Recent content by gregory_opera

I don't have this television anymore, as I donated it to a local church... None of the methods I used was able to "root" this television, and I tried a looonnng list of methods.

Sorry dude, I never found a (working) solution for "rooting" my Android television, and I have since given that particular television again...

I guess I'm lucky then, because Kogan almost never updates/upgrades their Android stuff... Of course, I need an exploit in the first place. Yeah I saw Magisk, but I wasn't really sure what it was for... Might need to look into it again. Thanks!

I have a Kogan KALED55KU8000SZA 55-inch Smart TV - identified by My Device Pro as an "MStar Android TV" from "MStar Semiconductor", using the "arbutus" board and the "monet" hardware. It runs Android TV 5.1.1 ("Lollipop"), Build aosp_arbutus-userdebug 5.1.1 LMY47V 1.1.20170720.153235 test-keys...

I realize that... But there's an awfully big difference between Android TV-Linux and Ubuntu/<insert distro here>-Linux. And "Linux" in the context of a regular operating system is a lot more capable than Android TV could ever hope to be... For one, I could have have a traditional Linux-based...

I have a "smart" television from Kogan that runs Android TV and to be honest, I've hated it since Day One... Android TV is rubbish in more ways than I care to count, which is why I never use the "Android TV" side of my "smart" television. So perhaps I can make it more useful... Is there a way...

My "Pendo Pad 10" - which is actually a branded Winner A33-U106 - has always had problems with malware, so I wiped it and did a bit of digging... Exactly as I suspected, the malware is contained within the factory-installed ROM and as such, cannot be disabled or removed. I have also discovered...

Well, you've gotta "be in it to win it" and I wouldn't mind seeing how Sammy's "phablets" compare to my Sony Xperia Z Ultra "monster phablet"... So let's see how I go.

Pretty much everything since um, "KitKat" maybe, has worked "out-of-the-box"... That is, you insert the storage card and as long as the mobile device (smartphone/phablet/tablet/whatever) supports Micro SDXC, it just "works". If the storage card is formatted incorrectly, Android will tell you...

Having recently broken my Sony Xperia Z's screen, I replaced it with the new Kogan Agora HD+ as an interim solution until I can afford another Sony smartphone... I might however, continue to use this smartphone as for a budget smartphone, it's actually pretty good thus far (ask me again in a...

At worst, you probably won't get SDXC read and write speeds because the SDXC memory card would effectively become a large-capacity SDHC memory card (even though it would technically exceed the maximum storage capacity of the SDHC standard)... But the thing is, once you format the card in a...

I was wrong by the way - Flash Player was discontinued as of Android 4.1 ("Jelly Bean"), not Android 4.0 ("Ice Cream Sandwich"). As for your Galaxy Note 2,I know nothing about them other than the the fact that the wife was considering one over the Xperia Z, so I can't really comment on how well...

Mohamed (apologies if I spelt that wrong, I'm on my phone), See my post here regarding Android 5.x: http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?p=2792140 As for the original poster's question, yes, Sony are usually pretty good with releasing updates and upgrades... The catch 22 is the...

You would hope so... But no one outside of Sony and perhaps Google truly knows at this time (not to mention the fact that Android 5.x hasn't even been announced yet!). Much to the surprise of many, Android 5.x was not announced at this year's Google I/O event (which just finished), and the...

You realize that the lack of support for Adobe Flash Player is completely beyond the control of Sony, right? Adobe have discontinued Flash Player for smartphones and tablets - any smartphone or tablet running Android 4.0 ("Ice Cream Sandwich") or newer will thus no longer be able to utilize...