Sunday 28 April 2013

Facebook Hijacks Android


Facebook Thursday addressed the mobile crisis that erupted when it went public 11 months ago and the two-year-old trend it's among its users who are increasingly tuning into its site from mobile devices rather than PCs.
It commandeered Google's Android operating system and overlaid its home screen with an integrated user interface that's supposed to feel like system software and make the Facebook experience and way of interacting with the device pre-eminent.
It's even got HTC, which has been brutally elbowed aside by the likes of Samsung, putting out a new Android phone called First that embeds the Facebook's new "Home" software.
It'll be available for $100 from AT&T on Friday April 12 with a two-year contract.
Evidently it was AT&T's idea to get HTC involved. But people won't have to buy a new phone to revel in the Facebook experience without resorting to the usual Facebook apps.
If they have one of the latest Samsung and HTC phones they can simply download the Home user interface from Google's Play store or wait for a prompt from an installed Facebook app.
Facebook means to add more models as well as tablets in time. And in time Facebook means to use the interface to display full-screen ads.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally lain to rest those rumors that Facebook was coming out with its own phone. Instead he did the next best thing. The Home widgetry will let Facebook users get their friends' notifications, updates and recommendations directly on the screen and it even includes a tool called "chat heads" for instant messaging no matter what apps are in use or chat from the home screen without opening an app. Users can talk to multiple people at the same time.
Facebook will be able track user behavior and if the scheme doesn't catch on, well, there's relatively little harm done. It got HTC to help with the modifications.
Because of the stricter controls over the iPhone, Windows Phone and BlackBerry Facebook won't be able to hijack their screens the way it has with the open source Android. The only way it could do that, Zuckerberg indicated, was in collaboration with those device makers and that ain't about to happen.
Although Home is not a fork, it's hard to imagine Google being any too pleased with this turn of events since Facebook will overshadow its Gmail and web search.
Facebook's got a lot of users with Android phones and can add any number of value-added services. The company reported 680 million active users of its mobile app last year, up 57% from 2011.
Ovum forecasts that social messaging cannibalization of SMS revenues will grow from $32.6 billion in 2013 to over $86 billion in 2020.
Starting April 12 Home can be downloaded for nothing to the HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 2. It will also work on the forthcoming HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. It's limited to the Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean versions of Android or version 4.0 and later. HTC's new First phone will be available in black, white, red and pale blue.

ANDROID IN A BREIF...!!!


