Friday, September 4, 2015

Sony Xperia Z5, 2nd Gen Moto 360, Samsung Gear S2 and More Unveiled at IFA! – XDA TV

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It's Friday, September 4, 2015, and let's talk about what happened this week over at XDA-developers.com. IFA is going on this week, so we've got a lot of new device announcements to go over.

Sony, obviously, is going to be releasing the Xperia Z5 and Z5 Compact, but they're changing things up and including a third device in the lineup, the Z5 Premium, with a 5.5″ 4k display. For most of the specs, you can check out the Portal post, but they've all got the Snapdragon 810, which doesn't sound like a good thing, 2 or 3 gigs of RAM, and pretty decent sized batteries with microSD card slots. Forums for those three devices are now available if you're interested in talking more about them.

Huawei showed off its first Android Wear device, the Huawei Watch, and Jack was able to get hands on with it while he was there. He's got an article with lots of information and pictures up on the Portal, and additionally, preorders for that watch are now available over on Amazon showing a release date of September 17th, if you're interested.

The Moto 360 Generation 2, the Acer Predator 6, the Asus Zenwatch 2, the Huawei Mate S, and the Samsung Gear S2 were all unveiled as well, and forums were created for them.

Moving on to non-IFA news, Android Wear was updated this week, adding support for iOS devices, specifically the iPhone 5 and newer, running at least iOS version 8.2. Not sure how many, if any, of you this will affect, but still, I thought it was worth mentioning.

From a forum post by XDA Senior Member v6ser, Amazon is supposedly going to be offering bootloader unlock codes for the Fire Phone. Last time I checked, you could still get one for about $125 with a free year of Amazon Prime, so it might be worth taking another look at it.

XDA Recognized Contributor Gene Sixx BF3 released an early alpha of CM 12.1 for the T-Mobile and International versions of the LG G4. Bluetooth, RIL, NFC and the camera don't appear to be working at this point, so that's pretty major, but it's a first step, so if you've got the G4 and want to help out, or try it out, head on over there.

An unofficial build of CM 12.1 for the OnePlus Two is now available thanks to XDA Recognized Developer Grarak. Laser Autofocus, the fingerprint sensor, the notification slider and enforcing SELinux aren't working on that one, which are slightly less significant issues, so you might be interested in taking a look at his thread.

XDA Senior Member lost101 put together a guide showing you how to fastboot flash images onto the 3rd generation Moto G, just in case you need it.

"Rovo89 put out an update to Xposed adding in support for Android 5.1, though stock Samsung ROMs and some Sony devices don't work with it, so keep that in mind."

There were several mods released for the Note 5. Wanam put out an unofficial build of Xposed for it, arter97 released his kernel for it promising better memory management, and XDA Forum Member sshafranko put out a surround sound mod to allow it to use both the earpiece and rear speaker at the same time. Links to all of those down below.

A YouTuber called How2Tech put out a video showing how you can remove an S Pen that's stuck backwards in the Note 5 using a thin strip of stiff paper.

XDA Senior Member Geiti94 put out a guide on how to root the Note 4 N910C running Android 5.1.1, so you may want to read through that if you haven't rooted your device yet. And once it's rooted, XDA Recognized Contributor KevinRocksMan has ported his "Project Super Camera on Steroids" over to the Note 4, allowing you to record 4k for up to an hour, so flash away.

And finally, of course, forums for the ZUK Z1 are now available.

But you know what? That's going to be about all from me for today. You can find the links to all the stories I talked about in the video description, as well as the links to my YouTube channels. Remember if you liked this video to leave a like down below, and subscribe to receive our content as soon as it becomes available. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time.

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