Android 4.4.3 rolling out to European HTC One M7 devices

Posted on by Rithvik Rao

Good news for those of you toting a European original HTC One (or One M7, if that’s how you’d like to call it): the European HTC One M7 Android 4.4.3 update has been approved by HTC and is now rolling out to users, starting in areas like Romania and Slovakia.The Android 4.4.3 update includes the security fixes from Android 4.4.4, so you need not worry that you aren’t running the latest version of Android after taking the update yourself. This update will more than likely be one of the One M7′s last ever, though it’s certainly possible (and some might even say ...

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Verizon HTC One M8 to finally net itself Android 4.4.3 (with extra goodies) this September

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The HTC One M8 on Verizon still hasn’t pushed past Android 4.4.2, but if tweets from HTC Americas President Jason Mackenzie and Product Management VP Mo Versi are to be believed, that Verizon HTC One M8 Android 4.4.3 update may be happening very soon.As Mackenzie describes it, the update will be pushed out “by mid-Sept,” which doesn’t exactly leave us happy at all, considering that Android 4.4.4 is already out (and we’re expecting Android L in just a few short months), but hey, it’s something. Versi adds to Mackenzie’s information by stating that ...

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HTC One (M8) receiving Android 4.4.3 today, includes 4.4.4 security fixes

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The HTC One (M8) is one of the hottest Android phones in the market today. We’ve reviewed a lot of it, we’ve compared a lot of it, and we’ve even changed a couple of our own ...

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Motorola Droid series to skip Android 4.4.3, go straight to 4.4.4

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In a surprise move last night, Android 4.4.4 made an appearance and OTA updates began rolling out to select Nexus devices. Naturally, it’s time to talk updates, especially for Motorola phones (some of which were updated to Android 4.4.3 ...

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Samsung leaked document provides Android 4.4.3 update timeframe for Galaxy S5 and S4

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Samsung hasn’t always been the best with Android updates on its devices, especially considering the sheer number of phones and tablets it manufactures on a yearly basis. The wait’s always been the most minimal on flagship devices, however, and it seems that the Galaxy S5 (and last year’s Galaxy S4) ...

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Android 4.4.3 shows that Google still sucks at releasing platform updates

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It’s been a week since Google started releasing Android 4.4.3. Many have reported getting the update delivered to their Nexus over-the-air, and others have impatiently taken it upon themselves to download and manually flash the entire factory image – myself included. However, many are still waiting for the update to arrive, and that’s where things start to get a little “weird”.I’ve got a lot of Nexus devices in my household: two Galaxy Nexi running CyanogenMod, one 2012 Nexus 7 that’s ...

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Google Play edition phones get their taste of Android 4.4.3

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Google may have taken its sweet time in getting around to the release of Android 4.4.3 – evidence of the build had been hanging just out of reach for months before Google finally went ahead with distribution this week – but now that it’s here we’re seeing updates waste no time at all in becoming available. Unsurprisingly, Nexus models led the pack, though Motorola wasn’t too far behind with news of updates for its own recent ...

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Motorola bringing Android 4.4.3 to Moto X, Moto G, and Moto E this week

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Motorola has come a long way since the days of MOTOBLUR and a casual attitude towards Android updates, and its latest family of smartphones hasn’t only offered extremely pared-down, near stock Android experiences, but delivered platform updates with speed rivaling even what we get from straight-up Nexus devices. Today we see the latest proof of just how nimble Motorola has become when it’s time for a new update to arrive, as it gets started updating its own phones to Android 4.4.3 just one day after the build saw ...

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Android 4.4.3 OTAs start heading out, app updates revealed

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Yesterday brought word that Android 4.4.3 was finally due to arrive, with T-Mobile sounding the alarm. Problem was, this wasn’t the first time we’d heard a carrier advise its users that 4.4.3 was about to arrive – would this be another dud like Sprint’s announcement? We waited patiently all day and eventually we saw Google release a number of 4.4.3 factory images for Nexus devices: the update was confirmed. But where were those OTAs? ...

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Android 4.4.3 landing today? Carrier mentions release for Nexus models

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It feels like Android 4.4.3′s been hanging just out of reach for months now. It’s not that we’re expecting any kind of game-changer, and it seems we’ll be getting what by all accounts is mostly a bug-fix update, but we’re still quite curious to learn when it will ultimately arrive. Will we be waiting until Google I/O later this month? It turns out that 4.4.3 may arrive significantly before then, as today T-Mobile posts notice that updates are on their way for both the Nexus 5 and Nexus 7.This isn’t the ...

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Samsung leak shows progress towards Android 4.4.3, 4.4.2 updates

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Back around the start of May, an internal Samsung document leaked out, revealing the company’s work in pursuit of Android 4.4.2 updates for a number of currently available smartphones. What it revealed wasn’t great news – for instance, we saw the Galaxy S III fail to make the cut for models that would get the update – but it was still nice to insight into Samsung’s progress. Today we return with an update, and while there’s not a ton of progress on the 4.4.2 side of the fence, we also touch ...

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Android 4.4.3 shows up on Samsung Developer website

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We look to be really close to the announcement of Android 4.4.3, Google’s big bugfixer update for their newest KitKat operating system. Previous reports have mentioned that it could possibly be becoming official for Nexus users, and while that is still a possibility, it is becoming more and more unlikely by the minute. Thankfully, it looks like even OEMs are prepared for the release —

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Android devs brace for more root changes

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Back in January, noted Android dev Chainfire raised some warning flags about changes Google was making to Android sources that threatened to disrupt the way root access works. While the changes seemed intended to help beef-up Android security, the side effect was that we needed a new superuser app, and that some apps taking advantage of root needed to be re-tooled. Over the weekend, Chainfire has posted an update, talking further about the ongoing efforts in the AOSP to enhance app security and the effect this all has on ...

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Samsung leak reveals KitKat update status for numerous models

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Fragmentation isn’t today the nasty word it was just a few years ago, as differences between the various Android platform releases tend to not have quite the limiting effect they once did. Still, that desire to have the latest-and-greatest update remains a pervasive one, and owners of models still stuck on older builds are going to be keeping a look out for any sign of incoming releases. Today we investigate a leak from Samsung that gives us a little taste of what’s to come, detailing the status of KitKat updates for a number of its ...

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