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We finally have official factory fimrwares for the Motorola Moto E android smartphone. These firmware images are provided by the Firmware team.

• You can download them from here.

Each is of around 430 mega bytes in download size.

To install the stock firmware make sure you have these things set up.

a) Download and install Motorola Moto E drivers.
b) Download and extract the stock firmware of your choosing from the link given at the top of this post.
c) If the firmware file you downloaded is a .xml.zip file then download Motorola Fastboot from here and extract the .exe into the same folder as the stock firmware files (the same folder as the .bin and .img files). If your firmware is a .tar.gz file then skip this step.
d) Get ADB (if you don’t already have this, I suggest downloading and installing Minimal ADB and Fastboot).

To restore the firmware follow these instructions:

1) Reboot the phone into boot loader mode. For that unplug the USB cable and power off the phone. Then press and hold ‘Volume down’ then power on the phone. Then connect USB cable to your computer. You should now see the Moto E boot loader screen with the following options:

Normal Powerup
Recovery
Factory
Switch Console [NULL: null]
Barcodes
BP Tools

2) Open a command prompt / terminal (Start -> cmd.exe in Win7) and browse to the folder with the extracted firmware. For me it is:

cd c:\falcon_retgb_user_4.3_14.10.0Q3.X-76-LGG-8_54_release-keys-cid7-Retail_GB

3) Flash each of the partitions in sequence using mfastboot, you need to enter the following commands one-by-one checking that each one returns an [OKAY]

mfastboot flash partition gpt.bin
mfastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
mfastboot flash logo logo.bin
mfastboot flash boot boot.img
mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk1
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk2
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk3
mfastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
mfastboot erase modemst1 
mfastboot erase modemst2 
mfastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
mfastboot erase cache 
mfastboot erase userdata 
mfastboot reboot

In case you are using the Indian variant of Motorola Moto E, use these commands.

mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2

Wait for some time and you will now reboot into fully stock Moto E firmware.

An XDA user has churned out a custom kernel for the Motorola Moto E. The kernel offers superior performance and manages the memory and background processes better. Here are its full list of features:

* Compiled with Linaro Toolchain 4.7
* Flags -04
* Tweaked all governos
* Tweaked all I/O
* FastFPE optimize Float point emulator
* Increase VM min/max
* Hardcode Enable Quantum more larger and read queues more larger too * VFP Optimizations

To install it you must have a Moto E with unlocked boot loader and of course a CM based ROM to begin with. To install this kernel, follow these instructions:

* Download current version
* Reboot to FastBoot
* Flash Boot.img
* Reboot

Update: XDA has pulled the firmware so keep an eye on the source.

• Source

The Fujitsu launched Lifebook E554 and E544 back in June but back then it was exclusive to only Japanese market. Today it has made its way to Europe and our friends at notebook Italia were able to do a live review of it in Milan. They mention that the two laptops are distinguishable by only the size of their displays with Fujitsu Lifebook E554 featuring a display size of 15.6 inches and Fujitsu Lifebook E544 having a screen size of 14 inches.

Fujitsu Lifebook E554 specifications and price

The E554 comes with a Intel Core i3-4000M 2.4 GHz, 2.5 GHz Core i3-4100M, i5-4210M 2.6 GHz, 2.7 GHz i5-4310M or Core i7-4712MQ 2.3 GHz processor, up to 16 gigabytes of memory, 320GB 5400rpm, 500GB 7200rpm of hard disk storage or 128 / 256 GB solid state drive storage. For connectivity you get 3x USB 3.0 ports, VGA, display port, headphone and microphone jacks. You also get RJ-45 for Ethernet, serial port which is very useful in the field jobs, an SD card reader and a Kensington lock for security.

It measures 374 x 250 x 24.2 / 31.4 mm, weighs 2.2 pounds and has a screen size of 15.6 inches with contrast ratio of 350: 1 and brightness of 200 cd / m2. The optional full HD panel has contract ratio of 700: 1 and brightness 220 cd / m2.

The Fujitsu Lifebook E554 is now on sale for 900 euro.

E544 specs and pricing details

As mentioned earlier the Fujitsu Lifebook E544 has slightly smaller 14 inch display that is offered with either HD panel packing 1366 x 768 resolution or HD+ panel that has 1600 x 900 pixels. The contrast ratio and brightness levels of both are 350: 1 / 200 cd / m2 and 400: 1 / 250 cd / m2 respectively. Rest of the specifications are identical to the E554. It will go on sale for 700 euro in Europe.

The RAM, hard disk and battery packs are easily user replaceable on both Fujitsu Lifebook E554 and E544 laptops.

• Via notebookitalia.it (Italian)

If you have installed CWM and rooted your Moto X 2014 smartphone, you have already unlocked your device’s bootloader. You must also be getting unlocked boot loader warning message. To remove it you can override it with the one that hides it.

To do that follow these steps:

First download the logo.zip file from here. Then flash it using ADB:

fastboot flash logo logo.bin

We flashed it and it worked perfectly on our Moto X 2014 phone. Please try it on your own risk and if you do not have any idea of what the above command does, simply do not even try it on your phone.

We know the warning message irritates you but if you have no idea what the ADB is, then you should not be typing those commands in the CMD prompt.

Like other Motorola android phones it is very easy to install recovery into the Moto X as well as root it. Some one at XDA has made a one click recovery flasher that will allow you to gain root easily. This tool will push the Super SU update’s ZIP file to your phone’s internal storage.

After that you can simply flash the CWM beta and then SU.zip file to get root. When rebooting into fastboot, give it 30 seconds to a minute to allow fastboot drivers to properly install before hitting enter.

Instructions: download and unzip file on desktop. Open tool folder and click bat file. Start with option 1. Its ugly but it works great.

The official WP 8.1.1 update for Ativ S released by Samsung. You need to be on official GDR3 to receive this update. To get it, open SamWP8 tools > Tweak > region to “000-AT”. Then check for updates on your phone (Settings > “Check for updates”).

New Update details:

SO 8.0.14157.200
Rev.Firm.: 2424.14.9.3
Rev.Hardw.:15.15.10
Soft.Radio:2424.14.9.3
Bootl.:14.09.3.16

If you’re currently on the dev preview you can flash an 8.0.3 build to get the update.

• source: Xda developers
• Samwp8 tools xap