Saturday, January 31, 2015

Sleep Of Death (SOD) problem in Android



Android, the very famous mobile OS which runs in millions of devices has seen a tremendous growth in recent years. Every 7 out of 10 people I know use smart phone which is powered by android.

Android is so easy to use that people easily adapt to it. With the latest version lollipop, android has seen a huge growth. Companies like Samsung, HTC and many more depend hugely on android for their market growth.

I should say there is not much need for providing a skin over android to sell a device. I am not a great fan of Samsung touchwiz or HTC Sense. Stock android is cool and has the benefit of faster update to latest version.

That being said, let me share few pointers where people get upset with android. Android being a huge project and we see lot of developmental changes, bugs are common and with regular software updates it can be resolved too. I am talking about certain bugs which android didn't provide any fix as such and the people who got affected by it are still furious with Google for ignoring such cases

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

First hand experience with Cyanogenmod 11 (M10) - part 2


After using cyanogenmod for a week time, I should give thumbs up to the team for giving such a good upgrade over android.

They have made sure that the pure essence of stock android is not disturbed and at the same time added tons of customization. It's almost near stock android experience.

Let's get back to the topic, I will highlight a few other features which i feel are interesting with cyanogenmod

Friday, January 16, 2015

Which phone to buy??

Which phone to buy?? does it sound like the common question that you hear from your friends, family circle frequently?

With the advancement we saw in mobile technology, the decision is getting tougher everyday!

I was thinking, why it is so difficult for us to choose a phone and finally landed up writing this post

Current market of mobile phone is too crowded, in recent years the amount people invest in mobile phones has grown tremendously.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

First hand experience with Cyanogenmod 11 (M10) - part 1

Hello All,

In my first post I shared my experience in unlocking the boot loader of my nexus 7 2012 tablet. I mentioned in the post that I will be trying out Cyanogenmod ( Custom ROM over Android) in it. Now I have my nexus tab installed with Cyanogenmod 11 (M10)

After exploring cyanogenmod for couple of days, I thought I should share the features which I felt was too good on my tablet.

The first thing I noticed after installing Cyanogenmod is that, the lock screen customization. you have lot of cool stuff to check out in it.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Unlocking your android smart phone to install custom ROM

Hello All,

In this post I am going to share the experience I had in unlocking the boot loader of my Nexus 7 2012 model tablet. The idea behind unlocking is to install custom ROM in it and explore the features offered by custom ROM. 
If you have any old smart phone or tablet which you are not using much or not using at all, then this idea might be of some interest to you too. 

There are certain things I would like to highlight in advance before we further discuss on the idea