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  • Update your Sony Xperia Z with CM10.1 and MIUI based Avatar JB

    The Sony Xperia Z is a great phone, I own it myself. The best thing about it is it’s something new and helps freshen things up from the Samsung Galaxies and the iPhones. The phone is great but Sony haven’t been the greatest of OEMs when it comes to updates for the phone, luckily the Sony Xperia Z has excellent support from the Android community resulting in many customs ROMs with latest features.

    One of the better custom ROMs available for the Sony Xperia Z is the CM10.1 and MIUI based Avatar firmware which brings Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean to the phone along with it’s improvements in features and performance. The ROM is pretty stable so you can use it as your daily driver.

    xperia z display 0 Update your Sony Xperia Z with CM10.1 and MIUI based Avatar JB

    Follow the steps below to install CM10.1 and MIUI based Avatar JB on your Sony Xperia Z, please make sure that you have a custom recovery installed before attempting this tutorial.

    Step 1- Download the CM10.1 and MIUI based Avatar JB ROM and Google Apps.

    Step 2- Connect your Sony Xperia Z to a computer using mass storage mode.

    Step 3- Copy and paste the ROM and Google Apps zips downloaded in step 1, into the root folder of the mass storage device. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the root, but putting it in the root helps finding it easier.

    Step 4- Turn off your Sony Xperia Z and reboot into the bootloader. Do this by pressing and holding the Volume Up + Volume Down and Power buttons.

    Step 5. Use volume rocker to navigate and power button to click. Perform a data wipe + cache wipe

    Step 6. Navigate to flash ZIP from SD card and choose ZIP from SD card

    Step 7. Select the CM10.1 and MIUI based Avatar JB’s zip downloaded in step 1 first. Select it using the power button and confirm installation.

    Step 8. Now do the same things with the Google Apps zip file.

    Step 9. When installation is done, go back to the main menu of CWM and perform a reboot.

    Feel free to let us know if you have any problems or difficultly with installing the ROM in the comments below.

  • Viber announces Application for Desktop Users, updates for Android and iOS Version

    With more than 200 million users worldwide, Viber has announced what is referred to as the biggest breakthrough update of the application till date. Viber, one of the most popular android application which is famous for free messaging and voice dialing among the android and iOS users, is now also available for desktop users as well along with new features and updates.

    The desktop version would be available for all Windows and Mac users. Viber media, creator of Viber application, has always been revolutionary in providing latest features for their users and had been continuously working on the major updates of the application over the last few years. The updated version would allow the users to send video messages, new outlook, an improved voice engine which would enhance audio quality during the calls, an all new status indicator.

    xl viber 570x320 Viber announces Application for Desktop Users, updates for Android and iOS Version

    A new feature of transferring the call between the mobile app and desktop version is also included which would allow the users to effortlessly transfer calls from mobile to desktop with just a touch. Like the available mobile application, the desktop version of Viber is also available free of cost. The development of Viber for Blackberry 10 is also in last stages and would be available soon for Blackberry users as well.

  • HTC HD2 gets Jelly Bean port

    Mankind has, since the dawn of time, been in search for the elixir of life. Immortality. Sounds like an old house wife’s tale. But if you think in terms of smartphones, the elixir of life exists, and it’s in the HTC HD2, a phone that refuses to die. Originally a Windows Mobile smartphone, HD2 has gotten every major Android update, and even updates for other platforms.

    And now it’s gotten an update that even the most expensive Android phones have not. We’re talking Android 4.1, aka Jelly Bean. Yes, the same update that Galaxy SIII or One X don’t have. HD2 does. How’s that for an invulnerable smartphone? Of course the phone is nearly 4 years old, runs anemic hardware by today’s standards so even the most perfect of ports will still struggle to work without hitches.

    This particular port is still in Alpha phase, pre-alpha to be precise. So it’s even less stable than what an alpha update will be.

    What’s currently working:

    • Mobile Data 3G/2G
    • Calls
    • WiFi
    • Bluetooth
    • SMS
    • Sound check download page for fix
    • Video Playback
    • USB Mass Storage

    What’s not working:

    • Camera
    • Browser works but display is messed up.
    • Error when Installing some Apps
    • Google Now crashes.

