OS Update articles
October 30, 2012
Google was forced to cancel their ‘Playground is Open’ event in New York due to Hurricane Sandy but it doesn’t appear to have stopped them from making some major announcements on their blog regarding the Nexus 4, 7 and 10. As you’ve seen from our previous posts this morning the Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and [...]
October 29, 2012
Around a month ago we reported on the Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Telstra Samsung Galaxy S II 4G being delayed. Fast forward one month and Telstra have just made another announcement regarding the update – via a community forum post. It seems Samsung have once again delayed the OS update due to “requirement [...]
October 27, 2012
It appears that a few of HTC’s One X variants have started receiving the eagerly awaited Android Jelly Bean OTA update in Asia, as was announced by HTC North Asia General Manager Jack Tong yesterday. The update, weighing in around 350MB, brings Android 4.1.1 (still not the latest 4.1.2) and of course an update to [...]
October 25, 2012
Seems the Galaxy S3 update is ready, at least for the non-carrier bloated recipients anyway. We received a tip today that the unlocked international Galaxy S3 phones are receiving the Jellybean update and subsequently had confirmation from another user. Hopefully the roll out beginning on the unlocked versions will trigger the carriers to get a [...]
October 20, 2012
While the rollout of Ice Cream Sandwich continues for 2011 model Xperia devices it appears that that is where the journey will end for those phones, with Sony announcing via the Sony Mobile Blog the list of phones scheduled to receive an upgrade to Jelly Bean. The full list of devices that will receive the [...]
October 12, 2012
Just days after one of the longest-standing Android annoyances was fixed, Google have done it again, addressing an issue that had garnered over 1600 stars on the Android bug tracker. The folks over at Android Police appear to have gotten their hands on an unreleased version of Gmail from a system dump of the soon-to-be announced [...]
October 12, 2012
Yesterday saw the release of the Android 4.1.2 factory images for the Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus on to the Google Developers page, whilst technically you can flash the ‘takju’ build to a GSM Galaxy Nexus it is generally the build for the unlocked Galaxy Nexus sold through the devices section of the Play Store [...]
October 11, 2012
Cancel any plans you had for tonight, because if you’re anything like me, you’ll be spending the next few hours assigning photos to your whole contact list. That’s right, Google have finally addressed one of the biggest gripes that users have had with Android (1663 stars at the time of writing). For those not in [...]
October 11, 2012
With the release of Android 4.1.2 to AOSP there was a flurry of activity yesterday as the Nexus 7 started receiving OTA updates to 4.1.2. Google has also just released factory images for both the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 onto it’s Google Developers page. Whilst I’m sure an OTA update to 4.1.2 will be [...]
October 11, 2012
Yesterday, Android 4.1.2 was released for the Nexus 7 and the source code was merged into AOSP. It has taken the CyanogenMod team one day to update their custom ROM to the latest version. It begs the question that if a group of amateur enthusiasts can manage this, why does it take OEMs months, if [...]
October 10, 2012
Overnight, Google started rolling out Android 4.1.2 to the Nexus 7. The big feature that has people talking is the long-overdue addition of a landscape mode to the launcher. Other than that there’s the usual “bugfixes and performance enhancements”. A full dump of the GIT change log has been made available by @alsutton. Based on [...]
October 8, 2012
Virgin Mobile customers who have been waiting for the Android 4.0 update for their carrier-sold HTC Incredible S phones have been receiving some mixed signals. HTC originally promised the update for the Incredible S on its Android 4.0 Updates and FAQ page. For some time now, Virgin Mobile’s Ice Cream Sandwich Update Page has listed [...]
October 2, 2012
Asus has been busy over the past couple of weeks, both the TF300 and Transformer Prime(TF201) have been on the receiving end of a Jelly Bean update and now according to Dario one of our readers, the Asus Transformer Infinity(TF700) is now also on the receiving end of a Jelly Bean update which is being [...]
