Samsung resumes Android 4.3 update roll out for Galaxy S III (GT-I9300)

A fixed version for the previous 4.3 update which was being halted due to some major problem have started to roll out again :D
CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN ANDROID 4.3 UPDATE - GALAXY GEAR Support
- TRIM Support (Makes the device much faster)
- Core UI elements updated to the ones on the Galaxy S4 (Galaxy S4′s theme all over)
- New Samsung Keyboard
- GPU drivers have been updated (Higher GPU benchmark scores)
- New Lockscreen: Multiple Widgets, improved ripple effect than Android 4.1.2, ability to change clock size and set a personal message
- New Screen modes (From S4): Adapt Display and Professional Photo
- Daydream
- Driving mode
- Actionable notifications
- Move-to-SD-card feature
- New Camera mode : Sound and Shot
- New Additions in Notification Centre
- Completely revamped Settings UI (Tabbed interface – Exactly like the Galaxy S4)
- Implementation of Voice controls (Let’s you control various parts of the phone using voice commands – Galaxy S4 feature)
- New Samsung Apps: Calculator, Clock, Contacts, Gallery, Music
- Full screen Samsung apps
- New S-Voice (from Galaxy S4)
Source From: SamMobile

To learn more, visit the Android 4.3 Discussion Thread for the Galaxy S III. The fun starts around page 181, with users sharing their (largely positive) experiences with the new firmware. :D

Android 4.3 on Samsung galaxy SIII (GT-I9300)

There seem to be a lot of update and finally a function I wanted, Move-to-SD-card option. My current i9300 which uses Android 4.1.2 didn't had that function, plus it is a hassle to do so. Well anyway here are the change log for now, I don't think this is the full detail but you can read more about the update on sammobile site on the link below:

CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN ANDROID 4.3 UPDATE
- GALAXY GEAR Support
- TRIM Support (Makes the device much faster)
- ANT+ Support
- Core UI elements updated to the ones on the Galaxy S4 (Galaxy S4′s theme all over)
- New Samsung Keyboard
- GPU drivers have been updated (Higher GPU benchmark scores)
- New Lockscreen: Multiple Widgets, improved ripple effect than Android 4.1.2, ability to change clock size and set a personal message
- New Screen modes (From S4): Adapt Display and Professional Photo
- Daydream
- Driving mode
- Actionable notifications
- Move-to-SD-card feature
- New Camera mode : Sound and Shot
- New Additions in Notification Centre
- Completely revamped Settings UI (Tabbed interface – Exactly like the Galaxy S4)
- Implementation of Voice controls (Let’s you control various parts of the phone using voice commands – Galaxy S4 feature)
- New Samsung Apps: Calculator, Clock, Contacts, Gallery, Music
- Full screen Samsung apps
- New S-Voice (from Galaxy S4)

Read more about it on : SAM MOBILE

To update your Galaxy S III to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, connect your device to your computer and use Samsung KIES or simply use Samsung’s OTA service. To download and install the firmware via OTA, go to Settings > More > About Device > Software update > Update.

Model: GT-I9300
Country: Ireland (Vodafone)
Version: Android 4.3
Changelist: 1902166
Build date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 03:29:22 +0000
Product Code: VDI
PDA: I9300XXUGMJ9
CSC: I9300VFGGMJ5
MODEM: I9300BUUGMJ3

Bitstrips with your friends

You just need to download it on Google Play search for (Bitstrips) it is around 49mb. It is a very simple app, don't need to be a scientist just to figure out how to use it.

Just a brief info maybe, you first got to create your avatar then find your friends and add them. Create a comic strip using a ready made templates and just edit the caption or text. Once you are done with it you can share via Facebook or to any I.M such as WhatsApp:

As you can see, you can edit the text and even make your friend avatar first if they have not join yet and maybe they can select it directly after being invited by you I think. Below are some of the comic strip created by me:

This is done by Carlo

Bitstrips Link
Description:
Share instant comic messages starring you and your friends.

