Cheat at Almost any Android Game with GameCIH

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Cheat at Almost any Android Game with GameCIH

 

GameCIH Android Cheating App

Almost every gamer out there has cheated at least once with a game to acquire infinite wealth or God like stats. With GameCIH you can easily cheat at most Android Games. GameCIH requires you to have at least one hard button to run the app over the game you would like to cheat. For Android there aren’t many other options for cheating on Android devices but this is a great app for the first of its kind on the Android OS.

GameCIH is a gaming cheat, hack, crack engine that lets users change in game stats in many games. The process is easy and only requires pushing a few buttons while in the game. The app does require root access so that is the only restriction for some users. Although if your a cheater we would assume you’ve already rooted your device to cheat that system as well :).

This app was posted by XDA Senior member b02 and is free to all. If your interested in trying the app out on your favorite game you can get the older free version from the Android Market or the newer one from the developers homepage.

How to Remove Notification Push Ads on Android

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How to Remove Notification Push Ads on Android

Lookout Mobile Push Ad Detector

Lookout Mobile has proven itself top dog when it comes to detecting and blocking ad-ware and virus infested apps, now they have released Push Ad Detector. Push Ad Detector identifies applications that push spam ads that have started to become popular on Android devices. Push Ad Detector will then allow you to opt out of these ads instead of being forced to receive them.

Notification ads are one of the most annoying Android spams and are becoming more popular with companies and developers. Now that AirPush is no longer the only company pushing out these OTA ads it makes it harder to control them and thats where Lookout has taken control. Not only can you now opt out of these ads but you can identify the apps that are causing them.

How Push Ad Detector works is it scans apps currently installed on your device and searches for known ad networks that advertise outside of the app. The app will then return a list of these apps and gives an option to opt out of them. Currently the list of known notification ad spammers are AirPush, Appenda, LeadBolt, Moolah, Startapp, and Tapit.

Just like website popups this type of advertising is accepted as legit although to most users is no different than any other form of spam. We are glad to see Lookout keeping users in mind with yet another great product.

Mobile ODIN Updated to Version 2.0

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Mobile ODIN is an app that is an on-device ODIN utility that allows you to flash firmware directly from the device. This removes having to connect your device to a computer to flash firmwares although bootloader partitions and EFS aren’t flashed via the app since its on the device.

Mobile ODIN is now at version 2.0 which has added support to many more devices and updated kernels for previously supported devices. The lite version can be found at XDA, and the pro version can be found on the Android Market.  This being said the lite version is functional enough for the average user to easily use.

New Devices added to Mobile ODIN 2.0:

  • Samsung/Google Galaxy Nexus, GSM and CDMA/LTE variants
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7″, 3G and Wi-Fi variants
  • Samsung Galaxy 5, eight different models

Devices that have been updated in version 2.0:

  • Samsung Galaxy S
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab 7″ (the original 7″ tab)
  • Samsung Galaxy S2 (2 models)
  • Samsung Galaxy Note (2 models)

As we see new devices and updated devices within Odin we will let everyone know.  Most people prefer apps other than odin like ROM manager but for those loyal to Odin this update should prove useful even for devices that you already use it for after the updates.  If you use the app and have found any issues please let us know.  Also those of you that have additional questions about the app we would be interested in trying to answer those as well.

Bluetooth System-On-Chip’s to Reduce Battery Consumption 33 Percent

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Bluetooth System-On-Chip’s to Reduce Battery Consumption 33 Percent

Texas Instruments Bluetooth SoC Saves Battery

Bluetooth is one of the greatest features ever added to electronic devices but comes with the cost of very high battery consumption. Texas Instrument’s has started development of a new Bluetooth system-on-chip (CC2541) which promises a 33 percent reduction in battery usage.

TI’s says this is done without changing the configuration of their previous CC2540 SoC Bluetooth chip. What this means it that those using the old chip can still take advantage of the new technology without having to switch to a new chip design.

TI states that this new chip will be pushed for home automation to fitness equipment. Check out the official press release below:

TI’s new Bluetooth low energy system-on-chip increases battery life with 33 percent reduction in power consumption

CC2541 aimed at Bluetooth Smart applications for consumer medical, sports and fitness, security, entertainment and home automation

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN), the industry leader in highly integrated wireless connectivity solutions, today announced its new CC2541 Bluetooth® low energy system-on-chip (SoC), aimed at Bluetooth Smart sensor applications for consumer medical, sports and fitness, security, entertainment and home automation. The SoC offers a 33 percent reduction in power consumption compared to TI’s previous-generation CC2540 SoC when transmitting at 1 milliwatt output power, while maintaining robust RF performance. The CC2541 is pin-to-pin compatible with the CC2540, which allows manufacturers to take advantage of the power savings through an easy migration of existing designs. An associated CC2541EMK development kit will also be available to further simplify and reduce design time for new Bluetooth Smart devices. For more information, visit: www.ti.com/product/cc2541.

