My first contact with an Android phone was 12 years ago, after having used a cell phone with Java operating systems for a long time. Cost me 65 euros, luckily, a whole kingdom for a prepubescent who was starting to get interested in technology. They are, The CEX people are ripping me off and telling me to update the HTC tattoo in the window to the next version, everything for saleAt least they earned their wages.
At that time the presence of the telephone companies in the operating system was more important than desired, a little over 3 inch gem filled with orange bloatware, orange themes and accents. The body it was good Adapting the ROMs to Extreme was undoubtedly legal, It’s good.
Everything was horrible, but there was a solution
Horrible, but horrible. The system was sluggish, couldn’t move enough aplicaciones and the battery barely lasted, but it drove me insane. It’s not pretty, but it’s nice. However, there were things in this relationship that could not be let go. Whatsapp. I had an Android on which WhatsApp didn’t work! The one that was the most used messaging aplicación in the world from the beginning and only worked on Android versions higher than 2, my mobile phone was outdated. I surfed the web like a sunken ship for weeks until I stumbled upon the island of root, bootloaders, and custom ROMs.
Completely changing the operating system with one phone?, Let’s hack this shit. After the HTCmania tutorials, I put my device into fastboot mode, opened a command console and connected my brand new and working HTC Tattoo to my netbook. MediaMarktés just over 200 euros, he was 12 years old!
[texto-destacado]The rooting process was very afín to the current one. Ask for an unlock code, entrar it in the command console, flash TWRP and load the ROM.[/texto-destacado]
As expected, the device was brickedas the first sketch of an nick that would cost me my life, –Mr. BrickerFollow me on twitter, I articulo things.- Qualcomm processors make things complicated enough for that though hard brick, and managed to save this Snapdragon S1 from certain death. After just over two hours of processing my HTC tattoo came back to life with CyanogenMOD 7.1, Android Gingerbread 2.3.7.
arrests of htcmania
This is what CyanogenMOD looked like on the HTC Tattoo. A version that got newer than Samsung’s own low-end version, which was still running Android 2.2, and my phone cost a little over a fifty-euro bill on the latest version available. The performance was “good”and the customization options that opened up to me were amazing.
Change battery icons, location, system settings… I had complete control over the operating system, which sparked my interest in Android. From there I went from terminal to terminal, losing count of all I had and trying but keeping the memory of this little machine.
[texto-destacado]Android gives you extreme customization of the system, and that’s great.[/texto-destacado]
Tell us what was your first android, why and where did you buy it?, and if you keep it or are interested in getting it back. I’m already looking for the tattoo in Wallapop for about 15 euros…