Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. In certain cases, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and such a lot of of them are floating around that it is easy for a large chunk to wander away inside the mix. To ensure they do not escape all at once, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery from the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. Whenever you find something available on your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and tell us. Enjoy!
Official Android updates
The HTC Merge on US Cellular can now be bumped as much as Android 2.3.4. It seems that to be a manual install, so visit here to download the file and learn exactly the right way to update your device. [via UnwiredView ]
HTC has added another device to its growing list of phones and tablets that now support the HTCDev bootloader unlock tool. [via PocketDroid ]
The LG Optimus S on Sprint is now at the receiving end of an OTA Gingerbread rollout. [via UnwiredView ]
Great news, Samsung Infuse 4G users: you’re getting an update. The bad news: it is a maintenance fix, instead of an entire-out Gingerbread upgrade. Still, it can be well worth the download when you’ve got the time or opportunity. [via AndroidCentral ]
Samsung has released the kernel source for the Epic 4G Touch . [via 0 PocketNow 0 ]
Sprint’s certainly getting lots of love this week, and we aren’t done yet: the Motorola Photon 4G is starting to push out another smallish bug fix meant to curb WiFi issues experienced by a number of users, and looks to be a steady rollout. [via 1 SprintFeed 1 ]
The unique 2 Motorola Droid X 2 is anticipated to receive a maintenance refresh as early as tomorrow, that’s intended to unravel a widespread issue with the keyboard. In case you are during this category, definitely keep an in depth eye out in this space. [via 3 Droid-Life 3 ]
We’re hearing that the Droid 2 R2-D2 update to Gingerbread, which we originally reported on last week, is officially rolling out to eager fanboys and fangirls countrywide. [via 4 AndroidCentral 4 ]
Unofficial Android updates, custom ROMs and misc. hackery
Those CyanogenMod7 builds for the HTC Sensation and EVO 3D we were talking about last week? They’re now available. As extremely early builds, download and flash at your personal risk. [via 5 AndroidCentral 5 ]
Since we’re talking a lot about HTC, here’s an extra thing: now you can 6 grab a ROM 6 in your HTC Desire HD that permits the beats audio technology. [via 7 GSMArena 7 and 8 Android Community 8 ]
A dev was hard at work pulling various Motorola Atrix ROMs and porting them over to the Droid X2. The 1st one available is obvious vanilla Android 2.3.4, in case you are just not feeling as much as using MotoBlur (aka the now-nameless Moto UI). [via 9 Droid-Life 9 ]
The initial build of the 0 Motorola Droid Bionic 0 bootstrap is obtainable for install, which essentially will show you how to bootstrap your recovery and create backups to your device. Custom ROMs still aren’t around for the Bionic yet (although 1 early builds of CM7 1 began showing up this week), however the bootstrap is a huge step toward achieving that goal. [via 2 Droid-Life 2 ]
Other platforms
Symbian’s Anna update is continuous to expand support to more countries, including Italy, Switzerland, Taiwan and Turkey. The refreshes for the united states, Canada and Australia — in accordance with an email from Nokia — is anticipated to reach throughout the next two weeks. [via 3 MyNokiaBlog 3 ]
Refreshes we covered this week
4 AT&T Windows Phone 7 devices to receive Mango this autumn 4
5 BlackBerry PlayBook to get OTA update next month which will offer native email, calendar 5
Samsung Zipel oven takes instructions out of your Android phone
White House gets behind online ‘bill of rights,’ companies to adopt ‘do not track’
