The best part is that all four Mi TVs come with Amazon Prime Video and Netflix and Android 9.0 out of the box. So unlike with previous Mi TV where you had to sideload Amazon Prime Video and Netflix apps you can now enjoy them right out of the box. Though we haven’t yet gotten any details from Xiaomi on the DRM certification of the device we can expect it to L1 which will let you stream 4K content from apps like Netflix and Prime Video instead of being stuck to 1080p on your 4k TV.

Xiaomi also announced that five of their old TVs will also be getting Android 9.0 update and with it’ll bring support for Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. The TVs that’ll be getting the update are Mi TV 4A Pro 32-inch, Mi TV 4A Pro 43-inch, Mi TV 4A Pro 49-inch, Mi TV 4C Pro 32-inch and Mi TV 4 Pro 55-inc.

The new Mi TV 4X 65-inch is priced at ₹54,999 and has a 4K HDR 10-bit display with a resolution of 3840×2160 but the brightness of the display isn’t mentioned anywhere, 2x10W built-in speaker with support for Dolby DTS-HD. It also Sports a 64bit Quad-core Amlogic Cortex A55  processor with Mali-470 GPU and 2GB RAM with 8GB of eMMC storage. It also supports Bluetooth 5.0, 5GHZ Wi-Fi and has an option to plugin wired ethernet.

All of the Xiaomi TV comes with both Android TV launcher and a custom launcher from Xiaomi called patch wall and you’ll have the option to choose either one of them from the settings. with being an Android TV these TVs have support for Google Assistant voice search and access to huge library of apps from Play Store. It has a built-in Chromecast so that you can cast anything from your phone or your PC.

Xiaomi has also introduced a new feature aimed to save Data on limited data plans once you set the data limit Xiaomi will automatically adjust video quality so that you won’t cross your data limits.

This launch wasn’t just some yearly launch from Xiaomi but a strategic one to compete with the upcoming OnePlus TV as it’s been building a lot of hype for its launch. Also, these new TVs from Xioami can be preordered from 29th Spet 12 AM same day OnePlus TV goes on say

You can check the more details about all the new TV’s from Xiomi and buy them on Amazon or mi.com

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Glad to partner with @reliancejio on the new #JioPhone, powered by our #205 mobile platform.

— Qualcomm India (@qualcomm_in) July 22, 2017

Qualcomm held an event at Delhi in March this year to announce the Qualcomm 205 SoC. It’s an entry-level Processor geared towards feature phone markets like India.

The Qualcomm  205 SoC designed specifically to provide 4G LTE connectivity to cheaper feature phones. Qualcomm 205 is a Ducal-Core CPU clocked at 1.1 GHz with Qualcomm Adreno 304 GPU. The platform supports 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, FM Radio, 720P Video streaming, 480P recording at 30 FPS, 3 MP camera, dual-SIM connectivity with support for 4G, 3G and 2G networks. It also supports VoLTE and VoWiFi calls.

Read the below post to know all the details on JioPhone launch and its features, Cost and availability

Reliance JioPhone announced with 4G VoLTE and Voice Assistant For an effective price of Rs 0

JioPhone is smarter than all the feature phones out there but at the event no information about the operating system was revealed  in the event, so there are few options here. 

A heavily stripped down version of Android. Since Jio’s apps were built for iOS and Android.So adapting them to an android based platform will be easier.

They could even build its own ecosystem for feature phones. But this would mean that rebuild its apps for the new platform and support it for a long-term.

JioPhone is being addressed as the next big thing in the telecom Industry. Reliance is targeting over 50 crore feature phone users in India who are not able to upgrade their devices due to the High costs of smart phones

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Reliance said the JioPhone is ‘Made In India’ and deemed it as “INDIA KA SMARTPHONE”, and is designed intentionally to look like a conventional smartphone. The JioPhone sports a 2.4-inch QVGA display and has all the features that a conventional phones now comes with. 

But the features that sets this phone apart from all the other phones is that it houses an intelligent voice assistant with support for 22 languages that can help you interact with the device to make calls, send texts, use Jio apps that are pre-installed on the device, surf the web and more.

The phones features an Alphanumeric Keypad and 4-way navigation keys with a dedicated button for the voice assitant. The handset comes bundled with Jio apps like JioTV, Jio Music, Jio movies and few others. The feature phone also has Torchlight, FM Radio and a Dedicated headphone Jack!

