Unlock AT&T HTC One X

This may help you to unlock the AT&T HTC One X, but it is not always safe for doing this.

In fact, the functions on HTC One X and AT&T HTC One X are the same, the little difference between them is AT&T HTC One X has the 4G LTE capability, and an evident difference except for the function between them is we can get the AT&T HTC One X with a attractive price, $199.99 on a 2-year contract, much cheaper than the international version. However, the pity is we can only use AT&T HTC One X with AT&T SIM card, if we want to change it, the only way is to unlock the AT&T HTC One X phone.

The sad thing that we can't get any method from HTC to unlock this AT&T HTC One X, as they can't do that under the symbiosis relationship between HTC  and AT&T.

The good news is there is a way can unlock AT&T HTC One X phone from Xda-Developers , which method is unlock the bootloader on AT&T HTC One X through  HTC-Dev. The detail steps can be got with the link upon.

Original Source: Xda-Developers

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Which is a upgrade from GreenPois0n can compatible with A4 devices like iPhone 4 or iPad, and also the A5 powered devices like iPhone 4S or new iPad (iPad 3). And the describes from Jailbreak untethered says that which can untethered iOS5.1.1 jailbreak for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad, iPad 2 and new iPad or iPad 3, iPod Touch 3G , iPod Touch 4G.

So that means it is really a good news for us who want to jailbreak iOS5.1.1 untethered on iPhone 4S, New iPad.

However, it is not always safe and good for us to jailbreak our iPhone, iPod and iPad, for one thing, we should be careful when we jailbreak iPhone, iPod and iPad, or we'll lose our all things which already on our iPhone, iPod and iPad; for another thing is if we are jailbreaked our iPhone, iPod and iPad, Apple will reduce the chances of warranty.

Get Free Music on iPhone, iPod and iPad

Now big news for you to get free music on iPhone, iPod and iPad, it probably the best news before iPhone 5 get released. The way of  how to get free music on iPhone , iPod and iPad  is become more and more important for those people who get music from iTunes store with high price.

I know some of us may download music from some website to computer with free first, and then add the music to iTunes library to sync to iPhone ,iPod and iPad, but actually this way is not a legal way to get free music.

So what's the best legal way of getting free music to iPhone, iPod and iPad ? Most of us may have got it to get free music for a long time, that is Spotify, with Spotify installed on iPhone, iPod and iPad, we can get millions of songs with its services, and one of its service is absolutely free, therefore, this is the best way to get free music on our iPhone, iPod and iPad so far.

With the success of offerring free music service on iPhone, iPod and iPad, Spotify is facing more and more rivals all over the world, although it has already became a famous and popular free music tool on iPhone, iPod and iPad.

The Sony Music Unlimited is probably be the strongest rival to Spotify for iOS users in the near future, which $9.99/month service can offers 15 million tracks to users, which has been got available to Android user from last year, and now which will be available on iPhone, iPod and iPad just in a few days. So Sony Music Unlimited will become one of the way to get free music on iPhone, iPod and iPad soon.

Therefore, we'll not need to worry about there is difficult to get free music for our iPhone, iPod and iPad anymore, with the two strong music service providers, Spotify and Sony Music Unlimited, we can make it easy to get free music on our iPhone, iPod and iPad.

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Samsung Galaxy Nexus is must be familiar with you from last year, which is almost the first smartphone powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS in the world, now which is available on Verizon and Sprint with $199.99 on a 2-year contract, except for its low price, the configuration on Samsung Galaxy Nexus is also makes it good, it can work well for you to watch a 1080p HD movie or play your favorite games on it, and you can do multiple task at a time with it, as Samsung Galaxy Nexus has a 1.2GHz dual core TIOMAP 4460 processor, and 1GB RAM, and a 4.65 inch Supper AMOLED 720p display, and its built-in storage is 32GB, what an amazing thing among the same conditions smartphones.  And aside from the 1080p HD video playback, which can also support to record a 1080p HD, 30fps video with its 5MP main camera,  and its 1.3MP front facing camera will bring you a good experience when you need to do video call or video conference. Some internal online services may make you more easy to share things from Samsung Galaxy Nexus, they are Facebook, Youtube(upload), Picasa, Twitter, then you may find it is great for you to upload photos, videos to Facebook, Youtube or Twitter from this Android Phone.

*Notice: Samsung Galaxy Nexus can play MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 format videos, and which support HTML 5, except for HTML and Flash, and an important function on Samsung Galaxy Nexus is NFC. Now it is available on Verizon and Sprint.

