5 Hot New Video Apps for Android

Can’t resist watching and commenting on videos with your friends or toying with your camera in hope of shooting a new experimental short movie? Here are 5 new Android video apps straight from the oven you should check out.

5 Hot New Video Apps for Android

1. iCouchapp

While iOS users have been enjoying the beauty of community video watching for a year, iCouchapp has finally released the Android version on March, the 10^th. This social video app has three main features:

• Share and watch various videos; post on them on your timeline and feature them in a “Hall of Fame”. You can share video via Youtube app or paste video url directly on the platform to share it. Other popular platforms like Vimeo and DailyMotion are said to be added soon.

• Create memes, polls and quizzes based on your favorite shows and videos. The app allows taking screenshots and converting them into fun content later on. Share it on your timeline and comment on other entries. iCouchapp keeps a chart of the most active app users and rewards them with daily prizes, say a free ride from Uber.

• Discuss your favorite shows with other fans in special chatrooms dedicated to each show. Or create a private once with your friends. So far, the selection of TV shows is pretty limited, however.

2. LiveRing

LiveRing – a popular social video exchange app has launched its Android version on March 17^th. With this app you can shoot short videos (up to 1 min long by default), tag your friends and share your daily joys together in real time. You can invite as many friends as you want for a livestream video session and the central feature is the tag that will tell everyone what’s exactly going on right now.

“Human communication is about action and reaction, and only live video can create that kind of presence using technology” – says Daniel Holmstrom, the creator of the app.

3. YouTube Downloader for Android

We’ve all been waiting for it, right ‘cause some videos are just too good to be watched just once when you have Wi-Fi. Youtube Downloader for Android allows you to get any video you like in multiple formats and any preferred resolution. The app works pretty smooth and fast, plus allows downloading multiple videos at a time.

4. Youtube Kids

Google and Youtube finally agreed that they need to filter video content more strictly and released YouTube Kids – a video app from ifrog.eu, featuring a selection of age-appropriate videos and packed with relevant content and channels’ recommendations. Design was significantly simplified to make it more navigable for the curious little minds.
As a parent you can set a timer within the app, so that your kids know when it’s time to stop watching and disable search options if you feel like to. However it’s heavily-filtered and will not display anything in case your kid types something like “sex”.

5. Camio

Camio offers to turn your device into a web-connected surveillance camera. Watch what your pets have been up to while you are at work, keep an eye on your home security while you are vacationing, or merely keep in touch with your loved ones while you are away.

Just get an account with them, download the app and you are ready to use it. The app captions all the motions on video and can store up to 30 days of video on the cloud, which you can watch anytime from anywhere. Camio is free to use, however you need to pay if you’d like to connect more than one device at a time.

5 Hot New Video Apps for Android

 

Source:: techcocktail

How to fix Invalid IMEI on Mediatek devices

 

 

 

 

How to fix Invalid IMEI on Mediatek devices

 

This is a short tutorial on how to fix IMEI problems on your Mediatek MT6592 devices.

1. Download 'Invalid IMEI fix.rar' archive from here, here or here. Extract it.
2. Install the "SmartPhoneDriver" choose x64 or x86 and click on "spinstall.exe" it will install the vcom drivers needed for "BIRDA_SN_STATION_MT6592", I included the "MT65xx Preloader" drivers if you need it install with Device manager
3. Install "BIRDA_SN_STATION_MT6592", click on "setup.exe" "next, next, next, Finish"

4. Open "BIRDA_SN_STATION_MT6592" on the desktop icon

5. Select "USB VCOM", "SmartPhone", "WCDMA+TD", "System Config" Select only "IMEI" and "Dual IMEI" don't choose "Dual IMEI Same"

6. In "Data Base" click on "MD DB_1" go to extracted "db" folder and select file "BPLGUInfoCustomAppSrcP_MT6592_S00_MOLY_WR8_W1315_MD_WG_MP_V34_P2_1_wg_n", click on "AP DB" and select file ifrog.eu "APDB_MT6592_S01_KK1.MP1_", click "OK"

7. Click on "Start" and write your IMEI_1 and IMEI_2 (the original Imeis of your phone is on the back cover behind the battery), click "OK"

8. Shutdown phone and take off the battery, insert battery again and connect the usb to phone, it will start to write imei to device and you will never gonna loose your IMEI again

9. After finished disconnect phone and turn it on.

 

How to fix Invalid IMEI on Mediatek devices

Android 5.1 factory image for the Nexus Player

We talk a lot about Android 5.1 for phones and tablets, but what about Google’s first Android TV product? Looks like the Nexus Player is finally set to get it as the company has posted the factory image over at their website.

