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Dec

14

2011

New developments in Galaxy Nexus Builds – Yakju & Mysid are AOSP supported

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by Jim Farmer
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Yesterday we posted an article concerning the discovery of alternative builds on GSM Galaxy Nexus Phones. Google’s own build for the Galaxy Nexus is named “yakju,” however some owners who were not receiving updates for their device discovered the problem lay in the fact that their phone sported a different fingerprint, “yakjuwx.” Android software engineer Jean-Baptise Queru, [...]

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Dec

13

2011

Nexus or Not? Varying builds have come to light, are your updates from Google?

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by Jim Farmer
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The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, a phone which should stand as the epitome of a pure Google Experience device, has been receiving a lot of flak lately for inclusion of bloatware and exclusion of Google Wallet, at least in the Verizon version. That being the case, many have resorted to obtaining a purer version elsewhere, purchasing [...]

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Dec

13

2011

Razr Sandwich Progressing Ever So Slightly (Video)

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by Axl Logan
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It’s a work in progress and a pleasure watching it in the making as ICS comes to the Droid Razr.  The folks over at RootzWiki managed to successfully boot Ice Cream Sandwich on the device.  They’ve dedicated this a whole thread to keeping you up to date in what’s working, what’s not working, all features, [...]

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Dec

5

2011

Flash CyanogenMod 7 to Your Kindle Fire in 43 Easy Steps

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by Jack Holt
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The other day we told you about the CyanogenMod team bringing CM7 to the Kindle Fire. Well as of today you can too. However, this is a lengthy process (43 steps and use of ADB) and I suggest taking extreme caution by reading through the entire guide before you take on this task. According to the post, this [...]

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Dec

4

2011

Droid Bionic Gets Alpha Build Ice Cream Sandwich ROM

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by Jack Holt
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  Good news for those with rooted Bionics. A somewhat functional, alpha build of Ice Cream Sandwich has been released for the Bionic thanks to dhacker29 of the Th3ORY ROM team.   Not everything works as of right now, so using this as a daily driver is probably not a good idea. Here is what works: – [...]

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Dec

2

2011

CyanogenMod Posts Update on CM 9 Progress

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by Jack Holt
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Chomping at the bit for some Ice Cream Sandwich action brought to you by CM9? Then you’re in luck, sort of. The developers of CyanogenMod released an update to their blog showing progress for CM9. As they say things are “slowly starting to come together.” I think however, that given they got the source code [...]

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Dec

1

2011

Factory Image Released by Google for HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus, ROM Flashers Everywhere Breathe Sigh of Relief

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by Jack Holt
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Good news for you owners of the Galaxy Nexus. The Android Building Google Groups page put up an announcement stating that a complete factory image for your Galaxy Nexus has been released. This image includes the bootloader, baseband, and the rest of the system. As we all know, Google phones have always been easy to [...]

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Nov

29

2011

Samsung Fascinate Gets “Alphalulz” Ice Cream Sandwich ROM

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by Joe Sirianni
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The race is on, that is, to see how many different devices can we port ICS to in the least amount of time.  Next to make the ICS port list is the seemingly forgotten Samsung Fascinate.  The device was recently graced with the “Alphalulz” ICS build courtesy of the folks over at RootzWiki, primarily dev JT1134.  Working features include [...]

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Nov

28

2011

Nexus S and Galaxy S Receive Early Build Of CyanogenMod 9

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by Joe Sirianni
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We didn’t think it would take too long before the creators of CyanogenMod got………creative.  Since the Android 4.0 source code release, the team has been hard at work and now we’re seeing the blood sweat and tears begin to manifest into fruition. Early alpha builds of CyanogenMod9 for the Samsung Galaxy S and the Nexus [...]

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Nov

22

2011

HTC Releases Source Code For The Amaze, Rezound, Explorer And Desire S

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by Joe Sirianni
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HTC, one of the hottest handset manufacturers in the word has just announced the availability of source code for several of its popular handsets.  Among these are the HTC Amaze, Rezound, Explorer and Desire S.  You now download the kernel source code by heading over to HTC’s Dev site.  Here’s to hoping the wide array [...]

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