HTC recently announced a 24 carat gold limited edition of their 2015 flagship, the HTC M9, complete with engravings to mark the Champions League final. But in a hilarious blunder, the Taiwanese OEM unwittingly revealed the promotional images of the device were shot with an iPhone 6.
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Strix is a beautifully crafted theme for your device that features bold shades, bright- icons, animation notification indicators, a redesigned navigation bar, new widgets and more. The theme will work on any device running a ROM that supports theme engine, and gives a refreshing look to the system.
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Apple is a leader among OEMs while Android remains at the top of mobile operating systems ranking prepared by comScore for April 2015. Is Apple’s operating system ready to regain its market leadership lost in favor of Android a few years back? Read through this report to find out!
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Battery life is one of the major drawbacks of the entire Android platform. In most cases the phone or tablet runs for a shorter time than expected. XDA Recognized Contributor vaisakh7 put together a nice guide showing the ways to decrease the consumption. Give it a try to get some really great battery life.
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AT&T tweets an entertaining line and image today from their mobile account. It was last year during this time that they released the AT&T exclusive Samsung Galaxy S5 Active. Are we seeing a hint towards the release of the Galaxy S6 Active? Learn more about our newest Samsung Galaxy variant after the break.
It’s almost mid-June again, and of course Samsung is going to release another Active version of its Galaxy line of devices. The tweet in question from AT&T is as follows.
“Only one thing is missing from your workout. It’s almost time to activate your full power.”
The text was accompanied by the Getty image above depicting an active individual holding a mysterious device. If AT&T were to release a new version of its Galaxy tank it would be this month, it’s just in time for summer fun. The numbers predict higher sales during the summer months of devices, or any object for that matter, branded as athletically-minded.
The popular image of the S6 Active for AT&T can be seen here to the right. It’s what you’d expect it to be, a rugged S6 running Samsung’s very classy front-end to Lollipop, TouchWiz.
All of the S6 Active statistics are expected to remain the same as the standard S6. Let us know what you think of this news in the comments below. Are you tired of hearing about this phone yet? Me too, I wish it would just be mid-month today.
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It’s been almost two months since Samsung’s 2015 flagships went on sale, and if you have either the S6 or S6 Edge or you’re still on the fence and want to know what’s under the hood of the devices, Samsung Tomorrow has put together an excellent teardown, which lists every hardware detail worth knowing.
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Editor’s note: This weeks feature has been written by forum member RainbowLaw and takes a look at the daunting concept of beginning your journey down the development path. Your first trip to xda can be a challenge so next time someone you know starts their own exploration in to the realm of Android, why not give them a helping hand and send them this way first.
Introduction to any development can be daunting and exceptionally fun if you know your way around, but don’t worry buddy we’ve got your back. Here at XDA, we’re not divided into developers and users. We are a community; how often do you see a developer help another developer who himself doesn’t own the device in question? Communities can’t survive in a one-sided environment. So cooperation, collaboration and teamwork are the nuts and bolts of our forum. Users help developers and developers help users, and that right there my friend is the perfect blend for a community whose duty is to provide solvent for developers.
So your first and only friend in this everlasting search for wisdom starts with reading. Reading and learning at your own pace is the key to your success. Of course, if reading is not one of your strong assets or english is not your first language, you can also watch videos to help you better understand and learn new material. Remember you are not alone, you are heard and you are special. I truly believe in the motto “Believe in yourself in all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle,” Christian D. Larson. It is never too late to become the person you are capable of being.
If you want to soak up knowledge, you can expand it here. We are not talking about android specifically here; while the lion’s share of users are android enthusiasts, all kinds of knowledge can be found within. For example, here at XDA there are community forums which can be found in the participated tab of the forums which comes incredibly handy, you are also encouraged to roam the forums to find more areas that interest you. A brief summary of each section of the forums can be found below:
The XDA community is big and there are so many professional members you may stumble across during your journey. If you’re a come-and-go user then you may not feel affection but at least tolerate us and read thoroughly through the content provided. In most development threads you’ll find Feature(s), Instruction(s), FAQ(s) and Bug(s). Read them carefully and precisely because I myself as a modder/hacker would feel bad if one of my users got stuck in a bootloop or was facing an issue that I’m currently not. Then try applying it as is provided by the instructions. I know if you are a user/member of this site I’d prefer that you didn’t come just looking for a quick fix with little or nothing to contribute, this isn’t desirable but as a developer we really should expect all kinds of degrees of knowledge to give the end-user the best.
Under the GPL (General Public License) if you distribute GPL software you must distribute the source code whether you make modifications or not. Pointing to another source of the code is not sufficient. You yourself must distribute the code. This means all ROM developers whether they use a custom kernel or not must provide the source code for the kernel used in their ROM in order to be GPL compliant. The vast majority of ROMs use busybox. Busybox is GPL licensed and ROM developers must also provide the code for busybox whether they modify it or not.
By posting your work on XDA-Developers, you are agreeing that it complies with relevant licensing conditions. I am a big supporter of the GPL and have always released my code and don’t have an issue with removing violating software. All licenses should be enforced not just the GPL.
Thanks XDA for giving me the privilege to be part of something big and after all of this I hope I helped someone somewhere at some point.
This was the first article of our new series “Voices of XDA”. The new articles you will start to see under “Voices” are entirely thought of and written by you, the members of XDA. If you have an idea for an article you would like to write to be featured on the portal you can find more information here and apply here.
What do you think to RainbowLaw’s feature? Leave a comment below!
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