A few days ago we reported that Sense 5.5 had leaked in all glory, we now have a multiple Sense 5.5 roms available for the HTC One. All these roms are based on a new firmware 3.57.401.500. Even though these roms are for the international HTC One I am pretty sure you can flash them on your T-Mobile and AT&T HTC One assuming you have a custom recovery installed. Below are the Sense 5.5 roms you can play with on your HTC One:-

• OrDroid
• MaximusHD
• Android Revolution HD

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XDA contributor, Civato, has uploaded his version of Android version 4.2.2 for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 (GT-N5110).  Here are some notes and descriptions from the developer, Civato, himself.

Note:
This rom is based on the Samsung 4.2.2 for the GT-N5110: JDQ39.N5110XXCMG2.
Take it as it is and don’t complain as this is free.
No requests.

This is a whole different firmware as 4.1.2 so some things I need to figure out to add like 4 way reboot.
Custom kernel (CivZ-StormBorn) will not work on this until Samsung releases new source.

Rom Features
Aroma installer
Stock kernel with init.d support and exFat support
Init.d Tweaks
Root SuperSU 1.41
BusyBox 1.21.0
Deodexed/zipaligned
New installed apps will be zipaligned on every reboot
SytemUI & Settings modded ( kb/s mod , Softkey modded)
12 different battery % mods (Go to settings/display/Battery Style) No reboot needed.
ViperFX support
CSC features unlocked like camera sound
custom bootanimation support
Soft touch key terminal command with miniapps feature
HardwareKey disable with terminal command
For NTFS use Stickmount

If you’re looking to get 4.2.2 on that Galaxy Note 8.0 and don’t have the patience to wait for Samsung, I suggest you take Civato’s 4.2.2 ROM for a spin. Remember to make a back up and do a lot of reading if you’re new to this stuff.

Hit the link to head on over to Civato’s thread on XDA.

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Screen shot from a GSM user getting a great data signal

XDA’s Recognized developer JoelZ9614 is at it again!  Keeping an older device (in Android Years) up to date.

If you ask me, which I know you are because I know everything, just ask my wife. The HTC Droid DNA will get the Sense 5 and Android version 4.2.2 update.  When will that be?  Who the hell knows with Verizon (guess I don’t know everything)!?  Them crafty little devils over at XDA won’t let Verizon stand in their way. They rarely do.

I’ve been keeping an eye on this port for the past couple days and this is what I know about it in a nutshell.  For now, this ROM will not work for Verizon (CDMA) users, but reception and data are working for GSM users.  Some GSM users that flashed the ROM have said they have absolutely zero issues with the ROM and claim it to be a daily driver, while others are saying they’re getting the occasional reboot and other minor bugs. If I were on GSM, I’d be all over this ROM! 

Screen shot from a GSM user getting a great data signal

My Droid DNA is currently running XDA Recognized Developer newtorrot’s HTC One rom port with Sense 5 and Android version 4.1.2 (quick glimpse can be found here)  for the past few weeks and I haven’t had a single bug or issue with it yet.  Ports can be daily drivers.

So, if you like tinkering and keeping the latest versions of Android and Sense, I’d head on over to XDA and get your flash on. If tinkering under the hood of your phone isn’t your thing, like I said, Sense 5 and 4.2.2 will make it to your Precious.  The HTC Butterfly (The Droid DNA’s twin brother) has gotten an update, but then again the Butterfly isn’t affiliated with Big Red.

JoelZ9614′s Xda thread with more info.

BTW. I’m not sure if JoelZ9614 is pulling our leg, but he claims to be 16. I was flashing this guys Roms back in the HTC Evo 3D days. That was 2 years ago and if my math is correct…. that would have made him 14 years old cranking out Roms for the 3D.

UPDATE!

Here is JoelZ9614 latest post in his Droid DNA thread –

“here we go =) seems to be no reboots removed perflock and htcpnpmgr thanks to zarboz’s suggestion, also running row io scheduler, now ill work on vzw”

Not sure if that means now “it will” work on Verizon or now “I will” work on Verizon. Keep an eye on this guy’s (or kid’s) thread because he is an absolute maniac when it comes to knowing his way around Android and creating masterpieces.

Thanks for everything JoelZ9614!

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Just tweeted by @Cyanogenmod – “HTC One X (endeavoru)  This device has graduated to 10.1 nightlies. Note the warning below.  Link“

As the article says, wait for the next nightly to drop or still use beta – 10 (Note – this is NOT for the AT&T One X).

Keep plugging away Team Cyanogenmod!  We all appreciate what you do for our older and newer phones.

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Here we have it folks!  This is something my daughter, Alyssa will be VERY excited about.  She got a Motorola Xoom for graduation last year and every time her and I are talking ROMS and her Xoom she always asks me if CyanogenMod is available for her Xoom.  She would have settled for CM7 (keep your Gingerbread flames to yourself :)….  she’s a CyanogenMod fan, just like Dad).

