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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 27, 2011
OK, all you kids with your crazy rooted Samsung Epic 4Gs. If you're ready to get some semi-official leaked Gingerbread onto your phones, ACS has let loose the ED12 build that we've been talking ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 27, 2011
The folks at C Skills have done their magic again, this time with Gingerbread (and possibly Honeycomb) and have released GingerBreak. If you don't keep up with this sort of thing, the C Skills t...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 26, 2011
Now that the week is now officially underway -- it's turning out to be a good one. New phones and tablets are starting to roll out and thus far, a bunch of apps have been updated. If you've not...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 25, 2011
The GSM version of the HTC Hero is in need of a CyanogenMod maintainer, so it has been dropped by the CM team. Ciwrl sends word that while they have tried to keep the Hero on the supported devic...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 25, 2011
A quick heads up for all you CyanogenMod users -- CM7.0.1 CM 7.0.2 stable was just released, and it brings along a slew of bugfixes identified since CM7.0 hit. Here's the official word:It’s been...
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by Joshua Munoz
Apr 22, 2011
If you're looking to pilfer parts and pieces from T-Mobile's newly available Sidekick 4G, you're in luck.The full system dump is up as well as ringtones and wallpapers separately, for those who don't ...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 21, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing So what happens exactly when you take the Palm Pre and load it up with a healthy dose of Android -- more specifically a Gingerbread AOSP. The folks over at PreCentral...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 19, 2011
The HTC Thunderbolt is the latest in the line of new HTC products that are less than hacker friendly, and the steps needed to root it have proven to be a thorn in the side of many, leading to the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 19, 2011
If you've gotta have the latest unofficial ROM for your new HTC ThunderBolt, you're in luck this morning. An RUU has leaked out of one of those places RUUs tend to leaked out of (don't ask, you ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 14, 2011
Hide your Droid X, hide your Evo, hide your Desire, 'cause they leaking everything up in here -- and that includes the ROM dump for the HTC Pyramid (which should be the HTC Sensation). It's...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 14, 2011
Here's the thing about this leaked Gingerbread build for the Sprint EVO 4G: If you're waiting for unicorns to come flying out of it, you might come away disappointed. That's not to say we'...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 14, 2011
While it can never come soon enough for impatient Evo 4G users (like all of us here), Gingerbread with HTC Sense has finally leaked out. We shouldn't be surprised, as there was no way HTC would ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 13, 2011
If you've ever put a custom ROM on your Android phone (or are looking to do so), chances are you've used ROM Manager. And it's getting spruced up in its latest version. Things are a little prett...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 13, 2011
Good news, everyone! Remember how Sony Ericsson promised it would have a website set up to help unlock its bootloaders "in the upcoming weeks"? Well, we're there. With a few cavea...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 12, 2011
Motorola Xoom kernel developer and hero of the hour bigrushdog has released the latest version of the Tiamat kernel for the Xoom -- with SD card support. It's not perfect (you can't swap ca...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 10, 2011
CyanogenMod 7 has reached the final version, after having gone through the alpha/beta/release candidate phases, and uploads are in process. CyanogenMod 7 has support for more than 30 devices, in...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 07, 2011
Asus has released the GPL portions of the source code for their Eee Pad Transformer, and the tablet hasn't even hit the shelves yet. Just a few days after they published their support page for t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 05, 2011
We're on the floor live at Boost Mobile's Samsung Galaxy Prevail event in New York. This CDMA phone will be the first Android device on Boost Mobile, and looks like a very nice pre-paid offering...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 05, 2011
As we first told you last night, a developer test Market has surfaced, along with a new version of the Music application from Google. Here's your (and mine) chance to get some hands-on time wit...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 05, 2011
A while ago we reported that Sony Ericsson would be offering a bootloader unlocking solution for their 2011 Xperia line, and today Xperia Blog has some information about how this will play out. ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 30, 2011
The Samsung Continuum gets an awesome treat from Android Central forums adviser and ROM developer Adrynalyne with his Clean Continuum DL17 ROM. Samsung Fascinate users should be familiar with Ad...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 29, 2011
Interesting day today, Amazon stirring up the pot with their cloud services, HTC doing right and releasing the Thunderbolt kernel source and Sony Ericsson making moves by announcing some of their dev...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 29, 2011
The LG Optimus 2X is proving to be quite the treat for those who love to root and customize their phones, and the release of MCR (MoDaCo Custom ROM) for the device makes things that much better. ...
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by Jared DiPane
Mar 29, 2011
Our friends over at TiPB have a weekly podcast that they call iPad Live, and this week that has passed they brought CrackBerry.com's Kevin Michaluk, along with our very own Phil Nickinson to the show ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 29, 2011
Find the latest HTC ThunderBolt accessories
The first thing most people want to do after they root their phone is remove all that extra software the carriers have forced upon them. The HTC...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 29, 2011
This one came out of left field -- Sony Ericsson is going to offer their 2011 Xperia line with an unlockable bootloader via the fastbook command. They say only SIM unlocked versions of the ...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 28, 2011
I guess this is a testament as to how many people out there love CyanogenMod 7. The latest Release Candidate hasn't even fully populated in ROM Manager as of yet and already our inbox has been slammed...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 28, 2011
Have a shiny new HTC Thunderbolt, itching to be rooted, but only have a Mac with which to do the deed? You're in luck -- our very own Cory Streater happens to love his MacBook Pro, and he's...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 27, 2011
Android 2.3.3 leaked out for the Droid X and Droid 2 earlier tonight, and we just had to take it for a spin, especially given that it has an all new skin atop it. We even hesitate to call it Blur, be...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 27, 2011
Root access is now available on the just-released Wifi-only Motorola Xoom, thanks to some enterprising XDA members. The rooting process involves using the Android SDK, as well as a fair amount o...
