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Updated 8.35 pm
A MAN WILL appear on front of a Meath court tomorrow after a multi-agency investigation into livestock theft.
The man, aged in his 30s, was arrested early today in border town of Castleblayney and will be charged tomorrow morning at Navan District Court.
He is currently being held under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 in Monaghan Garda Station.
555 cattle have been stolen since the start of 2012, according to recent figures.
A cross-border group comprising the Gardaí, the Department of Agriculture’s investigations division, the PSNI and the North’s Department of Agriculture was set-up to examine the problem.
As part of their investigations, an illegal abattoir was also found recently in the border area.
Two people were questioned regarding that discovery.
- Additional reporting by Rónán Duffy
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I upgraded my Galaxy S3 (vodafone) to the latest version of Jellybean a few months back and it ruined my phone. The roll out of the update was stopped after about 24hrs when reports of problems started flooding in. They released a fix about 6 weeks later, but the phone was never the same again. Here’s an article on the issue – http://goo.gl/nBTjm9
Moral of the story – don’t take updates without doing a quick check for problems first!
Try factory reset?
Never had issues with my upgrades but I’m still jellybean.
Still beats the everything snot out of iOS
Everloving *****
Does it have spell check ?
Yes and inter changeable keyboards. iOS does not. First plus Android has over it.
Next
SwiftKey is a great keyboard option for Android.
Still running 4.1.1,
I’d upgrade if Samsung/eMobile would roll out the newest version!
It’s a case of ‘too many cooks’.
I’ve a HTC One at the moment and every time there’s an update, there are at least two causes of delays:
1) HTC itself has to update Sense and tweak android so that can take quite a while.
2) The mobile phone operator then gets stuck in the middle of the process and takes a few months to do whatever ‘customisation’ it does. I can’t imagine there’s all that much to do as mobile phone networks are all 100% compliant with a set of known standards, so it’s a bit like testing your washing machine for compatibility with electricity! I am guessing it’s more about installing their own annoying custom apps and logos on the boot screen.
So, basically Google releases a new Android version and maybe a year later I get it!
It’s making me think of either getting a Nexus phone (it would be nice if Google would actually sell them in Ireland and you didn’t have to pretend you were in the UK) or an iPhone next time as I really don’t like being that many versions behind from a security point of view.
Hi David.
It’s not all to difficult to root your device and install a custom ROM. SlimRom is my current favourite and they are generally well up to date. I have 4.3.1 on my S3 and 4.4 should be out shortly.
And Slim adds nice features you don’t get in stock Android without any bloat.
All in all it’s the way I’d recommend you go.
For sure if your handset is still under warranty I’d leave as is but once it goes beyond the year old I reckon a custom ROM is the way to go.
Samsung is 2yr warranty i think
This is exactly the reason why I went from Android to Apple. Android is great if you don’t want updates or you enjoy work arounds but for me, I just wanted my phone to work and with the latest version.
This is not a slam on Android rather the reason why (at least for me) people leave android for Apple.
People always male this apple to android comparison and its not very apt. The average android phone gets updates for about two years after its release. IPhone gets maybe 3 and even then itll be only half the features and often half brick the oldest device it goes on.
Android has some really poor problems on the worse manufacturers in updates but even then security updates are provided separately and now every android phone can get 50% of an updates features from the play store on the day of release. The fragmentation is a much smaller issue than it used to be.
Running 4.2 on nexus 5. Have to say cutting out the middle men in the process and the freedom to switch providers without being tied into a contract and having a very high spec phone for half the price the other providers are charging makes going Google so worth while.
Should say 4.4.2 sorry
That’s exactly what I did, got the Nexus 5, and currently have a sim-only unlimited data plan for €22 p/m (compared to the €70+ I was spending per month on contract)
Gorgeous phone too! The wireless charging is so handy. Get yourself a few chargers on eBay if you don’t have any they’re about $16 each.
I’m a Windows Phone user. Shoot me now, get it over with.
The only gripe I have with windows mobile is Bing as the only search option, my son has a lumia 625 its really nice but bloody bing
Have KitKat on my Nexus 7, I can’t say I’ve noticed any differences. Although my battery doesn’t last as long as it did before the update
The change to 4.4 on my Nexus 4 has definitely improved battery life
Huh? I’m just hungry after reading this!!!
KitKat..gingerbread..ice cream sandwich..jellybean…do developers have a food fixation!..or just a sweet tooth
Developers often like to give their releases a name that follows some theme. For example Apple used big cats as names for OS X releases for years (until they ran out of cats). Ubuntu uses animals and a descriptive word starting with the same letter, current release is called Saucy Salamander, debian uses characters from Toy Story movies, fedora just lets people vote (hence why one release was called “Beefy Miracle”).
What are the advantages in the new release?
Often updates compromise speed like MS Windows does. I remember XP running fluidly on 256mb RAM, then SP1, SP2 and finally SP3 meant that 1GB barely sufficed.
The update should be more efficient. That was the focus of the release.
HTC One is the best ever
Good man Chris, well done. You win the prize
Looking forward to seeing Firefox OS hopes it’s as good as it looks. Should be interesting to have a fourth competitor in the smartphone OS market.
Upgrade seems fine on S4 obviously a bit of getting use to but had no issues with Jellybean so see no reason to upgrade. No problems with Apps etc
I’m still rock in the Eclair’ v2.1!
Nexus is the only way to go , immediate updates, no waiting on carriers approval. 4.4.2 on the nexus 5 really is brilliant and you save a lot of money
I still consider Android the best of a bad bunch, but I am getting increasingly annoyed with how updates are done on it. My current phone has a locked bootloader, and would require me to send the phone to Sony in order to get it unlocked. Sony consider the phone end of life, despite it actually still being a pretty fast and capable device, so I’m now in the situation where I will never get an update for this phone again. If there is ever some massive security breach in Android (which is a possibility as phones nowadays have more access to private information than any other device, making them a increasingly appealing target) then I simply won’t be able to update to a newer version to protect myself.
Ideally android would eventually start working like linux does, drivers are part of the kernel so updating to a newer version is very easy, and you can run the newest code for as long as the device is physically able to. Prior to that I can’t imagine buying another android device unless it is straight from Google, which is the closest to doing this, or I’ve been able to verify in advance that it isn’t completely locked down.
Android is linux. A very poor distribution of it. I’m only putting up with it until ubuntu phone or something similar comes out
Been using cyanogenmod 7 on my HTC Desire HD for well over a year now and am well happy with it but the Nexus 5 looks ever so tempting. No waiting for manufacturers and carriers to modify and test updates!
Its a bit like the KitKat orange chocolate bar, that never really took off either.
Thanks john..learn something new every day !
Have a break, have a kwik krap.
Running 4.3 on a galaxy s3 noticed a few small glitches when upgraded but the fix sorted it.
Try rerouting via screen reset. Always recall data function via locations menu on homescreen. This always does it for me and me neurons . Failing the above try resetting the switch behind the mainbattery door terminal, positive toroidal field hyper conductor only available on Facebook settings.
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