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by Alex Dobie
Sep 29, 2011
Yesterday we saw the confirmation that, thanks to assistance from Sony Ericsson, almost all of its Xperia range will be receiving full support from custom ROM CyangenMod in the future. Now SE itself...
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by Alex Dobie
Sep 28, 2011
The CyanogenMod and FreeXperia development teams have announced that they'll be bringing popular custom firmware CyanogenMod to all of Sony Ericsson's 2011 Xperia phones, along with many old...
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by Joshua Munoz
Sep 26, 2011
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For those folks interested in the next stage of recovery on your phone, this is one I'd set some time aside to check out. I'm sure by now some of you have s...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Sep 26, 2011
One of the finest products to come out of Palm's (erm, HP's) WebOS era is the Touchstone inductive charger. In fact, the Touchstone is so great that it has attracted an active modding c...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 23, 2011
The wallpapers, ringtones, boot animation and the new Beats live wallpaper from the HTC Vigor have popped up, and are available for download. No source is given, but we're assuming they ar...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 23, 2011
The Samsung Infuse 4G might finally see some Gingerbread soon, as build I997UCKI4 has leaked out for the 4.5 inch love child of a Captivate and a Galaxy Tab. I know plenty of you have been wai...
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by Chris Parsons
Sep 23, 2011
I've never met a person who doesn't like to customize their phone in one way or another but sometimes, software constraints don't always allow for it. Luckily, for those of you who picke...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 22, 2011
What's thin, elegant, has an incredibe LCD screen and runs CyanogenMod 7? The LG Optimus Black, that's what! Android developer Ricardo Cerqueira has built an early preview of CM 7.1 fo...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Sep 21, 2011
This could be worth a trip to Asia. HTC introduced the Raider 4G this morning, a behemoth device available on South Korea's LTE network. It's Gingerbread-flavored with a 4.5-inch qHD IPS dis...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 19, 2011
If you went out and picked up a Samsung Epic 4G Touch and have plans to hack at it, here's your starting point -- zedomax at XDA has worked out a root method for the new handset, and has full de...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 19, 2011
Getting a Touchstone mod is a sort of smartphone rite of passage. If someone's going to take enough time and effort to hack Palm's inductive charger onto the phone, it's a sure sign it&#...
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by Chris Parsons
Sep 16, 2011
. As we saw previously, the Motorola Droid Bionic does have a build of Cyanogen Mod 7 up and running but in that video, CVPCS also showed an unofficial Clockwork Mod recovery running and now it's avai...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 12, 2011
After a week or so of teasers, unofficial builds of CyanogenMod 7 are now available for the HTC Sensation and HTC EVO 3D. You won't find these n the source tree just yet, and there's no wor...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 11, 2011
Read our Droid Bionic Review
Our man Cory is at it again -- he has the hacking guides for the Motorola Droid Bionic ready to go and you can find them in the Bionic section of the Android Central fo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 11, 2011
Drooooiiiiidddddd... It's a sound plenty of us know and love, and we realize that along with it comes some serious bloatware from the folks at Verizon and Motorola. The Droid 3 is no excep...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 09, 2011
Read our Droid Bionic Review For many of us, half the fun of getting a new Android phone is digging in and trying to break it make it our own. The Droid Bionic is no exception of course, and fo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 09, 2011
If you've picked up a Motorola Droid 3, and love to tinker with things, listen up -- files have surfaced that will allow you to restore your D3 to a "factory-like" state and, more important,...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 08, 2011
Just picked up your Motorola Droid Bionic, eh? After you've got it charged and ready to roll, for many the next step will be to root it and strip out the loads of carrier bloat Verizon so kindly...
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by Chris Parsons
Sep 06, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing The process of breathing new life into the now somewhat defunct HP TouchPad continues. The folks from Team TouchDroid now have up and kind of running, Android 2....
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 02, 2011
Want a solid aluminum 7-inch Android tablet that runs Honeycomb? If you're sporting an HTC Flyer, today may be your lucky day. The first Honeycomb RUU has been leaked out, and more importa...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 02, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing Here's a new video from the folks hard at work attempting to get a usable port of Android onto the dying HP TouchPad, and more progress has been made. The touchsc...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 31, 2011
Plus, a recap of the U.S. launch event So here's your obligatory shot of the three U.S. versions (so far) of the Samsung Galaxy S II. We crawled all over these guys at the U.S. launch event, and...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 29, 2011
LG has released the Kernel source and assorted GPL bits for the Gingerbread build on their Optimus S device. No reports of anything showing in the LG updater tool just yet, and rumor says mid-Se...
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by Chris Parsons
Aug 29, 2011
While it might not be the most obvious collaboration to have happen, LG and National Geographic have announced their efforts to bring plenty of 3D to the masses. National Geographic Assignment photogr...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 25, 2011
The Motorola Droid 3 has been rooted, and while we expect root to happen for most Android phones, there are a couple things here that we want to talk about. To start at the beginning, the goal o...
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by Joshua Munoz
Aug 25, 2011
YouTube link for mobile viewing For those of you still rocking an HTC EVO 4G, you should definitely check this one out. It's TeamWin's newest update to their very own HDMwIn for EVO's running Gingerbr...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 24, 2011
It looks like HTC's unlocked bootloader policy may not be just what everyone was looking for, and several key portions of the firmware remain locked. What appears to be the case, is that using H...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 23, 2011
We've lost track of just how many Gingerbread builds have leaked for the HTC Thunderbolt, but a new one's just appeared in RUU form. Ol' Football just dropped build 2.11.605.0. And being an ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 22, 2011
It appears that a U.S. customer has gotten his hands on an HP TouchPad running Android, courtesy of Qualcomm. Details are a bit sketchy, but we can see an HP TouchPad, still in the protective fi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 21, 2011
Welcome to the future ladies and gentlemen, please keep your head and arms inside the car at all times, and do not feed the bloggers. If you look to your right, you'll see that Android Central m...
