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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas v1.05 APK

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>San Andreas, a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption!</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: green;"><b><u>Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas</u></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rockstargames.gtasa">play.google.com.gtasa</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Five
 years ago, Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los 
Santos, San Andreas, a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, 
drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to 
avoid the dealers and gangbangers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, it’s the early 90’s. 
Carl’s got to go home. His mother has been murdered, his family has 
fallen apart and his childhood friends are all heading towards disaster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On
 his return to the neighborhood, a couple of corrupt cops frame him for 
homicide. CJ is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire 
state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the 
streets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rockstar Games brings its biggest release to mobile yet 
with a vast open-world covering the state of San Andreas and its three 
major cities – Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas – with enhanced 
visual fidelity and over 70 hours of gameplay.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Features: </b></span></span><br />
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<li>Remastered,
 high-resolution graphics built specifically for mobile including 
lighting enhancements, an enriched color palette and improved character 
models. </li>
<li>Cloud save support for playing across all your mobile devices for Rockstar Social Club Members.</li>
<li>Dual analog stick controls for full camera and movement control.</li>
<li>Three different control schemes and customizable controls with contextual options to display buttons only when you need them.</li>
<li>Compatible with the MoGa Wireless Game Controllers and select Bluetooth and USB gamepads.</li>
<li>Integrated with Immersion tactile effects. </li>
<li>Tailor your visual experience with adjustable graphic settings.</li>
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Languages Supported: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian and Japanese.<br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">What's new in this version :</span> </b></span>(Updated : Mar 21, 2014)<br />
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<li>Assorted Bug Fixes.</li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Required Android O/S :</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>2.3+</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Screenshots :</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Download</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"> :</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>20Mb APK</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Instructions: </span></b></span></div>
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<li>Install APK </li>
<li>Copy 'com.rockstargames.gtasa' folder to sdcard/Android/obb (<span style="color: #e69138;">OBB is downloadable via APK</span>)</li>
<li>Launch the Game</li>
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas v1.05 APK

San Andreas, a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption! Grand Theft Auto: San Andreasplay.google.com.gtasa Five years ago, Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life i…

23 Mar 2014

Asphalt 8 Update added 'Great Wall' tracks

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<a href="http://www.androidcentral.com/tag/asphalt-8" title="Asphalt 8: Airborne">Asphalt 8: Airborne</a>
 is one of our favorite (albeit so in-app purchase spammy it's also sort
 of sad) racing games, and this week it got itself a pretty major update
 with new tracks, the promise of new cars, and a whole bunch new fun to 
be had.</div>
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And this time, it's all going down in China. The Great Wall addition adds six new tracks. And it does so across all eight seasons — leading to 30 new events to be played. Along
 with that you get the promise of new cars, including the new 2014 
McLaren P1, the iconic Ferrari Testarossa, the Dodge Challenger and the 
2014 Ford F-150. Make sure you've got a few GBs of free space on your phone or tablet, then snag the update at the link above.</div>
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Asphalt 8 Update added 'Great Wall' tracks

Asphalt 8: Airborne is one of our favorite (albeit so in-app purchase spammy it's also sort of sad) racing games, and this week it got itself a pretty major update with new tracks, the promise of …

23 Mar 2014

Apple Considering Launching iTunes App for Android

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Apple's digital music revenues are declining, but could it really bring iTunes to Android?</h3>
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As
 Apple's revenue from music sales on iTunes continue to decline, the 
company is considering the previously unthinkable — an iTunes app for 
Android. According to a report from <i>Billboard</i> today, Apple is 
looking to fill the gap left by declining traditional music sales 
through iTunes by both expanding the store to Android and launching a 
paid music subscription service. Google brought its own Google Play Music service over to iOS, but it'd be an entirely different situation if Apple did the same for Android.</div>
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Apple
 makes up roughly 40 percent of the U.S. digital music market, but the 
market as a whole is seeing double-digit declines in sales in recent 
years. It currently has a free, ad-supported radio service in iTunes Radio,
 but makes a vast majority of its profits in media from the standard 
single and album sales through the iTunes Store. The move to a flat rate
 subscription music service could be a new revenue stream for Apple, but
 it probably wouldn't close the gap and put it back on a growth path in 
digital music revenue.</div>
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Expanding out to Android would open its 
store to potentially hundreds of millions of new devices and users who 
would otherwise not shop at iTunes for music, but that doesn't make this
 an automatic slam dunk. Google and Amazon have pretty well entrenched 
themselves in the digital music sales on Android devices, not to mention
 the intense competition in the subscription music arena with the likes 
of Rdio, Spotify, Pandora, Beats Music and of course Google itself.</div>
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Most
 think that hell would freeze over before iTunes came to Android, but it
 may just be the way that Apple continues to expand its music revenues. 
The purported talks to make these new apps a reality are in very early 
stages, so it could be some time before our suspicions are confirmed.</div>
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Apple Considering Launching iTunes App for Android

