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SuperSU updated to 2.13, getting ready for Android L

If some of you are not familiar with SuperSU, that’s probably because you haven’t gotten around to gaining root access to your device. Most of the users who root their phones will know about SuperSU (and enjoy the naming redundancy) – an app that allows you some management and control as to which apps and aspects of your device will be granted root access.

Chainfire, developers of the app, have been toying around with betas for a while now, but has finally released version 2.13, with a nod to preparing for Google’s big and anticipated Android L release which coming pretty soon. Chainfire says that a lot of work has gone into making SuperSU work with the curren AOSP builds and ROMs you’ll find out there – hinting that these might be the same security features that could turn up in the first Android L release.

So what’s new in this version? Well, first up – and majorly – there might be a chance that supers will work with the Nexus devices that will carry Android L out of the box. Slim chance, but just maybe. This version of SuperSU now comes with architecture specific binaries for ARMv5, ARMv7, ARMv8, Intel x86 and x64. You might notice that there’s support for 64-bit already, but they have not been tested on working products yet.

You want to give this one a try? Check out the download link of the flashable ZIP via Chainfire here. The developers also said that apart from the normal download via Google Play Store, the Amazon App Store will also start carrying SuperSU.

SOURCE: Chainfire on Google+

Champ Man 15 is Square Enix’s football management sim

Ok, we’re not necessarily in agreement with Square Enix’s decision to put Arsenal’s long-serving manager on the cover – being that they haven’t exactly won any major silverware lately – but hey, it’s your game. Champ Man 15 – short for Championship Manager, we suppose – is Square Enix’s attempt at getting into the football management simulation game market.

Arsene Wenger’s face notwithstanding, you have to understand that the serious football management genre has always been dominated by the big boys (a.k.a. Electronic Arts), although there are some alternative cartoon-y sims that do the job as well. Square Enix has always been known for its great action games, and so to venture into the realm of sports games is a bit odd.

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That said, it seems that Champ Man 15 meets all the requirements for a football management sim. As a user, you can choose from over 400 teams across an impressive 23 leagues. You get to have access to players from England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, and Portugal – all the ones with big football leagues. You get to pick formations, training regimens – all standard stuff.

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The game is available as a free download with IAP via the Google Play Store, so check out the source link if you’re interested. And then give us a holler if you’v tried it. I’m still on the fence with this one. Maybe your opinion about it can finally convince me to download a game with Wenger’s famous frown up front.

SOURCE: Google Play Store

LG G3 locked bootloader workaround now available

The LG G3 is truly a flagship device in all senses of the term. It’s stylish and elegant, and the Korean manufacturer spared no cost on the specs and hardware. That is why we like it so much. And the software – well, we think LG does one of the best versions of tweaked Android out there, bar none. One small issue may be that the LG G3 comes with a locked bootloader, hence custom ROMs used to be close to impossible to install. Not anymore.

The LG G3 was finally rooted in August, and just recently, another group of XDA developers have now provided for us a modified TWRP recovery that should enable users to flash custom ROMs. The project is dubbed as “Bump!”, and what it does is take advantage of the same vulnerability that the initial root used to be able to flash modified images.

The process is still a bit roundabout, maybe even a tad bit complicated, for non-savvy users. But for those who are comfortable around tweaking their devices, this should be pretty straightforward. The process requires that your LG G3 must be rooted, firstly. Then you need to copy the modified recovery image onto the internal storage of your device, then run a few commands to flash the image to your phone’s firmware. After that, it is just a matter of booting into the TWRP recovery.

Sounds complicated? Maybe the official thread will help you out – click on here, especially if you have questions. One thing is clear though, the bootloader tweak works – as evidenced by the video linked on the thread. If you give this a try, ping us back on the comments section.

SOURCE: XDA

HTC puts out tutorials for new Eye Experience software

Just to push the issue a bit more, HTC has just released new tutorial videos to coincide with the launch of its new HTC Desire EYE smartphone, which is probably has the world’s most powerful selfie camera at the moment. The new videos - seen on HTC's YouTube channel - range from the informative tutorial to the “what were you thinking?!?” – so allow us to share these with you.

The first video show one of the Desire EYE’s very innovative features – that is, Face Tracking while on a video call. The video also gives instructions on how to share your screen if you want to show it over a video call. Pretty nifty.

The second video shows the Split Capture feature which enables the user to capture video (and take pictures, we suppose) using both front-facing and back camera. This gives you “both sides of the story”, HTC says.

The third video tells of the Auto Selfie and the Voice Selfie – two ways of easily taking photos of yourselves with the Desire EYE’s powerful 13MP front-facing camera. These features have been seen on other phones before – like priming your phone to automatically take a picture when you smile, or when you say “Cheese!”