Starting August 15 JioPhone buyers will get unlimeted Voice calls, data and SMS’s at RS 153 per moth as part of Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan Plan. The new RS 153 plan will only be avilable to JioPhone buyers additionally the company will offer Rs 24 and Rs 54 sachet recharge for 2 and 7 days respectively with Unlimited data, calls and SMS’s.

Jio also said that JioPhone Buyers can mirror the content from their JioPhone to their TV’s which include smart tv’s, non-smart LCD/LED TV’s and even CRT TV’s with an additional recharge of Rs 309 per month, which will come with a Jio TV cable.

Reliance also said that the NFC feature is inbuilt to the phone which will be made usable with a software update in future to enable Users to pay with UPI,Mobile wallets and other banking apps.

For safety the JioPhone has enabled feature for one button emergency response. Long-Pressing 5 on the JioPhone will trigger a call/message to pre-stored emergency contacts will in future will be expanded to even the police with location co-ordinates.

JioPhone will be available for an effective price of Rs 0 and the company plans to collect a fully refundable deposit of Rs 1,500, which will be refunded after 3 Years on returning the used JioPhone. Reliance JioPhone will be available for beta testing from August 15, prebookings will start from August 24 and will physically be available for the brebooked users from September 2017.

With the announcement of JioPhone Mukesh Ambani also reveled a lot of statistics and future Plan for Jio which you can watch below.

or click here to just watch the highlights of the announcement.

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Google Play Protect first announced in May back at Google I/O as a revamped and more consumer friendly version of the old “Verify Apps” system, with the same goal to protect your device from harmful apps.

Play Protect requires the device to have Google Play Services 11 or higher. Also the apps you download from PlayStore pass through Play Protects Malware Scanning before installing on your device.

If it detects any malware, Play Protect can stop the app from running and issue a warning in the notification area. In worst case scenario it can even uninstall the app from your device on its own.

You can find Play Protect in your Device Settings > Google > Security > Google Play Protect. The user interface is much simpler & lets you know how many apps were scanned, when the scan occurred and lets you know if it finds any harmful apps.

Google is constantly scanning apps to make sure they are safe and now Play Protect will scan your device round the clock and detect apps with suspicious behaviour. But don’t think as Play protect to be your one stop solution, be cautious while downloading apps from unknown sources, also if you regularly sideload apps on your device beware as Play protect will send information about the unknown apps to Google’s server for analysis.

Play Protect is still in roll out process, Once the rollout completes, you’d be able to see Play Protect in Google Play Store menu and in the app update page.

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The new phone is named as RED Hydrogen, although we don’t have much details on this but what we do know is that it will run on Android operating system on a 5.7 inch, although we don’t know the exact resolution quite yet, but it made it to headlines that RED is marketing it as a “professional hydrogen display”.

Red claims that the display on the Hydrogen can let you view 3D, VR, AR, MR and holographic RED Hydrogen 4-View (.H4V) content without the need of headsets of any other peripherals.We don’t know how exactly the above setup works but it’ll be extremely fascinating to see RED actually pull this off.

RED doesn’t just boast about the holographic display but it also states that it has implemented H3O algorithm to the Android OS that which will be able to take regular stereo sound and convert it into “multi-dimensional audio”. Red describes this as 5.1 surround audio for your headphones on the Hydrogen One Phone, it’s also supposed to work with .H4V content on the display.

RED Officialy teases RED Hydrogen One on their website

The company has stated that it is also crafting the Hydrogen to work with modular components that will add additional functionality to the phone, which is something we have already seen with Moto Z Mods. RED has confirmed that the future mods will allow the hydrogen to higher quality pictures, Videos, and h4v content and currently there’s no word as to whether or not all future mods will be focused on camera-centric features.

Hydrogen also features the ability to use it as a monitor interface for the other RED cameras, USB Type-C, MicroSD card slot for storage expansion and finally the most important feature of 2017 a 3.5 mm headphone jack!

This makes it an very ambitious project, and given the company’s outstanding reputation in actual cameras this should be an awesome product release.

You can purchase the RED Hydrogen right now with an aluminium or titanium build for $1,195 or $1,595 respectively and is expected to somewhere in Q1 of 2018. Of course, its quite risky to buy the phone at this time as there’s not much known about the device at the movement.

