Jailbreak iPhone 4 – Step By Step guide to Jailbreaking iPhone 4

If you want to have free applications and games available on the iPhone 4, then it is necessary to jailbreak the phone. This is basically software that is downloaded on the phone. With this the game and application availability will open up exponentially. For everyone who is not into technical aspects of the phone, here is a step-by-step guide to jailbreak the phone for ultimate application usage.

The first and foremost step to take is to open the internet on the IPhone and go to the search box. In this search box there are many key phrases that can be put in, but for the best results type in, “Jailbreak IPhone 4.2.1.”

Once this is done, hit the search bar and it will be possible to look at all the top softwares to jailbreak the IPhone 4. There are plenty of softwares available that can be bought. During this step it is important to research the software, look at the cost, examine the user reviews, and look at the warranty options to find the best option. If wanting to save money there are free options for softwares available.

Now that the choice is made about the software, it needs to be purchased, downloaded, and installed. These are followed normally by prompts on the phone.

After the software is downloaded, the IPhone 4 needs to be hooked up to the computer, whether it be a desktop or laptop. Once it is hooked up, it is necessary for the device to be recognized by ITunes. In case this doesn’t work the first time, keep trying. For the program to work, this step is mandatory. If the phone is already synced to ITunes, it would be a good idea to sync it again just to make sure everything is the way it was before.

Once the phone is synced, open the software that was purchased and click on the button that says “Jailbreak.” The program should start right away. During this process it is best to have the computer working on this task solely. If not, there may be chances the computer will crash.

After the software has finished running, a message should appear that says the restore is completed. Once this message is shown, it is highly recommended that you restart the phone. Once this is done, an additional icon should be on the screen.

By following this process, any IPhone 4 user will successfully Jailbreak their phone. Once the software is installed in the phone, there will be more applications and games at disposal to enjoy.

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Apple to add movie ticket booking through Siri in iOS 6.1

Continuing the integration with important third-party applications, Apple is said to include another new feature in Siri in the upcoming iOS 6.1 update. While currently you can get movie ticket reviews and timings with iOS 6.1, in future you will also be able to purchase tickets through Siri.

This new feature comes courtesy of Fandango. You will see a button to purchase tickets in Siri when you search for show times or movie reviews. Moreover, you can also speak directly to Siri and ask to book the tickets for a particular movie.

Once you do that, the device will launch the Fandango app and your tickets will be booked. If you don’t have the app installed, you will get an option to download it from the App Store.

This feature will only available in the US for a while and won’t be compatible with all the theaters.

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Why I won’t be buying a Windows RT tablet (And why Microsoft doesn’t mind)

Windows RT tablets will be crippled out of the gate by a lack of applications, making holding off a wise choice for smart consumers.

Microsoft yanked back the veil obscuring its Surface RT tablet earlier this week, and if you ask me, it’s the finest example of tablet hardware that we’ve seen to date. Microsoft poured a ton of mental and engineering resources into the Surface, and it shows; the Surface tablet and its oh-so-attractive Touch Cover keyboard is one of just three tablets to ever make me drool with desire. It even has Office 2013! And the new-look Windows is actually kind of awesome on mobile devices once you make a few tweaks.

Even still, I won’t be buying a Surface RT tablet on October 26th. The same goes for any Windows RT tablet. There’s no chance. Nada, nil, zero.

My reluctance doesn’t have anything to do with pricing concerns. Some people think the Surface RT is overpriced at $500 to start, but not me. The Surface RT is a top-tier piece of hardware worthy of a top-tier price point. My concerns lie in Windows RT’s crippled nature, and before you grab your pitchforks, they have nothing to do with the Modern-style overhaul.

Here’s the kicker, though: Microsoft doesn’t need me or you or anybody to buy Windows RT tablets on October 26th. They can be a complete flop in the short term and still be a massive success in the long run.

Let me explain.

Why I won’t buy a Windows RT tablet

In a word: apps.

Windows RT and Windows 8 may look the same on the surface (get it?), but they’re two totally different beasts under the hood. Windows 8 runs on x86-based processors, which means it can run both the new Modern-style Windows apps as well as the programs currently available for Windows 7 PCs.

