January 2017 ~ XDA

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Tensorflow RC 1.0 Released, Android Optimizations Among New Features

Feature Image Displays Picture A in the Style of Famous Paintings B,C, and D – Image Credit: Google Research Blogs Tensorflow – an open-source neural network platform from the Google Brain team...

Benchmark Cheating Strikes Back: How OnePlus and Others Got Caught Red-Handed, and What They’ve Done About it

A few years ago there was a considerable uproar, when numerous major manufacturers were caught cheating on benchmarks. OEMs of all sizes (including Samsung, HTC, Sony, and LG) took part in this arms race...

Project Fi is Rumored to Integrate with Google Voice Soon

To kick off last week with a bang, Google finally started rolling out a big update to an application they’ve been ignoring for the longest time – Google Voice. This seems to be the latest step in Google’s overarching goal of moving regular users away from their Hangouts application. With Hangouts shifting...

ZTE Admits Kickstarter isn’t the Place to Sell Project CSX/Hawkeye

Late last year, ZTE decided they wanted to sell a smartphone with ideas which were crowdsourced from the community. This device was given the name Project CSX and with it they wanted the community to decide everything that went into the phone. The main rules when launching this project were it needing...

Updated LineageOS 13.0 for the NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet

If you have a NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet, check out this LineageOS build based on Android 6.0 with the latest Lineage OS commits! Head on over to the forum post for the download link!...

Google Announces Android Nougat 7.1.2, Public Beta Starts Rolling Out For Pixel and Nexus Devices

In an official blog post earlier, Google has announced the beta version of the upcoming Android Maintenance Release: Android Nougat 7.1.2. The public beta update will start rolling out starting today for supported devices. As always, the update will only be rolled out to devices which are enrolled in...

Nextbit has Officially been Acquired by Razer

You may know of Razer as the company who sells high-end PCs and PC accessories, but they got into the Android business in 2015 and even relaunched the OUYA store as Cortex for the Razer Forge TV. They haven’t been very active in the community since then, but it seems they aren’t done with the Android...

App Fixes the Quick Settings Flashlight Tile for the Redmi Note 3 Pro (Kenzo)

Some people with the Redmi Note 3 Pro have been having trouble with their Flashlight tile within the Quick Settings panel. XDA Recognized Themer Umang96 has recently released a root app with the help of XDA Junior Member shayanism and XDA Member hichaam....

XDA-Developers Invites Your Ideas for the Google Summer of Code Program!

XDA-Developers was founded on the need to work with closed source software, often in an effort to fix what the manufacturer broke or intentionally disabled on their smart devices. Since then, we have evolved to place more and more emphasis on open source projects. Open sourced software is much easier...

Mod Enables the Samsung Gear Application for Non-Samsung Devices

XDA Recognized Developer j to the 4n noticed the Samsung Gear application didn’t work on the HTC 10, as well as some other devices. So they whipped up a mod into an APK & has been told by at least 4 others that it helped fix the issue...

App for OnePlus 3 Gives you Better Control of Pocket Mode

XDA Senior Member rituj26 was tired of some OnePlus 3 ROMs only disabling gestures while others only disabled the fingerprint sensor. So they created this little root application that gives you the ability to toggle specific features when Pocket Mode is enabled....

The recent wave of reports regarding the fate of Snapdragon 835 devices seem to point at a slight delay in the arrival of Qualcomm’s latest and greatest. Furthermore, we now know a few big devices coming...

The Chromecast Ethernet Adapter Works with Google Home

A couple of weeks after the Google Home personal assistant device was announced last year at Google I/O 2016, it was reported that Google Home would be nothing more than a Chromecast stuffed inside of a speaker. The report came from The Information, and claimed this was true because they shared...

Users Report that NVIDIA Shield TV Now Pairs with PlayStation and Xbox Controllers

We’re seeing reports from people within the community that PlayStation and Xbox controllers will now pair with both the 2015 and 2017 NVIDIA Shield TV devices over Bluetooth. It’s unclear if this is specific to the NVIDIA Shield TV, or if it’s something that is supported because of the new Nougat update...

Rumor Reveals the Alleged Camera Specs for the Upcoming BlackBerry Mercury

We first started hearing rumors about the smartphone from BlackBerry that carried the codename Mercury back in June of last year. At the time, all we had to go on was that BlackBerry was working on three new Android devices and they carried the codenames Neon, Argon, and Mercury. Neon and Argon...

Here Is How To Disable Dm-verity Warning On The OnePlus 3T

XDA Senior Member th3g1z has finally found a fix to disable dm-verity warning on the OnePlus 3T running Android 7.0. The fix doesn’t require flashing anything; you just need to execute two simple fastboot commands to get rid of the dm-verity warning. Head over to the linked thread for more details....

Guide: Installing and Running a GNU/Linux Environment on Any Android Device

As many of you may well be aware, the Android operating system is powered by the Linux kernel underneath. Despite the fact that both Android and GNU/Linux are powered by the same kernel, the two...

Rovo89: Update on Development of Xposed for Nougat

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New Leak Shows the LG Watch Style In Silver and Rose Gold, may Start at $249

We’ve known for a while now that LG is likely working on two new Android Wear watches allegedly called the LG Watch Style and the Watch Sport. While we have already seen images of both the LG Watch Style and Watch Sport, those were unfortunately quite low resolution renders. Now, a new leak from Evan...

After exploring the RAW capabilities of my OnePlus 3T and Sony NEX-5 cameras, an array of readers responded with questions and comments on RAW photography and their experiences. Many expressed the...

As we inch closer to one of the hottest events globally for smartphones in the form of the Mobile World Congress 2017, we witness some more phones getting leaked on the way. This time, we get new information...

AutoVoice Integration Finally makes its way to Google Home, Here’s how to Use It

After a month in Google’s approval limbo, AutoVoice has finally been approved for use as a third-party integration in Google Home. With AutoVoice integration, you can send commands to your phone that...