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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
Well that certainly didn't take very long. The folks over at XDA, as they like to do, have unlocked the Verizon Galaxy Note 2 bootloader. You'll need to jump through a few hoops and have som...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 24, 2012
When the HTC Droid DNA finally hit store shelves, Verizon had pulled the plug on the official bootloader unlock method via HTC's dev tools. Since then, the folks over at Android Police and Rootz...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 12, 2012
One of the reasons you buy a Nexus device is easy, complete access to the device hardware. The stock software is great, but we all know sometimes its fun to tinker around with your own creations. Ne...
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by Scott Young
Nov 02, 2012
Dart and Android enthusiast Dan was growing weary of manually keeping score of his lunch break dart games with his coworkers. He decided to put his tinkering skills to the test and create DartDroid,...
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by Alex Dobie
Sep 26, 2012
Update, 7:40am EDT: Samsung tells us it's "currently in the process of conducting an internal review" into the situation with on the Galaxy S2 and other affected phones. Our own testin...
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by Scott Young
Sep 24, 2012
Looking for something to replace that lackluster 8-Track, cassette, or CD player that came with your car? Instead of using some goofy adapter or FM transmitter, why not replace the entire unit with ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 09, 2012
Just a quick heads up that CyanogenMod 9 has hit stable build status for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. (That's the GSM Maguro version of the GNex.) That means you'll be running Android 4.0.4 Ice...
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by Richard Devine
Aug 03, 2012
Something a lot of us really want to see in Android, is support for multiple accounts on a device. With the ever increasing uptake of tablet use, it would be pretty awesome to be able to have one ta...
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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 Phil Nickinson
May 11, 2012
If you were wondering about the EVO 4G LTE bootloader, or were a bit worried after learning that AT&T's decided to go back to its not-so-friendly ways, we're happy to tell you that...
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by Richard Devine
Mar 16, 2012
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When we think of Asus in the Android world, we think of their Transformer line of tablets first and foremost. But one of the beauties of Android is its open nature,...
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by Richard Devine
Mar 04, 2012
Audio quality is always something that will be subjective. Opinions on what good sounds like will always differ from person to person. This definitely applies to Beats Audio, and the inclusion of Be...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 18, 2012
The CyanogenMod team is seeking donations from the community to help bolster the hardware needed to keep things going. There are some 56 devices supported on CM's official listing, and nightly b...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 15, 2012
Last week Google disabled the provisioning of pre-paid cards in Google Wallet, following the discovery that clearing app data could allow the PIN for these cards to be reset. Now Google says a fix i...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 11, 2012
Google late Friday night disabled the ability to provision new Google Preaid Cards, fallout from the discovery of a flaw in the Google Wallet app. The gist is that if someone were to find your phone...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 09, 2012
Following the news yesterday that Google Wallet's PIN security has been cracked (for rooted users, on unsecured devices), Google has issued an official statement to clarify a few details, i...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 01, 2012
We really do have a hard time without using the word "BlackBerry" in a sentence without also using the words "dying," "obsolete" or "time to switch." But we&#...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 30, 2011
Google may not have officially pumped out Ice Cream Sandwich for the Nexus S 4G yet, but that won't stop you from having it. We've got two custom ROMs in the forums that a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 29, 2011
Ricardo Cerqueira, a member of the CM team and LG Android device guru, has added official CyanogenMod nightly (CM7 for the time being) support for three new LG devices -- The LG Optimus 3D, th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 15, 2011
Now that you've got your Galaxy Nexus, it's time to tinker. And tinker we shall. We've already showed you how to unlock the bootloader, which you really should do first thing if you have...
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by Jared DiPane
Nov 29, 2011
Let's start off with this -- no it's not ready, and no we don't know when it will be. Now that we got that out of the way, XDA forums member JackpotCalvin has gotten a build of CM7 to bo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 20, 2011
The Nook Tablet has root access. Repeat: The Nook Tablet has root access. Shouldn't be a huge surprise, given that its older brother, the Nook Color, quickly became one of the most hacked device...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
By the way (if you haven't already noticed this by now): If you root your Kindle Fire, Amazon's streaming video will balk at you. The good news is it takes just a few seconds to unroot using...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
T'was only a matter of time, right? The Android Market -- and all of its hidden secrets apps -- now runs just fine on the Amazon Kindle Fire. There are a couple of caveats (albeit not huge ones)...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
Say, for some reason, you just got yourself a brand new Kindle Fire and for some reason don't want to run the custom launcher Amazon's whipped up. (And it's pretty darn good, actually.) ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 16, 2011
In case you missed Steve Kondik's tweet a couple days ago after the Ice Cream Sandwich source code dropped, the CyanogenMod crew is now working on CM9. (CM8 was Honeycomb, which, of course, ain&...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 16, 2011
There's the trifecta, folks. We've got ADB access on the Kindle Fire, you can already root the Kindle Fire with SuperOneClick, and Amazon's already dropped the source code for public con...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 16, 2011
We've already got proper ADB access to the Amazon Kindle Fire, and now it's time to root the thing. And it couldn't be easier. All it takes is the venerable SuperOneClick program, and yo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 15, 2011
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No great surprise here, but less than 24 hours after Google released the Ice Cream Sandwich code for the Galaxy Nexus, we're starting to see ports. Here it is r...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 20, 2011
As we explained yesterday, now that the Ice Cream Sandwich SDK has been released, we're about to see a deluge of SDK-based ROM ports. We're not going to cover them all here, but will will co...
