September 2017

Android: how to edit or port a rom's apk

Published: 25 Sep 2017 | Author: Mentor
To edit an Android apk we have to accede at its content and to do this there are several software that simplify the usafe of Apktool : APK-Multi-Tool AutoAPKTool and if we have to edit the files smail in the odex file, the we can use the tools smali/backsmali . Here there are some standard commands to do smali/backsmali: #decompile java -jar baksmali.jar -o <deodexed_dir> <odex_file...

Script MATLAB to map the S-plane to Z-plane

Published: 20 Sep 2017 | Author: Mentor
The points of the s plane are related to the z plane by the function: and below the code of a MATLAB script to map on the z plane the points of the s plane: thetaS=0:pi/8:2*pi; circ=exp(j*thetaS); plot(circ);hold on zz=ones(size(circ))*(.00001+j*0.0001) plot([zz;circ]) axis 'square' % Visualising the complex exponential %&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&...

Windows: download the Debugging Tool as standalone archive

Published: 14 Sep 2017 | Author: Mentor
Officially to use the Windows Debugging Tool we have to download the whole Windows SDK and then we have to search it and install it. Fortunately Julien Crozon has extracted, packed and made available Windows Debugging Tool 6.12 as standalone archive, we have only to download it and execute Windbg: Debugging Tools for Windows v6.12 x64 Debugging Tools for Windows v6.12 x86 Source: bugslasher.net

Android: how to extract a System image

Published: 11 Sep 2017 | Author: Mentor
Usually to extract an image file of the Android /system partition we can use the simple Android Kitchen but if the System image is signed (System_signed) to extract it we have to use simg2img : #!/sbin/sh # python simg2img.py system_signed tmp.img sudo mount -t ext4 -o loop tmp.img extracted/ Sources: andwise , Hazou

Windows Update stuck on Checking for Updates: solve the problem with WSUS

Published: 10 Sep 2017 | Updated: 23 Sep 2017 | Author: Mentor
If on Windows should happen that Windows Update search the updates forever, remaining stuck on "Checking for Updates" the simplest way to solve the problem is using WSUS Offline Update . Browsing the web for this problem a lot of people advise to install some packet or some patch, I tried everything and for me the only solution has been using WSUS Offline Update to search and install the missing...

Windows: manually start VMware

Published: 09 Sep 2017 | Author: Mentor
Usually VMware automatically start at boot time, to start and stop it manually we can disable the autostart of the following services: VMware Authorization Service VMware DHCP Service VMware NAT Service VMware USB Arbitration Service and we can use a batch script as the following: @echo off echo Start/Stop VMware Workstation services echo. echo 1. Start echo 2. Stop echo. choice /c:12 If...