Update 4/21/2015

Hello everyone!
Yes haven't posted a thing in about 2 years, which might seem odd.
College takes up lots of time plus i kind of found that android was a bit stagnant for a while and publishing anything was completely pointless, but now, here's a quick update for 2015!

1) Galaxy S6
The galaxy s6 (and edge) are pretty beast in my opinion. Ive always hated touch wiz, always disliked the cheapness of the galaxy line in general, and i think i actually like the galaxy s6 over the m9! wow right? Ive always been a die hard HTC fan and no offense, the M9 is not little toy either.
Its running a 64 bit octacore exynos chipset from samsung backed by 3 gigabytes of ram, an f/1.9 camera! Insane! And quad HD on a 5.1 inch display, also insane, but i think the quad HD is not needed at all.

2) The M9 didn't surprise anyone, its just another HTC, sense UI looks better and better every time but the M9 is essentially an M8 with upgraded internals and perfected exterior. The camera i hear is total crap though.

3) The LG G4 will be coming out at the beginning of may and im very excited to see what will serve as a basis to the new nexus 5 2015. F1.8 camera, snapdragon 808, quad HD, more ram i assume, etc. Its supposedly covered in leather....LG listen to me, DONT DO IT.

4) Oh yeah, the iphone 6. its a piece of crap. again. dont worry about it.

Prediction on the Nexus 5 2015

If its based of the LG G4 ill have to use some rumors about it:
Snapdragon 808
2 gigabytes of ram
8 or 13 MP f2.0 camera
32/64 gigabytes of storage.
5.2 inch 1080p IPS LCD display
2mp front camera
price:~ 400$ off contract. That's reasonable.

News: LG, Samsung and Alcatel

LG is now making a 5.5 inch Optimus G Pro. That is freaking huge, why, phones are big as it is and getting even bigger is pointless because a tablet is 6.5 inches +. One more inch and smartphones will not longer be phones. its not that i dont like big screens but i only like 4-4.25 inch screens. I dont like really big screens. The LG will start first start selling in japan in mid april.

Samsung has announced that it will be keeping the physical home button on its samsung galaxy s4.

Here is a cool phone that i wish we could have in the USA. From GSM Arena:

TCL has just unveiled its latest smartphone. The Alcatel One Touch Star is a mid-range handset with a stylish design and extremely attractive price tag that we are hoping to see showcased at the MWC in two weeks.

The One Touch Star sports a 4" display, 1GHz dual-core processor along with 512 MB of RAM, a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, a front-facing VGA camera, 4 GB of internal memory with microSD support and a 1,500 mAh battery.

Surprisingly, the device will run on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which is still pretty rare to be found in the mid-range.

Alcatel One Touch Star will retail for around 2,000 SEK (about $315) in Sweden and is expected to be available in European markets very soon.

LG Optimus One Series Best Roms List

CM10 JB Stable 4.1.2
-All LG Optimus One phones
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1811325

CM7 (looks like ics) CyanMobileX
-LG Optimus One (Can be substituted with proper bb fix or kernel)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1883410

Oxygen 3.0 ICS
-LG Optimus One ONLY (cannot be substituted with kernels and stuff to work on others, so new bb) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1833218&page=1

Oxygen 2.3.2 GB
-LG Optimus One new bb (can use bb fix and/or kernels to fix for old bb)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1325386

This is the list of the best LG Optimus One series roms so far. Most of these are stable and work well. ICS and JB can always have bugs because they are ICS and JB. But if it says it can be substituted, then use the stock .35 kernel from the LG Phoenix and everything should work. Enjoy!

CyanMobile X Rom

I was looking around for other roms that people are now making for our beloved lg optimus one, which is a piece of crap in many ways, but it is alot easier to flash roms, root and more.

I found a couple of roms out their and this one really caught my eye, it looks like ics, works like jelly bean, and is customizable like miui and cyanogenmod and aokp combined! Surprising right?!

I have not flashed it yet as im in school right now and cannot download it and transfer it to my phone, but i will do it at home to day and write a full review on it. Their are no videos on it so i guess you have to do it your self.

Here is the link

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1883410

Best android phone pictures (not phones) updated

Huawei
HTC
Nexus
S3
Meizu MX2

LG and the Nexus 4 fail to meet expectations!

About a week and a half ago i posted that the LG Nexus 4 is the best phone their is, but to be the nexus means to be the best. Well LG has completely disapointed me and many others.

