How to upgrade official firmware on Samsung Galaxy S II I9100

If you are a new user of Samsung Galaxy S II I9100 and you wanted to upgrade your phones firmware to any latest updates, all you need is a personal computer or laptop and install a software program called KIES, you can download it via Samsung official support.
You cant do it over the air or OTA like any other android smartphones by using software update option, Yes you can see a software update option in phone under settings and you need to specify your samsung account details as well.. but  as of now its doesnt work on Samsung Galaxy S II I9100.

Aside from Kies update you can also manually upgrade the device by a way of using ODIN downloader tool and an original firmware.

This method is  not recommended for beginners since it will cause some problems and sometimes mess up the phone, called bricking.

If you want to learn by this method you may visit XDA-developer, many advance users in there shares a useful tweaks and tips about Samsung Galaxy S II I900 firmware.

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How To Install OS X Mavericks Hackintosh On PC

Want to install Mac OS X Mavericks Hackintosh on your PC? Thanks to the latest UniBeast release which adds support for Mavericks, you can now have best of both worlds (Windows and Mac) on your Intel-based PC.

The following guide will help you install OS X Mavericks v10.9 on your PC.

Requirements:

• Access to Mac for downloading OS X Mavericks from MAS and creating UniBeast drive.
• 8GB+ USB flash drive.
• An Intel based PC capable of running Mavericks.

Guide on how to install OS X Mavericks Hackintosh on your PC:

Step 1: On your Mac, download OS X Mavericks for free from the Mac App Store. Make sure the downloaded installation file is in /Applications folder.

Step 2: Download the latest version of UniBeast and MultiBeast from here.

Step 3: Format your USB flash drive using Disk Utility on Mac with the following settings:

• Start Disk Utility on Mac. Select your USB drive from the left hand column.

• Select the Partition tab from the right side. Click on Current dropdown menu and choose1 Partition.
• Now click on Options… button, select Master Boot Record.

• Type ‘USB’ as the Name for the drive. Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as Formattype.

• Once done, click on Apply followed by Partition.

Step 4: Now start UniBeast that you downloaded in Step 2 above.

Step 5: Skip through the first few screens by clicking Continue or Agree, until you get toDestination Select screen.

Step 6: Select your USB drive and click Continue to proceed.

Step 7: On Installation Type screen, make sure Mac App Store Mavericks – 10.9 is selected in packages. Additionally, select Legacy USB Support if you are using an old system with Socket 1156. Select Laptop Support package if you are installing it on a notebook PC. Once done, clickContinue, enter admin password for your Mac if prompted, and let UniBeast make a bootable Mavericks hackintosh USB flash drive for your PC.

Once done, move MultiBeast file that you downloaded in Step 2 above to this bootable Mavericks hackintosh USB drive (you will need this later).

Step 8: Now insert this bootable Mavericks hackintosh drive in your PC. Make sure the BIOS is set to boot the system from USB devices. When you boot from the USB drive, you will see Chimera boot screen, select “USB” and hit Enter on keyboard to continue.

Step 9: Once you are into OS X installer, you need to format the HDD you want to install Mavericks to using Disk Utility with the following settings:

• On the menu bar, click on Utilities, then start Disk Utility.
• Select the HDD you want to install OS X to from left hand side.
• From right side, click on Partition tab, then click on Current dropdown menu and choose 1 Partition.
• Now click on Options… button, choose GUID Partition Method.
• Type ‘Macintosh HD’ as the Name for HDD. Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) asFormat type.
• Click on Apply followed by Partition to partition the drive.

Step 10: Once done, close the Disk Utility program, go back to the installer. Select “Macintosh HD” as the drive you want to install OS X to.

Click on Install for the installation to begin.

You’re almost there! Once the OS X installation is complete, you need to make this HDD bootable. This can be done using MultiBeast utility. MultiBeast can not only make OS X HDD bootable, but can also install the required drivers for audio, WiFi, graphics, LAN and more.

Step 11: Reboot your system again using the bootable Mavericks hacktintosh flash drive. From the Chimera boot screen, select “Macintosh HD” this time.

