Image source: RootzWiki

Super Amazing Elite Recognized Developer (not making up the title) birdman over at Rootzwiki has made life just a little sweeter for all of us GSM HTC One owners today. GSM variants of the HTC One have a working Android 4.4 build thanks to this awesome confectioner of AOSP.

Birdman built this using the 4.3 binaries from the Google Play Edition and has everything up and running except the IR blaster. Installation instructions are in the OP for the various devices with Sprint and Verizon support in the works. Links to the specific device threads are below.

AT&T HTC One

T-Mobile HTC One

International HTC One

From the Dev:

First. – KitKat 4.4 for the HTC One

Features: chocolate, built from source. 

Not working:

• IR sensor.

Instructions: 

1. Download it
2. USE THE LATEST RECOVERIES (CWM OR TWRP) the old ones are broken in 4.4
3. Flash it 
4. Scream “FIRST” and shove it in the faces of passerby’s*
5. leave some feedback, in a few days i’ll have my nexus 5 and then i more than likely wont be updating this, so get any bugs in now.

Credits: 

- the cm team and msm8960 htc teams (for keeping things legit)

- dhacker (for moral support and help with a few things like sensors and gps)

- code aurora forums (for being swell)

Got here and are confused and want this for your htc one?

visit the sister threads:

• tmobile - http://rootzwiki.com…th-43-binaries/
• international - http://rootzwiki.com…th-43-binaries/
• sprint – coming soon**
• verizon – coming soon**

*not responsible for repercussions of doing said act.

** cdma not promised working, but they should boot.

Source: RootzWiki

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JBQ quit AOSP yesterday over some legal issues with Qualcomm not allowing Google to release factory images for the Nexus 7 2013. It is sad indeed that JBQ had to quit because of this but the community has decided to show it’s love for Open Source and JBQ.

We now have a petition on change.org requesting Qualcomm to allow Google to release the factory images of Qualcomm devices to the AOSP. Please go ahead and sign the petition and spread the word peeps.

Source:-phandroid

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Google Edition Android 4.2.2 for the Droid DNA is now available for download and flashing. This is based on Google Edition ROM for the HTC One and surprisingly everything works. So if you want to play with stock 100% working Android 4.2.2 on your Droid DNA click here to the original thread on xda.

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AT&T has been getting notorious for locking bootloaders on it’s Android devices, LG Optimus G Pro was one of them but not for long. A while back the bootloader on the AT&T LG Optimus G was hacked, well we now an unofficial build of CyanogenMod 10.1 for the AT&T LG Optimus G Pro.

You need to have a lokified recovery installed on your LG Optimus G Pro, CWM can be found here and TWRP here. After that’s it’s a regular flash zip file in recovery followed by a wipe data/cache and you are good.

What doesn’t work:-

• Camera
• Bluetooth
• Some data issues

Download links and installation instructions can be found here.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 i9500 users have been waiting for this for a long time, it looks like their dreams will be fulfilled soon. CyanogenMod 10.2 just booted up on the i9500. We had done a small writeup on as to why the i9500 is not getting AOSP love but trust me we are as excited as you are with this news.

We all know Samsung makes it tough for developers by not releasing complete source code but you have some bad ass developers on Team CyanogenMod and yes they just did it. If you notice the version on the above picture is Android 4.3 so this is CyanogenMod 10.2 which just booted on the Galaxy S4 i9500. Let’s hope i9500 users get to play with CyanogenMod 10.2 and Android 4.3 soon.

Source:-twitter

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AT&T LG Optimus G users can now try Android AOSP 4.3 rom, the rom is built from source. The only known issue is that NFC does not work, other than that everything seems to be working. Just place the zip file in the internal memory of your phone, flash via recovery and do a wipe data/cache or a factory reset and reboot.

For download links head over to the original thread on xda.

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Seems like we’re getting closer and closer to the actual birth of the Motorola X. Rumors have it, the unveiling will be August 1st. We’ve reported the Specs and they’re nothing that’s going to knock your socks off (latest rumor has it at 4.7 inches with a removable battery) but rather packed with features that could knock your socks off. 

I’m not sure what to think of the Motorola X just yet. I know we’ll have one here at Android Fan Network and we’ll run it through the tests, but the  hardware specs kind of got me scratching my head.  Hopefully the all the new little features, gimicky or not, will make up for the hardware. Either way, its a Google phone and I for one can’t wait to get my paws on it.

Thanks to phonearena for the pic.  It is a sexy looking phone!  Even for Motorola.

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If you do not love custom AOSP Android ROMs like CyanogenMod and AOKP then please do not read ahead and if you do then you must read ahead.

