Tweet Most of you may know the Android Debug Bridge or “adb” from one of the millions tutorials for Android devices. Indeed, adb is a very useful tool to handle various situations. May it be a fix, or just pushing data to your device. For “advanced users” of Android devices it’s a must and here’s [...]
Tweet Nearly everyone knows it. Millions have played it and are probably still playing it. Counter Strike. Valve’s legendary shooter-game changed the genre. Some legendary games have already been ported to mobile devices: Like GTA III or the classic “Doom”. It was kind of time for someone to publish Counter Strike for Android. XDA-Forummembers FrIuNs and [...]
Tweet Google is avid as always and publishes a new update for Google Maps. According to the changelog, it fixes several bugs for phones as well as tablets. I can’t tell which Bugs that were, but if you have experienced any improvements, share it in the comments! However, the update is free and you might [...]
Tweet We all have been waiting for it: An official Wikipedia application. Officially released by the Wikimedia Foundation, you’ll be prepared for the next blackout of Wikipedia with it. It works, even though the page is blacked out (you remember the protest?). Nearly all the Wikipedia applications out there were only so called “WebViews”, which [...]
Tweet Today, I am not in the mood for jokes. This news are neither about the HTC Desires nor about Android. However, it’s a monumental day, not only for the U.S., probably for the whole future of the “Internetz”. The “Stop Online Piracy Act” has shown up for the first time in 2011 and was [...]
Tweet To several Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) – users a slowed WiFi connection appeared. This is a bug identified to be related to devices with some special country codes on their SIM-cards (e.g. you are using it in your tablet for an internet connection or in your smartphone for internet/telephony/SMS ). XDA-Forummember fardjad recently [...]
Tweet There are tons of root apps for it, and many users believe in t as the only truth: Wiping the battery stats in the recovery to enhance your battery life. Google engineer Diane Hackborn busted this myth yesterday. She states that the file batterystats.bin, which gets resetted when “wiping” the battery stats, only contains [...]
Tweet One goal of Google’s latest Android version 4.0 or “Ice Cream Sandwich” clearly was to give the users a more consistent using experience. A step to do that, was to merge the visual interfaces of Honeycomb with “pre-Honeycomb” to provide the same experience, no matter whether on tablets or handsets. However, that was only [...]
Tweet Very, very, very fresh news directly from Google: An update for Google’s search application has just released for all devices with Android 2.2 or later. It should give: “- Faster, smoother performance, with an updated and simplified user interface. – Suggestions for your search grouped by type, with web suggestions at the top. – [...]
Tweet CyanogenMod has a huge team of voluntary developers, who provide tons of usually the best built customROMs for lots of devices. With growing impact on the community, they also need more money to be able to afford the server capacities and maybe one or two coffees a day (coffein, that what really flows to [...]