    So there you have it. The developer clearly states it’s not a working release, but more of a proof of concept. Still, the usual day to day functionality is intact. You get your mobile data, calls and Wifi so basic stuff is covered. I don’t think it’ll take long before a proper port is available.

    If you’re feeling adventurous, head over to the XDA thread for more information.

  • ZodTTD Makes PSX4Droid Free!

    Today through his blog Android and Apple homebrew developer ZodTTD has made his PS1 emulator the PSX4Droid free and available with install instructions through his blog. He claims that after removing his app from the Android Market Google also froze his developer accounts meaning Google refused to pay him his money. We couldn’t confirm this claim yet but if you wanted to test out the app be our guest, just make sure you have a spare PS1 bios and some LEGALLY obtained roms laying. We here at TechDeville prefer using FPSE which is much faster and superior to PSX4Droid and still available on the Android Market.

    Source: ZodTTD’s Official Blog

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  • Galaxy S4 Event, Samsung Unpacked 2013 Streaming Links And Live Blogs

    Samsung’s latest and greatest smartphone yet – the Samsung Galaxy S4 is almost here and Samsung is all ready to stream the announcement worldwide. The Samsung Unpacked 2013 event like last year will be covered by major tech sites so live blogs are a given, but having a live stream directly from the source is much better right?

    The Samsung Galaxy S4 leaks have been almost iPhone like with new parts and pictures leaking every few days. Just last week some pictures were leaked of the phone from a Chinese forum showing off the phone’s design which looks a lot like the Samsung Note 2.

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    We’ll be updating the page with more live blogs and stream links so make sure you bookmark it, you will want to have as many sources to watch the event as streams tend to go down very often.

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    Although the event will be streamed on Samsung’s own website along with their Facebook page, we prefer to watch it live on YouTube, the link to the Samsung Unpacked 2013 stream is embedded below:

    Links to the live blogs which we’ve compiled are below:

    Only a few hours ago so get ready!

  • Activision Prepping New Call Of Duty Game For Mobile Devices

    Looks like Activision isn’t done with Call of Duty on normal gaming devices yet, they want to expand to mobile devices too. Talking at the DMW Games conference, Activision’s Senior Director of Global Digital and Mobile sales Jon Estanislao talked in detail about the Call of Duty franchise and their focus on mobile devices.

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    Recently Activison has been behind the curve from it’s competitors regarding their focus on mobile and Call of Duty. They currently only have the Call of Duty Zombies game available on iOS and Android which isn’t that impressive to begin with.

    Going forward for us, how do we really take that Call of Duty experience, what is the essence of it? These kinds of grandiose, immerse experiences–how do we move that to mobile or tablet? From a development perspective, we’re investing a lot more in understanding how to marry that together with how customers expect to play on those devices,

    We’re definitely looking to reach out to our core audience and engage them beyond their TV or PC and then give them new experiences around Call of Duty that are unique for that device.

    Sure sounds impressive, ready to take your Call of Duty on the go guys?

  • A Look At CyanogenMod 10′s New Boot Animation

    CyanogenMod is the world’s most popular Android ROM serving millions of users world wide. With the release of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean the CyanogenMod team has been working hard releasing nighties ever so often sorting out the bugs. The full release of CyanogenMod 10 is almost upon us and the ROM’s boot animation developer 73v1n aka Cameron Behzadpour has created a brand new animation to go with the release. Its embedded below:

    So Cid’s gone, can’t say we miss him. What do you think of the new animation? Let us know in the comments below.

  • Samsung Finally Reveals The Galaxy S4, All Details Here

    As rumored, teased and even confirmed Samsung did reveal their latest flagship – the Galaxy S4 at their Samsung Unpacked 2013 event yesterday. At a glance, the Samsung Galaxy S4 looks just like a bigger Galaxy S3, but internally the Galaxy S4 is something brand new.

