Users who updated their HTC Sensation, Sensation XE and Sensation 4G to the official OTA ICS 4.0.3 update ended up with their HBOOT upgraded to 1.27.000 and with S-On, they were stuck with the official stock rom. The easiest and more user friendly way to S-Off HTC Sensation on older HBoot versions is the Revolutionary [...]
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Facebook has made it a routine to introduce annoying new features every now and then. Based on the face that the Facebook user count is approaching 1 billion, it is least bothered by the fact that a certain feature is not generally liked by the public. We have seen that in the past with the [...]
Samsung being favored by Google for a second and now a third time too, apparently, might push HTC into making a Facebook phone, it has been rumored. Due to the sales and supply chain power that Samsung has, and following the success of the first two Nexus handsets, also the result of collaboration between Samsung [...]
Once upon a time, HTC used to be the favorite Android-device producing company, especially amongst members of the third party community. Sadly, the Taiwanese company then made a decision sometime last year that led to a drop in the number of handsets sold by the company, and also took away its status as the favorite [...]
Today, we can contact anyone we want, but we can’t always choose not to be contacted by certain people. Seeing a call from a pesky relative or friend, or even some unknown number prank calling gets pretty annoying sometimes, especially when you’re already waiting for a call by someone else. The ignore button is there, [...]
Fierce opposition by a broad alliance of companies and civil liberties groups, backed by innumerable internet activists, led to the demise of the detested SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIP (Protect IP) act earlier this year. And now, a worrying, similar rendition of these earlier bills has come into the limelight- H.R. 3523 or [...]
I use HTC Sensation and I love my smartphone. With root access and custom ROMs, I get a thrilling experience of owning an Android running device. The only thing I don’t like about my HTC Sensation is the battery time? It sucks, to say the least. I have to charge it almost twice a day [...]
Whether you prefer Android OS, iOS or some other platform the truth of the matter remains that Android is hardly a cohesive, unified experience. This is not a bad thing, of course. Android is slightly chaotic, with a multitude of apps available for everything you could possibly want. Unfortunately though, not all of these apps [...]
Popular app Instagram is rolling out updates at an incredible rate, after being released for Android just last week. The artsy photo filter app has now been updated for the third time and this third update brings with it support for the not too long ago launched HTC One X.
Most people use their smartphone cameras as their primary point-and-shoot cameras these days. Since people tend to have their phones on them constantly, and with smartphone cameras improving drastically over the years there is no reason not to. Different attachable lenses for phones beef up the camera even further and the whole thing remains less [...]
If you have ever wanted to change your call screen for any reason, you can now do so. An XDA senior member lowveld has created an app that not only allows you to personalize your call screen but also offers an array of other features. Ultimate Call Screen HD follows a ‘freemium’ model, and hence [...]
HTC, once considered a top company, has rapidly fallen behind tech giants such as Apple and Samsung in the leading smartphone maker race. The reason for this is probably the company choosing to churn out an incredible number of handsets, focusing on quantity rather than quality. Earlier this year, it was revealed by HTC that [...]
FriendCaster is undoubtedly one of the best alternatives to the official Facebook app available out there. The app has been downloaded over an astonishing three million times already, which goes to show that it’s a far better option than the other third-party Facebook apps out there. The app has now been updated to version 5.0, [...]
Finally, after a long wait, Instagram for Android has been released and is available on Google Play (Android Market). The news was out for past few weeks that Instagram, the immensely popular app on iOS platform will be released for Android and it will be better than the iOS version.
With figures suggesting that only 1% of Android users are currently enjoying the latest OS by Google, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the first thing that comes to mind is that there is probably nothing special about this latest OS. However, that is not the case. Android 4.0 is way better an OS than the [...]
If you’re an Android smartphone user, you probably love to customize your device by flashing custom roms or over clocking, luxuries, only an Android user can afford. To flash custom rom or tweaking your device in such a way, a root access is necessary and alongside comes the custom recovery. As a precautionary measure, Android [...]