• Design cartoon versions of yourself & your friends
• Put your friends in hilarious comics where anything can happen
• Show how you’re feeling with cartoon status updates
• Choose from 1000+ customizable templates, plus new ones daily

Facebook Home

Finally I get to install facebook home after reading the new from slashdot.org. Which seem much better then the standard Facebook App for Android devices (well just the new permissions to allow it to collect data about the apps you are running, other then that everything seems fine I think?). To get it all you need to do is go to this link:

http://bit.ly/fbhomeapp 

(I can assure you this is not a virus) 

Another way is to search for facebook on your google playstore and click on the link under What's new, there you will see the link is being posted.

So after clicking on that link which will open your Android device browser, it will open up your Google Playstore or there be a popup asking what to do so just choose google playstore.  I don't know why was it hidden from search, could have just been me but I don't know.

Then again this is what I got when it opened up on google playstore:

This item isn't available in your country.

So fuck you facebook.

What is Facebook Home?
Facebook Home is software for your phone designed to put your friends above everything else. You can download Facebook Home for free or purchase it pre-installed on a phone. Facebook Home works together with the Facebook for Android and Facebook Messenger apps to enable its main features:

• Cover feed: Glance at your phone for photos and posts from your Facebook News Feed.
• Chat heads: Send and receive texts and Facebook messages in one place. Open, close and drag chat heads around your screen to keep chatting while you’re using other apps.
• Notifications: See news as it happens with bigger, bolder notifications on your home screen.
• App launcher: Get right to your favorite apps and post to Facebook from the same place.

Micro Systemation (MSAB) - XRY

So what is XRY? it is a tool which allows one to perform forensic extraction mobile data from a wide variety of mobile devices. From MSAB website:

“Extracting data from mobile / cell phones is a specialist skill and not the same as recovering information from computers. Most mobile devices don't share the same operating systems and are proprietary embedded devices which have unique configurations and operating systems. What does that mean in terms of getting data out of them? Well in simple terms, it means it is very difficult to do.

XRY has been designed and developed to make that process a lot easier for you, with support for over 6,600 different mobile device profiles. We supply a complete solution to get you what you need and the software guides you through the process step by step to make it as easy as possible.”

So phone hacking has become more easy for those with money. Well I don’t think it be a price affordable by some millionaire rich kid. Unless he is Justin Bieber or the kids from Harry Potter, anyway here is a video of them cracking the Iphone and easily extracting personal information from it:

 

Now this makes you wonder is it really ok to ignore your phone being stolen if there is a lot of personal information and pictures in it. Well there are other available tools to do password dumping but not so user-friendly as this one as this has a user friendly instruction too. Interested to purchase it? Here are the contact details:

Micro Systemation AB (Sweden) - Head Office

Postal address:	Registered office:	Delivery address:
P.O. Box 3053 SE 169 03  SOLNA SWEDEN	Råsundavägen 1-3  SE 169 67  SOLNA SWEDEN	Råsundavägen 1-3  SE 169 67  SOLNA SWEDEN
Phone: +46 8739 0270 Fax: +46 8730 0170 Registered No:  556244-3050 VAT No:  SE556244305001

Micro Systemation Inc (USA)

MSAB INC
House of Sweden
2900 K-Street NW, Suite 505
Washington DC 20007. USA
Phone: +1 202 536 1590
Fax +1 888-395-9027

Micro Systemation Ltd (UK)

Micro Systemation Limited
The Ashridge Business Centre
121 High Street, Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire. HP4 2DJ. UK
Freephone: 0808 234 2450
Fax: 0808 234 2449
Email: sales.uk@msab.com

Micro Systemation (France)

30, rue Godot de Mauroy
75009 Paris, France

Téléphone: +33 1 53 30 79 42
Email: supportfrance@msab.com

 

http://www.msab.com/contact

LeeDrOiD HD V5.0.0 - 5th Feb

After months of waiting patiently for a new base, Lee finally release it today during my day OFF!!! Anyway here are some updates on his latest release:

