Opera Software has released the beta version of “Opera Mini 5” browser, for the Android platform. Opera Mini 5 beta for Android is much faster and cost-efficient Web experience to any handset built on the Android platform.

Opera Mini 5 is the only browser that offers a desktop-like browsing experience on a mobile phone, and after releasing the beta version of Opera Mini 5 for Android, they are certainly going to capture huge portion of mobile browser market.

According to Dag Olav Norem, Vice President of Products, Opera Software – “Android users should not have to compromise when it comes to surfing the Web on their phones. Opera Mini will give Android users a fast and cost-efficient access to their favorite Web sites and services.”

Screentshots of Opera Mini 5 in Action on Android Phone

Features: Opera Mini 5 for beta version Android

• Tabbed Browsing.
• Speed dial (Start screen featuring thumbnails of most-visited sites).
• Password Manager.
• Opera link (sync with desktop).
• Download Manager.

Download Opera Mini 5 for Android now!

Download Opera Mini directly to your Android phone. To download, visit m.opera.com/next with the Android browser or search for Opera Mini 5 in the Android Market.

Tether have just released a beta version of their software for Android. Android (beta) version of Tether App (formerly, TetherBerry) is available for enabling tethering on android without rooting your handset. Tether is a popular tethering app for Blackberry users which has helped over 110,000 BlackBerry Smartphone users in past one year.

Tethering allows you to access or share the Internet connection on your laptop from your Mobile phone.

Recently, “Tether” won the local Innovacorp I3 competition for their powerful tethering app. The developers are working hard on Tether beta for android. If you want to test the beta version of Tether app on Android phone then sign-up here.

How to use Tether App on Android

• Connect your Android phone with computer Via USB.
• Download Tether app (beta) on your computer.
• Navigate to the program files section under c drive and find the tether folder. get the .apk file
• Copy .apk file to your droid card.
• Use astro to install to enable wired tethering.

Android users who are looking other ways to tether their android device can follow our guide on how to Enable Tethering using Android WiFi Tether, tether Motorola DROID, Tether Nexus One or enabling WiFi Tethering on Nexus One.

The thrill of the high-action arcade fighting game “Street Fighter IV”, produced by Capcom has been launched for iPhone, iPod Touch and is available for download via iTunes at appstore. The best part is that, iPhone version of Street Fighter 4 also supports head-to-head arcade play (Multiplayer) in “Versus” mode over Bluetooth.

The controls in Street Fighter IV are accessed via “Visual Pad” system developed specially for the iPhone and iPod Touch as shown in the screenshots listed below. The interface can be fully customized by repositioning controls anywhere on the screen as well as setting the level of transparency.

To get highly anticipated fighting game Street Fighter 4 (SF IV) for iPhone, you need to shell out $9.99, and let me tell you that the price set for this awesome game is worth each and every penny. It is one of the most beautiful games ever released for iPhone. Capcom has sold nearly 2.5 million copies of Street Fighter IV worldwide on other platforms like PC, XboX, Play Station 3 etc. Packed with ultimate graphics, killer sound effects and brilliant gameplay, Street Fighter 4 delivers true fighting game on iPhone.

Features of Street Fighter 4 on iPhone

1. Fight as eight Street Fighter characters in seven different environments.
2. Full move sets including Unique Attacks, Special Moves, Focus Attacks, Super Combos and Ultra Combos.
3. For a true arcade experience, battle head-to-head on Bluetooth against friends and foes alike.
4. Robust “Dojo” boot camp transforms neophytes into Street Fighter masters in five in-depth lessons.
5. Customize the controls for your style of play. Move the buttons anywhere you want on the screen and set the level of transparency.
6. Unleash super moves with a tap of the “SP” button, or toggle it off from the “Options” menu if you want to enter the button combo manually.
7. Four levels of difficulty.

Screenshots: Street Fighter 4 on iPhone

Video: Street Fighter 4 on iPhone

Download Street Fighter IV for iPhone 3G/3GS, iPod Touch

Street Fighter IV via App Store for US $9.99.

In past we have shared android backup tools like SMS Backup, Android Handset Manager and TitaniumBackup to Backup & Restore Settings of any apps on Android phone. AndroidBackup is powerful tool to take data backup on Android platform.

AndroidBackup takes the backup of Contacts, System Settings, Application Settings, SMS, Calendar, Call Logs, Bookmarks, Home screens, Alarms, IM and settings, MMS, Apn Settings, Photos, Ringtones, User Dictionary, Video, Voice Recordings, Music (tracks, playlists, album art and more).

Screenshots of Android Backup Tool

How to use take backup of your Android Phone

1. Download AndroidBackup and install it. If you don’t know how to install, move to second step for complete instructions.
2. Download installAPK. Once installed, just double click on an APK file on your PC and it will be installed onto your USB connected Android phone.

Currently, Android Backup Supports most of the popular smartphone and you can easily backup SMS, system and application settings, contact list, MMS, bookmarks and more on your HTC Dream/G1/Hero/Magic/Sapphire/Tattoo Eris/Desire, Motorola Droid/Milestone/CLIQ/DEXT, Samsung Galaxy/Behold 2/Moment, Google Nexus One and many more. For complete list of supported phones visit here.

