money from disappearing.
Now the watchdogs are playing catch-up. Fearing more MF Global-type blowups, federal regulators Thursday announced they would be auditing every U.S. futures trading firm -- large and small -- to make sure customer funds are safe.


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LONDON - India's Virender Sehwag is to captain Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in their four-day match against English champion county Durham in Abu Dhabi next month, officials announced Thursday.
Meanwhile Sri Lanka great Muttiah Muralitharan will lead the MCC team in the preceding Emirates Twenty20 event. Sehwag, one of the most destructive opening batsman cricket has known, said he was honoured to be leading MCC in a match that acts as a 'curtain-raiser' to the forthcoming English season. "I was delighted to be asked to play in this match, and being able to captain the MCC side makes it even more of a privilege," said the 35-year-old, who has scored 8,586 runs at an average of nearly fifty with 23 hundreds in 104 Tests.
Also in the squad are England spinner Monty Panesar and Sri Lanka wicket-keeper batsman Prasanna Jayawardene as well as several promising county players including Middlesex opener Sam Robson, who has been scoring heavily for the second-string England Lions of their tour of Sri Lanka. Prior to the Champion County match, MCC will arrive in Abu Dhabi on March 18 for a Twenty20 tournament featuring county sides Lancashire, Sussex and Durham, as well as a Fly Emirates Select XI.
In that event, MCC will be led by extraordinary off-spinner Muralitharan, Test cricket's most successful bowler of all-time with 800 wickets. Traditionally, MCC played the champion county at their Lord's headquarters in north-west London but since 2010 the fixture has been staged in Abu Dhabi. "It is an excellent ground for competitive first-class cricket and, played in good weather, will be ideal preparation for the players ahead of the English season," said MCC head of cricket John Stephenson, the former England batsman.
Once again the champion county match will be played under floodlights as part of MCC's ongoing push to get day/night cricket introduced into the Test arena as a way of reviving interest in the five-day format. "MCC has had very positive results from these day-night champion county matches, and has provided the game with invaluable insight into the possibilities of playing floodlit Test cricket," Stephenson said. "The evidence continues to mount and the club believes this will soon translate into day-night Test cricket, which will help re-invigorate the five day international game in countries where attendances are low," he added.
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The California Cooler Problem
The California Cooler was an invention that popped up around 1910 or so and was in wide spread use around here until about 1930. The only time I've seen them on a house built in the 19th Century they seem to be retro fitted. That's my problem. I've got two of them that are on the north side of the house over the porch. The bedroom that is on the other side of this exterior wall was turned in to a kitchen when the house was cut-up in to apartments in the 20s.
The California Cooler was always built on an exterior wall of the kitchen. There was a louvered vent on the outside that lead to a cabinet in the kitchen. The cabinet wall that faced the vent had wire mesh instead of wood, this was to keep the bugs out, and the shelves were either wood slats or wire mesh. The idea was that the cool costal air would flow through the vent and then circulate around the wire shelves and keep perishable food stuffs cool. Maybe this was a cheap alternative to ice. Maybe there wasn't an ice plant in the city. I'm not sure. Even in the dog days of summer the temperatures stay somewhat cool in the day, and noticeably cool at night. In the winter, of course, it's much colder, but it rarely freezes. It was a clever idea.
Here's what one looks like. This was the 1920s addition I removed from my house. I was able to salvage some of the kitchen cabinets, but the cooler cabinet was already in rough shape, and the door was now plywood, so I moved it out to the garage and I now store tools in it.
Anyway, the first picture is the outside shot of the cooler, and then there are 2 shots of the cooler cabinet that was just on the other side of the vent, with it's wire mesh wall and wire shelves.
You can see the vent just to the right of the upstairs door.
The open side with wire mesh is on the right. This faced the vent above.
Another shot of the shelves.
So, if you have a 1917 Craftsman with California Coolers, you celebrate them and restore them. If you have an 1895 Victorian with two of them cut in to the upstairs bedroom wall, you get rid of them. That's what I have. Also on this same wall are some plumbing vents that are no longer used. These are also left over from the apartment days.
