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Looking at Jolla
Due to me having some time and my old OnePlus One Smartphone, I decided to have a look and find (stock) Android alternatives - something that exists without that rather enclosed Google-Environment. I mean, there surel...
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Skip the Google Setup Wizard
When playing around with android phones it may happen that the setup wizard crashes and refuses to work. Not nice per se and quite annoying as it prevents us from testing and developing. As I always forget how to get...
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Huawei P10 lite – About virgins and kids
There's a proverb in the German language, which could be roughly translated as 'like the virgin got the baby', which describes the process of getting something quite unexpectedly. And so we're standing here, hosting t...
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Huawei P10 lite – Poking around
As I had spent quite some time with Android and ROMs it was time to poke around in the thing called 'stock rom' - that stuff that Huawei gives to us, the end user. And that's where it gets really interesting: The firs...
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Huawei P10 lite - Not quite my taste
Once again there were new devices for customers at A1. So I took a cheap P10 lite, because it made a solid impression at first sight - without looking at XDA. And that's how things started getting messy. But let's sta...
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Return to Stock - Nexus 5x
It's not a secret that I was running Cyanogenmod on my Nexus 5X, but I have to admit, it's time to revert to stock due to various random issues which are getting me mad. So here's a small howto to do so. First of all,...
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Nexus 5X reboots
My new Nexus 5X was a bit troublesome on pure Android as I was used to Cyanogenmod (nightly snapshots). So I had to do what a girl has to do: Flash that thing. Add Gapps and be happy. Practically, the phone was reboot...
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Elephone P8000 and the OTA disaster
Careful guys, there is an update for the brand new P8000 phone out there which semi-bricks your phone. After this warning, it might already be too late as you might have just flashed the update like I did. That way th...
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Sense of Crisis
The OnePlus One is one of those nerdy phones being shipped with Cyanogenmod per default and an easy unlocking process. In other words, it's the android hacker's wet dream. But at the moment things do not look that bri...
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A short Hands-on: OnePlus One
OnePlus does a phone, namend One - the new "Flagship Killer" in town, attacking with solid 32 or 64 GB of storage, 3 GB of RAM and a Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 801 Processor. Quite some power if you ask me, but honestly -...
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Designed, engineered and assembled in the USA
August 2012 was a nice time as Google started to take over Motorola and things actually started to look pretty bright on the smartphone market as everyone was hoping for google taking action. For me it was a reason to...
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Notes for the Atrix
After unlocking the bootloader of my Motorola Atrix 4G, things went down the drain a little as things didn't go smooth anymore. So peeking at the memory management for looking for ressource hogs, I noticed that only h...
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IceCreamSandwich vs Motorola Atrix
My Motorola Atrix is running on Gingerbread which is a little outdated by now. The only way to get it updated at the current state of writing is an unofficial update to ICS/JB which is tempting because of the new func...