Oct

2011

Samsung won’t be the only manufacturer to have a stock Android Ice Cream Sandwich device in 2011

by Robert Nazarian
tagged galaxy nexus, HTC, ice cream sandwich, motorola, RAZR, Rezound, Samsung, stock

Our favorite Panda (@black_man_x) is at it again, giving us tips and clues to what’s coming soon. He sent out three particularly interesting tweets tonight about Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS): If I told you that the Galaxy nexus is not the only one… Just the samsung one.. How you love that moto, HTC fans?? #justsaying [...]

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Sep

2011

Verizon Nexus Prime system app list shows no bloatware and possible facial recognition lockscreen

by Robert Nazarian
tagged Android, bloatware, Galaxy Prime, nexus, PRIME, stock, Verizon

We know some sort of variant of the Nexus Prime will launch with Ice Cream Sandwich on Verizon first. The big question is if it will be a true Nexus device with no bloatware? Our friends over at MyDroidLife have the system app list and guess what? No bloatware. We know the phone is made [...]

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Sep

2011

Samsung Epic 4G Touch – Stock kernel available

by Jim Farmer
tagged 4G, Epic, flash, kernel, ODIN, Root, Samsung, stock, touch

Good news Epic owners. If you recently rooted your phone and have since had some troubles, an unrooted stock kernel has successfully been extracted. With the stock kernel you can restore your kernel to its prime factory state. Team ACS, the dev group behind the extraction, have the kernel as well as Samsung’s ODIN available [...]

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Jul

2011

Original Motorola Droid gets update to Android 2.3.4, props to infamous developer Peter Alfonso

by Dustin Karnes
tagged 2.3.4, alfonso, Android, AOSP, droid, Gingerbread, moto, motorola, ota, peter, stock, update, Vanilla

Anyone out there still holding onto their OG Droid from Motorola? Yeah, you know who you are. Desperately clutching to your nostalgia, praying for more updates. Well, folks, help has arrived, and it has come by way of developer Peter Alfonso. You may recognize the name from his GPA16 build, which – while unofficial – [...]

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Mar

2011

Samsung Galaxy S can now use modified Xperia Arc Launcher

by Jesse Bauer
tagged applications, Captivate, ericsson, Fascinate, galaxy s, launcher, modified, Samsung, sony, stock, tweaked, Vibrant, XDA, xda-developers, Xperia Arc

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc launcher was something that many of us wanted for our own handsets since we saw it demo’d here. If you own a Samsung Galaxy S device however, you can now get that same launcher working on your device, without any of the lag seen in other launchers. XDA member Syn [...]

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Mar

2011

Unroot and re-lock your Motorola Xoom – find out how

by Jesse Bauer
tagged Android, Android tablet, flash, hack, hacks, Honeycomb, images, lock, motorola, re-lock, ROM, Root, stock, system, tablet, unroot, Xoom

So bad here we told you about rooting the Motorola Xoom, then found out it may not be a great idea based on how Motorola may deal with your warranty and upgrade status to 4G. Now that we know the Flash 10.2 update is here, it was announced that rooted or unlocked Xooms would need [...]

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Dec

2010

E*TRADE Mobile Pro Comes to Android

by Chris Moor
tagged app, E*TRADE, stock, trading

Finally available in the Android Market is an app for you E*TRADE fanatics out there. This app comes with a comfortable and user friendly UI, equipped with everything you need to take care of your stocks. If you are new to E*TRADE, opening up an account could just win you $500 dollars. You can create [...]

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Dec

2010

Nexus S in stock at Carphone Warehouse? Not so much

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Android, carphone, Google, in, nexus, S, stock, warehouse

In the latest “what were you thinking, Mr. web developer” news, it looks like an over zealous employee at Carphone Warehouse put up a listing for the Nexus S, showing it in stock. While we know that Carphone Warehouse probably wont be selling the phone until around Dec. 20th (a few days after Best Buy [...]

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Dec

2010

Gingerbread AOSP Source To Be Released – Developers and Users Start Fist Pumping

by Joe Sirianni
tagged Android, motoblur, open source project, plain android, Sense UI, stock, Vanilla

French software engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru, a developer on the Android Open-Source Project tweeted earlier this morning that Gingerbread will be in AOSP shortly after shipping to the masses. What does this mean to you? It means Pure Android on your device! Nothing against HTC’s Sense UI or Samsung’s TouchWiz, but sometimes you just want some plain ol’ [...]

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Sep

2010

Verizon Droid X back in stock!

by Jesse Bauer
tagged Android, droid, droid x, Google, stock, Verizon

Reports have come in that the Droid X is back in stock at Verizon! That comes with a sigh of relief for all those Verizon customers (and maybe some potential new ones) who have been waiting for a couple months for the ability to order. As a side note, reports are not confirmed as to [...]

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