Product Link:- http://www.red.com/hydrogen

Product Details with Specifications:- http://www.red.com/hydrogen.pdf (it’s a PDF file)

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Nevertheless, developers at XDA who are always trying to bring new features and Mods to all the android, We have got an concept Android O boot animation and all the credits goes to the Developer TechBurner. The boot animation is staring an Oreo in it. But as Google hasn’t confirmed the name yet for Android O we all hope that it’s Android Oreo. 

Get Android O boot animation on Any Android 

For you to perform this operation you’ll need a rooted android device if your android isn’t rooted then there are several guides on XDA developers websites which will help you to achieve this.

Downloads:- 

1. ES File Explorer:- Download
2. Boot animation Zip file:- 720P  1080P 1440P(QHD)

Disclaimer:- messing in your system directory with root permissions may brick your device so only perform this if you know what you’re dealing with. This is not an official android O boot animation and all the rights belongs to TechBurner the developer of this theme.

How to get Android O boot animation on any Android device

• Download the boot animation from the links given above. If you have an android device with an 720P resolution Display, then download the 720P version. i’m performing this on OnePlus 2 which has 1080P display so I have downloaded 1080P version of the boot animation zip file.

• Open the ES Explorer that you downloaded and then enable root explorer and grant Root permissions.

• Now click on root explorer and then click on Mount R/W and change the /System permissions from RO to RW and click on OK.

• Now Navigate to the folder ‘/System/Media’. Here, hold on the boot animation.zip file and then rename it to bootanimation.zip.bak

• Now copy the downloaded bootanimation.zip file from your downloads folder and paste it in ‘/System/Media’

• Hold the bootanimation.zip and and now click on Properties and then on permission and change the permissions to RW-R–R– as shown in the below Image.

• voilà! That’s it you’re done now restart your device and enjoy the sweet new boot animation. 

• Now if you’d like back to go to your previous boot animation just rename the new boot animation to something else and the rename the old boot animation file to bootanimation.zip and done!

Source

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But as an answer Jio has unveiled a new offer called ‘DHAN DHANA DHAN’ which offers free unlimited data,free voice calling, unlimited SMS and three months of access to all the jio apps and services. Existing prime members have to pay Rs. 309 to get 1GB high speed data per day and Rs 509 to get 2GB high speed data per day for three months (84 days). For those who haven’t subscribe for Jio prime can still enjoy these benefits by paying additional Rs. 99 on top of the plans cost.

Further these plans are only applicable for the first recharge. For those users who have recharged Rs 303 for the ‘Summer Surprise Offer’ will not be eligible to obtain this offer. However they will still get to enjoy the benefits of ‘Summer Surprise Offer’.

These are the plans offered in the Reliance Jio recharge page:

This offer may further lead to more contradictions between jio and its competitors. Airtel and Idea have already filed a plea with TDSAT over TRAI’s decision allow Jio to extend its free services beyond the set 90-day limit. Vodafone has also written a letter to TRAI stating that Jio is still “luring customers” to subscribe to its Summer Surprise offer.

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If you’re the type of person who can’t wait a week for the general roll out, chances are that you’re already on an Insider build and you may have had a taste of creators update.If you’re an insider build user maybe this is the time to move to stable build using this tool as Microsoft recently warned that upcoming Insider builds might be more buggy than usual.

But if you haven’t tested the insider builds because of the buggy OS here’s a chance to upgrade to Windows 10 Creators Update build before your friends!

Let’s Begin: Windows 10 Creators Update

Click here to watch this video directly on YouTube.  

1) Download Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant from this link ( Click here to download directly)

2) Open the downloaded Upgrade assistant tool and then –>Click on Upgrade –> Click on Next. 

Now it should start downloading this may take some time depending on your Internet connection.

3) Once Downloaded make sure to save all your work and –>click on Restart now 

4) This will restart your computer several times automatically. Once done you’ll get privacy settings menu just leave the options to default or change it as per your requirements and –> click Accept, then –> click on Next. 

That’s it after a few minutes of brief hold your PC will be up and running with the latest Windows 10 Creators Update Build.

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First I’m going to start by installing Ubuntu OS on a virtual machine and then work my way around downloading the sources, completing the build and then finally fixing the errors that you may face while building Lineage OS. But its always better to have knowledge about using basic Linux terminal commands and Android operations. 