Apple's digital music revenues are declining, but could it really bring iTunes to Android? As Apple's revenue from music sales on iTunes continue to decline, the company is considering the previous…

23 Mar 2014

How to Easily Sync iCloud Calendar to Android

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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">One app makes it simple to keep using your iCloud calendar on Android</span></h3>
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<a class="google-play-button" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.caldav.icloud&referrer=utm_source%3Dandroidcentral%26utm_medium%3Dblog%26utm_campaign%3Dbloglink" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="undefined" src="http://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/themes/android/images/site/get_it_on_play_logo_large.png" title=" ... Shift+R improves the quality of this image. Shift+A improves the quality of all images on this page." /></a>With all the awesome Android devices on the market today, it's perfectly understandable if you're ditching your old iPhone
 and coming to join us where things are more Google flavored. But, with 
leaving one ecosystem completely comes the problem of moving all your 
stuff with it.</div>
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iPhone owners may well have relied upon iCloud
 in a similar manner to Android users relying on Google. Fortunately, 
there's always something you can do to bring thing with you and here 
we're going to look at syncing your existing iCloud calendars to your 
Android device. You need not move it all to Google Calendar since 
there's a really simple way to carry on using it. Head on past the break
 to see how.</div>
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Thanks to an enterprising developer, Marten Gajda, 
you can import and two-way sync your iCloud calendars to the stock 
Calendar app on your Android device. With his app, Smoothsync for Cloud 
Calendar – grab it from the Play Store at the link up top – it's as easy
 as entering your iCloud credentials. It is a paid app, but for the ease
 of use alone it's well worth the outlay. After all, moving over to 
Google Calendar isn't a suitable option for everyone.</div>
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You
 enter your account information when you fire it up for the first time, 
confirm the calendars you want to sync and then tweak the settings to 
your liking. That easy. There are a wide range of time intervals 
available to set up for auto-sync, and you're even able to specify 
whether you want to be able to sync back from your device to iCloud or 
not. The latest version also supports syncing of iCloud Reminders, too.</div>
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Perhaps
 the best thing about using this app is how it just works in the 
background. You can always enter it to adjust settings as and when you 
please, but ultimately you just use your Calendar app as normal. You 
need to remember to select the right calendar when creating events, but 
otherwise it's the same exact experience as you'd have as using a Google
 Calendar on your device.<br />
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So, for $2.99 you can keep using your 
iCloud Calendar with minimal fuss. What this does, it does exceptionally
 well. For that alone it's well worth checking out if you're looking to 
keep your calendar's with Apple. We're always keen to hear your 
tips and tricks, though. So, if you've got an alternative, or something 
you think is even better, be sure to drop it into the comments below!</div>
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How to Easily Sync iCloud Calendar to Android

One app makes it simple to keep using your iCloud calendar on Android With all the awesome Android devices on the market today, it's perfectly understandable if you're ditching your old iPhone and c…