Windows RT, on the other hand, runs on the ARM-based processors — such as the Qualcomm Snapdragon and Nvidia’s Tegra 3 — that thoroughly dominate the mobile gadget world. That makes Windows RT tablets incompatible with the legion of programs written for past generations of Windows-based operating systems. Basically, Windows RT can only run the new Modern-style apps.

Modern-style apps can only be purchased through the Windows Store, and as it stands today, there simply aren’t enough Windows apps — either in quality or quantity — to make purchasing a Windows RT tablet worthwhile. Not even the breathtaking Microsoft Surface RT with its baked-in Office app.

The vast majority of 4,326 current Windows Store apps are tablet-style games or instantly forgettable novelties. (Fart Soundboard, anyone?) Aside from standout apps by Netflix, Evernote and Slacker, most of the must-have essentials aren’t there. I’ve spoken to several developers about the situation; it seems as though quite a few apps are waiting in the wings, set to appear in the Windows Store when it officially launches on October 26, but I don’t expect the Windows Store selection to skyrocket out of the gate.

That’s a big problem

Windows 8 devices can lean on the current Windows programs we know and love until the Modern-style apps hit full speed. Windows RT tablets don’t have that luxury.

Knowing that, the little flaws in Windows’ new Modern-style apps take on a whole new light. Intel CEO Paul Otellini was recently reported as saying that Microsoft is releasing Windows 8 before it’s ready — a statement that Intel didn’t exactly deny — and I’m inclined to agree with him. As a whole, Windows 8 is a joy on a tablet, but odd little quirks occasionally prove frustrating.

Those rough edges could be a whole post in and of themselves — tune in next week! — but let’s talk about a particular frustration that highlights Windows RT’s issues: The native Mail app’s complete lack of POP3 support. A recent update to the Mail app fleshed out support for the vastly superior IMAP protocol, but if your email provider only provides POP3 remote access (as is the case with many Internet Service Providers, including Comcast and Fairpoint) you’re in trouble.

Windows 8 users can just switch to desktop mode, download Thunderbird or one of the dozens of other freely available POP-compatible classic Windows programs, and start slinging messages in no time. Windows RT users are just screwed unless they switch to a webmail service or perform complex workarounds that Everyday Joe would never figure out for himself.

Nope, Windows RT just isn’t worth the hassle. Gimme a Nexus 7 for half the price instead.

Getting Over the Hump

Manufacturers aren’t stupid. They know Windows RT tablets will be limited at the outset. That’s why we’re seeing an overload of x86-based Windows 8 devices, but only a handful of Windows RT tablets. And that’s totally fine; Windows RT tablets will have their day in the sun. Microsoft’s very future depends on becoming as mobile-friendly as possible — and the company knows it.

Even if Windows tablets fizzle from the get-go, Windows 8 will still be installed on damn near every PC and laptop sold after October 26. Even if traditional computer sales are somewhat lagging, hundreds of millions of them are sold year in and year out.

Nothing attracts developers faster than a massive user base; Windows’ tremendous desktop presence will eventually draw them like flies, and Microsoft is doing everything it can to make developing Windows apps as painless as possible. Modern-style apps and their associated Live Tiles are the heart of the new Windows experience, and those apps will come. There’s no way the major software and service providers will leave the world’s most popular desktop operating system by the wayside.

Sure, those Modern-style Windows apps might be developed to satisfy the hordes of PC users clamoring for Modern-ized versions of classic Windows programs, but they’ll work just as well on mobile devices — regardless of whether those devices run on ARM or Intel processors. Microsoft and its partners don’t need to sell a single Windows RT tablet; a year or two down the line the Windows Store will be packed with Metro apps even if Microsoft’s initial mobile ambitions flop.

It’s genius.

So no, I won’t be buying a Surface RT tablet on October 26, even though the thought of holding it makes my fingers twitch with excitement. Microsoft’s mobile future — its entire future — hinges more on what I will be doing that day, anyway: Taking advantage of the dirt-cheap upgrade offers to upgrade some of my secondary PCs to Windows 8.