Change Log
LeeDrOiD_HD_V5.0.0 6th February 2012

• Re-Based on HTC WWE 3.12.405.1 RUU - Sense 3.0
• Removed all HTC Loggers
• Huge system cleanups
• Kernel V4.0.0 included
• Updated all preinstalled apps
• New Bootanimation
• Lots of system tweaks & fixups
• Fancy keyboard animations
• 3D Home screen toggle
• Added advanced power menus
• Added CRT on/off animation
• Added bravia engine
• All previos LeeDrOiD mods included
• Ported LeeDrOiD Tweaks from my Evo 3D builds(Thanks to the awsome j4n87 & daniels7)
• select power/vol-/vol- button to wake device
• choose between Sense, ASOP and Honeycomb lockscreen
• custom carrier lockscreen text
• toggle to use volume buttons to skip tracks forward and backwards
• toggle items on Lockscreen: Carrier/Time/Date
• toggle to use menu key for ALL Lockscreen
• define another app to the right softkey of the sense bar
• toggle between normal/supersmooth and ultra smooth rosie (Thanks to hamdir for his original)
• unlock animation toggle(annoying carousell animation, each time you unlock)
• 5 column app drawer toggle
• paginated app drawer toggle
• disable sense launcher running in background: saves memory when using another launcher
• Phone Info: menu when you type *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer
• Dim the backlight of capacitive buttons
• choose between normal/low and lowest autobrightness values: battery saver!
• choose betwen TEN different overscroll colors
• toggle to turn screen on, when sms arrives
• toggle crt animations
• just available on Leedroid Tweaks: "Screen Always on" Quicksetting
• AutoSync Quicksetting
• Leedroid Tweaks Quicksetting: Links you to the Tweaks
• Honestly guys.... there is too much to list!

Seems like there are some hidden stuff, but so far those who have installed it had no major issue here are some of the minor problem the users are facing at the moment:

“Originally Posted by s4linux

gr8 super fast flashed without any prob but have 2 issues ,
1st the rosie key (personlized right sense key) when i press on it sense restart
or looks like gui restarted dunno why
2nd is in Weather when I open it i get no graphics only sound but as a widget it's running normally ..
gonna tell you my feedback for the battery later thanks for your gr8 work tho .”

Another one:

“Originally Posted by pavedwaves

Having the same two issues here.. Also a tell HTC notification keeps coming up.
Edit - One more thing to tell you about, with 4x5 (possible to get 5x5?) paginated app drawer the divider lines seem to be broken, anyone else?
Also, any chance your thinking of putting in a transparency tweak rosie, and maybe black background/transparency for the notification pull down?
Loving the rom still, super smooth and fast, gonna stick with it.”

“Originally Posted by bugfix2k

Sweet! I used to run LeeDroid on my Desire but have been trying out Sense 3.5 ROMs for the DHD ever since I got it.
Will try this ROM for sure, always had a premium experience with LeeDroid ROM!
Once thing I'm wondering about is the build.prop. I see alot of duplicate lines in there, don't know if they make any difference or not but this once for instance (to enable to or disable he setup wizard at first boot) is present 4 times with different setting.
ro.setupwizard.mode=OPTIONAL
ro.setupwizard.mode=DISABLED
ro.setupwizard.mode=DISABLD (misspelled?)
All of those above are present in build.prop. Which one takes presedence... last one?
Also see lcd_density twice and alot of dalvik.vm options with conflicting settings.
Again... maybe all of these settings makes no difference, I'm just wondering why they're present multiple times.
Thanks for the ROM and your time Lee! ”

Seems like this is the only issue at the moment one of the users suggested to do a small patch update to fix those minor issue which should be out by tonight on Lee time zone. There are some users who are having some other problem but from the looks at it, most of it were due to corrupted download I assume. Then again I have not installed it yet because I WAS OUT THE WHOLE DAY!!!!

Anyway be flashing it once I am done copying all my backup back into my DHD sd card. I did a quick format on  my sd card, then going to use the full wipe script, next would be installing the new based then WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE LeeDroid V5 for my DHD

 

If you are on HTC Desire HD, feel like using a custom rom, but don’t know which is the best that suit your taste?