23 Mar 2014

New HTC One (M8) Available to Buy on March 25 in the UK

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 Carphone Warehouse confirms sales to begin from around 4pm on launch day at select stores</h4>
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UK retailer Carphone Warehouse has announced that it'll be selling the new HTC One
 —aka M8 — in select stores from "around 4pm" on the day of 
announcement, March 25. That means the phone will be available for Brits
 to buy "just minutes" after the announcement event in London wraps up —
 a potentially significant development for HTC, which will get its new 
handset into consumers' hands ahead of the arrival of Samsung's Galaxy 
S5.</div>
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"Shortly after [the announcement], the new HTC One
 (M8) handsets will be transported directly from the venue of the launch
 announcement to six Carphone Warehouse stores in London. Westfield 
Stratford, Westfield White City, Oxford Circus, Centrepoint and 
Tottenham Court Road stores will all be hosting special events 
celebrating the HTC launch with entertainment and giveaways as well as 
the first chance for customers to get their hands on the new device. 
Carphone Warehouse at Selfridges will also be stocking the handset from 
the same time."</blockquote>
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There's no word on whether the M8 
will also be available on March 25 in the U.S., but either way we'll be 
live from both the London and NYC launch events to bring you full 
coverage next Tuesday!<br />
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More: <a href="http://androinar.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-new-htc-one-what-we-are-expecting.html" target="_blank">What we're expecting from the new HTC One</a></h3>
<u>Press Release</u><br />
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<b>All new HTC One available from Carphone Warehouse from 25th March announcement day</b></h3>
London,
 18.03.14: In a retail first, Carphone Warehouse has revealed that the 
new HTC One (M8) handset will be available from selected stores from 
around 4pm on Tuesday 25th March – just minutes after it is officially 
announced.<br />
The new HTC flagship device will be officially unveiled
 by the manufacturer at special events in London and New York earlier 
that afternoon. Shortly after, the new HTC One (M8) handsets will be 
transported directly from the venue of the launch announcement to six 
Carphone Warehouse stores in London. Westfield Stratford, Westfield 
White City, Oxford Circus, Centrepoint and Tottenham Court Road stores 
will all be hosting special events celebrating the HTC launch with 
entertainment and giveaways as well as the first chance for customers to
 get their hands on the new device. Carphone Warehouse at Selfridges 
will also be stocking the handset from the same time.<br />
Full 
information including videos of the new handset will be shared on 
www.carphonewarehouse.com and customers will be able to order the HTC 
One (M8) over the phone from the same afternoon, before it is available 
from all 770 Carphone Warehouse stores and to order online shortly 
afterwards.<br />
A Carphone Warehouse spokesperson comments, “The HTC 
One is an award winning handset that set the bar for design during 2013 
and made many sit up and take notice – the new HTC One M8 is likely to 
continue that trend and will cement HTC’s future as a heavy-hitting 
smartphone manufacturer. We know how keen customers are to get hold of 
the latest tech as soon as possible and that is why we are so excited to
 be able to offer the new HTC One so quickly after it is unveiled.”</blockquote>
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New HTC One (M8) Available to Buy on March 25 in the UK

Carphone Warehouse confirms sales to begin from around 4pm on launch day at select stores UK retailer Carphone Warehouse has announced that it'll be selling the new HTC One —aka M8 — in select stor…