“We’re excited to see the advancements in the Bluetooth low energy space with Bluetooth Smart and Smart Ready devices already available and several about to hit the market,” said Sid Shaw, product marketing manager, low-power RF, TI. “With the CC2541 SoC TI continues its commitment to offer low-power and easily-deployable Bluetooth low energy solutions to manufacturers. Our new CC2541 SoC adds to TI’s full system-solution, aimed at simplifying design and shrinking development time for Bluetooth Smart sensor applications.”

“Bluetooth 4.0 technology is expanding into new markets as innovative use cases and products become available,” said Michael Foley, Ph.D., executive director, Bluetooth SIG. “We are pleased to see TI enabling longer battery life with the CC2541 SoC to further fuel interest in Bluetooth 4.0 technology and the growth of Bluetooth Smart and Smart Ready devices.”

TI’s new Bluetooth low energy solution will be demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week (Jan. 10-13). In its meeting space (N116, Las Vegas Convention Center North Hall), TI will also give a sneak-peek of its upcoming CC2541DK-SENSOR development kit for Android- and iOS-based smartphone applications. The kit opens up the world of Bluetooth low energy-based sensors to smartphone application developers because it requires no RF hardware knowledge or embedded software programming on the sensor-application side. The six sensors included in the kit enable applications such as tag trackers, thermostats, weather stations, theft alarms, remote controls and others that can be controlled by a consumer’s smartphone. The kit will be available for purchase in early 2Q 2012. Stay tuned for more on www.ti.com/bluetoothlowenergy.

Fix Android Market “Package File is Invalid”

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If your getting the annoying “Package File is Invalid” when trying to install or update applications in the Google Android Market don’t worry it can be easily fixed. This also works with a few other errors that you might notice “No download at all” and “Download Unsuccessful”. This error comes from either your Market App’s cache memory being full or lack of space on your device for the download.

Fix the Google Android Market (“Package File is Invalid”):

  1. Make sure Android Automatic Restore is turned off (Settings -> Privacy)
  2. Go to “Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications
  3. Tap to show “All” Applications
  4. Scroll down to the Market App and tap it
  5. Tap “Clear Cache” and “Clear Data”
  6. Click “Uninstall Updates”
  7. Exit everything and reboot your device
  8. Your Error should now be fixed

NOTE: If you still have the “Package File is Invalid” error after the above steps were completed then follow the same instructions above with the Download Manager.

NOTE: If you are still at this point experiencing the error then you may need to check your internal storage and be sure its not full. As a last resort restore your phone to a stock ROM by doing a factory reset.

Hope this fixes everyones phones. Either way please let us know if you have any questions and results from the steps above. We have had this issue before and fixed it using these steps so it has been confirmed.

DropBox Beta Offers 5GB Additional Free Storage

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DropBox Beta Offers 5GB Additional Free Storage

Dropbox Beta automatic uploading

Dropbox has announced their beta release for their Android file sharing app. The new feature that everyone should check out is the automatic file upload feature. The automatic upload feature like Google+ will upload your images automatically so that you have a backup in the event your phone gets damaged or like us your always flashing new firmware and just don’t want to have to worry about backing up your images.

Dropbox wants to give an incentive to users that try out the new feature by giving them up to 5GB of free storage to try it out. How it works is you will need to turn on automatic uploading and get the first 500MB of free storage. After you automatically upload 500MB of storage you will be given an additional 500MB until you reach the additional 5GB.

Not only has the automatic uploading feature been added but they now increased the upload file size from 180MB to no limit at all (this is our favorite addition). There have also been some additional bug fixes and the ability to resume uploads without starting the upload over.

Get DropBox here. | Get the Dropbox Beta APK here.

How to Root the Samsung Galaxy Note on Gingerbread

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Samsung Galaxy Note Root Instructions

Root access for the Samsung Galaxy Note running Android 2.3.5 – 2.3.6 has been achieved before even available in the US. This root method along with others like it come to us thanks to XDA member dr.kretan. Those of you that have been waiting for an easy way to root the Galaxy Note this is it. Be sure to backup anything you don’t want to lose before you root the device in case you need to reset your phone.

