Your smartphone and / or tablet is justbeggingto get updated. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and all in between, and so many of them are floating around that it's easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don't escape without notice, we've gathered every feasible update, hack, and other miscellaneous fooling around from the last week and crammed them into one proper roundup. If you find existence on tap for your device, please give us a shout attips at engadget dawt comand let us know. Enjoy!



Official Android updates

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  Motorola Xoom owners who swapped in their devices for one with LTE capability may have found an OTA enhancement waiting for them when the tablet arrived. It act a few minor changes, such as updates to Android Market and some supplementary
  
  
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  Motorola's Photon 4G on Sprint is on the receiving end of a minor bug fix update, which includes video chat capability for Google Talk. [PhoneArena]


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  The good news for unlocked Dell Streak 7 users: the mark update to Android 3.2 (Honeycom is now rolling out and you should see it over the course of the next couple weeks. the coming weeks. [Dell]


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  The bad news for T-Mobile Dell Streak 7 users: Honeycomb isn't coming to your tablet, for unknown reasons. [Android Community]


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  According to a tweet from LG, there's a small refresh in the works for the Optimus 7 which will finally enable WiFi tethering.

Unofficial Android updates, custom ROMs and misc. hackery

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  A new piece of firmware for the AT&T Galaxy S II was leaked via RootzWiki, and includes a few bug fixes. Sadly, it adds some bugs as well. [Android Community]


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  Samsung's officially released the kernel source for the Stratosphere, Transfix and Galaxy Y Pro. [Android Community]


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  And now for the best news for TouchPad owners: after several weeks of progress, it appears that CM7 is now ready to roll on the HP TouchPad. As always, initialize and install at your own risk -- we have a feeling this may be a bit more convoluted than your typical Android custom ROM.

Other platforms

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  Redsn0w 0.9.9b5 is here, giving you the go-ahead to jailbreak iOS5. Up for the task? Head to the link for all of the details on how to make it so.


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  Some Windows Phone users have noticed a few bugs popping into their updated devices ever since they orthodox Mango. The main contacting on seem to be found in the keyboard and live tiles, though the reported issues are much more numerous. Have you versed any of these on the list at the link?

Refreshes we covered this week

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  Motorola a bit slow boomerangin' back with LTE update


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