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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 17, 2012
ClockworkMod recovery has hit version 6 for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and it's available right from ROM Manager for the GSM, Sprint, and Verizon versions. The change log for version 6 reads...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 16, 2012
We're big fans of folks learning just what they are doing when it comes to hacking at their devices. One click root applications are fine and dandy, but when (not if) something goes wrong one da...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 16, 2012
Google selling unlocked Galaxy Nexus phones through Google Play is pretty cool, especially at the price they're asking. But not too long ago, that wasn't an option if you wanted a GSM G...
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by Richard Devine
Jul 16, 2012
Eric Schmidt has been out on tour doing his best door-to-door salesman act. The Google Chairman appeared at the Allen & Company conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, armed with a new Nexus 7 and a Ne...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 16, 2012
The HTC HD2, the Swiss Army Knife of smartphones, now has a Jelly Bean port to play with. There's a list of things like the camera and video playback not working, so it's no daily driver jus...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 15, 2012
File this under "things that make Jerry say giggity!" -- Jason Parker has built CyanogenMod 9 and booted in on his Google Nexus Q. Using the Galaxy Nexus base (makes sense -- a good bit of...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 14, 2012
We've seen the source code for Android 4.1.1 (affectionately known as Jelly Bean) drop from Google, and plenty of us were excited to see the Verizon Galaxy Nexus binaries were back online a...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 13, 2012
With the Android 4.1 source code having recently dropped on AOSP, custom ROM makers are quickly making progress in getting the new version ported to a variety of devices. One of those is the much-an...
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How to manually flash today's Jelly Bean updates to your GSM Galaxy Nexus [updated with 4.0.4 files]
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 10, 2012
So you want the latest version of Jelly Bean, but don't want to wait for your turn at the OTA and don't want to flash a custom version of it. We completely understand -- Not everyone is into...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 10, 2012
As the resident Android Central code-monkey (a badge I proudly wear) I've been running on fumes and caffeine to test out the AOSP 4.1.1 code since it dropped last night. You knew I had to do it,...
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 09, 2012
When Google unveiled the Nexus Q, they said they welcomed hacking on the social streamer and some in the development community took that as an open challenge to see what all they could make it do. H...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 09, 2012
Cast your mind back to the original Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Samsung Galaxy S II, and you'll recall that version was based upon Android 4.0.3. Now it seems Samsung's 2011 flagship i...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 08, 2012
Good news for custom ROM developers, as Sony Mobile has just released the kernel source code for its recent Xperia S Android 4.0.4 update, as it's required to do under the open source rules. The...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 06, 2012
Oh Verizon, why must you constantly mess with perfection? Hackers with early access to the Verizon Galaxy S III have discovered that the phone has a protected bootloader -- meaning no easy hacking o...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 04, 2012
The day before Google I/O kicked off, Steve "Cyanogen" Kondik of CyanogenMod fame visited the San Francisco Android User Group, were he gave a complete rundown of everything relating to th...
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 04, 2012
Back during Google I/O 2012, we saw the unveiling of Google Now for Jelly Bean devices. Sadly, Google never released it as a stand-alone app so any device running Ice Cream Sandwich now essentially n...
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 04, 2012
If you happen to own the awkwardly named LG Prada 3.0, you can now take some joy in knowing that Android 4.0 is now available for download provided you're in Germany or Italy and have a non-carr...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 02, 2012
Hacking your Galaxy Nexus is cool - but even cooler is being able to fix it and get back to stock
With all the Jelly Bean ROMs floating around out there, more than a few of us have put our Galax...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 23, 2012
We've seen Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile release their variant of the Galaxy S III so far, and all three have been rooted. Nobody really expected it to take very long, but it's still n...
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by Alex Dobie
Jun 18, 2012
The first nightly build of popular custom ROM CyanogenMod 9 for the Samsung Galaxy S III is now available for download. Following the release of several unofficial builds since the S III's...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 15, 2012
As we learned from the previously announced code freeze on CM9, the CyanogenMod team has been working hard on getting CyanogenMod 7.2 stable builds out the door for various devices. Though no ETA...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 11, 2012
LG's original Optimus One series of devices turned out to be one of last year's surprises. It ran as well as the big dogs when it first came out, and as long as you were comfortable ha...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 08, 2012
So you have a modern (read one that has or is going to get ICS) HTC Android phone, and want to restore the hyperlinked data option menu that Apple spent millions of dollars to take away from you? He...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 07, 2012
Earlier we mentioned that there was an update to the Sony Google TV rolling out and with that announcement also came the info that an update to the Logitech Revue was on the way as well. At the time...
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by Alex Dobie
Jun 01, 2012
As required under the GPL, Samsung has released its kernel source code for the (international) Galaxy S III -- the Linux core upon which Android is based. The code's available right now fro...
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by Richard Devine
May 30, 2012
Choice is good right? Following on from fellow british carrier Three's announcement, Vodafone UK have also confirmed this morning that the Samsung Galaxy S III is available today on their networ...
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by Joshua Munoz
May 28, 2012
First the Xperia S was going to get Ice Cream Sandwich in mid-April, then late May or early June, then finally sometime in Q2 (which will probably be June, just not early June). As the days drag on ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 24, 2012
Now that some pre-orders are getting filled and the EVO 4G LTE is in the hands of Android fans, it was just a matter of time before it got rooted. It's a pretty simple affair, using the same exp...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 23, 2012
We're getting a little hacky in this round of Android A to Z, and we're going to have a look at ClockworkMod recovery -- the de facto standard of custom recoveries for Android. It's...
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by Alex Dobie
May 23, 2012
As required under the open source rules, Samsung has released its Linux kernel source code -- and other open-source bits -- for the recently-released Android 4.0 firmware for the international Galax...