In the picture above, you can see one of the cooler vents on the far left just past the downspout. It's much smaller than the one shown above. There is a second one out of view, below the rectangular window. The plumbing vents also need to go, but I've decided to paint first and then go back and fix these items. My concern is that I'll waste a day or two fixing all this and run out of nice weather for painting.
There is also the fact that the plumbing vents are nice to hold on to while working on the porch. This north side porch is cold, windy, and slanty. The roof seems more narrow, and it seems to slant more than the south side. I'm sure that's just my imagination. Also, because the porch roof sees very little sunshine, it has small growths of slippery fungi in places.
I just can't wait to finish this section. Working up there is really no fun at all.


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Purpose of this topic:
There are few threads going on about Android porting on RPi, but I wanted to start a new one specially for JB and hardware acceleration functionality.
My progress:
I've been successful at building and booting Android AOSP Jelly Bean 4.1 WITHOUT HW acceleration and it looks the same way as the existing CM9 port on http://androidpi.wikia.com . Android boots and then shows error that system GUI has stopped working. BIG thanks to https://github.com/Mathijsz ,because I used his kernel unmodified and thanks to CM, because there were few glitches that needed to be resolved in order for an ARMv6 to compile.
"RPi is too weak to run Android, especially JB" :
1.) I DON'T CARE Because from the beginning this project is for learning purposes.
2.) Video from Broadcom with ICS was really smooth, so I think it would be possible to have a good working port.
3.) RPi has now 512MB (mine is 256), and it can be over-clocked to 1Ghz.
4.) In future RPi will probably be upgraded to something more powerful (i.e. ARMv7).
Main goal:
Of course we should somehow get this hardware acceleration working, because from reading the posts, I understand that is the reason for System UI crash. Is it really possible now that Broadcom userspace is open source?... I really hope so.
My background:
Mostly Web development, desktop application development. Recently started working in embedded field, and got interested in Linux and Android source code ( I am a beginner at this).
GAZILLION questions:
Of course I have millions of questions, and if someone knows answer to at least one of them, it would be super great to hear the answer. Anyway I will of course try to find answers my self, and these questions will show you on what I am working now.
HW acceleration related
1.) BEFORE Broadcom Userspace drivers were open source, where did you get them and where you have to put them, for Linux to work (in case I wanted to create my Distribution from scratch)? Are they included somewhere as BLOBS in kernel repository? Or are they added when making Linux distribution somewhere in file system?
2.) Now that they are open source, how can we compile them? Should they be compiled together with kernel? I did take a look to source code of these drivers and there where many android related macroses, so I thought: If I knew how to compile for Linux, then I could configure it to work on Android.
Android GUI related:
3.) When Android boots there is an error that System GUI stopped working. Reading logs there is this information:
Is this really because Video drivers are not adapted to Android and that's why GUI crashes? Does Andriod >= 4.0 needs double buffering and that's why Gingerbread port isn't crashing?
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W/dalvikvm( 369): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40cc7300)
E/AndroidRuntime( 369): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime( 369): java.lang.RuntimeException: eglConfig not initialized
E/AndroidRuntime( 369): at com.android.systemui.ImageWallpaper$DrawableEngine.initGL(ImageWallpaper.java:579)
4.) I tried disabling HW acceleration explicitly, but it still crashed.
Information in log:
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setprop debug.egl.hw 0
I thought maybe this way it shouldn't crash, but it does. Maybe someone can explain why.
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I/SurfaceFlinger( 52): SurfaceFlinger's main thread ready to run. Initializing graphics H/W...