Depending on your computer and internet speed this process could take anywhere from 5 hours to even 5 days. You’ll be downloading more than 15GB of source code Plus your computer hardware will determine the time taken for compiling the code. I have an Intel core i7 6700HQ and around 10 GB of ram associated to the virtual machine with a high-performance SSD and it took around 60-90 mins on the virtual machine, but if you were running Linux natively on your computer rather than on an virtual machine you’ll get much better results. 

What you’ll need:-

1. A Android device with lineage OS support. See all the supported devices here.

2. A computer running on Linux or OSX (see below for instructions on Ubuntu installation on an virtual machine)

3. A minimum of 150 GB of disk space

4. Reliable electricity and a fast internet connection.

5. Patience! 

Part 1:- Setting Up Ubuntu Virtual machine for Building lineage OS.

The video below will show you how to setup the virtual machine with Ubuntu running.

Once the installation is done and you have changed to your nearest server enter the below commands into the terminal to update all the packages.

Download Ubuntu Linux :- https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

Download VMware Workstation Player :- http://bit.ly/1ph2jzC

Part 2:- Downloading the source code and building the Lineage OS .

Whatch it directly on Youtube!

1. Installing the SDK

•Type these commands into the terminal.

•Now open the ~/.profile file to edit it using

•Add the following lines of code at the end of the file and then Save and Exit the file

•Now run the command

2. Installing Necessary build Packages 

   •Enter these commands in a single line in your terminal to start downloading and installing all the required packages

3. Creating the directories

   •Type these commands to create three new directories

4. Installing the repo command

  •Type the commands given below to download and grant permission to repo as this tool will be use to download all the source codes.

5. Put the ~/bin directory in your path of execution

•In recent versions of Ubuntu, ~/bin should already be in your PATH. You can check this by opening ~/.profile with a text editor using

 •and by verifying that the following code exists if its missing add it if not then skip this step.

•if you added the above code then run this command

6. Initialize the LineageOS source repository 

•Enter the following to initialize the repository

  •Now again run the repo init if it failed at first attempt.

 7. Download the source code

  •Run this command to start the download of source code onto your computer but note that this may take a very long time depending on your computer as you’ll be downloading more than 15 GB of files.

8. Prepare the device-specific code 

  •After the source has been downloaded run the following command to setup the device specific code.

Note: Breakfast bacon where bacon is the code name for the device OnePlus One and instead of bacon you have to enter the code name of your device. Example for nexus 6P you’ll enter ‘breakfast angler’ here angler is the code name for nexus 6P. If you don’t know the code name for your device then you can check that here.

9. Turn on caching to speed up build process

 •Run this command to speed up the nightly builds.

•Now add the above line at the end of your ~/.bashrc file and save and exit the file.

•Now run the below command in the terminal to limit the maximum cache size to your need else this will fill all your disk with its cache.

  Note: 75G at the of the commands corresponds to how many GB of space you want to for cache if you’re just building lineage OS for one device then you can allocate around 25-50 GB if you want to build lineage os for multiple devices then target at least around 75-100GB of cache disk space. 

 •You can also enable cache compression to save disk space but this will result in a slight bit of performance slowdown it’s totally up to you to enable it or ignore it.

10. Configure Jack Compiler.

•Jack is a new compiler used from lineage 14 but it always runs out of memory so to fix this run the following command.

•Also add the above line to the end of your ~/.bashrc file to configure it automatically

11. Start the build.

​   •Now type the below commands to start building Lineage OS for your device

Note: Brunch bacon where bacon is the code name for the device OnePlus One and instead of bacon you have to enter the code name of your device. Example for nexus 6P you’ll enter ‘brunch angler’ here angler is the code name for nexus 6P. If you don’t know the code name for your device then you can check that here.

*** It will be obvious if the build has succeeded or not. If succeeded, then the lineage OS installer package will be store in “/android/system/out/target/product/” then inside the folder that’s named based on your device. In my case the builds are stored inside “/android/system/out/target/product/bacon/” ***

Part 3:- Fixing the most common errors.

You could face a lot of errors even if you follow the exact procedure so best advice is to be patient and google the issue! I’m sure someone will have the solution to the issue that you’re facing. By saying that here are the solutions to few common issues that you may face.

Whatch it directly on Youtube!

1. Proprietary blobs error.

For most of the devices you’re probably going to run into this problem while running the breakfast command.

Even if the breakfast command looks like succeeded but when you run the brunch command for your device it will probably show you some error and say that the build failed.

