December 2015 ~ XDA

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Video Previews Some Upcoming Features of Android Wear 1.4.0 on the Huawei Watch

Someone on the Android Wear subreddit was able to obtain a test build of the upcoming update headed to Android Wear. He just published a video that demos some of the new features including an enabled...

WhatsApp Suffers Outage On New Year’s Eve

WhatsApp suffered a brief outage, possibly due to the massive influx of messages sent during New Years celebrations around the world. This outage has caused WhatsApp messages to fail to deliver, and...

After turning down the Pakistani government’s request for “unfettered access” to user information (read: backdoor) and deciding to leave the country rather than change its policy, Blackberry has informed...

Motorola has released the kernel sources for the Moto X 2014 for Android 6.0 Marshmallow. It’s certainly beneficial for developers, as they can update their custom kernels with the most recent changes...

With 2015 coming to an end, Huawei has released their official sales numbers for the year. It’s been previously reported that Huawei is now the #3 smartphone manufacturer in the world and these growth...

The OnePlus X has garnered a fair bit of popularity in the smaller phone segment, featuring decent specs in a small package and an inexpensive price tag to play along with it. But as capable as the Snapdragon...

The FSF has already raised more than $250,000 toward their goal of $450,000 by January 31st, 2016. They now need your help to raise that last little bit. This of course is an incredibly important charity...

Google added a floating text selection toolbar in Android Marshmallow to make text selection and processing much more useful. In addition, Google introduced ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT, giving...

Thanks to iFixit community member Lenka, we now get a detailed teardown of the Nexus 5X from Google and LG. The device is very modular and it is mostly a straight forward process. You will need a heat...

In the past we have, sort of, reviewed many custom ROMs, like CyanogenMod 12s, Oxygen OS, CyanogenMod 12, OmniROM, SlimKat and more. Here at XDA we live for custom ROMs. Whether...

If you’re a flashaholic, you might have heard of ‘AnyKernel‘ and its successor ‘AnyKernel2.’ These are templates made for kernel developers to create an update.zip file that can be applied to any ROM...

India is Now the 2nd Country to Have 1 Billion Mobile Users

Reports indicate that India is now the second country to surpass 1 billion mobile users. The first country to do this was China, which reached this milestone around 2012, and India surpassed the...

You may have heard about Carrier iQ, as there are lots of tutorials here on XDA that show you how to remove and/or disable the analytical and diagnostic software on your smartphone. AT&T signed on...

Xiaomi has a wide portfolio of devices, especially in China. The producer of the Mi Band and Redmi Note has officially announced a 70-Inch 4K TV with Xiaomi-flavored UI. It has some really decent...

ZUK Z1, a result of a collaboration of a few companies, including Lenovo and Elephone, is set to receive a Cyanogen OS 13.0 update next year. Luckily for its users, XDA Senior Member MrColdbird refused...

Evan Blass (@evleaks) has just revealed some details of what could be the upcoming LG G5. We are told the build material will be metal, the phone will have a 5.3″ QuadHD display, a secondary “ticker”...

Bluboo has just announced the Xfire 2 and claims it is the world’s first 5″ smartphone with three SIM slots. However, 10 seconds into a Google search I have already read about the GooPhone X1+ (which...

One of the very first Firefox OS partners – Telefonica – ditched Mozilla’s system in favor of Cyanogen OS. Telefonica joins such companies as OnePlus, Oppo, ZUK or YU which use or have been using Cyanogen’s...

For anyone with the D855 LG G3 who also doesn’t want to wait for the 30B Marshmallow OTA update to be released in your country, KDZ and flashable ZIP files are now available for you. This is courtesy...

A recent discovery made by Tony Beltramelli, a Masters student at the IT University of Copenhagen, shows how vulnerable smartwaches are. Cyber criminals can gather important data like PIN codes...

YouTube recently accused T-Mobile of throttling users on their network who were watching videos on the service. This week, T-Mobile has come back and said that throttling is a bad way to describe it,...

OnePlus One is now receiving an OTA update to version 12.1-YOG7DAS2K1. It most likely is one of the last updates containing Android 5.1. A full changelog isn’t posted yet, but according to...

Earlier this month we’ve learned about WPInternals – a tool able to unlock some Lumia phones. XDA Senior Member werty100 decided to make use of it and ported a Windows 10 (10.0.10586.36)...

It has become common to measure battery life in terms of screen-on time, and while such measurement is inaccurate due to many factors, it’s still one of the most mentioned numbers in reviews and online...

For the past couple of days we took a couple moments to reflect on the Top 5 News Stories of 2015 and the Top 5 Xposed Mods of 2015. To continue down this look back at what goodies got released over...

Android N Will Not Use Oracle’s Proprietary Java APIs

There was an Android commit shared on Hacker News this week that showed Google was importing OpenJDK into the codebase. VentureBeat reached out for an official comment and Google said that...

HTC CEO Cher Wang Remains Stalwart In The Face Of Media Criticism

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Back in 2013, when OnePlus announced the One model, many of us knew almost nothing about this company. We simply heard of a no-name from China with promises of making a “flagship killer”, which was alleged...

On January 11th and 12th in San Francisco, Google will hold a developer conference for the IoT dubbed Ubiquity. Development for Brill, Weave, Beacons, Google Cast, Android Wear, Android TV, and...

Augmented Reality and Android Wear are two technologies that have shown great potential to transform the way we consume content, but thus far have been criminally underused. Ever wonder what it...

Yesterday we took a moment to reflect on the Top 5 News Stories of 2015. As the year wraps up, it is always fun to look back at what goodies got released over the last 12 months. In today’s video XDA...

Car Dashboard App ‘AutoMate’ Leaves Beta, Available Now on the Play Store

Android Auto was announced back in 2014, but if you don’t have a compatible car you’ll find yourself unable to use the app. Thankfully, an enterprising developer named BitSpice released a beta...

The global co-general manager of Samsung Pay just announced that Samsung Pay is likely to come to some lower-priced Samsung smartphones in 2016. Not only this, but we are also told that Samsung will...

We’re always on the lookout for apps made by active XDA community members! If you’ve made such an app, let us know by contacting any portal writer. We’ve featured XenoAmp by XDA Senior Member ssuukk...

The year is almost at an end, but it doesn’t look like Android’s dominance will subside anytime soon. Although we all share the experience of running an Android device here at XDA, each and every one...

A new version of Google Glass has stopped by the FCC for testing and has revealed a new folding design as well as a look at the device’s internals, the report shows that the device will support bluetooth,...

A few days ago, Samsung officially released a Marshmallow update for the Galaxy S6… well, kind of. It’s still a beta, but developers are already working hard to bring their greatest projects up-to-date. No...

CyanogenMod ROMs are popular amongst enthusiasts for their sheer availability, their feature set and the (relatively) AOSP-feel it gives skinned OEM devices. Yet these are not always optimized or stable,...

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