W/gralloc ( 52): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO failed, page flipping not supported
W/gralloc ( 52): page flipping not supported (yres_virtual=880, requested=1760)
I/gralloc ( 52): using (fd=12)
I/gralloc ( 52): id = BCM2708 FB
I/gralloc ( 52): xres = 1720 px
I/gralloc ( 52): yres = 880 px
I/gralloc ( 52): xres_virtual = 1720 px
I/gralloc ( 52): yres_virtual = 880 px
I/gralloc ( 52): bpp = 16
I/gralloc ( 52): r = 11:5
I/gralloc ( 52): g = 5:6
I/gralloc ( 52): b = 0:5
I/gralloc ( 52): width = 880 mm (49.645454 dpi)
I/gralloc ( 52): height = 1720 mm (12.995349 dpi)
I/gralloc ( 52): refresh rate = 60.00 Hz
5.) Can I start android without GUI? Simply boot into terminal. How?
Android/HDMI resolution related
6.) I am connecting my RPi with TV via HDMI, but the picture is drifted. How can I get it to fit perfectly onto screen and terminal commands could be read? I tried pixel offset, but then android bootimage and lockscreen where screwed up dramatically. Should I play with config.txt? Or this can be configured Android side too? It would be best not to use all the screen, but 50% for example.
7.) Because my TVs resolution is so big, does it influence RPi GPU for rendering image?
DEBUGGING, logging related:
8.) Until now I am using really slow logging method. I wait till Android is booted and then blindly type
which dumps log infomation into a file, but that is really slow, annoying and not productive way of doing things. Can it be set to somehow log ALWAYS into file, and not only Android log, but dmesg information too? Are there any better alternatives you can suggest?
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logcat > /data/local/tmp/log.txt
9.) Is there a way to connect computer with RPi via serial line and debug information via terminal? USB? USB OTG? USB to Serial?
10.) Terminal and GUI are rendered both on TV and they are both flickering. I can't easily use terminal, because it is shown for a second and then goes back to Android GUI. How can I overcome this? GUI on TV, terminal on PC? Or switch between both of them?
Other questions:
11.) When GUI crashes there are other interesting errors in log too:
Maybe the GUI crashes because of low RAM? Or is it result of buggy HW acceleration. Would it be a good idea to create a SWAP space as a file in data partition?
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E/AndroidRuntime( 433): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime( 433): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
E/AndroidRuntime( 433): at android.graphics.Bitmap.nativeCreate(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 433): at android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap(Bitmap.java:640)
Thank you.


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now i know, some kungfu, some inner power concepts will come heheeeeeee
now i know, some kungfu, some inner power concepts will come heheeeeeee
Jean, I'm late with reading your translation because I've only been looking for updates to the "classic" wuxia titles. I'm very glad I began reading this. It's definitely grittier and more campy than some of the other stuff on here, but no less interesting. Again, I appreciate your hard work very much!
to continue..... end of chapter
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After eating 2 bowls of rice, Xiang Shaolongs spirit was restored.
The man saw that after he has shaved, combed his hair and changed into linen clothes, Xiang Shaolong seemed to have changed into another person and his eyes revealed a look of admiration. He said smoothly, Just now Brother said you wanted to make a name for yourself, I wonder what kind of name are you looking for?
Xiang Shaolong was stunned for a moment, and replied with a little embarrassment, Im actually not too sure, but just taking things as they come. Now that I have clothes, Im thinking of changing this dagger for some money, and itll be best if I can buy a horse to bring me to Handan.
That man furrowed his brow and said, A man in society all alone, how can he not have goals or aspirations. Only those who create opportunities are true heroes.
Xiang Shaolong was irked and asked, What aspirations do you have then?
That man smiled condescendingly and replied, Very simple, which is to eliminate the greatest bane to the world, and to accomplish the greatest benefit to the world.
Xiang Shaolong guffawed, These sentences are so vague, what can be considered the greatest benefit and the greatest bane to the world?
The man was not offended and said calmly, The greatest bane of the world, is like the strong preying on the weak, big states conquering small states, the intelligent suppressing the foolish. And the root to all these problems, is because theres not enough love between people. If we can all love one another, hand over our possessions, then we can all share the wealth. Therell no longer be fights over jealousy, and accomplish the greatest benefit to the world.