Quoted from XDA Developers:

Nexus 4 Battery Shot Reveals Potential Quality Issues

POSTED NOVEMBER 4, 2012 AT 10:00 AM BY ADAMOUTLER

Several pictures of the LG-built Google Nexus 4 have been showing up across the Internet. The featured image in this article really caught my eye because it shows the internals of the device relatively well. While this device has not yet been released, a lot can be said (and judged) about a device’s hardware, even without full board shots. Overall, it appears to show that LG’s build quality is considerably lower than that of the Samsung Nexus devices in the past. In this article, I intend to write about the design pros and cons of the highly anticipated Nexus 4.

Design Pluses

Large external speaker - One of the biggest complaints with Samsung’s designs is the low powered/small sized speaker. While it delivers a trade-off in battery life versus sound quality/quantity,  the Nexus 4′s larger speaker should suffice to produce adequate sound.

Good speaker placement - The speaker placement on the Nexus 4 places the speaker at the corner of the device rather than the center, where your palm blocks it in portrait mode. While the Galaxy Nexus forces you to hold the device in an odd position to bounce sound from your palm to your ear while in portrait mode, the Nexus 4 will not have this problem. The corner orientation places the speaker in a optimal position for both landscape and horizontal palm redirection while watching movies.   This same orientation can be seen on the Meizu MX.

Design Minuses

Bolted in battery - The defining line between “Operator Replaceable” and “Qualified Service Technician” is the use of tools. The Nexus 4 not only requires a screw driver, but the plastic tabs on the edges will break if removed improperly. Once those tabs are broken, signal quality will be lost from the connection with the Spring Antenna Connections.

Spring Antenna Connections - The problem with Spring Antenna Connections or simply Spring Connections in general is: When tension is lost, signal is lost. Loss of tension between the back plate and the board can occur when a tab breaks or the back plate is warped. Warping of back plates can occur easily, and is quite frequent as devices age from stress, dropping, impact, or even a day in a hot car. You may notice some old devices such as remote controls or phones will squeak and creek when you press on them. This noise is generally attributed to warping or breakage of tabs, which would be critical for the WiFi/NFC/data/GPS/Bluetooth connections on the Nexus 4.

Lack of impact zones - Many current devices including Samsung’s entire lineup include impact areas around the bolts and the edge of the device.  This allows the device to sustain impact without altering the physical structure of the board, causing components to come lose.  The absence of impact areas causes a device to be more fragile and less resistant to impacts.  This also increases a device’s warpage risk, which can alter device dimensions and cause the Spring Connections to fail.

Tape used instead of structure and shielding - A well designed device will use its own structure to hold components in place. Tape is a disposable part. Disposable parts have no place inside of a properly designed device. The disadvantage here is tape can take components off the board when removed. Tape is also messy, and leaves residue on a board and other components. There is never a situation when using tape instead of physical structure is required, and the use of tape is often a harbinger for other build quality problems.

Recommendations for next revision

Make the speaker grill bigger - A speaker grill is designed to keep the operator’s fingers out, not to keep water out.  The small size of the speaker grill on the Nexus 4 will impede speaker sound and motion, and thus the overall dB level. This physical obsturction means the speaker wastes power on compression of air rather than audible sound creation.

Replace the battery tape - Instead of using tape for the battery, a slight overhang at the bottom of the metalized battery section will suffice to keep the battery from moving around inside the device.  Another way is to place glue or double-sided tape on the bottom of the battery.

Replace the communications tape - Instead of metalized tape on the communications section of the board, use a physical shield cap, which makes it serviceable and more tidy.

Use impact zones - Impact zones prolong device life.

Use a physical connector and a film substrate for the back cover - The back cover of the device consists of several separate connections spread across the entire device.  This means warpage anywhere in that area can cause the device to lose connectivity.   The primary focus of a mobile device is connectivity, and that should not be trusted to spring connections. The spring connections should be replaced with a physical connector of some sort. A physical connector would also save space.

Do not bolt down batteries - Batteries should be easily removable in the event of a problem.  Getting the rear cover off is enough work.  The compression method has been trusted across the spring connectors on the board, which are held in place solely by pressure. A proper connector holds itself in place. A slight bit of foam-rubber would do the same job as a spring, save space, save tools and remove the need for “tools” when replacing the battery.

Do not put the IMEI on the back cover – There will surely be aftermarket accessories for the device or people who want to replace the back cover, or add an extended battery.  The IMEI should be on the board, or at least bolted to the device.

At first glance, the Nexus 4′s hardware appears to be a quality downgrade from the Galaxy nexus which we reviewed previously.  After release we hope to be able to give a much better analysis.

