A short message saying Hi!

[JessiDLuvr]

Hi all...

I found this site via a few searches, when I had a Kyocera Rise from Virgin Mobile that I successfully rooted, but then did something wrong, and then it was bricked. A few searches later, I ended up here... and found out that certain phone cannot be unbricked, which I feel that it's stupid that Kyocera doesn't want to cater to the end user who wants to do more with his phone.

I use Linux (Kubuntu!) and since I'm a Linux user, I'm more inclined to be an Android user, or so I heard. Well, that's what I am: a Linux user and an Android user at the same time. I'm trying to get my feet wet in C++ coding and wrote a few command-line programs for fun, and I hope it gets me somewhere. I'm not yet fully versed in programming for graphical user interfaces (whether Windows, Mac OS, KDE, GNOME, or even Android), but I'm learning.

But, thanks to this forum, I'm learning which phones, whether contract or not, can be rooted and doesn't give headaches if something goes wrong.

I'm also a member of many other fora (of quite a few other interests not necessarily related to computers or the Android OS, one of which I kindly decline to mention here due to its implications and the stigma involved), and I'm just getting my feet wet in getting an Android device rooted without becoming bricked.

I hope I become a wonderful part of this forum, and I hope I can learn from many others and I hope I can teach others something that I can hope to pass along to others...

Oh, and one more thing: My first computer was a Tandy Color Computer. I got it back in 1981, when I was knee high to a grasshopper. It was the beginning of learning about computers, and what a wonderful thing it was to type a short program in BASIC and when at the end, type RUN and then hit Enter and it comes out as I expected, that's a thrill to me. Same thing when I call my C++ compiler now, it doesn't spit any errors out and the results are as I expected also.

 

[LilBit]

Hi JessiDLuvr!! Wow!! One of the best intro's I've seen in a while!!
Welcome to the Forums!!:thumbup:

 

[Roger2008]

Hi all...

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Oh, and one more thing: My first computer was a Tandy Color Computer. I got it back in 1981, when I was knee high to a grasshopper. It was the beginning of learning about computers, and what a wonderful thing it was to type a short program in BASIC and when at the end, type RUN and then hit Enter and it comes out as I expected, that's a thrill to me. Same thing when I call my C++ compiler now, it doesn't spit any errors out and the results are as I expected also.

Those where the days and I still know C more than C++. I even did some machine language programming until Windows came along and greatly restricted what you could do with machine language programming.

BTW after recently finding AndroidForums myself I rooted my first Android phone and then learned how to add and delete System apps so now it is possible for me to brick a phone too.

 

[JessiDLuvr]

Those where the days and I still know C more than C++. I even did some machine language programming until Windows came along and greatly restricted what you could do with machine language programming.

Yeah, and I'm a member of a group on Facebook titled "TRS-80 / Color Computer" which I found by just searching for it. It's an "Open Group" (by Facebook standards), but all you gotta do is just hit "Join Group" (or tap the link if on the Android Facebook app) and it seems like that the moderator would just add you right away, which I got a notification and an email about five minutes later from the group's owner saying my group membership request has been approved.

Onto another thing...

I would just love to know x86_64, i386 and MC6809 (the latter is the processor in the Tandy Color Computer) assembly. I recall a long time ago (about 1999 or so) I used a little tip in a MS-DOS book I happened to have (it had some floppy disks in it for some utilities which I installed some of them) that took a keystroke, returned its keycode as an exit status, and used that to write batch files to write interactive menu systems. All I had to do was write a few bits of machine-language code from the book into one of the MS-DOS utilities (which I cannot remember what it was), save it as a .com file (which was one of the early MS-DOS executable file formats), and then call it when I needed it for my "menu systems" (which, strangely, was reminiscent of the Netware menu systems I used at one place I used to work at which used a heavy MS-DOS environment, but I did that with neat ASCII art that I did myself in a text editor on my own computer, which had a 286 processor and MS-DOS 5 when I needed a small development system--I had a powerful computer running Windows at the time for "other" things, like games and such), but now that I use Ubuntu with the KDE desktop, and found a "Schaum's Outlines" book on C++, it's the only book I have to learn it, I need something else to fully understand it, but I kind of want to write my own Android app just for "the heck of it" to just to see if I can do it. I actually have the Linux Android IDE, so I might just take some some of the source code of what I had written for a command-line application, and see if I can actually make an APK out of it, just for fun.

A quick little side-mention of my user name:

JessiDLuvr: Since I'd rather not say much, but my wife's name is Jessica. Her nickname, when we first met, she told me to call her Jessi. Not Jessie, but Jessi. She wanted to differentiate from the "common" spelling of the name. That's all I want to say on that.

 

[Roger2008]

Yeah, and I'm a member of a group on Facebook titled "TRS-80 / Color Computer"
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A quick little side-mention of my user name:

I'd been updating my name for years after starting with Roger98 while I was helping beta test Windows 98 with multiple monitors but I gave up updating my display name in 2008.

I think I started writing machine language programming for an 8085 and then I moved to a 6502 because I could run those programs on my old Apple II.

Then when I went to work as a programmer I ended up writing a 80386 Protected mode program since I had to use just a few instructions in protected mode to place the 80386 into 32bit linear addressing and once the 80386 was changed to use 32 bit linear addressing it stayed that way without ever having to place it into protected mode again.

Now to back track a bit before I ever wrote programs for a living.

I had a way to place machine language programs into unused space in the old Apple DOS and I used that area to quickly load one of the first 2 programs on the disk depending on what key was pressed during boot.

I changed my Apple DOS so I could use lower case letters and it would still give me a catalog even if I misspelled catalog as long as I got the "cat" right.

I also changed my DOS so it could instantly read from a disk because I threw out the 1 second warm up spin for a read and would just read from the disk until I didn't get any errors.

A long time ago I ran a BBS and I rewrote the machine language part of the BBS so it ran on interrupts and that change made a big difference because after that I could change modules without stopping the text going to the modem.

I could go on and on but I'll end it with I had a lot of fun with assembler language even on the PC until Microsoft and others started to compress all their executables because then you couldn't make quick patches to programs after that.

BTW I'd like to find the instruction set for one of the processors used in a phone.