The fourth video is where we begin to venture into strange and “why why why?!?” If you’ve ever wanted to “photoshop” your face for a selfie, then HTC gives you Live Makeup – a chance to smoothen your face before you selfie. Watch the video while we facepalm.

The fifth video is a cringefest, to be honest. HTC somehow thinks that it is “cool” to mix your face with someone else’s. Why would you do that? But if you ever wanted to, HTC has that for you, too. Oh dear.

If you currently using one of the HTC latest device like the One M8, the "EYE Experience" enhancement will be also made available to HTC's recent models soon.

SOURCE: HTC on YouTube

The Risk of Brick – XDA TV

If you spend any amount of time reading or hanging out in the XDA Developers Forums, you will hear people talking about bricking the device. They warn you to be careful because doing this wrong could brick your device. Developers always mention that they are not responsible if you brick your device. There are questions with people asking how to fix their brick. Do the XDA members have a stonemason fetish?

In this episode of XDA TV, Producer and XDA Recognized Contributor rirozizo gets real about the topic of device bricks. He defines what a brick is, what the difference between a hard brick and a soft brick are. Also, he talks about your options if you devices is in one of the many “bricked” states. So, if you want to learn about brick-laying, find a different video, but if you want to learn about mobile device bricks, check out this video.

Be sure to check out other great XDA TV Videos

CM11 for Android One, Updated Galaxy Nexus GPU Drivers!

Android App Review: Multitask with Ease with C Floating

Device Review: Blackphone BP1

XDA Xposed Tuesday: Don’t Get Down with OBB on Your Internal Memory

Moto X Available in the UK, Repartitioning The Moto Defy and HTC Pico, and Making Sony S

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QuickEdit, a Sleek and Quick Text Editor

If you’ve worked on a development/design project in the past, you likely found yourself wanting to edit a source file you’ve been working on, or create a quick one for an idea you’ve just had. There aren’t many text editors on Android that excel at this, but QuickEdit Text Editor by XDA Forum Member rhmsoft might be one of them. It combines many needed features for code editing with a neat interface, and then adds some more tricks.

QuickEdit Text Editor comes with all the options you’d expect from an advanced text editor: syntax highlighting for languages you’re likely to work with, line numbering, indentation, undo/redo support and more. A dark theme is also available (and it looks beautiful on AMOLED screens).

It also has several features that make code editing less frustrating on mobile devices such as fast scroll support, current line highlighting and powerful search/replace functionality (that can be launched using your device’s search button, a small detail many text editors forget about).

Where QuickEdit truly shines, though, is editing large files. Other text editors either trim large files or take a good while to load them, but still lag noticeably when scrolling (even on the more powerful devices). QuickEdit, on the other hand, is very quick to load even the largest files, and shows no lag when scrolling or editing.

It’s worth noting that QuickEdit doesn’t support editing remote files directly at the moment. However, most popular hosts (e.g. Google Drive or Dropbox) either integrate with the Android file picker (allowing you to open a remote file directly from QuickEdit), or let you edit your files through their respective apps.

If you’re interested, make sure to head over to the QuickEdit Text Editor application thread to get started!

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Gameloft’s Cars: Fast as Lightning now available to entertain kids (and maybe adults too)

If your younger kids constantly borrow your tablet or phone to play games, but they've exhausted all the games you've installed there, you might want to consider getting this new one from GameLoft. Based on the highly-successful (well, the first one, at least) Pixar movie Cars, arriving in Android devices is Cars: Fast as Lightning, a racing game that will appeal to the young fans of the animated flick, as well as adults who like simple racing games.

Obviously, this game is all about racing, well, cars. Characters from the movie have major roles here, including Lightning McQueen (still voiced by Owen Wilson), Mater, Francesco and many more. You can choose from among 20 Cars characters, like Radiator Springs Car, Spy Car, Tuner Car and others. You can spruce up the cars with paint jobs that will make them look cool and rad. The controls are easy to learn as you loop around tracks, holding down the pedal when you want to speed up and slowing down as you ease around the corners, almost like you would in a real car.

In one mode, you can customize the tracks by adding roller coaster-like loops so you can perform daring daredevil stunts. And if you're tired of racing, you can play the building game where you create your own Radiator Springs with 30 interactive town buildings, which features characters, buildings and landmarks that Pixar fans will recognize and enjoy. There are also animated cutscenes if you feel like just watching your favorite characters again, interacting with each other.

Now of course, you cannot expect that a game like this would appeal to adults, since its main audience are kids. But if you are a fan of Cars and you like racing games that will not make you think much, you can download Cars: Fast as Lightning from the Google Play Store for free. But it has in-app purchases so better be careful when setting your permissions, especially if it will be kids that will mostly be playing the game.