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[GUIDE] Full Device Backup without Unlock or Root

Like a lot of you, I have been putting off unlocking the bootloader on my Nexus because I didn't want to have to go through the hassle of backing up everything manually and restoring individual application data; logging back into apps; saving settings; etc. I found an undocumented (at least as far as my googling was able to find) feature in the latest version of the ADB platform tools...

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Build your own Android on paper or cardboard

Sure origami lovers will love this article, and you already can easily build your own figure in the role of green android most famous, and simply following a template that is already prepared for this purpose.

With this template, which...

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Samsung Exynos 5 GPU specs captured

Running around at Common Platform, we happened to notice a little slide on Samsung’s Exynos 5 series specs. How nice to have confirmation about the specs and the Mali GPU it carries.
The short story is that Exynos 5 is a 32nm A15 core chip fabbed...

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Google will host applications up to 4GB in the Android Market

One problem facing the developers of mobile applications today is that, to best utilize the new features of mobile devices (such as the retina of the iPhone screen is supposed to be presented tomorrow) must improve their applications,...

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Goodbye Android Market, hello Google Play

Google just announced Google Play by surprise, his new store of content that is to unify in one place all the stores had, and this affects the Android Market,...

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Ubuntu on Android - Video

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Google Releases Recap Video of Last Years MWC Android Booth Madness

From what I hear, last year’s Android booth at Mobile World Congress was the hit. Google went all out in and provided the ultimate Android experience for event attendees which included a luxe lounge, slides, Android collectibles...

Canonical has unveiled software that will give Android smartphones the ability to run full desktop computer sessions on computer monitors and television sets.


"The processors at the heart of smartphones are approaching the power of low-end laptop processors, so we use the horsepower to power a desktop experience," said Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. "If you link your phone to a computer monitor and keyboard, then the phone can drive a full desktop session."
The company launched the software, called Ubuntu for Android, at the Mobile World Congress, being held this week...

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Android Hub, Google’s first home entertainment system

Today the Wall St. Journal reports that Google is working on a “home-entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company’s own brand.” They don’t mention the name of the device,...

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What exactly is GLONASS and why does it matter if your device supports it?

Like GPS, GLONASS is a satellite-based positioning system. It stands for Globalnaya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema and is currently owned and maintained by the Russian Space Forces. You probably never heard of the system because full global coverage with modern satellites wasn’t achieved until October of 2011. At the moment, there are 24 active GLONASS...

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New, easier-to-use Google Search for Android Now Available

Along side the tidbit that the Galaxy Nexus (GSM) was receiving a 4.0.2 update addressing bug fixes, the boys over at the Official Google Blog have announced that they have updated...

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Android drivers to be included in Linux 3.3 kernel

Android drivers are returning to the Linux kernel. Kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman has retrieved the Android drivers removed from the staging area of Linux 2.6.33 in the spring of 2010 and put them back into his development branch for version 3.3 of the Linux kernel.

The plan is for a Linux 3.3 kernel to be able to boot on an Android device without further patches...

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Now available the source code for Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich)

After publishing the final version SDK Ice Cream Sandwich and releasing the update for the Google Nexus S complete the day by publishing its source code. In the official repositories also find specific versions of Android...

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Google releases Android SDK 4.0.3, the base version of Ice Cream Sandwich

It seems that Google was not very happy with the current version of Ice Cream Sandwich by surprise as it announced the Android SDK 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich), and has said that this is the basic version in which the...

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More than half of Android devices have Gingerbread

Each month Google has updated the data on the distribution of versions of Android, and as expected Gingerbread growth is unstoppable. If we saw last month and became the most widespread version Gingerbread now present in half of all Android...

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Samsung's 2GHz Exynos 5250 is first SoC with super fast dual-core Cortex-A15 processor

Samsung just announced its 2GHz Exynos 5250 System-on-Chip, a first to feature ARM's new dual-core Cortex-A15 processor said to be about twice as fast as the 1.5GHz Cortex-A9. The Exynos 5250 is based...

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Question: Java 7 language features with Android

Practical answer

Yes, I have tried. But this is not a great test as the compatibility was limited to level 6 with no way (no simple way at least) to really use java 7:

• First I installed a JDK7 on a machine that had no other JDK installed - Eclipse and Android are not installed either:

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Samsung going quad-core with the Exynos 4412

Some very early details of Samsung's next generation Exynos SoC has made an appearance online and it suggests that the upcoming Exynos 4412 is a quad core processor. It will still be an ARM Cortex-A9 based chip, but it's said to sport improved...

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Android's official website is renewed with a more modern design and intuitive

It seems incredible that with the success that has Android, and having the backing of Google, the official website is so crappy. Okay, the website does its job information for users and especially for developers....

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The source code for Ice Cream Sandwich is here, we explain how to download

That's right, Ice Cream Sandwich is already on the street and opens it, now, a new stage for Android.

Gradually the new operating system version will be coming to devices either official and unofficial....

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Tegra 3 is now official. Best games, navigation and battery management

So far we have always lived with the standard Tegra chip 2, a graphics chip that had a processing capacity and that dictated what capacity was needed to run an application, most games with high quality 3D graphics....

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Exclusive: Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5

Sources close to Adobe that have been briefed on the company’s future development plans have revealed this forthcoming announcement to ZDNet:

Our future work with Flash on...

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Google: Android 4.0 to be open sourced in "coming weeks"

Google’s next generation Android 4.0 — code named “Ice Cream Sandwich” — will be available to the open source developer community in weeks, one company spokesman said yesterday.

And yes, Ice Cream Sandwich is designed to re-unify the Android code base for smartphones and tablets, and will likely please more in the open source community, the spokesman indicated.

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Android 4.0 applications will have hardware acceleration turned on by default

Which feature of Android 4.0 are you looking forward to the most? One of the biggest enhancements that should impress the average user is hardware acceleration for phones, which will improve the overall smoothness...

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Ice Cream Sandwich Will Have Cisco AnyConnect VPN Support

The recently closed “Issue 3902″ over at Google’s Android Code site tells the whole story. After months of requests from users and IT departments alike, support for Cisco AnyConnect VPN will be found in Ice Cream Sandwich. A Googler...

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Google confirms support for physical buttons on Ice Cream Sandwich

Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) has been the talk of Android town, and rightfully so: it looks like the most promising version yet. But considering it doesn't require any physical buttons, how will your phone work once...