Root Instructions for the Samsung Galaxy Note:

  1. Download and extract DooMLorD Rooting Toolkit (Download Link)
  2. Enable USB debugging on your Galaxy Note “Settings -> Applications -> Development”
  3. Connect your Galaxy Note to your PC via USB
  4. Set your phone to “Charge Only Mode” (notification bar)
  5. Open your DooMLorD Root Toolkit folder and run runme.bat
  6. Follow the on screen instructions
  7. Congrats your Samsung Galaxy Note is Rooted!

As always we aren’t responsible for the use of these instructions but please feel free to let us know if you run into any issues or need help at all.

Samsung Galaxy Note Recovery Source Files (SGH-I717)

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Samsung has been pretty good about getting the source files out to users/developers to easily make changes and/or recover their devices. We will likely see many new ROM’s and improvements as well from the release of the source files. Samsung announced the source files for the Samsung Galaxy Note for the following models:

Samsung Galaxy Note Source Files:
SGH-I717D_TLS – (Download Page)
SGH-I717M_BMC – (Download Page)
SGH-I717R_RWC – (Download Page)

Use these files how you wish and please let us know what your doing with them if anything other than recovery.  You should also keep in mind that many developers can use these source files to improve apps and even create apps that integrate better into the device.  This is why we all love Android, the fact that you get source files and make improvements all the time.

Google may be behind Android but the community and open source nature is the reason for its incredible growth and stability.  We will see Android continuing to improve much faster than other mobile operating systems for the shear reason that development is not done by just one large company but by a community of tens of thousands.

CyanogenMod 9 Available on the Samsung Epic 4G

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The Epic 4G was left out when CyanogenMod 7 was pushing out stable releases for devices but is now supported with CM9 Alpha 0. CyanogenMod 9 is the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ROM developed by the most popular ROM developer for Android there is. This ROM also allows those using the Samsung Epic 4G to have a system that doesn’t have to deal with TouchWiz at all.

What doesn’t work on the Samsung Epic 4G CM9 Build:

  • 4G wimax toggle missing from curtain (Waiting for upstream changes), use 4G toggle widget for now.
  • Camera crashes when you change picture size.
  • Video recording sometimes shows artifacts.
  • Manual dialing causes Contacts to get stuck. Force kill it once and it seems to work after.
  • Scrolling is broken in CWM v.5.5.0.4, so if you have too many folders/files you wont see which file is selected past the bottom of the screen. Until this is fixed, you might find it easier to create a folder named /sdcard/000FLASH and put stuff you want to flash in there.

If you don’t mind what isn’t working being on the build then head on over to CyanogenMod and download the current stable ROM for the Epic 4G. None of the broken pieces above really effect normal phone functionality so go ahead and give it a shot. As always let us know if you install it and what you think about it.

Flash the Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) Back to Stock ROM

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Flash the Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) Back to Stock ROM

Samsung Galaxy S2

If you have managed to mess up your Samsung Galaxy S2 already then have no fear there is a way to get it back on the stock firmware. There are many different methods available to get your high end Galaxy S2 back to working condition but this one is courtesy of Intratech over at XDA and provides kernels for for different regions.

Make sure that you don’t have Samsung Keis running in the background before completing the instructions below.

Instructions to Flash the Samsung Galaxy S2 back to Stock:

  1. Download ODIN and extract it to your PC (Download Link)
  2. Download the correct Firmware from XDA (Source Link)
  3. Extract the Firmware on your PC somewhere you can find it
  4. Download and Install Samsung Keis
  5. Make sure you have the correct drivers for your device installed
  6. Reboot your computer after installing Keis
  7. Put the Galaxy SII in USB debugging mode (Settings -> Applications -> Development)
  8. Reboot your Galaxy S2 into Download Mode (hold vol down + home + power)
  9. Press volume up at the warning to continue
  10. Start Odin
  11. Connect the Galaxy s2 to your PC via USB
  12. ODIN will show the device connected after a few seconds
  13. Make sure only “Auto Reboot” and F. Reset Time” are checked
  14. Press the “PDA” button and select the firmware you downloaded earlier
  15. Press “Start” and wait for your Galaxy S2 to reboot
  16. Congrats you are now on the stock Samsung Galaxy S2 ROM

If you have any issues please feel free to post them here. Also if you notice anything that should be mentioned here outside of the current instructions bring it to our attention and we will be sure to add it.

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