Samsung launched the Galaxy S4 a few months ago and multiple versions of the phone were launched, most the variants of the Galaxy S4 have got custom AOSP ROM love except for the i9500. The Galaxy S4 i9500 runs Samsung’s home brewed Exynos 5 Octa core 5410 processor whereas all the other variants run the quad core Snapdragon 600 processor made by Qualcomm.

If you go over to xda developers all the Snapdragon based Galaxy S4 variants have custom AOSP ROM love inspite of locked bootloaders on the AT&T and Verizon variants, but if you go to the i9500 development section, it’s a ghost town. There are no custom AOSP ROMs available for the i9500 variant. The reason, as the Exynos Octa core is Samsung’s home brewed Samsung doesn’t seem to care about releasing the sources and even if they do the sources are not complete.

AOSP Custom ROM developers do rely on sources and Samsung ain’t releasing the sources, even if they are it’s not the sources are incomplete and developers have to spend days on trying to figure out how to make it work. If you have a look at Samsung’s git source for the Exynos 4, it was last updated on 12-12-2012. Samsung did release source for the Exynos 4 but it was not complete and developers spent 2 years trying to complete it and get fully working ROMs but eventually gave up. It was not worth wasting more time on trying to complete Samsung’s half released code. We need to keep in mind that custom ROM developers do this in there free time and it’s a hobby for them so it’s understandable for them to just do away with it at some point in time. Let me quote xda elite recognized developer Entropy512:-

We wasted more than two ****ing years on exynos4 to still wind up with a half-working mess that is only partially working – no one wants to waste their lives on exynos5. Meanwhile, TI and Qualcomm-based devices can go from new device to stable in a matter of months thanks to CAF.

With the Exynos 5 it’s even worse, there are sources as of now, but it’s not enough for the developers to even build a half working custom ROM for the Galaxy S4 i9500. Samsung does try to come across as a developer friendly manufacturer but the reality is they are not. And I quote Entropy512 again:-

We do not have more than enough code for it. We have no code whatsoever at the platform HAL level for 5410, not even the halfassed crap we had for exynos4.

Samsung is also known for not keeping the promises they made to the developer community, for them it’s all about selling the devices and then going back on their promises. Last year Samsung did say that Exynos will go open source but incomplete sources which do not build are of no use to the developers. Let me quote Entropy512 for one last time:-

Just another of a long list of promises that Samsung has failed to keep. Just like they were “working hard” on Superbrick for affected devices, only to throw a grenade in our faces with XWLPM by endangering the I9100 too (prior to XWLPM, all I9100 stock kernels were safe and would prevent anything from triggering Superbrick).

And they make these promises for marketing – for example, the Exynos4 source code promises were made just before the Note 2 was released – almost surely a marketing stunt to sell some more Note2 units to people who actually expected them to keep their promises.

In short: If Samsung ever makes a promise or tells you something is coming eventually, don’t believe them. They have a LONG established track record of not delivering.

I guess it’s clear the Samsung does not want to work with the developers like Sony does; they just want to sell more and more Galaxy devices. They clearly do not want to help the custom ROM community. Well it’s tit for tat Samsung.

Just to let you peeps know the Google Edition Samsung Galaxy S4 which will be running stock Android is powered by the Snapdragon which brings Galaxy S4 i9500 users back to square one.

Disclaimer

Please note we are not saying that custom AOSP ROMS will never come to the Samsung Galaxy S4 i9500 and neither did Entropy512.

Source:-xda

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The rumors have been put to rest, the HTC One “AOSP Edition” or “Nexus Experience” is real and it’s coming to the Google Play Store. The Nexus Experience HTC One is coming on June 26th. Mark the date boys and girls, it’s the same date as when the Nexus Experience Galaxy S4 will be available in the play store.

The Nexus Experience HTC One is priced at $599 as compared to $649 for the Nexus Experience Galaxy S4. Add to that fastboot oem unlock will unlock the bootloader on the Nexus Experience HTC One. It looks like the rumors of multiple Nexus devices earlier this year were true.

Source:-droid-life & htc

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The peeps over at Sony are really starting to impress me, less than a month ago they posted AOSP (stock Android sources) for the Xperia Z cell phone and they posted AOSP for the Xperia Z Tablet. They even went ahead and dropped some binaries and implemented sensors with open source code. Now that’s what I call supporting the development community.

For more details and links head over to the official Sony Blog. Oops, I forgot to mention, Xperia ZL is coming soon to AOSP as well. Hats Off to Sony for working with the development community.

Source:-xda

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