Sunday, 3 July 2011

Android Community

Android Community

Tabletpalooza 2011 Giveaway Week 1: Acer Iconia Tab A500!

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 08:35 AM PDT

It’s that time again, time we give away some sweet gadgets for free, Android Community style! This is our first annual Tabletpalooza giveaway for July 2011, one where we’re working with SlashGear and NVIDIA to give you the opportunity to win one of FIVE Tegra 2 dual-core processor tablets, the first of which will be right here on Android Community in the form of an Acer Iconia Tab A500! It’s a 10-inch Android tablet that we’ve had an opportunity to get intimate with in the past – see the review then win it for free!

On SlashGear the first tablet they’re giving away in this contest is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 – a review of which you can check out right here on Android Community. As for the Acer Iconia Tab A500 we’ve got for you to win here in our first giveaway week, check out our full review and get fully impressed before you win one in the most excellent rock and roll Android tablet contest this summer, right now!

Now for the rules!

To win one of these fabulous tablets, you must:

1. “like” us on Facebook: facebook.com/androidcommunity.com
2. Comment on the wall so we can see you’re connected
3. Submit your email and name to Giveaway@SlashGear.com so we can connect to you with Google+!
4. If you’ve already got a G+ account, add Android Community (right here) to your Android Community Circle and send us a message in G+ so we know you’re in!

If you do not have early beta access to G+, don’t worry, we’ll invite you when we get more invites to send out! Double win! Full legal rules lie below:

Contest begins July 3rd, 8AM PST, and ends July 25, 2PM PST barring any complications finding winners. A winner will be announced every Monday (except for the 4th) here in the main news feed and at our official Facebook page.

WINNERS will be given the opportunity to submit a review of their tablet and have it posted on the front page of SlashGear or AndroidCommunity.com! *Reviews may be edited or modified before publication and are considered works for hire under the 1976 Copyright Act. Submissions will be ineligible for payment or remuneration.

Competition is open to residents of the US or UK over the age of 18. One entry per contest per person. Family members of Google and SlashGear/Android Community are not permitted to enter. Competition entries are only accepted via the specified Android Community Facebook page; entries left in the comments section of this or any other post will not be recognized. One entry per person (and yes, we check). Winners of the July 2011 Android Community Tabletpalooza giveaway are ineligible to win the July 2011 SlashGear Tabletpalooza giveaway, and vice-versa.

The winners will be announced on SlashGear and will be expected to contact SlashGear via the following email: Giveaway@SlashGear.com ; they will be expected to respond within 24 hours else their prize may be forfeit and another winner selected. Editors decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Winner agrees that their name and details of their entry may be used for promotional purposes by, but not limited to, NVIDIA, SlashGear, and Android Community.

Prize consists of five NVIDIA Tegra 2-powered tablets to be announced at the start of each weekly contest period, distributed between SlashGear and Android Community. One prize per winner. There is no cash alternative or any other alternative for prize winners unless this prize should become unavailable, in which case SlashGear and NVIDIA reserve the right to substitute another prize of equal or greater value.

Contest provided by SlashGear/Android Community. Prizing provided by NVIDIA. Any questions regarding this contest should be directed to Giveaway@SlashGear.com

AND remember – this is only the first of FIVE tablets we’re giving away this month. Stay tuned!

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HTC EVO 3D and Sensation 4G Temp-Root Available

Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:07 PM PDT

Those developers over at XDA and other popular development communities are at it again working hard to bring us the things we need, things like temp-root for the HTC EVO 3D and the Sensation 4G. Earlier the group TeamWin found an exploit and were able to achieve root access. Now those nice guys are letting everyone else join in on the fun while they keep working.

Agrabren is the man behind much of the work that has been accomplished over the last few days to get temp-root and now he has posted a little user guide for those that would like to do the same. This is only temp-root so the device will not stay rooted for long, after a random amount of time or a reboot you will lose root. They are still working to get this all figured out but for now it is a work in progress.

They have a small root utility they are calling Fre3vo to help you out and you can download that by clicking here. This is not the easiest task and for those new to adb or to rooting devices you should probably wait for an easier and full root method before trying anything crazy. I know some out there are excited to try so I figured I’d share the news anyways.

Instructions:

Download Fre3vo

1. You must be able to push files via adb to your device.
2. You must know what a shell is.

then

1. Download the fre3vo binary
2. Push the binary via ‘adb push fre3vo /data/local/tmp’
3. Change the permissions via ‘adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo’
4. Run the binary via ‘adb shell /data/local/tmp/fre3vo’

If all goes well, you’ll be told that adbd has been killed.

run ‘adb shell’ and you should have a ‘#’ prompt instead of ‘%’.

Again, this is only temporary root and if you reboot the device you will lose root access. They are also reporting it randomly losing root as well without a reboot so this is still very new and under developement. Try if you would like but take extreme caution and remember you are responsible for what you do, and not anyone else. Users at XDA are reporting apps like Titanium Backup are not working at first but with some tweaking they are able to run fine. When more details emerge or a better root tool we will update accordingly. Hopefully S-OFF is coming soon and enjoy your Holiday weekend everyone.

[via Therootofallevo]

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