Xiang Shaolong exclaimed hoarsely, So youre a believer of Mohism*.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohist
That man was baffled, What Mohism?
Xiang Shaolong asked excitedly, Is your grand-teacher Mo Zhai, his teachings are very famous, on the same standing as the Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism and itll be passed on forever!
That person was totally perplexed, but since he knows the name Mo Zhai, obviously he wasnt talking nonsense, so he nodded and said, Mo Zhai is indeed our first Juzi, are you really from the villages?
Xiang Shaolong asked, What is Juzi, that I do not know.
That man thought for a while and explained, Juzi is the leader of the Mohist Unit. When we first started, we hoped to stop fights with fights, but we will only defend and not attack. A pity that the unit now has evolved greatly, and has split into 3 units, named after the place they are in, which is Qi Mo, Chu Mo and Zhao Mo. I am the previous Juzi, Meng Shengs disciple and the purpose of my journey is to unify the 3 units again and fight for our dreams.
Xiang Shaolong asked solemnly, Why are you telling me such a big secret?
That man sighed and said, Because I have the Juzi Token, so I thought itll be an easy task to reunite the groups. But I did not expect that when I found the leader of Zhao Mo in Handan, hed actually send his men to kill me. Therefore I escaped to this place and felt that a single person will be weak and helpless, so I must gather all my men before I can have a chance of unifying the 3 Mo. So how can I lightly let off someone with character and skills like yours.
Xiang Shaolong kept shaking his hands and said, No way, I will not spill my blood over such illusionary and hopeless dream that will never come true. Hai! Trust me! The idealism of Mohism will never be fulfilled. Once wealth is equally distributed, youll get a lot of useless people instead. Therell only be improvement if theres competition.
That mans body shook when he heard this, and closed his eyes, deep in thought.
Xiang Shaolong begged quietly, Why dont you tell me how to get to Handan. As for giving me clothes and food, I, Xiang Shaolong, will never forget your kindness.
That man opened his eyes, a gleam shooting out of it and said with a smile, Nothing is this world is free. Learn swordplay from me! The day you can defeat the wooden sword in my hand, will be when Ill accompany you to Handan. If youre a man, then agree to my request! Or else even if you can reach Handan, but once you meet a real swordsman, youll still end up dead.
Xiang Shaolong thought that it sounded reasonable, and asked with hesitation, You wont force me to join your unit, right!
That man laughed, Not only will I not force you to join, I can forget about accepting you as my disciple. Were just friends exchanging pointers on equal standing. My name is Yuan Zong, you can call me Brother Yuan if you like.
Therefore Xiang Shaolong lived in this temple, waking up before the cock crows to practice swordplay with Yuan Zong, and discussed with him ways to attack and defend.
Even Yuan Zong was impressed with the speed of his improvement and praised him. A month later, he was able to attack and defend in his duels with Yuan Zong.
Yuan Zong will leave the temple everyday, leaving Xiang Shaolong, who is now obsessed with swordplay, to practice on his own. At dusk, Yuan Zong would return with food.
Three months passed hurriedly like that.
This day, Yuan Zong returned only at night, his expression somber. He called him into the house and thought for a moment with furrowed brows before he said, Theyve chased their way here.
Xiang Shaolong has now forged a deep friendship with him, and asked with concern, Who is here?
Yuan Zong sighed, Its Zhao Mos Yan Ping. I was able to escape only after I injured 18 of his men. What he wants is the Juzi Token I have, because with it, he can conveniently become Juzi. He paused, then shook his head and said with a bitter smile, What an irony, even within our own unit we are unable to love everyone, and yet we talk about our ideals.
Xiang Shaolong does not know how to console him.
Yuan Zong took out a square brass, with a single word Mo on it, It looked like a big square seal. He gave this to Xiang Shaolong and said, Take this token and run towards Handan immediately. Ive drawn a map for you, and over the past few months Ive earned enough for your traveling expenses. Leave quickly!