    Hardware wise the Galaxy S4 is no doubt the highest spec’d phone on the market. It’s powered by an Octacore (yup 8 cores) Exynos 5 processor running at 1.6GHz or a Qualcomm S4 Quad processor, the one you’ll get depends on the region you buy the phone in. Although Android isn’t optimized for 8 cores yet, having the extra cores will sure come in useful when the next version of Android comes out.

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    The huge 5-inch display on the Galaxy S4 is a Super AMOLED panel running at 1920×1080, unfortunately the screen has a Pentile pixel arrangement but with the high pixel density you shouldn’t notice it often. The pixel density for the display comes in around at 441 ppi and is protected by Corning Gorilla Class 3.

    On the memory side, the Galaxy S4 runs on 2GB of RAM which is standard with flagships nowadays. The smartphone will be available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB flavors and the memory will be expandable by microSD cards.

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    On the camera size the front is a 2MP sensor while the one in the back in a 13MP shooter. Major software features for the camera include Dual Shot, Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization and HDR. Both front and back cameras are able to record video in Full 1080p HD at 30fps.

    The Galaxy S4 will launch with Android 4.2.2 with Samsung’s Nature UX on top. Samsung has been working hard on adding extra features to it’s phone and this time they’ve come up with a ton. S Translator translates texts and emails from other languages, Air Gestures changes or scrolls pages by swiping your hand in the air, Air View gives you an S Pen like functionality by allowing you see information by hovering your finger over emails or calender entries. There are also other albeit more gimmicky features like Smart Pause and Smart Scroll which pause videos and scroll pages by sensing eye movements respectively.

    samsung galaxy s4 5 Samsung Finally Reveals The Galaxy S4, All Details Here

    The Galaxy S4 will be available in the US Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, US Cellular, and Cricket and Deutsche Telecom, EE, H3G, Orange, Telenor, Telia Sonera, Telefonica, and Vodafone in Europe. The Samsung Galaxy S4 hits stores on April 26th and will be available in Black and White.

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  • Galaxy S Duos S7562 XXAMB1 Android 4.0.4 OFW Root And Update Guide

    The XXAMBI1 Android 4.0.4 official firmware update for the Galaxy S Duos S7562 is out and owners of the budget phone can now install it.

    The XXAMB1 or the S7562XXAMB1 as it’s officially known is the latest Android 4.0.4 firmware available for the Galaxy S Duos S7562. The XXAMB1 firmware is a Philippine firmware but it can be installed of Galaxy S Duos of other regions as well.

    Details of the XXAMB1 firmware are below:

    PDA: S7562XXAMB1
    CSC: S7562OLBAMA3
    Date: 2013 February
    Regions: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

    samsung galaxy s duos 001 Galaxy S Duos S7562 XXAMB1 Android 4.0.4 OFW Root And Update Guide

    The full tutorial to install the XXAMB1 firmware on the Galaxy S Duos is below:

    Step 1. Download the XXAMB1 firmware for Galaxy S Duos.

    Step 2. Download and install Odin on your PC.

    Step 3. Turn off your phone and connect it to your PC in Download Mode. To access Download Mode turn on your Galaxy S Duos while holding the Volume Down and Home buttons.

    Step 4. Make sure you have the required USB drivers installed for your Galaxy S Duos.

    Step 5. Wait for Odin to recognize your device, if it does, one of the ID:COM boxes in Odin will turn yellow with your device’s number.

    Step 6. Select the required files from the archive you download from the first step:

    • Click the PDA button. Select the file which has CODE in its name
    • Click the Phone button and select the file which has MODEM in its name
    • Click on the CSC button and select the file which has CSC in its name
    • Click the PIT button and select the .pit file. Some firmwares will have this, ignore if it doesn’t.

    Step 7. In ODIN select Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time options. Select repartition only if your selected the PIT file

    Step 8. Click the start button. Installation process will take a few minutes. After the reboot is complete, your Galaxy S Duos will boot into the XXAMB1 Android 4.0.4 firmware.