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Friday 26 April 2013

SAMSUNG TO BEAT APPLE BY DOUBLE VICTORY


Samsung Trouncing Apple

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English: Samsung Logo Suomi: Samsungin logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Samsung is a formidable foe for Apple.
After all, Samsung’s latest financial report suggests that Apple is falling behind fast. Samsung — the world’s leader in computer memory chips, televisions, mobile handsets and LCD panels — took a huge chunk out of Apple’s hide in the first three months of 2013.
How so? According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung controlled about 33% of the global smartphone market in the first quarter to Apple’s roughly 18%. And while Samsung’s smartphone sales surged 56% to 69.4 million units, Apple shipments grew a mere 6.6% to 37.4 million units.
And Samsung is not giving up profit as it gulps Apple’s market. According to the New York Times, about 75% of Samsung’s profits came from “the division that makes smartphones, tablets, personal computers and cameras.”
And compared to Apple, Samsung’s revenues and profits are soaring. While Apple revenue rose 11%, Samsung’s sales spurted 17% to $47.6 billion. And as Apple’s net income fell 18%, Samsung enjoyed a 42% profit explosion to $6.5 billion.
What is behind Samsung’s massive success? It certainly doesn’t help that Apple is turning into a lumbering dinosaur — it has no plans to introduce any major new products until the fall of 2013. And if the iPhone 5 that it introduced last fall is any indication, that may not be much to get excited about.
Meanwhile, Samsung — that launched its positively-reviewed Galaxy S4 smartphone in South Korea on April 26 and will introduce it in the U.S on April 27 — has been “flooding [the smartphone market] with a range of models with a variety of screen sizes and prices and updating its versions faster than Apple ever has,” according to the Times.
Samsung management spurs an intense focus on winning. A Harvard Business School Case, Samsung Electronics, that I have been teaching for the last several years, reveals that Samsung’s former Chairman Kun-Hee Lee was fanatically devoted to product quality and getting ahead of its competitors.
In 1996, Lee was so frustrated with a batch of defective cell phones Samsung made that he visited the plant in Gumi, Korea and made all 2,000 employees wear headbands that said “Quality First.”
Lee then took its 2,000 employees to the courtyard where the plant’s entire $50 million inventory was stacked. A banner in the courtyard read “Quality is my Pride.” Next, Lee lit the inventory on fire and forced the employees to watch it burn.
The HBS case also highlights the dual advantage — high price and low cost — that Samsung enjoyed in semiconductors. Not only could Samsung charge a higher-than-industry-average price, but it could also make the chips at a cost that was well below that of competitors.
Samsung’s engineers worked on frontier products — chips designed to solve knotty technical problems that competing designers could not tackle. Not only that, but Samsung’s focus on quality and efficiency meant that its costs were lower than competitors’.
For a company that is so successful, its fear of complacency and healthy paranoia about competition mean that Samsung has the best of both worlds. It has the market outlook of a start-up trying to survive in a world of fierce competition. Yet it has the massive capital, technology, and human resources of a big company.
When it comes to retaking its mojo, Apple not only needs to deal with its internal weaknesses, it must also out-innovate a powerful competitor that is firing on all cylinders.

SUPERNEXUS ROM FOR SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 1 (GTN7000)


 [ROM][AOSP][JB][4.2.2][JDQ39] SuperNexus 2.0 - N7000 - BUILD 4 [03-04-13]


The main idea behind SuperNexus is to provide Vanilla Android experience, just like on Google's Nexus devices, to non-nexus devices. SuperNexus is entirely built from Google's AOSP Source. A lot of improvements and optimizations have been done to the Google's Source Code to have the best possible Vanilla Android Experience. SuperNexus is very light too as there are no 3rd party apps (ZERO Bloatware).

Big thanks to TeamHacksung (Donate To Them) as I'm using their Device Tree and SoC related patches in my SuperNexus ROM. Thanks to CyanogenMod Team (CM) andTeamKang (AOKP) as many features are cherry-picked from their source code.

System Details:
  • Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean (JDQ39 - Android-4.2.2_r1)
  • Latest CM Kernel
  • All Jelly Bean Features and Apps (Nothing excluded from AOSP)
  • No Visual Changes!
  • Stock Jelly Bean Look and Feel
  • This will turn your Samsung Galaxy Note into a Nexus 4 