HTC One X (AT&T version)

What you need to know is HTC One X in this article is AT&T version but not the international version, different from the international version, this HTC One X is powered by a 1.5GHz dual core Snapdragon S4 processor, and its built-in storage is 16GB, other specifics like RAM , camera, display and applications are the same as the international version, 1GB RAM(DDR2), and a 8MP camera with HTC ImageSence 4.0 technology and a 1.3MP  front camera, the applications are HTC Watch, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube HD, Google Maps, Amazon Kindle, Tunein radio, SoundHound, Movie Editor. Which 8MP main camera can record a 1080p HD, 60fps video, and it can also express a good experience when you play your favorite Bluray movies(1080p)  or play a HD games on it, another specific of HTC One X is the screen on it is a 4.7inch 720p S-LCD2 display.

Except for these specifics upon, there are two unique features that HTC One X has, they are the Beats Audio and HTC ImageSence 4.0, the Beats Audio will bring you a great audio quality when you listen music or watch movies on it, and the HTC ImageSence 4.0 has got improved from the HTC ImageSence 3.0, which can allow you get the best experience when you use the 8MP camera to take photos or shot videos.

*Notice: HTC One X is famous for its Beats Audio and HTC ImageSence 4.0, the video format supported with HTC One X are MPEG4,H.263, H.264, WMV, 3GP and 3G2, and which support the HTML 5 ,HTML and Flash,  and also the NFC. Now it is available on AT&T with $199.99 on a 2-year contract.

Motorola Droid Razr MAXX

The Motorola Droid Razr MAXX is enhanced its battery life, which battery capacity is 3300mAh, can support 380 hours standby time and 21.5 hours talk time. Which powered by Android 2.3, but it allow us to update it to Android 4.0.  The hardware on Droid Razr MAXX  is a 1.2GHz dual core TIOMAP 4430 processore, 1GB dual channel RAM, 16GB built-in storage (up to 32GB extended capablity with a SD card), and 8MP with 1080p HD, 30fps video recording capability, and 1.3MP front facing camera with 720p video recording capability, and most amazing features for Droid Razr MAXX is there are many photo editing functions like cropping, rotating, geo tagging, brightness, color, enhance, flip, resizing and effects.And which support all Google Mobile services like Google eBooks, Youtube, Google Talk , Google Maps and so on. And the screen on Motorola Droid Razr MAXX is a 4.3 inch 540×960 pixels Supper AMOLED display.

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Step 1, Which need  you to install the latest Facebook app(iOS version) on iPhone , iPod or iPad, and this free app can also be found on Apple App Store. However, you can update it to the latest one if you have installed the Facebook app on iPhone, iPod or iPad.

Step 2, Tap Photo icon on this app, then two options about where you get the photos will appear, the one is Take Photo or Video  and the other one is Choose From Library.

Step 3, If you want to share the current moment on Facebook, just choose the option of  'Take Photo or Video', then you can take the moment and tap 'Use' button at the bottom right of the photo to fill a caption, then automatically upload it to Facebook by tapping 'Upload' button;

If the photo you want to upload to Facebook is already on the iPhone, iPod or iPad, you should tap Choose From Library, then the iPhone, iPod or iPad Photo Album will be opened , then you can choose the photo you want to upload from photo library or other places you have stored the photos, and then tap the 'Post' button on the top right to automatically upload the photo to Facebook.

Aside from this, we can also upload photo from iPhone, iPod or iPad to a new album or an existing album on Facebook.

So you may find the way of using Facebook app on iPhone, iPod and iPad to upload a photo from iPhone, iPod or iPad to Facebook is very easy, but for uploading multiple photos, which can be only done on iPhone and iPad with the same way. So if we want to upload multiple photos from iPod to Facebook? how can we do?

In fact, that is not a difficulty for us to do it, because we can find many this kind of apps to upload multiple photos from our iPod to Facebook, but most of them are need us to pay for it for use. Fortunately, there is an app which is PhotoUp can share multiple photos from iPod to Facebook at one time with free, and PhotoUp can also be used on iPhone and iPad, most important is which seems more easy to use to upload multiple photos to Facebook from iPhone, iPod and iPad.  In any case, let's solve the problem of how to upload multiple photos from iPod to Facebook now.

First, Pick the photos you want to upload, and even you can select a whole album you want,

Second, This step is so easy that it just need you to tap the send button, then the photos you picked will upload to Facebook soon.

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Buy Galaxy Note or iPhone 4S?

