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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 15, 2010
Chances are if you have a Nexus One you don't mind a little hackery. And chances are you're already a devout follower of the way of Cyanogen. And with that, a third release candidate the CM6 ROM has b...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 13, 2010
There is a new ROM available for the Samsung Captivate, and many users say it fixes some of the bugs that have been a sore spot since launch. Before we talk about the bug fixes -- this is not pu...
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by Kyle Gibb
Jul 14, 2010
So the bootloader on the Droid X is locked. We know this. For many developers and hackers, it's a bit of a disappointment as the original Motorola Droid became a de facto dev phone because...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 11, 2010
For those of you patiently (or not so much) waiting for Cyanogen and Team Douche to release a semi-official Android 2.2 ROM, it's time to get flashing. CyanogenMod-6.0.0 RC1 was posted up early t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 07, 2010
BAM! this is what we've all been waiting for since we first saw Froyo and Sense 2.2 running on the HTC Desire. Android wizard udk over at xda-developers has released the first version of a...
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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...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 29, 2010
It might not look like much, but the screen shots you see here reportedly are from the world's first custom ROM for the Sprint Evo 4G. There's still work to be done, as the camera doesn't work and it'...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 10, 2010
Here we go again, folks, with another Sprint Hero Android 2.1 update. After at least one false start, Best Buy is now expecting the ROM to ship by May 21. Of course, that could be any time between no...
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by Jared DiPane
Apr 22, 2010
If you have read anything about Android, you will know that it is an open-source style platform, which means that development for the Android is pretty common, and many people have come up with some ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 21, 2010
There's been a little bit of confusion regarding some of the specs of the Verizon Droid Incredible. Let's clear up on of them. On every info sheet we've received, ROM -- aka the place to whi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 09, 2010
For those of you who are into putting custom ROMs on your Nexus One (and with as painless as it is, there's really no reason not to, right?), know that there's a new build in the wild. Redmond Pie br...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 17, 2010
If you didn't know, the HTC Desire and the Nexus One are very, very similar. They rock the same internals and aside from a few buttons here and an optical trackpad there, they're basically the s...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 29, 2010
What are you still doing here? HTC has just released Sense UI for the HTC Magic! Which means you can go download the update and have the oh so beautiful Sense UI running on your Magic right now....
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 22, 2010
Sprint ROM cookers are foaming at the mouth this morning as HTC has released the source code for the Sprint Hero. That means better ROMs, built from the same zeros and ones as HTC. It likely won't co...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 20, 2009
Where there's an upcoming HTC phone, there's a current HTC ROM dump. And that brings us to this leak that reportedly shows the HTC Espresso's Sense UI with Android 2.1, ripped fro...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 04, 2009
Snuggled deep in the leaked Android 2.1 ROM are codenames of future HTC Android devices. Since HTC has been such a huge proponent for Android (since the G1 days!), it's not really surprising to ...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 02, 2009
If you have a HTC Hero, and have been insanely jealous about Android 2.0 not being available for said HTC Hero, and can't wait for HTC to update said HTC Hero with said Android 2.0, fear not, yo...
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by Casey Chan
Sep 29, 2009
We didn't like it when Google sent CyanogenMod, maker of the best Android ROMs available, a cease and desist letter. We didn't like Google's explanation on why CyanogenMod couldn't distribute th...
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by Casey Chan
Sep 21, 2009
If you've been itching to use the new Android Market, which includes new features like app screenshots and an overall better layout, and got yourself a rooted Android phone, you're in luck. You'...
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by Casey Chan
Jun 02, 2009
We know we weren't the only ones drooling over the HTC Hero Rosie on the T-Mobile G1. If you saw the video tour, it was just mind-blowing, gorgeous, and to die for. Luckily, haykuro over at...
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by Casey Chan
Jun 01, 2009
We can't tell you how haykuro does it but the man is amazing. He continues to feed us video after video detailing the future of Android. In this particular video we get to see more of the sleekness th...
