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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 04, 2011
New phones always means new goodies for developers and hackers. With the release of the HTC Inspire 4G to a few people, it was only a matter of time until the system of AT&T's big beauty wer...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 31, 2011
Android hackers have done it again, and the Samsung Transform now has a stable Froyo port. The front facing camera and rear camera flash isn't working, but that's a fair trade off to have...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 27, 2011
Good news for everyone looking for parts and files from the LG Optimus 2X, the files have been stripped from the phone and are available for download. The system dump itself is about 275 MB...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 24, 2011
Two researchers from George Mason University, Dr. Angelos Stavrou, and Zhaohui Wang, have demonstrated the ability to use a smartphone (a Nexus One, but Dr. Stavrou says this applies to the iPhone as ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 18, 2011
Android Central forums member ItsAllAndroid brings up some really good questions -- which root method (temporary or permanent) is easier, and what are the advantages of permanently rooting your phone...
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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 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
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 30, 2010
Despite the best efforts of the manufacturer and carrier, the T-Mobile G2 is now completely hardware unlocked. This goes beyond flashing ROMS and rooting, the phone is now wide open for developm...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 12, 2010
So you have your new shiny Galaxy Tab, and you want to root it. I like the way you think. The good news is that the days of SDK's, cryptic shell commands, and crazy Windows USB drivers are...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 10, 2010
That didn't take long -- Clockwork recovery has been ported over to the myTouch 4G, and is available right from Rom Manager. After we saw it ported to the G2, we knew the myTouch 4G would soon f...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 29, 2010
Another day, another tip about overclocking -- this time it's the Samsung Vibrant hitting a very fast, yet still believable 1.6 GHz. The method isn't yet public (at the time of this writing), bu...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 20, 2010
That T-Mobile G2 overclock from yesterday? It just got faster, and released to the public! As the developer says, his particular G2 can reach 1420 MHz, but most all G2 CPU's should see a s...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 19, 2010
We heard that Yahoo Messenger for Android was working on a video chat solution, and it looks like we have it -- straight out of the T-Mobile myTouch 4G ROM leak. Matthewjulian over at XDA-Develo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 14, 2010
While we're all waiting for a real rooting solution for the T-Mobile G2, part-time car enthusiast and full time Android geek Paul O'Brien has whipped up a really nice one-click solution to get tempora...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 13, 2010
Video may have killed the radio star, but Cyanogen and the fellows behind the MIUI ROM have revived it for the Nexus One -- the code for the FM radio hardware that's inside the Nexus One has been mer...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 10, 2010
The big guns in the Android development/mod community (these guys are more than mere hackers) have had a week to look at the T-Mobile G2, and study the is-it-a-rootkit-or-not mess -- and one of Androi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 08, 2010
That's not any sort of optical illusion -- Android developer DJ_Steve has ported Froyo to the Dell Streak, and has made the files available for download. Be warned, this is no easy process, and ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 08, 2010
T-Mobile has released its official response to the G2 "rootkit" controversy with a very short press release. It doesn't really say anything the development community hasn't already fig...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 07, 2010
Now that Google has enabled the full Market for quite a few more countries, some great applications that were previously only available through third party sources have shown up for sale. Titani...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 06, 2010
All over the interwebs this morning there's scuttlebutt about some mysterious rootkit in the T-Mobile G2. Is the sky falling? Will this be the most locked down phone since the Motorola Droid X (...
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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 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
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 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...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 17, 2010
Vodaphone has already said via Twitter that it will be carrying the HTC Desire HD, and there's a ton of speculation about other carriers and SIM unlocked versions. But the system dump leaked out ...