Step 12: Start MultiBeast, from here, choose all the drivers required for your PC. Once done, click on Build followed by Install to complete the installation.

That’s it! You now have fully working OS X Mavericks installed on your PC.

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How to use adb sideload on your Android device

Probably every Android power-user at least once in his life used ADB - Android Debug Bridge. It is a versatile command line tool that lets you communicate with an emulator instance or connected Android-powered device. Using ADB shell commands gives you additional control over your device and sometimes it can save your device from being bricked (example: How to: copy ROM zip file to the freshly wiped device). You can find some more basic information about ADB here.

Since Android Jelly Bean there has been a new ADB mode available in the AOSP recovery, incorporated by the Android developer community into custom recoveries too. It is called "ADB sideload" and most of you probably have heard about it already. This is an alternate method to the one I wrote about here - How to: copy ROM zip file to the freshly wiped device. The main difference is that ADB sideload works only with recoveries based on Jelly Bean source or newer. I believe that ADB sideload was created to simplify the process of flashing/restoring Android update.zip packages.

Keep in mind that while using ADB sideload, the regular ADB shell wont work. To be able to use SIDELOAD mode make sure youre running latest ADB drivers from the Android SDK (Platform-tools). Here are the simple steps you need to follow to flash update.zip package using adb sideload mode (based on stock Android recovery):

1. Place the ZIP package you want to install in the same location where you keep ADB drivers - adb.exe, AdbWinApi.dll and AdbWinUsbApi.dll (usually its SDKplatform-tools)
2. Make sure you have USB debugging enabled in Settings > Development on your device
3. Make sure your phone drivers are installed on the PC youre going to use
4. Boot your device in recovery mode (Android logo with a exclamation mark) and connect your device to PC
5. Hold down "power" button first, followed quickly by "volume up" button. You should now see the recovery menu
6. Use the volume up/down keys to select "apply update from ADB," then press power to select it
7. Open a command prompt on the PC (cmd.exe), type and confirm with ENTER:
8. cd /d <adb.exe location> (for example: cd /d c:SDKplatform-tools) or you can open your SDK/platform-tools folder, then press SHIFT button and the right-click mouse button and choose “Open command prompt here”
9. adb sideload <filename>.zip (for example: adb sideload update.zip)
10. The zip package will begin installing. When its done, select "reboot system now."

How is that different from the alternative method? You dont have to manually create the proper folders structure, push the file and later install if from inside the recovery menu. The result is basically the same, because ADB sideload is also transferring the zip file into the device internal memory and later it automatically begins the installation procedure. However, it works only with recoveries based on Android Jelly Bean source.

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How to Free up Internal Memory on Samsung Galaxy Ace

Heres a simple tips on Samsung Galaxy Ace that help how to free up internal memory with just one click. All you need to have is a rooted Samsung Galaxy Ace and install and used this application called "Gemini App Manager" its Free and already proven works and tried myself.



This "Gemini App Manager"can move application such as facebook, twitter etc.  This also move maps but
my experience I say dont move Maps as its system application and needs to acess gps,wifi and many other system rescources so leave it on internal memory bcoz if u forecfully moved map, it will become unfuntional of no use, so leave it as it is

Features of this application:
Show app information (including risk info, e.g. show which app can call outgoing, or can send out SMS, or can use Camera, or can find your location (GPS), etc),
Autorun management (enable/disable conditions for autorun),
Kill process (one key RAM optimize, kill all, or kill by selection),
Move/batch move apps from phone to SD card(Android 2.2 or later),
Move/batch move apps from SD card to phone(Android 2.2 or later),
Uninstall/batch uninstall apps,
View application details
Clear app cache,
View app on market,
Sort apps by multi ways,
Filter apps by multi ways,

Grab the application here:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/gemini-app-manager/com.seasmind.android.gmappmgr

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How To Save On Your Android Phone Battery Life

Android tips and tricks: Android phones arguably superior in terms of quality, for example, the display interfaces, the number of applications that are useful and entertaining. But what about the battery resistance.

Because often download the application or activate the wireless network, it could be broken because the energy capacity of batteries drained.