23 Mar 2014

Eight Android Phones to Buy Instead of the 8GB iPhone 5c

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Apple’s new cut-price iPhone model is still more expensive than many high-end Android phones</h4>
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Apple has this morning launched an 8GB version of the iPhone 5c
 — a new budget offering for those willing to trade cut-down internal 
storage for a slightly reduced price tag. In the UK, a SIM-free 8GB 
iPhone 5c will set you back £429 directly from Apple’s online store — a 
saving of only £40 compared to the 16GB 5c, but a saving all the same.</div>
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Nevertheless,
 the 8GB device’s relatively high price tag highlights the many high-end
 Android phones around this price point, all of which boast 16GB or more
 of storage — and in some cases, many other advantages too.</div>
Let’s take a look at some after the break.<br />
<h3>
LG G2 — <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-G2D802-16GB-Android-Phone/dp/B00FF6D47K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395133988&sr=8-1&keywords=lg+g2&tag=androcentr-21&m1k=d_ac" rel="nofollow" title="">£299 (16GB)</a> / <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-D802-Unlocked-International-Version/dp/B00FQSE8FE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1395133988&sr=8-2&keywords=lg+g2&tag=androcentr-21&m1k=d_ac" rel="nofollow" title="">£339.99 (32GB)</a></h3>
<img alt="G2" class="image-large aligncenter" src="http://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/large/public/postimages/276955/g2-3.jpg?itok=i2OjQLOq" /><br />
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LG’s
 flagship G2 has been heavily discounted in the UK, but right now its 
SIM-free pricing on Amazon.co.uk matches that of its Googlified cousin, 
the Nexus 5. Either of these represents great value at the £299-340 
price point — and the G2 offers a larger screen, higher-res than the 
iPhone, at 5.2 inches of 1080p versus 4 inches at 640x1136. LG's phone 
also has a top-notch 13MP camera, and the 32GB model offers four times 
the internal storage of the 8GB iPhone 5c.</div>
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Nexus 5 — <a href="https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_5_32GB_White?id=nexus_5_white_16gb">£299 (16GB)</a> / <a href="https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_5_32GB_White?id=nexus_5_white_32gb">£339 (32GB)</a></h3>
<img alt="Nexus 5" class="image-large aligncenter" src="http://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/large/public/article_images/2014/03/nexus-5-b-2048.jpg?itok=grUHcpkN" /><br />
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Google’s
 Nexus 5 pricing hasn’t moved at all since its launch last November, but
 it remains great value almost four months on. For between £299 and £339
 on Google Play you get G2-class internals, a 5-inch display and the 
latest “pure” Android 4.4 KitKat, with speedy updates from Google in the
 future. Weaknesses include battery life and a slightly wonky 8MP camera
 — but in any case, the Nexus 5 is a flagship-class product available 
for considerably less than the competition.</div>
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Sony Xperia Z1 and Z1 Compact — <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Xperia-Sim-Free-Smartphone/dp/B00ECBVNIG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395134113&sr=8-1&keywords=sony+xperia+z1&tag=androcentr-21&m1k=d_ac" rel="nofollow" title="">£399.99</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Xperia-Compact-Android-Smartphone/dp/B00HIW5WW4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395134120&sr=8-1&keywords=sony+xperia+z1+compact&tag=androcentr-21&m1k=d_ac" rel="nofollow" title="">£386.99</a> respectively</h3>
<img alt="Xperia Z1 + Compact" class="image-large aligncenter" src="http://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/large/public/article_images/2014/03/z1c6.jpg?itok=XOpPSgTi" /><br />
The
 Xperia Z1 is about to be superseded by the Z2, which is due to launch 
in the next month. But at a little under £399 it’s still worth a look, 
offering a larger screen and double the storage of the cheapest iPhone 
5c for less cash. The more interesting proposition, however, might be 
the smaller Xperia Z1 Compact. At £386.99, the Compact offers the same 
internals as the Z1, only with a smaller 4.3-inch display and a more 
pocketable design.<br />
<h3>
HTC One (2013) — <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/HTC-One-32GB-Free-Smartphone/dp/B000NTBLV0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395134188&sr=8-1&keywords=htc+one&tag=androcentr-21&m1k=d_ac" rel="nofollow" title="">£364.99</a></h3>
<img alt="HTC One" class="image-large_wm_brw aligncenter" src="http://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/large_wm_brw/public/article_images/2014/03/htc-one-2013.jpg?itok=0KwAcfG1" title="" /><br />
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<br /></div>
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We’re only a week out from the expected launch of the all new HTC One (M8),
 but last year’s model, the M7, is decent value at around £365 SIM-free.
 Unlike the iPhone 5c, it boasts a metal-backed design, a larger, 
higher-resolution display and four times the storage in the 32GB base 
model. Sure, the HTC One is a year old at this point, but it’s also 
worth remembering the iPhone 5c is essentially a rebadged iPhone 5 in a 
plastic casing.</div>
<h3>
Moto X — <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moto-16GB-Sim-Free-Smartphone/dp/B00HU2KSSK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395134377&sr=8-1&keywords=moto+x&tag=androcentr-21&m1k=d_ac" rel="nofollow" title="">£306</a></h3>
<img alt="Moto X" class="image-large aligncenter" src="http://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/large/public/article_images/2014/03/moto-x-2048.jpg?itok=K08qbeY1" /><br />
<br />
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Our
 top Android phone of 2013 is available with 16GB of storage for £306, 
and offers unique features like touchless control — the ability to 
activate the phone, even when it’s in sleep mode — and active display, 
which pulses notifications on-screen when the display is turned off. On 
paper it’s got less hardware muscle than many competitors, but the Moto X
 also offers a highly ergonomic design and near-stock Android 4.4 KitKat
 out of the box.</div>
<h3>
Samsung Galaxy S4 — <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Galaxy-Smartphone-SIM-Free-Unlocked/dp/B00BULARVA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395134443&sr=8-1&keywords=galaxy+s4&tag=androcentr-21&m1k=d_ac" rel="nofollow" title="">£318</a></h3>
<img alt="Galaxy S4" class="image-large aligncenter" src="http://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/large/public/article_images/2014/03/gs4-generic-nyc.jpg?itok=qtL613GX" title="" /><br />
<br />
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The GS4 wasn’t our favorite phone of last year — and with a successor on the way,
 Samsung buyers might be advised to save their money and look at putting
 it towards a GS5 instead. Nevertheless, a little over £300 for a 5-inch
 1080p device with a 13-megapixel camera is nothing to sniff at, and 
that’s before you consider the array of bells and whistles from Samsung,
 such as hover-touch and a built-in pedometer.</div>
<h3>
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 — <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Galaxy-Region-Locked-Smartphone/dp/B00F0FVKRM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395135848&sr=8-1&keywords=Galaxy+Note+3&tag=androcentr-21&m1k=d_ac" rel="nofollow" title="">£400-459</a></h3>
<img alt="Galaxy Note 3" class="image-large aligncenter" src="http://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/large/public/article_images/2014/03/galaxy-note-3-2048_0.jpg?itok=50MJJJ5p" /><br />
Shop
 around on Amazon and you’ll be able to pick up a Galaxy Note 3 for less
 than the £429 Apple’s asking for an 8GB iPhone 5c. The Note 3 still 
ranks as our favorite oversized Android phone, with a gigantic 5.7-inch 
1080p display, 32GB of storage and a wealth of stylus-based 
functionality thanks to Samsung’s S Pen.<br />
<h3>
Discounts to come?</h3>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
It’s
 likely other retailers and carriers will begin offering the 8GB iPhone 
5c for less than Apple’s initial asking price of £429. And it's also 
worth mentioning that there's no word on U.S. pricing or availability 
for this model at present. But many of the devices we’ve listed here are
 flagship-level Android phones priced substantially lower than Apple’s 
cheapest “current” iPhone in the UK. And even with new flagships from HTC, Sony and Samsung
 about to land in the next month, it’s worth considering these Android 
alternatives before stumping up the cash for Apple’s 8GB offering.</div>
<h3>
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Google Officially Announces Android Wear

