October 2016 ~ XDA

Monday, October 31, 2016

Honor 8 Camera Focus: Road Trip to Big Android BBQ

Miles from XDA TV set out to test one of the best features of the Honor 8 phone by taking it on a road trip all the way to the Big Android BBQ in Texas. This video takes a look at some of the photos...

PSA: Google Assistant says it’s “Offline” when you’re on a VPN, but everything still works

Google Assistant is one of the most advertised features for the new Google Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, although there are ways to enable it on non-Pixel Nougat devices as well as on non-Nougat...

Xposed Module LeEco EUI Modder allows for a Near-Vanilla Android UI

XDA Member zyberkiddy has created an Xposed Module called LeEco EUI Modder that lets you customize a number of features included in version 5.8 of LeEco’s EUI OEM skin. You can bring back the vanilla lockscreen, vanilla recent app switcher, and more....

ARM announces their second Bifrost GPU – the Mali-G51

Back in May of this year ARM announced the Mali-G71, the company’s first GPU that utilized their new Bifrost architecture. This new architecture from ARM was quickly adopted into the high-end mobile market, due to growing demand for VR gaming along with other complex and constantly evolving power hungry...

Mod Brings Night Mode Back to the Nexus 6P on Android 7.1.1

Many people have been disappointed with the removal of Night Mode on the Nexus 6P with the Android 7.1 Developer Preview. Now, a modification from XDA Senior Member SyCreed brings Night Mode, Pixel navigation bar icons, uncolored battery saver mode and more for the Nexus 6P....

Root is Now Available for the LG V20

We saw SuperSU released for the Pixel phones this weekend, but now root has made its way to the LG V20 as well. This root method is possible thanks to XDA Recognized Developer jcadduono, who walks you through the entire rooting process in his forum thread....

Sony publishes instructions on how to build Android 7.1 AOSP for Xperia Devices

Sony is one of the few OEMs that remains a firm believer in AOSP. Most companies do not bother providing necessary firmware binaries to allow developers to port AOSP onto the device. But while some OEMs actually do provide binaries for developers to make AOSP builds, like we saw with the OnePlus 3,...

Google Pixel XL Performance Stress Test, Throttling and Thermals Analysis — A Remarkable, Consistent Performer

Google’s new Pixel phones assume the mantle of yesteryear’s Nexus devices, which were consistently some of the fastest devices around. But while the user experience rarely suffered on a Nexus, there were...

Before you can root your Honor 8 or install a custom recovery, you’ll want to unlock your bootloader. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to get the unlock code for your device and how to use...

Root is now available for the Google Pixel and Pixel XL: Here’s what Changed and what Works

As promised, systemless root for the Google Pixel and Pixel XL is now available. XDA Senior Recognized Developer Chainfire was working on root for the Google Pixel phone running...

UMi Plus XDA TV Review

As we all know, flagship phones are not cheap. Many people simply do not have the money to spend on a high end flagship device. Today we are going to be looking at a phone that, while not a flagship, has many of the specs and features that you’d expect in one. This is the $200 UMi Plus. Check...

Tiered Fees are Coming to Swappa on November 1st

If you haven’t already heard of the service, Swappa is an online marketplace that was launched for people to buy or sell mobile devices. Over the years, the types of products available for listing...

Sony Announces PS Vue for Android TV

Sony just made a big announcement for PS Vue users who also have a smart TV or a standalone box running Android TV. PS Vue on Android isn’t new, as the app has been available on mobile devices for a few months now. The big news this week is that PlayStation Vue is finally available for Android...

Oracle Files for an Appeal in its Case Against Google

Soon after Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, the company went after Google for allegedly infringing on copyrights and patents that are related to Java. It took two years before the case went to trial and Oracle eventually lost as the courts were unable to find any evidence about what the company...

Which Past Phone Did You Like for its Innovation?

The recently released Xiaomi Mi MIX has opened up to a lot of appreciation for its bold approach in imagining what the smartphone future would look like, while still maintaining commercial sense (even if SHARP has done similar things before). With a nearly bezelless display, and all the innovation that...

Alphabet Brings in Over $5 Billion in Income During Q3 2016

To round off the week, Alphabet has just published their 3rd quarter financial earnings for investors and the media. We can see that June, July, August and September were good for the internet tech giant. Overall revenue for the quarter increased to $22.4 billion when compared to the same quarter...

