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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 20, 2011
For many of us, half the fun of having an Android phone is running a customized version of the OS on our phones. OK, more than half. Custom ROMs can offer a very different experience from ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 16, 2011
Following the initial handful of phones we reported had received CyanogenMod 7 release candidate 1 yesterday, a bunch more devices have now been graced with official RC1 builds of the Ginge...
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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 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
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 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 ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 13, 2011
Android Central forums moderator Ragnarokx has been hard at work building a great Froyo ROM for the Sprint Epic 4G, and it looks like a total winner. Whether you want to blame Sprint, Samsu...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 12, 2011
Things like the HTC Thunderbolt ROM booting up on the Sprint Evo 4G is the reason we all get excited over ROM leaks and dumps. I know many of you get tired of reading how these th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 06, 2011
If you've taken matters into your own hands and use custom ROMs on your Android device, you've surely heard of CyanogenMod. Version 7 is the initial Gingerbread build, and it looks like we'll be...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 30, 2010
Are you rockin' one of the newer revisions (some 003 and all 004 versions) of the Evo 4G, and want some CyanogenMod loving? It looks like the man himself has got you hooked up, and it's only a f...
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by Jared DiPane
Dec 30, 2010
If you have held on strong to your HTC Droid Eris, and not lost hope even with the lack of official updates you will rejoice to know that custom ROM developer punk.kaos has brought a sweet t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 22, 2010
If you have a rooted Droid 2, you're going to love this. Team BlackHat has released version 3.0.0 of Froyo for the Droid 2, completely deodexed, with Busybox installed, rooted and ready to go.&n...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 17, 2010
The Cyanogenmod series of ROMs has done a lot of great things for a lot of phones. But one feature that's been sorely missing on the Evo 4G has been Wimax data. The 4G radio uses code that hasn'...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 03, 2010
The fellows behind the ThundeROM for the LG Optimus have cranked things up a notch, and have the benchmarks to prove it. They have edited, tweaked, and monkeyed the system and taken the Optimus ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 11, 2010
You won't find it for download anywhere, it's being called "very broken" and don't dare ask for an ETA, but here's a quick peek at CyanogenMod 6 on the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G. Less than 2...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 07, 2010
Android 2.2 (Froyo) leaked out for the Sprint Epic 4G and Samsung Vibrant on Saturday, amid much drama and the usual in-fighting. If you're like me and try to avoid that sort of thing, you're in...
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by Jared DiPane
Oct 12, 2010
We all know there has been quite a bit of drama in regards to the development ability of the recently launched T-Mobile G2. For those who didn't buy into everything and return their device (which is p...
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by Jared DiPane
Sep 29, 2010
Last week we got a peak at the MIUI Rom running on a Nexus One, and now it is available for all you Motorola Droid users! This ROM, still in Chinese, appears to be more stable than its partner th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 27, 2010
Here's what looks to be another great custom ROM for the Droid Incredible -- Uncommon Sense v 1.0. It comes with a load of UI customizations, and I'll be the first to say they look as ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 25, 2010
We're all waiting to see what the Desire HD and it's new version of HTC Sense UI brings to the table, but thanks to leaks and ingenious hackers, we can get a pretty good idea of what to expect.&n...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 24, 2010
Don't have time to wait 45 seconds for your Droid Incredible to boot up? Then you'll love this -- a video of the IncDoes ROM booting up on the Incredible. Careful you don't blink, you jus...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 23, 2010
Want to fool around with the new Sense that's coming with the Desire HD on your Droid Incredible or HTC Desire? Thanks to some hackery and the Desire HD system dump, now you can. The folks...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 23, 2010
This one goes out to all our Droid Incredible users, especially the ones who prefer a more vanilla experience -- IncDoes ROM for the Dinc has been updated, and it comes with a twist. Some o...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 23, 2010
Koushik Dutta (AKA Koush) has incorporated an awesome new feature into his already indispensable application ROM Manager, called Web Connect. The screen shot says it all -- You can sen...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 22, 2010
In a weird twist, while everyone was waiting for the Evo 4G update to show up, the folks over at XDA-Developers have just released the rooted users version of it. Don't ask, we have no answers a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 21, 2010
Here's a neat twist for folks using the Nexus One or Desire, MIUI -- a "from-source" ROM from a Chinese group that takes the best things from vanilla Froyo (Android 2.2), TouchWiz, and of al...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 19, 2010
Listen up all you Droid Incredible folks who went ahead and rooted: There's a new Sense ROM on the table that looks like a sure-fire winner -- Redemption Rom v 2.0.2. It's got everything you'd e...