ROM Features:
  • Fully Deodexed
  • Zipaligned APKs
  • Rooted (Super SU)
  • BusyBox Installed
  • No 3rd Party App
  • ZERO Bloatware
  • Android Source Code vastly improved and optimized (i.e. Bionic, Dalvik, Webkit, Framework, libcore, SQlite etc)
  • Official Jelly Bean Bootanimation (From Official Galaxy Nexus Android 4.2.1 Factory Image)
  • Init.d Support
  • Rsync Support
  • UserInit Support
  • Bash & Nano Support
  • Native SIP/VOIP Support
  • OpenSSH Support (ssh, sshd, scp, stfp)
  • HSPA+ Support
  • OpenVPN Support
  • Ad-Hoc Network Support
  • EXT4 File System Optimizations
  • Galaxy Note Device Settings As An App
  • Large APN & SPN List
  • Framework Features:
    -Extended Power Menu (Reboot, Recovery, Download & Screenshot Options)
    -Improved Scrolling Cache
    -Tweaked Animation Values Of Progress Spinners (Silky Smooth Loading Spinners)
    -Enabled Rotation Lock Tile in Quick Settings for Phones (Previously was only enabled on Tablets)
    -Increased Lockscreen Widget limit from 5 to 9
    -Enabled Copy/Paste in Gtalk
    -Options for switching between USB Mass Storage and MTP/PTP (On Specific Devices)
  • Camera Features:-
    -Burst Shot (Up to 20 Images at once)
    -ISO Mode
    -Touch Focus Duration
    -Power Shutter (Click Power Button To Capture Image/Video)
    -Color Effects
    -Shutter Timer
    -Zero-Shutter Lag (On Specific devices)
    -Control Zoom using Volume keys
    -Touch-to-focus timeout duration settings
    -Exposure and JPEG Quality settings in Video Mode
    -HDR (High-dynamic-range imaging)
  • Browser Features:-
    -Increased Maximum Tab limit from 16 to 64
    -Incognito Tab Option (When long pressed on an URL)
    -Option To Close All Tabs With One-Click
    -Allowed Any Type Of File To Be Downloaded
    -Enabled WebGL (Ultra smooth browsing)
    -HTML5 WebSockets
  • Phone Features:-
    -T9 Dialer Support
    -Landscape Dialer Support
    -Transparency To Incall Screen
    -Noise Suppression
  • Miscellaneous Features:
    -Allowed Installation Of Apps From Unknown Sources By Default
    -Allowed Any Type Of File To Be Sent/Received Via Bluetooth
    -Disabled Data Roaming By Default
    -Removed Google's Software Updates Option from Settings
    -Enabled Gesture Input By default
    -Hardware Information of the device (Settings>About Device>Hardware Information)

Officially Supported Devices:
Known Issues
  • Found one? Report it.

Screenshots: (From Galaxy S III)


Requirements:
  • Clockworkmod Recovery (CWM)

Note:
  • Philz kernel and recovery causes some kind of issues with AOSP ROM installations, please use CF-Root, Siyah, CM or Dorimanx kernel before flashing SuperNexus.


Instructions:
  • Copy Google Apps and SuperNexus ROM to your internal SD Card
  • Enter Recovery
  • Do a Wipe/Factory Reset (Necessary if coming from a different a ROM)
  • Flash SuperNexus ROM
  • Flash Google Apps
  • Reboot your device!
  • Voila! 

Downloads

Latest Build:
Google Apps:
Previous Builds:

Source Code:
  • SuperNexus Source @ Github (I'm willing to add support for other devices so if you are a developer and willing to add support for your device(s), PM me)
  • CM Kernel Source @ Github