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 Things on Samsung Galaxy Note LTE

 

With the name of Galaxy Note LTE, we can get to know that Samsung Galaxy Note support the 4G network, but now  in United States, this new smartphone is only available in AT&T. Which most obvious characteristic is Galaxy Note own a large body, as its display dimension is 5.3 inch, most probably the biggest smartphone in the world so far, therfore, if you want to play games, or watch movie on your phone, the Samsung Galxy Note LTE is surely the great choice for you. And some specifics on Samsung Galaxy Note you should know that which runs a 1.4GHz dual core professional, and features a 1GB RAM, and the requistie things  the camera are 8MP main camera and 2MP front facing camera, these configurations are most smartphones have now, but a little better than iPhone 4S.

Actually, we can't find some amazing specifics on Samsung Galaxy Note LTE except for its huge screen, so why Samsung Galaxy Note LTE is also so famous among people? The main reason I think is which added some useful applications that they can bring people a better user experience then other smartphone with higher configuration like quad core phone from HuaWei.

And the most interesting application on Samsung Galaxy Note LTE is the strong S Pen, which can do many things similar to reality with its specifically app, such as we can use S Pen write  personalized notes, easily draw pictures, doodle on any photo you want and so on, and that progress is the same as what you do when you use a pen to draw and write on papers, it's very interesting and convenient, so this is the main characteristic on Samsung Galaxy Note LTE.

Things on iPhone 4S

 

As what we know, the iPhone 4S is the best smartphone since it was released on Oct. last year, which is the first device equiped the retina display in the world, and the first device installed Siri, these features made iPhone 4S became so famous all over the world during a little time. Which uses the 1GB dual core A5 processor, and with the long term use with people, we may find that it is good to use the 3.5 inch retina display iPhone to do things we want, such as an entertainment with Siri, an enjoyment of HD 1080p movies, a fluent video call with friends,  and of course good time of playing games on it. So iPhone 4S is still the best smartphone, isn't it?

Which is Better Between iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy Note LTE

 

 Exactly, it's hard to say which one is better on iPhone 4S and Galaxy Note LTE, but some changes you may find on the design idea that Samsung Galaxy Note LTE is designed with 5.3 inch display, and the multiple functions S Pen, the former is very good for people to play games and watch movies on it, and the latter is easy and interesting for people to do applications on entertainment and business, but it is still a general phone from its hardware configurations.

So if you want to get a super visual experience on playing games and watching movies with a phone, the Samsung Galaxy Note LTE is better for you, if you want easily write a personalized notes, doodle funny things on photos, the Samsung Galaxy Note LTE is better for you, if you want to easily and clearly share your business ideas to other people, the Samsung Galaxy Note LTE is better for you, so with these reason, you should buy Samsung Galaxy Note LTE. But on the contrary, the iPhone 4S is better for you.

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MT657x (MT6515 / MT6575 / MT6577) flashing tutorial

Now that the new MediaTek SoC has been released, it is time to publish the instructions on how to flash your MT65x5 (MT6515 and MT6575) based phone. Please note that the images shown on this tutorial are just examples and that you must flash your phone with the correct ROM files.

Make sure that you read everything carefully and know what you are doing. Don't blame me for any damage that may occur on your phone.



Update: By the time that this tutorial was written only MT65x5 was available. Current MT6577 based phones can also be flashed using the exact same method, so this has just been updated with references to that most recent SoC.

What's needed:

• USB data cable
• MediaTek USB VCOM drivers 
• SP Flash Tool (v3.1206.01 or higher for MT6575 / v3.1222.00 or higher for MT6577)

Note: SP Flash Tool is backward compatible, which means you can (and should) use the most up to date version.

And now the tutorial...

• First of all, make sure that you have MediaTek DA USB VCOM drivers installed.

Flashing the whole ROM

• First of all open SP Flash Tool, then click Scatter-loading button to load the correct scatter file (MT6575_Android_scatter_emmc.txt or MT6577_Android_scatter_emmc.txt, depending on which phone you have)  for your device and ignore any message that may appear.

• Turn off your phone, remove the battery and replace it after some seconds (and don't turn on the phone).
• Press F9 (or hit Download button) and connect your phone into the computer via USB data cable. The process will start and a red progress bar will appear.

•  After the red progress bar is complete, there will appear a purple progress bar.

• Right after the purple progress bar is complete, a message will appear underneath it: “Please insert USB cable in x seconds” and then the download will start right away (you will see the yellow progress bar filling up).

• When the yellow bar is complete, you'll get a popup with a green circle and Download OK message, which means that the process has been successfully terminated.

• You can now safely disconnect your phone and turn it on. The process ends here.

Flashing only part of the ROM

• In case you want to flash just one part of the ROM, that is also possible. In the shown example, only recovery image will be flashed. Deselect all parts except the one(s) you want to flash and then press F9 (or hit Download button).

