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Posted at May 10, 2012 by Rajesh Pandey Comments

Manually Install The Official Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Firmware (LPY) On Samsung Galaxy Note

Samsung has finally started rolling out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Galaxy Note in certain regions of the world. If you are tired of constantly checking KIES for any update, and cannot wait for the update, below is a step by step guide on how to manually install the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update on your Galaxy Note (N7000). Visually, the ICS update for the Note does not bring many changes, but does include a lot of new features and enhancements along with some premium suite of apps.

Category : Android 4.0,Galaxy Note,Ice Cream Sandwich,Installation Guide

Posted at May 7, 2012 by Rajesh Pandey Comments

First Custom Kernel For HTC One X Brings USB OTG Mode

Earlier today, HTC released the kernel source code for the Tegra 3 variant of the One X after getting quite a lot of criticism from Android modding developers. The lack of source code was hampering the third party for the One X was hampering the third party development of the handset. While quite a few custom ROMs were released for the One X, including CM9 and MIUI, developers were not able to release a custom kernel due to the lack of kernel sources. Now, within hours of HTC releasing ...

Category : Custom Kernels,HTC,One X

Posted at May 4, 2012 by Rajesh Pandey Comments

Samsung Just Lost Its Best Chance To Become The “Apple” Of The Android Ecosystem

Last night, Samsung announced one of the most hotly anticipated Android handset of 2012, the Galaxy S III. From the hardware point of view, the Galaxy S III absolutely trumps its competition out there. The GPU inside the SGS3 even manages to beat the powerhouse PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU found inside the iPhone 4S, which clearly shows the raw horsepower of the SoC ticking inside the handset. Samsung also fixed two of the biggest complaints with the Galaxy S II in the S3, poor battery life and disappointing music quality. The Galaxy S III comes with a much bigger - 2100mAh - removable battery ...

Category : Galaxy S II,Galaxy S III,Opinion,Samsung

Posted at May 1, 2012 by Rajesh Pandey Comments

HTC One X All-In-One Toolkit Makes Unlocking and Rooting The Phone Noob-Proof!

The recently released HTC One X has in a short span of time managed to interest a lot of third party developers, and already has stable ports of some of the most popular custom ROMs including CM9 and MIUI. However, the basic step of rooting the HTC One X is a very tough job in itself. While most companies released phones that could be easily rooted last year, HTC went in the opposite direction and made rooting its phone extremely tough. The official bootloader unlocking tool from the company does help matters to a certain extent, but it is still cumbersome ...

Category : HTC,Ice Cream Sandwich,One X

Posted at April 30, 2012 by Rajesh Pandey Comments

GPU Rendering Is Disabled By Default On The HTC One X; Here Is How To Enable It!

One of the major under the hood changes in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was GPU rendering. The feature was introduced by Google in Android 3.x Honeycomb, but since Honeycomb was never intended for phones, GPU rendering did not come to Android phones until Ice Cream Sandwich arrived. So what exactly is GPU rendering? GPU rendering allows Android OS to use the GPU to render the UI instead of the CPU. Not only is the GPU more power efficient in rendering UI, it is also faster. Using the GPU to render the UI will also free up precious CPU cycles, which ...

Category : HTC,Ice Cream Sandwich,One X

Posted at April 26, 2012 by Rajesh Pandey Comments

HTC One S Gets A Very Early Snapshot Build Of CM9

The HTC One S went on sale in some regions of the world earlier this month, and the custom ROM development scene for the device is still in its infancy. While there are quite a few custom ROMs out there, they are all based on the stock firmware the device ships with. However, I am sure most of the One S owners would be interested in knowing when a stock ICS ROM or CM9 will be available for the handset. Thankfully, one developer - xkonni - has started working on bringing CM9 to the One S. Keeping in mind that HTC ...

Category : HTC,Ice Cream Sandwich,One S

Posted at April 24, 2012 by Rajesh Pandey Comments

Motorola Droid Bionic, RAZR and Droid 4 Can Now Work On T-Mobile Network!

Motorola releases most of its smartphones only with Verizon's. The company rarely releases handsets in association with any other U.S carrier. For its European and Asian customers, Motorola releases a separate GSM variant of the handset, since Verizon is a CDMA network. Sometime last year, Motorola started releasing phones that were capable of supporting Verizon's CDMA network, as well as GSM networks outside the U.S.A. Now, it looks like one developer over at XDA, fragulina, has managed to get some of the latest Motorola handsets to work with other mobile networks in the United States. The mod is still under testing ...

Category : Droid RAZR,Mods,Motorola

Posted at April 23, 2012 by Rajesh Pandey Comments

Reloaded ICS Brings More Customization Options To CM9 Including Themes!

CyanogenMod 9 is still in Alpha stage for the majority of the devices. The CM team is busy in getting a stable Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich base for all the popular Android devices before adding new features on top of it. Due to this, CM9 as of now feels like stock ICS with just a few tweaks. This has even led to the development and popularity of other ROMs like AOKP, which are based on CM9 but provide more customization options. One developer over at XDA - rob43 - could not wait for the CM team to add some customization ...

Category : CM9,Ice Cream Sandwich,Mods

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