Root Xperia Play

One of several Sony Ericsson devices that become the most anticipated phone, Sony Ericsson Xperia Play had been reviewed and announced by the manufacturer. Now, the curiosity of Android fans will extend with how to optimize the device. Don’t worry since one of XDA-Developers forum members Bin4ry has shared a method to root Xperia Play to us. Read on the article to know more about rooting the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play.

Since there is no one but the phone owner will liable if the phone got bricked or damaged, please follow the instructions at your own risk. The method should work for phones on the .184 firmware.

Requirements:

• The rooting activity requires the phone owner to prepare an Xperia Play with an unlocked bootloader.
• Root Package.

Instructions:

Since the Android user can only attempt this by unlocking the bootloader first and that requires having a fastboot and the USB drivers installed, the instruction set will assume that you already have fastboot and the USB drivers installed.

1. To begin, download the Root Package and copy it to the fastboot folder that you extracted earlier on when unlocking the bootloader.
2. Now within that folder, hold the Shift key and press the right Mouse button. Now select Open command window here.
3. Enter the following command and hit enter:

For Windows:

fastboot flash system YOURDOWNLOADEDFILE.img
For Linux:
fastboot -i 0x0fce flash system YOURDOWNLOADEDFILE.img
For Mac:
fastboot-mac -i 0x0fce flash system YOURDOWNLOADEDFILE.img

4. Wait patiently as the file is flashed onto your device. Once done, your phone would be rooted and ready to receive custom recoveries and ROMs that will soon follow.

Acer Iconia Tab A500 and ASUS Eee Pad Transformer will get Android 3.1 updates in June

Motorola’s Xoom may have been the first tablet to get a helping of Google’s updated Android 3.1, but the other Honeycomb tablets won’t have to wait long. Both ASUS and Acer have confirmed that their respective 10.1-inch, Tegra 2-powered Android tablets will be getting the update in early June. That’s right, both the Iconia Tab A500 and Eee Pad Transformer will be sent an over-the-air update at the beginning of next month. For those that didn’t read our hands-on with the new OS, 3.1 adds the ability to stretch widgets, improves performance, and includes support for USB peripherals. As for the latter, Acer promises an update for that even before the 3.1 rolls out and we actually noted that support was native on the Transformer’s keyboard dock. So, what about that remaining Honeycomb tablet — the LG G-Slate? LG nor T-Mobile would give us a firm time frame on the 3.1 update, but they did promise that it was “coming soon.” Either way, it’s very nice to know that these tablets will be getting refreshed very soon — hey, maybe Google wasn’t lying about its plans to improve updates after all!

Nokia N9 First Details

After approval from the FCC , Nokia N9 seems to be ready by now, though with many doubts about its technical features, and even with that OS installed. A few hours in fact appeared on the web an official Nokia N9 first spot, where one can see various details, such as the QWERTY keyboard, the 12 megapixel camera, and a high-resolution display.

The icons, as well as the entire interface that can be seen in the video, clearly recalls the new Symbian Anna, but there is no conceivable that we can deal with Meego, with a custom UI by Nokia. Maemo5 Even if I remember correctly included the Symbian S60 5th icons. Nothing to be excluded for the processor adopted. Over the months it has rumored alleged adoption of Intel Atom CPU from Nokia devices MeeGo, but the recent appearance of Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia, at a conference at Qualcomm, could change tables.

Let your application compatible with Android 3.0 system

Recently, many Android application developers said they can not be compatible with Android 3.0, the current first-line 3.0, flat panel manufacturers are introduced, the following is compatible Android123 to everyone that it flat-panel methods:
1. Download the upgrade Android 3.0 SDK, at least to r10 upgrade the ADT plug-in version
 
2. If you do not Android 3.0 devices can also use the simulator, but the default resolution is 1280x800 most of the flat 3.0 WXGA, usually 1440x900 resolution 19-inch PC may appear to be cautious.
 
3. Androidmanifest.xml file settings api level, compatible with 3.0 is set to <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" android:targetSdkVersion="11" /> so that your applications are compatible from the Android 1.6 to 3.0, of course, API Level 3.1 corresponding to 12.
 