While rooting your Android Phone or installing custom ROM on your mobile or partitioning your android device to install applications, requires some android terminal command and ADB (Android Debug Bridge) shell command knowledge. Below is the list of some basic android commands that are being used on Android platform frequently and that every android user must know.
 

Basic Android Terminal and ADB Shell Command List

1. How to open a cmd in Android Phone
Method 1: “Start” – “”Program”-” “Accessories” – “” Command Prompt ”
Method 2: “Start” – “” Run “, type cmd ENTER

2. How to restart Android Phone
When the phone and Computer is connected to the data cable, you can enter the following command

adb shell reboot === ENTER

3. Restart Android into Recovery Mode
With the data cable connected to your phone and computer, enter the following command

adb shell reboot recovery === ENTER

4. Convert back to ext2 partition
Restart the phone into Recovery mode, press “Alt + X” into the console. Open cmd and enter the following command

adb shell === ENTER
tune2fs-O ^ has_journal / dev/block/mmcblk0p2 === carriage return
e2fsck / dev/block/mmcblk0p2 === carriage return (optional, can be a problem area in section 2, when used)

5. Pulling applications from Android phone to computer

adb pull /system/sd/app app
adb pull /system/sd/app-private app-private

6. Pushing applications back to android phone from the computer

adb push app /system/sd/app
adb push app-private /system/sd/app-private

7. Delete existing apps on Android SD

adb shell rm -r /system/sd/app
adb shell rm -r /system/sd/app-private

8. Repair gravity System or switch to screen
Sometimes frequent brushing of phone can cause gravity system or switch to screen failure. Just follow the steps below-
Restart the phone into Recovery mode, press “Alt + X” into the console
Open cmd and enter the following command

mount / data === carriage return
rm / data / misc / akmd * / data / misc / rild * === ENTER

9. Ext2/ext3/ext4 formatted partition
Enter the following command in the cmd

adb remount === ENTER
adb shell === ENTER
rm-r / system / sd / * === carriage return

10. Remove/ system / app under the application
Under normal circumstances / system / app is not under an application. Use the following methods to remove these applications.
Open cmd and enter the following command

adb remount === ENTER
adb rm / system / app / Stocks.apk === Enter

11. If the start Time is too Long
Just enter the following command in order to view the boot process.

adb logcat === ENTER

12. Through Terminal Partition SD card
It will erase everything on your SD card

$  su
# cd /data
# wget http://64.105.21.209/bin/lib/droid/sdsplit
# chmod 555 sdsplit
# /data/sdsplit -fs *size* (add -nc to the end for JFv1.5ADP)

13. From the Recovery Screen, send an update file to your SD card.

adb shell mount /sdcard
adb shell rm /sdcard/update.zip
adb push *filename* /sdcard/update.zip

14. Restoring a nandroid backup via Fastboot
Start command-prompt/terminal cd to the nandroid folder and enter following commands

fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash userdata data.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot

15. Clear Search History in Android

Search History is accounted for Mobile Memory. It can also leak your privacy information as well. Just follow the steps below to clear android history.

Steps are as follows:

1. Make sure your mobile phone has Root authority.
2. Open the super-terminal.
3. Enter the following command

su
rm / data / data / com.android.vending / databases / suggestions.db

4. Exit Hyper Terminal and restart the phone.

If you have a good one to add please post it in comment section

Dada at androidin forum has cooked up Brush Pack for Nexus One on Android 2.1 Phone that includes Adobe Flash and HTC Sense Interface which is being transplanted from HTC Desire ROM [Original Address].

Dada has used MoDaCo Custom ROM with HTC Sense (Desire ROM) for Nexus One online kitchen – Alpha 12 on android Firmware Version 2.1

Nexus One Desire ROM Function Description:

1. Built-in Adobe Flash.
2. Android 2.1 HTC New Sense UI new features and characteristics.
3. Built-in Dynamic Live Wallpapers.
4. New HTC Boot Screen (choose Nexus One boot screen).
5. Supports multi-point touch, as well as Navigation Function using Google Map 4.0
6. Added: For Android 2.1 of Google Pinyin, lib library support;
7. Added: USB Network Share
8. Modified Desk Clock (base), music player, this problem is fixed (using the HTC player);
9. Removed Facebook, Amazon and other unnecessary Software.
10. Both cameras can be used with this custom ROM.
11. Bluetooth cannot run.

You can follow the step by step Guide on how to Brush ROM.

Download Nexus One Desire

alpha12 -nexusone-desire.zip
Size: 128,604,474 bytes
ChangesTime: March 9, 2010, 13:27:11
MD5: C3BEF644F2BBB5C410B5695478E7E2D9
SHA1: AE4E31F6C363CA45C417CA597371BA4A4DC5716D
CRC32: 5DA80521
Click to download alpha12 -nexusone-desire.zip

Recently, Droid 2.1 ESE53 SBF file was leaked which included Live Wallpapers and the 2.1 Launcher. Now, a new EPE54B Android 2.1 update for Google Nexus One has been leaked in the wild. The kernel version for this ROM is 2.6.29-01117-g4bc62c2 android-build@apa26 #1 and baseband version is 32.26.00.24U_4.04.00.03_2.