For my case I like it as simple as it can be so after reading all the custom rom available comparing their issue, problems, fault… and yes.. took me some days or weeks to finally decide, I picked LeeDroid.

Presenting LeeDrOiD HD - The Return of! (For now anyway )
S-Off & a Custom recovery required

Android 2.3.5 - GingerBread & Sense 3.0... No gimmick's, no bullshit..
Just a Sensational Android experience from a very experienced developer

With thanks to: ChainsDD l snq- l Scar45 | Baadnwz | damo | Team RC | m-deejay | klquicksall | Alpharevx & Unrevoked | rmk40 | SteelH | Breinholst | j4n87 | daniels7 | Prateek | Scabes & >>> ShowP-1984 - Damn this guy is good! <<<
Huge thanks to j4n87 & daniels7 for the cration of LeeDrOiD Tweaks

Official Support Links:
» Chat live now or join #LeeDrOiD-Roms on Freenode (irc.handhelds.org)

[ROM]LeeDrOiD HD V5.0.0 - 5th Feb | Tweaks | APM | Fast | Stable | Pure Awsomeness!

Blogger-droid

Testing this simple blogger client for my android phone, as it seems like I really need a composer to blog using my phone.

Seems like there is no problem uploading a picture, but I can't set where I want the picture to be on this post.

If you got an android phone and using a blog hosted on blogger you can try this app blogger-droid

I can even put a link on the word haha

Published with Blogger-droid v2.0.3

Leedroid kernel v 4.0.0

leedroid_hd_v4.0.0_cfs- 16th december

• fixed ubs detection
• added smarass v2 official governor (now default!)
• cpu freq code updates backported from 36.1
• cpu idle code updates backported from 36.1
• smartass & interactive governors from 36.3
• added clean cache
• sched: Rate-limit nohz
• sched - lower granularity
• bluetooth code from 3.0rc6 kernel (imoseyon)
• updated g-sensor driver from htc
• several config cleanups & code fixes
• updated tweaks scrip! Faster app loading times

More details on the forum thread itself: [ROM]LeeDrOiD HD V4.0.0 SE-3.0 [KERNEL]V4.0.0 16th Dec| HTC GB | OTA | CRT TV

I AM finally going to install LeeDoird version 4.0, currently still on version 3.3.3 as before the 4.0 was on beta version lol.. Anyway since the new kernel is out I am going to install it by tonight also.. and currently still doing a backup with Titanium Backup… then got to copy the backups to my lappy and then finally I can flash the new rom and kernel.. maybe be done in another 2 hours… die…

Pirated Android App Really Shameware - haha

“A pirated version of an Android app is actually a Trojan that "shames" someone who installs it by sending an SMS message to all his contacts telling them of his piracy.
The original app is called Walk and Text, and costs $2.10 in the Android Market. The app uses the camera on the back of a smartphone to show a user a visual of his upcoming surroundings, which will supposedly prevent the user from running into the street or across a set of train tracks.” Read more...

 

I guess soon you see antivirus for android from AVG, Norton, & many more. This is becoming more like Microsoft but only thing is… it don’t cost much as microsoft? hehe.

Xperia PLAY official video

 

Here is a brief clip about how the new Xperia Play will look and feel like.

 

Can I have the girl? lol

 

“The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play packs a 4" FWVGA (that's 480 x 854 pixels) display and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread (with a customized UI aimed at gaming).

As expected, the XPERIA Play has slide-out game controls and also a touch-sensitive areas. The CPU is a 1GHz Snapdragon. The Play packs a latest Adreno GPU, which will provide 60fps gameplay in 3D games.

The Play measures 119x62x16mm and weighs 175 grams. It features a 5MP camera and has an 8GB microSD card in the box.”  Read more on Gsmarena.com

So it looks like a gadget to have, but from all my Sony Ericsson experience. I would rather wait first before even buying 1 now from them. Just like majority Sony Ericsson user, the device always have either 1 out of the two problem which is Software or Hardware. The list of possibility which might cause problem are like the gaming joystick? Those Xperia 1 owners would know, I never open up my keyboard or use it before at all. It is much better to install a third party software for you to use the touchscreen and type the word you want.