There are a few Android tips you can do to make your android phone battery life can be more durable:

1. Manage wireless networks or wireless wisely. We recommend that you do not activate the entire connectivity available on mobile phones simultaneously, for example by turning on Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.
2. Reduce screen brightness level. Mobile phone screen is bright indeed make a clearer. But beyond that, the higher the level of screen brightness, the greater the power output your cell phone battery.
3. Use one feature alone to tell if there are new messages. If there is email, instant messages, short messages (SMS), or call into the Android phone, it does not need the phone rang too loudly and vibrate. Just use one of the two earlier features, sound or vibrate so that the battery is more efficient.
4. Enabling an important email only. If you have five email accounts and everything is active, you should choose which email is the most frequently used and will be activated throughout the day. The reason, more and more applications, such as email, live streaming, radio, or an active social media at the same time, the greater the battery power is needed.
5. Always keep a spare battery. When the battery charge, you are advised not to pull out if its capacity has not reached half. Because, if the battery has not reached 50 percent occupied and has been used again, the stored energy will be easily drained because its still small.

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Get 5 store credit on purchase from Amazon Appstore

Amazon is giving away $5 store credit to app shoppers this holiday season. And all you have to do is download an app from their Appstore.

To get the $5 store credit, all you have to do is go to the Amazon Appstore app on your Kindle Fire or any other compatible Android device and download any app, including a free one. You’ll soon get an email informing you that $5 credit has been added to your account, which can then be used to purchase more apps or games from the Amazon Appstore.

The credit is only available if you download the app or game from the latest version of the Appstore app. You only get the $5 credit once for every account and it expires after March 31, 2014 if not used. The offer itself ends on December 28, 2013, so you better hurry if you wish to avail it.

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How To Change Google Account On Android Without Hard Reset

Android tips and tricks: Here are the steps I do to change Google account on android without a hard reset, with the tips that I will give this application is already downloaded into the android will not be erased after making changes to a google account.

The following are steps to change google account on android without a hard reset:

1. Go to google apps
2. click "Clear Data"
3. After that there will be a message "All information youve saved in this application Will be deleted Permanently", click OK
4. After that click "Back" and type "Synchronize Data", or click Home>Menu>Settings>Data synchronization
5. After synchronize data will display a wizard to input data to a new Google account. This wizard also arise when we just bought a new android handset or when we just do the wipe through hardreset.

To be more safety, when to change google account is also clear data on your E-Mail Cache, by clicking Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>Gmail. Click the "Clear Data". In order to process syncronisasi in E-mail is not having problems.

This Android Tips This is my trial change in Nexian Journey with my new Google account, and the results can I change my Google without Android hard reset and applications that are downloaded will be kept.

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Tips Rooting LG Optimus 2X On Android 2 2 Froyo

This is another tips on how to root the LG Optimus 2X with Android 2.2 Froyo OS.
Disclaimer: You may proceed at your own risk. We are not responsible if your device gets bricked or damaged during the process.

First connect  your LG Optimus 2X and via  computers USB port. You may also need to install LG Drivers on your computer.

1. Download Z4root App on to your computer and unzip the contents.

2. The z4root App comes in APK format. Install the App on your phone. If you are new for installation of APK format apps, follow our guide on how to install Off market Apps in Android phone.
3. After installation, launch the z4root app on your phone.
4. Z4 Root gives you two options of rooting. Tap on “Permanent Root”.
5. The app will automatically root your LG Optimus 2X.

Note: Many users have faced problem at this step. The device hangs up at first stage saying “Running exploit in order to obtain root access…”. If you are also struck up at this stage, simply reboot your device and launch the app again.

6. This will follow with following messages: “Acquiring root shell…” and “ Please wait while root operations complete…”. Don’t do anything at this point.

7. You phone will automatically reboot.
After reboot is complete, you will see a new icon “Superuser” in the screen. This means your device is successfully rooted. Enjoy!

See the complete methods on Dkzone .

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Hot Manual Installation ROM Android 4 2 2 eXistenZv1 of the phone Xperia i1 Honami on Xperia Z

No need to wait until the birth Xperia i1 Honami , now Xperia Z users can still enjoy the exotic taste of it, right on your phone through a relatively complete rom named is eXistenZ v1.