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awww, i have a feeling yuan zong will be dead soon. was he in the tv series?
i remember xsl getting some badge in the series, but memory is very fuzzy.
thanks for the super fast update, jean. very much appreciate your work here. things are going very well. i'm definitely hooked
Woo~~ fast update! Thanks. Yup, Yuan Zong is in the series as well, acted by Yuen Wah. Haha I've different feeling when reading the original novel in chinese & Jean's translation.
(Currently I'm reading Twin of Brothers chn novel, think I'll take super long time to finish it! )
i think Jean actually used the word correctly there...sanitation can also mean to "clean up garbage", or the cleanliness of something (check dictionary.com). although the context i usually hear it in is sanitation trucks or something of that nature, so i can understand where you coming from.
thanks for the compliments guys.... and now, new chapter
Book 1 Chapter 7 – Rising Reputation
Xiang Shaolong was extremely touched and he said determinedly, "No! We'll leave together!"
Yuan Zong smiled slightly and said, "Does Shaolong knows why I wanted to teach you Mohism's unparalleled swordplay?"
Xiang Shaolong shook his head at a loss.
Yuan Zong explained, "I have traveled the various states and observed the people and in the end I changed my thinking. If we want the world to be at peace, the only way is to eliminate the separation of the states, and let one ruler govern everyone. Only this and a person capable enough to unify the world can fulfill the idealism of Mohism and accomplish the greatest benefit to the world. And this person is you, that's why I taught you all I know."
Xiang Shaolong secretly sighed to himself, he knows that indeed there will be one person who will unify the world, and that is Emperor Qin. While he, Xiang Shaolong is just someone who ingratiates powerful people, hoping to find the young Emperor Qin and fight with him so that he can enjoy fame and riches. He secretly felt guilty once he thought of this.
Yuan Zong saw him lowering his head and not talking, and thought that he has been deeply moved. He patted his shoulder and said, "If you're really grateful to me, then do as I say! All the men Yan Ping brought are expert swordsman, and even if there's only a hundred odd of them, the two of us will not be able to handle them. I have tools for climbing the walls, I'll lure them away and you'll take the opportunity to escape. A man must not be hindered by small details if he wants to do something great. If you continue to be wishy-washy, both of us will lose our lives in vain. If the Juzi Token ends up in the hands of evil, I will not die in peace."
Xiang Shaolong reached out and took the Juzi Token, and it felt icy to the touch, obviously it's not made from ordinary brass. No wonder Yan Ping could not make a fake one. He sighed and said, "I really do not know what to say."
Yuan Zong laughed, "There's no need to be so pessimistic, it's not so easy for them to kill me. We may still have a chance to meet in future! There's a pair of shoes in the temple. Since you're not part of our clan, you need not walk barefooted. It'll be terrible if you step onto dog poop or something similar."
Xiang Shaolong can't help but burst out laughing, his tears rolling down his cheeks uncontrollably.
Suddenly a frightening thought crept into his mind.
If the despotic Emperor Qin, Ying Zheng was killed, how would history be changed?
That night Xiang Shaolong scaled past the city walls feeling grief and indignation as he left Wu An, knowing that he will never see Yuan Zong again.
This intelligent man with superb sword skill and lofty aspirations, after witnessing the disintegration of his own sect and how the Mohists became power hungry people, his motivation for saving the world died. He decided to sacrifice himself, hoping that his death can stir up Xiang Shaolong's blood so that he can use another method to fulfill his wish of accomplishing the greatest benefit to the world.
But how can Xiang Shaolong change China's history on his own? He's not Emperor Qin. But can he influence Yin Zheng, like how Yuan Zong influenced him?
Will the change be a bane or bonus to China?
The sun set and the moon rose, the stars changed. Without knowing how many days has passed, he finally reached the heavily guarded walls of the outskirts of Handan.
