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LineageOS 15.1 now available for the Honor 5X and 8 Sony Xperia devices
LineageOS 15.1 is now available for the Honor 5X and 8 different Sony Xperia smartphones. Check it out here to see if your smartphone is on the list!
LineageOS is the go-to custom ROM when it comes to modifying your smartphone. It's based on AOSP and has everything you could ever want by the way of features. If you want to see all of the features you can get from LineageOS 15.1 you can, but it's a very long list. Some highlights are custom accent colors, a lock screen music visualizer, extreme power saver mode, screen-off gestures, and more. LineageOS 15.1 is based on Android Oreo and is still making its way to smartphones even now. The Honor 5X and 8 different Sony Xperia devices are next up to receive an official build of LineageOS 15.1, and you can download and install it on your smartphone today!
Sony Loses Class Action Lawsuit in Waterproof Claims for Original Xperia Z Line
Sony has lost a class action lawsuit related to their Xperia Z line's water resistance and issues from warranty claims. Read to know if you can benefit!
Arguably, one of the pioneers in the consumer sector for more "rugged" devices (or at the very least IP certification) has to be Sony. Back in 2012, they introduced the Xperia Z line of the devices, which marked a turning point for Sony in most of its philosophy as well as its design language.
Source Built Lollipop for Nexus 4, 5, 7, 10, Xperia Z
Source code for Android 5.0 Lollipop was uploaded to the AOSP just yesterday. Now one day later, the first batch of ROMs has appeared for various devices!
Update: Thank you to commenter Amith KK for letting us know about the Source-Built Lollipop port for the Nexus 7 (2012) by XDA Senior Member MidnightNinja.
We've all pretty much gotten used to the standard Android navigation bar setup, which is normally any permutation of a back, home, and recent apps buttons. This generally features the home button right in the middle between the other two. But what about the power and menu buttons? Surely, they're just as commonly accessed to warrant a place on the convenient navigation bar, right?
Up until now, customizing an Xperia launcher and lock screen has been quite the hassle, usually consisting of decompiling an APK, making your edits, and recompiling it. So if you wanted an extra row or column of icons on your home screen, you had to flash this, if you wanted fading home screen indicators, you had to flash this, and if you wanted to get rid of the app dock, you had to flash this, and so on. For every little change you wanted, there was an individual mod that you had to flash, and this can definitely become burdensome if you wished for a lot of changes.