How to fix Android Chrome on CM9

Today Google pushed an update for Android Chrome Beta that broke its ability to run on many CM9 Android 4.0.3 devices.  It says "Chrome is not supported for your version of Android.  Version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is the minimal supported version."

The procedure to manually fix Chrome Beta on your CM9 device is beyond the break.

How to build Android on RHEL6 or Fedora

Google's instructions of how to build Android only detail how to setup your build environment on Ubuntu.  This post describes how to do the equivalent on RHEL6, CentOS 6, Scientific Linux 6 or Fedora 16+.

Hawaii Android Automatic Time Zone Bug

This post describes the automatic timezone setting bug that affects Hawaii and many other locations around the globe.  Included below are temporary and permanent workarounds to avoid this issue for existing phones in Hawaii.  I also discuss the proposed location-aware automatic timezone selector that has the greatest chance of fixing this for good for all timezones.

Android on Samsung Epic 4G Development Notes

This post contains notes relevant to the development of custom Android firmware for the Samsung Epic 4G on the Sprint network.  Our goal is to make Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" fully supported on this phone.  This content has been moved to a dedicated blog here.