Samsung debuted a feature called Smart Rotate in their Galaxy Note II and have spread it to a lot of their phones, including the beloved Galaxy S III and Galaxy S II. Instead of using the accelerometer to rotate the phone (which depends on gravity), it uses facial recognition. Using the front facing camera, it can tell how you are looking at the phone… Read more
Courtsey of the diligence and constant tinkering by the XDA community a major security issue has been identified on Samsung’s S Memo enabled devices. This flaw is only attributed to rooted devices. As always when rooting a device you always have the potential to have security breaches so its always important to reference how to consider this when… Read more
If you ever need to restore your brand new HTC One X+ to stock, XDA has you covered. A member by the name of Football (remember him?) has released all the RUUs for the device. So if you ever need stock, to send the device out for warranty repair, to start fresh, or to sell it, you could always use one of these (hit the source link for the download)…. Read more
Remember when we reported that Texas Instruments was leaving the SoC game? We were distraught, not because their processors were so good, but because they provided a lot of documentation. This was amazing for developers. My favorite processor line is the Exynos line. There is no doubt they are amazing in every way, showing raw power, low power usage,… Read more
According to the XDA Community Forums, there appears to be several leaks of HTC’s Official Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ROM for the One X. Unfortunately only specific One X’s with the supported CIDs will be to utilize the ROM at this point. These ROMs are based on the firmware that will be shipped with the upcoming on the One X+ and will feature Android… Read more
If you’re a fan of Android launchers on Ice Cream Sandwich, you’ve no doubt heard about and have likely tried Apex Launcher. Perhaps you’ve tried its major rival, Nova Launcher — either way, there’s a pretty good chance many of you are running one of those two launchers. The good news for Apex is that it just got a lot better. Apex has released… Read more
With the Jelly Bean SDK already in the wild, we knew it was just a matter of time before someone uploaded downloads we’d all want pulled straight from the SDK. Thanks to the boys at XDA, the very first thing you can grab are wallpapers Google has designed for Jelly Bean. The file is just 2.2MB in size and has 12 wallpapers all found in the new Jelly… Read more
In an interesting yet convenient/understandable move, the XDA Developers forums have moved all US Samsung Galaxy S III variant forums under one roof. Due to Samsung pulling off the unimaginable, these devices being released in the US really are pretty much the same device only with different radios. We’ve seen the evidence of this ourselves while… Read more
This isn’t device news, but if you own a Android device, this should be somewhat exciting news for you. The extremely popular XDA Developers forums is testing a new beta layout for their forums. If you’re not familiar with the XDA forums, I highly suggest you start snooping around there if you’re planning on doing any type of modification for your… Read more
Well, it was fun while it lasted but Samsung and/or Vlingo have locked down access to the app for unauthorized devices, read: nothing but the Galaxy S III gets any S-Voice love now. According to XDA-Developers, S-Voice commands are hitting Vlingo’s servers and then being rebuffed as the servers recognize a non-Galaxy S III model. If you… Read more
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