Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Xperia

VLC media player for Android now available

The VideoLAN Project has finally published a VLC for Android to the Google Play Store . The player right now in beta brings most of the famed features of VLC to Android in a native UI in the Android 4.0 Holo style. It is a big news for movie buffs using Android (like me) which means, no more headache of converting a movie to a supported codec before it can play on the phone. It p lays all files, in all formats, like the classic VLC on Windows. The beta published to the Google Play Store today is only compatible with ARM systems that use the ARMv7 architecture set and support the NEON instruction set. That means that there are several devices — mostly those released before Google/HTC Nexus One in 2010 — that cannot run the current beta. The major exception here is the Nvidia Tegra platform. Nvidia’s Tegra 2 lacks NEON instruction set as a result cannot run VLC currently. The NEON instruction set is  general-purpose SIMD engine efficiently processes current and future mu...

Safely Root Android phones and remove Bloatware

When users purchase a new Android mobile, they are greeted by pre-installed applications. And not many of them are of any use to users. This is similar to when users purchase new Windows PC, but one catch is that these pre-installed applications on Windows can be uninstalled by users but pre-installed apps in Android can't be uninstalled by users. Since the users are given a user very low privileges by default. So for users with some little technical knowledge have an option to root your mobile to get Root user privileges and remove unwanted apps. Mind you root has a little chance of Bricking your phone. by rooting, However rooting software won't unlock your bootloader which means that your warranty remains intact. However we are yet confirmed this. So Lets start Rooting your Android:- * Download latest version of SuperOneClick from here or here . * Download and install Android SDK from here . * For Android SDK you need to have JDK installed...

List of Android Mobiles Getting Ice Cream Update (Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, Asus, HTC, Motorola etc...)

T he next version of Android OS and successor to Honeycomb and Gingerbread has been released by Google. Known as Ice Cream Sandwich.  The release ushers in the biggest changes the software has seen since the launch of  Froyo  in 2010 -- maybe even  Eclair  back in 2009. Nearly every facet of the OS has been made over, and the very core of the  Android  user experience has been completely re-imagined. Like every time Google releases a new version of Android, each and every Android user gets curious will their current handset get the latest and greatest from Android. Here is a list of all handsets expected to receive Ice Cream Sandwich love:- Note - This list will be updated as we get new announcements from OEMs. Archos The French tablet maker expects to upgrade Archos 80 and 101 G9 tablets to the Android 4.0 operating system in the first ‘trimester’ of 2012. ASUS Asus...