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Android-powered smartwatches on the way</h4>
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As promised, Google has officially announced its wearables strategy. It's called "Android Wear," and it's all about bringing Android to wearable tech, starting with smartwatches. Much like Google Now
 on a smartwatch, Android Wear is designed to focus on timely 
information, delivered when it's most relevant — Google's announcement 
media mentions social updates, chat updates and notifications from 
shopping and news apps, for instance.</div>
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Naturally the "OK Google" 
keyword can also activate voice input, just as it does in the Google Now
 Launcher, allowing you to get answers to spoken questions, or perform 
other commends like sending text messages or setting alarms. That means 
voice commands from Android Wear devices can also link back to your phone and, for example start music or movie playback.</div>
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And
 as with rival watches from the likes of Samsung, Android Wear also has a
 big fitness focus, allowing you to track calories burned, as well as 
distance traveled, whether you're walking, running or cycling.</div>
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For
 developers, there's a new section on the Android Developers site 
focusing on getting apps' notifications ready for Android Wear 
smartwatches, however Google says because the platform hooks into 
Android's existing notifications system, many apps will work as-is.</div>
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And
 while Google itself hasn't announced a "hero" smartwatch device, it 
says it's working with OEMs including Asus, HTC, LG, Motorola and 
Samsung to create devices, chipmakers Broadcom, Imagination, Intel, 
Mediatek and Qualcomm — and fashion brands such as Fossil Group to 
launch Android Wear smartwatches "later this year."</div>
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Hot on the heels of the Android Wear announcement, we've also got news of the first Android-powered smartwatches from LG and Motorola</div>
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[Source: <a href="http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2014/03/sharing-whats-up-our-sleeve-android.html">Google's Android blog</a>.]</div>
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23 Mar 2014