4. For distribution of resources to provide res / layout-xlarge-land in this sector, generally flat relative to the phone is rotated 90 degrees to use, the equivalent horizontal screen, so the added land.
 
5. To make use of pixel-based devices, such as dip, sp, while the control attention android: layout_weight property use.
 
6. If your application must support the phone module, that is pure wifi version is not available, you can add <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.telephony" /> androidmanifest.xml phrase, of course, not specified need to use <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.telephony" android:required="false" />, or you can call at runtime, but the logic of classes relevant to consider the call can not be initialized , PackageManager pm = getPackageManager (); boolean hasTelephony = pm.hasSystemFeature (PackageManager.FEATURE_TELEPHONY);
 
7. So that your application is compatible with all resolutions
<manifest ...>
...
<compatible-screens>
<screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="ldpi" />
<screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="mdpi" />
<screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="hdpi" />
<screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="xhdpi" />
<screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="ldpi" />
<screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="mdpi" />
<screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="hdpi" />
<screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="xhdpi" />
</ Compatible-screens>
<application ...>
...
<application>
</ Manifest>
 
8. If you need to design a pure Android 3.x applications, can be considered
<manifest ...>
...
<Supports-screens android: smallScreens = "false"
android: normalScreens = "false"
android: largeScreens = "false"
android: xlargeScreens = "true" />
<application ...>
...
<application>
</ Manifest>

How to Install ADB without any SDK

Step 1
Make sure that the required drivers for your android device are properly installed on your PC. If you’re not sure then download and install the latest versions from your device manufacture’s website. Below are the links to download software of various manufacturers. Choose yours and install the required software.
Samsung Kies |   HTC Sync |   Motorola |   LG
- Step 2
Download the zip file from the link below and extract it on your PC.
http://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools_r01-windows.zip

- Step 3
On your Android device go to Settings->Applications->Development and make sure that “USB Debugging” is ticked. It’s essential for ADB to work!
Now plug your phone into your PC (using original cable that’s supplied by your manufacturer is recommended when working with ADB). If a window pops up saying “installing drivers” then wait for it to complete installation

- Step 4
Open command prompt from the menus, or Open “Run > and type cmd” to execute Command Prompt
Now insert the following code:

C:\>  adb devices

This should display something like the following :

List of devices attached
XXX12345    device

If you can see your device in the list then congratulations! You’ve done well. You are now good to start using adb. Enjoy!
If it’s NOT appearing in the list then make sure that drivers are properly installed and you’ve enabled “USB Debugging” on your phone, as told in Step 3. If problem persists, let us know in comments.

How to root the the Galaxy Tab 10.1

1. Setup ADB.
2. Download this file — allidoiswin.zip: Download Link.
3. Transfer the downloaded file to phone’s SD card. Copy and paste it to root of your SD Card. Remove the USB cable then.
4. Switch ON the USB Debugging mode. Go to Settings – Applications – Development and then tick the USB debugging checkbox.
5. Connect phone to PC.
6. On PC, go to this folder: C drive – Program Files – Android – Android-SDK – Tools. (The idea is to get to the ‘tools’ folder of your android sdk installation. If you installed the android-sdk at any other location than C:\Program Files, do accordingly).
7. Now, in the tools folder, hold shift_key and right click on empty space to get a pop-up. Select ”Open command window here” to open the cmd with the right address already there.
8. In the cmd window, type “adb reboot recovery” (without quotes) and hit enter.
9. Your Galaxy tab will reboot into recovery mode.
10. Now, Install the zip file you copied in step 3.
11. That’s it. Reboot the Tab.

Download and Install the OFFICIAL Android 2.3.3 on Samsung Galaxy Tab P1000

Check out the complete details of Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread firmware file:
The firmware version of KIES is : P1000XXJPZ.
Firmware Version: 2.3.3
Versione banda base : P1000XXJPZ Base-band version: P1000XXJPZ
Versione Kernel : 2.6.35.7 – se-infra@SEP-52 #2
Kernel Version: 2.6.35.7 – if infra-SEP-52 @ # 2
Numero build : GINGERBREAD.XXJQ1
Build Number: GINGERBREAD.XXJQ1
Samsung Galaxy Tab P1000XXJPZ users can easily be upgrade their Android powered devices, they simply need to flash Android 2.3.3 update manually using ODIN utility. Follow our complete step-by-step on how to  install  or update Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread on Samsung Galaxy Tab below.

