On 4 October, Google announced their new Google branded cellphone called Google Pixel and Google Pixel-XL. The hardware for these phones are made by HTC. HTC has always made good phones and I like the build quality of their phones but they are not that good at marketing so the relationship with Google will be […]
As most of you might know, I am a fan of Open Source, Linux and what Google is doing so Google IO is something that I follow. Although I am not a developer anymore, I would love to attend Google IO someday and yesterday I did the second best thing by watching the full 2 […]
Let’s start again after our elastious electricity company decided to switch off the power and I lost the previous incarnation of this blog post. Yesterday I spend a couple of hours searching for an APP that will take screenshots on my HTC One X without ROOTING my phone only to find out that there are […]
UPDATE: Do not apply these updates if you are running non-stock HTC software ROM’s, even those that are based on stock HTC ROMs. Rather get an updated ROM from the group/person that made your ROM that include these updates. There is a real posibility that you might brick your phone if you apply these to non-stock […]
Since earlier today I started experiencing problems on my HTC Desire with the proximity sensor. For those that does not know, the proximity sensor switches the screen off when you receive or make a call and places the phone against your ear. When the call is completed and you remove the phone from your ear, […]
I just got fed-up with the time Leaf (HTC agent in South Africa) take to roll-out the upgrade to Android 2.2 in South Africa. So I have take the plunge and decided to go the manual way. First step was to root my phone. And this was so easy. Download Unrevoked 3.2.1 for my […]
Earlier this week I started to work at a new company and like most companies these day they have secure WIFI and runs their internal network through a proxy server to connect to the internet. One have to authenticate with the proxy server to access the internet. This is normal procedure for about 99% of […]
As you know, my HTC Desire looses the ability to write to the SD Card from time to time. For the past 3 days or so this has not happened (touch wood) and I was wondering what was different over the past couple of days than before. Note that I have not upgraded to Android […]
Here is an update on my earlier post. Leaf, the distributors of HTC phones in South Africa has clarified the situation regarding Android updates in South Africa. I quote from a article that appeared on MyBroadband: To make zero-rated firmware OTA (FOTA) possible the operators need to agree to it and the required infrastructure needs […]
Coming week HTC will start to roll out Froyo (Android 2.2) to some users in Europe. Just to give you an idea what is new in Froyo: 720p video recording iTunes syncing via HTC’s Sync software — this is for all you Windows guys/gals out there The “AppShare” widget that came on the Wildfire Smart CallerID In […]