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How to force Nexus 7 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean OTA system update?

Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean had been out for weeks. However, not all Google Nexus 7 receive this OTA system update including mine. “Your system is up to date.” is what I get when check for System updates. Luckily, there is a way to force Nexus 7 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean OTA system update. Anything new in this Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean system update for Nexus 7? Well, you get performance and stability improvements and bugs fixes. Landscape orientation rotation on Home screen (finally!). And updated bootloader which allow you to load recovery mode without connection to PC with USB cable…

Nexus 7 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean OTA system update

How to enable Adobe Flash Player on Nexus 7?

How to enable Adobe Flash Player on Google Nexus 7? Adobe Flash Player 11 is no longer supported on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and above. Of course, Nexus 7 with latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is not supported as well. Personally, I don’t use Adobe Flash Player much on mobile devices like Android or iOS since HTML5 came out. Even Google Chrome does not support Adobe Flash Player natively. You should get used to not using Adobe Flash Player. And make noise to the website that you visit most to stop using Adobe Flash as well. Change all to HTML5…

Adobe Flash Player on Nexus 7

How to protect Nexus 7 root access on OTA update?

I always use Voodoo OTA RootKeeper as a temporary unroot tool for my Samsung Galaxy S2, S3 and Kindle Fire. Why? OTA RootKeeper will not make root survive OTA on these Android devices. However, I have Google Nexus 7 now. And it is just like other Nexus devices – Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus… It should be able to use Voodoo OTA RootKeeper to protect root access and survive OTA update. But I still have no chance to test it out yet…

Voodoo OTA RootKeeper on Nexus 7

Download official VLC for Android Free

Finally, we have official VLC for Android at Google Play Store. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files (MKV, AVI, RM, RMVB, WMV, MP4). However, this is not a final VLC version (still in beta stage). So do expect bugs flying around here and there. Currently, VLC only support CPU ARMv7 with NEON. Try it out…

Official VLC for Android

How to install custom kernel on Samsung Galaxy S3?

Having a good kernel on Android devices can further improve its overall performance. The better kernel you have, the better performance and more features you will get for your Android smartphone like Samsung Galaxy S III. What is the benefit of using custom kernel? Root access, insecure adb, custom boot animation support, overclocking, undervolting voltage control, multiple tweaked CPU governors, GPU overclocking, I/O tweaks, automatic backup of EFS partition, NTFS USB driver support are some of the features of custom kernel. So if you want to have better performance on Samsung Galaxy S3, try out custom kernel…

SiyahKernel for Samsung Galaxy S3

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