Measure heart rate with Android phone? Seriously, can a smartphone do that? I stumbled on a free Android application ~ Instant Heart Rate by Azumio Inc. It turns your Android phone into a heart rate monitor. In short, it uses phone built-in camera to track color changes on the fingertip that are directly linked to your pulse. This is the very same technique that medical pulse oximeters use. Accurate or not? Try it out yourself to find out…
Google denied Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade on old Nexus One officially. But that does not stop developers from create Android 4.0 ICS ROM for Nexus One. And ported to HTC HD2. Since the porting is just started few days after Google released Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich source code to Android Open Source Project (AOSP), it is consider beta version to me as not all the functions are working well and smoothly. But it sure looks good for early build and no soft buttons like Galaxy Nexus. So you have extra space on screen and use hardware buttons instead. And I am looking forward for the main stuff that I want in Android 4.0 to be working ~ 2D hardware acceleration with GPU.
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ROM on Amazon Kindle Fire is not perfect yet. Can’t use it as daily ROM. So I am using CyanogenMod 7 ROM on my Kindle Fire now. But I still want to have the ICS feel. So what should I do? Install Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet Theme on CM7 Kindle Fire. It does not have ICS features but will make my Kindle Fire looks like using ICS ROM (almost)…
The primary reason that I bought Amazon Kindle Fire ~ the ability to install custom Android ROM on Kindle Fire. Yes, we can install custom Android ROM like CM7 Android 2.3 Gingerbread, CM9 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on Kindle Fire to replace the stock software from Amazon. We can do so with the help of TWRP 2.0 Recovery. Note – install a new custom Android ROM will replace existing ROM. So do make a full Kindle Fire system backup with TWRP 2.0 Recovery before continue. Done everything? Let’s follow below step by step video tutorial guide to install custom Android ROM on Kindle Fire.
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I mentioned that Amazon Kindle Fire is not perfect on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich due to poor kernel support. However, thing had changed and changing fast. Lot of developers like Hashcode are working hard to make a better Android 4.0 ICS Kernel on Kindle Fire. Yes, we have better display driver and audio driver. Ducati / hardware codecs are working now. I can play 1080p MP4 video smoothly now thanks to hardware accelerated GPU support. This 3.0 Kernel is getting better each day. But it does have bugs like can’t shutdown properly issue. So only try this beta kernel if you know what you are doing…