    Now follow the steps below to root your Galaxy S Duos S7562 running XXAMBI Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich official firmware:

    Step 1- Download the Rooting package for Galaxy S Duos.

    Step 2- Connect your smartphone to a computer using mass storage mode.

    Step 3- Copy and paste the zip downloaded in step 1, into the root folder of the mass storage device. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the root, but putting it in the root helps finding it easier.

    Step 4- Turn off your Galaxy S Duos and reboot into the bootloader. Do this by pressing and holding the Volume Up + Volume Down and Power buttons.

    Step 5. Use volume rocker to navigate and power button to click. Perform a data wipe + cache wipe

    Step 6. Navigate to flash ZIP from SD card and choose ZIP from SD card

    Step 7. Select the zip downloaded in step 1 first. Select it using the power button and confirm installation.

    Step 8. When installation is done, go back to the main menu of CWM and perform a reboot.

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    And you’re done. If you have any questions or problems feel free to ask us in the comments below.

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  • Galaxy S II I9100 UHMS9 Firmware Update And Root

    The Galaxy S II UHMS9 firmware or I9100UHMS9 as it’s more commonly known has been released and is now available to be installed. The UHMS9 firmware for the Galaxy S II is a Mexican firmware but can be installed on any variant of the Galaxy  S II I9100 except for the Chinese and Taiwanese without any problems.

    The UHMS9 update mainly includes bug fixes so there aren’t many new features present in this release.

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    Details of the Galaxy S II UHMS9 firmware are below:

    PDA: I9100UHMS9
    CSC: I9100UUBMS5
    Version: 4.1.2

    Before starting, make sure that:

    • You have all your important data backed up.
    • The battery is at least 50% charged.

    Android 4.2 Jelly Bean on the Galaxy S II brings a lot of neat features like:

    • Smooth navigation through the interface thanks to Project Butter.
    • TouchWiz Nature UX like the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note II
    • Samsung’s S Cloud services
    • Improved Camera features
    • New Lockscreen With Many Customization Options
    • New Features like Direct Call, Smart Stay and Pop-up Play
    • New Widgets (From Galaxy S III)
    • 2 Home screen modes
    • New Notification bar With More Notification Toggles
    • Google Now

    The full tutorial to update your Galaxy S II to UHMS8 firmware is below:

    Step 1. Download the UHMS9 firmware for Galaxy S II I9100.

    Step 2. Download and install Odin on your PC.

    Step 3. Turn off your phone and connect it to your PC in Download Mode. To access Download Mode turn on your Galaxy S II I9100 while holding the Volume Down and Home buttons.

    Step 4. Make sure you have the required USB drivers installed for your Galaxy S II.

    Step 5. Wait for Odin to recognize your device, if it does, one of the ID:COM boxes in Odin will turn yellow with your device’s number.

    Step 6. Select the required files from the UHMS9 archive you download from the first step:

    • Click the PDA button. Select the file which has CODE in its name
    • Click the Phone button and select the file which has MODEM in its name
    • Click on the CSC button and select the file which has CSC in its name
    • Click the PIT button and select the .pit file. Some firmwares will have this, ignore if it doesn’t.

    Step 7. In ODIN select Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time options. Select repartition only if your selected the PIT file

    Step 8. Click the start button. Installation process will take a few minutes. After the reboot is complete, your Galaxy S II will boot into the UHMS9 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean firmware.

    Now the tutorial to root your Galaxy S II running the newly installed UHMS9 firmware is below:

    Step 1. Download Root Kernel I9100UHMS9 for your Galaxy S II I9100.

    Step 2. Go into Download Mode again and start up Odin like we did above.

    Step 3. After Odin recognizes your Galaxy S II I9100 click on PDA and select the Siyah-s2-v6.0b4.tar file we downloaded in the first step.

    Step 4. Check the Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time options.

    Step 5. Click on the Start button and let it do it’s thing. After the rooting is complete your phone will restart.

    And that’s it, your Galaxy S II should be running a rooted version of the the Android 4.1.2 UHMS9 firmware. As always, feel free to ask us any questions you may have below.

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