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Last month, the official Android 4.2.2 update for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 N5110 was leaked and few days back, folks at mini tablet leaked out the ROM for the N5100 Note 8.0 as well. However, many people, including me, have noticed faster battery drain since I have installed this update. S-Pen users will also notice a drop in accuracy compared to the Android 4.1.2 ROM. So, here are the steps if you wish to downgrade Galaxy Note 8.0 from 4.2.2 to 4.1.2.

I have successfully downgraded mine using the below given steps and Samsung Kies is also able to recognize it just fine.

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Very few small business houses are able to make their ambitious dreams come true. Omate is one of them which raised more than 200,000 dollars in less than 3 days at kickstarter’s website. They will now be making a sleek looking smart watch, that will work with almost any android or Apple phone.

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Although, Asus has not made Vivobook S451, it certainly exists in the wild. It was spotted by prohardver, who has even posted several pictures of it. From a glance, it looks exactly like a 13 inch Apple Macbook Pro except for the fact that S451 has a 14 inch display.

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Windows Phone users, especially Lumia 920 and 925 users are facing a problem where they experience sudden battery drain for no apparent reason. It is due to stuck process where a process is stuck in the background and continues to use CPU cycles. Using Visual studio to do analysis we see that the phone OS is stuck at 50% and you get a warning of high CPU cycles.

Symptoms of the problem.

Overheating
Hot back plate
Left metal banding gets unbearably hot
Cannot charge phone as fast

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Asus is yet to make prices of FonePad HD 7 official, but the phone has started making appearances on online shops for about 230 Euros. The FonePad HD 7 has been spotted as ME372CG and it comes with Intel Atom Z2560 processor, 7 inch display, 1280×800 pixel resolution, 802.11n Wi-Fi, 1GB RAM, 8GB flash storage, webcam, 5 mega pixel camera, Bluetooth, and micro SD card slot.

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Nokia is all set to bring its uber budget Windows Phone to the Australian market. Yes, we are talking about the Lumia 625 windows phone which will be coming to Telstra as-well-as Optus. It will sport a retail price tag of A$ 399 and will be released in August 23, 2013. Virgin Mobile will also be offering it in first week of September.

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Microsoft, like many other companies, was caught off guard when the iPhone came out. They released WM6 around the same time the first iPhone was announced, WM6.5 came out 2.5 years later, after the iPhone 3GS was already out. So it took them two and a half years to release an outdated OS update and in the same time frame, Apple achieved a smartphone that was deemed affordable by many who resisted the previous models. I was in NYC when it launched, a lot of hold outs at work who for months said they will not switch to the iPhone came in with the 3GS in the first few weeks after it’s release.
WM6.5 was the fastest solution the could get out but it was still the old business oriented OS no one wanted. WP7 was the bigger effort that would make their OS suitable for consumers and WP8 was the real solution they wanted but couldn’t get out in time. They could have waited for 8 to be ready, just like Blackberry waited with BB10, it’s not looking so great for them.

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Since the stock build of Android 4.2.2 for Samsung Galaxy Grand has been released, a ROM has been made available that is pre Rooted, Deodexed, Zipaligned as well. No application has been added or removed from the stock ROM.

Features.
The latest Android OS, 4.2.2 Jellybean build JDQ39.
Insecure boot.img (allows for elevated commands such as adb remount).
Rooted with the su binary and SuperSU app.
Deodexed for easy themeing and modding.

Here is a screenshot of the AnTuTu benchmark of it.

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There was a lot of hype around this game, so I thought I should finally install it on my new Lumia 925 windows phone. Seriously blows my mind they are charging $7 for a phone game that is pretty much just on-par with free or very cheap phone games in the same class, and on top of that have the gall to include microtransactions inside.

I mean, ZombieHQ (link) is basically the same exact game, same exact level of visual fidelity, but involves zombies and not halo and is completely free (with optional micro transactions).

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I just noticed something very weird on my Lumia 920 after receiving the official Amber update. There is no Google search option in the Internet Explorer! Earlier, there were two options – Bing and Google and after selecting either, you could simple type in to the address bar to perform search by your favourite search engine. This is apparently happening to Windows Phone users in India.

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