Step-By-Step Instructions:

Step 1: Firstly you need to download all the required files one by one, starting from below:
* Download Samsung Galaxy Tab Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread firmware file with bootloader or without bootloader file from here (firmware file version without bootloaders may not work for some) and extract the firmware zip
* Download gt-p1000 _mr_PIT.zip and extract zip file
* Download dbdata.zip and unzipped the  file
* Download Odin3 v1.7 Utility tool
Step 2: Flash the firmware tar as PDA, repartition enabled, use the attached PIT
Step 3: After flash immediately boot into download mode again
Step 4: Flash dbdata.tar as PDA (NO repartition)
Step 5: After flash immediately boot into recovery mode
Step 6: Wipe cache
Step 7: Wipe data / factory reset
Now you should successfully have installed Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread on Samsung Galaxy
That’s it , Now enjoy your Samsung Galaxy Tab Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread.
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Android Infobar UI = Android+WP7+IOS

Those of you who’ve ever used the MIUI ROM would know how much tweaking is possible on Android and are surely in awe of the ROM. But wait, MIUI just seems to be the beginning of what the crazy developers (and hackers) can do of the Android openness goodie — why, we have our eyes set on the Infobar UI which is a remix of Android+WP7+iOS, with the last OS playing bare minimal role. It’s fresh, that’s guaranteed. As for the origin, the website claiming it is iida.jp, which naturally lets us believe, it’s from Japan – the land of rising sun.
Like it or not, but you gotta give credit to awesome work these guys put in to create an altogether different UI out of… Android!

The Infobar UI is no short of amazing looks and features — heck, it may make you bite your nails even before you are done watching the handsome video of the Infobar UI given below. So, what’s the wait for, just hit the play button on the YouTube player below to check out what we may end up lusting for in, maybe, just a couple of months.

Assuming this Infobar UI thing is really real  which we believe it is and that some team is burning lots of midnight fuel to bring it to real world soon, we can’t avoid but say, we’re damn excited for this. It’s the first time ever we’ve seen a ROM that’s capable of letting users change the Color of the whole UI (check at 00.19 in the video) — which is of course, incredible.
Other than that, if MIUI got you the best of worlds of iOS and Android, Infobar even throws WP7 into the mix to create a home screen that mimics WP7’s while retaining Android’s awesome widgets and notification bar. It’s quite astonishing that almost all the best stuff of your phone is available to you right on just one home screen, which you can scroll up and down — oh, this is the first timer too.
Sure, you’re hoping for it to launch on your phone first of all but you know that Android world, there contenders list of this UI would never end and porting this to each major phone is daunting task. But let’s hope it gets available to our handsome devices sooner than it took MIUI, which along with the CM7 and other custom ROMs, now have a huge competition, really huge.
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Run Android on Your PC

 Introduction

We have implemented an easy installer to install Android-x86 to a harddisk. The supported filesystems are

• ext3
• ext2
• ntfs
• fat32

You can install Android-x86 to an NTFS filesystem to co-exist with Windows. See the Advanced section for details.

Step by step

• Burn the iso image to cdrom, or create a bootable USB disk (recommended). See the Advanced section for details.
• Boot from the Android-x86 installation CD/USB, choose the ‘Install Android to harddisk’ item, as show below

• After seconds of booting, you will see a partition selection dialog. You can choose an existing partition to install Android-x86, or you can create or modify partitions by choosing ‘Create/Modify partitions’. Note you can install Android-x86 to an external disk like USB drive. If the target drive is not shown, try ‘Detect devices’.

• Android-x86 can co-exist with other operating system or data in the chosen partition. If the partition is formatted, you may choose ‘Do not format’ to keep existing data. Otherwise, choose a filesystem type to format. Note the type you chosen must match the partition id, or the boot loader will fail to boot.

Also note if you choose to format to fat32, you will see a warning that android cannot save data to fat32. You can still proceed to install, but the installed android system will work like a live cd system. That is, all data will lose after power off. Therefore we do not recommend to install Android-x86 to a fat32 partition.

