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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 07, 2012
Unlike the Windows Phone SDK, the Android SDK works fairly well with the Windows 8 consumer preview. We know a lot of you folks want to be on the bleeding edge, and for Windows users that means inst...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 06, 2012
The HTC Vivid should be seeing Ice Cream Sandwich shortly, and if you're the brave type there's a leak out in the wild you can flash today. When HTC and AT&T announced the HTC One X was ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 29, 2012
There's an old letter being passed around today that provides Verizon's response to the FCC about locked bootloaders. Starting early this month, these letters began going out to anyone...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 20, 2012
The folks over at GTV Hacker have released a root exploit for Sony Google TVs. The NSZ-GT1 Eagle (that's the Blu-ray player) and the Asura stand alone TVs can use this method, requiring on...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 18, 2012
It won't officially be released until February 19, but the AT&T version of the Samsung Galaxy Note has already had a rooted kernel built for it. The kernel also has init.d support so c...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 15, 2012
HTC has turned on the Wayback Machine and is now offering a bootloader unlock solution for the Droid Eris, the HTC Hero, the HTC Legend, and the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and 4G flavors. It's a ...
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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 Alex Dobie
Feb 13, 2012
A high-profile smartphone launch isn't complete without the obligatory teardown, wherein people far braver than us take screwdrivers, spudgers and even their bare hands to new devices. The ...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 13, 2012
It was just a few days ago that we first caught a glimpse of the Nokia N9 running Ice Cream Sandwich. Now that glimpse has progressed into the first video footage from developer Alexey Roslyakov and...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 11, 2012
We only got the Motorola Droid 4 officially a day ago, but today we see the release of a root exploit for the device, courtesy of security researcher Dan Rosenberg.
That's good news for y...
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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 ...
