Samsung seems to be exploring its alternatives outside Google, for now many of the Samsung phones are caught running a new OS- Tizen 2.1. The GT-i8800, according to the Tizen Greek Community, is codenamed ‘Redwood’. S-Voice, the counterpart of Siri found on novel Samsung phones, is also seen to be tested with Tizen on the Redwood. Google Now, a similar voice assistant found with Android OS, seems to be put back on hold for a while now.
So you just bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 that features octa-core processor. Too bad, there are not a lot of apps on the Play Store to take advantage of those extra cores. Do not worry as you can disable the extra cores to prolong battery runtimes of your phone. This is said to work just fine with the GT-i9500 – the octa core version of Galaxy S4. The other version, the GT-i9505, a k a, the US version does not support this hack (as it uses a different CPU and is quad core).
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This is a guide on how to unroot the Galaxy S4. Both GT-i9500 and GT-i9505 versions are supported. Here are the pre requisites.
1-You should have latest version of Samsung Kies installed.
2-You need to enable USB debugging mode enabled on your phone.
3-Your Galaxy S4 should have more than 70 percent charge.
4-It should be factory unlocked.
Unrooting procedure.
1) Turn OFF your phone and go to Download Mode. Do this by pressing and holding the Volume Down + Home Buttons together for few seconds followed by Power button. Then, press volume up to proceed.
2) Open ODIN on computer and connect the phone to your computer.
3) Once your phone is successfully connected to your PC, the ID:COM box on ODIN will turn blue and will show the COM port number.
4) Download the correct firmware for your phone from the list given below. This will give you home.tar file.
5) Click on pda (in ODIN app) and choose the file downloaded in previous step.
6) Check "Auto Reboot"; "F. Reset Time" options and make sure that "Re-Partition" is unchecked.
7) Click on Start button in ODIN window to start the flashing process. It will take just a couple of minutes. It will restart after success is shown in ODIN.
The Galaxy Ace 2 users in Germany can get ready for a much faster and improved operating system, now that the Jelly Bean update is here. The 4.1.2 Jelly Bean is up for grabs if your model number is GT-i8160. The update is expected to reach other regions soon.
Continue reading Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 gets a 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update in GermanyThe reason why you don’t get hardware acceleration even with Flash 10.1 beta 3 is because the driver shipped with Lenovo is out of date. The driver shipped with x100e laptop is version 8.663, but in order to support flash hardware acceleration under 10.1 beta, you need at least driver version 8.680 or above and also you will need Catalyst 9.11 or above. So you will need to update your driver. By default, Lenovo block any non-official driver update. however, there is a wary around it by doing it manually. go to this AMD link:
From there, go to option 2, Download both the driver and the Catalyst Control Center software. Extract the driver files on your X100e (you can either extract it by clicking on the driver file, it ask for an extract location, and once it is extracted, it will try to install, you can cancel the install, you just want to extract the files, that’s all you want from it. so you can cancel the installation. Alternatively, you can extract it with a third party program like WinRAR).
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Nokia sells its flagship Windows Phone, Lumia 920 in variety of colors. But did you know that you could swap the original body cover of your Lumia 920 to a different one? Some XDA members have done exactly that and have posted plethora of photos as well. For instance, one changed the cover from black to pink, a color which is not even available officially.
