New F Droid Driver, lost and need directions

[aotektrue]

Sorry Licaon,
But as you might know, work is starting to pick up a little more for some cities and states and I’m on a 8/5 again.
I just keep losing time everyday to get to this; sorry.

But I picked up from your last reply, and I’m lost, again.

I try typing in what you said, below:
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Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.959]
© 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\MR>cd desktop

C:\Users\MR\Desktop>cd platform-tools

C:\Users\MR\Desktop\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
510000361569 device

C:\Users\MR\Desktop\platform-tools>adb shell
E6910:/ $ -v
/system/bin/sh: -v: not found
127|E6910:/ $ logcat -v threadtime
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BUT if I hit the enter button after that last sentence, I might as well kiss that CP screen goodbye, because it just starts doing all this Matrix stuff and I can’t turn it off.
I end up having to X out the screen and start over.

Also I still have the Logcat app frozen in the screen shot from above.

Sooo, I guess I’m doing it wrong again.

[Licaon_Kter]

Please type everything

logcat -v threadtime|grep fdroid

[ByteHamster]

@aotektrue

BUT if I hit the enter button after that last sentence, I might as well kiss that CP screen goodbye, because it just starts doing all this Matrix stuff and I can’t turn it off.

That matrix stuff actually is what we are interested in The last part that you did not type (...|grep fdroid) filters the output, so that it should only contain relevant information.

@aotektrue

I end up having to X out the screen and start over.

Pressing Ctrl+C on your keyboard also aborts the command without having to close the window.

[aotektrue]

AHHH, I see; said the blind man.

Also, that Ctrl+C did help.

[aotektrue]

Ok Licaon, I did it, but again, I must of done something wrong because nothing THERE happened, see below:
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Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.959]
(c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\MR>cd dektop
The system cannot find the path specified.

C:\Users\MR>cd desktop

C:\Users\MR\Desktop>cd platform-tools

C:\Users\MR\Desktop\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
510000361569 device

C:\Users\MR\Desktop\platform-tools>adb shell
E6910:/ $ logcat -v threadtime|grep fdroid

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I hit Enter after that last sentence and nothing happened

B U T
It doesn’t matter anymore, I think, because I finally FIGURED IT OUT!

Right after you said to go back to fdroid after typing in that last command, that I failed at; I went to the F Droid “Settings” screen one more time for shits an giggles(didn’t know what to do there), and so just like any accredited 4 year degree Professional knob-turner, I just started pushing buttons.
So Lo and behold, after moving all the buttons below circled in red to the green position, the F Droid on my phone now WORKS!:
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I was able to download a handful of apps already and so far I am liking it, especially the NO GOOGLE part.

I still am trying to figure out what’s the deal with that frozen Logcat app, but that’s for another talk.

It’s a shame that after 5 more weeks this thread will be gone because I was really hoping some poor mut, like me, could of read all this and probably learned what to and not to do when starting off on F Droid.
sigh

[ByteHamster]

@aotektrue

It’s a shame that after 5 more weeks this thread will be gone

What do you mean with that? The thread is closed automatically some weeks after the last reply (meaning that nobody can post) but it can still be read.

[aotektrue]

I read the message below:

This topic will close 2 months after the last reply.

And thought that it meant something different.
Great of you to clear that up.

[alaskalinuxuser]

Just a suggestion, as you are new to F-droid and working without Google on purpose, I do have a blog where I have several articles devoted to using F-droid and non Google alternatives, just if you are interested.

https://thealaskalinuxuser.wordpress.com/2019/07/11/going-gapp-less-again/

I also have articles about setting up a home server to replace Google for things like automatic photo storage and sharing, location tracking, etc… If you ever want to jump completely off the deep end.

[Licaon_Kter]

Remove those 2 last entries, those are NOT repos.

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