During this journey, he was totally immersed in the sword play that Yuan Zong taught him, which originated from one of the best master of the time, Mo Zhai. He also included modern society's most horrible assault tactics from somatic psychology and mechanics into the sword play. With such a task at hand, he forgot about time. Sometimes he'll stay more than a dozen days in the wilderness, staving his hunger by hunting wild beasts with the bow and arrows he made.
His physique became even stronger under such harsh conditions.
He had wanted to steal into Handan, but once he saw the tight security, he has no choice but to walk obediently to the pass and told the guards the great name of Tao Fang's boss, 'King of Livestock' Master Wu.
The guard stood immediately at attention and went to look for an officer to see him.
After the young officer eyed him for a moment, he asked, "What is your name?"
Xiang Shaolong replied truthfully, "I'm Xiang Shaolong."
The expressions on the officer as well as the 10 odd Zhao soldiers surrounding them changed.
The officer barked, "Bold miscreant, how dare you impersonate a hero. He has already perished heroically half a year ago while saving his comrades in the battle with the horse thieves. I have a friend who saw with his own eyes that he blocked the pursuing men on his own."
Xiang Shaolong was shocked, he did not expect that he'd become so famous. He let the Zhao soldiers apprehend him without a struggle, and said with a laugh, "What is the name of your friend?"
The officer said a name, and Xiang Shaolong hurriedly gave a description of that person's looks and build.
By now someone took out from his clothes the dagger Tao Fang gave him. The officer no longer has any doubts once he saw it, and his attitude changed immediately. After asking what happened that day, and at the same time sent a man to report this matter to Tao Fang, who is in Handan immediately, he personally escorted him to the capital of Zhao.
That officer is called Ning Xin, and as he rode next to him, he said, "Master Wu is one of the most respected men in Handan. If not for him going around buying war horses, and donating to the country's coffer time to time, I'm afraid our State of Zhao would have been destroyed long ago. Now the Yans have come to attack us, luckily our two great generals Lian Po and Le Cheng eliminated all of them and attacked Yan instead. How fantastic!"
Xiang Shaolong very much wanted to ask why since there are more females to males in Zhao, they still wanted to go all over the place to look for beauties. However, he's afraid the other party will feel embarrassed and controlled himself from asking the question.
Amidst the talk and laugher, Handan appeared ahead.
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Magnificent absolutely magnificent thanks for the updates jean love this novel.. . . .. kinda sad that he was reported as being a dead hero though just reading that makes me think that his women got stolen .. . . .quite possibly by tao feng still though he is now a master swordsman and to ease his damaged prize[if his women was taken] im hoping master wu has a daughter as in the series thank you thank you thank you
i'm getting excited now. wonder what will happen to our lusy little hero .
and when will the main heroine appear? will XSL still get 2 wives in this novel? or is that something tvb added in to spice up the plot?
too many questions. can't wait for you to update again, jean. your translation skills are . really, you make it easy to read this story as well as legendary siblings.
I Happened To Read Somewhere That Xiang Shaolong Screws Almost Every Women In The Book And Ends Up With A Semi-Harem
wow... i wasn't expecting XSL to be the typical faithful one-woman man, but didn't expect him to be so similar to wei xiao bao. well, this is certainly a different change of scenerio.
thanks for info, Shi-Potian
Hehe, I have no problem admitting the truth. Wuxia series and novels went into overkill on this theme. The one woman/man for life kinda love, although romantic, it is too idealistic and let's face it, not realistic. I'm not saying it does not exist, but to hold other ordinary, normal individuals to that standard is not fair. Please note, this is not to say I approve of cheating or extramarital affairs.
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Dude, I hope you're just making that up, otherwise use the spoiler function please.
Wow you joined just to post a spoiler and to share how you are following this translation for the erotic scenes?


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For those of you who want to root and install custom ROMs on your Motorola Android smartphone, you will first need to unlock the bootloader. Unlocking bootloader allows you to install custom recovery like ClockworkMod (CWM) or TWRP recovery, both which can root your Motorola device and also let you install custom ROMs.
