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XDA Senior Member Morningstar has put together a small guide to add a background in the notification panel, without affecting the panel behavior on lockscreen. The modification uses a pre-built smali folder which is to be placed inside a decompiled SystemUI.apk. It’s pretty simple, so follow along!
This guide by XDA Senior Member geiti94 shows you how to root your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (N910C) on Android 5.1.1. Please note that once there is a bug when you first boot, and you will need to shut down the display and power on again. Read the thread carefully to know more before going ahead!
Yesterday we decided to have some fun. We posted 2 riddles for you guys to try and solve, with Google Play Credit prizes for both the winner and the first runner-up. We had hundreds of entries, but only a few of you got the answers correct. The wait is now over, here are the answers and who got them first.
1 – A Man with a Boot, Searching for a Shirt.
The first answer we were looking for was the name of one of our Senior Recognized Developers, a man famous for many XDA apps including the popular Liveboot which replaces your boot animation with a live logcat. The first clue we gave out on Reddit and Twitter was a link to one of these logcats. According to his account details, he also has no idea where his shirt is.
2 – The Wild sound of Freedom.
The second riddle was a bit harder if you had missed the recent release of a certain open source music app by developer XpLoDWilD. The clue we gave to this, as many of you guessed, was a small grayscaled portion of the welcome screen.
Congratulations if you got them both right, only 24 of you gave both correct answers. However, the member that gave the answer first and, therefore wins $25 of Google Play credit was: Moon2. The second person to answer correctly winning themselves $10 of Google Play credit was: adaytoremember. Bravo! We will PM your codes shortly.
The following users also answered correct but were, unfortunately, too late to win one of the codes:
We had many brilliant answers and some were far deeper than we had considered, some of our favorite answers for the first included:
“A man with a phone searching for a ROM”
“XDA TV’s Jordan Keyes”
“someone who’s probably gonna be late for work !”
and for the second:
“…you gonna hear me rooaaaar……….”
“Freebird – Lynyrd Skynyrd” (It’s mentioned in the Encore app description)
“Guns N’ Roses’s music, Welcome to the Jungle”
Did you work them out? Leave a comment below!
CyanogenMod 12.1 for the OnePlus Two is now sufficiently stable to be used as a daily driver. Recognized Developer Grarak has updated the ROM and now the only functionalities yet to be implemented are the Fingerprint sensor, laser autofocus, the notification slider and enforcing selinux.
Join us in a fun Sunday Debate on Lenovo and Motorola. Come with your opinions and feel free to read some of our thoughts, then pick your side or play devil’s advocate to get your voice heard and engage in friendly discussion. You can read our food-for-thought or jump straight into the fray below!
Then in January of 2014, shortly after the Moto G’s success, Google sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo, a very well-known Chinese manufacturer of PCs, for $2.91 billion. This was a shock to many, as Google has bought Motorola in 2012 for $12.5 billion, and nobody expected Lenovo of all players to acquire the company. Analysts quickly began theorizing the reasons behind the sale and the purchase, many concluding that Google needed Motorola to exploit crucial patents and that Lenovo could use the company (and most importantly, its name) to enter the U.S. smartphone market.
In the past few years, Motorola phones have been very well received. However, many fans are still worried about the future of the company for various reasons. One of them is that Motorola is an age-old mobile manufacturer, and much of that expertise and talent might be stunted by Lenovo. Other reasons include distrust for Lenovo for various controversies in the past.
On a positive note, Motorola has had some great releases in the past year and since Lenovo’s purchase. The acquisition was finished by October of last year, so we can assume that some of the developments are partially due to Google’s influence. But the 2015 Moto G, for example, managed to give us all a surprise with its updated camera, speedy performance and great bang-per-buck. The Moto X Play is getting good reviews (despite it’s lack of gyroscope) and many are excited about the Moto X Pure/Style and all the greatness it offers for just $400. The new Moto 360 has been leaked numerous times and that also has many enthusiasts excited. Will this change?
This month we’ve seen much news that have plenty of Motorola fans worried. First of all, Motorola was reportedly cutting 20% of their jobs and getting a new identity under Lenovo. The company was apparently not making enough money as Lenovo hoped, and now Lenovo wants to get a tighter hold of it. Now that Motorola is so big in emerging markets, Lenovo is injecting its people into the company and going forward with manufacturing in India. The latest reports, however, say that a bigger merge is taking place. While it originally seemed that Motorola kept functioning without much influence from Lenovo, the dynamic has changed and it is expected that Lenovo will intervene in many Motorola developments directly and indirectly. Finally, it’s also worth noting that Lenovo has their ZUK branch, which established relationships with Cyanogen and will have devices sporting Cyanogen OS.
On one hand, Motorola’s performance so far has been notable, and plenty of Android enthusiasts believe they are at a high-point. Lenovo’s resources might have been a deciding factor in many products consumers love, and injecting new blood into a company is not necessarily bad — in fact, it’s often beneficial. However, Lenovo has been under the microscope for various reasons in and out of mobile, and disrupting the structure of such an experienced mobile manufacturer may result in dissatisfying products for the sake of profit.
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Snapprefs Xposed Module has been updated with a stable release after quite some time. The newest non-beta update brings along complete support for Snapchat version 9.14.2.0, along with ability to hide Discover from UI, save images as PNGs and Overlays and other bug fixes and improvements.
