WakeBlock is an application that lets you control wakelocks so that your smartphone or tablet stays in a deep sleep mode. There is now an unofficial port of this system modification for the LG V20 thanks to XDA Senior Member Zacharee1. As with the original application, it is considered to be in an early...
Monday, July 31, 2017
Google Chrome Canary and Dev Builds Now Come with Built-In Ad Blocker
Google depends on advertising for its revenue. It is to serve this purpose that the company collects all relevant data across all of its users. Our browsing habits, our shopping-related searches, our...
Vic Gundotra (Ex-Google VP): If You Care About Great Photography, You Own an iPhone
The name Vic Gundotra if pretty well known within the Android community as he used to lead Google’s mobile division when he worked for them. He’s likely more known for his contributions to services like Google+ though, but his work also touched other areas within the company. He is credited for a lot...
Guide Shows You How to Build a Custom ROM with Microsoft Azure
Building a custom ROM can take a long time if you don’t have high-end hardware and it can take even longer if your bandwidth is limited and/or very low speed. Thankfully though, there are a number of cloud computing platforms available and Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular options. So XDA Senior...
Samsung’s Industry-First Cat.18 6CA LTE Modem Hits 1.2Gb/s Downlink Speed
When Samsung announced the Exynos 9 Series SoC (with the 8895) earlier this year, the company was proud to talk about its new LTE modem. Like with the announcement we’re seeing today with the Cat.18 modem, their Cat.16 LTE modem used in the Exynos 8895 came with support for 5CA (carrier...
Three New MIUI 9 Themes Available for Download on the Redmi Note 4
Xiaomi just announced and subsequently launched MIUI 9 this month. It’s been made available as an alpha/beta China ROM for a couple of devices already, and comes with new features as well as some new themes. For those who have the Redmi Note 4 and don’t want to wait for the official update, XDA Member PawanRockz has...
Apktool Receives an Update to 2.2.4, Includes Security Fixes and More
Apktool is s very popular piece of software among some of the more dedicated Android enthusiasts. The software has made headlines time and time again with the most recent being in June when Connor Tumbleson was able to receive sponsorship for the project thanks to Sourcetoad. Today, he has announced...
WakeBlock Lets You Prevent Wakelocks on the Nexus 6P
Battery life issues that Android owners complain about are almost always caused by an application waking up the phone when it is idle and/or not in use. Google has been working to fix this (with Doze), and will continue doing work in this area with Android O. For now though, XDA Member GioBozza has...
Tweaks to Increase Performance of a Nexus 6P After Bootloop Fix
We recently featured a couple of guides on how to fix both the Nexus 6P and the Nexus 5X from bootlooping. This was thanks to a boot image XDA Senior Member XCnathan32 put together that disabled some cores to make it work. While it stopped the bootloop issue, it decreased performance, but...
Huawei Abandons the Low-End Segment, Aims to Compete Directly Against Apple
Huawei has continuously grown as a smartphone company to become the number 3 OEM in the world. They recently overtook OPPO in China during the first quarter of this year when they shipped one fifth of the country’s overall sales (by shipping 20.8 million smartphones). Their revenue growth did slow...
Hands on with the Maze Alpha: Big Bezel-less on a Budget
The Maze Alpha offers a solution to those who want a high-end looking bezel-less phone, without spending the high-end price. With other features like 4 or 6GB of RAM, a 4,000mAh battery, a dual-lens camera...
FCC Filing Indicates HTC Could Enable Bluetooth 5.0 on the U11 Via a Software Update
A new FCC filing from HTC shows that the company is planning to roll out a firmware update that will enable support for Bluetooth 5.0 on the HTC U11.
The U11, which was launched back in May this...
Bluetooth Battery Level Indicators are Finally Coming to Android
A really useful feature for those of us with Bluetooth headsets and other devices is finally making its way to AOSP: Bluetooth battery level indicators. This means that users of Google, Motorola, Sony,...
Sunday, July 30, 2017
How to Block Heads Up Notifications while Gaming or Watching a Video
A few years ago Android switched from a ticker style notification system to heads up notifications. Instead of just having the information scrolling across the status bar when a notification came in (ticker),...
Facebook Launches Messenger Platform 2.1 With Built-In Natural Language Processing
When we talk about social networks, it is difficult to not include Facebook in that conversation. After all, for most people on the Internet, Facebook is the very definition of a social network, one that...