• The tool will immediately show a warning because not all parts are selected, but you should continue anyway. Safely press Yes to continue.

• The download of the chosen partition image will start and after the yellow bar is complete, the popup with the green circle should appear.

• Please note that, even though it isn't mandatory to select it on the list of images to flash, preloader file must be present in the same folder as the other partition(s) that you want to flash, or else phone will not be able to enter into download mode.

Attention: Please follow the instructions carefully. I will not take any responsibility on whatever may happen with your phone.

Very important warning: Always make sure that you trust the sources of the ROM you download and know that it is meant for your phone. After flashing a wrong preloader, your phone will be completely dead (can't be powered on, it will not charge and won't be detected anymore by the computer) and there is no way to recover it.

Last note: All needed tools and drivers can be downloaded from my MT65xx Tools 4shared folder. The password to login is bm-smartphone-reviews.blogspot.com. Have fun!

The Start on Smartphone Things

Exactly, this is my first article on Smartphone Things blog, I believe there will be more and more articles on here. You may find that there are surely a lot of things we can get on smartphones, but some difficulties you may find at the same time that we are not so easy to find a definite information on smartphones from the sea of internet. So Smartphone Things blog is focus on the smartphone skills including multimedia, applications, new features, and comparison between different smartphones. Which are hoped to help people to solve their puzzles on how to choose a right smartphone,  how to use the new features on a new smartphone, how to solve the multimedia problem on smartphones like transferring music or vdieos between smartphone and computer, and even how to unlock a smartphone ,etc..

Now the Smartphone Things Blog is just zero, but you will find its content will become plentiful day after day, because I am starting to do hard work to make it good in tomorrow.

ThL V9 (Dual SIM with 3G support)

Introduction

If you have been following the latest news, then you should be already aware that MediaTek has released the new MT6575 chipset. The first engineering samples started to emerge by the end of the first quarter of this year and right now, the market is already filled up with quite a few interesting options.

I have decided to take ThL V9, not only for its appealing design, but also because the manufacturer is known for releasing phones with great quality and providing updates very often.

Specifications

Chipset
Name:	MediaTek MT6575
CPU:	1 GHz ARM Cortex™-A9
GPU:	PowerVR™ SGX 531
Instruction set:	ARMv7
Software environment
Embedded:OS:	Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread)
Body
Dimensions (width x height x depth):	130 x 65.5 x 12.1 millimetres
Weigth:	139 grams (battery included)
Color:	Black (also available in white or grey)
Battery
Capacity:	1550 mAh
Memory
RAM:capacity:	512 MB
ROM-capacity:	4 GB
Expansion slot:	microSD memory card, supporting up to 32 GB
Network support
Primary phone:	GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS850, UMTS2100
Secondary phone:	GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900
Data links:	GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, HSUPA
Display
Type:	Sharp ASV-LCD capacitive touchscreen
Size:	4.3 inches, qHD resolution (540 x 960 pixels)
Camera
Main (rear):	5 megapixels with autofocus and dual LED flash
Secondary (front):	0.3 megapixels
Interfaces
Bluetooth (802.15):	Bluetooth 3.0 + Enhanced Data Rate
Wireless LAN / Wi-Fi (802.11):	IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n
USB:	USB 2.0 Client, Hi-Speed (480 Mbit/s) USB Series Micro-B (Micro-USB) connector
Satellite navigation
Built-in GPS module:	MT6620 chipset
GPS antenna:	Internal
Complementary GPS services:	A-GPS (Assisted GPS), MediaTek EPO (Extended Prediction Orbit)
Additional features
Sensors:	Gravity, Proximity, Light and Magnetic field sensors
Analog Radio:	FM radio (87.5-108 MHz) with RDS radio receiver

Design and construction

This is actually one of the best well built Chinese smartphones that I've ever reviewed and a perfect clone of HTC Amaze 4G. Now that I was used to a 4" screen smartphone, of course I find it a bit larger (and a little bit heavier), but that's easily forgotten as soon as you start playing with it.

Rather than sink down into its bezel, its display actually rises slightly above it, giving the impression that it's coming out at you.

The 3,5 mm headset jack and dedicated power button are located on the top edge. The extra-large volume rocker is placed on the right edge.

The micro-USB port is located on the left edge. I usually prefer to have it at the top or bottom so that I can use the phone -while in charge- without having the cable get in the way.

On the right side of the device there are also shutter press and video record buttons for the camera.

On the back side, we find the 5 megapixels autofocus camera above a dual LED flash.

