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ACTA, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is another bill which tramples all over your civil liberties. The Internet is having a hard time fighting off bills that threaten creativity, like PIPA and SOPA, but now something far worse has come to play.
In October 2007, the United States, the European Community, Switzerland, and Japan decided to branch together and negotiate a bill to tackle intellectual property and copyright infringement. Yesterday, all 21 states of the EU, including the UK, signed onto ACTA. As of October 1st 2011, 8 out of 11 countries had signed on, including the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, . . . READ ON »
Tools kits that are installed on computers can be a little screwy. While some are better than others, almost all come with some form of set back, be it the computer operating system restriction or the kitchen not being compatible with all phones.
That’s the problem XDA Senior Member DieHappy is trying to fix. Knives and Forks Android Tools For Everyone is a tool kit that is compatible across Windows, OSX and Linux and is slowly becoming compatible with more and more phones with the goal of supporting all of them.
The project is far from complete, but it is . . . READ ON »
The Transformer Prime has been getting lots of attention lately. With an ICS OTA update and several fresh mods, Prime owners have more than enough to tinker with.
What about the Prime’s older brother?
The original Eee Pad Transformer TF101 is finally getting some love in the form of an (admittedly) early Ice Cream Sandwich build. XDA member paulburton has released a working version and the respective source code.
From the original thread:
I thought some of you might be interested in what I’ve been hacking on for the past couple of days, ICS running on the transformer. It’s very
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Many Android phones have had the ability to at least dual boot for awhile now. However, the process for a lot of them can be very complicated and run the risk of hard bricking a device and even more so are still in beta with issues to be worked out.
This is a problem that XDA Recognized Developer ftgg99 hopes to solve with his app, called SwitchMe. SwitchMe allows users to create profiles specific to their needs. Those profiles are saved, can be loaded whenever and users can create new profiles that are on whole new installations on Android. The . . . READ ON »
Many phones that have been upgraded to the later versions of Android Gingerbread and forward have the ability of taking screenshots without any additional software and those on prior Android versions, there are several screenshot apps if you happen to be rooted.
Screenshot ER promises to bring not only screenshots, but a plethora of other features that make taking screenshots easier and more efficient than before for the low, low cost of absolutely free. According to the app maker, who is XDA Recognized Developer ftgg99, there are many advantages to using this over even the native screenshot function:
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Users of the Acer Iconia A500 tablet have had ClockworkMod Recovery for their flashing needs for awhile now and it has done quite well as expected for the famous and widely used recovery.
However, more is always better and it’s in that spirit that XDA Senior Member drillisdee has compiled Amon Ra Recovery for the Acer Tablet so its users could have a choice. The Recovery is packed with a lot of useful features including:
Touch enabled UI
Can use usb flash drive or normal sdcard as sdcard to flash roms and to use in nandroid backup/restore.
Automatically runs itsmagic. . . READ ON »
EternityProject head developer, and also XDA Recognized Developer, kholk and his crew have brought a few really great things to the Motorola Droid RAZR in a relatively short period of time.
For starters, they’ve posted the Ice Cream Sandwich update for the GSM version of the RAZR, available immediately, in their thread about it here. Along with the download links is instructions on installation and screen shots. As stated, this is for the GSM version of the phone only, so those toting the CDMA model will have to wait just a little bit longer for theirs. Also, if you . . . READ ON »
In 2010, the US Copyright Office added an exemption to the DMCA, which fully legalized rooting, jailbreaking, unlocking and whatever else you do with your smartphone that is not intended by their manufacturers. While that was certainly good for modders and hackers, of which there are plenty in our forums, exemptions only last for three years and therefore must be renewed before they expire. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is now petitioning to do exactly that.
Before you get too upset over this, it’s worth pointing out that rooting and jailbreaking will not immediately become illegal should the exemption really . . . READ ON »
Not much ago we informed you about Sprint sending updates For HTC EVO 4G and EVO Design 4G which will remove the infamous Carrier IQ; well now it seems that not only Carrier IQ will be removed as the company included HTC EVO 4G and EVO View 4G on the most updated list of devices coming to End-Of-Life.
This means that both HTC devices are ending their days on the shelves. EVO 4G is expected to leave this week, and the EVO View 4G -Sprint´s version of HTC Flyer- will leave next week.
It´s amazing how carriers dictate when . . . READ ON »
For those who don’t know what the LiveView is, it is a bluetooth Android assistant that allows you to remote control your phone from it’s interface. This very unique gadget isn’t the most well known device in the world, but there’s still development on it going on.
XDA Junior Member archivator, XDA Senior Member boombuler and XDA Recognized Developer pedrodh have begun working together along with other contributors to reverse engineer the bluetooth protocol so they can redesign the plugins and menu system more to their liking.
The group is making substantial progress and are working with system pulls . . . READ ON »
Since HP announced that it would open source webOS, there have been lots of questions on how exactly HP plans to do that, and what such a move could bring. While the future for webOS is still very much up in the air, the process of open sourcing the mobile operating system originally developed by Palm has now begun, with the release of the Enyo 1.0 source code and the introduction of the brand new Enyo 2.0.
HP expects to finalize the open source version of webOS, dubbed Open webOS 1.0, in September. The first piece here is Enyo . . . READ ON »
Sprint has said that it will remove Carrier IQ on all of its devices, and is continuing to make good on that promise with the latest OTA update targeting the Samsung Epic 4G Touch, Sprint’s own version of the Galaxy S II. The new update has the version S:D710.0.5S.EL29 with the following changelog:
Of course, “security update” is corporate doublespeak for “Carrier IQ removed”. The update will roll out in the next 10 days, by which all eligible devices should have gotten it.
In today’s episode of XDA TV, Sam talks about Sony, their Playstation certification on the Tablet P and S, Ubuntu on the Transformer Prime, and HTC with their terrible 7″ tablet, slow Android customisations, and poor marketing decisions. Click on for the episode! . . . READ ON »
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