CarbonROM Update Brings Energy Aware Scheduling to the Nextbit Robin
Ever since Google hopped on to the Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) feature train, developers on our forums have been working hard to bring this feature to the devices they support. The feature optimizes energy consumption for multi-core SoCs, and it requires significant kernel patches to get it working....
LineageOS 14.1 for the Huawei P9 Lite
The Huawei P9 Lite is a mid-range smartphone released in 2016 that features the HiSilicon Kirin 650 SoC, and as such has not seen as much development effort as some other comparable devices using Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs. This disparity is mostly attributed to a delay by Huawei in releasing their kernel...
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Evan Blass Leaks the Galaxy S8 Active, Confirms Previous Image Leaks
The Samsung Galaxy S8 Active is a phone awaited by many who are looking for a rugged device. The Active lineup from Samsung tries to merge a lot of the flagship features from the S lineup with a smartphone...
Action Launcher v26 Brings Google Now Integration, Adds Notification Dots Support and More
Today, the lead developer behind Action Launcher, Chris Lacy, announced the release of a new update to its popular launcher application — Action Launcher v26. As always, the new update packs in a plethora...
Friday, July 28, 2017
Expect OEMs to Keep Omitting the Headphone Jack as Their Newest Phones are Selling Better and Better
A little over a year ago I wrote about the killing of the 3.5mm headphone jack. At the time, the Moto Z was newly announced, making it the first mainstream and major manufacturer to forgo the decades...
Huawei Releases Financial Report for H1 2017; Sales Revenue Increases 36.2% YoY
We are starting to see a number of financial reports come out from smartphone OEMs right now, as they try to give us and their investors a look at their past workings. Samsung recently announced theirs and allowed them to take claim of the largest maker of chipsets when they surpassed Intel. LG released...
Google Play Offers Discounts on Some TV Seasons if You Own Part of it Already
Google Play offers a number of different ways to obtain TV shows for your smartphone, tablet, and Android TV devices. So if you would like to get your hands on only one single episode of a TV show, then you have the choice of just buying it and ignoring everything else. This is great for those who either...
MIUI 9 Alpha and Beta Download Links Available for the Redmi Note 4X and Mi 6
We’ve talked about MIUI 9 quite a lot lately. It was only last week when Xiaomi officially announced that MIUI 9 would be launched at the end of this month. This new software update would coincide with the launch of the Xiaomi Mi 5X, and the update would also be making its way to other Xiaomi devices....
NPR Survey Shows 65% of Owners Wouldn’t Go Back to Not Having a Smart Speaker
For some, the whole smart speaker market seemingly came out of no where. Amazon launched the Echo and for a while it was too expensive for your average customer to consider buying. Amazon was aware of this and then released the Echo Dot and Echo Tap to help fill in those price ranges. Now, the company...
WiFi Chipset Info Checks if Your Device is Vulnerable to BroadPwn
Android’s monthly security update for July included patches for 138 issues with 18 of them being tagged with Remote Code Execution. These are the vulnerabilities that enable an attacker to execute some code remotely and is considered quite dangerous. One of these RCE vulnerabilities is actually...
Google Hires Essential’s Liron Damir as Head of UX on Google Home Products
Google has been getting more serious each passing year when it comes to its newly formed hardware division. The company has had huge success with its Chromecast device, and has since started expanding into smartphones, and most recently a couple of connected home products. Granted, they did lose the...
Answer this Survey for Honor, Win an Honor 6X
Honor is giving away an Honor 6X, and all you have to do to enter is fill out this short survey which will help Honor learn more about your phone usage and preferences. All countries can participate, and the winner will be chosen in one week, on 4 August.
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HTC 10 and HTC One A9 Android 7.0 Nougat Kernel Source Code Released
HTC just announced that they have published the Android 7.0 kernel source code for the HTC 10 and the HTC One A9. These newly published sets of kernel source code will go a long way towards helping with the development of Android 7.0, AOSP-based custom ROMs for these devices.
Although it is always...
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build Lets you Link your Android Phone to your Windows PC
Microsoft has announced the newest iteration of Insider Previews for Windows 10. Insider Preview Build 16251 for PC is rolling out to Windows 10 Insiders in the Fast ring, and will also be available for...