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The holidays are a stressful time. Whether it’s shopping for a Christmas gift or having to buy the perfect present for your beloved on Valentine’s Day, we all have experienced the added pressure that these days bring to our life. XDA Member HellRaz3r has come up with a solution.
It’s called Bad Present Revenge, and it’s a little game designed to ease the tension in your life through the calculated (or not so calculated) destruction of St Nicolas. According to HellRaz3r:
Your gift to Santa Claus: Turn the festival of love to
the feast of the blows. Here those can. . . READ ON »
XDA member AidenM shows the first ever ROM for HTC Flyer loaded with the newest operating system from Android: Ice cream sandwich. The work is based on Sensation RCMix 3D Leak w/ Dexter_nlb’s fixes for hardware and since it´s a beta version some bugs are present.
So far the Developer has a green light on:
- Wifi
- Market access
- AOSP lockscreen
- Rotation
- Touch
- ADB access
- External SD
It’s not perfect, here’s what’s not working:
- Camera
- Bluetooth
- Some settings panes (keyboard selecter)
- Rotation is blurry and pixelated
- HTC Apps not . . . READ ON »
XDA Senior member Metastable, creator of Epic Audio Visualizer, has done it again. You may remember a story in August here that followed Metastable as he developed a Deadmau5 inspired music visualizing live wallpaper. An interesting read for developers and Deadmau5 fans alike, the original thread (here) spawned a Daft Punk themed demo (here) and now a Skrillex version joins the mix. Metastable’s live wallpapers are music-reactive renderings of artists stage setups.
Electronica is known for spectacular light shows, and Skrillex’ dubstep performances are no exception. Designed by Sensory Sync, Skrillex’ rig is one of . . . READ ON »
Many times in this world, products are developed in a specific country or language, and are unavailable to users outside of that area. It doesn’t happen as often in the world of mobile applications, but is still an issue that we can face. XDA Senior Member melvinchng encountered the same issue.
An official tester of the Chinese 360 Launcher, he decided to translate the launcher into English so that the members of XDA can enjoy it. The app is feature laden including:
•Download theme from its site
•Download custom lockscreen from its site
•Download wallpaper from its site
•Quick launcher. . . READ ON »
Traveling the world is the dream of countless people from all over Earth. People from the west want to go east and vice versa. People from the north think about going south and vice versa.
As we’ve talked about previously, there aren’t many better apps than GlobeTrotter to use if you plan on traveling across this humble planet of ours and, with a couple of recent updates, it hasn’t gotten anything but better.
XDA Member wariat has been making as much progress as possible to make GlobeTrotter the premier app for travelers, with points of interest and language support . . . READ ON »
Android is the embodiment of that state of constant innovation and customization. Features such as the color of your homescreen launcher, to the launcher itself can be changed and modified at will, so too how you answer calls (you remember that’s what these are for, right?).
You see XDA Member seneca88 has created an innovative way to screen your calls via gesture. The app is named (appropriately) Answer Call by Gesture and allows the user to customize how you answer (or don’t answer) calls through the use of customizable on-screen swipes. According to seneca88:
This app makes use of gesture
. . . READ ON »
Have you ever think about making your own ROM? You may say it´s too complicated, but if you are willing to learn heres something for you.
Whether you are a normal user, chef or developer you may find this installer useful for your future works, you should check this out. XDA member amarullz shows his open source work called AROMA Installer, which from a normal user view will be easy to learn how to choose which mods and apps you want to install on your device.
Developer states that chefs can easily add or remove apps using with winrar and . . . READ ON »
There’s a reason why many games are considered classics. They’re fun, easy to play and they’ve been around for a very long time. So when those games started appearing on Android, of course we, the users, were happy to see our old friends again.
While there are a few versions of the classic game Battleship already available on the Android Market, XDA Member joao12ferreira and a colleague have decided to create their own version and release it to the public.
The game doesn’t deviate from the main point, which is to call out coordinates and see if there’s a piece . . . READ ON »
A security flaw in certain HTC Android builds allows third-party applications to access WiFi passwords. The flaw was discovered last September by Chris Hessing and Bret Jordan, who contacted HTC privately before publicly disclosing details.
Considering the list of affected devices – which includes the Desire HD, Glacier, Droid Incredible, Thunderbolt, Sensation, Desire S, EVO 3D and EVO 4G – it appears that the bug is related to some HTC-specific Android modifications in its custom Sense UI. The myTouch 3G and Nexus One, which both run stock Android software despite being manufactured . . . READ ON »
According to a PCWorld report, Lenovo will update its ThinkPad Tablet to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the second quarter of this year.
The ThinkPad Tablet was released last August, running Android 3.1 Honeycomb. Similar to the ThinkPad line of notebooks, it is targeted at business users and comes with a stylus and note-taking software. Despite security features aimed at enterprise, it was recently rooted.
Several monts after the release of Android 4.0, the ThinkPad Tablet is one of the few tablets that are confirmed to be getting updates to the latest Android version. The Ice Cream Sandwich . . . READ ON »
Android is a robust OS. It is capable of many things, from navigating you through the densest of urban areas to streaming live music anywhere there’s internet. Getting between all of these different features and applications can prove difficult: unless you have Task Changer PRO.
Created by XDA Senior Member pacosal, Task Changer Pro was specifically designed to allow users to rapidly move between different tasks with minimal effort via swiping. According to pacosal, the app can:
o Show running apps
o Show recent apps
o Go home
o Do Alt + Tab that will change between your two. . . READ ON »
Every day games become more processor intensive. A device that six months prior may had enough RAM to play the latest games, may now be obsolete. Recognized Developer Juwe11 has come up with a solution to the problem.
It’s known simply as RAM Manager. The basic premise is simple: by constantly adjusting the internal memory settings of the phone, the application can increase both gaming and system interface speeds, thereby providing a better experience for the end user. According to Juwe11 the app has the following modes:
•Balance – Option which makes your RAM to the best optimization, this option
. . . READ ON »
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