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Feb

7

2012

New, Evolved Android Malware Shows That Google’s Bouncer Service Can Possibly Be Sidestepped

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by Jack Holt
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Google’s new bouncer-service that was announced last week is supposed to have dropped the number of malware apps in the Android Market by about 40% already. While that is a great number the Bouncer service isn’t perfect and it probably is the beginning to one of many back and forth battles between the Search Giant [...]

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Feb

6

2012

Further Clarification Offered for CDMA Galaxy Nexus “Official” Status Drop

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by Jack Holt
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For those of you who don’t know Google dropped official “developer device” support for the CDMA (Verizon) version of the Galaxy Nexus last week. While a statement was released explaining why, it apparently required further explanation as it wasn’t officially explained in full as to what this drop actually meant. So without futher hesitation here [...]

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Feb

4

2012

Xiaomi Open Sources MIUI ROM and Application Source Codes

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by Jack Holt
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This is a big day for ROM developers everywhere as Xiaomi, a Chinese technology company, has open sourced its MIUI ROM for Android. For those that live under a rock, MIUI gives Android an iOS flair in both look and feel and is based on both Android 2.3.7 and CyanogenMod 7 sources. MIUI 4 (based [...]

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Feb

3

2012

Google Drops Official “Developer Support” for CDMA Galaxy Nexus, Google Releases Statement, Will Still Provide Direct Software Support

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by Jack Holt
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While most of us aren’t surprised by this move, I’m certainly not, Google has dropped official support for the CDMA (Verizon) Galaxy Nexus as a developer device. They did the same for the LTE Xoom and Nexus S 4G as well. At first folks thought was in regards to Google Wallet not being officially supported [...]

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Feb

2

2012

AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note’s Kernel Source Code Released

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by Ed Caggiani
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Samsung just pushed out the kernel source code for AT&T’s version of the Samsung Galaxy Note. There are three different versions listed for download at Samsung’s Open Source Release Center. Why three, you ask? Your guess is as good as mine at this point, but according to one developer, they are almost all identical save [...]

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Feb

1

2012

Talk Android decompiles ICS FaceLock.apk – Majel are you in there?

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by Jim Farmer
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So if you haven’t realized from my posts by now, I like to experiment with Android from time to time and today was one of those more special days. While poking around FaceLock.apk, which I decompiled with apktool, I opened this. The screenshot above portrays a file “arrays.xml,” which contains what looks like phrases to [...]

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Jan

31

2012

Download: Sprint Nexus S 4G Gets Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich IMM26 ROM

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by Axl Logan
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There’s great news for those loyal fans who stuck with their Sprint CDMA Nexus S 4G handsets instead of running over to Big Red and snatching a Galaxy Nexus.  The incredibly talented folks over at XDA managed to get the Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.4 ROM up and running for the second iteration in the Google [...]

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Jan

29

2012

Leaked: Motorola To Sell “Developer Edition” RAZR in Europe, Then US, Comes With Unlockable Bootloader

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by Jack Holt
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Well it appears that Motorola has heard the development community’s cry for an unlocked bootloader as an article on the Motorola blog suggests that they will be releasing a “Developer Edition” of the powerhouse Droid RAZR sometime soon. The article was posted and quickly redacted suggesting that the news was released a little too soon. If [...]

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Jan

23

2012

Root and Push Clockwork Recovery to Your Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet

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by Jack Holt
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If you have been wanting to root your Lenovo ThinkPad and haven’t had time, knew where to go, or were a little bit apprehensive about doing such things then today is your lucky day as we have the process all lined up for you. Heck we’ll even give you instructions on pushing ClockWork Recovery to [...]

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Jan

19

2012

Sense-ICS Roms Now Surfacing for the HTC Rezound

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by Jack Holt
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  We knew it would be only a short time before we saw ROMs popping up for the HTC Rezound after it was announced that the device’s bootloader was unlocked. While it may be some time before we see an official OTA build for Ice Cream Sandwich that hasn’t stopped developers from getting their hands [...]

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