• Next question is whether to install boot loader Grub. Usually you should answer yes, unless you want to install boot loader by hand yourself. Note the installer only creates boot items for Android-x86. If you hope to boot other operating systems, you need to add the item to /grub/menu.lst manually. See the Advanced section for how to do this.

• If you are lucky, the installation will begin, and you will see the progress bar.

• If you see this screen, the installation is complete. Congratulations! Now you can run Andrond-x86 directly, or you can reboot and run it.

Issues

VMware

You have to change your virtual disk type to be IDE because the default type in VMware is SCSI, and Android-x86 kernel is not configured to support SCSI. You can follow these steps:

• Create a virtual machine.
• Edit virtual machine settings after the virtual machine created.
• Choose the hard disk and remove it.
• Add a hard disk to create a new virtual disk, then you can choose IDE as your virtual disk type.
• When finished, you can install android-x86 normally.

Download link :
ISO FILE : http://android-x86.googlecode.com/files/android-x86-1.6-r2.iso
USB FILE : http://android-x86.googlecode.com/files/android-x86-1.6-r2_usb.img.gz
ISO FOR LAPTOP ( ASUS ) :  http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/detail?name=android-x86-2.2-asus_laptop.iso&can=2&q=
ISO FOR eePC : http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/detail?name=android-x86-2.2-eeepc.iso&can=2&q=

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Root Most Your Android devices with universalAndroot

Sometimes when we do install Android applications (*. APK) require root access (super user), nah .. because you are protected so that Android can not install the application…..therefore we must do the “Got Root”. This is a simple way of doing rooting in a few Android:
1. Donwload rooting application: http://lirva32.org/download/UniversalAndroot-1.6.2-beta5.apk
2. Intall applications into Android devices you own.
3. Run the application that you installed earlier (Universal Androot)
4. Select the version you are using the Android OS
5. Just press the “Root”, then you’ve got root access
Now you can install2 various applications that require root access.
Do not forget to press the “Unroot” if root privileges are no longer used.

NOTE: Tested it with some Android devices : Generic AndroidPad Froyo (successful), AndroidPad with honeycomp 3.0 (not successful), Toshiba PicoPad Froyo (successfully) and Streak Froyo Dell 2.2 (Successful)
Android devices are supported:
Google Nexus One (2.2)
HTC Hero (2.1)
HTC’s Magic (1.5)
Dell Streak (2.1)
Motorola Milestone (2.1)
Motorola XT701
Motorola XT800 (2.1)
LG ME511
32A Magic 1.5
32B Magic 1.6
MyTouch 3G (3.5mm)
MyTouch 3G Slide (for V1.6.1, put the phone into a reboot loop)
Sony Ericsson X10 (1.6)
Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro (1.6)
Acer Liquid (2.1)
Vibo A688 (1.6)
Milestone 2.1
Hero 2.1
G1 06.01
LG Ally
X Droid

Nintendo launching 3DS eShop on June 7 officially confirmed

Nintendo announced today that the long awaited e-Shop and Internet Browser firmware update for the 3DS will be released on June 7 in Japan and the evening of June 6 in America. The update had been previously announced for the end of May.

Although Nintendo did not share details on what exactly will be included in the update, the company's notice today specifically mentioned the e-Shop and Internet Browser, two areas that had been previously promised.

The e-Shop is expected to give players access to downloadable "3DS Ware" games and Virtual Console titles. An exact lineup for this has yet to be announced, but Capcom has said that a paid Mega Man Legends 3 demo will be among the launch titles.

Shazam for Android 3.0 version available, with unlimited tags up to 2012

Shazam is a popular application, which recognizes the texts of many songs, just listen to the ritornerllo, or a few seconds of the song. With its large database recognizes a large number of texts, international and Italian.

The application is available for some time for Android, has ricebuto an update from a few hours, bringing it to version 3.0.

The new version now allows unlimited tag until January 1, 2012: so far in fact that option was available in the Encore version of Shazam (fee - ≈ € 3.37), and is now used even in Free!