Source : digitaltrends[dot]com

Best iOS 100 Apps For Mobile Learning [Infographic]

Last month, Edudemic published a list of some of the best iOS applications for mobile learning. We took the opportunity to Brain Exercises, Quizzes and Flashcards, Math Science, Geography and History, English and Literature just to name a few, these are some of the best apps you can find online and we just thought you might be interested in having a look at them.

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Nokia City Lens for Symbian and MeeGo beta period come to an end and so does support for it (WP app is still a go)

Nokia City Lens is one of the “most well received new applications” from the Finnish company (they also used it to generate buzz for the WP8 Lumias before unveiling them). The Symbian and MeeGo users weren’t left out – they got to participate in the beta trials, which are now over.

There’s some bad news though – City Lens is becoming Lumia-exclusive. If you have the beta installed on your Symbian phone or Nokia N9 (the only MeeGo phone), you can continue using the app.

But there’s a catch – the beta app doesn’t support the latest Nokia Belle update. There are reports that the app crashes after the update. You could still try Live View, which is City Lens’s predecessor.

Nokia still has big plans for the Windows Phone app though, especially the WP8 version. Not that that’s a big consolation to 808 PureView and N9 owners.

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Google Maps on the original iPhone was a last minute addition

One of the most important applications on the original iPhone was the Maps application that Steve Jobs demoed with a prank call to Starbucks. But it has now come to light that about a month before the phone was announced, no such application even existed on the device.

According to a story by The New York Times, the maps application was not at all part of the original plans for the phone. Steve Jobs thought of having the application on the phone just weeks before the announcement because he thought it would help show off the multi-touch display better.

He then set two engineers who came up with the original maps application in just three weeks before the announcement. Apple then cut a hasty deal with Google to provide the mapping data for their application. This should have been easy back then because the two companies had good relations and Google’s then CEO Eric Schmidt was part of Apple’s board of directors and also came on stage during the iPhone announcement. The last minute inclusion of Maps also tells us why the original iPhone did not have GPS, which was then added in the iPhone 3G next year.

Of course, over time the relationship between the two companies became tense to the point where Apple had to come up with another source for the mapping data (the data for the current Maps application in iOS 6 is provided by TomTom, among others) and the rest is history. Still, it’s interesting to know that the original iPhone would not have had a Maps application at all had Steve Jobs not thought of it at the eleventh hour.

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TSA agent steals iPad, busted using Apple’s tracking software

Despite the existence of GPS tracking applications for security, criminals still think they can get away with mobile devices.

Detailed extensively in an investigative sting operation conducted by ABC News, an Florida-based TSA agent named Andy Ramirez was caught with a iPad stolen from the security line at the Orlando International Airport. In an attempt to test the honesty of TSA agents at ten major airports around the United States, ABC News representatives “accidentally” left their iPad at the security checkpoint. Each iPad had a case that displayed the owner’s name and phone number. At nine of the ten airports, TSA agents correctly followed procedure and contacted the owner of the tablet. In addition, ABC News representatives tested sending checked bags containing cash and an iPad through security, but nothing was stolen from any suitcase at all ten airports.

Regarding the iPad that went missing, ABC News secretly filmed Ramirez handling the iPad at the security checkpoint. Two hours later, representatives used Apple’s Find My iPad application to track the location of the expensive tablet to Ramirez’s home.

Over two weeks later, ABC News sent reporter Brian Ross and a camera crew to Ramirez’s home. Catching Ramirez outside in his TSA uniform, Ross introduced himself and asked Ramirez about the missing iPad. Despite showing Ramirez the current GPS location of the iPad on another tablet, Ramirez denied that the iPad was located within his home.

Ross then used the Find My iPad sound feature that overrides the volume or silent setting on the tablet to activate a loud alarm. After hearing the tablet inside the home, Ramirez retrieved the iPad and blamed his wife for stealing the tablet. Ramirez said “My wife said she got the iPad and brought it home.” Ross disputed his claim by bringing up the footage taken at the security checkpoint, but Ramirez refused to answer any more questions and closed the door.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Ramirez was no longer employed by the Transportation Security Administration. Regarding the incident, a TSA representative stated that the organization has “a zero-tolerance policy for theft and terminates any employee who is determined to have stolen from a passenger.”