This method will work on most Motorola Android smartphones like Moto X (1st & 2nd gen), Moto G (1st & 2nd gen, not for AT&T or Verizon though), Moto E, Moto X/Droid Maxx (Developer Edition), Photo Q 4G LTE, Droid Razr M/HD, Razr i, Atrix HD (Developer Edition), Electrify M, and future devices that support Motorola's bootloader unlocking website.
For Moto X users, if you have AT&T or Verizon, you won't be able to use this method as AT&T and Verizon have locked bootloader (because they don't like you playing with your own phone that you already paid full price for).
So, if you have a device that supports bootloader unlocking (and even if you don't you can try it and find out if it's unlockable or not), let's go ahead and unlock the bootloader.
I will be using a Moto X 2nd generation but the instructions are identical for all Motorola phones.
You can use Windows, Mac, or Linux to do this. I made the video tutorial for Windows but you can use the provided slight-change in code for Mac or Linux.
Step 1. Power off your Motorola smartphone then hold down Volume Down and Power buttons together for about 10 seconds.
Step 2. Let go of the buttons and you should see a character-based fastboot menu. This is called fastboot menu/mode.
Step 3. Connect a micro-USB cable from your Motorola phone to your computer.
Step 4. For Mac OSX or Linux, skip to Step 6. If you have Windows, open Device Manager and check that you have "Motorola ADB Interface". If you don't have it, install Motorola USB drivers and unplug/replug your micro-USB cable.
Step 5. Next, download fastboot.zip and unzip. You should get a folder called "fastboot" in your Downloads directory.
This has all the files you need for all Windows, Mac or Linux. You DO NOT need to waste your precious time downloading and installing the whole Android SDK which can take hours.
Step 6. Open a terminal for Mac/Linux or open a command prompt for Windows then type:
For Windows:
cd Downloads
cd fastboot
fastboot oem get_unlock_data
For Mac OSX:
cd Downloads
cd fastboot
chmod 755 *
./fastboot-mac oem get_unlock_data
For Linux/Ubuntu:
cd Downloads
cd fastboot
chmod 755 *
sudo ./fastboot-linux oem get_unlock_data
Copy the numbers and letters outputted then paste onto Notepad or your favorite text editor.
Step 7. Get rid of any whitespaces and make the letters/numbers into one line of code.
Then copy it into your clipboard. (Ctrl+c)
Step 8. Go to Motorola Bootloader Unlocking website. You may have to sign up for an account or you can also sign in with your Google account.
Step 9. When you see Step 1 page, scroll down and click "Next".
Step 10. On Step 2 page, scroll down and you should see a place where you can paste your code. Paste the code from Step 7 here then click "can my device be unlocked?".
At this point, you can find out whether your Motorola device is unlockable or not.
Step 11. If your Motorola device is unlockable, you will see "Request Unlock Key" button appear at bottom. Click on it!
Step 12. Check your e-mail inbox, your unlock code should have arrived. Copy this to your clipboard.
Step 13. Next type:
fastboot oem unlock PasteYourUnlockCodeHERE
For Mac OSX:
./fastboot-mac oem unlock PasteYourUnlockCodeHERE
For Linux/Ubuntu:
sudo ./fastboot-linux oem unlock PasteYourUnlockCodeHERE
Step 14. Goto your Motorola device, it should unlock!
Yey, you've successfully unlocked your bootloader!
Step 15. Your phone should reboot and your Motorola smartphone is like the day you bought it but with bootloader unlocked!
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I use a Moto G 2nd Generation, If I unlock the bootloader will I be able to receive the official updates
I am using at&t moto x 2nd gen. Can i unlock my unit's bootloader?
moto x xt1052 on motorola site saying bootloader cannot be unlocked
my unlock code hasn't arrived after 10 minutes! what should I do?
Will this remove all my contacts and data service on my phone?