Other new additions include:

• Shazam Friends: Tag watch a preview of your friends, purchase songs, watch videos, and more! Shazam will find your friends on Facebook who are already using Shazam to share their music.
• Faster loading of Results & Standings
• Supported the new resolution graphics (960 × 540) for devices such as Motorola Bionic & Atrix

CLICKHERE TO DOWNLOAD

Read more: http://www.mobilegeek.it/2011/04/shazam-per-android-disponibile-la-versione-3-0-con-tag-illimitati-fino-al-2012/#ixzz1M8YVt0v3

LG Dual Optimus: The Gingerbread is expected to update a June / July

Optimus Dual LG is the world's first smartphone based on dual-core architecture: in particular, takes advantage of the new and powerful chipset nVidia Tegra 2 1GHz clock speed. However Optimus Dual was launched on the market with Android 2.2, not optimized for dual-core architecture, and therefore unable to fully exploit the potential of the Tegra 2.

An increase of benefits derived from the optimization software might come with the update to Android Gingerbread 2.3.3, but is slow in coming.



A user forum Danish XDA requested clarification regarding the update to LG, that promptly responded, saying that the 2.3.3 update to Android will be released roughly around June or July.

Then a few more months of Atesa that users of this smartphone, which is phenomenal on paper, but from the practical point of view, the opinions are quite divided.

Adept Technology to Debut New Technology for Land, Air, and Sea

Adept Technology Inc. (Nasdaq:ADEP), a Pleasanton, Calif.-based provider of intelligent robots and autonomous mobile solutions and services, says its MobileRobots group will add new aerial and autonomous underwater robots to round out its portfolio of land-based “wheeled” mobile platforms for the research and education community. The new products will be demonstrated in Booth 25 and 26 at the IEEE ICRA 2011 Conference from May 9 to 13, 2011 at the Shanghai International Convention Center in Shanghai, China.

To complement the company’s existing line of terrestrial vehicles, Adept MobileRobots will now make available to their research customers the Maveric Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) and AQUA2 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). The Maveric aerial robot is manufactured and supplied by Prioria, a provider of military reconnaissance technology. The AQUA2 underwater robot is designed and manufactured by Independent Robotics Inc., a supplier of underwater robot vehicles and related technologies.

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Sharp Aquos Phone SH-12C has 3D cameras, qHD resolution, Gingerbread filling

Sharp Camera Twin (camera megapixel two) and 3D equipped with LCD support, units 1 3D shooting and 3D capable display, Android ^TM 2.3 smart phone with a "smartphone docomo AQUOS PHONE SH-12C" to NTT DoCoMo, Inc. for the commercialization.

• This unit is equipped with a full-fledged 3D twin-megapixel camera capable of shooting  
• 3D still images in addition to the 3D HD video shooting while confirming that three-dimensional images on the screen be 
• Image processing engine "ProPix" by built-in, you can also record still images and movies beautifully, the best shooting mode to switch automatically depending on the shooting environment, "Automatic scene recognition," according to subject focus tracking automatically " Cheisufokasu "and also features a variety of cameras compatible with the 3D shooting. Corresponding to about 4.2 inches high definition 3D QHD (540 × 960 dots) equipped with a LCD video games and powerful 3D
• Easily enjoy content as well.
• In addition, enjoy the AQUOS LCD TV and video on the big screen  
• HDMI connection, Wi-Fi Connection to enjoy together a variety of "Sumatofamirinku"
• Functional enough to be customized using your own way "TapFlow UI (tap Net user interface), "features such as tethering the equipment to take advantage of Tablet PC and Internet connection terminals are fully equipped with useful features.

Suffix	DoCoMo Smartphone AQUOS PHONE SH-12C
Color	WHITE
	BLACK
Release Date	May 20, 2011 (tentative)

■ Features

1. Twin cameras (two megapixel camera) can shoot a full fledged 3D

2. 3D content to enjoy on the big screen about 4.2 inches QHD (540 × 960 dots) LCD high-definition

"3. Sumatofamirinku" feature, "TapFlow UI (user interface flow taps)" and other Wi-Fi connection, a convenient feature-rich

• 3D look of the video there are individual differences. When the ill health, and you feel sick while watching the changes, 3D viewing, please refrain.
• 3D shooting styles are supported only with cameras outside the side window.
• HD Size (1280 × 720) video shoot Save the included microSD card itself (2G bytes)  or microSD card (sold separately) Please use. Verified on microSD cards, please check the manufacturers website.
• SH-12C portion of the content may not be viewed in 3D.
• HDMI Micro Plug (D type) corresponding to the HDMI cable (sold separately) is required.

