Blackberry has released an introduction the Blackberry Priv video on Youtube, this shows the phone off in a much better way than the last video in which we saw the CEO fumble with the device.
This new Lollipop 5.0.x ROM developed by XDA Forum Moderator & Recognized Developer rwilco12 is still in development, but this version is stable, functional and promising. Keep in mind you will need to be on a Lollipop bootloader before flashing this ROM.
Multiple application developers with the term ‘Cardboard’ in the name of their app are starting to have their applications removed from the Play Store. Google has a trademark on the term and if they don’t protect it then they could lose it if they were ever to get challenged in court. Developers are now using ‘for Cardboard’ in the app name to remedy this conflict.
You might recall that back in 2012 we formed a relationship with file hosting site Dev-Host that granted XDA Recognized Developers/Themers/Contributors a free premium membership. It started off good, but then we started hearing about excessive ads that simulate download buttons, fly-by malware APK attacks from Mobogenie, and reused (and potentially dangerous) short URLs. We’ve tried to work with Dev-Host to fix some of these issues, but they haven’t been willing to change their ways. And so we no longer recommend that XDA users (whether RD/RT/RC or not) use this service, and consider the many other (free) file hosting sites such as AndroidFileHost, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, etc. If you’ve ever made a thread on XDA that includes a Dev-Host link, we strongly encourage you to re-upload it to another file storage provider and repost the link back into the thread. That way, you’ll be helping the community purge these odious links. In a month from now, we will no longer allow new outgoing links to Dev-Host. We are currently in discussion with some popular, reliable sharing hosts to provide the best options for our developers and users. Sorry for the inconvenience.
iFixit has just published their teardown of the latest flagship from Samsung, the Galaxy Note5. We usually see a repairability score with these teardowns but since this is a member-contributed teardown, we don’t have one here. However, we do get a sense of how difficult it will be to teardown this device, especially when trying to remove the display panel from the frame.
XDA Member studenttwok has posted a little trick on improving the memory issues on the Nexus 9. It involves lowering the screen density on to values that the Nexus 9 can handle more efficiently theoretically. Give this a shot if you are being plagued by memory issues on your Nexus 9!
Nuance, the company behind the Dragon range of dictation applications, have announced a collaboration with Pebble to make their voice recognition engines available on Pebble smartwatches, including the Pebble Time, Time Steel and Pebble Round. Nuance’s voice capabilities will also be integrated into Pebble SDK for iOS and Android.
