Jakub Szura · B · shoebox The 60-second version

Jakub Szura. I've been thinking that sentence since I was 13.

This is what happened every time.

Photo: me at ~13 with the RAZR
first phone. first problem.

Chapter 2 · The phone

13.

I was 13. My first smartphone: a Motorola RAZR.

I had no idea how these things worked.

I knew one thing: there must be a way to make it better.

XDA Developers › Motorola Droid RAZR › Android Development page 41 of 212

[ROM][ICS] CyanogenMod 9 nightlies for spyder

dev_somebody

New build up. Wipe data, wipe dalvik, flash, don't come crying.

jakub_?

flashed it. everything works except camera. and wifi. worth it

dev_somebody

did you wipe dalvik

printed from my memory · the real thread is lost (recreation)

So I rooted it.

Then custom ROMs. CyanogenMod, and whatever XDA had that week. About 90% of my time online was the XDA forums.

AP Fastboot Flash Mode (S)

0A.77

 

Battery Low

Cannot Program

 

Transfer Mode:

USB Connected

the screen of doom
BATTERY LOW.
CANNOT PROGRAM.
= dead phone

Then I bricked it.

My brother soldered a factory cable (a USB cable with two pins bridged) and we brought it back from the dead.

13:37custom ROM · mine now
back. better.

It came back better than it left.

I already knew:

I like tech, and tech likes me.

  • Hacked Xboxes.
  • Every family member's laptop.
  • Their phones.
  • Their printers. Always the printers.

I was that guy.

The 60-second version

Builder. Product person. Gets obsessed, then gets it done. Looking for an early team where I can own things and make them better.

Now
Copenhagen. Building tv-learn and In-Drone with friends. Red Cross volunteer.
Before
AI Product Owner at RISMA: built and ran the AI team, two 20% raises in a year. IT consultant at a startup: took it from waterfall to scrum.
North star
Drones, emergency response, tech that matters to real people.

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Placeholder: the real fast lane is a later milestone.