Google Assistant Gains IFTTT Support

This year, we’re seeing Google take on the likes of Amazon, Siri and Microsoft in the personal assistant category with Google Assistant. The company will begin shipping out Google Home pre-orders within the next week, but the service won’t be as powerful as its competition if it doesn’t support a wide...

Lenovo seems to have a surprise in store for the upcoming holiday season. The Motorola Moto M has had its fair share of leaks for a while, but based on what we’ve learned so far, the device seemed to...

Verizon Pixel/Pixel XL Bootloader Unlock has been Released

When Google revealed they had struck a carrier exclusivity deal with Verizon for sales of the Google Pixel and Pixel XL within the United States, many of us feared the worst. Given Verizon’s history of preventing bootloader unlocking, enthusiasts feared that even the standard bearer for Android,...

Chainfire’s Systemless Root for Pixel Phones is Coming

We all knew it was coming. It’s basically tradition that within days of Google releasing a new device, XDA Senior Recognized Developer Chainfire finds a working root method. In keeping with that tradition, earlier today Chainfire demonstrated he had achieved root access on his Pixel phone with...

Android BBQ Vlog Day 2

The second day of the Big Android BBQ of 2016 was a bitter sweet experience. It was announced that this would be the last BBQ as there was no longer the sponsor presence needed to keep the event going. The event was a lot of fun and this video captures some of the final bits of the BBQ. We were...

XDA Forums Live for the Elephone S7 and Elephone R9

The curved display Elephone S7 and the almost bezel-less Elephone R9 now have their own sub forums over at XDA! Head on over!...

AOSP 7.1 Lands Unofficially on the MT6752-based Jiayu S3

If you are looking to try out the absolute latest of Android, and have the MT6752 based Jiayu S3, try out the AOSP 7.1 builds from Team MAD....

Check out Unofficial CyanogenMod 13 on the Huawei P8!

XDA Senior Member nexolight‘s Unofficial CyanogenMod 13 is a Work-In-Progress ROM that showcases the stock Android experience on the Huawei P8. Be wary of the bugs though!...

Qualcomm to Acquire NXP Semiconductors for $47 Billion

Qualcomm has officially announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire NXP Semiconductors. The agreement allows Qualcomm to purchase all issued and outstanding common shares of NXP for $110 per share, which gives NXP a total enterprise value of around $47 Billion. The acquisition...

LG plans to go in strong with the G6. We do not really know a whole lot about the G6 at this stage, but recent developments have pointed that LG may finally be ready to move past dead technology and favor...

South Korea Grants Samsung a Patent on Fingerprint Scanner Gestures

We’ve seen multiple companies begin implementing fingerprint scanner gestures on their smartphones in the past. Huawei/Honor has been known for these gestures for quite a while, and many were hoping that it would be included in the Nexus 6P. This never happened, but Google was able to bring the feature...

Samsung and LG Both Announce Their Q3 2016 Financial Reports

Yesterday we saw HTC publishing their financial report for the third quarter of the year, and today we see that both LG and Samsung have done the same. All three companies were not able to put their best foot forward this year for different reasons, but some were able to come out better than others....

Google Announces New Tools for Creating Material Design Apps

In a new article this week, Google tells us that design is never done, because it’s the art of continuous problem solving. Even if you optimize a user interface element for today’s world, something will change that will require you to go back and work on it at a later date. To support this, Google has...

Google Confirms Fix for Huawei Phone/Android Auto Incompatibility is on the Way

Android Auto has remained one of Google’s more low-key products these past two years since its initial announcement in 2014, but the project has slowly been expanding each year. During this year’s Google I/O, the company announced that it would be working with Qualcomm to deliver a customized Snapdragon...

Report: 70% of Note 7 owners will stick with Samsung

Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past few weeks, you’ve probably heard of the sometimes explosive nature of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7’s battery. The fiasco has resulted in Samsung recalling the millions of phones it had shipped out: not once, but twice. Samsung has been so careful with trying...

Google Allo did not quite have the start that Google had hoped for the app. In the saturated market of Instant Messaging platforms, Allo has offered very little to the average consumer that could...

When Google finally unveiled the Pixel and Pixel XL on October 4th, many people were put off by the price tag of the two phones. While Google is no stranger to sticking a premium price tag on their products,...

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