The XDA Developers that never sleep have brilliantly pulled together a CM9 ROM (Kang), that is as smooth as silk.  There is only one function they don’t have working yet, which is fine with me because of this mug my parents have dealt me.  That is the facial unlocking feature.  I was never a real fan of this feature since watching the official release of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus live on YouTube.  So…..  if this feature never gets built in I’m fine with that, although I know a lot of people are looking forward to it.

Now lets get to where and how you can get this ROM on your shiny Motorola Xoom.

Head on over to Team Rogues thread and be sure to hit that little thanks  button and more importantly hit that dontate button and buy them a red Bull to keep them ROM’s coming.

Includes:
+Source from CyanogenMod 9 (1/9/11)
+Full support for Camera, HDMI and Video acceleration (from the leaked 4.0.3 ROM)
+Rogue XM Kernel 2.0.1
+Disabled lockscreen rotation
+Allow apps to write to SD card (thanks kcrudup)
+Tweaked ICS boot animation (thanks Sardo Numspa)
Known issues:
-Face unlock does not work

Here’s the XDA thread for CM9

Well, have at it ladies and gents!  I’m off to find my daughter’s Xoom!

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We recieved an email from someone yesterday asking if there was any way to get MIUI on their phone with out rooting or flashing anything.  The answer is NO but…..  you can get it to look pretty darn close to MIUI with a launcher and a widget.  There are other apps you can pile on to make it look alot more like MIUI but these 2 are a good starting ground.
Here are some screen shots from my Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch 4G (mouthful there) using the MIUI.ADW.Launcher app and the MIUIDark Digital Weather widget from the Android Market.  No rooting or hacking nessesary and if you find you don’t like the whole IOS feel you can uninstall them and go back to your stock look.  These apps work with pretty much any Android phone or tablet.

As you can see the home screen and app drawer have an iPhone look to them.  This is not everyone’s cup of tea but the emailer is one of many that want to have the MIUI look and feel on their phone with out doing a little hackery.

Just a quick lesson on launchers on your phone and from the market.  If you have an HTC phone it comes with a “Sense” UI and launcher, Samsung generally has “Touch Wiz”, Motorolla has “Moto Blur” and so on.  When you install a custom launcher from the market like this MIUI ADW Launcher it just pretty much covers the launcher that comes stock on your phone and gives it a whole new feel and look.  Motorolla users generally don’t like Moto blur so they will put another launcher over it with Launcher Pro or like the launcher I’m writing about here.  It’s all preference!  Also in a lot of cases a launcher can actually make your phone smoother.  The head writer over at our sister site Root Your Droid’s main phone is a Motorolla Droid X2 and he feels that Launcher Pro makes his whole experience with that particular phone snappier and more customizable.  My main phone is the Samsung Galaxy S 2 and I personally can’t stand Touch Wiz so I use a launcher by the name of ADW EX (I’ll be doing a write up on both).

There’s also a lot of different customizations you can do with this launcher, screen preferences, drawer settings, general behavior, UI settings and a whole bunch more.

The weather clock that is in the screen shot of my home page is a widget  from the market called MIUI Dark Digital Weather Clock (and it’s free).  This widget IMo just gives it that final touch to give it a more of a MIUI ROM experience.

There you have it folks!  You can enjoy MIUI on your phone with out voiding your warranty by rooting or flashing anything.

One last thing before you go and grab this launcher.  When you first start the launcher it doesn’t have an app drawer button (ala iPhone).  Just long press your home screen and press “Launcher Actions” then press “Open/Close App Drawer”.  You can drag and drop it in your launcher bar and change it to any icon you want (long press the app drawer icon and edit it).

Thanks for the email!  I hope I answered your question

Links for these apps
MIUI ADW Launcher
MIUI Dark Digital Weather Clock widget

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It’s rare when a ROM is so popular, the number of thread views are almost equal to the total number of members on XDA. As is the case with the original Warm ROM TwoPointTwo. One of the most popular of all time for those toting the HTC Evo 4g.
Now those who have migrated to the HTC Evo 3D, you can once again get a taste what is arguably XDA Recognized Developer (and all around good guy) Myn’s greatest work thanks to the work of fellow XDA Recognized Developer JoelZ9614 and the rest of Team Warm.
The sexy, lightly themed and totally awesome ROM has received a bunch of upgrades from it’s last public release on an Evo device beginning with going from Froyo 2.2 to Gingerbread 2.3 and including:

Added GPU UI Acceleration (instead of CPU)
Added Additional Reboot options (Recovery, Bootloader, Hot Restart, Reboot) (NOTE: Hot Restart currently not working properly)
Added DSP Manager (Thanks cyanogen)
Added CRT TV shutdown animation
Added HW Acceleration Tweak To Adreno_config
Added SMS Backup/Restore
Added Tweak to increase sdcard read ahead buffer (Thanks Misfit)
Added 3D Home Screen (Toggable in Settings | Warm Tweaks)
Added Native Screenshot Functionality (Press Home + Power at the same time)
Added Zeus Mods [kinda] Quick Settings
Changed WiFi Scan Interval To 180 seconds to further conserve battery
Added Tweak to persist home app in memory
Added various battery tweaks

So for those who want the good old feel and look of the original Warm ROM, you can head on over to the original thread for download links, installation instructions, a full change log and all the Warm goodness those from the HTC Evo 4g remember.
Thanks XDA!

