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by Alex Dobie
May 02, 2013
ClockWorkMod dev steps in to help actor root his HTC One
Star Trek: The Next Generation actor and all-round alpha-nerd Wil Wheaton is having trouble rooting his HTC One. Of course Clo...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 14, 2013
ROM Manager, a staple app used by practically anyone who roots and switches ROMs often, has just added support for both delta (incremental) updates and TWRP recovery. Delta updates (downloads, ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 16, 2012
Koush has released the official builds of ClockWorkMod recovery for the LG Nexus 4 and the Samsung Nexus 10 this afternoon, giving us all a quick and easy way to back everything up and flash bl...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 22, 2012
Shiny Top asks in the Android Central forums,
I have two Galaxy Nexus phones, bought 3 weeks apart. I have uninstalled Rom Manager from both.
One, when I reboot into recovery, has CWM Recovery...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 27, 2012
Willter12 asks in the Nexus 7 forums,
I have read that a hard reset is activated by:
Turn off.
Hold vol up/vol down/power on
Select Recovery using vol buttons and...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 17, 2012
ClockworkMod recovery has hit version 6 for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and it's available right from ROM Manager for the GSM, Sprint, and Verizon versions. The change log for version 6 reads...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 23, 2012
We're getting a little hacky in this round of Android A to Z, and we're going to have a look at ClockworkMod recovery -- the de facto standard of custom recoveries for Android. It's...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 20, 2012
I get this question a lot: If my Galaxy Nexus is unrooted and running the stock ROM, how do I back up it via a custom recovery?
It's pretty easy, actually, and it goes back to our method of man...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 01, 2012
What is recovery? In Android, recovery refers to the dedicated, bootable partition that has the recovery console installed. A combination of key presses (or instructions from a command l...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 30, 2012
Just weeks after we saw our first "unofficial" release of a touch version of the popular ClockworkMod custom recovery, developer Koush has put forth a beta version of his own, available fo...
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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 Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 05, 2012
Youtube link for mobile viewing
If you hack or flash ROMs and various "stuff" to your Android phone, you know about ClockworkMod recovery. +Nathan Grebowiec has just taken it a ste...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 30, 2011
If you like to tinker around with your device then chances are you've suffered a soft brick or two in your life, then spent some time looking in the Android Central forums or hitting up Google a...
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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 Chris Parsons
Sep 16, 2011
. As we saw previously, the Motorola Droid Bionic does have a build of Cyanogen Mod 7 up and running but in that video, CVPCS also showed an unofficial Clockwork Mod recovery running and now it's avai...
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by n64kps
Jul 31, 2011
It's been a glorious past week for EVO 3D owners. It started off with HTC releasing the kernel source followed up by unrevoked and AlphaRev releasing their Revolutionary tool to obtain S-O...
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by Jared DiPane
Mar 29, 2011
Just the other night we saw a leak of Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) for the Motorola Droid 2 and Motorola Droid X, but unfortunately at that time users had to decide if they wanted to give up their root. ...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 23, 2011
Bad news for anyone hoping to run custom ROMs on HTC's new Incredible S anytime soon. A recently-discovered RUU for the device seems to indicate that like its distant cousin the Thunderbolt 4G, ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 17, 2011
Dell Streak 7 developer graffixnyc and his band of co-horts (check the source link to see just who to thank) have successfully built ClockworkMod recovery for the Dell Streak 7. With some help f...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 31, 2010
A late Christmas present from team Unrevoked is now available for download. Yes, all you people who have HTC Evo 4Gs with the new hardware, or a Droid Incredible with an SLCD screen, can now get to ro...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 03, 2010
We know, we know. You hackers and modders are itching to get a crack at the Logitech Revue Google TV set-top box. (There's even a $1,000 bounty out there to whomever gets third-party app access ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 10, 2010
Here's what many were waiting for -- Clockwork recovery for the T-Mobile G2 is now available for all, and is as easy to get as installing Rom Manager from the Android Market. Now all the hackery...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 22, 2010
Why would we want to root Google TV? Because it exists, of course. And one step in that process is being able to get into recovery mode. Yes, just like on your Android phone, there are recovery parti...
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by Jared DiPane
Oct 11, 2010
If your Android device got stolen from your hands walking down the street, what lengths would you go to in order to recover your device. While some of us may take the loss and go through insurance for...
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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 Adam Sawyer
Sep 14, 2010
The folks over at SDX, our friendly neighborhood Samsung development group, have been busy ever since the Sprint Epic 4G was released a couple weeks ago. Rooting the phone proved to be an easy conque...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 24, 2010
If you're in the middle of pulling sd cards, running scripts, or swearing profusely at your HTC phone while trying to flash a custom recovery image, stop now. The good people at unrEVOked have r...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 03, 2010
The Evo 4G was rooted some days ago, and we finally have instructions. And it couldn't be easier. If you're new to this, we suggest you read through the thread at XDA Developers. And then read th...
