Your smartphone and / or tablet is only begging to get updated. Now and then, 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 make certain they do not escape without warning, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery from the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. In case you find something available in your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and tell us. Enjoy!
Official Android updates
Android 2.3 is rolling out for the LG Optimus 3D, after months of eager waiting. The update seems to be hitting phones worldwide, but remember that this rollout won’t include the LG Thrill 4G on AT&T — no less than, not for now. [ Android Community ]
Not just did the Gingerbread source pop out for the Samsung Droid Charge, Verizon’s finally confirmed that it begins pushing out to users on November 29th. The build is named EP4. [ Droid-Life ]
The Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket on AT&T is getting an early update to Android 2.3.6. Our review unit received the refresh and we noticed better performance.
The OG Motorola Droid is getting a bug fix refresh. No specific details or change logs are yet known. [ Android Community ]
HTC and Verizon are rolling out a safety patch for the Rhyme, referred to as version 1.26.605.11. There are no feature changes during this download, as it’s meant to just address security issues. [ Droid-Life ]
Another HTC device is getting a minor OTA update: the eu HTC Desire S. From what we will tell, it seems that to only be a bug fix download. [ PocketNow ]
Huawei confirmed via Facebook that Android 2.3 is now available for the Ideos X5 Pro, and the X5 should be getting it before the top of the month. [ Unwired View ]
The Samsung Galaxy S II X on Telus was confirmed to be at the ICS list, with the upgrade to Android 4.0 available sometime in 2012. [ MobileSyrup ]
Rogers has pushed 2.3.4 to the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc. [ MobileSyrup ]
Unofficial Android updates, custom ROMs and misc. hackery
HTC has released the kernel source for just a few more devices, corresponding to the Rezound, Amaze 4G, Desire S and Explorer. [ PocketNow ]
Motorola also has made kernel source available for the Droid RAZR. [ 0 Phandroid 0 ]
An ICS port for the Samsung Galaxy S is within the works. [ 1 The Verge 1 ]
Also getting an alpha version of an unofficial ICS port? The HTC Hero. [ 2 MobileSyrup 2 ]
Koush has an alpha version of ICS available for the Samsung Nexus S. [ 3 AndroidCentral 3 ]
Another alpha build of CyanogenMod is set for the HP TouchPad. No, it is not ICS yet. As always, install at your personal risk. [ 4 RootzWiki 4 ]
Peter Alfonso has a brand new Android 2.3.7 ROM for the OG Motorola Droid. Head 5 here 5 to download it. [ 6 AndroidCentral 6 ]
Other platforms
a brand new update, v1.1, is out there for the Nokia N9. The various improvements: additional filters for the camera, music controls added to the lock screen, NFC tag reading, image sharing at the Twitter app and improved memory handling for smoother multitasking. [ 7 MobileTechReview 7 ]
The Nokia 603 just received a minor maintenance release to Symbian Belle called v111.030.0607. No changelog have been provided yet. [ 8 MyNokiaBlog 8 ]
The BlackBerry Playbook was bumped as much as version 1.0.8.4985. It updates Flash Player to 11.1, Adobe Air to three.1, updated its Bluetooth and WiFi software for better connectivity and added a number of extra security enhancements. [ 9 MobileSyrup 9 ]
BlackBerry OS 7.1 was leaked and shown running on a Bold 9900. The long run update will enable Mobile Hotspot functionality, in addition to BlackBerry Tags. [ 0 CrackBerry 0 ]
Mango is now showing up at the Samsung Omnia 7 on Telefonica. [ 1 WMPowerUser 1 ]
Rogers just pushed build 7740 onto its Samsung Focus, that is essentially a minor bug fix build (the initial Mango version was 7720). [ 2 MobileSyrup 2 ]
Build 7740 of Mango may be reaching the LG Optimus 7 in Europe. [ 3 PocketNow 3 ]
The Dark Forces Team was ready to get its bootloader running at the Samsung Focus, bringing it much towards getting custom ROMs. [ 4 WPCentral 4 ]
Refreshes we covered this week
6 HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) gets taste of ICS 6
7 ICS supports USB mass storage of course — Galaxy Nexus would not 7
8 Nokia promises software update to repair Lumia 800 battery woes 8
9 Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 gets Android 3.2 once more, this time fixes stuff 9
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