XDA TV: Android 7 ROM for the Nexus 5

Along with the Nexus 7, the Nexus 5 was also dropped from Google's update list. Luckily XDA-Developer recognized user Santhosh M has created an ASOP ROM that will bring Nougat to your Nexus 5 device.

Given the hardware that the ROM is running on, the experience is very smooth. Multi window is very fast when you snap windows into place but pulling them out is a little sluggish. YouTube playback is solid along with playback through VLC and MX Player. We also tested a few third party apps like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Everything runs very well and this ROM appears to be daily driver ready. Check it out for yourself here.

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SwiftKey Updates Keyboard to Integrate Neural Network Predictions

SwiftKey is integrating neural network predictions to its keyboard via an update pushed from the Play Store listing. Previously, neural network predictions were restricted to SwiftKey Neural Alpha app, where there keyboard would be able to understand the context and relationship between words based on the situation. Now, the tech has been integrated into the public app, although limited to English US and English UK only for now.

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Xiaomi’s Upcoming Mi 5S Likely to Sport Qualcomm’s Ultrasonic Fingerprint Scanner Tech

Leaks suggest that the Xiaomi Mi 5S will be ditching the home button as a place for the fingerprint sensor. Instead, the device will be amongst the first mainstream devices to make use of Qualcomm's ultrasonic fingerprint scanner tech will allow the scanner to be present beneath the glass panel. It is unknown at how exactly and up to what capacity the Mi 5S will be embedding this technology.

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SuperSU v2.78 SR1 Released with su Binary Bugfixes and New Versioning Scheme

XDA Recognized Developer Chainfire has released an update to his SuperSU app, involving a few bugfixes and one critical update to supolicy.

The critical update to supolicy is best explained in the man's own words:

Due to an initialization bug, introduced in v2.68 BETA, some SELinux contexts (including shell and untrusted_app) could be granted sys_module capability. If this happens, and your kernel is compiled with module loading support (most modern stock kernels have this disabled) and an exploit is used to gain uid 0, this then allows for a complete SELinux bypass and kernel pwn.

Chainfire mentions that the exact combination required for this vulnerability make the chances of its exploitation very slim. Nonetheless, it is a vulnerability, which is now fixed in this release. Hence, it is recommended to update SuperSU by flashing the SuperSU zip as the apk update would not be sufficient in this particular instance.

The rest of the changelog is as below:

• subinary: Adjust app_process detection with manipulated mount namespaces
• subinary: Adjust Zygote PID detection to prefer 64-bit
• subinary: Fix possible NPE in LD_PRELOAD sanitization
• subinary: In systemless mode, ensure PATH contains /su/bin and /su/xbin
• supolicy: Ensure zero-on-alloc for new rules
• supolicy: Fix parsing allowxperm with multiple sources/targets in a single definition
• ZIP/Systemless: Give su.d 60 seconds to execute (from 4 seconds)

Apart from this, this v2.78 SR1 also brings a change to the versioning system used by SuperSU. With this update, SuperSU is moving from BETA to Service Release naming scheme. The next test release would be using the same main version number as the current stable release, meaning that v2.78 SR1 would have been called v2.79 Beta otherwise. The version numbers are to be kept the same to reduce the effectiveness of people trying to upload the test releases to app stores outside of Google Play, as most non-Play stores do not accept a version number already present.

You can download the flashable zip for v2.78 SR1 from here. Alternatively, the forum thread for the same can be found here.

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Chainfire also took the moment to mention some upcoming announcements related to Coding Code Mobile Technology LLC. We talked about them and SuperSU's future before, in case you wanted to read that. We'll be on the lookout for the upcoming announcement.

Have you tried out the latest SuperSU? Let us know in the comments below!

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Would You Buy an Android Phone With No Headphone Jack?

The launch of the iPhone 7 put some fresh arguments into the debate of whether headphone jacks should go. LeEco was the first one to go headphone jack-less, and Motorola/Lenovo followed suit with the Moto Z.

While Apple does not get credit for being the first to get rid of the jack, past experiences suggest that Apple will be the company that breaks the industry inertia. While not many Android OEMs have come forth with plans to get rid of the headphone jack (heck, Moto even added it back for the Moto Z Play), there are good chances that we will see more OEMs experiment with getting rid of this piece of technology. So, the question for today is quite straightforward:

Would you buy an Android device which does not have a headphone jack? Would you support an OEMs decision to go wireless or be dependent on the USB Type C for personal audio needs, and/or be willing to forego the 3.5mm jack? Are you content with not being on the so-called "bleeding-edge" of technology?

Let us know in the comments below!

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OnePlus 3 & OnePlus X Both Get New Community Builds

OnePlus has been pumping out these small community build updates pretty fast lately. They've just announced a new community build of OxygenOS 3.5.2 for the OnePlus 3 with some optimizations and minor UI and UX tweaks to a few apps. They've also announced a new community build of OxygenOS 3.1.1 for the OnePlus X, that comes with September's security patches, bug fixes, and various improvements.

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Parallel Windows for Nougat Lets Users Run Multiple App Instances in MultiWindow

Parallel Windows for Nougat lets users on Nougat toggle split-screen multiwindow, and lets you mirror any app on it. This lets you run two instances of the same app!

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