Essential Official Android Thread

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Yelp For Android Updated To v3.7, Finally Adds Action Bar, And Something Called Yelp Talk

The Yelp app for Android has been update to version 3.7, and brings some much-needed action bar love to everyone's favorite restaurant and other place-finding service... thing. Except they sort of botched it a little bit - with a big, fat ugly gray bar at the bottom of the map and result list UI that decreases the amount of visible content. Lovely.

 

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Video: Google Looks to Reinvent the Holiday Family Photo

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA8quc-93CU"]Nexus 4: Holiday Photo Sphere - YouTube[/ame]

 

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HTC on Twitter: Thunderbolt Ice Cream Sandwich Update Will be Here “Soon”

 

[CTech83]

Video: Google Looks to Reinvent the Holiday Family Photo

Nexus 4: Holiday Photo Sphere - YouTube

Why aren't they running this on television? It's almost like Google doesn't want anymore money.

 

[GoldenGlove]

Why aren't they running this on television? It's almost like Google doesn't want anymore money.

They're terrible at advertising their stuff.

I didn't know that GTalk had video calling cooked in it until yesterday. I immediately said, why aren't they showing people this?

I called my brother's NEXUS4 from my EVOLTE via GTalk and it had video chat.

 

[Ukbrotha]

Video: Google Looks to Reinvent the Holiday Family Photo

Nexus 4: Holiday Photo Sphere - YouTube

 

[Spidey Man]

Video: Google Looks to Reinvent the Holiday Family Photo

Nexus 4: Holiday Photo Sphere - YouTube

Wish my Razor had that.

 

[Spidey Man]

My newest home screens. Just downloaded Missed It so I gotta play around with that a bit.

From Left to Right

 

[Spidey Man]

double

 

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Software Fix for Samsung Exynos Exploit

Over the weekend, an exploit was found within Samsung’s Exynos processor that powers many devices, including the new Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2. The exploit, if used by a malicious application, could potentially take control of the device’s RAM, which would spell serious trouble for owners.

Instant fix app for Exynos Mem Abuse vulnerability, no root required, reversible | Project Voodoo

developers released a fix of their own until Samsung can catch up. An application, which does not need root access, can fix the exploit in seconds if you are worried about your device’s security. Feel free to download that here. All actions are completely reversible so don’t worry about hurting your phone.

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

Anyone with the Nexus 7 having the auto-brightness problem? Every 30 seconds, it adjusts for no reason (in the same lighting). Apparently, a lot of people are having it too. I just set my brightness to the lowest level because it got so annoying.

 

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Google wallet for GS3

Currently Supports: Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and US Cellular Samsung Galaxy S3′s.
Requires ROOT, an UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER, and BUSYBOX.
Wallet Installer will install Google Wallet on most US based Samsung Galaxy S3′s.

Google Wallet Installer for US Galaxy S III Variants – xda-developers

 

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Verizon is OK With Isis Mobile Wallet Accessing the Secure Element on Your Phone, Just Not Google Wallet

Last week, we put together yet another new piece that discussed Verizon’s reasoning for not allowing Google Wallet to work on their NFC-equipped devices. In a response to an FCC complaint, VZW argued that since Google Wallet requires interaction with the “secure element” of a phone, that it’s different than normal applications, including other m-commerce apps. Since it needs to access this “secure element” in order to function, Verizon isn’t OK with it and has asked Google to make sure that it doesn’t work on their phones. However, with their own mobile payment app, they appear to be 100% behind an app using that same “secure element.”

As you all know, Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T have been working on their own NFC-based mobile payment system known as Isis Mobile Wallet. It’s essentially identical to Google Wallet. Many of us have argued over the last year that these three carriers are simply blocking Google Wallet because they have their own payment system in the works, something that they all deny. While we may never know the complete truth to the story, this latest find by one of our readers who installed Isis on his Galaxy S3 is certainly worth mentioning.

In the screenshots above, taken directly from the Isis Mobile Wallet app on a Verizon Galaxy S3, you can see mentions of the previously talked about “secure element.” In fact, the phone requirements for the app speak of this “secure element” as a “dedicated component in your phone” used to store payment cards and everything else needed to properly run a mobile payment app with NFC. Basically, that’s everything that they said was bad about Google Wallet, and that if Google removed this requirement, that its app could be used on Verizon phones.

 

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Apple's Pinch-To-Zoom Patent Deemed Invalid By USPTO

The patent in question is often called the "pinch-to-zoom" patent, because that's basically what it patents - a pinch gesture to zoom in on content on a display. This patent had been used successfully by Apple during the first Samsung lawsuit, with numerous (all but two) Samsung devices found to infringe it. The claim (#8)