We aren’t sure if there are any big changes specific to TV, but we’ll certainly be looking to load this up onto our unit and check. In the meantime you can grab the factory image and flash the file through fastboot if you aren’t interested in waiting for a network OTA process.

You’ll be on version LMY47D and it figures to cost you little more than 442MB of bandwidth. Grab it from Google’s site right here to load it up and give it a go.

Android 5.1 factory image for the Nexus Player

Google in talks with LG to build this year’s Nexus smartphone, not Huawei

Details about how the Nexus 6 was conceived is still shrouded in mystery. With rumors last year that Google would effectively be killing off the Nexus line in favor of multiple high-end devices — all running stock Android — sold in carrier stores, Google seemingly made a U-turn. This was after the Android Silver project head made his sudden departure from the company altogether.
Now, as we look ahead to the next Nexus, early rumors began swirling that Chinese smartphone maker Huawei would take up the mantle, something we’ll admit we never saw coming. But before you got your hopes up (or down), a new report has emerged, suggesting that it could be none other than LG.
Apparently, Google engineers were spotted visiting LG headquarters in South Korea, where they took a tour of a few LG facilities responsible for building LG’s displays, OIS cameras, wireless charging parts, as well as LG’s own R&D facilities. Carrying the codename “N000,” (those are zeroes, by the way, not the letter “o”) the device — said to be a smartphone — could launch as the “ Nexus 7.” Um… what?
Going by Google’s current naming convention, the number following a Nexus name has always denoted screen size — not generation. It’d be odd if Google suddenly switched gears confusing consumers in the process. So, that either means Google is looking to LG for a 7-inch tablet followup, or they’re launching a 7-inch smartphone (or not using the 7 name at all). If LG is making another tablet (and not a smartphone), then it’s still entirely possible for Huawei could be working on the actual smartphone. Confused yet? So are we.
As you can already tell, we’re getting a little bit ahead of ourselves here. In any case, LG is a major Android partner and has released quite a few Nexus devices to date, even more if you count their Google Play tablet. If rumors of an LG-made Nexus 2015 smartphone are true, would you guys be disappointed or overjoyed?
[eToday]

Omg, HTC confirms the One M7 will not be upgraded to Android 5.1

The One M7 probably won’t get another big Android update. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

 

HTC confirms the One M7 will not be upgraded to Android 5.1

 

Just like last year’s One M8, the One M7 got an Android 5.0 Lollipop upgrade earlier this year — but it seems that’s the last big update it will get. HTC has confirmed that while the Google Play Edition One M7 will get Android 5.1, the regular model will not.

“Only the GPE version of M7 will receive 5.1,” tweeted HTC Product Manager Mo Versi when asked when the One M7 would get Google’s latest Android 5.1 software. “Our target is early April.”

Unlike the regular One, the Google Play Edition handset runs pure Android — without the Sense user interface and other HTC tweaks. Making the latest Android releases available to it takes very little work, then.

But the regular One M7 does have Sense and all of the additional features that come with it, and HTC has seemingly decided that after two years, it will no longer be making the latest Android updates compatible with this device.

The two-year cutoff for Android updates is pretty typical of major manufacturers these days, so it’s not too surprising. But it will still be somewhat disappointing to those still clinging onto the original One smartphone.

At least HTC did update the device to Lollipop before closing the door on it, and of course, it should still see plenty of support from the community for years to come. You’ll be able to get an Android 5.1 update if you don’t mind flashing third-party ROMs, then. 

 

HTC confirms the One M7 will not be upgraded to Android 5.1

By Killian Bell SourceMo Versi