How to Gain Root Access on an Android Device

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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC33SsI2La2SbBOWPGPXFZDqog3Br_ABWrciCdX5HChNig_wR4o1h-lKuPXvFYXZvD_lKI4-z-GhjCBtRPLDfkVz6H0bjmAAfeXNj4JatOZRGgpo_FihnITroi9jp46t-_vBywEi7v5z0/s1600/hash.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC33SsI2La2SbBOWPGPXFZDqog3Br_ABWrciCdX5HChNig_wR4o1h-lKuPXvFYXZvD_lKI4-z-GhjCBtRPLDfkVz6H0bjmAAfeXNj4JatOZRGgpo_FihnITroi9jp46t-_vBywEi7v5z0/s1600/hash.png" /></a>Here I describe the generic way to gain root access on
 an Android device. This description applies to any Android device using
 a bootloader that is possible to unlock. Most vendors today ship their 
bootloaders locked with the option to unlocking them, most often voiding
 the warranty.
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This is the manual way gaining root access. Note that 
"rooting the phone" often implies installing utilities such as su, the 
SuperUser app etc. You may do this after using this tutorial, but I'm 
here only describing the process of getting the initial root access 
itself.
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If you got a well known and/or not brand new device, 
there probably already exists ready-made one-click tools rooting your 
device much easier than this. This tutorial is if you don't got such a 
tool, or for some reason don't want to use them - or if you simply are 
curious about the methods used.
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All tools used here assumes you are using a GNU/Linux environment such as Debian, Ubuntu or so.
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<h3>
Steps</h3>
<ul>
<li>Unlock the bootloader
</li>
<li>Obtain your boot image
</li>
<li>Unpack the boot image
</li>
<li>Unpack initramfs root file system
</li>
<li>Enable insecure mode
</li>
<li>Pack initramfs
</li>
<li>Pack boot image
</li>
<li>Fastboot device using own boot image
</li>
<li>adb shell to the device
</li>
</ul>
<h2>
Unlock the Boot-loader</h2>
This tutorial assumes you have a device with either an unlocked or 
unlockable bootloader. This is the most common today. The phone is 
shipped with the bootloader locked (i.e. tamper proof), but the 
manufacturer gives you the option to unlock it. This is usually at the 
cost of the the Digital Rights Manager data (DRM) and also often limits 
the warranty. This is quite understandable, since you can easily damage 
the unlocked device for example by overclocking it beyond its thermal 
capacity, melting the CPU, to mention a worst case scenario.
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With the bootloader unlocked, you are able to both 
boot the device, and/or flash the internal disk, using custom root file 
system images.
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Make sure your vendor allows you to unlock your device
 before continuing this tutorial. You may wait with the actual unlocking
 until you created your new boot image, though. If you can't find any 
information about the state of your bootloader, just try booting you 
device with the image you'll build here. Either it works, or your device
 politely refuses it.
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<ul>
<li><a class="wikilink" href="http://whiteboard.ping.se/Android/BootLoader">More about vendor locking of the boot loader</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>
Obtaining the boot image</h2>
Now you'll need to get hold your original boot image. You can either 
extract this from the device itself, get it from your manufacturer or 
from some trusted source on the Internet providing original images. 
Often the original distribution is a zip archive (but not necessary with
 the <code>.zip</code> extension). Unzip it to get the boot.img file.
<br />

<h2>
Unpacking the boot image</h2>
The boot image (boot.img) is composed of both the kernel and the 
initial root file system (initramfs). To split this, you'll need some 
utility. I've written such tool here below. There are several other, 
often script based, tools out there as well.
<br />

<ul>
<li><a class="wikilink" href="http://whiteboard.ping.se/Android/Unmkbootimg">Tool to split the boot image file</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>
Unpacking the root file system</h2>
Now you need to unpack the root file system.  It's a gziped cpio 
archive, and can be unpacked using standard GNU/Linux utilities. To 
preserve file ownership, perform this either as the root user, or run 
fakeroot.
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<pre class="escaped"># mkdir rootfs
# cd rootfs
# gzip -cd ../initramfs.cpio.gz | cpio -i
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Now the file system is unpacked in the directory "rootfs".
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<h2>
Set the Android to insecure</h2>
Android got a security feature you can turn on or off. Usually this 
should be enabled for production environment and disabled for 
development devices. By turning security off, you can gain root access.
<br />