 

All the above happens because we have to extract and get the propitiatory blobs from the device for which you’ll be building lineage OS, but there are several problems with this like may be building an version for the device you don’t have Etc…

So to overcome this this problem you can get the propitiatory blobs from ‘TheMuppets’  repository in GitHub https://github.com/TheMuppets. 

  •You can do that by typing the below command in your terminal

  •Now go to this manifests file link and copy the code from here. Then in the text editor that opened up you have to past the copied code from the above link and then save and exit the file. I’ll just be building Lineage OS for OnePlus and Motorola devices so i have deleted all the other lines except the lines where my maufacturer is listed and it looks something like this.

 •Finally run repo sync to sync the changes you’ve made.

2.Ninja wrapper error

While building lineage OS if you have followed all the steps until here you shouldn’t get this error but sometimes it just doesn’t work for no reason and may show you something like this.

Before attempting to run the below command to fix the issue and take a look at what it says i wasn’t able to recreate this error and had to fill up my storage device to get this error and it shows there that there is no space left and only then it shows the ninja error so i can just freeup mu sapce and the issue will be solved.

But sometimes it just shows this error with some bizarre errors and possibly the errors you maynot know of then you can run the below command to disable Ninja Wrapper.

•Just type the below command in the terminal and the error will be fixed

 3.Jack Compiler Java heap size error.

Well we already discussed this above that jack runs out of memory and even though we fixed it above there is a slight bit if chance you may get the error which many look like the these

GC overhead limit exceeded.
Try increasing heap size with java option ‘-Xmx<size>’.

•When you get an error like this you just have to increase the size by entering the below command.

Notice the above command at the end which says -Xmx4G where 4G corresponds to 4GB of space that we allowed it, even after this if you get this error just try increasing this by changing this to ‘-Xmx6G’  or something like that.

•Also remember to change the line at the end of your ~/.bashrc file to configure it automatically

Well these are most common errors that you’ll face while building Lineage OS well if you face any other issues comment down below.

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The Official Lineage OS ROM has just been started rolling out and Wileyfox Swift has got its official build. Below are the instructions on how to flash with download links.

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Install Lineage OS on Wileyfox Swift

1) You Need to have a Unlocked bootloader and have a custom recovery like TWRP flashed. If you haven’t already done then there is an article on how to flash TWRP and root Wileyfox Swift read it here

2) Take a Complete Backup of your Device. This is the most important step as if you screw up something you’ll have a complete backup so you can restore to the previous state. Here is a video on How to Backup your android.

3) Download Lineage OS for Wileyfox Swift From Here.

4) Download Gapps for google apps from here. 

5) Copy the downloaded files to the internal storage of your Wileyfox Swift.

6) Shut down your Android device and then hold Volume Down and Power button simultaneously to boot into recovery.

7) Once booted into TWRP click on –>”wipe” then on –> “Advance wipe ” then select every other partition other than the Internal Storage then Swipe to format these partitions.

8) Go back to the home page of the TWRP then tap on –>”Install”, then navigate to the folder where you have copied the Lineage OS rom and the Gapps file which you downloaded before.

9) Select the –>”Lineage OS rom zip file” and then click on –>”Add More Zip Files”, then select the –>”Open Gapps Zip File”, then swipe to confirm the flash and wait until it gets completed. Have patience as it may take 5-20 minutes for installation. 

10) Once completed you can tap on the option which says –>”Reboot to System”, this will again take around 5-20 minutes for rebooting for the first time.

11) Now select your Language and configure your device like you would do when you have brought an new Android.

12) While configuring your google account if you are redirected back to the first stage of configuration then disconnect from the wifi and turn of your Mobile data and skip google account configuration for now and you will be good to go!

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Links:-

Unlock bootloader and flash TWRP :-  http://bit.ly/2jqN5cz

TWRP for Wileyfox Swift :- https://dl.twrp.me/crackling/

Lineage OS for Wileyfox Swift :- https://download.lineageos.org/crackling

Gapps for Wileyfox Swift :- http://opengapps.org/​

Source code for Lineage OS for Wileyfox Swift :- http://bit.ly/2iWtkJ6

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I didn’t Install this as I don’t have an OnePlus X device and the Images may be different for you but the procedure will be 99% same below is the video where i install lineage OS on OnePlus 2 its just for reference. if you have any problem watch the video.

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