Scientists Afflict Computers With ‘Schizophrenia’ to Understand the Disease

Computer networks that can't forget fast enough can show symptoms of a kind of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers further clues to the inner workings of schizophrenic brains, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Yale University have found.

The researchers used a virtual computer model, or "neural network," to simulate the excessive release of dopamine in the brain. They found that the network recalled memories in a distinctly schizophrenic-like fashion.

Their results were published in April in Biological Psychiatry.

"The hypothesis is that dopamine encodes the importance-the salience-of experience," says Uli Grasemann, a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. "When there's too much dopamine, it leads to exaggerated salience, and the brain ends up learning from things that it shouldn't be learning from."

The results bolster a hypothesis known in schizophrenia circles as the hyperlearning hypothesis, which posits that people suffering from schizophrenia have brains that lose the ability to forget or ignore as much as they normally would. Without forgetting, they lose the ability to extract what's meaningful out of the immensity of stimuli the brain encounters. They start making connections that aren't real, or drowning in a sea of so many connections they lose the ability to stitch together any kind of coherent story.

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Android 2.3 Gingerbread ROM Leaked for the T-Mobile G2

We’ve already seen a test build of the Gingerbread ROM that’s soon to be headed to T-Mobile G2 customers, but 911Sniper has leaked yet another. And this time, it looks to be a final, stable build. ROM makers are going to want to get their hands on this one right away, but for those of you who don’t fancy doing that sort of stuff today’s leak suggests T-Mobile is just bout ready to roll this out to users. Let’s hope to hear official word about it from them sometime soon. Download link is here.

Regina 3D Launcher: launcher Android with new 3D graphics

One aspect of Android is definitely unlimited customization of the GUI, with the ability to apply various widgets, backgrounds, icons, themes, and above all by setting alternative launcher, which give a touch more graphic, but also increase the ability to customize further aspect of homecsreen. Among them are famous now ADW.Launcher, with the variant AD.Launcher EX, Pro Launcher, Launcher Go, Zeami Launcher, and the more you have, and so forth. Just the Android Market is available a brand new launcher, which, unlike those mentioned above, are mainly aimed at integrating 3D graphics: compared to the other fact, that despite everything possible to apply some effects of transition from one screen to another , Regina 3D Launcher which allows for the flow between screens with a deep 3D effect, very much like Cover Flow admired in various musical applications.

Regina 3D Launcher exchanges also set a different wallpaper for each screen (this option is not part of the magggior alternative launcher), but most freely to place shortcuts to applications (ie not tied to a grid-like arrangement of 3 × 3, 4 × 4 , ..) giving extra space management. Finally, these 3D widgets, integrated course in the Launcher.

Obviously, given the heavy use of graphics, the launcher to work properly only on recent devices, with a high-performance graphics chip.

Regina 3D Launcher is totally free!

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Download And Update Motorola Xoom To Android 3.1 HoneyComb with 2 simple steps

Step 1: Download Android 3.1 Honeycomb update.zip ( Link)
Step 2: Run following commands on Android adb console (must have Android SDK installed)
adb push <zip name> /sdcard/update.zip
adb shell
su
cd /cache
mkdir recovery #it may already exist
cd recovery
echo ‘–update_package=CACHE:/recovery/update.zip’ > command
cat /sdcard/update.zip > update.zip
reboot recovery

Step 3: That’s all, enjoy!