Changelog:
Code:
SuperNexus 2.0 BUILD 4 (03-04-13):
  • Updated rest of the source code to Android-4.2.2_r1
  • Updated APN List
  • Updated SuperSU to v1.25
  • Added official device support for Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000)
  • Added official device support for Samsung Galaxy S III LTE (GT-I9305)
  • Added official device support for AT&T Samsung Galaxy S III (SGH-I747)
  • Added official device support for T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S III (SGH-T999)
  • I9100/I777/N7000/I9300/I9100G: Applied Bionic Optimizations
  • I9100/I777/N7000/I9300: Updated Mali drivers to r3p1-01rel1
  • I9100/I777/N7000/I9300: Fixed keyboard graphical glitches
  • I9100/I777/N7000/I9300: Fixed Daydream graphical glitches
  • I9100/I777/N7000/I9300: Merged Mali r3p1 driver from Note 8's Kernel source
  • I9100/I777/N7000/I9300: Enabled ROW I/O scheduler
  • I9100/I777/N7000: Updated proprietary files to Samsung JB
  • I9100/I777/N7000: Updated Camera HAL
  • I9100/I777/N7000: Applied Samsung's JB update to the kernel
  • I9100/I777/N7000: Fixed capacitive buttons backlight issue
  • I9100/I777/N7000: Fixed low headphone sound issue
  • I9100/I777/N7000: Enabled PegasusQ governor
  • I9100/I777/N7000: Added 3-step GPU DVFS control
  • I9100/I9300: Updated description/fingerprint in build prop to latest JB FW
  • I9100/I777: Updated RIL to LSJ
  • I9100G: Fixed touch input issues
  • N7000: Updated RIL and GPS Blobs from LSZ
  • I9300: Updated kernel to 3.0.64
  • I9300: Ported bcmdhd (WiFi) driver from QCom Samsung (D2) Kernel
  • I9300: Fixed Dock Audio
  • I9300: Fixed battery capacity in Power Profile
  • I9300: Fixed WiFi-Tethering
  • Framework: Lots of optimizations from AOSP's Master branch
  • Framework: Fixed few resource and memory leaks
  • Framework: Added Ad-Hoc Network Support
  • Framework: Added support for DCHSPAP
  • Settings: Added Chipset in Hardware Information
  • Camera: Added HDR (High-dynamic-range imaging)
  • Camera: Added Exposure and JPEG Quality settings in Video Mode
  • Webkit: Fixed memory leak when creating SkBitmapProcShader
  • Webkit: Implemented WebSockets
  • Bluedroid: Set default A2DP bitrate to high-quality
  • Vold: Added support for EXT4 media
SuperNexus 2.0 BUILD 3 (19-02-13):
  • Source code updated to Android-4.2.2_r1 (JDQ39) (Full Change log here)
  • Bionic: Tons of Optimizations and Improvements from AOSP's Master Branch
  • I9100G: Updated device tree and kernel from Samsung's JB Kernel Source
  • I9300: Added support for ZH Camera module
  • Minor other optimizations and improvements
SuperNexus 2.0 BUILD 2 (09-02-13):
  • Source code updated to Android-4.2.1_r1.2 (JOP40G)
  • Added official device support for Asus Nexus 7 (Grouper) & Asus Nexus 7 3G (Tilapia)
  • Added AOSP Sound Recorder (was previously disabled)
  • Added rsync support
  • Added OpenSSH support (ssh, sshd, scp, stfp)
  • Updated APN Configs and CDMA-APN Configs
  • Updated SuperSU app and binary to v1.04
  • I9300/I9100/I777/N7000: Patched Exynos vulnerability (No more Exynos Exploit!)
  • I9300/I9100/I777/N7000: Fixed Emergancy dialing
  • I9300: Patched kernel with sudden death fix from Samsung's kernel update 7 sources
  • I9300: Increased headphone volume
  • I9300: Enabled sysfs for vsync notification
  • I9300: Updated camera firmwares (both GD and ZD)
  • Camera: Fixed the settings panel freeze issue (was only present on HDPI devices)
  • Camera: Added 5 new additional ISO modes
  • Camera: Added touch-to-focus timeout duration settings
  • Camera: Added volume button zoom controls to camera and camcorder
  • Camera: Translations and minor fixes
  • Email: Added CRAM-MD5 support for SMTP
  • WebKit: Enabled WebGL
  • Webkit: Performance Enhancements & Optimizations (Browsing is ultra smooth)
  • Framework: Enabled Copy/Paste in Gtalk
  • Framework: Increased lockscreen widget limit from 5 to 9
  • Framework: Disabled touch while using stylus (for Galaxy Note series)
  • Framework: Disabled pointer icon by default and added option to enable (for Galaxy Note series)
  • Framework: Fixed issue with extended power menu
  • Framework: Added support for USB Mass Storage (on selected devices)
  • Framework: Code fixes and optimizations from AOSP's master branch
  • Bluetooth: Fixed bluetooth losing HF connection to car-kit after 5 seconds issue
  • Gallery: Removed "settings" item from menu (was useless on AOSP)
  • Gallery: Added "Select Album", "Make available offline" and "Refresh" options in menu
  • Settings: Minor fixes
  • Libcore: Performance improvements
  • Optimizations and minor fixes in source code from AOSP's master branch (for e.g. llvm, libpng, icu4c, jpeg, framework rs, etc)
SuperNexus 2.0 BUILD 1 (01-01-13):
  • Initial release
Credits:
  • Google
  • CyanogenMod Team
  • Teamhacksung
  • Codeworkx
  • Xplodwild
  • Nebkat
  • Espenfjo
  • Pawtip
  • Chainfire
  • Thanks to all those who donated or thanked.
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