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Android 4.0 SDK Out now

the ice cream sandwhich SDK is currently out on android sdk website. http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
anyone start toying with it yet?
if so how'd you like it?
discuss

I am on too slow of a connection to download and mess with it but just from reading the notes it looks like the press conference REALLY left a lot of important features unmentioned. Another thing I found odd was that there was zero mention of the "one OS to rule them all." I would have thought Google would make a bigger deal about this being a unifying version of the OS.

I just tried it and I must say it rocks.
I really like the browser
I just feel that they could have been a bit more creative with the home launcher since it kinda reminds me of adw, but other than that everything rocks

mathkid95 said:
I just tried it and I must say it rocks.
I really like the browser
I just feel that they could have been a bit more creative with the home launcher since it kinda reminds me of adw, but other than that everything rocks
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and what do you mean, you just tired it?? :ninja:

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mathkid95 said:
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he's taken one too many punches to the face during his career

Lol
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haha, I re-read what you wrote then realized I sounded like a complete moron.
so my previous statement will remain invalid.
how long do you estimate before we start seeing some work here in the forums?

Work on ics??
Prolly not for a while until someone gets a hold of a system dump or something
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SDK boring...
Can we just use the SDK directly in the phone? lol

Hehehehehe would require a lot of work
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Can't wait for the Matr1x kernel IF ICS comes to our phone.
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Lol ill definitely still support it even if I switch to the prime
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Awesome. Thanks as always mathkid.
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So, if someone could just port it to our phone

are you really worrying, if ICS will be available for the NS?! or did i miss something?
no worries, mates, as far as i have read the statements of google, ICS will definitely come for the NS! of course they have to bring it, i'd buy an f*ing iphone, if my not even 1 year old developer phone was no longer supported! (ok, it was a bluff, i'd never buy that brick, but i'd be really pissed! )
the last thing i read about it was, that they first of all work on the NS-rollout...though i don't think, that it will happen before the galaxy nexus is published...
Edit: "Google Android Chief Andy Rubin stated that Ice Cream Sandwich is on schedule to roll out “a couple of week after” the Galaxy Nexus arrives in the marketplace." -> that may take some time, maybe a christmas present?

treUse said:
So, if someone could just port it to our phone
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It has to come out for ANY phone before that can happen. Besides we will be the second phone to get it so i'm imagining we will have an official before there is ever a port, so just settle down :

Samsung Vs Android

Are you Pro Samsung, or are you Pro Android. I ask this question, because of Samsung's future plans with their Tizen OS. I'm sure everybody knows about this OS. But I'm not sure any of use fully understand what Samsung is going to be doing with it. And what it will mean for Android running on their devices in the future... I don't really see this OS being a threat to Android. But with Samsung's notable market share in the Android landscape, and uninformed consumers. Can it get a strong hold on some of Androids market share.
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No it won't android has been out for a while and fixed nearly every bug and tweaked it and made it faster and tastier I think it would be a while until Tizen could actually go head to head with android and ios.
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mhoss48 said:
No it won't android has been out for a while and fixed nearly every bug and tweaked it and made it faster and tastier I think it would be a while until Tizen could actually go head to head with android and ios.
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tizen is great guy and also ubuntu touch and firefox os based on html5
i think it will be future on mobile

vocoderism said:
tizen is great guy and also ubuntu touch and firefox os based on html5
i think it will be future on mobile
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As I said I would be sometime till this OS to be the first, and no doubt Samsung will take it to the top
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I'd love to have a phone with "easy" hardware, on which one could install Android, Tizen or Ubuntu at will, so one can try and choose the one wich fits better his own needs.

I'm not really interested in Tizen... I kind of wanted to see where people stand on the issue... Samsung has been the top Android OEM, but are we for Android, and just choose Samsung devices, or are we with Samsung, that just so happens to be using Android... And when the time comes, will we stick with one, or the other, Samsung with Tizen, or Android... I kind of also like to see what people think of Tizen... I'm not really sure what to think of the OS. I'll be staying with Android, I know that much...
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i dont think it will either