Getting the back of the phone off is easy, just having to slide the cover up.

The two SIM slots and the microSD slot can only be accessed after removing the battery.

Display quality

This phone features an ASV-LCD from Sharp and its definition is simply amazing.

The colours are vivid and really vibrant on this display. It has excellent viewing angles and is easily readable in direct sunlight.

Functionality

There are not that many changes related to the user interface, given that the stock ROM is still based on Android 2.3. Anyway, for those that haven't had any contact with a MT65x3 phone before, here are some screenshots and details of the most important features.

The notification panel provides a fast access for brightness and display timeout setting, enabling or disabling auto rotation, Wi-Fi, BT, GPS and data connection, as well as alternating between sound profiles.

The dialer interface has changed a little bit, although the features are exactly the same. It supports smart dialing feature (can be seen on the second picture) which works perfectly and very fast!

The dial button can immediately start the call when a SIM is set as default for voice calls or open a pop up which let's you choose from which SIM the call should be established.

In call history screen, the list of missed / received / made calls can be checked with the indication of the name of the SIM. In addition, you can filter calls by SIM.

Many options can be set under the dual SIM management menu. The user can edit the name of each SIM and also set the associated background color that will appear in call log as well as in the notification bar (behind the network strength bars).

In the same menu, the user has the possibility to set a default SIM card to establish all outgoing calls (both voice and video) or set it to always ask, thus enabling the pop up that I have referred above (with the options of which SIM card should initiate the call). The same thing can be set for messaging and data connection purposes.

The phone is equipped with proximity, light, gravity and magnetic field (compass) sensors.

It also natively supports portable Wi-Fi hotspot feature, letting the user share data connection over a wireless network.

And just like it happened on previous MediaTek platforms, the feature to schedule power on / off is present. This is a feature that can only be found on very few smartphones.

The phone comes pre-installed with all Google applications, supporting e-mail, contact and calendar syncing. Google Play Store (formerly known as Android Market) works without any problem, providing access for free and paid applications / games.

Adobe Flash support was something that the owners of phones based on the previous MediaTek platform were missing (although there was a modified version for ARMv6 devices that worked more or less well). That is not a problem any more on the new platform, given that MT6575 already features an ARMv7 compliant processor.

Another weakness of the MT65x3 phones was the lack of NEON instruction set support, which didn't allowed Skype video calls (the user was limited to voice calls only). The processor used on the new MT6575 platform now supports it, so the users can enjoy Skype's video-calling feature. Personally, I have already tested it and I must say that it works flawlessly.

In terms of network reception, the phone performs greatly, having successfully passed all the tests that I've performed. Sound quality is clear enough and microphone quality is good.

Finally, but not less important, it must be mentioned that SIM2 will be reachable even if there is an active data connection established on SIM1. The data connection will be immediately dropped when a new call is incoming from SIM2 and the download will be automatically resumed after the call is over. 

MT6575 chipset and benchmarks

MT6575 chipset features a single core 1 GHz ARM Cortex™-A9 processor and a PowerVR™ SGX531 graphical processor. The difference in terms of speed are easily noticed and the benchmarks prove it. Here you have the results of both ThL V9 and my good "old" G11i Pro (MT6575 versus MT6573).

 ThL V9 benchmark scores

G11i Pro benchmark scores
(stock CPU frequency - 650 MHz)

G11i Pro benchmark scores
(overclocked CPU - 800 MHz)

The differences when compared to MT6573 (the device used for the benchmarks was G11i Pro) are pretty obvious: the benchmark score of ThL V9 is almost twice of G11i Pro (when overclocked to 800 MHz). For a more fair comparison, a friend of mine gently provided the score of his ZTE U960 (which is based on MSM8255 chipset):

ZTE U960 benchmark scores

I was pleasantly surprised to see that MediaTek MT6575 outperforms Qualcomm MSM8255, taking into account that both processors work at the same frequency -1 GHz. What a great job, MediaTek!

Final thoughts

I'm really amazed with the performance of this phone. I only wished that I could have tested this phone already running Android 4.0 (there are rumours that a future update will be released given that other competitors are also working on it). Anyway, if you were looking for a fast and stable Dual SIM featuring 3G support, here's your chance.

Just let me finish this review with an advertisement... in order to avoid questions regarding where to buy it from, you can always visit my partner shop (etotalk.com). ThL V9 is available for 229 USD.

Highs:

• High quality product
• Good battery life taking into consideration the big screen
• ARMv7 compliant processor (enabling native support for Adobe Flash and other applications)

Lows:

• Should have been released out-of-the-box with Android 4.0