<ul>
<li>Edit <code>/default.prop</code> in the root file system and set the property <code>"ro.secure=0"</code>.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>
Pack the root file system</h2>
All done, now we only have to repack everything again. Pack the root file system.
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<pre class="escaped"># cd rootfs
# find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip > ../insecure_ramdisk.cpio.gz
# cd ..
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<h2>
Compile the boot image</h2>
Now we build the new insecure boot image. Use the same parameters 
unmkbootimg suggested to get base address and so correct. If unmkbootimg
 didn't print out any base address, it's because default is used, and 
you won't need to specify it to mkbootimg neither.
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<pre class="escaped">$ mkbootimg --kernel kernel.gz --ramdisk insecure_initramfs.cpio.gz --base 0x20000000
            --cmdline 'no_console_suspend=1' -o insecure_boot.img
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Please note that the kernel file may be called "<code>kernel.gz</code>", "<code>zImage</code>" or similar depending on what tools used extracting it from the original boot image.
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Boot the device in Insecure mode</h2>
Now you've got a new boot image with security disabled. Boot, but 
avoid flashing if possible, the device using this image. To be able to 
do this, the device must be put in fastboot mode. This is usually one of
 the following.
<br />

<ul>
<li>Device powered off. Press and hold Volume-UP during power on.
</li>
<li>Device powered off. Press and hold Volume-UP and insert USB cable connected to computer.
</li>
</ul>
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If this doesn't work, Google "fastboot" plus your device name.
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Once in fastboot, boot the phone using the fastboot command, supplied with the Android SDK.
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<pre class="escaped">$ fastboot boot insecure_boot.img
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Now the phone will (hopefully) start and look as usual. The only difference is that security is turned off.
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Open a root shell on you device</h2>
Now connecting to you device using ADB (also part of Android SDK), 
you'll get a root shell, instead of running as the "shell" user. This is
 thanks to disabled security.
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<pre class="escaped">$ adb shell
root@android:/ #
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You are now root! Do whatever you want, e.g. 
installing a su program in /system/bin etc. Remember to remount /system 
in read/write mode before you can write anything there.
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Because you did <em>not</em> flash your device with 
the insecure boot image, the next time you reboot it, security will be 
turned on again, for your protection. The modifications you've done on 
/system are of course still there.
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Since the root file system is restored from the boot 
image each boot, no changes done here will survive a reboot. Still, you 
can follow this tutorial making permanent changes at the root disk, 
flashing the boot image instead of only booting it.
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<pre class="escaped">$ fastboot flash boot my_boot.img
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I don't recommend using <code>ro.secure=0</code> as default, though, but there may be other changes you want to apply to the root disk.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1794850062705581904" id="rootsh" name="rootsh"></a>
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<h2>
It didn't work?!</h2>
Everything in this guide went well, but still, once "adb shell", you 
still didn't got root, but are stuck at the shell user with the 
$-prompt?
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Some devices seems not to honor the <code>ro.secure</code>
 property - but despair not, we still can fix this. We just have to 
install a root shell in the root file system instead. Back at your 
computer, <code>cd</code> to your <code>rootfs</code> directory from 
above and make sure your device is connected via the USB cable and up 
and running. Then issue the commands below to perform this.
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<pre class="escaped">root@ubuntu:~/rootfs# adb pull /system/bin/sh sbin/rootsh
root@ubuntu:~/rootfs# chmod a+x sbin
root@ubuntu:~/rootfs# chown root sbin/rootsh 
root@ubuntu:~/rootfs# chgrp 2000 sbin/rootsh 
root@ubuntu:~/rootfs# chmod 4750 sbin/rootsh 
</pre>
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Now go back and continue from "Pack the root file 
system" above to create a new boot image. Once the device is booted 
using this new image you can execute your root shell to gain root.
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<pre class="escaped">root@ubuntu:~# adb shell
shell@android:/$ /sbin/rootsh +p
# 
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You are now root.
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If you'd like to continue installing the Superuser App, you can look at  <a class="urllink" href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47892279#post47892279" target="_blank">this</a>  post at XDA forum.
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<h2>
Feedback? Questions? Suggestions?</h2>
This tutorial too basic? Too complicated? Inaccuracies? Did not work as expected?
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Please feel free send me a mail!
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[By <a class="urllink" href="mailto:kuisma@ping.se">Mikael Q Kuisma]</a>
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