Waze

Free navigation app easily providing updates you make your daily commute on the best routes, accident updates, and police notifications. You guys should note that these notifications are provided by other waze users so do your part in letting people know what's up as they make their way around town.

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My Fav Apps

My fav apps

These apps are available on the Google Play Store

Yahoo weather: one of the best free weather app you can get. It's simple beautiful and provides a lot of info. 

Bbc news:  News around the world, enough said.

Zedge:  Cool website I found years ago and they have an app in the google play store.  You will find tons of cool wallpapers, message tones and ringtones with this app, plus games and themes.

Smart tools:  This app will allow to calculate height, distance and it has a couple other utility tools such as flashlight, compass etc.

Photo studio:  The picture viewer already has a couple photo editing feature but can be lacking.  Photo Studio gives you all those fun editing features plus a lot more.

Battery doctor:  You may notice that after months of use your device may get a bit sluggish.  This could be because there are a lot of programs running that are not needed and just simply eating away at your battery usage.  This app allows you monitor the apps that start-up when your device is turned on and also to kill apps/tasks with the exception of a white-lists that you create.

Es file explorer:  Neat file explorer to browse through your device.  Without a file explorer you are most likely going to plug your device to a computer each time you need to search through your file system.

Ringtone maker:  Easily select any song on your device and select the exact part of the song you want as your ringtone.

TeamViewer:  This app was mentioned in a previous post.

HTC lost trial against Nokia. Sales in Germany halted

HTC takes a serious hit as Nokia won a patent infringement trial on the way data is transferred on HTC android devices using android beam i.e. Bluetooth/NFC.

This means there is a ban on all HTC android  phone sales in Germany. Most likely HTC will appeal this ruling and its even more likely that Nokia wouldn't mind if they were offered some "incentive" to halt this ban.

Source: androidcentral

Googleplay Yeezus free

If you listen to Kanye West and liked his latest album, well Google is giving away Kanye West - Yeezus free as part of their holiday goodies. For those of you who have a Google play wallet set up for purchases, you can follow the link below and get this album free for a limited time.

https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=By5ojxdslc5zdiuflz25kgytgoi

Unlocking your Nexus 4 bootloader

Hey guys today we will be looking at unlocking your Nexus 4 bootloader. You should note that this will void your device warranty and we take no responsibility for any form of damage made to your devices. But if you have problems you can always drop us a comment and we will try to assist in any way possible. So with that out of the way lets get the party started.

First a few things you need to know:

What is the bootloader? Well basically its a boot component that is usual locked by the device manufacturer of the device to prevent you from messing around with the OS of the device. And that's the reason we need to unlock it to have access to do what we want to do. NOTE Unlocking your bootloader will wipe all data on your device including your internal sdcard. Please backup your files, photos etc.


Things you will need:

1. Universal Drivers  - Windows 8 users will need to disable Driver Signature Enforcement. (I've uploaded both the Drivers and the Android SDK files needed to this one link)

2. Download the Android SDK. Once that's complete the folder you need is the platform-tools located inside.

Steps:

1. Install the Universal Naked Drivers.
2. Backup your data, files, photo etc.
3. Make sure your phone is at least 50% charged.
4. Enable developer mode. Go to settings -> about phone and tap build number until it say your now developer. Head back to settings and you will see a new option "Developer options". Once you go in there you will see a USB debugging check box, select that then connect the phone.
5. Now head to the platform-tools folder inside the Android SDK previously downloaded. Once there hold shift and right click, you will see "Open command window here". Click that and you will have a new command prompt in the folder you are in. Once thats done we can begin the process.
6. Power off your Nexus 4, and reboot it into fastboot mode by holding the volume down button and power. You'll see a green robot, and the word "Start" at the top of the screen. Note the last line will read "Lock state - locked". If it says unlocked well lucky you. you can skip ahead.
7. Now enter the command "fastboot devices" and hit enter. You should see a list of devices including yours.
8. Now to unlock your bootloader enter the command "fastboot oem unlock". You will be presented with a warning message stating  that your device will be wiped so just use your volume keys to navigate to the "Yes" and press the power button to confirm your selection.
9. You have successfully unlocked your bootloader!

Now the approach to unlocking your bootloader my vary based on the brand phone, but these methods are guaranteed to work on nexus devices.

Also check out our earlier post about Rooting and Flashing Tools for users who prefer to have the tool do it for you.

Google fights back

Everyone has a clique, and a lot of the brands we know are no different.

Microsoft, Apple, RIM, Sony and Ericsson are a part of the consortium “Rockstar” and they own a bunch of patents which were gained from the dissolving of Nortel in 2009.  They have been hitting at the now popular Google, specifically Google’s bread and butter “Search” feature.

Google is defending their OS and Nexus devices did a “declaratory judgment of non-infringement”, in addition they pointed a finger at Rockstar for “trolling”.  Basically they are saying Rockstar has a bunch of people sitting around stalking any company’s products hoping to find anything they can use to sue their competitors.  Google has gripes that Rockstar is interfering with their business relationships, ie. Discouraging companies form working with Google.

Source: gsmarena.com

Weakness found in Samsung’s Knox

Knox knox, who’s there?

Ok, so Samsung in thinking about security for corporate users created “Knox”.  Knox was designed to beef up security for the Android OS for a more practical use in business environs.

It’s said that emails and data communication on Samsung devices running the Knox security software has been breached.  To make this worst, it’s believed that malicious code could possibly be inserted into the vulnerability found.

Of course Samsung has down played this hole in their software based on the grounds that the device which was tested did not have all of Knox’s’ security features installed.

With the Pentagon considering using Samsung devices, this could potentially be a huge lost for Samsung if the Government decided to go in a different direction.

Source: gsmarena.com