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A Take A Look Of What's Inside The Google Pixel 10, Camera, Battery, Display, and Main Board Assembly

Let's take a look the whole assembly inside the Google Pixel 10 as IFixit once again showed us the step by step teardown guide. You'll be surprised of how the layout of the main board, battery and camera being neatly stack. It begins with dismounting the battery assembly, down to the camera, then the main board, down to the screen display. Disassembling the Google Pixel 10 only need an anti-clamp a few picks, and a screw driver, making any future repair effortless. . Why do we need a teardown guide? We'll here's how IFixit answers: The Pixel 10 is powered by Google’s smartest chip yet, it’s packed with AI that can translate calls in real time, coach your photography, and even write emails for you. But here’s the thing: no AI feature in the world is going to help when your battery dies. That’s where we come in, so let’s open it up and see how repair-friendly this “AI-first” phone really is. Chapters 00:00 Intro to the Pixel 10 Teardown 00:20 Heatless back panel re...

Manually Upgrade Galaxy S3 I747 (AT&T) to Official Android 4.3 I747UCUEMJB OTA Update

For those who have a rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 (SGH-I747) from AT&T and basically having issues updating to the official Android 4.3 Jelly Bean that has been rolled out and comes with firmware build number I747UCUEMJB via OTA and or Kies, then this method is just created for you. Below is the original stock OTA update MJB that can be flashed through stock recovery and by installing thhis stock firmware this will restore your Galaxy S3 I747 to official AT&T firmware and will also upgrade to 4.3. Warning: This will update your bootloader, so proceed at your own risk!!! The update will also wipe all your data! If your Galaxy S3 is currently runs on 4.1.2 I747UCDMG2 (no root or rooted) 1) Download the Stock OTA Update 4.3 I747UCUEMJB from here: I747UCUEMJB Download -  http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23212708291680243 2) Copy it to your external SD card. 3) Reboot recovery, then navigate down and choose "install update from SD card". Press and hold Volume Up,...

Nexus 5 4.4 KitKat Achieve Root with Chainfire's CF Auto-Root

Those who have bought the brand new Nexus 5, well of-course maybe some of you might have been wondering if your new Nexus 5 that runs on latest Android 4.4 KitKat can acquire root access. Well, as soon as the nexus 5 landed into the hands of developers, the first thing they always do is by checking the system binary of the device and so happened to XDA elite and the world famous guy Chinfire who developed the SuperSU destined  for only one purposed to root Android devices. So guess what happens now? Yup, your are absolutely correct! The Nexus 5 can now be rooted by using Chainfires'  CF-AUTO Root method. The Nexus 5 CF-Auto Root process will worked on Windows, Linux and Mac computers as usually known before where a rooting procedure only requires a device booted in fastboot mode and just run some simple script and you will ended-up a rooted device in no time. So are you ready for that rooting thing into your new Nexus 5, just head-over to the below source. Source: XDA-...

Install CM10.2 M1 Nightly Build Update Base from Android 4.3 on Galaxy S2/S3/S4/Note2 and more

For those who been using the Cyanogenmod ROM on their device can now get an update to CM10.2 M1 nightly build. The CM10.2 is now based from Android 4.3 Jelly Bean AOSP (Android Open Source Project). It CyanogenMod 10.2 (Android 4.3) has been rolled-out for around 70 supported devices, including the Samsung Galaxy S2, Galaxy S3, Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 2, HTC One, HTC One X, Sony, LG and other Android devices. The CyanogenMod team says that are still into working with the CM10.2 code branch as the folks are now working in parallel with Android 4.4 KitKat but they never haven't mentioned anything yet of what among of those devices can get the 4.4 build release. As we mentioned, we will continue to work on the 10.2 code branch, in parallel to all of our Android 4.4 efforts. For those that will inevitably ask, we have not made any decisions with respect to what devices will make the leap to the KitKat code base and likely won’t have that information for a few weeks. In th...

Samsung Galaxy S4 Android 4.3 Upgrade Arrived in U.S. and European Countries

For those who owned the Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE version (GT-I9505) in European countries, you should keep an eye for your official Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) update that has now started arriving. Samsung has officially began rolling out the Android 4.3 in select countries and the first update took place in Germany which posed the build version numbers of  (I9505XXUEMJ5) and then recently followed in UK, Spain, France, Ireland, Czech Republic, Baltic States and certainly the rest of Europe countries will also seen this 4.3 update coming with build version numbers (I9505XXUEMJ7) . In the United States, the 4.3 update was first rolled out for Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 (SCH-I545) and comes in firmware build numbers (I545VRUEMJ7) . Then followed by Sprint Samsung Galaxy S4 (SPH-L720) with their own Android 4.3 firmware build numbers (L720VPUEMJA) . The rest of U.S carriers, including T-Mobile and AT&T Galaxy S4 variants, has not yet available for now. But instead AT&T 's Galaxy S...

LG Nexus 5 has Launched and Powered with Latest Android 4.4 KitKat

After few months longing for rumors and speculations derived from leaked documents, the shed of light has come to an end about the true identity of the LG Nexus 5. Today, the LG Nexus 5 has officially launched and now can be seen in the Play Store and equipped with full detailed hardware specs, and that's includes the priced-tag of-course. The LG Nexus 5 is now leading as the top of the line among all other Android smartphones in the market, for it also brings the latest Android 4.4 KitKat OS that is first to introduced among all Android fans worldwide. The LG Nexus 5 is equipped with 2.3GHz quad-core (Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU and 2GB of RAM memory, a 5-inches screen display that brings the 1080p display resolution. The camera has 8-megapixel and first of it's kind that also equipped with optical image stabilization. The availability comes in two storage capacity of 16GB and 32GB packages and also comes in two colors - the black and white. The LG nexus 5 will also shipp...