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Samsung has released the Android 4.4 KitKat kernel source for Sprint’s Galaxy S4 variant, which is great news for Galaxy S4 users on the U.S. carrier. Samsung does not release kernel source code for non-official builds, so the availability of the KitKat kernel means that users should be receiving official Android 4.4 KitKat OTA updates […]
Custom ROM and kernel development just got easier for developers working on the Galaxy S4 Zoom and the Galaxy S4 LTE-A, as Samsung has released the kernel source for both devices. The Galaxy S4 Zoom already had sources available, but the new ones are for the LTE variant, while S4 LTE-A's sources have been released […]
Yesterday, Samsung announced that the Android 4.4 KitKat update will begin rolling out to devices, and now, the company has posted the KitKat kernel source for the Sprint variant of the Galaxy Note 3. The KitKat kernel source for the Sprint Galaxy S4 was followed by the OTA update, so it's a surefire sign that […]
Samsung released the KitKat kernel source code for Sprint's Galaxy S4 variant yesterday, which was a sign that the official KitKat update wasn’t far away. A leaked internal document from Sprint indicates that the KitKat update will be rolled out to users starting later today. The memo mentions that customers must wait until Google’s servers […]
Samsung is expected to update the Galaxy S4 to Android 4.4 KitKat in January next year, but if you can't wait that long and are willing to try out a custom ROM that takes away all the features Samsung's puts on its devices, then you can try out Android 4.4 on your S4 right away, […]
Samsung is continuing its spree of releasing kernel source for its devices – following a source release of the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition, developers can now access all the kernel data they need for the Galaxy Tab 3 Kids and the GT-i9507. That's right, the source is available for the GT-i9507, a Galaxy S4 […]
Rooting Samsung phones, at least the popular ones, is never too complex, unless you're using a specific carrier variant. US carriers like Verizon and AT&T have made it a fashion to lock down Samsung's flagship phones so tightly that achieving root access has become a cat and mouse game that sees developers trying every trick […]
Folks over at Samsung Exynos have just started to post teasers for their event at CES 2014 in Las Vegas. As always, Samsung Exynos will be announcing their next generation SoCs, hopefully also unveiling the much rumoured 64-bit chip as well. But, the thing which strikes us the most about their tweet is the hashtag, […]
Looks like Samsung Exynos is busy with a new SoC, the Exynos 5420. According to the files from patchwork.kernel.org, Samsung Exynos did test compatible strings for Exynos 5420. Now let's hope this time the Exynos 5420 is completed right on time and works well. According to the research found by a developer and published by SamMobile, the Samsung […]
Over the past few months there have been a lot of talks going on about the system on a chip (SoC) choices that Samsung’s Mobile division has made for their recent and upcoming products; now new information has shed more light as to how these choices came to be, their reasoning, and what the repercussions […]