Compared to the last leaked build ERE36B, there are couple of noticeable changes.

• No new radio and kernel
• system/framework/* changed
• system/app/*.apk changed
• system/bin/debuggerd changed
• system/etc/security/otacerts.zip changed
• system/lib/libhtc_ril.so changed
• Added de-odex packs for framework and app directories.

The Stock ROM EPE54B contains stock images, update zip, radio zip, de-odex packs, superboots and online kitchen.

EPE54B – image Format – An original secure signed zip from HTC which can be used to return your phone to completely, original, stock state containing all of the images for the various partitions on the device, which can be flashed via fastboot.

IMAGE FORMAT DOWNLOAD MD5: 3388b13fa835efe4a60f2be92f5a9522

EPE54B – update zip format – It is stock, secure and unrooted which does not include the Radio update. If you flash and end up in a ‘boot loop’, re-enter recovery, wipe then reflash.

UPDATE ZIP DOWNLOAD MD5: 0cfa033d58509b9bdf5d9ae09d976a38

EPE54B – superboot images – If you would like to use EPE54B but would like either root access or an insecure boot image (for adb remount permissions), then install superboot images with himem enabled. It is important to note that after installing the himem superboot on Nexus One, you will need to reflash your ROM in order to revert, as the himem superboot includes an updated wifi driver.

Download Superboot for EPE54B with himem enabled MD5: d026c2b510ed147d13ba39ac42fbf901

You can also use an insecure boot image that allows you to manually deploy su and superuser.apk

Download Insecure boot for EPE54B  MD5: 3a444e0667367a2dfcd3d70421327e45

EPE54B – de-odex packs – There are two packs available –  “framework directory”, used for theming purpose and “App directory” for providing full de-odexing.

FRAMEWORK PACK DOWNLOAD MD5: 046ff4a06b30f8d5cfa8cda8f54cf809
APP PACK DOWNLOAD MD5: 977b5d3fabb726c0cc53ed7cee6d563d

EPE54B / 32.26.00.24U_4.04.00.03_2 radio – update zip format – The update includes the Radio ROM shipped with EPE54B (and ERE36B), again as an update zip. It carries version number 32.26.00.24U_4.04.00.03_2.

RADIO UPDATE ZIP DOWNLOAD MD5: c55116d119e9e30cffc86875dce1a560

EPE54B – online Kitchen – You can easily bake the Stock ROM EPE54B for Nexus One online kitchen by selecting the components of your choice. You can also include either an insecure boot image or the superboot root boot image (with or without himem) or the radio image. Access the Nexus One EPE54B – online Kitchen here.

Via – [modaco]

A new firmware called Tweak 3.1.3 has been released on Cydia. Its purpose is very simple since it will only replace the information contained in a variable pretending to be on your iPhone Firmware 3.1.3 to 3.1.2 instead.

All this will come back very useful when you try to install applications via AppStore. Now there are several that explicitly require the latest firmware, so if you do not want to update, you can simply install this tweak and bypass the problem. Make sure to jailbreak your iPhone and install Cydia. Then search “Firmware 3.1.3″ in Cydia via the BigBoss repository.

To run the applications on android phone faster, make sure that you install them on the SD card memory instead of installing in the internal memory of your android device.

Partitioning SD card of Android phone lets you install application on the SD card memory instead making your device to run faster. In past we have shared step by step instructions on how to partition the Android SD card manually. But instead of doing it manually, you can use youADB (formerly called adb gui).

youADB is a graphical user interface for adb which allows you to easily perform numerous actions without using cmd prompt or typing it manually.
Features of youADB:

• Click Reboot – Regular/Recovery mode.
• Partition-Manager – 1-Click partitioning using parted in rec-mode
• Save & view logs.
• File-Manager – (push, pull, delete files…)
• App Manager - (install / uninstall Android applications)
• Shows device state and serial number
• Custom adb commands

youADB is a powerful tool for android platform, but being in experimental stage, extra caution is required before using it. The developer is working on it to add certain features like – pie chart for partitioning tool and setup wizard.

Download youADB for your Android Device

youadb.4shared.com

The official beta of Swype was released recently and was available for limited number of Android users.  If you have missed out, then you can still download the official beta of Swype here. Follow the instruction below to download and install official version of Swype Beta.

Instructions to Install Swype Beta on Android Phone

1. Navigate to settings -> applications and check the “unknown sources” box.
2. Tap and download Swype apk file onto your phone Droid.Swype.Beta.5612.apk
3. Tap the downloaded file to install Swype on android.
4. Navigate to settings -> language & keyboard and check the “Swype” box.
5. Navigate to a text message, long press in the text box and choose “input method”.
6. Select “Swype”.