However, this isn’t the first time that a TSA agent has been busted for stealing electronics or other valuables from passenger luggage. In a similar case during February 2012, police at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport arrested 31-year-old Clayton Keith Dovel after using Find My iPad tracking to locate eight stolen iPads at Dovel’s home. Dovel was a TSA baggage inspector at the Dallas airport.

Also during February 2012, a 31-year-old, New York based TSA agent named Alexandra Schmid was arrested for stealing $5,000 in cash from a passenger’s jacket. After wrapping the cash within a plastic glove, Schmid was filmed taking the money into a bathroom to pass it off to an unknown person. Shortly after the incident Schmid was arrested for grand larceny. During July 2011, TSA agent Nelson Santiago-Serrano at another Florida airport was arrested after authorities discovered an iPad shoved into his pants. His arrest led to the discovery of $50,000 dollars of additional stolen electronics during his employment period with the TSA.

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Adobe upgrades Photoshop Elements to version 11, offers new bundles with Premiere Elements

Adobe today released an update to its Elements and Premiere Elements applications, bringing their version number to 11.

The software is lighter than Photoshop but still pretty powerful. In addition Adobe will offer a discounted bundle of the two services – $150 for new customers and $120 for updating ones.

Photoshop Elements 11 comes with a refreshed UI, the same engine as Photoshop, one-click editing, photo organizing based on people and places, new filters and three editing options for every taste – Quick, Guided and Expert.

Photoshop Elements 11 will put an emphasis on image editing, while Premiere Elements is focused on making home movies look a whole lot better.

Premiere Elements will include new effects, transitions, themes, etc. There’s also an integrated video sharing with Vimeo.

If purchased separately the two products will cost $100 each. Upgrading users will have to shell out $80 for each.

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Windows Phone Store is the new name of the Marketplace

Microsoft has officially scrapped the Windows Phone Marketplace, folks. The new go-to place for the software giant’s mobile OS applications will be called Windows Phone Store from now on.

Along with the new name, Microsoft has introduced several improvements to the Windows Phone Store. They include better search functionality powered by Bing, as well as overhauled app lists. The latter include Top Free, Top Paid, as well as New + Rising categories. The new application lists will only be available at the Web Store for now. They are however, expected to hit upcoming Windows Phone devices.

The changes have already landed in Australia and New Zealand. The rest of the world is bound to follow in the coming weeks.

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Must-Have iPhone Apps For Tech Junkies

There are so many apps for your iPhones. Sometimes finding the best applications for your cellular device can be the hardest. Here’s some apps to impress your friends with your tech-savvy taste. They have high user ratings, and can be found in your iPhone App store.

Instagram

Instagram has been around for a while, but it has gained a significant amount of popularity since it’s been released. If you have an interest in photography, you may want to download this app.

Instagram allows the user to be turned into an “iphonographer” (the slang term being used by iPhone users). You can use various filters on images, similar to the filters in Photoshop (but much easier to figure out). This app is perfect if any activity, whether you are documenting your trip at an amusement park or just documenting nature. You can even meet other photo-junkies and connect with your friends too.

Another great feature of Instagram is that it has a similar feature to Twitter. It uses hash-tags to tag the photos like Twitter also uses (#TooCool). It even connects with your Facebook and Twitter account which enables you to upload them for friends to see. Did we mention it’s even free to use Instagram?

Price Check by Amazon

Price Check by Amazon is a handy app if you are looking to get the best deal on the latest products on the market. The Price Check app contains a bar code scanner feature to take with you on the go. The apps allows you to scan an item at any store to compare prices through Amazon. This can save you some serious cash in the long-run if you use the application as much as possible. It’s another free app too. Don’t forget to encourage your friends to download it. That way they can save on purchases too!

Flashlight

Flashlight is the perfect app for a reliable light source. It turns your iPhone camera flash feature into a light source in case you are walking in the dark or looking for something lost in a crevice. I find the app most helpful when I’m jogging at dusk. I turn the app on so cars can see the bright light from my phone.

The app is free and will be sure to light up your night. Your friends will likely be impressed as well because the light is super bright. Be sure to not shine it directly into someone’s eyes.

