ClockworkMod Now Easier To Obtain On 2011 Sony Ericsson Xperia Devices Thanks To Auto Installer

 

Installing a recovery on your device is among the most popular projects for Android users. Of course achieving a recovery such as ClockworkMod involves the “simple” process of installing it on your phone, flashing a kernel or pushing the recovery to the right partition using the ADB in the Android terminal. Whichever method you choose, it can possibly be a difficult one– and that’s why we have the fine team at XDA helping to make our lives’ just a smidge easier. Senior member pvyParts and his associates recently posted an application that will install a recovery straight from the app itself. That means there’s no need for computers, a debug mode or any of the other potential problems. In other words, this is as straightforward as it gets. Here’s pvyParts himself as he shares his thoughts of the landmark app:

“This App will work with the 2011 Xperia porfolio. it will install CWM into the system partition so you can use recovery even with a locked bootloader!
The Recovery has been ported by nobodyAtall @xda for the Xperia phones!
All Credits to him!

all i did was bundle it into a nice easy installer. ( i also made some changes to the chargemon file to turn the LED on to signal when to pres your keys )”

This app is currently available for the 2011 Sony Ericsson Xperia Line of devices at this time. You can find more details for the app including additional details, change logs, a full compatibility list, screen shots and discussion in the original thread found at the link below. If you are bold enough to install the auto installer— do make sure you back everything… in case you commit an oopsie.

source: XDA
via: XDA Forums

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App Inventor Gets Open Source Treatment Thanks To MIT

Inventors and app developers are about to get an early Christmas present courtesy of MIT. The WYSIWYG app building tool is back thanks to MIT and with this, received a donation from none other than Google to create the MIT Center for Mobile Learning. One of the first items on its agenda was to resurrect the infamous App Inventor— you know the landmark app creator tool that was sadly shut down by Google. MIT has followed through with the resurrection of the app and has released the initial source code to the masses. In addition, they with occasionally update the source code to match what it is doing in-house.

Don’t expect to hear about too much detail about the source code for now. MIT does not have much documentation of the source code at this time as they are focusing their resources on getting a large-scale public server up by April. However, there’s an ever-growing community already started which likely includes information for those wanting to get up and running today.

Interested folks ready to jump in and try out the source code can go ahead and register at the MIT link below. If you don’t hear an immediate resposne from MIT, know that it’s likely because they already have a long list of interested users and perhaps don’t want to overload the service— especially because it’s in its infancy. Is anyone else excited about the idea of users being able to create the next big app again? Sound off in the Comments section and let us know what you think.

[via MIT Blog by Android And Me]

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