As for the specs it does look fantastic like 1ghz with android? that is like running a Ubuntu or windows xp on one of those I7 Processor desktop pc. You feel so much difference from running windows vista and xp, that kind of feeling (if you are a i.t person you would understand what I am talking about).

For the price, someone said it is going to be around $200-$250 (saw this on the comment of gsmarena), so that be like MYR763+ which affordable maybe. Much better then the time I bought my phone which cost RM1,200.00 ap set. Anyway that is just someone commenting, the price may be higher then what I think. Well which company don’t want to make money? lol

Full Specification Click here

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play–Watch the video

 

 

 

How does this video relate to the new phone? I am not sure..

Additional Details:
See Sony Ericsson change the game. Tune in on Sunday and witness a new era in the world of smartphones, right here on Facebook:
USA: Sunday 13th February 10:00PST, 13:00EST
UK: Sunday 13th February 18:00GMT
Europe: Sunday 13th February 19:00CET
India: Sunday 13th February 23:30IST
Japan: Monday 14th February 03:00JST
Sydney: Monday 14th February 05:00EDT
Are you ready to PLAY?
Next Level tab: http://on.fb.me/senextlevel
Watch the advert on YouTube: http://bit.ly/gh8VBB

 

New phone, but can I afford it? or will it be affordable? Will someone sponsor me 1?  Please?

Android Exploits

Android is a mobile operating system, pretty much most of you guys are using phone with such operating system on it now days. People have been talking about how bad are micrcosoft product compare to open source software or operating system. But have they ever thought with open source market, people can create all kind of application free download.

“Android specialist Jon Oberheide demonstrated another hole which involved misusing the Account Manager to generate an authentication token for the Android Market and obtaining permission to install further apps from there. However, this initially requires a specially crafted app to be installed on the smartphone. Nothing could be easier: Oberheide released the allegedly harmless "Angry Birds Bonus Levels" app intothe Android Market and, upon installation, this app downloaded and installed three further apps ("Fake Toll Fraud", "Fake Contact Stealer" and "Fake Location Tracker") without requesting the user's permission.

The privileges of "Fake Tool Fraud" included the right to send premium SMS messages. Google has since removed all of Oberheide's apps from the Market. Back in June, Oberheide had already used an app to demonstrate an Android vulnerability. At the time, Google used the remote deletion feature, available on Android devices, for the first time. ”  Read more…

Android is beginning to face what Microsoft have been facing all this while. But so far I have not seen any bad critics yet then again sooner or later maybe yes.

 

Wikipedia:
Android (operating system)
Android is a mobile operating system initially developed by Android Inc., a firm purchased by Google in 2005.^[4] Android is based upon a modified version of the Linux kernel. It is a participant in the Open Handset Alliance.^[5] Unit sales for Android OS smartphones ranked first among all smartphone OS handsets sold in the U.S. in the second and third quarters of 2010,^[6][7][8] with a third quarter market share of 43.6%.^[9]

Android has a large community of developers writing application programs ("apps") that extend the functionality of the devices. There are currently over 100,000 apps available for Android.^[10][11] Android Market is the online app store run by Google, though apps can be downloaded from third party sites (except on AT&T, which disallows this). Developers write in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.^[12]

The unveiling of the Android distribution on 5 November 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 78 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.^[13][14] Google released most of the Android code under the Apache License, a free software and open source license.^[15]

The Android operating system software stack consists of Java applications running on a Java based object oriented application framework on top of Java core libraries running on a Dalvik virtual machine featuring JIT compilation. Libraries written in C include the surface manager, OpenCore^[16] media framework, SQLite relational database management system, OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics API, WebKit layout engine, SGL graphics engine, SSL, and Bionic libc. The Android operating system consists of 12 million lines of code including 3 million lines of XML, 2.8 million lines of C, 2.1 million lines of Java, and 1.75 million lines of C++.^[17]