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Quick Guide to Handling the incident damaged frequently on the smartphone

Quick Guide to Handling the incident damaged

Undeniably smartphone during use, there will be problems both big and small happen make us headache. There are common problems, but the users do not know whether to tackle sometimes the fix is ​​simple.

1. Quick Guide to Handling the incident damaged, Phone fell into water

Unless such a waterproof phone, no one wants their phone fell into the water. However, if it

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Sudden Death Problems on the Samsung Galaxy S III

Samsung has rumored to secretly have given a replacement of smartphone Galaxy S III to some of its users. Why?

As discussed at the XDA Developer Forum, Samsung reportedly has replaced the Galaxy S III to its users, because of the damage that can led the Galaxy S III to die suddenly.

According to the report users were damaged, mostly owned Galaxy S III is used after 150-200 days of their purchase. While the destruction of NAND impact on the dead of Galaxy S III mainboard, this is pointed out as the cause of Samsungs smartphone Galaxy S III  can no longer be used.

The users of Galaxy S III at XDA Developers forum and Reddit did say that Samsung has replaced the defective smartphone with the new Galaxy S III. However, considering the given replacement smartphone Samsung has not undergone revision in hardware, allegedly Galaxy S III replacement was also potentially experience the same thing after other 200 days of using.

What Samsung do on this issue that happening on its flagship smartphone, unfortunately this can not be obtained for now, that because the Korean vendor was not given an official statement on this issue.

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Video On hand open box iPhone 5s

iPhone 5s is probably the machine 's line was changed the most so far . Apparently , you can only differentiate it from the iPhone 5 home button with front and rear dual LED flash . However , inside the large changes seen with advanced processing architecture over compared to rivals Android , camera make the most of the CPU processing power to double , image processing chip ISP twice as strong . This feature is

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6 Fastest Smartphone on Earth Current

Almost all of smartphone manufacturers have an excellent product. Which of those products that have the fastest smartphoneperformance?
There are two main factors that make the smartphone has a lightning-fastest smartphone performance, the data transfer speed and pure performance of the processor.

Fastest smartphone, The chipmaker continues to try to break the boundaries that exist in makinga reliable component in a smartphone, whichled to the remarkable ability when playing a gameor play video.
Best Smartphone according to each consumer may be relatively, depending on the tastes andinterests of each.

Samsung Galaxy S4

Fastest smartphone, Samsung Galaxy S4 is a smartphone with gaming graphics fastest of all existing smartphones at this time, and also one who had the fastest overall process capability.
The lightning-fast performance in game play comes from the support of a quad-core processor 1.9GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 or eight-core Samsung Exynos 5 Octa.
In the 3DMark tests Futuremarks to analyze Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) designed specifically Android, Samsung Galaxy S4 has the best value and the mean follow below is HTC, Google Nexus 10, and the Samsung Galaxy S3.
S4 also has the highest capacity in terms of other specifications and has been awarded the best mobile phones from Consumer Reports.

HTC One

Fastest smartphone, HTC has limited storage capacity, but has monster specs with exceptional processing speed.
HTC quad-core processor loaded with 1.7 Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600. HTC One can turn on quickly when you turn on the phone from the dead, and faster than the Galaxy S4 in the use of the camera.
In addition to being the only smartphone that can match the incredible speed of the Galaxy S4 in playing the game today, HTC also has a LCD screen that lights brighter for use in indoor and outdoor.

To be continued

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Nokia Lumia mystery with CPU and GPU Adreno 305 quad appeared on the benchmark results

On the results of benchmark tools have recently appeared GFXBench a Windows Phone 8 devices using 4 processors due to Nokia's production. This is the first time a Windows Phone with quad-core chips coming out, even before we heard about it through rumors. Information also suggests that this mysterious Nokia device using 1280 x 720 screen and Qualcomm Adreno 305 GPU. The Adreno 305 graphics processor available in two series and Snapdragon Snapdragon S4 Plus 400, however, the CPU paired with only four Snapdragon 400 series only. When compared with the Lumia 920 (Adreno 225) and Lumia 620 (Adreno 305), the graphics performance of this mysterious device more remarkable. Currently we do not have information about the name and release date of the Lumia samples.