Android. Samsung is just good at hardware, but there are plenty of good alternatives.
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Aandrooiiiiid android *dang*dang*
Android for the win.
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kodiak211 said:
I'm not really interested in Tizen... I kind of wanted to see where people stand on the issue... Samsung has been the top Android OEM, but are we for Android, and just choose Samsung devices, or are we with Samsung, that just so happens to be using Android... And when the time comes, will we stick with one, or the other, Samsung with Tizen, or Android... I kind of also like to see what people think of Tizen... I'm not really sure what to think of the OS. I'll be staying with Android, I know that much...
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Thanked you because I just noticed you thanked every poster
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Android in general is great... Never owned a Samsung phone but they all have their ups and downs. Competition is nice
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Will stick with Android myself.
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More like an android fan than a samsung base.
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More afraid of Samsung staying with Android but going the way of Amazon. They want the money from the ecosystem. Wouldn't be surprised if in the future you have to pick a kindle phone, Samsung phone, or Google phone depending on where you want your content and apps to come from. Google Play subscriptions / apps? Amazon subscriptions / apps? Samsung subscriptions / apps? etc

That's why we have XDA
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Remember the viability of the OS is almost totally dependant on the catalog of apps. BlackBerry OS 7 & 10 were very functional and secure OS'es but lost their appeal in the market because of the lack of apps. The same could be said for Windows Phone 8 which is much easier to control on the corporate level than either iOS or Android. But IT groups are too scared to give out the phones due to app envy complaints. Tizen could be the second coming but if it doesn't have a catalogue of a 100k apps day one it won't go anywhere.
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android for the winnn

Anybody will see the UI of the os and games/apps for that particular os.
That's why so many love android currently.
I tooo
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Only prefer to android.
Can leave same for it.
But I guess samsung won't leave Android
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I love Android and i would not buy a samsung device with another os. Thats the reason i would never buy a nokia device.

Make a iPhone app please

I constantly find my self having to use an android phone just to properly read these forums. Please make an iPhone app, who's with me?
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You think Apple is going to approve that? They won't tolerate any mention of Android anywhere, period. Control freaks if you ask me.
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Shark_On_Land said:
I constantly find my self having to use an android phone just to properly read these forums. Please make an iPhone app, who's with me?
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I'm not sure if you're trolling or not...
You have a Nexus 5, so why not simply use that as it is 100 times better than any iPhone?
XDA is not a Crapple development site, so why would you want to read it on an iPhone?
TapaTalk is available on iOS so just use that if you really must use an iPhone.

SimonTS said:
I'm not sure if you're trolling or not...
You have a Nexus 5, so why not simply use that as it is 100 times better than any iPhone?
XDA is not a Crapple development site, so why would you want to read it on an iPhone?
TapaTalk is available on iOS so just use that if you really must use an iPhone.
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I need I message so I'm stuck with apple. I like reading about android development through
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Shark_On_Land said:
I need I message so I'm stuck with apple. I like reading about android development through
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As I said - look at TapaTalk!

REQUEST ..iMesaage hack

Anyone have a way for us rooted blokes to get an imessage hack? Many people I know have iPhone and it would rock if I could have that functionality. I know the old app mimicked an iPad mini for it to work any ideas ?
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no idea how that would work at imessage isn't an open source app and goes through apples servers to work which means it would need some kind of ID
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The previous app that was in the Google play and you can actually still search it basically spoofed the servers into thinking it was an iPad mini and. It worked
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I'll would be interested in seeing something like this as well.
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AndreaCristiano said:
The previous app that was in the Google play and you can actually still search it basically spoofed the servers into thinking it was an iPad mini and. It worked
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Did you actually use it or was that what you heard? This sounds like a really cool concept.
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There is an application out there for android that is supposed to do all that but you need an apple ID and password and it goes through some servers in China before going to apple so I'm not sure it would be worth it.
You can read about it here:
http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/9/24/4765240/imessage-chat-for-android-spoof-app

That app looks really, and I mean REALLY, sketch but it's a cool idea. Maybe someone on xda could try it out?

tommypacker said:
That app looks really, and I mean REALLY, sketch but it's a cool idea. Maybe someone on xda could try it out?
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this is exactly why i asked here to get something unsketchy

deadpedal said:
There is an application out there for android that is supposed to do all that but you need an apple ID and password and it goes through some servers in China before going to apple so I'm not sure it would be worth it.
You can read about it here:
http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/9/24/4765240/imessage-chat-for-android-spoof-app
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Looks unsafe ;p.
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Im sure apple will find a way to solve this.. theres no way they would allow this... after all, its money their are not getting and apple always wants more of it...
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Solution!
AndreaCristiano said:
Anyone have a way for us rooted blokes to get an imessage hack? Many people I know have iPhone and it would rock if I could have that functionality. I know the old app mimicked an iPad mini for it to work any ideas ?
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http://imessageonandroid.com/
Check this :victory:
It might help you :fingers-crossed:
Press thanks if it helped you :cyclops:

Bhupi7411 said:
http://imessageonandroid.com/
Check this :victory:
It might help you :fingers-crossed:
Press thanks if it helped you :cyclops:
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Has anyone tried this? It seems too good to be true.
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mvelasquez87 said:
Has anyone tried this? It seems too good to be true.
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Download link doesn't work?
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who's got the apk then? one from the verge article

meangreenie said:
who's got the apk then? one from the verge article
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Honestly, it would be irresponsible to share it. I remember when it was doing the rounds, and it did actually work but it sent every IM, sent AND received, to and from a server in China. The privacy concerns are obviously high, not just for the Android user but primarily for the unaware iOS user.
I don't think that kind of thing should be encouraged on XDA.

skttrbrain said:
Honestly, it would be irresponsible to share it. I remember when it was doing the rounds, and it did actually work but it sent every IM, sent AND received, to and from a server in China. The privacy concerns are obviously high, not just for the Android user but primarily for the unaware iOS user.
I don't think that kind of thing should be encouraged on XDA.
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Yeah, that app also had the ability to download apps in the background. There was a some saying that since it went through that server in China, it could have have the possibility to steal data from Apple IDs. Like credit card numbers. Its a shame, because it did work pretty good. Hopefully since Hangouts is on iOS now, maybe someday they'll be nice and bring iMessage to us.

Another solution would be to convert everyone to android so iMessgae would become irrelevant.
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This sucks how can we not get this figured
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The download apps in the background comment was a joke, but what's funny is its taken for truth so easily.
I very much doubt 'Fu Manchu' set this up to steal apple apps lol.
Don't matter to me which bunch of snoops read my ever so interesting messages, China USA whatever

Few really easy questions before buying Nexus 5.

Hello,
I intend on replacing my Galaxy Alpha SM-G850A with a Nexus 5 D820 because the SM-G850A cannot be rooted. They are both in similar price brackets but I had a few questions before buying the Nexus 5; answers weren't found when searching.
A) Is there a root method for all operating system variants INCLUDING Lollipop 5.1? Can you please provide documentation/links for me to read over.
B) Many say the camera is terrible. I don't care a whole lot about the camera but is there a thread or website somewhere demonstrating photos from the Nexus 5 that are not resized or tampered with and in various lighting conditions?
C) Are there any known hardware issues with the Nexus 5? Software issues won't matter so much as I will be using a custom ROM.
D) Would you recommend another phone smaller than 5.5" display and below $350 USD?
E) Anything else I should know?
Thank you to those that take the time to respond.

Camera is ok(depends on how you use it,i took better pictures than my gf who has iPhone 6).
Yes you can root it even on android M.
The end.

What destroys me just a little bit on the inside is you went out of your way to do a few things that are going to piss off the whole community.
1. You clearly did NOT search, it is 2015 this device is NOT new.
2. You wasted time creating a thread that can be answered by AGAIN searching google, or better yet; the NEXUS 5 forum here on XDA.
3. I wasted my time typing this, yet again to another person who doesn't understand how to read forum rules before accepting them.
But to humour you.
A - YES. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+to+root+nexus+5+android+5.1
B - POOP (sometimes)
C - it depends on the custom OS you will be using.
D - G3 maybe? G4 if used?
E - how to search and use XDA accordingly, google is your best friend.
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christopherrrg said:
What destroys me just a little bit on the inside is you went out of your way to do a few things that are going to piss off the whole community.
1. You clearly did NOT search, it is 2015 this device is NOT new.
2. You wasted time creating a thread that can be answered by AGAIN searching google, or better yet; the NEXUS 5 forum here on XDA.
3. I wasted my time typing this, yet again to another person who doesn't understand how to read forum rules before accepting them.
But to humour you.
A - YES. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+to+root+nexus+5+android+5.1
B - POOP (sometimes)
C - it depends on the custom OS you will be using.
D - G3 maybe? G4 if used?
E - how to search and use XDA accordingly, google is your best friend.
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Thanks you wasting your time
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jd1639 said:
Thanks you wasting your time
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I got bored
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Nexus 5 is almost 2 years old, don't bother

dicecuber said:
Nexus 5 is almost 2 years old, don't bother
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True
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The Nexus 5 has had it's time now. Find another phone or wait for this years Nexus.