MapMyRun

MapMyRun is perfect for getting into shape. You won’t ever lose track of how far you ran, or how long it took your anymore. This app uses the GPS feature in your phone to document everywhere you are running. It even allows you to sync up with your friends trails so you can compete on how fast each of you ran your course. The app is free, so download it and share it with your fitness friends.

Author Bio: Working in an information technology field, Patricia Goldbum loves to try the latest gadgets on the market. She is constantly trying out new apps. She brings a lot of her knowledge into her business practice. She recently purchased product ID labels to protect her business’s assets.

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A dozen ways NFC could change your life

We explore the possible applications of NFC on phones. There are many potential NFC uses beyond mobile payments.

NFC stands for Near Field Communication. Although the technology has been around for a while, it’s just starting to gain prominence in the smartphone market. Chances are that if you’ve heard of NFC before now, it was probably in reference to mobile payments. Through services like Google Wallet, you can tap your phone at a checkout in order to pay for goods or services. Here’s how Google Wallet works.

According to Juniper Research one in four mobile owners in the U.S. and Western Europe will be using NFC for mobile payments by 2017 and worldwide transactions will be worth $180 billion. It might prove to be a great technology for mobile payments, and we will likely see support roll out to more places in the coming months, but that is by no means all that NFC can do. Let’s take a look at some of the other possibilities.

Tickets

Paperless ticketing is a great idea and it makes a lot of sense to enable smartphones to act as tickets. There are already various apps that allow you to buy tickets directly through your smartphone and scan your device to confirm at the venue. NFC could make the whole process that little bit smoother. You could buy tickets for the cinema, a concert, or a football game, and just tap your phone when you arrive. Forget about carrying a bus pass or a card for the subway – just tap your phone at an NFC terminal and away you go.

Parking Meters

This is a great example of something that NFC-enabled phones can vastly improve. San Francisco is adopting NFC parking meters which allow people to pay for their parking directly from their smartphone. You can even get an alert on your phone when your metered time is due to run out and you can opt to pay more into the meter from wherever you are. The benefits of this scenario couldn’t be clearer.

Tours or exhibits

Including NFC tags on exhibits or next to paintings in museums or art galleries would allow people to access additional information about whatever it is they’re examining. They could point to a simple web page or be linked up to an audio or video app. This idea would work equally well for tours of all kinds. Additional information via NFC tags could be provided on historical landmarks and points of interest anywhere.  The Museum of London is already trying NFC for a variety of things to enhance the visitor experience.

Newspapers, flyers, and brochures

Instead of picking up a physical copy of a newspaper on your daily commute you could use NFC to grab a digital copy for your phone. The same thing would work well for flyers, brochures, and even groceries. It would save time and paper. You could also pick up promotional offers and vouchers to use later.

Networking

Though this will scare some of you, your NFC-enabled smartphone could store all sorts of personal information about you for sharing. This could include a business card, a resume, or just a basic name and address. Exchanging contact information would be a breeze and you could register an interest in a job with a tap of your phone. Companies could have promotional information or a map of the building available in the lobby for visitors.

Restricted entry

No need to carry an access card for work. You could use your phone as a digital key. This could work for hotels as well. As with mobile payments, you could require the user to enter a PIN for an added layer of security.

Tracking medical patients

You might feel strange about having your medical history on your phone, but it could save a lot of time on visits to the doctor or the hospital. Perhaps that’s a step too far, but how about an NFC tracking tag that allows medical staff to plot your journey through the hospital? It could help ensure you receive the correct treatment. It would also speed up the paperwork trail as medical professionals could just scan your tag instead of filling out forms.

Gaming

NFC could be used to create gaming experiences that allow you to interact with the real world. Nokia has been working on some NFC games. To be honest what they’ve come up with so far is pretty dull, but the potential is there to create some fun interactive experiences. If some real game developers take an interest then we could see something special.

Programmable tags

With programmable tags like Samsung’s TecTiles you can really make use of NFC yourself. We’ll be discussing the possibilities of automating your smartphone profiles based on pre-set parameters soon, but imagine being able to tap your phone on an NFC tag (which is essentially a sticker) and autodial a number or send a pre-written text message.