Talking a bit more about this CPU models, the use of capital for 400 Snapdragon devices most likely

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Asus Zenfone 6 hands on

Asus Zenfone 6 hands-on

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Samsungs official response to recent article on KNOX vulnerability

Samsung has collaborated with Google to produce the following public response to the recent report from Ben-Gurion University researchers on a vulnerability in Samsung KNOX.

Recently, there have been reports that security researchers from Ben-Gurion University Cyber Security Labs found a vulnerability on a Samsung Galaxy S4 device with the KNOX security platform.

After discussing the research with the original researchers, Samsung has verified that the exploit uses legitimate Android network functions in an unintended way to intercept unencrypted network connections from/to applications on the mobile device. This research did not identify a flaw or bug in Samsung KNOX or Android; it demonstrated a classic Man in the Middle (MitM) attack, which is possible at any point on the network to see unencrypted application data. The research specifically showed this is also possible via a user-installed program, reaffirming the importance of encrypting application data before sending it to the Internet.  Android development practices encourage that this be done by each application using SSL/TLS. Where thats not possible (for example, to support standards-based unencrypted protocols, such as HTTP), Android provides built-in VPN and support for third-party VPN solutions to protect data. Use of either of those standard security technologies would have prevented an attack based on a user-installed local application.

KNOX offers additional protections against MitM attacks. Below is a more detailed description of the mechanisms that can be configured on Samsung KNOX devices to protect against them:

1.    Mobile Device Management — MDM is a feature that ensures that a device containing sensitive information is set up correctly according to an enterprise-specified policy and is available in the standard Android platform. KNOX enhances the platform by adding many additional policy settings, including the ability to lock down security-sensitive device settings.  With an MDM configured device, when the attack tries to change these settings, the MDM agent running on the device would have blocked them. In that case, the exploit would not have worked.

2.    Per-App VPN — The per-app VPN feature of KNOX allows traffic only from a designated and secured application to be sent through the VPN tunnel. This feature can be selectively applied to applications in containers, allowing fine-grained control over the tradeoff between communication overhead and security.

3.    FIPS 140-2 — KNOX implements a FIPS 140-2 Level 1 certified VPN client, a NIST standard for data-in-transit protection along with NSA suite B cryptography. The FIPS 140-2 standard applies to all federal agencies that use cryptographically strong security systems to protect sensitive information in computer and telecommunication systems.  Many enterprises today deploy this cryptographically strong VPN support to protect against data-in-transit attacks.

Professor Patrick Traynor at Georgia Institute of Technology, an expert on mobile security, previously expressed concerns about the finding by the researchers as reported in the Wall Street Journal article. After examining additional details about KNOX, Professor Traynor said, "Proper configuration of mechanisms available within KNOX appears to be able to address the previously published issue. Samsung should strongly encourage all of their users to take advantage of those mechanisms to avoid this and other common security issues."

As a final note, we encourage all researchers to contact the Samsung KNOX team at help@samsungknox.com immediately with security issues related to KNOX. More information about Samsung KNOX can be found at www.samsungknox.com.

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SuperSU fixed to work on Galaxy S4′s Android 4 4 test firmware

Software updates are exciting, especially when they get leaked and give users an early chance to try out something they might otherwise be waiting a long time for. The excitement was palpable when we leaked a test Android 4.4 KitKat firmware for the Galaxy S4 earlier today, but if you’ve been using Chainfire’s SuperSU app for root access, you might have noticed it’s not working on KitKat. But thanks to Chainfire, that was a short-lived problem, as the popular developer has released an updated version of SuperSU that works with the KitKat build on the Galaxy S4.

The new SuperSU is available as a zip file that you can flash from recovery, and is also included in Chainfire’s CF-Auto-Root package for rooting through Odin without the need of a custom recovery. You can download either from the links below, and head to the source link for more details on the fix.

Download: SuperSU, CF-Auto-Root

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Sony Xperia Z1 Compact hands on First look

Sony Xperia Z1 Compact hands-on: First look

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_z1_compact-review-1028.php

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