I have a Moto G 2nd generation with lollipop 5
i guess im screwed if i get a dialogue saying "your device does not qualify for bootloader unlocking"…huh?
I have MOTO DROID MAXX HD and have problem with its hotspot. When I turn on hotspot it does but when I connect my other mobile throught hotspot, which created by MOTO DROID MAXX HD, connects with it but when I use my browser or other apps or internet it doesn't work even its connected with MOTO DROID MAXX HD's hotspot. Why it does happen? How can I use it?
Pls reply soon of this question 🙁
Works on Linux for Moto G 2014? Has anyone tried without problems?
good site
boot loader gets unlocked easily
without downloading 800 mb android sdk
Wow…I spent way too long googling ways to unlock my device and this was really how easy it was? Sheesh…thank you, Max!
I may have wasted several hours of my life and endured unimaginable amounts of frustration in the process but hey, I can't say I didn't learn anything…and with your extremely simple step by step I was able to successfully reach my goal!
I appreciate you making this tutorial available to the public, you're a gem!
I unloked my Motorola Droid Maxx bootloader without SDK, and now I'm feeling Independent. 😉
I know its your phone, but are you sure its the Droid Maxx (xt1080m), because that is what I have and the only Droid Maxx allowed to be unlocked is the Developers Edition. If you do actually have the Droid Maxx xt1080m, (non-developers edition), Bootloader unlocked, would you please share with me how you done it, because myself along with many others would really love to know how, Thanks. Shane. (post it here or anywhere if you can)
You can't unlock your Bootloader if you've Non-Developers Edition device. 🙁
I know you cannot unless it is the Developers Edition, if you would read my entire post, you would see that's what I was saying.
moto e 1st generation isnt unlockable please help
My Motorola droid razr HD bootloader couldn't be unlocked by this method, it's there any other way coz I want to upgrade my device to lollipop
it says fastboot is not recognized as an internal or external command??
please help
u may forgot to type fastboot. just cross check with the image
very good info
hi i have not done with this command it shows FIELD
These method working for Motorola droid ultra xt1080
when i put cd fastboot in the command prompt it says the system cannot find the path specified
same here bro what to do
did you find a way round this as im getting the same,
now it says waiting for device
it says the system cannot find specific path . what to do
check` enable option in oem unlock` in develpoer option helps help me out
form this kind of situation
after click on "Recovery" button on moto g, it's screen blinking. i am unable to recover the moto g mobile.
Please help me on same
i have motorola droid ultra xt1080 and it says bootloader not available at your device
your device does not qualify for bootloader unlocking
reply soon
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What to do if phone does not qualify for unlocking?
i m having xt 1052 moto x. It says "(bootloader) Restricted oem command
FAILED (remote failure)" in mac… what should i do.
Thanks man! Really good tutorial 🙂
Motorola XT907 is not supported … Why ?
Was able to get the unlock key from Motorola but then get failure running unlock command on Moto X Gen 2 Verizon.
Error text:
(bootloader) Check 'Enable OEM Unlock' in Developer Options.
FAILED (remote failure)
that's in the system setting I think under the developer options near the bottom
Just in case someone gets stuck on Ubuntu or linux when entering "fastboot oem unlock", they should try entering "sudo -s" first, then their password. It worked for me. "sudo fastboot oem unlock" didn't work for some reason.
need a solution for the moto e4 verizon? go here : https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/knowledge-base-212317/
My Motorola Droid Ultra Xt1080 show error while unlocking bootloader
"Device Not Qualify " how can we fix?
Very useful step-by-step tutorial, made it through with less than 3 minutes with 5Mbit/s DSL 😀
How about for the Moto E5 Go?
"Your device does not qualify for bootloader unlocking " how to fix this problem
D:\迅雷下载\fastboot> fastboot oem unlock 042801C941E0E3D7
(bootloader) OEM unlock is not implemented
OKAY [ 0.010s]
Finished. Total time: 0.021s
Is it suceed? My phone is motorola MT870, but I can't flash recovery.img.
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