Marketing and replacing QR codes

With QR codes, you can achieve a lot of the same things as you can with NFC tags. Previously, people had to scan a QR code, which involved using an app like Barcode Scanner and using the phone’s camera. With NFC, you can just tap your phone on a poster and trigger an app download, a promotional voucher, or a website address. In terms of marketing, NFC can be used in the same way as QR codes, it just makes things easier.

Wireless accessories

There are plenty of Bluetooth accessories for smartphones. How about using NFC instead? There’s already a foldable smartphone keyboard using NFC. We could see a new wave of NFC-enabled accessories.

Endless potential

The basic capabilities of NFC allow for a wide range of possible uses and the main point is convenience. You can imagine attending a lecture or a pitch and just tapping your phone to download notes and further information when you leave. Checkout lines could be cleared faster, queues for tickets could be a thing of the past, and further information on a host of things could be a tap away.

It all depends on how quickly NFC is adopted and whether companies see the added value in using it. The latest smartphone releases are all offering NFC. If the iPhone 5 adopts NFC as well, then we can expect it to take off a bit faster. 

Source : digitaltrends[dot]com

Craigslist comes to its senses, drops exclusivity terms for postings

While Craigslist is still fighting outside developers, it's not going to demand total control to user-created content.

 For the last month, Craigslist has been tussling with outside applications and their use of its content. After yanking content from PadMapper and then issuing a complaint against the apartment hunting service, as well as Craigslist API provider 3taps, the site went ahead and added an exclusivity clause to its posting page that gave Craigslist sole license to your data.

Today, the Electronic Frontier Federation announced that Craigslist has dropped the clause. “It was important for Craigslist to remove the provision because claiming an exclusive license to the user’s posts – to the exclusion of everyone, including the original poster – would have harmed both innovation and the users’ rights, and would have set a terrible precedent,” the organization says. The EFF, where Craigslist founder Craig Newmark serves on the Advisory Board, met with the company to dissuade them from keeping the content exclusivity terms.

It’s a small coup for the many outside developers who have been frustrated by Craigslist’s incredibly closed strategy. The site is still not allowing search engines to index its listings, and by all accounts still pursuing legal action against the Internet’s beloved PadMapper and its ally 3taps, but at least users can rest easy knowing they won’t be forced into agreeing to exclusively give craigslist ther content.. As EFF mentions, founder Craig Newmark has been incredibly active fighting for users’ Internet rights, as well as using the Web as a means to solve larger problems with his craigconnects organization. In general, he seems like he’s one of the good guys.

Of course, despite the site’s name, Newmark’s own involvement in higher-level decision-making at Craigslist is far less than you’d think. He mostly works in customer service for Craigslist these days, so his own personal ideals shouldn’t necessarily reflect the company’s business tactics. Which, even as it drops the exclusivity terms, are making Craigslist look like a data-hungry bully. 

Source : digitaltrends[dot]com

Google disables Jelly Bean app encryption after issues with several paid apps

One of the key features in Android 4.1, Jelly Bean is that it automatically encrypts paid applications with a device specific ID, which ensures an app downloaded on once device can only be used on that particular device. This was created to combat the rampant piracy that has been seen on the Android platform.

Unfortunately, while the idea is excellent, the execution is not, as several developers and users of paid apps have found out.

The problem exists with the way the encrypted applications are downloaded and installed. In Jelly Bean, Google Play Store installs the application in the /mnt/asec folder (which is encrypted) instead of the /data/apps folder. When the OS boots, a service cache is generated for all the installed apps. Unfortunately, this process happens before the /mnt/asec folder is mounted, because of which the the OS cannot find the settings and other user profile data for the app, which causes the paid apps to reset and their data to be cleared every time the phone is rebooted.

There doesn’t seem to be any real solution to this problem at present, which has resulted in the encryption feature being disabled by Google. Since this is something only found in Jelly Bean, those running older versions of Android were never affected by it.

While it might seem like an oversight on Google’s part, as Android Police mentions, Google was aware of this issue since last month and instead of acting on it on a priority basis it was relegated to a medium priority status, something to be fixed in the next version of Android.

Hopefully, the system will be fixed and be back online. Not that it matters, because even with a fully functioning system Google can’t stop the various ways in which you can pirate on Android.

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