New features of the latest Android OS Honey Comb 3.1

• Recent Apps list are more expandable — just scroll through and tap the app to bring it up
• Home screen Widgets can be resized now – well, this one is sure to bring many smiles. Using the drag bars provided by the system, one can increase/decrease the size both ways.
• Okay, this one is one great feature too — you can really attach your Bluetooth keyboard and mouse or other external devices, if you have any, to your android tablet running Android 3.1 
• Well, the keyboard and mouse aren’t enough, esp. in the world of Joysticks and Gamepads. You have support for the latter devices too. That sounds great. Let’s wish it comes like a dream-come-true, shall we.
• Your ol’ Wi-Fi is soon going to be one-solution-for-all tech with the Robust Wi-Fi networking Google has planned. The Wi-Fi lock would let apps keep on working even with the screen off and will be able to maintain there separate connection.
• Now there updates and lots of updates to existing great apps:
• Gallery: Connect a camera and your pics and vids would show up in Gallery directly
• Calendar: It’s larger, better and more touch responsive
• Contacts: Search has been extended fully to all the fields. it would be hard to miss a detail already fed in when searching
• Email: It’s the best now. The Email app would even care a lot now about the formatting and promises to maintain the true spirit of the email’s format even with tablets.
• Enterprise support also got some attention in the Android 3.1. Each Wi-Fi access point can now be configured an HTTP Proxy, meaning users and developers can develop host of features using this tool to suit their need of apps and processes. Plus, Encrypted Storage Card facility would strengthen the security parameter.

LG Optimus 2X software update fixes freezes and random reboots

The LG Optimus 2X may have been the world’s first smartphone to have a dual-core processor, but it wasn’t the only one in that space for long. These days it certainly seems like wherever you look, you see a dual-core Android handset.
What’s even worse for the Optimus 2X though is that many people have seen the same issues with it – random freezing (the interface becomes unresponsive), as well as random reboots. Needless to say, people were less than pleased with these things, and so they’ve even launched an online petition urging LG to fix the aforementioned bugs.

Amazingly, LG has listened. And it has fixed the issues. An updated software version that incorporates these fixes is now rolling out across Europe. We can presume that unlocked and not-carrier-branded LG Optimus 2X devices will be the first to get it – as is always the case with updates. Again, as is always the case, if you have a carrier-branded Optimus 2X, whether you will ever get this update is entirely up to your operator of choice – so perhaps it’s time to write an online petition addressed to it as well.
Unfortunately, there’s no information on whether this update, or something similar, will make it to the T-Mobile G2X in the US, which is TMo’s version of the Optimus 2X. G2X owners have been complaining about the same issues that Optimus 2X users have seen, so it would be nice for them to receive an update too. Chances are this has to be approved by T-Mobile, which will make it take a while longer before it’s released. If it will ever be. Anyway, we’ll keep you posted.

New features will be added in the update for Windows 7 Phone Mango

 

New Mango will be added in the update of Windows 7 Phone: In addition to multitasking, increased speed and system stability, support for newer hardware, services will be introduced speech-to-text, and turn-by-turn navigation.
However, nothing has been confirmed by Microsoft, but all have been told by several developers, who have the opportunity to test some of the update build Mango, anticipating and then some of the new features introduced. In detail, it was confirmed (for now) the presence of:

• Turn-by-turn navigation: intregrata will be in the system, a system very similar to the navigation of Google Maps
• SMS Text-To-Speech: Integrated the ability to dictate text, then convert it to text using the Microsoft Tellme service
• Bing introduced some services:
  • Bing Audio: service very similar to Shazam, which allows for recognition of songs by recording a short pezzp
  • Bing Video: a kind of scanner that can read barcode tags Microsoft, QR codes, DVD and CD
• Integration with Windows Messenger contacts, status updates will be integrated into the Windows Address Book Phone 7

Rumor: IOS 5 could bring updates via OTA firmware file

In just over a month will be held during the Worldwide Developer Conference that Apple will premier developers the next version of IOS or iOS5.
Among the many rumors circulating in the network, one seems to be the most popular, and was confirmed by several sources: it could lead iOS 5 (and last) firmware updates via OTA (Over-The-Air) on iDevices.
 

Currently, any sort of firmware update (minor and major release) is managed by iTunes, which constrains the use of a PC, to back up your data, download the update, install, and restore the backup made previously.
A procedure that often involves loss of time.
Besides the most current operating systems allow you to update Over-The-Air: Symbian S60 5th release from the already introduced this feature, and most of aggiornamernti firmware Android OTA channels on the first pass.