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by Andrew Melnizek
Feb 23, 2011
Every year, Hollywood gathers for The Academy Awards to celebrate movies and the talent that comes with them. Actors and actresses walk across the red carpet with big smiles and designer clothin...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 22, 2011
If you're rocking an LG Optimus S on Sprint, you MUST check out the LG Optimus S Control Center from Android Central Forums member drewwalton19216801. Behind the long name is an easy-to-use...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 22, 2011
Anytime a new Android SDK comes out, you'll quickly see an onslaught of ports popping up on various phones. These aren't even unofficial builds, but ports from the Android system images bui...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 21, 2011
So you weren't patient enough to wait for a rooted version of EB13 Froyo for your Sprint Epic 4G and flashed the official version from Sprint. I can't blame you; I would have done the same darn ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 21, 2011
We're all a little bummed that AT&T has blocked the Inspire 4G from having full HSPA capabilities by keeping the radio non-HSUPA capable. To be honest, we expected this based on their track ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 21, 2011
There was another Samsung slider on Sprint, long before anyone ever heard of the Epic 4G -- the Samsung Moment. It had pretty good hardware for it's day, with an AMOLED screen and an 800 MHz CPU...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 18, 2011
UberMedia has responded to inquiries about today's snafu between them and Twitter, which resulted in Twidroyd being suspended from using the Twitter APIs. While it was an embarrassing situation,...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 18, 2011
Samsung has placed the open source portions of the rumored EB13 Froyo update for the Epic 4G live on their open source page. While this isn't something you can jump in and flash, it makes it pre...
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by Dieter Bohn
Feb 14, 2011
We briefly saw the Acer Iconia Tab at NVIDIA's booth at CES, but they limited our experience to Dungeon Hunter. Here at MWC, the Tab is having a slightly more official coming-out, letting us vi...
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by Dieter Bohn
Feb 14, 2011
Close your eyes and imagine - imagine a strange and crazy world where the Motorola Droid Pro doesn't run on Verizon but instead has been outfitted solely with an HSPA/GSM radio and set for Euro...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 11, 2011
Still hanging on to your OG Droid? Here's some news you're going to love -- Peter Alfonso, of Bugless Beast fame, has released a mostly AOSP build of Gingerbread (Android 2.3.2) for your cl...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 10, 2011
This one's been kicking around for a while, but with CyanogenMod 7 nightlies getting better, and the hard work Unforgiven512 has done with the files, WiFi calling for the Nexus One is now worth using ...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 09, 2011
We've been discussing the possibility of a WiFi only Motorola XOOM showing up for quite some time now and although Motorola gave us a partial confirmation, that was seemingly only for Latin America. ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 08, 2011
Put those shovels away -- the Droid Eris is still alive and kicking, and now a CyanogenMod 7 port is available. The Eris isn't on the CM 7 "officially supported" list, and HTC a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 08, 2011
It's no secret that I'm really digging what LG has done with the Optimus One series phones, and Sprint's Optimus S is no exception. High performance Android phones for the budget-minded con...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 07, 2011
The Samsung Continuum has finally entered the custom ROM scene, courtesy of Fascinate developer and Android Central adviser Adrynalyne. It's a basic ROM, based on the DL17 release, with none of ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 04, 2011
New phones always means new goodies for developers and hackers. With the release of the HTC Inspire 4G to a few people, it was only a matter of time until the system of AT&T's big beauty wer...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 03, 2011
But that's why we made the Sideload Wonder Machine Oh, by the way. In case you were hoping AT&T had changed its ways when it comes to locking its phones into the Android Market -- not so much. Th...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 31, 2011
If you're in the mood to mess around with an online demo of a device you just simply cannot, as of yet have then you're in luck. The HTC Inspire 4G is coming to AT&T at some point in time but...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 31, 2011
Android hackers have done it again, and the Samsung Transform now has a stable Froyo port. The front facing camera and rear camera flash isn't working, but that's a fair trade off to have...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 29, 2011
Have you been looking for the sweet weather widget from the LG Optimus 2X? I know a lot of you have, and thanks to XDA member Sony_Ericsson_X10 we now have it -- almost. He found that...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 28, 2011
For you folks who like to go lurking around source code, HTC has released the kernels for the EVO Shift 4G, and the Froyo update for the myTouch 3G. They'll be missing some of HTC prop...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 28, 2011
If you're an HTC EVO Shift 4G owner who has been looking for a permanent root solution, we now have some great news for you all. You no longer have to wait any more. The HTC EVO Sh...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 27, 2011
Good news for everyone looking for parts and files from the LG Optimus 2X, the files have been stripped from the phone and are available for download. The system dump itself is about 275 MB...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 18, 2011
Android Central forums member ItsAllAndroid brings up some really good questions -- which root method (temporary or permanent) is easier, and what are the advantages of permanently rooting your phone...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 17, 2011
If you went ahead and tried out any of the CyanogenMod 7 nightly builds, you've surely noticed the new Gapps builds. This is something that the fellows on the CM team has been working on as...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 16, 2011
For those of you waiting to get your hands on CyanogenMod 7 (aka Gingerbread), nightly builds have finally (we say that with a smile) started up for the phones supported by the community project. Bui...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 16, 2011
After an amazing amount of hard work, hard working hackers have built a stable Froyo custom ROM for the Motorola Milestone. It's a port of CyanogenMod 6, and thanks to the new kernel ripped out ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 15, 2011
If you're looking for the latest version of the Android Market, look no further than the Android Central Forums. Member Upstreammiami has blessed us with Version 2.2.11 in .apk and .zip form. He says...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 14, 2011
Want to get more from your Samsung Fascinate? Android Central Forums Adviser Adrynalyne has worked some magic and offers up a DL09 Super Clean ROM -- removing the bloat, leaving what you really ...
