One of the most compelling features of the Paranoid Android ROM is the the Pie Control. Now a similar feature has been added to CyanogenMod 10.1, and is available in the most recent nightly edition dated March 27th. For anyone unfamiliar, the pie controls replace the existing onscreen navigation controls (Back, Home, Recent Apps). To access the Pie, you swipe from the edge of the display, a... »
Looks like Verizon will push an update fixing the Exynos vulnerability sooner than I thought! It’s not here just yet but Verizon has posted a “Coming Soon” notice on their website. They are encouraging you to download it right away. Keep in mind that this patch will most likely come with a new bootloader just like the update that was issued for the international version a few wee... »
The development team behind one of the more popular custom ROM projects, Paranoid Android, took to its Google+ page this morning to detail the future of the PA Preferences application. A closed-source beefed up version of the preferences app will be supplied to official ROM releases, and possibly to all ROMs compatible with Paranoid Android. In other words, no DPI changer, no dual pane, and no hac... »
There are reports that Samsung has pushed an OTA (I9300XXELLA) to Galaxy SIII owners in the UK on 1/2/13. The update is available by OTA or Kies. This update has been confirmed to fix the Exynos vulnerability and the “sudden death” (sudden failure of the motherboards) issue plaguing some SIII owners. There are some other smaller security fixes as well as a new bootloader. Some fear th... »
SwiftKey Flow, the replacement keyboard app that launched last month and found its way onto my favorite apps of 2012 list, got itself a nifty little update this morning, bringing the app up to 4.0.0.61. Despite still bearing the beta tag, this is definitely my favorite solution for rapid, accurate typing on my Samsung Galaxy S III and Nexus 7 — and it’s only getting better. Take a look... »
Sometime near Christmas Droid RAZR (and MAXX I’m sure) owners were treated to a nice little gift from Santa, who is actually someone at Motorola. Somehow an update for Android version 4.1.2 (Jellybean) was pushed to the RAZR owners straight from Motorola. Also just as quickly as it appeared, it disappeared, and now you aren’t able to pull it. This was so sporadic that Verizon stated th... »
So yea you guys, how many of you have heard of the game that’s not a game, Ingress? It the greatest trick that Google has ever played on the public, getting us to map the world so they can focus on more important matters (that’s just my theory) in the biggest, most epic, game of virtual capture the flag/domination ever. Well the game currently is in a closed beta and if you’re in... »
The boys over at Android Police somehow have a system build of Android 4.2 and besides the fact of the lovely words I want to say about that, they are doing their best to give what they can to the community. This time they are coming out with the newest version of stock AOSP keyboard. This new keyboard features word-prediction and other features that we know and love, but also includes Swype like ... »
Well we’re back again, yesterday we gave you a new Play Store update and now we have a new Gmail update from Android 4.2, thanks to our friends at Android Police. Every time we get wind of a new version of Android, we try everything we can to make our devices like the new version, in any way possible by themes, new apps, or ROMs. So what’s special about this new update? A bunch. Pinch ... »
The Nexus 7, Google’s quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3-powered Android tablet, is one of the most popular devices on the market. It’s definitely seen it’s fair share of issues so far, but that hasn’t stopped many people from taking the plunge and picking one up. If you’re the proud owner of one and you’ve already unlocked and rooted the device, we just got our hands on ... »