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Motorola Droid Bionic, Droid RAZR & Atrix 2 Fastboot files now available – Bring your device back to life from a soft brick

If you like to tinker around with your device then chances are you’ve suffered a soft brick or two in your life, then spent some time looking in XDA or hitting up Google and eventually finding some magical files to help restore your device back to normal.
Those wonderful little files are the Fastboot recoevery files and they are great to have kicking around just in case things go awry, and while they’re often hard to find — some fine folks have now shared them for a multitude of Motorola devices.
The Droid Bionic, Droid Razr and Atrix 2 files are now all available for download, In addition to saving your behind from a softbrick, developers can make great use of these files as well so, you’ll want to keep your eyes peeled for some new happenings when it comes to development for these devices.

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Build your own CyanogenMod ROM

If you’re a Cyanogenmod fan and want to learn how to go about building your own ROM, then you may want to take a look at the Cyanogenmod compiler.  From what it looks like this may be the easiest way to compile and build your own CM rom to date…. I know what I’ll be doing all weekend (sorry Megan and the kids).  Once you set up your computer (the instructions even cover that part), you can download a set of scripts that do all the hard work for you.  When it’s all said and done, you’ll have a nice little package you can flash via recovery, and have your own home-brewed CyanogenMod.

This may be the longest and hardest way to go about getting the latest CM build on your phone but may be the most fun.  This is the closest thing to a “one click” ROM builder that I’ve ever seen (and I’m ALL about one click anything)…..  I could also see a few people getting their phones in trouble due to this nifty new tool.  With that all being said here are the step by step directions by lithid over at XDA.  NICE JOB lithid!

 Yesterday, 06:45 PM

[CMC] Cyanogenmod Compiler [Alpha] [Dec 28 2011]

Cyanogenmod Compiler (CMC)
Build cyanogenmod with a cli interface.

Note to users: This is simple enough. Using bash, I created a cli interface to control and manage your repo, add/remove a few things, and compile cm. I am only able to test this with my phone. So I am putting this out here for others to test with as well. It is not fully optimized, code is being actively worked on daily. There most certainly will be bugs, but I have been trying to find as many as I can by myself. Looking for some help from the community for feedback and support.

If you are wondering how you can use this software its easy. You can clone my repo for now. and run the CMCompiler script:

git clone https://github.com/lithid/CMC.git
cd CMC
./CMCompiler

Features:
- Check for repo installation on startup / or create a repo
- Add and remove devices quickly and easily.
- Remove all non english languages.
- Remove live wallpapers
- Remove cm wallpapers
- Check if adb is running or not.
- Update the repo
- Compile cyanogenmod
- Built in color themes. > http://goo.gl/cED8t
- Plugin support. (More information on this to come)
- local config file for saving settings or manually editing them.
- Odex plugin built into the package. This will take your connected cyanogemod installed phone and odex the rom on the phone.

Known Issues:
- There is nothing under the menu option 99. This is a placeholder for information about me and the compiler. If you select it it will just exit you out of the script.
- There is no checking for installed software. You will need to install the needed packages on your own to compile. Check post 2 for needed software.
- I have only tested this with ubuntu 11.04.
- Removing the CM wallpapers from the build only works with gingerbread for now. Everything else is working as expected for me.
- I don’t check for open ports on your network, so there might be issues connecting to the repos and syncing. I have not built error checking for that.

Features to come:
- Check for installed tools and tell you which are still needed
- Installer/Remover
- Updated information about CMC and plugin support.
- Pure AOSP via plugin
- Adb installer
- Better error checking support.
- Check for errors during compile and point to places to fix.
- Edit the name of your kanged rom!
- I will also take requests!

Please any issue that should arise, I apologize in advanced. Please let me know with as much detail as possible to replicate the issue and I will resolve it.

You can follow me on google+ I tend to talk about it a bit on there as well.

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git-core gnupg flex bison gperf libsdl1.2-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev squashfs-tools build-essential zip curl libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev sun-java6-jdk pngcrush schedtool

64 bit:

g++-multilib lib32z1-dev lib32ncurses5-dev lib32readline5-dev gcc-4.3-multilib g++-4.3-multilib

If you are on ubuntu 11.04 or higher please keep this in mind:

Originally Posted by Novek   lib32readline5-dev has been replaced by lib32readline-gplv2-dev on 11.10
And “gcc-4.3-multilib g++-4.3-multilib” aren’t used from 11.04 and up – not needed.

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