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by Alex Dobie
Feb 09, 2012
The Nokia N9 is a great piece of hardware, some users have been pining for Android on the device instead of the built-in MeeGo OS. As it's a relatively developer-friendly phone, it wasn't lo...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 08, 2012
For the Android rooting and hacking community, the Sony Tablet S has been a tough nut to crack. Locked down with some pretty aggressive security controls, those wanting root access on the device hav...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 03, 2012
Reports across the Internet about the Verizon Galaxy Nexus being dropped from AOSP support -- or even worse, no longer being updated by Google -- apparently were a bit premature. Dan Morrill h...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 31, 2012
There's a Market update available for ROM Manager, and it brings a new feature that many have been wanting -- automatic installation of ClockworkMod Touch Recovery. ROM Manager itself is s...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 31, 2012
An internal testing Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for the Samsung Nexus S 4G has been leaked out of Sprint, containing a new software modem, bootloader, and a 4.0.4 build. Some are reporting this is ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 28, 2012
Hacking is half (or more) the fun for many an Android user. With the right phone, you can change just about everything, making it have little resemblance to the way it came out of the box. &nb...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 27, 2012
ClockworkMod developer Koushik Dutta has shown off some early progress in bringing touchscreen functionality to his popular custom recovery image for Android. In a video posted on his Google+ page, ...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 25, 2012
For those of you using two-step authentication for your Google account, a new update for the Google Authenticator app has just landed in the Android Market. Version 0.85 apparently fixes a few secur...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 25, 2012
Calm down, Verizon Droid RAZR owners, this one's not for you, unfortunately. Owners of the international (GSM/HSPA) Motorola RAZR XT910, however, are in luck, as an early build of Android 4.0.3 ...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 25, 2012
Update: O2 says that as of 1400 GMT today it has fixed, the problem, and that "technical changes" as part of "routine maintenance" were to blame for the issue, which affected cus...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 24, 2012
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Imagine a small projector attached to your Android device, and you can use your hand and touch the projected image to navigate the UI through a Kinect attached to a ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 24, 2012
The ASUS Transformer Prime is the first quad-core tablet, and users were a bit up in arms when it was discovered that the bootloader was locked. ASUS responded with an official statement that ...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 24, 2012
Two months after the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich source code dropped, we're starting to see more exotic custom ROMs appearing for popular devices like the Samsung Galaxy S II. One such ROM c...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 14, 2012
It's not easy, and it's surely not pretty, but a handful of developers are making headway into breaking the Nook Tablet out of it's B&N jail and making it a full fledged Android tabl...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 13, 2012
You there! Android hacker! Stop screwing around with your battery stats!
OK, if you're not part of the small subset of rooted users who likes to mess around with things they shouldn't, you ...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 12, 2012
Last night Steve Kondik (Cyanogen) and Jef Oliver from the CyanogenMod team broke the news that the popular custom firmware has reached 1 million unique installs. CM, which is by far the leading mul...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 09, 2012
HTC took a few minutes away from their time at CES and updated the bootloader unlocking tool database with a few more devices this evening, namely the Desire HD and additional versions of the Desire...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 09, 2012
If you're rocking a T-Mobile US HTC Wildfire S, you were probably disappointed when you found out that HTC didn't include supported firmware to unlock the bootloader on this particular model...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 07, 2012
The Ainol Novo 7 Basic (here's our review) has an updated build of Ice Cream Sandwich available, but you may want to think twice before flashing it. Funny how drama and issues follow these...
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ASUS Transformer Prime rooted -- again -- but you'll have to wait for the method [Updated -- or not]
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 03, 2012
The latest firmware for the ASUS Transformer Prime blocks the root method that we found for the pre-production model, but the folks at AndIRC team have discovered a new method for rooting the first ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 02, 2012
ClockworkMod, aka Koushik Dutta, a favorite among the modding and hacker crowd because of great apps like ROM Manager, has released a very alpha version of Clockwork Mod Tether, and no-root required...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 02, 2012
Following a slew of other phones late last week, the CyanogenMod team has just added nightly build support for three new devices -- Sony Ericsson's Xperia Pro and Xperia Active, as well the LG T...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 28, 2011
One of the most anticipated features of CyanogenMod 9 -- the upcoming custom Android distribution based on Ice Cream Sandwich -- is its new home screen launcher, dubbed "Trebuchet." Much ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 28, 2011
If you've ever wanted to build a ROM yourself from scratch and happen to love CyanogenMod, there's a new tool that you might want to have a look at -- the CyanogenMod compiler. What it...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 24, 2011
Because of the Samsung Nexus S' VGA front camera, face unlock was left out of the official and AOSP builds of last year's reference phone. You know where this is going -- the files hav...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 22, 2011
Sprint has made the EVO View 4G update we told you about earlier official, with a press announcement that gives a bit more detail about what to expect. Besides the normal Honeycomb features, a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 20, 2011
HTC has released the kernel sources for a list of devices (one that's too long to fit in a blog post title even):
HTC Vivid
HTC Salsa
HTC Flyer
HTC Incredible
HTC...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 17, 2011
Samsung Nexus S 4G hacker Beezy has done it again, this time porting the Android 4.0.3 OTA update for T-Mobile phones to the Sprint 4G version. There's no Wimax of course, but for t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 14, 2011
HTC has released the kernel source and other GPL bits for the Desire S Gingerbread update, and for the various Sensation XL versions across the globe. As usual, average and well-adjusted peopl...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 13, 2011
It's not anything official, but enterprising Android developer bubby323 has ported CyanogenMod 7.2 to the Sprint Epic 4G Touch. Yes, 7.2 is Gingerbread and not the Ice Cream Sandwich every...