Article here: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/nexus-4-battery-shot-reveals-potential-quality-issues/

The nexus will now be taken down from the list of best android phones, because....above!

Quick Root, CWM recovery, and flashing guide.

This is a shortened version of all the stupid rooting and flashing guides. Don't worry, if you back up everything you need, then no problems will ever occur, this is the easiest and safest process ever in the world.
do all this on full battery

1. ROOTING
-download z4root app to your phone, hit root, if that does not work, don't worry, download super one click, from shortfuse webiste. turn on usb debugging and then plug it to your pc, hit root once the program is up.

2. Recovery
download rom manager from app store, once it is open, click flash recovery, pick your phone, and wait. to test it, turn off your phone, hold home, volume up, and power at the same time, as soon as you see the unsusual boot image, let go. volume buttons are up and down, back is back, and menu is ok.

3. download rom from internet, and or kernel if needed.
go onto recovery, (power down etc.) navigate to backup and restore, click backup, and then wait. then go to wipe data, click yes, wipe cache too. Go to advanced, click wipe dalvik cache, and wipe battery stats.

4. go to install zip from sd, go to choose zip from sd, then find your rom, flash it, wait, reboot, wait at least 5 minutes, if the phone is not booting properly, then go to recovery, click backup and restore, hit restore, and wait. if the rom is ok, and you need to flash gapps or kernel, go into recovery and flash gapps, reboot, then kernel.

if anything every goes wrong, just restore your backup. need to back up apps? then get android assistant, go to tools, and backup your apps.

note : rebot after each flash (installation of rom and kernel).

enjoy

need help, just ask, find me on xda at russian392

LG Making the new Nexus 4

Google announced the new Google Nexus 4, 7 and 10. Meaning the screen size in inches, these devices are as close as you can get to the perfect phone. All three look really good and have some brutal specs. What is interesting, is LG is making it. LG made small, low end devices such as the LG optimus one, optimus v and LG Thrive. But lately I posted about the LG optimus G, which is the best non Google smartphone out their, it packs an outstanding punch to the market. Great processor and other interesting things.

Here is the link where you can discover the New Awesome Nexus 4" (notice i added the ").

http://www.google.com/nexus/4/

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_8gb&feature=microsite

The device will be running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean 2.

It will have a 8 GB version and 16 GB version. It will come for about 100 to 200 bucks on contract with (i think) T-Mobile and ATT and probably Verizon. The unlocked editions can be bought from Google for $300.00 8gb and $350 for the 16gb version.

Specs Include:

SCREEN

4.7" diagonal

1280 x 768 pixel resolution (320 ppi)

WXGA IPS

Corning(R) Gorilla(R) Glass 2

CPU

Qualcomm Snapdragon(TM) S4 Pro

SIZE

133.9 x 68.7 x 9.1 mm

WEIGHT

139g

CAMERAS

8 MP (main)

1.3 MP (front)

NETWORK

Unlocked GSM/UMTS/HSPA+

GSM/EDGE/GPRS (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

3G (850, 900, 1700, 1900, 2100 MHz)

HSPA+ 42

MEMORY

16 GB internal storage (actual formatted capacity will be less)

2 GB RAM

CONNECTIVITY

Micro USB

SlimPort HDMI

3.5mm headphone jack

WIRELESS

Wireless charging

WiFi 802.11 b/g/n

NFC (Android Beam)

Bluetooth

BATTERY

2,100 mAh Lithium polymer

OS

Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)

SENSORS

Microphone

Accelerometer

Compass

Ambient light

Gyroscope

Barometer

GPS

LG has finally made something good!

I recently discovered that the LG Optimus G has been released. Its a heck of a phone really,
specs. The phone will be used as the base for the next google nexus. It is almost perfect, great everything.

You have to take a look at this
http://www.lg.com/us/cell-phones/lg-LS970-optimus-g

When did they come up with this. first its lg optimus one, then optimus black, then the new, best phone in the world. AWSOME. The problem is, it is CDMA which means sprint! sprint gets the best phone ever yet.

It has a 1.5 gHz quad core processor, a 4.7 inch HD display, 10+ hours of talk time because of the 2,100 mAh battery which provides 13.5 days of standby time. It will be running android 4.0 ice cream sandwich. It will come with the new Google Chrome for mobile devices. It is 4G LTE capable. It also has a 13 Mega Pixel camera.

It has so much more I would like to talk about, but i can't, its TOO MUCH. So head over to their website link up there. Thank You!